of the tapestry; the china at the Kimbleton, May 31st, 1810. table, or the plate on the sideboard; and on all occasions to enquire his opinion of their judgment and their choice. Melina has laid her new watch in the window nineteen times, that she may desire me to look at it, Calista has an art of dropping her snuff-box, by drawing out her handkerchief, that when I pick it up I may admire it : And Fulgentia has conducted me, by mistake, into the wrong room, at every visit I have paid, since her picture was put into a new frame. I hope, Mr. Editor, you will inform them, that no man should be denied the privilege of silence, or tortured to false declarations; and that though ladies may justly claim to be exempt from rudeness, they have no right to force unwilling civilities. To please is a laudable and worthy ambition, and is properly rewarded with honest praise, but to seize applause by violence, and call out for commendation, without knowing or caring to know, whether it is given from For the Lady's Miscellany. The Soliliquy of Morden having, thrown me into a train of reflection, on the various pursuits of mankind, the end and ultimate hope of which is happiness-I would ask the pursuers, why they seek abroad for what is seated in their own bosoms? or what is requisite to create happiness, but content?—And surely that being cannot be far removed from idiocy, who will annihilate in pursuit, the object he desires to attain. Happiness is formed for us, it comes into the world with us,. but it is our intercourse with that world, and the various follies which that intercourse engenders in our minds, that obscures the desired object from our view; and while imagination amuses us with. the idea, that happiness. must be sought, truth, could she be heard, would convince us that we are actually in full possession of it-But so powerful is the magic of fancy, that plain simple truth sinks from her consequential frown and retires to humble distance, leaving poor. deluded man a willing votary to her capricious sway; and so despotic is her power, that taste, judgment, and even integrity, too frequently fall victims to her, and the poor deluded victims have nothing left but regret and a long train of visionary evils, which have no foundation but what her vain imagina. tion pictures to them. 'Tis this hideous phantom which has metamorphosed the Matrimonial state into its present disgusting formFancy paints things to us in whatever colors she pleases, and we when lost to truth, see not with our own eyes, but hers. Thus men, when they enter life, let their age be what it may, if they suffer her to become their guide, sink gradually into dissipation; vice follows, and instead of what they expected, grasp misery, while happiness flies affrighted from them, perhaps forever. This has, I fear, been the influence under which Morden has began his career; and if we may judge by his effusions, if he has not, he is in a fair way soon to take his horrid part: ner for life, pale, haggard misery, with all her attendant train of ills. [To be continued] LAURETTA. Only three things are done well in a hurry; flying from the plague, escaping quarrels, and catching fleas. A Connecticut man thus humerously advertises a rogue, who stole his plough: "What would the pithy dramatist have said, if, after having been robbed of purse, and savage hand extended to wrest him of his good name, some skulking miscreant should have filched his plough away? "All I have to say (not being a licensed dealer in the pathetic) is simply this; if the person who took from me some few nights ago a new Dutch Plough, will be good enough to return it, in the night time, as he took it, if most convenient, he shall be entitled to the thanks of the owner, with the additional reward of a drink of cider, provided he is manly enough to bring it home in the day time :otherwise he may expect to be snagg'd by the tender hooks of the . THE CORSICAN CAT. The deaths which Bonaparte uaderwent during the time he lived in Egypt are astonishing. In the bloody engagement, which turned the Levant into the Red Sea, he received three mortal wounds, and just lived to surrender his sword to Admiral Nelson! In ascending the Nile, chin deep in water, he perished of thirst! At Cairo, he was assassinated by a Tripoline gentleman! Soon after he left Cairo, he was seized by Murad Bey, and guillotined! Passing over the desert of Suez, a burning mountain of red hot sand was raised by a whirlwind, and buried him five fathoms deep! Just before he reached Suez, he and his whole army perished by famine! At Suez, the army was attacked by the plague, and Bonaparte died the last of them! At St. Jean d'Acre, he was taken prisoner by a Turkish detachment, who fired him off from the mouth of a cannon! Making his escape from St. Jean d'Acre, he and all his army were drowned in the Red Sea ! On his return to Egypt, the army mutinied, and cut off Bonaparte's head, sending it to the Turkish Pacha, as a peace offering, to allow them to return to France.— There having been received no account of this Cat of a Chief Consul, from the time he ran away from Egypt till his arrival in France, we cannot state authentically the number of deaths he suffered on his retrogade voyage, and A militia-officer perambulating his district, to take a list of such of the inhabitants as were liable to be enrolled, saw an old comb-maker at work, and thus addressed him : Pray, honest friend, how old are you?""Not old enough (answered he) to be chosen a militia-man; I'm a mere infant: don't you observe I am cutting my teeth.” One mild word quenches more heat than a hundred buckets of water. LADY'S MISCELLANY. NEW-YORK, JUNE 16, 1810. The City Inspector reports the death of 32 persons (of whom 8 were men, 13 women, boys, and 7 girls) during the week ending on Saturday last. HORRID MURDER! One of the most aggravated species of murder was on the 16th ult.committed by a man named Phillips, in the county of Champaign, (Ohio,) on the person of his wife. She was laying on the languishing bed of sickness where her unnatural husband approached her, and with more than brutal fury seized her person, and after beating her in the most shocking manner, dragged her out of bed to the door-in vain the suppli ant wife implored for mercy-her groans of anguish were lost in the rage of her inhuman husband-her cries were answered by blows, and her prayer for pity but added fire to the indignation of her cruel destroyer. At length, fatigued with the exercise occasioned by the inAliction of his cruel tortures, he appears to have resorted to another expedient, as if to protract the existence of the wife, that he might wreak his vengeance with redoubled fury, by the encreasing pangs of the unfortunate sufferer. He seized a pail of water, and deluged the pros. trate victim, by emptying its contents frequently upon her; then beat her with the pail, in so shocking a manner, that a true description of her situation, would almost congeal the vital fluids of all who possess the common feelings of sympathy-she languished a few hours and expired. It is a matter of consolation that but few such barbarous fiends exist in human form-surely such a monster in creation is rarely found. Philips is now confined in Urbana jail, and it is hoped he will there continue, until satisfaction is made to the violated laws of his country. Warning to Drunkards!-On Tuesday last, in a tipling shop in Philadelphia, a man after taking a hearty draught fell down, and immediately expired. It is said that this miserable creature had been in the constant habit of intoxication and that having been boasting of the quantity he could drink, some wicked persons in the shop made a bet with him, that he could not drink a Fint of Peach Brandy; He swallowed the fatal dose, and immediately afterwards dropped upon the floor. A prolific wedding!-In adopting the maxim, that it is not good for man to be alone,' Bonaparte has determined not only to set the example of marrying, but to accompany it with such arguments as cannot fail, in a country so famed for gallantry as France, to make it followed. We may presume, also, that although the Emperor's first marriage produced no issue, this last will add somewhat to the number of his subjects. Among the regulations to be observed, in consequence of the nuptials of this unparalleled character, we find the for lowing: "Besides the 6000 fortunes, which are to be given to 6000 young women, who are to be married to 6000 soldiers, in honor of the imperial nuptials, a pardon has been granted to deserters from the army and navy, and all persons imprisoned for certain slight state offences, who are detained in prison for the pay. ment of their fines and expence, are discharged." Col Promotion!- -The British sloop of war Rattlesnake, of 18 guns, has arriv ed in England, after a cruize of fourteent years in the Indian Seas-only one of her original crew has returned in her, who went out cabin boy and has come home boatswain. A Revolution has taken place in Spanish America, and a Déclaration of Independence has been published in which however, it is stated, that the province will submit to Ferdinand VIIwhenever he is restored to his throne! TO CORRESPONDENTS. Nuptial Ties, on account of its extreme length is omitted, nor can we pro. mise the whole of it next week. Edgar to Eliza in our next. And several other favors as soon as possible. Sirius, Josephus and Ode to Peace, are inadmissible. Acrostic on a Justice of the Peace, we dismiss from its affinity to politics; and several other pieces not worth naming. Quere?-To whom the shoe fits! Would it not be well to examine, whe. ther Mr. Addison, in his poetic writings, has deviated, when it was his intention that every line should rhyme, though not in immediate succession ? MARRIED, On Saturday last, by the Rev. Mr. Romeyn, Mr. John M.Donald, to Miss Hummah Woodall, all of this city. In Flatbush, on Thursday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Lowe, Mr. William A. Millar, af Philadelphia, printer, to Miss Laurd Averill, of the former place. At Charleston, Thomas W. Bacot,|| Esq. to Miss Sarah E. Wainwright. On Friday the 8th inst. Mr. John Brown, son of Abraham Brown, of Mount Pleasant, to Miss Jane Reuqua, daughter of Joseph Reuqua, Esq. of Baltimore, (NY) On Friday night the knot was ty'd, Between John Brown, and Jané his bride. O! may this pair by Hymen link'd, And spread the name from west to east. At Red-hook, on the 17th of May, by the Rev. Mr. Kittle, Mr. George W. Cuyler, of the city of Albany, to Miss Catharine Livingston, daugh ter of Gilbert R. Livingston, Esq. of theformer place. DIED, On Thursday last, Mr John M. Bradford, aged 34 years: On Friday the 8th inst. after a long and painful iliness, Dr. Servant Grangeau, in whom society and the sick, have sustained a grievous loss. On the 12th ult. in the town of Regia, near the Havana, in the 60th year of his age, Thomas E. Lynch, eldest son of the late Francis Lynch. On Friday last, in the 12th year of his age, Andrew Dunscomb, youngest son of Ed. Dunscamb, esq. On Saturday Mr. Garret Ketteltas, aged 62 years. On Tuesday last, Mr. Daniel Tier, aged 72 years and 5 days. On Monday last, Mr. Claude Forten, jeweller. At Fayetteville, N. C. Mr. Evan Jones, of the firm of Anderson and Jones, merchants. At the house of Robert Ogden, in Sparta, in the contty of Sussex, New Jersey, on the 24th of May last, Mr. Oliver Green, a licentiate of Worcester Association, Mass. At the Havanna, on the 23d of May, after a sliort illness in the 26th year of his age, Mr: James Baker, of the house of Messrs. John and James Baker, of this city. In England, Mr. James Gibson, aged 106 years. His faculties were entire to the last; he was a great smoker, and at his request his pipe and walking-stick were placed in his coffin. In England, Mr. John Stokes; he had kept his coffin as an ornament in his parlor for 25 years. On Tuesday morning last, of a linger. ing illness, Mrs. Rachel M Kellar, for. merly of Philadelphia. |