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Both flespirg and waking,
Still trembling and quaking.
Nor moon, night, nor morning from dreaming
can keep j
Och, honey I ’tis vexing.
And cursed perplexing,
So ofc to be waken’d before one’s asleep !
Now come, my sweet angel, be after complying,
Believe me I (wear on the word of a man.
I’ll try to adore thee until I am dying,
Aye faith and much longer than that if I can.
So sweet little devil,
No more be uncivil,
Och ! prithee, my jewel with Phelim agree :
But if after this tender.
You do not surrender,
Bad luck to my flioul if I’ll ever have thee.
From the European Magazine-
Henry Lord Holland,
HEN" he was Secretary of
State, a gentleman yery intimate with
him recommended a friend to him
in order to reform the customs, &c.
of whom he spoke in the highest
terms for his probity, his disinterest
edness, and abilities. Lord H
liftentd to him for some tiqpe,& then
dryly answered him, u He had no
time for making experiments.” The
other ftil! pressing his fuir, he replied,
“ why, to speak out to you upon the
fubjeCt, the character you have given
your friend won’t do for me; I must
have a man who will work under me
like an engine, so as to do just: what
is pointed out ior him ; but one of
these very upright and intelligent
characters are generally very imprac
ticable fellows, and Fil have nothing
to fay ta them.”
ONE moonfhiny night, about two in the
morning,
I wander’d all alone in the dark ;
Not a creature was witlune, but Flora, whole
/corning.
On my poor hidden heart made a visible mark.
Then lift to my ditty,
So woeful and pretty,
Och thunder ’ if ever a fiction was true,
You’ll be after declaring
My case is pad bearing,
So grating to m?—tho’ diverting tJ you.
My name, let me tell you, is Phelim O’Blarney,
Just come all the way fom the town of Tralee ;
My father was born by the Lake of Kiilarney,
Aye faith on my fhoul many years before me;
Nor need you to wonder,
Tis not the firft blunder
That Nature Us made in a comical whim;
For Sense might have told her
Dad ne’er had been older.
If Phelim his son had been born before him.
I’ve got a fine houfe—Och ! you ne’er saw its
marrow—
Seat of the Muses.
That only wants building to make it com pleat;
So to it let’s fly, like a bow from an arrow,
’Twill prove a tare place for onr ancestor’s feat 1
Then come, my kind jewel,
No longer be cruel,
I long to enjoy the sweet galloping din ;
Like gems in a calket,
We’ll ride in the b fleet,
If the coach be set off ere we go to the inn.
By St. Patrick! y ou’ll ne’er find me fibbing and
swelling ;
Bad luck all braggers ! I hate such a plan ;
Your swaggering puppies may after be telling,
How long their defeent before Adam’s began.
Before the creation,
My fam’d generation,
Who liv’d in the world by themselves all alone,
Invented pota oes,
Whole wonh now so great i.%
WeTriflimen call them roft beef without bone.
Then let us be jogging along to our mansion.
You shall walk by my fide while I follow be
fore ;
My head’s so contradedby Cupid’s expansion,
Tho I’ve said all I cap, yet I’ll fay somewhat
more ;
As hot burning cinder
Turns eloutsinto tinder,
The flame cf your coyness so trig idly glows.
That it has, roy sweet creature,
v From Phclim’s good nature
Extorted a secret that ev’ry one knows.
Arrah faith & the force of my paflion so great is,
No mother’s son dares tell to Phelim be lies,
When he foletnnly (wears to fhebeen and Pota
toes,
He prefers a good feaft on his Flora’s bright
eyes:
PHELIM', COURTSHIP,
AN IRISH SONG,
From the Republican Journal.
* l Devils 'with Devils darn'd, firm concord hold;
Men only dis agree." •
Milton.
HROUGH the whole train of evils,
and the long catalogue of human calamities,
War, undoubtedly is the most deplorable.
From the day that the firft son of our progen
itors embrued his hands in the righteous blood
of the second, hath war and bloodshed pursu
ed rhe human race. The hiftory of mankind
is crimsoned over with blood, and seems to.
blafh at the horrid tale it relates. Various
have been the caofes that have infligated na
tions to commence and prosecute wars. — it is
observable however, that most generally have
they prevailed under monarchical govern
ments. —To gratify the ambition of some
haughty prince, or the avarice of feme vile
despot, have flowed oceans of human blood.
— Asia, Africa, Europe, and even America
have by this unnatural mean, fertilized their
foils. And Europe at the present exhibits a
feene horrid to humanity. A league of de
spots, a horde of crowned Robbers, have un
ited to hunt down and devour the poor devot
ed citizens of France ; and for what ? Why
are the fertile plains of France converted into
a {laughter hoofe for Europe ? What juflfia
ble cause can be afligned for this horrid com
bination of cut throats ?—Have the citizens
of France disturbed the tranquility of Europe ?
—Haye thy offered violence or insult to the
haughty Briton, the jealous Spaniard, the
mercenary German, rhe ftvpid Dutchman,
or the Imperial where of all the Ruflias ? No
such pretence is made. Let the full, small
voice of truth be heard,&it will declare in the
face of Heaven and Earth, that the people-cf
France, after having for many centuries
groaned under the oppressive yoke of Tyran
ny, resolved to meliorate their condition, by
changing the mode and principles of their
government, and in its place, to adopt one
better faited to the present flare of civiliza
tion ; more ccnfonant to their ideas of gov
ernment, ar.d more wifely calculated to fe
oure and perpetuate the bleffmgs of peace,
liberty and happiness to the nation. And
that they had a right so to do, is a doftrinc
which will remain eternally true, when the
pompous Mr. Burke, and the other tranfat
faniick advocates of slavery and their infa
mous philippicks, fnall be loft in the deferr
ed oblivion that awaits them. But this
however is the mighty crime, which drew on
that devoted people the vengeance of Europe.
Tyranny felt the {hock, and its advocates
fearing the event, cried, Havock, and let
flip the dogs of war.”
This is a war cf a most Angular nature.
It is a war that has neither conquest or glory
for its object. The combined powers pretend
neither of them ; no infraction of treaties cr
invasion cf territories. France had peacea
bly set about mending her condition. She
requested not the aid or interference of any
other nation ; foe was competent to her own
concerns. Had the objeft of France been to
forge new chains or {hackles for mankind,
the kings and princes of Europe now at war
with them, would not only have been at
peace with them,but would have gratuitioufly
furniihed them with means and men to carry
on and complete the inglorious woik. But
for their own honour and that of human na
ture, their objeft was very different; they
resolved to be free, and in the broad day of
Europe, with conscious integrity, and with
a boldncfs which the love of Freedom only
infpircs, they made the folcmn declaration.
This, and not the death of Louis XVL
which was oecafioned by his own perfidy,
enraged the despots around them. The bones
of Louis XVL would have flepr as peaceably
as any of his ancestors, had the people of
France contented to pot their necks under
the yoke of another tyrant ; this the conduit
of the combined powers most fully evinces.
It is this principle & not the defund monaich
that ftimulatcs to the war. With equal pro
priety might England now fight to reanimate
the mouldering dust of Charles I. as that of
Louis XVL He is removed fat beyond the
reach of human efforts, of national exertions,
and the only question now at issue, is, whe
ther Twenty Six Millions of people now
comprehended within the limits of the late
kingdom of France, have a right to form a
social compad for themfeJves r and live under
such a government, as they or a majority of
them shall think proper to adopt ; or whether
they shall be compelled to accept from the na
tions which surround them, a government,
formed in their combined wisdom,. and ten
dered in their concentrated kindness and hu
manity. This is the momen Ous question now
agitating in Europe, and for the decifiop of
which an appeal is made to arms. It is a
question which involves in its confcquences
tne dearest interests of humanity. Nor is
France alone a party ; all mankind are con
cerned in the iffue'. Eftablifo this principle,
and the boasted freedom of man dwindles to
an imperceptible point ; establish this princi
ple, and farewell, a long eternal farewell to
publick tranquility and private happiness ;
loft is the dignity of human nature. Man
fiading himfdf degraded bclw the brute
Solomon who is called the wisest
Prince from hh great knowledge of
the female heart ; attributes this
vice to that fex,yet although surroun
ded by almost an innumerable circle
of Ladies. I fancy was he now in
America, I could introduce his Ma
jesty one of this loquacious breed
whose continual tattle WjOuld fatisfy
the most inquisitive ear.
As every one looks upon himfetf
with tdo much indulgence while s he
judges his own thoughts and actions;
which carries him, Ihrinks info Inmfelf, snd
forgets that he was originally formed after
the image of his maker; circumscribed are
the limits which bound his views ; his now
no longer daring genius, fcrars not beyond the
polluted atmosphere of his royal ma fl er ; in
dustry loses its spur, and ambition its ftimu
luj—The acquifition'of property and the ap
probation of his fellow mortals are objeds
placed beyond his reach ; and as he has no
thing to exped, all things become indiffer
ent. These are some of the dreadful conse
quences which flow from that detestable fyft.
•em of war and bloodshed, by which France
now bleeds at every pore. And can we, my
fellow citizens of America, be indifferent
fpedators the important conflift. Are we
become so fhamefully felfifh, that hugging
ourselves in the armr of pur own betign gov
ernment, and enjoying he blcflings of pub
lick tranquility and internal prosperity, «c
are totally unconcerned at the fate of our fel
low creatures ? Fqi bid it, humanity. Genius
of Freedom forbid it •
While we observe the most ftrift ard rigid
principles of neutrality towards the bellige
rent powers, let us afford that diflreffed and
afflifted people the consolation derived from
fympethetick hearts. Let ns breathe forth
the ardent with, the fervent prayer that the
Almighty Being, who in the days of durknefs
and tribulation appeared for our infant repub
lick, may at this critical conjunfture eppear
also for our allies. They are fighting the
cause of all mankind,ar.d ofconrfe all are con
certed in the issue. Not France alone, but
every nation under Heaven is more or less in
t ere fled. Not the present generation, but
posterity, generations yet unborn, will reap
the bleflings or rue the misfortunes which at
tend the issue. On the eve,nt depends it whe
ther kings, with all the lonccmitant evils
that attend them, slavery, blocclhed, rapine,’
luxury, diflipation, and every Jpecies of vice
shall continue to be the scourge and curie of
mankind, or whether the political milenium
shall now commence, when man (hall assume
his native dignity, and aflert his rank on the
scale of beings ; the rights of human natme
be clearly underflood and fully enjoyed ; go
vernments become mild and friendly to hu
man happiness ; liberty of conference every
where secured ! science and literature call oft
their manacles ; national prejudices and ani
mosities reafe ; the clouds of ignorance which
tyranny hath caused to hang and hover over
more than half the globe, be dispersed ; reli
gion, with its benign influence, spread thro’
the habitable world, ard the grand f?mily of
mankind, glowing with fraternal affeftion,
live together as become children of the ,Uni
versal Parent,
ed, ah oftentatiojn of wff, a vanity of
being thought in the fecretsof others,
or a desire of gratifying any of those
difpofirions of mind in those persons
with whom we cohverfe. I think the
latter is the most fryitfpl source of
tailing. —A Her is always to be de
•fpifed and I think a taikr is much
more to be despised. Tailing contains
not only the eftence of lying but a
clandestine inclination to produce
the effeCt of which lying js but the
cause.
FThe Iniquity of Scandal and Detraction,
w ERE all the vexations of life
added together we ihould find one
constant source from which they ori
ginate to be tailing or calumniating
and reproaching our neighbour.
fence.
It generally takes its rife either
from an ill will to mankind, a private
inclination to make ourselves esteem-
T here is Icarce a man living who
is not guilty in some degree of this
praCtice ; though at the fame time,
however we treat one another yet all
content in {peaking evil of those per
fans who are notorious for this of-
For the American Herald of Liberty.
Evening Guest, No. 11.
HE Empress queen being at
one of her palaces, not far from Vi
enna, received a message from an old
woman, aged ioB, whoduring many
years had not failed to. present her
felf on holy Thursday to have her
feet washed. The Empress, touched
with the message, another fentimenc
of the good woman, enquired where
she lived, and the next day taking
air drove to the little village where
her cabin was ; here Ihe not only left
her carriage, but entered into the
lowly mansion of her affeftionate fub
jeCt, where Ihe found her on a little
bed attended with all the diseases in
cident to old age. I am told, said
the amiable Empress, that you are
uneasy at not being able to come and
fee me, 1 cannot give you ftrengih,
that only is in the power of God,
but 1 do as much as I eftn, [ am come
to fee you. The Empress Raid feme
lime, and on going away ’eft a sum
of money to procure such necessaries
as were most proper for her age and
weakness. In this, theEmprefs fbohe
as a woman -of consummate good
ness.
Notice is hereby given
—That some years past I did consti
tute and. appoint George Lewis Haines
of Epping, in the County of Rock
ingham, to do business for me by a
power of attorney—-Now Ido hereby
revoke (aid power, and do forbid his
affing or doing any business for me,
by virtbe of the fame, as T shall not
allow any business done, by ^m afuer
the date hereof.- James Haines,
■ZanbonmriSycloberaft, 17^.-' as Yon?’
Attest, Simeon Haines.
Wanted a Lad, about
16 or 17 years of age, to serve as an
apprentice to the Cabinet-Making
Business. Enquire of >
JOSEPH SMITH.
Exeter, Sept. 23.
RA G ~S7~
Cath; Writingpaper,
or Books will be exchanged for clean
Cotton and Linen RAGS,
at H.Ranlet’s Printing-Officej Main,
Streep
and as very few would be thought
guiky of this abominable pradice,
ihould f offend in pointing out the
persons who are aimed, at but f fear
this fligma will fall on too great a
number.
Mankind are capable cf none but
a Relative hajpinels and this relation
is founded on the mutation of dif
pofitionsjfo that when a difeord takes
place between two Neighbours the
whole wheel of society is weakened $
and yet how many do we fee contin
ually venting their malice on some
object, perhaps those who are not e
qually criminal with themselves, how
often do we hear them calumniating
their greatest benefactors or dearelt
friends ; and when every other ob
ject has felt a lash from their venom
ous tongues like Xerxes, they will
weep that they have no more cha
racters to de ft roy.
But Mr. Primer, I should not have
chcfen this lubjcCt for an evening
companion, had not I lately felt the
direful conftquences of tailing ; —•
however, like the great advertary of
Mankind after deceiving these tatlers
under a garb cf honesty ; at lenotii
will leave them in the lurch, so they
after treading awhile with more cau
tious steps will in an unguarded mo
ment diicover their cloven foot.
Anecdote of Maria Theresa.