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i£ - me, ‘-1 -Vc . ,%tnd tfpß.
FBy'thz er* hanks ttr bnktZ Po-
TSfo w a cs ‘•&trea*iih> *—
r£ a */je /iuss, dir&ete ‘sny
mournful t hones. ■—*>
•1.
f Oh l land offny tdrtifiutttfrs
the main !
Green Isle of my birth ! ‘shall
1 v ver behold thee *?
lovely ua-ue of my
sorrowful strain,
Shall those arms of fidelity ev
*J
er enfold thee ?
11.
flimovfo, again,* by the ‘streams;
of our youth,
Shall we ever retrace the light j
foe r. > t € ps off L E-A. 5 UR E ,
smile on tue p v„, mrongti \
the sunshine of r? nh,
When O-ktsk r -s’ ad enrich
UiWihi co.’titigrf measure- ?
Hi.
Yes, Love! we may fnet, ere!
the blooms of the S?fi trite. 1
A.emmel the
Flush from tne bowers :)
And the season of becutyand-bLa*.
sorns may bring,
T o cur desolate bosorris foyhJ
sweet-sm. ling bowers, j
4 V, l
Dear distant Eliza! thou ka^!
NET of love !
Which s ways all my feelings & j
guides my atfcction—• jj
l'4us hean ever reels—<*though re- |
mtetely i rave,
That tl me are the powers of]
increasing a traction l \
f • V.
The tremulous vetedle, wlietif
crossing the line, j
May waver —growfickle*—-and j
change its direction*;
W V. ® ’
Yet nothing sh. il shake such de-j
votiou as mine,
Though it live with Memory!
and pal-t Recollection.
XL
Yet fair-painting Fancy shall im-,
age the best-
To b: •ighte.n the care furrow’d j
features W Sadness-
At night on my .piilo-w, strew pop-*
pies of rest,
And re-banquet fey ‘slumber- j
with visions oifoiadues Mj
V! I |
Tut Uncertainty hangs o'c; Fu ! j
tuni},s breast, j
Like a dark wimer cland or- id- \
lulls of Kosstre’vor; x j
Ft r the wide waste of octal wake s’
b ng urhless’d,
\\ hen r ihmk the wild waves!
may divide ‘ s fort ver.
VIII.
Y tt Dope cn ht-r gossamer tin-.
• ii, *
ions si■ r-IS soar,
Insp'too*, th-*•(]a• -<- ers an C pctv
is ol oean ;
And the .Land, and tin
Love 1 adore,
T. o g tl <ir Port should pet
s n. d.t t* as in cciumo
dor.
IX.
Idopp ! r-o-1 or of life—and tl ‘
c3i tl <f Ca r e—
Bw t et so : ace of Seri ow, in rr <e r*
cv j r* : t given,
To temper with sunshine tl t
glooms hi Do. pair, \
1 -Ska3 TfesTeYi and
focal heaven!
‘X
il’ii steal fromi the wcrldtoindulge
in thy dreams, |
While 1 Zander ‘the Wilder
ness *sad and forlorn;
! And i’ll -stray with the often by
Fancy’s wait beams,
Qn the shores of the land that
Toas caused n>e to mourn 1
:a.
And if I’m destined again to re
view,
The land of my fathers, that
lies o’er the ocean—
In the moments of joy I shall think
upon you,
And repay nil your kindness
with greatfui devotion.
LAW.
F. Street Washington City ,
li'ith February, in 16.
Cjc-’-nsj ■ J’ •smtm*
- M< >I\TJ M ENT
To IFASKIKGTON.
This having become a sub- i
feet of very general conversa
tion, in all -trees,, m con-se-
I’quence of the recent agitation oj
jir -in Congress, as well as in i-i.
Legislature of Virginia, we haw
: thought it might be gratifying to
jour readers, to know how -the
icase stands eh record. They
I’’will see, by the following doca
’ ments, -that the remains of the de
ceased Washi-nton have been
sacredly committed to the charge
of his country :
In the House of Representatives j
of the U. States, Monday, De- j
cembeY 13, 1799, Mr. Mar
shall ‘submitted the following
resolution, which passed ne~
mine contradiceutt 3 :
Resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of thej
United States of America, in
Congress assembled, that a mar
ble monument be -erected by the
United States at the Capitol of
the city of Washington, and that
i ht family of General Washing
ton be requested to permit his bo
dy to be deposited under it; and
that ihe “monument be so design-,
ed as to Commemorate the.great t
I‘events of’ns military and politi-.
cal life. / |
O Monday the Bth of JanuSi-1
I : resident sent tile ioli-ow-1
i ...g 1 ors to C'on'gres s■: j
I • .va ■en of’ ihe Senate'tind : Gr r n~ :
i': “ . o-f the 11. of jßep'ivcs. j
! In compliance with the re
qve t m one of the resolutions o*
I • ‘(<r.grt -s of the 21st of Decern
;tftT last, I transmitted a copy of
• > re solutions by my secreta
Mr. i.iw, to Mrs. Washing*
! s-i ■■* i, a su < ing her of the profound
ye .: .cr C ongress ever bear to
iher person end character—of,
|their condolence in the late as-j
dieting dispensation of Lrovi-j
dence, a cl entreating her assent]
to the inu rmentof the remains of]
general George Washington,* in
::inne* expressed in the first re
dud’ - As the sentiments of
>at virtuous iatly, not less belov*
; i by this nation than she is at
resent greatly s.£3 cted, can nev*
rbe :;o well expressed as in her
wn wolds. I transmit to con .
gress iier ordinal etter,
it would be an attempt of tr<
imnch tlcli- wey totoke any cum-]
nUrks *rt-—ncre Yard
no doubt, that the nation ay
urge, as well’as dt the branches
it the government,*will be highly
gratifiedby an arrangement which
may -diminish Hhe sacrifice she
makes of her mdividnai feelings.
’ MORN AD AMY.
United States, Sth Jan 1799.
MrsDUashington’s Letter.
Mount Pertion, 3 !si Oec. I/ fL
Sih, —Y’hrle ! fevl, wkh -the
keenest anguish, the hue dispen
sations of Divine i'rovidtnce, I
[cannot be uiSensiM-riothe moum
■ful tributes of respect mid vener
(a tion w Lie!a re \ m id to the me m
ory of my dear lece.ased husbniid;
and as his services and most
anxious yrrshes iverr always de
devoted to the ‘welfare and hap
piness Qi his country, to know
|that they wer< truly appreciated,
and grealc fulfj remembered, af
fords no in con side i able consoia *.
non
] Taught by the example
which I have so long had before
mt, never to oppose my private
wishes to the public will, 1 must :
consent to the request made by f
Congress, which you have h and
the good ness to transmit to nic.-
and in doing this, 1 need not, I
cannot say, v/hat a sacrifice ot ir
dividuarceiing imake to asensc
of pubhcaiuty. 1
With -greatful acknowledge
ments and unfeigned thanks ibr
the personal respect and evuir'n- ]
jees of eortdok i.ee expressed by i
I congress and yourself, 1 remain ]
very respectfully, j
Sir, your most obedient and I
humb 1 e scrvant,
Martha Washing on. I
flj= TI j c i n tei fig cno in our la st ’
paper, ol murders < and on
the Alabama by Indians, is Con
firmed by an article pubhsbed to-1
day from St. Stephens. Lik hun-,
dred troops are ordered Lorn
Tort -Hawkins to the imeri I of
the Creek nation, and will msrdh
about the middle of this mt nth—~l
Ttds force Will overawe tie rest**
less savages, protect the Com-j
fbissidneTs while engaged in com-
Ipleting the RoiYndary Line, and-if j
;■ necessary, may be employed m.
Ireirioving from the Indian Ten h
jto ry ‘.persons trespass ing the reon>.
•'as well as intruders on the pub
] !?c lands, it is ‘contemplated, v.;e
•understand to establish in the,
Cn ek Nation additional military
posts.
‘Geo. journal .
#j*ln late New Orleans pa*
per it is stated, on in formation de
rived Irom one of their Senators
jin Congress, that Gen. Jackson.
|accompanied by an experienced
] Engineer, would proceed from
[Washington to that city, to have
-erected fortifications Tor their se
jcurity against invasion We had
been apprised some time past
that the attention ©fOovernmen
was directed in a particular man
ner to the South Western fron ,
tier, in consequence perhaps o :
he reported cession of the Flor
das 10 Britain Cfon. Jack o?
had communicated with Gen
Games on the subject, requesting
[viiai valuable t© accomp^y,
S it hlm s n'£~x&w*fvr/• t* e ‘cawtift?
, f Dim Mobile to Ne / -Or! nans, fbf
the selection of proper scites sos
the erection of Forts &c.
ib
Hen l Quarters, Fort Mittktll, >
February 22t!, 1816. >
.The fallowing order from the
Department of War, is pudlishe j
for the information of such mis*
guided persons as may be igao
iraht of* the calamitous but jtfst
j itteastires, which it will he my du
hy to pursue towards all who shall
continue to intrude and settle up*
•on die Public Lands, contrary to
daw, and in defiance -of the wanlv
•ing voice offhb -President, after
| the 10th of March nefct.
j Intruders upon fndian Landes,
! will be removed forthwith.
EDMUND tVGAfNTS, <
“Major General Conimandvtig.
iDepci'tment of lVar 9
Fed. 22(\f‘1816.
Sir—'l he genera! and increi*
I sing disposition manifested by a’
; numerous body of uninformed,
■Or evil disposed persons, to via
late the laws of the United States
prohibiting the intrusion and set
tlement upon the public lands,
has imposed ttyon the Presuk n’t
the .-painiai duty of revno\ ing
loom by ‘military force. Thu
’ duty is coriided to 5 on. imme
diately after the ‘expiration of tha
Dime fr/eti in the enclosed procla
jmation, you will upon the appli* : (
’cation o* the marshall of any
jSta’e or territory, cause to be re*
| moved, by military force, all per
f sens who shall be found upon the
f 5 Dlic hnd within your command
I and destroy their habitations and
| improvements- This removal Sc
‘destruction of hoiis'ex and im*
prove ments, must be repeated as
often as it shall be necessary to
R etire the complete exccutibri of
the laws upon this subject.
Intrusions upon the lands xJt.
the friendly Indian tribes, is not
ohly a violation of die laws, but in
direct opposition to die policy of
yhe government towards its sav*
| age neighbors. Upon applies
! tiHn of any Indi- ~ A gent, stating
E v u intrusions of this nature havd
been committed, and are continu
ed, the President requires that
they shall be equally removed, Sc
i eir habi ations and improve
ments destroyed by military force,
and that every attempt to return,
shall be repressed in the same
manner. 1 have the, he. &c. he*
(Signed)
WM. H. CRAWFORD.
The Pill ior carrying into ef
fect the Convention between the
United States and Great Britain
has finally passed both Houses of
Congress by compromise, each
house receding in some’ degree
rom the ground taken on the con*
htuuonaiby and powers of their
espedive branches in the forma*
ion and execution of Treaties.-*
They are now engaged on the
New Duties purposed by the
Secretary of the Treasury, a
ehedule of which we present to
ur readers in this days paper, &t
m the Bill for a National Bank.
Chronicle*
