The Blooming Flow'rs the painted Bow excel;
The gay Delusion courts and cheats the Smell.
What Beauty does ANEMONE disclose!
What flushing Glories the CARNATION shews!
The TULIP here displays her motley Pride;
The PIONY there in richest Crimson dy'd.
The HYACINTH, tho' rais'd by Phoebus Pow'r,
Derives from Female Skill a fairer Flow'r.
The POPPY with legarthic Force opprest,
Her Scarlet Head reclines upon her Breast;
So Henley's drooping Hearers sink to rest.
Incircling Beams the SUN FLOW'RS Orb surround;
With flaming Gold RENUNCULA is crown'd;
Array'd in Snowy Tresses LILLIES shine,
Pure as Her Mind that form'd the neat Design;
The ROSE here buds, there opens ev'ry Grace;
So modest Blushes stain the Virgin Face.
Here we admire the NIGHT-SHADE's darker Blue ;
The twining wOOD-BIND there of various Hue;
Here Silver Blooms of Golden ORANGE blow;
STOCK-GILLY-FLOWERS there and JONQUILS glow,
And Leaves of chearful GREEN the ground bestrew;
Refreshing Green, from Age preserve those Eyes,
By which You flourish in immortal Dies.

IDLENESS.

No person of any reflection will be abused at the present day by the puerile conceit that idleness is the privilege of any mind, however gifted it may be. If culture and severe application be the sole resources to which some have to trust, there is little difference in the need of them as the means of proficiency to all. Without them, no vigour, nor certainty of effort; no excellence, no taste or practical ability is to be looked for. The warning truth cannot be repeated too often.-Quart. Rev.

THOMAS RANDOLPH.

This old poet who has some association with our State, as it seems he was the great uncle of our Sir John Randolph, was born in 1605, and died in 1634, in the 29th year of his age. His principal works are: "The Muses' Looking Glass," "Amyntas," and "Miscellanies." They have considerable merit, and may be read with some interest. We submit a few specimens.

PRECEPTS.

First worship God; he that forgets to pray,
Bids not himself good morrow, nor good day;
Let thy first labour be, to purge thy sin,

And serve Him first whence all things did begin..

Honor thy parents to prolong thine end';
With them, though for a truth, do not contend
Whoever makes his father's heart to bleed
Shall have a child that will avenge the deed.

Think what is just; 'tis not enough to doe,
Unless thy very thoughts are upright too.

Defend the truth; for that who will not dye,
A coward is, and gives himself the lye.

Take well whate'er shall chance, though bad it be,
Take it for good, and 'twill be good to thee.

First think; and if thy thoughts approve thy will,.
Then speak; and after, that thou speak'st fulfil.

So live with men, as if God's curious eye
Did everywhere into thine actions pry;
For never yet was sin so void of sense,
So fully faced with brazen impudence,
As that it durst before men's eyes commit
Their brutal lusts, lest they should witness it;
How dare they then offend when God shall see,
That must alone both judge and jury be?

Would'st thou live long? The only means are these,
'Bove Galen's diet, or Hippocrates';

Strive to live well; tread in the upright ways,
And rather count thy actions than thy days;
Then thou hast lived enough amongst us here;
For every day well spent I count a year.

Live well, and then, how soon so e'er thou die,
Thou art of age to claim eternity.

The following is a pleasant sample of our poet's lighter

ORIGINAL LETTER.

FROM GENERAL WASHINGTON TO GOVERNOR HARRISON.

Newburgh, 4th March, 1783.

[This letter has been obligingly copied for us from the original on file in the office of the Executive Department of State, and is here published, we believe, for the first time.]

Dear Sir,-Your favor of the 31st of January came to my hands the Post before last, and the account from Gen. Lavalette by the last Post. Upon the receipt of the latter, your letter and Lavalette's account was sent to Sir Guy Carleton with a request to remit the money to Col. Smith at Dobbs's Ferry; who is desired to forward it to the Chev'r de la Luzerne at Philadelphia.

You ask what my expectations of Peace are?—I answer, I am scarcely able to form any ideas on the subject, since I have seen (what is called, for we have no authentic account of its being so) the King's speech; and the vari ety of contradictory reports respecting the negociations for it. The Enemy in New York are as impatient, and as much in the dark as we are on this occasion; not having received a Packet for more than two months. Although I cannot give you a decided opinion, under present appearances, I will transcribe the answer I gave about the first of January to a question similar to yours, from a Gentleman of my acquaintance in Maryland; which, as matters are yet undecided, or rather the decision, if any, unannounced, I see no occasion to depart from.

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"My opinion of the matter, ever since the death of the Marquis of Rockingham and the cecession of Mr. Fox, 'Burke, &c. has been uniformly the same; and no late European accounts that I have met with, has given me cause to alter it-it is, that no Peace would take place

"before the meeting of the British Parliament; and that "then it would depend upon the influence of the Crown, "and strength of the contending Parties.-that previous "to the Session, the British Negociators would be employed at Intrigue. In an investigation of powers"hearing propositions-and probing the intentions of the Belligerent powers to the bottom-the latter being ac"complished, the minister (Lord Shelburne) if he found "himself upon slippery ground,-or that the voice of the

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People was loud for peace, would inform the Parliament "that after many months in negociation such are the best "terms he can obtain-and as they involve consequences "of the greatest national concern, and have been the sub"ject of seven years war and debate-it now rests with "Parliament to accept them-or provide vigorously for "the prosecution of the war.-this places the matter upon "the broadest Basis-removes responsibility from his "door-and blunts the edge of opposition, which other"wise I am persuaded would be very keen.

"The King having by his Letters Patent (copy of which "I have seen) authorized Mr. Oswald to treat with any "Commissioner or Commissioners from the United States "of America, is certainly a great point gained; but it was "unavoidable on the part of England; as our Commissioners "would not enter upon business with Mr. Oswald with"out-and the Minister dared not to meet the Parliament "without having attempted something under the Peace "Bill which passed the Session before-Upon the whole I "am of opinion that the terms of Peace were agreed on "before the adjournment for the Christmas Hollidays,―or "that we shall have at least another Campaign. How well "the States are provided for the continuance of the war "let their acts and policy answer. The Army as usual is "without pay-and a great part of the Soldiery without