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J v AUTUMN." THE amilet of ih Smut! arc pat, , Tlx labour of riora are cVri vAh V kuodi too charming to last, ' . 1 And almost too fleet to deplore, r Of late, like the tailor m (ray, Whosingt i lb top nf t' throoAv ' Tb Urk from on high tun'd his lay, . , 'sw Men, Mid now kwt hi the tloud. OfUtp h iw the banks were arrayd, t ' -WUcreter yon rivuteta run : Of lute, and the. swain sourht the shad ', To hide from tbe raja of the sun. ? ' - These seasons are put O how frail!, Lika cteTB of th morning they fiy- ' - J v Tlie flawr has ftra&kra the Tide, ... t The tenant of ether, the air. - ..a wart the wild element ware Chill A em has taken his stand - Atwt IMini d Wm Iia. ftjk hMn.M ... The horroura of WiTa at blind . . Ah me J how august, how sublime! . ; A lesson f. if wiai.im is Iters 5 - .' Jlow swift are the foot -steps of lame, ; i low transient uie imies ot uic ycari ' . ..." ru-.iMnf fifVinittt dr? - V y l ewumn at farth'st, la. near j 4 - . -' . Th-n let us be wise while we may, . . ti e tune steal a march on oar rear". V a", , Ijet at husbaud, wtlUcre(leat it die ; - The taper of life, While it bum, ' And learn to toiprore, at they fly, ; - The da) s which can never return. .. J r ron THE STAR. . , : TO LUBIN-Srrr H.) 'v ' O IuWn, since I find thee tru", ' ' "c No more with anguUh halt thou bunt, For now I will cansmitft sue -' To tlite for p.iy in my turn, . Heaven knows. I neVw did ft-el ' t - . ' "Hie ftii(?er wlych my eyes have shewn ' Each aik-h which from your breast did steal Ws like a dagger to my 6wn. . v - ' r' , ' Come Lubin, then, beloved youth i!. -i r : Touch hy melodious lyre spKin," ; And answer with thy.wonied truth " - ' " unto my simple' sylvan strain. them yoa of a place iftVie S'r, bjir.wrtlr. will LUrs . SUCSCR1CLH- c ' LOTTEIULS. " .. To-all Lot'.rt I n oppoeJ, t U ecms certiin, they mvf have an injurioua effctt kj on the public moral. The meant are within every man's reach of obtaining a prize, tuperior to anjr reward of talent, or remuneration ol msny yean industry. , Many an apprentice U tempted to pilfer from hit matter' , counter, many chambermaid improve opportunities for stealing with Impunity, and many a labour er cheat his family of their bread, to adven ture upon the ocean of chance in hope of im mense profit, which will render such practices unnecessary in future All private Lotteries are fomiduen under heavy penalties, and if public one! only render the evil of gaming more extensive, why are they allowed F It is the meanest way legislature ever pursues ol rcutive cor.aeqatDce to inu jeoer luwiuc term'muoa in the wrat i!c cf Britaic2 u i the tip is are to tr.e sunk A hrue whicn hat aa east tad wett front hat at aH hour the tun t rays pouring with fall force into the doors and window, and up on the body of the house on one aide or the other during the whole day. The afternoon sua in such houses shoots hit long beams with burniog intentenets through their doora and window upoo the wole sxsr and upon trre whole aide - of.ths house,' This might fca tolerable residence for a Salamander, but u an' Intolerable one for the ha man specie. - It is the nursery of fever and deprives even the healthy of comfort.- . ' X I But a house that has a southern aspect with few or do inlets to the sun' rays on the east orjwest, receives so few directly within it that it seems tobe situate in anothrer climate. -Will not- these remarks occasion those whi RELIGIOUS IXTJuLUCi:: -.' o . - ' . I I . . . . , . .. laying a tax. Hundreds of gambling house nem observe the advantage! nd dis are licensed in Paris and pay large gratuities advantages of a house haying a particular di- the . corrupt government that encourage them; thousands of . the strumpets also arc employed, as spies, and Talleyrand would ne ver diminish their numbers or.tlieir utility.- I Jut I hopethe perverse policy of. r ranee wnl bever be adopted here. ; - ' . 'A nd of able and elper'eneed veterans.who bs e en listed to attack sciolism and dethrone frivolity, and to. es. tabltah the empire of sound literature and genuine science.' i neir actccuona oiaoover a aonnaneaa oijuumeni, a cot. rectness and refinement of taste i their onpnd pieces re disUngutsbed by an eieganeeoflanjruaf an independence and purity ot aenUment, whica doiumit American Litera ture, .fc.-r-- . , . t ;. r S1' YaWr r. f v , i : . I -, y- mm 4 r;-n?.MAY)AfYL' r a, J m- w w v w w - r LITERARY Is (' fjflATt ACTEK OF SPAVS. Notliinc can be more deplorably stupid thati the n vulvar idea ylvtcn nasoeen Chensnea respecUnor ' the character and habit of the modem Spaniards. t? . .1 t . .11 L - i FOR TllE STAR, (hy 1 1 1 ' ? Gevtlemem I have long obaerve'd with much satikfaction the very useful aubjtcw which have occupied so considerable a portion of the Star, and besides the direct intimation I have acauired from it, it has given me a ha bit of observing that I nrver possessed before ?con i ttory that has smull or high Windows, and as I am uesirou Ol luromg uivukitip hiv iauny i iitMuijr waire uiusc mucr rection of front? If it dcics greater ronova tion than ever will be made dpoo the English law of jCustom, and tyrant habit will loose some ol his blinded votaries. ' II. Cf thading HoUtt and the ground in their vicbtj ty Of trtrti . ' -J -i ... . . . .. j . ,. Some modern traveller speak in , terms ol high satisfaction of the comforts he enjotrd ir. a summer house b its being tnclose d with can vas,, upon which servants, were constantly prinklinff water. This must have been grate 1 i.l '.rt.1 li i?flr..l t M 1 tm.l. J.rl .i...am but a man who has sense enough to let the n t-nral forest trees rcma:n when he builds a new h juse, or ingenuity enough to plar.t soe where none at present exist,' will derive from hcii hade and balmy perspiration, all the advanta ges which the 'nabob derives from his cloth uinmer house, wter, engines' and". servants j and at no expence at all. . Ottt the health k be nenited in the same degree that comfort ispro m ited. II eat, often times alone, but some imes in conjunction with other agents, ,is tht common cause ol tever. I he tohabuams oj houses exposed by position and by want ol shades, and particularly the ; unhappy tenants il loigiag rooms annexed, as is often times thi case here, to the xvrtt side of a house, or of m lions to aome account, to repay you in your own coin for the advantages I have derived from your publications, I submit fo your con sidtaafcipn the result of my observations : : posed to the summer breezes and better pro tected from the sun, usually escape. V The tow. of Edvnton has been rendered much hralthui than frmer'y by having its streets and houses shaded bv trees ' . 7v..-! v.? , . The vicinity of ftesto huildinirs have beer. Of the tituittion and plan itf pvxlting Jloute; The Island of Great Britain is of great ex- objected to, because it is saad thry will occasi tent from North to So'urh, but narrow from Jnthe latter to rot. Indeed !! Then is no East to West. , Hence the raw piercing winds of one season and the refreshing breezes i f From simple or prejudiced travellers we have heard the other tome across - the Island from the So much of Castiiian jealousy and Casiilian laziness, Ocean either from east or west. Hence also iuu iu iir the best sirua a west or mat and drvmd Dutch man, oflazy Monks and fogtash froBtJoo lhat opcn'to tbVea8l and west-. Nuns, bf bad husbandry .and boldggaiy. that rna- ,n h season the do ks and windows ny a sober man who ought to be ashamed of so . V 1 1 .mi .t. .k preposteron a conclusion, has inferred fromgthe flVto thc ?inde closed , while the other iindtrJnremiseii.thatHftnw..r.dth.rtn,t side has a comfortable front and tof the warm every high, holy, and honourable sentiment are tit season are favourable to the; reception nf jibe narrow principles of iFante terly extinguished m that glorious country, which DreeXes accoroingiy mat w wejasnimuoie si has been governed , by the couixcils of a Ximenes, tuation of houses, a Jashipnhch bhas grown extended by the advutiture of Columbus, defended, out ol long continued observation and which by-the Toledo of Castile, and illuminated by tbe ge-.; i8 governed by utility, niusof Cervantes.'1 ; Nothing Is more common than i '- , w1 . ..,.,1,,. !n.,.k. The United States were settled originally state of letters in Spain, ' and nothing can be tnnre from England ; all their habits and fashions atrociously iulse, than theao tmtoqnded invectives, i nave Deen iranscnoru mw our mamicia, uu . r . ,1 .t 1 . . r- . ' 1 j ? l : ; :i "' . .1 ... .u ilea it n and conuort objects tor which houses art tiuilt tMX it is not the fact that - they otcasiof .puses to rot unless they couhne the.dmpnes co the norm side of a house where they ar m ver wantrd; bjt on every other side, it they an pot too uose to prevent tne circulation ol in., air, if their branches do not rest upon the houst thev have a contrary . efL-ct. - I hose tnen w h sacrifice thoir health and comfort to prolorp the existence of a'few shingles, mnnif est a folly inn receive a punishment that commonly awaits - 4 M a . . " oli in ' bvfrtV ;The fact is ;hat Learning has her temples in. Spain, as well as in Scotland. Laterary socteUes and men of cenius are more numerous flian ever tubli- f ' tatns of. nneommon merit are constartly issuing I fj t"-frtm the presses in all the cities of Spain. - ,Sala .' , maricha sends forth her scholars with U thc learning of their predecessoi,and. teo thousand times mpre of their liliendity, .Vnu menu truly Cathode per-vklethe4tinsdnrrt.-r The f,re-2:i-useful art are ulously cultivated r and ICnowledstet the aaee, ; and Genius the m igician, wave triumphantly their vands over an '. ingenious, sn inquisitive, and in 'iiyentive nutioQ.::.;us:YindicMtSonfUi.e7cliaractev v: ot a calumniated country JU' not a spontaneous burst 4 af feelmc;, in consoqvience nf her interesting attitude ft'thia eventful jppoch s no, it is the deliberate opi Mr-Jiion bfvers.' The .Writer of thh article ha re. .peatedly intlic&ted to his countrymen,the pure well ; ,v Vi ,:. vAi-:Wrlr'S' llHI fooHi, wiiki nouro uiiuucu , ; 1 , talbn prl2:aan inlieritaace ; and of that literature, '-i-..""Sr ni ,uiu k a ..r, A-i. um v.- .-lni. .vt Tk. v 'V'a f,?..;.riii nf finmmn flniti . hv hfrnmit ivrFprtlv I'vg'j stale,rThere is as much jealousy in Philadelphia 'lfV;i.t6f Boston asm either of the two Casdles.lv Ah Ar. - j:- . frugonian is not more ignorant than a Vermontef . , "ilii the'.- vale of .Valencia, agriculture is asereen j . and gay as in th county of mc, and the moun- r. . tains ot leon, and the expanse ot Estremadura are '-V Covered with a white theefi as'anv to be found in i-vf-j the' commonwealth, of .Pennsylvania; fTne' monk ' ' : and the nun are as innocent as the ny rriphs & swains t r';2:f)t primitive Plymouth, or pastoral Newharopshire. . ; - 1 mt 1 s 4. a . a . ia ; l he tuscunui, inogn k may loociute a gridiron, i y has. at present, non vv us c.ner properties, ana the ii - genius orpiulip ll no longer presides over the Spa K'v4iiiah monarchy.- 'Port folfo. :-$f - ! transplanted into bur soil- among the rest the position of a house It la difficult to eradicate old. habits in common' mipds J ren who do not think find enquire for themselves resist all improvements and consider them as devia tions from the standard of correctness. , They refuse to beVusr than tiuir fathers. A plan- ter will not use a plough of a different con ttruction from that which he was first taught gicsTiy being suaat-nly Tvetied and. a? .u.ldeniy dri-d by a hpf sun very soon-suffer a rU that givfs them the nature f spunk tt spark of ike. talnug on this is very lutble to communi cate a fire. To prevent this rot the roof di a house in preference to any other part should be pjinted I Common oil paint is expensivt and besides is not so rood as tar. A parrel el lew tar that is very fluid, with one keg of Spa nish brown, and a small quantity of Lampblack .T- ... f :1- - . :: r is sumcieni 10 spreauone coat over a superncc f htteen hundred feet. ';i ar is much rrefera- able to pitch, the former will penetratr ibto and incorporate with thsj wood, wh-reas the latter to use--a mechanic does not enquire whether J only adhercH tothe surface & is liable to peel off. 1 :. mi ii". : . . I ir -.i.: u :. ..-.ti.. ."STT. .l.r.-;i. .1... : ; .-an ttcv. jaumAJiuici, o ucoixia,, n.is civen i; f V HWIe UKH UC S yyuilliy IW lUO JJICSO,'! tUUl Ol ' " Eight Years over fifeen Slates, describing tlie man- aie.fml umrttfimAtlf r S J".' DT.1lnn1 yW lnal VUOiuuioi uuiMoviuviiv) vv, v.vaAV(vvva sv MUi ' Kit. :. T?. C.n.... nf .1.. XT a proposed alteration will be ao4rprovenient, but he instantly rejects it because he was taught differently, because it is against rule and can not be tight. ; ' , Look to the history of the arts and yoa will find that most of the great mechanical im provements which have been made, did not originate with the professors of the trades themselves A penny barber (now Sir Kich ard Arkwricrht) invented the Spinning Ma chineL which have enriched England and a Schoolmaster (Mr. Whitney) invented the Cotton Gin which has enriched America. This indisposition in the mindSto receive new troths,' which makes all men act as tho they believed what a Polemic Divine once de clared. that " an rid errour was better than a new truth has made too many in this coun try still ding to the- good old customs of our forefathers, to, still front tjur houses to thf east when our climate and prevailing winds de clareao strongly against its. propriety. In .this' counfiry our cold winter winds are, commonly, irom the nortn ana north-west a aouth front is therefore the most agreeable in winter. In summer bur cooling breeites are generally from, the .south .pence a south front is the most agreeable kin summer t is a t Extract r.f a letter from a v .r r Auguata Geo.) to his frietd inTtt if: , dated July 30. 110 I have tended to have written friend V. 'i.l i-i J! on aa account of the progrest cf rtl - & country hy I narae him i that ,: viva) has been chieSr with the Ljnt'.t - Meth tdist Societies of the f rmcr! but a circumscribed acquaintance, but U member myself of the latter, I am ktc, - .u.:. .. : .1 r .. 3. iucir Kiiai iuLic43Ci inc enquiry t,i , shall I do to be saved,M has been made ; this two years more g'nerally than evr H known in this state and Carolina. I ave been at several meetir.jrs, where I have -, . a noble work begun the prospect brigb.tr ; a a.'jsit- a 1 ana soma appeared to U'Kt together to call , Gvxl i numbers expressed conversion, and t heir, conduct since evince it : they seem ( have been with Christ indeed.: ; Some of j! vilest of sinners appear to hare repented, i ; to have turned to God. . At aome prtachirj-i the number who have joined, us, has been tru. " J t (j'wn v iuttuu mere were stvrrsl ousaud assembled for four days, and t' - fine hundred and sixty joined society; E- . C bthet near fifty, and almost every rate' tm dler number. In one circuit, ur.J r preacher, I believe the number that was r l ast year -was near a thousand there is f . ? meeting -where James Russel addrc hem but some are awakened there are tear ? others who have been very successful also.. I never knew of so great an alteration in a tcmn. tlv in mv life. ' It mav be said of manv nam of this country,' that they have emerged from hanbarism to civilisation, and entirely by the gospel ot our Lord Jesus Christ. lIorsc rac. . ingand gambling,-which Were so much prac tised here, are now becoming extinct ; danc- ng is neglected, reading and the improvement of the mind, which were little attended to, are resorted to ; religious books," which formerly would not eell, art" now in great demand. At County Courts here' it formerly was a con-. stant Jene of fightiog,v,WTang!ing and carcus ingy now-there is the greatest order ard de corum.' Such has been he effect of the gos-' pel of Christ i it has shewn itself here to be - he power of God, which alone oucht to thamc the enemies of Christianity 1 his must be true philosophy that civilizes and reforms, hat moralizes and improves i for it has not no'pped here, but the blacks," have -cause to 'raise Gd for themselves, and hot alone, their nasters also ; for their treatment has Decome ameliorated by the' influence of the gospel J my tout rejoices in the happy work and I pray it nay go on.' r, r - - LAir INTELLIGENCE. , Court of King's Bench, July 2. ' -'l . ' fcBEAcri of Promise of marriage. ; BtAMckLt vs. ToWtiksow-' '''" This Was an ivtionby which' die PlamtiiT, wlioii' the daughter of a poulterer in Bloofnsbury market, saught to recover nom the Defendant, an engraver, a compensation in damages for Breach- of promise of Marriage. '."' t p It appeared In evidence from letters by the de' fendant to the plaintiff and her tadier, and also by parole testimory, that the defendant? bad offered the nlamtifl marriaee t and that in the latter end nf pi.trc. i o- t rZuiic year 1808, the banns of marriage between them ;-:tjyJ-.: "f?' FOR THB STAR, Gentlemen, ' ' : . .-. n;fy:x I jfThe i'otlowing observations on Lotteriet are from the Monthly Jnthobeo,z periodical work ' ' tainted at Boston, composed and compiled by Viet : " f i.::,i...i. m 1 1 .--.t.:i.- .t ; IT', SOClCty;: If a Shingle is'tully 8aturate(rirditar. the in flamable parts evaporate, the earjhly part onlyj e mains and us httrdiy more liable to burn than a brick bat. Sparks and coals cannot set it on fire. The police of all towns as1 a measure of general safety ousht to require that all roofs particularly of old houst-s should be trred. 1 have mentioned the admixture ot paint--tt makes tbe appearance more sightly, but as a measure of security it is equally affiencious without it, except that in old roofs, it is satd tar without paint will sometimes occasion them to leak.'S I have said notbVoj? of the durability this gives to a roof, tor that, though inconside rable, to the individual owner is little compar ed to the satety of a town. Slate roofs in some towns, and roofs resem bling slate in others, are fashionable,' but they are unhandsome and give a town a gloomy dis-. mal appearance ; tor viewed from a distance the roofs of houses are most conspicuous. It has lately been proposed to wash the roofs eve ry three or four years with the composition of new lime, sweet milk and purified chalk, (of which receipts are to be seen in most of the Almanacks and news papers); this would add to theiy beauty and would guard sufficiently a gainst danger . from fires oricbatinc: on the roof. Tliese hints. I hope will be sufficient to , v. ... ', , , . . . Minai,. me uuuic ui uic puute oi towns Hnu obsetvattoo' have? long;knowa this? but the iKi',fA r :-,iL- r r ic : u m;iis i . :;i.-r. ' v n t . engage the attention ol individuals. . If enough minion have it yet to learn. , i- i, - t i t. ,i :.u. i u ; ... . . i "m r ' v-' t is Wid to induce., either to bestow a thoucht -But there is i another consideration, which th .u i r . , , . i , t ii i . V upon jne subject, my object wul lie effected., i ,' should determine the cardinal points of exro ' 1 ... , AJt a rrmvftci liud been thrice proclaimed in the Church of St. George, Bloomsbury ; and that' the defendant then Irew buck, on account of all alleged, failure on the part of the father to fulfil a promise made by lfrn reUdve to the bride's portbn.- Thi defendant, how . ever, again made his advances to the plainti?, wot onto more received into favour, and the celebration of the- marriage was fixes for the 16th of October, ? 1 807. - - W ithin a few days of the marriage, ; howe ver, the fletcndant agam retracted, after the bridal e loathes were purchused, and the dinner was in the ' coiii-seof being prepaixd. V: Mr. Parke, for the defendant Stated a variety of circumstances relating to the plaintiff, which hav , infj been communicated tothe defendant, had deter' red him froinconsummatingthe marriage, forming; altogether a case which Lord Ellenborough declar ed, could he make out any thing like, it', the action could not be sustained., f i Several witnesses were then adduced, whose evl-' ciehco h would be neither profitable nor becoming to detail j suffice it to suy that it was proved that, ; previous to the final breach on the part of the de fendant h had been communicated t6 him, that the . plaintiff had declared that .she did not care'a d r 1 for the defendant, t When she was metried, she ' would be'ktpt a Tady would take bfif her, ring", and" y run into he streets for bit of fun i and, that sbe would be dt inking her wine, vjhile, her b s ( ' sisters were eh-inWng ater She w? also proved to ; have talked. of Improper female acqainances whont,' she kept, and had been detected readme cne ortffo1 books highly unbecoming the perusal of a modwt. ' . lemaie. . v :. 1 , t.v I)rd EJlemboroujrh ihoucht it unnecessary to " further the defendant, though he- might notbesb- . solutely convinced ef the truth of the irfbrmauoii . thus communicattd to him, whs clearly entitled, e-' , vetj on suspictim j,t its bemg corrcf.t, to retreat irom r any engagement he might have formed with tlio planum, aewouiu oe 10 mtKn to noitttnui ne t.m bound to make an experiment how far the infor- ; .' mation was or was not well founded, at the nsn. his own misery for lift Ills Lords' p. at the same ,t . time suggested the propriety of the iicfendant, tho , had at onetime trifled with the plaintiff, consenting to a Juryman's being withdrawn. ' ; " . .JMr, Garrow for himHelf, and Mr. Fuller who wa Counsel along with him for the plaintiff, stated that ... they had not proceeded so far without warning their; , client, who had encouraged them to goon, being" confident of a favourable result. , '..- i - " V t i. A Jucor was withdrawn, the c ct of which Is to own CCtotS. ' f :y' o( gentlemen. r If you think them sure in a house in this country; which has little Citmieriand 0iaiAsttiiwiaAi Ttni Y ibiect' each party b payment of their ov. ' ,....r " . : s ' -v.: - ':.?.; ; :'. . . .. - ' f ' . - . ? r- V'' '.'V; '' f;,i ; - . i
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