The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-04-18 00:00:00, page 4

The hero, us'd to arms and war,
Still covets what he fees afar,
He wins by force,or gains by Health,
And riots on his plunder'd wealth.
The merchant spreads the ftutt'ring
fails,
And/tyufo his all to fortune's gale ;
On gain and gold, his heart is bent.
And fells his toys at cent per cent.
But stop—there's fome,l dare engage 9
Against the author vent their rage ;
But tell them plain, nor mince nor
mump it,
If they dont like it, they may lump it.
? Were we to search from pole to pole,
Base envy reigns in every foul ;
No age, nor sex is from it free,
Then how can each one happy be ?
Phyicians still with arts more fly,
Make men believe that they must die:
Their case is fad — to gain their health,
Some lose theirlives,but all theirwealth
The miser hogs his golden treasure,
Counts o'er his gain with fearful pleas
ure;
But while he hoards his shining pelf.
He lives in Want, and starves himfelf.
The mean as gaily dreft as he ;
But 'tis a right,tho' tools declare it, [it.
These that win gold have right to wear
Wealth covets what it cannot reach :
The poor will strive toape the rich ;
Tho at once 'tis prov'd by demonftrati-
Tis best for each to keep his Ration, [on,
The tradesman fays, histaft i hard,
To work all day and yet be flarv'd;
While the rich farmer lives at case,
And thinks & deesjuft what he please.
The farmer fays, mechanic's fore
Mast all be lazy, 'caufe they're poor ;
While I must labour, toil and care;
Those lazy rogues have time to spare.
Here's at,e; dr, if 'you don't like it,
lump it — being after! description of
the manners of the times.
FNVY ! thou torment of the mind;
• The bane of £1 the human kind,
Be',, high arid low,both rich & poor,
May find this depion at their door.
The maid grows weary of her life,
And longs to be a married wife,
The wife still wishes to be free,
And taste the fwcets of liberty.
The husband troubled with a wife,
Leads on a difeontented life;
Concluding that, 'tis best by far,
To live and die a bachelor.
The bachelor with frozen heart,
Still ads a dull and ftopid part;
Though beauty's lovely in his eyes,
His Hoggish foul can't win the prize.
The gentleman of mean eflate,
Who's nought but nonsense in his pate;
Still thinks himfelf above his betters,
And flights the man of feafe & letters.
The lawyer views with wifhful eyes,
And seeks to win the golden prize;
To gain thepoint, his boat he ffeers,
And lets his neighbours by the ears.
The case is loft—the client swears
His cause was good—he raves & tears;
But fees too late, his case was evil,
The poor envy the rich man's wealth ;
The sick the persons who have health;
The rich despise the frugal poor,
And wish to place them all Kill lower.
The coxcomb struts, and frets to fee
And fends all lawyers to the devil.
SEAT of the MUSES.
From th NORWICH PACKET.
-^ ANECDOTE.
A YOUNG Lady of fortune was
Lately afed=tfThe- intended tq
marry a certain person ; the inquirer
insinuating at the fame time that he
was poor.—" I suppose," replied the
Lady, " you think money can make
the gentleman ; if you do as I have
money enough, I fhaTl make him one,
by putting him in possession of it, and
my person too."
t GOOD man is never so happy as
H when employed in a&s of bene
volence. He is ever seeking for some
dillreffcd obje& to relieve, or some
unhappy friend to console. There is
no corner of this world, however re
mote, where misfortune is unknown ;
nor is there a heart so void of sensibil
ity, but what have some moments of
defection and sorrow. The libertine
and drunkard have their hours of feri
oofnefs, reflection, and remorse. The
most cheerful imagination is fore
times eclipsed by intervals of sadness.
The pious and philofophick mind is at
times obliged to yield to the foft ef
fuffions of feminine sorrow. Every
man has some tendetnefs in his nature,
some we^k spot exposed to wounds}
and when those tender places receive
an injury, the pain is severe. Cruel
is the wretch that would l^fcerate those
delicate spots, rendered more acutely
sensible by misfortune. Were we all;
possessed of gentle fapathetic feel-!
ings, those wounds would not be
giv*n. But there is no person so up
right in his conduct, and so perfe&ly
agreeable in his manners that lives
always free from injuries. There ever
will be some unkind, some envious
being, ready to wound the feelings of
the just. Few,very few,are there who
live unenvied & undifquicted by the
uncandid and unfeeling ; arid often is
the human heartin pain from ungen
tle language, or uncivil treatment
from those persons who are the imme
diate fubj^as of its beneficence. Wasl
there no reward for virtue but what!
this world bestows, small would be the;
inducements to walk in her paths.l
Tbo' some part of her way is rough
and irksome to the feeble traveller,yet
it will lead him,if he continues in it,
to peace and pleasantness. Though
the philanthropick heart would be de
prived of half the pleasure of dong
good, at the reflexion of having ex
cited feelings of dependency in those
who have been obliged by him, yet it
is becoming in every one who has ex
perienced favours, to fuel grateful to
wards the generous beftower.
The truely benevolent man is a&u
ated by the impulses of a voluntary &
disinterested heart. The hope of en
comiums and rewards has no influence
over his adieus. His charity& kind
ness is not cohfined to his family, to
his friends, to his neighbourhood, or
to the town wherein he resides. Mis.
fortune, wherever he meets her, is duly
noticed by him. The object of dis
tress, whoever it is, that falls in his
way, feels the influence of his un
bounded goodness. In him all the
children of want and unhappiness find
a friendly benefactor. It is his pride
and darling amusement to comfort the
aching, affixed heart—to encourage
the despairing and disappointed—to
to heal the sick and painful—to kind
ly and secretly admonish and bring
back those who wander from the pah
of propriety and rectitude—to cheer,
sind enliven the dejeded spirits of the
gloomy and difeontented —to refpeft
the aged and pitythe infirm,and ' ren
der more supportable their cares and.
burdens. And his foul recoils and is
unhappy at the idea of mortifying the
unfortunate, injuring the delicate fe
male,or of wounding the feelings that
are foftened by sensibility.
Such a worthy character ought to
be universally applauded ; such
an heart oniyerfally esteemed ; and
such ads of benevolence ought to ex
cite universal gratitude. ____
k rom Thomas' Massachusetts Spy, &'•
The NEIGHBOUR, N°%
"On eagles' swings immortalfeandaufy,
Wbilevirtnous actions are but born to die"
O HERE are a set of beings who
are excellent at the business of
mif-underftandirig, mis-interpreting,
and mis-representing their neigbours'
thoughts, words and axions—making
it their conflant employ to raise falfe
reports, thereby to fink the reputation
of their fellowmen ; many ways do
they devise for the purpose —feme will
deal in malicious insinuations,in sinis
ter and covert refleaions, declaiming
their calumnies and slanders in such
ambiguous words and half jointed sen
tences, as will leave ^offe to be gues
sed therefrom than they dare express ;
when they introduce a flor, it will be
gin with a 'tis whifpere?,or an / have
beard, Uc. and never speak in praise,
or even fetond a commendation ofany
one, but with a view to smooth the
way to some malicious remark on the
party's defers concluding still with an
Ob? or an 1 could tui/h one thing amend
ed—which one thing mind, they in
tend (hall blur all his former com
mendations=and in case they are ac
quainted with the person, or character
of the person they wilh to traduce—
they will then have recourse to riddles,
intimating that the, could tell flrange
/lories if they would, and 'hen for fear
"of inventing a lie when they might
probably be deteded, will cry but he
is m, friend, ^ therefore I mus bold m,
peace. Such officious Rory telling tale
bearer# are a pest to government, cor
verfation, societies, relations and fa
inilies ; for mankind being more apt
to believe evil than good report, a
doubtful accefation will often leave a
Hain behind that will prove an indel
ible injury to the party accused.
AS a noble Lord and Gentleman
were (landing together, a boy
came along leading a calf with both
hands. Says the Lord to *e gentleman
“ you shall fee me make that boy let
go his calf." He then 'advanced tow
ard the bo, expelling that he would
pull off hit hat ; but the boy took no
notice of him. " Sirrah, fays his
Lordffiip, "do you not know who'
fam ?" "Yu mi^rd," anfwerid
the boy, 1< Ifyour Lordfai, wll pleafc
to come and hold the calf, I <will
pull off my hat to you.",
— - EPTGRAM?
Brother Bucks, your glasses drain—
:om, 'tis strong and fpirkling red:
er fear ! 'twon't reach my brain—
" No, that's true—but 'twill your
bead."
Th Wisdom ^Contentment.
ALL mankind would make afgure.
To aspire to stations above us,
is a maxim univerfall, adopted ; yet,
perhaps, the truest wisdom and the
surest happiness is, to cultivate well
the rank in which we are born, for
why should any man covet to raise and
diftinguiCh himfelf farther than his
real well being may make necessary?
Fuller, in his holy state, relates an
anecdote of an husbandman, who
claimed kinglhip with Robert Groft
head, B^op of Lincoln, and thereup
on requeued from him ah office. "Cou
fin,'" laid the Bilhop, ^ if your cart be
broken, I'll mend it ; if your plow be
old, I'll give you a new one,& feed to
sow your land: But a husbandman I
found you,& an husbandman I'll leave
you." The Bishop thought it kinder
(ar it should seem) to serve him in his
way, than to take him out of his way:
And perhaps Stephen Duck, the
threfher,had been better provided for,
if, initead of being firft penfibned,and
afterwards ordained, he had been en
dowed with ten acres of land,and fuf
fered to thresh on. By turning the
laborious thread into an inactive
clergyman, they brought lunacy firft,
and then suicide, u p on a man, who
might ottierwifehave enjoyed himfelf
% with two cows and- a pig, and.ended
his dav* in serenity and case.
From the NORWICH PACKET.
The RECLAIMER.
ANECDOTE.
PIRACY.
Charleston,[£C.] FEB z§.
On Thurlda, arrived here in the Sloop
Three Sifters,from New-Providence,
Mr. DaviJPorter, of the Scb'rPcty,
of Baltimore, on bis return to that
pert. The folly-wing account taken
from the Bahama Gazette, will dif
cloje the dijaftrous events which bejel
him, and bis crew.
" FRIDAY, November 11, 1791,
, failed from .Baltimore inthe
Schooner Polly, belonging to Mr.
James Clarke, merchant ct the said
place, bound for New-Orleans. O1
the i6ih, cleared the Capes, and until
the 19th, laid to, having a severe gale
6 f wind at N.W. On the 26th made
Cat-ffland, and 6 P.M. hove to, with
the Ship's head to the eastward, wind
blowing heavy at N. by W. Atz P.
M. on the morning following, 'was al
armed by the veffcl striking. To my
surprise, found ourselves ann'dft a rerf
of rocks and breakers, the right dark
and a heavy fta from the N.W. Some
times the vessel almol lbare, but with
the lift of the sea drove over the red
in three quartets of an hour, when an
anchor was let go. We new tried the
pump, and in an hour freed the vefcl
of water. At day ligh: beheld the
reef all around us, and the land about
2 miles and a half to leward, which
was Little- Island; at 7A. M. got
under way,with the lefi of the anchor;
with much difficulty got through the
reef, and proceeded through the wind
ward prffage. The vessel proving
very leaky,having contrary winds,and
the crew diffarished, complaining of
the inefficiency of the number for the
execution of the doty,being only five,
and one of them a froal! boy, on the
second of December, put into a port
on the north fide of Cuba, when we
began to overhaul our fluttered vcffel;
we found the leak to be under the flep
of the foremaft, which was impoffibie
to get at. Oh the Bth, was in order
to proceed,and at sunrise a small Spa
nish Schooner, having five men on
board, came down and anchored elofe
to us. Three of her people came a
long fide, and asked for an axe to cut
some wood to put under hidds^which
I gave them, and inadvertently per
mitted them to comeon board. After
afkiog them some questions, and their
telling 2 pityful story of being taken
by a Guarda Costa a little time bfore,
all of a sudden, hangers, piftoh and
knives were chawn by them. Ore of
my men was.knocked down with the
axe which they had borrowed,another
drove overboard, and a third escaped
by getting into the bold. I was cut
in several places of my jacket in en
deavouring to escape ; at left I surren
dered and begged my life, which was
given with seeming reludance They
then lashed our hands behind our backs
for a little time, when they drove us
over into the boat with fix pieces of
meat, a small keg of bread, and no
water. I begged for a few bottles of
Bristol ale of*hich 1 had thirty doz
zen on board, but was denied a single
bottle. They robbed meof my qua
drant, books, watch; shoe and knee '
buckles., In this manner were we
forced from the vessel, taking no more
clothes with me than what I could put
in my box.-—After depriving me of a
vessel and a cargo worth in that place
not less than five thousand dollars, a
considerable part es the goods my own
property, I: begged to remain co board
or to go "on shore at the main, but was
denied either. We ranged along t' ■
coast, and at sundown, arrived at %
house where were a few negroes. We
remained there that night, and in the,
morning purchased of them a tarpaul
in for a boat's fail,riving them inre
turn part bf my clothes. We ranged
along the coal) through mangroves ard
founds unknown io qs, much difrefed
by infers, until, then24b, when to&r
jo^ & relief we. got on board the Sloop
Nancy,belongjpg toNew-Previdence.
and commanded by William Sawyer,
from whom we found civil and bu
pane treatment."