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-- ? . P 0 E T H Y. FHOM THE TORCH LIGHT. THE GIRL 1 LOVE. I love the girl who always gives The fop and coxcomb due contempt, 1 love-the lovely girl who lives From Folly free ; from P-ide exempt. I love the girl, who, nobly great, Despises Vice, though crowds pursue, The girl, who, yielding will to fate, Meets calmly joys and troubles too. I love ?he girl whose tender heart The sympathetic throb confesses; Whose hands the kind relief impart, And soothe the sufferer's distresses .. ^ I love the girl whose bloom of youth The flush of passion never stains ; Whose heart's the seat of sacrtil Ti uth ; Whose lips foul Slander ne'er profanes. 'the girl, whose mind Religion sways, Wlvom Reason's rays ?o Wisdom lead ; Whose steps ne'erslide from virtue's ways She is the gjrl I love indeed. *? Miscellaneous. FROM THI BOSTON PALLADIUM. America richer than iZnslund. Wealth is relative to the value of the things which we want, compared with the value of those which we have to give in exchange. The first bargain was between mho and the earth. Man wanted bread, and he gave his labor in exchange for it. Be who could obtain the most bread with the least labor, was the lichest; consequently the country wtiich yields the uiost bread with the least labor, is the richest. * v If we establish this, position wc Redeem our title. _ England, it will he said, has im mense wealth in parks and palaces, fleets, forU and arms* jewels and \ prticious/rfetals. We bar the public stocks, we consider as hypothecated 7 upon the miseries of the people, or oMhe fogs of the Thames. jhk the other hand, America has nothing hut1 lend and. liberty, woods , and virtue. Let us compare. % Wealth we take to ^rtatility, and national wealth, national utility ; anti the nation, the great tnass of tfoe people. If parka and palaces, fleets ?nd forts and arms, jewels and pre cious metals, wetfe requisite for the internal peace, or the external pro tection of the people,' we wwild ad mit them into the inventory of wealth* But if they are found to lit in mtist cases, taere articles of court pagean try, and instruments of ambitiou; .and that the people could do very *tyell without thein, then they arenoti wealth for the people, nor conse quently for the natiou; and in as much as they have been taken from the substance and the necessaries of the peoiite, all beyond what was ab - solutely necessary, instead of adding to the national wealth has in fact di minished it* ? It would appear, then, if we ad mit (lie premises, that America i?j! richer than England, by all the dif ference betwixt liruisti pageantry . and American simplicity* The sum of this difference, which is immense, and too large for, Americans to thiuk - o (f ia here saved from the annihilat ing hand of power, aiui left in flie blind of the cultivator or mechanic. But there is another s6urce of supe rior wealth in America; it is the abundance and fertility of the land ; here the least labor producer the most bread. The freaux Esprits may contend for bringing into the account the wealth of intellect, mental lore ; we answer, that what a few English literati may possess in profundity of learning, the American people pos sess in extent, and the diffusion ol useful knowledge. We are of opin ion, that even the balance of litera ture, thus established, would !>?" greatly in our favor. I But to return to the tangible wealth. If we subs tract the supposed va lue of fleets, forts and arms, parks and palaces, jewels and precious metals, all that is not requisite for circulating medium, and take into view the smallness of the number of the wealthy and luxurious, compar ed with the great mass of popula tion, we conclude that America will be found intrinsically richer than England. A more easy mode of solutioq w ould He this : Suppose that almost every man in America possesses a house and land ; estimate these com forts according to the European scale of similar comforts, enjoyed, of course by a higher order of beings than laborers there ; the aggregate of this sum would give the amount of the wealth of the American people. Again, take the daily income of all the inhabitants of America, where every man does somethiug and not as in Euro|>e where millions do nothiug. That sum will give the interest of a capital representing the wealth of America. Finally, estimate the fopd and clothing consumed in America atgbe European price, the houses - and furniture, the books, schools, news papers and stationary ; compare the amount with a similar number of in habitants of England, and it will be found, notwithstanding the palaces and the costly furniture of the favored few, which might be fairiy excluded from this account, that America con sumes a greater amount and value of these articles thau Englund, and is consequently richer. f ROM TAS EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, FOR AU ? GLST, It 18. Otf RESECTABLE PEOPLE. There i? not any <51111 that is of tener misapplied or that is a stronger instance of the abuse of language, then this same word respectable. ? By a respectable man is generally meant a person whom there is no reason for respecting, or none thai we choose to name; for if there is any good reason for . the opinion we wish to express, we naturally assign it as the ground of his respectability. If the p?vs\p 'w hotii you ate desirous to characterise favourably, is distin guished * for his good nature, you nay that he is a good natured man ; if it is by his zeal to serve his friends, you Call him a friendly man ; if In his wit or sense, you say he is witty or sensible; if by his honesty 01 learning, you say so at ouce ; but if he is none of these, and there is no one quality you can bring forward to justify the high opinion you w ould be,tbough^p entertain ff him, you then take the question Air granted, and jump at a conclusion, by observ ing gravely, that u he is a very res ectable man." It is clear, indeed, that where we have any striking ahd generally admitted reason* for res-' (tecting a man, the roost obvious w ay to ensure the respect of ^>iht rs will be, to men ion his estimable quali ties; v^bere these are wanting, tfie wisest course mu?t lie to say nothing about them, but tu insist on the gen eral inference for which we have out particular reasons, onbt vouching t\,r its authenticity ; if lbransUmce, the only motive we "Jiaye for thinking or speaking well df another is, that be gives us good dinners, as this is not a valid reason to (hose who t)o not, like us,* partake of his hospitality, we m <y (without going into partitu lars) content ourselves with Assuring them, that he is a most respectable man ; if he is a slave to tlio e above bim, and an oppressor of those lie tow him, but sometimes makes us the channels of his Inanity, or the tools of his caprice, it will be as well to say nothing of the mutter, < but to confine ourselves to the safer generali ty, that he is a person of the highest respectability ; if lie is a low, dirty fellow, who has amassed an immense fortune, which lie does not know what to do with, the possession of *it alone will guarantee his respectabili ij, it we say nothing of the mnnnei ,n w Irich he has < ome by it, 01 i A v hicb he s|>euds it. A mail i??;?y bt a knn\e or a fool, or buth (as it ma^ <1 happen) and yet be a most respecta ble man, in the common and author ized sense of the term, provided tie keeps up appearances, and does no l ?give common fame a handle for no longer keeping up the imi>o3tureir* ?*? The best title to tfce* character 6f respectability lies in the convenience of those who echo the cheat, and in the conventional hypocrisy of. the world. Any one may lay claim to it who is witling to give himself airs of importance, and can find means to divest others from inquiring too strictly into his pretensions. It is a disposable commodity ? not a pait of the man that sticks to him like his skin, but au appertenance like Iris goods add chattels. It is meat, drink, and clothing to those who ta|te the benelit of it by allowing other* the credit It is the current coin, the circulating medium, in which the fictitious intercourse of the world is carried on, the bribe which interest pays to vauity. Respectability in cludes all that vague and undetinable mass of respect floating in the world, which arises from sinister motives in the person w ho pays it and is offered to adventitious and doubtful qualities in the person who receives it. It is spurious and uomiual ; hollow and venal. ^ -I o suppose that it is to be takeu literally and applied to sterling would betray the greatest i?-? uorncc ot the customary use ol" speech. \\ hen we hear the word coupled with the name of any indi v idua I, it would argue a degree of romantic simplicity to imagiue that it implies any quality of head or heart any one excellence of body or mind' ai0 good action or praisew'Orthy sentiment $ but as soon as it is men tioned, it conjures up the ideas of a handsome house with large acres round it, a sumptuous table, a cel lar well stocked itii excellent wines splendid iurniture, a fashionable e quipa^e, with a long list of elegant conveniences. It is not w hat a man is, but what he hasy that we speak of in the significai t use of this term, lie may be ^ the poorest creature in the world iu himself, but if he is oell to do anil can spare some of hit* superfluities, if he can lend us his purse or in* countenance upoiTocca. skm, he*theu ?* buy a golden opinio is" ol us ) it is but lit that v. e should speak well of the bridge that carries us over, and in the return for what we can get from him, we embody our servile gratitude, hope and feats, in this word respectability. By it we paiuper his pride and feed our own necessities, it must needs be a very holiest uncoirupted word thai is the go-between in this disinteres ted kind of trafflck. \Ve do uot tbinj* of apyjying this word to a great poet or a great painter, to the man of genius, or (he mm of vir tue, for it is seldom we can spunge upon them. It wonld be a solecism for any o<ie to pretend to the charac ter who has a shabby coat to his Hack, who goes without a dinner, or has not a good bouse over Ins iftqad. He w ho has reduced himself in the woild by devoting himself to m particular study, or adhering to a pai ticuunr cause, excites only a smile of pitj/or a shrug of the shoulders, at tlife mention of his niime ; while lie wiM^ has raised himself iu it by a different course, . who . has* become rich for want ol ideas, and powerful from want of principle, is looked up to with sileni Homage, and pas ses for a respectable man. " The ieuhied pate ducks to the golden iooL" W e spurn at virtue and gen ius in rags ; and lick the dust in the jireseuce ot vice and folly in purple. >*? ? ? Viait IN QOMSftTAHTlNOPLK, AMD CONDUCT j or TH & TUMI AT T11M. From DaU4way*9jkravei? in the Levant- \ t ires are so frequent, ilmt few a ion tim pass without fhen, and they] arfe generally so furious, thai whole1 dictricts are laid in ashes.* Houses ate mood re-eracted, that the for mer appearance of the street* is speedily restored, and little altera-' ? In 1 6 63 trventy. thousand houses were miri.t ; and in 1778 the conflagration was so ex tensive, snNa^hreatcn the ui.iyrr?#l u^ftTuciion o? tb#cit|r, ?J* tion is ever made in ibeir fonu. ? Notice of a fire in Const an tion pie, or at Galafa, is given by beating a great drutn of two high towers; the night-watch then patrole the streets, striking the pavements with their staves shod with iron, and crying out Yangen t tfar,? There is a fire," naming the place. The Sultan is then summoned three times, and when the conflagration has lasted one hour, he Is forctftTto attend iu i>erson, and to bring mules with him laden 'with piastres, which he distributes with his ownhands to the firemen, w hoareverv inactive before his arrival. These are armed against accidents in the same manner as they are in London, and are equally expert and adven turous, Fires are extinguirhed by pulling down the adjoining houses, for the engine* are very small, and borne upon ilia shoulders of two men. The perfect resignation with which a good Musulman sees his house con sumed by the flames, and himself reduced from affluence to povertv . (lias been often aud justly remarked my others ; he exclaims +Hluh Rarim : [that God is merciful," w ithout ap [parent emotion, and has assured (himself that the same Providence I which hath made him poor and ab Iject, can once more restore him to [wealth if it be his fate. As to the women, they have not the praise of [such philosophy. T hey assemble I in a group near the sultan, and un mercifully load him with the bitter lest reviling, particularizing his own p rimes, and the errors of his govern ment, and charging him with the cause of the present calamity. At such renconters no crowned head need envy Hultan Selim his situation. As this is the only privileged time of conveying the voice of the people to his ears, and*as women in Tur key say any thing with impunity, it lis presumed that many of the fires [are not accidental, I v As a great spectacle, detaching [the idea of commiseration of the calamity from the present view, if a volcanic eruption be excepted, none lean exceed a great fire at Constanti nople. The houses being construct ed with wood, and frequently com uiunicating with magazines filled with combustible. materials, a vast column of flame, of the most lumin ous glow, rises from the centre, whtch lighting up the mosques, and [contiguous cypress groves, produces (an effect of superior magnificence. I in other cities where the building? are (If stone, the flames are seen partially, or ar^ overpowered with I |smoke. ? I EXTRACT FHOM CHATEAUBRIAtfp's ? . . TRAVELS. , * When I wag in America, in the frontiers of the country of the savage*, I wan inforflfcri, that in the next ciay'sj journey 1 should meet a countryman of mine among the Indians . Oh my arrival among the Cayongas, a tribe belonging to the Iroquois nation, m\ Suixle concluded me into a Joqpst. in the itiidst of this forest stood a kind of bamf in which 1 found about a score of savages of both sexes, be daubed like conjurors* with their bodies half naked, their ears cut into figures, ravens' feathers on their bead*) and rings through their nos trils* A little rjfeftohman, powdere J [and frizzled in the old fashion, in a pea -green ttfct and drngget waist coat, muslin frill a#d ruffles, was Hcraptng away on his kit, and mak ing the Iroquois dance to the tune of fadslin V*e4uit? M. Violet, for tMH was hii name, followed the pro fession of dancing master among the savages, by whom he was paid for his lessons in beaver qkins and bear's hams. He had beeflf'a scullion in the service of General Kechambeau* during the ^jnerican war, but re maining at M^W-York after the re turn of the Fremfb army, he resolved to give th^&mericafli instructions in ibt fine arts, lib views having en larged with his success, this new Or pheus resolved to introduce civiliza tion aione the roving hords of tin new world* la speaking to me o the Indians, fcfc^frays styled tin t "fas meesieurv&fast" and "ce*, dame* 8avu$e8." lie bestowed ^veat praise tin the ability c f bis scholars, and in truth, never tfid I witness such i^amhle^ in uiv 1 fe. ? ? * \1. \ inlet, holding his Utile between his chin and his chest, tuned the ir resistible instrument ? he then cried out in Iroquois, " to your places/' and the hole troop fell a capering like a band of demons. Such, adds our traveller, is the genius of nations . MORAL REFACTIONS. " not upon Earth, 'hrill pierce thee to the heart." An immortal mind cannot long lie delighted with the pleasures of time. It must be fed with nohler, with heavenly food. Earth with all its enjoyments will be forgotten, riches will escape the miser's eager giaxp, and mirth Pee before the votaries of pleasure. Ilow empty, then, arc the vain pursuits of earthly good ! Re gardless of the snblime enjoyments of futurity, we eagerly grasp ai the world, till like the dagger or the as sassii:, it pierces to the heart. The hopes of the thoughtless multitude reach not beyond the veil of lime ; but the christian's hope brightens with the decays of nature. N o domls of anxiety darken the sun of his pros perity. No alarming fears disturb his midnight repose. Hope is an anchor to his soul, which amidst all the storms of life, directs him lor- i ward, with enraptured joy,, to seats of immortal bliss. He <4 leans not on earth 5" uo, his trust is in llitn \* hose promise never fail*. When afilictious assail, and poverty threats enw him, when death knocks at his door, he reposes in the arms of faith ; be can easily part with Ihe world, for this is not his portion. But where is the infidel to look for enjoy* meut, w hen his I ody sleeps in the dust?? l)oet he hppe his existence will then be at an end? he starts with horror at the thought ! Reason convinces him of its aUurdity. Religion brightens in the shades of retirement. The huiiy of business, and the rude scenes of mirth, drown the Whispers of conscience, & quench the vital spark of religion* The C hristian w ill often retire to converse with his God. There he enjoys his. sweetest moments, there he tastes the pleasures which it is not in the power of earthly objects to afford. V\ hen he withdraws from noise anil disturbance ? when he meditates at leisure on these great truths, which have never been seriously enough considered, it is almost impossible that he should* not be affected with 'them. Intercourse with the world cools our affections for religion, and darkens the hopes of our future en joyments, iu the same proportion that it increases our attachment to the present* If we would breathe a purer air, we nust shun the noxious vapors of vicej-we must flee from it, as more dangerous than the plague or the pestilence. Ye friends of I humanity ; v\ hen you l>ehold the greater part of mankind eagerly pursuing the fleet ing vanities of time, and forgetting the joj s of immorality, then retii e*and heave a sigh for human depravity ; but retire not id vain. Resolve to rjjuit your follies ere you again iin Uierge in sinftty, pleasures. All the moments of our lives are counted. Let ns employ lliem well or ill, we shall not increase their number,, it is fixed and lessens con tinually. Is it then our tirasure*on earth ? It will vanish in the hour of distress. Is it in heaven? It will increase in value throughout bound less eternity. Youtli and beauty may fall before the corroding hand of time, like the tender flower before the chilling blast ' of autumn. The brightest morning may soon be overcast with clouds ? and storms of adversity may drive us far from the smiles and caresses of our friends ; happy, beyond expres* sion, if in these moments religion lie our guide. This will smooth the furrowed front of age, and blunt the ?a 1 bed ^rrow of death. This will 'tighten our hopes when all other "joymenU* have fled, when gaiety i^ases to nleasc, and mirth can no Aongvr delight.