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CARPET WEAVER.

The subscriber, respectfully solicita

A heart that was humble might hope the patronage of the Lady's in this city,

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But the wood pecker tapping the hol-
low beech tree.

And Here in this lone little wood," I
exclaim'd,

as carpet weaver.-he is an aged man,
and wishes to employ his time in this
way, as weaving has been his general
profession, he will be thankful for, and,
will strictly attend to all orders left for
him at No. 12 Henry street,
August 17th 1811.

John Jones.

Thomas H. Brantingham, has removed to No. 145 Broadway, where he conti nues to procure money on Mortgages, notes of hand & deposits, buys & sells houses, improved farms, & tracts of land Also lets & leases houses & lots, on rea. sonable commision. Also the lease of 2 houses, & an annuity. Also for sale 30 Who would blush when I prais'd her, farms, several with good improvements,

with a maid who was lovely to soul
and to eye,

and weep when I blam'd,

How blest could I live and how calm
could I die!

will be sold low, goods & property of every sort taken in payment, or any who forms a company tickets & draw for the different farms will be liberaly paid for it Also a skilfull farming man with a good By the shade of yon sumack, whose character, will meet with encouragement

red berry dips

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by applying as above.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY
SAMUEL B. WHITE,

Which had never been sigh'd on by No, 317 Water-street, New-York

any but mine!"

AT TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.

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OR,

WEEKLY

THE

VISITOR.

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ARTFUL MISTRESS.

An Extract from SANTO SEBASTIANO, a Novel.

'Long before this letter reached lord Ashgrove, St. Orville's vacation sent him home. By his noble forbearance, he had discharged all his debts; and had even exercised his benevolence toe. My father, conjecturing that the sudden sequestration of St. Orville's allowance must have involved him in difficulties, now craftily offered him a large sum of money, and to restore his allowance to its primitive state, if he would visit Mrs. Monk, who was ready to forgive all his past unkindness: but St. Orville steadily refused the golden

bait.

"What!' exclaimed his father, can a boy of honor, through a capricious whim, submit to the disgrace of continuing in debt, and defrauding the industrious of their due?'

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Orville replied; although I was so, when it was your lordship's pleasure to diminish your bounty to me.'

'My father furiously demanded 'who had assisted him?" St. Orville answered, his own principles;' and then recounted all those principles had led him to persevere in. Lord Delamore, without a comment, hastily quitted the room: the subject of Mrs. Monk was never mentioned to him more; his allowance was immediately restored to its original state; the arrear paid off; and from his mother's subsequent birth-day it was doubled but from that period, Mrs. Monk has ever continued his bitter foe; poisoning my father's mind against him, and weakening the affections of lord

Delamore for a son whose excel

lence ought to be the pride, the

sunshine, of a father's heart.

'As soon after the receipt of De Lisle's letter as it was possible to affect it, lord Ashgrove returned home, to see what he could do to ameliorate the situation of his beloved sister, and favourite nephew. For my mother, he could

'I am not in debt, my lord,' St. do nothing; but St. Orville (it be

ing then a long vacation), as De Lisle was going with him as a midshipman, he took on a cruise too. From that period, Alfred has passed a great deal of time with my uncle at sea; and, from those visits, he imbibed such a passion for the navy, that he entreated lord Delamore's permission to enter into it but my father, influenced by Mrs. Monk, peremptorily refused his supplication: and poor St. Orville, since his afflicting disagreement, and disgrace, with his father, has remained at sea with lord Ashgrove, sharing every danger annexed to the profession, without the full of glory it.

age, urged my father to augment her jointure, offering to join in any settlement for her upon the Delamore estates-the only property secured to St. Orville. This dutiful conduct to my mother incurred my father's implacable resentment he furiously refused to add a shilling to her dower; and vehemently accused poor Alfred of wishing for his death, which his thinking of it plainly dedicated: and at length concluded with the terrible command, for St. Orville to quit his father's presence for ever. Dreadful was this grief to my mother; and unquestionably brought on that severe illness, in which we had so nearly lost her.

The sad rupture I allude to arose solely from my beloved brother's strong affection for my mother....You must know, miss Deed, and artfully-fed, resentment to

Clifford, the Delamere title ranks high in the British peerage, but the estates were small; and when my father married, the jointure of my mother was settled according to her moderate fortune, and lord Delamore s own: but since that period, wealth almost unbounded has flowed in upon my father;---his two maternal uncles both died batchelors, and left immense wealth to my father. St. Orville, shocked at the poor pittance mymother had to look to, should she survive my father, and recoiling from the idea of her being left in any way to the mercy of his father's heirs; and, above all, dreading malicious influence; the moment he became of

"Jealousy had added its baneful influence to my father's long-foster

St. Orville; and here combined in drawing forth his terrible mandate.

All

Alfred, about two years since, had a severe illness, in consequence of rescuing two fishermen and a boy from a watery grave: his life, for several days, was despaired of: and nothing could equal the affliction of every one in and around the castle. the domestics, all the tenantry, and all the neighbouring poor, adore St. Orville. The higher orders estimate him in an eminent degree; and all were in serious grief at the idea of losing him, cut off, by his humanity and courage al most unparalleled, in the flower of his youth.

In the castle, all was sorrow and despair around it, men, women, and children, thronged, in anxious weeping groupes, to learn intelligence of him they loved.

blance she instantly traced to my father, promptly resolved to protect the child. Knowing lord Delamore's inconstancies, she reasonably conjectured this to be his

When the castle gates were clos-offspring; and questioned the ed, at night the multitude was there and when opened in the morning, there were they found. The lowest peasant had no heart to work: children forsook their sports and all was universal lamentation.-St. Orville recovered: and joy was, like grief, ungoverned. In every way it was demonstrated and even labour ers subscribed a day's hard earnings, to make bonfires, and spend it, in rejoicing for St. Orville's convalescence.

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Very shortly after, my father

woman relative to the little girl's parents. The woman's confusion, contradictory answers, aad the terror she evinced, all combined to change my mother's suspicions into conviction. She took the little Mary to her arms, and to her heart: attended most particularly, herself, to her care and education : and soon discovered indications of a mind as superior in refinenent and perfection, as her form was in elegance and lovliness, to the plebian companions she was classed among.

Nature will evince herself," said my mother: 'this child strongly proves the noble blood she sprung from: she shall be educated as lord Delamore's daughter: and when grown to maturity, I

had a severe illness: his life, too, was despaired of. The neighbouring rich and poor bore this with perfect resignation: and his subsequent recovery, with profound philosophic calmness. This deeply mortified my father, and will present her to him, as a little

no doubt irritated him more against poor Alfred, upon whom misdemeanours now were heaped for immediately after his illness, his malicious foes pretended to discover in him a predilection for an amiable object of my dear mother's

care and bounty.

'About twenty years ago, a child was brought, by a poor woman, to mamma, as an object for her charitable institution-an orphan asyJum. My mother, struck by the beauty of the child, and a resem

blossom I found, and cherished for his sake, and then offer to his affection. Accordingly, Mary was removed from the orphan asylum, aud placed with the widow of a

clergyman at Exeter :--a most amiable, well-informed,accomplished woman: who having two daughters of her own to bring up, gladly undertook the education of Mary, as the very handsome allowance my mother made was an object of great advantage to Mrs. Spencer. With that lady the sweet as love

by Mary has continued ever since, of her domestic sorrows, revealed

advancing each hour in mental and personal perfection: the suspicion of her birth remaining unknown to my father (who had often seen her, and considered her merely as the protégée of my mother); until it was insinuated by Mrs. Monk, and Selina, that St. Orville had formed an attachment to Mary, which had my mother's infatuated approbation : when dreadful was the frenzy of my fa

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ther's rage and my dear mother, to vindicate herself and beloved son, confessed her belief of Mary's parentage, which had been her inducement to take her to her heart.' This confession operated like magic in calming the storm which agitated lord Delamore's bosom: but solemnly he denied Mary's being his offspring.'

'My mother's conduct most sensibly affected lord Delamore; but he retired to his pernicious counsellors, and returned as firmly believing the attachment of St. Orville as before-with the cruel mandate, which peremptorily ordered my amazed mother to cease from that moment her protection of Mary, and never to hold intercourse with the dear girl more. This was a direful command: torturing alike to the hearts, the fondly attached hearts of my mother and Mary.

Mamma, in dismay and distraction, now deviating from her established rule of never speaking

this unfortunate event to an amiable friend, Mrs. Constantia Fermor: who, from that time, became the protectress of Mary.

(To be Continued.)

SELECTED.

For the Lady's Miscellany..

LIFE OF JONATHAN SWIFT.

The real situation of Goodwin's affairs not being then known to the world, and as he was looked upon to be much the richest of the family, Swift's other relations seemed at that time to think that their aid was not at all necessary; so that he was obliged to make the best shift he could, with the wretched allowance that his uncle gave him. Thus was one of the most aspiring and liberal minds in the world, early checked and confined, by the narrowness of his circumstances, with this bitter aggravation to a generous spirit, that the small pittance afforded by his uncle, seemed to him, from the manner in which it was given, rather as an alms doled out for charity, than an act of benificence due from so near a relation, who was supposed by him as well as by the rest of the world, to be in circumstances that might afford a much more liberal stipend, without prejudice to his own family. Under this load did the spirit of Swift groan for the space of near seven years that he resided in the college of Dublin;

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