On the SYMPATHY between the BREECHES POCKET and the Animal SPIRITS.

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It is this, that with more than tutelary power protects its votaries from infults and oppreffions; that filences the enraged accufer, and fnatches the fword from the very hand of justice. Towns and cities, like Jericho, without any miracle, have fallen flat before it; it hath flopped the mouths of cannon, and more furprifing ftill, of faction and flander.

It has thrown a fort of glory about the globofe and opaque fkulls of quorum justices; it has imparted a dread and reverence to the enfigns of authority :-And strange, and paffing

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ftrange to fay, it has made youth and beauty fly into the arms of old age and impotence; given charms to deformity and deteftation; transformed Hymen into Mammon, and the god of love into a fatyr.-It has built bridges without foundations, libraries without books, hofpitals without endowments, and churches without benefices. It has turned confcience into a deift, honour into a pimp, courage into a modern officer, and honelty into a stock-jobber. In short, there is nothing wonderful it has not effected, except making us wife, virtuous, and happy.

ARABIAN ANECDOTE. HREE Arabs, brethren of a noble family, who were travelling together for the improvement of their minds, were accidentally met by a camel driver, who asked them, if they had not feen a camel, which had ftrayed from him in the night. Was not the camel blind of an eye?' faid the eldest. Yes,' faid the man. • It had a tooth out before,' faid the fecond. It is very true,' he replied. Was it not a little lame?' added the third. Why really it was,' returned the owner. Taking it for granted then, that they had feen his beaft, he befought then to tell him which way it went. Follow us, friend,' faid they. He did fo, and had not gone far, till he happened to fay, that the camel was loaden with corn. And it had, continued the Arabians, a veffel of oil on one fide, and a veffel of honey on the other. It had fo, faid the driver; therefore let me conjure you to tell me where you met it. Met it! cried the eldest of the brethren, why we never faw your camel at all.The man lofing pati

ence at this, began to load them with reproaches; and as they were paffing through a village, he raised the people, and caufed them to be apprehended. The Cadi or Judge of the town, before whom they were brought not being able to determine the cause, fent them to the prince of the country, who, perceiving by their behaviour, that they were perfons of diftinction, fet them at liberty, lodged them in his palace, and treated them with all imaginable refpect.After fome days, he took an occafion of politely requefting, that they would clear up the mystery of the camel, and explain how they could poffibly hit upon fo many particulars, without ever having feen it. The young men fmiled at the importunity of the prince; and after having returned him abundance of thanks for the civilities they had received, the fenior of the brethren thus fpoke: We are neither deceivers nor necromancers; neither did we use any other inftruments of divination than our fenfes and reafon: for my part, I judged it

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If this story was a fact, it is not improbable, that from this circumftance arofe that oriental proverb;-" If any one afk you, if you have feen the camel, antwer "No!" i, er do not, by impertinent conversation, involve yourself in difficulties.

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was blind, because, as we went along, I obferved the grafs eaten up on one fide of the road, and not on the other. And I, faid the fecond, gueffed it had loft a tooth before, as where the grass was cropped clofeft, there was conftantly a little tuft left behind. And I, added the third, concluded it was lame, because the prints of three feet were diftinct in the road, whence I concluded, that the animal had dragged it, and did not fet it to the ground. All this I apprehend, faid the king; but how in the name of wonder, could you discover that oil and honey made a part of its loading? Why, rejoined the travellers; this, upon finding our firft furmife was right, we afterwards conjectured, from remembering we had feen, on one fide of the path, little troops of ants ferreting the grafs, and on the other, the flies affembled here and there in groups, infomuch

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Whether, Sir, this eaftern anecdote be true or falle, matters not much, fince, in either case, it exactly reprefents what it was meant to exprefs, the quick thought and deep penetration of the Arabs. In application, it recommends that clofe attention which is fo requifite in matters of importance. Without this, genius and judgment are at beft but defective, and this talent hath often led perfons, in other respects, not greatly diftinguished, to make difcoveries of confequence in philofophy, agriculture, and other sciences. No where, I prefume, is this faculty more neceffary, than in chymical refearches.-In my business,the foolish and the heedlefs are ready to fay, • I did not think;' but the motto of the diligent and attentive will ever be "quid utile ;-Cura et rogo, et omnis, in hoc fum.." [The Bee.

CAT. profecution of which jaunt the fomachful animal must have paffed the Patuxent river, at least two miles wide, but then frozen over; it being in February when the fact occurred.

The TRAVELLING ATE in the year 1791, a cat was taken on board a veffel in the river Potowmack, and brought round through Chesapeak bay into the Patuxent, a circuitous diftance of more than fifty miles. Upon being landed he was conveyed to a houfe three or four miles diftant from the laft mentioned river, in Calvert county,where the continued several weeks. While here, the cat incurred her owner's difpleasure by regaling herself with fome choice provifions that had been fet apart for his own ufe, in confequence of which he was fentenced to receive a whipping, which was accordingly executed. Not relifhing this affront, the forfook the house, and returned to the place from which he had been originally taken, a diftance of between twenty and thirty miles in a diṛcâ line, in the

The manner in which the animal was conveyed, and the diftance of the place it left from that to which it returned, evinces the existence of a faculty in the brute creation, which though rarely exercifed by them, cannot be controverted or denied. I cannot perfuade myself that it can be wholly attributed to inftin&t. Man, endowed with fuperior faculties in other refpects, muft, in this, yield to the fuperior qualities of irrational animals, as fimilar facts have occur. red with regard to other tribes of that part of nature's animated creation we take upon ourselves to call butal.

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For the NEW-YORK MAGAZINE. The GLEANER.No. II. HERE is a natural propenfity in the human mind to enquire into the things of futurity. This, probably, proceeds from our infatiable love of existence, and a defire of progreffing in the chain of being. It is owing to this almoft ir refiftible impulfe, that perfons of every ftation, "quit their fpheres and rufh into the fkies." When the fubpject of enquiry refpects our own fpecies it is natural, and perhaps proper to be pursued; providing we do not allow ourselves to be carried by imagination into the airy régions of fancy, and raife a fuperftructure upon the tranfitory bafis of a cloud; but rather give ourfelves up to the furer guidance of that fober matron, Reafon; and build our foundation on Truth, that immutable and eternal rock. Thefe obfervations are intended as introductory to an enquiry into the flate of the foul during the intermediate space between the death and refurrection of the body. The fubject in itself is difficult, and therefore will be particularly fo to a novice in metaphyfical fpeculation.

Our enquiry would feem to involve a long contested question refpecting the nature of the foul; whether it is the refult of mechanifm; or whether it is a principle diftinct from, and oppofite in its nature to innert matter, but dependant on the perfet organization of fome material vehicle, for the reception and communication of intelligence. Notwithstanding the labour of MateriaJifts to establish their fentiments, we think that the oppofite opinion is capable of being fupported by the moft incontrovertible arguments: there. fore we fhall difmifs the question, referring to thofe publications which have been written exprefsly on the fubject.

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There are two popular opinions refpecting the flate of the foul during the intermediate period; the one fuppoles that it fleeps or remains in a lethargic ftate, and that at the general refurrection it awakes as from "a dream or momentary vifion: the other, that it enters into the immedi ate fruition of confummate happinefs, or into a state of the most abject mifery. Could the opinion of Materialifts be eftablifhed, that what we call mind, is the refult of organization, the former opinion would confequently be true, and therefore all enquiry into the fubject would be ufelefs; because, according to their doctrines, the foul cannot have an exiflence when the body is mouldered into duft, which would destroy its organization. The Materialifts therefore muft, in confiftency with their own fentiments, believe, that the fouì fleeps (or is annihilated) 'till the general judgment; and indeed it is not improbable but that this opinion originated in the doctrines of materialifm. The idea of thofe who fuppofe the foul to fleep, appears to be fanctioned by texts of feripture fimilar to thefe." I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are afleep.". "Them alfo which fleep in Jefus, will God bring with him."The word fleep is ufed here metaphorically for death; for dying and fleeping are frequently used as fynonymous terms throughout the fcriptures. To be in Chrift-to fleep in Chrift-to die in Chrift-to die in the faith, fignify the famé. (1 Cor. xv. 18.— 2 Thef. iv. 10.-Heb. xi. 13.)— Moreover, the metaphor of fleep is only applied to the body. Matt. xxvii. 52. The graves were opened, and many bodies of faints which flept, arose.”—Acts xiii. 36, 37. " David,

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