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POETRY. TIIB DAY-JULY 4, IttlO. ST MAJOR i. v. sarkkii, or rtiiL*uu.rnu. 8incc a tout jrou demand, tiul I can't say you my, 1 must task my invention to bring one i But feclir.g quite sure th.?t I've nothing to toy, By yourVwe, I'll endeavor to ting one. But All while you may. That'# the right way," Or the Might will be lterc,cre wo drink down the day. Pd give you M th* oa?,m l?ut you've had it before ? 80 nm thtr dam I must try, air t From our civ--iny'?l>ack I mutt borrow a teore That we marked sincc tlie Fourth of July, sir. Fill while ye may, &e. Then here's to the day, were they foggy or fine, That blushed nn our foe* early follies 1 The day that the Yankee* C?rnva!Uttd Burgoyne? And the <&iythey Hurgoyned jioor Cortiwallis. Fill while jc uiay, tee. Ami here'* to the dityt, which, in Fort or on Plain, l/itcly shone on our rival's disaster* ; Ami to nil the britfht day*, that, on Lake and on Mall), Saw his fleets and liitt frigate*, change masters. Fill while we may, fcv*. In treating or JfgWng, wc ntill yain'd if*' day, Ah at Client, and elsewhere it apjH*ar?i sir ; fc'o here's to the day that wc pained in that way, From John Bull, and the I>cy ol Alg'ieni, sir. Fill while ye may, kc. Ifrrc's the day.?But the dau would'nt list till I'd done, Should I go the full length of my tether > S*> till up your hiun|>cr*, whilo yet there is sun, And let's drink all our dnyt, here, together Fill while )C may, kc. TIIB PRBHENT AGE. Of all the ugrs ever known, The iircscut is the oddest 1 As all the Men ntc hottctl grown, And all the Women mode*t. No {.Awygrs now arc fond of fees, No Clergy of their due* j Few people at the Race one see*. At Church what crowded pews * The Undies dress so plain, indeed, You'd think thorn Quakers all 1 Witness the Turbans on theirhead;, So romely and so small ! No pleasure Chaises fill the strf<-t% Or crowd the roads on Sunday i So horses lab'ring through tlw week, Oiituin a respite one (lay ! Happy the nation thus endow'd? So void ofwant5 and crimes ! All zealous for their neighbor*' good ! Oh thete are GLORIOUS TIMES ! IMPROMPTU On the wtur. 'Fttrmwt mv in fuihinn. I'hc garb, Dutch or tissue, in which our Beau kind, Parade up ami down, all so spruce, Of two tow n? in Francc ever put one in mind? And those trc Tovlo* andTorioi ?i * ? Too long and fco love. C1IAHACTKH8. MOM SKETCH!* or AMKUK-AX un.lTOIIl MR. WIRT. 1 have seen no one who has such natural ad vantages and so many qualities requisite for ge nuine eloquence, as Mr. Wirt. His person is dignified and commanding) his countenance open, manly, and playful; his voice clear and musical; and his whole appearance truly ora torical. Judgment and imagination hold a di vided dominion over his mind, and each is so conspicuous thtvt it is difficult to dccide which is ascendant. His diction unites force, purity, va riety and splendor more perfectly than tnatof any speaker I have heard, lie had great oriai Dal powers of action, but they have been totally unassisted, by the contemplation of a sood mo del. Ilia wit is prompt, pure and brilliant, but these less scintillations or fancy are lost in the blaze of his reasoning and declamation. His premises are always broad and distinctly laid down, his deductions are faultless, and bis Conclusions of course irresistible from the pre dicate. In this *ie resembles what he has ob served of Mr. Marshall, admit his first proposi tion and the conclusion is inevitable. The march of his mind is direct to its object, the evo lutions by which he attains it are so new and apparently neccscary to the occasion, that your admiration is kept alive, your fancy delighted, and your judgment convinced, through every stage of the. process, lie leaves no objection to his reasoning unanswered, but satisfies every doubt as he progresses. His power over his subject is so great, and so judiciously directed, that ho sweeps the whole field of discussion, Varely leaves any thing for his assistants to glean, and sometimes anticipating the position of >his enemyV battery, renders it useless, by destroying beforehand the materials of which its fortifications were to be erected. Ho has been sometimes known to answer by anticipation all the arguments of the opposing-counsel so per fectly, as to leave liiin nothing to suy, which had not wen better ft.-iid already. These great com binations are so closely connected, the succes cession of their parts sonutural, eaxy and ranid, that the whole operation, offensive and defen sive, appears but one effort. There is no weak point in his array, uo cVink in the whole line of bis extended works. Then the sweet melody of voice, the beautiful decorations of fancy, the easy play of a reason, by which all this is accom panied, amazo and delight. His pathos in na tural and impressive) there is a pastoral simpli city and tenderness in hia pictures of distrefs, whan he describes female innocence, helpless ness ami beauty, which the husband on whom fiho smiled should have guarded even from the winds of beaveti which would visit it too rough ly, " standing at midnight on the wintry banks of the Ohio, mingling her tears with the torrent which froze aa they fall)" it is not a theatrical trick to move a netting pity, but a deep and impressive appeal to the dignified charities of our it?t**re. Had ono with so rich a genius, with auch a soul for eloquence, its Mr. Wirt certainly pos sesses, teen Mr. Henry in some of hit greatest exhibitions, I should not How have to deplAre the want of n finished orator at any American bar. But that bright meteor, shot from Ha mid beaten sphere too oarly for Mr. Wirt, And the gloi v ut liid art descended with him. No Phw-i nix has risen from hit ashes. Hut I am inclined to think tliero in moro than ono orator now liv ing in tho United Slates, who, on such occasions as Henry thundered, lightened and electrified tho people, could wield tho Olympic bolt with no feeble hand. To obtain tho fame of an ora tor there must be subject* demanding tho high est decorations of eloquence. The accusation of Demosthenes against hit guardian, or C'ico ro's defence of Quinctius and Archias, would never have made their names immortal. It was the fire with which they consumed Philip, and Cataline, and Verres, and Anthony, which has covered them with unfading glory. It is an odd [ perversity of our nature, to admire what 'ih jpast and to undervalue what is present. This is in the naturo of our constitution, for when young, we ore moro susceptible of pleasure, and taku a pride when old, in persuauing others that wo have seen more wonderful things than thoy.? Ono might have heard at Rome, from those who were old when Cicero was young, that he was inferior to Crassus, to Anthony, and to Hurten sius. But the universal tradition of the effect* of Mr. Henry's eclipsing eloquence silences all these cavils by which less orators might vindi cate tho equality of their pretensions. ^ I fear* as has been said of tho Swan of Avon's music, it was a dying strain, ?? \\c IMS cr ahull *cc its like again." Aubrey'* account of Hhakesoeare and Hen John son. From his manuscripts preserved in the Jlshnwlean Museum, at Oxford. Mil. WILLIAM SllAKKSI'KAnF.. " William Shakespeare'it father was a butcher, and I have been tola heretofore, by some of tho neighbors, that when he was a boy lie exercised his father's trade} but when he killed n calf lie would do it in a high style, and make a speech. This William being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to I*oiidoii, 1 gtieun about eighteen, and was an artor at one of the play houses, and did act exceedingly well. (Now Ben Johnson was never a good actor, but an ex cellent instructor.) lie began early to make essays in drainatique poetry, which at that time was very lowe, and his playes took well, lie wos a handsome well shaped man, very good com* pany, and of a very ready, and pleasant, and smooth witt. Thenumourof tho constable, in Jl JWdsommer Night Dreame> he happened to take at Crendod, in Bucks, (I think it was mid summer night that he happened to be there,) which is the road from London to Stratford) and there was living that constable about 164$, when I came first to Oxon. Mr. Jos. Howe is of tho parish, and knew him. Ben Johnson and lie did gather humours of men wherever they came. One time, as he was at tho toverno at Stratford, Mr. Combes, an old usurer, was to be buryed ; he makes then this extemporary c pitaph upon him : ? Ton in the hundred thr Dovill allowcs, Hut Combes will have tuHve, he nwrjrs and hcvotvea j If any one aslcc who lict in IhU tombe, lloh! quoth the DcviH, 'tis my Johno Combe (' " He wa? wont to go to his native country once a yearn. I think I have been told that lie left neare 500/. to a sister. He understood La tin pretty well, for ho had been in his younger yeares a school master in the country." MR. JJKNJAMIN JOJINHON, l'OET-LAV R RAT. " I remember when 1 was a scholar at Trin. Col. Oxon, 10-16, 1 hoard Mr. ltalph Hathurst [now dean of Wells] say, that Den Johnson whs a Warwickshire man. I'is agreed that his fa ther was a minister; and by his epistle 1). D. of Kvtry Man???1to Mr. "Win. Camden, that he was a Westminister scholar, and that Mr. W.Camden was his schoolmaster. I lis mother, after his father's death, inarriud a bricklayer ; and tig generally sayed, that he wrought some time with his father in lawe, and particular) v on the garden wall of Linrolns Inn, next to Cliau cery lane ; and that a knight, a bencher, walk ing thro', and hearing him repeat some Urccke verses out of of Homer, discoursing with him, and finding him (o have a witt extraordinary, gave him some exhibition to maintain him at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was x then he w??nt into the Lowe Countreys, and spent some time, not very long, in the arinic, I not to the disgrace of it, as you may find in bis epigraines. Then lie came into Kngland, and acted and wrote at the (irccn Curtaine [but both ill] ? a kind of nursery, or obscure play-house, somewhere in the suburbs (I think towards Who [ reditch or Clarkenwell.) Then he undertooke lagainc to write a play, und did hitt it admirably ! well} viz. Every Man -, which was his [first good one. Sergeant Jo. llonkiitw, of Here fordshire, was liis tnfnrr. I remember hid sonne Hir Ilennet Hosktns, baronet. (who was tome* thing poctical in his youth) told me, that when he desired to be adopted his sonne, No, said lie, Mis honour enough tor me to he your brother : He was (or rather had been) of a cleare and fair skin: his habit was very plnine. I have heard Mr. Lacy, the player, say, that he was wont to wearc a coatc like a coachman's coate, with slitt.n under the arm-pitts. lie would many times ex cede indrinkct Canaric was his beloved liquor) then ho would tumble home to bed, and when he iad thoroughly perspired, then to studio. 1 I have seen his studyeing chaire, which was of ?trawe, such as old women used, and as Aulus Oellius is drawn in. When I was in Oxon, His lOpBkynner (Hp. of Oxford,) who lay at our coll. was wont to say, tbat he understood an author as well as any man !ji Kngland. He mentions, in his epigrames, a tonne that he had, and his epitauh. Long since, in King James's time, 1 have neard my unclo havers (Oanvejrs) say, who kn^w him, that he lived without Temple barre, at a comlie-msker's shop, about the Klephts. Castle. In nit later time he lived in Westmi nister, in the house under whlche you patso as {ou goe out of the Churche yarde Into tho Old atacc, where he dyed. lie lies buried in the north aisle, the path xiuare of ttonet, the rest is lozenge* opposite to the Scutcheon of Roberta* de Ho*, with this inscription only on hiin, in a pavement square of bleu marble, O rare lien Johnion ? which was donne at the charge of Jack Young, afterwards knighted t who walking there when (he grave was covering, gave the fel low eighteen pence to cutt it.*' LADY IIBSTElTsTANIlOPR. Lady Hester Stanhope, who belongs to one oftho first families in England, merits a place a mong the inoat celebratoa and intrepid travellers of the present age. This Lady, the niece, the friond, and intimato companion of Mr. Pitt, was not less attached to him by conformity of miud than by tho tics of blood. She enjoys a pension front her country. Pitt, who, as is anoWn, died without fortune, left to nis nieces, poor as him self, a few linen in which he recommended them to the genoro&ity of the people of England. Af ter tho death o! her uncle, l*ady Hester formed the project of travelling in the Levant} she first repaired to Malta, ami from thcnce proceeded to (.'onstantiuople. Wishingafterwards to make a pilgrimage to Palestine, she sailed for the llo I) Land, out had the misfortune to be ship wrecked oft'the Isle of Rhodes. Cast on a bar ren rock, slto seemed destined to perish by hun ger, but an English ship, whicn appeared on the following duy, took her on board, and convey ed her tu Syria. There she travelled in all di rectum*, accompanied by Mr. Bruce, who has just been tried lor the part he took in the escape of Lavulette. blic spout many yearn wander ing among the i uina of Palmyra and llierapolis,i and exploring the valiics of Mount Lebanon.? Living for whole months on rice and water, and accustoiucU to the frugality of Oriental habits, .void being feeble and debilitated, she became a strong anu vigorous Ama/.on. According to let ters which she has addressed to her family in Unuland, she ia now at the hean of three tribes of fiedouin Arabs who regard her as a beiug of a superior order. Bhc has had several clnluren, whom she was fond of, brought to her from Eng land ) and she declares, that she never will for sake that Land of the Sun, to breathe the hu mid and cloudy atmosphere of Oreat-ttritain. <B>eflultorp jfetlectiowg. HE1.ATION8 WITH 8PAIN. At this time, when our attaint with Spain ap pear to be approaching a crisis, every thing re* lating to the subject will naturally be viewed with interest. The following is from the Wash ington City Gazette. " It is with a very ill grace that the Spanish government places itself in the light ol an injur* cd party in tho <|ucstions dcpendiug between it auu the United States on the subject ol Florida. ?p*in docs not content tiio transier ol Louisiana by France; and not contenting that, she of course abandons all claim to whatsoever the trunsler in cluded. Tho American government requires no more : Injustice to itself it cannot accept of less. Whether Louisiana, as purchased by the United States, comprehends any portion of West Florida, is a question for amicable discus* nion. The United .States have been long ready to meet it. It is Spain herself that is culpable in procrastinating an equitable aud honest ad justment of limits. '? In taking possession of a portion of West Florida, as part of the Louisiana purchase, the United States acted upon the soundest princi ples of political morality. Should Spain make out her title to it, the territory in dispute will be instantly relinquished to her. " The .Spanish governn.eut had acied with pe culiar bad faith towards that of the U. States.? During the earlier years of the French revoluti on, Spain and tlic Vnitcd States being at peace, the Spanish sovereign allowed French consular admiralty courts to lie instituted within hi,h ju risdiction, by which a large amount of American property was condemned. There can be uo clearer principle of the law of nations than this \ that every independent state is responsible to any other independent state for injurie* done to the latter, by force, or sufferance, or connivance. This principle applies to thf condition of things between the United States and Spain. The Spanish government itsolf seemed, under the in fluence ot momentary feelings of rectitude, to ac knowledge itj and entered into a treaty [in I HO2] to make competition for the losses of A mericaii citizens by the privilege granted to the French tribunals established in Spuin. This treaty was believed by the American government to have been complete, with the exception of some particulars or formalities, not considered of any very great importance, or as opposing any serious obstacle to tho final ratiHcation ofit.? II v an artifice, however, in which the famous Yrujo was a principal agent, the Spanish sove reign contrived to render it null. Yrujo procur ed, from some lawyers in Philadelphia, a writ ten opinion, that an acquittance ol a principal absolved an accessary from all responsibility.? This is a maxim of the common law, applicable chiellv to criminal offender* t and it was atgued I therefrom, by the Spanish authorities, that as the United States had adjusted their differences I with France without demanding compensation for the property condemned by the French courts in Spain, the latter stood, of coarse, acquitted, the French government being the principal of fender and that of Spain merely an accessary. Thus, by a stratagem, a rule of municipal law was purloined for the code of nations, aud some of our ablest lawyers were made to appear us if opposed in opinion to their own government.? The doctrine of the Spaniards, on this a-cmion, is too absurd to require particular refutation ?. Were it to he practised upon by any nation, that nation would inevitably be converted into a ren dezvous and asylum for all sorts of robbers.? Let us suppose simply the rnxc of a pirate, cap turing American pronerty and carrying it into S|iaih, allowing it tobe there condemned an good Srize, ought we to look to the pirate, and not to 10 sovereign of Spain, for reparation ? The essence of tho common law maxim, that the ac quittal of a principal acquits the accessary, con sists in the want of proof to support the fact with which the principal is charged, or in the want of law to punish him for the crime i ami more es pecially, in the circumstance that both the one and the other of the accused purtie* are charged with the snmr offence. JJutthefa^,?- it relates to Spain, it not eve a doubted i that the cla'ufil, ought to bo liquidated it not denied by the Span iards themselves t the ooly point is by whom ? Spain soys by France?the United 8tates say, by Spfin? The United States never regarded the French aa the offender in the caso of spoliations by the tribunals of*France orcctcd within tho Spanish Jurisdiction. In that respcct it looked to Spain as a principal. Tho adjustment of claims with France, therefore, could not, oven according to the common law maxim, exonerate the Spanish authorities, because on them it was la distinct claim, never made upon the French* It was an offence committed witnin the territory of Spain, which sho was bound to prohibit, anil which she permitted to bo-there consummated at her peril. *' i*his bad faith, and this artifice, on the part of t'ie Spanish government, was rendered still more exceptionable by the uncourteou* manners, swelling even to iusolence, displayed by the noted and pompous Yrtijo. lie endeavored to Kuhorne a press at Philadelphia to uid him in hit* wicked career, and in the excess of his uhagrin and audacity, made an elfort to brow-heat the A merican executive, in the metiopoli* of tho union. " 'litis conduct on the part of Spain infallibly tends to destroy all confidence in her honor or seuse of justice. Yet both the injury and the insult were calmly borne by tlie administration, willing us it was to attribute to the bad temper and evil genius of Yrujo,and not to the Spanish nation, the continuance of the diplomatic alter cation betweeu the two countries. " Louisiana was purchased, and the question of limits arose. So long as the Spanish inou archy rcmaiued unshaken the United States for bore to take possession of tho disputed territory. But when Napoleon overturned tho established order of things, when the empire of Spain exhi bited a scene of anarchy and revolution in every quarter ; when the Florida*, in common with the more extensive Spanish colonies, began t<> look towards independence, tho mother coun try, from her own untiappy situation, unable to repress their efforts, auu when Spain might have lost forever the very territory in dispute, either by revolutionary means or from occupancy by the British, then, and not till then, it was, that the United States, apprehensive of being depriv ed of a portion of the soil for winch tliey had I paid their money, sequestered it intothefr owu | nunds, not as a conquest, but under stipulations I of amicable tour ? to be restored or neld, ac cording to evei il and fair determination*. I L'ndnr these cii ?instances, how could tho U. States have do otherwise ? I t( lu relutio' 10 tlie complaint* of Spain con ! earning the Interference of the United States in aid of tlie revolutionary party in South and North ; America, it would he well for the chevalier de Unis to make good the allegations in his letter to col. Monroe, 1>efore any thing further is ut tered oil thathcud. It is to her own tyrannical conduct, and not to the interposition of the U* States, that are truly to he attributed tlie con vulsion* that still agitute Iter colonies. A gov ernment that cramps, by the ' weight of its own diabolical i and growth of any portion of L_ , , ways exprct to be spurned and ditf&fted by j them at the first lavoi able opportunity. It is I arrant hypociisy to attempt to lay the blame on j a foreign power." colonies, a gov the insupportable policy, the genius its people, may al Constitution of Indiana.?The ??f govern ment is fixed at I'orydon lor nine years. The constitution not subject to amendment until af ter twelve Vt'At b, in any one of its provisions, aud never In the one c.vcUtding involuntary *ln ivry. The executive part of the government is to be composed of a governor, with a twlary of one thousand dollar* per annum, to be elected by the people for three year* and may be re-elected once?a lieutenant, who is elected in tiko man ner, for a like term, and is to receive two dot dollars per diem during the session of the legis lature. The legislative part, a house of repre sentatives and senate?tue latter elected every three years; the former, annually. Any por tion is eligible for the senate being twenty-live }rears old?for the lower house twenty-one years, mlding when elected no office of profit. 'They are to meet annually on the firxt Monday in December, except the first session which wilt ho in November next. The judiciary?a su preme and circuits?the former, to be composed of three judges, to be appointed by the gover nor and senate for tteveii years, to have apel late jurisdiction, and to sit at the seat of govern ment, with a galarv of not exceeding 800 dol lars per iiiiimui?tfi'j latter, to be held in each county by one presiding judge, who is to he ap pointed by a joint ballot of the legislature for se ven years. and two ahsociatex who aro to bo e lected by the people tor seven years. Sheriffs, clerks aiid justices are to be elected l?y the poo plo?the sheriff for three vears, the clerks and justices for seven yearn. Militia officer* to he elected by those subject to militia duty. ./ lirciiinn.?The Alexandria Herald of the I Oth inst. Ltate?, that Jestice Hoffman decided ion Monday last that all the stockholders of un incorporated banks were partners, bound jointly and severally to pay all such paper as might b? issued by the company or representatives of such company. Thi* was a case wherein Alexander Sang.'ter was plaintiff and curtuin stork-holders of tb? Mechaiitii' Hank defendants. Caution to parent* aim nurset. We are con cerned to Mate, that< aptaiu Stewart, ot the na vy, lost his eldest chil l in consequence of the nurse administering a quantity of laudanum.? His youngest child also, was <langeronslv attest ed from the same cause. Nurses should not Im allowed to line this dangerous opiate.?I'hll. Unx, An Irl'hmnn was arraigned before a magis trate, fur striking an old woman who was not remarkable for her beauty. The Irishman said in his dc fence?" May it please your honor, I met this ould hag in the street, and her face was so ugly, that by the hill of lloath, I tho't she was making a mouth at me, so I gave her ? gentle ulap for Ii'.m impudent?, and please your honor."