Scotch, Spaniards and Danes, and the highest possible compliment to the John Bull frankness of Britain. We know that this production is said to be an unequivocal imitation of a Latin poem on the same sub ject. The Italian bard had clearly the same idea of making the nega tive positive. "Nihil virtute melius" is full proof of this. But Rochester has succeeded best and given to. se ......airy nothing A local habitation and a name." There are probably not many bards in the language, who, on reviewing their works and comparing them with this production, would not have good reason to wish, they had written "NOTHING." That the justice of our remarks may fairly be tested, we give the piece entire. NOTHING! thou elder brother even to shade, That hadst a being, ere the world was made, But Nothing, why does Something still permit, Lcil sit, That sacred monarchs should at counWith persons highly thought at best for nothing fit? Whilst weighty Something modestly abstains From prince's coffers, and from statesman's brains, And nothing there, like stately Nothing reigns. Nothing, who dwell'st with fools in grave disguise, For whom they reverend shapes and forms devise, Lawn sleeves, and furs, and gowns, when they, like thee, look wise. French truth, Dutch prowess, British policy, Hibernian learning, Scotch civility, Spaniard's dispatch, Dane's wit are mainly seen in thee. The great man's gratitude to his best friend, King's promises, whore's vows, towards thee they bend, [end. Flow swiftly into thee, and in thee ever LEON. FORMER AND PRESENT AGES. A Dialogue. .... “You think the men of former ages were guilty of as great vices as those of the present?" ་་ "Greater:- but they did not make a system of vice; they were hurried into it by their passions. Theirs were the crimes of men. There is a disgraceful, a contemptible meanness in the vices, as well as the persons, of the present puny race; and neither their passions nor their bodies have sufficient prowess to make them commit acts that can entitle them to respect." "If they fight a duel, it is not in the heat of anger and desire of revenge; but it is done with as much ceremony and civiity as if they were going to walk a minuet, or sip dish of tea, and as little danger too for, as they manage the matter, Leghorn for tooth-picks and fiddlestrings: and, that the lower part of the community may not have the power to reproach and despise their leaders, vice, disease, and destruction are imported in ship loads, and parcelled out in pennyworths." LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Extracted from the Monthly Magazine. The institution for the deaf and dumb at Leipsic, is gradually becoming a most useful establishment. It contains upwards of twenty pupils, who have all forward of whom comprehend what is learned to speak distinctly and the most said to them by the motion of the lips. They are instructed in religious knowledge, reading writing, accounts, &c. The celebrated Dr, Gall was forbidden at Dresden, to receive any females among the subscribers to his lectures. He sull continues his peregrinations with a view to establish fils new doctrines. From Dresden he proceeded to there is ten times more terror in a success thee visited with his usual crab-tree cudgel than in lead and steel," "Why, as to the merit, or virtue of fighting, duels, either in the old mode or the new, I believe we had better not talk of that!"t hospital and the house of correction. From Torgau he repaired to Halle, and thence to Jeng, where he had among his auditors the dutchess Ama Amella of Sake Weimer, who was accompanied by the venerable Wieland. 3 gaitnoqeliv en Aspear-head; found at Gringely “The vestiges of ancient tinde-Cart's Cominon, Nottingham, has been exhibited before the Society of Antipendence are wearing away. 'It' quaries. It is said to be of Roman orimakes my very heart ache to pecin, and to have been made of Corinthe poor remains of towers, that thian brass. Mr. Lysons, on the same once defied the fury of tyrants and evening, furnished sente facta respectthe war of elements, lie mouldering ing the origin and history of sugar; in ruins.” from these lit appears that the ancients If we erect a building now, it about the year 680 the present era, had nothing but honey; and that, till is in such a light, fippery, unsub-sugar cane was wholly unknown. The stantial style, that a pistol bullet discovery is ascited to a Venetian, would demolish it: a castle of cobwho called it honey cane. It is only webs, spun in July, and brushed away in November. sugar was introduced into Europë from about two hundred rears since refined China, by the Portuguese and English. Dr.GARCHSHORE has exhibited before this learned body a letter from Mary de Medicis, Queen of France, to her daughter Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles the First. According to the custom of those times, it was scaled with two seals united by a narrow tape "Sir, you are a man of sense.", "And, as to our commerce, we bave poisoned the people with our teas, spices, and spirits; we send to China for pipkins, to Hudson's Bay for cats' skins, to Venice for window, alias, vice-blinds, and to for ribbon. ORIGINAL POETRY. FOR THE EMERALD. wore, On fair Arcadia's plains, as bards have sung, (ing green, Where fields were cloth'd in ever-darWhere pleasure fondly smil'd, and time was young, [mien There dwelt a nymph, & placid was her Most simply clad, a vi'let crown she [she went, The laughing hours strew'è roses where On her smooth front a constant smile she [Content. And happy shepherds call'd her name In vain, untaught, the bard attempts to draw, [charm; Beauty's soft lines, that shone in ev'ry Fairer she seem'd than poet ever saw Or fertile fancy ever yet could form.. First in her train came Peace, etherial maid, bore, Diffusing incense sweet as early morn, While by her side the gentle zephyrs play'd, With fairy joys on downy pinions borne. Bright Plenty next, all blooming naturc's child, [crown'd, Her comely brows with various garlands With lengthen'd robe, and tresses flowing wild, Mov'd gaily on dispensing gifts around. Next came Simplicity with look serene, Plain Common Sense, and Health with magic wand, [seen, Love ever new, and Innocence were And smooth-hair'd slumber clos'd the jocund band. Thrice happy days! which once Arcadia knew, When fields were cloth'd with ever And fair Content and all her joys were seen. Thrice happy days when humble sports could please, Such humble sports to rural life belong, The rustic pipe, that fill'd the gentle breeze, Bid the sordid old wretch disappear. Pride, jealousy, hate would your actions cominand, [rear. And repentence would bring up the The rake of all wretches, dear virgin, oppose, He always one's honour suspects, The worst of all women-are all that he knows, [sex. And he thinks there's no odds in the The moonlight dance, or maiden morn-But show me the lad of a generous heart, ing song. But soon these joys no longer could delight, [train, "Content had led with pleasure in her Where candour & good nature glow, And if I deny him, then bid me depart, And lead Apes in the regions below. CLARA ODE FOR JULY THE 4th, 1806. Their dauntless hearts no meteor led, Alle Whose leaf that worn would bury. All Sc. Thus rear'd our giant realm arose, And claim'd her sovereign charter: Her life blood warm from ADAMS rose, For the Emerald. SONG. FROM the East the god of day, Save where guilt and anxious pride, norem; Ore favete omnes et cingite temporaramis.. town, an oration is delivered before the According to a standing vote of this municipal and executive officers and by another vote invariably repeated the orator is thanked "for the elegant and spirited Oration, this day delivered by him, at the request of the town, upon` the Anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America; in which, according to the institution of the town, he considered the feelings, manners, and principles, which led to the great national event; and a copy requested for the press." Whether on this occasion the customary compliment was omitted, or whether the natural diffidence of the speaker prevented his complying with the request, we do not correctly understand; but certain it is the oration is not printed. A subject so interesting and important as the birth of an extensive republic will always supply materials, from which genius will discourse with admiration, and eloquence inspire with delight. From the little village declaimers" who mistake inclination for abili ty," we are never disappointed in not finding either solidity of political in formation or elegance of rhetorical ornament. But the selected orator for the capital of New-England has a responsibilty which is not waved by the We are astonished at not finding Mr Channing's oration in print, because though he might feel both "admiration and despair" at the splendid glories of an electric eloquence, which has blazed from the same place on similar occasions; yet we know he must have risen above that sleeping debility, for which the town ofations will unhappily afford him an example. We return our thanks to the obliging We intended to have enriched the correspondent who favored us with the present number with a review of a per- loan of several Monthly Magazinea. formance that always creates much ex As we procure for the use of our espectation; but as we were not fortunate tablishment every English and many enough to be within "ear-shot" of its other European publications of merit, music, we are deprived the pleasure we, had already been in possession of we should otherwise. experience. A the numbers which he sent us. We friend, however, who was more favora-sensibly feel the value of his friendship bly, situated, has promised us that it and hope the Emerald will frequently shall not sleep the sleep of death; but reflect the rays of his ingenuity and be entitled to whatever little life it can literature. derive from an analysis in the Emerald. We are desirous of preserving in the Emerald the beautiful Ode on American Independence. It is from the same source which has often raised the zeal of patriotism by the fire of genius; and when it is recollected that the present was "struck off at a heat," it will not diminish from the established celebrity of its author's reputation. Poetry and eloquence are invaluable heralds of national honor. In looking over our files of original communications, we find many unnoticed and more unpublished. The cause of such neglect is the determination of its editors that the Emerald shall maintain, by its purity and elegance, the rank to which it aspires. Amatory sing-song may be pleasing to the lovesick trifler, but it gives no amusement to the polite scholar; and the turgid effusions of an ungoverned imagination Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori, may show marks of genius, in the theme Calo Musa beat. * of a Sophomore, but will add nothing to the fame of the author or the gratificaA WORM is said to have been found tion of the public. Do we demand too on the Lombardy Poplars, whose sting much in requiring ingenuity of sentiis almost instant death. Many experi- ment or elegance of manner? We trust ments are making in New-York and the Emerald has shown that both can Philadelphia to determine the fact. be obtained. Let us direct the attenCats who have been bitten by this in- tion of our correspondents to the subsect have expired in convulsions, others jects of polite literature; when they wanhave not been effected. The alarm if der over the classic ground of antiquity, groundiess ought to be quieted by a déor through the patteries of modern tail of the experiments and their results, learning, they will find a range for the We would not excite needless appre-powers of intellect, and models for the hensions, in saying that enough has ap- labor of industry. From these sources let peared to justify caution. One positive genius gather its treasures and their proof of injury is more decisive than lustre will never tarnish. many instances where no harm has ensued. It is a fact that every individual of the same species of certain insects, who are known to be poisonous, have not equal power to destroy. One sex of the common Wasp have no sting, the .............. Mortalia facta peribunt Nedum sermonum stet honos & gratia |
