my chariot; the most trifling actions are made interesting by my manner. Nay, I even sleep like a gentleman. ........ Women think me irresistible.I have a smile for one, a nod for another, a wink for a third, a hem and how do you do for a fourth, and she who gets a squeeze of the hand from me thinks herself in heav from others in order to give them | grace. See me take out my haridtheir lives and liberty. This cus- kerchief, put on my gloves, pick up tom, says the Traveller Pietro dela a fan, present a bouquet, dangle in Vella, was one day the occasion of an odd mistake in the market of Ormuz. A Christian, dressed in the habit of an Hindoo went up to a fowler who had got some live birds in a cage and purchased them, with the intention of making a dinner of them The seller immediately on receiving the money set open the cage door and let the birds fly.The Christian seeing his dinner up-en. on the wing began to vociferate, and complained that he was cheated- One of the great sources of poetical in short when the mistake was dis- delight is description, or the power of covered the poor fowler was com-ley gives inferences instead of im. presenting images to the mind. Cow. pelled to repay the money and left ages, and shows not what may be to get his birds again how he could. supposed to have been seen, but what thoughts the sight might have suggested. When Virgil describes the stone which Turnus lifted against Eneas he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight BAD NEWS AFFECTS THE APPETITE. During the war which the Duke of Milan carried on against the Florentines, he had provided himself with a most excellent cook, whom he had sent to France to be instructed in the culinary art. On receiving one day, very bad news from his army, he found fault with every thing at table, and accused his cook of want of professional skill. "If the Florentines have taken away your appetite, my Lord, it is no fault of mine." A modern beau speaking of hintself. COWLEY. Cowley says of the stone which Cain slew his brother. I saw him fling the stone as if he meant Of the sword taken from Goliah he says, To cut of his great head who came with it. EPIGRAM......A HOME QUESTION. While Dick to combs hostility proA neighbouring taper sets his hair in claims, flames. I AM an adept in all the delightful follies of fashion: I lead the mode, and make those dear whims, which are ridiculous in others, graceful and captivating in me. I am in debt to all the town, in love with all the women, envied by all the men, stared at by the world, laughed at by the little, imitated by the great, hated by the awkward, and hooted by the mob. I have ruined fifty tradesmen and five Jews. Nay, I have been ruined myself these three years, and I live in as high a style as ever. The title page and index to our first .......Sitting or standing, riding volume ending in December last, accomor walking, I do every thing with!panies this number of the Emerald. The blaze extinct, permit us to inquire: "Were there no lives tost, Richard, in this fire ?" We gratify Cromwell, in hopes that his and less love. future attempts will disclose more poetry For the Emerald. LINES POETRY. Addressed to a Lady of Newburyport. O, maiden dear! the early blush of morn Glows not so fair as thy unrivall❜d cheek, t is, indeed, a rose without a thorn ;Thine eyes the lovely star of evening meek. Thy pouting lipsa brilliant ruby each, Distill the nector of the opening rose, Diffuse a perfume richer than th' peach,[close, And parted-files of eastern pearl disThy form the fairest poplars for excel [part Thy gestures-grace, and dignity imBeneath thy panting bosom's snowy swell, Resides a tender and a constant heart. Thy bosom, chaste asprisms of pendant frost FOR THE EMERALD. The brilliancy of genius may shine in splendid description and fancied greatness ; but to connect truth with pleasure it must descend to the fire-side, and the family party, and mingle with the pleasing avocations of domestic life. The affection which the social connec tions creates affords a theme for admiration which poetry cannot exaggerate, although the alluring charms of its muse may catch the attention and point the wavering mind to the proper object of esteem. For the following elegant attempt to associate the virtues of the heart in company with the muses we are indebted to the taste of a judicious friend, who will receive our thanks for the selection. A FAMILY PICTURE. SEEK not in public places for a wife, Be not, deluded with the charms of sight. Retreatment only yields the friend for life Who shares your grief & doubles your delight. peep, When orient rays within your window Unfold her eyes on you and welcome What joy to tend the plants her hand To trace their foliage and their various hues, Some by affecting incidents endear'd, Or hear them prattle with remarks a cute! "To blend amusement with instruction And teach the young idea how to shoot." And catch the glories of the setting san, filll. 1 [guiles, Her gay encouragement your fears be-"You're a fool" mutters Harry-say And though her mind awidow's thoughts Whilst on your pillow rais'd, they round wither'd hand. Now gathering up her young, lest you Thomas "that's true, So must ev'ry one be that expects sens from you." MARRIAGES.-At Salem, on Sund evening, Mr. Richard Hay, to M Anne Howard. In this town, Mr. Francis Line to Miss Eliza Frothingham, daught of Mr. Eben. F. DEATHS. At Goree, (in Afric Capt. Wm. Ingraham, late of Bostoc -At Charlestown, Mrs. Susanna Hu aged 22. In this town, Mrs. Temperance D aged 26, wife of Mr. Alexander Di ter of the late Col. M. Watson, a Miss Lucy Lee Watson, second daugh 23; Benjamin Greene, Esq. aged c Mr Thomas Wheeler, aged 68; M James Tewksbury, aged 63; Mr. C O'er power'd with joy, to nursery they nelius Fuller, formerly of Newton, ag repair [kneel 36. And there by her example taught to Uplift their little hands in grateful prayer. should feel Boston, Mass.) Published SEMPER REFULGET. No. 42. Boston, Saturday, February 14, 1807. ORIGINAL PAPERS. FOR THE EMERALD. THE WANDERER, No. 66. RATIONAL and interesting conversation may be classed among the most agreeable amusements of life. In that free interchange of sentiment which takes place round the fire side, where friend meets friend in liberal confidence, the heart is opened, the mind is enlarged; improvement assumes her most engaging form, and pleasure is mingled with instruction. Conversation is an universal employment. Every one has occasion to use those faculties of speech with which he is blest, but in this as every thing else, there is variety of excellence, and the mind may be disciplined into such perfection as to make an hour's conversation, the most engaging employment. Those powers of intellect which command admiration and wonder are the prerogative of few, and seldom. called into use. Few people have occasion to display the researches of philosophical labour or to increase the volumes of the library, but every one has an opportunity of displaying all the elegance and information of his mind in those colloquical parties, which friendship or Convenience assemble. This is the VOL. 11. G domestic theatre where every one must play his part; and here, talents are as usefully and as agreeably employed as on a more conspicuous stage. It is not the noisy riot of intemperate mirth that conveys pleasure to the mind, nor is it the secluded labor and the fatigue of literary studies which alone can afford it satisfaction; that is most congenial to nature which unites the gaiety of pleasure with the temperance of reason, and joins hilarity and amusement with the displays of mental vivacity. This is happily procured by the conversation of intelligent friends, who enliven their arguments with cheerfulness and wit, and recommend their sentiments by good na ture and discretion. Conversation however is so much a matter of course that it is seldom considered as a business, and so universal that it is hardly thought to require the trouble of improvement. But it is in life as in nature; things grand and sublime are of necessity rare, those of less splendor are generally of more use and common in proportion to their utility. Talents and genius of an order to command universal admiration are reserved for a few favoured individuals and are displayed only on great and particular occasions. They mix not with common life; they have no connection with those little occur. rences which constitute wo great a share of individual happiness. But | sides of a chance of speaking. They those abilities, which lead conver-insist on engrossing the attention of sation in an easy and regular cur- the company-of being the sole orrent, which give vivacity and spiritacle-of illuminating by their eloto society, are called every day in- quence, and suffering nobody to be to action; they are powers which convinced but by their arguments. all should wish to possess, because Such men are tedious and disgustthey are capable of extensive im- ing-they poison one of the sweetprovement. est pleasures of life. There are others who are not merely contented with declaiming on every subject advanced, but dispute with you at every word. For the sake of argument they espouse any side of a question that will give them room for discussion, contend points too evident for a second thought, and deny conclusions which require only to be known to command assent. These are the nettles in the garden; they perplex,irritate and fatigue you. There are some men so uncivil and rude as in a mixed company engaged in the agreeable pleasures of a desultory conversation to start some topic which they know will cause a contrariety of opinion and dissolve the amusement of the party, something which shall shut out one part from the general diversion, by leading the current, in a chan The talent of conversation is not however to be enumerated among common gifts. Most people indeed in the course of twenty-four hours spend their proportion both of time and words, but there is a great difference between the communication of elegant sentiment and judicious observation, in easy and natural language, and the common subjects which are detailed in the vulgar dialect of provincial speech. The first is the great mark of refinement and education, the latter evinces a deficiency of both. Indeed it is from the language of conversation that we in a great degree decide on the quality of the mind. A person makes no very favourable impression, who is either too diffident to hazard an observation, or who, if he does do it had better have let it alone. From those who have any ambitionnel where they cannot follow it. of excellence or make any pretensions to polite education, we expect of indecorum the introduction of I have always placed in this class that amenity of manners and pro- disputable points of politics and repriety of conversation which will ligion in a mixed party of ladies repay the labor of attention and and gentlemen. display the charms of refinement. larly have assumed such an unacPolitics particuAs the time which is engaged in commodating form that it is almost conversation on subjects capable of impossible to introduce them withconveying improvement, is both out giving offence. They erect valuably and pleasantly employed, a standard which summons every those habits which interrupt or de-nan to his post, and like war itself stroy it should be discountenanced bear down every social feeling in and even reprobated in a liberal so- the rout Surely the concerns of ciety. While there are some men the nation may be settled without in the circle whose taciturnity nev-making the dinner table a council cr interrupts the current of thought, board, and the parlour a hall of state there are others whose incessant-surely time enough may be givvolubility deprives every one be- en to the interests of the nation |