Then they balanc'd to partners, and turn'd them

about,

And each one alternate was in and was out.

Some kick'd and some flounder'd, some set and some bounded,

'Till the music was drown'd-the figure confounded; Some danc'd dos a dos, and some danc'd contreface, And some promenaded-and all lost their place.

In the midst of this great pantomimic ballette,
What guest should arrive but the great LA FAYETTE!
The dancers all bow'd, and the fiddlers chang'd tune,
Like Apollo's banjo to the man in the moon.

How sweet were the notes, and how bold was the
strain!

O, when shall we list to such concord again?
The hall was sky-cover'd with Freedom's bright arch,
And it rung to the music of Liberty's march.

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THERE were but sixty-nine new entries on the docket of the Hartford County Court at its late session. One of the most important causes is reported below.

SCIRE FACIAS.*

THE BAR versus THE DOCKET.

THIS action was brought to get cash from the pocket Of a debtor absconding and absent, call'd DocketFor damage sustain'd by the Bar, through the lachest Of him by whose means the said Bar cut their dashes.

They copied the constable, thinking that he Might have goods in his hands, and be made Garnishee;t

Who, being thus summon'd to show cause, appear'd To state to the court why he should not be shear'd.§

*Make him to know.

+ Neglect.

One who, being supposed to have in his hands the property of an absconded debtor, is cited to show whether he has or not.

Not a law term, but rather a termination in law.

Whereas, said the Plaintiffs, you owe us our living By assumpsit implied, and the costs you must give

in

You have cheated us out of our bread and our butter, Et alia enormia,* too numerous to utter.

Thus solemnly spoke the Bar's counsel, and sigh'd—
The Garnishee plainly and frankly replied,
That he had no effects, and could not get enough
To pay his own debt, which he thought rather tough.

Then came pleas and rejoinders, rebutters, demur

rers,

Such as Chitty would plough into Richard Roe's fur

rows;

Cross questions, and very cross answers, to suit-
So the gist of the case was the point in dispute.

The Judges look'd grave, as indeed well they might, For one party was wrong, and the other not right; The sweeper himself thought it cruel to sue

A man, just because he had nothing to do.

* And other enormities.

This is usually the fact before the County Court, and indeed before all other Courts.

The Docket non ested,* the Garnishee prov'd,
That the chattels were gone and the assets remov'd—
That they had not been heard of for full half a year,
So he took to the Statute, and swore himself clear.

The case being simple in English, the Bench Resorted, of course, to their old Norman French; But the Bar being frighten'd, thought best to defer it, And pray out the writ latitat et discurrit.

Then a motion was made by the learned debators, That the sheriff should call out the whole comitatus—‡ Read the act-tell the posse, instanter to hook it, And send the whole hue and cry after the Docket.

*Not to be found.

+ Lurks and wanders.

Posse comitatus-power of the County.

JERUSALEM.

THE following paragraph from the Mercantile Advertiser, suggested the lines below it.

The following intelligence from Constantinople is of the 11th ult." A severe earthquake is said to have taken place at Jerusalem, which has destroyed great part of that city, shaken down the Mosque of Omar, and reduced the Holy Sepulchre to ruins from top to bottom."

FOUR lamps were burning o'er two mighty gravesGodfrey's and Baldwin's-Salem's Christian kings; And holy light glanc'd from Helena's naves,

Fed with the incense which the Pilgrim brings,While through the pannell'd roof the cedar flings Its sainted arms o'er choir, and roof, and dome, And every porphyry-pillar'd cloister rings To every kneeler there its "welcome home," As every lip breathes out, "O Lord, thy kingdom come."

A mosque was garnish'd with its crescent moons,
And a clear voice call'd Mussulmans to

prayer.

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