FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. ODE to TIME. THOU wad«re Woilds began to be, And (halt continue to eternity. Tho' oft the Painter's pencil, oft the Bard, On canvas, or on Fancy's airy scene, Hath (hewn thee laughable, with grisly beard, Stiff-darting from a peaked chin ; A few white hairs thin-scattered round thy head, Thine eyes turn'd grey with age ; Thy nose quite (hrivel'd, like a pointed hook, Thy visage bearing all a wrinkled wizard look : Bent down and crooked was thy form, And tottering on thy weak, lank legs, Like some Aim reed amid the (baking dorm : Thy blood poor, miserable dregs Of life , crept thro' each wind-puff*d vein, Which feem'd as tho' 'twould burd with ev'ry drain Thy long and dangling arms a scythe fudain, To lop otf men as they cut down their grain: Mod laughable indeed ! thus to deform A God in power fird, as firft in form ! But look ye Painters! hear ye Bards this truth ! His face (hall ever bloom unfading Youth. Bright golden locks adorn his head, Majedic beauty seems his form; Where'er he steps, his awful tread Sounds like the thunder of the dorm, Imperial Rome! once Miftrefsof the World ! Who rear'd her palaccs, her towers on high, Bade her tall obelilks shoot to the iky ! Jn ruin lies, by his flrong arm of power hurl'd: Tall fane?, proud palaces and arches thrown B) his flight touch come headlong down; The dreadful weight the mountains (hakes around* And hiils and vales the horrid roars rebound. Some broken arch, or nodding tower, falls prone to earth each passing hour ; And oft the wary traveller hears the found Of some lofty column broke, By Time's rudely (battering stroke, When clown it comes loud-crashing on the ground. Behold yon figure darting on the fight! His awful brow iround, With palm and laurel bound ; His forceful eye, with genius bright, Seems now in Fancy's view to roll, And (peak the bloody Ccefar's warlike soul 1 But Ccefar ! thou art gone ! And Time shall bid thy statue follow soon. The spacious Foium where great Tully's voice, A clear and fwellirig torrent pour'd along, 'Till the tumultuous fa&ion check'd their murmuringnoife^ And mute—with dumb attention hark—as to the song Of Orpheus, did fierce Cerberus of old, \Vhen he with mujic's tongue his tender dory told ; Touched by Time's deftruttive, potent wand, Lies in ruins mouldering on the land. £Rom Rome the Muse now turns her eagle-eye, To where the fun burns in the western (ky— Where Niagara loud and strong, Her deep, majedic current rolls along : From many a noble dream and lake fupplicd The rushing tide, With rapid force, mod dreadful roars ; While echo fwe'ls the solemn found upon its solitary fhoies: But lo ! the boiling flood check'd by a rockv mound, It madly foams, and whirling round, In one stupendous (heet, From the dizzy awful height, Fierce i u filing, slashing, falls headlong thundering to the ground The trembling groves and caves around For many a league the dreadful shout resound— And while the bellowing flood, 'miaft craggy rocks below Boils into foam; above the heaven-depi&ed bow In rapture holds the wondering traveller's eye; And al! his senses whirl with heavenly extacy. But hold, my Muse ! rcpres thy airy flight; Nor give thy rapid foul to sweet delight; For e'en those haughty rocks, that rear on high Their shaggy heads, and rend the vaulted (ley With their loud-roaring founds lublime, Shall bow beneath the (battering hand of Time: And ere thrice ten times the God of Day, Hath drove his flaming, annual car, Adown the rosy Weft; My (lender frame of clay, With Time and fierce Difeafeat war, May moulder into dust: These grief-ftrung nerves ot mine may cease to move In fad vibrations to the voice of Love; With many a hapless Bard whose tender bread, Now knows no more the goading thrust Of penury, or pride his nerves of feeling.tear. But hold ! ah hold thy lilted hand ! Nor lowly bow, Beneath thy awful blow The Father of Columbia's favor'd land : Oh spare! the glorious Patriot spare! Nor give the stroke of late Until his equal shall appear, To fill with equal dignity the lofty Chair of State. R O M E, April i TTIS Holiness has written a very afFecftionate A-L letter to the Emperor Leopold, inviting his A!ajelly here with the King and Queen of the two Sicilies. The Holy Father lias had some rich presents made for their Sicilian TVlajelties, among which are two Chaplets, of Lapis Lazuli, a gold chain, and two double Cameos, set round with brilli ants, of the value of five thousand Roman crowns. Me/James of France ate expedted here about the 22<l inilanr. P A R I S, March 16 Yesterday a (latement of the land and other was produced by the central committee of liquidation to the National AUembly ; by which it appears that those on real property amount to 254.000,000 livres, and those of moveables to ?>7,c00,000 livres annually. Several members ob je6ed to the enormity of the taxes on real pro And Vicloire-Louife-Marie-Therefe dc France, born May ij, 1735. The lineage of tlrefe ladies is uncommonly il lustrious: they are the daughters of Louis XV. the great grand-daughters of Louis XIV. the aunts of Louis XVI. and, like all these monarchs, claim their defceut through Louis XIII. and Hen ry IV. opto St. Louis, the founder of the House of Bourbon. In their mod tender years, Mefdames imbib. Ed in early and a violent attachment in favour of Religion. The debauchery of a court, proverbi ally licentious, could never warm their minds from the practice, or tin<fture their moral cha racter with the prevailing viccs of the times. They have been known, on their knees, to conjure Louis, as a father and a sovereign, to dismiss his mistresses, to listen to and relieve the distresses of his fubjeifts, and in his own person, to give an example to the world worthy of a Monarch who claimed the titles of the " Mo'l ChriJJiau King," and the " Eldtjl Son of the Church His favourite daughter, Louise-Marie de France, was, if polnble, ft ill more preiling in her folici taiions ; but finding all her attempts, her pray, ers, her entreaties, and her tears, ineffectual, (he at the age of 34 took the veil, and becoming a Carmelite, in that character, as more nearly connerted with heaven, (he continued with un exampled piety to exhort her father to repent- I ance and amendment. She is now no more 1 Her fiffers, 110 less fond of a solitary and re elufe life, would have followed her example, and adopted a monadic life ; but the policy of the French government prevented it. On the death of Louis XV. the present kino prefented them with Belle Vtie, a royal residence formerly belonging to the celebrated Madame Pompadour ; in this palace they lived with great privacy till the Revolution, at which period they were obliged to attend his Majetty, the snd the Dauphin, to the capital. This great event, which conferred freedom on 25 millions of men, however it might hurt their pride, could nor but be pleasing to their fnifibility ; for they are naturally humane, tender, and be nificent! It was the decrees ensiled in regard to religi on that struck them to the heart : they thought that in enjoining toleration, the National Aflcm bly were about to extirpate Catholicity ; they imagined that in the popular election of Bishops, the power of the Sovereign Pontiff was annihi lated, and the general intereds of chridianity undermined ! Imprefied with tliefe ideas, they resolved to leave their native country, and approachino nearer to the centre of Chridian Union, leave that kingdom forever which liad so long been ' governed by their'ancedors. In a private audi ence which they demanded of his Majesty, they cad theinfelves at his feet, and implored hiscon fent for, and protection during their journey. Louis XVI. a Prince of the molt benevolent disposition heard their requed, and after many delays, occasioned by the druggie between pub lic judiceand natural affection, at length yield ed his consent. Rome, so often the asylum of fugitive princes, and which is now about to re ceive part of the honfe of Bourbon, in the fame manner as it formerly entertained the House »f Stuart, will be extremely solicitous to give them a reception worthy of their high rank. They themselves rejoiced in being relieved from the authority of the Departments and Municipalities, which have impeded their journey, will»think themselves fortunate in having departed before the decree has palled for redraining the family of the ruling Dvnady ; and afcer receiving the holy benediction of Pope Pius Vr. on their arri val, will no doubt be happy to celebrate with a BIR T H A perty ; while others contended tlu'.t they were very moderate, and far less in proportion than thole of the lame denomination in England; which, it was affirmed, amounted onthe authori ty of Mr. Arthur Young, to 310,000,000 livres, though England in population and extent of country is only equal to one-third of France. The queltion was adjonrned. On Thmfday M. de la Fayette went to the Naiional Alieuibly, and exprellbd his desire to resign ; ac the fame time declaring that M. Char ton, Commander of the 6th regiment, was both capable and willing to cccept the office of Capt, General of the National Guards. A State Coach is arrived and put into his Ma jesty's coach house ; from whence it is conjec tured that the King will go during the holidays to his parish church, with all tiie splendor and pomp of royalty. LONDON, April 23. MESDA M E S. \\ HILE tliefe augult Personages are still 011 this fide the Alps, it may gratify our readers by giving some fliort account of them. Marie-Adelaide de France, called Madame by way of diftin&ion, was born 011 the 23d March, 1732 : April 23 Te Dium Laudamut in St. Peter's, an event t ;,-. looks more like an efcapc than a ntriat. rheir projpcdi are no doubt Heavenwards were they dire vied towards earth, nothing on the banks of the Tiber could be found more beautiful or romantic than their retreat 011 tit; banks of Ihe Seine. Of that enchanting spot we may lay something hereafter,. MIR A BEAU's WILL. The dispositions found in his Will were as firf lows. 1 " M. Dnfailant, his nephew, is named his uni versal Legatee. He bequeathed each of the Miss Dnfailant* 2900 livres per annum, "to make them amends," said he, " for the loss they h:ive futlained as C*a. nonelles —to each of the other fillers he ha* left 600 livres. He bequeathed 24,000 livres to an infant that was dear to him ; and the like sum to his Secretary, the fame person who llab'oed liinifelf the day before his mailer's death. To all his servants, without diflindlion, lie bequeathed as many year's wages as they have respectively lived with him. All his papers relative to legifiation and poli tics, he has left to M. Cabanis, his physician and friend. His writings on the Revolution, and all his minutes of intended motions and /peeches, he has left to M. de la Marck. And he begs M. Fancherot, his colleague, to take from his li, brary any books he likes,to the amount of 4800* livres. PORTSMOUT H, (N. H.) June 23. Lafl Saturday the General Court of this State finiflied their fefiion at Concord, and adjourned to meet on the last day of November next, in this town. The President and Treasurer of this State are directed by the General-Court to subscribe one hundred and fifty (hares in the Bank of the Unit ed States. By a late statement made by the Treasurer, there appears to be in the state treasury about fix thousand pounds in hlver and gold, of the funded debt forty-feven thousand poands. The revision of the State laws were compleat ed at the late session, and an adt pall suspending their operation until February next. An acfl has passed the legislature for calling a convention on the firft Wednesday of September next, to meet at Concord, for the revision of the conflitution of this (tate. Thursday the 17th day of November next is appointed to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving and praise throughout this stare. BALTIMORE, June 28 From a Corrcfpondmt. The following letter is from a person of high rank, in Europe, concerning the new method of" finding the Longitude, The accounts from that part ofthe world, 011 this occasion, generally breathe a fpiiit of liberality unknown in any other age. It is hoped that some things therein contained may be uleful to the public, and ex cJte (tich ofthe American navigators, and others who have it in their power, to lend a hand to bring this scheme to the test : « Sir, " SINCE my lad, having applied to my frieniL the King s principal Adronomer, Mr-Bernouilly, at Beilin, for a more exact note of the memoirs of the Swedifli Royal Academy at Stockholm, re lative to your object, particularly Mr. VVilke, I received the enclosed answer, by which means I loon got fight of them. They are many, very indructive, and peculiarly intereding, for efta blijhing your theory, being the result of many thouland observations, carefully made by fevc;- ral members and sea-captains, both in regard to the magnetic needle's declinations and inclinati ons, at various time# and places, both regular and irregular ; accounting, very minutely, for the effects of electricity, thunder,lightning, tem pests, and hurricanes, Itill more for those of the frequent aurora borealis, visible and invisible, happening in the da;-' time as well as night, and much stronger towards the poles thap towards the equator, to a far greater extent. " To collect all these, and to translate theip into Englifh,with the necellary maps and figures, would take np at lead fix month's application ; but would furnifli you with a rich supply of new and ufeful materials for your work in liand.* " The German edition, made by profeffor Kxftner, at Leipzig, containing the philofophicaf tranfaiftions of the Royaj Swedi/h Academy, of Sciences, wis,!) many copper-plares, and two co pious alphabetical indexes, consists of about fifty volumes, in Odtavo, and costs, at Leipzig, a dol lar each vol mne in fbeets. Perhaps the pliilofa phical society is already fnrnifhed with a com-- * Tin Mjgnnic Almanac. " Hamburgh, April 2, 1791
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