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reverence, the noise is, not a- a conversation full of similar mong us.' So much the bet-equivoques, was carried on for ter,' answered the priest, it some time, until an explanawill be the sooner over." tion was at last the wish of both parties when it turned out that the supposed Poet was neither more nor less than a person who cured Irish herrings.

A person advertising for a country house thus concludes, "If no hounds within ten miles, and if no attorney within twenty, the more agreeable.

Shortly after the publication of the second edition of Burns' Poems, and while almost every person was eager to see their author, it was understood that he was to be in Glasgow on a certain day. On that day a stranger was perceived to come into the coffee-room, and it was immediately whispered that he was Burns. A gentle man (an admirer of the Poems) went up to him-told him he was exceedingly happy to see him; for that though he had not the honour of a personal

We talk of Irish blundersone of our divines seems to have carried them as far as they would go, when in a sermʊn exclaiming about universal depravity of the age, he said, that 'Little children who could, neither walk nor speak, ran about the streets blaspheming the Almighty.

We search after three things honour, riches, and repose.He who lives retired from the world gains honour; he who is contented with what he has, is rich; he who despises the world and does not occupy himself with it, will find re

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smith; but instead of accusing him, he thought of the following stratagem to get the money back; he informed the smith, he wished to add another 501. This had the desired effect, for the smith immediately went and replaced the 2001. not only to prevent his neigbour from judging him to be the thief, but to get the

other 501.
Away they both
went together, and opening
the hole, the Quaker, to his
great joy, discovered his once
purloined hoard, and imme-

A few years ago, when Bonaparte threatened to invade England, a person of the sect called Quakers, residing at Epping, in the county of Essex, being afraid, if such an event should take place, that he might lose his money; thought of the following stratagem to save it. He resolved to hide 2001. upon Epping Forest; but conceiving that, should he die, or be killed by the enemy, it would not be prudent to conceal it without acquainting a friend therewith, he fixed upon his neigh-diately uttered the following bour, a Smith, as a proper person to be entrusted with the secret. They set out together and chose a spot by the side of a large oak, where a hole was soon made, and the money S very carefully deposited, taking great care to cover it up with such exactness that no person travelling by chance that way might have any suspicion. They returned home. The next morning early, the smith went and took the money away, not thinking the Quakor would so soon suspect his integrity. The Quaker however, paid a visit to the spot where his beloved treasure was deposited, when, to his surprize, it was gone. Suspicion immediately fell upon the

ejaculation: Ah! my friend, I find thee goest and comest; but for fear that thee should go and never return, I'll e'en take thee home, for I think thee art as safe in my house as on Epping Forest.' Thus ended the matter to the no small mortification of the smith

Fatal effects of Excessive Joy.

On Wednesday last, died, at Billericay, Essex, Mr. John Burles,shoemaker, of Chatham, aged 45. He had just recovered a considerable estate, which he had been kept out of more than 20 years: : and such was his ecstacy on receiving possession, and his first rents, that terminated his existence in that he was seized with a fever, a few hours. (Lon. p.

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On the 18th, the body of Cornelius Neal, late of East George-street, who escaped from his sick bed in a state of derangement, in the snowstorm on the evening of the 11th ult. was found in the East

A certain preacher having changed his religion, was much river, and brought ashore and

blamed by many of his friends for having deserted them. To excuse himself he said he had seven reasons, and being asked what they were, replied, A wife and six children.

interred.

On the 19th, the coroner visited the body of Samuel M'Combs, a laborer, about 35 years old, who died on the 18th, in a fit of intoxication, in the

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On Thursday last, previous to the adjournment of the court of Oyer and Terminer, James Johnson, a black; convicted of the murder of Lewis Robinson, and John Sinclair, convicted of the murder of David

Hill, his landlord, by stabbing

him under the ribs with a knife were brought up to receive sentence. Chief Justice Kent, after a pathetic address to the prisoners, sentenced them for execution, on the last Friday in January next.

POLICE-OFFICE,

Dec. 20, 1810, Two attempts in the present week to set on fire dwellinghouses, and which happily was discovered in time, by the watch, leave no doubt of the existence of a band of incendiaries, whose object is plunder. The citizens, particularly those residing in the upper parts of the city, are requested to be more than "usually attentive to their dwellings, and te convey to the watch-houses all suspicious persons whom they may find in the night lurking about their premises.

Hook Ferry.

It is stated, in the Evening Post, that the Corporation of this city have concluded a contract with Mr. Fulton, for the permanent employment of his steam-boats at the Powles Hook Ferry. The boats are to be so constructed, that eight or ten Coaches and Waggons with their loads can be driven into them with safety. A boat will start every half hoar.This arrangement must prove highly commodious and henɛficial to us and our Jersey neighbours.

In consequence of the ad. vance of paper from 20 to 25, and of printing types from 25 to 30 per cent. the Publishers of all the daily papers at Baltimore, have agreed to add one dollar to the amount of their

Subscriptions, from and after

the first of Jan, next,

An officer of high rank at Malta, is reported to have fallen in love with the eldest

daughter of Lucian Bonaparte.

Gen, Armstrong arrived at the Fountain Inn, Baltimore, on Sunday evening last.

A Newburyport paper states that the fort on Plumb-Island is destroyed by a storm-the guard-house alone remaining.

MARRIED,

On Thursday evening, 13th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Broad head, Mr. John Maurice. of the firm of Gillespie and Muurice, to Miss Catherine Cole, daughter of the late Mr. Peter Cole, all of this city.

On Saturday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Moore, Mr. Henry A. Ten Broeck, mer. of the house of David Cargill & Co. to Miss Rhoda G. Brown, all of this city.

On Tuesday, 11th inst. by the Rev. Gardner Spring, Mr. Wm. Couch, of the house of Stebbins and Couch, to Miss Ellen V. Stebbins, daughter of Mr. David Stebbins, all of this city.

On Monday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Broadhead, Mr. John D. Keese, of the house of Lawrence & Keese, to Miss Harriet Mumford, daughter of John P. Mumford, Esq.

On Monday evening, at the seat of Mr. Samuel Burling, by the Rev. Dr. Hams, Mr. David Higginbotham, of Milton, Virginia, to Miss Mary E. Garriquel, of Philadelphia.

On Saturday evening last, by the Rev. Dr Miller, Mr. George Bowen, to Mrs. Harriet Bloodgood, both of this city.

On Sunday the 2d inst by the Rev. Mr Thomas, Hickson Wilson, esq. to the amiable Miss Hannah Webb, daughter of Elihsa Webb, esq all of New-Rochelle

On Sunday evening, by the Rev. Mr. Parkinson, Mr Henry C. Disbrow, to Mrs. Margaret Whimster, both of this city.

On Saturday evening, 15th inst. by the Rev. Dr. Bowen, Mr. Isaac Brown, to Miss Catherine Sergeant, daughter of Mr. James Sergeant, all of this city.

On the 11th inst. by the Rev. John M'Nise, Mr Wm. Shields, to Mrs. Margaret M'Cready, ooth of this city.

At Albany, Killian Van Renselaer, to Miss Catharine Witbeck. At Savan nah, Daniel Dixon, to Miss Sarah Henrietta' Patterton.

At Poughkeepsie, on the 8th inst. Mri Elijah Secor, of the firm of Hathaway, Secor, & Co. to Miss Maria S. Heermance, niece of the Hon Robert Williams

At Philadelphia, Mr David Stevens, of Savannah, merchant, to Miss Theresa Care.

At Charleston, Edward Simons, esq. to Miss Mary Read Simons; Richard

Stiff, to Miss Mary Mitchell; Cbristians Adam Bebs, to Miss Barbara Marga. ret Kahule. At Norfolk, R. W. Baugh,

ta Miss Cirsnah Yarwood.

DIED,

On Friday evening, súddedly, Mr Gurdon Backus.

On the 19th inst- after a lingering illness, Mrs. Hannah Carpenter, in the 49th year of her age, relict of the late Facob Carpenter, shipwright.

On Wednesday, 12th inst. of a lingering and pain ful illness, Mrs. Sarah Sickles. widow of the late Robert Sickles, in the 90th year of her age.

On the 13th inst. after a long and painful disease, Mrs. Esther Angevine, wife of Mr. James Angevine.

On Thursday morning, of a pleurisy, Mr. Michael Holmes, rigger, formerly of Newburyport, Massachusetts.

At Albany, Enoch Leonard, esq. aged 55
At Philadelphia, Thomas Puge, aged
At Caldwell, Joseph Gould,

35. aged 74.

At Philadelphia, Peter Brown, esų. a native of England. In Abbington town. ship, the Rev William Tenant.

At Norwich, Con. the 28th ult. Christopher Leffing well, esq an old and respectable inhabitant of that place.

At St Simons, William Brailsford, formerly of S. Carolina.

At Rutland, Vt. on the 5th December, the Hon Israel Smith, late Governor of that State, in the 52d year of his age, one of the worthiest of Patriots.

At Stamford, Anthony Marvine, est surrogate of the county of Delaware

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