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31 IS CL LL ANT.
Epigram.
L3elieve me, old acquaintance, with de
light,
Fd sit and chat with you from morn to
night,
Hut from my humble lodgings to you.
door,
Vre two good miles,—two back again
make lour :
7 often find you absent when i come.
And often too your man says,44 Not at
home
Two miles to sec you I would gladh
trud ge,
Tiut four to miss you I confess I grudge.
[Martial*] j
Anecdote.
A shrewd old guide man, who formerly
l;ept a store in a neighbouring town,
■fold a person, in order to induce him to
purchase some goods he was looking at,
and which he said he should like to have
provided he could spare the money, that
it made no odds if lie could not then pay
for them, adding, “ I don’t care if you
don’t pay it till the day of judgment.”
The person, under the idea of having
his own time to make the payment, had
the goods cut otV. In a very short time
the storekeeper su. d him for the money:
with surprize and indignation lie imme
diately repaired to the Justice’s, where
the other accidentally happened to In,
and on seeing him he asked how he
c ould use him so, after v. hat he had
i.aid ? He answt red u I do not v. ant tin
money btjbre judgment.”
[ Churn here burgh paper. ]
[From the Farina''t Fvghtcr.~\
jMr. SnowdtVy
If you think proper to give the fol
Jov.ii g curious tact a place in your pa
per, you w ill probably gratify the* public
-uud also a subscriber.
Curious Fact.
Having observed in the Magazine
Aim an: <d hi tdnirg, an account ol a
cat that i: d : .ug. * two mice and raised
th m with th same care she would bt -
slow on kittens—.his I thought, strange,
•while others l heard deny i:, it be lug so
contrary to the nature of these ; ,iami-..
This morning I wail out withmv gun.
On my way hot' ,, pas ;ng e.i.ivhbovir
M. MV door, 1 observed the kindly
more merry than common. I went in.
T'l'.'-y told me they vuy!d y - a y what
they were laughing nt. That they had
observed the day before, that their old
c.it had two rats, about half grown, in
her i.est along with her kitten, and that
they sacked her, telling me that I must
go up stairs and see them in the nest a
long with the i at and her kitten. The
rats seemed wild, and ran under the cat
to hide*. W put one to her mouth, but
^!h wmV. 1 not hurt it, but seemed as ten
der of it ith the kitten. We put it
to the teat, but it was too wild to suck,
tu >vu h they assured my, that they had
seen it sucking that morning. I pre
same the rcu on of the cat taking up with
tin rats (so contrary to nature) is this.
They told me that she was uncommon
ly good at catching vermin and carrying
them to her young, and had caught these
rats and took them to her warm nest
made of v. ool. The kitten not being a
ble to kill and cat them, they lay in the
nest and fi ll to sucking—so extraordi
nary nn effect has suckling, to warm the
a flections oi the female sex of every spe
cies. J. TITTLE.
i' tit'! 'I'o’nmshif.>, June 13, 180T.
1NTE I I. IG ENCE.
Philadelphia, June 23.
By the British packet, arrived at N.
York, we yesterday received our files of
London papers, to the IGth Mav inclu
sive. They contain very few articles
of intelligence, that merit republicaticn
at length. The 72d bulletin of the
French grand army is the most interest
in';. X ^withstanding the appearances of
la t .li;’ shewn by the king of Sweden,
we look upon the conclusion of peace
between the courts of Paris and Stock
holm, as an event bv no means remote.
Yari'-u private information,from the
theatre f[ war, had r« aclu d X^ondon, he
way ol Hamburg. '1 he contending ;u
mi were represented to amount to
600,00'J m n, a greater force than has
on any' occasion been brought into the
field, since the introduction of the mo
del- i mode of warfare. A letter from
the French bead quarters, stated that
the tnijici or had in . .1 .• every preparati
on for i ot niug the campaign, \ isiting e
very di. i: ion of the army & minutely in
stnu ting the officers ; tlnu the opening
of the spring was anxiously looked for,
vb n the signal from Bonaparte vvoul
be sufficient to place every soldier at hi
station : it repres nts the artillcrv as pe
culiarly formidable, and the ztfcl and
' v
confidence of the troops as beyond aO
description.
The French head quarters, at the la
test dates, were at Rosenberg, 76 miles
S. W. oi' Konigsberg, within one mile of
Finkenstein, the former head quarters.
A French army of reserve was for
ming at Frankfort on the Main, to con
sist of 60,000 men, for \v hie.h vast bodies
of troops were everv day crossing the
Rhine.
A here had been a bloodv engagement
between detachments from the French
right wing, and the Russian left wing,
which wc re v ithin eight miles ofeach o
ther—a general action was expected to
have followed the movements of Mas-* •
sena.
The London papers contain volumi
nous dispatches from admiral Duck
v orth, resp cting his failure before Cor.
stantinoph—he persists in representing
the impracticability oi c fleeting any ob
ject bv force, and the danger of losing
his fleet by the attempt. The British go -
vernment is said to have recalled him
from his command,probablv to disgrace
orsncrifice him. The failure was made
the ground of party discussion in En
gland— Duckworth being defended by
thc late, and denounced by the present
ministrv.
i lie French minister, Sebastiani, had
used such extraordinary diligence, as to
render the Dardanelles and Bosphorus
impregnable ;—no fleet could possibly
escape destruction that should attempt
to pass up to Constantinople.
The operations in the Crimea, and on
the borders of the Dneister and Danube,
were tv t marked by any recent particu
lar event-the Russian army under
Michelson had been compelled to act on
the dcfen: iv •, and the Turks awaitc d the
arrival of the French, prev ious to the
commencement of the regular attack.
1 ht arm}',unci; : M.n mont, marching to -
their aid, is said to amount to 8b,000
men, French, Italians and Spaniards.
It nppi arc from the late London pa
pers, that tr.e election in England has
proved succt sd 1to the ministry. They
will have a \a rv con idtruble ms.joritv
in tin new parliament- Mr. Roscoe of
Liverpool has lost his election.
Warsaw, April lfi.
A 1 'W of 15,000 men from this coun
try has h-.-cn ordered, to reinforce the
I tench armv.
l’v.Tr.nsMTRfai, April 4.
The emperor i.us ordered a levy o" *