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- c .' 4 "~ POETRY. DIVORCEMENT. Ji MAN had once a vu i tts wife, Ltf moft uncomni thing in life,) His days and nights were fpent hi ft rife Unceafing. Her tongue went glibly all day long, Sweet contradiction was her fong, And all her husband did was wrong, Ana iil done. A truce without doors and within, From fpeechrs. loner as tradefmen fpin, Or reft from her eternal din, He found not. He every Toothing art difplayed ; T-ied of what fluff her (kin was made,— Failing in all,—to Heaven he pray'd To take her. Once walking by a river fide, }n mournful terms, " myDcar/'hecried, *' Let feuds no mere our peace divide, I'll end them : " Weary of life, and quite refign'd, To drown I have made up my mind, So tie my hands as fall behind As can be. n Left nature mould aflert her leign, My hands aflift, my will reftrain, And fwiming 1 once more retain, Mv troubles." With eager ftep the dame now hies, Whift joy was fpark'ing in her eye*, Already, in her thoughts, he dies Eefoic .her. But as he view'd the rolling tide ; Nature revolted, and he cried, ** I would not be a fuicide, * And die thus. ** It would be better, far I think, Whilft here 1 [land upon the brink, You pufh me in,—nay never drink, But doit."— Full twenty yards ftie ran direct, To give the blow the more effect, And did what fhe could leaf} expect She mould do. Ileftept aftde, himfelf to fave, So down (he went into the wive, And gave what r.e'er before (lie gave, Muchplrafine. Dearhufband.help! I fink P'fhecried,— ** Tbou left of wives, the man replied. 4t I would—but you my hand ■ have tied, Cod help you. o- u A Method of preferring POTATOES frrfh fzvert and good for six months or longer from the time they are dvg out of the ground, Jo that they fhall not he nfflSed by a change to the warmest Climates. The ufur.1 mode at prefent practifed for endeavoring to prefervc Potatoes is to leave them after digging, expofed to the fun and sir until they are dry.—This expofure gene¬ rally caufes them to have a bitteiifh tafte, and it may be remarked, that Potatoes are never fo fwcet to the palate as when cook-.d immediately aftei digging. I find when Potatoes are laid and left in large heaps or pitted in the ground, that a fermentation takes place which de(troys the fweet flavor of the Potatoes. In order to prevent that fermentation, and to preferve Potatoes from loc.fing their original fine and pleafant flavor, my plant's (and which exper¬ ience proves to me to have the dciired effect) to have shem packed in calks as they are digging from the ground, and to h»ve the cafk* when the Potatoes ate piled in them filed up with fand or earth ; taking care that ibi* is done as fpcedily as pofiible, while the Potatoes are digging and that all vacant {paces iq the calks are filled up by the earth or fand. The calk thus packed, holds as many potatoes as it would, was no earth or fand yfed in the pa< king, and as the vacant fjfflcesof the crfk of potate* fo packed are filled, ihe air is totally excluded and cannot «ct upon the potatoes* and confequently no fermentation can take place. » * y t • r FROM THE GLEANER. Nothing new gentle reader—unlefs being in a newfpaper renders it lo. 'Tis the Devil's Pickle Tub I would be at. But to defciibe it who can ? ■ The broth is prepared in the Devil's Tea Kettle, and may be ufed cold or hot. The tub* are to be found in plenty—that is to fay, within a few miles of each other in the coun¬ try, and in the town ever fo thick—alfo to accemmodateenquiring votaries, a board is generally ftutk out toward? the fleet on a hole informing, that the Tub and Pickle Walter aie all in rcadinefs. A man may get pickled with different kinds of broth and for various prices, accotd- i»g to his credit or purfe—or as the old proverb is, he can rnt hi? coat according to his cloth. No other parr of creation will y aid to the operation. Aifial ofthe Brti- t'fh tube would foonerdie by the butcher's knife, then content to be pickled alive. But man with *'l his hoafled powers, will e'en plunge himfelf fonfe till over, head and ears body and foul irto the Tub and com- n.it bib all to the keeping of him who goes •.' Sym loins' ^itf always ft ew how far pickled a fellow is. A man after having been dipped and wellowing until he likes th^ tartes and etfects ofthe broth looks pale an \ filly. Farther ili uck through, theeounteu. ance becomes florid and <.yes red—deport, meent affectedly a i ■ re and confequential—=. is ungovernable, loquacious, ready, anc) willing, and feels able to teach even Wifdorr, hcrfelf. Well pickled, the note become* red and freaks out in pinplcs—the cheeks bloat and obtain a purple hue—the legs fwell—the mt>id coagulates—the thought* and ideas flick together like angleworms in mud—the tongue moves and fends forth as 9 4 - ^ if it was muffled tt had a mitten on—his example and irfluence in community, more efpeeially among the-youth, is like the c<m- fl lent frr.all pox i:» a neighborhood, which has ii'-ithef been vaccinated nor inoculated— the exhortation from his lungs rcfembles that of old horfe beef too ftale for dogs and vul¬ tures—his language is no lefs offenfive than his breath. We have on hand,pickled and ra pickling, Farmers and Mechanics, ^c. 5:c. fo well ftituk through as to be completely out of all danger of ever returning Lo habits of temperance* fobiiety and decency —It is wl.ifcered 'h ttven fome of oik p-raceofficers get on the ilaginfi which fin rounds tut tub . and t: Ice a ily dip or two., ami come drizzling out liki merinoes from the waflung, or bees from a ur ban el. " From tin' Commercial Advert fr. Messrs, Lewis <jf lhiUy As the public attention is, at prefent, in fome degree attracted to the fubj -ci of Sun¬ day fchocls—a fubject ot the highefl im¬ portance to the illiterate poor, and to (•eic- tv.— I doubt not but vour reader* Will be gratified to fee the following extract from a f, eech by the Rev. Mr. Robe;to of Bath, before a m^-n'ng ofthe leathers and friends of Sunday Schools, held :u London, tn May, JR13. If thi!» fhoitld provn acceptable, I will fend you another paragraph of two of the tame nature. Your humble fervant, A c< In Bath we have formed a Sunday fchool union, and the good effects which we anticipated from it have 1 een more than ieali- fccd. Si, there are numerous benefits re¬ fill ting from thi 1 union. If there were no other end accomplilhed, it would be fuffi- cient tint 'Ac have found the way to each 01 her** hmrlm <*"'* 'ha« sW fc**^* iv> »t J-'^c the dtfeiption ■ f the primitive chiiliians we are of** one heart and one foul." st% the Chancellor of tin Exchequer once faid, ** If we cannot recoucile all opinion?, let us try to unite all hearts"—while we hold our feveral opinions, we unite in endeavoring to get good and to do good. " In Brillol, in the laft year, at a meeting ofthe Auxiliary Bible Society, it waa fug- gefled, that until the Scriptures were circu¬ lated with diligence, it was a melancholy re- flection that there were ma; y who could not read them. The hint was taken up, and there are now 500 adults t?ught in the fchools. We have fince commenced adult fchools at Bath ; and we are defirous of making progrefs with them, for we fee that there U no time to be loft. The old people are going fait off thr- Itage of life, and I hope there will bt bo occaion for adult fchools by and by. We have feeti no unwillingncfs in aged perfons to be taught. I was exceed¬ ingly miftaken in the notion I had previous¬ ly entertained in lefpedt to the difficulty of o'd people learning to read. I have fcen feveral in (lances of aged perfons, who, in the courfe of only three or four leifons, have ac¬ quired a knowledge of the letters ; and oth¬ ers were going on to read vtry difl'nCtly in two or three months, being taught only on a Lord's day afternoon. They were defirous of reading, that they might fearch the lively oracles for themfelves, and applied with all their heart ahd mind. The fchools in Bris¬ tol have been infiituted ten months, and ma¬ ny of them arc now afiilled with teachers from thofc adults themfelves, who, ten months ago, knew not one letter. " I will conclude with obferving that my whole heart & foul are engaged in this work. , It was with the greatcft pleafure 1 receiv¬ ed what you communicated to us lafl year from this place ; and when in Bath we faw what was done in Nottingham and Hamp¬ shire, we did not merely fit down to veafon upon the matter ; we faid, let us have a mee¬ ting immediately, and fee what can be done, and we forgot all our parties.—In the mor¬ ning we will fow our feed, and w the even- . ing we will not withhold our hand ; we will not ceafe, for we do not know which will take root ; we hope through the blefling of God, our morning and evening labors will all profper, and that there will be a fplcndid harv ft ; and in the laft day, when He ap- peareth who reprefente<rhfmfelf, as in a pe¬ culiar manner a lover of little children, I hope through mercy, we fhall appear with Htm, and fhall hear him fav, u in as mtitfh ■ as ye have done it to one of thefe little ones ye hav« done it to me." a matcn was made, and which is likely to excite confiderable intcreft in Maidftonc. This intended female pcdclbian, who is to commence in a few days, is Mary Frith, mo¬ ther of fix children, and 36 years ot age, living in M:;idilone ; (lie is backed for 30 guineas by three gentlemen there, and ^ is to perform for 20 fucceffnc days 30 miles a day in the Roebuck Field. Her friends, who are many, arc moft fanguinein her com¬ pleting it, and are offering any odds. It ap¬ pears that fhe has fur many years, far the fupport of her family, frequently gone tra¬ versing the country with different articles for fale and returning home at night 20 and 25 miles a day.—London paper. London, Sept. 11, 1815. Fffi'3s of Brttifh conquest in France. We are happy to learn, notwithstanding the distraction of the public mind in Pan's by recent events that mcafuies of internal improvement are still purfucd. We have received the mo^t gratifying information concerning the introduction of the Bniilh System of Education into France. Mon- f.eur Ma-tio. who acquired a knowledge of that fy-tem at the Royal Free School in the Borough-Road, has formed a preparatory fcho. 1 in Paris for the training of monitor*, in which, during led than two months, he has fully established on the Continent the reputation of this excellent .T.odc of teach¬ ing This fchool is vtfited daily by perfons of the first connition, and alfo by many ofthe Britifli Officers, wh° take dc'ight i.< patron- ifinsr this example of the fchools, which do fo much honour to their own country.—The King, imprciTed with a fenfe of the benefits which Fiance must derive from an umverfal education, has re appointed the Committee, which wjfa nominated by the farmer Gov ern-nent, and has confirmed lo Mi. Martin a building, to b- appropriated as a model fchool for45a boys. We undo stand, th t in Pari* Ritafurcs "ire now taking for onpm- iting no lels rh*nj£w fchools, one of whii h i« at the expenfe of the Duchef- J.e Duns, a lady in high esteem with the Royal FarhiTy: ' Letters have been iccWwd from the depJut- ments, announcing Chi ir intentions to est ib- lifh febnokon th-r Britilh fy tem, and at Bor¬ deaux thry only wait theieturn of tranquili. ty to cstab ifh a model School, From which rr.a ten maybe f. pplied t<; othei towns in the fouth of France* Thi., indeed, is worthy of the Bru ifh char..cter, and must prove tlmt the teal object of England in raking her 'troops into France was not plunder or thv def.re of reT^naCi but the restoration of fuch a state «»f order a« would conduce to the gen¬ eral peace of Europe. The establishment of i? (ingle puolic fchool, nay, the refcuing one individua' fiom flivfry of ignrirance. will iaTe a moie lasting monument to Briti(h valor than all the works of art which could be ta- ke:i from the Louvre or the Thuillerics. Pruflia may retire from Fiance, loaded with the plunder of her capital, fne m;;y place the Apollo Belvidere at Potzdam, and the Venus de Mtdelis at Berlin ; but when "time fhall have mouldered thefe monuments of her con- qucft into du«t, when her name fhall be for¬ gotten, or only remembered with difgrace, the name and glory of-Britain fhall remain un tarnihVd, and will be transmitted to pos¬ terity with the grateful praifes of thofe to whom (he is now opening the gates of Sci¬ ence, Sept. 26.—On Tuefday morning, the remains of Robert Burks, the celebrated Scots bard, were removed to the vault of the maufoleum now erecting to his memory in St. Michael's churchyard of Dumfries. Gratifying Tribute to Bntijk TiiftU pJine, Honour, and Generofity* The following is an extract of a letter written by an y/id-de-Camp of General Marmont, on hi« return to France with the Fngliih army, after the battle of Water¬ loo !—'mm ** Honour, eternal honour to the Biitifh f What an Army ! What a General to com¬ mand it ! We Wave marched u\ the rear of this army, and upon my honour, from the * very froiriers to the fortrefs of Senlis (where we found the difaftrous traces of another ar¬ my), I have not fcen, either one foldier dru¬ nk or cne houfc deftroyed, or an inclofnre levelled, nor one peafant who complained (though 1 interrogated them every where), nor, notwitliftanding the rapidity ofthe mar¬ ch, one horfe dead on the road. But the : grateft order, as wall as dicipllne, reigned among the foldicrs. They treated the vanquished with generofity : they even defen¬ ded them again ft thofc who tarnifhed their victories, and the juftice of their canfe, by excefles and cruelties which I fhall abstain from detailing:. . an A'ence of Hi, Repl Hl^ft.MBM hard, upcm h« ai^,ntmcm, and we unclerftaia took leave ofthe Pi nice. ^ The Court Martial on Sir George Prevor* is to be held at Winchefter, as foon a, M*f General Robinfon arrives from Canada.JL General Sir Juhn Caddock, to he p/efi. LONDON, Dcc$. On Tuefday night the river Hiames was entirely troxvn over at Kcmenham, near Ilenby. Yefterday, Mr. Bagr.t was intruduced to dent. BeWs Meffctger. Newport, Ifle of Wight, Nov. 24. A moil lingular and unfortunate circum. fiance occurred at Clatter ford, near thi« t.nvn* As Major General Robert Youn* was at fupper with his family, a fmall hone from a pig's foot which he was fating, lodg. ed in his windpipe, and baffled medical Ikiil to remove it. He lingered (ix Week* in this diftrefled fituation and terminated his exift- ence on Fiid.iy fe'night, in the 4.6th year of his age. His difconfolatc widow and.five children have to mourn the irreparable- lof> of an affectionate hufband and fath¬ er. As an officer and a gentleman he was beloved and »?rpected,and univerfaUy regret- ed. He had feived his majefly upwards of 23 years, on the Continent, in Egypt am! America, where he had been in a number of brilliant actions. His body wa« interred on Thurfday loft, at Cau'sbrook, wifh mili¬ tary honors. During the time the corps was in the Church fome perfin rolfcdover a large ftone, weighing nearly 20olbs fr*im the top nfiUe tower, when, ailon (liincr to-rc- late, although there were tboufauds .nf per. fons beneath, not one received the fmallefl injury. - - Fatal Event in Well Street. On Wednefday morning about half pad ic o'clock, a dreadful explofion-took place in the extenfive fut^ai-baking warthoufe of Mr. Conftadtof Well llrret, (Well Clou; Squar--) which was attended with the moft fatal confeqnc.ices. It appears that a new procefs had lately heen dilcovcred for the quick refinement of fuuar by means of llcan } and Mr. Conftadt, under the direction of Mi. Huguc, the engineer, had conlrrc&f! a '".e.v lie on boi'er. \vrkcTbv what fscall' ed a ineffine enrfine, of about fix horfe Cow- er, the boiler holding about 2000, %&wj®' To thi was attached al1 the nc-fTary s?pa rains of Hubert vaKes. Sec. a id the'en«;;mff had deteimined upon trying the effect Of th. whole, on Wednefday morning. The fne was accordingly laid, Jiid-the enpinif pM m plav. At ten oV. >ck Mr. Condi It e* preflfed feais that the boiler vyouhl tjj5"ver heated, and the valves become over loarl^d wrth fleam ; when h co.ifequence, he\nA Mr Hague went to infpect it more cloffly —Scarcely, had rh'y reached the workV when a general explofn.ri took ph.ee, carry* in^ in the awful crnfh, utter de5r«ai0n to ru the concern, end clofmg:n the heap 0f ins, the bodys of more than 'twenfvW, veyed to the London fiofpital. .Sjjc 0f them are not expected to'furvive ; amfat , late hour in the evening, five dead bodies were alfo t.-ken from the concern; amonr thefe w^s the fon of Mr. Spear, one of fhe partners of the houfe. The remainder „f the ftifferers were wockrren employed inthe concern, many of whom have left large fam. ilies. The building was fevehty fat in height and fifty feet in depth, and the Wk * f 11 flamed by Mr. Conftadt, independent of fo many valuable lives,is eftfmated at /^oco Another fugar houfe, belonging to Mr. Conftadt, has fuffered. Lond, Pab 1 For S A .— t... good Heigh and Harnefs, quite new also a fpan of excellent Horfes.__ The terms of payment will be a credit'o? 90 days if requeued. They can he feeii by nnolvin-- at this office. - 'J^m\\W Kingfton, Feb. 27, i8r6 1 I HIS is to Cert fie S Smith and is Wife is pared and not to trull Heir now more }SL1 Public Not 1 , "hat James Rcid, of this town, neverdii fign smv kind of agreement orcoritrad with John Karfton, and will not be refpoufi- ble for any debts he may contract. . %. Tames Reid. Kingfton. 17th Feh,i8i6. • *5S"'__ ALL.uerioiM having claims againft ih.e EfMe' f John M' Graw, lateof Marys- bmgh, dcce.ifed, are req ue fled to bring, them forward duly authenticated, on or before the firft day of Junentxt ; Mid all perfons indebt¬ ed to faid Eftate, are defnedtopay the fame without delay, Msrylburgh, Febuary, 27, DOROTHY McG?AW, Administratrix. <J 1816. 39 ^ 3 F- . -' the Regent by Vifcount CaWlercaffh. upon Blank SlimmOnSeS