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x ♦ POETRY, I * ♦ The following Songs, written for the occasion, were sung at Vauxhall Garden, on Tueftlay evening, for the benefit of the Orphan-I louse. The second is altered from the much ad mired Song. “ The Beggar Girl” THE SILENT TEAR SUNG BY Mrs. Placioe. THE tear which silent falls , When mrfry tells its woes ; Adds beauty to the eye, Like dew upon the roje. TheJigh which [wells the breast, And rends the with pain t Is dear to virtue's cauje , Humanity's bejl claim. The feeling manly heart, Ne'er hears them plead in vain ; Alive to all their grief, It feel for all their pain, Urfcen by human kind, It jeeks for mifry's haunt, And offers to the poor. The little they may want. Oh, did you know the bliss Soft pity e'er imparts, Or feel the pure delight, It kindles in the heart: II w oft would you relieve l he beggar at your door, Prelect misfortune's child, B friend the Orphan poor. The Poor Orphan Girl. Sung by Mrs. S. Suliy. OFT have I wandered o'er moun tain and moor, Hungry and barefoot with gar ments all torn ; My father has left me cn orphan, and ‘poor, With my brothers and fifiers all beggars forlorn. Pity ye generous friends of hu manity, Oft did Iftng at the door of the great, Give mefowe bread—oh, bejlow it for charity, And the poor Orphan Girl will begene from your gate. Oft’ was IJccft at and driven au-ay, When ragged and hungry I begg'd on my knees i hut , hard my misfortune, in vain aid 1 pray, For a morjel of bread ms hunger t'appeafe. Pity, ye generousfriends of hu manity, Ost ’ did I ftng at the door of the great : • ve me fome food—oh, bejlow it for charity, and toe poor Orphan Girl will begene ft om your gate. TANARUS: V Any order waif* I was-kindly received, And hunger no longer compels me to roam ; Your bounty has fed me, my wants you've relieved, You've fav'd me from mifry and giv'n me a home. : My, ye generous friends of hu matitv, ✓ Tho’ Jase from the winds and tbs cold raging Jlonn, Give us poor children, cb give us for charity, And the pray'rs of the Orphan wilt follow you home. May Heavens bejl blessings be pour ed on your head, ’ Us the pray'r of on Orphan whose pray'r will be heard ; May the rich gifts of fortune a round you be Jhed, For blessings which you, upon us confer'd. Pity, ye generous friends of hu manity, Oh feel for Its Orphans both poor and forlorn, No father have we, but you, whose kind charily Hath cloth'd us and fed us, and giv'n us a home. * Orphan House •^Q.O^gX"— l — Er.tr alt from the Journal of a Balloontjl. • \ <( Pal Ting a cloud, T put out my hand, and took a piece of it, and squeezed it like a sponge, and the water ran out. The Sun went north about; but ne ver fct. At the distance of a bout fifty leagues above the earth, we saw a white bird fit ting on the corner of a cloud.— We took It to be one of Maho met’s Pidgeons. If we had s gun we could have fliot it.— Passing by the moon we saw a fellow felling land at au6tion.— He wished us to give a bid, but we told him, we had not come to buy lands in the moon. We came across a comet, but it was asleep. It looked like a tara pin, but had a long tail like a fox. We came near a hail bank, and filled a hat to bring down with us. The hail (tones were about as large as a pigeon’s egg. A thousand miles from the earth we passed through a field of Turkey Buzzards. This would seem to be their region; and accounts for the circum stance, that no one has ever found a nelt of one of these. These rookeries are out of fight in the atmosphere. As we approached one of the heavenly bodies, it appeared like an island. We (truck up on a planet, but Blanchard got out and pushed off the balloon. We supposed it to be Mercury, as we heard orators harranguing and a multitude of tongues. There were marriages going on in Venus, and in Mars we heard the drums beat. In Jupiter we heard (wearing —Oh Jupiter !by Jupiter ! etc. We meant to have a pull at one of Saturn’s rings, but Were blown off the coast, ahd found ourselves in the lat. of Herchel. Provisions failing we tho’c pro per to Ihape our xourfe towards the earth again. The firft thing we saw was the forelt of Ardennes, which appeared like a shamrock. The Pyrennean mountains seem ed like a bed of parfle ; and the Atlantic ocean, about as large as Lough Swilly. Within about a league of the earth, Blanchard gave me the parachute, and I came down. Character of a Married Man. The felicity of a married man never flands dill. It flows per petual, and strengthens in its pafTdge. It is suppled from va rious channels. It depends more on others than on himfelf.— From participation proceed the moft extatic enjoyments of a married man. By an union with the gentlest the moft polilhed, rnoft beauti : art of the creation, his harmonized i his man >.tent'd; his foul anima v she molt tender and ;-orations. Love, grati t ,: ■ cniverfal benevolence, rn s his ideas. The house or :.*r ;ed man is his para d’d -ie never leaves it wich ou re gret j never returns to it but with gladness. The friend of his ioul, the wife of his bo lom, welcomes his approach with rapture; joy flulhes in her cheek—mutual are the trans ports. Infants, lovely as the spring, climb about his knees, and con tend which (hall catch the en vied kiss of paternal fondnefs. Smiling plenty under the guar dianship of economy, is seen in every department cf hit family. Generosity Hands porter at the door; Liberality presides at hts table; and social Mirth gives to time the moft pleafmg motion. When death overtakes he is on ly translated from one heaven to another. His glories are im mortalized ; and his children's children represent him on earth to the laceft generation. FALSE FRIENDSHIP. A FRAGMENT. * My dear friend, you are heartily welcome to town,’ said a spruce drefied citizen as he helped his country friend to alight from the stage, pray come home with me : I expert you will make my house your own while you stay in town : there is nothing in rny power I will hot do to make it agreeable with you. I have depended upon your company—my whole house is at your service/ This overawed complaisance made me fufpedt his fincenty, or that he had fome fmlfter point in view; so, putting my ring on my finger I followed them home. c I am greatly obliged to you/ said the country gentleman, as he fat down to the breakfaft ta ble ; c the invitation you have given me is very acceptable; I have loft the estate I have been so long at law about, for want of fufficient evidence ; and when I have paid the costs, I shall not have more than 2091. left, with which I mean to purchase an annuity ; therefore I shall make vour house my home till I can fettle my affairs/— <as It may be fome time before, you can fettle your business to your fatif fa&ion/ replied the citizen, his features contra&ing into cold Civility ; s and I expeft a gen tleman to take my firft floor in about a week; I am very sorry I cannot accommodate you lon ger.’ * My dear Mr. Wooliet/ cries the wife, hastily entering, € I am vastly glad to fee you.’ ‘ Mr. WooDet has loft his lawful: my dear/ laid the huftnnd. The fn/He of welcome was inftantiy changed into a look of amazement; (he advanced to give him her hand; but on hir. attempting to salute her, Ihe withdrew her cheek, exclaiming ‘ I am sorry for his difappoint ment’ and began to make tea.—- He drank two dilhes of tea, and then afkedhis friend to lend him two guineas. He had it not in the house ; trade was very pre carious’—again mentioned his cxpe&ed lodger, and recom mended a mean room to his friend, at half a crown per week, in an obscure lane of the city.—. O fell interest ! how dost thou deaden every virtue, lead to hy pocrisy and vice, and make us what we would be alhamed to own, mean, avaricious and un feeling ! Would I change the feeling heart for all the interest ed views this world affords ? Ono? Give me sensibility to feel anothers woe, and 1 fiiali then feel as I ought my own happiness. * It is vexatious/ said Mr* Wooliet, as hearofe from hreak faft, f that I cannot stay here, as I have no ready money to pro cure a lodging.’ No answer was made. * Can’t I have a room on your second floor Mr. Saveall—Really fir, they are all occupied/ ‘I do not’ know whar to do ; I mult beg you to lend me half a guinea till next week/ I cannot, upon my word fir/ Mr. Wooliet summoned up a look of expreflive anger ami contempt, and fixed his eyes on his falie friend, cried, ‘ he who can refufe half a guinea to my neceffiues, (hall never {bare in my prosperity. Know, felfilh man, I have gained my cause, and am at this moment mailer of a,oool. per annum.’ Then, rurning from them, he hastily left the house. I stood for a moment to view their confufion ; they (poke not a word; but, giving each other the keenest looks of reproach, separated in sullen silence. Invifille Rambler . ANECDOTE . A well known black coated politician of this county, in Ihav ing himfelf a few Sundays ago* happened to cut his upper lip : and having no brawn paper han dy, cut a final! flip out of a newspaper (probably a demo cratic one) on which was prin ted— FEDER AL LIES /’— ■ and stuck it on the wound.— Happening to be in one of his abjlraledfils, he forgot to take it off—and wore it to the meet ing house, where it was read with a great deal of astonishment by every person near him. A wag observed, that his reverence only imitated , the practice of traders, who put sign beards oa their shops, on which is infenbed the name of the articles they deal mojl in; but rhat the perfon’ unluckily forgot to mention that he fold both at wholesale and retail! R.epub. Spy, Blank Deeds or Convey ai^ce FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.