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Extracted from an Address to the Cincin Till, fir'd by crimes, our indignation

nati of Connecticut.

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blaz'd,

That democrats enrag'd should rule the land:

If to Columbia's sons a tear I ow'd, Her captive seamen chain'd at Algiers long:

If for their wrongs my eyes a fountain flow'd,

And thunder'd from my tongue the wrathful song:

Of every class, ye proud oppressors!

hear!

Monarchs and demagogues who realms enslave,

Or ye who purchase bondmen far and near*,

I hate your conduct, and your anger brave.

And chief, ye despots! to the strain attend!

Shall coward millions to your will succumb?

At your capricious nod whole nations bend,

Or for resistance find a sudden tomb?

To Heav'n be praise !-that gothic spell is o'er,

When, lull'd by witcheries, Europe slept supine,

This refers to the late repeal of the law in South Carolina, which prohibited the importation of slaves. Since which, thousands have been introduced into that state from Africa.

And only dream'd of superstitious lore, Prescriptive pow'r, and regal rights divine.

Strange seems to beings groping dim in dust,

That He, whose light the dark enchantment broke,

At times (his ways inscrutable as just) Still suffers man to smart beneath a yoke.

Ah! why will He, blest arbiter on high, His bow with thunder charg'd and bickering fire,

Not bare his arm to bid his terrors fly, And earth's fierce troublers at his frown expire?

Though conscience oft, their raging pride to tame,

Shall make them curse their triumphs earn'd by guilt,

Compell'd to hate their very idol, Fame, And drink, inebriate, of the blood they spilt:

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While Health displays her roseate charms,

Pluck the sweetest flow'rs you find; Welcome Joy with open arms,

And your brows with roses bind.
Lovely virgins, sing and play,
Ever innocent and gay,
And crown the fairest maid to-day.

For the Literary Magazine.

MY NATIVE VALE.

A pastoral Song, from the Italian: DEAR is my little native vale,

The ring-dove builds, and warbles there,

Close by my cot she tells her tale,

To ev'ry passing villager:
The squirrel leaps from tree to tree,
And shells his nuts at liberty.

In orange groves and myrtle bow'rs,

That breathe a gale of fragrance round, To charm the fairy-footed hours,

With my lov'd lute's romantic sound; Or crowns of living laurel weave, For those that win the race at eve.

The shepherd's horn at break of day, The mimic dance in twilight glade, The rustic glee, and roundelay,

Sung in the silent woodland shade; These simple joys, that never fail, Shall bind me to my Native Vale!

For the Literary Magazine.

WHAT'S A LADY'S BUSINESS?

HOW best to bind the flowing hair
With art, yet with an artless air;
In what nice braid, or glossy curl,
To fix a diamond or a pearl,
And how the purfled veil to choose
From silken stores of varied hues ;
Which may attract the roving view
Pink, violet, purple, orange, blue,
The loveliest mantle to select
Or unembellish'd, or bedeckt;
And how the twisted scarf to place
With most inimitable grace;
What skirts the mantle best may suit,
Ornate with stars of tissued fruit,
The flower embroider'd, or the plain
With silver, or with golden vein.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

P. J. DESAULT'S Treatise on Fractures, Luxations, and other Morbid Affections of the Bones, has just been translated by Dr. C. Caldwell, of Philadelphia. Desault was chief surgeon to the Hotel Dieu at Paris, and enjoyed the highest reputation, and most extensive practice.

Wettenhall's Greek Grammar, translated into English, with additional notes, by William P. Farrand, has lately been published at Philadelphia, with great care and accuracy, and is recommended, and is now used, by most of the colleges on the continent.

John Eckstein, late painter and statuary to the king of Prussia, has published, at Philadelphia, a New Drawing-book, or System of the Art of Drawing, intended for the use of pupils in that art.

j. Oram, of Trenton, New Jersey, is about to re-publish Stackhouse's edition of the Bible, which will be comprised in six volumes, octavo.

Mr. John Davis has published, in one volume, small duodecimo, a work, called, Captain Smith and Princess Pocahontas. It is a tale built upon some well-known incidents in the early history of Virginia. The volume contains, besides the tale itself, a historical sketch of the early life of captain Smith; a petition presented by Smith to queen Anne; a vocabulary of Indian words; an account of the descendants of Pocahontas; a description of Jamestown, by Mr. Girardin; two letters respecting the subject of this book; a memoir of the author; and a list of subscribers. This enumeration of contents will inform the reader that he may expect, at least,

variety of entertainment; and those who have not had an opportunity of judging of Mr. Davis' abilities, by the perusal of his former productions, will feel some attractions to the present work in the nature of the subject, which is purely American, and which relates to two of the most interesting personages in early American history.

A Spelling-book, by Mr. Lindley Murray, has lately appeared in Europe, and been republished in Philadelphia by James Crukshank, and by Kimber, Conrad, & Co.

There is now in the press a valuable work by Dr. Barton, containing illustrations of American zoology, which the ingenious author proposes to continue occasionally. It will appear in one thin quarto.

A new edition has just appeared of an old work of great celebrity: Scougal's Life of God in the Soul of of Man. The excellence and usefulness of this little tract are generally known to religious readers.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

THE editor has received several favours, which came too late for the present month, the contents of each number, in order to insure punctuality in publication, being made up at a pretty early period in the month. Hence some valuable communications have been unavoidably deferred. The Visitor has been received, but at too late a period. In the same predicament are the "Remarks on the Mock-bird and Nightingale," "Comparison between the Climate of Madras and Philadelphia," "On the Anti-christian Tendency of Classical Studies," and several others.

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