FOE T K Y.
FROM THE NEW-YORK K VENING-POST.
Sir Philip Sidiosysaid, as Addison tells
us, that he never*fimlc! read the old ballad
of Chevy Chase, without teeling his heart
beat within him, as at the sound ol a trum
pet. The following lines, which are tc.
be ranked among the highest itispii atkmv
of the Muse, will surest similar associa
tions in the breast of the gallant American
officer.
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
When Freedom, from her mountain
height,
UnfurPd her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars o' glory there !
She mingled wiih its gorgeous dies
.The milky bladrick of the skies,
And striped its pure celestial white
Wit ) strepkings of the morning light;
Then, from his n^ngion in the sun,
. She call'd her eagle Bearer down,
And gave into his mighty hand
The symbol of her chosen land !
Majestic monarch of the cloud !
Who rear'si aloft thy regai form,
To hear the tempest, trumping loud,
And see the lightning-lances driven,
When stride the warriors of the storm,
. And rolls the^thunder-drum of heaven I
Child of the'Sun 1 to thee 'tis given
To guard the banner of the free,
To hover in the sulphur smoke, j
To ward away the baitle stroke,
? And bid its bendings shine alar,
.Like rainbows on the cloud of war,
The harbingers ol victory !
Flag of the brave ! thy fields shall fly,
The sign of hope and triumph high 1
When speaks the signal trumpet-tone,
And the long line comes gleaming on,
(Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet,
H?> Uimm'd the glist'ning bayonet )
Each soldier's eye shall brightly turn
To where thy meteor-glories burn,
And, as his springing steps advance,
Catch war and vengence from the glance !
And when the cannon-mouthings loud,
Heave in wild breaths the battle-shroud,
And gory sabers rise and fall,
Like shoots of flame on midnight's pall!
There shall thy victor-glances glow,
And oowering,foes shall sink beneath,
Each gallant arm that strikes below,
That lofty messenger of death.
Ylag of the seas! on ocean's wave
Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave,
When Death* careering 011 the gale,
Sweeps darkly round the belied sail,
And frighted waves rush wildly back,
Before the broad-side reeling rack,
The clving wanderer of the sea
Shall look, at once, to heaven and thee,
And smile to see thy splendrous fly,
In triumDh, o'er*hii closing eye.
Flag of the free heart's only home,
By Angel hands to valor given!
Thy stars tave lit the welkin dome,
* And all thy hugea were bom in Heaven!
For ever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before
usi
\Vith freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banners streaming o'er
*
CRb.AKER & CO.
THE ATHEIST.
^oi.B is thq wretch) and blasphemous the
man*
Who being finite, will attempt to scan
The works of H|m that's infinitely wise,
And those he cannot comprehend, denies;
Our reason is too weak a guide to show,
How God Almighty governs all below.
SHORTNESS OF LIFE.
An! few and full of sorrow are the d?ys
Of miserable man; his life decays
Like the frail flower which with the Sun's
uprise,
Her bud unfolds, and with the evening dies;
He like an empty shadow glides away,
And all his life is but winter's day.
DEXTEROUS PUMYfyV
The followih? anecdote was sent by a
young lady to her lover, whose name was
" NO IT," a few weeks before their
marriage. The nuptial knot was fasten*
cd soon aftef the discerning lover dccy
phered its import.
Why urge, dear sir, a bashful maid
To change her single lot ?
"When welt you know I've often said
In truth I love you, NOTT.
For all your pain, I do NOTT, care,'
And trust me, on my life,
- Though you had millions, I declare,
1 would, NOTT, bo your wife.
An epigram should be, if right,
Short, simple, pointed, keen and bright,
A lively little thing ,
I .ike wasp with taper body?bourd
By linev? not many', neat and round,
All ending in a
. M ISC ELL. LYE O US.
From ihe Suvurinuh Afuxeum.
#THK(JL1ZH ON ON I)K1 A,
UV FUDGE Pl'FFENDOKF, ESv^.
In thisnumber squire Puflcndorf spcakcth
of ihe feelings ot mankind, arid makeib
known that ihey art; changed by mone\
?which t<i shov\ the extent of his learn
inn, he calleth Plums' finger, and like
wise maketh mention of Erebus, for the
some purpose. After which lie pro
cecdeth tn retate an Ynecdott?and tn
the intent that all, exctpting those con
cerned should remain entirely in the
dark, he hath made u-?e of feigned names,
.. which he suppos?eth will aUo have the
effect of exciting curiosity, and raisin*
himself higher in public estimation?
which to be sure, " is a consummation
devoutly to be wished."?Tobias, j
The feelings and affections of man
kind, often change with their cir
cumstances. I have known the bo
som that swelled with philanthropy
? was warm with humanity w hen
in poverty?become cold and unfeel
ing in wealth. 1 have se^n the hand
that was open to relieve distress, be
come closed in prosperity. I have
seen the finger of Plutus transform
the heart of benevolencQ itself into
stone; and make the brow that once
beamed nothing but love and friend
ship, scowl darker than Erebus.
I have been led into these remarks
by a conversation which I accident
ally fell into the other day, with an
unfortunate emigrant. " 1 was bred,*'
said he, in the town of M , and
my father occupjing the same tene
ment with Mr. Marktiine, an intima
cy from my earliest years, was form
ed with his son, Jonathan Mark
time, a lad of^ my own age.?As we
grew up this intimacy ripened into
what 1 thought a mutual and disin
terested friendship. For nearly fif
teen years were our sports and pur
suits the same; we ate,= drank and
sleftf together. Our parents though
above wairt, were always poor, and
at the age of seventeen, I was svm
from home as an apprentice to a re
spectable mechanic, and Jonathan
went into a counting-house as clerk
to a neighboring merchant. He was
soon after sent to America on some
mercantile speculation, and that was
the last I heard of him. Though
not forgotten, 1 almost looked upon
him as dead, and the' memory of
him seemed like the image of a
dream.
The late distress in Europe ex
tended to the neighborhood 1 lived in.
My business proYed unproductive;
and following the tide of emigration,
chose rather an uncertain subsist
Pin e in this country, to certain star
vation at homo* , But he who is doom J!
ed to enternal poverty, on whom the
fates scowl with maliguanj aspect,
and whose evil genius bears liim
down like a night mare, might as
well remain > at home, and brood
patiently over his own destinv, as
go farther, and fare worse. Yotfr
climate proved uncongenial to
constitution, and 1 sunk under it.?
1 was just recovering from a severe
attac k of the fever, when a newspa
per was put into my hands, and
glancing over a list of consignees of
goods per the ??, my eye rested
on the name of my old friend. 1 im
mediately enquired lot his counting
room, and debilitated as 1 was,
walked over. I found him at his
desk; and though ten or twelve years
had wrought some change in his ap
peuratice, yet I could at once see the
i'tieud of uty youth, and accosted
him familiarly, *va? about to grasp
his hand. Claflprh^ his pen behind
his right ear, and looking round at
me over his shoulder, his phii.squur
ei with a mercantile exactness, and
lis eye cocked, to take a sample of
my appearance?(which, to confess
he truth, was none of the best)
Truly sir," Said he, " the balance
is greatly in your favor, 1 can't turn
directly to that paiA^of my journal,
w hereon we h tveRad any transac
tions together. Perhaps, however,
you may be famished with vouchers y
w hich may rectify any mistake oti
ay ledge).99 Indeed, said 1, you
cannot ha\ e forgotten your old friends
it M . " Ali truly," JL had near
y ottoflookcd some out-standivg uc
cvunltktoith that place; but time had
almost closed tire transactions. MV
correspondent was always rather de*
ticient in returns: ami indeed Ills
paper was protested (luring; the latei
ami*. I am very idad, however, to
? - ? n 7 7
>ee you well, Mr. Humphry Dobson,|
and if you have any drifts you want
cashed, I shall he extremely happy
to oblige you, at a reasonable dis
count. although my business with
i hat place, has been pretty much
losed" 1 have no bills for your ac
ceptance, said 1, and only be-; of you
to draw upon your own memory, for
ihe recollection of maifV circuuistan
*
ft>s, which most certainly cannot be
forgotten. " I have no deposit, in
that bank" said he " and so must bid
you a good morning. 1 shall always
he glad to her of vour health, Mr.
Hu mphry Dohson, and hope you w ill
not fail to call upon jiu4, w henever
you have, any business in my way.
So taking his pen from his ear, re
sumptions desk again, with the utmost
composure. -
Mi*. Dobson left me, and I could
not help exclaiming, "This is a vile
aud villianous world, we live in."
There is no bearing with the unfeel
ing insolence of a puise-proud man.
W hen his belly is tilled with cognac,
md his pocket with dollars?Zounds!
if he doesn't walk over (*od's earth,
as though it were his own plantation :
and scorn, and trample upon the
tiumbie sons of poverty, though
(hey were grasshoppers under his
feet! Hcowl and frown upon them,
as though they were monstere of un
holy birth, sent into the world by the
devil, and not God! whose touch
would be pollution, and whose neat
approach, disgrace !
From the Cumberland Herald.
We regret to find that the public*
lion of the " Monongalia Spectator,"
at Morgantown, Virginia, lias been
discontinued. The lollowing is the
concluding paragraph of the .Editor's
farewell address :?
"To iny friends I wish every joy
ind comfort this life can afford;
?eace and plenty, health and long
life; ma v their decliug years br
frowned with roses divested of even
thorn. To my enemies (if 1 have
any) I wish better hearts and better
[judgment, repentance before death,
and a happy Eternity. To my credit
ors I \> isi? patience, and to my debtors
full purses and willingness to pay
me. To young Indies 1 wish judg
ments to choose, affections unaltera
ble, and husbauds of their own choos
ng. To young men 1 w ish fortitude
o bear disappointments, friends to
support their pretentious, and, when
they wish to get married, no opposi
tion but the hearts of the fernals thev
[wish to espouse. To farmers 1 wish
good crops and good prices; to the
merchants 1 wish quick sales and
good money , and to bankers better
credit. To politicians a reftil pe
rusal of the Constitution, the Laws,
{and Marshall's Life of Washington
Lo mechanics plenty of custom and
Ithe money down. And finally, to
|the world 1 wish peace ; and to
[PRINTERS, good friends, a plen
ty of money"?and this they will
most probably luve, if subscilders do
their iutu!
Beauty in EngUnd, France, Italy.
BY If. STANDI IA I..
AN CON A, (ITALY) MAY *7.
I met, at 8t Cirac, a Russian
general, a friend of Krfuth, who
had just come from Paris.
A physicial peculiarity of tlie
French shocked my Russian friend
very much?the dreadful leanness of
the most of Ike dauseuses at the]
Opera. In fact, it seems to me, on
reflection, that many of our fashion
able women who are extremely slen
der, have caused this circumstance
to enter in^to the idea of beauty.?
Leanness is iu France considered ne
cessary to ati elpgant air. In lUkly,
tropic think Very rationally, that
the first condition of it is the air of
health, without which tht're is no
w}(fytut!snes8. ' \
The Russian is of opinion that
i>eauty is very rare among the French
iacfics. lie maintains that the linest
ht? saw at Paris. were Eng
lish women.
If \Nt* take the trouble to count ii
-the Hois de l>ulogne, out of HK
French women; eighty are agreea
I> 1 e, and hardly one beautiful. Out
of one hundred English women:
thirty are grotesque, forty are deci
dedly ugly, twenty tolerably well,
though tulus^2d^sy <and ten divinities
on this earth, from the freshuess and
innocence of their beauty.
Out of one huudred Italian women,
'thirty are carricatures, with face and
neck besmeared with rogue and pow
der, iiftv are l>eautiful. but with no
other attraction than an air of volup
tuousness?the twenty others arc
of antigue beauty, the most overpow -
ering, and, in our opiniou, surpass
even the most beautiful English wo
men. English beauty seems avari
cious, without soil and life, beside
i he divine eyes which Heaven has
given to Italy.
The form of the bones in the hand
is ugly at Paris; it approximates to
that of the monkey, and it prevents
the women from resisting the attacks
of age. The three most beautiful
women of JKonie are certaiuly^more
than 45. Paris is farther north?
and \et such a miracle was never yet
observed there. I observed to the
Russian general, that Paris aud~
Champagne were the jmrts of France
w here the configuration of the head
partakes least of beauty. The wo
men of Pays tie Xaux, (in Norman
dy) and of Aries (in ProVThre) ap
proximate more to the beautiful forms
of Italy. Here and there is always
some grand feature, even in the. heads
of- the most de?idedly ugly. Some
idea may be formed of this, from
the heads of old women of Leonardo
da Vinci, and of Raphael.
As to male beauty, after the Ita
lians, we give the preference to
young Englishmen, when ihey es
cape clumsiness.
A young Italian peasant that hap
pens to he ugly, is frightful; the
French peaaant is silly; and the
English is vulgar.
Literary Shot-maker.?The frater
nity ' of Shoemaker** have, unques
tionably, given rise to gome charac
ters of great worth and genius* The
late Mr. Hblcraft was originally a
shoemaker. .His dramatic pieces
must rank among the hest of those
on the English stage. Itobert Bloom -
field wrote his iH>em of The Far
men's Hoy," while employed at his
business, and Dr. William Corey.
Professor of Sanscrit and Bengalee,
at the College of Fort William,
Calcutta, and the able and indefati
gable translator,of the scriptures into
many of the eastern languages, was
in early life a shoemaker in North
amptonshire. The present Mr. Clif
ford, the translator of the Juvenal,
and the supposed editor of Ok1 Quar
terly Review, spent some of his
early days in learning the " craft and
mystery" of a shoemaker, as he tells
us in one of the most interesting
pieces of autobiography ever penned,
and prefixed to his nervous and ele
gant version of the Great liomon
Satirist.
A late New-Hampshire Sentinel
contains an Indian Treaty, in which
a.e a great number of Indian narnes,
with tlreir respective significations an
nexed ; w hich gives occasion to the
following paragraph in that paper:?
Indian names.?Those of oyr
readers who may undertake a pet e
Igrination through the terrible jaw
cracker in our preceding columns,
tmust not be afraid if they sliQiild see
4 the Devil Standing,' i Between the
lops'4 Pick up k Club' to 4 Split the
Iliver.' 'I hey must not tremjile if
tbey see ' Old Foot,'4 Clouding up,'
'Khake the ground'?for a ' Whirl
wind,' '* Full moon,' and 4 Clearing
up' will soon follow* They may lie
diverted at the sight of the 6 Widow
of the Crane' and 4 King George'
' Holding "his hands about,' * His
neck down,' ' l>ooking at her' and
[the 'Man without a tail;' 'Flat
i belly.' ' telippery nose,' 4 Mark on
J hi s hip' and * Bunch on his forehead,'
Crying after,' * Give it to he^!' If
r ? *.
the trader is fatijnied he ttviy sfor> ivt
*
the ? Coflee House,' ? Uound the
Point,' where 'Civil John* w ill make
his 4 Conge,' and furnish, a 4 Razor,'
4 W ilit Duck,'* Black Kacoon,'4 .Mo
lasses/ Fwentv NN ives/ and ?11 enj>
of any thing/ He will thereabout
meet 4 Isaac Hill/ * Running about'
4 Carrying the news.' He may see
< Rig lie.lt' 4 Hold the Sky/ anil
4 Hiue Jacket,' a * Matiinan.' with
'?Silver heels,' 4Carrying the Basket*
to catch a 4 Fa ling Star' at 4 Sun
Kise.' Finally reader, if you are
not a * R> solute Man,' ^lVlien tfju
are tired sit duini.'
The following curious adverfejj
tueiit, is copied trom a New-York
paper of the 4th instant:?
ByfCflKLOK'S CLUB.
" Oh ! Matrimony, thou art like
To JercniiahS ; ~i
The good were very ^oodeesthe bad
Too sour to give the pigs."
The first anniversary of the Club
will be celebrated This Da\, the
4th inst. The members will i\ieet
ill front of the City Ilall, at 12 i>Yk>< k.
They will form iu procession precise
ly a quarter before oue, and printed
down Murray-slreet, and crosh the
ferry to Hobo ken, where a Turtle
Repast will be prepared for the oc
casion.
On this, your Club's great natal day,
ConifiJlatlh-yft crooked, blind and grey*
Doff your old s\kckb, your eriitc 1 u a 1 lidc,?
Dismount your wigs?yourcock'd hais lay
aside.
By Order. A. A. Sccrctary.
Curious Advertisement.
The following advertisement ap
peared in Granwuy's Daily Adverti
ser printed in Calcutta on the 6th of
September 1818:?""Be it known, that
six fair and pretty j'oung Ladies with
two sweet and engaging children,
lately imported from Europe, Imvin^
the roses of health blooming on their
cheeks, and joy sparkling in their
eyes, possessing amaible tempers,
and highly accomplished, yielding
tacitly to all necessary wishes, whom
the. most indifferent cannot behold
without expressions of rapture, arc
to he liaffled for next door to tho
British Gallery.?Scheme, 20 Tick
ets, at 13 Unpees each. The high
est of three throws, doubtless, takes
the most fasciuating, &c.?/
A Mathematical Toast.
The follow ing toast Is said to have
been drank at an association of school
masters^
" i he fair daughters of Columbia.
?May tb*y add virtue to beauty,
subtract envy from friendship, mul
tiply amiable accomplishments by
sweetness of temper, divide time
by sociability, ? and economy, and
reduce scandal to its low est denomin
ation,"
A-J as! A-Ias!?A person he
moaning the uncomfortable piospect
of celibacy, and comparing the res
pective happiness of the married and
single states*, exclaimed, " What
can make the bitter cup of a batch
elor go down." A wit in the com
pany assuming the tone and manner
of the complaint, exclaimed, " a lass!
a lass 1"
Clerical Wit
The facetious Watty Morrison,
he was commonly called, was en
treating tin1, commanding officer of ft
regiment at Fort George to pardon iv
poor fellow sent to the halberds. Tbo
officer granted his.petition on condi
tion. that Mr. Morrison should ac
jcord with the first favor he asked.
The favor was to perform the cere
mony oi baptism fw a young puppy.
A merry party of gentlemen were in-,
vited to the christiniug. iVtr. Morri
son desired Major to hold up
the dog.
" As I am a minister of the Kirk
of Scotland," said Mr. Morrison,
" I must proceed accordingly,"
Major said he asked no iqorc.
" W ell, then Major, 1 begin with
the usna| question : You acknowledge
yourself the father of iVis puppy ?"
[ ; The Major understood the joke,
and threw way the animal. Thus Mr.
Morrison tinned the laugh against
the ensnarer, who intended to deride
a saered ordinance.