ance to awaken in the mind a de-cess, he keep us lingering a long

sire towards mental cultivation, and to appropriate the passing hour to improvement. But, alas! all the powers combined in human nature, I fear, cannot stop the man of pleasure in his thoughtless career, and render him sensible of the impropriety, indeed the sinfallness, of wantonly destroying time.

Another indulgence which swallows up an incalculable portion of time, is sleep. Nearly half the Nearly half the life of the generality of mankind is suffered thus insensibly to steal away. In sleep, man resembles death! Stretched upon a bed as upon a bier, his limbs are stiffened and every faculty silenced by this temporary stupor, the counterfeit of that awful change which dissolves this sublunary life.

Who could in such a gloomy state re-
main
Longer than Nature craves

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Thomson.

time, he debilitates and finally de-
stroys the system. Five or six
hours' sleep has been found by ex-
perience, sufficient to refresh any
constitution possessed of its nätu-
ral vigour. The man who labors
excessive, unquestionably requires
more than one of easy habits.
Yet even this, sloth and the perni-
cious custom of man has pervert-
ed. The labourer sleeps but six
hours, when he, of whom it may
with propriety be said is the whole
of his existence literally asleep,
doses nine and ten hours of the
twenty-four! What self-murder!
what suicide this? How does man
become the slave of ruinous and
morbid inclination! If we would
wish to become useful, we should
be industrious. The moments of
life are numbered and dealt out to
us with the most scrupulous ex-
actitude. Why then throw away
those moments in dissipation that
should be contributed to the culti-
vation of intellect? Or to speak
in the words of the poet already
quoted-

Is there aught in sleep can charm the
wise?

To lie in dead oblivion, losing half
The fleeting moments of too short a life,
Total extinction of the enlightened soul!

Sleep was designed by the Almighty to refresh nature, which, when exhausted, is an inestimable blessing. Exercise and the ordinary labour of man, soon wears down the system, diffusing thro' it an universal languor, and unbends every energy of organic life. Repose then becomes a refreshment the most delicious. The physician that in a few short hours, heals our complaints, invigorates the body and winds up the springtive plants that will not bear too familiar

of life; but if by an unskilful

Cherry-Street.

A. M. G.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fra

grance when exposed. They are sensi

proaches.

there, when the commanding officer arrived, came to his bed-side, and found him apparently fast asleep. The king, the next morning on the parade, sure of success, after having given the parole, asked in a peremptory tone of voice, if the Colonel had executed his order, and what officer he had to report absent last night. The Colonel answered, None, that he had found them all in bed."

LADY'S MISCELLANY.

NEW-YORK, JUNE 2, 1810.

The City-Inspector reports the death of 35 persons (of whom 15 were men, 9 women, 6 boys, and 5 girls) during the week ending on Saturday last.

By further information from London it appears, that Sir Francis Burdett had been taken to the Tower, escorted by a strong body of guards; that upon the return of the troops, the mud and stones from the populace began to play on them in such showers, that they could endure the assault no longer, but charged the multitude sword in hand; that the firing became pretty general; that the mob continued the fight for some time, but that they were finally defeated, leaving several dead and wounded on the field of battle; and that, at the date of our last advices, the city was perfectly tranquil.

The combined Portuguese & English forces in Portugal amounted to upwards of 100,000 men, and further reinforcements were expected from England.

Bonaparte's marriage took place at St. Cloud on Sunday the 1st April, and on Mouday the new married pair enter. ed Paris.

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of the most delightful fete that we have ever witnessed."

We understand that a curious ques. tion was discussed by a synod of bishops on the occasion of the meeting between Bonaparte and the Austrian princess, at the town of Compeigne, on the river Oise, 45 miles north east of Paris. It was enquired of these prelates, assembled at the Ecclesiastical Court, if it were lawful, that Napoleon and Maria Louisa, who had been married by proxy at Vienna, could, consistent with the Christian law, sleep beneath the same canopy? After a short consultation of these Episcopal doctors, permission was given, and we are told, that the religi ous scruples of the Imperial Maiden were by these venerable patriarchs hap. pily removed!

A London paper contains the follow. ing remarks:-All the continental pa pers are filled with articles on the subject of Bonaparte's marriage. From a theatre of war the different states appear to be converted into one contending scene of gossipping and chit-chat. With what levity does the mind of man move from the extremes of horror, to the veriest littleness of coffee-cup conferrences→→→ from the trumpet's blast, to the lacivious warblings of the lute !'-from death, to dance, and song, and rout, and revel. ry!!

Imperial Luxury-The wedding robe which has been made in Paris, for the new Empress of France, is embroidered all over with diamonds, the intervals fil. led with Molines lace. Its value is esti mated at about 85,000 dollars!

"A most surprizing circumstarce," say the Paris papers," is, that, at St. Cloud, the weather was pretty fair, at the same time that the streets in Paris were inundated with an incessant torrent of rain. Fears were entertained with regard to the festivity of the ensuing day and we had already began to la. ment the loss of so many preparations in the capital to celebrate the most august of ceremonies and the most memor. The Miniature of Napoleon, which able of events-But the star of the Em- the Prince of Neufchatel presented to peror once more prevailed over the equi. the Archduchess Maria Louisa of Aus. noctial gales. At the moment when the tria, on his first introduction to her, is cannon announced the departure of his set in 16 solitaires, each of which is es majesty, the sun dispersed the clouds ; timated at 30,000 florins-making in and nothing was wanting to the splendor "the aggregate 480,000 florins

ult. by the Rev. Mr. Bezaleel Pin-garet Van Vntwerp, aged 87.