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! v r the Muses. v. The following simple and pathetic poem a from thp$n of Dr. Logan, an eminent his torian of Scotland. Coleridge himself a mvisc of no humble .fame, b,as propoqnced it the ?not exquisite performance in our language'. It is in the sweetest manner of Burns i put its execution is even superior d the most affecting piece of 'that! hea-' Nrentaught bard. ' The second and the th stanzas' 'art full beautyi ' T '.quick transition in the second,' from the wedding, day to the lover's RraVeyTs riot 5 more unex pected than touching. - Not a word in the English language- could havebeen more happily selected, than the epithet wed--ded" in the next to the laslTine. -The whole song displays no little art in imita ting the manner of the dama,and keeping our curiofcity alive, until ; the conclusion of the tale, when the real fate of tie lover for the first time breaks upon ui. - - .'.' " Enquirer - " ; song. . ,'.;. TBB BHitS OP rjRROlTf Thy braes were bonny, Yarrow stream I. When first on them I metmy lqver ; v; Thy braes how dreary, Yarrow stream ! . When no w thy wves his body cover I .. ' Forever, now, Q Yarrow stream ! Thou art to .me a stream of sorrow i For never on thy banks shall J. . . T Behold my. love, the flower of Yarrow I ' lie promised me a milk-white steed, , To bear me to his father's bower? j t He promised me a little page To squire me to his father's towers, , He promised me a wedding ring . The wedding day was fix'd to-morr,pw ! Now he is wedded to his grave 3 j Alas I his watery grave in Yarrow. . Sweet were his words when last we met, ,", My passion I as freely told him ! " Clasp'd in his arms, I little thought That I should never more behold him t Scarce was he gone I saw his ghost 1 It vanished with a shriek of sorrow I hrice did ihe water wraith ascend, And gave a doleful gvoaa thro Yarrow! 'lis mother' from the window look'd With all the longings of a mother ; is little siiter wcepinj; walk'd The j'reen wood path to meet her brother, They sought him east, tbey sought him wes', They sought him all the Forest through j Tl . . .1 1 I r:..L They only heard the roar of Yarrow I . No longer from the window look, ' Thou lust no son, thou tender mother I No longer ylk,thou )ovely nuid I Alas ! ihfut hast no more a brother, No longer seek him east, or west, . . And scorch no mure the forest through For 'wanclefthgin the n'ight o dark, He fell a lifeless corpse in Yarrow ! Tht wuttr ftnl ; sometimes called the hcljist The following loaft was given by Mr. J. Smith, at ChirMfwn, Mairabufeui Thomas -fl"erron, Prefident of the Unite.l States, wbtltvtlt hit Irtajltvirk dfi'ht hit tanntn, lartt tit faftm It tkr tit tnemitt, anl gives tne deep e't wound by a dignified file ice." . This is a complete anfwer to the paltry fcribhlers, who are ofiea aflciag, why doei not Mr. Jfffeifoii vindicate himfe'f? The great Walhbg'on did rot dtf.enl from his h;gh ftation as commander of our armies or as PrefiJcnt of the Union to con. tend agairft bis enemies, but when he re tired 10 private lit he informed ihe pub lic, that certain letters, which had t affed as his in wrtim wrrerrr. AH great ardgodd men, while employ, td in emancipating their country, expect as a matter of coarie, that Sad men, the enemies of liberty, will feck their de .ilruc'ion and will not be fciupuloul at to the meant. Walhirgon fought to five his country ffoin Uiitifh tvrsnny JefTerfon's lite has been c ppofoi to federal tyranny ; each was fttcccdful, tut their humble adveifa. lici have never ceafed lo hate and abufe then-.. - Argtli ire unfclicltcut about the rcfent. mentor spf-sufricf the sntiof a mole ,M.I ; atd as little dm Mr. JcfTsiloncsre about li e buly Icribblert, vhogsin their bread by defaming him. Do fedffi'..fli e 1 peel tic prefn'ent of the United Slates to rife in the muring and erquire what MoCci Hatch and Tom Collier think a houihtin) Shall he a(k how hit admin Oration foils mercbantt' (teiks snd boys t icllce fhall h reply lo Caliendci's floret and Tnm Turner Wttetif Mr. JrffcifonlooVt back on a life devo. ted to hit country ( he feet himfclf placed In the frcfiJential chair in oppofiiion to all the fewer, the wealth and lubtlcly of ciltfiVifoi. He fctt the maligntnt flan. den of four years conclufivcly at.ferfd by 16a votet sgalnft footteen. Living tn the cornJeftCt, itfptcl and sflTcclioos of il.ilht of the people of the Uni'cd States, ht C0f.fd(Btly Intit hit hf$J1 u tri, Jtiht h'l ttnntn, hrtt hit htm tt ih fttftt tl 1 be to b; a cMg&ified CUr.cr. lt"utftt NEVVBERN, QELohct 4. iH ATX ERAS LIGHT-HOUSE. ? Ba gentleman juft arrived n tows. front Cape Hatteras, we leant that ihe dome jqj that,buuJing naiuitcrei con G4ej;abc injury Tn the . late florrhsjand, that the keeper purpoies to oucontinue the Light till 'thelanihorrTis tbouroiighljr repaired."':"' It feemMo bcateiiaf to the fifety ol Teflels navfgiifi'ng that coaft that this fa'cl fhoulcf be made public ; left by endeavouring to make the Light : as cus tomary, they fiiould run on ffioreHy ihii- t&kin? their diftance from' dancer. We are rather furprited that we have not fcen antr official'' notice of this very material accident : , TceW that lome "weeks have eta'pfed fince ?t hkppencd, rYt have heen ' favored with the 'following . . account of the lajt Storm. SHELL-CASTLE, Sept. 29; About 12 o'clock lad evening a pale at E. E. Commenced and jncreafed in its "violence. until about 4 A, M,' when U Ihifted to E. S. E. and blew the moft "tremendous florin, ever I(belicye, witnesf fed' by a human being, .until fin o'clock. when it cot further o the, fouihward, and finally to W.' W. where it Hill on tinues to blow with esceuive forcev 1 he 'Cutter belonging 10 this Ration under the camtmnJ of Cant.' Henderfon, upfct and funk at her anchors. lie thank God with "five of the crevr are favcir, three poor ,fef. lowB,' belonging to her; are loi, their name? are Srtdirtck Cbrrry , jfactb (a Ruflia'n,) and J. G. Remain. . Nearly all the lighters of the navigation funk, a!hnr, or difoidfted. In Wallace' channel, ths fhip Gapt. MKeel of Waihington, main and mixen malt gone, alhore, The fhip Connelta, Common, of waimngioPj amore ; tne icnooner Bracket, mafler,- beH&ngin to Meffrs, M41 fhes of Wafhington, athore & funk, a fch'r belongingto Mr. Eborn of Waihing ton, difmalted, alhore and funk, fchoaner. Mount Vernon, Fifher, of Netvbern, loft entirely, but it is believed no lives loft. A f a?a 1 1 Hoop which arrjveJ laft evening from Jamaica, with rum, name unknown yet, upfct on the eaft point of Beacon IQ and, the people are now fcen on her bot tom, there is fome profpeft of them and the cargo being faved. Schooner Hori 7on, Jerkins, ft Tl I at anchor above the Swafh, main mad cut away. Sloop Unu on, Keais, alhore difmalled. In fhort buhone vc(Tcl in the whole navigation a float and all (landing, and that a fingular mltance ot4prefervaticn ; it is a lighter belonging to Mr. James Jones of New. bern, who (tiuck adrift with two anchors a head, at the CaflV, and drifted two and a half miles to the Royal flioal, where (ae brought up, and rode out the llorm only one fmill black boy on board. I have now to add, to ihe tale of def trillion, the total, lofs of the immcnfely valuable, philofo, hical and mathematical ir.ftiu'vents of Col Tatham, he ycflerday . ptjt them on board the Governor Wil liams for the purpofe of having them conveyed to Newbern, and they re now buried with Iut, in two fathom water 1 Althft there is no dotiht, but Capt. Hen detfon will be sble to get her up, we fear all the apparatus will be totally mired, a a lof vhiih vhile it may be ruinous to the C'l"nel, is to be fincciely, deplored by ti e lo? rrs of fctence. Dc'cr.piion cannot paint, nor imagina tion crnctve, the force cf the fra; it was iinpe-U'ti, and iriefidible, it fliuck and on llriking drlugrd, or dilmaftel, the un- opi'ofir.g viclim of its michty power. During the gale, ihe oil i.i the lamp of the Beacon look fire, and b'ew out 36 panes of glafs the light tf courfe will not be in operation for fome cavs to cone, f We are happy to learn frcm Col. Tatham who arrived in town yefterday, that his loft dated in Ihe above communi cation doct not include hit IVilofophical apparatus, which was chu fly left in Vir ginia and feot up to Newlern before the U or ni commenced Hit work for public account, a valuable sflirtmei:! of loftru. mrntt, Cot kt, Ptpert and clothinz are 1 however, funk in the Cutter, and cannot be replaced. OCCACOCK. Sept. 10. The Cutter Dilipcnce arrived from fra on the aSth infl. In lha evening about fun down and anchored dole t bhcll Caftle bearing N. E. a gale came on at N. E,' about to oclotx atd at twelve blew a mod violent rale 1 The Cutter upon per ceivinr the violence of the rile and the fca flying ttr In fuch quantities at to endinser herfunJering, threw her etms overboard, and while In the afl ef cuiimg awsy her anaftf, (he broke drift and run foot of a fusil fchoorcr on a fhml ahut a mile from the Csfltc bcsrlre W, S." W. and there funk. The olCcert and Crew retreated on board the little fchooner furvived the tale and were taken off at fion st the westhsr weuM permit W the humsniiy ef governor Wallace mi Mr, Turk ik UK.kii.nt. tsn th. r.nu , 1 withoat being able to Cava ofcoathinc whateYer One of the com-s 'miflioneri for furveyingtiiccoaftpf North- Carolina, was. on board, and i nomas Coles, E(q ; we are forry. to add that all nis papers ana enccts pi every tina were bMned in the ruins of -the vuttef, one or the crew, an active young mat:, only was ioit,anJ we are happy to announce that trie officers, commiffiorer and trew are gene rally in good health. rrom prefent ap pearance' there is very Httte hope of the recovery ct the Uutter or any ot her ef fects, Ihe being at this moment feven feet under water. There is fcarcely a finglc yeftel in the vicinity ofthe Caftle that is not (lranded,and many very valuable lives. Io.lt to the community, tho , confidertng the fury and fadneU of the gale, the Io(s of lives have not been fo great s might nave been expected. - EDEN TON, Sept. t7. By Capt. Williams of the fchooner Fanner, airived here on Friday laft from Norfolk, where he put in in diftrefs, hav ing fprung his main-ouft in the late fevere (form, which has done fo much damage on j the coatt, we pre informed, that jiooi 2 tp 24 fail of vpflsils. little and big, were tfifinafted an.! on lhore auhe Bar, in the laft gale, which took place 00. the ad inlf. many of which, it is expected, will not t)e' got off. He faw in the Croetan Sound, bottom upwards, the fchr Charming Pol ly, commanded by Capr. John VVhedbee, mentioned in our laft as upfet and all bands drowned. Since writing the above, we arc infor med, by an arrival, yefterday morning, that one of the negroes, named Sampfon, was feen floating near the Bluff, a diftance of near 50 miles from the wreck. The capiain and the reft of the crew, it is be lieved in the neighbourhood of Croetan are in tne cabin, or confined by the ludlioa- y of the ycfT-l in or near the hatchway: 1 7 Accounts from Cape Hattcras. afford alfo diftrefling news of the violence of the gale cf the ad jnft. A perfon from thence informs, that, the fituation of the inhabitants on the Banks was confi icrcd extremely perilous at times "duiiog the llorm the wind blew with fuch violence as to occafnn the tide's rifing two or three feet into fevcral of their boufes, and it was txpetlc I thai a few hour's continu ance of the gale would proye fatal to every perfon there The wind was fp aftonilh ingly fevere as to twift flurdy oakt, of ihe thicknefs of a man's body, from their roots, anJ fcatter the limbs in the air loa ?reat diftance At ihe boatt in the inCde of . the Banks, as far as the eye cotilJ dif cover, or as our informant heard of, were either difinafted, overfet or otherwife to tally loft. Oa the coaft fevcral puncheons of ruin, otanges, timet, lemons, pine ap. le, and other articles of Weft.India pro duce, were driven alhore, and (laves and fhingles were feen in every direction along more. ! ne JUignt.tiouie, on (Jape Mat- tcras, received fuch injury about the Cai and Lanthern, as to be incapable of bcieg ngnteJ up tor tne preient. .1 BALTIMORE, September 20. One tf Jtnme'i Squadron taltn. By a pilot who arrived heie yeft'rday morning from the Caper, we Iern, that a liti? riff far m tim X7 tlt difmifte I, and nearly a wreck (ho made fienals of diilrrli, when he approached hr lor the purpoie o bitnK'ne her hj the kt eiancaxe, at wnun nme an tngmn 74 A. f 1 1 liove in light, hred a broadace into 'he Frenchman, who immediately ftrock. We fur her learn that the oflicert and men ' were taken out and landed at Norfolk, anJjthe ilup burnt. . The Journal du Commerce of the lith of July mention), at a fmgular ciicunt- (lance in the annals of French juvifpru dence, that a fuit in law had occupied for two davt, the attention cf the tribunal of CorrtQiwl ftll(ft In which Mr. J, Cox Barnet, American conful at Havre, was plaintiff", and Mr. O'Met'y, an Americaa merchant, defendant. The fotmtr accus ed the la'ter with having publicly afTault ed him by giving him a flap on the face, and laid his damage at 3500 francs. The defendant wat found guilty, snd fentenced lo pay a fie cf cko Iranct, 500 of which to be deftributed 10 the poor. September i fravtVeri reUte incredible ih'mfi. There it now in this ciir a Traveller from live banks of the Miftouri he hat In nil rinlTfTin -n -M.Mia II T-.. V of the M Mammoth. He declares, that whilft fcarihinf for tntnet on the banks rf that river, he and his comradtt difcovercd irifl of ground of about one mile foars , conialnlrg (fit feet below the far face) a teneral laysrof bonrscl anlmmenfe fiU. HeofTert tocoalracl for the entire SktU eion of a Mammoih that fhall be 64 fret pn and it in Nlfhr, deliverable nut hrf dumber in thitciiy. The middle claw i, 1 ,w- 1 , v . . ; . thai Icall8licla) n,eme BO!n, ,n t. uu. ,v r. ancT in each iaw are t snormout ftlnderj. four above and four below-rbwtJe fays. his party were unable to difcov-er whether t he animal had a tail, wheal liviqg, or other- rife. He prefutned thefe bonis have lam fince the flood, in their rirefeat cdnditionv He caajed the tooth to the AJuIcutn. .'. September 34 SxirtS ei Utter iatrd '. , . NtW'OitLXAM, Aug. 1. ' By. i letter which, arrived in towii this day. sve are informed, that 900 Spa- , . niards have pafled over ,the Sabine river. and Rationed them lei ves within if tm lea ot Nachitoches. The Anwricaa troops are now makins preparations 10 meet them;" n ... SxtraSJ nfa letter fort a gentleman tf 'high ... refpeftabililji in IVilkinfan $$ntyt Mts Jtjjippi Territory, to his Jr tend in this ityt dated Augujl ig, 1806. " I have only time to (late to you bjr;ep ly, an exprefs has juft pafled to Natchcs from Natchitoches, with difpatches to) governor Claiborne, general W'iikkifon or our own governor, (perhaps to ail of them) 1 he (the exprefs) avows that Spanifh fo;ce of eight hundred foldicrs, and nearly as many Indians, were on, their march for and within a few miles qf the Adais, a poft eighteen miles from Nachi toches. far within our limits, and from which they were laft year driven by a par ty of. our troops, under captain Turner. If this is true, and of which there is hot a doubt, we (lull have a brufh ; for furely our government wit) pot fnbntit to. their occupying a poft, from which they , have been once driven j Of this, more by tho next mail. from the fame It the fame, dated Aug. . . 1 wrote you by uft man, informing; 011 a eonude-rabie bpanillt force was d vancing towards Natchitochetyour weftern frontier. ' It is'now well afecrtained that gov. Arara,' with about 1000 men, andl fomojlndiant, has taken pofleflion of the . Adats, a poft from which they were dri ven by captain Turner laft year. Gover nor Arara has declared to our comtnane dant at Natchitoches (col. Cufhing,) that in iniciiwoii ii 10 uxe ana Keep ior nis king and mafter the territory between tho Sabine river and the Arago Hondo (fome- umes cauea tne Noadokec,) about 0 miles. irom Natchuocho. Colcnel Cufhtng is manccuvringhis troops, and will be joined oy colonel tone Ibcrry, nd hit detachment from Fori-Adamt: what will ther be done it is iniooflihla 10 coplcflure. whether they will be furlered to take the boa led Louiflana back by fmall dUiiaj, or drive ui into the Gulph dream at one (Iroke, it yet to he afceriained. They have fo long plundered us with impunity. have violated our territory, taken our ci tizens from withm our own limits, and have gone unpunilhed, that we have little hope of relief frbai our general govern ment 1 and I am fearful, fiiuaud as we are, with but a fmall number of regular troops,'a bad) nrganifed militia ; approx imaiing to the Florid!, a great many of i'ie iuhabiianis of which are old toilet and cnt-ihioats; furroui.ded by a great number of Indian tribes, with wl om ve have tea. fun to believe our neighbors are conftantlf ijriguit,g, we are much more critically fituaicd tr.an our general government have any idea of; convinced as our adminit t ration muft be, of the iramenfs value of Louiflana, equal to any part of our contia' nent of the fame magnuuJe, and I believe, of mote importance, it would appear fl range why it is left to long in a defence left condition." Extratt Jem the Otleant Gazette tf tht - Jur, uj. ' By letters received this morning, w learo, that the governor of Taiui, wiih about 900 Spanifh troopt had paffeJ tht Sabiae river, and had advanced within tl milet of Natchiiochtt that major Porter nad fenta flag enquiring ihnr intention t their aofwer wa, that l her woulJ occupy their former poGtion, and not ad 00 the cflcnfive. " It it the opinion of the writer, that si aflion Ixtwren our troopt ad them has taken piece before thii, ublefs the Spi oiardt hare fallen back.' ExtreS 1 4 Utter from WafhUgton Citji dated Sett. to. " A lettr r received laft nigkt, via New York, by Mr. Madifon, from our cooful at Nar.tt, informs, that about the irh cr 6th July, fl forju wbkh) PEACE mSISNEDatrarjiDetwtsoErttsnJ and France, anJ that two days previoui, the fame had taken place with Kedja Thlt yrm will hare heard robbfy 'am t!iii, 1 have meniioneJ Ii as It is pofSble that the Infermaiioa may not tare been generllly knewn at Namsat the date oC the conful's letter, Aug. 1, and as fuck Irppsnant raws It foittlmet fupprctTri . r " ,vl "T l " ior ntpv, iwr n I'uiponoi twmmtrtlal . '""T" " I . . . w ge"r 1 1 "i.i,Jv,ii. l3ffP n pi 01 icryice 19 rw. w v.
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