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the piad. But how despicable is he
who has reduced flattery to a refined
system ! who searches the weak string
) in the bosom of His fellow, and harps
upon it to the advancement of his own
& , interest !. When I see a man of this
character in the act of pouring forth
'hisvile and hypoeritic adulation, I am
satisfied that he holds his subject in the
)most profound contempt, and is him
' self a frivolous and unmanly knave.
ITo be praised, is a thing very differ.
l ent from being flattered. To desire
the former is laudable, for it implies
the performance of some action which
deserves the approbation of mankind;
while the latter is a Series of falsehoods
made up to the taste of the person who
is to receive them, and best calculated
to answer the purpose of him by whom
they are presented. Happy he, who
in his dealings .with men can say, like
Dryden,
« I discern their flattery from their praise."
I Next to innocence, is the confession
(of a faulty, and to forgive is indeed
Godlike.'
Old Chepstow's bridges may curse the toil,
That armed stout Clare for Cumbrian broil ;
Their orphans long the art may rue,
/For Neville's warhorse forged the shoe.
No more the stamp of armed steed
Shall dint Glamorgan's velvet mead;
jNor trace be there in early spring,
( Save of the Fairies' emerald ring:
Extract from the Philid. Rep.
ON FLATTERY.
" But Idiscern their flattery from their praise."
" There is,no passion which we so
easily give into as pride." All persons
have an internal pride which loves to
be fed with the delicacies of flattery.
Flattery, then, is the favorite and most
powerful instrument of the designing ;
and as those who have favors to dis.
pense are obviously the more exposed
to their arts, they are never in want of
attendants to mix the palatable dose.
Although the meanest wretch that
crawls the earth has his little prides and
vanities, as well as the monarch on his
throne, how does he demean himself
towards those from whom he expects
bounty ? Does he tell the opulent gen.
tieman, from whose abundance his pit.
tance is secured, that he considers him.
self as good as he ? Does he tell him
that a beggar is a man, and deserves to
be supported? Does he remind him
{ that God has commanded the rich to be
merciful to the poor ? Dare he pour
into his ear such truths as these? Ah!
no ; he paints himself as a miserable
creature, unfit to,stand in the presence
of the great, and tells the rich man how
happy is his condition, and calls him
the peculiarly blessed of Heaven ! He
emblazons his charity, and bis virtues
in general, and when the affluent man
has done his duty, Heaven is called up
on to shower down its choicest bless,
jugs upon so benevolent a man, so ex
cellent a christian! This pleasant tale
will last forever, and will be rewarded
whenever it is delivered ; and such is
the conduct universally pursued thro'
the varied scale of existence, from the
humble walks of mendicity, to the pol
ished circle that surround the august
person of majesty.
As much an enemy as I am to deceit,
I can excuse the playful flatteries of
ordinary life, when they serve only to
exhilarate the spirits without degrading
The Welch, inhabiting a mountainous country,
and possessing only an inferior breed of
horses, -were usually unable to encounter
the shock of the Angle Borman caval
ry. Occasionally, however, they were
successfulin repelling the invaders ; and the
following verses are supposed to celebrate a
defeat of Clare, earl of Striguil and Rem
?broke, and of SEVILLE, baron of Chepstow,
lords marchers of Monmouthshire. Jtymny
is a stream which divides, the counties of
Monmouth and Glamorgan: Caerphili, the
scene of the supposed battle, is a vale Upon
its banks, dignified by the ruins of a very
ancient castle.
Red glows the forge in Striguil's bounds,
And hammers din, and anvil sounds,
And armourers, with iron toil,
Barb many a steed for battle's broil,
Foul fall the hand which bends the steel
Around the courser's thundering Reel,
That e'er shall dint a sable wound
On fair Glamorgan's velvet ground !
From Chepstow's towers, ere dawn of morn,
Was heard afar the bugle horn ;
A, d forth in banded pomp and pride,
Smut Clare and fiery Neville ride.
They swore, their banners broad should.
- gleam,
In crimson light, on Rymny's stream;
They vowed, Caerphili's sod should ' feel
The Norman charger's spurning heel.
And sooth they swore, the sun arose,
And Rymny's wave with crimson glows ;
For Care's red banner, floating wide,
Rffiled down the stream of Severn's tide!
And sooth they vowed; the trampled green
Shewedwhere hot Neville's charge had been:
In every sable hooftramp stood
ANorman horseman's curdling blood !
THE NORMAN HORSE SHOE.
By WALTER SCOTT, Esq.
WCIW
Poetry.
THE GOLDEN APOSTLES.
When his Prussian Majesty took
possession of Prague, he was sur
veying one of the principal Catherdrals,
attended with one of the mostdignified
ecclesiasticks, and perceiving the
twelve Apostles in rich gold habits, he
asked the Priest what was the valueof
' the gilding ? 6 Sir," replied the priest,
^ they are solid gold," "Gold !" an.
swered his Majesty, " then the apos
tles are put to a wrong use, for it was
intended by their master they should
travel all over the face of the earth
for the pnblick good, and behold in
your church they are all confined ;
therefore, to fulfil their master's orders,
I will have them immediately made
into dulats, that they may travel over
the face of the earth." So Alexander
said of the beard of /Esculapius, that
it was cruel to suffer his godship to
have one of gold in the winter, when
wool was so much warmer.
Dear Sir,
1 lately informed you that gypsum
had been discovered in Sullivan. I
now send you a sample of the purest
which has been found. The greater
part of thk valuable article discovered,
is of the grey kind, but there are veins
of the transparent, such is herewith
sent. Yesterday I went and examin
ed the quarry, in company with the
proprietor, Jacob Patrick, Esq.—
Such experiments have been made by
a number of good judges, that there
remains not a particle of doubt on my
mind, that this is equal if not superior,
to any imported gypsum. The quan
tity is inexhaustible, but a few rods
south of the Seneca turnpike, and ob
tained by digging a few feet below the
surface of the earth. You would
doubtless confer a favour on your
numerous subscribers, as well as your
country,by giving this account of an im
portant discovery publicity through the
medium of your paper.
On the 2d inst. Mr. Isaac Van Seiv
er, a few miles below Burlington,
killed a bald eagle, which weighed ten
pounds, and measured from^e extrem
ities of the wings 7 feet 1 inch and a
half,'
From the Utica Gazette.
Gypsum or Plaister of Paris.
Extract of a letter to the Editor, dat
ed Lenox, Aug. 4.
Adjoining the stye, where your
swine are shut up, which should be dry
and warm, fence a yard for them to
wallow in ; twenty or thirty feet
square will be large enough for half a
dozen hogs ; cover this in the fall or
spring with mud or any rich earth or
grass sods ; common loam should not
be refused; if richer earth cannot be
procured. The hogs, having no rings
in their noses, will render this mud or
earth, if not more than two feet deep,
an exceeding rich compost in a year's
time. They will keep it stirring and
fomenting with their dung and urine,
which will be incorporated with the
mud, and thereby their whole strength
will be saved ; for the mud or earth
will prevent the virtues of the dung
and urine from being washed into
the ground by the heavy rains, or evap
orated by the sun and air—it not only
saves theta, but makes them stronger,
by keeping them in a state of constant
fermentation ; the fermentation will be
increased, and the whole mass will be
improved by making this yard the re
cepticle for the weeds of your garden
—throw into it your soap suds, brine,
and all the greasy slop of the kitchen ;
you may add potatoe tops, which
should be carfully saved for the pur
pose when you gather the potatoes ;
the stubborn corn stalks, which rot
slowly in the cowyard, will soon con
sume in the hogyard. Indeed any
vegetable or animal substance may be
added, for there is none which will not
make manure when rotten. Half a
dozen hogs, if confined to a stye, and
such a yard will make more than
twenty tons of the best manure in one
year. The manure should be laid in
heaps to mellow with the frosts of one
winter, and it will answer to put into
the,dlls of Indian corn as well as horse
dung.
1. A man whose passion for money
runs high, bids fair for being no
patriot. And he likewise, whose
appetite is keen for power.
2. It is impossible an epicure should
be a patriot.
3. A man who has no sente of Grad
or conscience, would you make such
a one a guardian to your child ?—lf
not why a guardian to your state ?
4. A man rails, rages, and raves ;
I suspect his patriotism.
5. The factious man is apt tp mis
take himself for a patriot.
By Dr. Berkley, Bishop of Cloyne.
MAXIMS ON PATRIOTISM.
M^AN TO INCREASE MANURE.
Sent up for concurrence.
CHARLES CUTTS, Speaker.
* In Senate the same day.
This bill, having been read a third
time, was enacted.
WILLIAM PLUMER, Presid.
Approved June 20. 1810.
JOHN LANGDON, Governor.
A true copy—Attest,
SAMUEL SPARHAWK, Sec'y
(# The printers of newspapers in
this State are requested to publish the
foregoing act three times in their re
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STATE. OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Representatives,
June 1% 1810.
The foregoing bill, having had three
several readings, passed to be enacted.
§ 3. And be it further enacted,
That all laws now in forte, for estab,
lishing the times and places for hold
ing the superior courts of judicature
and courts of common pleas, so far
as respects the times and places of
holding the same, be, and they here
by are repealed. Provided, that this
act shall not take effect until the first
day wf December next.
6 '" ^ nacted b 9 '* e Senate
and House of Represen.
tatives in General Court convened,
That the superior court of judicature
for the county of Strafford shall be
holdcn at Dover on the Ist Tuesdays
of February and Sept, annually. And
the superior court of judicature for
the county of Rockingham Shall be
holden at Portsmouth on the third
Tuesday of February, and at Exeter
the third Tuesday of September, annu
ally. And the superior court of judi
cature for the county of Hillsborough
shall be holden at Hopkinton on the
third Tuesday of April, and at Amherst
on the first Tuesday of October annu
ally. And the superior court of judk
cature for the county of Cheshire shall
be holden at Charleston on the first
Tuesday of May, and at Keenp on the
third Tuesday of October annually.
And the superior court of judicature
for the county of Grafton shall be
holden at Haverhill on the third Tues
day of May, and at Plymouth on the
first Tuesday of November, annually.
And the superior court of judicature
for the County of Coos shall be hol
den at Lancaster on the fourth Tues
day of May, annually. And the court
of common pleas for the county of
Strafford shall be holden at Rochester
on the first Tuesday of January, and
at Gilmanton on the third Tuesday of
August, annually. And the court of
common pleas for the county of Rock
ingham shall be holden at Portsmouth
on the second Tuesday of January,
and at Exeter on the second Tuesday
of August, annually. And the court
of common pleas for the county of
Hillsborough shall be holden at Am
herst on the second Tuesday of Febru
ary, and at Hopkinton on the first
Tuesday of September, annualfy. And
the court of common pleas for the
county of Cheshire shall be holdcn at
Keene on the third Tuesday of March,
and at Charleston on the second Tues
day of September, annually. And the
court of common pleas for the county
of Grafton shall be holden at Haver
hill on the last Tuesday of February,
and at Plymouth on the second Tues
day if September annually. And the
court of common pleas for the county
of Coos shall be holden at Lancaster
on the first Tuesdays of January and
July, annually.
§ 2. lad be it further enacted. That
all actions, pleas, indictments, infor
mations, complaints, appeals, petitions,
libels, writs, venires, inquests, recog
nizances, verdicts and processes of what
name or nature soever, now pending
in said courts respectively, or return
able to or sustainable by the same,
shall be returned to, sustained by, tried,
adjudged, and finally determined in said
several courts respectively, to which
they rightfully and properly appertain ;
at the times and places by this act fixed
for holding said courts, it being the
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