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AUSCmiTvNY.1 TIIB ROUND TAHLK....N0.U. 11 v wiuii lit sr. . ? Soc'nti fuilcra nicn*a. ? Mi. rox. A table tn * ihk'uI cn?i|?.w.'t joiuM. An (tie reader has been given to uiik'erfttatid time the subjects which my friends ami myself menu to discuss will form part of <utr cvuvem* lion nt (able, ami thai the con vernation will lie* x erthelehH be a* casual am] unrestrained a# it usually w anions social pai'tiew, lie may 'easily conclude that they will be of p very vafioua de scription. We shall confine durselv^n indeed to1 no kinds in particular) ami taking advantage sometimes of the character of table-tjilK, evou the Mime article may contain ? variuty of sub j oct ?*, ami start uQ'froin one point to another with us unshackled and extemporaneous ad enjoy ment an one of Montaigne'*. Thin,' however, will he but seldom 1 for we are habitually foml of arrangement, and do not like to sec even the dishes out of their proper position*. Hut at the same time, though we shall generally confine nuraelveH to one subject in our essays, and some times tie altogether facetious and sometimes ex clusively profound, we shall alwavs think our nelve* nt liberty to Iks both, if we pfease ? always at liberty to set out merrily in a tii>t paragraph, or to 1m? pleasant in a parenthesis. These things while they refresl. the writer, serve to give n III lip to the* reader's attention, and act u|h?ii him as the handing round of n siiofl'-box may do in the middle of conversation. besides, there in n beauty of contrast in this variety ; and as we iocaii to be verv jiowcrful writer*, as well as every thing else that is desi rable, power is never seen to so much advantage as when it goes about a thing curelessly. You like to see a light -horseman who seems as if Jie could abolish you with a passing cut, and not a great heavy fellow, who look* as if lie should tumble down in case of missing vou, or a little red staring busybody, who would be obliged to wield his sword two-handed, ond kill himself first with exertion. When llonapartu set out on his Russian expedition, they say that he got 1 into his carriage, twirling his glove about, uud ' singing Murllirnuk tu the wars is l'erhnps we bhall lie quite as gay and buoyant j when letting out on the loftiest speculations ? , barring of course, all comparisons with him oil , the score of success, though even we cannot ail* ? Hwer for what a uortheast wind or a fall of siiou ] may do to us. I have myself, before now, had f a w hole host of Hue ideas blown awav by the j one | and have been compelled to retreat from ( the other, mind ami hotly, with my knees al- M most into the fire. In short, to put an end to this preface exeui- f plilirutorv, the most trilling matters may some* ( times be not only the commencement. fiut<the ? causes of the gravest discussions. The full of an ap|rie from A tree augmented the doctrine of attrnctioii | anil the same apple, for nught we know, served up ill a dumpling, may have as sisted the philosopher hi Ins notions of heat, for who lino not witnessed similar causes and effects at a dinner table } For my part, a niece of tout* ton has supplied me with urgumcuts, is well an chops, for a fortnight } 1 have Keen a hare or a cods liead giving hints to a frioud for his next essay j and 1mv? known the most solemn reflec tion* rise with a pnir of-clawaoutof a pigeon pie. There arc two or three heads, however, under which all our subjects may lie classed, and these it will he proper to mention, not so much for the necessity of any such classification, as for an indication of llie particular views and feelings wHh which we tuny handle them. The first is manners, or the surface of society ; the second morals, metaphysically considered, or its inmost ratife* of action } the third taste, or its right feeling upon tilings both external and internal, which lies, at it were, between both. With regard to the flibt, we are aware, and must ndviae the reader, tliat we do not possess ?<? much food Tor observation n? the authors of tin* earlier periodical work# ; and thin ia thecane not merely occause we have not been in the ha bit of living ho much an they did out in society, butbecaufto manner* arc of a more level surface than they were ill their time*, mid people*# cha rart>;/H nave, in a manner, been polished out. ? In fact, thin ia owing in great "icanure to the ve ry writers in qucHtion. The extension of a ge neral knowledge and good breeding were their dircct object*? they succeeded } and there in not a domestic party now-a-dayx, in high life or --i&uutjdle, but in its freedom from groSimeHrt and itj? (met n re of literatures ?* indebted to Steele anil hit* aKHoriate*. 'I'lie good was great and universal, and should alone render tnove men immortal, even without all the other claims of their wit and character. Kvery general advantage, however* of this kind, Iish a tendency to overdo itself. A certain degree of knowledge and politeness being with in every bod v'i power, Mifucient to enable them to paM*?mootljly with each other, every thing further become* at last. neglected ) character lirnt givea way to polish, poi:<h by little and lit tle carries awav Mdidity ) and all the communi ty, who are to lie acted upon In this way, are at length in diwger of resembling ho much worn out coin, which bus not only lout the features upon it? and grown blank by attrition, but be gin* to be weighed and found wanting even for the common purpo?eH of society. 1 Ah far then as our observations on manners go. it will be our endeavor to Counteract this ex treme. Our mode of proceeding will be best explained by itself t but we dial I endeavor to set men, not utton disliking nmoothncM, but avoid ing insipidity? not uimi starting Into roughness but overcoming a UiniHcy samenc?s? ami thin t* iff, not by pretending to' charade rs which they have not, but by letting their Own be seen as fst an they possess them, and once more having face* to fc now them by. Taste, ns wsh inevitable, has sympathized vomptetcty aith this superficial state of man ners. lu proportion as the community were al to resembUs eaeh other, and to have races am manners in common, tneir self-love was not t< be disturbed by aay thing in the shspc of ihdi vidualitv.' A writer might l>0 natural, but In was tu l>c natural only as Tar ns their sen*o ol nature would go, amf thin as not a great way. Besides, even when he was natural, lie hard!) darcu to be no in language at well m idea* t? there gradually came up a kind of dress, in whicli a* man** mind as well as body \\a\ to clothe It self t and the French, whose 'sophisticated ta-Ji lutd be?|i first introduced by political. circum< stances, saw it increa?inir ovorrday under the characteristic tifleof polite criticism, till tin*) condescended to acknowledge that wo'wcre be hating ourselves welly anu that Mr* Pope wax n truly Tiuvmojiipus' poet* and tliat Mr. Addisyji'n Cnto mUdu amends fotr the barbarism of Shakes peare. The )*ai?<ta Indeed bestowed, by the rreuch in these *pri similar instances, wont .on in one respect.to a fbrtdnate extreme, and tend ed to rouse a kind of national contradiction, which haa perhaps not been without it* effect in keepiug a better spirit alive | but it inu^ not be concealed, that both Shakespeare and Milton have owed a great part of their reputatinh* of late years, to causea which, though of a distinct nature, hove been unconnected with a direct pn? etical tubte. I allude to the art of acting with nv^ard to the former, and to certain doctruiea of religion with respect to the latter, both of which have no more to do with the finer spirit of either noetthan a jnck-o-lanterh or a jugged hare.yW Milton still remain* unknown to the better clas es, in comparison witli succeeding writers) and Chaucer and Spenser, tho two other great jwots of Kngland, wlto have had no Mich recommen dations to the pursuits or prejudices of society, are scarcely known at all. especially with any thing like 'an apprehension of their essential qualities. Chaucer is considered a rude sort of poet, who wrote a vast while ago, and is no long* pr intelligible i and Spenser a promising one, not quite so old, who wrote nothing but allego* l ies. They startle to hear, that the latter has rery little need of the glossary, and is dipt in poetic luxury ; and that the former, besides be ing intelligible with a little attention, is in some respects a kindred spirit with Shakespeare for gravity us well as for mirth, und full of the most requisite feeling of nil kinds, even to the pa thetic. It is curious indeed to see the length to which the levelling spirit in manners, and the :oxconiic(h sort ot excliihivcness it produce*, inve carried people in their Imbituul ideas of ivritcrs not of their generation. Nothing is i-oung and full of vigor uut themselves. Shakes tearc may enjoy a lucky perpetuity of lustihood >y moans of school -compilations & stage -players md Milton, in their imaginations, is a respecta ble middle-aged gentleman, something like the loivymnn wlio preaches on Sundays ; uutSiieu er is exceedingly quaint and rusty ; and Chau er is nothing but old Chaucer or honest Gcof ray*? which is about as pleasant, though not in* ended to bo so, ns the lover's address to the sut) a the tientle .Shepherd t Aim! if yc'rc wearied, htnrtt light, Sleep, gin ye like, a week tlisi night.' '<? ; You will even find them talking, with an air of patronage, of having found something good now and (hen in these u hi writer* ? meaning tins master* above mentioned and the worktug heads that were in the time of 8hake*peaf*?-lj|lMy evidently present them to their mimls as ho ma ny old gentlemen and grand father*,' half-d oat injr | and for aught 1 know, would think of A* Edlo himself in the same way, if it were not r TooVc's Pantheon, or an occasional plaster cost. As if perpetual youth, instead of age, was not the inheritance of immortal genius ?? Ah if u great poet could ever grow old, as lQMj an Nature herself was young! Hut I must restrain myaelf on this subject, or I shall exceed my limits. The reader will see tlint we are prepared to say a great deal of " these old itoetHs" and we are so, not because they old, hut because they are beautiful and ever fresh.?. Wo shall alsodoaa much for some of the old prose writer* t and endeavor, hy means of both, and ofthe universal pffaelples which inspired them,toweati the general taste, an far as we can. from the lingeringlnfluence of the French school back again to that of the Knglish, or in other words, from the poetry and modes and fashions to tliat of fancy, and feeliitg, and all-nurviving nature. Wj have had enough in nil conscience of men who talk away and write smoothly, and everlastingly copy each other} let us, in the name of variety ,*if of nothing else, have a lit* tie of men, who held it necessarv to think and speak for themselves ? tntn who went to the fountain head of inspiration, where the stream wept and sparkled away at its pleasure, and not where it was cut away in artificial channels, and sent smoothing up, pert and monotonous, thro* a set of meclianical pipes and eternally 'repeat ed images. On the subject of morals, which is one that requires the nicest development, and will be treated by us with proportionate care and sin cerity, w'o shall content ourselves with saying at present, that if we differ on this point also from the opinions of our predecessors and others, it la only where we think them hurtful to the real interests of charity and self-knowledge, and where they have made a compromise, to no real purpose, with existing prejudices. On this point, aa well aa on manners, we shall endeavor to pierce below the surface of things, but only to retch out what we conceive to be a more valua ble iubatance, arid fitter for the kindlier purpos es of intercourse. We may distuib the com placency of somo exquisitely self-satisfied per sons. 6c startle into a uod-blesa-me or so (which we should be sorry to do over their tea-cups) a number of worthy people who lament that eve ry body does not resemble them y but the world 1 have too long, even when most professing to l?e 1 charitable, been taught to value themselves at 1 the expense of others j and perhatis in our old xealfor the many instead of the few, we shall ' endeavor to reserve this kind of. beginning at \ home, and exhort them to think somewhat bet ter or others,, even at a little expense to them selves. In anort, to recommend au independent - simplicity in manners, a love of nature in taste I andf truth, generosity, and self-knowledgo' ir \ morals, will bo the object, dining or fasting i with blade in hand or pen, of the knights of th< ? round table. ^THR CURATE. Hi* name wu Corbctt. Ho hail been a cu rate six and fort/ vears. llv sought not to be any thing ?lie. The religi ion he professed had , J ami raiment, tobe therewith con (cut ?" and the same in.iuence extending to Ids habits, had enabled him by tem perance und prudence, to obtaiu ail he thought necessary in lifo. He has married, and hau a sou whom ho himself had educated ) and who, like himself, was in the ministry. . When 1 speak of the c fleet* of his nfixte of prayer and preaching, I speak of tho e fleets 1 witnessed in the course of a constant attendance on Idto.? with He uover read prayers y iie prayed, and w such deep and fervent foelin*t With emphasis ? obviously suggested not by the art, but b/ the ? 4 ? of supplication ? with pauses so 'strongly 1 by solemnity ot recollection, anil a nun pension o'f tUo act, without a Suspension of the feciitog, that I) is congregation almost unconscl ousi/iointM in the responses, which were origi naHyTiUtodal for their utterance* and iolt yio force ouhabft and indolence yield tothronly e necgy with which he poured out Ids petitions, 1 neverlienrd man preach as he did. lie was I a scholar, ta whom low I Kavoever met were su perior. lie was a man (^>liirhting in conversa tion, in which, if lifflit. he could amu*e, -and if argumentative, he could instruct, more than any man I ever listened to. llut in the pulpit, he laid aside the wisdom of words, and the wea pons of fleshly warfare altogether. That he was a scholar you felt not } you felt not that he wtn a man of rich imagination, or of strong rea soning powers t you felt not that lie or his dis course could bo referred to any data of mind or com position, that could assist you to Judge of them in a temporal sense, llut you felt Irresis tibly that ho was a believer, pleading with the power of conviction | that he was a religionist, speaking from experience, commending a life he lived and a felicity he felt i that ho spoke and acted on principles which, though beyond the range of existence, were not beyond tho range of reality ; principles which ho made present and vivid, and substantial, alike by the force of eloquence, and the forco of example. He was a speaker, who, of all others I over heard, sue* I ceeded most in averting your attention from himself to Ins subject. It was long after bis sermons had concluded before you could think of the preacher j like the priest in the Jewish hie rarchy, he disappeared in the cloud of intense himself sent up. .V.A: The Christianity he preached* was such as a man would preach, who, abstracter from the influence of prejudice, and habit, and* self-wis dom, had sought his system in revelation alone, ?nfi -,?* r 1 neither riously construc - jora formulary of ilth the constant at ieuse the absence of ..smssMisttss: belief ) and the belief, if su6U^b>ihese facta, and found and formedit therfci It con Suggesting the most important sequences to our minds and our lives. It may lie thought there was something in this mode of representation too argumentative and conse quential for the comprehension of a rustic au dience ? it was not so. Though Ida positions Were strong and important, they were clothed in a language, whose peculiar and providentinl felicity is, that it is the universal language, the first languago that religion talks to the ear of in fancy, the language that genius reverences, and ignorance understands, the language of the poet and of the saint, the language of divinity and of the heart, the languago of the Hcripturos. Ilespolc as a father pleading with a way ward child s he spoke as a judge .with a criminal, to confess and Iks forgiven ; as a guide with a wanderer, to return and to rest. When ho finished Ids sermon, it waa not with Cowper's " well-bred whisper." lie appeared for some time engaged in prayer \ au eiltision of mind so solemn and deep, that most of the au dience involuntarily ioined in it t those who did not, were awed and silent, when he came down, and walked among us, though the thun* derof his eloquence was pushed, bis counte nance spoke still. Ho had descended from the mount, but his vissgc retained the brightness tdf that high place. ? T/ic Wild Irish Roy. It Was one of the favourite maxims, of Sir Joshua Reynolds," that all the gestures of chil dren are graceful, and that the reign of distor tion and unnatural attitude commences with the introduction of the dancing master." The Ridicule,?' This pretty article of femi nine accoutrement, a correspondent observes, is most ridiculously called ridicule. Originally made of net-work, it was in French very pro perly called Reticule from lie Latin RUlcuiutu , (a little net)? In imitation of our neighbors, we adopted the sa'.se appellation, and retaining the latin (/(as in JluimiticJt, tkc.) pronounced it in four syllables, though we already had the word, in our dictionaries in iis contracted form, Reticule , like Miracle, Oracle, fitc. To accouut for its metamorphosis int?> Ridicule , otir corres j pondeut adds, that Ridicule f derhiun) is by [ many persons mispronounce*! Rcddlcule ; and hence he supposes, with every appearance of pro bability, that sapient critics, unacquainted with the real origin slid meaning of the term Rctlcule , ] on first hearing it properly pronounced, imagin ed it to be a further corruption of the already corrupt Reddlcule , and by way of setting all right | converted it into Ridicule ! I ! ? Host. Uas. A vaporing colonel of one of llto city volunteer regiment*, wa* complaining, in n very nelf Hufncient manner, (lint in conM'<|U$nc<s of the great negligence of IiU ofUcer*, he. v.'uh obliged to <1o their duty hh well at I; it. own. " I mii " Hani he, " my own captain, my own paymaster, aiiiI my own ennign." 4i You n?ay a<l<l,kai<l a gen tleman who knew his character well, 14 your own trutHpdtt." mmimmmmmmmmfmmwmt u ?jjaujumi'il mm K4iftVfi|?t/0rt?U?lltP " WAHIHStl'I'ON f|TV WKKK LY (8A'/KTTK,H rtcoivtd at tli'n JOHN KIKKIMTIttCK. jIAH. K. DOUI/I.ASS. AIN'SIKY II.VM*. 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It is orriei r ed that they do, within three months from thin day, plead, answer or demur to the hill filed in thin case', or in default thereof, it will betaken a* to them contested. JOHN M'COMIJ, Cl'k. Abbeville Court-IInusc, Feb. 15,1 (116. 11 3jn. TO TllR PUBLIC. WIIKIIKAS from certain information given to itic by W'ill? n? <?. (iritnei, of ficorg.a, that lleujamin Ilell of Booth-Carolina, had stolen the sum of oneor two dol lar*. which were found in his possession after a search made for that purpose, which information wna accom panied by a certificate in hi# hand writing to the tamo cfiv'ct now in mv pwMcssion, I wan induced to tnako the charge against the aforesaid Bell of Imv.ng stolen the n bove sum of money ? ?nd whereas from information since obtained, and by another certificate from the afore aa'td (Jr. met, going to show thut lie was mistaken? now, therefore, I atn Induced to think and verily believe that the Information upon which 1 grounded my charge a rainst the aforesaid Hell was false, and I feel glad to have it in my power to make public my conviction of hi* in. nocenee, and to state that I believe his character f*ir and unimpeachable. AUSTIN l'OM,AHI>. 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FB^IIK Subscrilwr h-i? estsblbhed himself ?i? this pbico I JL* for tlw puritos"; of nvaC.tlsliig I aw, nnd has taken [t1?e ofilee formerly oreupVd by James tire/g, F.m| and will (iractiso in the Oxijts of It.r bland, l.oxinutoii, (Jnion, York, ( 'hejtler snd* P/u field, ami \Yill be thank fid f'?r any business entrusted to his care, whieh be w. I aitefMl to with fMelfcv 1 ' - II. P. IIXMPTON, Jittuarv, 1^1'?