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Vv Mi '.. ' v 1' -fc'cr 1Ih Vii-r :nMj,,ri , f'.il luc Hiiii till strain rnliiafr... murr. I HUN TM lllUKOl-!l KH.ll.rkB. n . TER. See! W inter with his hoary head, Adtanrei from the frozen one ; Hjv pre nee strikes a iliivrriiy dread, Like frightful spirit of the deal, Seen hen Die ualkt of flight we tread, In rugions desolate ami line. A snowy robe hit limbs invests, ' A murky vapour Uinet hit brut, And on lit fpiry helmet rests; A nrd of rlittt-rmg ice attcits Tlie niipht of lilt supreme behrits To ahich the watery world must hour. But diougli all nature Cxi thy saay, t'iIJ hearted tyrant of the north, Ti nnsr shall drive tin c far moey - C i r 'h v firc- with disn.av, And ith the beaniiof milk J Jay, bissnhe thy irign of bttle. vorth. Ami e'en while destined to euilurc The blustering terror of thy rtigrt, The ioni (if fortune rest secure, And taste of pleasure fresh ami pure But, oli I thy triuniph is most sure O'er U in poverty and pain. Yet, cold and aav(je as tliou art, Unfriendly as are all thy rlaii, There is, who bears a colder heart, Ami hurl a deeper wounding il.irt. That leaves a keener, longer smart The ba ingratitude of man. CONSUMPTION', fao ruriTiL'a roiii. There is a sweetness in suman'i decay, Vlien tlie light of beauty is fading away, Tlhen the aright enchantiiirnt of youth is gone, And the tint that glow'il, and. the ere that shone And darted around its glance of puaer, And the lip that vied with the mectest flower, That ever in PSlum'l garden blea, Or ever was s'eep'd in frajrruit dew, V lien all, 'ia was bright and fair, is fieU B .t the loveliness lingering round the dead. 0 1 'here is sweetness in beauty's c ! , Like the perfume scenting tlie uitherM iwc ; fir a nameless charm around her plm And her eye are kindled with hallow M ra J, An.l a veil of arxitlrsi purity lias mantled her cheeks with its Inuverdy the. Like a cloud whereon the queen of lughx Has pourM her aortest tint of light ( And there is a blending of white and blue, Ts here the purple bhxxl is melting through The snow of l.er pale and tender cheek : And there are tones, which suerth speak Of a spirit, who longs for a pure r day, Aud il ready to wing her flight sway. Variety 's the sen spire of life. That jriu-s it all its riaor. -W. H" 1 . . . . . ." !.!. ; We make the following extract from a well written article on the "Literary and Itclijram Chancter and Taste of the Age," originally Jubhihed in the C"hrL.Lan Spectator. ' Verily, this is, in Europe at.d A iner- ' ica, the true Athenian ge j i.ut the' age of her arts and lsttriure. t,,i the agr of her frivolous and insitiahk tn rmsitv. I hr grand oHitt m st tvi o pride themselves in the ext tu ol j their readmg, and in their tiste lor el g nt literature, is to tell or hear some new thing; or as it is in mv nvito, simc'.hing nezvrr, that is, scmeth'n g a littler newer than the newest that has. come to the knowledge of any body else, l he following will. I trust, be retognized by the intelligent reader, as a fair representation of what daily passes in book-stores, circulating li braries, and other resorts of idleness ad fashion. Have you seen Lord Ttv ron last tragedy? What a pot dtgious genius ! 1 ordered the copy frt-m London, and believe it was the, first that reached America. VV , however, is printing it and his rditii n will be out on Friday. Shall we hear from him again, think you, while he stays in Italy " O yes, such a mind Can never slumber. The N ble Hard u ill not disappoint the thousands who he know are listening for some newer ai t! deeper tone from hisKre." Scene changes. How do you like the last ol the Waverlv novels.' Fr my part I thiok it superlative. Su true to na ture, so bewitching fr m beginning to end! When you have once taken it up, y.'U will fit d it impossible to I iy it don till the whole is finished. How delightful ! It is aid that th'm mighty n iigicin 1 aii' th r series in great fxwBrdufss." ell, the more the better. Hut 1 have something still murr from Edinburgh. Walter Scott in writing a new poem, and it w ill soon be out." " in u possible ? , This is news indeed. I abull not rest till I can get hold of it. Such an author can never couit the muses in vain. Hut while he wtites poetry with one h.ind, let him dash oil prose with the other." Scene shifts again. "Sou thcy ? What has become of the Lau reate ? He used losing such wild and sweet airs. So highly gifted a poet ought tu know, that the world can't a.frd to let him slumber. Hut the horizon of literature is brightening every day. New adventurers are ris ing into notice ahnjj all the walks ol fancy and elegance. The voice of ru mour from afar, already speaks enthu siastically of many new impressions wh'n h are forth-coining from the Scot tish mint." " True, arid no doubt thev will be exquisite in their way ; but why exhaust all praise upon foreign writers ? There it Uracchiilife Hull, by our countryman Irving, which we have good reason to he proud of. Even thir pensioned dissecten of London and Edinburgh, with all their prejudices and natred against every thing Amer ican, can't help praisin ' it." " Indeed. we have avast deal of native talent, which only needs encouragement, to rival the most gifted writers of fcti n beyond the water. 0 how d'lightful il will be, when Americ.i shall furnish her thousand popular tales in a year ! Such bright anticipations are enough to make us all regret, that we were not born an age or two liter." The above is a very bri: f sk-tch, but I am sure it exhibits no u.'.laii spe cimen of the literary i htt el at of the day, especially in our large towns nd vill eev l his cr .v,.i;r. this w h ii sh.il I call it thiiikvr-AM. is as .ni-i"1 ing more and more t: e t p- of a sweep ing and dementating t .u: mic ; ana" shu!d it continue to spread and .o rage, the consequences nuit he dc plorblc irdei d. Such a'.itmnt us i, now aim it exclusively demand- d by the ' ting, e i u of pious lamihrs, uod by many pr. lessors' of religion to. , must raids produce a race ol pu.ty, and as Shakp.earr would call ;hetn. "lily liviPti" creatures ol mere fill ing and romanc. For who will tr.ink of c-dlitigliT '4to inches on the ribs," of English or Connecticut river roast beef, after lu ing free r.nd constant ac cess from childhood, to fruit cake, floating island, guava jelly, ice creams, whipt sill.ibub, and .dl the other swtu ami Itrgraut temptations cf the most Celebrated coi fectiontis? In like man- rer, should w hat is now called " p btc ; P1' l" ",r ,n ,,,' "'irraovc ii said he a p mU-. litcr iture," moulded as it is into a j m:,M resident at Knllum. We q-wr in.m thousand seductive f.rms, continue to '. l,'r Alhom, a work n. which e have mure th.n gain upon the public taste l. r a few 0," n Ivrnd.-.M 1'. :. '.. years I nger, w ho will tl.ir!; of piod-i -r. Tlwri.ton w as one Jiirht tX ding through Ivoilin, or Hun. e, or anv trtnuh jit:i: .d b a die am. It up other writer of sober history i IE w pend to him t. a. he saw tht gaiden few will cmsent to pass their winter er of his fatniit in th a t of murder evenings with "such proing and ami- irf, l it cok in od. He awoke, but m rjuateri person gts as Milton and .lohn- deaw-ring to dismiss the vision from son, ardCowper. Who no ih':.' his remembrance, at tmpted to com of I'fTering to the public, nrw editioi pose himself to sleep. His eyes nor of the mrst valuable English classics? scar y dmcl, sv.-n :igmn the sarm What prudent boikstllrr wci.ld e ni- d radfI picture pre se ti d its If to his bark his capital in such an undrrta- mi gin ition. ALrn.t d by the i xtiaor king ? Who i f "the trade." is sojdnary. lit dia'li;;c aud toe riftatu blind, as not to see, that if he v . culd j intimation, i e r pidly arose and takint- get bread for his children, he must fill his shelves with trash and fiction i T1IK CASTLE 'F Pill S A IN ASIATIC TI KKKY. ( Fn-n I en llaimei'$ Trtiuh.J The most rem rkablc ubitcts within the limits cf the castle, .tie the ruins moonlight and frosty. The reader will of the palace of the first smanic Sul- conceive wh.t his surpr.se must have tans. The eelificr, howev-r, is not re- len. sv hen, on enter. ng the kitchen, duted tomere shapeless masses of stone, on his way to the garden, by the near nor so fallen into decay, but that the jest avenue, he perceived the cook drrss- plan of the whole, and the distribution of the various ch .mbers. bath, gar dens, pavilions, and fountains, may be easilv recognized. Some of the latter are still unimpaired, but the water has burst through the pipes, and flows off, moistening the earth in various direc tions. Grass sprouts out of the jaws of the marble lion, from w hich the w a ter formerly flowed, and tht basin which rercivtd it is now filled with rubbish. Here is, perhaps, the site of the Harem, the sacrrd asylum of female honor and dignity. The vicinity of the marble baths, which still remain tindecayed. renders this conjecture the most prob able This sanctuary of decorum and of pleasure, which in former times was closed against every unhallowed eve, and scarcely accessible to the rays of the sun or the breath of the atmos phere, is now exposed, without roof or protecting walls, to the inclemency of the weather ard the gLre of open day. Uriari and thistles overspread the ground which was om.e covered with tnc nettcst variegated carpets, and mass es of stone, hurled dowii by th- hand of time, have usurped the place of down cushions. The private chambers of the women, from which the jealousy of oriental despots excluded even light and air, to which the solar rays only penetrated as it were by stealth, through rails and curtains, and where stillness was interrupted only by the murmur ing of flutes and the sighs of love, are now exposed, even to their deepest re cesses, to the sun, the m on, the wind, and all the inclement j of the weather Silence yet prevails ; but it is the si- lence of desolation, not of love, and it is broken by the murmuring of the wa ter, which, in its course to the foun tains, loses itself under ground, and gushes forth from among the ruirs. Nothing can be more melancholy th.-n the compl lints of th"&e invisible Nai ades, who, in harmonious accents, have fir cen urits been repeating the great truth, that all in vain. Whi'her are vanished the splendour and I .xury of ihis palace and its inhabitants ! vhere are the voluptuousness of he Harem, and the delights of its beauties! The cl-iuds f perfume, the mirrors which vied with the hrghtnrss of the sun, "the donv coin hes, balsamic odours, pleasure -kindling spice , intoxicating opiates, lose-eHsenct-H ami musk pesti les, the muslin veils and oshnvre sha-h, which seemed woven from Kiin-br.iins.nd the flowrr-ht ds of spring u .iturr are tbrv vanished ! And the unrig beauties id all complexions and forms, from every countiy and climate in the world; the brown and the fair, the African and Circassian, (irrcian and P rd an, the innou tit ( hristi n vir gin torn from the arms of their mo- 1 lncrs. a ihc c gvpuan Almcs skilled "g"1?. dancng. and instructed in all the aeduaive arts where are the? now ? All is vanished ! F:.ncy had re tr.ced the scenes of p.ift centuries, when this H rem wnsthe rtrept.cle of b-auty. and the focus of oriental mag nificence ; hut on recovering from our revtrie, we find ourselves surr undid by ru n tnd desolation, like Ki ight erraiit, ssho, . Iter havii g ben lulled to steep in the magic palace of some w ick ed fairy, wikr-s in the morning amidst heaps of filth ard ru' bish. The veil of imagii:;iti"n w hich covered the i.n atomy of this abode of pleasure is fal len, an.l nothing but the skeleton re mains. A 1)!:KAM. We pic t'.c fulliiwiii; estrnun'inary i'nn' .is e riTcmJ it, nn!y )riitii:ii that the ,:inri. his night I imp in his hand, departed Ifr m his room, and descended from Jthe Rtirs, with an ii tiiuion cf pro 'ceedi g to the sp inwhhh the cir cums: .nc f :he dream appeared to him as otuiir.nir. The I. our w asabi.ut four oMock. The m -rning, clear. ,ed in uhite, p.. tting on her hornet and cloak, as if preparing lor a journey I o his i. quiries tspecting rer pres ence jt such an unaccustomed hour, and in such an txtr.ordinary attire, she replied, th t she was on the point cl being mairied to the garden t that they wtrr going to a neighbouring vil lage lor that porpnst and that Mark was waiting lor hirat the tnd ol the garden, with a In rse snd taxed cart to tonvty her to church. 1 hornton told her that he of course could have no chjtction to their marriage, though he rtmc r strattd against the secrrcj of the proceeding, and desired her to wait few momtn.s till his return, us he was desirous if speaking to IVE rk, pre vious to thrir setting elf. Her msstet did not delay a moment in hastening to the garden ; his mind much mis doubted tie good intentions of the pa ramour, and he was not a little struck with the coincidence rf his dream, aio the preparation that he had witnessed. He first went to the bottom of the gar dento the spot mentioned by the maid-servant as the place in which Mark was waiting for her coming.- All was still. There was no Mark; no horse ; no chaise. lie then procee ded to the place marked out to him by the vision. Here he was destined to behold an object of a very doubtful cha racter. Working with an indefatigable and hurried hand, and with his back turned towards him, Mr Thornton per ceived a man digging in a pit. As he stood at his labor in the pit, it appear ed to be about 3 feet and a hall deep i i.l it was about as many in width, and about six feet in length ; it had all the : apnearance of a crave. Mr. Thorn ton approached silently, and laid his hand with a sudden grasp on the man's shoulder. -Mark turned bis eyes upon his master, siuiddered a-id fainted.- Were the indications of that dream the suggestions of a lying spirit ? NAI'OLKON. In 180J Count D .ru was at Bologna, as 1 Pendant cxneral of the army. One mornine the emperor summoned him into his cabinet. Darn immedi- ately repaired thither and found him transported with rage, traversing his! apartment w ith hurried steps, and j breaking a sullen silence, only bv ha. ty i and short exclamations : " Wh it a na- vv ! whit an admiral ! what sacrifices lost ! Mv expectations are deceived ! This Villein-live! instead of being in the channel, he has ent red I'ern 1 ! It is all over with him ! He will be 1)1 ck ided there ! IJ.tru, place yourself there, (pointingtoacornercl the room,) and write while I dictate." The Em- peror had received at a very early hour the news of the arrival of Villeneuve in a Spanish port; he immedirelv Saw his intended conquest ol England baf fled ; the immense expense of the fleet and flotilla lost for a tim- and peiliaps forever. Then, in a paroxvsm cf fu ry, whih would permit ro other man in similar circumstances to preserve I, is judgment, he formed one of the boldest resolutions, and sketched one ol the most .idmirable plans fur a cam - paign which my conqueror ever con- ceived in leisure or d id blood. With - out hesitating, without stopping for a l i - . t . i ill moment, nc uictateu tne wnoic pun ot the campaign of AustcrlitZ ; the di par Hire of all the corps of the army, from Hanover and Holland, to the confines of the w est and south of France. The order of the marches, their duration, the pl .ces for the converging and re in ion of the columns; the cutting off by surprize ; and the attack with open lone, the various movements of the enemy all was foreseen. Victory was ensured in all t'..e h pothescs. S-.ch was the accuracy and the v-tst !orcs'ght of this plan, that over a line of departure of sis hundred miles in length, were followed from primitive indications, day bv day, and place bv plicc. as far as Munich. He tots- that capital the epochs alone had experien ced some alterations; but the plans were readied, and the whole of the pl.n was crowned with tompletc suc cess. u JiUYUS. LX I HACT. Nor was the propagation of the ihiistian religion less i xtraorthtiarv than the religion itself, or less aboe the reach of all human power, than the discovery of it was above that of all human understanding. It is well known, that in the c urse of very few years it was spread over all the princi pal parts of Asia and of Europe, and this by the ministry only of an incon siderable number of the most incorsid erable persons; th... at this time Pa ganism was at the highest repute, be lieved universally bv the vulgar, and patroniztd by the great ; that the wis est men of the wisest nations assisted it its sacrifices, and consulted its ota . les on the most important occasions : Whether these were the tricts of the priests or of the devil, is of no conse quence, as they wire both equally un likely to be converted, or overcome; the fact is certain, that on the preach ing of a few fishermen, their altars were deserted, and their deities were dumb, l his miracle they undoubtedly perfor med, whatever we may think of the rest; and this is surely sufficient to prove the authority of their commis- ion j and to convince us, that neither their undertaking nor the execution of it could.possibly be their own. How much this divine institution has been corrupted, or how soon these cor i nptiot s began, how far it has been dis coloured by the false notions el illite- rate ages, or blended with fictions by pi ous frauds, or how early these notions and fictions were introduced, no learn ing or sagacity is now able precisely to ascertain ; but surely no man, who sc. riously considers the excellence and novelty of its doctrines, the manner in which it was first propagated through the world, tlie persons who achieved that wonderful work, and the original ity of those writings in which it is still recorded,' can possibly believe that it could ever have been the production of imposture, or chance; or thatirom act imposture tlie most wicked and bias- pheinous (lor it an impostute, sutlut is) all the religion and virtue now ex- isting on earth can derive their source. But notwithstanding what has been here urged, if any man can believe, that at a time when the literature of Greece and Home, then in their meridian lus tre, were insufficient for the task, the son of a carpenter,together with twelve of the meanest and most illiterate me chanics, his associates, unassisted by any supernatural power, should be able to discover or invent a system of the ology the most sublime, and of ethics the most perfect, which had escaped the penetration and learning of I'Lto, Aristotle and Cicero; and that (rom this system, bv their own sagacity, they had excluded every false virtue, though 'despised and ridiculed by all the rest of ; the world : Ii any one can ln-neve that these men could become impostors, fur no other purpose than the propagttion of truth, villains for no end but to teaih honesty, and martyrs without the least prosper t of honour or advantage , or that.il all this should have been ! possible, these few inconsiderable ner sons should have been able, in the course of a few y ears, to have spread this their religion over most parts of the then a known world, in i pposition to the in terests, pleasures, ambition, prejudices, j and even reason cf mankind ; to have triumphed over the power of princes the intrigues of stales, the force ol cus tom, the blindness of zeal, the influ ence of priests, the arguments of ora- I tors, and the philosophy of the world ! without any supernatural asistJTK-; i ' any one on believe all these miraculou j events, contradictory to the constat! i experience of the powers and disposi rl . t . , tions oi nunun nature, ru mu-t o possessed of much more faith than is s"i4.jif- -- . . ms, . . r a. - a t Isrii M-.n . '. I I V Sa J I bA I W SV I It ( t at I KB H Villi 'Ullll. UIIU remain an unbeliever from mere ere dulity. Iiut should these credulous infidel: after all be in the iight, and this pre tended revelation be all a fable; from j believing it what harm could ensue? Would it render princes more tyranni cal, or subjects more ungovernable? the inh m re insolent, or the poor more disorder lv.' Would it make worse- parents or children, husbands or w ives, masttrs or servants, friends or ne igh bours? Or would it not make men more virtu ous, and consequently more happv in eery sittu'ionf It could not be criminal ; it could not be detrimcn tat. 1 1 could not be criminal, because i' cannot be a crime to nscr,t to inch e ider.ee, as lias been able to conv ince the brst and wises' of mankind; by which, if false. Providence most have permitted men to deceive each other. for the most beneficial ends, and which therefore it would be surelv more me ritorious to believe, from a disposition of faith and charity, which believctl: all things, ihan to reject with scorn Irom obstinacy and ull-conceit : It can not be detrimental, because if Christi anity is a f ible, it ii a fable, the belie! of whiih is the onlv principle which c m retain men in a steady and uniform course of virtue, pitly and devotion, or can support them in the hour of dis tress, of sickness, and of death. What ever might be the operations of true deism on the minds of Pagan philoso phers, that can now avail us nothing; L.r lhatlieht which once lightened the W s Gentiles, is now absorbed in the brighter illumination of the gospel ; we can now form no rational system of deism, but what must be borrowed from that source, and, as far as it reach es towards perfection, must be exactly the same ; and therefore if we w ill net accept of Christianity, we can have no religion at all. Accordingly we see, thtat those who fly from this, scarce ever stop at deism ; but hasten on with wlac rity to a total rejection of ll religious and moral principles whatever. An hour well spent condemns a life When we reflect on the sum of improve ment and delight gained in that single hour, haw do the multitude of hours al ready past, rise tip and lay, what Rood has nmki H us ? Wouldst thou know the lrt!C warth of lime, " tmfiky one Aonr."
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