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rE fhepherds cive ear to im lay,
They have nothing to do, but to ftray ;
I have nothing to. do, but to weep
Yet do not njy folly reprove ;
She was fair, aud my paflion begun,
She fnv.lH, and I could not but love.
She is fajthlc6f and I am undone.
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-Perbap4 was vo"id oCalUhoiigJit4
. t'erliaps it was yiain to ioi cicc,
That a nymph, locon.plert, would be fought.
By fwain more ergaging than wt.
TAIrtov clever yb ope tan ihfpire:
Jt banSnics wlfiiom tle whilei
A;id the lip of the nymph w admire,
Seems forever adored vcith a lmile.
r She, is fattines, nd 1 ajn undone ;. , .
'"'" Ye that wirn.els, the woe S 1 endure,
LeFrealoo mltrt you to frun ,
ot to attempt to bijard herfli k hot beet!
f ti fince. - The next morning tne leiiooner uiu
parch,- Bates, from Bofton for BaUirnore, blown o,f
the coafl. with lumber, &Ci run on the rocks but got
1 olEnd Voaght-fafe. into
! load in the eale' . . rrfcJ """ '7
mull unite vltK Aihe
hanfted the, whole ktpc& of affairs.
G. Britain evinced a defire to accommodate
the exifting.. difference with America upon
thebeftterms (he could.- " We mud ceaie,
kms&taMthe idupegve
Tt onfiot inlti'aa'j'ou tu.vtw-
Beware how ye loner m vaur,
Amidll uymphs of an higbet degree;
How proud and how fickle they be.
Alas ! trom the day that we metp
What hope of memi t my woes I
WnetH aot eooare .tajorget
The glance that nodjdray' repofei
Yet tmietrtay.dimintfly thie pain J
fjifcflow,r( Tidthe.fhroJf, andthe tretr
Wtdch rear'd for her pleHire in vain',
In time they, fnjayihave!coiafort for mf.
The fweetj of a.dew (ptinklcd rofe, - -
The. found of a murmuring (Ircani,,
The pfeace 'which from folitude flows,
Heftcetorth Ihjll We Corydon'a theme. . . 7
HigR tranfports are (hewn to lc fight.
But we are tiot to find them porjwrii " ,
Fate never beftdwM fuch:cfe light.
As 1 with my Philips had known.
Q ye woods, fpread your branches apace I .
To your deepelj recedes I fly I
I would live with the bead of the chaie ;
": I would vanifli from every eye..
Yet my reed (hall refound through the grpvc '
r-Witb thAam CaA cnmp1al-nt.it: hepan I '
er of, our ancient Rnergy who is the ortsHjl
wiof burquarrel.,r ' :,L ' , '""
H:w&. then:France; law no;,UmeJhouId
be loft. Inyas high time for; Loui , to antici
pate the defigns of hiJ enemy. .' The intertjl of
hi? peoTrwlaslilrwirg
mitted, and lhingmorfwdi' 'ttcceff to deter
mine him to take into confideratioii the o
verturnis of Congrefs. .
liVccordingly,' on the 1 6th of December,
1777, Mr. Gerard, fecretarjr of the Coun
cil of State, waited on the American Ambal
fadors and told them by order of the king, that
after long and mature , deliberation,- it was
tiveVof anndependenteopleahaLit was
i . n .1. n. CTf a 'I
pool, England, bound to New York, after about 6
days paliage, with borles, &c.
And this day came in a floop from New -York,
bound for GharleKon; w.ittt rum
Entered at the Cuftom Houfe, fchooner Induflry,
Hup, Irom Baltimore,1 witt the Ipfs of one man and
(eaf
How flie fihil'd, arid I could not but lpve,
Was tanklcls, and I um, undone.
From the Newark -Daily Gazette.
- I do not fuppofe it neceffary (fays al correft
pondent, vyhb calls himfelf o7? of foreign
Inf uence) to apologize for troubUng you. with
the following extracts, tranflatea frorn:ahif
tory of the American war, writtenintFrench,
by M. Hilliard D' Auberreuil, publilhed in
1782, and lold at Fans under the eye or the
: . ' " . vr .1 . 1 - . -. -v..'i. .....
urtneir-autflenticity noxiouoE-
government
will.be entertained, jl we epnuder that the
freedom Of the prefs was unknown in France
5at theiime ofp
after it. , TITie free circulation of the work is
thcrefore anf obvious proof -of their genuine-
nefs-ilt involves a virtual acknowledgmeht
of the hiftorians Veracity as far,- at leaft as
relates to the'm'otives of the Court, and the
fentiments of . the people.
" The aKehts of the United States at the
ur.tofJ!ranceand
; ind confequence" in proportion as the. Ame
rican arms were vidonous.; r The agitation
of the Courts became ceneral; Their fole
obieft was tcrdeprefs Endand. and reduce;
her:to a pow'er ' of the" fecond'order imhfi
poiiucaif werarciiy 01 Europe. 1 11c jrcjf"
of France recolledeil the nationaiindignitiei
and misfortunes which preceded the peace,
of 1763. They envinced ah ; ardent - thirft,
for; war, and w'ere impelled with a ftrong de
fire ofTevenge. ' The fame fpirit actuated
' : the Court. " r " - ': :;.'v
" Lord Stormont,; the Epglifh Ambaflador
ZLxoniplainedofjln
by the" Americans in . French ports. He de
manded that orders Jhould be iiTued prohi
biting the fale of arms ; and ammunition to
, the rebels- that the Amer ican privateers mould
Hot be permitted to fell their prizes that
they iliould be-treated as . pirates and-interi
ZldicthepteTM
mitted The royal order$g iflued 'Jncpnfe
quenfie "of; IKeH,:C -lc3cute(:
that.- feveraf: Aqrj!cans,j who juttrlnr
fringe, them, Seized and puxyihed, not .with
iftandiniK the rcprefuntations of -the. Agents of
Congrefs, who rtrantmitf edTiherinteilipence
toi Americaviaeren
-neaion w'as generally; defpairedfi1--"
" Matters were in this fituatibn v hin the
;o-ne s capture arrived, afld lud-.
ohvioufly the intereft of France to curtail the
power of England by difuniting America
from her f that the king would not infift on
Ameiicarefufm-peace with England
if advantageous pfopofals were onered ;?but
that the only condition required and on
which he calculated, was, that no treaty
ihould be made with England m which the
United States-renounced their independence
and acknowledged- allegiance to that poyernr
ment.-THe' treaty was concluded Feb. 6
11781 . .Thus far the eKtraft.:
The following remarks are not unapplica-ble.-
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The Americans gajned credit, in France
only in proportion as their arms became vic
torious -that is, while they were unfuccefs
ful, the fcale of French favour turned theo
ther way. ?Franee :wouldn6t-nieddlerin:a
doubtful quarrel.: Nothing could be done
for us in the dark year of 1776. Eighteen
months elafped after the declaration of Inde
pendence, before it was thought prudent to
come forward ;pand'hen"1o6rraTTiews br
Burgoyne's fall reached Verfallies-t-the mo
ment we were thought able to effed the bu
fefs witlwutjid, m fleps France !
lehayebee
we areV apd efernally will be, deep in debt on
the fcore of gra ti tuder From a felfifh principle
France engaged in the war fo at laft fays the
hiftorian." The bbje& was to deprefs Eng
land;" and reduce her to a. power of the fe-
cond order in the political hierarchy-of Eu I
rope. He then is the onginal iource ot our
Santude It . feems yery fmall indeed-Uur
emocrats, however.think otherwife-fhey
know better than the hiftorian whq declares,
' me rrif Tecolleded the national in
dignities which preceded the : peace of 1 763
U ? 1 1 : .1 1 iir- ; 1
-uicj ciivinccu an araent wfrii ror war9 ana
, defire. of
Dec. 25. This week the Spanifh brig Noflr'a Serd'r
ra del Carmani prize to the privateer r ortuneof
yar, was condemned in the court of Vice Admi
ralty as lawful prize to the captori (Sfng the firft
t?ted this war with Spain.) Her cairo is crjr
valuable. . 1 ,
The fchooner Tabula, vhichrrived Wcnertlajr
lafl from Madeira.ypoke his Majefly ftvp Spi no 1'
Capt; Evans, on Monday lads the Spencer hub ikjl
aTtFaJcpamft
iflands. - A ".' k. . . ; " "
TfitdayTrTivedttherivateer Karreqti!nf cip
taiii Parker, which has taken a Spanifh brig; '
capt. Beresfordt from cruize ;' flie took a valnaUfe
revenge
was not that
were impelled by a .ftrorig,
imq, lays ine. ratnotsi it
it was from a morA maimanimous - princi
pled-it was purely t from her love to the U-
mted States, that me commenced hoftilities.
Though . our privateers were purfued with as
ffiuihacrimony inFrancertheV-cduld have
been in England, it was,noming-it happen-
ea .oniy aunne, tnatjonff oenod when, thev
were deliberatinp: to aid us for their own inte-
t n. . . ... i-fi f:. i.ic .. nr r . I Oi CO
naurfthecbtntr
(efVHfcby its wealthy and affla'ent inhabUsfts. ''
; Monday "cameon a'yiolehf;; gait, of'wtnbt nere
which, continued: al I the5 day anoL fdllo wltij night
hot w dpHot 'yet'hear W Iny mUchief T)jt fa
at fea. It came on when 'tbe wtffd at'Eilfutat
lafl got to the N. W. - '';N . . : .; ,. --. : .
of refiftance which tt wad apprehended miaht 1
pervaae tneir ownrcpipniesrrr inaiiynower
ver. they decided arid the grand condition,
without which. nothing, could be ftipulated,
was that-America ihould never renounce
her Independence. Indeed there was no
great. .danger of itw-- -.-' -.
. The. faas is, had ' the XJnited States been
expunged from the Univerfe, it would have
lbeenho realfuW
providedlany. other means' of reducing Eng
land ; to a fecondary rank in - the political
hierarchy of Europe had prefented, in order
to raife France to the fiift. Infhort the whole
bufinefs-from the beginning; -the 4on : and
mature deliberations. ; the final ontion-nnd a
fuBfequent: meafures---ail were ul3matelyj3e lTttte oncouifrf piuce
cided on the principle of national intereft
dnd revenge : And herewe have the.fyftem
of our cbhgiuohs concerted to a points
Spanifh' prize, and lent her for thefe iflands.
Arrived the Spanifh fhip Pesirice, frbni' the Ha .
vannaliT&oruffi
Refdlutton, Lyhx, L'cf'perance and Spencer. ? , .;
And Thurfday arrived the Spanifh brig prize td "
the Harlequin privateer With abdve ipotj bbkfes of
fugar, &c. ' ' " - '' . ; - V - ' --
Strong north weft gales have drove a nlMfcer of
vefTels in here in diftrefs. fi'otft i the' coafl of Atneric
The hard winter has 'prWdery dccttu&i eJld
the cattle and horfes of theiflatiids.
.There is great fcarcity bfcdrn here now; ievt
cargoes wouM fell at a hiTi price, as the cchfump
tlon ot that neceffary : article is vtty geaf in tl;efd
iflands. . ,.".. . ... V-'. .. ''.;'. ...
7 Came in here in diflrefs, fchobnerXThetls, Latru
Ite, from Barbadoes for Baltiniore, with the lofs of
foremaffand brwrprit--Schoone
from St. BartHolome ws Tor New-York-1 Schooner 7
Fortune,' Lindfay, from Grenada, for Wells in Maf? "
lachufetts. "-7 X, V' :""'.
I"' 4r Ye(ljtMf !IL dl.h1 icaieffy5tfcE4ih
Refolution, captain Pender, of 74 guns ; and Lynxj
capt. Hall, of 16 guns from a cruize ot about r.w'9
months. -f : ,-, v- . :
Nctwithftanding the feverityof the weather th'i$
winteritt thexontrnfentVlLthtflmips
"un Hjuduiun uavc iiccu toniiiiuJiij cruizing.
fcarccly allowing themfetves titne to visual ahd wa
ter, whiles He" fleets T Infie Wefl.Ifidief'are" jm&
fnug in harbour, t6 the manifeft injury of the Bririflt
commerce. ...... -
Saturday lad the brig Three Brother George 1
Brown, tnafter, of and fr'otrt New-Haveriin Conneaii
cur , run on the Rocks off the Weft, End, 'and knock
ed her rudder oft ; the afterwards came to an an
fihpr butLiti gettiogunderweigt
to endeavour to get in, Wa$ 6brige"oTto eijt the an
all her v1uable cargo of jcattleK live ftUk, beef.
porki cortr; &c. not the lealt part of whtch Wat in
Cured, to the grcatT lofs arid ruhi of the cafttain.
whofe-whole-propeilyyasTjnjhel
redaced him from a ft arte ef the greatefl' affluerice to
the, greatell . mifery it one f aWl flrokiiiwe' heaf
i fublcription is fetting on- foot for the" purpeffc "pf
relieving fo worthy and !refpelabhi a fchairar,
whdfe'beft endeaVonwere-iired-ti
ply ofpro vifions for the inhabitant whici Wbolol
have-rell ved thecouhtry nfUjch at t,hiufccrdre,r had
not t he misfortune happeWd; as there J'sr not a'bft f&ej
rn. anv oorK or teet tor taie: 10 let inch a .
THOMAS WHITE: JOHN.
INKORM the ub'ic in general, and their friends
.riincwirticnlat1,; 1 that. 1 be V proiioleca miBgaiftpe-
TANNING aod CURRYfNG bufinefs in this town:
and that they wilf Vfve tafh or leather for hides; of '
tan by the mare Currying on realonarble terms
N. B. Hides will b- received by J. Egan at the
houfe latthe property of' Mr. Reardoon Tljrr
I wo negro women and two children for fale
We have 4iad'.oc IcRoCTtttub'-ferV'Wav.
g ilea - of wind from the, north: weftv : 'Many vefTels :
Jiave teen feen to paft byTforpe apiWitentlv in cfiP
trefs, particularly a larce armed fhipon Sundv e-
tfqiu iau on ine norm imc, out toaieafcjrtoran v
l"ajettexille, fjamiry 21.' . $f '..' '
BOUT tbe' tuiit-eHbeOclobef fuber1drcourf
held at Fayteville; i7Q6; th fubtbnWoft
a FULL' BOOK, Mt-was formerly Brank"Book
.1 jaomber bf-Tmaft lytr'vv H tniej:iri(iijjr
icr wjire oineFwrurngs anq receipts'-. flny perfort
findinU nd delwering it Wfclier fubfcrlbfer (ball 7
dc 11 anaioinciy; rewajtreo?
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