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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



THE GRAVE. 



BY BERIfARD BARTON. 

 I love ta mube when none are nigh, 



Where yew-tree branches wave. 

 And hear the winds, with softest sigh. 



Sweep o'er the grassy grave. 



I^seeIna a mournful music, meet 



To soothe a lonely hour ; 

 Sad though it be, it is more sweet 



Than that from pleasure's bower. 



I know not why it should be sad, 



Or seem a mournful tone. 

 Unless by man the spot be clad 

 With terrors not its own. 



To nature it seems just as dear 



Aa earth's most cheerful site ; 

 The dew-drops glitter there as clear, 



The sun-beams shine as bright. 



The showers descend as softly there, 



As on the lovliest flowers ; 

 Nor does the moonlight seem more fair. 



On beauty's sweetest bowers. 



Ay ! but within — within there sleeps 

 One, o'er whose mouldering clay. 



The loathsome earth-worm winds and creeps 

 And wastes that form away. 



And what of that ? the frame that feeds 



The reptile tribe below. 

 As little oftheir banquet heeds. 



As of the winds that blow. 



MISCELLANY. 



ICE. 

 Two or three mild winters, of late in succes- 

 sion, have brought a new article of foreign 

 trade into England. Ice, for the use of the con- 

 fectioners, comes now to us all the way from 

 Norway ; where a gentleman, we understand, 

 is making arrangements to send over even 

 snow, at a far cheaper rate than it can afford to 

 fall in this country, so that frost in fact, (as re- 

 gards Great Britain and Ireland) may consider 

 itself discharged from further attendance ; and 

 with the lielp of a few more commercial ar- 

 rangements, and perhaps a new improvement 

 or two as to the application of steam, it shall 

 go hard but we will shortly turn the seasons 

 out of doors altogether. As (his imported ice, 

 jealous of sunshine, is foremost in our streets 

 now of mornings, moving along in huge cart 

 loads from the below bridge wharfs: and look- 

 inc, as it lies in bulk, like so muchconglutinat- 

 ed Epsom salt.«. — Black-joood^s Magazine. 



Luxury of Boston. — One of the direct causes 

 of that excitement ripened into open resistance 

 of the Mother Country in this Colony, was the 

 luxurious mode of life of some of the King's 

 officers. In an old diary of a maiden lady, I 

 got these memoranda of a dinner given by one 

 of these officers, on Saturday, the 3d of Janua- 

 ry, 1'774; — " The fish was e-xcellent, it was 

 caiiijtlit in cold weather on the Grand Bank — the 

 icf/ uncommonly line, came from Vermont, and 

 was dressed by a cook, who had learned his 

 art in France. — The canvass back ducks were 

 sent on by a Provincial Commissioner, who had 

 gone to the South, and were done to a turu — 



the venison came from Canada, and never was 

 there better, or better done — and the beaver tail, 

 dressed according to directions from an Indian 

 Princess, came from Lake Ontario — the liquors 

 were all good, and among them Corsica and Ma- 

 deira, and Champaigne wines ; but these were, 

 at length, neglected for the iiative Curracoa, 

 which some of the Commissioners excelled in 

 brewing." 



It is among the blessed fruits of the revolu- 

 tion, that these excesses in luxury have gone off, 

 with the Royal authority ; and that the descen- 

 dants of the Pilgrims in these days, though not 

 ignorant of what are good things, delight to ex- 

 hibit on (heir tables, among other plain good 

 fare, the beans and hominy in which their fore- 

 fathers delighted. — Boston Daily Advertiser. 



The Biter Bit. — In the course of pleadings in 

 the Court of Chancery, the other day. Sergeant 

 Bosanquet made several quotations to prove 

 that the intervention of a priest was necessary 

 to constitute a legal marriage, even before the 

 passing of the marriage act. Among other in- 

 stances he adduced the following amusing anec- 

 dote of General Fielding : — The general was de- 

 sirous of marrying a lady of beauty and fortune ; 

 for this purpose he selected a lady of the name 

 of Mrs. Deloe, who, he heard, possessed both 

 of these valuable attractions; not being acquain- 

 ted with the object of his fanciful admiration 

 and mercenary designs, he purchased the prom- 

 ised assistance of the lady's waiting woman, by 

 a douceur of £500. The servant, consider 

 ing that the General was not a suitable husband 

 for her mistress, he was, however, a very de- 

 sirable connubial partner for a friend of her's, in- 

 troduced him to a lady of the town named Mrs. 

 Wadsworth, as her mistress, Mrs. Deloe. The 

 General was captivated with the fictitious Mrs. 

 Deloe, after a few interviews, the enamored 

 fortune hunter solicited the felicity of his char- 

 mer's hand — the gallant and accomplished Gen- 

 eral was irresistible, 



And all things with due decorum carried. 



Miss frown'd and blushed, and then was married — 



by a Pioman Catholic priest, in the suite of the 

 Portuguese ambassador. The General soon 

 discovered the cheat, left his spouse, and some 

 time after married the well known Dutchess of 

 Cleveland. Her grace's two sons having no 

 predilection for their new father-in-law, wished 

 to dissolve the connexion, and prosecuted him 

 1 at the Old Bailey for bigamy. The original 

 1 marriage by the Roman Catholic priest having 

 been proved, the General was convicted, lost 

 his liberty and noble consort, and the sons, to 

 their great pleasure, got rid of their new pa- 

 ternal protector. 



A Christmas Gambol. — A gentleman of fortune 



in Square, gave his domestics permission 



to amuse themselves in the evening, and to in- 

 vite such oftheir acquaintance as they thought 

 proper. — On consultation, the servants agreed 

 (one of them having a relation in the neighbor- 

 hood who kept a masquerade wareroom) to prac- 

 tise Hi^h Life Bclo-a Stairs, by appearing in 

 masks. Their master, hearing of their inten- 

 tion, privately determined to make one in the 

 frolic, as his wife was to spend the evening out ; 

 and the lady, from some vagary or other, short- 

 ly after she had been on her visit, took leave, 



went to a masquerade-room, dressed as a Wite 

 called a hackney-coach, drove home, and mix 

 with the company. From his voice, and olh 

 circumstances, she quickly discovered her hi 

 band. 



"Well, Madam Witch," cried he; " wL 

 news from the air?" 



I'll tell you," returned she, in a whisper:- 



" I'm just flown from Square, with tl 



new.s — that a certain married lady, on a visit 

 the Countess of , is this instant eloped." 



Off flew the husband, like an arrow from 



bow. No tidings of his lady in Square.- 



He returned home in great embarrassment, a 

 desired the mask in character of a Witch, 

 step into an adjoining room. She attended. 



" Witch or no Witch," exclaimed he, " t 

 me this instant, where'smy wife !" 



" Here, my love !" said she, taking off h 

 mask. He flew into her arms. 



May all Christmas Gambols prove equa 

 happy and innocent. 



[London Lady''s Museum. 



FOR THE NBW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Learning. — It is better to have wisdom wi 

 out learning, than learning without wisdo 

 and knowledge without good sense to regul; 

 it, is like self-righteousness, the more one I 

 of it the worse it is for him. 



.'?(i .intiqvary. — A thorough paced .Antiqoi 

 not only remembers what other peojile hi 

 thoiight proper to forget, but forgets what oil 

 people have thought proper to remember. 



Talent and Wealth. — Gross and vulgar mi \ 

 will always pay a higher respect to we< 

 than to talents ; for wealth, althongh it be a ' 

 less efficient source of power than talent, \ 

 pens to be far more intelligible. ! 



Pride and Humility. — Some people are pr 

 of being thought incapable of pride ; and m 

 stepping stones of humility in order to asc 

 the pinnacle of ambition. 



When articles rise, the consumer is tlie 

 that suffers, and when they fall he is I lie 

 that gains. =^=r 



The man of pleasure should more props 

 be called the .Man of Pain. He ])urcbnses 

 pentance at the highest price, and sells ibefij 

 est reversion for the poorest possession. 



BRISTOL CROWN GLASS. 

 1 P^ri BOXES Bristol Crown Window Glasa^ 

 JL «J\.7 perior quality, just received and foi 

 wholesale and retail, at the very lew 

 ces, by BRIGHA.M& DELANO, No. 30, Unionl 



MANGEL VVURTZKL SEE]>. 



FOR sale at this office a few pounds of J 

 Wurtstl Uted, raised by John Prince, Esqj 

 bury. Feba 



WANTED to purchase twenty or thirty lul. 

 Merino Ewes. Address, or .ipply to Dl 

 Wild, Broker, Exchange Street, Boston. Keb.'. 



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