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THE RETORT.

The life has gone; the breath has fled;
And what has been, no more shall be;
The well-known form, the welcome tread,
O! where are they? and where is he?

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HENRY NEELE. (1798-1828.)

T, n., manual art.

, ud., gladly.

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CON-CEIVE', v. t., to form in the mind.
LIVE'LI-HOOD, N., means of living.

Nɛ day, a rich man, flushed with pride and wine,
Sitting with guests at table, all quite merry, -
onceived it would be vastly fine

To crack a joke upon his secretary.

Young man," said he, "by what art, craft, or trade, Did your good father earn his livelihood?"

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He was a saddler, sir," the young man said;
"And in his line was always reckoned good."

A saddler, eh? and had you stuffed with Greek,
Instead of teaching you like him to do!
And pray, sir, why did not your father make
A saddler, too, of you?"

At this each flatterer, as in duty bound,

The joke applauded, and the laugh went round.

At length, the secretary, bowing low,

Said (craving pardon, if too free he made),
Sir, by your leave, I fain would know

Your father's trade."

My father's trade? Why, sir, but that's too bad! My father's trade? Why, blockhead, art thou mad? My father, sir, was never brought so low: He was a gentleman, I'd have you know!"

Indeed! excuse the liberty I take ;

But, if your story 's true,

How hannened it your father did i make

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Marco Bozzaris fell, in a night attack on the Turkish camp, at Laspi, August 20, 1823, and expired in the moment of victory. Pronounce the a in Boz-za'ris like a in far.

Ar midnight, in his guarded tent,
The Turk was dreaming of the hour

When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent,
Should tremble at his power.

At midnight, in the forest shades,

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Bozzaris ranged his Su'liote band,

True, as the steel of their tried blades, -
Heroes in heart and hand.

There had the Persian thousands stood,
There had the glad earth drunk their blood
On old Platæa's day;

And now these breathed that haunted air-
The sons of sires who conquered there-
With arm to strike, and soul to dare,
As quick, as far as they!

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An hour passed on - the Turk awoke;
That bright dream was his last;

He woke to hear his sentry's shriek,

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"To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!" He woke to die midst flame and smoke,

And shout, and groan, and saber stroke,
And death-shots falling thick and fast
As lightnings from the mountain cloud;
And heard, with voice as trumpet loud
Bozzaris cheer his band:
"Strike

Strike

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till the last armed foe expires;
altars and your fires;
your
Strike for the green graves of your sires;
God- and your native land!”

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They fought, like brave men, long and well;
They piled that ground with Moslem slain;
They conquered-but Bozzaris fell,
Bleeding at every vein :

His few surviving comrades saw

His smile, when rang their proud "hurrah,"
And the red field was won;

Then saw in death his eyelids close,
Calmly as to a night's repose,

Like flowers at set of sun.

Bozzaris! with the storied brave,

Greece nurtured in her glory's time,
Rest thee. There is no prouder grave
Even in her own proud clime.

We tell thy doom without a sigh ;
For thou art freedom's now and fame's,-
One of the few, the immortal names,

That were not born to die.

HALLECK.

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XXXVIII. — ON RECONCILIATION WITH AMERICA.

RE-PEAL', v. t., to make void.

RE-TRACT', v. t., to take back.

AL-LAY', v. t., to repress; to check.
FOREIGN (for'en), a., belonging to
another nation or country.
CON-CES'SION, n., act of yielding.
AL'IEN-ATE (ale'yen-āte), v. t., to
transfer to another; to estrange.
EX-TOR'TION, N., unlawful exaction.

RE-MOVAL, n., act of removing.
OB'VI-OUS, a., easily discovered.
DEL'E-GATE, n., one sent to act for
others.

COM-PLI-CA'TION, n., an entanglement.
ULTI-MATE-LY, ad., finally.
POL'I-CY, n., management of public
affairs.

DES'POT-ISM, n., absolute power.

In acts, subjects, &c., sound the t. Do not say civl for civil.

1. AMERICA can not be reconciled-she ought not to be reconciled-till the troops of Britain are withdrawn. How can she trust you, with the bayonet at her breast? How can she suppose that you mean less than bondage or death? It is not repealing this or that act of Parliament, it is not repealing a piece of parchment, - that can restore America to our bosom.

2. You must repeal her fears and her res and you may then hope for her love and But now, insulted with an armed force post ton, irritated with a hostile array before her concessions, if you could force them, would cious and insecure, - the dictates of fear, ar tortions of force!

3. But it is more than evident that, princi united as they are, you can not force the A to your unworthy terms of submission. Repe fore, my lords, I say! But bare repeal will n this enlightened and spirited people. You through the work. You must declare you right to tax. Then they may trust you.

4. There is no time to be lost. Every m big with dangers. While I am speaking, the blow may be struck, and millions involved in sequence. The very first drop of blood shed i and unnatural war will make a wound whic perhaps ages, may not heal.

5. When your lordships look at the paper mitted to us from America, — when you consid decency, firmness, and wisdom, you can no spect their cause, and wish to make it your must declare and avow, that, in the master s the world, I know not the people nor the sena under such a complication of difficult circum can stand in preference to the delegates of A Assembled in General Congress at Philadelphi genuine sagacity, for singular moderation, fo wisdom, manly spirit, sublime sentiments, an plicity of language, for every thing respectal honorable, they stand unrivaled.

6. I trust it is obvious to your lordships t

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st be vain, must be fatal. This wise people speak They do not hold the language of slaves. They you what they mean.

l your laws as a favor.

They do not ask you to re

They claim it as a right; y demand it. They tell you they will not submit them. And I tell you the acts must be repealed. › shall be forced ultimately to retract.

7. Let us retract while we can, not when we must. ay we must necessarily undo these violent, opprese acts. They must be repealed. You will repeal m. I pledge myself for it, that you will, in the end, peal them. I stake my reputation on it. I will cont to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally reled.* Avoid, then, this humiliating, this disgraceful cessity.

8. Every motive of justice and of policy, of dignity 1 of prudence, urges you to allay the ferment in erica, by a removal of your troops from Boston,— a repeal of your acts of Parliament. On the other ad, every danger and every hazard impend, to deter

from perseverance in your present ruinous meases: foreign war hanging over your heads by a slight brittle thread; France and Spain watching your duct, and waiting the maturity of your errors! 9. To conclude, my lords, if the ministers thus perwere in misadvising and misleading the king, I will say that they can alienate the affections of his subts from the crown, but I will affirm that they will ke his crown not worth his wearing. I will not say at the king is betrayed, but I will pronounce that - kingdom is undone ! LORD CHATHAM. (1708-1778.)

This prediction was verified. After a three years' fruitless war, the re

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