THE EMERALD.

sant, or sootiest chimney-sweeper, [edge to see the faults of others— so unlettered, as not to be able to the most clear sighted are blind to spell a newspaper. A great num- their own. ber of hands, who would otherwise be idle, and, many of them, useless to society, are now fully employed, and may truly be said, to have their hands full.

THE INGENUITY OF SWINDLERS.

A Paris correspondent gives us the following account of one of the most ingenious stratagems played Rag-Merchants, Paper-Makers, off at any time, by the light-fingerStation. rs, Stampers, Paragraph-ed gentlemen of that, or any kingMongers, Printers, Hawkers, &c. &c. &c.

Authors innumerable are fed by those channels of light amusement, and profound speculation. Adepts in all sciences. Divines in masquerade. Anonymi anonymorum

-an endless train.

dom..

The last time the Queen of France visited the theatre in Paris, the wife of a financier, whose whole merit consisted in a heavy purse, and in an ostentatious display of eastern magnificence, set alone in a box opposite to that of her majestyTippling-philosophers, potval- Bourjoice affected to make parade iant-free-thinkers, who arraign all of a costly pair of bracelets, which, as the queen now and then cast her order, and labour to make the sober part of mankind, as enlighten-eyes upon her, she fondly supposed ed in the important points of liberty, as they themselves are-when in their cups.

Certainly, newspapers, by this time, ought to be reckoned among the staple commodities of this country. What an advantage to the community!-What a benefit to the state! and procured at so easy a rate, as distracting the heads of the whole nation.

ENVY

attracted the admiration of her sove-reign. She was hugging herself in thoughts that exceedingly flattered her vanity, when a person, dressed in the queen's livery, entered the box." Madam,” said he to her, " you may have perceived how attentively the queen has sur veyed those magnificent bracelets, which, though so precious, and costly, still receive a greater lustrefrom the dazzling beauty of the arm that bears them; I am commis-sioned by her to request you will. lend me one of them, that her ma-gesty may have a nearer view of the unparalleled jewel." Melted by the flattering compliment, and, as the sharper's trick would have it, the queen having kept her eyes during the time in a strait direction to her box, she did not hesitate,. and delivered one of the bracelets.. Alas, she soon repented her blind confidence, and heard nothing more A great talker never wants ene-of the bracelet until the next mornmies. The man of sense speaks ing, when an exempt from the polittle and hears much, lice begged to be admitted, chid her The most ignorant have knowl- politely for trusting so valuable a

Was never perhaps more forcibly pictured than in the words of Lord Bacon:

Envy (said he) has no holidays

Envy with squinting eyes, Sick of a strange disease, his neighbour's health, Best then he lives when any better dies; Is never poor but in another's wealth; On good men's harms and griefs feeding his fill.

t

In holding a glass of wine, or some to another person, suddenly quitting brittle article of great beauty and value your hold of it, under a false idea that he has taken his.—"Guess, ah guess the rest!"

trinket in the hands of a person whole system, mental and bodily, that who was a stranger; 66 But, mad-you would joyfully submit to the catam," added he," make yourself and-nine-tails, by way of a flapper to your easy, the rogue is taken up, and During courtship-flattering yourself dormant excitability. here is a letter from the lieuten- that you are a year or two-younger than ant de police, which will explain some"good naturedfriend or other the whole." The letter was sign.proves you to be. ed de Crone, and contained a re- for a whole evening together, in vain atHiding your eyes with your hand, quest that the lady would repair, tempts to discover a tune, or a name; at twelve o'clock, to the office, and said tune, &c. repeatedly flitting before the mean time deliver to the ex-you, but so repeatedly as never to be empt, he seat, the other bracelet, fairly caught. that it might be compared with the first, then in his hand, that he might have sufficient proof to commit the sharper. So much attention from the chief magistrate, called up all her gratitude, which she expressed in the liveliest terms, bestowing the greatest praise on the watchful ness of the police, which was in no Country so well administered as in Paris. In fue, after ordering up a dish of chocolate, for the exempt, she put the other bracelet in his hands, and they parted,; but it was for ever. This pretended exempt, proving neither more nor less, than the worthy associate of the queen's bald messenger.

After having long hunted in vain for you are in the act of accusing an honest a missing bank-note of 100%. and just as servant, on very suspicious appearances, of having made a perquisite of it,-suddenly spying out the last rag of its remains in the mouth and paws of a pupown private recreation. py, who had slily embezzled it, for his

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have received an interesting and well written.original article of Biography, from a gentleman whose communication would add respectability to any literasy journal in our country. We feel gratified

Extracts from the "Miseries of Hu- by his obliging partiality in again making

man Life."

the Emerald the channel of his communications. The "History of literature" which at present occupies the department of our paper devoted to these subjects, will We shall be in haste to lay it before our prevent its appearance in this number.

readers.

The praises of EDWIN are misapplied He is too far off to judge rightly : 'Tis distance lends enchantment to his view.

The two-fold torment inflicted by a Bea-viz. first, the persecution to which he subjects you through the night; secondly, the loss of your meditated revenge in the morning, by his hocus-poeus, escapes-his unthought-of and incredible capers, leaps, and flings, from under eager fingers, at the very instant when you seem in the act of nay, to have actually annihilated him. ***Mille fugit refugiteque vins; at vividus” [lisque tennenti THE FABLES of our poetical friend “ Hæret hians; jum, jamque tenet, simi- have been much admired for their ingenuiIncrepuit-morus elusus!" ty and humor. The Drone and the Sitting in a chair on which you do Humming Bird is replete with epigramnot discover that honey has been liber-maticpoint and good natured severity. When the picture is commonly genius holds the pencil and fancy the palet transcript of

alter

Vir.

ally spilt, till, on rising to make your bow, you carry away the cushion.

Those certain moments of existence, in which, without assignable cause, En

nature.

"The green house daisy" is a plas

mai so powerfully predominates over your from the garden of the muses.

For the Emerald

FABLE....26.

(Concluded:)

POETRY.

Of every ill by which were curst,
Sure Affectation is the worst,
Has the most impudence of all
That govern this terrestrial ball;
The least self knowledge, and canchide
Folks humbler than herself for pride-;
Rankles with bitter gale the heart,
And always overdoes her part;
A prudish flirt, a faithless friend,
Who acts, but never views the end.
For prudence' self cannot restrain her,
From damaging her entertainer ;
Allures young minds in many a scrapes
From which, alas! there's no escape .
As mice by plunder are allur'd.
To visit traps, too well secured-
Who enter bold-but in dismay
Finding no door to run away,
Have leisure to repent and pet,.
In iron cage, like Bajazet.

To view these dupes of Affectation,
is a sad sight for Observation.
Because, so readily, he finds
The principles that chang'd their
minds

Hence the new tempers can discover
Of him in place, or favour'd lover,
Who elevated, are no more.
The men they were the day before,
No longer grubs, but mounted high,
Proud as a new-born butterfly.

Least noticed of th' affected race,
Are those who never change their place;
But arrogantly advertize,

To all the world, their want of eyes.
Thaking, so vain, to feast the nations,
With highest deeds of their relations,
These also like the quondam grubs,
Sometimes receive disastrous rubs,
The mighty merit they may boast,
But serving to degrade them most;
Just like the saucy drone, whose pate,
Soomuch abounding in conceit,
(Like a sad cu! it's on a jibbet)
I take the freedom to exhibit.

In a grand garden, full of flowers,
A Drone employs his idle hours,
Sips of each hyacinth he meets,
And riots in the rose's sweets.
With so much liberty allow'd,

He grows, like human insects, pro ud'

Thinks every tree his own, and, hence,
Himself a bee of consequence.

To taste, alike, the honied store,
That Nature's plants luxuriant, pour,
Hither, sans ceremony, came,
A painted bird of tiny frame,
Tho' small, yet beauteous to behold;
Soft tints of purple, green, and gold
His wings display while Hybla's dew
He drinks from flowers of every hue.

Beauty which ever should create
Attention proves a source of hate;
Instead of love is envy known.
For thus begins the angry, Drone:
Avaunt thou glutton of an hour.
Nor rifle every glossy flower.
When Summer's o'er to distant skies
Your race of feather'd vagrants flies ;—
In winter's, desolating time,
Compell'd to seek no warmer clime,
We leisurely enjoy, so gay,
The fruits of many a labour'd day.
Decamp nor dare t' invade our crop,
Or know-my sting shall make, you
hop.

Learn industry, & have the grace
To imitate our careful race-
What folly could thy cranium seize,
To frolick here with frugal Bees ?
You talk of industry!-replied
The bird in all a Beauty's pride,
You dare to speak of frugal bees!
You boldly rank yourself with these!
Would you my faulty steps correct,.
With nicest care your own detect,,
Precept,must with example walk,
Or vain the moral menders talk,
What art thou, imp of fiery zeal!
A member of the common weal;
Which spite of all the pride you shew
Can boast no services from you.
No consequence do you inherit
For merely personal is merit.
You on the Union's labour thrive,
But bring no honey to the hive.
Deriving all your reputation,
Not from your parts, but situation.

'Tis thine, while Winter's sullen-form
Leads on the varied year,

But

ads

To hear secure his howling storm,,
Nor dread his vengeance near.

For the Emerald.

THE GREEN HOUSE DAISY.

Thou wert enstampt in Beauty's mint, ADDRESSED TO THE lage AND BEAT
The sweetest flower that blows;
And Innocence would choose thy tints,
To deck her bosom snows.

Old Squaretoes, growling,views the glass, mer. to Miss Sophia Andrews; Mr.

THE EMERALD.

REFULGET.

No. 40.

Boston, Saturday, January 31, 1807.