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^^^^tcmpedswith r,4lejsforce ;
• W%uiib feo-ivthe filter muntains foine,
fetters chain the rivulet's cour/e.
m/fofa obj^a charms our wearied view,
No waving 'verdure decks the dreary glade ;
Save that o'eryonder tomb the mournjul yew.
Project an awful Jolitar, fbadc. ' ,
Short is the Spring, and fare the Summer hour,
<And fart the time that frutlefs Autumn reigns ;
But tedious roll the days where Winter's power,
Affirts its empire o'er our wafted plains. 1
As fwiftly wears our fprirg of life away ;
Asfwiftly will our jolly ,ummer go;
But ob ! when winter cirads car cbearhfs day.
Again the vernal breezes ter blow.
Mark tbit, and boa, jour fancied worth no more.
Ye great,,, proud,,e learned, and, brave ;
With bast, la,ftfane circling years are so.
Audio !,famber in the silent grave.
Why views tbefage fair pleasure's tranfent charm
And all her vet'rits gay, with scowlingfcowling eye ?,
Alike beft oops to fate'sfa,trior arm—
Alike L fuffirs; and alike mu, die!
Say, What avails it then, with brow fevers,
The silken bauds of Lux'r, to def,ije?'
To bring, by thought, the day of horror near,'
And view the tempt, o'er the clouds arise?;
Better with laughing nymphs, in revels gay,
To give the hours to Versus, wine, andfong ;
And,face the rapid moments never,a,,
To catch feme pleasure as the, glide along.
Deluded man ! whom empty founds beguile ;
What transports here await th, anxious foul!
Know, love abhors the venal barlot's smile, ,
And bell- bornfur, rages in the bowl.
Seek virtue, to be blefl—but jeek her far,
Far from the, gloomy fan's of letter'd pride;
Who 'gain, the paffiou's wage eternal war,
And foes to nature, nature's dilates chide.
Let mirth, not madness, crown the temp'ratefea,,
Let love and beauty,jo,s refin'd impart;
, Though mere feu,at ion charm the growling breast,
'Tis mutual,afan fires the generous heart.
The various bitfugs bounteous heaven bestows,
1 Ute Goaruy,.
Relieve th, buffering friend, or ,art bis woes,
But from bis failings turn thine eyes away.
&, when the wintry forms of death are pa,,
In brighter fa, and cetber more,tone,
Tby wither'd boughs ,all bud again,.to la,
Forever blooming, and forever green.
Soliloquy toThe HYPO.
WHEN pitting in the vap'ry ,ower.
How,rang Imagination's power !
<Alike the senses and the foul,
Are fubjea to her dire control ,
We think, we hear, we feel, we fee.
What never was, and ne'er can be.
How many a whim,cal mi,ake,-
Has made thisfoolifo heart to ache ?
How,mple, when the Truth is known, —
The might, cause that makes mt groan ?
Os all the variourills that arc,
' The Vapours are the war, to bear !
For every other human woe,
A certain length can only go:^
But, here the meajgre of our pain,
Is wide as Fancy's ample reign.
How e'erfevere their real ill,
Some gleam of hope attends us,ill:
But, for /be imaginary wound,
No healing half am can befbund.:
My ills, in fah, have not been few, <
And form, fins, tooju,l, due:
But, num'rous as m, crime bav: been,
1 Good heaven, preserve me from the Spleen !
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fr HE following w
1 lately took place at Dereham, in
England : The poultry house of Mr.
Wight was broken open, and robbed
of fix geese ; the robbers leaving to"
; bind them a fix pence, to the gandefy
neck, in a piece ot paper, containing
the following:
^^igb^'
I wijb ,pa goodnight,
% time for w la wander,
I've bo't yergee/f,
At a petit, a piece,
A WITCH 6% Q&.b.
■vher fa there, erddefted
Vg^e her fimt dr:r.k; No moth
mid be. 'twill do you wrorg ; for
Wfa„i,ou Are,bt^ burn.
ONE Fylke, a Frenchman much res
garded for bis replied bolinefs, sold
RICHARD the firfl, that be kept w^
him three daughters, that would drra
ex him the wrath of God, if be did mat
rid bimfelf of ibm. " Wb, hypocrite,
cried ibe King, all the world hows I
b ter bad a child" Yea. .replied Falke,
you have, as I said, three—and their
names are Pride, Covetoufneft, and
Lust." "Isit so ? (aid the King, you
(ball fee me prefrail, beflow them : the
knights templars (ball have pride, the
white monks 'covetoufnefs, and the clergy
In, :——and there you have m, three
daughters bestowed among you."
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Political Miscellany.
from the MEDLEY.
THE SOLDIER, No. XI.
IN my four preceding Numbers, 1
have endeavoured to ftaie corred
1, the expense of the military system ;
that this expense is paid by a PART
of the community ; and that this par
tiality of our Legislature, and not only
ouri, but almost every Legidature on
the continent, it inconsistent with true
Republicanism, and a breach of the
,constitutional power.—l proceed next
to examine the objections of our Leg
ifigure to making the expense gene
ral.
, Our Legislature, at has been men
tioned, in May last, made an attempt
to reform this abufe.—Maffachufetti
like ! some friends to the Conftiturion
and to the honour of the state, pro
posed a Reform—defiroos that this
Commonwealth Should lead the way
to renown io this, a, it did in the in
ftooce of our late Revolution. — The,
advocated the right and neceffit, of
compensating the militia for their Ser
vices.—A Committee was appointed
to report what amendments Should be
made in the Law. They gave at
their opinion, among other reforms,
that 2/4. ought to be allowed the sol
diery per day tor assembling to do
military duty.—Mark the sequel.--—
Men of aristocratic principle# appear
ed—the child of their own begeting,
could not be guillotined, although the
public happiness demanded it—They
rife, and warmly oppose this mild,
this equitable report, their objec
tions, at least some of them, appear to
me so inconsistent, I. am led to give
them to the public as I received them
from a Member, who was opposed to
the proposed amendments to the Law.
;The firft objedion as Stated to me,
was, That two Shillings and 4 pence
a day to the foffi for doing duty,
would cause an addition tax of a great
amount upon the whole body of the
people ; consequently many murmurs
and complaints would rife against
government.
Secondly—That this money, in-
Read of benefiting the soldier would
be expended on muster days in grog,
&c.—And the Sutlers, who attend
the parades, would get it all for the
trifles they fell the soldiery;
Thirdly— if there was a compen
sation allowed them, every Captain
would enroll Tom, Dick, epd Harry,
whether lawful, ablebodied foldieri or
not, for the fake of getting a large
company, 1
upon these objections 1 will re
mark ; and let the candid, (for 'tisto
f^b B °d such only, that I address
„pf) determine whether they are
consonant with justice or not,
ftfelhe firft objeftion, fa me all,
h civil gove/rment Intended for the
benefit of the soldier only—or is it for
the community at large ?--For the
communi y n large most certainly.—
Does our bill of rights fay that the
soldier only! or a part of-rhe citizens:
Shall bear the burthen of government,
or that " Each individual is bound to
contribute bis Jbare?"=lf the latter—
What foundation is there for a mur
mur, when they pay only an equal
Share ?—Certainly none.—ls the,ex
empts complain of paying an equiva
lent with the soldier—What most tie
the reafoniblenefs of the foldfer's tom
plaint at paying the wbkk? We can
exclaim with propriety, O ye Short
fighced ********._
The injustice cd making the milita
ry system a partial expense has been
fofficiently canvassed —and the argu
ments such as I think will make the
firft objedion appear quite futile.—
Though it must be acknowledged a
confident piece of conduct in our
LegiOators to refute the comper.G
tion f as they would otherwise have a
part of the expense to pay, and their
exemption be only a mortification.
The Second objection argues feme
thing chat proves nothing.—That 2/4
would not benefit the foldief, appears
to be a declaration not easily reconcil
ed with propriety. Pray tell me, ye
wiseacres, is a dollor a day for your
services no benefit to you because you
pay it to your landlady for a break
faft, dinner, (upper, grog, &c. If it
is not, we had better, 1 think, keep it
in the Treasury, or fend it to our
brethren in Algiers— They will not
declare it is not a benefit to them—
when the produd yields them a com
fortable repast, and allays the fatigue
of a hard day's service.—Such is the
Situation of the foldier.—"He thinks
his money well appropriated; when
the calls of nature are Silenced, and he
recovers Strength fufficient to endure
the fatigue of the afternoon's exercise.
This objection favors a little too much
of monarchical principles, to be easily
swallowed by Free Men.— To think
that America has arrived to that
•pitch, that her Servants Should take
upon them to ditea their matters in
the best method of difpnfing of mon
ey, is really Singular, We know
when our appetites call for food, and
when faintnefs and fatigue demand
the refreshing draught, without hav
ing the precise time stated by our Leg
islature.—l think such soldiers as our
Legislature would make of us, are ve
ry naturally depided in.tbe following
lines of the Poet :
" n ran of froth, of, pittle, ^u of,lk ;
Ye men of three parte water, one part milk ;
Ye men who in your gloomy cellars pine,
Whilst birthday beauties in your labours fbine,
Like other worms, bid from the cheering day,
In painful toil you wafie your lives away;
Mu, you, per tiny counterfeits engage,
In all the glorious horrours of this age ?
Mu, you, por, arvelings, too, be led Afar,
To mingle with the ranks in bloody war ? %
" You must, vile)cum,your rulers fay ,a must,
\ And what your rulers jaj, be jure, isjuft.
. Or, if you like not that, ,ou may depArt,
And to the Weftern World convey, out Art."
Besides, this objection, is really
without any Support : for whoever
knew money paid a soldier for ser
vices before the services were per.
formed.—There is not a probability
they would receive this computation,
till some time after the duty w& per
formed , and probably at a time when
they are not in need of expending it
for the neceffariea nor fupeifluities of
life # ^^t^^^^
The third objection favours of a
spirit of jealousy, and a declaration as
highly degrading to the officer, as the
fubje& in contemplation is degrading
teethe Legislature. Because they have
evaded the obligation of t^eir oath,
ihey intimate, by this objection, that
the Officer can as easily evade hit.-
I :hiak if efficient confidence caste;
be placed in the Offices, to entrqft
them will the difpofil of' 2/4, the
ityfyivp do wrong in granting thqn
&U}ffijfon% ard making u a dWy,o
take and Subscribe an oath, folemnfy
avowing,co do the duty of Captains,
according to the Conftitption and laws
of the Commonwealth — Poor in
deed must be the Officer who would
6xp)fe bimfelf to derision, and trial
before a Court Martial for not cifpof
,g ot 2/4 agreeably to the dircVty
of the Legislature/—-The obj aion
pow conquered, is indeed, so flimfy, 1
cam h,djy keep the bounds of modest
expafrioih while writing upon it. I
dismiss i'^-aad leave ;the public to
configer it in such light as it may ap
pear.to them.: ',: ,
, lo Short there is not one idea in the
obfeaions jhat favours of iufiicy ^ or
that maoifefts our Legislature have
any wish or desire to follow the Gold,
en Rule, to " Do too mothers, op they
would iboi others foould do unio them?'
But rather an affirmative gnawer to
my Qhery, ", Is there not or
PRESSION.IN OUR LAND.".
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SANDBORNTON, Auguftg, 1794.
By JOSEPH WOODMAN, A. M. Pastor
of a Church there.
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CT, We can fay; without flattery, we think
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highly pleafingjo the candid reader.
Estate of Daniel Annis.
A LL persons indebted to the estate of Da
niel Annis, late of Warner, deceased,
intestate, are desired to make immediate pay
ment—And those who have claims on laid 1
estate dre requested to present their accounts
for Settlement to
THOMAS ANNIS, Administrator.
Warner, Jan. 6, 1795.6
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RAN away from me the fubferiber on
the 26th instant, an apprentice boy,
named LEVI.HUNT, 15 year# old,
light complexion ; had on, when to
absconded, a brown Shore jacket and
overall#. Whoever will take up said
boy, and return him to me, Shall have
the above reward, and no charges
paid.
All persons are forbid harbouring
or crofting him, as they would avoid
the penalty of the law.
^ STEPHEN CHASE.
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