world will have arrived at its cli female correspondants, who hold a max of refinement, which proba-satirical pen, and who strive to out bly will be soon succeeded by a malenium; for the Almighty after having stocked the world with such a host of literary lumenaries would be unwilling to continue it long under the natural depraved propensities of mankind, lest it should again shrink back to its pristine barbarity and ignorance. strip the bacheldors in argument, I think they ought to be encouraged. I shall take the liberty of appearing occasionally in your Miscellany, as a kind of a genius allowed to say any thing, and altho' I have many faults myself, yet, I ca many in others, and shall tal consideration the productions of your correspondants, to prevent their running in to a regular confu sion. T. Yours, &c. Commercial Hall, I. LASH. For the Lady's Miscellany. Messrs. EDITORS. After having said so much, there is one thing, which I would not have omitted, i. e. that I am extremely happy in this, that when men die they are not permitted to revisit this theatre of human action; for if they were, they would be inclined to redouble their sins by committing suicide, immediately after seeing their original ideas and language so mangled and metamorphosed by the many and mighty luminaries that have succeeded them. For my part, I am enclined to believe that the body of this great literati have made a most awful derrogatien or deviation from the original principles and purity of language; or, that they have renewed their old chart from Horace containing a licence to coin words and sentances, which I would beg leave to suggest, will not be much conducive to their benefit, provid-subscribers no greater favor, than ed they calculate to perpetuate their names, because, in all human probability the next generation will not be able to comprehend them, and their valuable productions will become totally lost. I perceive that you have some I have long witnessed with regret, the foolish controversy car. ried on in your paper by two wri ters under the signatures of" Chatterer," and "Censor'; with neither of them am I acquainted, but, if I am correctly informed, I think the first had better pay more attention to Coke and Blackstone as for the other, you could do your by denying his silly essays admittance to your paper. Inclosed is a short criticism on his last number (Censor No. 2) You are the um pires, whether it shall be published or destroyed. It is the first I have sent you, it shall be the last-no easily' instead of not to be easily.' The following line is a ' moddel' of elegant composition-" is added a destitution," ; this may be termed the neplus-ultra of correct writing.-behold! an antecedant without a relative, viz. His ambition aspires to something more exalted' -more exalted than what? Again, he says Censor however, will notice one passage, because it is worthy of notice,' a very good cause. By giving the definition of the following words, and the Dictionary in which they may be found, Censor will do the Public a service for which they will be extremely grateful-the words are • Tiara' ' unsavourly,'' benightedness,' &c. &c. we shall only mention a few of his 'orthographical mistake'-viz. 'Inacuracy,' 'excu sible' derrogation,' 6 moddels,' Rays of science shinning through à quarry,' is a miserable metaphor. Of his Latin quotations, we shall say nothing; as he has confessed his ignorance in that language, and the one in which Homer wrote,' we think to &c. &c. &c. HAS the honor to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of the city of New-York, that his Seminary of Fashions, No. 344, Water-Street is open every day during the usual hours of business; and as he consults Fancy in her most varied and whimsical forms, presumes, that no Lady or Gentleman, who shall please to honor him with their custom, can apply without receivIndependent of the common roing the most ample satisfaction.— tine of his profession, he possesses an art, which will, as the Poet says, Turn the hair that's grown quite grey, To black or any other hue, That aged Fancy please to say; Or order for a wig, or cue. In the 16th number of the Miscellany, in Censor No. 2, the following typographi cal errors was not attended to by the Com positor, but put to press not corrected, as was mark'd in the proof sheet.-In 2 column, 18th line, for "quandane," read "quandam," and in 29th line, for "not just op'd to the moon,” read “ not yet op`d to the morn,"-In 3d column 21st line, for "philologiance drubbing," read "philological drubbing," and in 30th line, for suffence," read" suffered," 4th column 17 line, for "mudinness," read " mud. diness." The Editors. For the Lady's Miscellany. VARIETY. ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. REFLECTIONS ON THE GRAVE. An Extract. rendezvous of suffering mortals; Here is a safe retreat from the barbed shafts of malice, from pointed perils and from misery's. rod: Here, after noble and ignoble views; after every ardent wish ; after pursuing every flattering object, we find the object of them all. Here, from servile bondage, and oppression's iron hand, rests the wretched Negro, whom chance had made a slave; here he forgets his galling state, and with his lordly tyrant sleeps equally accomodated. Here the oppressor and the oppressed moulder together. Here sleep the meanly saving, and riotous profuse. Here, prostrate in the dust, lay the degraded relics of Remember, soaring mortals ! then, the transient visions of eternal greatness; and act so as to be prepared to pay the momentary loan of Heaven's great lender." THE USE OF A BEAU. Kotzebue, in his journey from Berlin to Paris, has the following anecdote. A lady of Paris asked her daughter, Why do you suffer that huge overgrown fellow, who looks like a model for a church steeple, to be continually following you?' Lord!' replied the daughter, I must blow my nose, must not I ?' The lady had neither pockets or ridicule-The Beau carried her pocket handkerchief! He who is rich prases for a wise "Here is the last stage of Life's journey; Here is the collecting" man too. A Dutchman coming to town, and enquiring the meaning of many things that appeared strange to him, took particular notice of a Sign, on which he read as follows: Here are ho: ses and chairs to let. Anno Domini, 1799.' Well,' said he if there be horses and chairs enough for 1799 Dominies at one tavern, how many must there be in the whole town?' PANTALOON ELOQUENCE. A young Beau, boasting his conquests over the female heart, exultingly exclaimed "I have subdued the hearts of one hundred indifferent women of extinguished reputation. EPITAPHS." The following epitaph is engraved on a stone in a country churchyard: "Here lies the body of David Young, and all his posterity for fifty years backwards !” On Thomas Huddlestone. Here lies Thomas Huddlestone.Reader, dont smile, But reflect while this tombstone you view, That Death, who kill'd him, in a very short while, Will huddle a stone upon you. St Dunstan's Stepney. Here lies the body of Daniel Saul, Spitfield's weaver-and that's all. A ludicrous circumstance oc curred lately in London. A chim ney sweeper's boy got in a butter basket, at a cheesemonger's door, in Oxford-street, and fell fast asleep; one of his companions, in a joke, shut down the lid and fastened it. Two thieves passing along shortly afterwards, and conceiving the basket to be filled with butter or eggs, carried it away to a public house in the neighbourhood, when lo! instead of a rich booty, out sprang the young knight of the brush. The rogues, as may be imagined, made a precipitate retreat on his unexpected appear ance. The celebrated swindler and villian, Charles Price, once prevailed on Foote, the comedian, to advance 5001. to establish a brewery in partnership; but the business was shortly after discontinued, and the 5001. disappeared; some time afterwards Price had the impudence to propose to Foote a partnership in the baking business. To this proposition Foote replied; "As you brew so you must bake; but I'll be curs'd if ever you bake as you have brewed." "No man," said a doctor one day, "can complain of my using him ill."" True," said his friend, "because all you were ever called to attend, died under your hands.". Yesterday a fire broke out in a Pera, one of the divisions of the suburbs, and to the N. and E. of Constantinople. It raged with the greatest degree of rapidity, and presented a truly terrific sight to the spectators. At 11 o'clock it extended nearly a mile, and formed one continual flame; nor was any stop put to it until sunset, when some stone buildings stop On Saturday last, about 2 P. M. a small woman indifferently dressed, was prevented from drowning herself by the workmen at the Battery. She was accompanied by a boy of about 9 years of age, her son, who said she lived in Mott-ped in some measure its rapid prostreet. She appeared to be some- gress, and about midnight its ravawhat insane, and was we under- ges were nearly at an end. The stand, seen afterwards accompan-distress of the inhabitants is very ied by the boy in Broad-street, go-great. It is supposed that 30,000 ing towards the river. We menare now in the fields, and burial tion this that her friends, if she is grounds with the little they were yet living, may attend to her. Drowned-In Heel-gate, on Thursday last, at 7 o'clock, Samuel Lawrence, Esq. of Newton, aged 75. The deceased was coming to this city in a small boat with his servant, and by approaching too near what is generally called "Hancock's Rock,' struck the reef and was immediately swept from his boat by the violence of the tide. He was taken up a few moments after the fatal accident, and the customary means taken to restore him, without a salutary effect. His servant clung to the boat and was saved. able to snatch from the destructive element. It is supposed that about 8000 buildings were entirely consumed. On Saturday week a melancholy accident occured about ten miles from Warrenton, at a muster : John Davis, a respectable young man in the prime of life, became a victim to his own rashness. He was playing fives, and dropping down, died instantaneously. had previously fainted twice in the same game, and his friends used every persuasion to induce him to relinquish it, without effect, he declared he would finish the if game |