Selected Poetry.
THE FAI4- OF THE LEAF.
SEE theieates aruad yon falling, .
Dry and wither to the ground
Thut t thonghtieft moruli. calling.
In a M and folemo found t . --
Sons of Adam, once in Eden,
When, tifce us, heblitbed fell,
Hear ihf, lefture wa are reading,
Virgins much,- too much, prtfuming
' On your boailed white and red ; '
Vftwusf 4att in beauty blooming, "
Number'd now among the dead t -
Griping miftri, nightly waking,
See the end of all your care j
Fled on wings f our own miking,
We have left our owner bare.
Sons of honor,' fed on praifei,
Flutt ring high in fancied worth j
La, thefiikic air that raifes,
. Brings us ddwa to parent earth.
tewed fires, in fyfltem judged,
Who for new ones daiiy call,
Ctafe.at length, by us perfoadd, ..'
Fwni Uif mull hai't 1 fill.
Youth, thV yet no l(Tes grieve you,
Gay in health, and tria.ily grace,
Let not cloudlefs ikies deceive you,
Summer gives to autumn place.
Venerable fires, grown hoary,
Hither tarn th unwilling eye j
Think amidft your falling glory,
Autumii tells a winter n-gh.
Yearly in your courfe returning,
Mtlfe. ger of Ihoi left It ay j
Thus we preach the tiuih concerning
Heaven and taimi pals away.
' ' ' ' ' - - ' ...... V
On the tree of lite eternal,
Man, let all tfcy hopes be ftj)J,
Where alone, forever vernal
Bean the leaves that ne'vtr fade.
'1
A N E CD O T E
' . Or Dr. WILLIAM HARVEY,
The djcovcrer of the circulaihn of the bhod.
The following circumftantial account of
the death of this eminent man, I believe, is
little known beyond the family, but is related
on the authority of a clergyman ot the county
of Kent, .who was allured of the fact of it by
the late Elias Harvey, Efq. barrutcr at law,
a defendant of the doctor's younger brother,
of that name
Dr. Harvey was ever afra'ul of becoming
blind. Early one morning, for he always
rofe early; his houfe-keeper corning into his
chamber .to call him, opened the window Ihut.
ters, told him the hour, and alkedhim if he
woulJ not rife. Upon which he afked iflhe
had opencd.tbe Ihut'ers : (he replied yes
Thenihut ihem again Ihe did fo Then
open them again : but Hill the effect was
the fame to him, for he had awaked ftone
blind. Upon which he told her to fetch hirn
a bottle (which (he herlelf had obfc rved to
(la id upon' a flielf Jn his chamber for a long
tiuiejoutof which he drank a large draught,
and it being ftrong poifoo, which it is fuppof
ed he had long before prepared, andfet
there for this purpofc; he expired within three
hours after ''
VIENNA, Augujtij.
A PROCLAMATION
by uii Imperial majestt.
u We FranrU the Second, &c. &c.
In theprefent moment when a coinci.
dence of the roofl unexpected events favours
the rapid progrefs of the enemy and calls for
our redoubted care to afford allutance to our
ftates menaced in this manner, we find this
our refolutioa ftrcngthened by confidcrlug,
nation, which has given us, on every occa.
fion, the moft eilectual proofs of the great,
rets of the teal to fupport the meafurcs ta
ken for the defr nee of their country, of their
laws, and of a prince, who returns to their
. fidelity a lore lor every .individual.
" Though Tear, and perhaps intentional
report! .magnify the danger more than it iu
reality is, and prefent it as near at hand, we
mult not conceal from our faithful fubjefts
that the fltuation of affairs is pre fling,, and
does not allow us to remain fatisfied with or.
dinary meafures, but impofe on us and all
thofe who wih to fee the welfare of the fta'fe
fecure, more thartraordmary exertions.
" Much s as thej long -duratbuiblajwar,
carried on under fp many changes of fortune,
hasaffeded the powers of thenat on, yet the
refourceslcTpow'prful a itate are far from
bein exhauftedV ..Though aovernment con
tinues to refrain with abhorrence from the ,
violent meafures which our enemies employ :
Tor the fuppreilion ofour fellow. citizens and i.
the deitruaicki or. Jburope, countries lo well
popuIiteulbTeT
and induit y, itill oiFer inruiuerable means of
defence b employing which we lhruld liiid
ourfeives enab.eu to mectKvcry dagger. But
we trull inthe juibce ot our cauie, nd the
protection of tne' Almighty, who regards that
jiiftice, that the luomei.t will arrive in which
the nation ill be 'forced to have recourfe to
u.e moil extraoycliqary meahs.
" Jn this perfujlioi., We lhail always con.
iae oiuitlvvonly to the .meafur e . 6: calling
1 1 ims thofe who are otherwue, agreeable
to the nuUtary lyem,, exem. tid froai mi.i.
i.uy lerv.LC ; u.tVuUiiig alfo ii foreigners'
who have not acurrrcd. the rights or ctdi.
;!iip in, the Auh; an d min':ons by, reading in
rern" for ten ) rs. , At the lame time we
romile ;o uii t. ol'e who lliall willingly fol
low this, cur call, an J who ihall offer to'their
.i.u ,iccaiities,to ie; ve ia the army :-tft,
x hat us toon as ever we Ihall have fecured to
the nation, as gtfeeably to our wiih and defire,
jn honourabiC and permanent peace they
ihall be d.f.ni.ed t the termination of the
war. . id, 'l hat during the . war, they mail
bz treated as volunteers. 3d, That they
Ihall be at liberty j agreeable" to their abiti.
ties and capacity, to caule and name the rtfgi
ment in which they with to ferve ; and that,
4th, as a jult recompense, ou their return
home, every pol'hbie alFutance (hall be given
to them in thetr employments and itttlino- j
and that on all occauohs, they Ihall be pre
ferred. ;
" Though ve can promife ourfeives the
principal opwi-atioii ot this proclamation, from
the uneqiuvutal lentimentb 6t our faith! ul
fubjecU, yet wthiiikii our duty to imprefs
on their mmds,- that in ToUowhg will.ngly
this hohouiaole call of their country, they :
ntcwiic jruicti iner laiiiiiies), and private I
pruiertjr ; ar.ti that,ii,ou the contrary, they
iou.d iiefaleci to join us for the general fe-,
cjri, tncy would be forced, in cafe of un-fortui.-:e
events, r.o carry parricidal arms a.
ga.nlt their nam e land, and as abufed organs
vt the er.ciiiy, to promote the ruin of public
order, t..c aanihil.aionof their fellow-citizens
ana ol their fa-nthes, ai:d to alhit in the com!
uion ccuruciioa". . ,
" Behold the itill fmoaklng ruins of Italy,
and the excelled iid moil inhuman 'cruelties
commuted there ! , behold ihe devallation
which the once Houriihing territories of Ger
many have fuifered, inundated by the armies
of the enemy ! , and you cannot remain dubi.
ous about tae terrible fate which threaten
every country, and every nation, on "being
invaded by luch enemies.
"Done at Vienna, the ntb day of All
guft, 179O." t -
(FubhJhedin the Royal Gazette, Auguft
3) '
THIS DAY'ARE PUBLISHED,
AND FOR SALE AT TUB
PRINTING.OFflCE.Vrn..;
PRICK 50 CENTS.
A F E W C A S E S,
DETEAM1VLO IN THE
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7- i'-' or -'- - -' - ...
NOR T II.C A R O L I N A- "
Thofe Cafes, twenty.nine in number, have
been copied from the notes of t)ie molt rel
pcctable law'charactrri in this llate.
B LAN K S fallkinds, forlilcaVtho !
, Prwung.Oiliec
T O BE SOLD,
FOR" the payment of the tixesragreeable
ia December, in the, year 1794. Sundry
laBds entered in Larteret county, as follows,
60 acres entered fpr Richard Blatkledge ;
.1 J r rri .'ill ,.i."J -
auu aires entered inr i nomas ruarKieacr
400 aaes entered for- William Blackledrc
and 400 acres-1 Entered for BenjarnirTBIack.
UH.to All 1
aril Rlnrl-li-
'Mvniwwk' v vtl iUW. ULIl UdV Ul ilHV y T M
6 tract? of 640 acres each; 1 do. of 4 10 acres,
i do. of 400 acres, and 1 do of 420 .acres
entered by Jofeph Leech, on the cth dav of
Tebruary, in the vear 1780. and
of 640 acres, entered for David Allifon. on
inc- id xlav-ot- oeDtember intht
; As the fubferiber has already been com
pelled to pay the public tax on the ubove faid
lands to the treafurer they will be expofed
,v " "Aiy juyj aiicr mie, at Dean,
fort in Carteret county, if no one- appears
to pay the respective taxes due 011 the fame,
Vurtent county f Oflober 16, 1796. '
r HE houle and lots, now occupied by
u 1 c ""U1U xjurc iac lots may or
hadleparateiy or together. Alfo one lot
on broad Itreetnear the Court-Koufe, and
one houfe and lot, adjoining Mr." Tbom4s
'l Ua .,1. iL ' '
ujc mc property ct .v.rs. Mai y
Edwards. '
NATH&N SMITH.
rN Saturday the 26th ?f November next
wiU be lold for ready money in 'gold or
fiiver, at Stephen Cobb6 in Wayne county,
two tracts ol land, viz. one trad lying iu
Nafh county, m marfh fwamo. contaSnW'
twelve hundred acres, aud the other iS
Wayne county, adjoining the lands of Ste.
phen Cobb, cortaiiiing hve hundred acres,
the property of Benjamin Cobb : taken to fa
tibfy ajudgnient obtainedin the circuit court,
by Robert Taylor againft faid Cobbi
, JrlANb PATTEN, D. M.
Caober . , '
Wncura my wite BEERSHEBA,
has eloped from my bed and board,
and being apprehcnlive Hie will run me in
debt, Thereby give public notice, that I will
pay no debts of her contracting from the date
-her?i .;' And as ihe has a home of her own
wt icrtuy lurwarn an perlons from
harbouring her under the penalty of the law.
i-fc VLN DICKENSON.
Qftobcr iy :
w - k
ur ni U S A L E,
TP Plantation and lands whereon the
luwcnbcr now lives, containing about
one thoufand acres,lying tilteenmaes below
rvebernandonNeufe river and Slocomb's
creek. ITicre are on faid lands three plan
tations all in complete order for farmW. and
has every houfe needful for farm or family.
1 he terms are, one third of the purchase
money in hand, one third in one year, am!
the remainder in two years, and if not folj
by the eighth day of December next, it will
be put up at public vendue upon the prcmi.:
fcs. At the fame time and place a quantity
... . w.. -j LJUUlUUlUil
tools and flock will 1 fold for three months
credit. Alfo a quantify of corn will be folrj
for ready uiotiey.
ADAM TOOLEY,
Cflsber 24. :
TO BE L r. T.
HE flore and 'dwcllinj! houfe. iatt!
I occupied by Mr. John Sears. Enquii c
of thf Prints. . - ' 1
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