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•»- „ P O E T’s C O R N E ... St a R.I DEl^’S Lamentation and Surprife. J^lAUTY*s but a fadinf flower, Channs the eye when in the bloeiQ-« Where colors vaoifli ev’ry hour, Withers and dies, before *tis noon. iStek for fontethin^ ihore fubftant'al,^ Which will flay when beauty's jono-* Which remains when all things clfc fail, Whicb has charms when all alone. Once my face was fair and ^andfomc^ Cheeks as ruddy as the morn ; All attraded, all were welcome To admire-i»but 1 with fcom-^ Refus'd each offer from the beau—* Laugh'd at love and fondeft chats But now its chang'd and alter'd fo, On Patience monument I’ve fat. I weep in filence ev'ry hour. And wring ray hands until its noott>4 Wilhing I’d improv’d my power. And got marry’d in my bloom. Delia made this lamentation ; 1 flole out of the elm-grove, Changed foon her place and flat!on, And that moment did improve. Delia’s face grow'S fair and handfomt. Cheeks more ruddy than the monii-. Delia grows both blithe and gladfome. And no mart looks round with fcora. ALPHONSO in LOVE. A. ,DVIS1 your friend grave man of artf I fed a f range unufualfmart ^ ,T/ i here —fierct fymptoms at my heart • •Tit fle^Jure^ paint a mixt degree—» ' My pulf examine—here's your fee ; ^ What think you can my fcknejs be I A lover ! 'tie my cafe too fure, Ob ! eafe me fraigbt, I’ll not endure } • frefcrihcf I'll follow clofe^ the cure, • £ut if fpigf^t of fpeech or pen^ frove cyf or falje with other rntumm t Ail Dodcr—^wbatexpedient then f Diftovir, A homer. TTake Hope, ARepe *SSCP ' anecdote, A n old gentleman at the point of death, called a faithful ne gro to his bed-iidc, and told him, • that as he had been a good flave all. his life, he would do him a very great' ^ honour before he fhould die; the poor African, who expefted his mafter was; going to leave him an hundred pounds, or a fmall plantation, thanked him very kindly in the ufual homely ftylc,^ and hoped that mafia would livclorig: but what was Cato*s fufprife when his matter informed him of the legacy he was going to leave him! “ I in tend, Cato, laid the dying mifer, to put a claufe in my will that ftiall en title you to be buried’ in the family vault/—Ah I mafia; returns Cato, tnc no like that, ten pounds would do better to Cato % he no care where h^ be buried.”—But you fool, con tinues the mafter, would it not be a great honof to yoU ?” ** Honor, niaf- fal me no ftudy honor ! inteijcfts the flave, but fuppofc mafia -we fliould both be buried in one vault, and the devil come looking for mafla, in the dark, he might take away poor negar man in raiftake, and that would be no honor, no profit to Cato/* For Charter^ To Charleston, or a Northcril Port, Aftout burthen 200 barrels. Apply to EDWARD JONES. July 2, 1788. " 18- Notice. W HEREAS, by a decree of the honourable the. Court of Equi ty, in the fuit therein depending, wherein Severin Erichfon is complain ant and Samuel Vance, defendant— It is ordered by and with the confent of the parties, that the Mafter in faid Court do forthwith colleft and recover the debts due to Samuel Vance or Samuel Vance and Co. -Notice is hereby given to all perfons indebted to faid concerns, that they call on the Mafter, and pay the refpeffive balance by them due, on or before the firft of September next, when all perfons fail- ing therein, will be fued without fur ther notice. Thomas Davis, C. & M. E. Wilmington, July 2, 1788.’ 18— WANTED, By the Commiffioners of the Naviga- t’ton, one hundred thoufand K S. BR I Apply to WILLIAM NUTT, Clerk. Wilmington, June II, 1788. To the PUBLIC. T he advantages which the com merce of this river would de rive ffom deepening the clianncl over the flats, are too many and important to efcape general obfervation, and too obvious to require proof and explana tion. ' ^ ^ The fubferiber, from an opin’ion that the channel might be cleared with cafe, to a depth that would admit the load ing of veffcls at the town, which arc now obliged to finifli their loading below the flats, and from a defire to contribute to the welfare of this town and country, would undertake to clear the channel, if thofe gentlemen who may be interefted, and thofe who may be difpofed to contribute to the facili ty of the navigation of tj|is river, would give him fuitable encouragement and fupporti It is iiilpoflible to calculate the ne- teffary expence of fuch a work, with any degree of prccifion at this time j but on receiving information, that the defign will be fupported by liberal contributions^ the fubferiber will im mediately procure every information refpcfiing the conftruftion of the ma chines, and the probable expences. Machines for clearing channels to the Northward are conftrucled differ ently, according to the nature and cir- cumrtances of the different channels to be cleared. The fubferiber, there fore will be at the pains of obtaining luch vniormation as be .to form a machine femably adapted to the circumftances of the channel here to be cleared, with the greateft facili ty and Icaft expence. A. Maclaine and John Hufke, Ef- quires. Col. Read, Meflrs. William Campbell, Henry Toomer, and George TT '^^ilmington. Colonels of Bladen, Doftor B. Grove, Efq. 1 receive fubferip- all be of opinion, meet wy&Juitablc wilflBlhe fub- mme- n the Wilmingtoq^une 15,1788. 1681— tg t'aper^ for sale By the Printers hereof. blank S: OF VARIOUS KINDS, Forfale by the printers hereof. 4na.m) EOaj. Anicta ofIn,dUs=.i. mU ' r " *
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