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- ta- mlgs. no sea {rm rattan-r; ‘ H I S .cosnmon- sayingﬁoes as much mischief "in society as stats on punt Iran. If Idsear a man, whether a farmer, a mechanic. or any ether person, often repeat that saying, and appearsto act from the opi- nion, that is will defer the gums. I relyton

it he is a slaven, adrone, Or something.

worse. I never knew sucha man thrive.—. A young man, settin out in life, .is in haste to be married. e wants a house to i'live'in, but is not fully able to build one. ’ Yethis pride requires'a large‘sliowy house. At lam-between poverty and pride, he de- terminest build a iarge house, but not to ﬁnishit ti 1 he is my; 0171:. He shut up a Iarge'three story house,L with four rooms in a s'tory—hecovers it, and paints it red.— This isa showy hoiise. His pride exults to aee‘passcngers stare at his elegant house— but though pridegoverns the outside; psi-amt} reigns ‘witbin. He can ﬁnish but two rooms, half ﬁnish one or two more—and lay a loose Ecor above to Spread his tuneup‘on—s-this elegant mansion house then is a granary-— a cornhouse—the man and a litter of ‘chil drcn.below-.—-and rataarzd mice above : but the man says it will do ﬁr its present.— True, but the man has but twenty.' or thirty- acres of ” land, or=an indiﬂ‘erent trade—ibis family grows faster than his in- come. the coveringsoon deeays,- andadmnits water ; the house falis. to pieces—the man is forced, poor", into the Wilderness,.or he and his chil- dren loiter about, dependent on their neigh. boursrforitsbeistence by. day labours“. [know one ofthese defer the pram! [an men, who never. effectually repairs his ten- ces: but-whena breach is made, he fills it .with a‘bush, that a shee may remover—if a rail he broke, and anot er be 'not‘ at hand, he takes the next billet ofwood,‘ inserts one end in the post, andties up the other with elm‘ "Vin-hickory bark—he says, :41} will do for tbl'prumt. ‘ His cattle learn to be un- ruly. 'l‘oremedy the evil, fetrcrs, shackles, clogs, yokes, and "what he calls pairs are in- vented 5 and his cattle-and horses are doom- ed to bobble about.~théir pasture, with an hundred weight of wooden or iron machines, about their feet and necks. The than him- self, in two years, spends time enough in patching up his fence: and'making felters, to make a good andeﬁectual fence round his whole farm, which would want verylit- tle rcpais'mgin twenty years. ‘ ‘ ' _ In_ family. alfa'r‘s'. these Jyﬁrrbrprush felts double their necessary labour. They r laboui'hnr‘d to put things out of order—and

then it requiicc nearly the same work to put .

' thtm 'in'toiordcr-again. . A man uses an axe, ’a hoe, a‘s'rode, and‘thro'ws it‘ down where he uses- it—insteadof: putting it its proper place under cove}. Exposedto the weather, toolastiQ-not last‘iiitire' than [half so long as when kept housed. But this is not all—a

- sloven leaves thetool where he last used it, M"

or throws it down any where at random. lh ilow days he wants it again—he has for.

‘ a‘nd'brder) he lasts and: a swirl; part of hit income-i‘this i't claws

He is not able to ﬁnishthis house—v

and. bro

gutteni'where he left it—ihe pesto. look for st—he spends perhaps half aa-ho‘u'r in search of it.1 or Walksia distance'to et it.“ This tiuie ‘is'iostt‘ for it brealt'3"'in;upon‘sonre other business. The loss of thii small por; tion of time appears triﬂing ;.bnt alovena and slutsinctrr such losses every day; and the loss of lthese tcraps of tiine determine a man’s fortune; Let us make a little calcna latiOn—A. farmer, whose famiiy=~expends

- tool. a-year. if he can clear ten poundsa

year isva thrivin man. . In order to get his» Iiol. suppose- e labours teii h‘ouis‘i‘day. In thiscase, if :‘h'e lose amour. every day in repairing the carelessness of the day before. (andelyery'slovemande ,. ., scheme-{here time t an this_,e,9cry day, ,pr. ' t 0 care

5 p022; his(t"uiie.

pounds. Sacha man cannot-thrive—he must grow poorer, for want of can, of orders. and of mrtbnii. I , , ‘ , So it is with a woman.“ A neat woman”, who does business thoroughly, keeps things in srﬂer-with abwt_baftbelgéoar that-a slut employs, who keeps thin s'for ever My" order. If 3.,pail or kettle e- used,‘ his di- rectly made clean again, ﬁt for othea uses, and put in its place. 'Whonit is vitnted'. it is ready. Butfamslut sees an article, and

leaves it Wham, dirty, unfit for use an9-.

ther time. By and by, itis'wantcd, and cannot-be found—“Molly; where did’you leave the kettle i" ‘ I'hasi’thad the kettle;

- Nab had it latt..’~—‘.Nab.t had you therket-

tlei‘—‘ Yes, but it is,dirt J; __80 the kettle is.found,.but iris-half an ous’s work to fit' it for the purpose required; In the mean time, the necessarry business may lie by— Yet this woman says, when she does any thing.‘ it «will! d'oﬂir rbr pﬂunt.‘ '

I hatfe'only to add, that I went to church on a late cold Sunday, 'when a neighbour- ing Clergyman toiiiciated. 'Hc had spoken to hisﬁﬂrearby, when the clock struckane. Emy man was shivering.with._c‘oid, and shuﬂlin his feet—the parsOn took the hint, off «with,'1‘~tbr": will. dofnr (be pre- mrt.’ - , ‘ ; ‘

Mitts, unites.

OtrFriday last his Most_Chri__s_tian Majes- ty went to the National Assembly, and pro- pOsed' a Declaration of 3W," against the, King ofHungary and Bohemia; which was accordingly decreed“ bythe Assembly, - and thodecree weaszianctimd‘hy his Most Chris- tian Majestyzthe same awaiting. ' -‘ i

V toolbars, ,Mat 4; ’ Ail the'advices by the mailsagree, that

.the greatest activity in arming is used at

a'll' the foreign Courts in Europe, and 'that

troops are marching from all' quarters to- , wards the Rhine on the frontiers ofFlanders

and France. . - We think it not very difiicult to foretell what will be the event ofthe impending war

course of ‘a very few-month; N is

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of Hungary. A ‘trorulsiustion‘otY the powers of Europe, who are-any way'e interested in thehasiaess. will 'efectua'lly- crhahthe new wlﬁhgﬁbﬂs Sid j‘astore thin (perhaps) to theii original stud and itois inihe

.- blc, however, that much blooqu bribed

iti’eﬁ‘ecti'og it. Wm . . ~ . . - Thi‘ President of: the Uhite‘dﬁtates" of America hasﬁ‘otninated “Thomas PinhF‘FY. ‘ Freq. late Qbrerndr of Sohttharoilsia‘,“to be Minister Plenipotentiary ,tog the:ququ of. Great Britain." ' “4777' , “- The punighgeittbfdéhtiiiﬂt beeoililiict- ed on forty missionaries of the new faith :(the French Revolution) at Madrid’sfl'lhe Its: a. feted; we iearu, the‘igﬁz mi lit-hear sum as prolon‘ a'titili,‘L ma e‘-~ it'. 'That government; it ,l'tah'v'n, . whether the" constitution of a‘ Spani‘ard'i mind is to be thus subdued. 1 .- - J"

‘ Amessen er has been dispatched to Lord- Gowcr at t ‘ Lordship to Wait immediately-births French. minister hit foreigh affairs; and"..acriuaih

h him with the news or the an; ement with the Resolue‘n‘i ‘atelh the Ea‘i'tindiea.‘ is charged-to '_‘ eclare that life was e-‘vcr‘ intend’ed‘to' the [French tarry: that Commodore Corn‘Wallis had knowlede ‘

of some stores'heing‘aboutto “conveyed to Tip on,h Int: that itwss‘owin‘g‘ tor-[this cause" e’t on t to rto‘seal'chth’e tic"- chant'_ships. hepcofduct Grail.

Captain was certainly " to'o Apigipttstnae unjustiﬁable; . ' s I "

‘ “’35”! Resolute:

passed in Denmark. theta”. the, ' - mcnvcemcnt'of'1804‘the Slave-Trade- "all be entirely abolished in the Daiia‘li'fbsict- ssons in the'East Indiérfi-‘Iﬁig‘iigggi’app, pear} at once to unite ‘vvisdom‘ihd h'sr‘s'aun- ty ; it abolishes a traﬂic founded in dn'hatiei and supported by crucity‘; butinfal owing - the space of ten years to intervene. ohiervea the; necessary .rnoderatioltandpteeaution, ‘

aria,» with instructions for'hfs. '

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and prevents'thme evil eonstqineii'ce's Which, ‘ .

result from an‘ outrageous ze‘a ,-.,'an'd' prsci's pit'aut conduct on such an occasion._ ' . The affair between the Womb?“ “the;

~.~runes"nignefnnoia‘é‘:'th‘niﬂiim ies,’

seems not likely to bring on any serious cori- '= sequences. lp themdebate on, it in the Na. ' tional At’sembly, the conduct of the ﬁn lish gsptain was rather approvedti:_‘m in‘s's‘

dropped, as thou h the objs‘ct‘ofé shakes. *.

'solue was,v.accor ing to the

between the French nation‘and the King-u

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cause.

rams PAIL!AM1NT_,‘ADIU.

.. On Wednesday the 718th inst. ‘ the herd

Lieutenant went in,’state’:to~~the3ldosa l’ecrapand the Co‘ﬂmona snags"... his Excellency gave the Royal Assent to thirty public bills, and one ptivite' one, "after which his Excellenc closed the Session with the lollowiu Speech: . ' l " M} 1.301: and Cur/Irma,

. “ The dispatch you have given to‘the' ‘

National Bonnets enables the to close the

m-..”—

1: a 1.. s. - “aux-.4 \.

.,,ra-e_.m ,.

, , j' ,_ the. French Court, to support. 'ppoo i, - -‘ f ‘ ' l ‘ ' v c