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For the Alcccmdrza Dxiz'ly Gazettc.
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si m seeing :: passion-sly bad nay-, reading the
,j-t', Bible.
& Sunnge things shall happen in the latter
' days :"
. . — haSt . si
's-.siA BXBLE. And thou seem 'st perusing too .
{eye,tlien tis plain thyss father coax'd thee to '*t .
t cannot be thy choice, for still I see
,ssss ' ssctssi'sttsieisir d—l lurking in thine eye
" ctss t': look'st upon thy book, but then thy
ct tho'sits
sisssihe on the bullyiog match, the blasphemy,
The 'sisssabbath breaking, lamcny and game .
- Thy fathesit is a good old man, but he
""His epared the red, of counse. has s/zoz'Z'd his
,_ .Abzld;
YAnti sort-owing, he will add thee to the list
Of hope/al boycts, of- which this little town,
s " Comes forwardnith its quota" liberally— ,—
_- ss-Ftsiill fourteen to the dozen ! NVell'I know
ct'sssilr-lowct thy disease was gendet'd, but delay
si—Gfremedy is sum l—W hen a child;. ._ '
nAnd all thy heart was pliant asthe osier,
(Th' important crzs'z's when it takes its form)
No friendly finger pointed out to thee
ss- _Amidet a thousand mazes, where to tread.
si Whenthssou empalss'dtt :: harm-.:ss ﬂy, or took
ss-Thy playmate's toys, and ﬂog'usi him for the
last.' ,
_ ' Or told a little fib, or robb'd a bird's nest;
_ _ Then thy fondlpal ents tho ( tn as vast!) smgrt,
" And dwelt with rapttctnc on theit peetlcss boy.
Let such sonl par-ents, who would be respect
" et], '
By their own son, when he slull tread the
si _ stage,
idopt my. r-e medy. * --Ta.:sic of! it "hire/:,
sct-gmmmm ezgiici: , and gite a close,
' the first symptome o! hie. WA} wax-thief.; -
sctsi— lite grow worse t pon t, and settle down
): state that" s call 'sid " e wit/'a! dun1zs;
Be" not alatm 'd, but force the pill upon him,
.Encrsi asie'J in biztsirness, and oft:.- cr gwsierz,
Till he be convalescent.—- T his ptesctiption,
Wqctf01*sisid Sates thy child, and he shall
, ." bless thee for it. _
Body sisiGazcttc 6 Dodars per annum.
Wire; Gazette, 5 Doc'lors.
ss ' Smsictall ti'ickslikethese, not gree-sly culpiblc,
" .]sibe pa'rtial pu ent found not in his heart,
ss'lo check thee to:, lest he 'might bmnt thy
gentle-s. '
!" "
So spake the inspired penman: lo! " each hour
' ! Bless me! what' s
-; 't. - If mcty kisse thou should'st dis-own,
Thou hast—but let a come nearer—yes, thou ]
si'K " , 0'
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SA-M—WL SNOWDEN
{; ctfsschU-nrcct, Alexandrza. "
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" z ,}_Robs me of my ﬂeetingfbreath,
7. ctsi Ah !- how longshaﬂ 'I" complain
Yet ! hope full often we,
* siIhss.de_1ighred fancy's train,
' ss ssTendw—lx shall meet again.
!
Gsi'ssa-Zss
, . - CDWHLDE-.
si 'Jiramsscttfze Ladies'siLizerary "sufferers.
i . ' That beyond the reach of pain,
si .
., La")
ct si Jmitation as an elegant .Morceau.
,S'hsiqn l'll bear my spirits up,
' ;Cssheer'd by that reviving hope,
ss si'ssYes, in ysionder worldssiabove,
fMercy sits enthron'dct-withsi love ;. ct
si' We must tread the thomy road,
\ Though misfortune Wound my breast,
wHEN suALL wz TWO MEET AGAIN !
\- We should never meet again.
When shall we two them again ?
When shall all my sorrows end,
In th' embraces of rup-friend?
"What sad moment-s yet remain,
Eke Me two Shell'meet again ?
Let-me cheek my swelling soul,
Though dividing-oceans roll
'Tw'ixt my honor'd friend and me,
ss-In my heart thou-shaltremain,
There we oft shall meet again.. ss
Hwhcre oddlee's pleasures feign,.
. We two wish to meet agam.
Leave me" friendlesssi and alone, -
'Rofime of xx.-place of rest,
We two soozsisball meet again.
Lessadiog to the bright abode,
When the chillyﬄressos death", '
Now my friend 'o fond adieu,
Think-ofmesias I of can;
Let me round thy heart.-entwine,
! as thou dost round mine,
] ilesiwe Skill here remain, .
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QLHELLD;
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From the Cannec'tz'cut Cautant.
. si ct MONLTOR, , _ si .
THERF- is one (of the'trage'dies offic
Lphoeles, ssan' adMirablect, mmai, couchedctun.
der the veil of heathen fable. Philoccttetes,
to Whom Hercules had bequeathed his bow
and arrows, went together with the other
princes and chiess of 'Greece, to the siege
of,—Troy. He was son of the renowned
Achilles, and _as distinguished for his valor ?
-as his birth ; but having been bit by & ser
pent,- an incurable and most painful ulcer ss.
ensued; and his perpetual groans andla- :
mentation disturbed and disheartened the '
Grecian camp. ss_ For this reason the Greci- 1
an chiefs had him conveyed to.,Lemnes, a (
desolated island, where he remained for ten- ?
years alone, and in" intolerable anguishsi-ss- '
""At the end of that time, it being declared ]
by an' Oracle-that Troy could never be con
quered without the arrows of Hercules,
which were then it.-"the possession of Philoc
tetes; Ulysses and Neoptol'emus were sent ;
to Lemnos to obtain themsiss ' l
Ulysses, notorious above all men' for craft :
and intrigue, and .well ,]:nowing that,-Phi- !
loctetes bore the Grecians an implacable ha- *
tred for their cruel usage of him, laid a j
sieunning plautoctgetssthe arrows from him by !
fraud; and this plan he communicated to ;
Neoptolemus; at the same .time insisting
fthat he should become the instrument of its 3
execution: NeoPtolemus, who was a ge- '
nerous heat-ted. young prince, was at first
struck with horror at the base prssopositions, ,
and says, ' "
_ ..__Ulysses, however, (so easy is it for an
arclt-deceiver to corrupt the integrity of an
inexperienced youth.) ctgaiaed his point at
last, by his cunning Ksophistry and horrid
persuasions; and Neoprolemus submitted to
an act oftreachery which his soul abhorred.
He-ssfirst—insi—nuated himsellL into the confi
de-nce of Philoctetes, by a tzzctzin of. false
..houds, and then robbed him of his arrows ;
.which he bore oﬀ to the ship, that lay rest
dy to sail back to. the co-sssst of. Troy, But
reflecting afterward on the bascness of the
deed, and stung with remorse and pity, he,
in despite of the invectives and thrcats of
Uiysssscs, went back and reszored the arrows
to Philoctetes.
Asum all the arts of fair persuasion to in
ctcluce Philoctetts to go toctthc siege of Troy,
or at least to ,send his arrows thither, had
been used in vain, and there seemed no
possibility lest that the point could he gained
in a fair and honorable way, Hercules de- _
sccndsied from Heaven, and eﬀected what
mere men could not do, a change of.—willin
darkness does from light. . Partaking as it
does of moral turpitude, which it perpetu
ally strives to conceal, it exposes itself by
its Very attempts at concealment, as the set
pent tells us where to strike him, by. coying
his head. Whether in the private or public
walks of life,- whether in thezcomnwnssinter
course between neighbors and fellow-citi
. zcns, or in the great concern of princes and
statesmen—an honest policy .will be found
-. to wear best. .Our belowd VVashington,
whom heaven crowned with success, had
none of the craft of, Ulyssessi .,With a mind
..as goodas it was great, he sought noble
siends bysizhonestssmeans; by means that he
"could never blush to own. He was admira
ble tor his real, unsophisticated wisdom ;
for wisdom that-soared above the base arts
of. intrigue, and which .was withoutsiguile,
siwitbout hypocrisy.
NZQLN
acquaintance, who was neglectful' of herss
json'a educanon, " NIadam, if you do not;
choose to fill your boy's head With some. ;
thing, believe me the devil will." The
sizSpanisl'tsipl'OVCl'b has it—** The devil. tempt:
ss-every man, but an idle "man 'z' .
tempt: the devil." post Wely ss
si. M—
lf Sir Peter Lely made it a—ssrule .never to
{no}: at a bad picture, having found by ex
ssr pelr'ienre, that whenever he did so, his pen
ss ci to'oka tint from it. Appl this co-bad
i books-added company! , ' .
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" Lsstvasctnot born tdflattcr or betray, !
. "4 What open arms can do 1
" Behold me prompt to act, but ne'er to fraud ssss
" \-V ill l descend
—-'si--" O king believe me, :
" Rather, much rather, would} fall "ny virtue,
ctsi Than rise by guilt to certain victory,"
Neoptoiemus to the Grecian camp, carry
ing with him-his bow and arrows ; and Troy
was conquered by their means. , in a word,
open and honest policy, aidod by the pow
ers above, was. finally crowned with more ;
complete success than could have been ob
tained by the deep-laid [raudulent plan of
the crafty Ulysses.
Philoctetes ; who then voiunta: tLy went wnn
Craft is but the ignoble counterfeit osss
wisdom, and diﬀers from it as- much asi
L-Bishopf'l'aylor once told a ladvof hie?
.i-DLENESSct
continuation pain the Natz'sianiilctfnfellfgcsinqer .
, of fifr. Erskinc's letter: to Ill:- ,L'anm'ngza
9. -ss 'ctas published by order of the British Hosszisc .
si- ss-quotrzmons, ss si ' 'si ct ( si
(Debpatch from the honorable David Erskz'ne
' to Mr. Secretary Cannz'ng, dated Was/z
- ingtan, sin.-& of August, 1809. *
Sm, si
Before [proceed to lay before you such
exPlanations as I have to oﬀer relating to
the points mentioned in your d'espatch, No. ct
11, of the 23ssd May, in which you have ex- :
pressed to me his majesty-'s entire disap—
probation of my dcviations from the instruc
tions contained in your No. 2, transmitted ss
tome by Mr. .Osiakclcy, I will take this Op- :
portunity ofinforming you that the Ameri
can government did not consnic with me on
.the propriety or CXPt'dit'nCy of pttbiishing.
the times Which- passed between me secre
tary of state, Mr; Robert Smith, and ray
selsin our negociations, but according to
their practice they made public the state of
their foreign relations at the moment when
they thought itwas for the interest of the
;U. States that it should be known. _ ct
r'The reasons which were assigned by the
.secretary of.-statei'or having doneeo, were
ss certainly intended as savorable to his . ma- 1
jesty's interests, smce he declared it was
with a view to exhibit to the people of this "
country the adjust—tnent osdili'erences with
l—Great Britain which had taken place, and
the prospect of a good understanding, in;
order that the members ol' congrcss might ss
assemble with savorable sentiments towards ;
(irreat Britain, as also that the eVent might ss
be speedily and generally known in,-France,.ct
so as to bring that power to a dct-finitivc de- !
termination respectingsi its relations wi.h the
.U-States. - '
3 "It would be not only superﬂuous lzut *
ss might be deemed improper that lss should re- ss
si peat the reasons already detaiieti in my No.
,.QO, of the 181hof April, which led me to
{believe, that ! had conformed to tlicssspirit
{ i! not to the letter of your instructions con—
{ tained in your No. 2, since I ht "e received
the communication through you of his nza
jes-siy's disspprobation of the manner in
which ( have execttted ther-r.. -
' it remains for me only to declare, that I
was greatly ittﬂttenced in my conduct by the
repeated intimations in your, instructions"
_(io No. 4, Jan. 23) that " the sinccrity of
'the good disposition professed by the per
sons composing the new Anieiican admi
nistration was the point most important in
the view of the British government."
That disposition I was fully rorzvinced
t was entertained by this government, which.
they were ready to evince in any way con
sistent with the power theyheld by the con
t etizntion of the U..S. ' -
His majesty having thought proper to
cause you to communicate his SUt'pt'iZc and
'.t'egret, that ]. should hate received such a
note as that from Mr. .Smith in answer to
the oﬀer for reparation for the aﬀsisi-ir oi the
,Chesaptake, as a proof of the acceptance
by the government of thetUsssis. of- the ho
norable reparationrendered by hismajesty
*-4 in the same spirit ofconciliationin which
it was proposed." - I- am therefore preclud
ss td from oﬀering an) nbsert'ations upon that
' subject other than such as I_ have .ventnred ,
to make in the prssecedingsssi number of my ]
t dispatches. " 1
\ As a farther apology I may be permitted,
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"it is remarked by you—in your No. It, of ]
the 23d May, that my instructions did not ]
authorize me to hold out the expectation i
ss that his majesty would send an enssssoy ex
traordinary to conclude a treat} with the
government of the U. S. until his majesty
should have received from him an authentic ]
and official recog-nition of the conditions
which l was directed to requirea
ss The conditions v-ere undoubtedly not re
-cognized in the formal manner required by
"you, because this government had nor sus
ficient authority to make an engngement as.
to what should be the determination of the
United States, through its legisl'ative as
semblies upon the state of their foreign re
lations.
l'c rested with the Congress alone to de
]ciare,t hat the non-intercourse law should
] be continued or not, and in what manner it
' ghould be carried into eﬀect. The presi
:deot could do no more than act upon the
law as it existcd.
I have already furnished you in my No.
20, with my reasons for believing that all
the conditions would have been accomplish
ssed by the Congreas, which had pledged
to observe, that as I had,'(l conceive) full
reason for believing that the disposition of
the government-of the U. S. was conciliztto- .
ry, l may have dWelt in my own _t_nind,l
,sswhile writing my note inssanswer to that of 3
Mr. Smith, upon that impression.ssand.may l
have on that account attributed' to Mrﬂ
Smith's note, a stronger appearance of con- ;
c_i}iation than the language of it may jus-l
(! V.
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themselves in the most sotsiemnsiamssssrss:
rcsist the rcstrictions Upon her m—Jctsi'si
rights against such powera-as should insziu
them. si _ " 22
I' had' informed you in some; (sssfilsitch
sent before ( had received my isizshmsi'!
that thchnierican government did not si"
with sufficient accusiracy sswhat nationsi'ctss
.zssucd or cnsorccd decrees kin-lating "(it-T
rights, but that when they could itscmsisssil
the fact, there could he no doubt shut 'lvsi
Congress would make the non lnlrthusi
act to comprchrnd all such powms assihwf
ad0pt or act'sinnder the decrsi-sics ol' Fmsicsi
It appears from the genctal ttltorcsysim
dispatches, No. 10 and 11, t-siL-nt hid majesssi
ty's gOVcrnmcnt were not mllms to "in
the assurances from the 'Amtmun gsisimj
ment, but that official pledges turn: to have
been required, whzch coultl notsibc given
ss for want. of powuctsome of them also bsi
ing of a natnrc Wlllch would pzct'cn-sisishsi
' mzzl rccogmtion.
Had ] believed that his majesty's SOVCm.
ss ment were (lateri-nincd to insist upon thou
conditions hcing complie-d with, in one Mr
: ticular manner only, I should have adhmd
5 [0ij instructions; but as I collected from
ss them-,, that his mnjcssitsiy was dcszroussisasi
; complishing his retalizitory system by Such
".
_ nication which you have made: to melzyisii
So Md Do REE D!
Have just received and ﬂzr Salt,
A quantity of Chip and Straw Bosm'fsi
part ofa superior quality. 15
One package of Dbmestic Linen, of
best quailty.
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HE subscriber being desirous c—s ("
moving nearer to his office will l'cffisi'
BRLICK D\VELLING HOL'SE which;
now occupies, at the southern extremicttyss
Fair-sun street. Attached to this house"?
lnﬂs—acrc Lot, upon which there is an chﬂ
lent- (jurden and every convenient out]!Ou
To a good (man: the rcnt will be very
siratc, andpossession immediately given
means as were most compatible with : gsictsict
understandin with friendly and new.;
powers, l felt confidcnt that his mgjsiss.
would" have approve-(los the arrang-msssiss
had concluded, as one likely to lczdioa
cordial and complete understamling andcsinct.
operation on the part of the .U. S. V-ltiqsiq
co-oþeration never- could be olztainz-d 59
previous szipulation either from :hcsiggzsictmsi
ment of the ctU. C. who have rctosspisinurw
accede to them, or from the Crsisingssgsi
which would never acknowledge them:
recognizions to guide their conduct.
I have, &c. .S-ss'zc.
(Sign-ed) D. M. ERSl-ZINF,
No. 15.
D.F-5}'10_f's"ct smm the hazaralzlc David Irsctl'ng
to Ill/si. Srcra'tmsiz/ Cruming, (lated Wazh.
.z':zgian,_ IUl/z as Angwsif, 1_8s_,;9.
Sir,,
I beg leave to request that you willbt
pleased to lay before his mcejcszy my shirt:
grateful acktiffitssledgemems (or tlze commu
-. '- - TR AYED from the stable of the subSsfiss-ss
Ply to COI' Slsssssz or to the sum—armes
John D. Slmm$-*
. CP, on the 4tli olssJuly last, a briglttþctss'
HURSE- about 14' hands and an ii-czilngﬂv
3 years old, had a bob— tail, one of lnslzlc
feet white, believed to be the left one, fish,
small star in his forehead. The above-"si
-\=.artl will be paid for delivering liiin to me
Lewxs Hlpi-Lms, _
at'Libby and Came;
commands, that " hissi.m:ijccts*ss_-.si. entertain—si:
doubt olsithe good intention; and Zzsisiil l.
his majesty's service l)_'-.' which,] have but
led to depart from my instructions."
siNot'ning could have-induced me to li.-7:
devintc-djn the elightest degree from them
ders l had received, into thorough convlc
tion upon my mind thatby so doingt-J!
certain extent I should ticcomplish tired;—
_j-:ct which his majesty had in view, wite:
by too strictly adheringr .to the letter 0me
instructions I might lose the opportunity 6!
promoting cszentiallysi his majesty's, .wish
and interest.
I submit myssidf with great (iclcrcncelz
his majestysis commands and shall accor
ingly deliver to Mr. Jacitson, wltomld
mnfesty has been pleas'si-d to car-point in if?
place as envoy extraordinary and ministc
Plcnipssotcntiary to the U. S.,al'. the pflim
and dss-zcuments boss-.lmiging to the mission
whenever liesssh'zll present to me his inn]
ty'sorde-rsor that purpose:. '
LIV.-3 1:
July 3 esizsiw '
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A general assortctmcnt Hm and Shffisict
A-ugust 2.
Five Doi'lars Reward.
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