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OK COMMERCE—as extract.
* i.US Co Timcfcc, nvi-ig Rill from jjloicc to p! aco,
Blend?, iofrcns, auJ refines the human race,
Of jarring ret!ms allay* the mutual hate,
liy cords of iatcreft drawing rtatc to flate;
Where’er t' c breezes waft, or billows roll,
Awake* the fijmb’rtng vigor of the foul ;
Break.* the ftrange rivets prejudice had wrought.
And cuftj,* fallen' l on the free-born thought ;
Alt Its the prefi to fprcaJ each ufcfulart.
Smooth* the rou^h manners, meliorates the heart,
T*ll men the laud and ocean compafs'd round,
Hail friends and brothers (till where m;a are found,
Till equal Uw and virtue in her train,
Immortal Liberty o’er earth (kail reign,
1 ruth, with a robe of light invefl the ball,
And what one nation know* he known to all.’*
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From the Reporter.
THE LUCUBRATIONS OF OLD SIMON
I am no h or (email, and have oftner
vifited rhe library than the ftud, hut fhould
like to enquire, of fome of the knowing
ovt? of the turf, whether the following
description of the Horfe, extracted from
Shakefpeare s Venus and Adonis, dots
not comprife a!l the points now eftimated
excellent in that noble animal, excepting,
perhaps, in fome oi the minor beauties,
where fafhion, who delights to play her
pranks, with horfes tails, as well as ladies'
heads, and fomstimes docks the former,
and fometimss frizzles the latter, may
have marred that ’line of grace, which
filled the poetVeye.
Look whrn Aguinter would furpaf* tbt life,
* InbmnmgmtT a well proportion'd ftted,
His art, with Nature’s worknartfhip at ftriip,
As if the dead the livino »h»u’d foccecd :
So did kb horfe excel a common one,
I.i lhape aad earr a;;e colour, pace and bene.
TVr>tir*J hoot, ibort j luted, fetlocks (big jiud lor.g,
Broad brcafi, fat i eye#, final! head, an:l nolbil wide,
Ilij’h crcft, fWt ctrj, ftralght 'legs, and pi fling firong,
TW m^pcj thick tail, broad i a tuck, tender hide :
Look what a horfe faould have, he did not lack,
( Save a proud rid^r on .9 proud a hack.
Lad evening as I fat milting by my fire
fide upon the evils attendant on human
life, and the petulance with which man
bears them ; the remembrance of my couf
in Simon came frefli to my mind. I can
well recollect how cheerfully he would fit
in his eafy chair, coeval in age with him
felf, and with an old man’s garrulity, and
a large fund of that ufefui philofbphy,
which is the handmaid of Religion, anrd
daughter of Experience, recommend that
patience in adverfity, which his whole
life had exemplified. I had thoughts of
afFordingyour readers the benefit of fome
of his practical le&ures, but when I wrote
them in plain profe they had fo much the
appearance of the fermonsef an excellent
preacher I have frequently read, that
although I knew they would be i e!ffiled
highly by readers of refledion and mature
taltc, yec I apprehend that their fober ap
pearance might frighten the youthful and
unrefietting. In aid of virtue all innocent
means may be ufed. Perhaps thofe that
might turn with difgult from a fermon,
may read and relifn wifdom in a fong.
OLD SIMON.
Tdnt—In a Mwldtring C<rve.
Ta His enzy arm chair, bn the dowaiiil! of iife»
Old Simon fet ca m and riC:gn'd ;
He had outliv’d h;s friends, he had buried his \vfe,
Old Simou was lame, deaf and bliud.
Bnthhe Being of Love, who ftill tempers the blaft,
With devotion had fweeten’d h i mind ;
Her g*y fmi’cs, o’er hit wrinkles, Contentment had raft'
Ar.d cheer’d him, tho Liv.x* deaf and bliatl.
» * * .
His misfortunes, his woes, could you hear h:m relate,
Inking they all ivere defignd^
To reclaim him frrm ill, or Tome bh'uto create,
You’d lone to became, deaf and blind. *
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When I learn,, fays Cld^Simcn, that top:-s of fiats,
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Inflame each political chief ;
That they back-bile, fnarl, Harder, in ncify dsbate,
Old Simon’s content to be deaf.
When faflfion, that tempter, than the ferpent mere Cv3
To folly Eva’s daughters icciin'd j
When, with fcarce a fig leaf, they obtrude oa the eye,
Old Simon’s content to be blind.
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When battles’ fell trumpets fo frequently found,
And blood matks our annals with fiu»me,
When abtoad, war and murder, are raging around.
At home, I'm content to he lame. j
Thus, this worthy old nan, by contentment and pr*y\» i
To the ills of h;s life was resign'd ;
And in death he exc aim’d, as he funk ia his chair,
What blifs ! to be lame, deaf and blind.
With chaplets of Joy, in the regions ab:trc,
His temples the angels entwin’d ;
O d Simon there blefTcs the f3cin/» of Love,
Who, here, made him lame, deaf and blind.
Lampcdcfa.—The Ifland of Lampedcfa,
called by Ptolemy, Lapadufa, by the
French Lampedoufe, which; Bonaparte
propofed to give to England, is about 20 j
miles in circumference fituated between I
Malta and the Coart; of Africa. .. It is un
cultivated, but there is a harbour, in
which vertels water. There is an hermit
age, in which a Priert of Malta pci forms
divine fervice, in a chapel dedicated to the
•Virgin Mary and keeps a lamp burning at ;
the ihrine of a Turkirti Hermit, a circum- j
fiance which has occafictaally attra&ed pil
grims of both religions to the ifland. 1 his
Pried has alfo a fecular employment ;— j
he keeps an inn, filled with good provifi
ons for failoTS and pilgrims. 1 he natural j
fertility of the ifland enable4 him to keep
a good flock of corn, cattle and vegetables.
He receives alms when he can fell nothing,
; fo that he accumulates connderable prop
j erty in the courfe of a life confecrated to
Monkifh poverty. Thecoaflsof the ifland
abound with f.fh. With proper cultiva
tion it might become a valuable poffeilion;
it is covered with wild olive trees. The
; fleet of the Emperor Charles V. was ivreck
; ed on the coafl in the year 1552. It is
fituated in lat 36, long. 30, 33.
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Authentic Anecdote.—The following an
ecdote is this moment communicated to
ns, in a manner fo direct, and from a fource
fo refpeftable, as leaves no room to doubt
its ftricfc correctnefs :— ... .
A French emigrant preferred refiding
in this country to hazard his fafety on the
general amnefty ; but he afterwards re
ceived a fpecial invitation, accompanied
with fufHcient affuranccs from Talleyrand,
by the direction of Bonaparte, asd return
ed to France* A letter lately received
from him contains a pan age, of which
the foliowiag is believed to be a pretty
ceirect tranflation-—M The government is
not very different from the ancient regime
excepting as to the freedom of fpeech, as
to which,a cii^umftance will give you fome
idea.—Having been accuftorned while in
your country to expreis myfe’.f without
much referve on any fubjeeb 1 pleafed, I
did not give myfelf the trouble to place
any reftraint on my lips here ; but judge
of my furprize on receiving a card from
the Fir ft Conful in his own hand writing,
containing the following caution.—c< Be
ware how you converfe about things that
do not concern you ; beware how you
meddle with the affairs of government ;
but above all, beware how you quote as a
precedent here, the jacobin government
of America.5*—E. Poft.
3,«tr JFareijtt tliitciXigejttt.
LONDON, MAY 2$. ..
THE proceedings laft night in the’
Houfe of Commons were particularly in
terefling and important. Mr. Fox made
his promifed motion for an addrefs to his
Majefty, to avail himfelf of; the proffered
mediation of Ruflia to fettle the differen
ces between this country and France ;—
and in the courfe of the difeufiion which
, .enfued, Lord Hawkefbury candidly ftaed
the readings of his Majefty s Minifters
to explain their views to the court of $t.
Petcrfburgh, and readily, to accept the
mediation of that power. But his lordfhip
repeated what he had mentioned before,,
that no direct or precife offer cf media
tion had been offered on the part of Ruf
fia ; it was merely of the flighted fpecies
of affurance of mediation. It was how
ever admitted, that, meanwhile, the con-,
teft into which vv* have ii:\ lx a obh.
ged to eater, fhoulcfbe. profeeuted with
vigor, until views of medherm 'had Lv/»
been realised ; and 1.1 confeq * nee ot
Lord Hawkefbury’s candid ftatement,
Mr. Fox withdrew his motion. .
Private letters from the lLtre, fjy_
£< The Frenc^ army afifem' liner near Ni
rneguen has h r its often fob; dWlinsrlort
the electorate of Hanover, but it is a :u
riousfaft. that this army is encamp *d uo
5Ti the fame ground, where, in iCk y. the
then Prince of Orange, afterwards K. nr
William III. under pretence of interferin7
in the difpute then juhflfttng b^wueri
PrincetClenient of Bavaria and the* Car
dinal of Furftenberg, collected the army
with which he in November in the ihnu
year invaded England. It is true that
the Prince of Orange had a fleet of 50 fml
of men of war to efcort his tranfpom ;
but it is equally true that the Gorfican
diipofer of the lives and liberties of
Frenchmen, cares Ijfb about the l;fs of
whole armies, than the Prince did for the
fafety of one Engle regiment.
_• may 2p.— 1 lie great overtures 4f
France for the renewal of peace, obviouf
ly reiuk from the unprepared flare of the
government to engage in war ; after two
year* of iniult and aggreflion it were fully
to doubt its hoftiiity; yet without fore
going the advantage of the moment our
minifters have determined not fimp!y to
leave open fhe door to negotiation, but
to promote, by al! confident facility every
intercouife which may tend to accommo
dation. , ;
* J^onapirte has intimidated to the petty
powers dependant on him, that France
will not admit of their neutrality in the
war; they mull either be allies or fobs.
Holland, Portugal, Spain, 'Lignin, Oif.
alpinia and Etruria, will be involved in
accrue! with a power which is nr/Iv
flruggling for their liberties. We trull
it is not poflible that Ruflia, Aulrin, and
Prulna will fabnr't to the exercife of a
power, which would not only he unjdl
and oporefTive in it, immediate operation
but which, if fuffered to prevai . mu(>
fhortly prove fatal to the general indepen
dence of Europe.
Bonaparte has twice qf lute publicly ibo
ken on the fubjeef of his menaced mva
fion of this kingdom. England, and not
Ireland, he has declared to be his object of
attack, as fuccefs in the former would en
fure the fall of the latter ; while, although
victorious in the latter, the former might
dill refill and baffle his enterprise. l ie;
talks offending his armynitherin rorv.b - rj
during a calm, when our fhips cannot a t,
a rneafure for which Engl
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uated than Ireland. 'That the Chi. i
ful is fufHcient!y enthufiaflic :o
?! certain.
fuch a project, is very credible ; *hat I e
will b> beaten (hould Le at e;:.r>:i vorr
certain. Our fleets, active, cut ; r a:
and vigilant, en hie us p u-emAa rm i
the intuit of invafion ; hi: •
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■'ll
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anv accident reach our iiiore:
a any
man L>e fo loft to the proud
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teciingsoi a Briton, or forgr. a:;::: c/ our
internal power, as to dread the blue ?
. Ehe Regency of Algiers is flate i to have
demanded 180,000 dollars from cur court,
as an equivalent for eighteen flares, \t ho
made their ei'cape from Oran in n F.ng
lifh veflel. The Spanilh Cabinet has.mid
11 arrears due to the Dey, rndd is fur
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made a prefent of 50,000 c
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fums.were immediately applied
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quipmerit of three frefli. cruiuer
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Dcy threatens the Americans with war,
for not fending their tribute in Acres, as,
he requeued, inflead of Ipecie.
A letter fr.om Algiers- dated April rc,
fays, Mr. Falcon* the Brihfh CcnfuL has
been expefed to the no! emminen: dan.
ger. An efne^r of th e ller ucy and a
party of guards fummor.ed him to ope*i
his houfe, file dcme&ics fled, the k vufs
was brok'icpen, and mvo Turkiih *0men
found-JnV, were condemned tc receive
500 blows with a ftfek. One of
the haves made r. cot frr.cm v 'hi crim
inated the Conful and his. fee ret nr/, they
were both feized, fen: on board a veil !,
and compelled immediate!'’ to put ot lea.
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