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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 .