The gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1798-1799, 1798-04-16

| u III do by a WON Iu,sa pi-f or a knight
/ Some wears az. two knights had a dI'pute at
the billiard able, and, after high words, one
| Of them gave blow ut Absolutely retuied
TO f hit his antaeonif. He was condemned to
make aalends b0noEra5le in the great church OF
ST. John for IS days fucc-aively; TO be conhned
! in a dungeon without light for five years, after
which to remain priloner in the Cattle tor lte
The knight who received the blow was hlewhe
in difprace, as he had not an opportunity OF
! wp no il ont in the blood Of his adverilry =
A crols is always painted on the wall oPPo'ite
the fpot where a knight has been killed, 10 COM
| remuneration Of his FALL
OLD MAIDs-There are two kinds OF Old
maids. One kind are entitled 10 The ply and
compaflion of mankind Whit others have no
claim to mercy. Some old virgins have been
Gncerely dipofad to ifen to the calls OF nature,
and to G1bmit to wear the purple mantle and
J the fiken chains, and to bear the torch OF n.y.
men. They have for long years, been kind
dreAed, powdered, patched, viiited, gone to
church and ogled but, alas they are it'll
lunfuccefsful. There IS another kind OF old
maids, who, tho they have been alto unlCcceis-
| ful, have not the fame claims upon humanity
| Thief. have been As neat, as choice Of their
perlons as the Others have drehed as gally,
| have powdered am .4tched as much, and as
| fafhionably, have gone to church it may be, as
| as often, and ogled as ihIewdly but they have
been, at the fame time, too COY, too tally and
delicate in their choice, or too fond OF ihow
and parade, and TOO Rrong'y attached to riches,
grandeur and magnhcence. And thus he
ears of youth and beauty have inenfbly pahed
away, never to be recalled, Whit they have
been fondly purifying mere phantom OF their
own imagination.
OH BAcHt1oR..-CS Something (hould be
faid afo, Of this clafs of beings. Bot this is
left for the pen Of fome fair author. No doubt
they dcierve more cenlure than the former
and in cafe Of national tax on old maids and
bachelors, we think the latter hould pay double,
as they certainly have by FIR the greateR op-
Portunity to change their fituation.
TAxEs-The Englifh tax on muEc is thought
very reafonable.-Why complain for the want
Of money when it may be got for mere fong
MAxIM.-Words are the counters of wife
men-they do bur reckon By Them but they
are the money of fools, that value them by the
authority Of Cicero, Athletic and Thomas
Aquinas.
HABir Habit famili.rizes our mind with
the mot abfurd ideas; with the mott blameable
actions Wi h prejudice the mott contrary to
the intereRs Of ourlelves and TO The fociety with
which we live We find orange, GngulAr, def
pcablc, ridiculous, thole opinions and objects
| to which we are not ourleves accuhomed !;
there are countries in which the mott laudable
actions appear very bameable and very Tidicu
lous and where The mot black and diabocal
actions pats for extremely hOnea and rational
conduit.
Notwithstanding fccures the enjoyment
Of health, Grength and happiDefs. Under its
| influence, nature now decks herfelfin the gayef
attire Where, feen only By the fun, once grew
the hoary mols, now wave in the wind, fields Of
golden grain. Huge milhapen rocks, falhioned
INTO magnificent edhces, tower among the
clouds. Cities rife. Forefs, transformed into
fleets, plough the tracklefs ocean. Men v:iit
their fellow men, and the necefities Of one
cline are fupplied by the opportunities Of anoth
err Increaing luxury gives fpring to invention.
Webs fpun by the worm, and Zones dug from
the earth, fafhioned into ornaments, add fplen
dor even to female beauty. The marble fprings
into life, and aaumes the form of man. The
pencil forms new creation. Man inVadcs the
dominion Of the feathered world. He rites
from the earth, and, borne on flken wings,
foars like the eagle through the trac klefs regions
Of rther Thtie are the sgeas Of induRry.-
Without it, fcence had never dawned upon the
world. BY this, alone, We can repleniih our
minds with ideas. -
INDIAN Neutrality-suspicious. forty years
ago, when the(e Americans did not know the
Europeans, traveller penetrated into their
! country, made chem acquainted with FIRE arms,
and fold them mu0<ets and gunpowder they
went hunting and got great plenty of game
and of cou,fe many furs. Another traveller
went tl4ither fome time after with ammunition
the Indians being Gill provided, they did not