Portland gazette, and Maine advertiser — Portland, Me., 1810-09-17 00:00:00, page 1

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TOT THE GAZETTE.
; H ' PPiNCSS.
O who in nud Ambition’» train
True luppinels can find ;
Or wh) w uhl heaps of fordiJ gnin,
i'retcr 10 peace * i inn.ii ?•
Y* vho in guilty plenfu e live—
l> itlppiHCtu Willi y HI ?
W':*ut *j/» true hap<>>n-.l» can g.ve,
A<a«, j ou never k k .v
The ugh wre in greatnef* may abound,
No lupp nets it b iugsj
in hu wb.e cot i:’» of ea found,
When not in palaces ot Jcmjs.
I mutt not riches, M ghty Power,
And !uxury lit i bus;
1 want wha; virtue can procure—
I want iruc hapunefa.
RAIaPHQ.
To a Jacobinical Democrat.
Ill fated wretch, the Icorn of mea,
Why urge my e.fe unwilling pen,
To taut thy empty irdo*eu..c, ,
Resulting from thy want of fenfe.
Tve long the painful talk refrain'd,
Anu hop'diiiou w. u.u iltiave knowledgegiin’d
Bit now more flupid than a mule,
I find thee bcut to play the fool.
1 own it dee* me niuJt iurprie
When thou, a blockhead, ap if tire wife;
Bawt’it out at large ’ga.uft taws and icing-,
To niub* aud rabjlts, dang’rous thing* .
Iu mooo ftrucu maducf* lriow'it the cuufe
Ui Gun-3iutt aud Embargo l.iv.s ;
And if a man of fenfe lhould drop
A word, thy babbling mouth to Hop,
That thou’it oppofe with frenzy’* ipua,
*1 ho’ true aud clear a* uoon*duy light,
Whoever dares right rcafou tde,
Of treafon, Jacobins aecule ;
They aud thyied a toiy call 'em,
Aud threaten from the 6.ate* to haul *em.
But ted me what avails tLy fin —
*Tis like the barking of a cur ;
Our people from experience know,
£ath Jacobin’* their baneful foe :
Tiie bed rid rauie they’ve team’d to prize
Aud frenchman's polit.es delpife.
Vain, theu, thy blutt ring, to iud*iu
What fools aud knaves alone maiutain.
' TIIE OLD MAID.
A PARODY, i
I DO remember a precde old maid,
And here shout the dwell*—whom fare I noted
In milling goirn, with wan and wither d lips,
Demure and formal, dufticg ciorh in hand,
Kubbi.ig her chair*, & m;-*g:e were her locks.
Jicvy luo worn her to the very bone* ;
And io her th.aiag parlor flowerpot liood,
Decked with gerau.un ar.d j.il unine,
A- d orange trees, and rule*, pint®, u.,d lillies,
•bachemr • buttons,’ cnlp a® the ! c*ie t,
And lowly palliou lliwer, type of Lve,
bn chair*, i wo tables, at.d a iaoltu g glafs,
^kere butnuhed bright and ott, aadrcuudthc
room
On wail, m clrfet, or on mantle piece,
An oid work, l-alket, fal Volatile.
Portraits of ma>oen aunts, hi ban room fait,
with lamb or tap d >g hanging «*n the aim,
fcoVci* irom Circu'attiig Library,
* Law * Sei iou* Call to unconverted' Folks,
I J.o/e £ eg'es, a bible, amt a cat,
V.’ere duly Itt for ornament or ufe,
As Iplecii prevailed or vititots came in.
Liflc.i ng, a® through the Louie her thrill voice
ler earned,
l* Scolding her torvants—to myfelf I Mid
And if a man did wt(h to gain a W’i‘e
^'ith Jbato of court lli ip, here sail aiu.ent mid,
Whole lips have pradioed lung before the g’ai
*l'he faint retutal—and the u.ger y t
f 1 hawing as quick echo *c . :»e 1. und.
Acd thu facie thought doe® but foreiua my
netd,
Til ieftaut ftek —«fane yvsjfer maid to wed !
A® l rein *m >er this ih mid be the bottle ;
Doing twilight hour flu * out upm» the trot,
lo barter fcaod.il for a cup or tea
| i^omtvr.No. XXXVil.
“ ft ’t tby f'tfamel 13 Jf» up t. tit I’.u up i nev
ttlldtn, tbt a. £ '■/it CiVeiunt / i6e Lu.dt anJ
hi let, 'iiparlJ rut / tbt car*(t,"
, The children of Iirael were a mod
fiCOnGftent people. When their af
fairs were profperou;?, like a!! other
men of the w*»rid, they were elated
above meafure, and “wife above
srliat was written but when for
their fins they were viGted with a
d
rod, they would chide with their
meek lead r, and fay in the langinge
* t reproach, “ while we remember
the ftelhpots r,f Egypt, and the leek*,
and the onions, and the garhek, thou
haft brought us forth to perilh with
hunger in this wifdcnicfs." Human
nature is ever toe fame, and in eve
ry nation, tongue and kindred its
general princip cs are plainly difeov
t.abie. Length oi tunc, or dittance
of place uo riot elfcd rtiiy material
difference ; and lienee the mummi
ng Hebievv in the wiiacin *£» v'as
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governed by the fame feelings which
.nfhutc an enlightened citizen of the
world i j eighteen hundred and ten
' l here foie, i.ad Mofes lived in thefe
d..ys, he would probably have been
Pii^tr.atzed as mcrote and rigid, or
ridiculed ,.s a vifinnary, an entbufi
aftic dreamer, who made pretentions
to femething more than others. In
the cafe aduded to in the text, the
' people of Ifrael were running beyond
ihc word ot t^.e Lord j and notwith
f uncling the ark of the covenant, that
fi ti cf his cfpecial prefence abode
Hill iu the camp, tiny prefumed to
go up to tlie hill t^p, w here, in jutt
judgment they were met and <jif
comtired by their tucmita, Jutt fo
it is with men at this day. Unwill
ing to endure the rellraints of reli
cy
gion in their mad career, they rulh
heed*efsly aong, fneering at the re
: proofs of the wife' and without dif
' crimination condemning every man
w ho hefitates in foilow ;ng their per
; i icious example, The man of the
| world is in all cafes governed eith
er by hi* own preconctived opinions,
or the maxims of worldly prudence j
! whereas the perPon who truly fears
i God, will, renouncing his own wif
dom, make the word of God the rule
j and guide ot his faith and practice,
and Hit glory his governing end in
all things. Thus wheu he has an
; opportunity of increafing his pr* per
ty, by taking exorbitant intereft, or
in a time of fcarcity to make Lis f ir
1 tune by the neceiFicy of otheis, he
: forbears, and reafons thus : “ How
! (hall I do this and tin againlt God
, remembering alfo that it is written,
“ extortioners fhall not inhabit the
kingdom of God.” L lie folicited to
go into the haunts of debauchery, or
join a profane party of pleafure, he
refufes notwithltanding his own nat
ural inclination to the contrary, and
like Moles, departs not out of the
camp, nor follows the multitude in
■ their evil courles. it is not fo with
others. Sin being their natural cls
cier.r, nnd not haying a better priii
ciple within them, they will contin
ue to “ walk in their own counfeb,”
and to run in their own chofcn way,
until they are fwept away with tile
befom of dell ruction.
i k .
Jufrrrjstiitg political f!9irctllaitt>.
i ,
Fum tbs freeman's Jgmtmtl.
— AlTembled, while in room ?part,
l he* 2*u'g Me* dunking warm the opening
heart,
Out neighbouring Girls, ori fela! day? unite
j V, *t., to-gues moit* fluent, and with hearts a*
light.
Craebs.
Tt 1 err. 5 that the feventeen
“ fylphs” of Lridport Urtirfuli
thare of the leve.hteen toads which
were drank by r- c I dies and Gtn
ilemen t gtther, 5fore dinner, and
we are told that /titer dinner, the
17 Ladle-, felected to iepr*.fent the
State-., drank the fiiijceeding toafts.”
A few of them we fhall t anfeobe ix
remark upon.
1 Ti-cGuf of l /*•»— Ir can never be v irn
by tyra** —May it continue to crown the
I American People with civil and virtu u« law*,
and m Id judicious government, and eternal
' peace and plenty.
i ins tor.it is critically cJafhcaL
The cap of Liberty, among the ho
j n ids, was worn only by Have* who
I12J been made free, thence called
Pi ;ti ; but there was another des
cription of Haves, thole taken in arms,
who w<re fold at aUwdon under the
i “ crown,” fub ccnna Much ingen
i iiif y is here piiplayed in educing iiom
J the confuted recollection oi these if
j o'ated literary facts, the new and
j noble wild that a cap may crown the
’.whole American people with—civil
' ] iws, judicious government, and end
lcls pc tec ar.d plenty. \\ e meicly
: ,dk—Was it an “ emernai” cap that
j iMifs Farrapd bore to proudly be
j tween the drawn fwcfd oi tne mili
li.i oiHctrs, cr a temporal y cap ca
pal ' - of acting as a “ crown1’ to ad
♦ cterri*y ?
■
* . /.*. .’it—May its flower* never bit Hon
t it • poiittc^i ctot-tnies.
lids would be hard indeed. Our
I
Divine Father cautcs his rain to def
cend on the wicked as well as the
juft, but the icpubiicairm lies of the
Green mountains, much rnoie of
Fatiiots than chriiliaiis, would inter
1 diet even the flowers of the earth to
i thtir political opponents. i hey
would level theiaiclics like vexy
Horaces —
Ncu defiat euu'is ro*it,
iveu vivax apium.tifu breve liliurn.
Let not the r fes he •wanting to the
banquet, nor the ever gneripurjleyt nor
the tranfu'nt lify. But to the rollick
clan of tcderahfts thev exclaim.
4 9
Odi profanurn vulgus et arceo.
For them, they would caufe the
face, of the eartii to become, wcie i:
| in their power, a drab coloured lort
ot Creation.
10. lrHMont—A lifter (late, final! in Oat arc,
• hut great ami iouud in principle ; She eoligh
: tea*the uonh w.th pointed iiuihs.
Aye—indeed She dees. Mrs.
1 Vermont is a very Auro.a Borealis in
the power cl dilplaying ciitmct and
luminous light. The Old Lady
“ enlightens," and her fcltivc daugh
'■ tersJit /Of and they ail give light a
hke. And her Gentlemen arc all
learned and liberal, from Governor
Galufha, down to lhei.fF Strong, and
{evendown to the Atorney General
I who indicts mtn for demanding the
payment of a bank note. All, all
| arc men of modern Athens—
By ancient learning to th* enl^btem'd love
Oi ancient ftecdom warm’d.
f 1 e Vttr verdant iniblemt—May the Tree of
Liberty cou.iuue as green throughout fuc
f ceding ages, and ill the oppretied uatiuns of
( the earth c.umly itpo.c uc..w.:.U its fprcadiug
brat nne-.
i
Agreed, Yeung Lacies. May the
j Tree of Libeny always be; at leajl
f as green as your Grown f ine Laurels.
And as die “ Cap ot Liberty” is to
“crown” the Coited bates, it is no
more than fair ihat the. “ free of
' Liberrv ’ thould yield a shade to all
the other Nations of ‘the Globe.
ll TU 17 —ftf*een are found and
| healthy; im p arc dying wish the political roj;
lump;ion: beatuu do thy cilice.
Ah ! wretched Connecticut and
Delaware! Ihe paths op pedpx
j ALISM LEADS BUT TO THE GRAVE.
:-Here is wit with a whirlwind,
; and virulence with a vortex. Did
not wc know that ir ifluud from tlie
“ two lips” ci ladies “ drefled and
burnilhed, fair as the fylphs, gay as
J the bowers ot fpring, and laurelled
with verdant ground pines,” we
i ihouid at once ascribe it to *« ihe
YTixcn ”
15 Spitnirg and weaving, our occupationt —
Lu not our own manufactures t)e dilHpated,
and European gcx ds, (which are only obtain
ed through haia-d of life and libertv) be pre
ferred to our donuftic bejuaes.
Now our lives for it that these laf
fes were at this very drir.king and
I foul elevating moment, “ drefled and
| burnilhed in white” of plain Ver
t moot manufacture. And, what is
| cu-i ms, <juccr and quizzing, they do
not mean by “ dom.dic beauties,”
their own fweet fclves, but their
home-made gowns! 1 he next day
alter this fronc they no doubt cut a
new figure.
Lift the window, hfr it high.
Who is thi» that’s tripping by ?
*Tis my lovely charming .sue,
With taper w jilt, and eye lo blue ;
With “ cap"that forme a noble ** crown,”
With aprou check'd, and ruiiet guwu.
1C Am trie,m 7'irfA—Tljofe are unworthy
the pnriotiiui and fwile-. of * fema'e.whooji
l> A'e our guvei nincnt ami approve of foreign
aggrefUout.
1 he girls meant by this to exclude
j from their “ patriotifm and Indies/*
us rough, unpuliibed boors of feder
aiifui. But as their own party, one
and all, approve of the aggrdlions
of France, we do not fee but that
they condemn themte!ves ;o the un
p.emnt lla e of vellals, which u a
great pity, as they evidently have tal
ents lor the married (lac. 1 heir
unfortunate appetite fordrinkirg fev
rntccn g la lies aphe? more than their
, companions of the ether fex, mull be
i a I tile repulfi e to lovers, but it may
i be parti ned on thtir country’s natal
! dav, and it is a well known fact that
» 4 • _
tiic Goddcia of Love ami Beauty
foiuetin e: pr;Tided at fuch cn ertain
menis in old times. One of the
Latin poets .ays, or rather lings,
Quern verm* atbhrum
Dicet oshendi l
Whom jhall the Venus pronounce to he
j toafijmjier J (From the fcholialts we
| learn that the Romans chote their
toait-mafiers by calling dice, and
the fortunate throw they named
Venus.) Ladies fo patriotic and Imil
ing cia thefe, will not, we prclimnc,,
I fupport the caufe of their count y by
drinking only, but will when occa
lion calis, fuituin it by their arms
well as t-y their lips and tongues.
17 lit /<.Ultb tj July—May it annually
blutloin forth * he freedom of tpeecH, the nb
eriy o 1 lhe pi vln, and ibc r.^iu o; cuiilc>euce.
Agreed with all our hearts. And
may it not only bloli’oin tonh free
dom, and bloiioin f^rih nbtity, and
r bloilbm iortn right, but ail > bKii.m
i lorth Mils Nancy Fan and and her
I lovely democratic inters, to a third us
! mere iueh charming entertainment
when the year comes round again.
bwrect fyi^hs ol liridporc, may you
be more luucy than the poet’s *• Ooi
iip Goe ”
Thus long lhe reign'd, admir'd if not approv'u ;
Prail‘d,it not honor'd; fear'd,it uoi beiovd?;
Vvh eu, as the buiy days of Spring gtew near,
l'hal call'd for ail the Forecalt vt the ye«.r;
j Vv heu uve'y Hop* the tiliug ..rops iut"ry‘*l,
't And April prcinii'd wha> cepieinuet pain ;
When lit ay‘d her lamb* wheie L> >nt and
(Stct/i’wcc.i grew ;
i When role her c»rah> iu richer Vales below ;
Vvficu picai'd liie look d on ail the ln>.:iiig land,
■ And view’d Lhe Hinds who wrought at her
command,
As Briiget churn'd lhe Butter for bur baud .
(Cieefe, Heu* and ri urLey*, following ’where
ilie weu*,)
Then Dread o'ercame her,—dwt her Days
I vve.e (pent !
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Serins truths in short metre.
Our nation has been led in a wrong
1 and fatal track, and is plunged at last
into u lubyiimh of diHieullies. Nor is
there any other way of escaping ruin,
I but to retrace its steps, it must leturn
to the honest, magnanimous policy of
j Washington : else it is lost. 1 his
truth is made so clear by woful expel i
| tnee that all must see it, unless wil
! lully blind. All intelligent ami well in
formed men, of both p .ities, do see it.
Hut with many, 4‘ here'* ihc rub " A
; change of policy would be a tacit con
| lession of error. It would wound the
| pride of opinion, li would awaken the
! predominant party. It would gratify
federalists. Perchance ii might put
power in their hands. This they are
! determined to oppose with all their
might, let what will come. Pike the
false mother, they would rather si »y the
child, than restore it to the light own
er.
What a spiiit I To prefer the gen
eral good to the interests ol individuals
or of party, is the great hinge of polit
ical virnie. Nothing short of this de
serves the name of patriotism. Its op
posite, with whatever specious pre
tences it may be covered, i> the gtnu
: ine spit it ol faction : and faction, in a
republic is the mother of despotism.
Democratic Uiffenjims.—On thts
topic, the Raleigh Minerva fays
dut let the good people ot the U.
States look a iittle ipto these things.
The Whig reviles Madifon ; the
Spirit of‘7 6 upbraids Mr Smith;
the Argus and the Enquirer de
nounce Gallatin ; and the anathemas
of the furious Aurora are hurled
with vengeful violence upon the
beard of ttie devoted congress. From
the firtt to the laft, from the lealt to \
the greeted, there is fcarccly a man
■ in cilice but is denounced as unwife!
j or dilhoncit by one cr other of his
j party. Take all their ftorics and put
them togtthcr and you will come j
pretty near the truth Strange, not- i
uithftaiiding, contrary to the trite
| old aghorifm, hone ft y profits Very
I httle Horn the quaire s of the.e
1 men. Each one turns evidence for 1
the public to prtferv* his oao par
ticular footing. ar»d hitherto the n.a
lority of them have found it an cx
[celient expedient.—We hope that
the termination of their trininphs i
near at hand, and tl at the good
fenle cf the people will loon diiaiif*»
; them from rhr.r con ft .eurc." —
' r.V if >• ccij\r-'\
More Money gone. — During the
late feiiton of Corgiefs an enquiry
was inl±uuft.d fir the purpofe ot
certain ng.whether anir'momy \
ul 0 /
been drawn from the n afuiy s
• ^ * 4*,^1^1
! *V 7ofnr/b*:, during r is > *td
%' A' .* ” * Op
, Ambaludor to the Em pen v i S'tifT
■ li a . Whin M. .* n on: in at ion o i S i ; r;
i was banu-rd ir. to the Senate they re-l|ri
r • a « 2t ,
i jeciio it-am cii •' irr.wu.* > ; uor it
iva> afterwards d.. »: r». ih a il»e*
| prefident had actually • :■■;;■ off j
to’j-urope ah »u 6 or 8 on : t
fore, tnv lied wirl) the charao.
Airiballador to \uliu. It uasi.
1 thought expedient to afeerrain whtit
exptnee the country had been run
to by ibis prelu ituoua unconflitu
1 tiuiial proceeding. Upon ex imina
' ticn it appeared that no money had
actually been drawn from die treafu.
ry—but, on the other hand, that the
fum of 3,970 dollars, had by drat fa
fr m the S-erctary of State, bec.i
drawn trom the Barkers t * the IT.
States at Andtcrdam, for th<* ufe cf
the faid William Short. What a
vails our cunflitution, our laws, to
protect the public from plunder, if
thus the money ot the United States
can be fquandcred at the will of a
rrtlidcnt ibis money mull inti
mately be paid our of the treiu.y ;
but if jullice takes place, which is
not very likely, JefTerfun w^uld j>»
made to pay the whole.
1
A w mode of Jz//?h?£.-~News-paper
printers being generally badly paid,
and bsing oiten obliged to pcrlonu
the difagtecable talk of duning, have
invented many ways to manage this
very ttnubletomc bufmefs. The.
following, from a paper printed ct
Golhen, in the ftate of New-Y k, is
an entire new method of giving in.,
quents a gthtle hint :
“ A perfon is wati'r*: rt this of.
fice who is well (killed m t m
cult bubnefs o> collecting DC . In
confequ nee of wiftings, in it *
and ihufHmgs frequently to be m.
with in proi cuting th a bufmefs to
advantage, it would be necclf r that
the perfon venturing in it 0. u!d
poficls A confiderable ^egree oi dex
terity in playng off words.
N. 15 One wh pcilVfles C r* e au
thority frutn the plofle, would be
preferred.
Helping a cause — The capture cf a
Briulh convoy by five Daniih arm
cd brigs, and two schooners, is
hailv-1 by the JefFo foniuns is ev
idence of the utility ofgin-b ts.
New way of excuftng the F e ch
and abuting the Biitifli —“ Query,
(fays a democratic editor,} r the
French King of \apfes had nut hole a
our property, how much of u would
have fallen into the hards of BritUii
cruisers
National RcfcR.
An American Captain who had
offer mkd (fhriilopbe, it is laid, was
ordered to pay 300c dollars in an hour
or full r death. He was led to exe
cution, when the merchants paid the
money for him. In a ftw data
•Chriiiophe attempted the lame rx
pedient to raife more money ; the
American was about to be futpend
ed from the yard-at.il of one of; be
black’s fquadron, when e Captain
ot a Diiiiih (hip hailed, and ihi »,
41 fend that American captain on
board my refibi, and do him no
harm at your peril.” He wv obey
ed.
THE H aK VF..S'l\
GhilUctihei f '(Jv < *1” '• 11.
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Nevar, we b heve, m* *c tiops
been more abundant j and wt con hi
name one farmer near this f <.tc*#
who aiouc ha-» railed UDwarda of n-- t
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h.’jy 7 r. ‘ c . / aiv<* f
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