FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STAT
O D F, to WAP.
LORD of the fcythril car 1 whose chics dcligh*,
'Tis to ra'fe the foul to fight ;
Come mighty God ! and fill my ftratn
With thy lury-fLfhing heat ;
Which like a roaring torrent founds,
As o*er the horrid rock :r bnurd* t
Or like the ocan's thundering h^a',
When by the howling on high s
Its waves arc lifted to the £ky.
'Tis by thy aid alone,
The tribe who pant to swell the fi^hr,
And fee the cannon's slashing light;
While awful thunders fill the air,
Can view the tumult void of fea r .
And feel the scene their fouls delight.—
O ! now mv views thy tra'n,
In dreadful splendor pass the plain !
Thv fifier anger marches firft,
With light'ning darting from her eyes ;
Jler-heart doth beat,
With furious heat,
As though each moment it would burfl ;
While with UD-lifted arm ftie threats th.cfk.ies,
And curling oft her birth,
Doth (lamp with mad'ningfury 'cMinft the earth.
Next comes Revenge an awful form '
Who kindles all the rage of storm ;
His eyes a beamy horrordart,
That (hakes with fear the tim'rous heart ;
His breast a steeled plate enfolds,
A brazen helmet guards his head,
While in his hand a spear he holds,
And all a dazling terror (bed.
Next Jealousy the god of fplcen,
Of doubting heart, but piercing mein,
With trembling step, comes slowly ou,
And casts his fearful eyes around ;
To heaven now. and now to earth,
And now he laughs with inward joy,
But terror soon displaces mirth,
And like a bafhful maiden coy,
He starts at ev'ry found,
And pauses now, and now in hafle he flies along the ground,
Then marchrs on a martial band,
With arms and music in their hand :
Now boldly founds the shrilly fife,
And wakes the sleeping foul to life ;
The doubling drum improves the found,
While from the hills the notes rebound :
Hark 1 the sonorous trumpet blows,
But louder plays the sweetly winding horn,
While ev'ry breast with valour glows,
And ev'ry foul with rage is borne
On rapid wings, to join in war,
The infuiting foe, whose ftillv founds are faintly heard from far.
I.aft in the train comes Liberty,
A GOD- LIKE BEI NG of the fkv.
Bright ft reams of light around his head,
Dazling silver-glory spread :
is golden-hair amidst the blaze,
In curling lines of beauty plays ;
His snowy robe of fpotlcfs hue,
Wafti'd in heaven's etherial dew,
Wide floats upon the buoyant gale,
While all around his presence hail !
His left hand holds a founding harp,
While with his right he fweepsthe silver wires,
And piercing music, fierce and sharp,
Inflames each breast with his own fires—
The armed band with quickcn'd pace,
In equal measures beat the ground ;
And brighter beams in ev'ry face,
The "heavenly glow at ev'ry found.
But now he sweeps with bolder hand,
The golden chords of deeper tone,
And soul-subduing music floats,
That melts to tearsthe warrior band,
Who mute and liftcning fland ;
Quite ravifh'd with the thrilling notes,
They gaze and gaze on him alone.—
Now all awake the liftcning fojul,
He ceas'd awhile the tuneful found ;
And brightest tears of rapture roll,
While thus he hail'd the troop around
<: Ye glorious band ! together wove,
By mutual intercft and by love ;
Be forever dill the fame.
Still be rous'd by virtue's flame,
When'er thehagged servile train,
Shall dare your liberty restrain.
Thou Anger (hew thy awful eye,
Whence consuming light'nings dart;
And thou Revenge of thundering air,
Lift on high, thv beamy spear,
i hat fhnkes with fear the coward's hearr.
And JealonJy thou changeful god !
Who affeft'fts the doubting nod,
Still extend thy piercing fight,
And drag enslaving schemes to light :
For by your aid combin'd alone,
Shall I prefcrvc my (ky-built throne.
And last ye glorious martial band!
Who firmly tread this favor'd land,
Whene'er I strike my founding harp,
And rouse the accents fierce and sharp;
J ed by the aidor of your Gods,
frrafp in rage your gleaming arms,
And pour from gaping wounds, the purple floods
Of thofc who madly dare to rouse your dread alarms."
Again he fweepsthe golden firings,
-Loud echo with the music rings;
The lofty mountains all around,
With thundering (bouts of praise resound.
Now higher, bolder swells the note,
And now the modulating found,
Upon the trembling wind doth float,
Then murmuring dies away along the ground
The band inspired, now again,
In quicken'd meafurc beat the plain;
Now in a glorious blaze of light,
They vanish from my fancy's fight,
|r_?" REMARK
THE friends of Virtue and Religion in the United States,
receive a fine addmoti to the opinibm and principles of the
Wisest and best men of the prcfent and past age, in the work of
M. \ECKER, jull re-published in this city by Carey,Stewart Co
Nope-fonof femimem who can fparethefmall sum nffix fhiUivg,,
wil! deny himfelf the pleafurc and advantage of that ineft.mable
perlormancc.
LISLE, March 31.
r T"MIE department of tlie North,which, after the
1 lnte unfortunate Maflacres at Douay, retired
ro this town, proceeded, on Sunday lalt, to elect
a new Bifiiop : the poll Jafted, at St. Petei s
Church, till Wednesday afternoon, when the
majority of electors appeared to be in favour of
M. Primat, Curate of St. Jacques, Douay, a wor
thy pried ; and the faffle, who, when the mob
were dragging their mangled vidtinis along the
(lieers, interceded on his knees with theruffians,
to pive up the bodies for interment. This adt
of humanity has been the principal means of his
elevation to the Episcopal Chair.
There is a fill of 77 per cent, in the Rnflian
ruble. By the lalt mail we learn it was as low
as twenty-seven pence halfpenny, which is a fall
from forty-eight pence, the price it stood at be
fore the war.
The National -Assembly has decreed, that the
new edifice of Genevieve {hall be appropriated
tj receive the allies of great men ; that M. de
Mirabeau's allies (hall be deposited there ; and
that over the door (hall be engraved, " Ar/x
grandj homines, la patrie reconnaiflante."
If any mail had said, in the lad century, that
the Turkish empire was to be saved by Chrilti
ans, his predi<fiion would have been consi
dered as the very eMence of folly ; and yet that
crisis approaches fait
Last week aperfontiamed Archibald Cameron,
if Inch Keith, a final] island on the North Weft
.oast of the Highlands of Scotland, died without
pain, groan, or previous sickness, in the 122< 1
year of his age. This poft-diltivian Patriarch
haft served seven Lords of theiflein the employ
ment ofdomefyic piper, during the course of
ninety-four years, but hjs fingers failing, he liv
ed on a i'mal 1 pension allowed by the family.
On Friday last at noon, ten millions of Affig
nats were burnt at Paris, making, with those
burnt before, fifty-two millions of livres, or
2,T66,6061.
The coronation of the Emperor at Prague, as
King of Bohemia, will give occasion to the revi
val of an amnfement, that of the tournament.
There is to be one in that city in September,
with lance and sword, similar to that given in
1616. Prince Adam, of Hugfberg, is to be the
JVlarfha! ; and the mountain ofZilka, the scene
of the contention.
M. Lanibro Cazioni lvas arrived at Trieste.
rake upon himfelf the command of the Ruffian
flotilla, in the Mediterranean.
If the late Mr. Wray aJlually conceived at tlie
time of his inferring within his last: teftaii'ent, a
beqneft: of five hundred pounds towards a fund
for the discharge of the national debt, that such
nn event was likely to take place, a ground for
setting aside the will, tinder a suspicion of the
insanity of the donor, appears at least as firm
and tenable as that upon which the Parliament
voted that Colonel Strangsways inuft have been
out of his senses, when he left behind him a le
gacy of thirty thousand pounds for a fimilarpnr
pofe. A cafe at leafl as strange as either of ihefe
in queflion is that of Colonel Norton, who, dy
ing at Southwick, liis residence near Porfmouth,
in December, 1732, bequeathed a real estate of
fix thousand pounds a year, and sixty thousand
pounds in money, to the poor, the hungry, and
thethirfty ; to the naked, to itrangers, the sick,
the wounded, and prisoners, until the end of the
world. He left his pictures and other valuable
effects to the King ; appointing the Parliament
of Great Britain his executors ; and directed that
if they refufed the trust, it should devolve upon
the Bench of Bilhops. Trustees were immedi
ately appointed, under proper authority, to take
care of this extraordinary legacy ; but rhe will
bore such striking marks of insanity, that it was
soon afterwards set aside ; and, if we mistake
not, the estate is now enjoyed, with more pro
priety and justice, by (one of his relatioas) Mr.
Thiftlethwayte.
Died on Sunday, at BufTelfleigh, near Oxford,
where he had gone for change of air, in his 6i(t
year, Dr. John Berkenliout, long distinguished
in the literary world for his productions in va
•rious sciences.
April j2.
. Yesterday Lord Porchefter moved the follow
ing resolutions in the house of Peers—which
were negatived.
i ft. I hat a war of Conquest is repugnant to
the honor or policy of the British nation.
2ct. That the war entered into with Tippo
Sultan, and Uie treaty for the partition of his
dominions, is highly difgraceful to the British
name.
U L L I N.
3d. That the Board of Contronl and Court of
Directors, be directed to.transmit such orders to
tlteir ferv'ants abroad, as are mod likelv to re
e the general tranquility of that country.
1 he National Aflembly of France has at length
e o vec to put a period to its own existence •
so. it has fipcreed thru a New-Afiembly fhali be
calief] and meet in July next.
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LONDON, April 9
110 USE OF CO MM O NS,
Amu. ij.
Mr. Sherulan presented a petition from Glaf
gow, signed by eighteen thousand persons a
gainst the Corn Bill. Ordered to be referred to
the Committee on the Bill.
DUBLIN, March y
The Roman Catholics of the British Empire
have reason to glory in this age of pUilof op h v
A few years will put them on that equality with
their fellow fubje<fts, which we find in the wife
and noble policy of the United Stares.
The Americans improved on the British Con
flitution ; they are now the happielt people in
the world—riling from despotism hi to opulence
and refpeciability. All dalles are united and
happy. How powerful will the revolution of a
century render them under such a government !
PORTSMOUTH, (N. H.) May 28
We are credibly informed that, fliould the
lower counties in the diflriift of Maine, succeed
in their endeavors to have that diftrift set off as
a fepnrare State, the inhabitants of the county
of York will nfe their united exertions to be an
nexed to this Sfate.
The proximity of the above county to this
State, the habits of intimacy between the inha
bitants, and their relative situation both in an
agricultural and commercial view, mull render
such a connexion not only politic as a local, but
highly judicious as a national meafnre.
The Turks have 101 l since the beginning of
the War with Ruflia, nearly 220 large (hips, car
rying more than two ilioufand .guns of different
calibres. *
Accounts from Madrid fay—" The Kino; has
jtlft given orders to M. Cavellero, the late Mi
nifterof the war department, to quit Madrid,but
for what reason is unknown."
The Circuit Court of the United States, hav
ing finifiied the bufitiefs brought before it, in
this town, was on Thursday afternoon lad ad
journed without day. And yesterday their Ho
nors Chief Justice Jay and Judge Ci ski nc, set
out for their rcfpective homes.
NEW-HAVE N, June 8
Lafl week the corner (lone of flie firft abut
ment nf East-river brid<rp, was laid, under the
direction nf the Mayor of this city,- attended by
the Rev. Dortor Stiles, and o:her gentlemen of
the Clergy—the Aldermen and other officers of
the corporation, the civil wiagiltrates of the town,
and a number "f gentlemen and ladies ; the ce
remony was closed wiili three huzza's. The
preceding day having been wet, rendered it tin.
fafe for the company to partake of a cold colla
tion in the field, and they repaired to rite house
of Alderman Daggit, (one of the contractors for
the bridge) and were enrertained with elegance
and hofpi'ality ; on the Hone was the following
inscription:
ERECTED,
May
A. D. ai,dcc,xci.
AMER IC A N INDEPENDENCE.
HON. ROGER SHERMAN,
NEWARK, June 9
Married, at Philadelphia,on Monday evening,
the ''orh ulc. bv the Rev. Dr. Nefbit, President
of Dickinfon College, the Rev. Dr. John Wi
therfpoon, President of Princeton College in this
(late, to Mrs. Ann Dill, widow of Dr. Dill, of
\ ork county, in that state, a ladv ofgrcat heait
ty and merit.—On VVednefday, after the l'rcfi
dent's return to Princeton with his amiable lady,
a deputation of the Students waited upon him,
to congratulate hiin upon the joyful occasion,
and he politely gave them two days holiday. In
the evening, in regard to their worthy President,
and to teftify their joy upon his happy marriage,
the (Indents illuminated the college, which af
forded a mnft grand and beautiful fight to the
numerous fpet r tarois who had collected upon the
occasion. '1 here were fix hundred candles in
the front of the college, which were lighted nl
moft instantly on a signal given bv the diCtharge
of a cannon, and on the like signal they were all
immediately extinguished.
During the illumination, which lasted about
an hour, a number of students in the belfry, en
tertained the great concourse of people who at
tended, with a most agreeable and delightful
concert of mtific from different kinds of inflru
ments. The whole was conduced with elegance
and taste.
— u Joy sparkled in every eye,
and every heart was glad."
LAN SIN BURG, June ?
By tlie lad Bennington p.iper we are inform
ed, that the party at the Briiifh port lately ho'ld
eu in that ilate, has recently been recalled.
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May or