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number; which neither in quantity or quality is equal to the last three or four.

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delightful picture. We are sorry we cannot find room for these pleasant verses. Among other attractions of the number, we come upon a Drinking Song, by Major Noah, in which the most agreeable and witty of editors, proves himself one of the most moral and fascinating of lyrists. It is an anacreontic of the right stamp, and does its author more credit than all the anti-Van Buren articles he ever penned.

In the "Editorial" department, we recognise the powerful discrimination of Mr. Poe. The dissection of "Paul Ulric," though well deserved, is perfectly savage. Morris Mattson, Esq. will hardly write again. This article will as surely kill him as one not half so scalpingly written did poor Keats, in the London Quarterly. The notice of Lieutenant Slidell's "American in England" we were glad to see. It is a fair offset to the cox-magazine in the country. Paul Ulric is too small game for the combical article (probably written by Norman Leslie Fay) which lately appeared in the New York Mirror, in reference to our countryman's really agreeable work. Bulter's "Rienzi" is ably reviewed, and in a style to beget in him who reads it a strong desire to possess himself immediately of the book itself. There is also an interesting notice of Matthew Carey's Autobio-most extraordinary article in the book and the one which will graphy, and two or three other works lately published.

Under this head, there is, in the number before us, the best sketch of the character and life of Chief Justice Marshall we have as yet seen. This alone would make a volume of the Messenger valuable beyond the terms of subscription. It purports to be a Review of Story's, Binney's, and Snowden's Eulogies upon that distinguished jurist, while, in reality, it is a rich and pregBant Biography of "The Expounder of the Constitution."" The number closes with a most amusing paper containing twenty-five admirably executed fae simile autographs of some of the most distinguished of our literati. The equiroque of Mr. Joseph A. B. C. D. E. F. G. &c. Miller is admirably kept up, and the whimsical character of the pretended letters to which the signatures are attached is well preserved. Of almost all the autographs we can speak on our own authority, and are able to pronounce them capital.

The Critical Notices are better by far, than those in any other tremendous demolition he has received- a club of iron has been used to smash a fly. The article on Judge Marshall is an able and faithful epitome of that great jurist's character; in fact, the best which the press has yet given to the public. We agree with all the other critiques except that of Bulwer's Rienzi. The excite most attention, is its tail piece, in which an American edition of Frazer's celebrated Miller hoax has been played off on the American Literati with great success-and better than all, an accurate fac simile of each autograph given along with it. This article is extremely amusing, and will excite more attention than probably any thing of the kind yet published in an American periodical. It is quite new in this part of the world. We commend this excellent magazine to our readers, as in a high degree deserving of encouragement, and as one which will reward it.

From the Baltimore American.

The Southern Literary Messenger for February is, we think, the best of the fifteen numbers that have been published. Most of its articles, prose and verse, are of good Magazine quality, sprightly and diversified. The first, on "Selection in Read

Upon the whole, the number before us (entirely original) maying," contains in a brief space a useful lesson in these bookbe set down as one of the very best that has yet been issued.

From the Pennsylvanian.

The Southern Literary Messenger, published in Richmond, maintains its high character. The March number, however, which has just come to hand, would have been the better had the solid articles been relieved, as in the previous numbers, by a greater variety of contributions of a lighter cast. It is comparatively heavy, a fault which should be carefully avoided in a magaziue intended for all sorts of readers. Sinning in the opposite direction would be much more excusable.

abounding times, when many people take whatever publishers please to give them, or surrender their right of selection to the self-complacent and shallow editors of cheap "Libraries." Of the interesting "Sketches of the History and present condition of Tripoli, with some account of the other Barbary States," we have here No. 10, which concludes with the preparations of the attack on Algiers by the French in 1830. "The Cousin of the Married" and the "Cousin of the Dead" are two capital comic pictures from the French. "The Duc de L'Omelette, by Edgar A. Poe" is one of those light, spirited, fantastic inventions, of which we have had specimens before in the Messenger, betokening a fertility of imagination and power of execution, that with discipline could, under a sustained effort, produce creations of an enduring character. "Rustic Courtship in New England" We have taken time to go through the last number of the is of a class that should not get higher than the first page of a Southern Literary Messenger, and find it, with some slight ex-country newspaper, we mean no disrespect to any of our " ceptions, in the articles of its correspondents, worthy, in every temporaries,"-for it has no literary capabilities. respect, of the high reputation of the series. The editorial articles are vigorous and original, as usual, and there are papers not easily to be surpassed in any periodical. Such a one is that on the Classics, which is not the saucy and flippant thing we were half afraid to find it, but an essay of great wisdom, learning, and strength,--and what we generally see combined with it,--playfulness of mind.

From the Georgetown Metropolitan.

Another such article is the splendid address prepared by Professor Dew, for delivery before the Historical and Philosophical Society of Virginia. Its eloquence, vast compass, and subtlety of thought, will amply and richly repay the attention. We have time to-day for but a brief notice of the other articles. Sketches of the Barbary States,-continues the description of the French conquest, with the same clearness and ability which we have before frequently commended.

"Epimanes" displays a rich, but extravagant fancy.

To Helen," is pretty and classic, from the same hand--we will give it in our next.

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The best and also the largest portion of the present number of the Messenger is the department of critical notices of books. These are the work of a vigorous, sportive, keen pen, that, whether you approve the judgments or not it records, takes captive your attention by the spirit with which it moves. The number ends with the amusing Miller correspondeuce, of which we have already spoken.

From the Petersburg Constellation.

We briefly announced a few days ago, the receipt of the February number of the Southern Literary Messenger. It is one of the richest and raciest numbers of that Journal yet issued from the Press. The judicious introductory article on the neces sity of select reading; the continuation of the Historical sketches of the Barbary States; Palestine; the Biographical notice of the late Professor Cushing of Hampden Sidney College; the Review of the Eulogies on, and Reminiscenses of the late Chief Justice "Change" has many lines in it, of sweet, and what we like Marshall, are among the solid treasures of the Messenger of this best, of thoughtful poetry; we will publish it in our next. month. Sketches of Lake Superior in a series of Letters which "Manual Labor Schools."--Another "address," but practical are to be continued ;” the Cousin of the Married and the Cousin and sensible. We suggest, with deference, to the very able ed- of the Dead, a translation from the French; Lionel Granby, itor of the Southern Literary Messenger, that the less frequently Chapter 8; the Castle Builder turned Farmer, and Rustic Courthe admits articles of this description into his columns, the bet- ship in New England, have each their beauties, excellences ter. Except in rare circumstances, such for example as Profes- and peculiarities. Of the lighter contributions, of the diamonds sor Dew's, we think they are unfit for a magazine,--the subject which sparkle beside the more sombre gems, commend us, thou of the present one, is, however, of great importance. "Geor-spirit of eccentricity! forever and a day to our favorite Edgar gia Scenes" makes a capital article, and has excited, in our A. Poe's Duc de L'Omelette--the best thing of the kind we ever mind, a great curiosity to see the book. have or ever expect to read. The idea of "dying of an Ortolan" the waking up in the palace of Pluto; of that mysterious chain of "blood red metal" hung "parmi les nues," at the nether extremity of which was attached a "cresset," pouring forth a light more intense, still and terrible" than ever worshipped, Gheber imagined, or Mussulman dreamed of;" the paintings and statuary of that mysterious hall, whose solitary uncurtained window looked upon blazing Tartarus, and whose ceiling was lost in a mass of "fery-colored clouds ;" the nonchalance of the Duc in challenging "His Majesty" to a pass Of the articles in the present number, the general list as may with the points; his imperturbable, self-confident assurance dur be seen by looking at the advertisement in another column, ising the playing of a game of ecarté; his adroitness in slipping a very attractive, and a perusal will not "unbeseem the promise," card while his Infernal Highness "took wine" (atrick which won We have not time to go over each as we would wish; but the the Duc his game by the by,) and finally his characteristic complihistorical sketch of Algiers, which is brought down to the embar- ment to the Deity of the Place of" que s'il n'etait pas de L'Omekation of the French expedition, will command attention. "Alette, il n'aurait point d'objection d'etre le Diable," are concep Lay of Ruin," by Miss Draper, has some lines of exquisite po- tions which for peculiar eccentricity and graphic quaintness, etry, and Edgar A. Poe's Sketch "The Duc de L'Omelette," is are perfectly inimitable. Of the criticisms, the most are good; the best thing of the kind we have seen from him yet. "Living that on Mr. Morris Mattson's novel of Paul Ulric," like a forAlone" by Timothy Flint, greatly interested us. That this pa. mer criticism from the same pen on Fay's "Norman Leslie" is triarch of American literature, in his green and fresh old age, a literal" flaying alive!" a carving up into "ten thousand can write verses so full of the amaranthine vigor of youth, is a atoms" a complete literary annihilation! If Mr. Morris Matt

From the Georgetown Metropolitan. The Southern Literary Messenger, for the present month, is unusually rich. The articles evince depth, talent and taste, and there is all the eastern vigor and maturity of learning, with all the southern spirit of imagination. It is, in fact, nobly edited and supported, well worthy of being considered the representative and organ of Southern talent.

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son is either courageous or wise, he will turn upon his merciless assailant as Byron turned upon Jeffrey, and prove that he can not only do better things, but that he deserves more lenient usage! Last but not by far the least in interest, is Mr. Joseph A. Q. Z. Miller's "Autography." We copy the whole article as a literary treat which we should wrong their tastes did we suppose for a moment would not be as highly appreciated by each and all of our readers, as it is by ourself."

From the Baltimore Chronicle.

The Southern Literary Messenger. The last number of this periodical is, perhaps the best that has appeared, and shows that the favor with which its predecessors have been received has only added stimulus to the exertions of its enterprising proprie. tor and very able Editor. The number consists of 70 pages, all of which are taken up with original matter. The prose articles are generally of high merit--but the poetry of the present num. ber is inferior to that of some of the preceding. The critical notices are written in a nervous style and with great impartiality and independence. The Editor seems to have borne in mind the maxim of the greatest of reviewers--"the judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted." The application of this severe rule to all criticism would impart greater value to just commendation and render the censure of the press more formidable to brainless pretenders. The public judgment is constantly deluded and misled by indiscriminate puffing and unmerited praise. The present Editor of the Messenger is in no danger of doing violence to his feelings in this respect.

From the Boston Mercantile Journal.

to perceive, that in our new and promising race of literary monthlies, education receives a large share of attention.

The paper before us in the Messenger, prepared by the Rev. Mr. Stanton, is peculiarly interesting, because it embodies a quantity of experience of the results produced by manual labor-results, which though derived from comparatively few sources, the number of institutions where the system has been introduced being as yet small-are of the most emphatic and convincing character. They already suffice to prove that the connexion of manual labor establishments with literary institutions, is condu eive not only in the highest degree to health, but to morals, and to intellectual proficiency. Moreover--and this is a point of incalculable importance--in some of these institutions, a majority of the students have by their labor diminished their expenses about one half; a portion of them have defrayed the whole of their expenses, and a few have more than defrayed them-enjoying at the same time better health, and making more rapid advances in knowledge than usual. The distinct testimony of the pepils as well as superintendents, is adduced to prove the beneficial effects upon body and mind, of three hours agricultural or mechanical labor every day. One of these effects is described in the following language. "This system is calculated to make men hardy, enterprising, and independent; and to wake up within them a spirit perseveringly to do, and endure, and dare."

From the New Yorker.

The Southern Literary Messenger.-The February No. of this periodical is before us-rich in typographical beauty as ever, but scarcely so fortunate as in some former instances in the character of its original contributions. Such at least is our judgment; and yet of some twenty articles the greater number will be perusThe Southern Literary Messenger.-This is a periodical which ed with decided satisfaction. Of these, No. X. of the Sketches it is probably well known to many of our readers, was established of the History of Tripoli " and other Barbary States, affords an a little more than a year since, in Richmond, Va. It is issued interesting account of the series of outrages on the part of the in monthly numbers of about seventy pages each, and is devoted Algerine Regency which provoked the entire overthrow of that to every department of Literature and the Fine Arts. Contain-infamous banditti and the subjugation of the country. [We take ing much matter of a brilliant and superior order, evidently the occasion to say here that we trust France will never restore the productions of accomplished scholars and Belles Lettres wri- Algerine territory to the sway of the barbarian and infidel, but ters, with able and discriminating critical notices of the principal hold it at the expense, if need be, of a Continental War.] publications on this side the Atlantic, the Southern Literary "The Cousin of the Married and the Cousin of the Dead" is a Messenger is equal in interest and excellence to any Monthly most striking translation, which we propose to copy. Periodical in the country, and we are glad to learn from the Feb- "Living Alone," by Timothy Flint, forms an exception to the ruary number that it has already received extensive and solid usual character of the poetry of the Messenger, which we do patronage. not greatly affect. Mr. Flint, however, writes to be read--and is rarely disappointed or disappoints his readers.

From the Norfolk Beacon..

The Southern Literary Messenger for February appears in all its freshness. The sketches of the history of the Barbary States contained in the present number include the period of the equipment and departure of the French fleet destined for the attack on Algiers. The account of the diplomatic movements of England and France on the subject of the proposed capture is novel and instructive. The tribute to the memory of Cushing we hail with pleasure. If it be not a faultless production, it is written in a right spirit. The review of Paul Ulric is written with great freedom and unusual severity. The reviewer wields a formidable weapon. The article on Judge Marshall groups within a small compass much valuable and interesting intelligence respecting the late Chief Justice. It is not executed, however in a workmanlike manner. The ungenerous allusion to Chapman Johnson was wholly gratuitous. There is also a seasoning of federal politics, not referring to long past times, that ought to have been spared us. But the article on Autography is a treat of no common order. We have seen nothing of the kind before in an American periodical. It must have cost Mr. White a great deal of labor and expense in its typographical execution. What has become of the excellent series of essays on the sexes, ascribed to the pen of a distinguished professor of Wm. & Mary?

From the Baltimore American.

The publication of the Southern Literary Messenger, for March, was delayed beyond the usual time, for the purpose of inserting in it an Address by Professor Dew, of Wm. and Mary College, prepared to be delivered before the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society. The first copy sent to us having miscarried, we have been further disappointed in the receipt of this number, which has just now reached us. As yet we have read but one article m it, but that is one of such merit on so interesting a subject, that it were nearly sufficient alone to give value to the number, without the aid of Mr. Dew's Address, to which we shall hereafter refer, doubting not to find it of high excellence, as his reputation leads us to anticipate.

There are some amusing pictures of Virginia rural life and domestic economy in the papers entitled "Lionel Granby" and "Castellanus ;" and the biographical sketch of the late Presi dent Cushing, of Hampden Sidney College, indicates a just State pride properly directed. The "Sketches of Lake Superior" are alike creditable to the writer and the Magazine. "Greece" forms the inspiration of some graceful lines. But the 'great fea ture' of this No. is an Editorial critique on Mr. Mornis Mattsna's novel of "Paul Ulric," which is tomahawked and scalped after the manner of a Winnebago. If any young gentleman shall fud himself irresistibly impelled to perpetrate a novel, and all milder remedies prove unavailing, we earnestly advise him to read this criticism. We are not sufficiently hard hearted to recommend its perusal to any one else.

The concluding paper will commend itself to the attention of the rational curious. It embraces the autographs, quaintly in troduced and oddly accompanied, of twenty-four of the most distinguished literary personages of our country--Mrs. Sigourney, Miss Leslie, Miss Sedgwick, Messrs. Washington Irving, Fi Greene Halleck, Timothy Flint, J. K. Paulding, J. Fentmorê Cooper, Robert Walsh, Edward Everett, J. Q. Adams, Dr. Chan ning, &c. &c. We note this as an evidence of the energy ne less than the good taste of the publisher, and as an earnest of his determination to spare no pains or expense in rendering the work acceptable to its patrons.

From the New York Evening Star.

The Southern Literary Messenger, for March, has been received, and a particularly good number it is. There is one point in which this Messenger stands pre-eminent, and that point is candor. If there is any thing disgusting and sickening, it is the fashion of magazine and newspaper reviewers of the present day of plastering every thing which is heralded into existence with a tremendous sound of trumpets--applaud every thing written by the twenty-fifth relation distant of a really great writer, or the author of one or two passable snatches of poetry, or every day sketches.

From the Natchez Courier.

The article to which we allude is on Manual Labor Schools, and their importance as connected with literary institutions.' The introduction of manual labor as a regular department of Last but not least, as the friends of a literature, emphatically the school exercises is, we believe, one of the greatest improve-southern, we welcome the February number of the "Southern ments of the age, in the most important branch of human en- Literary Messenger," a work that stands second to none in the deavor-the culture of man. We make no apology for frequently country. Its criticisms we pronounce to be at once the boldest recurring to this subject. As reasonable would it be to expect and most generally correct of any we meet with. True, it is very apologies from the municipal authorities for directing their ef severe on many of the current publications of the day; but we forts daily, and with unrelaxed watchfulness, to the keeping think no unprejudiced man can say it is a whit too much so. The pure and healthy the atmosphere of a city. The culture or edu- country is deluged from Maine to Louisiana, with a rɔass of cation of human beings is a subject of unsurpassed moment and stuff done up" into books that require the most severe handof never ceasing interest. The principles upon which this culture ling. The Messenger gives it to them. It is a work which ought is to be conducted, and the modes of applying them, involve the to be in the hand of every literary southerner, in particular. It well being of communities and nations. We are glad therefore, is published by T. W. While Richmond, Va.

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down? Scandal, like other virtues, is in part its own reward, as it gives us the satisfaction of making ourselves appear better than others, or others no better than ourselves.

Mr. Gazetteer,—I was highly pleased with your last week's paper upon SCANDAL, as the uncommon doctrine therein preached is agreeable both to my principles and My mother, good woman, and I, have heretofore practice, and as it was published very seasonably to differed upon this account. She argued that Scandal reprove the impertinence of a writer in the foregoing spoilt all good conversation, and I insisted that without Thursday's Mercury, who, at the conclusion of one of it there would be no such thing. Our disputes once his silly paragraphs, laments forsooth that the fair sex rose so high that we parted tea-tables, and I concluded are so peculiarly guilty of this enormous crime: every to entertain my acquaintance in the kitchen. The first blockhead, ancient and modern, that could handle a day of this separation we both drank tea at the same pen, has; I think, taken upon him to cant in the same time, but she with her visitors in the parlor. She would senseless strain. If to scandalize be really a crime, what not hear of the least objection to any one's character, do these puppies mean? They describe it-they dress but began a new sort of discourse in some such queer it up in the most odious, frightful and detestable colors philosophical manner as this: I am mightily pleased -they represent it as the worst of crimes, and then sometimes, says she, when I observe and consider that the roundly and charitably charge the whole race of woman-world is not so bad as people out of humor imagine it to be. kind with it. Are not they then guilty of what they condemn, at the same time that they condemn it? If they accuse us of any other crime they must necessarily scandalize while they do it; but to scandalize us with being guilty of scandal, is in itself an egregious absurdity, and can proceed from nothing but the most consummate impudence in conjunction with the most profound stupidity.

This, supposing as they do, that to scandalize is a crime; which you have convinced all reasonable people is an opinion absolutely erroneous. Let us leave then, these select mock-moralists, while I entertain you with some account of my life and manners.

I am a young girl of about thirty-five, and live at present with my mother. I have no care upon my head of getting a living, and therefore find it my duty as well as inclination to exercise my talent at CENSURE for the good of my country folks. There was, I am told, a certain generous emperor, who, if a day had passed over his head in which he had conferred no benefit on any man, used to say to his friends, in Latin, Diem perdidi, that is, it seems, I have lost a day. I believe I should make use of the same expression, if it were possible for a day to pass in which I had not, or missed, an opportunity to scandalize somebody: but, thanks be praised, no such misfortune has befel me these dozen years.

There is something amiable, some good quality or other in every body. If we were only to speak of people that are least respected, there is such a one is very dutiful to her father, and methinks has a fine set of teeth; such a one is very respectful to her husband; such a one is very kind to her poor neighbors, and besides has a very handsome shape; such a one is always ready to serve a friend, and in my opinion there is not a woman in town that has a more agreeable air or gait. This fine kind of talk, which lasted near half an hour, she concluded by saying, I do not doubt but every one of you has made the like observations, and I should be glad to have the conversation continued upon this subject. Just at this juncture I peeped in at the door, and never in my life before saw such a set of simple vacant countenances. They looked somehow neither glad nor sorry, nor angry nor pleased, nor indifferent nor attentive; but (excuse the simile) like so many images of rye dough. I, in the kitchen, had already begun a ridiculous story of Mr. 's intrigue with his maid, and his wife's behavior on the discovery; at some of the passages we laughed heartily; and one of the gravest of mamma's company, without making any answer to her discourse got up to go and see what the girls were so merry about : she was followed by a second, and shortly by a third, till at last the old gentlewoman found herself quite alone, and being convinced that her project was impracticable came herself and finished her tea with us; ever since which Saul also has been among the prophets, and our disputes lie dormant.

Yet whatever good I may do, I cannot pretend that I at first entered into the practice of this virtue from a principle of public spirit; for I remember that when a child I had a violent inclination to be ever talking in my By industry and application I have made myself the own praise, and being continually told that it was ill-centre of all the scandal in the province; there is little manners and once severely whipped for it, the confined stream formed itself a new channel, and I began to speak for the future in the dispraise of others. This I found more agreeable to company and almost as much so to myself: for what great difference can there be between putting yourself up or putting your neighbor

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stirring but I hear of it. I began the world with this maxim, that no trade can subsist without returns; and accordingly, whenever I received a good story, I endeavored to give two or a better in the room of it. My punctuality in this way of dealing gave such encouragement that it has procured me an incredible deal of business, which without diligence and good method it would be impossible for me to go through. For besides the stock of defamation thus naturally flowing in upon me, I practice an art by which I can pump VOL. II-45

But alas! two great evils have lately befallen me at the same time; an extreme cold that I can scarce speak, and a most terrible toothache that I dare hardly open my mouth. For some days past I have received ten stories for one I have paid; and I am not able to balance my accounts without your assistance. I have long thought that if you would make your paper a vehicle of scandal, you would double the number of your subscribers. I send you herewith accounts of four knavish tricks, two * * *, five * three drubbed wives, and four henpecked husbands, all within this fortnight; which you may, as articles of news, deliver to the public, and if my toothache continues shall send you more, being in the mean time your constant reader,

scandal out of people that are the least inclined that | then have mankind to complain of Scandal? In a general way. Shall I discover my secret? Yes; to let it die way the worst that is said of us is only half what might with me would be inhuman. If I have never heard ill be said, if all our faults were seen. of some person I always impute it to defective intelligence; for there are none without their faults, no, not one. If she be a woman, I take the first opportunity to let all her acquaintance know I have heard that one of the handsomest or best men in town has said something in praise either of her beauty, her wit, her virtue, or her good management. If you know any thing of human nature, you perceive that this naturally introduces a conversation turning upon all her failings, past, present and to come. To the same purpose and with the same success I cause every man of reputation to be praised before his competitors in love, business, or esteem, on account of any particular qualification. Near the times of election, if I find it necessary, I commend every candidate before some of the opposite party, listening attentively to what is said of him in ans er. But commendations in this latter case are not always necessary and should be used judiciously. Of late years I needed only observe what they said of one another freely; and having for the help of memory taken account of all informations and accusations received, whoever peruses my writings after my death, may happen to think that during a certain time the people of Pennsylvania chose into all their offices of honor and trust, the veriest knaves, fools and rascals, in the whole province. The time of election used to be a busy time with me, but this year, with concern I speak it, people are grown so good natured, so intent upon mutual feasting and friendly entertainment, that I see no prospect of much employment from that quarter.

ALICE ADDERTONGUE.

I thank my correspondent, Mrs. Addertongue, for her good will, but desire to be excused inserting the articles of news she has sent me, such things being in reality

no news at all.

QUERIES TO BE ASKED THE JUNTO. Whence comes the dew that stands on the outside of a tankard that has cold water in it in the summer time?

Does the importation of servants increase or advance the wealth of our country?

Would not an office of insurance for servants be of

service, and what methods are proper for the erecting

such an office?

Whence does it proceed that the proselytes to any sect or persuasion, generally appear more zealous than those that are bred up in it?

I mentioned above that without good method I could not go through my business. In my father's life time I had some instruction in accounts, which I now apply with advantage to my own affairs. I keep a regular set of books and can tell at an hour's warning how it Answer. I suppose that people BRED in different perstands between me and the world. In my Daybook I suasions are nearly zealous alike. Then he that changes enter every article of defamation as it is transacted; his party is either sincere or not sincere: that is, he for scandals received in I give credit, and when I pay either does it for the sake of the opinions merely, or them out again I make the persons to whom they res- with a view of interest. If he is sincere and has no pectively relate, Debtor. In my Journal, I add to each view of interest, and considers before he declares himstory, by way of improvement, such probable circum-self how much ill will he shall have from those he leaves, stances as I think it will bear, and in my Ledger the and that those he is about to go among will be apt to whole is regularly posted.

I suppose the reader already condemns me in his heart for this particular of adding circumstances, but I justify this part of my practice thus. It is a principle with me that none ought to have a greater share of reputation than they really deserve; if they have, it is an imposition upon the public. I know it is every one's interest, and therefore believe they endeavor to conceal all their vices and follies; and I hold that those people are extraordinary foolish or careless, who suffer one-fourth of their failings to come to public knowledge. Taking then the common prudence and imprudence of mankind in a lump, I suppose none suffer above onefifth to be discovered; therefore, when I hear of any person's misdoing, I think I keep within bounds, if in relating it I only make it three times worse than it is; and I reserve to myself the privilege of charging them with one fault in four, which for aught I know they may be entirely innocent of. You see there are but few so careful of doing justice as myself; what reason

suspect his sincerity: if he is not really zealous, be will not declare; and therefore must be zealous if he does declare.

If he is not sincere, he is obliged at least to put on an appearance of great zeal, to convince the better his new friends that he is heartily in earnest, for his old ones he knows dislike him. And as few acts of zeal will be more taken notice of than such as are done against the party he has left, he is inclined to injure or malign them because he knows they contemn and despise him. Hence one Renegado is (as the Proverb says) worse than ten Turks.

SIR, It is strange, that among men who are born for society and mutual solace, there should be any who take pleasure in speaking disagreeable things to their acquaintance. But such there are I assure you, and I should be glad if a little public chastisement might be any means of reforming them. These ill-natured people study a man's temper, or the circumstances of his life,

But the owner of the horse may possibly insist upon being paid the whole sum of ten pounds, without allowing any deduction for his keeping after he was lost, and that for these reasons.

1. It is always supposed, unless an express agree

merely to know what disgusts him, and what he does not care to hear mentioned; and this they take care to omit no opportunity of disturbing him with. They communicate their wonderful discoveries to others, with an ill-natured satisfaction in their countenances, say such a thing to such a man and you cannot mortify himment be made to the contrary, when horses are put out worse. They delight (to use their own phrase) in see- to keep, that the keeper is at the risque of them (unaing galled horses wince, and like flies, a sore place is a voidable accidents only excepted, wherein no care of the feast to them. Know, ye wretches, that the meanest keeper can be supposed sufficient to preserve them, such insect, the trifling musqueto, the filthy bug have it in as their being slain by lightning or the like.) This you their power to give pain to men; but to be able to give yourself tacitly allow when you offer to restore me the value pleasure to your fellow creatures, requires good nature of my horse. Were it otherwise, people having no secuand a kind and humane disposition, joined with talents rity against a keeper's neglect or mismanagement would to which ye seem to have no pretension. never put horses out to keep.

X. Y.

If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations,-Ought not men, in choosing of a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependant, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood.

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with; how shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has?

2. Keepers considering the risque they run, always demand such a price for keeping horses, that if they have a living profit, though they now and then pay for were to follow the business twenty years, they may a horse they have lost; and if they were to be at no risque they might afford to keep horses for less than they usually have. So that what a man pays for his take if he ran no risque, is in the nature of a premium horse's keeping, more than the keeper could afford to for the insurance of his horse. If I then pay you for the |few days you kept my horse, you should restore me his full value.

3. You acknowledge that my horse eat of your hay and oats but a few days. It is unjust then to charge me for all the hay and oats that he only might have eat

Answer. Commend her among her female acquaint- in the remainder of the six months, and which you have

ance.

To the Printer of the Gazette.

According to the request of your correspondent T. P., I send you my thoughts on the following case by him proposed, viz:

A man bargains for the keeping of his horse six months, whilst he is making a voyage to Barbadoes. The horse strays or is stolen soon after the keeper has him in possession. When the owner demands the value of his horse in money, may not the other as justly demand so much deducted as the keeping of the horse six months amounts to?

now still good in your stable. If, as the proverb says, it is unreasonable to expect a horse should void oats who never eat any, it is certainly as unreasonable to expect payment for those oats.

4. If men in such cases as this are to be paid for keeping horses when they were not kept, then they have a great opportunity of wronging the owners of horses. For by privately selling my horse for his value (ten pounds) soon after you had him in possession, and returning me at the expiration of the time only seven pounds, demanding three pounds as a deduction agreed for his keeping, you get that 31. clear into your pocket, besides the use of my money six months for nothing. 5. But you say, the value of my horse being ten pounds, if you deduct three for his keeping and return me seven, it is all I would in fact have received had you returned my horse; therefore as I am no loser I ought to be satisfied: this argument, were there any

It does not appear that they had any dispute about the value of the horse, whence we may conclude there was no reason for such dispute, but it was well known how much he cost, and that he could not honestly have been sold again for more. But the value of the horse is not expressed in the case, nor the sum agreed for keep-weight in it, might serve to justify a man in selling as ing him six months; wherefore in order to our more clear apprehension of the thing, let ten pounds represent the horse's value and three pounds the sum agreed for his keeping.

Now the sole foundation on which the keeper can found his demand of a deduction for keeping a horse he did not keep, is this. Your horse, he may say, which I was to restore to you at the end of six months was worth ten pounds; if I now give you ten pounds it is an equivalent for your horse, and equal to returning the horse itself. Had I returned your horse (value 101.) you would have paid me three pounds for his keeping, and therefore would have received in fact but seven pounds clear. You then suffer no injury if I now pay you seven pounds, and consequently you ought in reason to allow me the remaining three pounds according to our agreement.

above, as many of the horses he takes to keep as he conveniently can, putting clear into his own pocket that charge their owner must have been at for their keeping, for this being no loss to the owners, he may say, where no man is a loser why should not I be a gainer. I need only answer to this, that I allow the horse cost me but ten pounds, nor could I have sold him for more, had I been disposed to part with him, but this can be no reason why you should buy him of me at that price, whether I will sell him or not. For it is plain I valued him at thirteen pounds, otherwise I should not have paid ten pounds for him and agreed to give you three pounds more for his keeping, till I had occasion to use him. Thus, though you pay me the whole ten pounds which he cost me, (deducting only for his keeping those few days) I am still a loser; I lose the charge of those

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