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5 Oil THI QUEEN or DENMARK.
for thb M/RROR.^
Messrs. Editors, .
97/ .etatar, wran radmifotras^ the tea.
ble part of the world, give rife to different feel-
Tsi* th, itdividual of ourfa, according to
their different dijpofitiom : as the, fail in fa
flip:Xe^maji
{ occafa indignation and di,guft, in others com
pafau and even love. Perhaps our common.
Parent thus firing the nerves of bh children
„r tb„ oppefae imprtfons, that while the
Daughters of Beaut, Jhould have ever, thing to
fright them front sliding into indiscretions, b, the
unfeeling and implacable „opnfa, to cen/ve
in the cne part ofourfeu,iftbe,fauld unbap -
fl, deviate from what the world calls the
right path, that they might not want the relief
of Collation in the fobbing jjmpatb, of the
, ether—that the, might think in affiißion while
\ neo, befiow curbs, there are jome who afford
4 tear— A tear ! Good God, when Di,refs is
a Beggar, what wretch &uldgrudge jo cheap
a tribute ?
Onbapp, Matilda! what couldef then have done
in have deferred a punifonunt like thine ? To
be banifoed from tb, throne and tb,Yountr, —
♦ To leys tb, friends and tb, honor.—From thee
and th, fortune, thou injured Qaen, tbe bi,o
rian Jball furnifo man, an anecdote— the elegiac<
moral, tebelbjb man, a maxim, and even the
tragic muse, though bappie, in jiaion, for once
acknowledge the benefit of Realit,.—Th, dis
. grace was an indelible infam, to the mean and
dafta^dl, Court of St. fames —and a difanor\
to all Europe: For Cbrifian Europe, at that
ifo, qua, the Garden of the World, the Nurje
ry of the Arts and tbe Sciences, and where the,
blsfomedto perfcaiou—Where, with but few
exceptions, a baft,fenfe of honor and gallantry
pervaded the Courts—afpirit ts lt,alt, and
religion the people—thus conneaing in civil
barmen, the well temperded ranks of focisty.
But the Hurricanes of War have ruined the pic
ture—to Europe fams now to be a Theatre,
where the Furies of Anarchy, Discord. Perfidy,
hfidelit,, and Tyrafy, are refolded to be the
ml, adors upon the flag, —But, Mtfrs. Prin
ter, I fear „introdu&ion will outrun your
patience —B, obliging the Q,en of Denmark
with a corner of,our paper, you will oblige
feme, who are tend of now add then joeing a
Scrap of Sentiment, or a Stanza of the Real
Muse decorate fame corner of the MrRROR—
a little ofcbat which, if it does not mend the
mind or so the heart, wounds the feelings of
none— And if the, have & tads enough terel
ijb like feme others of,our readers (as the, cer
taihi, bave not the fame eagerne, to jefofor)
the Horror of Battles, and the Slaughter of
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Maids, and fecb other entertaining matters.^
\ - Still rib, are good enforcers, and ought to be
^ _fa LAURILLO .
LINES written at sea by the late Q^een of
Denmark, during her passage to Stade,
,= — Nothing extenuate,
Nor fadown aught^malice.
orHELL o.
AT length;fromfa,ft care, and deadly,ati, ^
from galling conjure and ill-omen'd bate ;
From the vain grandeur where 1 tael, sane ;
From Croforg's ,risen, and from Denmark's
Igo!. \,brm
Here,fatal Greatrcfh fb, delation ends;
A bumbler lot the clfog feene attends.
Denmark, faretoll!— a long—,alm, adieu !
Th, Jefs'ning prof,eds now recedefrom view:
Idling'ring look an Ulf err'd crown deplores;
reft,t&to'tegwte&a.
Fell, ba,le, Brandt, and marderdStruenfee :
^%' w fo !tofy to,lt
me the grave ba,, such and fame:<
rt , Alas ! bow dtffrent the a„ v@ la,!
What crowdsfofyere bfo'deo obey ! ^
What numbersfrono harttberfing fan! -fl%
How few now bend woofe courje ts run!
B, Fate dtarfd,,F,Q,eeto traits
Th? smile, of ploafers, or the frowns of care.
^¥^#^,!
Here fainted Nature owns th, pew rpul %n„
And all the mother throbs through ev't, 'vein !
. :1 .0 dire tfsA of deep diffimbhng art, {
Whose ready Jmile conceal'd a much'reus k<krtl
Alas fin Friendfoip's garb Defru&ion came, ]
Add mean Selfntere, play'dberpartial game;
Robb'dme of peace, offortune, fame and friends,
Andpr'd each curse that advert fate attends !
But night's dark Jbades defend, while o'er the
Iturn to kifneur—but turn in vain! [main
Like ro left fate, no trace remains behind,
J^
Good beav'ns, bow dreadful ! from each comfort
Exil'd,for lorn, abandon'd b,tbe world: [burl'd
M, name tbejeft of Cynfarc's bus, tongue,
M, fate detail'd for future times to fun !
While fancied errors fall the wipe avail,
"To point a moral, or adorn a tale."
But though to mt, no^wer attrationpays,
Unmov'd,though Europe my fad fate Curve,s.
Though to condemn me all the world #grec,
rfmCfmihng pleasure turns her face from me,
, c * time and chance may clear tbi clouded jccue,
And Cenjurtyield to Pity's generous mien :
Then tboh who now with philosophic eye,
Stand from m, fallingfortones cool, by,
Perbap ma,find each deep imputed crime,
A venial error, g&ltlejs of defan;
Too late may own, sho',lung'd in mis'ry here,
hjuftice doom'd mt to the lot Jevere:
May wife, in time, m, wrongs bad been redroff,
And blame tb' oppressor, as the, blam'd the o,-
<te_m_ttt.tp^
Tbe Merry Register.
A Chief Justice being on the mid
land circuit, a Mr. Shirley of the
count, of Leicester, was brought be
fore him, charged with having com
mitted a rape on one of his tenant's
daughters , the judge was remarks-]
ble for poffeffiog an uncommon Ihare
of delicacy, and therefore, on the day
preceding that of the intended trial,
ordered the crier of the court to give
notice that it would come on the next
morning at seven o'clock § thereby
truftiog that the female fix would
absent themselves, on such an occa
fioo. Inftcad of which, the ladies
came pouring in numbers into the
court by fix o'clock ; at length the
Judge having heard aft that the wit
neffeshad to fay in Support of the
charge, defied the prisoner would en
ter upon hii defence. Mr, Shirley
therefore informed the court, that as
he W walking over fa ground, fife
espied hit profecutrix carry away a
bundle of faggots from a pile that be
longed to him, and observing that the
was & bandfome girl, he jocosely toldl
her, if ever he caught her repeating
th^ tranfeeffrotytie wouM assuredly
repay Furtlelf ih d au, most agreeable
be bifties. Business called him the
next day to town, he was absent about
a fortnight ; #nd on hit return home,
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whether he had given permission to
Ifyoung woman to carry away fag
gots from such ft pile, for that the
had done jr eve, evening free hia
departure ; it immediately occurred
to him that it most be the girl who he
had seen beforefte aboot the fame
w'^erVhe h'^'neT^w^
rhm marba h^r a rmparanfyJL— k A
me maae net appearance-— -1 obe
brief, 'he jocularly defined the girl so
out hefitauon or relud^oce, the com
'plica witn#" # inihort,
was honourably acquitted ; but before
he departed tfe court, thte&dge de
firecr^o giftbm one piece of advice,
ever Ind a wom*o dealing fan
such I punifhmefe'fbtifclou do'^be-
& great peofeffion of religion, and had
applied to the merchant for a credit.
The countryman replied, that Gad
fed the deacon was accounted a ve
ry honest, upright man ; but man
torttefrah ^^ twiftieal dr so
An excel,ent description of thousands
of cur neighbora^'"
_ Qfcc+ttrt—m„^^ ;
Generous Humanity.
The following true end affixing infante of gener
ous humanity and beroifm tyrves to be cete
brated and repealed* in ever, part of the habita
ble globe. The hero wbo„tformM the aa hae
alluded to, was a native of Holland, who bad
lived from bis carl, youth a rural life, in the
- Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope.
" He happened to be on horseback on the
coast, at the very point of time that a vessel
was shipwrecked by a dreadful tempest ; the
greatest part of the crewperifhed in the waves;
the remainder was ftrugling with death on
the Shattered planks that kill floated on the
Surface of the water —no boat could be sent
out in such a dreadful storm, for the deliver
ance of these poor^people. The humane and
intrepid Hollander undertakes to lave them;
he blows brandy into the nostrils ofhis Lorie,'
and fixing himfelf firmly in his stirrups, he
plunges into the sea, and gaining the wr^ck,
brings back to the shore two men of the crew,
each of whom held by one of hitboots, In
this manner he went and returned 7 times,
and thus laved fourteen of the passengers ;
but the eighth time, (and here the generous
heart will fail) on his return, a rapid arid im
mense surge overfet his horse. the heroic rid
er loft his feat, and was fallowed up with
the two unfortunate victims he was endeav
oring to snatch from death —What exit could
be more glorious than that of this generous
man !—We celebrate the chiefs who expire
in the field of battle among the victims they
had been facrificing ; and if their motives
were just and public spirited, let them have
their glory V But we cannot help contem
plating, with a more pleasing kind of admi
ration, this intrepid man dying in an attempt
to save his fellow creatures from deftrurtion.
The story is true. The man's name, which
our author does not mention, was Alternate
—and, if we are not mistaken, the Dutch
Eeaftindia company paid a just tribute of
veneration to his memory.”
Domestic Mijcellan,.
4N^^ OLD SOLDIER.
FOR th a FEDERAL MIRROR.
Messrs. Russell & Davis,
B, giving the falleriug lines a place is
„ w feral Mirror, iedtaffi
fa raw do a greater eg, tea
umber of year arftanra- ^
Answer a fool according to his folly, left he
be wife in his own conceit.
U7E hive heOTthe fentimenn of
VV an Did Soldier ; and we have
heard the voice of Simplicity fond
now we will endeavor to answer him
according to hit folly. Methinks so
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tte page a of an, pa^re— -The Old
Soldier by, been an Old Soldier so long
that he is now upon the decaying or
der ; for bit memory has quite ior
fook him^He iffirmi, that the 9th
number of the Soldier, wo @9s
one he had attended to 1 then he^oet
on to tell what were the contents of
declares that tie
spent ' r ,,,', c ^
E^ H" w '^ £EE
know, that the war dtcifo.nQtrf
eightyeam A man who fees out to
be an impostor. and Drives to deceive
the nubiki ought to have thexcellent
memory# or eitc nil note will oecon
usually running into mutnie. a
burden now on the militia no more
^brcrar 'fcoughi# ty&feil
it the fotofy complied of? he can
fee none." Per hap: his eyelight is at
treacherous as his memory ; if so, me
thinks he ladtater lay by his per.
tilt he can fee] dearly face to face, and
strive no mor^to feck through a glaft
darkly.
The former numbers that have ap
peared io the Mirror, under the title
ot " The Soldier," carry the fenti
mentt of candour, justice and equality
—ln short, they appear to be the
breathings of an hooeft man.—But
that which has been fee forth by the
" Old Soldier," appears to be devoid
of humanity—devoid of justice—in
Ihort, devoid of every thing but the
weak whifperi of an empty skull, and -
excites the contemptuous foeers of all
honest men—Therefore I would ask
leave to advise him, if he would not
wilh for the public to have any more
cifcoveries ofhis unparallatled weak
nefi, never more to take up hit pen
in so unjust a cauf%
NUMERUS.
for THE MIRROR.
Messrs. Russell & Davis,
Pieafe 10 injert the following, and gra
lif, a Cuffomer.
IN Minor No. 125, 1 observed a
sketch ot the melancholy and furprif
ihg accident, which tock place at
Grafton. (Vermont) viz. a house and
all its contend wih three children,
coofumed by fire— That it is both
melancholy and surprising, I do not
deny— But surely it appears full at
surprising at melancholy ; for I can
not form an idea bow three children
could be found elafped together in
one another's arms, in one corner of
,a chamber, and the house and all its
contents reduced to ashes—l cannot
conceive how any person can diftifi
guifh a chamber from any other room
after the house is wholly coofumed by
fire ; but perhaps the writer of that
paragraph can—it he can, Messieurs.
Printers, please to tell him to explain
himfelf, tecufe if 1 read a newlpaper
or any other typographical perform
ance, I choose to read a ftrair story.
BLAZOBUMBOOZLER.
From the Newyork MUSEUM.
The following articles bear a very high
rate as accent/ of ibeir fcarcil, at
present in this conntry.
SINCERITY—in patriotism;
Honor—amongatomies. >
Friendship—without interest.
Itove—without deceit.,V
Charity—without orientation.
Fair Play—among gamblers
Beauty—without pride, ^?
An^dv3cAte~wi<hout a fee.
A fafhionable man— without foppery
A&htonabß woman—without paint
A prude—without incontioence.
A bUfteiogfliafcrathout cowardice.
Oppofition—witliout sinister yiew%
Administration— inattentive to private inter*
^ra|ft. Religion —without bypocrify.
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