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J - rucx&iitrfs n tvnxr ron .mit.uv.hij ;' 'jS Where the wll Joliln 7 7i'"v ' 'Rolls' I U deep water, '; ; '."7'' 7 "" fatc"iit tbcJrVrciiingloil , AfiWs dark daughter, ' : Where the thick Mangroves , .Each oVr her lone. loom ' ' ' Bent mournfully s"in('iijr ) ' Ahw ! far the wiutc niwl I o tr uVserU a ranj r, Ho niorcViall ue wt-lcomo the white bosomed htrantrcr. " Through Hie deep lure are-TrrmrlintrT 'MiJ the thickets entangling 1 ly x tus arc how ling ; -'Hitrc should he wander, - Where danger lurks cut, ' , ..To his home, wlieru UV m nets,""' " " Return shall he n'.-u t. Alas ! for t!io white nmn ! o'rr deserts a ranger, ?io mure shall we welcome the hiU--looiiicd slnnjcr. ' TJie LaiiJj of the Moor ty his wrath do they hind Urn ) Oh ! scaled it his doom, If the savage Moor find him. Mure fierce than hymns, Through darkness advancing, b the curse of the Moor, A t fl 1 Ana m eyes utry glancing : Al ! fur the white man ! o'er deserts a ranger, IN more shall we welcome the whitc-hotuiucd stringer. " A voice from the desert ! My wild do not hold tiim : paL Hjjfgj aoWiiof rack'. Nor tiic sand storm infold him, The dcatli gale puhcd by, ' And his breath failedjo smother, Yet ne'er shall he wake To the voice of his mother -Mas ! for the w hite man in deserts a ranger, So more shall we welcome the white -bosomed utrcnjer. " O loved of the Lotus Thy w aters adoriug, Tour Joliba ! pour Thy full streams to the morn'uig ) The Halcyon may fly To thy wave a her pillow ; But wo to the white man, Who trusts to thy billow ! A" ! fir the wliitc man ! o'er desert a nngcr,' o more alkali we welcome the wlute4oonied itrangtr. " lie bunched his light hai k, Our fond waniings despising, And sailed to the hind here the day-beam arc ri-ar.g. Ills w ife fwm her how tr May look forth in her sorrow, But he shall ne'er come - To her hope of to-morror ! " " jAJas ! for the white man ! o'er deserts a ranger, 'u more shall tve welcome the white-bosomcd Ktrangcr." i .... Variety's the verv.P)ice tf' life, That gives it till it3 flavor. Extract from M. 1 Jvunwv inln Hhault by Paul Jfmtwr, 1598." - Hcntner was a 5erman tutor, and a man of scrupulous honesty, n w ell as of tiic most laborious minuteness in description. .it Jnttl. " We arrive next at the Royal Tal of Greenwich, reported to have been originally built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and la have received very magnificent additions from Henry VIII. It was here Elizabeth, the present Queen, was born, and here she -generally resides, particularly in summer, for the deliKhthilncss of the situation. We were :idimttal by.an .order-Mr. -Rogers had pro- i urcd from the Lord Chamberlain, into jhc presence chamber, hung with rich tapestrj', and the floor, alter the English fashion, strew- I iL.l r.,... 4 i ,. h ....'., ....... ... v mi uaj , jprooaoiy rusnes.j tnrougn wmcn the Queen commonly passes in her way to the chapel. At the door stood a gentleman dressed in velv et, with Xgohi cnain, whose office W3 mtrotlncOd aon oi aistmciion mat Came;tfi wait on her : it was Sunday, when there.is usually the great est attendance of. nobilitvv In the &amf hull were thn Archbishop of Canterbury, the Eishop tf I.Ondonr if tiearmanv cdunsellors of state, oflicers of the crown, and gentlemen. wuu waiieu me Queen s coming cut--which ,6he did, from her own apartment, when irwas time to go to prayers, attended in the follow ing manner: . tr - rirst went crentlenien. barnn?. irU. Kiugntsw the garter, all richly dressed and bare headed ; next came the Chancellor, bar ing'the seals in a silk purse, between twrK-mie ci winch carried the rrdvin'scentreTtlie othr thk- sui'rd: of tate-ln a redsrabbar'i!,-nudded ' li ;, tl.t r,.:.tu;r.virdj ncxt;tanc the Quctn, h tiic i'l'tr-s'mh year of her itye. (n vC wire told,) vcly wajfUC licr fl tibfun;;, fair, but wiiul I j Iicr tyes im.ill,ytt bbtk atd pleasant hit nose a. lit tle Imoked, her lip ruirrow, an 1 ber teeth black, (a defect .the Knglili seem; subject to, rom their too great use of stiar,) she1 had in her ears two very rich pearls With droni j she wore false hair, and that nrty upon htr head ihe had a fcinall crovvhj renort"el to have been made of some of the gold if the cele brated Jjuntboure table; her bmoin wai un covered, as alllhe English ladies have it till they marry ; and she lud on n necklace oi ex ceeding fine jewels; her lunds very small, her fingers lonj, and her tature neither tall nor loWhraiwastatelyThermanct)fsprab ing mild and obliging. . - That day she was dressed iii white silk, bordered' with pearls of the Vre'of 1feamr, and over it a mantle of black silk shbt with silver threadsr her train was very long, the end of it.boraciJjyji marchionc&i instead if-a chain, she had an oblong colbr o7 gold and jewels. As she went along in all this state aixt mag nificence,, she spoke , very graeiously, first to one, then to another (whether foreign mini3- or those who attend ior"dlirt tent rea sons) in English, French, and Italian : for, be sides being well skilled in Greek and i.atm, and the lan5uagcs I have mentioned, she is mistress of Spanish, Scotch, and Hutch. Whoever speaks to her it is kneeling ; now and then she raises some with her hand. While we were there. William Slawatnr, a Bohemian Daron, had letters to present to her, and she, after pulling oITher glove, gave him her right hand to kiss, sparkling with rings and jewels, a mark of particular iavor. Wherever she turned her face, as sit was go ing along, every body fell down on thtiir knees. The ladies of the Court followed next to her, yjcry..Llnd9,n5 n.4 wpll h?PTd aniorihej most part, dressed in white, one was guar ded on each side by the gentlemen pension ers, fifty in number, with gilt battle-axes. In the antichamber next the hall, where vvc were, petitions were presented to her, and she re ceived them most graciously, which occa sioned the exclamation of God $ave the Sueen Elizabeth ! She answered it with, thancie you inync good peupel. la the chapel was ex cellent music ; as soon as it and t!ie service was over, which scarce exceeded half an hour, the Queen returned in the same stats and or der, and prepared to go to dinner. "A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along with him another bearing a ta ble cloth, which, after they had both kneeled three times, with the utmost veneration, he spread upon the table, and, after kneeling again, they both retir,efl. Then came two others, one with the rod again, the ether with a salt cellar, a plate, and bread : when they had kneeled, as the others had done, and pla ced what was brought upon the table, they too retired with the same ceremonies performed by the first. At last came-an unmarried lady, (we were tcld she was a Countess,) ud along with her a married one, bearing a tasting knife the Tormer 'was dressed in white silk, who, when she had prostrated jterielf three times, in the most graceful manner, upproach cd the table, and rubbed the table with bread and salt, with as much awe as if the Queen had been present. . ..When they had waited there.'jik,lfttie,,while, the yeomm of the guard entered, bare headed, clothed in scarlet, with a golden rose upon their backs, bringing in at each turn a course of dishes, served in plate. most oi it gut. These dishes were received by a gentleman in the same order they were brought, -and placed upon the table, while the lady taster gave to each guard a mouthful to eat of the particular dish he had brought, for fear ot poison. During the time that this guard (which consists of the tallest and stout est men that can. be-found in all England, be ing carefully selected for this service) were bringing dinner, twelvctrurapets and two ket tle drums made, the hall ring for half an hour ri'cut compliment. should help u j'.ucst uiih U li .ucotn.tcl in the !t Itiiissifuu l.nroptuii ptmcc ,i on lundi. ' N finiall puit of the pleasure and pai.i of life mii.es fmm the gratification or clijpiKitmciit of au inccmi.t wWi far superiority, from the Micrcsi .r inheariligc of secret competitions, from victories and defeats, f which, though they uptxrar to u of great importance, in reality none uro' conscious. except ourselves., Proportionate to the prevalence of this love of praise, is the variety of meim by which Its uttainment is at tempted, v Every man, however hopehss hi pre tensions my appear to nil but himself, has tome project by which he hopes to riie to reputation some art by which he Imagines that the notice of the world will be attracted ; some tpuli'y, goodrji-wlick common herd of mortal, and by which others may be persuaded to loVc, or compelled to fear hiinr As the-greater -part of human kind 'oct and '-lipeafc TvTiolly by imIuGbnrh6ir6f 'tn)HC who aspire to honor and applause, propose to thcmsclvesime example," which scrrcs us the iMxiUf '-their iduV-d-heimitf4hcir hopes. Almost every man, if closely examined, will be found to enlist himself under some lea der whom he expects to conduct him to renown ; to have some hero, eUherliving or dead! in Jhi vie wwloo character Ife endeavors to-hr.sume, ind whose performances he labors to ccjuul. together: AFthe end ot all this ceremonial a numberrof timametT ladiesppearedtwhx), with particular solemnity, lifted the meat -from the table, and conveyed it to the Queen s in tier and more private chamber,where, after she had "chosen for herself the.,-rest goes to tne laojes o tne ourt,. kTne, ;Qiteen dines and sups alone, with very few attendants raridlt is verv seldom that any body, foreigner or native, is admits ted at that time, and then only at the inter cession of some body jh;Lpbfe.f,"ir MADAME STAEL. A writer in the Commcrrlal Advertiser, (.y the Na tirmnl Ailvucatt',) liirtiiijfniilMl lik lor tiwle wkI lult-n', iptuJcHof the writing of iUdumc de Stacl in the fol louiiij; corn.ct.aiul spirited manner : " There is a certain charm, a kind of magic influence in the writings cf l)e Stacl, that I find in few other writers. There is a deep intensity of feeling, a mystery of sentiment, a piofound ness of argument, and a wildness and brilliancy of imagination, which fill the soul with mwt en thusiastic emotions of wonder and delight. There is a something in her proud independence and hrr example, which-awakens in-mrthat high am bition that leads us to pursue, with ardor and dil igence, those severer studies which strengthen the mind and develope its hidden talents. There is, too, a strain of sentiment in most of her works which fills the mind with sadness ; it leads to reverie, to metaphysical investigation, and some times to t wild range of thought, that carries us far beyond the dull concerns of common life, and makes us imagine for a moment that we have caught the fire of inspiration that illumined her own mind. Many parts of her writings are abstruse, and ler sentiments highly chimerical ; her hypoth eses are sometimes vague and visionary, the mere chimeras of her own fertile brain ; but the very mystery and darkness in which she veils many of her beautiful ideas, seem but to increase our admiration of her. She had a masculine understanding, a soaring genius, such as nature bestows on few females ; and her name and her works will remain, like the pyramids of Egypt, subjects of wonder and delight.. - Has not Dt Stacl redeemed the. reproach too often cast upon female intellect, and proved that it is education and habit which render the fairer part of creation so often mentally inferior to the other sex : Her example is a glorious one : she erected her standard, and it was not kings nor nobles that could turn her from her purpose ; and her name should be as sacred, and pronounced with as much proud delight, by her own sex, as the hallowed name ot Anacreon was by the Grecians. Was she not the Gsetana Agnisia of the age in which she Jited, and will .-not our . conntrn i i i - .. '., . r it wmcn must one aaypecome nice Atncns ami an cient Home-the nursery of learning and sci ence e proud to twme an unfading garland lor her : I have sometimes been tempted to envy the possessors of brilliant talents ; yet I doubt if they are generally a source of happiness. While they excuc me ocimirauon oi tnose wno Know now to appreciate them, they also call forth the calum nies and envy of inferior minds: they abstract one in a degree from the little social enjoyments of life, and make one an object to be wondered at rather than to be loved ; stilf, for a name thai shall swell the trumpet of Fame, and live an im perishable memorial of genius, what sacrifices would one not make rheftfTs i je ne sais quoi, in that proud dis t tuc sum, anu uazzies me imagination , out, u it draws us from virtue, and from the peimrinahcc of our moral and social duties, let, Tame, sweet as its praises sound, perish, and my name he buried iu the humble tomb : and let onlvlhe ' In tliv U'i',i;' .itiu c j.! , r.' i i.n;J.i :,tif fa ..t, ,srT " Hut to O.i.-n lliou Idf.Lt :.t in ;i 1 1 lur t e li'JU;, l ' l.ciPH no i:mrri In llu r t!i v '--' v ltl',r flcivi on "Va..Ui;i iIoik!: nr t!ioii tr riiV t ut tlw! (-.,u vf t,t "ftht, Ittit tii'j'l ai-, itrlia;.M, iVr nc, firm' M,t!iy yt ii k'ull rii trul. "I lioti Mlmlt hUii in thy ' "tlon'di, diet HrM of t'.ie fJcc tf t!tc morting.' Kxn), UicnfO Sun! in the ktri nU cf tliy jouth!-Al'c hcLrlt p union ly i t ,U like IU fAUuimtU liht of thc "noon, when it nliiiir tlirou'i LriiVtii clotMln, and tlw . "mist won the hills i the Must tf the north i on t, !! plVimsUic tnvcllcr ihrink in the iaii, of his jounwyV io reader of taste hai turned otcr the pJgts of On i a, without dwelling, with deliyhi on tliC above glowing and feeling addresj of the Poet to " the bright orb that sheds his rays of light ami life' alike upon the animal and the Vegetable, the animate and the Inanimate kingdoms of ihy earth. .'We have quoted the whole passage for its beauty and sublimity, and because It lead the-miiiuiturailyt-throughth medium of-onetr- his best and brightest works, to the contempladou of the ojimlpotcnt. power-ofXIod.-4 ll'ienrcvrg thFcamO Sunl thy Slf'SJZXxk a bard "ofa iMrbarous aKrihariipeaks, one opou whoc mind the light of the gospel had not sheij it divine radunce; " Hence thesuriircTothed the attribute of everlasting light j and hence the- author of the apostrophe is at a loss to know from whence are his beams. Had he known the goi. ,. pel, It would have' 'taught hlmTMar 'ittWi ire. .Cod i and that Ha alone ii eye I lasting i thit So i" Moo m and St a as "shall pass' away, - whilst : his name, his power and his glory shall never - fade, but everlastingly flourish. He seems, in deed, to hare doubled whether the Svw would not, like himself, have nn end; whether It was not subject to the mutations of animal and vegeU able life, from. youth- to age, and from age tor- dissolution : w Exult, then, () Son, in the strength of thy youth ! Age is dark and unlovely ; it is like the glimmering light of the moon, when it shines through broken cloud'.." And this brings us to the immeliate subject of cur reflections From the expression of the bard, , ire is dark and unlovely," we derive a striking contrast be tween those who have not, and those who have, received the light of revelation. To the untu tored savage or barbarian, who, like Osst Ah, had not-heard the glad tidings of salrattonTSftdrhtf expects to perish like the wild beasts that bo bunts from day to day, is it any wonder that age . should be dark and unlovely ? The strength of his youth is spent in the toils.! the chase ; the perils of savage warfare ; and the fleeting pleas ures of love. From the toils of the chase, or of war, indeed, he finds no exemption, till his limbs, through the infirmity of age, become so languid that he can no longer rush through the thicket, or the flood, bound over the hills, or scale the lofty mountain-top, in pursuit of his game or his foe. When arrived at this gloomy period of ex istence, he sitadown in helpless, joyless solitude; the scenes of his youth, the pleasures of love, and of the chase, the voice of fume, even the remem brance of his deeds of glory, delight him no more ; they serve rather ti bath the arrows of anguish, and blicken the horrors of despair. Hfr is a wretched, dependent being ; dependent upon the young hunter for food, and the young warrior for protection. ,.JIe .knows not-hH-own oflpi ing, nor do they know him. His cabin is not cheered by the niid beams of connubial affection, nor the graces .of .filial piety and gratitude. He has no. hope beyond the grave ; and yet accumulated misery makes even the prospect of the; grave . - S? t welcome to nisgioomy imagination.-wen in deed may he exclaim, that " age is dark and un lovely ; and "like the glimmering light of the moon when it shines through broken clouds !' Far otherwise would it be with this hapless sav age, could he raise his eyes. to. the one eternal source of light and of life ; ccHd'he find his way to the fount cfSUoam, and drink of its regenera ting and life-giving .stream. This it is, that HrJf.niM;hCffi tbcisavagc Pagan and the civilized Christian. Hut think not, Chris tian believer, to whom the volume of eternal truth has lcen mercifully opened, that 44 age is dark and unlovely, s to the savage and the heathen alone. To you, likewise, it will be, and to you it is, " dark and unlovely," if you do not improve, if you have not improved, the bright inheritance of the gospel, and the talent which Coo has given you to exert in his service. Heraembcr, YoiitiJi that now exultesrin thy strengths the promises and the penalties of the Book of Life. Fly from vice, . fly . from, sin and folly jrfly.from the. haunts of dibsipatiojihe'wHes oTtbe gambler,the --wicked allurements of theJ4 strange-womart,M the mid night reyefK and the.madt intoxicating draught; fly frorn these as you wouM flyf rota. the. xlaggc r ot the assassin, the fangs cf the venomous ser--pent, or the Jaws of .the de vo.uubi&lioit3.9t. whulter will you fly, tlyouiagemay not b " dark and unlovely ' hkc that of the giaceless faithless, cloomv savatre ? The answer is obvi ous. Fly to the book of life, , fly to ihe. cross of ' your Kedeemer f fly' to the exercise ot .eli tn XATIOKAL MA.KXERS. Ali Pasha of Joannina, on a visit to the sea-side, had aconfcrence with Sir Thomas Maitland, Governor of Malta and the' Ionian Isles, lowborn he gave a ..dinnef. In the suite of Sir Thomas, was his hister-in-lawr lcdy Lauderdale, and other ladies who had the curiosity, or perhaps one -might sayhcTOiirage, to be prescntAl'i seized a roasted lamb, s nhd learinglilT WithisTingcfs' the fat bits, attempted to tin list them into Lady Lauderdab's mouth,; at the vuin'p tmivin a " 0 thos that rollHt above," round arthe slilcld of mv "fathers' Whence arc tliy heamivOSun! tliy everlust " '"I? I'fl'.t " 't hou romcst forth, in all thy beauty i the "stars hide . themselves in the sky the moon, told iiiul "pale, sink in the western wavc ' Kut ' thou thysr-lf nuvri aiic. i no can ue a companion of thy course ( " Tho onksTf the mountains fall ; the mountains them "selves decay with years: 'the oceaijiiilvrinks and (jrous "artuni the moiriierseif k lost in Heaven:- but thou Mt for evtr the 'same rejoicing; in -die brightHess ti "inv course, vtr.cn the world wtUwfcwitlr tempers.; " when tbiuidclr roiLs, aa4JlchUim flies : t-V I'X'kcst ...:t,i A.. ... r l.' : i. .1. . i . , 1 . .kt.u . L . .... t;i.. nnt niiy.uyiT.Kl9.Ui piliijj uiattk4itepov Weret-Bm-t,w"iB; wuitu uiu ihic cujuiua, auu. yui auun laid- . . L . ; ' , . f fitilirLlha ettctwfckjay Vnt,oF oil tlie blls vrhichi-' naii, .-Mum oi me urcai : - i uie oincr secures to its laiiniui louowcrs. . t"-' ueMacl! lhave paul thee the simple tnlnita of myprai?. And may-thy citMintiy nud mint delight to sihjf of thy ?l-$iO0Mji . aged siuweiv whore gray hairs have overtaken you in the paths otiniutty youlncc'l . hbXdespairor 1 aspect of " age," iutohTbrighl beaming pros pect of etenial glory, if you will remember, as you ought, to do, tho laborers in the vincyard-of pur Lou!, who ci'.ne c;t the eleventh hour, ani were rewarded villi that munificence which shines thrc ;,h all Uie ways and. works of our Heavenly Father. ' Clini3TI.VH VISITANTY the-, eyes; oi,, he husband.- A niau sjiould coine to u; hH'side oft h wwy bird to iu no', prisjii, . i a captivei to '.mm -Jii-o! to'.
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