LORENZO. FOR THE EMERALD. It is not sufficient to account for prevent poverty from bringing misthis diversity, by laying it to the ery in its train; they alleviate diffiscore of conscience. Without in-culties which cannot be destroyed, ward satisfaction to be sure, the smooth the bed of sickness, spread smile will wear away from the coun- a couch for repose and antedate the tenance, and the flush of pleasure felicities of future blessedness. will be as transitory as it is insincere; but the good man is not always a cheerful one, and an anxiety and heaviness is frequently found to have depressed the spirits and destroyed the hilarity of the most virtuous of our species; nor will it be more to the purpose to attribute cheerfulness to prosperity. It is or ought to be the companion of good fortune, but is oftentimes found to have deserted from its path and taken its station at the door of poverty, which is always made more pleasant by its smiles than the palace of nobility when destitute of its charms. THE ORDEAL.....No. 3. Hoc est, Vivere bis, vita posse priori frui. THEBELLES STRATAGEM(MrsCowley) THE ROMP.-Friday, Oct. 31. THE Comedy of the Belles Stratagem has long been a public favor the good conduct of the plot and the ease and gaiety of the dialogue, than to boldness of conception or genuine wit. As a picture of mo look in vain for those strong delineations of character which designate the individual of a species, or those habits which are incident to man in every age. The hand-maid and companion of Cheerfulness is Contentment. They are never separated. To-ite, but owes its estimation more to gether they range through the vicisitudes of life. You may see them with the peasant at his plongh, the mechanic at his loom, the student at his desk, and sometimes, thoughdern manners it has merit, but we rarely, lolling at their ease, with the nabob in his coach. They are not proud however and had most cominonly rather walk than ride. They are seldom lazy, and you will stand a better chance of finding them with THE heroine is to be sure a wothe industrious than the idle. They man of fine accomplishments, but are never more fond of show than by no means worthy of being held substance; you will therefore never up as a model to the sex. Female see them with the profligate and character is never estimable when the prodigal. It is of no conse-divested of delicate reserve, and quence to them whether they fare neither the pertness of the hoyden, sumptuously or have to labor for the volatility of the fashionable lasubsistence. They enquire notdy, nor the unrestrained declaration what the board affords, but whether of feelings to the object of her love, honesty spread the table; not who can recommend Letitia Hardy to is master of the feast, but whether esteem. he has endeavored to deserve their company. Happy is the man who calls them his companions; they make fortune confer happiness and In the Hero of the piece is pointed out the extravagant addiction to foreign manners, which renders many wholesome native customs insipid, but he has enough of sound morali- | much improved in her conception ty left to interest us in his suscess. of character. The under characters are well connected with the main design, and tho' the play is not entitled to the first rank in English comedy, it certainly belongs to the second class. THE debut of Mrs. Stanley in the part of Letitia, added to the general attractions of the play, and produced a fashionable house. With a fine person and well chosen costume Mrs. S. looked the part extremely well, and the plaudits her perform-ing Mr. Caulfield, in the part of ance produced, were evidences that public expectation was not disappointed. We have no hesitancy in asserting that the part was well played throughout. PIZARRO is the most unexceptionable of Kotzebue's productions. Gilded vice is not there passed off for sterling virtue. Neither is soporific sensibility substituted for manly sentiment. The attention is kept awake through the drama by a lofty style, and the feelings interested by a constant succession of dazzling incidents. This piece was got up for the purpose of introduc Mr. Rolla, and we will venture to assert, that a Boston audience never before saw it so ably filled. For strength and clearness of voice and graceful attitude we do not recollect Mr. C's Though the character of Dari-equal. His person was such as excourt is not in Mr. Bernard's line actly suited the part he was to reof acting, we were well pleas- present, and his conception of the ed with the performance. character was without fault. In the Dickenson in Old Hardy play- address to the Peruvians, and the ed with tolerable spirit. Mr. Ush-scene with Pizarro where he rescues er did no discredit to the honest in-Cora's child, we thought him most The first was as tegrity of Saville; and Mr. Fox conspicuous. chaste an example of declamation as we ever listened to, and the last we are certain could not be excelled. The Pizarro of Mr. Usher was well conceived, and the execution would have commanded our applause, had not the prompter, in some scenes, put in his claim for a moiety of our approbation. Mr. Fox played Alonzo well. Mrs. Stanley's Elvira was far beneath our expectations; but we shall forbear to remark on it, as the lady has relinquished the part. The other performers have no claim to particularity of remark. was at home in Flutter. Of the Mountebank of Turnbull, or the Courtall of Downie much cannot be said, and Mrs. Barnes did not disappoint us as our expectations were very humble. Mrs. Powell however did justice to the part of the gay widow and contributed not a little to the general satisfaction with which the play was received. No objection is made to the appearance of Mr. Poe in Sir George Touchwood.. The character is certainly not a bustling one; we think it susceptible of more life than he infused into it. We were WE would say generally of Mrs. however sometimes gratified with POE's Priscilla Tomboy, that it was displays of correct spirit; we hardly an excellent performance. Withexpected it, and the audience appre-out analysing the character, or maciated and rewarded it as a novelty. king more than a superficial comMrs. Usher was an interesting La-parison with the celebrated Mrs. dy Touchwood, and is certainly Williamson, we hazard a general remark, that no one with reasonable and Broken-jaw swept the stakes expectations was dissatisfied with by fairly distancing his competitor. her ROMP. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Lynnfield Races. MEN, fond of the sport of the turf, have this week been gratified with the masculine and manly amusement, in a style greatly superior to what has generally been exhibited in New-England. The ground was well laid out in a circuit of about a mile. It was tolera bly level, and at almost any point within the circle you had a view of the whole. There were three heats to the principal race, and three rounds to each heat.. Broken-jar was turned off the ground the first heat, and did little more than run his round. The field was then left exclusively to the competition of O'Kelly and Sir Harry. The last was at first the general favorite; he kept foremost all the first heat, and the whole of the second till within the last one or two hundred rods, when the rider of O'Kelly gave the whip and the rein, & gained the goal in an instant, to the agreeable surprise of the shouting spectators. We thought this a chef d'œuvre of horsemanship, and, tho' we are no sportsmen, having no taste and taking little delight in the games of the turf, yet this was a moment of interest indifference itself might be defied to resist. The whole of the third heat O'Kelly was lord of the ascendant, and gained the prize of the day. Some well contested scrub races kept up the sport of this day. The second day five horses were turned in to the course for a heat of two rounds. Broken-jaw won, and a bay-horse bolted within the stakes. To satisfy beholders, that Brokenjaw would have beaten had there been no bolting, a round was run We have been thus minute, to gratify those who take an interest in the sports of the field. We like sometimes to witness a spectacle, where the race must be to the swift. Our columns are devoted to Literature and Life. We have no frowns. for manly amusements. Unless we want a race of pigmies, we should cherish such sports. Olympian games made Grecians. FOR THE EMERALD. It is [Objects which are often seen and always; possessed lose their first effect and are frequently passed without notice. This is truly the case with the inhabitants of Boston as it respects the commanding prospect of BEACON HILL. scarcely remembered what advantages it retains, and the stranger who is led with inquisitive eye through the various scenes of novelty and amusement is hardly ever taken to the heights which nature seems to have raised purposely to display her favorite seaport. correspondent who obliged us with the following article was probably induced to do so by some reflections of this kind.]` BEACON HILL Our lofty sails O'er arctic seas, and mocks the polar Thence tides of wealth, the wafting And hence e'en culture feels its vital spring. breezes bring, "These scenes our sires from ragged where first the Whence hardy commerce swells the I had understood that your philoso[gales, phy required not so much as an effort; and that, according to your principles, the voluptuary might abandon himself without reserve to all the enjoyments of the senses. And could you seriously imagine, answered he, that a man who considers the study of morality as the most essential of all others, who has neglected geometry and other sciences, merely because they have no immediate tendency to improve manners; that an author from whom Plato is not ashamed some-. times to borrow maxims and ideas; that a disciple of Socrates-in fine, could have opened schools of prostitution in many of the Grecian cit-. ies, without drawing on himself the vengeance of even the most corrupt magistrates and citizens ! Briton bled, Driv'n by our youth, redoubted PIERCY fled; There BREED ascends, and BUNKER'S bleeding steeps, Still o'er whose brow abortive vict'ry weeps ; What trophies since !-The gaze of after times, Rear'd FREEDOM's empire o'er our happy climes!" The noble prospect from BEACON HILL, which is so finely and accurately described by the poet, is perhaps one of the most beautiful and picturesque in he world. The spacious common, the lofty buildings of the town, and the beautiful scenery which encompasses it, afford a view equally grand and magnificent. The name of pleasure, which L give to the internal satisfaction which renders us happy, has of-fended those superficial minds who attach themselves to words more than to realities. Certain philoso While contemplating these interesting scenes, the attention of the specta-phers too, forgetting their professed tor is arrested by a venerable column To commemorate that train of events to the American Revolution, AMERICANS, ་ Forget not those who by their exertions have secured to you THESE BLESSINGS. NOTICES OF ARISTIPPUS. P. (Continued fr. p. 318.) Aristrippus, said I, you have entirely subverted every idea I had before entertained of your doctrine. love of justice, have given sanction to this prejudice, justified perhaps by the extravagancies of some of my disciples: but does a principle of intrinsic excellence lose its value because it is possible to draw from it false conclusions? I have explained to you my doctrine. I admit as the sole instruments of happiness, those emotions which agreeably affect us; but I wish them to be repressed the instant they are likely to produce trouble and disorder: and surely nothing evinces more courage than to prescribe limits at once to our privations and enjoyments. Antisthenes attended the lectures of Socrates at the same time with me: he was born melancholy and austure; I cheerful and liberal. He proscribed pleasures, and dared not "On a Wife. "Here lies my poor wife, without bed or blanket, "But dead as a door nail, God be thank, ed." "On a Lawyer. "Hic jacet Jacobus Straw, enter the lists with the passions, It will be one day said, perhaps, that Socrates and Aristippus, both in their conduct and their doctrine, sometimes deviated from ordinary rules; but posterity no doubt will add, that they compensated for these little errors by the truths with which they have enriched philosophy. DESULTORY SELECTIONS, AND ORIGINAL REMARKS. "The devil cried, "St. Olave's, Southwark.-On Mr. Mun- "The weeke begins on Tuesday, "Here lies Fuller's earth.” Said to be in Twickenham Church-yard. "Kill'd by a sky- We recollect an epitaph on a post-boy, who lost his life by falling under the wheel of his chaise, which would make a good companion for the above Here I lays, Kill'd by a chaise. "On the Parson of a Country Parish, "Come let us rejoice, merry boys, at his fall, MEN carry their minds as they do their watches, perfectly ignorant of the mechanism of their movements, and quite content with understanding the little exterior circle" of things to which their passions, like indexes, are pointing. The English reviewers speak very highly of a "Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions" lately published. The rude distich which Gray poetically tells us, Teaches the rustic moralist to die, is often times irresistably ludicrous. "On an importunate Tailor. "Here lies W. W, "Who never more will trouble trouble you." you, knocke, For egad, had he liv'd, he'd have bu ried us all." We have seen one, by Old Nick, an author not a very popular character in a country village, which may go with this. Epitaph on the Tomb-stone of a Country Apothecary, erected at the Expence of Hâc sub homo, per quem tot jacuêre, At length for him a quiet spot's provid ed, Where, all through him, so many of us lie dead. Such epitaphs as these are mere drolleries, but they are sufficiently serious and important for the ob "Because he meant to picke the locke."jects of their commemoration; |