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When thestorm c loua^l war Gather’d black in the west, At the first shout of “ Fredom !” That burst through the gloom, He left the bright home Youth and beauty had blest, T o league with our fathers— To share in their doom ! And when roll’d afar Was thattempest of war, And the Eagle, triumphant, Soar’d proud o’er each star, He sought no reward— No advantage to find, But the sweet peace that virtue Imprints on the mind. Then welcome F ayette , And while gratitude burns, In hearts that have always Been faithful as free— While one recollection Of peril returns— In the mem’ry of millions, Immortal shall be, The. Hero and sage Who in youth and in age, Has been Liberty’s Champion Through life’s ev’ry stage.— Not a voice in the wide realm You loved, will forget To join the loud chorus of W elcome F ayette !! M i s c e l l a n e o u s A r t i c l e s . Extracted f o r the Mohawk Sentinel, From the London Geographical Encyclopaedia. ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The language of Europeans in general is derived! from the Gothic and the Latin; these are also the sources of the English, which partakes of the force of the Gothic, and the melody of the La tin. The English is also much indebted to the Greek and French languages. There are still extant, many manuscripts written in the Anglo- Saxon, or Old English language , one of its most classical authors was the great Alfred himself. Chaucer and Sir John IVlandeville, who wvote in the time of Edward III. present what may be termed the rude dawn of the English language. This language or speech made such rapiu advan ces in the course of the next century, that very little difference could be traced between that which prevailed in the reign of Henry YI. and afterwards in the reign of Henry VIII. In the Teign ofEiizabeth, the English language had ac quired surli copiousness, dignity, force, and melody, as to make a very powerful impression, both with respect to sense and sound, as is evinc ed by a perusal in the present days of the plays of Shakespeare. Sidney’s defence of poesy is -allowed to be a good specimen of English prose; and Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity, and other large works of that period, are still read and ad mired. The common translation of the Bible is a noble specimen of the dignified prose of the ffoilowing reign, that of James I. To describe the English language abstractly, would be superfluous to an English reader ; but relatively, it enjoys all the properties, without many of the defects, of other European lan- ^guagest. It is more energetic, manly, and ex pressive, than either the French or the Italian ; more copious than the Spanish, and more elo quent than the German, or the other northern tongues. It is, however, subject to some con siderable provincialities in its accent, there be ing much difference in the pronunciation of the inhabitants of different counties : but this chief ly affects the lowest of the people ; for as to well- educated and well-bred persons, there is little diSerence in theii pronunciation all over the kingdom. People of fortune and education in Englanu, of both sexes, commonly, either speak or understand the French; and many of them the Italian and Spanish : but it has been observ ed, that foreigfl nations have great difficulty 5 n understanding the few English who talk Latin ; which is, perhaps, the reason why that language is much disused in England, even by the learned professions. From many works, written long after the con quest, it appears, that the French language, though colloquial among the great, imparted but a slight tinge to the national tongue. In fact, the comparatively recent establishment of the Scandinavians in Normandy, the descendants of whom, and not Frenchmen, were the followers of William, make it fair to be presumed, that the language spoken by the subjects of William, jin general, must have had a far greater analogy to the English than to the French, but the con quests of Edward III. in France, and other cir cumstances, effected in the fourteenth century a material change. Unlike the German and other Gothic dialects, tin which the nouns are declined as in the Latin, She English has no postfix in the declensions of nts nouns, except for the genitive case; but like the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Italian, and the French it is declined by prefixes. Anoma lies likewise abound, the same letters having nu merous different sounds. That the progress of rche language may be seen, a specimen is subjoin ed of the Lord’s Prayer, as well in the Anglo- [Saxon, as in modern English. TJren fader tic arth in heofna. Sie gehalgud thin noma. To cymeth thin ryk. Sic thin willa , sue is in heofna sue in eortho. Uured h laf ofer- wisllic sel us to daeg Andforgeveus scylda urna sue roe forgefan scyldgum urum. And no inlead usig in custnung. Ah gefrig usich frim ifie. Amen. Our father who art in heaven , hallowed be thy name , thy kingdom come , thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread j and forgive us our trespasses , as we forgive them that trespass afhinst u s ; and lead us not into temptation , but deliver us from evil. Amen. The construction of the English is peculiar, and renders the study of it difficult to foreigners. It abounds also with anomalies which are too deeply rooted to be ever eradicated by grammat ical rules. It is, however, to be regretted, that we have as yet no standard of our language, the result of the united intelligence of men eminent for learning and philosophocal attainments, to which reference might be had in doubtful or dis puted cases. It has been considered as improbable, that there should be any traditionary verses of the an cient druids in existence. There is Welsh po etry extant, however, of a date as far back as the early part of the 12 th century. The follow ing little piece, denominated “ The Choice ,” was sung by the bard flywel, the son of Owaiu, in the year 1169:— “ My choice is a lady, elegant, slender, and fair, “ Whose tall white form is seen through the thin blue v e i l ; “ And my choicest faculty is to muse on su perior female excellence, u When she with diffidence utters the becom ing sentiment ; “ And my choicest parcipitation is to become j united with the maid, | “ And to share mutual confidence as to ; thoughts and fortune : 1 “ i choose the bright hue of the spreading wave. i “ Thou who art the most discreet of thy coun-. try, with the pure Welsh speech, “ Chosen by me art thou ; “ What am I with thee— “ How! dost though refrain from speaking I “ Fair is thy silence ! ------ “ I have chosen a maid, so that with me there should be no hesitation, “ It is right to choose the choicest fair one.” From the above, which appears under the dis advantages of a literal translation, it is sufficient ly evident that the language of our ancestors was j not deficient either in elegance or in strength. j o O | NUMBER OF RELIGIONISTS IN GREAT BRITIAN, &LC. '■ In England, Ireland and Wales, the number of Religionists of various sects and denominations i may be estimated nearly as follow : 1 . Church of England - - 5,000.000 2 . Roman Catholics* - - 3,400,000 j 3. Presbyterians, who are (in Eng- ' land,) chiefly Unitarians, Arians, and General Baptists - 60,000 4. Quakers and Moravians - 60,000 5. Wesleyan Methodists! - - 500,000 6 . Baptists, of various kinds, exclu sive of General Baptists - - 60,000 7. Independents, including the Whit- fieldians, and other Calvinistic .Metho dists ............................................................. 110,000 8 . Swedenborgians - 20,000 9. Miscellaneous minor Sects - 15,000 10 . Resident Jews - 15,000 11 . Deists, Theopilanthropists, Moth er Freethinkers - 125,000 12 . Churcfi of Scotland, and Scottish Sectaries - 2 , 000,000 * In England and ’Vales there are about 300,000, of wdioin 5.00 1 uve in London. There are 900 Catholic churches and chapels in England. f The W esleyan Methodists “ all over the world,” ex clusive of the New Connexion and some others, amounted last year to nearly 486,000. in the thraldom of vice; he could forget that he had a bosom companion, sighing in his absence for his return, and in his presence, overpowered by conflicted emotions, occasioned by the recol lection of former times,when he was virtue’s friend, and she the darling partner of his happiness. Can man so far forget the dignity of his nature, as to give up the government of reason bestowed upon him by God, and submit to be led by degra ding passions, participated with brute I — Well may it be said, that the hand which can write it, unless its possessor be void of sensibility, must feel the blood curdle in its veins, and the tongue that can tell it to the world might stiffen in the act. Let us onclude our sad tale. The unfortunate man returned, something inebriated, at a late hour, and found his wife senseless on the floor. The shock restored him to himself, though some half recollected images flitted through his bewildered drain. She was declared to be in a raging fever; medical assistance was in vain, for the disease was one which baffls ail skid, and in the short space of a fortnight, she died broken-hearted. No murmur escaped her lips against toe author of her misery, the destroyer of her happiness, the cause of her untimley death. Then it was that he lully awoke from his dream ; then it was that every woman, a n d towel him to t h e ears, before he can r e c o v e r in the least from his con sternation. As h e casts his eyes anxiously around in hopes of receiving succour, his hapless orbs are incontinently extinguish ed by a pestilent little brush, filled with brown soap, and h ot rain water t h a t g r a t e s over his disk with t h e velocity o f a City Marshal, and in t h e twinkling of a s o a p box, he finds himself a poor helpless mor- j tal, reeking with cold lather, soaped from the f o r e h e a d to the arm pits! O J u p i t e r ! “ T h e n t o m e s the tug o f w a r ? ” How chat ter my crazy-stumps at this recollection [ T h e tears stream a down my face in fright ful torrents, as if I yet writhed beneath the inflictions o f t h e obdurate razor. T h e marrow squirms within my bones, like t h e helpless worm upon the hook of the ang ler! F a t h e r Abraham ! why is the disk of man i m p e s t e r e d with a b e a rd for these t e r rible razor-bearers to fasten upon, and torment him unto madness ! W h y is he eternally iiable to be smothered or pois- unkind word, every ungrateful look, thronged \ oned by a dirty napkin, his neck wrench- back upon him, and harrowed up his soul ; then it ; e(j oveTr tke back 0f a chair — lathered in- was that he uttered the unheard groan, and poured to a jelly, pounded into a dumpling, s c r a p ped, s c r a t c h e d , and hacked, like a forked radish— his ears pulled— his nose tweak- career of vice and folly, unaware of the misery ed, his eyes put out, or basted into his he is bringing upon himself and all connected j head like a roasted pig’s— and all by a with him ; let him read this and pause ; for it is man Qf st,aw,— a curler of periwigs,— a i _ . _ _ i i : ___________ i - u u • ~ r . 7 ° the bitter tear— more deep, more bitter, because unheard and unavailing Is there one, now who is just beginning the only on the immutable basis of virtue, that we can found oar actions, if we wish them to yield j pleasure to ourselves, to be pleasingin the sight of our fellow men, or acceptable to our Creator. A lpha . D E a i’H. Ninety years hence not a single man or woman that is now twenty years of age shall be found ! what a melancholy truth ! But truth it is, a stub born fact. And what is still more melancholy, many, very many of the lively actors on the stage of life, at the present day, shall make their exit long ere ninety years ‘ have rolled away.’ Ninety years ! could we be sure of ninety yt ars, what are they ? “A tale that is told ” — a dream, an empty, sound that passeth on the wings of the wind away, and is forgotten.— Years shorten as man advan- honor of razors,— a roll of p o m atum,— an animated wig, b lock,— a battered pow d e r puff? And must these vultures gnaw upon our livers— ! mean chins , forever ? Will t h e r e never be an end of this towel ling, and lathering, & digging, & scraping, and nose-pulling, and powdering? Shall we never cease with thD “ tamned non - sense?” Alas ! alas ! ! our judgments are grievous and hard to be borne ! Oh ! t h a t our B a r b e r s were men of com passion, a n d bore in mind that the unhap py chins they operated upon, belonged to sensitive beings. O t h a t they were fond o f rubbing their razor straps, and ever made it a point to have their blades a s ceth in age ; like the degrees in longitude, man’s life declineth as he travels toward the frozen pole, 1 keen as a clam - s h e l l ! O that they would until he dwindles to a point, vanishes forever. Is : c o n s ider tbf. trouble and expense o f a it. possible that lne is ot so short duration ! will , , . . , . , , r , ninety years destroy all the golden names over the b e a r d, and deal j u s t ly with those unhappy doors, in the cities and towns of this flourishing mortals t h a t daily iniest their box t i a p s , country, and place new ones in their stead ? Will ; that t h e y would be c o n t e n t e d with reeeiv- ail the blooming beauties, who now appear more ; fngr their beards and fourpenees, and not than mortal, fade and disappear in ninety yeart- ? - - - - -- - Can it be the fate of the belles and beaux, who now flaunt with finest flower in their heads, in ninety years to be powdered in dust and ashes ? Alas, it can, & most assuredly will be so. “Ninety years,” says death, grinning a ghastly smile, “do you think I am going to starve ninety years ? Not 1 ! This have the cruelty to flay t h e poor devils! But, alas ! greatly do I f e a r that our B a r b e r s will never be m a d e to com p r e hend the necessity of a reform , until they shall have been shaved with their own razors, s trangled with their own shaving ■very day, before the sun reaches ‘ the margin o f . r a g.s, srnotherecl with their own powder the west,’ thousands of belles and beaux, besides bJ; p |astered witb their own pomatum n u m e r o u s old men and babes, s h a ll be sacrificed f n L i * , • ..1 • to feed, not to fill, my ever empty maw. ” : balls, t h e ir e y e s put out by t h e i r o w n care- C o u ld any o n e w h o has d ied w ithin a f e w m o n ths lessness, their noses twisted otl by their p a s t, r is e and come in to our c i t i e s fifty y e a r s h e n c e , own fingers, and their braiUS r a k e d frOttl w lm t an alteration w o u ld h e find! Should h e inquire their heads by their own combs. In a resent day, worcj — t h e y must first be murdered by their own scalping-knives, drow n e d in D ead ! and scarcely can it be remembcred'that their OWI1 Soap Sllds, and buried in t h e i r they every lived. Among the tombs where 1 fre- own p o n d e r , quently wander to find wisdom, I find but few j who have survived sixty years; where 1 have found j ANECDOTES, one who has weathered three-score, I havemour- ’ Two sons of Hibernia, being a ducking, Pat tied over ten who never saw twenty summer suns, discovers a large bed of ducks close by the shore. Melancholy consideration ! Human fife what a Alter having his fowling piece levelled for about bubble 1 at most a fleeting shade ! Even while I five minutes, his companion asked, “ Mhyinthe write, the clock tells me 1 am one hour nearer the devil he did’rit fire.” Pat replied by zounds, I grave : that while I am poring over the epitaphs of never can get aim at one, but there’s another the silent dead, 1 am hastening to join them in the , bugger swims right between it and me. dark sleep of oblivion ! An honest tar hired a horse to carry him a few miles— but before he had got many yards, he found he possessed the usual excellencies of the unfortunate four footed hirelings of the road, such as blindness, lameness, stumbling, &c. The From The ,hezo- York Mirror. DISSIPATION. The clock st ruck eleven. The anxious, terri fied, lonely mother shuddered at the sound, and with an unconscious energy pressed her poor babe to her heart, while the large tear., not without cause, fell, unbidden, from her swollen, sunken, eye, and rested on the cheek of the slumbering innocent. Where then was he who had sworn to protect her, and by a vow, registered in Heaven, had promised unalterable affection for her. He was an instance. 1 could wish without a parallel; for dissipation had bound him in her chains, and From the Boston Galaxy . B A R B E R S . Sir be patient, T il shave you directly. —Job. T h e r e are no animals to be found , crawling upon this barren sphere, that I s a i l ° r, h o w e v e r , (h a v in g b e e n unshipped tw ic e , are SO c o mpletely destitute of soul, con- j very little ceremony in the length of half a i i .t r i ! mile, by the animal falling on his knees) hit upon science and gizzard, as the barbar-ous | a £ himsica} mode 0f curing the impediment scraper oi d i m s , the surly-lookmg man, which was by tying a stone to his tail; and in w i t h a friz z l e d h e a d , and a e o m b i n g - s t i c k j that state rode several miles, “ Hwas better to be in ity the soap-swashing, pom a tum -swnb- ! too m u c h by the stern , than constantly plunging bing, beard-pulling, tooth-drawing, tear - \ bozos tinder.” ^ , distilling wretch that vegetates in a snuS Monsieur Poupeton. a d-minutiyejealous, was- j, j. | | , £ . I cible, redishnosed, merchande tailleur, in one ot lutleshoj , a t i a c h e d to a tremendous pole, j o(}r nor^ern cities, one melting July forenoon, that projects ilseli into the eyes and teeth j was sejZed with an unaccountable propensity to of trai oilers, lik e the horn on th e forehead commit flagellation upon some one — he was not o f the Unicorn— I mean the C h i r u r g e o n , - particular; and as to the cause, why, forsooth, or rat*.or the B l o o d l e t t i n g B a r b e r . B v was resolved it sh o u ld co m e after th e effect. the Lord Harry, but I hull rather venture He accordingly commenc'd operations upon an within the reoch of the L W t g eye, o f a l l ; f c i p . ' S r f the chattering [ L e g h o r n ] F l a t s that ever himself into a most desirah’e state of satisfactory gathered t o g e t h e r at the presentation ofa ; exasperation—sthe boj begged piteously—Vat is Standard, than come in contact with one : dat you say, sar? roared Monsieur — parblieu! o f those tierce little wretches, armed with 1 you cal,-a me vondem raskil?— O, noSir,repli- a soap-box and razor! T h e y seize a man : ed the trembling victim— Vel den sar 1 know by tho collar before he is a ware, thrust Vat t™k-arne von dem villa,™*- , . . . . J „ so. begar, J shall vip you for dat / him into a nckeity arm chair with a iorce that makes all crack again, wrench his neck over the back of it, until his Adam ’s An officer speaking of a condemned regiment, said, the greatest confidence might be placed on apple projects like the nose of a washer- h? as it was almost entirely composed o f tried men .
