With an engraved Plate, reprefenting Curbs, &c. used in procuring Wells of fresh Water. NEW-YORK: PRINTED BY THOMAS AND JAMES SWORDS,' No. 27, WILLIAM-STREET. -1792. To Correfpondents. The Ode to Peace is unfortunately miflaid-If our Correspondent will be fo good as to furnish us with another copy, we shall endeavour to give it a place next month. W.W. by examining his piece will find a few alterations neceffary-If he will make these, and send us a correct сору, it fhall appear. Several other communications are received, and under confideration. For the NEW-YORK MAGAZINE. The DRON E.-No. II. Who noble ends, by noble means obtains, NONTENTMENT of mind, and refignation to the allotments of providence, are the only fecurities to which a rational being can truft in the pursuit of happiness. The firft of thefe enables us to look upon the pleasures of luxury and diffipation with indifference, the fecond to endure the fhafts of adverse fortune with fortitude and patience; and both give us the complete mastery of ourselves. Are we to be in continual purfuit of enjoyment from objects that we have not, to the neglect of those which we have? Or, fhall we hold a continual warfare with adverfity, and fighting die, when yielding we might conquer? Are we to quarrel with misfortune, that he may be at peace with us; and lofe that by uneafinefs, which we could gain by contentment ?-Far otherwife-Let us bury all our fufferings in oblivion; let us refolve to forget them, instead of fighting with them, and rather be reconciled to our condition, than quarrel with the divine difpenfations. Thofe evils which we cannot overcome, let us fubmit to; and learn in whatever circumftances we are placed, therewith to be con ESSAY ON MAN. tent. Inftead of aqua fortis, let us pour in the oil and wine-Let us endeavour to fweeten the bitter cup of life, and render it tolerable, if we cannot render it pleasant.-The contemplation of our misfortunes and afflictions ferves only to increase their magnitude, and render us uneafy under their weight. He muft faint under the apprehenfion of future afflictions, who feels himself finking under his prefent, and who has paffed his whole life under the rod.-Let us then endeavour to cultivate a spirit of contentment and refignation-Let us cultivate a habit of reflecting, that whatever does happen, ought to happen-that to rise above our afflictions would render us haughty-that to fink beneath them would be degrading to human nature. True fortitude does not confift in combating our enemies, or quarrelling with our misfortunes; but in the fubjugation of our own paffions, and a firmnefs of mind amidst all our affictions. He who fubdues mankind increafes not his own happiness, but their mifery. He who conquers his enemies, conquers men,-conquers flaves-But he who has the government of his own paffions, fubdues him who difdains a fuperior.-Miferable indeed muft he be, who expects that happiness from a laurelled fceptre, which is only to be found in a contented mind; and who thinks that greatness to confift in the fubjugation of the whole human fpecies, which is only to be obtained by conquering himfeif.The fovereigns of the world are but a higher order of flaves without the conqueft of themselves. They may repofe upon a bed of down, under a canopy of gold :-They may feed upon the dainties of earth and fea-and kings may minifter to their neceffities:-Yet, while their paffions are unfubdued; while they are ambitious of future conquests, they are flayes to the greatest defpots on earth -their own paffions. It was this which made Alexander weep when he had no more kings to conquer;- LEANDER and ADELISA: DELISA, poffeft of beauty, and here was his folly-Had he conquered himself, he might have dried the tear of difappointment from his cheek, reftored mankind to liberty, and been happy.-But no fuch forrows are the lot of him who is truly great. If invested with authority, he poffeffes it with meeknefs; if placed in a low fituation, he endures it with firmness. This fuperiority we may all gain over our moft inveterate enemiesThey may lay their hand upon usthey may load us with irons-they may plunge us in the dungeon ;-but it is not in their power to make us miferable. They have conquered the body-but greater than they, we have overcome the foul.-Poffeffing this greatnefs of mind, tho' stretched upon a wifp of ftraw, we can cast a careless glance thro' the fordid grate, nor envy kings their crowns. ATALE.-From the Obferver. though her victory was accomplished A fortune, rank, and every cle- at the expence of more tender glances gant accomplishment that genius and education could beftow, was withal fo infupportably capricious, that the feemed born to be the torment of every heart which fuffered itself to be attracted by her charms. Though her coquetry was notorious to a proverb, fuch were her allurements, that very few, upon whom the thouit fit to practile them, had ever found refolution to refift their power. Of all the victims of her vanity, Leander feemed to be that over whom he threw her chains with the greatest air of triumph; he was indeed a conqueft to boast of, for he had long and obftinately defended his heart, and for a time made as many reptifals upon the tender paffions of her fex as the railed contributions upon his : her better ftar at length prevailed; the beheld Leander at her feet; and than fhe had ever bestowed upon the whole fex collectively, yet it was a victory, which only piqued Adelifa to render his flavery the more intolerable for the trouble it had cost her to reduce him to it. After fhe had trifled with him, and tortured him in every way that her ingenious malice could devife, and made such public difplay of her tyranny, as fubjected him to the ridicule and contempt of all the men who had envied his fuccefs, and every woman who refented his neglect, Ádelifa avowedly difmiffed him as an object which could no longer furnish fport to her cruelty, and turned to other pursuits with a kind of indifference as to the choice of them, which feemed to have no other guide but mere caprice. Leander was not wanting to himfelf in the efforts he now made to free hardest as well as the most hazardous fhe had ever undertaken: she at tempted to throw him off his guard by a pretended pity for his past fufferings, and a promife of kinder ufage for the future: he denied that he had fuffered any thing, and affured her that he never failed to be amused by her humours, which were perfectly agreeable to him at all times. harmony everlaftingly repeated? . Whatever other varieties I may then debar myfelf of, let me at least find a variety of whim in the woman I am to be fettered to. Upon my free himself from her chains; but it was in vain; the hand of beauty had wrapped them too closely about his heart, and love had rivetted them too fecurely, for reason, pride, or even the strongest struggles of refentment to throw them off; he continued to love, to hate, to execrate and adore her. His first refolution was to exile himself from her fight; this was a measure of abfolute neceffity, for he Then it is plain,' replied the, was not yet recovered enough to abide ⚫ that you never thought of me as a the chance of meeting her, and he wife; for fuch humours must be had neither fpirits nor inclination to infupportable to a husband.'-' ParStart a fresh attachment by way of don me,' cried Leander, if ever I experiment upon her jealoufy.-For-fhould be betrayed into the idle act tune however befriended him in the of marriage, I must be in one of very moment of defpair, for no thofe very humours myself: defend fooner was he out of her fight, than me from the dull uniformity of dothe coquettish Adelifa found fome-meftic life! What can be fo inthing wanting, which had been fofipid as the tame strain of nuptial familiar to her, that Leander, though despised when poffeft, when loft, was regretted. In vain fhe culled her numerous admirers for fome one to replace him; continually peevish and difcontented, Adelifa became fo in-word,' exclaimed Adelifa, you tolerable to her lovers, that there feemed to be a fpirit conjuring up amongst them, which threatened her with a general desertion. What was to be done? Her danger was alarming, it was imminent: fhe determined to recal Leander: fhe informed herself of his haunts, and threw herfelf in the way of a rencountre; but he avoided her: chance brought them to an interview, and she began by rallying him for his apoftacy: there was an anxiety under all this affected pleasantry, that he could not thoroughly conceal, and he did not fail to discover: He inftantly determined upon the very wifeft meafure which deliberation could have formed; he combated her with her own weapons; he put himself ap would almoft perfuade me that we 'were deftined for each other.This fhe accompanied with one of thofe looks in which he was most expert, and which was calculated at once to infpire and to betray fenfibility Leander, not yet fo certain of his obfervations as to confide in them, feemed to receive this overture as a raillery, and affecting a laugh, replied, I do not think it is in the power of deftiny herself to determine either of us; for if you ⚫ was for one moment in the humour to promise yourself to me, I am certain in the next you would retract it; and if I was fool enough to believe you, I fhould well deferve to be punished for my credulity: Hymen will never yoke us to each o parently fo much at eafe, and coun-ther, nor to any body elfe; but if terfeited his part fo well, as effectually to deceive her: fhe had now a new task upon her hands, and the you are in the mind to make a very harmless experiment of the little faith I put in all fuch promises, here is |