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A receipt to make an excellent American wine-Communicated to the Burlington Society for promoting Agriculture and domeftic Manufactures, by Jofeph Coo per, Efq. of Gloucester county, NewFerfey.

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put a quantity of the comb, from which the honey had been drained, into a tub, to which I added a barrel of cider, immediately from the prefs; this mixture was well stirred, and so left to foak for one night. It was then trained, before a fermentation took place; and honey was added, until the ftrength of the liquor was fufficient to bear an egg. It was then put into a barrel, and after the fermentation commenced, the cafk was filled every day, for three or four days, that the filth might work out of the bung hole. When the fermentation moderated, I put the bung in loofly, left ftopping it tight might cause the cafk to burst. At the end of five or fix weeks, the liquor was drawn off into a tub, and the whites of eggs, well beat up, with a pint of clean fand, were put into it: I then added a gallon of cider fpirits, and after mixing the whole well together, I returned it into the cafk, which was well cleaned, bunged it tight and placed it in a proper fitua tion for racking off when fine. In the month of April following, I drew it off into kegs, for ufe, and found it equal, in my opinion, to almost any foreign wineIn the opinion of many judges, it was fuperior,

"This fuccefs has induced me to repeat the experiment for three years and I am perfuaded, that, by using the clean honey, instead of the comb, as above defcribed, fuch an improvement might be made, as would enable the citizens of the United States to fupply themíelves with a truly federal and wholefome wine, which would not coft one quarter of a dollar per galion, were all the ingredients procured at the market price; and would have this peculiar advantage over every other wine. hitherto attempted in this country, that it contains no foreign mixture, but is made from ingredients produced on our own farms.

"By order of the Society,

Wm. COX, jun. Secretary."

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When Robert Jewell, for burglary, received fentence, he addressed the Court, nd begged to be heard for a few minutes. He faid he was a farmer's fon, in Norfolk, and was decently educated. Until the age of 34. he led a fober life, fearing God and honouring the king, when he had the misfortune of becoming acquainted with perfons who were admirers of Paine's wri tings, which were put into his hands. He often read and confidered them, and the plaufibility of the affertions and argu. ments fo far over powered his reafon, that he became a convert to Paine's doctrines, and confidered the Scriptures as cunning fables, invented to impofe upon and de ceive the generality of mankind for the benefit of a few. Having married and become the father of a family, and the hardness of the times obliged him to work early and late he took that courfe of life which had brought him to the gallows. He was under great obligations to the Chaplain attending the prifon, for opening his eyes and convincing him of the dangerous opinion he had imbibed, and teaching him the true doctrine of Chriftianity; he thanked God he was flopped in his wicked course, before he had committed the crime of murder, and hoped, through the merits of his Saviour to be faved. But he did not defpife life, and it mercy could be extended through the recommendation of his Lordfhip, he would continue to pray to Heaven for his gracious Sovereign, and endeavour again to be a useful and loyal fubject, but if not, he would meet his fate with Chriftian refignation, humbly trufting in the mercy of God and begging most earnestly that his children might be taken care of.

Mr. Baron Hotham fpoke of the prif oner in a humane and affecting manner, and concluded with telling him that mercy here could not be extended to him, confiftent with the due adminiftration of the law, and that he must prepare. himself to meet that awful moment when he must appear before another Tribunal, where fincere repentance and contrition might induce him to hope to meet with that mercy which could not be extended to him in his world.

Foreign Politics.

ADDRESS,

TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLand, (CONTINUED)

SUCH being the grounds of the war, fuch the wishes and defigns, fuch, the prepofterous and infolent pretentions of the enemy, it next behoves us to consider, what will be the confequence to ourfelves, what will be our wretched lot, if that enemy fhould fucceed in the invasion and fubjuga. tion of our country. Of what the French would in fuch a cafe, do here, we may form fome judgment, from what they have done in all thofe countries, where the re miffness of the government together with the pufillanimity of the people, have given them the predominance. There is no country, into which they have been able to enter, where their footfteps have not been marked with blood; where they have fpared either high or low, rich or poor, fex or age; where terror has not been their forerunner, and where defolation and mil ery have not marched in their rear. Inthe long and black catalogue of French cruelties towards the people of other countries, thofe of the Firft Conful, and of the gener. als and foldiers immediately under his command, fiift prefent themfelves to our attention. In 1796, Bonaparte, at the head of a numerous French army, invaded Italy, declaring to the people, that he came as their friend and their brother, to deliver them from taxes and flavery, and promif. ing them fafety for their perfons, fecurity for their property, refpect for their laws, and reverence for their religion. They lif tened, they believed; they threw open they laid down their arms, they received the Gallic Serpent to their bol on, and fatal indeed were the effects of their credulity! His reverence for their religion he difplayed by giving up all their places of worship to indifcriminate plunder and by defiling them with every fpecies of facrilege; his refpect for their laws was evinced, not only by the abrogation of thofe laws, but by the arbitrary enforcement of an unconditional fubmiffion to the mandates of himself and his generals; the fe curity which he promifed to their proper ty was exhibited in enormous contributions, in the feizure of all the public funds, as well as those of every charitable founda. tion, not excepting fchools, hofpitals, or any other resource for the fupport of the poor, the aged, and the helplefs; and, a to the perfons of the unfortunate people, he provided for their falety by laying the whole country under the fevereft military execution, by giving up the towns and vil lages to fire and fword, and by expofing the inhabitants to be pillaged and murder.

their

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ed by his rapacious and inhuman foldiers, whom he authorised and even ordered to fhoot every man that attempted to refift them, whatever might be the crimes in which they were engaged.

The Balance.

recollect; and fo recollecting, shame and difgrace upon our heads, if we do not refi0, it we do not overcome, if we do not chaftife this rapacious, this bloody minded tyrant, who has now marked out our country for fubjugation, our fields for devaftation, our houfes for pillage; and who, in the infolence of his ambition, has held us forth to the world, as a meek, a feeble, and cowardly race, deftined to grace his triumphal car, and to augment the number of his flaves.

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end at once to their toils and their exift.

On his return from Italy, which he left in a state of beggary and irretrievable ruin, he prepared for the invafion of Egypt, a In Switzerland, where high rank and country which was at peace with France, great riches were unknown, where men and against the people, or the government were nearer upon an equality than in any of which, France had no cause of comhaving no commerce, fcarcely any manuother country in the world; in a country plaint; but the conqueft of this country factures, and poffeffing few of the fources was neceflary in order to open a road to the Indian poffeffion of Great-Britain.--In of wealth and diftinction; a country of purfuit of this object, Bonaparte invaded Not however, to the deeds of Bonaparte might be truly faid to contain a nation of shepherds and labourers; a country which Egypt, where he repeated his promifes to alone, muft our recollection be confined. refpe&t religion, property, and perfons, and moft every country in Europe have been Not only Italy and Egypt, but Holland, to Palaces" feemed ufelefs and abfurd. Switzerland and Germany, and, indeed, alpoor men; in fuch a country to cry" war where, the more effectually to difguife his purposes, he iffued a proclamation, declar- cruelty. Yet did the French find a pretext for war ing himself and his army to be true Ma the fcenes of French rapine, infult, and invading and laying waste their territory. with this poor and harmless race, and for hometans; and boafting of having made Holland formerly the feat of The Swifs, from their anxiety to preferve w upon the Chriftians, and destroyed their freedom, commerce, induftry, and afflu religion. ence prefents at this moment, the fad fpec-manded of them by France, they expofed One of his firft deeds alter this peace, confentod to every facrifice deact of apoftacy, was to maffacie almost all tacle of a country divided against itfelf, themselves to the hoftility of other nations the inhabitants of the populous city of Atorn to pieces by factions, contending, not by fending away the ambaffadors of thofe lexandria." The people," fays one of for the luffrages of the people, but for the his generals, favour of France; a country governed by with fome of their most powerful allies; "betake themfelves to their nations; they broke off their connexion ** PROPHET, and fill their mofques; but the haughty mandates of a foreign power; they banifhed the loyal fubjects of their anawed by foreign arms; holding the remen and women, old and young, and ev. mains of its wealth, together with the refien babes at the breaft, ALL are mallicred!” cient protector the king of France, men Some time after this fanguinary tranfaction, due of its military and naval means, in hofpitality bound them to cherish; and whom the ties of gratitude and the laws of conftant readiness to be difpofed of in the Bonaparte, having mace prifoners of three fervice of another nation, and that nation conceffion, when they could grant no thoufand eight hundred Turks, in the forwhen they had thus exhaufted the fource of its ancient and implacable enemy, and trefs of Jaffa, and withing to relieve himfelf from the trouble and expenfe of guarnow its inexorable oppreffor.-When the more, because France could find nothing French armies entered the territories of ding and fupporting them, ordered them to Holland, their motto was, more to demand; when they had humbled be marched to an open place, where part the mfelves in the duft, and degraded the of his army fired on them with mufquetryders, and from the burdens which thofe ru"War to the Palace, but peace to the Cottage."-They charéter of their country in the eyes of all and grape fhot, ftabbing and cutting to came to deliver the people from their ru-They Europe; when they had thus done and fufdeath the few who efcaped the fire, while fered, rather than fee their country the he himself looked on, and rejoiced at the fcene of war, then did the French invade turbers of the world march an army into horrid scene. their territory: then did thefe refstless difpel the people to change the nature and the the heart of Switzerland, in order to comform of their government, and to commit it to the hands of traitors, who had been whofe treachery the French invafion had chofen by France, and by the affiftance of

Nor were his cruelties while in Egypt, confined to thofe whom he called his enemies; for finding his hofpitals at Jaffa crowded with fick foldiers, and defiring to difincumber himfelf of them, he ordered one of his phyficians to deftroy them by poifon.

to obey; but an apothecary was found, The phyfician refufed willing to perpetrate the deed; opium was mixed with the food; and thus, five hundred and eighty Frenchmen perished by the order of the general, under whofe flag they had fought; by the order of that very man, to whofe defpotic fway, the whole French nation now patiently fubmits! Let them fo fubmit, but let us not think of fuch fhameful, fuch degrading fubmiffion. Let us recollect, that this impious and ferocious invader was topped in his career of rapine and blood, by a mere handful of Britons; and was finally induced to defert his troops, and to flee from the land he had invaded, at the approach of that gallant British army, by which Egypt was delivered from the most odious and moft deftru&tive of all its plagues. This it is for us to

lers impofed. The Dutch, like the Ital-
ians, lent an ear to thefe artful and perfidi-
ous declarations, believing that their cot
found, that French rapacity, like the hail
tages would be fpared, and careless of the
fate of the palace. But, alas! they foon
and the thunder, fell alike on the thatched

roof, and the gilded dome. The palaces
while all thofe who were found in the in-
once feized on, the cottages foon followed ;
termediate space, the merchant, the manu
facturer, the farmer, and the tradefman,
were funk in one common ruin; happy, if,
good fortune to preferve their lives. Bon-
by the lofs of their property, they had the
good fortune to preferve their lives. Bon-
aparte is, indeed, now, not only the fove-
reign of the country, not only does he ex-
ercife the powers of dominion, but he is, as
to every practical effect, the mafter and the
people in Holland. Thefe miferable be-
owner of all the property, and of all the
ings poffefs nothing of their own; they
joying, or bequeathing it; they can make
can acquire nothing with the hope of en-
the feebleness of old age, or the helpleffnefs
no provifion for the weaknefs of difeafe,
drudges of a hardhearted tyrant, who fuf-
of infancy; they are, the mere political
fers them to live, only while their labours

been effected.

After having by means of an armiflice, pect for perfons and property, lulled the joined to the moft folemn promife of ref|| people into a ftate of imaginary fecurity, the armiflice was broken, and the French pufhed on their forces, when those of the Swifs were difperfed. Refiftence on the part of the latter, whofe numbers did not aple were faithful and active, though the laft mount to a tenth of thofe of their flagitious the little army was brave, though the peoenemy, now became hopelefs; and though battle was long, obftinate, and bloody; though the women fought by the fides of death, all was in vain; hundreds and thouthough the Swifs achieved wonders, and their husbands, inciting them to victory or fands perifhed by the fabres of the French, and while the earth was ftrewed with their dead bodies, and while the flames afcended

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from the once happy dwellings of this val- || iant and innocent people, the hardearned and long-preferved liberties of Switzerland expired.

(To be concluded in our next. )

Be it our weekly task,

To note the passing tidings of the times.

Hudson, October 11, 1803.

Impreffment of American Seamen.

We have procured of Capt. Mooklar, for publication, the followi Proteft, that we may thus put our readers in poffeffion of the moft correct information on a fub. ject of fo much importance. It is found that the Protections with which most of our feamen are furnished, are frequently difregarded by the British commanders; and that, in fome inftances, they have not proved fufficient to protect their holders from impreffment. Among the caufes to which this may be afcribed, is the belief which the British have imbibed, that American protections may be procured by dozens, in our feaports, by any body and every body, whether foreigners or Americans. Though we hope and truft the inflances are not numerous, ftill we have no doubt that foreigners have fometimes procured American protections: Nor have we a doubt that the British have frequently impreffed American feamen, with genuine protections.--How our government will treat this bufinefs, it is impoffible to tell. Whether they will (as in the New-Orleans affair) declare thefe aggreffions of the Britith commanders, the mere unauthorized acts of inferior officers, or not, we will not prefume to conje&ture. Congress will foon meet; but whether our feamen will be amufed with "little bits of paper, about fo big," as the Kentuckians were laft winter, time alone can determine. Although 15,000,000 dollars, are to be given by our economical, government for the right of navigating the Miflilippi-a right which before belonged to us, we fincerely hope that a proportionate fum will not be paid for the right of navigating the Atlantic.

DOMINICA.

By this public inftrument of proteft, be it known unto all to whom it doth, fhall, or may concern, that on this

1ft day of Auguft, in the year of our Lord, 1803, before me, John Wilbraham, Notary Public, by lawful authority duly admit. ted and fworn, refiding and practifing in the town of Rofeau, and ifland aforefaid, perfonally appeared John Mooklar, of the brig Mark & Mary, of the port of Hudson, in America, Emanuel Parady Mate, and

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Elias Thomas Moore. Whereupon, I the faid notary, at the requeft of the laid John Mooklar, do hereby moft folemnly proteft against the hard gals of wind and high feas which happened at the different periods herein before particu

Capt. James O'Brien, commander of the faid frigate, the Emerald, for imprefling and forcibly taking out of the faid brig, three men and a boy, and preventing him going into Martinico, as is alfo above let forth; for all loffes, cofls damages and expences already fuffered and fultained, or to be hereafter fuffered and fuftained by the owner or owners of the faid brig and cargo, the freighter, and all and every fon or perfons concerned in intereft in the fame, for or by reafon of the premiles thus done and protested at Rofeau aferefaid, the day and year firft above written, in the prefence of William Harifon and Thomas Ra cliffe, Wineffes.

(Signed)

In teftimonium veritatis, JOHN WILBRAHAM Notary Public.

THE INVASION OF ENGLAND.

Owen Cathcart and Elias Thomas Moore feamen, who being by me the faid notary feverally duly fworn on the Holy Evangelifts of Almighty God, depofe and faylarly fet forth; as alfo against the faid and first, the faid John Mooklar, for himfelf faith, that he failed in the faid brig from Sandy Hook, in America, on the 28th day of June laft, with a cargo confifting of live flock, lumber, falt and pickled fith, beef, pork, flour and bread; that being on his paffage, bound to Martinico, on the 2nd day of July following, the veffel fprung aleak, by reafon of the wind's blowing a hard gale, and a very heavy fea going, infomuch that he kept one pump conftantly working; that on the 29th day of the faid working; that on the 29th day of the faid month of July, he arrived off the north end of Martinico, and was there boarded by a boat from his Britannic Majefty's frigate, the Emerald, with an officer, who impref. ed and forcibly took out of the veffel three feamen and a boy, named as follows-Lyndon Comflock. Peter Backhoufe, John Bacon and Hugh M'Cormack, one of which had an American protection and a certificate of his being a citizen; that fhortly after his fo taking away the men, he returned on board, and brought with him an American failor and an invalid, who had been a long time in the frigate; that the faid officer, in the name of Capt. James O'Brien, commander of the faid frigate, then ordered him, the deponent, to quit the coaft of Martinico immediately, that illand being in a state of blockade; that his veffel ftill continuing leaking as aforefaid, he thought it moft prudent to make for the nearest port; and, therefore, immediately ftood away for Dominica, where he arriv ed on the 31ft day of the faid lastmentioned month; that being at Rofeau as aforefaid, about 9 o'clock of the night of the 12th of this prefent month of Auguft, a hard gale of wind blew from the S. E. and continued until 7 o'clock the next morning, when the fea came into the road fo high, that he was obliged to flip one cable, cut the other, and put to fea; and was out twenty-fou hours, before he got to an anchor again; that his decks being much lumbered in the gale, he loft a confiderable part of it over

board. And the faid Emanuel Parady, Owen Cathcart, and Elias Thomas Moore, feamen, for themfelves, fay that they are well acquainted with all the different f&is and circumftances, herein before let forth, by the faid John Mooklar, having been oa board the faid brig from the time the failed from Sandy-Hook, until his arrival at Dom

The following is the opinion of the famous Gen. Dumourier upon this fubje&:

"Should this expedition, (fays the Gen.) be unfuccefsful, which is very poffible; thould the invincible British ficet gain a decifive victory over the French, Spanish, and Dutch fleets, whether combined or feparare; fhould the English nation, proud and energetic as the French, equally ani mated by patriotifm and national diflike, repulfe the French army foon after it was landed; fhould they deflroy it, force it to re-embark with lofs, and cut off its con munication with the fea; fhould they wea ken, harrafs, or reduce it to famine, and render this great expedition abortive, which on a large fcale can only be attempted, and may partially, or altogether, fail in the ex ecution, then France is totally ruined; all her laurels are withered; her allies willabandon her, and turn against her; the other Powers of Europe will attack her on ev ery fide; he will have loft the flower of her warriors and the reputation of ber arms; he will be without money, and internal difcord will complete her deftrue.

tion.

"It is at Paris her disappointed and in dignant foldiery will feek the rewards and plunder promifed them in London. The Generals themfelves will either be the firit victims of the excufable fury of the troops, or will partake of their indignation and, then revolt !"

NEW YORK, October 3.

WAR with SPAIN.

A gentleman of the first refpectability in this city, has fent us the following extract from the Log Book of his Majefty's hip

of War the Bofton, which he received in a letter from Nova Scotia.

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An American Gentleman, who left Paris on the 2d inft. fays that a ftrange buftle prevailed mong the agents of government; couriers were hourly difpatching to all parts of France, and an unufual number of troops had, within the preceeding fortnight, been drawn round the capital. It adds, that a French copy of the paper iffued on His Majefty's Ship Bofton, Aug. 14th. the 24th ult. from Wanftead-houfe, clofe Lieut. Alcock boarded the fchoonerly printed on fmall handbills, with a head Agnes, I. P. Hunt mafler from Barbadoes, line in red letters, "Vive le Roi," which place the left the 31st ult. Mr. difperfed over a great part of Paris on the Thomas a gentleman (paffenger) on board night of the 1ft inft. and that vigilant fearch her informed him that, by the mail from was making after the Authors of this pathe British Packet, the news of war with per. It was printed on a Republican tamp Spain was received, in confequence of which Lord Seaforth the Governor of Barbadoes had iffied Letters of Marque against Spanish veffels. The Dafh, Capt. Smith, had taken one, and failed on a cruize;Mr. Thomas faid the one furnished Capt. Smith he had feen, and it was figned by

Lord Seaforth.

August 234. Lieut. Alcock boarded the brig Greenwich from Havanna, J. P. Renington mafter, who informed him "that he failed from the Havannah the

of three cents.

The view we are decidedly inclined to take is farther corroborated by private letters received yesterday from St. Peter!burgh, which ftate, that a neft of French pies and agents, detected in corrupt practices there, have been feized and fent into Siberia.

AUGUST 24.

A Council was held yefterday on dif14th init. in company with a Spanith frig-patches from the continent. It is reportate fuppofed bound to Europe, and that he had been informed, the French Government had demanded twenty fail of the line from the Spanish, to permit them to remain neutral for eight months.

BOSTON, September 30. Laft night arrived the brig Callifte, Capt. Atkins, 31 days from Plymouth, Eng. Capt. A. favoured us with a file of London papers to Aug. 24, inclufive; from which we have made fuch extracts as our time would permit. The preparations for the attack of England continued in the ports of France and Holland. An English gentleman, returned from France, ftated, that the gun-bo.ts were to be completed by the latter end of October, and the expedition was to proceed in November. Several perfons, fufpected of being French fpies, have been arrefted in England-Rumours of confpiracies of royalifts in France prevailed. It is even faid, that Talleyrand has been fufpected of defigns unfavourable to the Firf Conful.

Ireland continued tranquil. There had been a few additional arreits; among them a Mr. Long, a merchant of Dublin.

LONDON, Auguft 20. Some letters from Paris ftil talk of plots against the First Conful. One was a jacobin plot, the object of which was to dif patch Bonaparte, to call a convention as in 1799. The other a royalift plot, to restore the Bourbons. Both have their partizans in the army. The alarm of thefe confpir acies is thought to have fhorteuca the F.... Conful's ftay in Flanders.

ed the mediation offered by Ruffia has en-
tirely failed. The final propofition of the
Emperor was, that France fhould withdraw
her troops from Holland and Hanover, and
that Malta fhould remain 10 years in our
hands. The propofal, it is faid, was cool-
ly received by both the belligerent powers.
His Imperial Majefly has fince caufed it to
be fignified to France that unlefs the French
troops are withdrawn from Hanover, he
will find himself under the neceffity of a-
dopting compulfory means in conjunction
with the powers most immediately intereft.
ed.

A few days fince a council of the feven
French Princes were held. PICHEGRUE
and DUMOURIER were prefent. With a
view to an expedition the latter has certain-
ly come to this country. The Royal
Standard is to be erected in France, under
thefe generals, accompanied by fome of the
Princes.

A British frigate and bomb veffel have
bombarded Boulogne, and deftroyed a great
of the lower town and harbor.
A par-
part
ty of feamen and mariners landed and fet
fire to feveral houses.

Letters of Marque and Reprifal have
been granted against the fhips, goods, &c.
of the Ligurian and Italian Republics.

Orders have been fent to Dover for an hundred Trinity Pilots to be ready at a moment's notice.

A loan has been opened by the House of Hope and Co. De Smith and Willark, with the French Government for 5 millions dollars, to be paid for in American Louna ilock.

AUGUST 25.

The report of the royal Standard being about to be raised in the western depart. ments of France, under the French Princes, or their Officers, gain ground. It is faid, that Pichegru, as well as Dumourier. has been confulted by the Princes of France.

It was mentioned yefterday, that the French troops in garrifon at Dunkirk and Boulogne, and other parts in the North, have shown symptoms of averfion to Bonapart's government.

It is quite pleasant to hear the French gafconade of invafion, when the principal part of their coaft is fo clofely blockaded, that they cannot fend even a fishing boat out to procure a difh of fish. Our bomb veffels have fported a few fhells into Boulogne, and beat down a couple of houfes; and to keep the feamen from being idle, a party of them landed a few days fince, and diverted themselves in overthrowing the French engines for driving piles for their fortifications; and throwing their intrenching tools, mattocks baskets, &c. into the lea.

WE invite the particular attention of cur readers to the excellent" address to the People of England," commenced in our last, and continu ed in this week's Balance-The dreadful truths which it contains, are of the utmost importance, not only to the people of England, but to the whole world. Indeed almost all of them, apply with equal force to the people of America: for, let it be remembered, that, if England falls, America must inevitably follow her fate. Fortunate will it be, if those nations which have not yet bowed the neck to Bonaparte-which have not yet prostrated them selves before the bloody standard of the "terrible learn to be wise from other's Republic," should harm," and should effectually resist the "fraternal embrace" of cut-throats and robbers.

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The Wreath.

The following sketch of a Modern Patriot, is copied from a satirical Poem, entitled "Southampton Rooms."

BUT

see who yonder gravely stalks along; Say, Muse, is he a subject for my song?

From fair AUGUSTA, lo! the sage withdraws, "And leaves a while to plead his country's cause," What orator is this so far renown'd?

What senator with deathless lawrels crown'd ?
"Not by such titles he aspires to fame;
"A Patriot! and MALVOLIO is his name."
Can their be aught more sacred, Muse, unfold?
Though rolling years return an age of gold,
Than he who burning with his country's love,
Would ev'ry rough extreme of danger prove;
Face foreign foes, eurb arbitrary pow'r,
And check rebellion in the dang'rous hour?
'Tis mighty well of such a one to sing!-
་་ But our MALVOLIO aims at no such thing:
To quit his trade to crowd a common-hall,
And loud for W-s and Liberty to bawl;
To prate of tyranny among the great,
Himself a tyrant in his petty state;
To drink Bostonian freedom in a bowl,
Round which a thousand aukward emblems roll;
To talk of fancy'd grievances and woes,
And with a speech of W-s to wipe his nose:
These are his virtues-what his vices are,
His intimates and family declare."
But here we stop: T'were labour thrown away
Should we dissect this insect of a day!

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Improvement.

From a Philadelphia paper.

A PERSON named Bradley, of Rochefler in England, has obtained a patent for a method of more effectually fecuring beams of fhips to their fides by which the veffel will be frengthened, and a great faving of time and expence effected, particularly in regard to the lodging knées, two thirds of which the prefent plan proposes to fave. When the beamends become rotted (the part of the ship which first decays) the repair is to be made, by having long cheek pieces of timber bolted and faftened to fuch beams as are decayed only at the ends, then the pieces can be mortized by them and bolted through the fhip's fide, thus facilitating the repair of old fhips, and faving prodigious expence.

Diversity.

From a Chambersburg Paper.

A GENTLEMAN in the flate of Ohio, in a letter to his friend in this county, mentions the following fingular circumftance Some perfons, fome time fince, in digging a well at fome distance on the hill in Cincinnati, at the depth of go feet came to a flump of a tree, the roots of which were fo found that they had to be cut away with an ax; at 94 feet they came to another, which fill bore evident marks of the ax; and on its top there ap peared as if fome iron tool had been confumed by the ruft.”

AN EX-PRIEST, named Thuring died lately at St. Servan, whofe life had been marked by an adventure that might appear extraordinary, even to fuch as read only romances, and fee only Melodramas. Thuring had been, on his return to France, with his wife and two children, and a confiderable property, which he had acquired in New-England, but suftered thipwreck within fight of the coaft of Brittany, and fwam afhore alone. Not doubting that the fea, which he faw covered with the ruins of his fortune, had alfo fwallowed up his wife and children, he haftened to bury his defpair in a monaftery which attracted his notice. His fuperiors difcovered in him fome talents for the pulpit, and fent him on a miffion to preach in the neighbouring cities and villages. He was preaching one day, precifely the fame, on which, five yeas belore, he had fuffered fhipwreck, in the

city of Croifte, on the inftability of human affairs, a text which gave him an opportunity of quoting the tale of his own misfortunes as an example. He had fcarcely finifhed his interefting picture, when a female who had liftened with particular attention fcreamed and fainted. Being removed into facrifty, the recover. ed juft as the fermon had ended, and the firit object the perceived was father Thuring, who, attributing her a vifit. The female was his wife, whom fome fishermen had brought off the rocks when the veffel funk.

The hufband retained his cowl, the wife took the veil in a neighbouring convent, and both found, in religion, confola. tion which prolonged their existence. [Lon. pap.]

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