The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1780-01-22 00:00:00, page 1

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4 ]dNUARYzz, 1780. T H E ' NUMBER 50.
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jflSTORICAL A N EC DOTLS.
HR inn, ;: well " thorher b-lubefl
of leaning among lie anciem Briwmctss
'c-u couched on wrse. Though thin lss
nay own: : link clinokdinary to as,?
it un m (tom being pccolm to the]
mien:- lf'nolu. *' Tle Grl lot: ofssnil natiomss
.(G—M—i vm'tcron chi- subpfl) vu- comctx-sed
durst. and sung. We hue certain proof rhn mass
fill'd. chrnu were I kind of (on;.- The [un ss
us inn::inl inhusizunn of Spain um: vers", which \
si . T'iu : wan r-hd ,xktiemuns n ;
33 flat laughen Theyegid he I;,ut hid lnn mco :
WNW Thou meum culkom m long kcp!
up by sinful ualion." T-hiu puctice of composing
{hair llwfinversc. mdforn-ngjhem into song, was
91); to due surpriing love which the nations us
"My bon to poetry .md matick. 'l'lm :lso len
JJ'M bhoso lus man ngnmok w . ponicnl peuylc.
quid it usier so] them to get by heart, tnd Wn
then in memory; —-——
! ( Man :hsilmir and wool of unimalo war::
- ( : rit, yet they were nor '
' only mc-inhydm were used for nating all:: for
_ man. Th' nuntion and infinity of Mind
won Alcmena sevqnl other lhIngl that Mlsilss it for ss
"krin- thn purpse, p-rliculnfly the long, Mr,
Uhuiblc film of six ad held . These phau
were cukivued vid- thia view,— dueir fine lime
(qher thy woe feplmed smite cool and proxued)
" spun into yam, and men into dom, lnss "gypt,
' . llld other usiem countries, in very ancient
Rinn. From chenouh-se an. of culcivuing, dreffing,
ud spinning in, And wnvin. Iincn cloxh were com
. winter! w seven! European nanonc, by (low de
. gure. lnd :: Men: nium. ]: wu even long after
? thy had been ised in the eai}, xlv.! they made
their way into tal,. llld m gcna'dl) received m
stint country. For some of the grcanci l'amil-u among
hold Romans baked tlut they unde no ule o} Iineu
in their hnsn, or nbom their person" nd she us: of
'j it wu long confidmd as I mark oseffcminacy, znd
; a piece of cr'unind luxury, by that brave and n-rdy
* people. By flow doctrces, however, themauushctm)
hd use of thin pleasant, clcznly, znsil be;.usultlnd
of cloth pnvailed, not on]; over all Xcsily, but also
in Spain, Gan], Gfflsssipnd Britain. .si
, --BA'RDS*.""'
Ell word I-rd being : primitive num, neither!
divided nor mnpodnded, it enn neither buried
. ' met. lornsolud intoin parts. it signified on!
sisi na upon by hi- geniu proscfion, and who
. " yell much of has n'- m con'l'sofing ud singing
; ver on muy uriout nh'ectl : occzsissme. The
- In si liumhmsi bf e molt nfpcctabh order
\ as.— me lncicnc Bfitih fine;. and many osthe
(inn, hewe. lnd noblu esteemed it an
! to be ennlhd in this order. They enjoyed,
by and custom, many honourahlcdiflinctiom lnd
utshb privilegu. Kingt nd Prince: made choice
do to be (his bosom friends llld confllnl corn.
iom, indulged the a 'ilh the greatest hmiliarity,
gave them tho- mofi flumring tiden. Their yersom
held metal lnd inviolzble. me! the mofl cruel
si-[qodv tymnn dared mn'ofl'er them nny injury.
eml Ca This, yho had murdgxsi-t &: anfl
v—ue with hicm hind, dnrfl proceed no fmhe:
ct'si-n M- Bl-dn. He fand no had: in
' . thou-zh hie soul wn dnrk.
4)" school by hit betoick bush
ctj w.
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Cathtnov, sor h'ctu'ing procemhd so f r._ " He Mrd
ourvoi'ee smm tho. cut; in tmsinxd tlzc csi n'oicthfs wn'b
on Czt-qdnes. chictctcf Ath-ct-ss lieszzd, hssm to: 8 w-tt
bon pain my toul! Thy hent io'like the rock of the
_ sat, and thy thoughte use dark. Cdettmr. lout
'th- Bet-ls, tie) are the far.; : s t-th;1' :tmusz their votsie
lull be lind, in other )can, ester thzp ol
Tcmm leve sailed." '
The stink. ,as nll If the Druids, were mmpted
Mine- end mih'miy s-sirtvsicee, end in ( mcs ol the
,nateti danger; end when the) attended thcit persona
en the field, to rccsitd and ccfehmte t'sstisgnll eaten,
they had a gnfud assigned them for their protection,
in all femvnis and puhiick ass ubhef. they were
send near the pctssi-u of the King, or chi- tmm, Rll-si'
sometimes evm above the greatest nsibzct'i'y, :md chie
office" sithe court. Nor was n.e prttichtun sit th
M lest Iucretivr than it was honoussi—Lctzlc; f-i
bid" the vaiuchie ptesents which they ocusisimaiiy
nouss'ved from their pmonl, uh-n they guesi them
uncommon ple silurc by them pert'ut'nuncn, they had
(twin land lllomd for theirssixpp .tt; nly, so gree t
un the venentaon which the Prtnces of these u'mu
Wedded fonbe person; 01 tht ir poutsiund so highly
m : si' [mond end delighted wi-h their tunesul
leden; ss thy squaimuP-utipsinctedwemhgsih cipital
erinnlcra (. ct " si' (
We nuy my rusotuhly suppose, tim : prescffion
fill! un et eneeTo honounble ssand :dv gcouc, and
enjoyed so many Genesis; dittincti d_e sirabie
iumunitiet, would not be d-siserted. [! wan, indeed,
very much croudml; end the account: which we h-we
us the uutnberl of the" Badi irsi some counttisi :, pwi
elllxlj m lrelund, are lustily crediile. Vlc often
read, in the poems of (Mint, of one ltmvdtrd B isle
belon "us to one Pltnce, singi zg and pin ing in con- !
eert or hit entutlinmenho Every cnic Bird, who
sivu called Allah Rednn, or Doctor (s Poztsy, ws:
llhmed to have thirty Bards nf inseuiutir note con
hntly about hit erson; and every Blsd of the second
rmkwa'ts nlluwe d lelinle of fifteen poetical tlitsiciplu.
But it is probable, that the End: of Britain and
lrelmd wrn not so numerous in the period we ne
now delinuting, as they became nitewvatds, nor
were they then guilty of those ctimet by which the)
" length sotfeited the public]: savour. lo this most
Ancient period, the British Earth seem to hlve been,
in gettest], men of nine lad virtue, who meriud
the honour! which ( ey cnioyed
M u s ' ] C' K. ?
! S instrument] mus-ck un at first invented to
lccumptmy lnd lffifl the voice in singing, so it
wn long employed in all countries to that purpose
only. This wac evidently the cusea :; the ancient
B itom. Osiiln, the sweet voice of one, who u
celled ;: much both in vocal lnd inflmmental mufick
u_ he did in poetry, scemt to have hld no idea of
plnying on an instrument without singing :! the same
time. Whenever his Bed. touch the string, they
elm,: raise the son . Thin wn problbly one of
those xircumshnceo w ich rendered the mufick of the
ancienn so lffecting. and embled it to produce such
shon- emotiom of rage, lovesi, joy, grief, assnd other
passion in the heuen, by conveying the pnthrtick
inint of poetry to their huru, in the mol routing,
softening, joye", or plgintl've sonndl.
Though the mckm Britons were not altogether
uncqtnmnd with wind infirumcnn ol muctlick, yet
they seem to have delighted chiefly in the lyre, or
hlrp. Thin inlrummt :: snid to have been invented
by the Scythilmss nd tus much used by all the Celtic
'W—siM-M-"J 'si—w- . m..
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mliom. m But if bad only soun- in trinp, C'si
thongl, unde of n—eu'u tkm, am no phvoaypt
wnd ; pleetmm, muse of tho i., bon of [tout
But liwct'onnsncctnn'noi :hn; innnmm-lwat graduu' ;—
lmpl'oved, and the nombu or no mia;- man!:zct
though we do not know w-m certaintyoi ' uctdfl
her of flung: .h- auc-en; Bm sh mrp can ct they
pli-jtl "yon it wun um: singen, m mid],
pieclnum. if: '
lhe ancient Britons sung lad played byflleur '
and shcn !umsin, " sin to their pound, were'ln.
down dom one uge to lnosher, m luthosos ed
poem compofingss in muasscx, vsi [no way nugbg :! th
xamc \imc kiss the poem. Thie- mhfick. lih M
ot' ache: aec-ensi-nznsims. vkav in [emit] simpjc nal
natural. sailed to the subject of du sung or poem "
w! lCll ]! wn composed, much made it mmlff-Rss
nium the losire amdLi-sij, du; jeu unatd'mfisick _
[ner ag-n. ' '-—-—-* '*'**—*"--ss-si ' .si'
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:" fish nuchmGumnm, Dianamfm ss si
i nation. Were no. uouqmmud wimfihc - si
o] n.: bvssxme Dsiny, " me uuM-df mict
um exiltcth the Elernal, she-An'efcm, _ si! -
and Awlul. Bcingz the Scuehlr'fnp'fl 'My _
things; the Being shM never chungflh} Qlo si ss
_and gowmnfi during he ageoi dinary. , 1"
which :; high, And evm, thing which !! IN
gionouc Bsmg they chewed i! how '
vnsiblc supres ' si
cmmon, m- co imagine :! pofibld ss
cquzssl be confined yithin ghe vnlh of Why ,
th'. :si [siiefl uctuons had been in some ll'elsuu 5. _ .
c—ssnrulsiud, by the intsocfuaion cf ! nuhipfictly 4
(inch and images, before the end!! 'of th An '
bctxins, and Dznes m Engllnd. Th lipdl _
Dunllh Pliesil believed and taught thflg ' , si
the hunnn si ul, and : fine of reward! llfl in}
mcnu after dcmh, rrj-cting the Druidicll d ss :! _
the nam'migrmion of lovinil an lbsntdsi _ ss ss' si
'lhc place of ruwasds they nued Vlshlfll. ,
hcrues spent (l.: day in martial sport., 'nd th
I.l Osiushng on the flesh of lhc bon: scflm
ormkmg Izlge draughu of but "or non! Gut is,
soullo of um.- ensi-miu, which they h-d flaioichub.
presemed to lhem by bmms-I young ' ' ' ' ct'
wnixcd upon them :: !hblc. 'l be plm If
mennhey nued Nifiheim, of the cheekes ev' "ct 4
He]: dwell, whose place wn nngnifll, [It
faminc, her wn'tert cxpeflnion lnd , ,
hold of her door precipice, hu bed [much, 'I lsi'
loolu struck tenor into all beholden. lnbfm
of those places all bnavc and good men. lnd in the
latter, al: coward: and bad men, were to ride & the
end of this world, whenjhe heaven: old the clad,
and even the God: lhcmlch-n, m to be w
by file. After this general coshgution. I mild
more glun ium world was to zrislmosthe mcth
formcn; the hero", with allgoodlndjuflm, 'tis
to be ldmimd into Gimle, "I built .! ' ' .
gold, fasi more beautiful tlmn ,simnd ;.
assassinn. and false ["we-"ire:? were to be WK'
Nalhctandt' : lace huic o che cnnsud sum?
, P 4 , " as.
sir more dismal than Nillhcilp. ,
R. wmenct, of Southlmptom W
M ldvenil'e himsclithltlti i. in MWM
He is a lion!" joily pan, Mr (kin, lnd hi- m
40. -He would be glad of; Woman thilk
. e; is I man of 00! account, w ,—
ofie mu'de mon churl com'nso'nsissgsi Dssmct'ct
mnn. Any woman whom this myfiic, " si 51
10 Mr. Mrrm. None but xhosl JMM
be lookcfl upon. ss ' -
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