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Captain James Mitchell, will, for the ensuing four weeks, !eavo Baltimore on Saturday at 4o*eluek y a for the Distri-1 of Columbia! and re a I! leave Washington at 5. and Alexandria at * \ \1 on W.dncsc’ay. _*Pf^ ut ice. Steam-boat POTOMAC, Jose h Neritt, Master, will on Friday, the 22d instant, r.> li-> i'ii «• rour* from it ». r, to Norfolk ami Ulchtnond. Leaving Washington ,t J, and Vtexandria at 1 P M. Weturning leave Itich iv n t mi fne*Uy morning, aiul Norfolk on Wednes , ,v m i ii ng a* 9 o’clock The bout and engine have r n p it incomplete ordtr.itml a careful and expert mcc.l :n,->er and engineer attached to her. V»re to Norfolk, including meals, 17; to Uichrnnnd |,, jy N. W ATTI.ES Agent. ~vTr*.vtu V AtUlU '^aU—Aft »tvi. .,,,1.1 tt.,she»« of Ground Alum Salt, the cargo of A* H, F schooner Baltimore. for sale by A. 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ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE. LITERARY. The edition of Byron's work#, now publishing by Murray in Loudon, i#, it would seem, to em brace every thing, which consideration for the feelings of others—and possibly in some instan ce# for the cause of public morals—had hereto fore caused to be*suppressed. To the volumes containing Don Juant the original dedication to Southey, not before published with the poem, is prefixed. We copy it from the London Literary Gazette, together with some other extracts. DEDICATION. Bob Southey! you’re a poet—poet laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ’lis true that you turn’d out & Tory at Last—yours has lately been a common case, And now my epic renegade! what are ye at? With all the lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons to my eye Like ‘ four-aod twenty black birds in a pie. ‘ Which pie being: open’d they began to sing.’ (This old sonjjfcnd new simile holds good,) » A dainty dish to set before the king,’ Or regent, who admire# such kind of food; And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing, But like a hawk encumber’d with his hood— Explaining metaphysics to the nation— 1 wish he would explain his Explanation. You, Bob! are rather insolent, you know, At being disappointed in your wish To supersede all warblers here below, And be the only blackbird in the dish; And then you overstrain yourself, or so. And tumble downwartl like the Hying fish, Gasping on deck, because vou soar too, high, Bob, Ami fall, f'»r lack of moisture, quite a dry. Bob. And Woods worth, in a rather long ‘ Excur sion,’ (! think the quarto holds five hundred pages) Has given a sample from the vasty version OM,is new system to perplex the sages; *Tis poetry—at least by his assertion. And may appear so when the dog--tar rage6, And he who undtrstaiids it would be able To add a story to tne Tower of Babel. I You—Gentlemen! by dint of long seclusion From better company, have kept your own At Keswick, ind through still continued fusion Of one another’s minds, at last have grown To deem, as a most logical conclusion, That poesy has wreaths for you alone. There is a narrow nnes# in such a notion, Which makes me wish y ou’d change your lakes - for ocean. I would not imitate fhe petty thought, Nor coin my self-love to so base a vice, For all the glorv your conversion brought, Since gold alone should not have been its price. You have your salary; was’t for that you wrought? And Wordsworth has his place in the excise. You’re shabby fellows; true—but poet# still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide the baldness of your brows— Perhaps some virtuous blushes; let them go; To you l envy neither fruit nor boughs; And for the fame you would engross below, The field is universal, and allows Scope to all 6uch as feel the inherent glow; Scott, Rogers, Campbell, Moore, and Crabbe ’Gainst you the question with posterity. For me,who wandering with pedestrian muses, Contend not with you on the winged steed; I wish your fate may yield ye, when she choo S(*i, The fame you envy, and the skill you need; And recollect a poet nothing loses 111 giving to his brethren their full meed Of merit, and complaint of present days Is not the certain path to future praise. He that reserves his laurels for prosterity . (Who dues nut often claim the bright rever sion) Has generally no great crop to spare it, he Being onlv"injured by his own assertion: And although here and there some glorious raritv Arise like Titan from the sea’s immersion, The major part of such appellants go To—God knows where—for no one else can know. If fallen in evil days on evil tongues, Milton appeal’d to the avenger, Time, If Time, the avenger, execrates his wrongs, And makes the “word • Miltonic’ mean ‘au6 He deign’d not to belie his soul in songs, Nor turn his very talent to a crime; He did not lothe the sire to laud the son, But closed the tyrant-hater be began. 1 Think’st thou, could he—the blind old man— arise Like Samuel from the grave, to freeze once more The blood of monarch* with his prophecies, Or be alive again—again all hoar With time and trials, and those helpless eyes, And heartless daughters, worn and pale, and poor; Would he adore a Sultan? he obey The intellectual eunuch Castlereagh? \ Colil-booded, smooth-faced, placid miscreant! Dabbling its sleek young hands in Erin’s goer, And thus for wider carnage taught to pant, Transferred to gorge upon a sister shore, The vulgarest tool that tyranny could want, Willi just enough of talent, and no more, To lengthen fetters by another fixed, And ofler poison long already mixed. An orator of such set trash of phrase, Ineffably—legitimately vile. That even it* grossest flatterers dare not praise, Nor foes—all nations—condescend to smile; Not even a sprightly blunder’s spark can blaze From that Ixion grindstone’s ceaseless toil, That turns and turns to give the world a notion Of endless torments and perpetual motiou. A bungler even in its disgusting trade, And botching, patching, leaving still behind Something of which its masters are afraid, States to be curbed, and thoughts to be con fined. Conspiracy or congress to be made— Cobbling at manacles for all mankind— A tinkering slave maker, who mends all chains, With God ami man's abhorrence for its gains. If «c may judge of matter by the mind, Emasculated to the marrow. It Hath but two objects, how to serve, and bind. Deeming the chain it wears even men may lit. Eutropiu* of its many masters, blind To worth as freedom, wisdom as to wit. Fearless—because no feeling dwells in ice, Its very courage stagnates to a vice. Where shall I turn me not ♦« view its bonds, For 1 will never feel them*—Italy ! Thv late reviving Homan soul desponds beneath the lie this state-tbing breathed o’er thee — Thy clanking chains, and Erin’s yet green wounds. Have voices—tongues to erv aloud for me. Europe has slaves—allies—kings—armies still, And Southey lives to sing them very ill. Meantime, Sir laureate, I proceed to dedi cate, In honest simple verse, this song to you. And, if in flattering stiains 1 do not predicate, •Tig that I still retain my ‘hull'and blue;’ Mv politics as yet are all to educate: Apostacy’s si* lashionshle, too. To keep one creed’s a task grown quite Her culean: I9 is not so, my l ory, ultra Julian? ’ We subjoin a fragment on the back of the MS, of Canto I. which we suspect the poet must have originally designed for part of a prelace, after his own fashion, to Don Juan, It is a terrible stanza: »» I would to heaven that I were so much clay, As I am blood, bone, marrow, passion, feel ing— because at lea*t the past weie pass d away— And for the future—(but I write this reeling, So that I seem to stand upon the ceiling) | 8aV—the future is a serious matter— And so—for God’s sake—hock and soda wa ter i" Another new stanza, a fragment too, is as follows: “ Time has approved Eunui to be the best Of friends, and opiate draughts; your love and wine » , Which shake so much the human brain and tjl*63St Must end in languor;—men must sleep like swine; The happv lover and the welcome guest Both sink at last into a swoon divine: Full of deep raptures and of bumpers, they Are some what sick and sorry the next day.” JACOB'S FIRST OFFENCE. Having occasion one day last summer to look into Judge King’s Court, to find a lawyer who, we learned, had, like ourselves, made at that moment his first appearance in that place for se veral Tears, we found the court occupied with sentencing certain criminals, against whom the jury of veers had pronounced the verdict of gull tv ’ One after another his honor despatched the motley group of black, white and grey, who were congregated in the prisoners’ box; some were to •ervethe public for two years, some for one year, and o’hers for a tew months, according to the le gal distinction of their various minings; and each heard in silence his sentence, and looked all submission, as if he felt that if all was known the punishment would have been doubted. This silence, we have remarked, is the attribute of the prisoners’ box. The bold and reckless are silent because they would brave all consequences; the timid speak not, because they are timid. When the whole array of culprits in the box had been disposed of, we looked fora movement of the people towards the door; but instead of that, at tention was directed to an individual sitting on a bench at the right of the prisoners’ box. Chang mg our position, we had a full view of him, and we will now attempt a sketch of his person. The man was about 75 years of age, and bore those marks upon his visage which denoted that labor and exposure had aided time in his work. As he sat, his body leaned forward to an angle of about 45 degrees, his right hand was resting on a staff, and in his left, but lying on the bench was a bag. His dress was of the most or dinary kind, his beard had not that length which adds dignity to age. nor was it sufficiently short to denote any recent attention to personal com forts; a few stray white hairs were hanging straight down from under a coarse cap, with which his head was covered. Recent confine ment had given more than a common paleness to his visage, and unusual dimness to his eye. ‘‘Jacob,” said the Judge, in a tone in which feeling for the age and wants of the prisoner had evidently obtained the mastery over the stern ness of justice—“Jacob, you have been found guilty ot stealing a quantity of poultry.” Jarob turmd his diin eye towards the Judge, and slowly shook his head, while his fingers play ed nervously upon his bag and cane. “ The jury has pronounced you guilty,” again said the judge in a tone which conveyed a doubt whether the poor old man understood the nature of Ins situation. | “ I heard them,” said Jacob; “ though I never ! intended to steal from any man, whatever my wants may have been^ind tlmy have been manyard pressing. I never intended to take what was not mv own. I have lived 75 vears in the same neigh bo'od, and-and-” Jacob had evidently lost the thread ot his remai ks, he looked about, as if to catch some hint by which to be enabled ! to proceed, but he was unsuccessful; he shook his head again, and cast his eyes upon the floor. ‘* 'I he court.” said the Judge, in a tone of kind ness, “ have considered the circumstances of vonr Mml ttronouiice tlie following sentence! “ Sentence—sentence,” said Jacob rapidly,as he again gazed on the judge; “sentence—1 have labored for « family, l have fought for the coun try, I have paid taxes for the state, and I ain noir' to be sentenced. Who is he that can say that Jacob-ever wronged him in 75 years? I appeal,” continued lie, in a low trembling voice, “ I appeal to Frederic G-and William _f who were boys and men with ine, whe ther l have been charged with a crime—let them speak for me.” •• They are both dead,” said the officer. “ Dead?” said the old man. “ Yes.” “ So they are—I had forgotten—they have been dead these ten years. But no man, dead or alive, overheard me accused of wrong doing till this charge was made; and what had f to do with the fowls?—l could have lived without them, or at least I could have died without them — l needed not to steal them. Steal! I did not steal them.” Again Jacob seemed to forget his subject; he talked on incoherently, until he seemed weary, when the Judge again prepared to pronounce the sentence. “ I would call some of my relations,” said Ja cob “ but that l now remember that they are 1 dead also—they are all dead.” When lie was again silent, the Judge said to the ..fficer, “ take the old man to the prison, and let hun wait there SO days, (the shortest time al lowed by law for his offence) and let there be en dorsed on the committal, an order for uim to be admitted to the Alms House as soon as the 30 davs ate passed.” Jacob rose w'hen the officer approached him, but it was evident that tie had paid but little at tention to the sentence. He took op his beg, and as he was moving out of theco* I room, he mu i ter ed. “ sentence— I did not steal.” He raised his eyes to the crowd that were gazing upon hint —a slight hectic flush passed over his visage—he repeated, but tiiry are alideud,” and then be gan his journey to the prison. For more than 70 years, it seemed that Jacob had mingled with society, man and boy; he had been known as honest; no temptation had caused him to swerve from the track of duty, and jie had grown up and old, with none togain*ay his cre dit Chilhood’s sunny years, the long eternity of boyhood, youth’s gay sallies, and man’s sober occupations, had all come and gone, and Jacob had passed through all unscathed by serious cen sure, unmarked by premeditated guilt—and on the verv tiireshoid"of his c°flin, slipping as it were into his grave, with almost four score years upon him, in an unguarded hour, he made ship wreck his whole voyage, and, in sight of port, sunk into infamy. Do parents, guardians see nothing in Jacob’s late, his only ei roe, upon'which to build a caution tor their offspring and their charge? We all, it is hoped, hedge about our children with con stant prrept and wholesome example, and fix their influence by earnest prayer. And we should make them ’act fromprinciple. We should make honesty not a policy, not a calculation, but a first movement; the instinctive feeling and prompting of the mind; and this most come Irom sure long continued watchings—habitual watchings. This year or this lustre may pass in safety, temptations may assail in vain, and we may look back on hall a century of unsullied life, and thank God that we are not as other men; but when the pride of a good standing fails us, when our outward relations are less fair, when the strong incentives to good from our various con. nexions cease, all must then depend upon an in fixed, safe and sure principle of right. We are not always safe; even the “attendant spirit” . of good which each of us hath to watch over and guard us, seems sometimes to have closed the eye, to have lifted it towards a higher power— it is noton ui, and we fail.—U. 8. Gazetts. Vatent Shot. A FURTHER supply, assorted numbers, from the Phoenix Shot Tower Company, just received and for sale by 8. MBSSERSMITII. apr II ___ Cot tun docks. j j)Q Pair Country Knit, juat received for aale, I Oft wholesale. Uetailera will find them a desira ble article. v J. k J. DOUGLAS. Motaaftes. HA Hogsheads prime Retailing Molasses, landing ftl I from schooner Paragon, for sale by apr 10_JV^FOWLE * Co' OnnoBitVun for Washington & BALTIMORE. Beltzhoover & Co’s Blue Line of Safety Coaches leave* their Ccarh Office, Royal street, ■B3KJtt«=fiadB»between King street and Newton's. City Hotel, every morning at half past 8 o'clock, di rect for Washington and Baltimore, calling by Har rington's and Morris's Taverns for passengers Pas sengers can enter their names and secure their seats at either of the above places. Passengers wishing to go to Baltimore at any other hour, will be sent to Wash ington without any extra charge. These Coaches, Horses and Drivers, are -.urpassed by none; and no ra cing allowed. Passengers called for and put down where requested. Every exertion to please. Fare to Washington • • fO 25 “ to Baltimore • • 3 25 G. M. BRUCE, Agent. P S. A Stage, leaves the Office adjoining Gadsby's, Washington, every afternoon at 4 o'clock for Alexan dria_apr 10—tf Vttot hin« ut diftgta DIRECT FOR BALTIMORE. The Public are respectfully informed Uiat the above Line will 'I_ nil.. LJ ..4. I ggaaMHifor Baltimore, at half past 7 o'* clo k, A li| and leave W ashington for Alexandria at half past 4 o'clock, PM A Stage will also leave Waihington fer Alexandria at half past 8 o'clock every morning, and returning, leave Alexandria at half past 4 P. M By thia arrange* went, passengers can remain in Washington all night, or leave therein the Mail Stage the same night for Bal* timore. Passengers taking their seata in Alexandria, have the preference in leaving Washington. Fare to Baltimore, $3 25—to W aihington, 25 cents. CH. A NEWTON, apr-V—tf Agent for Stockton A Stokes Giiffec. a / Via Bags Bio Coffee, will be landed this morning It III from schooner Stafford, for sale by apr 4 GEO. JClINSON \J Co. C«Y\T8e Aa\t. WE are authorized to aell a few thousand bushels of Me of May Salt—which is nearly as heavy ami coarse as Turks Island—deliverable at any part of the District or on the river. Please apply imme diately to GEO. JOHNSON A Co .Makers. HC SMITH has this morning received from Boa* • ton a Box of Patterns, comprising the latest and beat assortment of cut and plain Furniture and Door Knobs, Curtain Pins, Ac. Ac. and which cabinet muk* era and others are invited to call and examine. * Cordage. 36 24 do’^i.mp 5 C”J,8e- °* ,il" Landing from schooner Freedom, for sale by apr4 W. FOWLE A Co:. - George A. Ut>ugV\ IS now opening a choice selection of FASCY A hi) STAPLE GOODS, consisting in part of Super London cloths and cassimerca; men’* summer wear; black lustring-* and poult de soir; watered and f\gur> d si ks; whit*, pink, blue and blak sattins; paint ed mu.Inis and calicoes; light French callcoea, very handsome; painted palminetie; Italian crape; Cyprus and InsgHuzei cambrics; jackone a; plain and figured Swiss and Hook ditto; plaid muslins; ginghams; real _./.L,.*./*. n/vnn^a. aihiffl* urirl Krntvn flritlinoa* strip> • for boy*; one case super soft dressed Irish li nens; super lo>ig Kw ns; green and white blond veils; figured and plain barrego ditto* linen cambric; ditto hdkfo; Bishop's lawn; white merino and camel's hair shawls; beautiful assortment nf fancy hdkfs; bobbinets and »ac«.s; Grecianette; min'* lace; tloskin and kid* gloves; large assortment of cotton hosiery; missis'dit*, to, some very superior; Marseilles md silk resting; tan bit and bird eye diapers; Irish and llussia sheetings bleached; black and colored tastings; blue and greea table, covers; colored and white knitting cotton; gras cambric for bonnets; gauze and other ribbons; galoont; fine black b-.mbazette and Circassians; 6 4 and common bombazeen?; yellow and blue nankeens; gauze flan nels; fancy tuck, side and puff comba; hair brushes in great variety; tooth and nail ditto; bandannas, some first chop; rattinet for coachinakers; hangups and bei kerteen*; tickings and domestics generally; silk and cotton umbrellas and parasols; foundations and wad ding; point blankets; coarse linens; cotton burlaps; low priced carpeting, very handsome; four cases straw bonnets; Leghorn flats; boys' leghorn hats; men's su perfine palm ditto. ; „ Cotton Yarn. Candlewick and Cotton Bata, constant ly on hand, at Baltimore prices_4th mo 8 Spring Goods. W. H. THOMPSON & CO. OAVB received, by the last arrivals, a large and ge neral assortment of STAPLE AND FANCY GOODS, which they offer for Ale upon favorable terms, wioii sail an iitaii._i_»pr 8 for tarvanle. WE Skill pay cash and tfcffaighest prices for mqt number of Likely Negkoes, of both ieie«. our 19 FRANKLIN fc.ARMFlELD. _ - - - ---