of charitable praise, intended to communicate a sort of mental ague to the soaring mind. "A health to her whose beauties are But a more sprightly element of purer doth move efit of the subject, and not a gaudy feather stuck in the diadem to shake in the wind, and by the waving of the gaudy plumage to amuse the vanity of the wearer. He would not have it say to him, that the discretion of the Crown, as to mercy, is like the discretion of a Court of Justice as to law, and that in the one case, as well as the other, wherever the propriety of the exercise of it appears, it is equally a matter of right. He would have the Press all fierceness to the People, and all sycophancy to Power; he would have it consider the mad and phrenetic depopulations of Authority, like the aw-To th' utmost height of nobleness and ful and inscrutable dispensations of Providence, and say to the unfeeling and despotic spoiler in the blasphemed and insulted language of religious resignation," the Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord!" Hail melancholy night! mild pensive hour! How sweet amid these mould ring walls to rove, While beams on high the silent moon! All th' orbs of virtue, with celestial flame : Whose active climbings carry her de sires honour." A French Abbe, having engaged a box at the Opera House at Paris, was turned out of his possession by a Marshall, as remarkable for his ungentlemanlike behaviour as for cowardice. The Abbe, for this breach of good manners, brought his action in a court of honour, and solicited permission to be his own advocate, which being granted, he How monstrous it is, and how begun his complaint thus :-"I. lamentable, that gross particles are complain not of M. Suffrein, who sometimes mixed in a noble crea- took so many of the enemy's ships ture! and how unfortunate that the in the East Indies; I complain not vulgar, which makes so vast a ma- of Count de Grasse, who so bravely jority of the world, can better com- fought Lord Rodney in the West; prehend what is fallible in him, I complain not of the Duke de Crilthan what is great and glorious!lion who took Minorca, but I comThose who have great endowments from nature and from acquirements, should therefore carefully correct all their errors, since they destroy the power to be exemplary and useful, which heaven has so bountifully bestowed upon them, and are at once ungrateful to providence and unjust to themselves. When mankind are in a humour to be captious, moral writings, in the gross, are liable to their censure. The most formidable of all dreads to writers, who rest not contented with the testimony of a clear conscience, is a laboured, shivering kind plain of Marshall —, who took my box at the Opera, and never took any thing else." The Court at once paid the highest compliment to his wit, and gave him the most ample revenge, by refusing him a verdict, in consequence of his having already inflicted punishment sufficient. The following lines of Ogilvie, unite morality with poetry. See! where pale death to strike his kings, See, his black chariot floats in streams | [The manners of England are very of gore, Pale Rage behind, and Terror strides much like our own, and are thus detailed in a late work called Memoirs of a traveller in Retirement.] . "SOCIETY in England is not at all upon the same footing as in Pa ris, Vienna, Rome or Naples: it is formed upon a plan which suits the English: they enjoy it in their own way, and foreigners may participate : Not all the frantic groans of wild Des-in it, pair; Not helpless Age, that tears its silver hair; Can stay one moment the severe com mand, Or wrest th' avenging dart from that relentless hand. Here pause :-the crowds extended "The greater part of the men who compose the first class of society are in Parliament: some are the House of Lords; their sons, repeers of the realm, and belong to lations and friends, and the rest of the nobility, are members of the House of Commons; as well as to reside in London during the sitthe countrygentlemen, who come ting of Parliament. The hours of Parliament are extremely uncertain they frequently sit till midnight, or till one or two o'clock in the morning, and sometimes later. From this custom arises the difficulty of having regular dinners during the sitting of Parliament; except on Saturdays and Sundays, and some days in the holidays. ladies' however, have large parties at night: but from the same reason, there is a much greater proportion of females than gentlemen, at these assemblies; partly because the men, after breaking up of Parliament, go to dine together at each other's houses, or at their club; and partly because it is so late, that they do not think it worth while to give themselves the trouble of dres-sing. These are the first class. The "If, which Heaven forbid, it hath still been unfortunately determined that because he has not bent to power and authority, because he would not bow down before the Golden Calf and worship it, he is to be bound and cast into the furnace ; "Among the better sort of citi. I do trust in God, that there is a re- zens there are also some members deeming spirit in the constitution, of Parliament; and there are some which will be seen to walk with the who, without belonging to the House sufferer through the flames, and to of Commons, are employed in pubpreserve him unhurt by the confla-lic affairs, and are fond of talking gration." of them. These likewise have their clubs; and the greater part of them company an account of the living like assembling there, much better at London; and among other things than going to play at cards with he said that they supped there, but the female friends of their wives. did not dine. I was a little astonishI must add, that among this class ished at this assertion; and took there is very little gallantry: every the liberty to tell him that I had one is constant to his wife, whom been absent from London only six he is sure to meet every night at months, and that was not the custom suppper with the rest of the family. when I came away. He assured Besides, almost all the English have me very seriously, that I should some business, some favourite a- find it so when I returned; as if a musement, some studies, or some nation altered its manners in six pleasures, to which they devote months. It is thus that we are misthemselves with as much attention taken, when we form general opin-as to business. They prefer spend-ions upon the little we see. (To be Continued.) For the Emerald.. LEVITY. ing the rest of their time in their own houses, to the dull pleasure of frequenting assemblies, which however are very numerous.-There are not, perhaps, less than two hundred houses in London, where two or three assemblies are given dur-MESSRS. EDITORS. ing the winter; so that there are sometimes three or four on the same night. The company begin to meet at nine or ten o'clock. People of fashion, both males and females, who are invited to them, all go to each; and stay there a longer or shorter time, as may be agreeable. Some are going in as others are coming out; three or four hundred people meet without I was the other day obliged seeing each other, and speak to one to endure the tedious and disgustanother without waiting for an an- ing vanity of a creature of this Card tables are prepared in description by being unfortunately the different rooms, and card-play-placed as his companion in the Easting lasts till one or two o'clock in ern Stage.-Now it did not require the morning. In some houses sup- any great knowledge or conse pers are given; but that is not com-quence to be pleased with the varimon. If any French gentleman or ous interesting objects that present lady should come to London, this themselves on this interesting rout; compliment is paid to them: it is but our traveller, who washed off thought to be what they like best; all his Americanism in the Ocean, but it must not be imagined that and had supplied its place with the this is the general custom. Being affectation and contemptuous disreat Paris some years ago, at the gard which is natural and even Prince de Conti's, I met the Vis- pardonable in a foreigner, found count de Noailles, who had just re- nothing comfortable or even decent turned from London, where he had on the rout, he scolded at all the been six weeks.---He was giving the waiters, laughed at the turnpike The impertinence and vanity of some of our travelled gentry has been very handsomely ridiculed by a plain country gentleman in a communication to your friend the Wanderer ; and T cannot but be much obliged to him for the letter, as it has put me on my guard against the impertinence of such assum-ing coxcombs. men, derided the fare, and in proportion to the attempt to satisfy him, was his determination not to be pleased. In the first place he abused the coach; it was worse than a Dutchman's dray and rattled like a country waggon loaded with iron bars. The horses (although at a full pace of ten miles an hour) were, he was certain, the half stary ed refuse of some livery stable; the coachman whose pride was roused by these remaks on his equipage was repeatedly declared to be a surly, drunken and ignorant rascal. For the Emerald. To the Honourable Senate and House of Representatives in General Court as sembled. Humbly complaining, sheweth unto your Honours, your Orator, COLON. THAT Whereas, from a time, whence the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, as a member of the ancient and honourable fraternity of the six points, he hath been accustomed, and is indisputably entitled, to have, hold, occupy and enjoy the undisturbed pos session of, and in a certain share of every sentence, which, when divided, the remaining part is not necessary to comancient or modern plete the sense in all languages whether And whereas in and by the first article of the Declaration of Rights in the Constitution of this Commonwealth, it is expressly reckon, ed that among the essential and unalienable rights is the enjoyment and defence of our liberties. The taverns were nothing better than English gin shops-the people rude, uninformed and impertinent; and the whole rout from And in further Boston to Portland exhibited the affirmance of this undeniable position same dull and barren tract of unwas the Constitution of the United cultivated country, from which it States adopted by the good people of would be difficult to decide whether this Commonwealth. And afterwards the wretched appearance of poverty through fear, that the enumeration of and famine was more owing to the certain rights of the people therein, should be construed to deny or disparignorance and idleness of the inage the rest, certain articles amendatohabitants than to the niggard parsi-ry to the same Constitution were promony of nature.—Towards the last stage, as one of our blunt companions was praising the excellent accommodations of a country inn,prived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law. posed to the different States and by them ratified; and in the 7th thereof it is contained, that no one shall be de But now so it is, that the President and Fellows of Harvard College, in no› wise ignorant of the premises aforesaid; and reduce into the undistinguished rank of a Comma, and thus deprive him of his just rights in supporting the grace and dignity of sentences, or in any manner assisting in the structure thereof, our travelled gentleman interrupted him with an exclamation against that vulgarity of taste, which could find in it any thing either whole-but intending your Orator to disgrace, some or decent. This nettled the pride of our companion, who never having been out of the boundary of New-England, had a little of the Yankee feelings about him, and in-have lately sent forth from their press a certain expurgated edition of Q. Hoduced him to repay the travelratii Flacci; and in every sentence of lers insolence with a sound and which same work they have wholly omit well deserved flagellation, and to ted to assign to your orator a place, depromise him if he had ever had a nied him entrance, and still hold him better in any foreign place, he would out, without due process of law, in parthe next time exert his best faculties ticular defiance of the aforesaid 7th ar ticle amendatory to the Constitution. to equal it. All which I communi- In tender consideration whereof, and of cate to you to serve as a check the noble part which your Orator took against similar impertinence and in the paper war which preceded the struggle for independence; and like. folly. MORUS. are resolved never to cease interrogating wise of his manful appearance no less | Considering, that this act was a s than fourteen times in the Declaration towards the consolidation of the whole of our independence, which, with the fraternity to one point, and thus accus. assistance of his brethren, and particu-toming our youth to disregard the inlarly of Semicolon, struck dismayinto the tegrity of the six points, by degrees to hearts of our enemies: And for that familiarize them to the idea of a conyour Orator cannot, as he is advised solidation of all the States in the Union. by his counsel, learned in the law, en- In order to avert all which, your Orater in and take possession of his share tor was induced to prefer this, his com. in any of the sentences of said expur- plaint to your Honours; having ex gated edition, by the ordinary course of pressly stipulated to his brethren not to the common law, having only jus me- abandon his just right, in support of rum; and being also advised, that it is which they are determined to use their inexpedient to apply to the Supreme undivided exertions; and particularly Court for a mandamus to be directed to his friends interrogation and exclamation; said President and Fellows command- who, though only remotely affected, yet ing them to restore him to his just rights feel the warmth of an immediate inin the premises, &c. as the Chief Jus-terest in the rights of your Orator, and tice is a member of the Corporation of the same University, and as the whole Court have a mortal aversion to your Orator, and foras much as your Orator is thus remediles; save in this honourable Court. To the end, therefore, that our Constitution may be handed down to posterity unimpaired, and that the liberties of the subject may be preserved entire, your Orator prays your Honours would take such order touching the premises, as in your wisdom may seem most meet, to effectuate a redress of his wrongs. And in illustration of that sage position, "that all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are insufferable, than right themselves by abolishing forms to which they are accustomed," your Orator hath hitherto foreborne to make any appeal to the passions or prejudices of the people, and, until the date of these presents, he hath borne in silence this usurpation on his just rights, notwithstanding the earnest solicitations of his brethren. But as the whole fraternity of six points had assembled in a peaceable manner, and were on the point of petitioning for a redress of grievances, according to the provisions contained in the 19th article of the Declaration of Rights, and having taken into consideration the arbitrary and tyrannous conduct of the said President and Fellows, in the expulsion of your Orator from the society of his brethren; and as no President and Fellows had dared to make such an inroad on the rights of the fraternity previous to the adoption of our State Constitution, and no such power being therein conferred upon them. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. dopted by the booksellers of London, Stereotype Printing has not been a because it does not appear that more than twenty or thirty works would war. rant the expense of being cast in solid pages; consequently the cost of the preliminary arrangements would greatly exceed the advantages to be attained. On a calculation, it has appeared to beless expensive to keep certain works. standing in moveable types, in which successive editions can be improved to any degree, than to provide the means for casting the same works in solid pa. ges, which afterwards admits of little or no revision. As the extra expense of stereotyping is in all works equal to the expense of paper for 750 copies, it is obvious that this art is not applica. ble to new books, the sale of which cannot be ascertained. Although these considerations have induced the publishers of London not to prefer this art in their respective businesses, yet it has been adopted by the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford; and from the former some very beautiful editions of Common Prayer Books have issued to the public; probably the art of stereotyping applies with greater advantage so staple works of such great and conttant sale, as prayer-books and bibles, than to any other. |