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? BHW" ? ? ' ' W? te) }' O K T 11 Y. TRUE LOVE. Oh ! say no: Woman* a Lovr it bought. Oh! say not Woman's L<>ve is bought With vain and empty treasure, Oh 1 say not woman's heart is caught By every idle pleasure. When first her gentle bosom knows Love's flame, it wanders never ; Deep in her heart the passion glows^ She loves, she loves forever. Oh ! say not Woman's false as fair, That like the bee she ranges, Still seeking flowers more sweet and rare* As fickle fancy changes. Ah no laaiihe love that first can warm Witt leave her bosom never ; Ko second passion e'er can charm She loves, and loves forever. PATRICK'S ECONOMY. While Put and Tom , with various talk, ?ass'd off uie time, one morning's walk, The conversation chanced to rove Upon a new invented stove : Says 1 on>?^ 1 think this n?w invention Deserves each prudent man's attention $ This stove will answer, (as they say) For afire place every \vu)n Tor every purpose 'us as good, And one win save lull half yout wood * *4 Aye, aye,' says Pat, 41 why what a nation Vou yankeei are, lor calcuiationaai If what you tell me is true, my jewel, Then wliat 3 nadlets thing is fuel?* No more I'll use it, no not I, Hut straight a pair of stoves I'll buy. fHnce one saves hal/wmuovr, by my soul, I'll get me two and save the whole* Miscellaneous. JYAPOLEOJT. On returning from his fruitless em t>a*sy to China, in 1817, Lord Am lierst called At 8t. Helena, and, ^jvith hit auite, paid a visit to the il lustriona prisoner of the government of Great- Britain. Mr. Mel, who Was one of those attached to the Le gation, thus describes him in the ac count of his journey, which he has published : " Bonaparte's person had nothing of that morbid fulness which Iliad hern led to look for on the contrary, Jecartdy recollect to have seen a form more expressive of strength, and even of vigor. It is true that lie was very large, considering hi* height, which is about live feet s.-ven incites ; but his Uigenessliad nothing of unwieldines*. The fine propor tion of his limbs, which has been often noticed, was still preserved. His l?*gs9 although very muscular, had the exactest symmetry. Hi* whole form, indeed, was so closely knit, that firmness might be said to be its striking^ characteristic* His itanding posture had a remarkable ttatue like fixedness about it, which ieemed scarcely to belong; to the graceful ease of his step. "Hie most remarkable character of bis counten ance VH9, to me its variableness. Bonaparte has the habit of earnest ly gazing for a few seconds upon tin* person whom he is about to addfe**, and, whilst thus occupied, holds bis features ift |ierfect repose. The ehsracter of hia countenance in this state especially when viewed in pro file, might be called settled design. But, the instant that he enters into conversation, hi* feab.*es express any forte or kind of^rii otion with tuddenness and ease, his eyes es pet seems not ontj to ??ei u expression, but its color. 1 am sure, had 1 only noticed il while the mus cles of the lace, and particularly ol the forehead, were in play, 1 should have railed it a very ifSik eye; on the contrary wlii-ii at rest, I had re marked its light co l of aod peculiai glary lustre. Nothing, i. Uet d, could better prove i?s chhiigeshW character than the difference of opt ion which occurred amongst us re specting it* coloi . Although r*< person < ?t llie embassy nahimjy {:} ?d hi** fttt imon on Napoleon'* coon tenaoce, alt Old not aye? on ih< *' There *a? nothing in the ap pearance of Bonaparte, which led us to think that his health had at all suffered by hi* captivity. On the contrary, his repletion seemed to he the consequence of active nourish ment. His form had all thnt tone* and his movement all that elasticitv, ? T which indicated and spring fr**m powerful health. Indeed, whatever sympathy we felt for the situation of any of the prisoners, received no in crease from any commiseration for their bodily sufferings : they were all in excellent plight." ? p. 316, 317'. FEMALE IXFLUFJWR. A writer in the Baltimore Federal Repub lican trommeniihK on the important in fluence which females may exercise, in stimulating the ambition, and rewarding the efforts of genius, observes: It is well known flint the Task, tbe most classical and most admired of all Cowper's works, was written at the particular request of a female friend. Perhaps it is not generally known, that to the same source we are indebted for Milton'* sublime poem of Paradise Lost. Milton, when a student at Cambridge, was extremely handsome. One day in the summer-overcome with heat and fatigued vvflt^valking, he laid him self down at the foot of a tree and slept. During his sleep two ladies passed by in a carriage. The beauty of the young student attracted their attention ; they got out of their car riage, and after having contemplated his beauty some time without hie waking, the youngest lady, who was very handsome, took ft pencil from her pocket and wrote some lines ou a piece of paper, and tremblingly put them into his hand. The Indie* then returned to their carriage and pasted oil. Milton's fellow students, who were seeking for him, observed this silent scene at a distance, with out knowing it to be him who was sleeping ; on approaching and know ing their associate, they waked bin., and told him what had passed. He opened the paper which was in his hand, and read, to hi* gn at aston ishment, these lines from Guariua : Occhi Htflle Dior tali Miuistri de rrnci mali , lc vhivai m'uccedite , Jipperti che furete ? Which may be thus translated-? " Beautiful eyes ! mortal stars ! ? au thors of my misfortune ! if ^,e wound being closed, what would ye do if open?" v ^ v This strange adventure awakened Milton's sensibility : and from that moment, full ot the desire of finding the unknown fair, lie some jeai\s af terwards travelled through Italy. His ideas of her (says our, author) worked incessantly on his imagina tion, and to ibis incident is tttiglaud chiefly indebted for Paradise LoaU From the Baltimore Patriot. THE S \Gi: OF MONTICEU.O *'J/r. Kditor. ? The following let ter of the sage of Montice I lo, I took frem a newspaper at the time it first ?appeared. It was written in an swer to one addressed to him b> a member of the very respectable and liberal society of Christians; hap pily and correctly called Friends, in which he expressed great concern for Mr. Jefferson's soul. Having lately shown it to several of my friends, who wefe anxious jfor a copy, I send it to ?you for pub lication, that a document so valuable, containing principles so elevated, en nobling and comprehensive may not lit m> confine* i in ?is influence, hut may fine, like lite light of day, dif fusing it> benign influence far and wide. What ponderous tones ol c ontroversy with the long drawn sub tleties anij refinements of schoolmen doe* it happily confront and con sign to merited for^eiiulnt'ss. ( nns tianl v . a glorious emanation of Deitj . ;? is for ages been incumbered h\ ;? oad of human inventions, Iron, which it requires the efforts of t he iiiastejLSpirits of our day, to deli\e< ?id present her to the world in al< ier native beauty, purity arid low., n?ess. Aiay these benevolent senti I utcguU jUi?i>ue tljQ %t vmc t * trttneti Witli tlie diffusive and frater nizing influence of charity, ami in vigorate their souls to the perform ance of every duty, and may they smooth the declining life of the ven erable author, and gather a heaven ly lusture around his path, illumin ating his passage to the tomb. A. B. LETTER. ?f ? I have dulv received Your favor of August ?9, anil am sensi ble of the kind intention from which it flows, and truly thankful for them, the more so as they could only he t lie result of a favorable estimate of ray public course ? as much devoted to study as a faithful tiansaction of the trust committed to me would permit. No subject has occupied more of my; consideration than our relations with all the beings aiouml us, our duties to them and our future pros pects. After hearing all which pro bably can be suggested concerning them? I have formed the best judg ment I could, as to the course they prescribe, and !u the due observance of that course, 1 have no recollec tions which give me uneasiness. An elor|uent preacher of your religious iociety, Richard Mott, in a dis ronrse of much unction and pathos, is said to have exclain ed aloud to his congregation, that " he did uot believe there was a Quaker, Presby terian, Methodist, ?r Baptist, in heaven*" Having paused to give bis congregation time to stare and wonder, he added, that " in heaven, God knows no distinction, hut con sidered all good men as his children, and brethren of the game family I believe with the Quaker preach er, that he who observes those mor al precepts in which all religions con cur, will never l>e questioned at the gate of heaven, an to the dogmas in which all dift'tr: that, on entering there all are left behind us, and the A lis tides and Catos, the Penns and Tillotsons; Presbyterians and Pap* ista, w ill find themselves united in all the principle* which are in con cert w ith the Supreme Mind. Of ~llj the systems of morality, and anci ent or modern, winch have come un-1 d< r my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Je&us. He! who follows this steadily, need not,j t think, be uneasy, ali!?ough he; cannot comprehend the subtleties and mysteries erected on his doctrines by those who calling themselves his special followers and favorites, ? would make, him come into the world to Ifty snares for all understandings hut *hPir$. Their metaphysical heads, usurping t|pe judgment seat of God, denounce as kin em mies all who cannot perceive, the. geometrical lo gic of Euclid, in the demonstration* of St. Aihauasius, that three are one, and one three. ? lu all esseutial points \ou and 1 ate of the same, re ligion. and I ant too old to go into the unessential* ? Repeating there fore, ray thankfulness for the kind concern you have been so good as to express, 1 salute you with friend ship and brotherly love, TH. JEFtERSON. JU&nticello , Sept. 18, 1813. From a Jjrndon paytr. Mansion House. ? Thomas Pay, a shewman, who has a booth in Bar tholomew Fair, attended yesterday, accompanied li? aji officer, upon (he charge of having fired a pistol of ?uu? powder at a boy's eye, through a crevice in the canvass of hi9 recopta* cle. The officer, before the defendant made his abearance, stated to the tord major, that the shewman mhh below, 'covered up ifi a coach, and could not l>e brought up without great inconvenience to himaelf. Ilia lord ship aent down his compliments, an?t begge;l the favor of an interview. boon after Mr. Day's name wa* ailed out, and room was made, bt? although it was said that the defen (iaut was present, he was inviailii to the major^ who looked round l?ii * idi an iuqimitive eye for some mo ments. Int ]or4g%ij? aake4 wliHa Air. "TTere,v ottered a Voice like t"W of a frog, " 1 am Mr. Day?" The eves of the hearers were di rected to the spof from whence the voice was heard, but nothing was to be seen. At last one of the officer* ?tooped down, and catching hold of something in one hand, raised it lip. and placing it on his arm, exhibited the complete epitome of a man. The lord mayor, after his aston ishment had subsided, said, he was sorry to hear that Mr. Day had so violently broken the peace, and beg ged to know n what provocation had induced him to blow gunpowder in a Iwy's eyes ? Mr. Da\ addressed the lord mavor ? %? in the most theatrical manner; In declared, that lie had been molested by so many boys, with whom the un fortunate size of his bodv threw him % upon an equality, that his life was re&lly miserable, lie had entertain ed some fears that a set of these tor mentors had devised a plan to cum' him oil' (a plan not at all impracticable, as he appeared to be not much larg er than a quartern loaf!) He had therefore provided himself with a lit tle gunpowder, with the view of frightening his persecutors, who had already cut several holes in his booth, to the great prejudice of his business. He fired his pistol on this occasion, and unhappily hurt his complainant; but he had not intended it, and was Teady to remunerate him. The Lord Mayor ? Well, 1 have no objections ; but although you are small, you must Tint think yourself so highly privileged.? You may knock a man of six feet down, . if you like ; |i?ut NiMt most not blow either his brains or bis eves out. i ? The father of the boy attended and stated, that as the litte man had ex pressed his sorrow for his conduct, and had agreed to make some repa* ration, lie was not disposed to pros ecute* i Mr. Day was therefore discharged. I RAPE. i We observe by the Boston papers, that Peier Johnson, of Berkshire county, Massachusetts, had been; tried for a Rape on Chatity Booth, and sentenced to he hung. - Chief Justice Parker, in his ad dress to the prisoner, observed. " You chose the still hour of the night, when t lie _ poor defenceless victim of your brutality, with her two infant children (in the necessary absence of the husband ahd father, their natural protector) were asleep, for the violation of the humble but j>eaceable dwelling, and after the most fierce and cruel attacks, and lieing repulse as long as the strength and c ourage of the sufferer continued, you at last succeed in your diaboli cal purpose. Bufelv nothing can be more worthy of death, than the in vasion of tlifcrpeaceful dwelling house In the hour of darkness, for th* jier petrating so foul a crime. The horror of such a scene, where the only choice left to this desolate wo man seemed to be the sacrifice of the lives of her children, or of her 6wn person, to the savage fury of one who through blood and in spite of danger, was bent up<m the gratifica ' tion of furions passion, may lie ima gined hut cannot be descril>ed. Had the blow which was aimed at your life by this woman, in the courage ous defence of her person, taken its fnll effect, the law of God and tlie country, would have justified the act, and the voice of the community would have applauded her for the heroic deed." POPULARITY. On thi? subject, the editor of tlir Baltimore Morning Chronicle, ha* he following just remarks: " What is vul^uUrly called popu larity, is a drug ho cheap in the po litical world, that it is unworthy th* tcceptance of an honorable man : ?quires the exercise of no other f tit than that of deception; the fn I atriot has nothing more to do th' * make pompous promises, and gleet to comply with these promi wii^i *n*4e; aud hn will obtaj vulgar popularity in( nt>undiTic.e. Heal popularity i* a bird of a promV ? r plume, and metaphorically speak ing, may be said U> belong to the aqueline genus ? lie wings his way to the centre of light and glory, wi/ile lie I mars plaudits from the glaring multitude below ; he is still glaring on the beams, and finally if he does 7 ? not reside in the blaze, it is not fur want of effort, hut because he has no atmosphere, where, he can exert the energies of his wing." From the Charleston Courier , Oct . 2 ! . At a meeting of the So nth -Carol i tta ^Agricultural Society, at theis Farm near the city, on Tuesday last, a letter on the culture of Cotton, from a respectable and successful Planter, was read, and it being deemed important to communicate the information it contained, it was resolved to publish the following ex tracts from the said letter : ? ?$ " It is my opinion that the black seed Cotton is much improved by tho plant l>eing turned dow n, from the 15th to the fiOth of October. 1 ad vised a friend of mine to make the experiment, in the jear He did so, and was so well satisfied with the benefit resulting from this mode, that he continued it as long as he remained in this State, and gen erally gathered in his whole crop by ChrUtmas, quite white aud free from stain. " In 1801, 1 took the management of my own estate, and have since that period practised w hat I had recoup mended to my friend, and with th? greatest success. I now plant 111* green seed or short staple Cotton, and 1 think it indispensably requi site to have the plauts turned down about a week before the time for ex pecting a fi\ ? t.'f The letter from which the ahovo extracts are made is in the possession of the Secretary of the houth-Carot liua Agricultural Society. To purify Tallow for Candle 9. Take &-8ths of tallow and 8-8thsr of mutton-suet, 11 elt them iu a cop per cauldron, with a half pint of hot water to each pound of grease. As soon as they are melted, mix 8 oz. of brandy, one of Salt of tartar, one of cream of tartar, one of salam? n.^niac, twontJf pure and dry pot-ash* Throw the mixture into the cauldron, make the ingredients boil a quarter of an hour, then let the whole cool. Next day the tallow will he found on the surface of the water, in a pur? cake. Take it out, aud expose it to the ait for some days, on canvass. It will become white, and almost as hard as wax. The dew is very favorable to its blenching.? Make your wicks of fine, even cotton; given litem a coat of melted wax; tlx 'n cast } our mould candles. They will have tha appearance of wax ill a great degree, and one of them (six to the pound) will burn fourteen hours, and not run. Am. Mutcurtty vol. 9, fl. 46, 1791* There wai lately a challenge pa10( sed between two of the sable race, attended by the following extraordi nary circumstances. A black mnii by the name of Cuffee and another by the name of Pero fell in love with the same sable Dulcinea. Ctiffea was rewarded with her smiles, and was married ? Pero, indignant at his rejection, declared that he was en tirely reconciled to the match, since the sable boauty was equipped with lips too thick for his delicate enjoy nent. This report was conveyed to Ouflee, who declared it an utter false food, and gave a challenge, that was promptly accepted. Cuffee came on lie ground with a pair of loaded torse pistols, and waited the ap pointed time for his antagonist, who tid not appear. Cuffee then' dis barged his pistol in the air, in token f triumph, And then declared that lie would post his antagonist for \ < i ward as soon as he could find any ?e capable of writing such an arti ?e for a neswpa|*er." i JJedtim &rc> Morning Chrovicle .