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For the British flmerican.

?OETRY.

Attend ye Pope’s, ye Young's and Gay’s, And tune your harps, prepare your lays, Your panegyricks now provide You cannot err on Flattery’s side,

Above the stars exalt your stile,

You still are low ten thousand miles, From that female bard ofC. L. Town, Where poetic strain each tongue should sound.

This poet’s fame through this Isle has rung By every kind of poet sung;

So beautiful a nymph appears But once in twenty thousand years.

By nature formed with nicest care, And faultless to a single hair, Her graceful mien, her air and face, Confest her of no mortal race.

And then so nice and so genteel, Such cleanliness from head to heel, No humours gross or frousy steams, No noisome whiffsjs sweaty streams.

e at 0 at at: it The reason is I can't tell what

Each doggrel coxcomb rails at pat, If from a pin a finger bleed,

’Tis Paddy blam’d for the foul deed.

And still must bear the sad disgrace,

Though some mean blockhead fills his place I; know some I..sh..n are wild,

And bent on mischieffrom a child.

Ye wise, i nstruct them to endure, An evil which they cannot cure, Or how this evil may be born, Which breeds at'once both hate and scorn,

Bare innocence is no support When you are tried in scandal's court, Stand high in honor, wealth, or wit, .Allothers who in favor sit.

Conceive themselves in conscience bound, Tojoin and drag them to the ground, Their altitude ofl'ends the eyes, Of those who w'ant the power to rise.

Yet whence proceeds this weight we lay, 'On what detracting peeple say?

Ear let mankind discharge their tongues, In venom till they burst their lungs.

Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or teeth, or finger ache;

Nor spoil your shape, distort your face, or put one feature out of place.

Nor wilivyou find your fortune sink, By what they say, or what they think, Her canton hundred thousand eyes,

THE BRITISH AMERICAN

The most effectual way to balk Their malice is to let them talk; 80 fare ye welll bid adieu, I will cease and leave the rest to you.

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For the British American

Lines to those who will understand them.

No doubt through sac red writ you’ve heard, of Father Aaron's comely beard, Which tlow‘d in sweet profusion down His hallow'd garments to the ground. Is there a wretch so prone to spleen, So far from virtue's paths serene, As with impurity to charge That man because his beard was large? Historic pages oft you've turn’d, And with elastic fire burn’d At what the glorious sons of Rome, Have done for their adorning home; Were they less valiant or less strong, Because their beards were inches long? See then her senators, those men ofart, Replete in every virtuous part; Whose sacred phizes stun‘d each Gaul, Who dar'd pollute that sacred hall. Then next those wise men, Greece's seven, Who told the things of earth and heaven; Whose chins of philosophic hair Won solemn rev’rence far and near. Then why should I, (a boy ‘tis true) E'er think my wearing heard to rue, Since men more virtuous and more wise. Have favor gain'd in other‘s eyes? Oh! Sirs, for mercy sake forbear, To scandalize my youthful hair, Only that fashion points a way, To shave and prune it every day,

J28 YOU LIKE I T.‘ Charlotte-Town, April 20

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Threejealous husbandmen with their wives being ready to pass by night over a river in a small canoe, which will carry but two at a time; the question is, how those six persons may get’across without any woman being found in company with one or two men unless her husband be present.

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MR. WH E,—SIR, I will at once I“ Vindicator’s v nnted pledge to the proif In my communication I made no char, nor did I state thatI had either facts 0. proofs; but it would seem his refinedand exquisite fancy has enabled him to disco. ver more than I had supposed was con, tained in my communicationz—or, as hi, friend Dogberry would say, “ rank treache. ry against the state.” Since my last letter Ihave heard some facts, and Vindicator shall tindI do not bring a charge from c0mmon rumour.

A Bill, to provide for the payment oi the Civil Establishment of this Colony passed the House of Assembly, and ivl sent to the Conncil. In it was a clause, which the Permanent Revenue Acts wer repealed. immediately that the Royal assen was given to the Bill,—althongh the othe provisions of the Act did not go into ope ration until four years had elapsed. 'l‘h Council aware ofthe trick, and apprecia ting as they deserved the motircs of thos who introduced the clause, would not pas the Bill in its then form; and as the Sessio was so far advanced, instructed their Pre sident to hand the Bill to the Speaker 0 the House of Assembly, stating their 0 jections. The Bill was returned altered but on investigation by the Council it it found that those alterations were not sutli ciently explicit The Bill was again hande down—and again returned to the Council altered as required, and then it passed. accuse the Speaker ofthe House of Assam bly, and many Members, with thus clan destiner altering a Bill, certainly one o the most important that has been passe for many years; the alteration was no a mere clerical error, but of vital impor tance to the Bill, and the charge made wil keep out of the hands of the House the which they have so long struggled to ob tain, (and for the attainment of which 0 ject they did not hesitate to offer Governo Ready a bribe;) the appropriation of th Permanent Revenue. In support of thi charge, I have the authority of most of ii! Members ofthe Council, that the alters tions were suggested and made as abOV stated; and that of Hugh M‘Donald an Thomas Compton, Esqrs., that the que tion, of concurrence, on either of the al terations were not put in the House. When Mr. M‘Donald charged the Speak er with being privy to this underhand an uncenstitutional mode of acting, that G6 tleman. in place of displaying any degr

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