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And hail thy voice as truth, thy word as lama"

Yousayhe will“ prevent the Emigrant being imposed on-” Pray Sir, who is to impose on the Emigrant? Is it the Mer- chant? no! the Farmer? no! perhaps the

< Tanner? no! no! no! Who then? None thatI know of, unless it be Proprietors or their Agents. But of Agencies and Secre- taryship more anon. “We shall meet again at Philippi.”

Now Mr. White', I think J. L. L. has ridden his hobby his own way; that it has kicked up adust in the eyes of his neigh- bours, his fame as an author, may no doubt be appreciated by many whose opinions are worth having. [will then conclude with a word of advice to the Emi- grant, in humble imitation ofthat so pioust given by our Author in page “21, that is, that he put up in addition to his “ Bible” at least, a dozen copies of this tract, pub- lished in England some years since, which may be had cheap, wholesale or retail, for exportatiOn; and if they answer no other good purpose. they may serve as the compositiOn did the author. " to pass away a few dreary hours at sea,” and on his arrival here, maybe applied to any use

they are ﬁt for. , PEPPER.

Too ﬁne a dancer for a virtuous woman. Sallust.

Sim—I ama man in years, and by an honest industry in the world have acquired enough to give my children a liberal educa- tion, though I was an utter stranger to it myself. My eldest daughter, a girl of sixteen, has for some time been under the tuition of Monsieur Ragadoon, a dancing- master in the town, and I was prevailed upon by her and her mother to go last night to ane of his balls. I must own to you Sir, that having never been to any such place before, I was very much pleased and surprised with that part of his enter- tainment called French dancing. There were several young men and women whose limbs seemed to have no other motion . but purely what the music gave them. After this part was over they began a diversion which they call country-dancing, and wherein,there were also some things not disagreeable, and divers emblematical ﬁ- gures,comp0sed as [guess by wise men .for the instruction ofyouth.

Among the rest I observed one which the call “ Hunt the Squirrel,” in which, while the woman flies the man pursues her, but as soon as she turns he runs away, and she is obliged to follow. The moral of this dance does, I think very aptly re-

,urrriend modesty and discretion to the ,ﬁaie sex. , at as the best' institutions are liable to ‘. so sir, I msut acquaint you, that gnﬁabuses have crept into this eu-

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have thought it had been in the child. They very often made use of an impudent and lascivious step, called “ setting” which I know not how to describe to you, but by telling you that it is the very reverse of“ back to back.” At last an impudent dog bid the ﬁddlers play “Moll Pately,” and having made two or three capers ran to his partner, locked his arms .in hers, and whisked her round cleverly above

upon the highest benches, saw further above her shoes than I would think fit to acquaint you with. Icould no longer endure the enormity; wherefore,just as my girl Was going to be made a whirligig, I ran in, seized on the child and carried her home, Sir, I am not got old enough to be a fool, Isuppose this diversion might be at first intended to keep up a good understanding between young men and women, and so far I am not against it; but I shall never allow those things. I know not what you will say to this case at present, but am sure had yon been with me you would have seen matter of great speculation. I am Sir,

Your obedient servt.

SPECTJTOR.

Mn. W'Hrrrz,—It’s a common saying that “one trouble never comes alone,” and such is the case with me at present. But as your correspondent “ O” has helped me out of my last difﬁculty in solving my Question of the “ four nines,” I must so- licit his assistance to solve the following Question; (as for Juvems, he not having given a solution to the “four nines”, I consider his assistance not worth ha- ving.

Given a point in the circumference of a semi-circle, required to ﬁnd a point in the diameter;so that erecting a perpendi- "ular from it, to met the circumference and joining it with the given point; the square of the perpendicular may exceed the square ofthe other line by a maximum, Geometrically?

PHILOMATH.

March 30. ’

Mr: White,

If one of your friends will give the ﬁguring for the following simple Question, and you will allow it a place in your paper, you will both much oblige '

EDWJIRD.

A Git). who felt his last and was approaching. Call'd Tim, Jim. and Dick. who were just come from poaching,

tertainment; I was amazed to see my girl " My Boy-"Md the sinner “l hm handed by, and handing young fellows Twenty shillings with so much familiarity, indeed I could not“

ground in such a manner, that I who sat‘

' chism. Price 3d. each, 2s. 6d. per doz.

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(which he held 'tween his ting..- “,1 thumb)

Theﬁru of the triﬂe I give to my Tim,

Thefourth I bequeath as a portion to Jim,

Theﬁfth I allot for Dick as his share,

Adieu my dear children. be upright and fair."

When the sons of the Gipsey had divided the pound.

What were their shares? and how were these. found: March 20. '

THE BRITISH AMERICAN. MARCH 30, 1833.

Our latest English dates are vie New York up to the 16th of January; for Ex- tracts see 2d and 3d pages of this sheet.

Between the hours of3 and 4 o’clock on Sunday, the alst ult. the inhabitants were alarmed with the cry oftire, which broke out in‘ the dwelling-house of Mr. Nicholas Marquand. —It originated from a ﬁre kept in a newly built chimney, during the two or three previous days, by which the bricks that composed the hearth became intensely heated, which, communicating with the flooring, ignited, and thence extended be- tween the ceiling and floor, along a beam, and finally gained the wall between the plastering and the weather boards. Its progress was so secret, the door being clo- sed, that only the sixtrenth part of an inch of the weather bo‘ard remained to prevent its communication with the external air, when the family were alarmed to a sense of their danger by the Er'noke which was lite- rally suﬂ‘ocating. By the prompt exertions of the family, and of those whom the acci- dent drew to the spot, the destructive ele- ment was soon got under. The Fire engine was in attendance, but from the situation of the ﬁre, it could be of no service. Consi— dering the hour, and the progress the ﬁre had made before it was discovered, the in- jury sustained is comparatively small.

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