The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-05-28 00:00:00, page 4

I CONDOLE with you; we have Toft a most dear
and valuable relation, but it is the will of God
and nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside,
when the foul is to enter into real life ; it is rather
an embrio Rate, a preparation for living ; a man is
not completely born until he be dead: Why then
shall we grieve that a new child is born among the
immortals ? A new member added to their happy
society ? We are spirits. That bodies should be
lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us
in acquiring knowlege,or doing good to our fellow
creatures, is a kind and benevolent ad of God—
when they become unfit for these purposes and af
ford us pain inffead of pleasure—in stead of an aid,
Become an incumbrance, and answer none of the
intentions for which they were given, it is equally
kind and benevolent that away is provided by
which we nny get rid of them. Death is the way.
We ourselves prudently choose a partial death. In
some cases a mangled, painful limb, which cannot
be restored, we willingly cut off—He who plucks
out a tooth, parts with it freely, since the pain goes
with it ; and he that quits the whole body, parts at
once with all pains and poffibilties of pains and
diseases it was liable to, or capable of making him
fuffer.'
Our friend and we are invited abroad on a party
of pleasure—that is to left forever—His chair was
firft ready^ and he has gone before us—We could
not all conveniently start together, and why fhouid
you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to
follow, and we know where to find him.
Adieu. JL F.
My trees for you, ye artless tribe,
Shall store of fruit preserve ;
Oh, let me thus your friendfhip bribe!
Come feed without reserve.
Let not the harmless red-breast fear,
Domestic bird, to come
And seek a fare asylum here',
With one that loves his home.
Wither the vocal thrush repairs;
Secure the linnet sings,
fle goldfinch dreads no Rimy snares
To clog her painted wings.
gad Philomel! ah quit th, haunt,
Yon distant wood among,
And round my friendly grotto chau nf
Thy fweetly.plaintive song.
For you these cherries I protest,
To you these plumbs belong ;
Sweetis the fruit that you have pick'd.
But Tweeter far your long.
Let, then, this league betwixt us made.
Our mutual interests guard ;
Mine be the gift of fruit and (hades.
Your songs be my reward.
No fchooMboy rude, to mifchief prone,
E'er thews his rudd, face,
Or twangs his bow, or hurls a ftoae.
In this fequefter'd place.
Amidst the cool translucent rill.
That trickle down the glade.
Here bathe your plumes, l^re drink your fill,
And revel in the shade.
Here freely bo, from spray to spray,
Or weave the mossy nest ;
Here rove and sing the live long day,
At night here sweetly rest.
From DoAor Franklin, on the death of his Brother
Mr. John Franklin, to Miss Hubbard.
AGAIN the balmy zephyr blows,
Freffi verdure decks the grove.
Each bird with vernal rapture glows.
And turtes his notes to love.
Ye gentle warblers, hither fly.
And ffiun the noon-tide heat ;
My (hrubs a cooling shade supply.
My groves a fafe retreat.
FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS CENTINEL.
SEAT OF THE MUSES.
DEAR CHILD,
A PASTORAL SONG.
ORIGINAL LETTER,
MISCELLANT.
0% bear the Philofofars of cur country sung by
its Poets, rr.uft be gratifying to the ear of e very
American Patriot, Thus Jings our elegant bard,
Barlow—,'
THE IMMORTAL FRANKLIN.
Mr. B—y, the gentleman alluded to, invited all
the corps to dine with him on Thursday fe'night,ex
cept the captain, and as this was a palpable insult,
the captain was not a little rallied upon the negled
atthe mefs-room,where he had often in Sykes's Ryle
said, 'he should soon make the farmer's wife one of
the regimental followers.' It, however, so happened
on the day previous to the dinner, that the captain
received a letter from the lady, intimating, that if
he would attend at the garden-gate at half past ten
on the Thursday night, he ffiould be conduced by a
faithful Abigail to a much more delicious entertain
ment than eating and drinking could afford; This
happy circumßance the captain broadly hinted at
Wednesday's mess, where he said that they would
drink with the husband, while he conversed with the
wife.
SEE on yon darkening height bold Franklin tread,
Heaven's awful thunders rolling o'er his head ;
Convolving clouds the billowy ikies deform,
And forky flames emblaze the blackening form.
See the defeending streams around him born,
Glance on his rod, and with his guidance turn ;
He bids conflicting Heavens their blasts expire,
Curbs the fierce blaze, and holds the imprifon'd fire.
No more, when folding dorms the vault o'erfpread,
The livid glare shall strike thy race with dread ;
Not ' towers nor tenses, Juddering with the found.
Sink in the flames, and spread deftrudion round.
His daring toils, th! threatening blasts that wait,
Shall teach mankind to ward the bolts of fate ;
The pointed ft?el o'er-top the afeending spire,
And lead o'er trembling walls the harmless fire;
In his glad fame while distant worlds rejoice,
Far as the lightningsfhine,or thunders raise their voice
The usual siege was laid, and such assiduity pre
served that it could not escape the eye of the farmer.
But depending on his wife's constancy, he did not
forbid the military advances of his constant guest,
holding it as a maxim,that the woman who was not
proof against the frippery parade of regimental cox
combs, was unworthy the care of a man of sense.
In process of time, however, the lad, who despised
the addresses of the captain, and really loved 'her
family, took an opportunity of Rating the case to
her husband, in consequence of which a plan was
laid the execution of which proved nearly fatal to
the lover.
All things were prepared, the corps dined with
the farmer,and the captain, true to his appointment
met the Abigail, who conduced him to a closet ad
joining her mistress's bed-room,defifed him not to
fay a word, but undress and enjoy in the next room
all he fought for. Transported at the ideas, and
laughing at the fools below stairs, he was soon under
the bed-cldaths,and fiercely there, when he received
such a pressing hug, as obliged him to cry out for
help in the tones of a loud distress.
The alarm was given—the company fan up fairs
with lights and entering the chamber, fond the
Captain faft locked in the armsef a great (he dancing
bear, the proprietor of the beast holding the chain
of his property on the left hand fide of the bed
stead.
The ift buftnefs was to release the poor lover from
the embraces of his huging mistress, which with the
assistance of the keeper, was soon effected,but at the
expence of three broken ribs, andaviolent contusion
on the temple,which the bear made with the buckle
that muzzled her jaws.
The Situation of the lover's mind may be conceived
but not described —he got home in a Rate 'only to
be envied by aman who is just going to be hanged,'
and, unable to bear what he had a right to expea
from the mefs,has given in his resignation with intent
to retire on the half pay lift. - ™
The Squeezes, and they were not of the most gentle
kind,which he received in thisCupidean enterprize,
have to injured his health, that there are but Imall
hopes of recovery. The farmer and the matter of
the dancing bear, therefore Rand in an aukward
predicament,as indiftments are lodged agaiuft both.
The belward,howevcr, it is faid,means to prosecute
THE example lately made of the younger Sykes,
has not operated in point of deterring others,
as thejury intended; for a young braggadocia, in a
regiment not twenty days march from Chatham,be
ing hospitably entertained by a neighbouring gen
tleman farmer, formed a deliberate plan of seducing
his wife.
From the "VISION of COLUMBUS."
CRIM. CON. IN A NEW WAY.
FROM A LONDON PAPERS
AN EXTRACT.
the captain for an attempt on the chastity ofhis
bear.
All the Real Estate of the said deceas'd,
including the Widow's Thirds in Reversion.
(^Conditions sf Sale to he known at time and placet
SARAH MAN, Adminifiratrix.
Epforn, lg?h May, 1790.
OY licence from the Hon. Phillips
°White, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county
of Rockingham,will be Sold, at Public Vendue, on
Monday the 14th day of June next, at two of the
clock in the afternoon, at the late dwelling-hcufe of
James Man, of Epsom, deceased,
EARLY in life, Swift was once preaching an
affine sermon in Ireland, and in the course of
it was very severe upon the counsel for pleading for
people against their own conscience. After dinner,
a young barrister, not knowing whom he had to
deal with, thought he would be even with the par
son ; and having said a great many sweet-things a
gainst the Clergy which the Dodor took nd notice
of, at length said, " that if the devil was to die, he
did not doubt but a parfcn might be found who
would preach his funeral sermon." " Yes, fir,"
fays Swift, " I would willingly take that office my
felf, and give the devil his due, as I did his children
this morning."
TICKETS in Ammonujick Bridge
LOTTERY, to be fold at Lamson's office—
where the scheme may be seen.
^ A Lift of Prizes will he publifad in this paper
when drawn, Exeter, May 21.
This matter was attempted to be hushed up ; but
the Abigail, in the true style of her profeffion, told
it as a great secret to another Abigail,and so it g<x
round.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given.
That a petition hath been preferred to the
General Court by the Sele&menof Prote&werth,
representing the badnefe of the Roads through said
town, and therefore pray they may be empowered
to tax all the lands in said Town, for repairing said
Roads.
Upon which petition the General Court ordered
a day ofhearing, on the second Tuefday of the next
Session, and that in the mean time they publifii
the fubßance of said petition and order, three
weeks fucceffivelv,prior to the fitting of said Court,
in one or the Newbampfoire Newspapers that any
person or persons may then appear and (hew cause,
if any the, have, why the prayer thereof may not be
granted. —
Attest: Joseph Pearson, Sec'ry.
A COW ivith calf, to be exchanged
for a good New Milch Cow, and the odds given,
if gny. Enquire of the printer. May 21.
^ j u ^ published, and ready for sale
at this office, The AMERICAN SONGSTER,
being a collodion of the most celebrated ancient and mo
dern Songs.
ST-ATEOF NE WHA MPSHI RE —RCCKINGHAM, SS.
^The proprietors meeting, which
was ho den in laid Effingham the 29th day of Oc
tober last, stands adjourned to the First Monday ia
June next, at the house of Wiarb Drake, Esq.
at 2 o'clock, p. M, on said day.
Wm. Taylor, Proprietor's. Clerk.
Effingham, 6th May, 1790,
CASH and Writingpaper given for
clean Linen and Cotton and linen RAGS, at
Ranlet's Office, Main .Street, Exeter.
NOTICE is hereby given, to the
nonresident proprietors and inhabitants of
Effingham, that there i- s a tax of One - Penny per
acre levied cn all the unimproved lands in said
Effingham, to be paid in Labouf, at 3s. per day,
for the porpofe of repairing Roads in said town,
at any time prior to the firft day of September next
—and if not paid then to the Selectmen, or the
Collector, fc much oftheir lands will be adverti fed
and foldas will pay said tax and incidental charges;
Joseph Drake, Colleaor.
BLANKS, of various kinds, printed
agreeably to the new form, jotfale at this $«•
Secretary's Office, March 10, 1790.
STATE OF NEWHAMPSHIRE.
State of Newbampfoire— Strafford —ff.
ANECDOTE.