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have life." The two young ladies, bro't
from their hiding place, were presented
to nim ; and the family, thus re-united,
believed their whole attention on their de
liverer. A dangerous wound he had re
ceived gave them opportunity to express
their zeal. They employed a notable
Surgeon ; they attended him by turns day
be amused, they entertained him with
Concerts of mutick. Upon the day fixed
for,his departure, the mother said to him,
" To your gooilnels, my Lord, we owe
SurJiCT and to you all that we have be
longs by rign; of war, bat we hope from
your Ggqal benevolence, that this flight
tribute will content you ;" placing upon
the t^ble.an iron coffer full of money.
'' What ill the fam ?" said the Cheva
lier. "My Lord," answered the, trem-
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of my daughters." "Take courage.
Madam." said the Chevelier, "your life
and their honor shall be secure while I
and night ; and when he could bear to
wer have an end !—Yet a fair compari
son may possibly make it doubtful whe
ther war, like the weather, ought not to
be reigned to the conduct of Providence
—Seldom are we in the right when we re
pine at its difpenlations. Thanks to hea
ven, war at present bears a less fayage
afpedt [Lord Kamii knew nothing of "Web
ern Expeditions''^ We /pare individuals#
and make war open the nation only. Bar
oarity and cruelty, give place to magni
wmity ; and soldiers are converted from
brutes into heroes.. Such wars give ex
ircife to the elevated virues of courage,
generosity, and disinterestedness, which
are always attended with confeioufnefs
of merit, and of dignity. Friendihip is
in peace cold and languid ; but in a war
for glory, exerts the whole fire of its en
thudata." His Lordship notes the fol-
deral days all the didreffes of cruelty and
avarice. No house escaped but that where
Chevalier Bayard was lodged. At his
entrance, the mistress, a woman of figure,
fell at his feet,and deeply fobbing, "Oh !
my Lord, save my life, save the honor
of Brefcia being taken by dorm, and a
bandoned to the soldiers, fuffered for fe-
bling, no more but 2500 ducats, all that
we have ;—bu; if more be necessary, we
will try our friepds.-="Madam" said he,
"I never, fyall forget your kiudnefs,
more precious in t my eyes than an hun
dred thousand ducats. Take back your
money, and depend ,alway, on me."
—" My good Lord, you kill me, to re
fufe this final! furri rotate it only as a
mark of your friendship jo my family."
-—" Well" said he, " since it will ob
lige y° u , I take the money ( but give me
the fitisfa&ion of bidding adieu, to your
amiable daughters." They came to him
with look, of regard and affe&ion, " La
dies," said he, " the impreffian you have
made on my heart will never, wear out.
What return to make I know not ; for
men of my profeffion are seldom opulentt
But here are tWo thousand site hundred
ducats, of which the g-nCrofity of your
mother has given me the diTpofa!. Ac
cept them as a marriage present ; and
may your happiness in marriage, equal
your merit.'' " Flower of Chivalry'
dried the mother, " may the God who
faffered death for us, reward you here and
hereafter." Can peace afford so ftyeet
a feene?
Bane of arts and jnduftrv —
rad many have been led to exclaim, Will
the world never be wife ! Will war ne-
lowing ANECDOTES.
IN the war carried on by Louis XII.
of France against the Venetians, the town
, THE following incident is still more
inurteGing ; —lt is ofa late date ; it hap-,
Jbened among our countrymen ; and will
or these reasons, .make the deeper im
pression. The scene of action was in
Admiral Haifa's ihip, at the siege of
Chandernagore, where Capt. Speke, and
his son, a youth of sixteen, were both oft
them wounded by the famb /hot. The I
From the Columbian Centinel.
rCTr_HOUGH" fays my Lod Kaims,
" War has been called, the
Xfcourge of Nations, the De
stroyer of the human race, the
Sentimental Repository.
hiftory is related by Mr, Ives, surgeon of
the fliip ; which follows in his own
words, only a little abridged. The Cap
tain, whose leg was hanging by the skin,
laid to the Admiral, " Indeed,,Sir, this
was a cruel shot, to knock do&n both
father and fon.', Mr. Watson's heart was
coo full for a reply ; he only ordered both
to be carried down to the forged. The
Cap ain,who was firft brought down, told
me how dangerously his Rilly had been
wounded. I Presently after the. brave
youth Himfelf appeared, with his eyes
overflowing with tears, not for; himfelf
but for his father. Upon my assurance
that his father's wound was hot danger
ous, he became calm ; but refufed to be
touched, until his father s wound ihould
be firft drefled. : Then poining to a iel
low-fufferer, '/ Pray, Sir, dress also that
poor man, who is groaning so sadly be
hde.me.V I told him, that the man had
already been taken care of ; and begged,
that 1 now might have.liberty to examine
his wound, fle Submitted ; and calmly
said. "Sir, I fear you must amputate a
bove the joints" I replied, "M- dear, I
mutt." He elafped his hands together ;
and lifting his eyes towards heaven, he
offered up the.following short but earnelt
petition : 'f Good God ! do thou enable
me to behave in my prefect circumstances
worthy of my father." He then told me
he was all submission. I performed the
operation, obove the joihfof the knee ;
and during the whole time the intripid
youth never spoke a word, nor uttered a
groan that could be heard ar the distance
of a yard, ft is easier to imagine than to
express the feelings of the father at this
time; but whatever he felt, tears were
the only expression. iPoth of them were
carried to Calcutta. The father was lodg
ed in the house of his brother-in-law ;
and the son was placed with me in the
hospital. For the firft week I gave com
fort to both,carrying good tidings to them |
cf one' another, feut, alas ! all th: good
Symptoms that had attended the young
man began to disappear. The Captain
perceived all in,my countenance ; and so
unwilling was h? to add to my dittrefs,
as leldom to Tpea| <about his son. One
time he said, " How long, my friend, do
you think my Billy may remain in a Rate
of uncertainty ?" I replied, that if he
survived the fifteenth day after the ope
ration, there would be frong hopes of
his recovery. On the thirteenth he di
ed ; and on the fifteenth, the Captain,
looking me fteadfaftly in the face, " Well
Ives, how fares it with my boy ?" Dis
covering the truth from my silence, he
cried bitterly, fquezed my hand, and
begged me to leave him for one half hour.
When I returned, he appeared, as he e
ver after did, perfectly calm and serene.
The excellent youth had be^n delirious
the evening before his death ; and at two
o'clock ifithe morning, he sent me a
note written with a pencil, of which the
following is a copy, "Mr. Ives will, con
" sider tife disorder a son inuft be in when
'' he is dying, andjsyet in doubt about
" his father.—lf Mr. Ives is not too bu
" fy to honor this note,which nothing but
" the greatest uneaffnefs could draw from
" me—The boy waits an answer." I im
mediately repaired to him ; and he had
Still fenfe.enough so know me. : He then
laid, " And is he dead ?"°—" Who my
" dear :"—“My father, fir." —"No my
I"love ; nor is he in any danger ;he is
'" almost , Well."—" I thank. God : I
'" am now Satisfied,& am ready to die,"
;He had a locked jaw, and was in great
pain, but I understood ever, word he ut
-1 tered. He begged my pardon for having
difturfcd'me at so early an hour ; and be
' fore the day was ended, he surrendered
, a life that deferred to be immortal. —So
I far my author : And I only add. Does
ipeace afford any feene that can compare
I with this in moving oof fympathetick
feelings ' - v #
ANECDOT
THE late Mr. K—, applied to an old
lady for help, which ,he , denied,
in consequence of his being an Jrmiman,
It is not true, fays the parson, for Iwas
horn in Charlftran. This removed her
Scruples, and he left her wondering, how
people could lie so!
—u ra^illvr d =— 11 —-
The public may be affur'd that the cn
ly amendments made in the faregoing
lines are an excha ge of the mo words
in italics and the otniflion of a third. The
arrangement of the couplets was by an
other hand. ,
In imitation of Dr. Swift By a Miss
of fix years of age, belonging to a family in
this town, —
TWO wooden diihes that are round,
The one is crack'd the other found ;
A feein of thread tied up in knots,
A difhclout by to wa(h the pots ;
A gown that hangs upon a nail,
With three Oita torn in the tail ;
An old chair that it very lame, ^;
A pudding dilh that's much the fame ;
An old bed lying on the floor
With two torn blankets &no more ; [es,
An old hearth quite worn out with scratch-
A final! fire almost buried with ashes ;
An old jack-knife without a handle,
A candlestick with half a candle ;
A case of drawers with two locks,,
And under them an old band-box ;
A roll of tobacco and a pipe,;
That grandma finokes in every night ;
My baby-house that is full of toys,
And London-dolls that make no noise ;
A pair offpedacles crack'd across the nose,
A dozen of oranges that have been froze ;
A pidure of a ship tied to a nail [fail ;
(With a boat by her fide) but she cannot
Another little pidure,,
^Hanging by my Skirt,
Os two little Cupids;
That ne'er did any hurt ;
A table full of books
That stands behind the door—
And now my dory's done,
Becaafe there is no more.
The FURNITURE of a BEDROOM—
Mr. Ranlet,
fygiving the following infantile produaion
a place in pour Gazetteer you will ob
lige A CUSTOMER.
CONGRESSfo^e UNITED STATES:
„ AT THE THIRD SESSION.
Begun And held at the City of Philadelphia,
on Monday the 6th of December, 1790.
An ACT providing for the un
lading of SHIPS or VESSELS, in
cases of Obftrudion by Ice.
WHEREAS it sometimes happens
that ships or veflels, are obftru&-
ed by ice in their passage to the-ports of
their destination, and it is necessary that
provision should be made for unlading
fuch'fhips or veflels ; . <
Be it enabled by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of A
merica in Congress assembled, That in all
cases where a ship or vessel Ihalf be pre
vented by ice from getting into the port
at which her;cargo is intended to be de
livered, it shall be lawful for the col
leftor of the diftrid, in which such ship
or vessel may be so obtruded, to receive
the report and entry of any such ship or
vessel, and with the consent of the naval
officer (where there is one) to grant a
permit or permits for unlading or landing
the goOdl, wares of merchandize import
ed in such ship or vessel, at any place
within his diftrift, which shall appear to
him to be most convenient and proper.
And be it further enabled. That the re
port and entry of such ship or vessel and
of tier. cargo, or any part thereof, and
all peffons concerned therein shall be un
der and fubjed to the fame rules, regula
tions,refriaions,penalties and provisions,
as if the said ship or vessel had arrived at
the port of her destination, and had there
proceeded to the delivery of her cargo.
Frederick A. Muhlenberg,
,Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice- President of the
U. States, and President of the Senate.
Approved, January 7thJ79l. ,
G. WASHINGTON.
; ._Prefident of the United States.
(True Copy)
THOMAS JEFFERSON,
Secretary of State.
Ex:t§r,7th Feb. 1791.
[Numb. 28 of Volume—s.
Fr.m Dr. PRIESTLEY': Leaures on Hifo
HISTORY tends to strengthen the
Sentiments of virtue, by the variety
ot views in which it exhibits the conduft
of Divine Providence, and points out the
hand of God, in the affairs of men.
For certainly whatever suggests to us the
idea of a di vine Being, either in the end
or means, if great events, must be favour
able to piety and virtue.
That the world has a governour or su
per intendant, is just as evident as that it
has a maker, For no person does any thing
without feme design, or without intend
ing to make some use of it. A telefccpc
is made to be used for the better diflin
guifhing distant obje&s, the eye itfelf for
feeing things at a moderate distance from
us, and no doubt, men, and the world, for
some end or other. ;.
And as^ the fame ^eing that made the
greatest things, made the imalleft things
also, all being parts of the tame system,
some use, no doubt, is of every thing, even
what appears to us the most inccnfiderable.
Something is intended by every thing
that happens, as well as every thing that
is made. But in little things a design is
not so apparent as in greater and more
striking things. Though therefore, the
hand of God be really in every thing that
happens, and that< is recorded in hi^ory,
our attention is more forcibly drawn to
great events, & especially in things which
happen in a manner unexpected by us.
Great and important events are frequents
ly brought about by seemly .trifling and
inconsiderable means : Or by means which
seem to have little or no relation to the
end—King James and both boufes of par
liament were relented from deflrudion, by
a letter which a, conspirator lent with a
view to save one of the house Os Lords for
whom he had a frienefhip; Who would
have imagined that the defirewhich Par
ty VIII, had to be divorced from his wife,
would have brought abou the reformation,
in England ? Ine indiferetion of a Por
tuguese prie ft,who would not give place to
one of the kings officers in Japan, and the
obstinacy of the jeluits, in refufing to give
up the house which a nobleman L;< given
them, when his son claimed it back again,
occasioned the extirpation of the Roman
Catholick religion in that country.
But what mod of all shews the hand of
Providence, and the weakness and short
sightedness of men, are great events being
brought apout contrary to the intention
of the persons who were the chief inftra
ments bf them, and by the very means
which were intended to produce a contra
ry event. ,
,Thus Athens, L'acedemon, Carthage and
Rome, and many other flutes have beer ru-.
ined by their own successes. Phillip 11, of
Spain, by his intolerable oppression, was
the cause of the freedom of the fttates of
Holland, Such has often been the con
sequence of wicked men overacting their
parts. Thus also the senate of Rome was
once saved by Cataline s making the fig
rial for. the massacre too soon.
With what fatisfaCtfop may a person,
who has an eye to divine Providence,
read such a passage as the following in
Machiavel, that Borgia had so well con
ducted his measures, that he must have
been mafterot Rome,and of the whole ec
clefiaflical state, after the death of his
father, but that it was impofible for him
to forefee that he himfelf would be at the
point of death at the very time that A
iexander his father finifhed his life.
They were pollened at anentertainment,
by a miflake of the waiter who served
them with wine which was to have
taken off their enemies.
It is no uncommon thing, in the hif
tory of divine Providence, that persons.
being known to have abilities, shall have
been the means of keeping them in ob
feurity, while others have been advanced
in confeqence of th^ir seeming infignifi
cance. If Augustus had shown any capaci
ty as a statesman or general,any greatness
of foul, or any thing in the least enterpri-.
sing, at firfthe would probably never have
been matter of the Roman Empire. But
while Cicero and Anthony, in their turns,
thought to make a tool of him, they, un
known to themselves, increased hi, power
and inßuence at the expense of theii ow^