POETRY.
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FROM TtlK LIVERPOOL MERCURY.
Line* written by the Right Honorable George
Canning, when a yooug man, and placed by
him, on, the plate of a young lady, on the
morning of h«r marriage, she having a few
day* before, printed him with a piece of
plash, to make V. pair of shooting breeches
of.
When all on th is auspicious day,
Well pleased, (heir grateful homage pay,
And sweetly (mile, and softly say,
A tbousa 43 pleasant speeches,
My muse touch her tuneful strings,
Nor *cor> j the gift her duty brings,
A pai r of shooting-breeches.
Soon ‘ifr.aH the tailor's mystic ?ri
Have fashioned them in every part,
And made them light, and spruce and smart,
With twenty thousand stitches;
Then mark the; moral of my song;
Oh may your I over but prove as s'rong,
And wear as well, and last as long,
As these n.y shooting-breeches.
And when, to esse this load of life,
1 take unto myself a wife,
I ask nor raok nor riches;
Temper like thine alone I pray,
Temper like thine, serene and gay,
Inclined, like thine, to give away,
Not wear, thyself, the breeches 1
t'ROI! THE PETERSBURG IMTELLIGEN CEll.
GOSPEL MELODIES, No. XVL
Lazarus come forth.—gospel.
Blest sound of grace! ‘‘Come forth” he cries
“From thut dark, drear abode,
“F’en fiorn tbe grave awake, arise,
“And meet thy Saviour God;
‘ Come Laz'rus come,” thus Jesus said,
And lo ! the grave yields forth her dead.
Blest sound of grace! a saviour spoke,
The tomb hath beard the sound,
The bands of death at once are broke,
Kis iron grasp unbound;
And see the dead burst forth to prove,
The richest treasure—Je«u»* love.
Oh buondless love ! and is it so ?
Can Jesus deign to hear,—
To dim his eye ’pon mortal’s woe
With pity’s pearly tear ?
Yes “Jesus wept,”—a mortal »i"hs
©rew floods of tears from Jesus’ eyes.
Great God ! when numbered with the dead,
And chang'd this form lo clay,
Oh let one tear of thit.e be shed,
To wash my sins away;
And let one sigh of thine be g’ven
To waft my soul to thee in heaven.
MISCELLANY.
A physician having 1, hi* cluck
to he mended, it was but inpurfeetly
finished; upon which lie o ^ rved to
the clock maker, ‘that if e wag to
innke such errnrvi n hie orictice. it
would he attended with ?he long of all
his patients.’* The man dryly replied
4 the sun sir, discovers all my faultg:
the earth hides yours.
A gentleman sat down to writo a
deed and began with “ Kuow one. wo
man by these prospn's”—“ You are
wrong,’* said a bystander, “it ought
to be, know all men.”-“Very well’*
answered the other, “ if* one woman
Knows it, all men will of course,”
CHARITY.
If there be a pleasure on earth which
ang-lt eaimot enjoy, and which they
might almost envy man the possession
ol, it is thp power of relieving distress, i
If there he a pain which devils might !
pity man for enduring, it is the. death
bed reflecting that v»e have possessed
the power of doieg good, but that we
have abused and perverted it to pur
poses of ill.
BUa I’LKRS.
* There i« a kind of men, w ho may be
classed under the name of bustlers j
whose business keeps them in perpetu
al mniiin, yet whose motion nltcm/fi e
ludrs their business ; who are always
to do what they never do ; who can.
not etynd still, because they are wanted
in another place ; others are wanted in
many places, because they ean slay ia
none.
Above all tiling, strive to have al
wiys a good conscience. Most <*!udi.
on.ly avoid giving your heart 'he feast
motivp to reuros H you on neeount of
the object of your ae.rions, and the
hip n; you rnin'i fo attain it. Nevpr
P°r ue crooked 'cj*, and you may
tiro ly rely upon - • >d r »’isequcnces,
ao • th a<isi.tnnee of (rod and of good
Ire.i in time of need. Although yon
.M thwarted for some time by
mrsferfnne. yet »»„• blissful eomcious
n S’ n the goodness of your heart, and
• he e • tude o^ your designs, will af
, r ? noeammnn strength and com*
t'rt ; y nr sorrow f,l eonnteoonre will
*• t r t 'hue with w horn you converse
»' a-b m re tlmn the Grimaces of a »mi
*»ng a» d grinning villain who s-etr.* to
Jiiii py.
THE HEADING OF NOVBL9. i
Many works of this description, in
oar language, may be read with inno.
l oenee aud safety. The novels of
Fielding, of Richardson, and of tiad
eliffe, no man of taste will peruse with
out pleasure, and no tnau of reReetiou
without improvement. Gut far differ,
ent from these, are the volames which
usually erowd the shelves of a eircu.
lating library, or are seen tumbling on
the sophas of a fashionable drawing
room It is not theoceasioual perusal of
the best, but the habitual reading of the
worst, which it is the wish of every
wise and good man to censure and re
strain. Not a few of these, instead of
possessing that ease, perspicuity, and
elegance of style, whieh should seem
C9seutial to lighter compositions, and
works intended only for amuseineut,
are so defecive in the common proper
ties Of expression, and even the ordina
ry rules of grammar, that they cannot
fail to corrupt the language and de.
prave the taste of all who bestow their
time and attention upon them.-—The
authors of others seem ambitious, on e
very occasion, to introduce, not only
foreign idioms and praseology, and the
inflated efflorescence of Gallic oratory,
but such colloquial terms and sentences
from French writers, as they would
persuade us, convey tb^ir ideas with
greater force or perspicuity, than any
expression which our own defective
language can supply. The real mo
tive of the writer is, probably nothing
m ire than the contemptible affectation
of superior learning; but the practice
has an obvious tendency to corrupt the
purity and destroy the character of our
English diction, and a* far as it is iu'
the power of novellisls to effect it, to
reduce us to babble a diulect of F. mice.
Some of these publications betray »uch
a laxity iu their doctrines of morality,
and exhibit such u licentiousness of
s-ntiment and description, as cannot
i til to iuilotne the passions, whieh they
ought to restrain, and to undermine
the virtue, which they profess to sup
port. Gibers are mudu the vehicle of
principles, nostiie 10 our civil ami ee
I clssiastical establishments. A still
| greater because a mine general fault,
j is tbe misrep: exeuta ion of human elm
| racier* and human life. Love, resist
I l**g* love, is there considered as i!ie ge
neral agent in terrestrial transaction*;
as (lie sole distributor of good and evil
of happiness and misery, to mankind.
Personal attachment com-eivcd at sight,
and matured in a moment, bears down
alike the distinctions of rank and the
maxims of prudence; and by the magic
wand of Lite genius of romance, tho
daughter of the cottager is exalted in
to a countess, and the laborer at the
anvil or the mine, soon graces the
court aud the drawing-room. 1 lie lie- '
ro and the heroine are iuvolved in dis- !
tress in which no other mortals ever
were involved, and generally delivered
by moans by which uone but themselves
over were delivered. They are, how
ever, always married at last, and at
tain, in the possession of each other,
such happiness as no human being ever
yet attained, and such as Nature and
Providence, with all their bouuiy, ne
ver will bestow.
By the constant perusal of narratives
of this description, the youth of both
sexes are encouraged to cherish expec
tations that never can be realized, und
to form notions of each other, which
painful experience will every duv re
lute. 'Ihe mind loo, by exercising ou
ly it weaker power*., becomes ener
vated and enfeebled, disgusted with
the tumuli of business, or the rough
ness of contradiction, the most valua
ble eea«on of life is spent in the sport
of musing, insteadof the labor of think
ing, in the indulgence of the fairy vi
sions of hope, and the reveries of a per
veited imagination, inst -od of the pur
suit of science, the formation nfm.x
nn* of wisdom, and ho establishment
bf'ilie principles of niornl duty.
i'he voles of the judicious are, we
doubt not, against that folly, so fasci
nating and so fashionable, of novel
reading; but the practice of itie majo
rity is cleutly on the other .ide; and a
g inst measures, wliieh they can nei
ther approve nor prevent, ull that the
minori y can perforin is to assert the
*rg_imrots of troth, and to cuter the
protest of reprobation.
I'ATOES —On the best mode of
preserving Potatoes to retain their fla
vor as they have been taken from the
ground, by Cl. Whiting :
He proposes to pack potatoes frn
casks when digging them from the
ground, and filling the interstices, as
they are pnt into the casks, with sand.
The eu-k will hold as many potatoes
as it would without sand. By this
m^ans the air is sufficiently excluded,
w hich i* very injurious to potatoes, as
is also the light of the sun ; they can
not be too goon secured from both, lie
says he took two hundred barrels to
th“ West Indies, ami on his arrival
found that the potatoes had preserved
their flavor aud sweetness ns good ns
when they first came out of the ground,
and that they were not in (he slightest
degree affected by the close air of the
ship.
This is evidently a very important
economical and cotnnu, rial discovery,
aod oug’ i to be made public through
the e«fjn>’y. The common mode is, to
dij; pi ta oeg and let them lay some
horns to dry, which i* a \ery injurious
pr. clie».
Commonwealth, Tt; Joseph Searles;
Bosio.v, Sept. 17.
This remarkable ease was tried on
Saturday last. Searles was indicted
for the crime of adultery. It appeared
in evidence tliai he was married iu 1911
to Elizabeth Pearson—that he left his
family iu 1818 at Towoscud, and took
up his residence in Sm Ch Boston, as
house carpenter, having an apprentice
a young man about 17 or 1.8 years of
age, whom he called Pe er—they board
ed together ftom time to time at differ,
ent places—occupied one room and
oue bed—worked together, repairing
houses, at which, as reinaiked by one
of the witnesses, “iV/er was the better
man of the two.1* In September last,
18.20, a precept was served upon him,
citing him to appear at Middlesex, to
answer to a libel for a divorce seltiug
forth that lie had at divers times com*
miili d adultery with one-Then,
for the first time it becume-knowu that
the beardless apprentice who had long
been the gallant of the neighborhood
was a female. The deception practi
sed upon the people fi>r so long a time
produced so considerable an excitement
that but for the kindness of a few iudi* j
viduuls she would have been stripped
in the road* She was however protect
ed, acknowledged her sex, reudily as.
seated lo put on her proper garments
and to return to he; parents w ho resi (
ded in Vermont. The jury returned u <
verdict of Guilty.
It did net appear in evidence, but it
is said that the girl once boarded in
the prisoner's family—that he seduced •
bar, and compelled her by threats to !
assume the dress and character of a |
young man. uud that he treated her ill; !
that she appeared very peuitent, Sc has |
sin *e her return n her p re it - .-undo t- *
ed herself with great piopriely, and
expressed her gratitude lo those who
ad tsed and os-i^ted her. Some laugh
aide occurrences were related in the
course of the trial. One witness testi
fied, that Peter was the beau uf the v ii.
I age, and once drove a party of girt*
oa a sUighiug frolic. 11c was remark
ed for Ins activity j he luuuuted laluers
with udroitnesn, a.»d discovered const*
deiatile skill in the iubors «>f hi* avoca
tion. A I (-male dress wus found in her
ti auk.
Notice.
A LI. person* unit b<ed to the Estate
am. “I me late William Richardson
are requested speedily In liquidate their
respective due;.; and tho.se to whom the
Estate may be indebted ure requested
to present their accounts duly authen
ticated for adjustment*
NY M. RICHARDSON, Jldmr.
Oet. 6 h—i f.
I Notice.
y OVERSEERS OF THE
M POOR of Frederick eruunty and
(he Corporation of Winchester, ure
hereby notified, that their adjourned
meeting v\iil lie held at the Four
House, on Wednesday the 7th, ilay of
the next mouthy for the purpose of
settling with the Collectors, and trans
acting such other busiuess as may
come before them.
As a good deal of important busiuess
will be before the meeting, the mem
bers of the board are requested to be
punctual in their attendance at li o’
clock.
Per order,
LEMUEL BENT. CL'k.
October 13.
NOTICK.
VNY person having possession of
any books belonging *to George
Murray, Esq. formerly of Winchester,
is requested to deliver them to the sob
seriber, who will shew proper authori
I ty for receiving them.
A S. TIDBALL.
October 13—3t.
Cash ibr Bristles.
rjpilOMAS *1. ELLIOTT respect
-8 fully informs the public, that he
will give L’ash nr Trade for HOG
BlifS l LES at hi* Bru*h Knctory, uear
(be K> d Lion Tavern, in Winchester,
wbeie he keep* a general assortment of
BBUSHES
for solo at the Baltimore prices.
Uetobcr 13—if
PUBLIC SALE. -
By Virtue of a Heed of Trust exe.
euted by George Albert to the
subscriber, for the purpose of securing
a debt therein mentioned to Daniel
Hoffman, there will be offered for sale,
al Public Auction, fur cash, on the pre
mises, on Saturday, the 10t/i day of
November next, nil the interest which
<be said George Albert has in and to a
certain LOT on Loudnn-strrpf, in the
fowrn of Winchester, containing twenty
feet front, and on which there has been
erected a good and substantial WAG
GON MAKKR’H SHOP, now in pos
session of Ephraim Hawkins_.Said
Albert’s interest consists of a lease for
the lives of himself and wife and (heir
oldest son John Albert.—The proper
ty is subject to nn annual rent of twen
ty dollars due Mr*. Catharine Mucky.
Huch title as is vested in the subscriber
by the Heed of Trust will be m-ule the
purchaser. The sale will commence
about 10 or tt o'clock id the morning.
A. S. TIDBALL, trustee.
October l«—ids.
FOR SALE.
I WISH TO SELL THE TRACT
OF LAND on which 1 lire, con
taining between 470 ami 000 ACRES.
Thin land is inferior to no tract in the
nounty. No money will be required
in hand. For terms apply to Joseph
Tidball, Jno. Macky. or the subscriber.
WILLIAM SNICKERS.
Woodberry, July 7—tf.
FOR SALE OR RENT,
ISLAND MILLS.
eonisting of A MERCHANT and
SAW MILL, together with
40 Acres of go od 1 ..and.
situated on Goose Creek, five miles
south of Leesburg, Loudon county,
lately in the possession of Jacob Myers
deed. The above property will be sold
agreeably to the present timrs.
Application to be made to Mr. Wm,
Cooke. Leesburg; Mr. Isaac Vaodiven
der, uear Leesburg, or to the subscri
ber, Winchester, Frederick county Va.
Oct, n-tf. J- VAN HUSKIER.
Virginia.
a Court held for Frederick County
the 1st day of October 1821.
UPON the peli'ion of John Hop
kins, & it appearing to the satis
faction of theCnurt that Benjamin G.
Orr, Executor of John J). Orr deed, is
not ho inhabitant of this Common,
wealth. It is ordered that the said Ben
jamin 1). Orr executor of John D. Orr
deed. do appear here on the 2nd day of
November Court next to shew cause, if
any he hath, why he shall not give se
curity for the faithful performance of
his duties as executor as aforesaid, or
in default thereof have his powers as
executor revoked aud administra
tion de bonis non, with the will afore
smd annexed, granted upon the estate
of the said John 1). Orr deed.
A Copy—Teste
JAMES KEITH o, f. c,
Octobi r 6. 1821.
A TEACHER WANTED.
*'4M'K Trustees of the. White Post
SL Academy wish to employ a teach
er, who i* well qualified t« preside o
ver the English aud Mathematical
branches of education. There will be
u meeting of the Trustees on the fourth
Monday in October, at the Academy,
at which time and place, auy persons
disposed to become candidates for tbe
office,are requested to utlcnd in person,
bringing with them proper testimonials
of fituess and character.
PIUUP NELSON, rres.
Oct. 6th—31s.
Trust Sale.
B D V virtue of* a deed of Trustexecu»
Mi) ted by James Copliu, of th« eoun
ly of Shenandoah, to the subscriber to
secure a debt due to lieury Richards,
I shall expose at public auction, before
the door of Capt. Edward McGuire's i
Hotel, on Mouduy the fifth day of J\o>
vernier next,
J1 Tract of Land,
situate in Shenandoah County near the
head waters of Cedar Creek. Also
a part of another TRACT, containing
183 ACRES. There are on this pro
perty a GRIST MILL A SAW MILL
calculated for country work. The sale I
will take place between the hours of 10
and 3 o'clock on the day before men
tioned, and such title as is vested in me
as Trustee, shall he made the purcha* i
ser JOHN TURNER Trustee.
October Clh—t:1s.
Valuable Land for Sale.
BV virtue of n Decree of the Supe.
rior Court of Chancery, holden at
Winchester, on the 4ih day of Decem
ber, 1820, I shall proceed to sell, on
Monday, the 12th day of November
next, THE TRACT OK LAND,
situated and lying upon Patterson’s
Creek, in the county of Hampshire,
riow in ihe possession nnd occupation
of William Armstrong, Sr. of the said
county. This tract ennfRins upwards of
Five Hundred Acres,
and is snid to be of a very su
perior quality; it will be sold un
rler the provisions of two Deeds of
Trust: the first executed by William
Armstrong, for the benefit of William
Steer and James Steer, for the security
ef different sums of money due to them;
and the second executed by the said
Armstrong, for the benefit of David
Hoffman, administrator, de. boms non,
of Mutthew Steen, dec’d. The sale
will take place upon the premises, at
12 o’clock on the day above mentioned:
the terms will be cash.— A title will
be made to the purchase, under a final
decree of the superior court of chance
ry at the term next ensuing.
J. K. PAGE,
Trustee ff Commissionor vridcr tkt I):erte.
October 8—-td>,
Trust Sale.
BY virtue of a deed of Trust execuo
ted by John Wright bearing data
the first day of December 1807, and of
record in the office of the eounty court
•f Frederick, for the benefit of Jacob
Rinker, the ftnbteriber, as trustee in
the said deed mentioned, will sell at
public auction on Saturday the third
day of November next, for cash, at
Pugh Town, A TRACT OF LAND
situate on lsaae's Creek, in the counter
of Frederick, containing 200 ACHES
more or less; said laud adjoins the
lands of Thomas Brown, Frederick
Light and others; and on which said
Wright now resides.
JOSEPH SEXTON Trustee.
Oet o—-8ts pd.
Public Sale.
AN informality having ocenrred iu
making sale of the property of
Samuel Davison & wife, at Moseg
New bank’s Tavern, on Tuesday last, I.
shall, under authority of a deeii of
trust from the said Samuel Davison &
wife, executed for the purpose of ae.
curiug a debt duo tu James B, Hull,
offer for sale, ut public auction, ou
Mnuday the 22nd of October, 1821, at
Moses New bank’s Tavern, ou tbe road
leading from Romney to Winchester,
the following tracts of land mentioned
in tbs suid deed of trust, to wit:
One Traci
containing TWEN IV FIVE ACRES,
One Other Tract
containing TWO HUNDRED AND
TWENTY SEVEN AND A HALF
ACRES, which said two Tracts were
conveyed to the said George Lcssinger
by John Luptou and wife.
One Other Tract
containing FIFi'Y ACRES, conveyed
to said Lessinger by Joseph Buker and
wife, and the following personal pro.
perty, to wit: tuo Wagons, six Hor~
ses,Jive pair of Geers, two new fore
ft'heels for a Wagon, one Cow and
Calf, two Ploughs, and a variety of
Household and Kitchen Purniiure.—~
A more particular description of the
Land will be furnished on the day of
sale. The sale will commence about
12 o’clock A. M.
•' *. TIDEALL, Trustee.
September 29.
Fioticc
S hereby given that (he subscriber
intends presenting a petition lu the
next treueru! Assembly of Virginia, tu
make her a deed fora certain Tract or
parcel of Land lying iu the county o^
Frederick, near Winchester, adjoining
the lands of George Kiger, Dr. Daniel
Mugmder and John Mucky, contain
ing 60 ACRES, it being part of a too
Acre Tract purchased by Col. Angus
McDonald deed, of Uol. l-’airfux, uiui
^st.ld by the subscriber, executrix of said
Angus McDonald deed, to pay the
debts of said estate. Also One other
rract conlai ing 20 ACHES adjoining
Capt Edward McGuire and John Mac
ky, purchased by col. Angus McDon
ald of James Keith of Alexandria.
THE Truct of Land on which the
late James Ryan resided lying on
Patterson Creek in the County of liar
d^r, and known as his home place.—
1 he Lands are productive and well
improved; on them there is an excellent
Log dwelling House.
The sale will be made pursuant to the
last will of the said James Ryan, and
will take place on the premises, on the
27th day of October next. The terms
will be made known on the day of sale.
anna McDonald
September 29, 1821.
For Sale.
ADAM CROSK,
JAMES WILLIAMS
Hardy c’’^ Sept- 29—tds
Karr?.
Mr. James Scott,
TAKE NOTICE, that on the 30th
day of October next, at the late Tavern
stand purchased by you from Jacob
Deary, and sold by you to rne, in the
Town of Newmarket, in the county of
Shenandoah, I shall take the deposi
tion* of James McCann, George Kip?,
Lawrence Pitman and Caleb Morrison
And on the third day of November n; jf||
at the office of Lemuel Bent in the toumf
of W inchester, I shall take the depnsi*
tion of William Abbott to be evidence
in a suit depending in the superior
Court of Chancery hidden at Winches,
ter, in which I am plaintiff and you
and others defendants.
JAMES IIU89EL.
Sept 29lh—tdm.
PUBLIC SALK.
BY virtne of a Deed of Trust, exe
cuted to the subscriber by William
Wroe, for the purpose of securing to
James M. Marshall the payment of a
debt, therein mentioned, will be sold,
on the 23d ilatf of October next, at the
house of the said NVroe, near Front.
Royal, in the county of Frederick,
3 NEGROES,
two men and one woman. The terms
will be cash • and such title ns is vest
ed in (lie iriutee by the said deed will
be made to the purchaser.
THOMAS MARSHALL.
Srpt. 15—Ids
JlLjIA’fC DEEDS
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