a knight, yet most who were present now rejoiced at his death, for his strength had always been unjustly and tyrannically employed. (Concluded.) SELECTED. For the Lady's Miscellany. VALLEY FORGE. Shall we be accused of presump. tion in attempting to celebrate the virtues of Washington? We shall not. We may discover a want of abilities; but we must not neglect to pour forth the effusions of grate ful minds because we are unable to clothe them in the most elegant expressions. Wisdom and igno rance should mingle their voices in the celebration of his actions; and every American should. speak. with rapturous pride, of the hero of America. Babes sould be taught to lisp the praise of the saviour of their country, and the ears of infancy should be accustomed to the music of his name.. But, carried away by a pleasing subject we have forgoten the camp at Valley Forge: it was situated on the west side of Schuyl kill about 25 miles from Philadelphia; Patriotism might make a pilgrimage to visit the place; and there, if we may be allowed to make use of a hackneyed but expressive quotation, should be esected a monument sacred to the memory of the time that tried men's souls.' When the Greeks had repelled the Persian power, and the blessings of peace were experienced in their land, they manifested their piety gratitude and patrio ism by building temples to the gods and erecting monuments o those who had perished in battle. The question has been often asked: and we will ask it again: What tempe has America constructed for the Deity? What columns of remerub.ance has she raised for the heroes who have perished in her cause? The Geeks instituted sacrifices and tune al solemnities to be pe‹ formed annu ay: in which the fi si fiui's of their country wore off red to the gods preservers of Greece, and to the souls of the eroes who had died in its defence: What yearly honors does America pay to the God of armies for his kindness? What annua offe ng does see present to the brave spiri s of those who devoted themselves for their country? The Greeks inscribed the names of those who fell in battle on pullars of marble: the traveller in after ages, passing over the fields of Marathon and Plate... breathed a sigh to the mernory of his fath es, and felt his own heart expand with the love of glory. When the sons of America pass over the s. ot where battles were fought, were freedom was purchased with blood: The backwardness of our nation in eecing monuments to those who trode the fields of danger in the revolu onary war, is universally reproba ed.. Those who speak or white on the subject, en. deavour to Touse us from our apa of *a ought to feel for those who secured our freedom by meir wisdom, or purchased our independence with their blood. This ought to be a powerful motive with virtuous minds: this alone should be suf ficient to direct the energies humane people to the object proposed-but the enlightened and patriotic legislator should-be urged forward by motives more poweful even than this Every na• tional work is the common property of the nation: it is a bond of union which binds the community together, and stamps the character of notion on the whole. Every'èrection of this kind establishes a new point of union, a new centre for the affections of the people. These works become objects of common interest, common pride, und common love to the community. A historian having spoken of the battle of Thermopyæ, ob serves, two sauctures of marble marked the place of the engage-thy by dwelling on the gratitude we ment, with inscriptions which remained many ages: and which having been recorded by Herodo tus, will now prab ibly be secured by the press against perishing while the world shall last. One was in honor of the Peloponesians, codectvely-the other commemiotaled the Lacedemonians who fell with their prince. -Wen sonie Greek of Peloponnesus,in succeeding times, passed by this place and read, Here four thousand men from Peshonnosus fought with three millions, his heart mast bave swelled with patriotic pride, and 31 soul must have gioried in bis country. Coud this Peloponne elan, afterwards have acted cowardly in battle? Having read this inscription, would he have thrawn away his shield, or turned his back upon his enemies? But let any man of any nation, pecuse the sublime inscrip.ion on this otherch eas of marble: it is the voice fram the grave, of Leonidas & his Spartans; Stranger! goted the Luce. demonians that sue lie here in obedience to their luws! We repeat; We will suppose for a moment that our government should build a magnificent temple to the Deity to the God of our fathers. who brought them out of the house of 9 of the ocean; who planted them in the wilderness; and has converted that wilderness into a land flowing with milk and honey;' who inspired them with courage to contend for their liberties: who raised up for them a deliverer: who held his shield before their Washington in the day of battle ; who gave that Washington genius to devise, and courage to carry his plans into execution: who inspir. ed their sages in council with wisdora to frame a constitution of gov ernment: and, finally, who, from such small beginnings, has made them a great and a powerful people-Suppose the Temple already built: A true picture of Human weakness in the story of M. T. and of Knavish flattery in that of V. The M. Tinherited a large fortune from his ancesto s, and augmented it by a marriage with an heiress, and the revenues of several lucrative employments, which he discharged with honor and dexterity. He was at last wise enough to consider, that life was not to be devoted wholly to accumulation and therefore resigned his emprovments, reti ed to his estate, and applied himself to the education of his children, and the cultivation of domestic happiness. He passed several years in this pleasing amusement, and saw,his care recon pensed by its effects; his daughters were celebrated for modesty and elegance, and his sons for learning, prudence and spirit. In time the eagerness, with which all the neighbouring gentlemen courted his alliance, obliged him to resign his daughters to other famalies: the vivacity and curiosity of his sons huried them out of rural privacy into the open world from whence they had not very soon an inclination to return. This however, was to more than he had always hoped he therefore pleased himself with the success of his schemes, and felt none of the inconveniences of so ude till an apoplexy deprived him of his wife. The M. That no companion,'" and the maladies d increasing years took from in much of the per of procuring amusement faimseit be hectare mought it necessary to procure some interior fread, who might ease him of his œconomical solicitudes, and divert him by cheerful conversation. The soon recollected all these qualides in V a clerk in one of the offices, over which he had former ly presided, V was the efore invited to visit his old patron, and being by his station necessarily aċquainted with the present modies of life, and by constant practice dextrous in business, entertained him with so many nove,des, and so readily disentangled his affans, that his presence was thought the principal cons.ituent of happiness, and he was desired to resign his clerkship, and accept a liberal 'salary in the house of M T. The clerk Vhd always lived in a state of dependence, and was therefore well versed in all the arts by which favour is obtain ed, and having been long accustomed to repress all starts of resentment, and sallies of confidence could without any repugnance or hesitation accommodate himself to every caprice, adopt every opinion, and echo every assertion. He never doubted but to be convinced nor ever attempted opposition but totter the M. T with the opinion of a vic oy. By this practice he made way quickly into the heart of his pa on, and having first made himself a, recabie, son became important." His i sites diti: esce, by ich the laziness of age was gratifi d, soon engrossed the managen.cnt of all affairs, and his wam pofessions of kindness pety offices of civil y, and occasional intercession, prevailed on the tenams to consider him as their friend and bene lector, to consult aum in all cheir schemes, and to ened his .einforcement of their repesonations of hard y a:s, and his com enjuice to petition for a batement of rent.. had now ban The M. T quenes on flat ery, till he could no longer bear the harshness of remonstrance or the insipidity of wu. All contrairety to his own opinion shocked him like a violation of some na u alight, and all. recommendation of his affairs to his own inspection was dreaded by him as a summons to torture. His children were alarmed by the sudden riches of the CV, but their complains were hard by their father with impatience, and their advice rejected with rage, as the result of a conspiracy against his quiet, and a design to condemn him for their own advantage to groan out his last hots in perplex and feared by those who have discovered the heart in which it lurks. ity and drudgery. The daughters retired with tears in their eyes. but the son continued his impor tunities,till he found his inheritance bazarded by his obstinacy. The Clerk V having thus triumph-destroys mutual confidence, and ed over all the efforts, continued to confirm himself in authority and increase his acquisitions, and at the death of his master purchased an estate, and bade defiance to cuiqury and justice. For the Lady s Miscellany. Mr Printer, If you should think, from this Specimen, that the correspondence of a friend to truth. will be agree able to your readers, you will by a short hint hear farther from, A Friend to Truth TO MISS Livid and meagre are her looks, her eve, In foul distorted glances turns away; ed weep, Nor lulls her malice with a moment's sleep, Restless in spite, while watchful to de stroy, She pines and sickens at another's joy; Of all the diseases of the soul, if we may venture to call violent affections by that name, that of envy is the most dangerous to its competitors, the most corrosive to Its possessors, and the most hated A rancorous tongue is the terror of socie y, and the poison that good will among neighbours.-It is the certain attendant of an envious temper: and tho' merit has ever found admirers, yet she in general has found envy likewise uking in the train-Nothing can be more descried than this affecion,ye' it may be doubted whet cr the bes and most exalted minds have not been too fequently influenced by it. The most celebrated wits of all ages have complained of it, and many of tham have employed their pens in satirizing it, at the very instant that they have been actuated by it--Whoever thought himself injured more severely by envy than M Pope, and yet who more cubject to it? His lines on Mr. Addison, who, ac cording to him, was the most jealous man breathing of a rival are wrote not only in the true spirit of poetry, but with such a feeling sensibility of the injury done to bimself, and of its pernicious ef¬ fects to rising genius, that we should little expect to have seen a vice usurping an almost entire dominion eve him who saw its consequences in so uue and so striking a light. I hope no one will think that while I wing against envy, I am endeavouring to lessen the nieits of this accomplished female : |