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From the Lyon's Mouth.
WAR AN ODE.
ON all these dreary plains,
There yet a borrowing Muse remains,
Who has seen with weeping eye,
These former domes of love and joy,
Happiness, contentment, ease,
And Freeds eloath'd in robes of peace,
Where the Graces us'd to play,
/Now fallen deflation's prey;
With her I'll view the feene of blood
And dcltruAion, that pursued
The tracts of Mars, hern God of war,
When riding in his brazen car;
Drawn by horses fwift as wind,
With all the furies close behind, . %
And civil Record in his train
He took his way o'er heaps of fltin.
Fird, Ihrouded in the veil of night,
To Lexington we'll take our flight.
Borne on fancy's rapid < pinions,
Swift I fly through liquid regions,
Already do [ fee the ground
On which, her brows with cypress bound,
Britain's genius mournful view'd
Her children ihed each other's blood.
Sudden darkness round is spread,
Hark ! what roaring peals ol thunder'd
• See the forked lightning fly!
The bodies of the mighty dead.
Their icy bands have b^rtt affunder,
And, in silent majesty,
Rising from their tomb,
Stalk along the awful gloom.
Oh! from this more than deeped night
Quickly let us take our flight;
Swilc as thought, convey'd through air,
1 hand on AbraWs fatal plain,
Soft pity sheds a tender tear,
To think how many heroes, slain,
In the pride ol youthful bloom,
On this spot have found a tomb.
Ah me ! what hosts in dread array
Towards yonder City bend their way o
Hark ! the angry cannons found;
Nought but flame and fmoak is seen,
Streams of blood bedew the ground,
Alas! hew horrid is the feene.
Here the Son, his Parent's pride.
The only comfort ol their age,
On tile field all crimion dy d,
Feels the Tyrant's keened rage,
Here tile bleeding Father lies,
His Widow's and his Orphan's cries
Assault his dying ear,
And fills his foul with deep deipair.
Here the Patriot bends beneath
His wounds all nonelf on the bread,
He feels the approaching hand of death.
And without groaning links to red,
That eye is clos'd in endlcls night
Which late fl till'd terror round,
Tile arm to terrible in light
Now helplels lies upon the ground.
Here the Lover teeking fame,
Meets a glorious death;
While his much lov'd Mistress's name
Sounds upon his 1 tied breath.
Be calm, my tortur'd Soul, he cries.
Ye boiderous winds your raging cease,
Lealt my dreary, mournful sighs
Wound my fair Amanda's peace.
But let some gentle breathing Zephyr,
In the loiteif, tendered whisper,
Convey the tidings to her ear;
The drop, if Ihe does drop a tear
Oh! let tome little Cherub lave,
And borne on pity's downy wing,
The pearly treasure bring,
Arid cad it on my grave.
Mod happy men ! your troubles cease,
Your fouls are fled to realms of peace;,
Beyond a cruel Monarch's power,
In tome bled Elysian Bower,
Where bloody Tyrants ne'er can come;
Perhaps ye read your Country's doom.
Gii ! lay, will never peace return ?
Ah ! are we ever doom'd to mourn?
Self whifp'ring reason tells me %
Our sorrows loon will cease to flow 5
Peace again will bless this shore,
Smifng Freedom will return,
And horrid war no more
Shall cause this land to mourn.
The Almighty's felf will interpole
This fepne of blood to close.
Just printed, published, dad to be fold byR. AIT
KEN, bookfelQr, Philadelphia,
Printed with a new t>pe, on a good paper, in one
octavo vol, (price in boards One Dollar, bound
Ten Shillings)
A new System of,
MILITARY DISCIPLINE
founded on Principal.
By a General Officer.
CONTENTS,
Chap. I. Se&. I. Of dress. Art. I. Of clothing.
2. Of convenience. 4. Of appearance. Se& 11.
Of arms. Art. 1. Of the bayonet. 2. Of the fire
lock. Se& 111. Of accoutrements.
Chap. 11. The duty of the Corporal. Se&. I.
Inllrudions. Sed. 11. Of refpe& to superiors. Art.
I. Of deportment. 2. Of the landing salute. 3.
Of the passing salute. Sed. 111. To lland. Art. 1.
( O 1 Handing ered. 2, Of planting the feet. Sed.
IV. Trie facings. Sect. V, To march. Art. 1.
To balance the body. 3. To ground the foot. 3.
To limit the Hep. 4. To preserve equality of pace.
Four propofuions on the regularity of Hepping and
forming the ranks. Art. 5. Of marching by files,
wheeling, &c.
Chap. 111. Duty of the Serjeant. SeA. I. Instruc
tions in twenty particulars. Sed. 11. The parade
exercise, with the ufeful observations thereon.
Chap. IV. Duty and inHruAions of the Adjutant.
The method of performing the different kinds of
parapet and rejoicing fires. Sed. 111. Of the Co
lumn, exemplified in a variety of Cases. Of palling
a bridge.
Sect. IV. Of the square. The square formed
out of one battalion, confiding of four grand divi
sions exemplified in twenty-seven particulars.
Chap. V. The exerciie as it is to be performed by
signal or word of command from the Major, or
from any other officer. A sketch ol a battalion
confiding of ten companies, in each sixty-nine pri
vates and three corporals, making in the whole se
ven hundred and twenty men rank and file, drawn
up in reviewing border and according to seniority.
Rules for telling off the battalion, and for polling
the officers both at exercise and tt adion. A sketch
of a battalion formed for action 'or exercise, with the
ranks at the 'whole distance or open order. Sig
nals words of command, and particular references.
Rules, maxims, and observations, for the govern
ment, conduit, and diicipline of an army.
To the PUBLIC.
ALL sciences have their peculiar graduates, as
well to inHru& pupils in their,rudiments, as to bring
them to the higher elements of their profeffion; our
author has therefore alotted to the Corporal, to the
Serjeant, and to the Adjutant, their different de
grees of inftrudion, that each may be responsible for
those committed to his charge; and by that means
that the exercise may be more correct and expediti
ously learned. He then introduces the whole exer
cise complete, as it is to be performed by word of
command from the Major, or any other commissi
oned officer, or by signal. In that part where our
author treats of the field exercise, he comprehends
such operations as are necessary to be performed
against the enemy, as different exigencies may there
require. In treating of the Column, the Line, and
the Square, this author points out their various
uses and purposes, shews some of their capital de
feds, and propoles several amendments. The whole
is concluded with an Appendix containing rules,
maxims, and observations for the government, con
duA, and discipline of an army.
This work is written upon a new plan, and is
peculiarly adapted for the use of young officers,
Shewing the particular duties of each, and the molt
easy method of training their men in order to be
come export soldiers,
THREE POUNDS Reward.
STOLEN or Hraved, out of the subscriber's lot
the upper end of Market-Hreet, on Friday the
31st of May lad, the three following HORSES,
viz, a light brown horse, eight years old, about
fourteen hands high, with both ears cropped, a
bright bar in his forehead, and shod all round, a
few white hairs on his back, occasioned by the saddle, a
short tail; he paces and trots. The other a bright
bay horse, about fourteen hands and a half high,
with a large blaze down his face, three white feet, a
switch tail, Ihod all round, paces and trots, and
about five years old. Also a dark bay horse, about
fourteen hands and a half high, fix years old, has
a Har in his forehead, and trots, with a small fore
place about the bigness of a dollar on the hind part
of his back; and, when taken away, was a little
lame.
Whoever takes up the said horses, and brings
them to the fubferiber in Market-Hreet, shall have
the above reward, or in proportion for any of them.
RICHARD YORKE. Post Rider.
CAME to the Inn of the Subicriber in German
town alias Creafoam, on the firft of this inst.
a Bay HORSE, he is about seven or eight years
old, 14 or 15 hands high, and is branded with M.
The owner is requested to prove his property, pay
charges & and take him away, from
TOe 3> 1776 MARTIN SHAUWECKER.
Just publiflied, and now felling by
ROBERT BEL L, in Third-street,
(In One Volume, neatly bound, price One Dollar,)
Tie young Clerk's VADE MECUM,
Or compleat Law Tutor.
Being a ufeful collection of a great variety of the
mod approved precedents in the L A W, and
adapted to almoit every tranfadion in life wherein,
an attention to legal forms is indifpenfibly neces
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covenants, charter parties, leases, proceedings up
on distress for rent, alignments, deeds, indentures,
mortgages, marriage articles, wills, fines and re
coveries, writs declarations and proceedings at law.
To which is added, —A collection of English pre
cedents, relating to the office of a Justice of Peace.
RUNAWAY from the fubferiber, living in
Woodberry, Gloucester county, New-Jersey,
on the 27th instant, (sth month) an apprentice
Lad, named JAMES WIGGINS, between seven
teen and eighteen years of age, about 4 feet 9 in
ches high; is pretty well set, has a fair complexion
and a down look; had on and took with him when
he went away, a brown cloth coat, with tortife
fhell buttons with silver eyes, a sleeveless jacket with
the fore parts of red serge, the back parts calliman
co, black knit breeches, a half worn fur hat, old
Ihoes, with plated buckles one of which is broke, a
pair of blue yarn Hockings, one pair of thread dit
to, an old fine shirt. two ticklenburg ditto, and a
pair of trowfers. Whoever takes up laid appren
tice, and brings him to his master, or secures him
in any gaol to that he may have him again, if taken
within the province, shall have THREE DOL
LARS Reward, if out, Four Dollars, and rea
sonable charges. * SAMUEL THOMPSON.
SHEET and ROD IRON of different sizes to be
had of THOMAS MAYBERY, at his Slitting
Mill in Mount Holly, weft New-Jersey, and in Phila
delphia by Atmore and Helling's at their Store on
the wharf a little below Chefnut Street.
N. B. Wanted at the above works several work
men that are well acquainted in making of nails, to
such p c rfon good encouragement will be given.
Several Sums of Money,
To be Lent, at Interest, on good Security,
By JAMES HUMPHREY S,
Notary Public and Conveyancer;
Tn Front-Hreet, Corner of Black-horse Alley.
TO BE S O L D,
ALOT of GROUND, adjoining the town
of Manheim, in the county of Lancaster,
containing two acres and one hundred and four
perches, being that out-lot, which in the plan of.
the said town, is marked and called Number ten.
Also, one other LOT, in or near the said
town of Manheim containing ten acres and forty
four perches, adjoining the lots of Frederick Leifer,
Nicholas Candour, cand others, being that part of a
trad of seven hundred acres of land divided into
lots, which in the plan of the said division is marked
and called Number thirty. The title and terms
may be known by applying to
3m. MIERS FISHER
Philadelphia May 25 1776.
A LL Persons indebted to the Estate of Dt. PE
TER SONMANS deceased, are desired to
make payment as soon as possible, and those who
have demands against the said Estate, are desired
to make them known to
WILLIAM POLLARD, Executor,
-- ——— ROD s ,
Of different sizes, to be had of
JOSEPH POTT S,
At his Store in Sixth street, near Market-Hreet, and
at the Slitting-Mill in Chester county.
The best Price and ready Money
Is given for
Clean Linen Rags,
By the PRINTER hereof.
KEYSER's famous PILLS, so well known,
all over Europe, and in this and the neigh
bouring colonies, for their superior efficacy and pe
culiar mildness, in perfedly eradicating every de
gree of a certain disease, without the least trouble
or confinement; also the Rheumatism cured: by
th efe famous Pills, are felling at 10, 20, and^o
fallings a Box, By NICHOLAS BROOKS,
at his shop in Second-street, three doors above
Black-horse Alley: At which place may be bad,
MAREDANT's DROPS.
N. B. Good allowance is made to people whe
fell again.