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PALM'I HA. —ji Prise. Poem. O’er the hush’d plain, w liere sullen horror And darkest frown the Syrian solitudes,[broods, AVhere iiiorn’s soft steps no balmy fragrance leave, And parch’d and detvless is the conch of eve, Thy form, pale city ot the waste, appears Like vision of departed years, in mazy cluster -.till, a giant train, Thy sculptur'd fabrics whiten on the plain, .St il stretch thy column’d vistas faraway, The shadowed dimness of their long art ay. Hut w here Ihr stirring crow d,the voice of strife, The glow of action, and the thrill of life, Hear the loud crash of yon huge fragment fell, ‘I In- pealing answer of eadi desert hull, The night-bird shrieking from her secret cell, And hollow winds the tale of ruin tell. See fondly lingering Mithra’s parting rays, tiild the proud towers, once vocal with his praise; ... But the cold altars clasping weeds entwine, And Moslems worship at the godless shrine: Vet here slow pausing memory loves to pour Her meagre influence o’er this pensive hour; And oft, as you recesses deep prolong The echoed'sweetness of the Arab’s song, Keeals thcscenc when wisdom’s scoptral child First broke the stillness of the lonely wild. From air, from ocean, from earth s utmost clime, The summon'd Genii heard the mutter’d rhyme, The tasking spell their many hands obeyed, And Tadiunr glittered in the palmy shade. Low to her feet the tide of ages brings The wealth of nations and the pomp of kings; As far hr- warrior Queen from Purthia’s plain To the dark Ethiop spreads her ample reign. Vain boast! e'en she, who Immaeas field along Waked fiercer frenzy in the patriot throng, And sternly beauteous like the meteor’s light, Shot through the tempest of Emesa’s fight— While trembling captives round the victor wait, llang on his eye, and catch the Word of fate— Zenobia’s self must quail beneath his nod, A kneeling suppliant to the mimic god. But one there stood, amid the abject throng, In truth triumphant, and in virtue strong : Beam'd on Ids brow the soul, which undis mayed, Smil’d a1 the rod,and scorn’d the uplifted blade, O'er tlire, Palmyra, darkest seemed to low er The boding terrors of that fatal hour ; For from thy glndes indignant Freedom fled, And hope, too, withered ns Longinus bled. Como to my hoitrt, thou stricken doer! The world hits aim’d its slmft at thee ; There in welcome shelter here, Thor ■ are no enemies w ith me. Thou art too fair and delicate. To tddo the cold and pelting’ storm ; Ch! fly the world, that can but hate The brighter cheek and fairer form. Fly to iny heart, then mourning dove ! And seek a refuge in my nest; i 11 fold around my wings of love. Anti hush thy heating pulse to rest 1 heard the death-shot in the wood, 1 saw the fowler clip thy wing; Thy milled wings are dropp’d with blood, But here no foe a dart shall bring. Come to my home, thou bleeding heart ! Ami trust thy woes to me alone ; For thou mays’t all thy griefs impart, And 1 will take them as my own. I have a healing halm for thee, To stanch thy blood, and sooth thy pain ; For kindly touch’d by sympathy, Thy wound shall never bleed again, The world may scorn thee, if they please, Butl will dare to love thee still; Beneath these darkly sheltering trees, I'll guard thee safe from every ill. For I have found thee kind and true, A tender heart, a melting soul, And still I see thine eye of blue As brightly and as purely roll. saa From iltf Nttc Monthly Magazine. THE TAVERN. “ Whoe’er has travelled life's dull round, Whate’er its changes may have been, Way sigh to think that lie has found His warmest welcome at an inn.”— Gay. “ Blest as the immortal Goils is he,” the youth, who, without the effort of using his own limbs, protected from the earth beneath and the skies above, is rapidly whirled i:i a close carriage / to the ever open and hospitable door of a good tavern. Before the footman or coachman can descend, forthepaun ty swing of the private chariot or the rattling jolt of a hackney-coach are welcomed with equal deference, half a dozen waiters rush from the house, the steps are lowered with all the ce lerity that is consistent with the pre vention of noise, elbows are respect fully tendered to the descending visi tant, a bowing procession ushered him into the spacious illuminated refecto ry, and the lady at tlfe bar bows to him as he passes with a smile, that, while it preserves the dignity due to her presiding station seems to say— “ Thrice welcome toall that iny house contains—the longer you slay the more you revel, the greaser your waste ami devastation the more acceptable \\ dl be your august presence.” Ifrvr’s are not the complimentary hyperboles ol the Persian, who goes to the out skirts of the city and exclaims to every traveller—Deign to accept of Shiraz and all its dependencies.”—No: her heart does not belie her looks; wore she in Madame de Heidis’ Palace of Truth, she would not alter a phrase, nor unfit sd a single smile. Amid a* world of deceit, her benign looks are bent upon her new inmate with an ab solute integrity ol sincerity; nor are her numerous servants less cordial, emulous, and reverent, Is it winter* the guest's great coat and iiat arc L - ken lions him and cautiously suspend ed ; one excites the fire into a cheer ful and blazing recognition of his pie sence, while another spreads askreen before the door that “ the airs o| Fle:,- ven may uotvisit him too roughly.”— It is summer, the blinds are pulled down that he may be sheltered from the sun, and the window thrown open that he may be fanned by the cooling breezes, while a paper is placed be fore him containing the very latest news from each extremity of the earth, to prepare which for his morning’s perusal,many fellow creatures of great technical skill, and some of intellectu al cmirrence, have been sleepless all night. By the side of this record, sub mitting the events of the wide world to his perusal is placed the bill of fare, tendering the productions of the uni verse to his palate. The four ele ments, the four seasons, the four quar ters of the earth are ransacked and laid under contribution for his'rriStUnt gratification. The wishes of Cinde r’d ia, however wild and extravagant, were not more promptly realized ; the cap of Fortunatus and the w and of Harlequin are less magical than his enchanted finger. He points, and the depths of the sea yield him up their tenants ; the air surrenders its feath ered varieties ; earth pours out to its cornucopia at his feet; and fire, like a ministering spirit, waits to receive his orders for their concoction. Mankind seems to be at his disposal not less than the animal and vegetable world. llow many weary months have the crew of an East-Indiaman been shut out from the sight of land, how mativ storms have they encountered, to bring home that pickle of which he swallows a mouthful, not to gratify but promote hunger, that he may devour some pro duction imported at equal cost from another hemisphere. Lives more val uable perhaps than his own, may have been sacrificed to pamper his appetite. Some fisherman’s boats may have per ished in the night storm before that turbot was torn from the racing bil lows ; the poacher may now lie mang led or dead, who stoic that pheasant from the preserves ; and the glass he is lifting to his lips may be blushing with the blood of the smuggler. Those who do not die for him seem to live for him: from the snow covered hunter of the North, to the sun burnt vinta ger of the South, all offer up to him the sacrifice of their toils and dan gers. Nor is it only in this remote worship that he is undergoing a living apothe osis. The waiteis bow down before him : “preesens habebiture divus”— a present Deity the walls resound and ; even the subterranean cooks, sculli ons, and kithen maids, though they do not chaunthymns with their lips, enact them with their hand ; they talk with their fingers and dictate quotations from Shakespear—“ Laud we the Gods and let our crooked smoke climb to their nostrils.” How delightful the contrast of all this heartful homage—this pefect ami spotless candor of hospitality, with the hollow, sordid, and treacherous professions of the world, the lip love of rivals, the warm words and cold looks of pretended friends; the Judas like salutations of those who contract their hearts while they extend their arms ; the falsehood of relations, who, while they wish us many happy new years, are secretly pinning for our death ; the duplicity of acquaintance, who are delighted to see us, and wish us at the devil; the forbidding looks of the wife if we go uninvited to din ner ; the broad hints of the husband if we protract our visit beyond the stipulated day; the scowl of the servants wheresoever and whensoever we are doomed to accept of their bad offices. Enthroned in a tavern chair, we seem to have dominion over mind ns well as matter; to command the hearts as well as the hands cf our spe cies ; thus uniting the charities and affections that delight the soul, with all the luxuries and gratifications that can recreate the sense. And who is the happy individual whose presence commands this spe cies of instant adoration from all things animate and inanimate? Is it the Prodigal son, for whose unexpec ted return hacatombs of fatted calves are to be slain? Is it some benefac tor of his race, some grandee or sover eign of the country ? Far from it.— Any obscure or absolutely unknown individual may enjoy this temporary deification if he have but a few thin circular pieces of metal in his pocket. I question whether the advantages ot the social system are ever concentra ted into a more striking point of il lustration ; or the supremacy, the om nipotence if gold ever more undenia bly manifested,than in this accumula tion of power, by which the whole range of nature, with all its varieties and enjoyments, is converged into the narrow space of one room and one hour, and placed at. the absolute dis posal of the humblest individual in so ciety. So much homage and luxury, alike flattering to the spirit and the sense, form a dangerous possession to those who are not habituated to their enjoy ment. A gentleman, in the enlarged sense-of that world, will have com prehension enough ot intellect to dis tinguish between substance and the accidents of human nature; he will know to what fortuitous circumstances his own elevation is attributable ; and will never for a moment forget that a gencial urbanity and courteousneas are the distinctive attributes ot hia character. There is an autocratical gentleman of a very different descrip tion whose patent ic in his pocket, and who, as if conscious of his total w ant of all other claims to respect, seems determined to evince that he posses ses all the wealth that can be typified by arogance and coarseness. As be swaggers into the room, making the floor resound with his iron heels, he -at the company with an air that seems to be shaking his purse in their faces. The brass in his own is Corin thian; it is a mixture of other metals in which gold seems to predominate, and the precious compound actually ap pears to exude from every pore of his body. Swelling w ith self importance, he gives the bell a violent puli; sum mons attention with a loud authori tive voice ; puffs out the breath from his inflated cheeks, and might almost burst with the tumour of consequence, had lie not the waiter on whom to vent the superflux of his humors. As to the quid pro quo, or any system of equivalents, reducing the relation between himself and the landlord to one of simple barter or exchange, he understands it not. lie is lavishing his money of his own free will and bounty, and has surely a right to take out the full value in insolence. No thing is so genteel as fastidiousness; he abuses every thing, pretends to be poisoned with the viands, turns up his ■ nose at the wines, wonders where the devil such trash was brewed, and thinks to obtain credit for a faruilarity with more exalted modes of life by undervaluing the miserable luxuries of a tavern, although an inference dia- j metrically opposite would certainly! be much nearer to the truth. In ad-’ dressing the waiter his tone varies | from down right brutality to a mock ! and supercilious civility; though he j is generally most delighted when he! turns him into ridicule, and converts j him into a butt for the excercise of his \ clumsy wit. The object of his horse play, and rude raillery, is himself, r.ot unworthy of observation. As the butcher gen erally becomes fat and florid by inhal ing the odours of raw flesh in the open ! air, the waiter commonly exhibits a • stinted growth and sodden complexion i from fasting on the steam of dress 1 victuals in a close coflee room. Notj unfrequently his shin bone assumes that projecting curve which a medi cal friend of mine terms the Tibia Londinensis ; his sallow face expres ses shrewdness, selfishness, and a fawning imperturbable submission to j every indignity. Aware of the neces sity for some indisputable distinction between himself and such gentlemen as vve have been describin';, the rogue, with a sly satire, scrupulously con demnshis legs to white cotton stock ings, and is conscientious not to ap pear without a napkin beneath his arm. i The difference is merely external ;; he is indeed the “ meanness that soars . and pride (hat licks the dust,” but it j has the same source as the haughty vulgarity of his insulter. He looks to the final shilling or half crown, al though it will be cast to him with an t air that converts generosity itself into j an offence. That is his pride of purse; and I know not which is the most re volting, the arrogant or the abject manifestation of the same feeling. “ 1 hey order these things better in ! France,” and the interior economy I and regulation of our taverns might in 1 many respects, be bettered by an imi- ’ tation of our Gallick neighbours. No I Parisian enters their public dining- j rooms without taking oh his hat and j bowing to the presiding deity of the bar. Taking his place in silence and perusing the closely printed folio Car te with a penetration propotioned to its ’ bewildering diversity ,he finally makes his selection, writes down the articles of his choice, and the quantity of each, so as to prevent all mistake, upon slips of paper deposited upon every table for that pui pose, hands the record to an attendant, and betakes himself pa tiently to anew spaper until liis*orders appear before him in all their smoking and edible reality. There is lately any calling of tli* waiter, and there arc no bells to ring the number and activity of the attendants generally rendering both processes unnecessary. If occasionally absent, the edge of a knife tapped against a wine glass forms a jfairy bell quite sufficient to summon them to their posts, although I could never divine by what auricu lar sympathy they recognize the chime °f every table. Shortly after dinner the guests call for codec, and betake themselves, with a tuietiiclory b->v . In their own avocations or the theatres in w inter, to a promenade < hair in some of the public gardens ii it be summer. Ladies of the first respectability are habitual diners at the restaurateurs, contributing, as might be expected, to the perfect decorum of the assemblage, and even (as might Jiof be expected) to its silence. Surely some of these cof fee houses amenities might be benefi cially imported, especially the tem perance, in a country where instead of six or eight shillings, costs exactly that numberof pence per bottle. I re commend to my countrymen that this” be in thei-flowing cups remem bered.'’ In the manners of France one may visibly trace the effects of the revolu tion, which, by depressing the upper and elevating the lower classes, has approximated and ameliorated both, rendering the former less arrogant a'nd the latter more independent.— Aristocracy of wealth and pride of purse aro now pretty much confined to England ; although our brethren of America are understood to be rival ling ns more successfully than could have been expected from republicans. On the continent we render ourselves frequently ridiculous, and sometimes odious, by our arrogant conduct to in feriors; while few of our natives re turn totheirown country without in veighing against the familiarity of foreign servant, and the insolence of the lower classes. How scandalous, how impious of the French and Ger mans and Italians, not to bow the knee to every golden calf which is worship ped in England ! If instead of their stars at the India House, and thou sands in Consols, these maltreated tourists were to he measured by their real worth, they would be safe from all imputation of hauteur towards their inferiors, for they might travel over the whole world wihout being able to find any. Ji False diarm. —A ftvv days ago, the inhabitants of one of the princi pal cities in the west of England were Billed w'ith conjecture and consterna tion at the following notice, painted in large capitals on the front of a house recenllv fitted up and repaired Mrs. M , from London, deals in all sorts of Ladies.” All was consternation 1 Enquiry wasinstantl/set on foot as to who this Mrs. \l. might be ? No one could tel!; she was a stranger from London about to establish anew con cern. Great anxiety prevailed as to this equivocal proclamation of the new establishment. For two whole days all was conjecture and consul tation. On the third morning, behold the mystery was unravelled. The Louse painter, who had it seems been suddenly attacked bv a severe fit of the gout, returned to finish his work, and in ten minutes concluded it by adding—■** And Gentlemen’s U'earing apparel .” London paper. When the Count D’F.staing’s fleet appeared near the British bateries, in the harbor of Rhode Island, a severe cannonade was commenced, and sev eral shot passed throghthe houses in town, and occasioned great consterna tion among the inhabitants. A shot passed through the door of Mrs. Ma son’s house, just above the floor. The family were alarmed, not knowing where to flee for safety. A negro man ran and set himself down very composedly, with his back against the shot hole in the door and being ask ed by young Mr.Mason why he chose that situation, he replied, “Massa, you never know two bullet go in one place.” Law. —Tom strikes Dick over the shoulders with a rattan cane as j big as your little finger. A lawyer would tell the story something in J this way : “And whereas the said Thomas, at the said Providence, in the year and clay last aforesaid, in and upon the body of the said Rich i ard, in the peace of Gocl and the State, then and there being, did make a most violent assault, and | inflicted a great many ancl (livers blows, kicks, cuffs, thumps, contu sions, gashes, wounds, hurts, cuts, damages and injuries, in and upon, the head, neck, breast, stomach, hips, knees, shins, and heels, of the said Richard, with divers sticks, staves, canes, poles, clubs, logs of wood, stones,guns, dirks, swords, daggers, pistols, cutlasses, blud geons, blunderbusses, and boarding pikes, then and there held in the hands, fists, claws, clutches of him the said Thomas.” A person of the society of Friends called at the post- office of , and tendered five cents to the post-rnas tei. ‘The latter refusing to take it, he pressed it upon him, saying he would alterwards inform him how he came to owe it. On the Post- masters acceptir.; j; , BK| said lie had carried a ’<*®L friend between ‘-''Si ‘■jV. rcilection, conccivirr, act defrauding the ‘’ Ji <H| desirous of atoning f o| ;■ Si# ing die amount of the ‘f® “ Jam a Roman Cm , v , words, as it is evidentfn’-ij’. B ration of the Apostle, B palmy greatness of ib’mie, < ! H ror and consternation in \\ K ‘ B, Are we too sanguine our conviction, that the* day H advancing when the words’, American Citizen ,” win l',. . „ i:,t ßf and as dignified an apptdl,., Crowned Head has been a dv, “S the dignity of American already ; no less a perso (ta?c B brother of that man who.-e whose sceptre once held allt'Ci® pean world in awe. It iu, w .!■ that the son of another landed on our shores, Murat, vh," B t ied a sister of IVmapar te’s p, B ing to be advanced to this forsake all his pretensions to and to be admitted into the u American sovereignty. B Unit. Morn. Clin. I From Thatcher’s Military Journal fl Scene Changed. — It appears ‘B while the British were shut u-B . Boston, suffering severe d’.sar',B intents and privations, the IYB i frequently amused thcmselvesvß halls and theatrical amusemctß and lost no occasion to buriescß : the Yankees. On the evenin'-m ; jor Knowlton set fire to the ho J in Charleston, the farce of B “ Blockade of Boston,” of Burgoyne was the reputed aa-jJ was to be performed. 1 The figure designed toburlesJ Gen. Washington, was dressed il an uncouth style, with a large il and rusty sword, attended kv'! orderly sergeant in his count! dress, having on his should®, old rusty gun, 7 or eight feet low At the moment this figure appears on the stage, one of the reguli sergeants came running on tii stage, threw down his bayonet n exclaimed. “The Yankees arei tacking our works on Bur.W Hill.” Those of the audienceitl were unacquainted witli the differ ent parts, supposed that belonte to the farce, but when Gen. Ha called out, Officers to your aim posts , they were undeceived:i! was confusion and dismay; am among the Ladies shrieking an ; fainting ensued. How pure tl satisfaction to a great mind, i ployed in burlesquing those Van kees by whom they were teat ged ! There are few things moreH sing than specimens of “ highlifeH below stairs,” which sometiniesfi® under our observation. A fell years past as the writer of this ani*H cle was travelling through the sin® ny plains of Georgia, his curiosit® was raised by seeing many of th:H dark sons and daughters of Africa,! assembled in a large barn. Mysit'l uation was such, that 1 could st:l and hear very distinctly all that pi sed. In the centre of the gtoup*! was seated a fair damsel dressed® in her best Sunday gown of figured® calico; the colour other cheeking! have vied with ebony, while A'l flat nose, and thick pouting lipl might have been deemed hcgWfl beautiful by the connoisurs own tribe. Presently a stout yo n ?l negro advanced and gradually ding one knee to the floor, encircled her woolv locks with *■ chaplet of flowers, repeated t'-iI following verses: | “ 11,ill to fl> vlio'P beauty brirkt I Strikes pon do ea wid dazuHng bgi' l ■ I 5 (ail to d> pal u iiosi; w itcliing churi •-> I Fills CufTeo’s heart w ith dire alarm? • \ on U no v non ]is glorious day, Kiln fed * . |. fjiieen of May; Oil n>'*•■,-, i;c |cr was dare seen So pretty nor so line a queen! Permit mo don, fair cal, to twine Dis chaplet round dose locks ob tlidPi Ami grunt, oh grant, d’extaticbliss, Dis soil und lcetle hand to kiss.” While recitiny the last verse ■ made a bow with a graceful u* r the same time saluting the f hand to which he alluded: 1 c queen would have blushed “P 10 the eyes at the lavish encoffl ol Cuflee, had the capacity <\ skin suffered such a display ol 1 dest loveliness. The ceremony v ( - then followed by a dance, to 11 tune of “ Do corn-stalk fiddle And do shoe-string bow. The mirth and revelry were 3 , their pith, when I left the scene 1 joyous festivi ty. Ar/re/s