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ONCE more, O Muse, attend thy fuppliant's call,
And grace with honours the funeral pail ;
Not Beauty's bad nipt by untimely froft
Not early graces in their dawning loft,
Now claim the lay ; but Learning's sacred fires,
And fair ffflofophy, whose Sage expires !
Deep in the midst of Academick groves,
See how she mourns the son she dearly loves ;
Awhile forgetting triumphs of the day,
With choice renown foe wraps her favorite's clay—
Around his head her deathless palm the twines,
And then the charge to faithful Fame resigns.
Senates mean while and venerable chiefs,
To publick honours add their private griefs;
While hiltory forms her tributary page,
And sculpture longs to eternize the Sage!
Yet when compar'd,o FRANKLI n, with thy name,
is the marble, '^lor, o[fame ?.
glories cf thy ^efc! days :
Nor round me gloue a fenielefs ipotcan find.
Where is not wept—the friend of human kind!
How vast, how strong, how luminous the foul,
Whose powers,like thine, no pressure could controul;
Born to command, as thy decrees require,
Or falls, the Tyrant's rod or Lightning's fire,
Throughout laborious for the public weal :
No common span could measure out thy zeal.
Heav'n gave to life a more usual fpace—
'Twas thine to fill it with an equal grace 1
Alike intent on prodigies of good,
Another candidate for glory flood—
Howard, whose name humanity reveres;
Comes in, alas ! to multiply our tears !
He, too is gone, loft are the mingled frays,
Whichon the world had pour'd so bright a bldze ;
Obfcur'd those (tars, whose fair effulgence (hone
From deepest dungeons to the Idftieft throne !
But other worlds must feel their influence too :
The thought our sorrows should awhile fu'pdue.
'Tis those high orbs alone are form'd to yield
To two such Spirits a proportion'd field<
'Tis Heaven alone can plans of good reveal,
/ Worthy a Franklin's or Howard's zeal ;
There (hine forever, brilliant Planets fhinej
'Till earth (hall feel the energy divir.c—
Liberty and Love the world embrace,
complete the buffings of yo^rrace.
— —, .—.--
honey, plenty fp^at^eous S he lives in and that bled land which overflows milk
erenity reign, peace, friendfhip, triumphant foul, virtue, ben^vdence S of and her in
money ; enjoying youth, b<Oty, luck, birth, friends, U nder the and smiles heaven wit, of
charity, through ; innocence, And 41 devoirs, adions, heaven-born and fliine her her all
age brighter gem, boast, N star, or can lead, created nature crown, th* at fun— or a or or
by gods sport N urs'd ; but, dear, the for doom her to thoufends O bless but one! to
ardently acquaintance begun. A lass! sere how I wish that our never, had been never
ignorance my calmly dy'd, happy B fruitlefs, left in love, native of restless liv'd, 1 and had then
untry'd, by beauty's magic by U ntouched charms, female treacherous excellence and more than their
my tranquil hang, tempt leap, drown; frozen, ^ R oom in tantalize, breast to or or to
epentance despair, chagrin, fufpence keen, never, R ar+wbrfe, and wild found had never
vanquifh'd joy's, ^y^ope late, A Il's now 0 recover? too forlorn I can taken I'm in and how !
spite frown, fate, L but smile, her et loft, or in of ^% forever. for life or or made I'm - '
A correfpendent has favoured us vsith the following
carious
ACROSTIC.
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
Dr. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN;
SEAT OF THE MUSES.
te tinned.
BE it enafled by the Senate and House of Repryfen
tatii es of the United States of America, in Con
gress assembled, That whenever any perlon who now
is or hereafter ffiall be liable to a fine, penalty or for
feiture, or interested in any Vessel, Goods, Wares
or Merchandize, or other thing which may be fub
jeft to seizure and forfeiture )by force of the laws
of the United States now existing, or which may
hereafter exist for collecting duties of Impost and
Tonnage, and for regulating the coasting trade,
faall prefer bis petition to the judge of the diftrift
% which such fine, penalty or forfeiture may have
accrued, truly and particularly setting forth the cir/
cumkances of his case, and shall enquire ih a furr
mary manner into the circumstances Os the cue,
firft causing reasonable notice to be given tothe
person or persons claiming such fine, penalty or for
feiture,and to 'be Attorney bf theUnfted States for
such dia^/^^^b mct^^4.{%<^
cause aWinft the mitigation c [emiffion|
thereof; auu tuaii cauiu the ia& which shall tip-I
pear upon such enquiry to be teed and annexed to
the petition, and dired their transmission to the
Secretary of the Treasury Cfthe United States,who
shall thereupon have pow^r to mitigate or remit
such fine, penaltyor forfeiture, or aby part thereof,
if, in his opinion, the fame was incurred without
wilful negligence, or any intention of fraud, and
to dired the protection, if any shall have been in
stituted for the recovery thereof; to cease and be dll
continued upon futh terms or conditions as he may
deem reafonabie and just.
Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be
construed to effect the right or claim of any person
to that part of an/ fine, penalty or forfeiture incur
red by breach of either of the laws aforefaid which
such person may be entitled to by virtue of the said
Laws in case where a prosecution has been com-|
menced, or information has been given before the
passing of this aft; the amount of which right and
claim mail be assessed and valued by the Judge of
the diftrid in a summary manner. ,
And he it further enabled, That this aft shall con
tinue until the next session of Congress and no
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBURG,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, LQ-Prfo^e ts ^ U-^.d
States, and Pref dent of the Senate.
APPROVED MAY 26, 1790.
GEORGE WASHINGTON;
President of the United States.
(true copy)
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
BE it enabled b, the Senate and House of Reprefen
tativel of the United States of America in Con
pref foiled, That the Territory of the United
States South of the River Ohio, for the purposes of
temporary government, (hall be one diftri& ; the
inhabitants of which (hall enjoy all the priviledges,
benefits and advantages, set forth in the ordinance
of the late Congress, for the government of the
Territory of the United States, North-Weft Os the
River Ohio; and the government of the said Ter
ritory; South of the Ohid, (hall be similar to that
which is now exercised iri the Territory North-Weft
of the Ohio ; except so far as is otherwise provided
in the conditions expressed in an A6 lof Congress
of the present Seffioti, entitled "An a& to accept
a cession of the claims of 'he State of Nortf -C^ro
!ia&, to a certain Du^ .e of Weftern Territory.•
4^ & j,fm^r ^^4, That the fettles of me
officers, wmdi the Present of the United States
ihall nominate, and with the advice and content of
the Senate, appoint by virtue of this act, mail be
the fame as thofc, by law established, of similar of
ficers in the government North-Welt of the River
And the powers, duties arid emoluments of fd
perintendant of India* Affairs, for the Southern
department, (halt be united with those of the Go
vernor. ^ RED ^ RIC ^ A . MUHLENBURG,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefdent of the United
States, and President of the Senate.
'Approved, May 26, 179°°
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
President of the United Stakes.
(true copy) ,
THOMAS JEFFERSON; Secretary of State.
An let for the Government of the Territory of
the United States; South of the River Ohio.
An ACT to provide for mitigating or remitting
the Forfeitures and Penalties accruing under
the Revenue Laws in certain cases therein men-
CONGRESS.
ANECDOTE.
LORD MELCOMB was, when his name was
plain Bub, intended by the (administration of
that time, to be feat unbaffador to Spain. While
this matter was in contemplation, Lord Chefter
field met him, and, touching upon the proposed
embassy, told BrD that he did not think him fit to
be the reprefenutive of the crown of England, at
the Spanish Coirt. Bub desired to know the ground
of his objefyd— c Why,' said his Lordthip, 'your
name is imch too short !—Bub—Bub! Do you
think th/ Spaniards, a people who pride themselves
on thej family honours, and the length of. their
titles will suppose a man to possess any dignity or
importance, with a name of one Syllable, and which
is , ronounced in a second? No, my friend, you
nuft not think of Spain, unless you can make some
addition to your name.'—Bub detired his Lordship
to fay what he would have him to do. Lord Chef
terfield, pausing a moment, exclaimed—{l have it
—What do you think of calling youifelf Sllly
Bub?' —
FASHIO N.
yiLJJSON, foe^jgg. ef^e attention paid hft
neads and &.I?sHi x^e&itfipo^^ ?nvm §c be.a&u^-
ted by the old houfe-wifery maxim, that " if yuu
light the fire at both ends, the middle, will take
care of itfelf," but the greater caution of this age
is, it seems unwilling to trust to the proverb ; and
equal attention is at prefect paid to the centre at
to the extremities of the fair. The present idea
of beauty as applied to this part of the female, ap
pears, to consist entirely in bulk- hence the Ve
nus a belles feffes of the present times is a Venus a
roffes fefa : Whereas, in a few years hence, fe
male beauty may coufift in being as lank as a grey
hound.
THE Invalid Pensioners of tie United States;
residing in Newhampfhire, are hereby in
formed that the second moiety of their annual pen
sion from the fourth da, of March 1789, ill be
paid by the fubferiber, on the fifth day of June m
ftant; and those who have not , received the fir
moiety of said ptnfion, are informed, that the fame
will ^ paid - ^- „
Qn every application let payments .e following
vouchers arc aeceSary • , ,
ift. The certifies v ~v:n by :he
4t-tbxt it, perci pc^eZ ^ ii, ^co ;.<! ri inva
lid, and ikertainiug the ium, to which, as frith, he
is annually intitled.
Zd. An affidavit agreeable wo the ^b ,wh:g form,
viz :=A. B. cartie before me one of the Justices
for the County of iri the State of New-
Hampshire, & made oath that he is the fame A.B.
to whom the original certificate in his possession was
given, of which the following is a copy (the certi
ficate given by the State to be recited.)
That he served in the (regiment or vefftl)
at the time he was difabhed, and that he now re
sides in the and County of and has
resided there for the last years, previous to
which he resided iri
In case an Invalid should apply for payment, by
an attorney, the said attorney must, besides the cer
tificate and oath before recited, produce a special
letter of an attorney, agreeable to the following
form* v
I, A.B. of In the County of and
State of do hereby constitute and appoint
C. D. of my lawful attorney, to receive in
my behalf of (the firft or second moiety) of
my annual pension as an Invalid of the U. States,
from the fourth day of March, 17'9° ' n teftimon,
whereof I have hereunto set mv hand and seal.
Applications of executors, or administrators,
must be accompanied with legal evidence of their
refpe&ive offices, and also of the time the Invalid
died, whose pension they may claim.
„J. WHIPPLE.
Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, June I, 1790-
DISTRICT of New-Hampshire, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given,That the
Diftria Court, which by Law was to be hol
den at Exeter in said Diftria on the third Tuefday
of June inst. will then be adjourned to the second
Tuefday of July next—of which all persons concern
ed will take notice and govern themselves accord
ingly. By orderof the Judge.>
JOHN .PARKER, M#^
PertJmoßtb, je,^ *79°°
For the benefit of tealid Fenfanefs.
3j?ned fl^A^/:^^™™"
Tn prefeJ-e of
Acknowledged by me,