Your true sublime, and lorn pathetick, She will abhor, like an emetick.

But if so fortunate your case is,
That love is built on friendship's basis,
Not a mere wild and wanton fire,
But pure esteem, and chaste desire;

What time a thousand tender arts
Denote a unison of hearts,

When half express'd, half stifled sigh,
And timid glance from downcast eye
Appear expressively unique,

With crimson flush of beauty's cheek;

And all in tender tone proclaim

That hopes and wishes are the same ;
Unite assenting hearts and hands,
In gentle Hymeneal bands;

Then may you fondly hope to prove
The tranquil sweets of wedded love,
While rapture crowns each passing day,
Till life and love at once decay!

THE CARRIER

OF THE

COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER,

TO HIS PATRONS.*

THAT unaccommodating churl,
Who keeps things ever on the whirl,
Old daddy TIME, for aye careering,
Has piloted another year in ;

And in the course of last year's flight, he
Has brought about affairs so mighty,
Such a most wonderful, immense

Concatenation of events,

That your most humble servant flatters

Himself a hint of some vast matters

This personage has set afloat, is

Well worth your honour's worship's notice.

I don't say I am very knowing In all the great affairs now going;

* Written for January 1st, 1806.

But hope my recapitulation,

(Though not a notable narration)
May serve, by way of retrospection,
As prompter to your recollection,
As index to newspaper knowledge
As well as if t'were made in college;

And, with your honour's leave, I'll aim,
To interweave the mighty claim

Your humble carrier inherits

By virtue of prodigious merits,

More than in weeks he could lay down t’ye To smack a little of your bounty.

Laden with all important budget, Thro' wet and dry I'm doom'd to trudge it, "News from all nations," precious particles, By last arrivals, all prime articles ;Though tempest-beaten, hot or frigerant, I tell you how the powers belligerent, Enrag'd to desperate degree, rose,

And hack'd each other like true heroes.

And

you

have learn'd from Tom the carrier,

How Britain, Buonaparte's barrier,

Won't let the mushroom Gallick king, land

His ragamuffin rogues in England!

A very unpolite proceeding,

Which shows old John Bull's want of breeding.

How Mister emperour Buonapart

As quick as lightning took a start,

Fierce as nine furies to attack

The troops of old snail-motion'd Mack,
Who, with less trouble was surrounded
Than ever cross grain'd pig was pounded ;-
How Bony swears he means to flirt
Proud Austria's eagle in the dirt;

But lo! the hardy Russ is hasting
To give the Jaffa-man a basting;
And Prussia's monarch, rous'd at last,
War's crimson'd Rubicon has past,
And undertakes to lead the van,
Against the Harlequin Corsican.

I've plac'd in ken of mental sight,

A most tremendous naval fight,

Where Nelson bold, Britannia's pride,
Heroick fought, and nobly died.

I've worn out many a pair of shoes
In bringing you domestick news,

That you in corner snug may con
How congress spouters carry on-
How titman Johnny had the face
To set himself to hunt judge Chase,
Indeed, the monkey of a fel-

Low in a mouse trap might as well
Have all so slily undertaken,

To snare a mammoth, or a kraken.

I've told you how the demo rout
Are balancing to come about,

And having, by old Nick's seduction,
Got half way down the hill Destruction,
Would very willingly get back,

And trace the good old federal track ;-
Yes, having sacrific'd our navy,

And sold our commerce to old Davy,

Sans sailors, skill, or naval stores,

They'd conjure up fine seventy fours ;-
And, having plunder'd and bereft us,

Would bring us back where Adams left us.