Knit every joint, and every finew strung: /
Gave grace to morion, to exertion ease,
A mien unrivalled, and a power to please.
She crown'd him with perception's brightest
beam,

Now o'er my heart hope theds no figeting

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She bath'd his heart in Friendship's facred
stream,
O'er his 'fine form her radiant mantle threw,
And with his ftrength her choicest talents

grew.

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01 Gifts neglected-Talents misapplied Favours contemned and Fortune unenjoy'd! At this fad farine the ferious man may find A fubject faited to engage his mind;

And the rain youth, who runs his wild ca

How drear-how mournful is yon terrace grown,

Where first my breast love's flutt ring transport knew, Yet will I think-tho' every bop is flown, Fann'd by her fmile how foft the raptures grew!

Genius of Pity! fympathetic Maid!

Who feeft me thus the path of anguish tread,

Wilt thou ne'er footh these forrows that invade,

Nor raise from mifery affliction's head? Va'n-vain the figh that from my bosom treats,

In vain my knee I bend to Pity': shrine, For ah! too plain my cheerless bofom feels, It heaves for bluss that NEVER can be mine!

Hope! hope! to thee a love-lorn fuppliant stoops, From mis'ry's pang, oh! where's the bourne to five Hope, with my head, in filent sadness droops, And points her trembling finger-to the

On feeing Hoar-Froft on the Ringlets of a beautiful and charitable young Lady. By Dr. TROTTER. (Written in 1795.)

ASK rot why on fair Lucy's cheek

The pinching season, cold and bleak,
Has strew'd these locks with froft:
Why o'er that bosom, white as snow,
The shivering ringlets sem to flow,
As if its warmth was loft?

That breast may feem to lofe its heat,
O'er which the winds so rudely beat,
That heart is lifeless sure:
Ah no! 'tis only gone to roam,
Awhile it leaves its lacid home,

To warm the neighbouring poor.
Devonshire.

SPECIMEN OF A POETICAL VERSION OF THE DEATH OF ABEL.

BY W. HOLLOWAY.

INTRODUCTION.

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Bled, by a Brother's hand, at Envy's shrine!
Ye noble ardors that inspire the foul,
And thro' the Poet's raptur'd bofom roll,
When at night's filent, folitary hour,
He feeks the thick grove, or the gloomy

bow'r,

Or marks the Moon's pale lamp, its filver gleam

Caft on fome lonely, undulating stream-
When bold Imagination wings her flight
To worlds unknown and realms of endlefs
light,

Where thousand wonders in fucceffion rife, And nameless beauties charm her ravish'd eyes

Return! return! with glorious treasures fraught,

By wife Economy, and Reasen taught,
What, 'midft the vast variety, to chuse,
Prompt to adopt, and steady to refuse.

Delightful task! O Constancy divine! Blest be the bard who bows to Virtue's

While the proud Conqueror's trophies all shall fade, Where human feet no vent'rous track have made,

And the mausoleum, crumbling from its base, Forgets its glories, and resigns its grace!

Amidst the tuneful train, how few afpire,

repole,

On themes divine, with rapt'rous notes te
dwell,
And claim the envied praise of finging well?
To this I confecrate my nobleft pow'rs,
My folitary walks, and all my lonely hours!
E. India House, Jan. 1, 1799.

In the name name of GEORGE WASHINGGod, Amen. TON, of Mount Ver. non, a Citizen of the United States, and lately President of the fame, do make, ordain, and declare this instrument,

which is written with my own hand, and every page thereof subscribed with my name, to be my last Will and Testament, revoking all others.

Imprimis. All my debts, of which

there are but few, and none of magnitude, are to be punctually and speedily paid; and the legacies hereafter be queathed are to be discharged as soon as circumstances will permit, and in the manner directed.

Bem. To my dearly beloved wife, Martha Washington, I give and be queath the use, profit, and benefit of my whole eftate, real and perfonal, for the term of her natural life, except such parts thereof as are specially disposed of hereafter. My improved lot in the town of Alexandria, Gruated in Pitt and Cameron streets, I give to her and her heirs for ever, as also I do my household and kitchen furniture of every fort and kind, with the liquors and groceries which may be on hand at the time of my decease, to be used and disposed of as may think proper.

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Item. Upon the decease of my wife, it is my will and defire that all the slaves which I hold in my own right shall receive their freedom. To emancipate them during her life would, though earnestly wished by me, be attended with fuch infuperable difficulties, on account of their intermixture by marriages with the dower negroes, as to excite the most painful sensations, if not difagreeable consequences, from the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor, it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them. And whereas among those who will receive freedom according to this demise, there may be some whofrom old age or bodily infirmities, and others who, on account of their infancy, will be unable to fupport themselves, it is my will and defire that all who come under the first and fecond description, shall be comfortably clothed and fed by my heirs while they live; and that such of the latter description as have no parents living, or if living are unable or unwilling to provide for them, shall be bound by the Court till they shall arrive at the age of twenty-five years; and in cases where norecord can be produced whereby their ages can be ascertained, the judgment of the Court, upon its own view of the fubject, shall be adequate and final. The negroes thus bound are (by their masters or mistresses) to be taught to read and write, and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of orphan and

other poor children. And I do hereby expressly forbid the sale or transportation out of the faid Commonwealth, of any slave I may die possessed of, under any pretence whatsoever. And I do moreover most folemnly and most pointedly enjoin it upon my executors hereafter named, or the furvivor of them, to fee that this clause respecting flaves, and every part thereof, be religiously fulfilled at the epoch at which it is directed to take place, without evasion, neglect, or delay, after the crops, which may then be in the ground, are harvested, particularly as it respects the aged and infirm; seeing that a regular and permanent fund be established for their support as long as there are subjects re quiring it, not trusting to the uncertain provision to be made by individuals.

Item. To the Trustees (Governors, or by whatsoever name they may be de fignated) of the Academy in the town of Alexandria, I give and bequeath (in trust) four thousand dollars, or, in other words, twenty of the shares which I hold in the Bank of Alexandria, towards the. support of a free-school, established at and annexed to the said Academy, for the purpose of educating such orphan children, or the children of such other poor and indigent persons as are unabie to accomplish it with their own means; and who, in the judgment of the Truftees of the faid seminary, are best entitled to the benefit of this donation. The aforesaid twenty shares I give and bequeath in perpetuity: the dividends only of which are to be drawn for, and applied by, the faid Trustees for the time being, for the uses above mentioned: the stock to remain entire and untouched, unless indications of failure of the faid Bank should be so apparent, or a discontinuance thereof should render the removal of this fund neceffary. In either of these cafes, the amount of the stock here devised is to be vested in some other Bank, or public institution, whereby the interest may with regularity and certainty be drawn and applied as above. And, to prevent mifconception, my meaning is, and is hereby declared to be, that these twenty shares are in lieu of, and not in addition to, the twenty thousand pounds given by a massive letter some years ago; in consequence whereof an annuity of fifty pounds has since been paid towards the fupport of this inftitution.

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commonwealth of Virginia, enacted in the year 1785, the Legislature thereof was pleased, as an evidence of its approbation of the services I had rendered the public during the Revolution, and partly, I believe, in confideration of my having fuggefted the vast advantages which the community would derive from the extenfion of its inland navigation, under Legislative patronage, to present me with one hundred shares, of one hundred dollars each, in the incorporated company established for the purpose of extending the navigation of James River, from Tide water to the mountains; and alfo with fifty shares, of one hundred pounds fterling each, in the corporation of another company, likewise established for the fimilar purpose of opening the navigation of the River Potomac,

from Tidewater to Fort Cumberland; the acceptance of which, though the offer was highly honourable and grateful to my feelings, was refused, as inconfiftent with a principle which I had adopted, and never departed from, namely, not so receive pecuniary compenfation for any fervices I could render my country in its arduous struggle with Great Britain for its rights, and because I had evaded fimilar propositions from other States in the Union. Adding to this re. fufal, however, an intimation, that, if it should be the pleasure of the Legislature to permit me to appropriate the faid shares to public ufes, I would receive tnem on those terms with due sensibility; and this it having confented to in flatrering teams, as will appear by a subsequent law, and sundry refolutions, in the moft ample and honourable manner; I proceed, after this recital, for the more correct understanding of the cafe, to declare that it has always been a source of ferious regret with me to fee the Youth of these United States sent to Foreign Countries for the purpose of Education, often before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own, contracting too frequently not only habits of dufipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to Republican Government, and to the true and genuine Liberties of Mankind, which thereafter are rarely overcome. For these reafons, it has been my ardent with to fee a plan devised on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency to spread fytematic ideas through all parts of this rifing Empire, thereby to do away local

attachments and stale prejudices as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought, to admit from our National Councils. Looking anxioufly forward to the accomplishment of so defirable an object as this is (in my estimation), my mind has not been able to contemplate any plan more likely to effect the measure than to establish a University in a central part of the United States, to which the youths of fortune and talents, from all parts thereof, might be sent for the com pletion of their Education in all the branches of polite Literature, in Arts and Sciences, in acquiring knowledge in the principles of Politics and good Government, and (as a matter of infinite importance in my judgment), by affo. ciating with each other, and forming friendship in juvenile years, be enabled to free themfelves, in a proper degree, from those local prejudices and habirual jealoufies which have just been mentioned, and which, when earried to ex. cess, are never-farling sources of dif quietude to the public mind, and pregnant with mifchievous confequences to this Country: under these impreffions fo fully dilated,

Item, I give and bequeath, in perpetuity, the go fhares I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginis), towards the endowment of an University to be established within the limits of the diftrict of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government, if that Government should incline to extend a foltering hand towards it; and until fuch seminary is established, and the funds arifing in those thares shall be re. quired for its fupport, my further will and defire is, that the profit accruing therefrom shall, whenever the dividends are made, be laid out in purchasing flock in the Bank of Columbia, or fome orlier Bank, at the diferetion of my Executors, or by the Treasurer of the United States for the time being, under the direction of Congress, provided that honourable body should patronise the measure ; and the dividends proceeding from the pur. chase of such a stock are to be vested in more stock, and fo on unul a fum adequate to the accomplishment of the object is obtained; of which I have not the smallest doubt before many years pass away, even if no aid or encouragement be given by Legiflative authority, or from any other fource.

Item. The hundred shares which I hold