POEUY.________I ?U~i^h7lU CowpcTribTp'f of Moral Poets, has thus Uautfully delineated the va^ rltdfubjeBs and " regular conjufion' of that « folio" vjfour pages," A NEWSPAPER efting—as to the reft they are mem- tioned in the official accountts which have been already publifln- ed. Before the battle began, I was fent as ufuai to the cockpit, to affift the furs-eon—in a few mini* Utes the firing became terrible*, & fly to its comforts in the hour of js prepared for the iffuc wh forrow. The moft profligate and " ' abandoned wretches, when over¬ taken by calamity, have recourfe gion that £he is indeed religion, the thebeft^ the wifeft, and th it may be, whether death l?£l« TJ' ui n° m.a11 !»umph tc. reH fa ft, Sweats in And bore ms iiqcs, fcoids the ranting aaor on the ttage ; his, who paiient (lauds till his feet throb, Now ftir the tire and clotc the fhutters Let fall the curtains, wheel die fofa round. And while the bubbling and l«md biffing urn Throws up a deadly column, and the eups That cheer (but not inebriate) wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful Evening in— Not fuch his evening, who with finning face , the crowded theatre, and fqueezed d with elbow-points, through both his fide?, Out " And "his head thumps, to feed upon the bieath Of patriots, burning with heroic rage, Or placemen, all tranquillity and lmiles. This folio of four pages, happy work ! Which not e'en critics criticife ; that holds Inquiiitive attention, while I read, Fait bound in chains of iilence, which the fair, Tho* eloquent themfelves, yet fear to break 5 What is it but a map of bufy life, Its fluctuations and its vaft concerns ? Here runs the mountaneous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition. On the fummit fee The feals of office glitter In bis eye ; He climbs, he pants, he grafps them ! At his heels, Clofe at his heels, a demagogue afcends ; And with a dexterous jerk foon twills him down, And wins them but to lofe them in his turn. Here rills of oily eloquence in foft Meanders lubricate the courfe they take ; The modelt fpeaker is afhamed and grievM T' engrofs a moment's notice, and yet beg3^ 33egs a propitious ear for his poor thoughts^ However trivial, all that he conceives* Sweet bamfulnefsI it claims at lead this praife ; The deai th cf information ard good fenfe That it foretells us, ahvays comes to pafs* Catara&3 of declamation thunder here : There forefts of no meaning fprcad the page, In which all comprehenfion wanders loft ; While field* of pleafantry amufe us there With merry defcants on a nation's w *■;. The reft appears a wildernefs of (1 range But gay confufion ; rofes for the cheeks, And lill.es for ihe brows of faded age ; Teeth for the too»hlefs, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth and ocean, plundered uf their fweets, Nectarcous eflences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feafts, and fav'rite ajn. Aerial jomnics, iiibmanne exploits, And Catterklto with his hair on end, At his own wonders, wond'ring for hisbreadi every fecond brought us a patienft. As I was fitting, holding up a fa£* lor, fainting from the lofs of bloo,d and the pain of his arm, which had been dreadfully mangled, one of the furgeon's mates defired me to bring him a box of falve from a Imall cupboard at fome diftance-— I placed a pillow behind the pa¬ tient and haftened for the falvt. But no fooner had I left the fpc)t than a ball divided the poor cre^. ture in two, and entered the floQr in the very place in which I wa3 fitting the moment before •aii. to prayer chriftian religion is natural to man; it introduces his foul into the holy fanctuary—it places him before the throne of God. He may in the hour of health and profper- ity—but as it is in vain for us to expect to pafs through life with¬ out experiencing bitter diftrefs, fo few, if any, men will be found, who have not been religious &n- cerely and devoutly at fome peri¬ od.—In the greateft extremity what can fupport and ftrengthen us but prayer ? It was the refuge of our Saviour himfelf in his ago¬ ny, and it will ever be the refuse of his followers in abk ^number a r - —d the bi eft of every age among her fcfc*. -Admiral brav. ers. The conduct of Duncan and Lord Nelfon*wS^ ™?^ chriftianity, than m & blafphemous writings of this licen tious age have been able to do? gainft her. They felt the efficacy k c ~ r , they cxP^ienced the benefit of devout prayer, and this not merely m times of adverfitv was :rkf)vp o'lor| ** of religion—th but what the moment of victory, when or dinary men would have been nuf* fed up with their achievements & boafted like the wicked Nebuchad- ezzar. Is not thh /?*/»,/„,, _../• , * the A GENTLEMAN In London, having received three letters iy the fame poll* acquainting him with ihe death of his Wife, his Millrefs, and his favor its Horfe, made thtfe refleSiotis i I have loft my Mifrefs, Horfe and Wife ! But when 1 think on human life, I am glad it was no worfe ; My IFtfe was ugly, and afcold, My Chloe was grown lean and old' I am forry for my Horfe ! THE FAIR DEFENDED, Unftain'd by vice, the lovely Eve, Nor clothes nor veil t u re wore ; *TVas fin firft whifper'd her to weave Th'accufing robes me bore. Hence do our fair, who virtue love, This badge of fin deteft ; Their purity they boldly prove, By going—quite un<" MISCELLANY. For the Kingston Gazette, RECKONER No. 47. TO THE RECKONER. A few months after 1 th e Ad- the ^ SIR famous naval victory which miral Duncan obtained ovei Dutch near Camperdown, I was m company with his chaplain, an aged gentleman of much refpecta- bihty, who was alfo his private Secretary and bofom friend. The clergyman was intreated by the company to give a detailed account of the engagement. " What par- titulars came under my own ob¬ servation, I am very willing," fays the Doctor, « /o relate ; they are w in n«naW, tho* not uninter- fcenes of their diftrefs. befloWs.'5 i e of- other fecond and I had been daih, ed in pieces ; I had fear eel y time to blefs God for this mercy, when a ball broke the dark lantern, which a woman was holding for me, in the further corner of the ca.. bin, wherfe I was looking for ban> dages. Several other efcapes e. qually extraordinary happened t0 my companions in the cockpit, & place commonly thought free from danger. The balls appeared tt> come from all directions ; at fifft we Hood aghaft, not knowiiifr where to turn* but the claims of humanity ftifled perfonal fear, lc we proceeded to drefs the wound, ed with as much difpatch as if we had been in a hofpital on ihore. It is curious to remark how foon we become accuftomed to the moft perilous fituations; had we con¬ tinued unimployed our terror** would have become infunportable, but when once we got warmly en¬ gaged in relieving the afflicted, wr thought nothing more of oiirfelves ' You may imbibe, gentlemen, a! very unfavorable notion of our^ courage from my ftory ; but moft o£m H'.^uliL km*: teki am fbr quarter deck, or aflifted at a gur with the greateft cheerfuinefs. I1 was thedarknefs of the place,^uri: *. ; ^ ^-^ in(ilvjdually I com^ expected danger, the uncertamtJ ^ my /jfe fQ ym ihat made me . and deeped Indeed I pity thofe who have never tailed the fweet comfort, the tranquilli¬ ty cf mind, the refignation, the el¬ evation of foul, which devotion Here the Doctor flop¬ ped, and I could obferve a great impreffion made by his remarks on fome of the company, who were not accuftomed to think of fcrious things. This converfation was recalled to my remembrance this morning when reading the lie of Lord Nelfon. That ilfufti U ous hero ordered prayers to b fered up to God in every Ihip of the fleet for thefignal victory which WeffedtheBriufharmsatthc mouth of the Nile. He was al ways attentive to religion, & had often recourfe to it for confolation in die hour Of difficulty and peril. deck & retired to his cabin, when I^^^UTOatud^^ r-j-tv pj rat¬ ing prayer : May the Gcd whom I *worJhip grant to my country and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory ; and may m mifcmduB in any one tarnijh it ; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the Britijh 1 nezzar, h not this Babylon which! have built ? ANOTHER NEW ISLAND. Of the Iateft difcoveries of Ruf. Iian travellers, that of an Ifland in the Icy Ocean, by Syrawatfko--, a merchant, deferves particular no¬ nce. Hedemftrom, the Ruffian mturahft, who has recently ex¬ amined the Ifland, which has re¬ ceived the appellation of New Si¬ beria, found three bird's daws, a yard in length ; and the roving Jakute related that they had fome- times found feathers the barrel of which was capable of admitting a man's clenched fift.—Thus thefe polar regions, which have yielded thefe gigantic bones of thcclafs of mammalia, known by the name of mammoth, have likewife prefer* ed hmilai- relics in the department of ornithology, w]lofe authentka* wd exigence maV, perhaps at twt future period, afford a key to the biru cii tne niuuiivaiii 'A o.n. i—.Nft.-.'ivr-iv15W',ti* of the quarter fiom which deatl might come, and the thoughts d\ dying inglorioufly that filled w with concern. I have been in mi ny engagements, but I nevdr foun^ the furgeon's quarters dangerw before. Soon after Admiral D Winter came on board I was funl moned to the quarter deck, whicT I found covered with the dead Lord Duncan inquired in the kind eft manner for the wounded, anC defired me to let him know whe; they were all dreffed, as he imen ded that prayers mould be offerej up to God for the happy viclorj which had crowned his Majefty i arms"—" What, Doclor," faid f wit, " do failors pray ? they feeir to have no fenfe of religion."-^ " Sailors are not worfe than oth er men/' replied the chaplain " though they may fometimes ap pear rough in their deportmen1 by land after having been mam months cooped up at fea. The} have their moments of reflection of compunction and remorfe. An< after experiencing fuch a deliver ence themfelves, and feeing fo ma ny of their companions dead a round them, it is not furprifim that they were prepared in th{ moft lincere manner to join in oui devotions. I have had occafion continued the Doctor, to fee man) men who defpifed religion in the ory and practice, and yet 1 nevci .knew one of them, who did no may his bleffmg alight on my endeav¬ ors for fcrving my country faithfully. To him I rcjign myfelf and the jufl caufe which is eniruftcd to me to de¬ fend.—Such was the ftate of mind which this wonderful man enjoy¬ ed when commencing that glori¬ ous battle in which he fell ; a ftate well fuked to his Situation, evin¬ cing that attention to relirious fer- vices for which he had ahvays been remarkable, and thofe pious feelings which all good men would wifh to enjoy at the moment or His foul poured their departure. forth expreffions of a fimilar im- ly be cured. port, when he left Merton to join his ihip. They have been prefcr- ved in his pocket book •, and fully AN UNFAILING CURE FOR LOVE. Take of the fpirits of indiffer¬ ence one ounce, of the powder of difdain twelve grains, of the oil of abfence and fpictf of employment, of each ten ounces, with three oun¬ ces of good advice, and the fame quantity of found conftderation- put them into a fmall fauce pan of found reafon, with two quarts of beft heart's eafe, ftir and boil them together for a confiderable time y then ftrain them through a fine rag of patience, into a vefl'el of pru¬ dence, & take half a point of this mixture juft as you are going to bed, and lay as many coverlids of content upon you as you^ can get, or will be fufficient to give you a fweat. By clofely obferving the above directions, you will certain- prove that he was not carnally but habitually the friend of religion, and a partaker of its benefits. It is indeed pleafing to think that fo much attention was paid to reli¬ gious exercifes by both thefe Ad¬ mirals at fuch times, and it is to be hoped that their pious exam¬ ple will often be followed. To pray to God is the moft effectual method of acquiring invincibl o V* courage, for what can terrify the man who has refigned himfelf in¬ to the hands of God, who is con¬ vinced that he is in his moft holy keeping, and that nothing can hap¬ pen to him except permitted from above ?—Such a pcrfon riles fupc- rior to ordinary motives ; they are neither felt nor regarded j he A mifer having loft an hundred pounds promifed 1 o pounds reward to any one who would bring it to him. An honeft poor man found it and demanded his reward, but tlie mifer fiid there was 11 opounds when he loft it, and Vv'ould not pay him. The poor man fued for the money, and it appeared at the trial that the bag had not been ripped nor the feal broken. You lay you loft no pounds, faid the judge. Yes, lays the mifer. Then this ifl not your money, fays the judl^j and the poor man muft keep it|uil the true owner appears. 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