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THE STAR
Vv
MISCKLLANV.
1 Vd more tastre on the brow of iu eartr, thia the
r-urti oi ttc l onqueror. He who by the power
if l is i:idiU il ndus!, cdturculs and direct the
Issuer s prejudice and actions of earn- mor ic-
err cl a moruinfTrt fif hrai. than f(w nrniwmr f
. - ? - . . .
. wiitti-w: . i . : succcuu mo one u mecuarucii
-mini fortuitous; -tL4 of the other, ever in proportion
to tint rw.lrr wrv(ia ' ' I -tUk m rv
an J rtsnctf : hut In i-jr in k wirl.l I rr
;Cx3r or Alexander c .TV J?tU .n '-" -
' v Wt.n I IvpI-.L! Ww . V....... ..J
iiirriniinsthii iatfllrriamn nil frnm iKji i-nr. T. fir.
to construct from Inconeruoui materials. lh-Jr
fabrics of truth decorated with the rich and fascinat
ing puintinjjn of Fancy, "my soul thrills with plca-
. ouiwuiq juwuuiuun. ana l invcu iinrjn it er-i tnar
ixvcrCTiuai respect witn which aupertour beings in-
L l Know no man woo txnusvi in an hto-h tfw
? Pwp of Inspiring acininienta and feelinga- of
tl.isu)d, as an eminent Counsellor of the North-!
-.Carolina bar. I never heard lr H.,,,,.- on any
great and importmt ocC-n without feeling m al-
lnotit irresistiltle ainvirtirnv.tlint hi&rjiiiiu w K
aiuc in in in. I a nnninr ic Tkru i n Knoll
iviMuiLc-i uui ucver ucrsuaues : n u a aern. ra.
' luJ and maiesde stream. wI-oka
- i . a. - t v 1 o o im
u ru un uTCMSuuiejmrwosity, yet neveri, aunt io the hey-day of youth, a fine lady
rn";"::; ":r I, " ,! ""'Vr'l was a most formidable animal, and required to
a voice naturiy un-
medyinjr the defect of
harmooiqus, fo though hn tone are outinct
an J mMly, hkI well adapted 13 the deeply icaU
ed pass'ona of hi min4, It may be jecollected
that aner anJ commiseration arc aoundedup
oadiJcrent ka, I coull y try much
that Mr." QuincV woul J form a atill cloaer con
Section with elcxiueoce. Ti through hr
power alone he can wie'unt thi winds and up
on the Vingi of hi a towering oratory he may
afterwards rid the stem t but eloquence must
smooth the way for the figure, of fancy, and
under such circumstances I predict the orator
will be Irresistible.
' my AuivrcHARrrTr
' Departed this life in the fifty -ninth year of
herbage, though she never grew older after
twenty five. In her teens, she was, according
to her own account, a celebrated beauty tho'
I never could meet with any body that remem
bered when she was handsome, on the contra
ry. Evergreen's father, who used to gallant
her in his youth, says she was as knotty a lit
tle piece of humanity as he ever siw ; and that,
if she had been possessed of the least sensibi
lity, she would, like poor old Acct, have most
certainly run mad at her own figure and face,
the first time' she contemplated herself in a
looking-glass.- In the good old times that saw
. -m iuiwoiui: tiiLi VTk wiul u wiiim rnv wuniiKn in . . . . . .
j 1 i y . v- . . innrnarnrci wirn rnp iam rwp flnnfipvminn
uie mows oi Uie jury the independence of the Or-- . V r ' " , . . J rl" j
-tor, disjxwe item to beUeve him the advocate oft V tartr fcel pre-ence of his Grand
truth. f 1 is tot by, lle eleg.mce and Rarmony of;Lma " gQernan offered to take her
eUcdohr by jthe splencHJ imagery of Lm y, or the j hand, except to help her into a carriage, or lead
1 perplexing "wiles of ingenuity, that this mun excites! her ioto a drawing-room, such frowns ! such a
rustling of brocade and taffeta her very paste
shoe-buclles sparkled with indignation, and
for a moment assumed the brilliancy of dia
monds: In those days the persou of a belle
"was sacred ; it was unprofaned by the sacrile
gious grasp of a stranger -im pie souls !
they, had not the Waltz among them yet!
jfy good aunt prided herself on keeping up
this buckram delicacy, and if she happened to
be playing at the old-fashioned g-.une of forfeits,
and was fined a kias, it was always more trou
ble to get it thari it was worth ijorjft made a
most gallant defence, and ' rendered
until the saw her aJvenuru J to give e
ver his attack. Evergrt ca s faiXier says he re
members once to have been on a sleighing
party with her, and whenthry came to Kissing
bridge, it fell to his lot to levy contributions
on miss Charity Cockloft, who, after squalling
at a hideous rate, at length jumped out of tht
sleigh plump into a snow-bank, where she 6tuck
fast like an icicle, until he came to her rescue.
This latonian feat cost her a rheumatism,
which she never thoroughly recovered.
It is rather singular that my aunt, though a
great beauty, and an heiress withal, never got
married. The reaso1jeIedgedwas that
she never met with"( rfsetubled sir
Charles Grandis6n,3nf hero" of her nightl
dreams and waking faricyj but I am privately
of opinion that it was owing to her never hav
ing had an offer. .1 his much is certiin, that
for many years previous to her decease, she
declined all attentions from the gentlemen, and
Contented herself with watchingover the welfare
pt her fellow-creatures. She was, indeed, as
good a soul as the Cockloft family everboasted;
a lady of unbounded loving kindness, which ex
tended to man, woman & child, many of whom
she almost killed with good-nature. Was any
acquaintance sick? in vain did the wind whistle
and the storm beat ; my aunt would waddle
through mud and mire, over the whole town,
but what she would visit them. She would sit
by them for hours together with the most per
severing patience, and tell a thousand melan
choly stories of human misery, to keep up their
spirits. The whole catalogue oiuerb teas was
rttr her fingers' ends, from formidable worm
wood down to Kntle iai,n . ,Am 8j,c woui(i ac
scant, by the hour on the healing qualities of
noar-nouna, catnip, and penny-royal. Woe be
to the patient tiat came under the benevolent
our admiraUon.i.'nd sccui es the cause of his client
v but His If an- honest an-fTuminous exposition of the
. truth and truth alone of his cause. His mind ner-
Ceives and comprehends with facility the most lntri-
atftcasef however involved in the obscurity of lei
li. gal learning? oi-,lost m the chaotic collision of con-
., tnidictory testimony ; and with a,felicity peculiar to
hselfi cUscriqiinates and seizes upon its merits. He
seeks not to confound and peplex his hearers by
, tice and elaborate distinctions ; he idles not his dmc
r- in plastering and white-washing the dark and dc-
irt.iivr. inn nr r.ia rati en mi lompa ts.n.
Impoita6&offte& does he bvestlhem
with light and splendour, that while the fate of his
ouuse seems to rest upon that truth or falsehood, iu
Like a geperoua but skilful warrior he amuses
v not his enemy with delusive motions, nor wastes his
irtrensrth in defending 4inimnort:.Tit KnW.
inaecisive skirmishes of small arms But he march-
uTOuuuimjiuuic irw oi tne enemy, screes
, a postTrom wliich. he never con be dislodged, and
' when he battles, 'us n the thunder Af'tn-tillery.
Mii II. neve engages the attentJcn of his hearers
ttith any thing which is not essentia) to his cause.
' T.Vr U'nl' wVklU Via EnAl.V. "! 1 1 ' 1
cither isyor has the aspect of importance.. He ne
ver asks for oughtbut what he has a right to de
mand; and he seldom asks m vain. , The oaasinn
lie never" condescends to atldress : the weakness of!
luunuiiKv is a immnai wnrcn tne cugnify ot his ge
r.Ius disdaifts tb solicit. To the tin-one of reason he
appeals, and when that unerring g&ldess decrees in
lis favour, he turns in contempt from pasdon and
imperfously demands Lis riht,
- As a marfof learnint; in his profession, Mr. H. is
equalled by lew aiid surpass'd by hone at the Bar of
! Worth-V6rolina.T Jiyt the cnrainal law has been the
sulject of his particular attention, and as an advocate
he stands imrivalled. Altho? ortlinary occasions do
not call rforth that energetic and impressive elo
quence for which Mr. II. is so hichlv disdnsuished.
yit he never speaks without commanding 4he most
deferential attention, vln" his figure he is inclined to
he corpulent, but in his countenance there is fparti-
,. cuiany waen aramatea at me Dar; an imposing tiig
. - it y of expression, .which, added to the uncommon
- v sound of his. voice, leaves upon the mind of the ie-
holder an impression ne'vtrjo be effaced. --
When the existence of a" fellow-being is in jeo
; ardy, when life or death Js the great and interesting
qucttuuu, Avr. i. nsea la me majesty oi ms genius.
The subject theCountenarce of tlieadvocate,""the
enerey of his manner and tha nreternatin al soW.m".
tiity of Jus voice on such occasions, inspire a Jury
with a sensation' noTuhhke that of awe, and fix them
in the deepest attention. ,JJut when his premises
are established,' when he deduces with irresistible
energy and increased animation his conclusions -vhen
he raises. his voice, arid speaks to them, some
times in the words of the great Shakespeare, some
times in the solemn language of holy writ ; but a-
. boye ajl, when, like the wand of a mighty magician,
he stretches forth his right-hand, which at the acme
of his argument falls with thunder, upon the Bar,
- the spell is completed ; the astonished Jury hear a
voice" and language which seems not of this world ;
doubt is dispelled ; conv ictioq is stamped on their
' . minds j and even the criminal himself is amazed that
he should appear so innocent. "
CURIO.
Mr. oniisrrv
fs linquestionably possessed of all the
cardinal' attributes of ar orator. His trea
sury ofi classic fore and -polte literature is
ao uttrly; ; inexhaustible that,- (nder the eui.
Glance o an exact judgement, he strikes ortthe
, flmt of sciehce thosf iparkt of intellectual fire
that elicit the brilliant coruscations of a glow
; ing fancy. jUis laiTguage is remarkably choice
and energetic, his style chaste and. lofty, his
?r"u' ' 4n?a5,nai,Pn pien-
. a itougn
tn nt. tnp iiilioiw ntA .U- : 1 ' r
, r wiu uui uie HrunrEsn nt ma
action. : His manners are perfectly yell bred
but there is an. austerity- in his politeness that
,. Ws address has not suavity enough to correcti
, A few provincial pecuUaritips observable in this
gentlemen pronunciaticnV are evidfim Afi
laities m his classical phraseology; V I ra weji
. w ooscrvcjuut Alt Stuncy is fast ''nt
nana oi my 4unt- Uiarlty, he was sure, willy
nilly, to be drenched "with a deluge of decoc-
tions and'tuH many .a time has mv cousin
Christopher borne a twinge of pain in silence,
through fear of being condemned to suffer the
martyrdom ot her materia-medica.- Mv crood
aunt had, moreover, considerable skill in astro
nomy, for she could tell when the sun rose and
8et yejy Ay 5n the yar S and no woman in
the, whole world was able to pronounce, with
morcertainty, at what precise minute the
monchanged. She held the story of the
moon s ueing maae ot green cheese, as a rf abo
minable slander on'her fevouriplanet ; and
viaoie discoveries in
solar eclipses, by ipaflfoT a bit of burnt glass,
which entitled 1?er at least to an honorary ad-
mrfflon in the American Philosophical Socie
ty. Hutchin's Improved was her favourite
book and I shrewdly suspect that it was from
this valuable work she drew most of her sove
reign remedies for colds, coughs, corns and
consumptions.
Uut the truth must be toldwith all her
good qualities my aunt Charity was afflicted
wijth one fault, extremely rare among her pentle
SeX It Was CURIOSITY. " How she cam hv it
am. ?Vlp.89 cimagine, but it played the ve-
y. vengeance witn ner and destroyed the com
fort of her life.- Ilavini? an invincible desire
to know evjrjr body's character, business, and
mode of livincr, she tvis forever Drvinir intn'the
ffwf hei neighbours, and got a great deal
ui m wiii, irom people towards, whom she had
V on t!i eppesite li !e cf t',e stre tt rave adin'-
ncr, toy woOd rtiouct htr ipectadr s, ar.J
sit a the window until the t- pany were s
housc J, merelv that she ro'rl t knew ho they
wereU If she heard Story dout any f her
acquaintance, she Would, forthwith, scto!TfuU
sail and never rest until, to use her usual ex
pression! she riad got ta the bottom of it,"
which meant nothusg mcre thad telling It to
every body she knew. 7-; - . 1
I remember oat eight my aunt chanty hap.
pened to hear most precious story about one
of her good friends, but unfortunately too late
to give it immediate circulation It made her
absolutely miserable j and she hardly, slept a
wink all night for fear her bosom-friend Mas.
SirKiNS, should get the start of her in! the
morning and blow the whole affair. You muft
know there was always a' contest between these
two ladies, who should first give currency to
thsTgood natured thing said about every bodv,
and this unfortunate' rival&hip at length prov.
ed fatal to their long and ardent friendship.
My auat got up full two hours that morning
ueiore her usual time ; put on her pompadour
taffeta gown, and sallied forth to lament the
misfortune of her dear friencL -Would you be
lieve it! wherever she went Mrs. Sipkins
had anticipated her ; and, instead of being lis
tened to with uplifted hands and open-mouthed
wonder, my unhappy aunt was obliged to sit
J .1 J I- . .1 1,1 .r
uuwn n'uciiy auu usicu 10 uie wnoie anair, witn
numerous additions, alterations and 7 amend
ments ! Now this was too had ; it would "al
most have provoked Patient Grizzle or. at saint
it was too much for my aunt, who kept her
ucu lor uircc uays ajicrwarus, witn acoia as
she pretended ; but I have no doubt it was ow
ing to this affair of Mrs. Sipkins, to whom she
never would be reconciled. e -;
But I pass over the rest of fl aunt' Chari
ty's life, checquered with the various calami
ties and misfortunes and mortifications, inci
dent to those worthy old gentlewomen whd
nave mcaomeauc cares oi Uie whole commu
nity uporr their minds ; and I hasten to relate
the melancholy incident that hurried her out
of existence in the full-bloom of antiquated
virginity. '"l..
In their , frolicksome malice the fates had
ordered that a French boardinK-house, or Fen-
xion rrancaisfo as it was caiied, should be cs-
taniistied directly opposite my aunt a residence.
Cruel event ! unhappy aunt Charity J-i-it threw
her into that alarming disorder denominated
the fidgets; she did nothing hut watch at the
window day after day, but without becoming
one wnii tne wiser at tnc end ot a fortnight
than she was at the beginning i she thought
that neighbour Pension had a monstrous large
family, and some how or other they were all
men ! she could uot imagine what business
neighbour Pension followed to support so nu
merous a household, and tvondertd why there
was 'always hiich a scraping of fiddles in the
parlour, and such a svnell .f onions from neigh
bour Tension's kitchen: in short, neighbour
Pension Va's' continually uppermost in her
thoughts and incessantly on the outer edge ol
her tongue. This was, I bt lieve. the very
first time she had ever fail'd 1 i to get at thl
bottom of a thing," and "the disappointment,
cost her many a sleepless night I warrant you.
I have little doubt, however, that my aun!
would have ferrettcd neighbour Pensjori out,
could she have spoken oY understood Frentl.
but in those times people in general could make
themselves understood in plain English" f and
it was always a standing rule in theXockloft
family, which exists to this day, that not one
of the females should learn French. .-vv .
My aunt Charity had lived at her window
for some time in vain, when one day as she was
keeping her usual look-out, 'and suffcrW all
tne pangs ot unsatished curiosity, she beheld a
little meagre, weazel-raced tTenchman, of the
most forlorn, diminutive gand pitiful propor
tions, arrive at neighbour Pension's door, lie
was dressed in white, with a little pinched up
cocked bat"; he ieemed to shake in the wind,
and every blast thai went over him whistled
through his bones and threatened instant anni
hilation. This embodied spirit of famine was
followed by three carts, lumbered with crazv
trunks, chests, band-boxes, bidets, medicine
chests, parrots and monkeys,' arid at hii heels
ran?,a yelping pack of little black , no'std pug
dogs. This was the one thing wanting to fill
up the measure ot my aunt Charity's affliction :
she could not conceive, tor the soul of her.who
this mysterious little apparition could be that
made so great a display; what he could possi
bly do with so much hacrtrnsre, andbarticularlv
witn ms parrots anamonKeys ; or howsg small
i - . f
a carcase couiu nave occasion lor so mauy
truuks of clothes. Honest tout J she had ne
ver had a peep into a Frenchmans wardrobe.
that depot of old coats,.hats and breeches, of
the growth ot every tashjon he has followed in
his life. " -rt ; '
From the time 6f this faalarrjvar my poor
aunt was in a quandary 4 her inquiries were
fruitless no one could expound the history of
tms mysterious stranger she never held up
her head afterwardsdrooped dailytook to
her bed in a fortnight, and in 7 one little
month" I saw her quietly deposited in the ; fa
mily vault being the seventh; Cockloft that
has died of awhim-wham J '"'fffi u
Take waming, my fair Country-women ? and
you, oh, ye excellent ladies whether married
or single, ,wno pry ihtooihef pebple'a affairs
and neglect those of your o wn household.w hn
own re ru;
rity, and rsc!
la
rr ii.e Utecl trvd',-
cw the evil spirit tf cu.
; fTbe Hoo. Doctor Miuhrllcf
lately favoured the Editor tiith at ,cu
sioa,of 9rte'C:se ar.J ChcrrVee I
Songs, from lhilntcr; retaticn J a .,
Missionary, v They were f un5 aun er.it. .
mcnt given to the Cl.U U i;o i-tc.t tin
made a visiuoptkiu' :.t JcTtrion. A 1.
of ours, when reading tj.c Fiench Lra-..'a
hastily turtxd two of these sorg. into Er:
prose, & Icftlu work wrh the Kd' t.
thts, Ve are aorry to uy, Dr. M ittLu'.'s e
oa was mislaid. Eat rather d.ja av.! 1
these rarities entirelyfrora the curicivv t
publish the tw sOnr; w hich remain in I - - .
session. . . J c , .,
. " Brave Companions, Friends feno-r ,:
Dattle, we have come to hear the vU u'
our High Father. ,To see him we have pa.
oyer rivera and lakes, traversing theloug v.:.
lies,' arid cllming Uh lofty hi Us between" this
our-clear native laud. .. ; .i. j.V .
u The great Spirit has", preserved usr- O i
mighty Master of Life and Breath hhth. turn, d
from us the arrow of accident,, has , saved
from hunger and cold, that here we miht learn
the lessons of wisdom. ' Ked Men !You lave
beheld this great White Father,! You have rt n
how a good Chief gives happiness to his CM!,
dren, and Bowhis children love him in tht'
heprts; fT -. t'v'.V?.-;-'
' And thou, greaAhlsf of Our atiorn 1
at this moment ranges tlu-bi'gh the foreEtt'
lie far beyond those hills of the; west,' J,;.!
come without fear, and smoke a'calumet v
him who is good like dsclfi Thi" path is
pen. No Enemy lurks in the Dush; : We t
form a' file behind thee. 'We will guide t!
dauntless, to our new White Father,' that tl.
mayeSt hear the wisdom of his talk." t'
IV.WSOAGOriVJX-JtPJlSILl.l
" Why, Warriors, when the Battle comps
the screams of the foe echo among the hill
Why s tay to think that death may lay you !
on the field 1 , " A vCy'
" Whether you chase the foe as he flies f
you, or whether ycu fly from lumjnfcafjdi
is the lot of all. .t -
" Confide in your chief He will shew '
the ambush where the entmy Jurk-lle will 1
you on ta glory 8c victory His arm alonr
meet their strength Drive them hack-wi'
in fear or stretch them, bloody ,"on the f.
f Battle v?
Unite li March on tny watriors ;Ve t
to the foe as the fury ' of the. tempest. - 7 i
Tihbwiwe are terrible iu Battle. T They fe;'
tjheet our rushing attack. ?They tremble. '1
i5 ruuKu a ucyuy away
- INpUSTRY;' ,.v
The character of Queen Maryvwrittt
Bishop Burneti is a delineation of every i
virtue, and every female graced; He makts
iy, that she looked upon idleness as the gr
corruptor of human nature that if the " n.
had noiven employmcnt,it would create ; r
of the worstlo Itself s and she JhouEht tl.. .
ny thing which'might amuse and divert, v
out leaving a dreg or Impression behind,
to fill up those vacant hours J" which are
claimed by diversion or. h'isiness' When
eyes," says the Bishop, VV-erey endangrti
reading too much, she found jout sthe - imt
ment ot work and in iU those hours that v
not given to better 'employments; she : wrtut
with her own hands, and that .sometimts tt i
so constant a diligenceuas if she " had been
earn her bread by it. Her example soon wr'auj
on, not only those that belonged to her, tut t
whole town, to- follow tt : , so ' that 1 1 was 1
come as much the fashion to worki as it I
been to be idle."
" As I,am ipeakingofphjlosophv,says t"
earned author Of the Pursuits of Literati,
" I may be'ex'cust d if I 'say aw words of tl.
language, in which jts poyerH has been mc
conspicuous., 1 see no more pedantry - in t :
knowledge and study of the Greek tbnjrue. th;
of the French orihe Germani Butwhen Icr
aioertnat every subject in philosophy, in ;hi
tory, in oratory, and in poetry 'ivhatjtve T ce
dignify or eml?ellish human societyi its m:f
cuuiyatea wate ns mere found the I. hest at
thours ; that he principles-of compt, cion tu
better taught and more fufly exempt Ud,th:;r
n any otner janguace that the Greet Wr uero
are the universal .legislator irj "taste,T .riticisin
and just composition, frora ;which' ih4rt.i3 yro
appeal ; I , would, with a": peculiar- emphasis
and earnestneM recommended ; the study of
Scho61
u v uie instruction of vouti m n ik T.-itW r-
. t ' ""s,wi!t ngn grammar, ucog'rapr.j,'
will be opened on Ihe first of MrcJi"nnt.
ty, about. fifteen miles above Salisbury, under tho Wm
dute liir?tiou of the Re. JOSEPH IK KrjLTATRrtJK.-,
1 ij?rice or. 1 nition IU be Twelve -llulW.se aric! of b6w'.
ingiForryllanar a year. 5 jRoCrcHjig-mhy bo-V.ad.la gtn
teel in tbnghbmut,oo,rd Wcr.b(y-:onyni-'
raU. of young men who niay be sent to tilia plie'e for .in-
cry
m :1
nPne SiAicribar has a JTStlEKY tn HowketEvipr.
- J. 1 .tonics, below Tforflett'a Ferry, in Scoti-rHcl Krtk, I'
Iiax emmty, where he will barter Fish for Tobacoo, CA-
iw ai ywunavejio time to correct your
iwtpait(n possiBie.; ' xi anv iamii-,; r - siy-j-:,'. .-. , -vjauu uui-j. jw -