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^ A ^ A - FROM ras POM* FOLIO* m A LijpY Qy imn mcratrai Sayt M 1 f PKhile alt ai _ 7 To add to thee another year) Oh this thy happy natal day ? Could I y when doubts and feara prevail. Unconscious of thy.foture stated I-ift up the dark mysterious jeil That hides the^recordk of tlfe fii Could I behold thy future days, Wbenseen by inspirations pbweri^^_ Rise all enraptured on my And crowned with wreatl ers: Could 1 behold a train of joys, Attendant, waiting on ck ; Should fortune spread her glittering toys, Thy aumhinc be without a speck ; Could smiles andgraees, without end, To thee "tbeir^annual homage For many, hi any a natal day* But dare I breathe to heaven this prayer, A confidence how false and vafnj When sickness, sorrow, and despair May $ach in drea^ succession reign. Though joythy slumbering couch adorns, And smooths the pillow $r thy head, Qrief still may sow thy sleep with thorns, Ahd waking anguish haunt thy bed. The fever with malignant breath, Unseen, may watch thy midnight groan, It real he thro* thy veins the fires of death, And banish reason from her throne. The hectic fiend majr watch his pfr'y, kUnd on thy ruddy cheek descend. And flatter still and s|jH betray ; uany a treacherous worldly friend, HPoor sorrowing mortals, frail and weak, Unknowing what i* good or ill, ? ; ' ~ Should thus in humbler accents speak? Lord ttack u* toWty thy will. i - ?T~~ r?car the course where pleasure flows; ^ u eyes (k clear chrlitalllne (id tastts it as it goes. A u TT~ tPOLlTlCXl.t ? 3? ar TSMLIZATIOMfr^ af The London. paper8'. faking of the preparations going on for La<| ?^Wtj ed ti. . - six ? 1 the '?4 r Qoburg, bill far ths, tuu& fats, - the space of I r Thcreis, then a" clear and unr ament to nft There could bc_ no que 01 ness was done in six minutes. Theft is nothing in, the Jaw of God or of nations, by which the right clh be , ^i^ffectecrby a quality in ^dei^onsJ & ? doctrine o&? ive dc ,7ilf w-1 ...? ?vv?? "* jwurpCtUSl allegiance" to be unquestionably correct. Let theje say whether said Coburg is now a British subject <* not* It he is a" British subject, by this act of parliment, might we not as easily and as rightfully have , made him a citizen of the United I 1 1 73- ? ? - * m States by act oftcongress ? I think: so? for I have a, notion that if it wete lawful for England, it . would also be lawful for us, to do it. But if by this act Qewge Leopoflj^be not, to all intend and porp6ses,J|j " natural born subject" of thfe Bri tish Empire, then has parliament violated a fust great principle of the law of nations. This proce dure will put the " legitimates" in an unpleasant predicament, be the I fact argued and twisted as they I please, for it ?thfews? in a way that canndt be mistaken their base and detestible hypocrisy, and holds up their impudence and falsehood to the icoff of the world.' Who will 1 ^ j cOTttpdihcreafte!* th$t wc may cot as. legally naturalize Mr. Teague ffRigaii, if we likefc a?_the pari i- 1 ament invest this Dutchman with the rights of a. British subject ? I rhink?|u?f none mil he hardyen-J ough to pratetabouc it in future? the question is at rest; and what was <c*$o clear and undeniabteffi is found M truth is, , the British . ways supposed theyhad a naturalize foreigners; they . r. several statutes on the subject} and wc must certainly: admire that mo desty in their friends which would refuse an exercise of it to other so vereign and independent nations ; TSLJwc should<eaperiallv esteem that manly sense of honor in these ow Own citizens who grant it, by Wgs laws of nations, to England, and refuse it by the same laws to the United States. ^?No man unless he put his fellow creatures on a level with die brute creation, can advocate xtevr perpe tntil allegiance, and them the privi lege of locating themselves, as they feel most needful to their happiness and comfort. It is the most abo minable doctrine that eve#^bs held forth ; but that affected opponents of the trade in black slaves and of ly too impudei^to be born .patience. -MUs's llegistt Monticeilo, Oct. it, 1816. UEAR^dlR, I thank you for theextract in your's of August 16, respecting^ the Emperor Alexander. It arriv ed bfcrc a day or two aftei#! {eft this place, from which I have been ab sent abolut 7 or 8 weeks. I had, from othtr information, formed the , most favorable opinion of the vir tues Of Alexander, and fcoifsider ed his partiality to proauhent proof of them. The magnanimity of his cond#:ton the first* capture of Paris, still magni thing we had believedt)f hpw t* will come out of piescnt crial remain* ro hesccn. it t?* sufferings which Fsaoce "justifiecffkpfct| reprisals, cannot be ned ? .but I have not yet |what crimes 'of Poland, 1 Saxony, Belgium, Venice, Lom bardy and Genoa, had merit for * \ Uhmcnt^ but that ' subjugation, and a destitution of independence and self government. The fable of JEs6p of the Lion cU*fcling> the spoils, is, I fear, be | coming true history-'-and the mo ral Cope of Napolcc .fifth Government, a that k of Grotlou^j jfl Ct m, wijhuvi i) ? and even of the pure doctrines of the great Author of our Religion. ? We wire safe ourselves from Bona- . parte, because he had not the Bri tish fleet^at hi* command ? we were safe from the Britishi fleet because they had Bonaparte jt their bwk? But the British fleets and the con queTor^ of Bonaparte, being now combined, and the Hartford nation m and respect. I J TH: JEFFERSON. | * Dr. Logan . * v! HAFT. 7 Envy, that views with pain, another's pel'f With h?r #wn hand aatastinatat he naif. t MISCELLANEOUS. " | A case has lately occ4im3lnd?r the act laying a tax on licenses to distillers, the publication of the de cision on which may lave ?ome trouble to those who have hoped* under a similar construction, to* es cape payment ofa large portion of Several ofj&e distillers of Lan. casttr^county Pennsylvania, con ceiving that they weie not, bylaw, **,K"edij?" return any , thing but the . t made their ?HP^^adingly i arid conse quently suits were brought upon the bonds^tiven by tjiem tq> the U. States for their compliance with lite ,-r r.-.?.. ? n"i T1'H yry.A^iigrrtTri Tht amount] of bonds sued was 70,500 dollars. The trial took place before judge Peters on the *oth tilt. ? and on jut intimation of the judge's opinion before the trial had advanced, thlt their ground of defence was not i tenable, they submitted their case | without waiting a verdict, agreeing to pay the duties, present and- to come, and tte costs of J9tih vided the collector wrti.ld ( draw the suit ; to which proposi tion he gen#ously consented.?- Had the Amount sued for been rccovcred, one jfjpof the amount 3 5,250 dollars would have gone to his use. The terms of the agreement between the collector and tiistillers, in conse quence of which the jury J*~' missed, were a? Mow*,!*. 1. That each defl make up the returns distilled, Jn the manner hitherto re? - ? ~ dlector, and ac uvnui mc "i iMit/r. i. That the defendants , should the ten per centum required by v, for the delay in ftot paving m, for r he defl the duties when due. at f*. ifcjJI iMcuncu in Uie suits. ^ i ! ; 4. That the suits were not *beH >d contiMM^?itiT th JiT houkl hL a Compliance by the defendants in the foregoing terms, and that, in^ . ,V . ? . - J (specified) time, judgment should ' be entered, to seftire and enforce the perfornwnce Of Ue j?rwm^it, which #ai to be filed with the Clerk of the Court. t y>s-+w;3'f' ?'?*r4m+' ? v-IL'K '** A /evk days since the light ba?K of the Hudson, at Tapan, was v?fej1>yjames Smith,^*. Qen eral Delavan, Mr. Yale, Dr. How ejl, Professor Mitchell, and several', other gentlemen^ for the purpose of settling a question of some im portance in Geology. It had been .asserted that the .strata of sand stones ), forming rhe quarries of Nyack, in Rockland county, cover-; ed a layer of loose earth which a TOunded in bones of animals. ' On digging to the bottom, in ihe-pre senceof the proprietor, Mrf Wil liam Palmar, the party convinced of the correctness of the Utory. j Fragments qf bones* some of which cut ions and ancie n t relics. Fofltwerfty years past, the la-: bourers in this quarry, which is si* tuated near the methodist meeting house at Nyack, have octasionally foand bones and their fragments be neath the solid rock. It was the opinion of the former owner that the creatures to whose bodies they (belonged, had been buried there by some overwhelming earthquake t but the late visitors are inclined to ascribe them teethe operation of -th<HE)eluge, of which thermos t co gent evidence exists in the county ofNew-Y ork, in King's and Queen's counties on Long Island, and the counties of Monmouth and Bur lington, in New- Jersey. . The environs of New-York are >8 Wmarkablc for thcac antediluvian monuments, as those of P&ris or * n. AT. T. Gazetfrr WeJufre it from unquestionable authority that a c History of the late war between America and Great Britain/ the manuscrhj?v?f wiucfe for ready B? =rV is from the pen of ^highly eminent writer in New-Jtfrsey, and will no doubt oc ihemost correct account of that War that has yet been, or pro bably will be eiVen to the public. It 1 is exacted it wilhnakc a pretty large' ???splwpL# . PMfcte^deficiencies of Addison in convelrsatUm are^saya' aft elegant essayist, well known. He preserv ed rigMfr silence among strangers ; but if he was silent, it was the sil ence of meditation. He probably at that moment laborea more in his reflecrions than had he been in his study. It wasjthis silence that " enlightened a?whole nation diurnal- \ ' I A young swi ittBL said to the verlefe r | , Mr| sheaH| y6u always run E1P& it I De my landlady , said ier del examples, say produccemore c crimes, and more owing it tl a violation of n?Tcr Ao akJS&wjf |f/;; n th*t was mkffiee. govern oth .as fom m?jf? 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