i"ound a person frho Was willing to take his draft for five guineas oti the Prelideut of the Royal Society. With this affiftancehe arrived in England, and immediately waited on Sir Joseph Banks, who told him, knowing his temper, that he believed lie could recommend him to an adventurealmoft as perilous as the one from which he had return ed ; and then communicated to him the wilhes of the aifociation fordifcoveriug '.he inland coun tries of Africa. Mr. Ledyard replied, that he had always de termined to traverse the contiitent of Africa, as f >qn as he had explored the interior parts of 1 North America ; and as Sir joseph had offered him a letter of introduction, he came dire (ft to the writer ot these memoirs. Before I had learnt from the note the nanieandbufinefsofmy viGtor, I was it ruck with the manliness of his person, the breadth of his cbeft, the openness of his countenance, and the iuquietude of his eye. J opened the map of Africa before him, and tra cing a line from Cairo to Sennar, and from thence weft ward in the latitude and supposed di rection of the Niger, 1 told him that was the rout by which 1 was anxious that Africa might, if pos sible, be explored. He said he ihould think him felf Angularly fortunate to be entrulted with the adventure. I asked him when he would set out ? —To-morrow morning was his answer. Oil this grand Adventure Mr. Ledyard left London on June 30th, 1788, and reached Cairo, in Egypt, on the 19th of Anguft, from whence he transmitted such accounts to his employers as plainly (hewed he was atraveller of observation and reflection, endowed with a foul for discove ry, and formed for atchievments of hardihood and peril. Jie had promised his next communi cation for Sennar, about 600 miles south of Cai ro ; bat death put an end to the hopes that were entertained of his proje&ed journey. We (hall conclude this (hort (ketch with Mr. Ledyard's character of the female sex : " I have always remarked that women, in all countries, are civil, obliging, tender and humane ; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorons and modest ; and that they do not he fitate, like men, to perform a generous a«ftion. Not haoghty, arrogant, nor supercilious, they are full of courtesy, and-fond of society ; more liable in general to err tliaii man, bat generally more virtuous, and performing more good adti- he. To a woman, either civilized or savage, k never addrefied myfelf in the language of decoram and friendihip, without receiving a decent and friendly answer—with men it has ben otherwise. _ *< In manuring over the barren plains, of in 4iofpitable Denmark, through honelt Sweden, and frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled RulSa, and the wide spreading re gions of the wandering Tartar :—lfhungary, ary, cold, wet, or lick, the women have ever been friendly to me and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue (so worthy of the appellation of be nevolence) thel'e actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that it I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught—and it hun gry, I eat the coarfeit morsel with a double re- [IT m ly not be unacceptable to thofc mho feel the pride of enterprise, to knew, thai Mr. John Ledyard was an American, born at Groton, in Con- j neduut ;hi $ grand father was a native of Br iflol, in England, his fa ther, Mr. John Ledyard dud when his children were young, who were John, Thomas, George and Fanny—our bold traveller toas the eldejl, who was taken bt his grandfather, John Ledyard, Esq. to Hartford, and received a Latin and English Jfchool education —his patron died, «zn<i UJt htm at 18 jetrs old, to follow the bent of his own inclination. Pojfejfcd of a vigorous imagination, and a heart susceptible of benev int impressions, he embraced the fiudx of religion, that breathes good will to nun, to give full scope to thoje affedions. I, who was acquainted with An minds-eye, am clear that no wayward thought hojlile to the peace of any individual, ever found a welcome there—his whole life evinces it, as tt may be truly said, to have been spent to benefit mankind, Jrom which, be could not be diverted by hunger, cold or peril. To have the advan tage of books and inflrudion, he went to Dartmouth College ; and here it was, he learned the manners of the Aborigines, ar.d those means of recommending 'nmfclf to their favor, which rendered him fofen iceable to Capt. Cook in his voyages of discovers. He quitted this Academy after find -IMg that his means / not enable him to go through the usual course cf Academicfludies ; he left Dartmouth without a fhillingin his pocket, and fru>u that moment, ftem'l to fur: devoted himfelf to those objeds, in which his life has been spent. manes for tie journey to Hart ford, by land, he but ft a canoe 50 Jeet long, by 3 feet breadth—after rafng a booth of willow bufkes over her fieri, and receiving fomearyed venison and a few bear skins on board, which made up all his sea flores. tie embarked for Hartford, where he arrived fife, to the aftonifkment of those who re'lertedupon the fatigue and hazardoj navigating in an open bt, .f, a rapid river, upwards of 140 miles t w it h u \ich he was totally un acquainted. After a short fax at Hartford, he worked his pajfage to Kew-York, a ndj",iipped bef->; tbe ma (I for London, in 1771, r*. hen quitting that em filcj, he ente*ed a rtrporal of Marines to Capt. Cook, for the voyage, to be N. IV. Cuijl of America ; he was present at the tragical death of Capt. Cttoi. at Ou\ f .ee, by tv.hicA accident Mr. Ledxatd often said. he lofl his best friend. After m abferce of Un years, and fuppojed dead, by his friends, kc returned in 1781, to America in a Brilijh frigate, which Oem j ordered into Hjrtington harbor, Long-Ijland, to refit. Mr. Led yard embraced this opportunity to join his friends, and crojfed the found •'5 boat. During this lifit % he bub!jhed the principal fads of Capt. Cooks voyage, before that fp/endid relation of it came out m England, though wjhv occurrences aere omitted Jor a ant ofhis journal, which he zoas obliged to give up to the board of admiralty—he likewise offered his fen-ices to fevera! mercantile companies toco .duel a commercial voyage to the Y. W. coafi of Amei ica ; but failing of fuccejs, he embarked in 1 782, for Europe, Jince w'.icA time, to his aeath, at 0 rand Cairo in Egypt, the •London accounts cf him are corroborated by Utters to hisfriends. He u.as bc,d as a /:. ar.dgtntU a; he uw bold. The moji furmidtr It ii£turtgittr.fsj~-ivd 'id totiJfreft to Ku mind, ted ft LONDON. [TSr JolXown* ieantiful LIKES acre written t- Mr.Cuu itn.wa, on tic Marriage oj Miss Sackvijlc to Mr. Heibcrt.J Y£ rolcmn pedagogues, who teach A language by eight part* of fpcech, Can any ol you all impart A rule to conjuga-.e the heart ? Grammarians did you ever try To construe and expound the eye ? And from the Syntax ot the face Drcline its gender and its cafe ? What said the nuptial tear that feU Froin lair Eliza, can you tell ? And yet it spoke upon her cheek As i loquent as tear could speak.— " Heie, at Goo's altar as X Hand, T<> plight my vows, and yield my hand, With faultering tougue whilst I proclaim The ccflion of my virgin name ; Whilst in my ear is read at large The Rubrick's stern enfofteri'd charge, Spare me {the silent pleader cries,' Ah spare me, ye surrounding eyes ! Ufhcr'd amidst a blaxe of light, Whilst here I pass in public light, Or kneeling by a fathei's fide, Renounce the daughter for the bride; Ye lifters, to my foul so dear, Say, can I check the rising tear ? When at this awlul hour I cast My memory back on time that's pall, Ungrateful were I to forbear This tribute to a lather's care; for all he suss t'd, all he taught, Is there not due some tender thought ? And may not one fond tear be given To a dear faint that rcfts in heaveu ? And you to whom I now betroth, Tn fight of heaven, my nuptial oath ; Who to cobility of birth True houor join, and native worth, If mv according bofoin draws Oneligh, misconstrue not the cause ; Tmlk mr, though weeping, I rejoice. And, blushing, glory in my choice." fROM THE MASSACHUSETTS MAG A Z (ML For September, 1790. in imitation of Peter Pindar people have a taste that** something ftrange^ And think it must bepleas'd at any rate, Nature in others, they suppose may change, Its whims iu them, on no such reas'ning* wait. Of this plain principle, the following (lory, For illuilraUon'a Ukc, I'll lay before ye. 111. A Yankle and a Frenchman once at table met, Midil roots and vegetables in chequered state, A platter furnilh'd with fit pork appear'd, An<l_eke a moulhous ksx whal—th&/W htari' The Yankee took the ]u%,faiu ccrcotonie, And having drawn the gluey corn-cob cork, He pour'd and trail'd the 'lades o'er the pork, And then fat down to eat. The Frenchman ftretch'd his wond'ring eyes and rose, Lugg'd out ins box of befl rappee, He did not want it for his nose, liut pepper'd well the meat. While with farcaflii shrug, be gave this huff, 44 You love Je 'lasses far, me love de fnuff." MORAL. DeguJlibuSy non cji d'fputandum. THE TABLET. " The Jlrongefl tint, in the complexion of the hu man ch trailer, may be ftime times forvicd by a cir cumflauce, or evetft apparently casual HOW much of the difference of character, we behold in inen,isto be attributedto accident, and how much to original cad of difpoiition, is a queition that cannot, in any given iultance, be accurately solved. A combination of circum stances, merely adventitious, operate in forming the propensities which characterize every indi vidual. Perhaps the mind of every person is predisposed to cherifli certain inipreflions more readily than others, and when an accident oc curs that coincides with the natural bent of tem per, it heightens its itrength and permanency. On the other hand, events purely accidental may produce a change in our original bias, and raif'e allocations that turn the current of our affections from the point to which they were aiming. Itis observed of Dean Swift that he had so irritable a temper, as gave to the flightelt difappointmenr a mod excruciating fling. In a letter to Lord 80. lingbroke he exprelles himfelf in the following terms. ' I remember when I was a boy,l felt a great fifh at the end of my line, which 1 drew up almost on the ground, but it dropt in, and the disap pointment vexes me to this very day, and I be lieve it was the type ofall my future disappoint. uients.' Had the Dean succeeded in taking the fi(h, and had he met with several lucky incidents loon after, it probably had changed his propen lity to gloom and peevifhiiefs, by exciting such feelings of good humor and serenity as would gradually have acquired the force of habit, and 622 A TALE, No. CXLVI, given qvite a different complexion to hirf charac ter. - An elegant writer (peaking of that affair, makes the following remarks, after mentioning the difappointmenc relative to the fifh. " This little incident, perhaps, gave the firft wrong exereile to a mind, predisposed to fuel* imprelfions ; and by operating so long and so forcibly, might polTibly lay the foundation oft he Dean's subsequent peeviihuefs, pailion, mii'anthro py and final inl'anity." The fame author mentions many instances of the lading allociations that are produced by at. cidental circuniftances, and which may have a very forcible impression in directing the efforts of the underltanding and the feelings of the heart, differently from the course they had ta ken, previous to such accidents. Among other instances the following is a pertinent one. " Dr. Conyers Middleton, one of the inoft learned, various and elegant writers of the present age, isfaid to have been much more addicted, in the eaily part of life, to music, than to fcieuce. Cue he was ronfed from his favorite auiufesneut, and ftinaulated to the dofeft application to study, by a farcaiin of his rival'and enemy, the celebrated Dr. Bently who ftigtnatized him with the name of fiddler. And indignation made bim eager to convince the Doctor and the world, that be conld write as well as fiddle ; a conviction, of which his opponent had, afterwards, the molt painful ex perience. The death of a friend, and Other heavy afflic tion* fometiines give a gloomy cast to the mind, and lead it into a train of melancholy reflexions ; which, if Hot counteracted by incidents that pro mote chearfulneip, uiay become habitual. It is of the highest importance that people guard them selves against that aflociation of ideas which par. ticular events may create. By indulging a train of feelings that are eleited accident ally,they di fufe themselves through the whole life and cha racter. One man is thus rendered paffiopate and peeviih ; another gloomy and discontented, and a third capricious and inconltant. Had either of them carefully watchedover theitnpreflions when they were firft raised, they could easily have esca ped the habits which became so durable and per*' nicious. Latest European Intelligence. LOXDOX, Anguft 23. YESTERDAY afternoon the signal for ail Captains was dis played on board the Queen Charlotte, Lord Howe's flag (nip which was instantly obeyed. This morning his Lordship threw out the signal for failirg— Preparations were immediately made by every (hip in the fleet* Bv ten o'clock. A. M. many of them were unmoored ; an* 4 -»t three P. M. tne whott fleet was clear of On. baj. Never were orders obeyed with greater alacrity, or with more universal good will; for no sooner were the direct-ons given to man the capllcrns, than the exulting fhoutsof the sailors bespoke a ready concurrence : and never before, perhaps had the boatswains lets to do in the weighing of an anchor. An officer, froin a veficl arrived in the offine, went yesterday on board the Queen Charlotte, with intelligence that they had feeo theSp«mifh fleet a few days before, in the bay of Biscay, and that it confuted of upwards of thirty fail of the line, behdes frigates, &.c. See, We know not whether this circumflancc haftcned the motion* which immediately followed, but it had not taken place au hour before the lignal was made for all the captains. Six o'clock, P. M. The whole fleet have now doubled the start; the wind has veered considerable to the Northward, ae«i they are now (landing down channel with a fine breeze. Each Captain has sealed orders, and from their course, when they pafled Bury-head, they seemed bound weftwajd. It is be lieved their destination is to cruize between Bred and Cadiz. Our fleet having failed fromTorbay, the conje&ures refpe&ing their destination are various. Among other reports it has been currently said, that admmiftraiion were apprehetibve of a iun&i on ot the French and Spanish fleets, and ordered out our fleet to prevent it. Some letters received in town this morning alien, that the Spauilh fleet is already in Bred water. The following information was brought by the French mail of yejlcrday, and is part oj a letter from Genoa. •'From the day the new created Emperor of Morocco ascended the throne, he nianifefted the molt violent defpotifni, though it was said he as sured all the different powers of his intention t« keep up that harmony which his father establish ed. Yet notwiihftanding such profeifion, this monller, from foine mifunderftandingor falfere. port, took umbrage at the Spaniih Consul, and to be revenged, had him put into a large cask, and ordered that he fliould be rolled about the streets ofSallee in this manner untill be expired. PARIS, Augufti. LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. The decree of yeilerday, relative to the prose cution of the two defamers of the Legislative body, had too precipitately pafled without observation upon its generalty, asinclufiveofevcry offence of that nature. M. Rabaud de St. Etienne rose with much warmth, to deprecate the evils of a decree so fatal to all liberty of sentiment.—" Let us not, " I "conjnreye, plungethe Nation into the perils of " Constructive Libels :—I infill upon the irame. "diatcreverlal of the decree, or if, notwithftand " ingits manifold mifchiefs, it inuft subsist, the " Aflcmbly should modi-rate the measure by the eftablilhmentofa Trial by Jury, as the only " modeofpreferving the people from iniquitous "decision, and freedom from a fatal weund."
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