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MISCELLANY. m* ^~— the Kingston Gazette. RECKONSR No. 4.6. f t. gua tlU nunc mcrSerum premwjotvum Quas repramgtates. si° IV TO THE RECKONER* To roufe and ftrengthen the fined feelings of the heart, is the rrcat duty of a1 moral writer. He ihould inipire his readers witk a pafiion for virtue, for till he warms their hearty he does noth- i\s I have been fometimes insr. pleafod with your lucubrations, I wifh that you had more warmth and fenfibiiity, that while we ad¬ mit the general delicacy and cor- rectnefs of your moral fentiments, we may feci them ieizing upon our fouls.—This effect might be affift- cd by prefenting us fometimes with a copy of vcrfes on moral topics of an interefting nature they will make a greater impref- ing and freaking of ttheli benefac¬ tors, and they ieize every oppor¬ tunity of- making a return with a- vidity and delight. We are- filled with a holy rapture when we can prove our gratitude Boy our actions, for all other manifestations, how¬ ever fmcere, might be imitated by the hypocrite. Not tthat we think, by fuch actions, to xrepay a debt ; for an act of benevohence can nev¬ er be repaid, and the.1 moment that the notion of an equivalent enters our breads, our gratihude is gone. He that is truly grate:ful will never think that by obliging his benefac¬ tor he may at legth forget the ben¬ efit received^ but aftter conferring a thoufand favors upton thofe who -have done him good„ his gratitude will be as warm as £ver—I never think of my early protector with¬ out the livelieft emotiion—I was fa- therlefs and he took me in—Ig¬ norant and he inftnucted me From columns InV golden rays ; But Gratitude, fwcet fmiling gucll, The chilling wind repells and xvarms my throbbing brealL II. Hail (SmtftiKk ! foft bfufh.nrr Maid ! By Gods and men alike belov'd, Difpatch'd to gtntle virtue's aid, To make her duties more approv'd. With gladnefs tripping on before, Ycu guide her to the wretched's door ; Again behind you hold her train, Smile off her cautious fears and fhake your golden chain. III. Anon you lead the Heavenly choir, The hunted hoil in rapture gaze ; You ftrike with love th> eternal Jyre And found the pnrefl notes of praife s While Angels fa, on high proclaim, I hat men may join the rapt'rous theme, i o Gratitude alone is given The thankful foul of man to raife from eanh to Heaven. IV. The ofPrings of my grateful heart O waft, benignant Nymph Divine, -, lome pleafure fne'll impart truth's refrefhinjr fluine ^ccn commonly diiu tolvtd by boys ofthIt?m**Y, ™re occurrence lY^i agc, is * C -^urrence, and reflect' iS a honor upon the mg^M pupi If the .and ih. ** been the" onlyTvW? ?* ****** ^ mlgK^et ?* ted, or entertained a dS rf,ta' Propriety of advancing ?ft^ facts fo u&al, as it might fubie&fc- **' the^lmp,tatio^0,paSl^to Partiality to cte Pities, orof.incompetency t0?o a judgment on the ~ Y f° in r . . ■ --rm »-re of fcc „;S* Jj ere -a env^*- ~—i .. v» u^a To B At facred Were I ever to fpealk of him in a ilon upon the youthful mind, and carelefs or indifferent manner, ray he longer remembered. Not that confidence would finite me. Were I prefer poetry to profe in recom¬ mending the virtues ; on the con- former'fliould be fpar- ^ -......g fluine. I'or thefe he ftudies nature's page, Or faunters with Sicilia's fage, Admires the depth of Bacon's mind, And Newton lifting Nature's veil that kept where a great number of -„,,, men of rank and talents hrl,f • to this city were pr£*t,fej be no good reafon for US ?g any part of the praife duC to the paries on fo lau^lble ^ us blind. trary, th introduced, becaufe it be- ngly longs rather to the imagination 'hari the reafon, but you hardly ever vouchfafe us a (ingle verfe.-*- You will fay that this introduction is to gain a favorable reception to the annexed Ode to Gratitude, & I to neglect to make frequent en¬ quiries concerning hiim, or to write him often, I fhould hie daily ftung with the moil bitter reproaches—» Our hearts are boiund together with the ties of gratatude and be¬ nevolence—I have reached the years of manhood amd my bene¬ factor has become mjy friend. Perhaps fome of your reader's Perhaps his V, mind illum'd pourtray9 From fyftcms free the human race, 1 he native worth that man difplavs tim various fources of diihefs. By freedom blefs'd a Demi-God Ahead when tnl'd by Nero's rod, p»elcnt,to obferve generally, tk» inthecourfeofclahleannflr^; the neceffary accompaniments of Chronology & Geography do not feera to haye been neglecled ; and that iomediflwuJt authors, fuch as lacitus, were not on that account palled over> & J" that Mathcmat- Kal courle, eveTy branch of pure And ail his frame with ardor glow's. Mathematics is comprehended, to* t Z,h. h<:al'ng baIm and h™i{h •• g.Cther **k their praclicnl applic:-, VI. I ihall not fcek to refute this fup- may be found in a finuilar fituation pofition, for my fiiends think the -—they remember, \\v~ith joy, the benefits which they ll*ave received, a filent emo- Poetn has fome merit, and they will not be difpleafed to fee it pre¬ served in your paper.—Nothing can be more natural than to lov for gratitude is not it delights to .exprefs itfelf tion thofe who have done us good'. Authors have remarked the near conn»cxion which fubliits between the 'love of what h beautiful and ilibKme in the works of nature, & -vhat is beautiful and fublime in moral virtue—but what a vaft dif- ierence in the degree. There is a coldnefs, a fleetingnefe in th e lm- preffions made by inanimate ob- ieSs, which foon diveit them of • r "intereft. But the grandeur and excellence of highly difmtercfted moral actions, diffufes a celeftial warmth round our fouls which lafts forever. The truth of this was experienced by me on a late occafion when I WW in the neigh¬ borhood of fcfce falls of .Niagara— On ffoins: to fee this celebrated cat- o o aracl, I beheld, with aftoniftintent, the vaft columns of ice hanging at the extremities of the torreniy and reflecting mod: beautifully the rays of the fun—All the colors of the rain-bow were there Ihining with a vividnefs that dazzled the fight. The noife of the vaft body of wa¬ in words and actions,' u rqoices to convince others of it-s force> and it ifmns privacy and concealment. FerhapinanywUlthA^^e grat- itudc I defcribe a fcntimcntal, fi1"* pcrllilious, fickly kind of virtue' for fome people have no concw tion of benevolence but what is exhibited in giving money, or of gratitude except in returning the loan—Even in this contracted view, the benefit received may be above any equivalent. SeafonaUe pecuniary aid may fave a ftarvifio* family, or retrieve the affairs of a the 0 Truth, emob*& in fnowy wlu'te, Your fav'.ite's modeft doubts dlfpef, 1 hat he may fpread your precious light And thus inipnea nobler fliell To found aloud his glorious name, 4°um A m m%h the fons ^^OWji While Gratitude, celeftial guide, Each heart infpires to haii their boaft and pride. .ccfuntryy3 [Publifhed byrequea of a Correfpondciit.J From the Quebec Mercury. appl tion to- many of the moil ufeful purpofes in life, fuch as Menfura- tion, Land Surveying, he he. My principal object, in bringing this matter under the notice of your readers, is to call their atten¬ tion to that mod important, and, I am forry to add, much neglect¬ ed fubject, the education of the ri- fing generation ; a roproach .1 it falls heavy on this province. The limits I am reftriaed to, will wot admit of an extended view of the i*r II illy admitted, that the interefts^of he rifinc: generation have peculiar '• verffe of ruin- man juft on Will it be faid that to- repay, in fuch cafes, the fum received, u a complete equivalent ? Surely not ! But if we have been protected du¬ ring infancy, inftrucled, introdu- ced refpectably into life and ^t h; Excellency the Gov- in a way■«* providing honorary g^Sgjrf vvho,with his ufu- tar ourfelves, w^e cannot make a- crKU1 lu VjliK- 7 ' -1 believe it'is a fact univer- every man of obfervation who fias had opportunities of contrafting the advantages refulting from a cultivation of the mind, with the depravity and wretchednefs every were prevalent, where education is neglected, is fully fenfiblc of the importance of this object, I (hall therefore, conclude with prneitly exhorting my fellow citizens, to embrace the 'favorable opportuni- claims to our attention and regard; _ will not therefore be deemed ob- truiive, or foreign to the objects of your paper, if Hubmit the follow¬ ing brief {ketch of the examination of the Revd.D. WiLKii-'s^Acade^ mv, on the inA and 24th inftant. The laft day of examination was held in the Court Houfe, (which had been politely tendered to Mr. Wilkie by his Honor the Chief Jul- rice, and the other gentlemen of the Bench) and was honored by the ty prefer ted, at this moment, by the laudable defire of our worthy Governor in Chief, to promote theinterefts of the province, by every means in his power. His Excellency's attendence at Mr. Wilkie's examination, k the hve- ters dafhing over the precipice- *h* terrible abyfs into which they in* re. II, rendered horribly dark by the riling clouds of vavor, were calculated to excite the moft awful ideas of fublimity, & yet the whole was fo much foftened by the rain¬ bows as to mix fomething of beau¬ ty with the grandeur of the fcene. After my grit emotions had fome- what fubfided, I recollected by lome frrange affociation of ideas which I am unable to analize, ';hat I owed my prefent very refpeclable Situation to a dear friend and ben- efactor who is far diftant. My heart warmed towards him, and'I compofed my Ode—We frequent- Y hear, Mr. Reckoner, of ungrate¬ ful perions, but I believe that fuch *re extremely rare. Our hearts, t I may reafon from my own ex- tWicncc, are incapable of being . - • xu i Hey rcjruce m thmk- ny return that can have even tie appearance of an equivalent, es- cC}?t in the wray which my bere- facloi mentioned to me when I was exp^effing my thanks—My dear friend, I lhall be fully repaxl if you prove a P^us and virtuais man, and ready tP beftow as far is your circumftances W1'l pcrmr, that afllftance on others in iimihr htuations, which I have beftowed on you.—From thinking 0\ cart!- ly benefactors with gratitude aiti joy, the tranlition is eafy to oti1 firft and greateft Benefactor, whoP inexpreffible mercies comnmir cate happinefs to every livine crefe ture, and whole infinite goodne? al benevolence and paternal care lyintereft he took jathc progress for the interells of the community, had the condefcenfion to give a pa- of the young gentlemen, aire cer tient and attentive ear to every part of the examtnation. The plan of education compre¬ hends one of the moft extenlive courfes that has ever been conduct¬ ed by an individual, without any attftancc whatever, further than that which is derived from the el¬ der and more advanced pupils, oc¬ casionally inftructing the junior The ccurfc of readm ations, that every e t of the n- tain to promote the inter u fine generation, by introducing a more extended fyftern of ecbaca- tion, will meet with his Excellen¬ cy's patronage and fupport^ i FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. &W*r on the Portugvcfe Fr Lisbon, Oct. ont:cr. 3"* La g CX- muft inipire every man of fenlibir ity with the moft lively defire 6 daily paying him adoration ant praife. ODE. t en els' from the firft rudiments of ^n-lfh Grammar, to the moft dit- fic. fit Greek and Latin authors»and the mathematical claffes, evinced a variety and extent of fcientific vd.-cV^e, that excited the mote rizc in the minds oi Be/patch from Don Forjaz 181 r. Lord Wellington to dated fretmda, Oct. 2C cf Don Julian kn agreeable vurp >nc wi^o had wot previoufly every c wit netted Mr. " The cntcron..- , , Stmche to take the cattle belong bancnez,xv ,..1.:^. was well inir to Cuidid Koarigu-, ,* ta. and the very advanta corrclpondat In ftcd lus con dueled,^ Willies TO DR. B The Indian fhivers at his fuc, The dazzling ftnow our cryc-bnlla flun, The fkai«;rs frorr. tht cold rctirr, The water freezes in the Inn, And yonder Cataract dffpfay* periodical examtoations. That a lad of 15 oneftouldbemafterofAlgcbra, aiui the Elements of Geometry s not lingular ; as every parent has ari-lit to expcS that degree of pSdeneyinhiSfcn,ifthctroy^ s-cous eonfequenccs Srilh the goodaefe of hj* pi» the night of the .4«Uh,K:'!i troop, in the wmW th , fl ,, t,^:.!u..the.eauleuul?a^|i • . *U.^ uu(rniniT. an** I . , ... in the morning. ;ts oi troops behind the J"? Governor Cffcral, .« - *r 4 hi R<