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then, of mending his errors and shewing our friendship is to expose his errors in public, that shame may drive him to correct them.'-But none who know their own hearts will think this a piece of just philosophy. When private admonition becomes ineffectual,

none of the art, and who are so conscious of their failings, as to dread the view of them at secondhand. For my part, I never remember to have laughed so heartily, nor to have been really better pleased, than once, when a celebrated mimic took me off in some

the task of friendship is fully per-improprieties of behaviour at table. formed we must love our instruc

tors not fear them. But to make a man repeatedly the laughing stock of thousanos, is scarcely the part of humanity, especially as it is more natural for us to resent such an affront with the keenest indignation, than to amend what is alledged to need reformation.Besides, allowing that by this public exposure a man was incited to amend his follies, still how is it possible he should ever reconcile himself to the disagreeable idea, that these follies were discovered to many thousands, imprinted on their memories, and ready to be

raked up when cause of obloquy

occurred?

This was done in a full company, and he soon after paid me the following compliment: Sir, were all whom I take off like you, my trade would soon want objects; for if I were now to mimic you for these aukwardnesses, nobody would give Ime credit, nor acknowledge the likeness.'

Yours,

MIRROR.

A Solution of the Enigmatical list of Doctors in this city.

1 Post, 2 Hosack, 3 Hammer

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sly, 4 Rogers, 5 Wilson, & Kissam, 7 Tiliary, 8 Birch, 9 Bruce, 10 M Niven, 11 Manley, 12 Bailey.

VARIETY.

ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

When mimickry, however is confined to general objects,. nothing can be more useful, particularly in the relation of a story ; but when it is employed to turn into ridicule worthy and amiable characters (perhaps clouded with some little improprieties,) it shews a baseness of mind which every man would wish to be thought destitute of. I have only to add on the subject, that few people are more loud in their clamour against Mimickry than they who possessing it like a gemman

For the Lady's Miscellany.

An honest Sailor, having his pockets stored with well-earned cash, determined on quitting his ship to indulge himself, by spendAccording

ly, on his arrival on shore, he hired a coach, and mounting the top of it, directed the driver to proceed on his voyage. A pedestrian shortly hailed the driver, to know if he had room to accommodate him inside. You will be pleased to ask his honor on the top of the Coach, sir,' was the answer. The frolicsome sailor did not want entreaties to disclose his mind, which he did, much to the satisfaction of all parties, by saying-You may get between decks, and welcome; but i'll be d-d if you shall come on the quarter deck.'

Freemason's Magazine.

PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANT.

(pointing archly at him with his finger) not to know what abaft the binnacle is!:

The dutchess of Devonshire, while waiting in her carriage one day in the streets of Loadon, observed a dus man, with a short pipe in his hand, looking at her. Having gazed a few seconds with intenseness, he broke into a smile and said- Lord love your ladyship, I wish you would let me lite my pipe at your eyes! Her Grace took it in good part, and was so pleased with the whimsical frankness of the compliment, that when any thing civil is said to her, she often remarks-Very well; but nothing like the dustman.

ibid.

On a trial at the Admiralty Sessions for shooting a seaman, the counsel for the crown asking one of the witnesses which he was for, plaintiff or defendant-Plaintiff o defendant! says the sailor, scratch-bottom, the little urchin bit him

or

A father holding his little son across his knees, and spanking his

severely on the leg; on which his parent said, You young dog, how dare you bite me ? The boy turned his head, and looking him in the face, said, Father, who began first? Tickler.

ing his head, why I don't know what you mean by plaintiff or defendant. I came to speak for that man there! pointing at the prisoner.-You are a pretty fellow for a witness, says the counsel, not to know what plaintiff or defendanı means -Some time after, being asked by the same counsel what part of the ship he was in at the time, Abaft the binnacle, my lord, says the sailor. Abaft the binnacle replied the barrister, What part of the ship is that ?-Ha! ha! ha! chuckled the sailor, are not you a pretty fellow for a counsellar, "way.

A NEVER FAILING RECIPE.

A young clergyman having bu ried three wives, a lady asked him how he happened to be so lucky? Madam, replied he, I knew they could not live without contradiction so I let all of them have their own

LADY'S MISCELLA NY
NEW-YORK, April 25. 1812.

"Be it our task,

To note the passing tidings of the times.

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TREMENDOUS EARTHQUAKE.

Our Baltimore Correspondent, hav. ing favoured us with a proof-sheet of the Federal Gazette, enables us to anticipate the following melancholy particu. lars of an Earthquake at Carraccas, La guira, &c.

"By captain Betts, from Laguira, we learn, that on the 26th of March, at 4 o'clock, P. M. there was a severe shock of an Earthquake, which `des. troyed nearly the whole of the city of Carraccas, and all the town of Laguira, with all the neighbouring villages-ten thousand people were buried in the ru ins; two thousand five hundred in La. guira-one American only perished, viz. Mr. Crowell, of New York. Four shocks were heard and felt on the night || following, not heavy enough to do any damage. On the 27th, the survivors were employed in digging the dead from under the ruins, putting them in large lighters, carrying them outside of the shipping, and burying them in the

sea. On the 28th, the sea wasso rough as to prevent them taking the dead off then they built a large fire near the wharf, and commenced burning them, and burned about forty at a time in one are. On the 29th, the stench bad become so bad that they quit digging the dead from under the ruins. All the survivors pitched tents of the plains of Magetere. On the 4th of April, there was a very hard shock, which made the vessels tremble as if they had been on a reef of rocks in a heavy sea-and from on board the Independence, we could see the mountains move like a ship in a heavy sea, and large pieces scaling off them. At half past 5, the Independence sailed, so that we could not tell what damage had been done.

'Robert K, Lowry, esq writes from Laguira, under date of third instant, and mentions the confusion and dismay as indescribable; following the destruction by earthquake, is a terrible scene of rob. bery. He was preparing to sail imme. diately, with what he could snatch from the hands of plunderers, to Porto Ca vello, which had escaped the shock

N. Y. Gaz.

Extract of a letter from a lady of infor mation at Natchez ( Missisippi Teri ̧ ttry) to a respectable lady in this town, dated March 7.

'Since the date of your letter, we have had violent and repeated Earthquakes, which have rendered the naviga ion of the Missisippi river extremely dangerous There have been instances of Islands sinking, during those shocks. Above Natchez, there was a body of land, thought to be 300 acres, totally sunk. It is asserted by a gentleman of veracity, that during 12 days of perpetual motion (great part of which time he was on the river) an is

land sunk so efiectually, that he floated over the tops of trees. He likewise asserts that an island on which he had landed, moved a considerable distance down the river during the night. Between this place and Tennessee, there has been char coal thrown up in abundance. I think it truly alarming, both to the Christian and the sinner-The savages of this southern clime appeared very much terrified ¡— some of them having migrated among the whites, hastily retired to their own boundary.'

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Married.

On Tuesday evening last, by the rev, Mr. Moore, Mr. Samuel White, to Mrs Ann Bergh, both of this city.

At Newark, Frederick Rook, of New. York, to Miss Mary H. Stights.

At Newark, John Coleman to Miss Polly Brown.

On Sunday evening last by the rev. Dr.

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On Thursday evening the 17th inst Mr. Thomas Ramage, aged 40 years.

On Sunday morning last, after a short iliness, Mr Peter Crighton, in the 52d year of his age.

On Wednesday morning last, Captain James Deas, at his late residence in New Jersey.

On Wednesday morning last, Thomas Halsey, youngest son of John Halsey, of this city, aged 3 years and 6 months.

Suddenly, at his house in Stoke, Eng, land. Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, Bart commander in chief of the Channel fleet.

In England, the lady of Sir J. Yorke :

Apollo struck the enchanting Lyre,
The Muses sung in strains alternate.'

SELECTED.

For the Lady's Miscellany.

The following tender and beautiful stanzas are copied from a late London Courier. They cannot fail to warm the finest feelings of the human heart. The lover of chaste and delicate poe. try, the fond Parent, and the pious Christian, will each peruse them with pecular interest and delight:

ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD
AT DAY BREAK.

(By the late Rev. Richard Cecil.) "Let me go for the day breaketh."

"Cease here no longer to detain me :

Fondest Mother drown'd in woe: Now thy kind carresses pain me, Morn advances-let me go.

See yon orient streak appearing!
Harbinger of endless day:
Hark! a voice the darkness cheering,
Calle my new born soul away!

Lately Launched a trembling Stranger, On the world's wild boisterous flood, Pierced with sorrow, tossed with danger Gladly I return to God.

Now my cries shall cease to grieve thee

Now my trembling heart find rest; Kinder arms than thise receive me,

Softer pillow than thy breast.

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Weep not o'er these eyes that languish, Upward turning towards their Home: Raptured they will forget all anguish, While they wait to see thee come.

There my Mother, pleasures enter

Weeping, Parting, Care or Woe Ne'er our Father's House shall enterMorn advances let me go.

Asthrough this calm, this holy dawning
Silent glides my parting breath,
To an everlasting morning,-
Gently close my eyes in death.

Blessings endless, richest blessings,

Pour their straams upon thy heart! (Though no language yet possessing) Breathes my spirit ere we part.

Yet to leave thee sorrowing rends me,

though again his voice I hear: Rise! may every grace attend thee, Rise! and seek to meet me there."

Mr. Editor, The following striking lines, copied from an old English Magazine for the year 1785, would, I have no doubt, be acceptable to most of your readers, by republishing them you will much oblige a friend to intrinsic worth.

"A PICTURE OF SUICIDE." "Ah! see beneath yon Abbey wall,

Where thick the mantling ivy grows; Crown'd by wide yew and cypress tall, Which shade the stream that mournful flow's.

There prone on yon bare joyless bank,
A sullen spectre listless lies:
Nor heeds bleak winds, nor vapours
dark,

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