g The Spaniards will endure all 
possible hardships, before they will part 
with avy thing they are possessed of, 
«Tn reference to the French, it is said, 
that the French are wiser than they 
seem, and the Spaniards wiser than they 
are. In matters of war, the Spaniards 
are observed to: be generally too heavy, 
slow, and dull; the French too heady 
and precipitate; the one losing as many 
fair occasions by delays, as the other 
overthroweth by too much haste. Be- 
tween them boih they make one good 
soldier, who, according to the present op- 
portunities, is to make use of the spur of 
courage, or the bit of respite.” 
In his account of France, he describes 
the implacable enmities and unrelenting 
jealousies which have always existed be- 
tween the two nations; and this may 
amuse the speculatist. 
“There is not greater contrariety of 
temper, carriage, and affections, betwixt 
any two nations in the world, than is be- 
twixt these neighbours, parted no other- 
wise from one another than by passable 
hills. The one sociable and discoursive, 
the other reserved and full of thought ; 
the one so open, that you cannot hire 
him to keep a secret ; the other so close, 
again. 
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that all the rhetoric in the world cannot 
get it out of him. Next in their fashion 
and apparel: the French wears his hair 
long, the Spaniard short; the French 
goes thin and open to the very shirt, as 
if there were continual summer ; the Spa- 
niard so wrapt up, and close, as if all were 
winter. The French begins to button 
downwards, and the Spanish upwards; 
the last always constant in his fashion, 
the first intent so much on nothing as new 
fancies of apparel. The French walk 
fast, as if pursued on an arrest ; the Spa~ 
niard slowly, as if newly come out of a 
quartan ague. The French go in clus- 
ters, the Spaniards but by two and two ae , 
the most. The French sings and danceth 
as he walks, the Spaniard in a grave and 
solemn posture, as if he were going in @ 
procession. 
* OF the two different humours, that 
of the Spaniards seems to be the more 
appropriate. The Neapolitans, Millen- 
sis, and Sicilians, who have had trial of 
both nations, chuse rather to submit 
themselves to the proud and severe yoke 
of the Spaniards, than the /usfs and in~ 
solencies of the French, not sufferable b 
men of even and well-balqnced spirits,” 
me ORIGINAL POETRY. 
ON INDEPENDENCE, 
FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGIA. 
[By JAMES HORATIO RUDGE, Esq. 
J DO not ask some costly vest to wear, 
But one which just may shelter from the 
airs 
ind while I taste the pleasures of the Muse, 
The pomp of rich men’s tables I refuse; 
To wealth that feeds the flatt’rer and the 
_knave 
I scorn to stoop, and own myself its slave; 
For tho” my board with less profusion shine, 
$ts homely dish proves liberty is mine. 
EE 
ODE TO DELIA, 
WRITTEN IN THE SPRING OF i797. 
By JAMES HORATIO RUDGE, Esa, 
-GAIN jseturns on genial wing, 
The lover’s season, gentle Spring, 
And hails the youthful year ; 
_ Now oler the meads the zephyrs play, 
And gently cool the burning day 
' With their refreshing air, 
ll seems, my Delia, to invite 
‘9 rural pleasure and delight, 
On yonder daisy'd green 5 
EG 
The swains, in artless lays, complain 
To Venus and her sportive train, 
While evening gilds the scene. 
My fair, why shall we linger here, 
And not to happy vales repair, 
While gentle Hesper reigns? _ 
There let us seek a dark retreat, 
Where trees and clasping ivy meet 
And chant our sylvan lays. 
ae 
DESCRIPTION OF THE FUTURE DESOLA= 
TION OF THE STATES OF BARBARY. 
By COLONEL HUMPHREYS,* ° 
AN AMERICAN POET, 
Ts done—behold the uncheery prospects 
rise, 
Unwonted glooms the silent coasts surprise 5 
The heavens with sable clouds are overcast, 
And death-like sounds ride on the hollow 
blast 5 
The rank grass rustling to the passing gale ; 
F’en now of men the cheerful voices fail. 
* This gentleman has been considered by 
American writers as ‘little inferior to the 
best poets of Britain”? . ‘ 
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