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THE
WHEELING REPOSITORY.
(VoL- * ) Thursday, 21st May, 1807. (No. 12.)
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ORIGINAL POE TR Y.
The Wanderer^
Oh thou who tir * it the lap of Rale,
Whnfe bread the fpell of P eafure warm?.
And, undifturb’u by whelming das,
»Teeds not the dark'ning midnight dorm?,—
• t yet thy heart with pity plow.
Oh foothe thy haplr>f3 Wand’rcr'a woe.
L ke thee, my Anna, once I trod,
With carelefa fteps and heart of glee,
The hay giove the dev y fo< —
And dill htd trod them but tor thet!
Eove nmbufh’d in thy beauties lay,
And dole my peace of heart away.
Aff.ctioriV fl'me within my bread,
C< in fum'd my fpirits, ftopt my glee}
Thy cold negleift deftroy’d my red,
And drove a Wand’rcr to the fea
Sjn.-e then my heart mi comfi rt knows i
i'oi thou rone cand foothe my woes.
Y.'ir after year hae rol 'J away,
And angry lonptfis been my lot,
Stil* todefpair and grief a prry,
And but hy conftanr love forgot;—
I is thou -done canfl comfort give.
And bid thy wretched VVand'rer live.
Then »urn, my much lov’d Anna, turn,
Each ti ling obllacle remove*
Eet pity in thy bofom bum.
An I change thy co d ncp'eil to loves
Then (ball thy Wand'ter (jtiit the main,
AnJ never tempt the (lotms again.
I/VQUES
Amicdotk.
An English petit maitre, who had re
sided eighteen months in an inland city
in France, was asked by run- of his coun
trymen how he liked the French—u Not
at all,” replied the sagacious traveller,
“ they are such fools, as not to be able
to understand we when I speak to them,
although I have been a >car and a half
amongst them.”
Miscr.Li.ANr.ous Thoughts.
Legislators may he able to alter the
laws of society, but not those ol nature.
A good prince does not consider the
lives nor the effects of his subjects to
belong to himself, nor to be at lm dis
posal.
Lings ought to he kings in nil things:
*h;it L, iht y f.hould he exalted in \ irute,
v Well as in station.
THE JUNKET.
By Richard Kummager, Esq.
No. I.
.The Yarioin lot of life
Oft, from external circumft.ance, aflTutr.es
A moment\i difpofition to rejoice
In thole delights which, at a diff’rent hour,
Would pafi unheeded. Aken/ide.
When a stranger makes his first ap
pearance, amongst folks of good breed
ing, some kind of Introduction is, by
custom, considered an indispensible for
mality. For the privileges and little
courtesies ol friendly society would be
too much depreciated, il they might be
purchased at a lower rate. Something
more, therefore, than the mere propriety
ol tolering an introduction, seems, on
this occasion, to exact one from me, who
am just entering on the stage of notice.
And here it may be fitly enough remark
ed, that prologues to plays originated in
this kind of ceremony. Before the
* er entered, a few lines were utter
prepare the audience for his fa
vourable reception. Two advantages
appear to have been had in view by this
seasonable apology. One was, that a
handsome impression might be made on
the minds of the hearers, at whose mer
cy the character was to become exposed.
The other benefit to he derived from it,
might he the preventing of an unplea
sant surprise to those, who should think
themselves entitled to such a respectful
warning.
In my prologue,then, it is intended to
give such an account of myself, us shall
s vc my readers from all dangerous a
1 u in, by reason of that entertainment
which the J u v k f. t mav hereafter
afford them ; and as shall also bespeak,
if not a partial attention, at least an un
prejudiced judgment*
Now inasmuch as I am hut a plain
man, and somewhat awkward, at times,
in making lair pioniises, it is hoped that
very fi ie ones will not now he expected
from me. Yet I am not scrupulous in
saying, that I am willing to rntrrt tin my
friends, anti even strangers, as well as I
can. No man of common sense would.
perhaps, on such an occasion sav less; and
no one of common honesty ought to say
more; and who,let me ask, but unreason
able guests, would not be satisfied with
so much? I clo not, therefore, positively
aver that I shall delight and instruct my
company; and yet it may be that I shall
do both the one and the other. To do
either, peradventure requires less of ge
nius than many people are aware of; but,
at the same, it may be added, that more
industry and more dexterity in the ma
nagement are necessary to the underta
king, than many, very many, might sus
pect. Though unendowed by the “ five
talents” ot Genius, the employment of
the Kssayist may not be disgraced by
one who, with a little taste of his own,
has access to the labours of other men.
I he w'orld indeed so groans with the
number of volumes which have come to
being on it, that if Dulness itself had but
v it enough to choose its lettered compa
nions, it might, by the help of applica
tion alone,triumph in its acquired know
ledge over native Genius itself. Whence,
it is concluded the employment to sepa
rate the sheep from the goats, in the lite
rary, as well as the moral world, is not an
ignoble, may not be an unfruitful task,
though it cannot be a very lucrative one.
1 his task, such as it is, is mine. And
until the performance shall bring me in
to a more intimate acquaintance with my
readers, they aie presented with the fol
lowing succinct account of myself, mix
ed with that of my family, from a suppo
sition (founded, some penetrating reader
will say, upon vanity) that it may be in
some degree interesting to somebody or
another.
Il “ the boast of heraldry” were, in
these degenerate days, as laudable a boast
as it once was, I should not despair of
being able to gratify many of my readers,
of one denomination at least *(—whose
taste 1 shall hereafter strive to please,
by relating anecdotes of my family_)
by a minute blazoning of my pedigree.
1'or the Rummagers arc descendants of
*’ vcry ancient race—i line whi 'h is
distinctly traced to the ante-diluvian