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POETRY.
FROM THE MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY.
FABLE OF THE WOOD ROSE ANDTHE
LAUREL.
IN these deep shades a flow'ret blows,
Whose leaves a thousand sweets disclose ;
With modest air it hides its charms,
And ev'ry breeze its leaves alarms ;
Turns on the ground its bashful eyes,
And oft unknown, neglected, dies.
This flower, as late I careless stray'd,
I saw in all its charms array'd.
Fast by the spot where low it grew,
A proud and flaunting Wood Rose blew.
With haughty air her head she rais'd,
And on the beauteous plant she gaz'd;
While struggling passion swell'd her breast,
She thus her kindling rage express'd:
" Thou worthless flower,
Go leave my bower,
. ' And hide in humbler scenes thy head!
How dost thou dare,
Where roses are,
Thy scents to shed!
Go leave my bower and live unknown,
I'll rule the field of flowers alone."
....And dost thou think," the Laurel cried,
And rais'd its head with modest pride,
While on its little trembling tongue,
A drop of dew ircumbent hung:
" And dost thou think I'll leave this bower,
The seat of many a friendly flower,
The scene where first I grew ?
Thy haughty reign will soon be o'er,
And thy frail form Will bloom no more,
My flower will perish too.
But know, proud rose,
When winter's snows
Shall fall where once thy beauties stood,
My posted leaf of shining green
Will still amid the gloom be seen,
To cheer the leafless wood."
" Presuming fool," the Wood Rose cried,
And strove in vain her shame to hide;
But ah ! no more the flower could say,
For wliile,he spoke, a transient breeze
Came rustling thro' the neighbouring trees,
And bore her boasted charms away.
....And such, said I, is beauty's power!
Like thee she falls, poor trifling flower!
And if she lives her little day,
Life's winter comes with rapid pace,
And robs her form of every grace,
And steals her bloom away.
But in thy form, thou Laurel green,
Fair virtue's semblance soon is seen.
THE POTATOE,
Was originally a native of America,
•whence it was sent to Ireland, about
the beginning of the 17th century. —
There are great varieties of the potatoe,
but those most commonly known and
used are the hog, the red and the white
potatoe. The use of the first is almost
entirely neglected and superceded by
the two latter species. For an early
summer or fall sauce, the white is cer
tainly preferable to the red, not only
in therichness of its taste but superiori
ty of its flavour. But I think the
white inferiour to the red, after winter
ing them over for a spring potatoe.- —
The white shrinks and dries away so
much, that it looses a great part of its
flavour, and has a vapid taste; where
as the red retains that firmness and so
lidity, for which it is so remarkable,
and appears to me to have retained its
taste and flavour.
Agriculturalists differ, not only in
the selection of potatoes for seed, but
in the manner of raising them. But 1
cannot subscribe to the opinions of
many experimental Agriculturalists, of
G. Britain and America, that potatoes
cut in small pieces, having an eye in
each, are as good, nay, better, than
wjiole potatoes, or those cut in two or
three pieces, if large. Anopinion ad
vanced by some theoretical gentlemen,
that small potatoes are as good as large,
for seed, appears to me more excepta
ble than the former opinion. I know
it is a common practice for farmers to
sort the potatoes, after they are dug in
Autumn and to hole the small ones by
themselves for seed. This may be a
saving in the first instance, as the small
ones are unfit for culinary purposes.
Why not, with equal propriety,
select the small ears of corn for seed
which have not ripened ? They are as
fi| for seed as small potatoes which
have not come to maturity. In either,
case, the shoots from such seed will be
so weak and puny, that I will venture
to assert, a good crop cannot be reap
ed from either, however fertile the
land, and well adapted to their growth.
It is by these means that the species
are degenerated.
Large potatoes ought to be selected,
for seed, and then cut in (not more
than) 2or 3 pieces. Such seed will
send forth healthy and vigorous shoots,
and if planted in a favourable soil,
"frill insure abundant crop in a good
season. Potatoes thrive most luxuri
antly in light sandy Loams, that are
neither too dry nor too moist
As a manure for Potatoes, long
dung is far superiour to short, even
straw, hay, or litter is preferable to
rotten dung. Coarse litter, &c. may
In life she cheers each different stage,
Spring's transient reign, and summer's glow,
And Autumn mild advancing slow,
And lights the eye of age.
Agricultural.
When Mr. Champagny invites Gen
eral Armstrong to " enter into an en
gagment thatthe American vessels will
not submit to the orders in council of
England," we should have expected to
have seen a promise from France (if
nothing else) of the restoration of the
value of our confiscated property,
and some apology for the violation
of the convention of the year 1800.
The gentlemen who compose the
Congress of the United States will not
fail to discern in thenote of the impu
dent duke, an unwarrantable denunci
ation of their conduct. The non-inter
course act, of which Mr. Champagny
complains, and which he pretends is
the cause of Napoleon's seizing Amer
ican property, was the work of Con
gress, and the audacious organ of his
imperial majesty proclaims that they
are " men without just political views,
without honor, without energy." We
look upon these expressions as equally
insulting with any ever used by Mr;-
Canning or Mr. Jackson; and they
will be read with corresponding indig
nation by every American citizen who
loves his country. Indeed Mr. Cham
pagny, like many former prophets, ap
pears to be desirous of .precipitating a
state of things, which shall fulfil his
own predictions, by taunting us on the
very heel of his master's outrages, in a
style which may convince us that it is
truly " ncssessary to fight for interest
after having refused to fight for honor.
ANECDOTE.
A gentleman by the name of Colt,
being provoked by an Irishman, gave
him a kick. By „, Patrick, retorted
the fellow, if you kick so hard whilst
you are a Colt, what the d—l will yoi
do when you come to be a Horse.
From a minister who descends to
quirks to bear him out in a state pa
per, we are not surprized to find asser
tions advanced which are totally devoid
of truth. Certainly the United States
had ground of complaint against
France, as well as against England,
long before the vessels of either power
were excluded from our ports. What
were the decrees of Berlin ahd Milan,
those decrees " violating the principles
of eternal justice?" The one passed
In 1806, the other in 1807! Were
these no infractions of our national
and conventional rights ? And sup
posing that the non-intercourse law
which forbid French vessels our har
bors,had been enacted without"ground
of complaint against France," it was
a municipal regulation which we had
a right to make without consulting
the inclinations of France, and which
France had no pretentions to retaliate,
in any other manner than by similar
exclusions of our vessels from her
ports. Besides, the American govern
ment, in passing the act of interdiction,
gave a previous notice of two months
and twenty days —for the act passed
on the Ist of March, 1809, and the
exclusion did not commence till the
20th of May following—so that the
subjects of France had due warning.
But what docs the French government ?
Why, after admitting American vessels
with their cargoes into its ports for
the purpose of friendly trade, it seizes
and confiscates them by a military act,
without any notice at all. Nor is it
true that the Americans have seized
French vessels, for there have been
none to seize.
not only keep the grgund loose, but
forward the growth of them in this
way ; the common atmospherick air
that is contained in the spaces made
by the litter, &c. may undergo separa
tion or decomposition, in its confined
state, by which the pure air may com
bine with the litter and inflammable
matter in the soil ; while the foul air
or azote (said to be the food of the
plants) will contribute to the growth
of the potatoes.
I think the following the best mode
of raising them. First plough the
ground intended for them ; then har
row it ; after which furrow it, about
two feetapart; put the potatoes about
a foot apart in the rows, and after
covering them with dirt, about three
inches thick; ' strew hay, straw, or
litter over all the ground, to the thick
ness of 12 or 15 inches. This is all
that is necessary to be done, until they
are gathered in the fall.
[OMISSIONS OF LAST WEEK.]
Remarks on the Duke of Cadore's
FROM A VIRGINIA DEMOCRATIC PAPER.
Mr. Champagny misrepresents facts
from first to last, and involuntarily
draws upon his sovereign a most degrad
ing sarcasm, by representing him as
"great, powerful and rich," at the
very moment that he despicts him as
decoying our property into his ports
in order to plunder it, and to fill his
exchequer ; for which act he can fur
nish no pretext but one which is glare
ingly contradicted by the most notori,
ous facts.
Letter.
Works of Hamilton.
written inl7Bß. by Alexander Ham
ilton, James Madison, and John
Jay, together with an Additional vol
ume of Selected and Original Matter,
from the writings of General Ham
ilton.
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