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Tbe second eJ ctl'cut old fcjfi, ly lit celebrated D.Uhn, jra will olJit m ol your , . , otDX-uuMt 60, pattM1 to IttUirra and twuht, dy tee, 'IWut Unjrer, Uhl fear, mmI Um Ukt 1 - - . , A li ght watc.--Ust, and ffuodaoosi net - And t'cnt to a Uttle I'll atrike. .. i.'. ;v Thou eh the tempest W-eillfnt-muU tnuck tntooui tliould smite, . . - : , i Aiui ahirer ach aplinterof wood, -. Ciear iie wreck, How Ue yard, and bovae every thing .tight,-. r. t;' ' - ; And unJcr rtcfM foretall wtH acud. ;. ( , ,. ATt, nor don't think e a milk-aop ao aoft, V . To be taken for trifle aback 1 . . .' - for they say there's a Providence sU op aloft, - . To keep watch for th Lfe of Poor Jack. -,. a Tllir. I heard ihm mod rhinllin Dalarer QM dV. . ' ' " O r . " Aboutaoula, heaven, mercy, andauch j ( And, my timlwra, what Unfro he'd coil and belay ! . ' , Why was just all M one as yigh Dutch. put he laid how a sparrow catH founder, d'ye see, ' . . AV'dliout orders Uiat comes down below, t . And tr.any fine thing, thatprov'd clearly to me ,. t That Providence takes ut in tow . ,..'.- Tor says he, do yon mind me, let storms e'er so oft . . iTkelhf top-sila of sailors iWk, , " There's a sweet little clienib that sits up aloft, v To keep watch forth life of Poor Jack. - ( . - j -. , I said to owrpoll, (for, d'ye see, she would cry) .. When last we weigft'd anchor for scs, .r ' "What argufiet amvlinfr, and piping your eye r," 1 '' Why, whst a danm'd fool you must be ! : '. Caut you Sec the w-xrfd't vide, and there's room for us aft, :.-. l; '; V-v W - . - Both for seamen and luhbn-, aahore 1 -t . ' - - v - And if to Old Davy 1 should jfo, dear Poll, ' j Why you never wul hear of me more. ' ' Yhat then f all's a haiard ome, don't be to soft t -r, remans I may laogmng come Daca . , . j 7 For, d'ye we, there's a cherub sits smiling aloft . " Tokccp'watcliforthelifisof Poor Jack. " v ' i: D'ye mind me, A tailor should be ry inch ' . , 1' All at one as a piece of his ship t - ' And with her brave the world, without offVingto flinch, ' from ue moment ineancnors a-inp. 4 - As for me, in all weathers, all timet, sides, and ends, ' ' Noupht'ss troublefi-om duty Uiat sprinpst. For my heart is my Poll' and my rino's my ft tends 1 -- And, for mjr I'dc, Usmy King's, - . i- '. 1' 1.. t i-v -I :' - & eu wnen my cumcs, c err uvticvc iuc au avtv as wim (friei to oe uutena-naca,! V ill lookout good birth for poor Jack. . 1 t . ' ' v NEW PUBUCATIOXS. x A Comrjendiam m& Digest of the Law of Mas- aachusetts. By Wm. Charles White Esq. Coun- acllor at Law. . Vol. II. Part II. Boston j T. B. hV AIX Hllll LAI. ort.Io&l Society, asd ImjTofed. llet. I'imlif A' r w Precef tor of Nc ai Acadentr, b New Jersey, cuempUte pre paring fW the I'reM, a History of tlvat Stta. , . W. Vt'a!!snd T. B. Walt and Co. ta b prtss, Epi&Uct cm V omen, extmpllftng their chaiacter and erouiiiun in various area and tutiotuj wuh ratscelliDeooa Poem. By Lucy Aiken. - '-of ; IT MISCELLANY. aaa "Omnts UBdIqa Botculot, carprmus attju delibeaut . . V FOB THB STAR. . Mtsitt. F.DiToaa Being a friend tp tbe Observer . I have to request you to insert is your paper, as a warning to au wno wun 10 promote accurate pronunciation, the following fieruneot and masterly remarks, extracted rotn that mirror of Virginia taste, the Nori folk Herald. " - -r You will perceive that they were suggested by the first number of the Observer, who con fesses that he la highly gratified by auclt nat tering attention, and would give public tea timony of his gratitude did he not kite that it would be a most clumsy attempt t : 7 raise without the aid of talents. ' ' ,' ' from the Mnfolk Herald. ' w Of all the attempts that have been attempt- ' ed at ridiculing vernacular vulgarisms since " the confusion of Babel, the following, which 44 we copy front i the Raleigh Star J, is the most beggarly, "stale, flat and unprofitable u and, Uking it in a literary view,' crude, cau u seous and disgustingfor it is tiresome " recapitulation of absurd and insipid aneo u dotes i and schoolboy witticisms, conceived in folly and -vented in ignorance. 'Taking TnroJorua had the paitond care cf t!.c vaV -f Urmsy. Tlie tenor of Lis life wis smccth UU the stream which stole Uvouifcis va-..-y The path which he trod was alwaj t clean o-' body could UTi behold the Hack spot on the linen ephod of 1 tieodoros, llu Cock listened with attention to cat voice, tor r is voice was plcaaanu His speech dropped from his lip like the hooey from the summer pak, his words were as the dew on the rose of Ormay. The spirit of Theodorus was also meek and his heart appeared to be tender. ; But if it was in some degree tender it was in higher de gree timkL If his soft whisperV could not awaken the sleeping lamb, he had not the spi rit to lift his voice and disturb it j do not even if the lion and the bear should be nigh it. If a thoughtless sheep-wandered too near the pre cipice or the brook, Theodorus would perhaps rentlv warn it to return. But rather than ter rify, alarm, or use any exertion, he would leaveH . r.. j . li lt to in iaic, ana su&cr 11 uicuy av iuwuk over. The danger of precipices and brooks in general Theodorus often sung on his melodious reed ; but this or that brook he could scarce venture to mention, lest such of his flock as were near them might consider themselves as reproved and so be Offended. He could say in general,' Beware of the lion and the bear, but could not tell a poor wandering sheep Thou art particularly in danger 1 nor could he say, In such and such paths the enemy lies in wait to devour thee.:,; v if V; The voice of history should be the voice of truth, and when the motives. of actions are doubtful, they should be interpreted with can dour. Let therefore the conduct of Theodorus 1 2s.,:. tne "5,r that han over ; fjr l.f fate. Far, Bc.ue it. , mjr'j, i;!:out d.lietce ar.J'ze;', . ao argil to save a rtualstcr. lUvt I r thee a abraodfron the Lrt J D.-;r think , of thy dinger, be cilittt, tc and be saved. Al these words were ottered, tV.e t ';' n -the valley of Ormay vanialied, aad (',; t: shook his silver wings as Tie fiew en t' e v J towards heaven. The mtlinj of h',n;r was like the rushing of tbe stream f when it fall between oaks in the gulf of At r. a MEDlC.iL. To the Editor tfthe M T. Evening Fan. - The following letter-cluims the aUmtiim of r ciuzena, and if the virtues therein af.ribt'ted to AJcomorque should be (bund equal to the cxvr , f pulmonary and Ever complaints, liow iinrner.se v ; be the importartce of its discovery ! In tins city t r bills of monality record the melancholy truth th -more than one fourth of the deaths proceed f. 1 pulmonary complaints, against whose rvitc&, r -dicine,(as the writer observe) bus been fcuud c: v apallUuve. , - v t 1 . . . ,;',." Jf a specific ever it discovered, I am pcnocd : will be some simple of the vegetable kingdom, ; it is to be hoped that those persons who visit t" .; Spanish rvdri, alter having perused this comnn; v...- catkm, will avail tbemsd ves of so favourable an r - portunity for procurintr a quantity of Alcornoru". be allowed to proceed, not ao much from indif- i m order that it virtue may be firly tested in 11, , ference as from si love of ease and a false fear! country. ' ,. K. is. of offending. ' tiis flock, because be did not disturb them, believed that he loved them, and they loved him in return. They were indeed for the most part, a tractable . and harmless herd.;-, An A though the service of Theodorus had not much zeal, it was riot altogether with out success. Therefore without considering that he might,' if zealotfs, do much more, he was satisfied, having, without ' zeal, done so much, fie blessed lod that his ; labour was it as a description of the colloquial style oi w usefui wjthout any remorse for its notbeing more so ; as it well might it zeal had given aid to his lazy morals. "AH around were satisfied with Theodorus. Theodorus on comparing himself with all around, was secretly satisfied " Virginia, it is replete with falsehoods, un ... 1 . . -. 1.. . , 1 less inaeea, ias, in an prooaouuy migm nave 44 been the case) this attentive observer mis- took a wjrra hut far Mr.T a tplendid draw- H ing.roomsomt table Cato or Sd 'fit, for with himself, and concluded that God was also "Mr. T. himself, & three jolly negro winchet pleased. 1 41 ' -'. - tor tne interesting mrw i.tnu ncr two an- , g0 dreamed f Ueodorus bis lite away and 44 gelic daughters then,? and scarcely then, hoped he should open his eyes in heaven when M he might have witnessed those uncooth bar- that dream on earth should be ended. Full 1 bar isms. On the whole, ttking it for as of these complacent thoughts, he ascended on much aa it is worth, it is a most clumsy ef- a vernal eve the eastern brow of his vale to aee fort at satire, which malice prompted but the calm sun setting in the west. , How happy; talents could not aid. - xnoeeo we are as- said be. is the man who departs like that beam a Miiiturw "nirtinnnr nf thi Mwnl ntirmt ni I tonished that such a miserable production in peace, and who like that too, set but to rise dhcinline of different kinds of troops. Infantry, AM Should find iU way to the public through so again with more resplendent brightness in a no- mapics or roruncauont irespeciaDie acnanneias tne r ivaieign jwr. itner woria: do -may i set, wnen my evening "We really ahould feel ourselves bound to j comes, and so, on the resurrection mora may arise tillerv and Cavalry : the princi and also all the modem improvements inthesci ence of tacucka," Comprising the Pocket Uunner j apologise to our readers for presenting them 1 1 with ior ww . i . - w .i it..:., l p. . & .mww a the i-aws ana Keguiau ,oi tne suruiea owtes "with such foul dishwater, but as it was made As he uuered these words; he heard, as it Military Establishments .and the weights, mea- v expressly for our rirginia readers, we hope ere, the breath of the evening rustling in the lures,mordrt ofatt iiawr " the v will not be offended with ui for eivioff leaves behind him. Jle turned his eve and ' thsm an opportunity to judge of the motorid&.l beheld a being whose aspect was brighter and - M The ' anonimous scribe commences with! milder than the beam he had been just now 44 Latin Quotations then follows a descrip beholding:. His robe was like the Ether of tlon of his person, io imiution, perhaps, of heaven, and his voice was soft aa the dying " the Spectator !!!--he says he is lituel sound on the harp of Ormay when, the JJaugh- nf thm militarv ' irmtitntinna f thi IT States. By William Duane, late, Lieut. Col. in the anny of the United States, and author of the Ame- i ,ncan Military t iiorary. , rmiaueipnia pnee bo. 8vo. , . The Histoty of Printing in America, with a El osrraphyof Printers, and an Account of Newspa- old bachelor, 'of a Very dark complexion, ters of music touch it. Theodorus bowed his " r V. lit.:.. c-j i : r: tit. . I . . . . ! .. i . t. . j .-.e. i Plates, one of which is ae timUe of the first article known to be printed in Europe by the discoverer of tbe art two are jaenmuro ot tne printing types first used in England ; another; represents cylinri- CaI prCae , IIIO IUMMM WMWfcb. AfU" Thomas, iuh. i vols. 8vo. Price R6 in ooarus. , - ; -' An additional volume of President Davies Ser -: xnons i containing nineteen Sermons never before puiilwhcd in America rnce z. juoston; ran , - coin ard Edmands. - '-.'' i : S A Setmon on the Atonement, by the Rev. Wm -L. Turner, A. M.,oi Fayetteville ; btar-Ofuce, Ra leia-h. ; Pnce 35 cents. - - no. i. Arc me ves oi useiui iwnowieaee t a wora devoted to Commerce, Manufactures, Rural . and lump of deformity !t! and that his mind is was not afraid. Look down to the valley of as croolted as his legs, may be readily ima- Ormay, said the angel, and attend to what thou 44 eined from the specimen before us. : " seesu Theodorus turned his eye downwards. o ... .... , . . .., .t. r ".a j 44 We WOUld recommend to Mr. UBSERVEB A ilgnt Clearer mau lire uciuys uiuiu-uay 44 If he should get ioto Virginia again, to leave shone on the banks of Ormay. In its beams From tie Gazette de la Martinique." . ", - "' ' " St. Piruses, June 25, 1818. , - Our readers will learn with as much surprise ;:, satisfaction from the subjoined letter, the true ml wonderful effects of the Divine Alcoroorcrac : If the extraordinary - reputation this tne lis re quired as an infallible specific in all diseases of iL; liver, and especially those of the lungs, reputed at the present moment incurable, be maintained i;!t all ita renown, it must certainly then be acknow leded (without any need to anticipate tiie other be-, neficial properties it may possess) as the. first tf plants, when valued trom its beuung, effects, and will ever merit the just epithet bestowed on it tf divine. - , -- i - ' To the Editor of the Martinique Gazette, ? ' ': Sir Persuaded that you would wish to give eve ry publiaty to whatever ra; be useful to sufferiivj humanity, I hasten to make vau acquainted with a wonderful discovery, foe the - cure of disorders, i:i whioh merlicine has to the present time, been founl only a pJli ttive. - . v v- . i Afflicted since eleven years with a pulmonary complaint, wliich the physicians Said was ttiherdcs Jin the lungs, spitting Wood and matter, in the most frightful niunner, and having never received the smallest benefit from medicine, one of my frieniL (Mr. Soliers,) residing , at the Camccas, havintr peard recited two extraordinary cuis : made by an Indian, spoke to me on. his arrival in this country, of the wonderful. remedy that bad been discovered ; I procured hw tmsfequencc one , hundred pounds weight of the divine Alcornorque, I used it, and ir eleven days I was perfectly cured. . I havteiied Is admuusterit to different persons, who all found themselves aecovered from using it ; among others Messrs. Dufond, Magceuua idu Lanienuue, and Ilillaire de St. Pierre. '. , ' y ' I affix to this the receipt written by Don Juan de Dios de Mucias, merchant at Barcelona one of those who was miraculously cured." Your countrvr ;. men will owe you an eternal obligation for its pufts lication, and myself wiil always remain without boundslo my acknowledgements, ' : ' ', ..' Sir your very humble seivant, ' - Sigrd) - v ; P. BADOLLET. Methwt which Jh Juan de TXiu JUucUu, adopted when U Unkth divine JHcmnoqiie. 1 : In the first place, s. y s he, I proceeded into a lutidon which without being damp was cool on my arrival I took bout twelve ounces of the Al- comoque, which I had pounded in a mortar; 1 1 Vi. itnum-n niM hehind him. as it certainly he beheld a builfkig tar surpassing in masni 44 will run a chance of being pufTd awry licence the temple ot Solomon, or the palace of j fused it in a regular miuntity of pure water, until Mr friend is desirous of making it known, .j uanA. wrf! rnnmrn& to rear U. anH that as the editor of the Herald is a learned whUe he yet beheld, it aecmed to be already man and profoundly; skilled in criticism, he finihed. All the rubbish was ordered awav j admits the 44 non posse refelli" of his charges adeep pit had been prepared to receive it. and will nqt contradict a word he haa said. The acaffold used in rearinir the edifice still Besides as the learned editor is celebrated for ftWalutd,and the masterbuilder tfas consulted - nvoten to .nniiuci cc mmiuiaciuiiH nurii . anu i Domestick Economy, Agriculture, and the Useful nis deep peneuon, n. .qv? wua., . how they ' should be disposed of. , , Take, said Arts. By Benjamin Mease, M. D. Secretary to "d of currility and,vulgar . abuse, his cool be, the best of them to be made pillars within t the Agricultmil Society of Philadelphia. New dispassionate manner . of reasoning, and the palace where "they shall remain forever ; York Williams and Whiting. . . , ., his purity tnd elegance in writing, my. fnend but for the rest I have no further uoe, and thty - The Borough f a poem, by the Rev,. George wiU not hazard the loss of his 44 aquiline ndse are indeed good for no other purpose than that a . :,. v . . iir h m iiu Crabbe. Boston t Wm. M'llhennv, A Series of Letters, in which the distinguished sentiments of the Baptists are explained and vindi cated t In answer to a late, publicuuon, by the Rev. i by endeavouring to point out any imprpprie- which they have already served; Throw them w u1 1 where the rest ot ne rubbish has been cast, I ties in his observation or by inquiring other crmck besides himself would ever have J ftnd there, as thev are of a grosser and more conceived that the strictures, on the Virginia! hardened aualitv. let them be' consumed with le autnor. i . j. t. .i. :a.. i . . , . jjy Thoj j pronunciation were roauc wuugu wo, iunu-itne fiercest ot tne are. - n.; js- n n r. Bjwsi nuU-.u i-1 ence oi,?-maiice. v dm, ni nose , wui 01 ae v i he order was mstanuv ooeved. fiece at- Tl TWtrm, Munnincr ani I nnnir , , 1 I QUCSUOn. nc UUUCa, UWW i iub f w OT D KCC Was taken QOWD. BnQ laid IO U11S Or Greek Exercises, in Syntax Eltipsis, Dialects, should ever nereatter conacscena, m aespite the other hand, either tor the palace or the pit. suDscriDers'. aencate iceungs, to ms-i as they touched a certain piece and seemed to Samuel Worcester, A. M, addressed to the author, entitled, Serious and Candid Letters." Prosodies, and Metaphrasis. To which is prefixed, I of his 1 4 a concise, but Comprehensive Synux.. By the Rev. grace the chaste columns of the Herald with think it meet for the bit; Theodorus felt all his William Nelson, u. u. (ew Yor L and J. any more fly;" schooUboyi Witticisms" he frame convulsed, as if a thousand demons Swords. Price 8L ' ' ' , j will attend to the compositor and prevent the I moved him, and ia the anguish of his soul he -' r 'kvipiam', repeUtion of a half a dozen gross typography cried "Spare me O my God f .Spare me, if it fSnl!S caferrours. TheM together with an equal be not now too late to fcr'iqrJ par-, t J? and riarti.: th,o.h th rn.!n.ntf cumber in the Star, my friend acknowledges, dan." - v.v - North America, performad during the years 1804, are sufficient to confirm the suspicion , that If it were altogether so, said the angel; I had 1805, an4 1 806, by order of the government of the 44 his mind like rus legs" is much distorted. United States. " I " AMlOUa. MONITORIAL. not been sent to thee now as the minister of instruction. , A few moments of grace still re main, improve them with care and show that at length thou art wise. - COMMUNICATED. , r , v ' The following beautiful Allegory it exltaefed from but O that I might also hear it ! 1 1 - ; Smith's Lecturet on the'nature" and end of the 3acred The building which thou hast seen, SrJd the OfTice.' . ,' " .v , ,,. I -' lcrel. is the Church of God i and ita minister Hear 'ye careless pastors, thouch neither are those instruments which were used to rear impious noc immoral men, hear the Character lit. V Many of them having served that purpose hope Smith, D, D. President of the College of and vision ot iheodorus and be laithlul, be though not as they ought, and being fit for no can i'huo! zealous ana dc saved. ,, . ' Ipther use are. at length condemned. I saw J.Simpson and Co. of New Brunswick, New Jersey, propose puolishing, An Essay on the Causes of the Variet y of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species j to. which are added, Animadvert lions on certain remarks made on the first edition of this Essay, by Mr. Charles White ; in a series of Discourses delivered . before the Literary and Plulosophkal" Society of Manchester, in England. Also, Strictures on Iv d Kaims'a Discourse on the Diversity of mankind. ' By the Kev. ; bamuel Stan ' New Jersey, and Member of the American' .a i , a . a tne toiiowing morning, wnen I took tasting a gin luiuuke warm, ana cot:0nyed to use It all day as n y ordinary drink, but cold ; at bed time, I took another glass, lukewarm.; I ldtowed tins method duilj-, solely observing to mix 2 spoonfulls of honey in the glasses, winch t took warm, morning and evening. I expended about three bottles of this drink per day, divided into eight or nine glasses. -v . , If the persons using this remedy feel a great deal of heat, w hile adopting it, some barley water must be taken, but without any kind of acid in n - - As my disorder was occasioned by an abscess in the liver, which caused nie frequently the most in supportable p .ins in the siqe, I had the Alcornoquc pounaea untu it was reuuceatoppwaer.i tnenmaue captalism 'or poultice and applied it to my side, and the pains left me instantly. ,v When the receipt is used, milk, acids, spices, and in short every thing of an irritating nature must be abstained fromt biscuit ought to be used in prefe rence to new bread. The daily food should be plain, boiled or roasted, without apy seasoning. . 'A suffered a year and a half themostexcrauating pains I consulted most of the physicians, both ijniiMi aim frciiua, in tue. colonies , among otncia, M I Annie, of Gaudaloupe, and Dr. Gobert, of St. Picrres, Martinique, all of whom left ,me; without hope, at length reduced to thfc most deplcroble st, bringing away biodd and matter, I adopted die re ceipt the Indian gave me, ami ra-tweufufays i wu enurely Cured, having discharged viqleiltly by tl mouth, the whole pi the abscess. . ' , J I omitted to mention, that after the cure, the pa tient should take some cooling medicines, and use if possible Asses, or Marcs milk, as the Afcoraoque' is extremely hot." The outer bark on the Alcorno que' should be taken off, previous to being pounded- , and made into an infusion. ' -. ' 1 r " ' i (Signed)- ,' " Don Juam de DioofrfZuk. , The Alcornoque is a tree whichows oh the Spanish Main, the wood of which isvy compact ' and heavy j the true meaning of the word signu'es Cork, although it differs essentially from this, tree as the Cork it is well known, is of f porous and light nature. ; v, '
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