The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-02-13 00:00:00, page 4

So much upon his Shoulder's laid A
He reads What Aristotle said ;
, Then calls the cornets to his aid.
• In dark eclipse when Ike &6tfd hide
And be awhile the modest bride.
He pills her veil of crape aside.
Esc.), pairing age mutt hate its taste :
The far is in the centre plac'd,
And fuel must foffly his wade ;
foe te 4|T'^^@*.^™^
Nor Will he leav< hit idle cared
Or Jove, to mind his own affairs.
WHILE others dwell on Mean
affairs,
Their kings, *heir councils) arid their
And that which ntfw adorns thebear,
(I heard him fay) the sailors star,
Willbein time the Lord knows where.
Thus nature waiting at his call.
His book in vogue with great & foil,
la fought, admir'd, end read by all.
How happy thus on earth to stay,
The planets keeping him in pay—
And when 'tis time to post awa»
Old Saturn will a bait prepare.
And hook him up from toil and care
To make new calculations there.
A Countryman coming to town a
few da, ago, was overtaken by
a lady, weril mounted, who, while she
was making feme inquiries refpeding
the road,\ as accidentally thrown from
her horse—having recovered herfelf
however, she said 6 you have now fir,
fcn my agility ,—' ha ! ha !(exclaim,
ed the countryman) wtlllvowlnev^
He prophefie* th* fan's decay ;
And while he would his face &!#,,
New sorrows on his fpirm prey.
The people of the lunar fpkern
As he can plainly foe appear
Are coming nearer year by year.
Advancing in its daily idee
He calculates' the planets place,
Nor can the moon elude his chace.
Though othera sow gaze iff vita
Not one of all the starry train
Could ever puzzle hi# foong beam
The ram, the twins, the mining goat
And Argo, in the ikies afloat.
Are things to him of little note ,
Our sister moon, the stars, the fun, ,
In meafur'd circles round him ran ;
He knows their motions— every one.
An annual Almanack to frame
And publish'd with pretended name,
Is all his labour, all his aim;
He every month has fomthing hew,,
Yet mostly deals in what is true
Obliging all and cheating few;
Not one of all the learned train
Like him can manage CfoleA wain,
Or motion on the moon explain.
He tells us when the fun will rife,
Point, out fair days; or clouded ikies;
No patter if he sometimes lies.
The solar system's at his will=
To mortify such daring (kill.
The comets—they are rebels ftilh
In melancholy ftlence he
Travels alone and cannot fee
An equal for his company
The Almanack Makers
Fr^FRENEAU's POEMS.
Philafter roves among the flam
SEAT of the MUSES.
ANECDOTE.
wars,
Eggharbour Mouth of thebe^
laware. Ma, 12 1788.
t—M,^ Dear Frta^fr^
YOU wil no doubt, be
grately aftonilhed at
receiving a letter from one
whom you so lately saw, to
all appearance, numbered
with the dead, with all the
ignominy of a publick and
fhameful execution, .But,
tho' strange as it may ap
pear, it is no less strange than
true, that bleffid be God for
his infinite goodness, I am
now among the living to
praise him. It was my fer^
vent desire that you should
have been made acquainted
with the steps which were
taken to recover me to life
immediately after my being
hanged. But the doctor who
managed the. affair would
not admit of more than five
persons in the secret, as he
feared a discovery—and said
a crowd arouna me would
be fatal, and prevent the air
getting into my lungs—and
O'Donnell and TeEtor had
been told of it before 1 law
you ; arid they, with the Doc
tor, his young man & a per
lon he bro't with him, made
the five. I therefore take
this earlyjjpport^
NARRATIVE
' Os the Revivication of
r o %JOSEPH Taylor,
Who was supposed to have been hang.
ed to death (ia company with that
notorious highwayman,pickpocket
and housebreaker, Archival Ta,ler)
on Boston Neck, on Thursday the
Bth of May, 1,88, for a violent as
sault and robbery on the highwa,,
committed on the person and pro
perty of Mr. HatbOniel Cunningham,
Butcher, in October, 178,414
In a letter ftbto fetid jofeph Taflor, to
bis friend and cenntrjuat, Mr; Phe
lim Dohace. in Boston.
(The following extraordinary
account is copied from tbe
Vermont Journal, of Nov.
4, 1789 ; and it is proba
ble may have been printed
before its insertion in that
papers However, we pre
tend not to vouch for its
authenticity.)
«>§§<► —=
Remarkable & Extraordinary
MISCELLANY
my condemnation, realized
that I was fudrienly to die
in so awful a manner, until
a gentleman (who 1 after
wards found was a Dodor)
came and talked privately
with the late unhappy fuf
ferer, and my fellow con
via, Archibald Taylor, who,
when the gentleman was
gone, came to me with mo
ney in his hand, and so
smiling a countenance, that
I tho't he had receivedjtjn.
charity^ But he soon un
deceived me, telling me wiht
an air of gaiety, that it
was the price of his body ;
and then added a (hocking
speech which I sincerely
hope is blotted out of the
book of God's remembrance
against his poor foul.
This was the firft time
finct my condemnation that
I tho't what it was to die.
The shock was terrible —and
Taylor increased it by telling
me that the' Dodor had de
sired him to bargain with
me for my body also. The
tho'ts of my bones not be
ing permitted so remain in
the grave in peace, and my
body which my poor mother
has so often caressed and
dandled on her knee, and
which had been so pamper
ed by my friends in my bet
ter days, being flashed and
mangled by the Doctors,
was too much for me.l
bad been deaf to the pious
exhortations of the Priests;
but now my conscience was
awakened, and hell seemed
indeed to yarn for me.
,What a night of horror
w^thyext^d^tftyL
Aridih bealtn,bleffed be Cod!
as I hog&hefe lines will ifnd
you ;— Mhlfo the circum
stances wffich attended my
execution and recovery to
life, as also my prelent frame
of mind, and resolution,
thro' the grace of God, to
fin no more, but endeavour
after new obedience.
You remember, that you,
among other friends, had
greathopes ofmy being par
doned on account of my
youth : But when their Ho
nors fatJ soon found I muff
be made art example of, as
they were determined never
to pardon Highwaymen I
then began to prepare for
death ; but must needs fay,
tho' I had many affecting
conferences with the Rever-'
end Parsons who visited me
in goal, I never, even after
nel came to fee me to whom
Icommunicated the plan in
confidence. The Doctor
came back to charge me not
to trust more persons than
were fufficient to carry my
body from the gallows to
the place provided. I fold'
hint who the persons with
me were ; and upon O'Don
nel's engaging to procure a
number of his countrymen
to remove my body to a
private place, who might
not be let into the secret,
but fuppefe it was to secure
my body from the Doctors,
he teemed pleased with the
plan sand made us promise
to admit no more persons
into the secret, upon pan of
his not having any further
to do iff the affair so soon
as it leaked out. He gavo
them money to hire a finall
boat to be in readiness at
the wharf, nearest to the
place of execution , which
boat I think was hired of
one Mr. Skinner 01 Shillings
near Oliver's Dock.
morning to bargain for my
body, Iwas in a cold sweat;
my knees smote together,
and my tongue seemed to
cleave to the roof of my
mouth.- He perceived the
agony of my foul, and asked
me some questions refpeft
ing my state of mind. I
found utterance —and pour^
ed out my heart to him. He
seemed affected with my
distress, especially as my con
duct was id different from
that of A. Taylor's: And af
ter pausing he left me with
out mentioning the sale of
my body, and said he would -
call again the next day, He
came, and asked me private
ly whether I had two of
three friends I could depend
upon to assist in any thin,,
for my benefit. He com
municated his design of at
tempting to recover me to
life, if my body CUtild be'
carried immediately after I
was cut down, to some con
venient place; but of the
reach of the people ; assur
ing me by all that is sacred,
that if he failed in his at,
tempt he would give my bo
dy a chriftian burial. The
proposals teemed to ftrikc
into my mind a ray of hope<
which removed a burthen
fromtnxfouLvJ.^
it without hesitating. The
Dodlor then left me, and
soon after Teflor and O'Don*