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mzup. The f 'oifovting is the production of Sir Wii-' j hum Jonet, What power beyond all powers elate , v j Sustains this universal >fra roe f TU not nature, 'tis not fate., *Tis not the dance of atoms blind, Bttu^ml space or subtle flame ' ?No, 'tis our "v^st eternal mind, Too sabred for an earthly name. ^ JJcTlbnjis pervades, di ects the whole ; Itfot like microcosm's imag'd, soulj But providence of universal Rood, By ways not seen nor understood, Which e'en* his angels vainly might ex plore, High their highest thouglrts above, Truth, wisdom, justice mercy love, AVrodght h> his heavenly essence blare . ' ? and soar, x N , Mortals Who his glory seek, v.. Bent in contemplation meek. Him fear, him trust, him venerate, him -pdore. * ~ - i CHOICE 07* A WIFE. T ask not befcuty ? 'tis a gleam That lints the mdfning sky ; I ask not learning? 'tis a streaitx . That glides unheeded by.y_ I ask non wit?? it fs a- flash That oft -blind* masons eye : I ask not ?o1d-?? 'tis glittering trash, Thai causes man to sigh. I a!&..g<K>d sansc, a Uste refin'd, Candor, with prudence blended? A -feeling heart, a virtuous mind, With charity attended. 4* V OA GEffUIAR WIT \ Tfuewit is like the brilliant stone, Dotf from Golconda's mine \ . Which boasts two various powers in one, To tut frt toil! as shine. . i ?' ' ' Genius like that,4f polidi'd ' right. With .the same gifts abounds ; , Appears at once both keen and bright, " And sparkle s whHe it wounds. Tim DOVE. tell mc where the Dove has iqwrt# Tf>J>nild her downy neat; * And I will rove the world alone, To win her to my breast.* . I sought her in the. rosy bow'r, - Where "Pleasure hold* her reign, And Fancy flics from flow *r to fiow'r? But there I sought in vain. r ? ? ^ I sought her in the ifcrove if Love ; ( knew her tender heart / But she had flown ; the peaceful Dove ? Had felt the traitor's' dart. .s ? ? ' ' 0 Upon Ambition's craggy hill, . The pensive bird may stray,' 1 sought her there t but vainly still ; She ne*er flew that way. Faith amil'd, aod shed a tender tear, , i. To aee me search rtrourtdv Then whisper'd, 4 1 c?tn tell thee where The J>ird may yet be found. / ' meek Religion's humble cot* one builds her downy nest ; O l aeek that sweet secluded spoU * . Ad win her to thy breast !' 41 A L*dy% 9 answer to a troubletomt Ijtvcr% Said William to Sue u Pray name ?f you can* . Of all your acquainuince the Worthiest mart I". ^ ' Shj frankly replied, "If you'd have me speak true, He's the worthiest man. who's moat unlike you.9' . THE WEATHER. The feaeen 'tis granted is not very ffay? But we cannot in justice complain of the 'weather ,? % For if changes delight lis, we have in one . . <i?r? J Spring, Summer, Autum, and Winter to gether, ANFXDOTE. A poor der vise made his pilgrimage to M?eea barefooted, for want of shoes } cur bing his lot, and accusing Heaven of cru 0f : but wheh He arrived at the gate of the great mosqoe of Corita, he perceived a . poor man who had lost both feet. At the sight of a lellOW creature so much more ?miserable than himself Ke forgot hi* own' wretchedness, hnd he returning with an luipresaibn of gratitude, said it was certain ly a much greater affliction to be without 4eet, than without shncv Rkmauk j A "good iaeson fiom a Turk to a Christian. < Protm (Oc McHrucHi Compiler. AMERICA. A country, almost fresfy from (he hand of Nature, which ihopts it self into almost, e very climate, and teems with the . productions of al- ' most evety soil, opens her bosom j to the foreigner of cvefy .clime, j It is thus shat the youngest branch of the human family expresses her claims. It is thu* that America, addresses her older and arrogani sisters *. . ! <c Send your unhappy children 1 hither? " Come unto rrie all ye who are . heavily laden with the ills #f oppres- 1 sion, and V will gTve you rest. Those who eat the bitter bread of persecution will here taste bread, that : is sweetened from the cup of liberty. u I have land enongh to empjQy you. My territory sweeps from th^ shores of the Atlantic to the wilds West of the Mississippi, frofh the lakes of Canada to the verge of a the Mexican Gulph. - My earliest settlements arc yet destitute of peo ple : but, if you travel westward ly extensive regions lay open before * you. The wild deer still ^port in my prdries, and mUfty a forest h^s never rung with the stroke of the axe.^ Years and centuries must pass away befoYe my ^country can attain a mocferate rare of -popula tion. There will be land enough, < and to spare, almost for the remo- j test generation .. .. " This targe belt of country etri braccs almost .every variety of cli mate and soil, . The emigrant may pitch his tt?ht on the borders of the j lakes, where winter- lingers on the j lap of May, or on. the boundaries I of Flonda, where the peach and 4 apple tree bloom in January. He may breathe j:fre-?aiymg-- air of the sea, or be fanned oy the breezes of the valley. Every moile <jf cul tivation, which is most agreeable to his interest* or His taste* Inys before him. He may ftew lum'ber and* drain pot-ash with the laborer of* the ] North? --he may 1 cap the wheat aod gather the hemp of th$\ midland - country ; he may draw the cotton or cut the cane of the South and the W6st. If "he be a Swu9, ' he tnay pr*ss "the grape^ ifl p^ich^ man, he may fatten cattle and man* lifacture cheese if lan Englishman he may rtaftthc wheat of,.fcis. ti^e fields ; or If. he choJWes to launch into a mode X)f ctiktvatiojr, almost peculiar to rtiy children, he may raise corn, crop tobacco, ?0r whiten his fields With cotton/ There is no culture, to Which he has been accustomed, which he ma/ not exercise here j and ^there are. tome, which he may acquire by a visit to.ray shores. u Nor are rtiismufacturts commerce riegleted. The north furniih manufactories ofcottoft and wool. The tnidcile country calls for workers of ifon, In almost CV cry variety of modfe*. Thcfe is no manufacture indeed df whiA ihe materials is^not to be met with here. - The mines of doal ar$ inferior to none in the "World * those of iron at e superior to any . My soijis covered with almost every of v4ri*'ty wood,.' calculated for { eysry ..species <>f wooden work. My fields are al ready whitening with sheep j and 1 my cottt>n*is uneq^VlccI in its quan tity, or the fineness of it* fibre." Most sorts of the coarser mahufac tufes have already risen to ; i great I degree of -perfection. 'tU^vt ^isf " I room then, and employment* jfor the '? I most of the handy-oaf umert, and^ j manufacturers, who bring their skill t and instruments with-'theui* In shrp^ building,* who is my superior ? From twe little cock-; bo*:, which barely Jives upon the j wave to tHc seventy -fouj* ? .which I i thunder* on the deep, proofs of rnv | naval arc Kite d6re are abundant. j # 4 .K* . | My canvass whiter\s ?very sea i and and my seamen* penetrate every branch of navigation. Tnc Atlan tic and the Pacific, ttajshores -oft both Indie% the Isles of the South Sea, are witnesses to the enteYprize of my sons. ? My commerce is ex fendetT upon the^i figs *>f the wind to almost every department ; anu ^thc v?ame breeze blows into my ports the spiefcs of die Moluccas,' .the teas of China, the nankeens of India; the sugar and coffee of the West Indies, the oil of- Italy, the wines of France, and the manufac tures of Britain.. There is no coun try* which presents as much em ployment to the laborer in {Wpor tion to their ntimber. and none such - ? - .f means of emptying capital in pro portion, to the amount of it Vhich was in the market. Come, then, ye laborers, merchants, and far mers ; fly to a region, where labour aud capital are so much demanded ; : where wages are so dear, and profit so hiffh % where food is so^bundant, and tjie poor .o,few. " Btic these are rior the only be nefits which I minglein the cup ? - I offeV you a land of liberty ? aland whose political instrtutions are fra med upon the \yisot model, where government protects without op pression, rnake the fewest for the regulatibh 0"f 'its government, and treat all men as eq&allvho open its laws. .There kre ni> mercantile monopolies, no Corporation lfcws or statutes of apprenticeship to (roul the exercise of industry -'-but. where eVerv man . may go as he : pleases, and pursue the occupation-] which he conceives be** calculated I for his interests. Land is nor con- I fined to particular families by Uw* -of I ..entail ; nor to particular sons of chose 1 ? families bv an odious primogeniture. I u The burden which the goyefn- J ^ rbent lays upon the profit of the I MattoWj is as light the restriction | ^whifh it injpdses fcpon^hts iridus- j My . . Vfy taxes ire m&dfcrate; ,1 .Mf flebtis smalt. My means ex-. l ?'tensive. ? Here, the taxes send 50 I man tupperless co-bed. No portion | of your ^ages is exacted to pay die Uythes of the priest. There * is tno I established church.- $*he rights ofl ^conscience are as m ich retpccced J ;as the altars of God. , Every" one J may worship Heaven according to j ?fo the dictates ' 6( His Conscience t Religion U *s free as the air that is I breathed.? *My children visit ^ Che A churches which ' they prefer^ and 1 pay to" $he ministers what they de* j termiiie for themselves c< Nor do rhy berfefits terminate J here. You have no tape's to coAa I rribuce towards a pampered aristo* 1 eracy. 'There are no" kings, noj prin<^s^. no -piincesites, no queehj dowagers, no lords of. the bed cham- j ber, no ladies of honor, no Dukes 1 or Marquises, or .xmlls, or kniget , I to eat up your substance, or to of- I fend yotir sense of equality and if- j berty. There are no tyrants, no d subjects. ? Every man in the eye of j ..the government is Squats here, no J distinctions, which'art founded upon ! the vilest usurpation. Merit and J genius may riir to their level* *nd I tKe Chief Magistrate of the Ameri- I rican Republw may have sprung J from the meanest hordl. *** If these* bleisings have any^ fccharfns in your unfortunate1 emigrant ! .come hither^ami enjoy them, Jjrave th#*xreign fcof, the throne and the pfie*tho6d, for the country of liberty an& toleration. ; Fly to my arm? j they art opeo to , receive jotx" .v - <wc {'^vwkic? 4 r - 1 Xf Ajt'n+ct o/ a I'JTrr /'<??* a ***n t* hi* 6'O'hfr t *j /A:* <cv?, u-l.rvt 'J'etjrt, Jifril i 13 17, *? Through the bWVs'n^* ot p^vidence, I *m. ooa more- eftVoVd u? infr>rrtr lot# that I am in the Iv.d ?,f \\iif l; \ i t>VT- Vou have 'O drm' i T>tt u wv*!rh used at noC , % ? hearing Piom #>?*? r*r ; but J i<*ost W form you 'hat rwnnctliuivlv after 1 wrote lo yon from t !>i ^ *i"aie |a*? * Vojr? I joined a company <?t iw>i?Vo;e?> the purpose >0? aUtkHrt ft g on fsct vV*^ o the patriot ser victio fctit <i;*ioruUt ;' -we nv.*rch irntnedi mjtfj ?r? '&&- "amt Ttrcre learned thah-thrrc was no mxio Iwvto of patriots ex~ istrnj*, thev lr.\d all di^rs1^ } a few h*n4 lV^r)?<o Si, A*u<?oi" v*V?>n Toledo,, who U was saiH h % \re w-Orleana, foi* i bar place. ' Onr little party . consisting of about forty-five* agreed Vo fo*fow their ex. ample* nod in our wart thuhrr we fell mfi with about two hundred rov a lists who were sctiiTi-Mtf* the country. We were soon sunouoded und forced to ii,;l?t or surren der'; we imtrtcdia v*v en^^cd and after having twenty five ui our party tilled the rest of ws Wuig every man wounded, were rusfied 1410a, seicvd und hound fast and ? carried to the governor, uliu Without hoi ration sentenced us lo the mines for life*? The mines in the Flo rid as were so full of : Americans, that our party, then reduced to sixteen, (four lurvinj* died of thehf wounds) was ordered with about fifty more to be-Wat to the mtnei lit , South Argefica. In crdlsin'f* tfee Isthroua howeter, four or us escaped l*y*fc>ri mining to the British b* i ,? Sy-phux, whose cap tai a very generously treated _%?S| until we *feU in with a patriot fHjkraieer^hioli I went on board and remainePkiniilthe ith of M*rcl|t when I landed at Savannah and- came iow mediately to thi* ^.tiite, f,8. B.GAUDEN1ER J . B. Garcienier " v "T' "1 >m$m - % - ? . ?? Sac^vvts-Hahbor, May On Saturday the 40th iust. two brother*, with their fatritliea, consisting of their wives (who were sister#,) and iaur small | children, started from lief, lerWn's Har , hor up the lake in a srr*t!l open btoat, with their effects, pdrpo?ng to remove lo th# Genesse country,, ? e are credibly in formed that at the tiuie tlvny left Hendei^ son's Harbor; gunnel of their craft wm but a few inch^above (he water Thef wtfrg w:trntd of their dattger, and entreat- ^ small a boat, on Hi h ? e so subject to aud^ den flaws ? hut it appears the Messrs, Whiles were determined to proceed* Itt the consequence be what it might? thejr -went-^-and jhe onif tidiiiRS we hwfronk these untimely adventurers, are, thai their t Wr?relliMreh; and wie f>cmt in whith ^i&]T sailed .hayt- been 'picked np on the faW Without doubt, these two entire millea* ' together with the Mrs. Whift-s, and' a' bo^r ' cammitted to tHeir charge* supposed tiv hsve been fevmerly from Utica* amount ing in all to eleven souN, ha+6 been pre cipitately hurried from .'lima into aftarnitjr*. Curl on 9 ,F$ct ? A distinguished patroci jot manufrctui&t, residing in New- Have* county , in making iume soquires Into tb* actual state of mVuifaeUiiea ^Connecticut* has found, tbat* House of Represen tatives now in cession, Onr hundred and nixty mrmbrr* ait 6ktit in Jhni 'if 4ft, and only thirty. fight f? IT thia has resulted frorirv Patriotism, ii does infinite IiQPor to tiie state ; if H If a* proceeded IrOnrv econorny, frow irresistabh fa tfct argu went to\he dra*:t from it In favofr of 4o mearic mamcbcturta ! At the Wtf mo v roeni that British r >iics are cleprr Med be yond fit former ciamptes, feur-ftftht of our Legislature* and undoubtedly an equal ' proportion of our people generally, find it tor rtieir advantage to purchase hbrne mad* cloths. Laying out df consideration' the .vital benefit* of -^manufacturing forvout?? Vekei, in correcting those Irregular and embarrassing operations of our pecuniary iiut ii ut'iona from which we have - suffered so much, and in ,^pre*enting the still more fata) balance of trade' which threaten! 1* /levttur^sis \ tiow much individual /faring mutt ultimately fee realised, if at ikts<ttfn* the Amejrican Manufacturer* Oan undersell Cht fenders of British Gn?der\ But afceii , th? whole advantages resulting nionity Tr6ni domestic man uwd(fe^S * 'taken in** view", is <ti?re an in^v4(fuat a can rationally oppose Wf i|* not. toMHctlitut Mirror L ; . tjRANl> INVktfTHVj V"' f ... Y he following acci#^ f# been copied otigjpjlljr frftljl a Parla (staking the runudsof U*e Antrflran Gfc#? ette* ; ? A mathefpatiafan of m^p](L Locatelli, propels boat* on riv?f? bjf n. terns of a piece of rf)?4 jitney uf ft}t ovfn l(^an? tion without anv other aid \ he will even moie a veind if w<rr against f ha current^ Which- the machine secure fn>m wi*** besides, The ppWctof a/I, a t 14 most that of* i, s?jfflQi?fU tfeijM {% t*