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Report is firft, a pigmy {mall, That fMhrewdly cautia’n‘s; da'regsébut.crawl B ._ Bbe whispers this, hints that, looks thy, Sneaks {ml Amid squints, and learns to lic ; \ Gains as she goes, grows bold and trong, Wor creeps ihlougl’x fear a pigray long. But foon we fee the monfter rife, Stride round and {well to giant fige : With uplift hand ard accent loud, Fright and amule th' aftonifth'd crowd ; Wake all the paffions ; roufe to firife a ~-~-Neighbor with neighbor, man with wife, ~ r Sar and derange the focal fpheres, 1a 20. m * And set whole cities by the ears. She runs or flies With {fpreading wings fet full of eges ; Strange is her form,. Set fult of ears her- monfirous head, * And mouths and tongues that talk ene dead. And watches, liftsns day and night, P'sased nothing lefs with wrong than right ; Hears; conjures, vents her motley tales, Harangues, puffs, libeis, Nanders, rails ;- And, where permitted moft to dwell, Renders the neighborh@od a hell. & won 1 SC 2 (WMA. A good one. -A quaker driving a fingyle horfe chair upin a green that leads out of the city of . happened to meet with a young blood, who was alfo in a fingle- herfe chaife. There was not room enough for them to pats each other unlefs one of them would back his carriage, which they both refused. _\ I'il not' make way for you,\ fays the blood, \d-n my eyes if I witl ®1 think E am older than thou art,\ © faid the quaker, © and therefore have a right to expe& thee to make way for me.\ \I wort d-n me,\ reluimed the firft. He then pull- ed out a newspaper and began to read, as he fat in his chaife ; the qua- ker obferving him, pulled a pipe and fome tobacco from his pocket, and with a convenience he carried about him, firuck a light, illuminated his- pipe, and fat and puffed away very Friend,\ faid he to the young blood, \* when thou haf read that paper through, I fhoulid be glad if thou wouldft lend it.\ My young gentleman, feeing that the ob- ffinacy of the quaker was mot to be overcome, prudently made way for ben ; but not until he had favoared him. with a few oaths .and tions. ' & --t ) stm \_ At the commencement of the late war, when the dread of a pref-gang, - kept thé minds of many in perpetnal atarin, an American tar, whoin Nep. time had not rreated with the utmoit - lenity, tefolved to quit his fation on deck and M¥eqp in. the cabin, till the ftorm had blow n over. Accordingly, with his favorif Jdafs, he retired fome m 1olte8, built a fnug little hut, and night and day alternated to , his bottle and his Poll. A Grew of old mefswm‘ateg hearingef Jack's pre. \cipitate retreat, made diligent fearch for his abode. ' A fhort period marked their fuccefs. - The hat which was el- evated on large 'Rumps, and of Bo great fize, prefentfz’d a? objeé’t to grat. ify their humor. In the 'dead of night thefe brethren of the fea raifed the hut on theit fhoaldeis, and trans. posted it from the fide of a hill, where - it flood, into the centre of a pine . grove, at a mile's- diftance. 'This per. formed, they returned unperceived, was \h.. A queen Mab's nocturnal incantations, he was at a lofs to conjecture how he could have run fo: many kunsts in fo few hours.. At length, rubbing His eyes feveral times, he fays, \ Confound me, Poll, unlets my lights are in a fea fog, we've been dragging our archors all night !\ t estomencen Rigaud, the painter, being one day employed in painting the portrait of alady, perceived that when he came to the lower part of the face, the con- tracted her lips in a moft violent man-. ner ; in order that fhe might appear to have a little mouth ; upon which theigrtift faid to her very gravely - Be Hot uneasy Madam. if you choose; I shall make you no mouth at all. a Extraodinary Memory. __ ._ ® While the celebrated Volftgire refided at Pottsdam, as the fiterary friend and companion of the late king of Pruffia, an 'Eoglithman was intro- duced to his imajefty, as one who pof- . feffed fuch an extraordinary memory, that he could repeat word try word, a very long difcourse, after having heard it once. Frederick put him to an immediate proof of this wonderful retention, and the Englithman juftif- ed thre character that had been given of him. At this inftant Voltaire was to wait upon his majefty, to read him fome verfes he had jut finithed. The king, who was defirous of enjoy- ing fome amufement from this fingn- far ctreumftance, caufed the Englith- man to be concealed in a clofet ad- joining, and defired him to get by- neart-all that the poet might read. Voltaire entered, and read the verfes with great animation. - The king heard themwithan air of coldnefs and indifference, to which the poet had not been accuftomed. ® Indeed, my dear Voltaire,\ exciaimed his majef. ty, \ you have taken it into your head, for fome time paft, to fteal ver. fes from others, and repeat them to mre as your own.\ Voltaire affirmed with great garneftnefs, that they were bis, and that he Rad fini{ked them but that very moraing. ° The king then fent for the Enoglithman, and defired hing to repeat the verfes he had thewn bins that morning. - The Eaglithowan, without hefitation, and. without the o- miffion of a fingle {yHable, repeated the whole of what Voltaire had read. The poor poet was aftonifhed and en- raged, and déclared he mult .be the Devil himielf, The king did mor fail to enjoy his auger and agitation for fome time ; but at laft he confeffed the whole trick, and the fcene was concluded by his making a handfoms prefent to the Englifhman for the pleafure he had afforded them.\ tol 20000 2 __ - -Pt > - oe From sir Robert Ker Pogter's Narra tive of the Campaign kn Russia, just printed by Edtwor \Jf. Goale, Balti- more,. | A party of French marauders en- tered the cottage of a poor peafant, in. fearch of plugder and provifions ; when they had feized every thing dead or alive, even to every cat, one of the brigands took the left hand of the honeft Ruffian, and with a fain ing liquid marked on it the letter N. The Boor feeing the figure, demand- ed what it meant.: upon which one of the foldiers, a Pole, faid,\ It is the = fant] and at -one blow. left the dlfifiQLRPDIN A Nfisf - graced hand, covered .with blood, be- fore the eyes of the aftenithed<foldie- ry. .\ There,\ cried he, ® take what belongs to the French emperor, if it is his ! But fill my heart and my body . belongs to my own fovereign, and will ever ferve him with fidelity.\ ~~ The Notthern Campaign has open- ed rather inaufpicioufly. Gen. Wil. kinfon made aa attack upon the mu/Z of La€ole, was repulsed, and yet pub- lithes a very magoificent account of his exploits, The fabfence of it is, that he went to mill received a grist, and if be had proceeded much farther would undoubtedly have gore over the dam. Whether the anull 'was a wind rill or a water-mill, the hiftorians of this quixotic expedition are filent- but the General feeins to have appre. hended, that if he had perfevered, he thould have a mi/stone about bis neck. Gazette. Great Fag in and about London. Lsadon papers, printed in the laft of December and the firft of Jantrary was feveral accounts of a great Fog, which had enveloped the city of Lon- don, and vicinity, for feveral days. The following is the moft particular account of it ; - ° ___ Loncon, Janurry 2, (Sunday.) Fhe Fog fill continues. It was more denfe an oppreffive laff night than at any time fince its commence ment, on Monday laft. Very few perfons ventured out, except on pref- ing bulinefs ; and no found was heard out of doors but voices of the watch- man or the noise ef fome folitary car- riage, cautioully feeling its way through the gloom. It extends as far as the Dow us, a diftance of 70 miles but How far in other diréction has not been yet afcertained. - The wind has in the intervale blown uriformly from the N. E.. We undeifitad that thers has beem nothing like the pref. ent fince. the great earthquake at LiL. bon about half a century ago. fog thenlafted eight days. \Fo a per. for who came up to London, from a clear open country, during the two er three laft days, it would feem if he had been defcending a coal pit, to fee perfons walk with a little terch or candle, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon trying to find out in their own ftreet . their own habitations, and fome of them fo bewildered as to knock at tlieir neighbor's doors to afk where their own houles were. Some of the public ftages and coaches were oblig. ed to be left in the roads, & thehorfes taken out-many* were overturned, and feveral people injured. A poft chaile with four paffengers, on its way from town to Uckfield; was overturn. ed.into the water, by the road fide at Wath, and-brioken to pices- the paflengers and horfes were dread. fully cut and bruifed. Several rob. berie§ were cominitted im town, and the villians got of by the aid of the fogs although perfons -were hear at the time.: Several perfons having miffed their way, fell into the rivers and ca. nals and were drowned. The Mail Coaches, which reached town, were many hours belated, and the paften. . gers were obliged to get out, &lid. the drivers had -to lead the horfes. The cry of -Mind ! Take care ! Where are you? refounded in all directions in every fireet. ' Tae - from and out wae n marine abd 20 soar apes 6 Nim Bra 25. £ PASSED BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE _ VILLAGE OF Okg@RD, _ On the ninth day of May, IallZffiat a Meeting of the Board of Trustees, at the dwelling house of Erfzstus Perkinss jnnkeepef in said village. , Sre. [BE it enacted by the Trustees of the Vill 1ge of Oxford, That all horfe waggon or fleigh racing, in any of the ftreets, or public {quares of this village, is hereby prohibited. under -the penalty of two dollars for each and every offerce, to be foricited by the owner or horfe, waggon or fleigh. Sec. II. And be it further engeted, That the firing of guns in avy of the fireets or public fquares of this village, bey and the {ime is hereby profibited, under the pena ity of twenty-five cents, to be forfeited by any individual offending herein, for each and every offence. Sec. HI. And be it further enacted, That no irorfe or horfes, mules, neat cattle, fwines theep, or geefe, thall run at large in any of the fireets or fquares of this village ; gad that for every offence againft this ac, the owner or peff-flor. (hall forfcit the folloWiZg penalty, to wit : for every time that a heérfe . or mule may be found running at large in any of the fireets of fquares of this village, the owner or poffeffor thereof fliallZforfeit’ the penalty of twenty-five cents for gach and every horfe or mule ; and for eyery time that any neat cattle may be found running at large as aforefaid, the owner #s poffeffor thereof fhall forfeit the penalty of twenty» five cents a head ; and for evéfy time that any {wine, fheep or geefe may be found run- ning at large as aferefaid, the owner or pof- feflor thereof fhall forfeit the ' penalty of twelve cents for each and every fwines heep er gonfe, > S+c. IV. And be it further enacted, That every owner or owners of weod, logs, boards, flabs, fone or lurfiber of any kind lying in any ef the public {quares of the village, or in Merchants® Row, or in that part of M:in-freet between the , houfe of Uri Tracy and the bridge acrofs The Che- rargo-river, ot in that part of Greene- Rreet between the commencement thereof: and ithe fmall bridge jufl. below the houfe of John Holmes, or in that. part of Water- ftreet between the houfle now occupied by Efeck L. Hartfhorne and the dwelling houle of Peter Burget, or in that part of Cayuga- freet between the commencement thereof and the fchool houfe, fhall remove the fame of the public fquares, and from and out of Merchasits' Row, und the feveral fections of freets above named, by the third Tuefday in May, infant, under - the penalty of twelve and a halfy cents for every days neglect thereafter : \And that if any perfon fhall after the faid Tuefday im May, place or caufe to be placed any woed, logs, boards, flabs, fones, or limber of any. _. Kind in any of the public fquares ef the vil poffeffor of each - A C he 4 E lage, or in Merchants Row; or in any part of the feveral {e&tioris of fireets abovemen« tioned, he fhall forfeit the penalty of twelve and a half cents for every day. the wood, logs, boards, flabs, fone, or lurhber of any kind fhall He or the iquaresy or in Mer- chants' Row, or in any of the fections of fireets abovementioned. - Provided less, That in al cafes where it may be ary for any perfon in the ere€ion of any building or fence to occupy any part of the fquares or fircets above {pecified, as a tem. porary depefitory, fot the materials of fuch Building of ferice, he may ufe the fame with the Hicence-in-writin the prefident, ar any one of the truftees, and mot otherwifes And further provided, That this law fhall re3 main in force until the firft day of Novem- ber next in this year, and from the firft day of May until the firft day of November in each year hereafier.. e Sec. ¥, That all the hye-Jlaws enacted by the truftees of the village of Oxford on tao\ fixth day of Septemifer, one thoufand tight hundred and ten, except 'the 'fccond and - fourth Tecions thereof, be, and are hereby repealed. - - Sec. VI; That the foregqin‘ lawglihall's \KO into operation on the eighteenth day of May, one thoufand eight hundred and four< teen. £3) order of the Board of Trzuzstecs; ‘ LII-31 TRACY, Presidents _. he o ent
