The constitutionalist — Exeter, N.H., 1810-08-06 00:00:00, page 4

tlie winds bound up ; what regulates
■the course of the thunder and of the
I tempests; what is the fatal boundary
which places its mark, and says to the
rushing waves, " here yot ishall go
'and no further;" and how the prodigy,
so regular in its movements, is formed ;
I explain to us the surprising effects of
plants, of metals, of the elements: find
out in what manner gold is purified in
the bowels of the earth ; unravel, if
Iyou can, the infinite skill employed in
|the formation of the very insects which
Icrawl before us, give us an explanation
I of the various instincts of animals:
turn on every side: Nature, in all her
/ parts offers nothing but enigmas. Oh
man! thou knowest nothing of the
i[ objects, even under thine eyes, and
'G thou wouldst pretend to fathom the
[ depths of faith ! Nature is a mystery
to thee, and thou wouldst wish to
know the secrets of God! Thou
knowest not thyself, and thou wouldst
pretend to fathom what is much above
til thee' The universe, which God hath
Il yielded up to thy curiosity and to thy
'disputes, is an abyss in which thou art
1 lost; arid thou Wouldst that the mis
teries of faiffi, whidi he hath solely
I exposed to shy docility and to thy re
spect, should have nothing which sur
passes thy feeble lights !'O blindness !
were every thing excepting religion,
[ clear and evident, thou then, with
'I some show of reason, mightest mistrust
, I its obscurities; but since every thing
LI around thee is a labyrinth in which
thorn art bewildered, ought not the
[ secret of God, as St. Augustin former
ly ly said, to render thee more respectful
land more attentive, far from being
6 more credulous? Massilon,
their properties, their situation, their
distance, their revolutions, the equali
,ty or the inequality of their move
ments. Our age hath penetrated a little
-. into their obscurity, that is to say, it
hath a little better conjectured upon
them than the preceding ages: but
what are its discoveries compared to
what we are still ignorant of ?
Descend upon the earth, and tell us,
if thou knowest, what it is that keeps
ing but enigmas: we live as strangers
upon the earth, and amid objects that
we know not. To man, Nature is a
closed book; and the Creator, (to
confound, it would appear, human
pride) hath been pleased to overspread
the face of this abyss with An impen
etrable obscurity.l
Lift up thine eyes, 0 man! consid
er those grand luminaries suspended
over your head, and which swim, as I
may say, through those immense spaces
in which thy reason is lost. Who,
says Job, hath formed the sun, and
given a name to the infinite multitude
of stars? Comprehend, if thou canst,
I will take thee, orphan child !
And adopt thee as mine own;
Cease not then, thy wailings wild,
Though thy toilsome days be flown.
I'll protect thy tender years;
Henceforth thy instructor be;
Little warbler, dry thy tears,
Leave thy cruse and follow me,
THE ORPHAN HOY.
From Fox's poem of Achmet and
Ardebel^i.
Whence art thou, whose warblings wild
On mine ear so sweetly dwell?
I'm a helpless orphan child,
Bringing water from the well.
" If my song thine ear offend,
I will quickly silent be;
Here I am without a friend l
Moslem! speak—l'll list to thee."
Little innocent awhile
Will I shade me from the sun :
With thy songs an hour beguile,
And reward thee when 'tis donc^ 7
'Much I fear my accehts rude,
And my songs would worthless be,
Should my singing be pursued,
Hopeful of a gift from thee.
"Unconstrain'd, with simple voice,
Did my words unheeded flow ;
I must never more rejoice;
Grief's the lot o£man below !
With my father's last embrace,
This he said and dropta tear ;
Left our home with hurrying pace,
And bade my mother nothing fear.
He was doom'd in fight to fall—
Quickly were the tidings known-
Soon she heard the angel call,
Died and left her child alone.
Friendless unprotected he?e,
Want must still my portion be ;
Pity, then my lot severe,
Gentle Moslem ! pity me.
Child of sorrow, wealth is mine ;
Pity leads my heart to prove
If a spirit dwells in thine
Fraught with gratitude and love.
. From the Connecticut Herald.
IN all around us We still find noth-
MORAL EXTRACT.
siscfflanp.
POETRY.
Hating as we do any collisions with
the editors of publick papers, we have
omitted taking notice of the thousands
of vile falsehoods and base misrepresen
tations, which have been imposed up
on the publick by the editor of the
Patriot, who, although he falls infinite
ly short of Griswold as to talents and
information, yet in his sphere, lies with
double the hardihood.
In his paper of the 3d inst. he states
that “ Mr. Chamberlain returned
from Washington, disgusted with
federalism and intimates, ghat for
that cause " he did not intend to be
considered a candidate for a new e
lection." — And in his paper of the
10th, after mentioning Mr. Haven's
having declined the candidateship for
the next congress, he says, "Mr.
Haven has generally been consider
ed an honest man, and it is presum
ed, like Chamberlain, is disgusted
with the proceedings of his party in
congress.”
From conversations with both those
gentlemen upon the subject, we are
able, to state positively, that every
assertion and suggestion of the Pat
riot, respecting the reasons which have
induced them to decline being con
sidered candidates for congress, are
not only false, but wholly without the
shadow of foundation. , „
As it respects Mr. Haven, it was
with much reluctance that he was in-
INVENTION FOR FARMERS.
A domestick spinner has been in
vented by Mr. E. Herrick, of Berk
shire County, Mass, upon principles
and with the view to make it useful to
every family. The smallness of its size
permits it to be portable from room
to room and from house to house.—
The space in length, which it occupies
is about seven feet, in breadth three
feet, and its height is about three feet.
It is constructed to turn six spindles,
and with a wheel to be turned by one
person who gives all the labour nec
essary to perform the spinning. From
6 to 10 run of woolen yarn may be
spun upon this machine in one day.
To make the machine ought not to
require an expense to exceed 15 dol
lars—Application is made for a patent.
ibid.
It may perhaps admit of more dif
ficulty than is generally supposed,
how to decide properly the question,
whether the ashes of a burnt vegetable,
or the same vegetable reduced to a
state of putrefaction, afford most
nourishment to plants.
In the southern parts of China, two
crops of corn are every summer taken
from-tte same field ; and we are
informed by sir George Staunton, that
the stubble qf the first crop is univer
sally burnt as a manure for the second.
In the interiour of Africa, also, we
are told, that the principal manure
which a field, destined to be sown
with corn, receives, is derived from
what vegetable substances are burnt
on the spot. And, in this country, we
have often seen the wonderful effects
of paring and burning the vegetable
roots of the surface soil in promoting
vegetation.
I am led to these remarks, from ob
serving in the Fourth Volume of the
Communications to the board of Ag
riculture, a letter from Mr. Wm. Cur
tis of Lynn, Norfolk, wherein he says,
he has tried several experiments, which
show that the burning of stubble en
riches greatly the fields for the en
suing cropty as well as renders them
cleaner by destroying the weeds.
Another gentleman, in the same
volume, Mr. William Pontey of Hud
dersfield, ascribes the advantage of
burning straw on fallows to the effect
of heat. He thus describes a case
that fell under his own observation.
"A neighbour of mine has a mill
where he shells a considerable quantity
of oats, the husks of which he was
used to burn, and to spread the ashes
upon his grass lands ; but their ef
fects were only observable for one
season, and were by no means con
siderable ; within the last ten years he
has fallen into the practice of spread
ing the said husks upon his fallow
when it is dry, to the depth of sis or
eight inches. To these he sets fire as
soon as the wind is favourable ; and
though the quantity of ashes be trif
ling, the article being very light, yet
the soil is uniformly so enriched that
though no other tillage be applied,
the burnt part is distinguishable from
what was filled with either lime or
dung. To these effects I have for sev
eral years been an attentive observer
of the benefit for four following crops.
A.S.
on burning stubble, & c
SIR,
agricultural;
from tje United States Gazette.
From the Farmer's Museum.
Your petitioner therefore prays your
Honor to empower the Administratrix
of the Estate of said Sawyer, by Licence,
to make and execute a legal convey
ance of the said premises to him accord
ing to said contract and agreeably to
the law in such cases made and pro
vided. CHARLES NORRIS.
Exeter, July 21, 1810.
Log-Wood-—Red-Wood, &c. &c.
White and Red Lead—Whiting—
Spruce Yellow, &c. &c.
Also—An extensive assortment of
English & Hard-Ware
GOODS.
(^ All the above articles he is deter
mined to sell at the lowest Cash
prices. , „ July 16.
Lamb-skins Wanted.
Cash, and a generous price will be
given for Lamb-skins, with the Wool
on, by Theodore™ Moses, at his Hat
shop near the plains.
Exeter, June 25, 1810. '
Upon hearing the foregoing Petition,
the seventeenth day of September next,
and the Probate Office in Exeter, are
the time and place assigned for taking
the same into consideration.
By order of the Judge,
WM. PARKER, Register.
Exeter, July 21, 1810.
W. C. DEAN,
No. 18, Water-Street —Exeter,
HAS just received & offers Whole
sale and Retail —
Chests Hysou-skin and Souchong
TEAS—W. I. and N. E. RUM—
200^wt. COFFEE—Fresh RICE—
Casks RAISINS—Boxes FIGS—
Faggots STEEL —Boxes 7 by 9 and
8 by 10 WINDOW GLASS.
Teas, Coffee, Rum, &c.
Rockingham, ss.
To the Hon. Nathaniel Rogers, Esq.
Judge of Probate, for said county,
HUMBLY SHEWS, Charles Nor
ris of Exeter, in said county,
Printer, That John Sawyer, late of said
Exeter, Bookbinder, deceased, enter
ed into a written contract with your
petitioner to convey him all his right t^
a certain lot of Land, containing about
four acres, more or less, lying in Exe
ter, aforesaid,bounded southeasterly on
the Neck Road, leading to Kensington,
southwesterly on land of Capt. Joseph
Swasey, northwesterly on Fore-Street,
and northeasterly on the dwelling-house
and lot now occupied by Andrew Rog
ers, Esq. ; but was prevented by death.
duced to comply with the Irishes of
his fellow-citizens in 1808, by being a
candidate. More fond of the plea
sures and serenity of private life, than
of the honours and bustle of publick,
it was with much regret that he left it.
The same causes which made him re
luctant in 1808, have induced him to
decline in 1810.—So far from being dis
gusted with the proceedings of the fed
eral party in congress, he expresses
his opinion freely, that it was the
spirited and patriotick proceedings of
the minority which deterred the ad
ministration from plunging into mea
sures which would have ruined the
country. And if Hill had recollected
his speech in congress, towards the
heel of the session, he would have
known with what party Mr. Haven
was disgusted.
As to Mr. Chamberlain, he found
his health so much impaired by resid
ing at the southward, and his exten
sive practice so much injured by his
long absence, that he thought proper
to decline.—That he came home dis
gustedis true ; but not with federal
ism. Warm and ardent in his love
of country, he is now, as he ever has
been, firmly attached to its republic
an institutions, and to those principles
which will give perpetuity to them.—
When at Washington, he beheld with
horrour, that the majority sacrificed
the interests of the country to their
own ill gotten popularity ; that, in
stead of consulting, what measures the
welfare and honour of the nation re
quired, they bent all their attention to
measures which they thought would
be the most popular, and have the
greatest influence on the elections.
Seeing men, elevated to the highest
and most responsible situations in our
government, forgetting that they were
ministers of the people, and becoming
mere electioneerers for themselves and
their friends, and wresting and pervert
ing every publick document to promote
their ambitious views was that at which
Mr. Chamberlain -was disgusted, and
that which must disgust every honest
friend of his country Were Hill
considerable enough, to attract Mr.
Chamberlain's notice, he would prob
ably answer for this libel on his char
acter. But his insignificancy is his
protection.
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