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A SUMMER SONG.
Oh, why, sprung Mello-It with fresh glee to the skim
And bade from each bough a glad ct.:trus arise r
'Twas Nature's all•liail to the prime of the year ;
Fairest child of the Sun, lovely Summer Is here
• On the balm•seented breeze of the South she Is borne,
Her bloom ever heightening the glow of the morn ;
Around her a bre-giving radiance she pours,
"Awl her foot-prints, so airy, are %paneled with flowers.
By her, presence, now freed, from the coyness of Spring,'
The hills; "'rinds, and vales, seem to laugh and to sing,
And though glooms intervene the gay charm to alloy,
Yet each living thing breathes a spirit of joy:
Benignly, 0 Summer, thy stitendour display,
For Hymen enkindles his torch in Its ray;
rids lovers be ardent, and Maidens be kind,
And delights with thy flowers his soft fetters to bind.
Bloom on, lovely Summer, for soon, with a sißb,
Thcu wilt sink on the rich lap of Autumn, and die;
Yet the triumphs of Plenty shall gild thy decline,
And its fruits shell remind us, the blossoms were chine.
In Winter's dark hours when thy absence we mourn,
Shall gay Hope be our guest till we hail thy return ;
For sure 'tis a homage most grateful to Heaven,
Thus doubly to relish the boons it has given.
Nor let Discord and Care the bright season deform,
Since Care is a Winter, and Discord a storm;
In the bosom of Peace may we bury our strife,
And wont by its Sommers the progress of life ! R. It

• .AMERICAN NAVAL BIOGRAPHT.
no. XI. •
Captain George Cox says he is a native of Rhoda
IsLend ; his mother resides there, but we rather sup-
pose he is an Englishman ; he acknowledges that he
has been in the British service, but says he was im.
pres.ed into it ; be that as k may, he is an honour as
an officer, and-a most active-one to any country. He
was not in the habit of giving orders alone, for he :a-
way s SANT they were executed, and endured the seve-
rity of the weather equally with those who were un-
der his command. His manner is rcegh. He was
a Lietverant until the squadron sailed from Hamp-
ton Roads, under the command of the late Commoo
dore Samuel Barron, when he was appointed Cap-
tain to the ,Commodore's ship the President. To
give an idea of the roughness of his character, we will
repeat the following circumstances :—Some Gentle-
men came on board the President to see the Sailing-
Master, from Norfolk, who had not joined the ship.
It was on a Sunday, and he addreased them Its fol-
lews--" Who are you ? what brought you here ?
we are all at work, and d• not like incumbrances."
ef We are come to see the Sailing Master." " D—n
the Sailing Master, I have not seen him yet, and sups,
he i wen't come on board until I have done all Ts"work. I suppose you have got a boat alongside,
get into i. as fast as you please, as we have not room
for live lumber." The Gentlemen made a parley, I
and remonstrated na Cie rebuff they had received, but
to no effect ; for Captain Cox told them, "they need
not trouble themselves to go to the gangway, for
there Was a gun-deck port at their service, and if they
did not obey his mandate he would order a guard of
aitarines to enforce ii." The Gentlemen made use of
the port and got into their boat, and afterwards pub-
lished an account of their reacontre in a Norfolk
newspaper. Captain Cox after this had'many diffi-
culties to undergo. Commodore Barron had not
joined the ship, and the men had been severely wor-
eked boils day and night ; a spirit of mutiny appeared,
and a letter was written to Captain Cox, threatening
to take possession of the &hip, and that the crew
would then 'evacuate 'her. He, on this occasion,
chewed a great presence of mind ; he had all hands
called on the quarter-deck, and told them that he
was aware their Lebow- had been severe ; " But (said
he) is there a man amongst you that will not allow
I have stiVred as much, and I might say, more, for
my mind has bees agitated as well as my body."—
He then thanked diem for their exertions, and
trusted that, during the cruize, ha would be able
to compensate them for the hardships they had un-
•dergone. He concluded by offering a reward for the
person who had written the letter, which he observed,
could not have been done by a seaman, as he must
be aware that the duties that were done were ncces.
airy. The author of the letter was soon. found by
the writer, who turned informer. He was tried by a
Court Martial, and sentenced to he branded in the
forehead with the word " Mutiny ;" to have his head
' and eye-brows shaved, to receive 150 lashes round
the fleet, and to be towed on shore on a grating,
stern foremost ;—the latter part, in the navy of
$ll countries, is considered the greatest disgrace.
—Hitherto we have spoken of Captain Cox, as a man
of humanity, but his conduct, on die sentence of this
mutineer being carried into execution, does not bear
us out ; it might he a sense of duty that actuated
km, which, perhaps, might make him forget the
fi r sense of fesling, for after the serjeant at arms
11 made the impression on the sufferer's forehead,
the letters N. Y. in the word mutiny, were not visi-
t ble. C:tptain Cox obliged him to go down again,
and apply his burning brand to those letters. We
will not eels this inhumanity, but a too nice sense of
duty; he was commanding officer, and perhaps too
veictly etw the sentence carried into execution. On
Commodore Berron's indisposition, he was removed
to the command of the frigate Essex, on account of
the Commodore wishing to have_his brother Captain
James Barron with him. On Captain Cox leaving
the President, he was accompanied by the good
wishes of every officer who had seen any service, and
the whole of the crew ; some youngsters of midship.
men were dissatisfied with him, for they fotind it more
laborious to go aloft than to measure a yard of rib-
band. He was removed from the Essex to the. Vixen'
, brig, she had been a schooners but was rigged into a
.. brig- at Malta. . Soon. after Captain Cox let the Pre.
aident; many of her crew deserted to the Essex, and
afterwards to the Vixen, all of whom he so far proe
tected as to prevent their receiving punishment. In
the year 1805, he returned in the Vixen to Washing-
. eon, and' has been ever since on half pay.. He rs
about six feet one inch in height, of a small make I
his countenance good and. impressive, hie hair light,
and is about thirtpseven jean of ago.