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THE 
 
 NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 
 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 LONDON: 
 JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. 
 
 MDCCCXXI. 
 
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 LONDON ; 
 PKIMTI.U BV WILLIAM ItOWtS, 
 
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The Editor of the following Sheets feels it incumbent on him to 
 state, that at the time they were composed, not the remotest idea 
 was entertained of their fulfilling any other purpose than that of 
 relieving the tedium of an Arctic Winter; and perhaps of afterwards 
 affording amusement to a few private friends at home. On the return 
 of the Expedition, the interest which the Public took in all that had 
 passed during the voyage, induced applications for the perusal of the 
 manuscript, which could only be gratified by its publication. In con- 
 senting to this measure, the contributors to the North Georgia Gazette 
 are fully aware, that its principal recommendation to the public notice 
 will be considered to arise from the peculiarities of circumstances 
 and of situation under which it was composed ; and they trust that they 
 may be allowed to claim from the general reader the same indulgence, 
 which they would have received, had the perusal of the Chronicle been 
 confined to the partial circle to which they originally intended it should 
 have been limited : witH ^his impression, no alteration has been 
 attempted in the respectiv papers, in preparing them for the 
 
 press. 
 
 Edward Sabine. 
 
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 LONDON, April 20th, 1821. 
 
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PROPOSALS 
 FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEWSPAPER 
 
 ON BOARD TilE SHIPS EMPLOYED IN THE 
 
 DISCOVERY OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 
 
 IT has been suggested that the establishment of a Weekly Newspaper 
 may assist in enlivening the tedious nnd inactive months of winter. It is 
 in contemplation, therefore, to try the experiment, by circulating the first 
 Number of the " Winter Chronicle" amongst the Officers of the Ex- 
 jiedition, on Monday the Ist of November. 
 
 As the design of this Paper is solely to promote good-humour and 
 amusement. Captain Sabine, who has undertaken to be the Editor, will 
 consider himself responsible, that no article whatsoever shall be admitted 
 which, to his knowledge, will give a moment's uneasiness to any individual. 
 He reserves to himself, therefore, a discretionary power of omitting any 
 contributions which may appear to him objectionable, either on that or 
 any other account ; and, of either briefly assigning his reasons, or other- 
 wise, as he may think proper. 
 
 He begs it, however, to be distinctly understood, that he will be 
 wholly dependant on the Gentlemen of the Expedition for the support of the 
 Paper ; and, he suggests to those who are well-wishers to the under- 
 taking, that their assistance and exertions will be especially required at its 
 commencement. 
 
Vlll 
 
 PROPOSALS. 
 
 
 
 Original contributions on any lubject will be acceptable. The Sporti- 
 m<ui and the Euayiit, the Philosopher and the Wit, the Poet and Uic Plain 
 Matter-ot-fact Man, will each find their respective places. It is recom- 
 mended that an anonymous signature be affixed to each communication, 
 and the hand-writing effectually disguised, to ensure the most rigid im- 
 partiality in judging and selecting the articles for insertion. A box will be 
 placed on the Capstan of the Hecia to receive them, the key of which will 
 be kept by the Editor ; and it is requested that communications, designed to 
 appear in the first Number, may be deposited in the box by the Thursday 
 Evening preceding the Publication. 
 
 Winter Harbour, 
 October 20th, 1819. 
 
 »^^-.L.»».»., 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 No. 1. NOVKMBER I. I3I9. 
 
 AddrcM by U»«' KwiTon 
 
 On tlic e8tal)li»ttmpnt of the Winter riironirlc. By Piiilo-Comus 
 On the effects of iin Arotir Winter. By Fiiosticus 
 
 Arclio Miserips. By Oi.n Comicai 
 
 Lines on the eonimencemrnt of the Winter Chronicle. By Albert 
 
 Linos by Q, .... 
 
 Announcement of tht* Openintj of the North Georgia Theatre 
 Notice to Correspondents 
 
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 No. II. November 8. 
 
 Note by the Editor 
 
 Letter of a Plain Matteii-of-Fact Mas 
 
 'llieatrical Report . 
 
 Address Spoken at the Openings of the North Georgia Theatre 
 
 Enigma, by Ai.bkrt 
 
 To Correspondents 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
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 No. III. November 15. 
 
 Letter from PiiiLosopiiicus . . 
 
 Speech of Counsellor Puzzlewell, in the Cause Editor v. Non-Contributors 
 
 A Vision. By Piiilo Somnus 
 
 Theatrical Report 
 
 Lines by Q. 
 
 To Correspondents . . , 
 
 13 
 14 
 16 
 16 
 17 
 18 
 
 No. IV. November 22. 
 
 Remarks on the North Georpia Theatricals. By Peter Trial 
 
 Answer to Albert's Enigma 
 
 Theatrical Announcement 
 
 Songs, written by Mr. Wakeham, for the Theatre 
 
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 X CONTENTS. 
 
 No. V. November 29. 
 
 Letter from Peter Fume 25 
 
 Law Report. Catwe q/'/A« Editor t>. Non-Contributors .... 26 
 
 Theatrical Report. By Trim 27 
 
 Fragments. By Richard Roam-about 28 
 
 Theatrical Notice 29 
 
 No. VL December 6. 
 
 Letter from Scepticus . 32 
 
 Letter from Timothy Quill-Splitter 33 
 
 Trim's Memorial to the Court of Common Sense 32 
 
 Advertisements 33 
 
 Accidents, Offences, &c 33 
 
 A Thought of Home .34 
 
 Lines by Little-Brain Lack-Wit 35 
 
 Reflections on seeing the t»un set for Three Months 35 
 
 No. VIL December 13. 
 
 The Complaint of Pincher 37 
 
 Theatrical Report and Announcement 38 
 
 Advertisements 39 
 
 Letter from Sir Pitiful Punster, Bart 39 
 
 The Green-Room, or a Peep behind the Curtain. By Pekping Tom ... 39 
 
 No. VIII. December 20. 
 
 Fragment of the Journal of an old N. W. Voyager. By T. .... 44 
 
 Advertisement 44 
 
 Letter from Abioail Handicraft, to the Managerof the Theatre ... 44 
 
 A Dream. By Philo-Somnus 45 
 
 Lines, by a Young Beginner 45 
 
 Solution of a Rebus, by Castioator 47 
 
 No. IX. December 27. * 
 
 Letter from Philanthuopus 50 
 
 Theatrical Report and Announcement 51 
 
 Letter from Snip Quill-Drive 52 
 
 Advertisements 52 
 
 Soag (torn" The North West Passage," by Mr. Wakeham 52 
 
 Reflections on the Morning of Christmas-Day 53 
 
 No. X. January 3, 1820. "'"i ' . 
 
 Reflections on the commencement of a New Year, by Amicus ' .... 51 
 
 Thoughts on New Year's Day ^^ \ ... 58 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
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 No. XI. January 10. 
 
 Pige 
 
 Strictures on the Theatrical Management by a Looker-on 62 
 
 On the establishment of a new Weekly Paper. By Henry Harmless . 62 
 
 Meteorological Question 63 
 
 Theatrical Report, and Announcement ........ 63 
 
 Letter of N. C. 64 
 
 Advertisement — Prospectus of an Opposition Journal 65 
 
 No. XH. January 17. 
 
 Letter from Simon Set-Right 67 
 
 Reply to N. C. by Joseph us Not-Far-off 69 
 
 Remarks on the Letter of N. C. By John Slender-brain and Smell Rat 
 
 Smoke'em 70 
 
 Obituary 71 
 
 Advertisements ........'••.71 
 
 No. XIII. January 24. 
 
 Second Letter to the Editor. By N. C 73 
 
 Letter to the Editor. By Veritas 74 
 
 The Editor's Reply 75 
 
 Theatrical Report and Announcement 77 
 
 Hyperborean Bonnets . . 77 
 
 Lines, by C. ..*.......... 78 
 
 Notice to Correspondents 78 
 
 No. XIV. January 31. 
 
 Remarks on the Editor's Reply to Veritas. By Peter Plainway 
 Letter from Stephen Stopwell . . . . • 
 
 Hostilities in the North. By Philo-Caloric . . 
 Advertisements ........ 
 
 Lines picked up by A Contributor .... 
 
 Lines suggested by the Brilliant Aurora, January 15, 1820 
 Stanzas addressed to the Editor. By A Scribbler 
 
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 No. XV. February 7. 
 
 Second Letter on Theatrical Manaperaent. ByaLooKER-On .... 85 
 
 Anne Anti-Scalp's Complaint, and the Editor's Remarks thereon ... 86 
 
 Theatrical Report and Announcement 86, 87 
 
 Fashionable Arrival in North Georgia 88 
 
 Fashionable Intelligence ........... 88 
 
 Poetical Invitation to the Feathered Race. By Quintilian Querulous . . 89 
 
 Lines on the Re-appearance of the Sun 90 
 
XII 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
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 No. XVI. February 14. 
 
 First Letter of Z. . . 
 
 Births 
 
 Domestic Intelligence 
 
 Stanzas oi the death of a favourite Dog 
 
 Hyperborean Privilege 
 
 Notice to Correspondents 
 
 Paie 
 
 93 
 
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 95 
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 98 
 
 No. XVII. February 21. 
 
 Letter from a Spectatoe . . 
 Correction of Meteorological Errors. 
 Theatrical Announcement 
 
 By Simon Set-Right 
 
 99 
 lOO 
 101 
 
 Stanzas bv Q. and Meredith Makeshift 102 
 
 No. XVIII. February 28. 
 
 Second Letter of Z 
 
 Letter from Peepivo-Tom ' . 
 
 Reflections occasioned by the Fire at the Observatory-House 
 i^ines suggested by the Death of a Gull 
 
 A Philosophic Reverie 
 
 The Editor Be- Deviled 
 
 Epigram 
 
 No. XIX. March 6. 
 
 Complaint of Nathan LoNo-Bow 
 Reply to Peeping Tom. By Tom Pleped-at 
 Hyperborean Soporifics. By Piulo-Somnus 
 Notice to Correspondents .... 
 
 105 
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 No. XX. March 13. 
 
 Third Letter of Z 118 
 
 Contest between Sir Partial Thaw and General Frost. By N. . .118 
 
 Proposal to despatch a Balloon. By Hilakv High-Flyer . .119 
 
 Lines on the Motto on the Hecla'^ binnacle 120 
 
 Songs from " The North-West Passage," by Mr. Wakeham . 121, 122 
 
 No. XXI. March 20. 
 
 Farewell to the Whistlers, Bangers, Hummers, Blowers, ^c. By Z. . . 125 
 
 Reflections on the Conclusion of the Winter Chronicle. By Philo-Comus 127 
 
 Wishes. ByT. 128 
 
 Theatrical Report . . . . . . ..... 128 
 
 Stanzas for the last Number of the Winter Chronicle. By A. . . . 129 
 
 Farewell Address on the Close of the Theatre. By Mr. Wakeham .130 
 
 Final Note by the Editor . 132 
 
THE 
 
 NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 N». I— MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1819. 
 
 TTITE feel great pleasure in being enabled 
 ~ ' to commence our Editorial Office, by 
 acknowledgments of the lively interest with 
 which the proposals for the establishment of 
 our Paper have been so generally received ; of 
 the support with which the demand for the 
 early exertions of our well-wishers has been 
 met ; and of the encouragement which we 
 derive from the communications with which 
 we have been already favoured. The pro- 
 posals having announced a first Number as 
 an experiment, we should feel ourselves 
 wanting in the confidence which the num- 
 ber and respectability of our correspondents 
 so justly inspire, were we to hesitate in de- 
 claring our conviction, that the experiment 
 has succeeded ; and in venturing, in the 
 name of its supporters, to promise the con- 
 tinuation of the North Georgia Gazette and 
 Winter Chronicle. 
 Having premised thus much, we proceed 
 
 to lay before our readers the contents of the 
 Editor's box. 
 
 TO THE 
 
 Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mr. Editor — It was with real pleasure I 
 saw in circulation among us, your proposals 
 for a Weekly Newspaper, to be supported by 
 original contributions from the Gentlemen of 
 the Expedition. I am confident that such a 
 paper will, under your censorship, be pro- 
 ductive of much amusement, and serve to 
 relieve the tadium of our hundred days of 
 darkness * ; and, in this view, we cannot but 
 consider you entitled to our best thanks for 
 having undertaken so troublesome an office 
 for the public good. 
 
 Having before known more than one press 
 
 * The sun was ninety-six days below the horizon. 
 
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 of this kind established on board ships, I 
 may take the liberty of warning you not to 
 be discouraged by the slender contributions 
 which the first or second week may be ex- 
 pected to pour into your box. True wit 
 may (for ought you or I know, Mr. Editor,) 
 be as modest as true worth of any other 
 kind, and we must not mistake that for in- 
 capacity which may proceed only from dif- 
 fidence. 
 
 The interest which I take in your present 
 plan has, however, enabled me to do more 
 than speculate upon the probable support 
 which your publication will receive at our 
 hands ; for you must know, that, soon after 
 I met with your proposals, I took such a 
 liking to them, that I immediately set to work 
 to find out what effect they would have 
 upon our community at large ; and I have 
 now much pleasure in assuring you, in the 
 language of our London journals, " that 
 they have produced a great sensation in the 
 public mind." 
 
 The very day afler your Prospectus ap- 
 peared, as my reporters inform me, there 
 was a greater demand for ink than has been 
 known during the whole voyage ; the green 
 baize of our mess tables has been ever since 
 covered with innumerable pen-parings, to 
 the great detriment, by-the-by, of one of our 
 servants, whose finger has been terribly 
 festered by a prick he received in sweeping 
 them off; and I have it from authority, on 
 which you may rely, that Serjeant Martin* 
 has, within the last week, sharpened no less 
 than nine penknives. 
 
 It has been remarked that our tables ab- 
 solutely groan under the weight of writing 
 desks, which for months past have not seen 
 " the blessed light ;" and it is well known 
 that the holds have been more than once 
 opened of late, for the express, though not 
 
 professed, purpose of getting up fresh pack- 
 ages of paper, originally intended for next 
 year's consumption, but which is now des- 
 tined to grace your file. 
 
 " One gentleman," says my correspondent, 
 " more sly than the rest, thought he had 
 eluded our vigilance; his chest lay in the 
 hatchway to be opened, he took the oppor- 
 tunity, while he thought nobody was look- 
 ing, to wrap some old clothes round the 
 square package of paper, before he lifted it 
 out. But as he was walking off with them 
 into his cabin, I saw one of the comers of 
 the tin box shining bright through an unfor- 
 tunate hole in an old flannel waistcoat. When 
 I taxed him with it, he coloured deeply, 
 (strong symptoms, Mr. Editor !) and ran off, 
 declaring most vehemently, that it was only 
 a canister of gingerbread nuts ! ' Nuts, in- 
 deed, they were,' adds my facetious friend, 
 ' nuts for the editor !' " 
 
 Nor is the information, of which I am in 
 possession, confined simply to this ; for I have 
 pryed more deeply into the business, and 
 have before me secret intelligence of no less 
 than seven literary contributions in embryo, 
 with which the brains of as many youthful 
 compositors have been teeming ever since 
 your Prospectus appeared. I could tell you, 
 if I chose, to which department, among 
 those you have enumerated, each of these 
 belongs ; but as I have no doubt that they 
 will all appear in your pages in their proper 
 time and place, I shall say no more at pre- 
 sent about them. 
 
 For my own part, Mr. Editor, such is the 
 opinion I entertain of your plan, that I have 
 resolved, unless you lay upon me an abso- 
 lute prohibition, to make a copy of each 
 paper while it is in circulation. For, I con- 
 fess, that I anticipate from your pages a fund 
 of rational amusement, not only for the even- 
 
 * The Serjeant of the Royal Artillery who accompanied Captaii. Sabine. 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 ings of this our arctic winter, but for those 
 of many a future one, which we all hope to 
 spend happily in Old England ; and I cannot 
 help looking forward to the time when a pa- 
 ragraph of the Winter Chronicle, read aloud 
 around some cheerful fire-side, may draw a 
 tear of pride and pleasure from the eye of 
 an aged parent, an affectionate wife, or a be- 
 loved sister. 
 
 I remain, Mr. Editor, 
 
 Your friend and well-wisher, 
 
 Philo Comus. 
 
 P.S. 1 forgot to mention to you, that I 
 have some reason to suspect an attempt will 
 occasionally be made to slide into your box 
 communications which are not quite original, 
 and therefore not quite cori'esponding with 
 your plan ; for a gentleman was seen at his 
 desk late the other night, with a \ olume of the 
 Spectator before him, while he was thawing 
 his ink over a lamp. With all due deference to 
 yov r extensive reading, I think it right to put 
 you on your guard against such attempts ; 
 for I have no idea, Mr. Editor, of being ob- 
 liged to read in the Winter Chronicle what 
 our great grandfathers conned over at their 
 breakfast tables more than a century ago. 
 
 For the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 The travels of the renowned Baron Mun- 
 chausen, which I recollect reading when a 
 boy, furnish strong proofs of the very sin- 
 gular effects resulting from extreme cold; 
 and as it seems probable we may have to en- 
 counter a greater severity of weather than 
 even that illustrious personage experienced, 
 I think any idea conducive to the general 
 or individual good of our companions, should 
 not be hoarded in selfish concealment, but 
 liberally given to this little world. 
 
 After the frost shall have exhausted all its 
 usual effects of fixing the brandy bottle to 
 the lins, freezing the water in the tea-kettle 
 on the fire, congealing sounds, converting 
 sighs into showers of snow, and briny tears 
 into icicles, is it not probable that it may 
 reduce the temperature of the human body 
 so low, as to interfere with the internal eco- 
 nomy, compeUing the blood to roll through 
 the veins and arteries in the form of peas, 
 dropping one by one into the proper cavities 
 of the heart, and being agam discharged 
 from thence like small shot? Now, when 
 matters shall have arrived at such a pitch as 
 this, there is something in the heart, sto- 
 mach, or bowels, (I think the former,) of 
 many young men called love, which though 
 very hot in its nature, must at length ac- 
 knowledge the frigorific influence. What 
 then will be the result? We know that, 
 even in the comparatively warm climate of 
 Russia, some sorts of liquor are frozen co 
 such a degree, that the whole strength is 
 concentrated, perhaps,into one five-hundredth 
 part of its original space. Now, should 
 this be the case with love, fierce and burning 
 in its present state, to what a deplorable situa- 
 tion must it reduce the unfortunate victim? — 
 if he attempts to breath, emitting flames 
 like a fabled dragon, while the dissolving 
 blood rushes along in copious streams, and 
 after each respiration as suddenly con- 
 geals. But, oh horror ! horror ! should he 
 havs accustomed himself to the use of spi- 
 rits — on the first kindling of the flame, up he 
 goes like a shell, a mine, a rocket ! Think 
 of this in time, gentle youths, whose sensi- 
 bility may have betrayed you into love, 
 who " have drank the soft poison of a speak- 
 ing eye." Root it from your bosoms ere the 
 catastrophe arrives, with persevering forti- 
 tude and resolution, and deposit this soft de 
 lusive something where it may be at hand 
 for use in a milder clime ; there only can it 
 
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THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 
 avail :— then, when the moment arrives which 
 ■hewi you the other terrific symptoms I have 
 mentioned, you will hail me as your friend, 
 your guardian, your benefactor. 
 
 Frosticvs. 
 
 Should my conjectures prove correct, 
 would it not be a national benefit to make a 
 turnpike-road from Hudson's Bay to this 
 dreary region? How many married pairs 
 might here revive the almost extinct sparks 
 of regard, and as soon as their bosoms were 
 sufficiently warmed, set off and avoid the 
 dangers of combustion! 
 
 fire, discovering that your piece is neither 
 primed nor loaded, while the animals four 
 legs are employed in carrying away the body. 
 
 For the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 ARCTIC MISERIES. 
 
 Going out in a winter morning for the 
 purpose of taking a walk, and before you 
 have proceeded ten yards from the ship, 
 getting a cold bath in the cook's steep 
 hole*. 
 
 When on a hunting excursion, and being 
 close to a fine deer, after several attempts to 
 
 Setting out with a piece of new bread in 
 your pocket on a shooting party, and when 
 you feel inclined to flat it, having occasion to 
 observe that it is so frozen that your teeth 
 will not penetrate it. 
 
 Being called from table by intelligence 
 that a wolf is approaching the vessels, which, 
 on closer inspection, proves to be a dog ; on 
 going again below, detecting the cat in run^ 
 ning off with your dinner. 
 
 Returning on board your ship afler an 
 evening visit in a contemplative humour, and 
 being roused from a pleasing reverie by the 
 close embrace of a bear. 
 
 Sitting down in anticipation of a comfort- 
 able breakfast, and finding that the tea, by 
 mistake, is made of salt water. 
 
 Old Comical. 
 
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 ON THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 
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 TO enliven the moments, while Winter steals on 
 With a too tardy pace, be the care of each one ; 
 Let rancour and malice be banish'd afar, 
 Unworthy the pen or the heart of a tar ! 
 The fire of true wit may shine vivid and bright, 
 Untinctured with satire — unprompted by spite : 
 We are few, and immured in a desolate spot. 
 Then let envy, resentment, and pride be forgot ; 
 And while Fate may keep us so near one another, 
 Let each one consider his friend as a brother ; 
 W e shall still find enough to enlarge on, no doubt, 
 Tho* we have not the charms of a ball or a rout. 
 
 * A hole in the ice for steeping salt meat, ^c. 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 The mind philosophic may often impart 
 Some instruction from nature, some process of art ; 
 Morality too may embellish the page, 
 And by soft winning precepts attention engage ; 
 The sportsman with pleasure may lead us to view 
 The toils and the triumphs he oft has gone through ; 
 And each daily occurrence may somewhat afford. 
 Not unworthy to offer at Dame Reason's board : 
 And thus each unfolding the gifts of his mind, 
 While diffusing his knowledge, yet haply may find, 
 That though what he gives ne'er reduces his store. 
 He oft by this intercourse adds something more. 
 Then le^ me solicit a part of your leisure 
 To be weekly devoted to giving us pleasure ; 
 And thus I conclude with good wishes most fervent. 
 And beg to subscribe, your obsequious servant, 
 
 Albert. 
 
 For the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 TO chase the dull inactive hours away, 
 
 Resolved nem. con., that we should have a play ; 
 
 The play is fix'd on — characters all cast, 
 
 Parts learnt, and lo ! the first rehearsal past ! 
 
 Glum cried — " 'Twill do, but to ensure success, 
 
 " You'll ask some friend to write you an address.'* 
 
 " Eh ?" quoth the Manager — " adzooks, your right, 
 
 " Without a dress we're in a pretty plight ; 
 
 " But who shall write it? Marry, there's the rub ; 
 
 " We have no commerce with that street called Grub." 
 
 Strut seem'd perplex'd — look'd thoughtful — took his snuff, 
 
 " Egad, I have it — let us send for Puff* I / 
 
 " Puff is our man — ^he'Il spin us his heroics, 
 
 " And melt the audience, if they are not stoics." 
 
 " You want a Puff," cries Glum — " that's very true, 
 
 " But, Mr. Puff, I tell you, will not do ; 
 
 " He 'd write, no doubt, a mighty pretty story, 
 
 " Tell you of England's pride, of England's glory ; 
 
 " How that her sons adven'trous sallied forth, 
 
 <* And what 's been done in regions thus far north : 
 
 " But this, I take it, is too fine by half, 
 
 *• We want, my friends, something to make us laugh ; 
 
 " Something to help a lame dog o'er the stile, 
 
 «« And make our play a tedious hour beguile." 
 
 * The part of Puff, in Miss in her Teens, was to be performed by Mr. Wakeham, who wrote the 
 opening address. 
 
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 •' Still Puff's our man," cried Strut, •« I have no doubt 
 
 " He'll do the thing, and bring all thia about ; 
 
 " For tho' he dabbles high in epic lore, 
 
 " He can descend and make the boxes roar ;— 
 
 " Aye, Pit and Gallery too — for he is a poet 
 
 " Of more than common stamp, and you shall know it." 
 
 Thus, Mr. Editor, the affair was settled. 
 
 Strut was well pleased, and Glum appear'd half nettled ; 
 
 While we look forward to the eventful night. 
 
 To prove Glum wrong-~-the manager quite right. 
 
 Cj^eatre l&osal, iHtortj^ Georgia. 
 
 The Public are respectfully informed, that the Theatre will open, for 
 
 the first time, 
 
 ON FRIDAY NEXT, NOVEMBER 5, 1819, 
 
 When will be performed Garrick's celebrated Farce of 
 
 MISS IN HER TEENS; 
 
 OR, 
 
 THE MEDLEY of LOVERS. 
 
 MEN. 
 
 Sir Simon Loveit, Mr.NiAS. Captain Loveit, Mr. Griffiths. 
 
 Captain Flash, Mr. Busiinan. Fribble, Mr. Parry. 
 
 Jasper, Mr. Hoppner. Puff, Mr. Wakemam. 
 
 WOMEN. 
 
 Miss Biddy, Mr. Beechey. Aunt, Mr. Beverley. 
 
 Tag, Mr. Hooper. 
 
 SONGS, by Messsrs. Skene, Palmer, and Bvsiinan, will be introduced 
 
 between the Acts. 
 Previous to the Performance, 
 
 AN APPROPRIATE ADDRESS. 
 
 Written expressly for the Occasion, 
 
 Will be spoken by Mr. Wakeham. 
 
 Doors will open at Half-past Six, and the Curtain will rise precisely at Seven- 
 
 TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
 
 
 Albert's Enigma in onr next. 
 
 Amicus's " Prologue to itfiM in her Teem, to be spolcen 
 after the opening Address," has been received. The 
 Editor talies the liberty of suggesting, that the Ma- 
 nager of the Theatre is the person to whom it should 
 have been sent. It is not yet too late to be so sent ; 
 and when spolcen, it would appear in due course in 
 our Theatrical Report. 
 
 We are requested to state, that a hnmorons Epilogue to 
 Miss in her Teens would add considerably to the 
 amusements of Friday evening. 
 
 NAfTicDs's commnnication, entitled " A Problem," has 
 
 been received. We take this opportunity to remark, 
 that wd consider that it falls within the plan of our 
 Paper, to adroit questions which may exercise the inge- 
 nuity of our Readers, and furnish occupation in their so- 
 lution ; but it is necessary, in order to render such ques- 
 tions worthy the occasion, that they should possess a 
 certain degree of originality, and require more than a 
 very ordinary knowledge to resolve them. If our friend 
 Nauticus will refer to any of the Elementary Treatises 
 on Arithmetic or Algebra, he will find under the Rules 
 of Position, or of Simple Equations, many very similar ex- 
 amples to his, proposed for the student's instruction, and 
 the mode of their resolution explained. 
 
THE 
 
 NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 N°. II— MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1319. 
 
 O INCE our first Number has been in cir- 
 ^ dilation, we have received various com- 
 munications of encouragement, and assu- 
 lances of support, confirming the persuasion 
 which we ventured to avow in our last 
 Number, that the Winter Chronicle is no 
 longer an experiment. As in the days of 
 unconquered Rome, it was deemed no less 
 than a capital ofience to entertain doubts of 
 the safety of the commonwealth ; so we cer- 
 tainly will not set the example of bad citizen- 
 ship, by permitting a suspicion to take pos- 
 session of our minds, that the united talents 
 Eftid exertions of our little community will 
 prove inadequate to support a design which 
 is deemed conducive to the public good. 
 
 From the above-mentioned communica- 
 tions we have selected the one which we 
 present to our readers, from a correspondent 
 who signs himself " A plain Matter-of-Fact 
 
 Man," because it coincides with our own 
 sentiments on the subject. 
 
 Mr. Editor — I hope you will not think 
 me behind-hand in assuring you of the plea- 
 sure I received on reading your proposals 
 circulated amongst us — a pleasure not less 
 sincere than that of those who have been 
 before me in expressing it. I felt also the 
 propriety of your appeal to your well-wishers 
 for their timely support, and counting myself 
 in that number, I was very desirous to have 
 complied with your request ; but, Mr. Editor, 
 I will freely confess, that after puzzling my 
 head a long time to no purpose, I was forced 
 to give the matter up, in utter despair of 
 finding a subject upon which " A plain 
 Matter-of-Fact Man," as I profess myself 
 to be, could address you with any pros- 
 pect of entertainment to your readers. Yet, 
 
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 an day passed after day, I felt less and less 
 satisfied to rest without making an attempt, 
 at least, to contribute my portion to the 
 gene \\ fund. 
 
 Tho object uf your Paper being our amuse- 
 ment, I consider it alike the interest and 
 business of every individual who is pleased 
 with such an establishment amongst us, to 
 do something towards its support ; for, if we 
 do not furnish you with communications, 
 Mr. Editor, nothing is more plain than that 
 you cannot furnish us with papers : and, if 
 during the winter, a Monday shall arise 
 without a Winter Chronicle to grace our 
 breakfast-tables, we shall, indeed, by our 
 backwardness have deprived ourselves (in 
 words so justly and feelingly used by your 
 correspondent Philo-Comus, and which I 
 repeat to impress them more strongly on 
 your readers) of " A source of rational 
 a^iiusement not only for the evenings of 
 this our Arctic Winter, but of many a future 
 one, when a paragraph of the Winter Chro- 
 nicle, read aloud around some cheerful fire- 
 side, may draw a tear of pride and pleasure 
 from the eye of an aged parent, an affec- 
 tionate wife, or a beloved sister." 
 
 You will readily conceive, then, Mr. Editor, 
 that I was not a little cheered at the satis- 
 faction which you expressed in your first 
 Number, and at the confident manner in 
 which you announced your persuasion of 
 further and sufficient aid. But, do not sup- 
 pose that your correspondents hitherto have 
 borne any proportion, in point of number, 
 to that of your well-wishers, or of those 
 who will eventually assist in filling your 
 columns. I have reason to know, that I 
 was not singular in the embarrassment which 
 deprived me of the gratification of seeing 
 my signature in the list of your earliest 
 contributors : and, that there are not a few 
 persons who are only waiting to form their 
 
 judgment on the sort of communication 
 which will be acceptable, and who will fall 
 into your ranks, one by one. 
 
 I would, therefore, add my voice to that 
 of your more experienced correspondent, 
 Philo-Comus, that you be not discouraged 
 by the slender contributions of the first few 
 weeks. 
 
 I would also remind those who are yet 
 silent from the cause which has been just 
 assigned, that ttow is the time when support 
 is most needed ; when, if every person will 
 put his shoulder to the wheel in earnest, 
 (and each individual may command his own 
 exertions,) there can be no doubt that your 
 Paper will go on with spirit 
 
 Permit me to subscribe myself, 
 your occasional Correspondent, 
 A PLAIN Matter-of-Fact Man. 
 
 THEATRICAL REPORT. 
 
 The theatre opened on Friday evening 
 with the farce of " Miss in her Teens," pre- 
 ceded by an address, written and spoken 
 by Mr. Wakeham. 
 
 We have been favoured with a copy of 
 this production, with which we shall present 
 our readers in one of our subsequent co- 
 lumns. We have only to express our per- 
 suasion that there can be but one opinion 
 of its merit, and shall only add, that we think 
 the Actor scarcely did justice to the Author ; 
 probably from the diffidence natural to a 
 man in reciting his own verses. * 
 
 Two appropriate songs were introduced 
 between the acts, by Messrs. Skene and 
 Palmer, and were received with much ap- 
 plause. 
 
 Having been obligingly furnished with 
 copies of them, we shall ofier no apology to 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 our reiulPM for inHorting them for their 
 perunnl. We iindcrBtand that these are nlno 
 from the pen of Mr. Wnkehiim ; nor have we 
 yet Htnted, if we are rightly informed, the 
 extent of our obhgation to his Muse, since 
 we derived much amusement from an epi- 
 logue said to be written by him for the 
 occasion, at a few hours' notice, ond spoken 
 with greot spirit by Mrs. Tag and Jasper, 
 in character : we regret that our hmits do 
 not aUow us to give this production a place 
 in our pages. 
 
 Persons who are not familiar with tlie 
 expedients wl»ich are resorted to, to produce 
 effect with very deficient means, woidd have 
 been astonished at the manner in whicli this 
 entertainment was got up, luider circum- 
 stances the most disadvantageous that can 
 be conceived ; for, we know that not an 
 article of scenery, decorations, or dresses, 
 was embarked in either ship for this purpose, 
 and yet we venture to pssert, that few pro- 
 vincial theatres in England would have 
 excelled ours in either of these respects. 
 
 The scenery was painted under the direc- 
 tion of Lieutenant Beechey, who has also 
 obligingly undertaken the management of 
 the theatre. 
 
 The characters were supported throughout 
 with great spirit and propriety, and we con- 
 sider that our thanks are especially due to 
 the gentlemen who took the female parts, 
 which were performed with no inconsiderable 
 share of animation, and feminine delicacy. 
 
 At the conclusion of the epilogue, the 
 street-scene rising, discovered the whole of 
 the Dramatis Personam, who struck up " God 
 save the King," in which they were joined by 
 many of the audience with great enthusiasm, 
 and the curtain fell amid loud and repeated 
 applause. 
 
 We congratulate the performers, as well 
 as the rest of our community, upon this 
 
 successful commencement of our theatrical 
 entertainments. Amusement was the sole 
 object for which they were undertaken — 
 that object has thus far been completely 
 accomplished, and we sincerely trust that 
 nothing will occur to prevent their regular 
 continuance. 
 
 We are aware that to effect this, there 
 are many difficulties to overcome. We 
 understand that one of the most serioiis of 
 these, and which proves how little expecta- 
 tion was formed of our having leisure or in- 
 clination to attempt a play during the voyage, 
 is the very small collection of dramatic 
 works which the manager has been able to 
 muster in both ships ; so that it becomes a 
 matter not of choice, but of necessity, to 
 act those only which happen to be on board. 
 
 A considerable proportion of these must 
 of course, be unfit for the limited means which 
 our theatre possesses ; but we feel persuaded 
 that nothing will be left undone to give them 
 all the effect which these means afford. 
 
 We cannot conclude our report without 
 indulging for a moment one pleasing con- 
 sideration, which the occasion naturally 
 suggests. 
 
 What delight woidd not our friends in 
 England experience, could they be informed 
 of our present situation, and of the means 
 we are thus employing to render it, not 
 meTely tolerable, but cheerful and happy ! 
 If any incitement were wanting to make 
 each of us persevere in contributing his shaia 
 towards the general amusement, this consi- 
 deration would amply furnish it : nor shouM 
 we fail to remark, that cheerfulness, which is 
 always amiable as a private virtue, becomes 
 in our case, almost a public duty; and, that 
 he who uses his best endeavours to encou- 
 rage it, takes at once the most effectual 
 method to promote his own comfort, and to 
 benefit the public service. 
 
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 ADDRESS 
 
 ON THE OPENING OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, NORTH GEORGIA, 
 WRl'ITEN AND SPOKEN BY MW. WAKEHAM. 
 
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 Repos'd from war — triumphant in the field 
 Where retcu'd Europe's dcitiny was seal'd ; 
 ' No foe to combat on the rolling wave, 
 
 No injur'd monarch that her sword might save, 
 'Twas still our much lov'd country's glorious claim 
 To stand preeminent, unmatch'd in fame. 
 And in the paths of Science yet to find 
 The liberal plan to benefit mankind. 
 Far in the North an unknown region lay, 
 Where growing ice congeal'd the liquid way. 
 Yet here it seem'd Columbia's bending shore, 
 Stretch'd westward, heard Pacific Ocean's roar. 
 
 Full oft in earlier days, had Britons tried 
 To force a passage through the arrested tide, 
 But tried in vain, tho' with intrepid skill 
 Persisting long, in spite of ev'ry ill. 
 By happier fortune led, 'twas ours to prove 
 Thus far, uncheck'd by land, the waters rove. 
 And ice-encumber'd here to win our way 
 'Mid the long sunshine of an arctic day. 
 
 But now for coming storms and frigid air 
 Approaching Winter bids us well prepare. 
 The Sun retiring * scarce illumes the sky, 
 Swift d'iving snows in circling eddies fly, 
 And soon no gladd'ning ray shall gild our noon. 
 But from the radiant stars, or changing moon. 
 While thus inactive we are doom'd to stay. 
 To cheer the ling'ring hours — ^behold a play. 
 And tho' we boast not power by scenic art 
 To warm the passions, or affect the heart ; 
 Yet here secure we tread — no critic's eye 
 Is bent, with eager gaze, each fault to spy ; 
 Amusement all our aim, if that succeed. 
 Our wish is gain'd — nor ask we other meed. 
 
 The day preceding that on which this Address was spoken was the last that we had seen the sun 
 above the horizon for an interval of ninety- six days. 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 II 
 
 But, when Gincr(;ini; from item Winter's tomb, 
 Rrviviiig Spring thall chaie the drenry gloom, 
 And tfinial warmth, expanding o'er the plain, 
 Pour melting «nowi in torrents to the main. 
 When rustling winds, with all resistless sweep. 
 Unlock the fctter'd surfaro of the dce|>^ 
 Then with new ardour will we onward hie 
 To Kcek a pnsnuge 'neuth this Polar sky ; 
 Firm in our Leaders' care, who still have shewn 
 The great resolve, the daring deed their own. 
 Nor — if that Power, whose providential sway 
 The burning suns and meaner orbs obey, 
 Approving smile— will we the task give o'er 
 T'M southern surges round our vessels roar ; 
 Then with glad sails we'll plough the foaming seas. 
 Delighted, lint'ning to the swelling breeze 
 That swift impels us to Britannia's shore, 
 To love, to friendship, and our homes once more. 
 
 For the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 ENIGMA. 
 
 I OWE my birth to every clime 
 Found in the spacious rolls of time. 
 Proud cities have I overthrown. 
 Yet am subservient to a clown ; 
 Nor, if he wishes, can refuse 
 To dress his food, or clean his shoes. 
 Oft when some pedlar in the street 
 Has tried too long the practis'd cheat. 
 To me the rogue they quickly draw, 
 To punish without form of law. 
 
 In ladies' rooms each morn I 'm found. 
 Preparing for the toilet's round ; 
 I wanton o'er the fragrant breast. 
 The pouting lips by me are press'd ; 
 Not does the veriest prude disdain 
 To use me thus, or e'er complain ; 
 Yet oft, when visits they would make. 
 If I the fair ones overtake, 
 They quickly fly me in despair, 
 And seek a coach, a house, a chair. 
 The warrior, ere he meets a foe, 
 Woos me assistance to bestow. 
 
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 Oft have I kept him from the fight, 
 Oil check'd at once his hasty flight, 
 And closed his eyes in endless night 
 Britannia owes to me her pow'r, 
 I keep the Oaul from coming o'er, 
 And oft have borne her gallant fleet, 
 To whore the foemen they might meet. 
 My absence has been known to foil 
 Her sailors' skill and utmost toil ; 
 But when 1 came their toil was o'er, 
 And vict'ry theirs, as oft before. 
 Among the clouds I 'm known to dwell, 
 And frequent from that height I 've fell; 
 Yet sometimes in the ambient air 
 I float, in form extremely fair ; 
 At others, not the strongest race 
 Of men could lift me from my place. 
 I 'm near you now, and ev'ry day. 
 Can you not yet my name display ? 
 Full sure I am, when next you dine. 
 You '11 swallow me before your wine. 
 
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 TO CORRESPONDKNTS. 
 
 Out- of uur Corre»iK)ndent8 requests to be inlormed, 
 whether the lane dog which appeared on the Stage *, 
 whvn the Address w«8 spoken, be the Inme dog al- 
 ludtd to by Q in the lines inserted in our last 
 Nunil)er. 
 
 At the suggestion of another Correspondent, the Editor 
 
 tion, that the contents of his box will be i^ubject (u 
 his inspection alone, and that should the liuiiil- 
 writing create any suspicion of tlie author, it will be 
 confined to himself. 
 Unacknowledged cuminunications stiiiid u\er fur in- 
 sertion. 
 
 takes the opportunity of stating, for general informa- The Songs by Messrs. Skene and I'ai.mkr in uur next. 
 
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 A dog that had been lamed some lime before, and happened to come limping on the Stage immediately after 
 
 Mr. Wakeham. 
 
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THE 
 
 NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 N°. Ill— MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1819. 
 
 C INCE the publication of Frosticus's letter 
 ^ ill our first Number, we have received 
 various communications on the subject which 
 he has treated in so experienced and feeling 
 A manner. Several of our correspondents 
 (and especially so far as we can j udge by their 
 style, the younger ones,) seem *o have be- 
 come already sensible of the sensations which 
 are there so ably H- uribed, although the 
 thermometer has not yet fallen below — 35°. 
 The earlier syriptoms seem, indeed, to be 
 much the same in all cases, and are expressed 
 with a fluency which persuades us that the 
 writers have them continually at their fingers' 
 ends. 
 
 We feel, therefore, that we may be con- 
 ferring a benefit on the public by inserting, 
 for the perusal of our youthful correspondents 
 in general, the following letter, in which a 
 remedy (vainly sought for in Frosticus's com- 
 
 munication, on which account heavy and 
 grievous are the complaints) is proposed for 
 one of the symptoms of this disease, which, 
 without some effort being made to eradicate it, 
 bids fair to become epidemic amongst us : as 
 the author signs himself Pliilosopfikus, and 
 writes very unintelligibly about " marrowy 
 succulency, aculeate points," Sfc, at least to 
 those " whose propensities" have not led 
 them with him to the study of " Phar-ma-co 
 lo-gi-cal works," we conclude that he consi- 
 ders himself well qualified to oflfer advice in 
 such desperate cases. 
 
 Mr. Editor — Having recovered a little 
 from the alarm excited by Frosticus's inte 
 resting and scientific letter, I began tc rumi- 
 nate qpon the other wonderful phenomena, 
 which the intensity of the cold might pro- 
 duce upon our system. An evil shortly 
 
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 THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 occurred to me, which, although of minor 
 importance in itself, would be productive 
 (if not immediately warded off,) of the dire 
 catastrophe so ably described in the commu- 
 nication alluded to. 
 
 As no doubt you are impatient to learn 
 the fruits of my meditations, I shall, without 
 further preamble, proceed to lay them before 
 you. 
 
 Having gathered from the medical writers 
 I have perused, (which, by-the-by have been 
 very numerous, as I have a propensity for 
 Pharmacological works,) that hair, like the 
 horn of a bull, goat, or ram, is filled with a 
 marrowy succulency ; and, as a very trifling 
 degree of cold more than what we have 
 experienced, will cause congelation in these 
 exposed parts, the heads and bodies of our 
 little community will be covered with innu- 
 merable aculeate points, which, if brought 
 in contact with their own or other people's 
 flesh, will make so many orifices, through 
 which the external air will find an easy 
 access to the inmost recesses of the veins, 
 and immediately produce that extraordinary 
 globosity of the blood, which is so philo- 
 sophically and prophetically treated by 
 Frosticus. 
 
 Now, Mr. Editor, I have no doubt you 
 will concur wi :h me in seeing the necessity 
 (as one mode of guarding against this alarm- 
 ing phenomenon,) of striking at the root of 
 every evil that may produce it ; for which 
 purpose, I propose that every individual 
 cranium, whiskers, SjC, be submitted to the 
 tonsorial operator, and that all the instru- 
 ments which can be mustered, be instantly 
 put in order for the purpose, before the cold 
 renders this step impracticable. 
 
 As I am fully aware of the interest you 
 take in the public weal, I trust you will 
 consider my anxiety to avert the impending 
 
 danger, a sufiicient apology for trespassing 
 so long upon your valuable time. 
 
 I remain, Sic. 
 
 Philosophicus. 
 
 We hope our correspondents may derive 
 some relief from this learned communication; 
 but as the proposed operation is rather an 
 uncomfortable one, and if not attended by 
 the effects which the writer anticipates, may 
 be a dangerous one in this bleak climate, 
 we take the liberty of suggesting that Phi- 
 losophicus should first try the experiment 
 upon himself, especially as shaving the head 
 is well known to be efficacious in more cases 
 than one! If after he has submitted his 
 head to the " tonsorial operator," he will 
 favour us with a further communication, and 
 it shall appear that he has himself materially 
 benefited, we are confident that even the 
 most desperate cases will find relief in fol- 
 lowing his example. 
 
 SPEECH 
 
 OF 
 
 COUNSELLOR PUZZLEWELL, 
 
 In the Court of Common Sense, in Arctic 
 Land, before Chief Justice Opinion fl/»rf 
 a SpecialJuri/, 
 
 In the Cause Editor v. Non Contributors. 
 
 " My Lords, and Gentlemen of the Jury, 
 
 " After the very able and perspicuous 
 address of my learned friend, Philo-Comus, 
 I should have submitted the cause of my 
 client to your candid and impartial judg- 
 ment without a remark, had not Mr. Ser- 
 jeant, ' Plain Matter-of-Fact Man,' besides 
 following my learned brother through al- 
 
 
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 15 
 
 most every point of his statement, charged 
 my clients with neglecting their ' interest 
 and business ;* because, forsooth, they were 
 unable or unwilling to ' do something,' just 
 at the time he thinks they ought to do it. 
 Now, my Lord and Gentlemen, as the 
 learned Serjeant has set out with declaring 
 himself equally guilty for a considerable 
 time, and there being no law which fixes a 
 determinate period for the production of 
 ' these somethings,' I conceive the delay 
 will appear to be caused by the tardy opera- 
 tion of nature, which we have frequently 
 seen spreading the useless weed in rank 
 luxuriance, while the delicious fruit and 
 beauteous flower slowly attain perfection. 
 
 " Having stated this much in vindication 
 of my clients, I shall await your verdict, in 
 full confidence that it will establish their 
 character as innocent of any transgression 
 against the laws of honour, propriety, and 
 good sense." 
 
 After a verdict for the defendants had 
 been pronounced, and received with loud 
 acclamations, the Counsellor informed the 
 Court, that he had been instructed to ex- 
 press the intention of his clients, not to be 
 " behind-hand" in affording the Editor that 
 support to which his strenuous and liberal 
 exertions for the public amusement so justly 
 entitle him. 
 
 Mr. Editor. — The anticipation so pleas- 
 ingly expressed in your first Number, by 
 your able Correspondent, Philo-Comus, and 
 repeated in the second by the " Plain Mat- 
 ter-of-Fact Man," of a source of rational 
 amusement, S^c. S^c. S^c, had taken such full 
 possession of my mind, that after having 
 idly tortured my invention for something to 
 assist in filling your columns, slumber sup- 
 
 plied what my waking thoughts were in- 
 capable of producing. I fancied myself 
 vested with the power of removing, at a 
 wish, from place to place, and being troubled 
 with a considerable share of curiosity, as 
 well as a slender portion of taste for science, 
 I was immediately, on reaching England, (of 
 course my first wish), set down in the midst 
 of an assemblage of beauty, fashion, and 
 
 talent, at Mrs. 's in street. As I 
 
 was unknown I had an opportunity of con- 
 templating, at leisure, the objects by which 
 I was surrounded ; the blaze of loveliness 
 before me occupied my eyes, and my atten- 
 tion for some time ; at length I turned to 
 notice the collection of pictures, china vases, 
 ^c, -ranged around, and pursued them in 
 succession, until the mistress of the man- 
 sion attracted my views. A young lady, the 
 image of her mamma, was engaged in con- 
 versation with a naval officer; feeling some 
 little anxiety on account of an absent friend, 
 I drew near enough to overhear them, though 
 they spoke low. " And which did you 
 seriously think the safest ship?" were the 
 first words that met my ear ; when he named 
 
 the H ; her eyes sparkled with unusual 
 
 vivacity, and a blush diffused itself over her 
 lovely cheek ; a sigh, no less sudden, succeed- 
 ed. A valued friend in one perhaps, thought I, 
 a dearer lover in the other. Wanton Cupid, 
 what tricks are you playing with us ? The 
 sound had scarcely passed my lips before 
 the scene was changed, and I beheld a young 
 and charming widow, reclining on a sofa, 
 her eyes suffused with tears. She knew me, 
 and passionately cried, " Where is my 
 ? (secrets must not be told, Mr. Edi- 
 tor), is he returned to bless these fond ex- 
 pecting arms ? For pity's sake, keep me no 
 longer in suspense — does he live ?" " He 
 does," I tried to say ; but a wish rising in my 
 bosom to be acquainted with more secrets, I 
 
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 was hurried away, and in a moment found 
 
 myself at a fashionable party in square. 
 
 No sooner was ray name mentioned, than a 
 crowd of the sweetest creatures I ever be- 
 held surrounded me; in short, they were 
 women, young and beautiful; a deluge of 
 inquiries poured upon me ; " How is Mr. 
 
 ?" " How does my friend ?" " I 
 
 hope Mr. is well !" " All well," said I, 
 
 overcome with such a torrent of prattle, 
 and a smile repaid my intelligence, which 
 equally defied the painter's and the poet's 
 art. 
 
 " 'Twas then I saw 
 The soft language of the soul 
 Beam from the never silent eye." 
 
 A young lady now tripped softly up 
 
 to inquire after Mr. : her air was 
 
 pensive, and in gentle embarrassment ; she 
 lisped something very like " dear," or some 
 such word ; then recovering herself, care- 
 lessly inquired, " Is he grown !" " I think 
 him rather taller, still sprightly, and charm- 
 ing as ever." She pressed my hand, and 
 thanked me. A swelling sigh escaped. — 
 " Could you give him this ?" She offered 
 it, and then timidly withdrew her hand ! 
 'Twas a miniature. My own heart had been 
 irretrievably lost in another moment, had I 
 not called reason to my aid, and wished my- 
 self away, though I could not determine 
 whither. During this interval of indecision 
 with every varying thought, I flew up and 
 down the street, till unluckily a drowsy 
 watchman crossing my path, was 'nstantly, 
 with lantern and rattle, stretched at full 
 length in the gutter. As I stopped to 
 assist him, his brethren came up and seized 
 me. Burning with indignation at their rude 
 treatment, the desire of revenge fixed me 
 to the spot ; and, after cuffing some time. 
 
 as I nimbly withdrew my head from the 
 blow of a descending cudgel, it came so 
 furiously in contact with the side of my 
 bed-place, that I was at once re-called to 
 wakefulness and stupidity. 
 
 Believe me, Mr. Editor, 
 
 your sincere well-wisher, 
 
 Philo-Somnus. 
 
 THEATRICAL. 
 
 We are requested to insert the following 
 notice from the managers of the theatre : 
 we desire to add that the Editor's box is 
 at all times at the service of the manager 
 and his correspondents, as the medium of 
 their communications. 
 
 The manager having no access to " Si- 
 mon DogrellicuR," except through the pub- 
 lic papers, makes an apology for not 
 havini. acknowledged his communication 
 before. He begs leave to thank him for his 
 song, which being humorous, and likely 
 to afford amusement, will be sung between 
 the acts of the next play. The manager 
 takes the opportunity of informing Simon 
 Dogrellicus, and other Grub-street authors, 
 Philo-Comus, Albert, Q, Sfc, and the pubhc 
 in general, that plays, prologues, epilogues, 
 songs, ludicrous recitations, Sfc, will greatly 
 contribute to the general amusement. The 
 theatrical libraiy at present consists of six 
 or seven pieces only, and some of^these but 
 badly adapted to our stage. It is, therefore, 
 evident that the house must shut up before 
 the season is over, for few persons, not- 
 withstanding the characters be ever so well 
 supported, will sit out the 199th represen- 
 tation of any one performance : and the 
 
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AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 17 
 
 manager foresees a lack of applause ; a dry muse, and bid our curtain rise again. The 
 
 significant sneer at an old joke, for which the 
 audience had been lying in wait for a quarter 
 ofan hour, discontented countenances, empty 
 boxes, and finally the fall of the green 
 curtain, to rise no more, unless some one 
 start forth amongst the crowd, invoke the 
 
 manager has dwelt thus long on the sub- 
 ject, under a conviction that there is no 
 want of ability, would the gentlemen exert 
 themselves. 
 
 Theatre Royal, North Georgia. 
 
 POETRY. 
 
 WHEN Denmark's Prince appears upon the stage, 
 (At least we learn so from great Shakspeare's page,) 
 He steals with slow and solemn majesty, 
 And thus exclaims — " to be or not to be ?" 
 But when the Baker*, poor lame dog, appear'd 
 Upon North Georgia's boards, no voice was heard 
 From him ; lie innocently look'd around, 
 And scarcely put his fourth foot to the ground ; 
 The audience sm>!ed — the address was not suspended. 
 And here, I surely thought, th' affair had ended, 
 Until your Paper's second number came, 
 Stating, a Correspondent mark'd how lame 
 The dog appear'd ; and straight desires to be 
 Inform'd — " If this dog was, or was not, he 
 That Glum foresaw would come with limping vile, 
 And need a friend to help him o'ei' the stile." 
 I like your Papers — therefore do I read 'em ; 
 I like your Correspondents — 'cause you need 'em. 
 But give me leave, friend Editor, a word, 
 The man that asks a question so absurd, 
 Proves that he has a monstrous lack of brains ; 
 Yet, not to give offence, I took the pains 
 To search out Glum, and in a friendly way 
 Ask him what I in answer now could say. 
 • " Say," replied Glum, " I do not think it fit 
 " To answer one who shews so little wit." 
 " In truth, in some respects," I said, " you're right, 
 " But still you must acknowledge, on that night 
 
 * The dog having belonged to a baker at Deptford, was so called by the men. 
 
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 " None of the lameness you so justly fear'd, 
 
 " Throughout the play or rather song appear'd." 
 
 " Why, to be plain, I scarcely could espy 
 
 " A fault, tho' search'd for with a critic's eye ; 
 
 " Humph — so he thinks to puzzle me, the rogue, 
 
 " But I 'II have at him in the epilogue. 
 
 " Tell him the Manager, as well as me, 
 
 *' Saw how much mischief there would surely be, 
 
 " Unless great care was ta'en to keep away 
 
 " The intruder which I spoke of t' other day ; 
 
 " Placed Mr. Prompter *, whom he thought a host, 
 
 " To guard the door, nor e'er desert his post. 
 
 " True to his post, the prompter did a wonder, 
 
 " He made the Play pass off without a blunder. 
 
 " But when for the Epilogue the curtain rose, 
 
 " Wearied with watching, or some other cause, 
 
 " He left his post, when, shocking to relate ! 
 
 " The limper came and stopp'd the lady's prate, 
 
 " Which so confused her, off she would have c^ne, 
 
 *' Had not the gallantry of every one 
 
 " Been put in force, to spare her maiden blushes, 
 
 " And drive the dog to beat about the bushes. 
 
 *• Thus I shall prove my forethought was not wrong, 
 
 " And now good morning — I have staid too long." 
 
 In words like these did Glum himself express ; 
 
 They 're little to the purpose, I confess ; 
 
 But when your Correspondents send a query. 
 
 They must not blame the answer tho' it weary, 
 
 And as you think 'twill tire 'em or divert 'em, 
 
 You either may omit or else insert 'em. 
 
 Q. 
 
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 * The prompter whose absence from his post during the Epilogue is thus commented upon, was 
 i<uspected of being the author of the query to which these lines are the reply. 
 
 
 TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
 
 We are obliged to postpone the Songs promised in onr 
 last. 
 
 Timothy See>throuoh-IT has not hit the solationof Ai.. 
 
 BERT'S Enigma. 
 Lazarus Lackbrain'b letter has rea «;ed ito destination. 
 
THE 
 
 NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 N°. IV— MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1819. 
 
 "1117 E owe an apology to Peter Trial, for 
 ' ' having delayed the insertion of his 
 letter, until so long a time after the perform- 
 ance to which he alludes. The fact, how- 
 ever, was, that so much of our Second 
 Number had been occupied by the affairs of 
 the theatre, that we had barely room in our 
 last to insert the manager's circular address ; 
 and we found ourselves obliged, in justice 
 to our correspondents on other subjects, to 
 postpone the letter which we now submit to 
 our readers, as well as the songs which were 
 sung by Messrs. Skene and Palmer, and 
 which will be found in the present number. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir — I cannot help expressing the infi- 
 nite delight I felt in witnessing the enter- 
 
 taining performance of Friday evening, which 
 few would hesitate to pronounce as superior 
 to every thing of the kind which has pre- 
 ceded it in this country, and which will 
 never be surpassed by future strollers towards 
 this mild and genial climate. 
 
 The North Georgia Theatre, though reared 
 in much less time, and in a greater hurry 
 than Covent Garden or Drury Lane, pos 
 sesses an advantage over those magnificent 
 structures, which, even their internal deco- 
 rations and dazzling charms * cannot equal ; 
 for, in spite of all their endeavours to pro- 
 cure a free ventilation and a cool atmo- 
 sphere, they have never yet succeeded like 
 our able architect, Mr. Frost, in this very 
 essential and particular point. 
 
 Before I conclude, let me recommend to 
 those performers who have any distance to 
 
 
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 return home after the doors are shut, and 
 who may have taken as much refreshment 
 as the house affords, that they be on their 
 guard against the prowUng wolf, and the 
 more ferocious bear, and above all the iron 
 hand of Winter ; or, when we would speak 
 of them again, they may have become fitter 
 subjects for epitaphs, than to furnish ns 
 with the more pleasurable employment of 
 recording their meritorious exploits. , 
 
 I remain, Sfc. 8fc., 
 
 Peter Tr-al. 
 
 We would willingly submit to the consi- 
 deration of our correspondents, both philoso- 
 phical and otherwise, whether there be any 
 connexion in the way of cause and effect, 
 between the increased severity of the cold in 
 the last week, and the empty state of the 
 Editor's box. We are aware that much 
 may be said very learnedly and hypotheti- 
 cally, from whence the probability of such a 
 connexion may be inferred ; though perhaps 
 on this as on many other points, the less said 
 the stronger may be the inference. Having 
 hinted thus much, we willingly leave the 
 subject to them, in full confidence that it is 
 in their power to cause it by Thursday next 
 to be no longer a question. We wish also 
 with the permission and by the means of our 
 friend Trim, to remind the counsellor Puzzle- 
 
 well that an engagement made in open court, 
 is so far binding on the party making it, 
 that its due performance may be claimed, 
 and the claim enforced by the authority of 
 the court, in whose presence it was made. 
 Now, as the learned counsellor was instructed 
 by his clients " The Non-Contributors," to 
 express in open court their intention of being 
 no longer " behind-hand" in affording " that 
 support to the Editor," 4fc.4"c. ; and, as ** that 
 support," Sfc. 8fc., has not yet been afforded, 
 we have thought, that if Mr. Serjeant Plain 
 Matter-of-Fact-Man can be prevailed on to 
 be again our advocate, we would employ 
 him to move in the court of Common Sense, 
 that counsellor Puzzlewell be required to 
 shew cause why the fulfilment of the instruc- 
 tions so expressed as above, has been, and 
 still is, delayed. ■■ • 
 
 A very ingenious answer to Albert's 
 enigma having been circulated in manu- 
 script during the past week, it remains with 
 us to publish the author's solution as we 
 originally received it. 
 
 In ev'ry clime, remote or near, 
 Where'er the eye of man can peer, 
 Of general use to human kind 
 Prolific water you will find. 
 
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 On WEDNESDAY NEXT, the 24th instant, 
 . Will be performed Foote's much admired Comedy of 
 
 THE LIAR. 
 
 With the usual accompaniment of SONGS between the Acts. 
 Doors will open at Half past Six, and the Performance will begin at Seven precisely. 
 
 The Manager has received F. R. S.'s Prologue, and will submit it for con^ 
 sideratiun at the first meeting of the Commitiee. 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 31 
 
 SONGS 
 
 WRITTEN FOR THE NORTH GEORGIA THEATRE, 
 
 BY MR. WAKEHAM, 
 
 AND 8UNO AT THE PERFORMANCE ON FRIDAY THE 6TH OF NOVEMBER. 
 
 SONG, MR. SKENE. 
 
 Tune, Jessy of Dumblaine. 
 
 OH ! what can compare with the beams of the morn, 
 When the bright sparkling dew-drops bespangle the thorn, 
 When Aurora's young blushes tint deeper the sky, 
 'Ere the Sun's flaming orb is yet mounted on high ? 
 'Tis the soft smile of beauty, that beams from the eyes 
 Of thy daughters, fair Albion ! the land that we prize. 
 
 When distant, far distant, from all that 's held dear, 
 
 From the happy fire-side, and the friend that 's sincere ; 
 
 What nerves for the battle the arm of the brave, 
 
 Or bid's us encounter the storm-beaten wave ? 
 
 'Tis the soft smile of beauty, that beams from the eyes 
 
 Of thy daughters, fair Albic" ! the land that we prize. 
 
 Tho' thy sons in the field are undaunted in war, 
 And the fame of thy chieftains resound from afar ; 
 Tho' Nature each charm in thine island combines, 
 One ray of thy glory all others outshines. 
 'Tis the soft smile of beauty, that beams from the eyes 
 Of thy daughters, fair Albion ! the land that we prize. 
 
 What leads us to traverse these regions unknown, 
 And explore each recess of this dark frozen zone ? 
 Tho' with thirst of renown every bosom may burn. 
 What reward do we hope when again we return ? 
 'Tis the soft smile of Beauty, that beams from the eyes 
 Of thy daughters, fair Albion ! the land that we prize. 
 
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 SONG, MR. PALMER. 
 
 Tone, Sprig of Shillelah. 
 
 SAY, who but has heard that a true British tar 
 Is kind to his lass, and regards not a scar. 
 
 With a heart firm in danger, and constant in love ? 
 If assail'd by the tempest, or toss'd on the wave, 
 Each nerve is exerted his vessel to save. 
 He repairs to the helm to direct her aright. 
 Or stands at his quarters, expecting the fight, 
 
 With a heart firm in danger, and constant in love. 
 
 
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 When duty is o'er 'mongst his messmates below, 
 His mirth and good humour unceasingly flow. 
 
 From a heart firm in danger, and constant in love, 
 He pledges his girl in full bumpers of grog, 
 Sings his song, for good fellowship ever a>gog, 
 Enjoys ev'ry hour, as it passes him by. 
 Unwilling the moments more swiftly should fly, 
 
 With a heart firm in danger, and constant in love. 
 
 When call'd by his country, he lingers no more, 
 But leaving the joys of his dear native shore, 
 
 With a heart firm in danger, and constant in love. 
 Embarks to explore Hyperborean coasts 
 Surrounded by ice, and enfetter'd by frosts, 
 Regardless of Winter's perpetual reign, 
 And prepared to encounter the boisterous main. 
 
 With a heart firm in danger, and constant in love. 
 
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 No toll can subdue him, no horrors appal, 
 A true British tar meets whate'er may befal, 
 
 With a heart firm in danger, and constant in love. 
 Again he shall visit the land of his birth, 
 Press his girl to his heart, and indulging his mirth, 
 His travels recounted — his perils told o'er, 
 Await the high call of his country once more. 
 
 With a heart firm in danger, and constant in love. 
 
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AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 And well shall Old England remember her son, 
 Who has added new glories to those she has won, 
 
 With a heart firm in danger, and constant in love ; 
 Whose keel ever daring, disparts the proud sea, 
 That had ne'er borne a ship since the world 'gan to be ; 
 And guided by Providence still shall press on, 
 Till he rounds the bleak Cape * that has yet stopped each one. 
 
 With a heart firm in danger, and constant in love. 
 
 Let Britons on shore, then, the bright flowing bowl 
 Fill high to the Sailor undaunted in soul. 
 
 With a heart firm in danger, and constant in love ; 
 And may he, when retum'd from the toils of the wave. 
 Find that Honour and Love still await on the brave. 
 Who dares for his country, his friends, and his home, 
 By Freedom inspired, o'er the wide ocean roam, 
 
 With a heart firm in danger, and constant in love. 
 
 • Icy Cape. 
 
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 This song was received with every demonstration of interest by the audience, and rap- 
 turously encored. 
 
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THE 
 
 NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 N°. V— MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1819. 
 
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 TO THE 
 
 Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 A S I was indulging the other evening 
 "^ ^ in profound cogitation, whilst enjoying 
 my segar by the fire-side, the following lines, 
 wrilich I do not exactly remember where 
 iat to have seen, struck across my mind 
 M Ae flitting subject of the moment : 
 
 lian leaf doth briefly bum, 
 " So dotfn man's strength to weakness turn ; 
 " The fire of youth extinguished quite, 
 " Comes age, like embers dry and white : 
 
 " Think c*" this as you take tobacco." 
 
 Seeing a vast deal of truth in the above 
 quotation, and an excellent picture of the 
 mutability of our nature, I trust, Mr. Editor, 
 to be excused in requesting you to give it 
 
 publicity ; though I recollect something about 
 not inserting things which are borrowed. I 
 only request, then, to be informed, ere it be 
 rejected, in what book these lines are to be 
 found, and from whom they are copied. Or, 
 if you should think fit, in the multiplicity of 
 your concerns, to submit it to your corres- 
 pondents, and leave it to some one or other 
 of them, in their general acquaintance with 
 every topic minute, learned, scientific or 
 otlierwise, to detect the copyist, and make 
 an expose of him in the following week's 
 Gazette, 
 
 You would oblige, 
 
 Mr. Editor, 6;c. Sfc. 
 
 Peter Fume. 
 
 We have inserted Peter Fume's letter, in 
 the hope that some of our correspondents may 
 know the original author of the lines he has 
 
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 quoted ; probably Peter Fume's acquaint- 
 ance with them is derived from the same 
 source as our own, namely, from Rob Roy, 
 where they are very aptly introduced. Vol. i. 
 
 Page 206. 
 
 LAW REPORT. 
 
 COURT OF COMMON SENSE, 
 Tn the Cause of Editor v. Nox-Contribu- 
 
 TORS. 
 
 His lordship being seated, Counsellor 
 Puzzlewell rose, and addressed the Court 
 as follows : 
 
 My Lord — I shall not occupy your lord- 
 ship's time by following my learned brother, 
 the counsel for the plaintiff, through the 
 matter-of-fact reasoning, wherein he consi- 
 ders himself to have proved that, by the 
 custom of this court, it is incumbent on my 
 clients, " The Non-Contributors," to afford 
 that support, ^T.^c.,the delay of which is the 
 subject now before your lordship ; nor shall 
 I question the right which he has claimed to 
 the fulfilment of the promise which I was 
 instructed to make, and did make, in their 
 name. No, my lord, however ready and 
 able I may feel myself to controvert these 
 points, and I doubt not to your lordship's 
 satisfaction, yet as my clients have thought 
 fit rather to concede them, I shall content 
 myself with moving your lordship and the 
 court, that certain affidavits be read, with 
 which I am furnished by my clients, and 
 which I have no doubt will be accounted by 
 your lordship most satisfactory reasons for 
 the delay ; and will be deemed sufficient to 
 entitle them to such further indulgence as 
 your lordship shall be pleased to grant, and 
 for which 1 am instructed to solicit. 
 
 The affidavits were then read as follows : 
 
 The Affidavit of David Drowsy. 
 
 This deponent maketh oath and saith, 
 that want of leisure hath hitherto prevented 
 his offering that assistance to the Editor, 
 which his good wishes for the support of the 
 said paper would otherwise have prompted 
 him to afford ; that what with the time neces- 
 sarily occupied in three regular meals, and 
 two little ones per day, a two hours' nap after 
 dinner, and another after coffee, with an oc- 
 casional doze in the forenoon, together with 
 the duties of his profession in these times of 
 constant activity, he most positively depo- 
 seth, that he hath scarcely been able to 
 snatch his ten hours rest at night, much 
 less to employ any portion of his time in 
 contributing to the general amusement. 
 This deponent, however, further saith, that 
 notwithstanding his numerous and indis- 
 pensable avocations, he hath actually ma- 
 naged to copy each of the said papers, as 
 they have appeared ; and in thus having 
 given it his countenance and patronage, he 
 considers himself as entitled to the further 
 indulgence of the court. 
 
 The Affidavit of Gregory Gripes. 
 
 This deponent maketh oath and saith, 
 that ever since the proposals for a news- 
 paper appeared, he has been so grievously 
 afflicted with a pain in his stomach, (which 
 pain doth still continue,) that he has been 
 utterly incapable of contributing any thing 
 towards the support of the said paper ; of 
 all which he is ready, if required, to bring 
 into court certificates from the medical men 
 who have attended him. This deponent 
 trusteth that the court will take into its 
 gracious consideration, how impossible it 
 is for a man to attempt to amuse other 
 people, while he himself is labouring 
 under a bodily inconvenience of this pecu- 
 liar nature. 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 37 
 
 The Affidavit of Little-care Leave-about. 
 
 This deponent maketh oath and saith, that 
 after having more than half-written two or 
 three papers for the Editor's box, some evil- 
 disposed person or persons did, as he be- 
 lieves, during his absence on a walk, steal 
 away from him the said papers, and that he 
 hath never since been able to gain any intel- 
 ligence of the same. 
 
 This deponent furthermore declareth, that 
 such thefts or tricks have been so often 
 practised upon him and his effects, that he 
 doth no longer consider any part of his pro- 
 perty safe out of his hands for one moment ; 
 nor is his complaint confined to the loss of 
 property alone, but of time also, which is 
 wholly taken up in seeking one stray article 
 after another. 
 
 This deponent therefore prayeth the court 
 to take into its most serious consideration 
 the inconvenience both to himself and the 
 public, which results from these proceedings ; 
 and that it will be pleased to take such 
 steps as it may, in its wisdom, deem most 
 effectual to prevent the recurrence of the 
 said annoyance. 
 
 The Affidavit of Simon Sidrophel. 
 
 This deponent maketh oath and saith, 
 that being from the beginning extremely 
 desirous to contribute towards the support 
 of The Winter Chronicle, he was determined 
 to search the heavens and the earth for a 
 subject; and therefore betook himself to the 
 study of the globes, in hopes of there stum- 
 bling upon something suitable to his pur- 
 pose. The deponent devoted his first atten- 
 tion to the celestial globe, and earnestly 
 invoked the assistance of every constellation 
 thereupon delineated, but without success. 
 The Great Bear treated him in a manner 
 too rude to be repeated, and the Little 
 Bear (like a dutiful cub,) followed his ex- 
 ample. Taurus tossed him, Aries butted 
 
 him, and he was thus left sprawling between 
 Castor and Pollux. This maUcious pair of 
 rogues pretending friendship, led the depo- 
 nent on imperceptibly, till he found himself 
 in the claws of Cancer, who pinched him 
 most unmercifully, and determined him to 
 have nothing more to do with the constella- 
 tions of the Zodiac. Pegasus was the next 
 which appeared, and the deponent, without 
 more ado, resolved to mount him, and at 
 once to enrich the Chronicle by a ride to 
 Parnassus—but this attempt had near cost 
 him his life, for he had scarcely mounted, 
 when Pegasus threw him clean over his 
 head, and dislocated his right shoulder. The 
 deponent being thus scurvily treated in his 
 flight among the stars, had nothing left for 
 it but to return to the Earth. Here he may 
 be said to have traversed the terraqueous 
 globe in search of a subject, but none has 
 yet offered itself. The deponent having 
 made this declaration, leaveth his case to 
 the j ustice and clemency of the court, con- 
 scious that though his name has never yet 
 appeared in the paper, not one of the Con- 
 tributors has ever gone farther than him- 
 self, in search of matter for its support. 
 
 The court having latterly testified symp- 
 toms of impatience, his lordship motioned 
 the clerk to suspend his reading, and asked 
 the counsellor if he considered the re- 
 maining affidavits as containing better rea- 
 sons than those which the court had already 
 heard. The counsellor answering, " not per- 
 haps better, but some which I trust the 
 court will think equal to the preceding," his 
 lordship directed that the time and patience 
 of the court should no longer be so unneces- 
 sarily taken up, and proceeded to give the 
 following judgment : 
 
 " That the application for further indul- 
 gence be refused, and that the defendants be 
 allowed another week wherein to fulfil the 
 
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 THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
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 promise made in their name ; after which, any 
 further delay was forbidden on pain of the 
 displeasure of the court." Trim. 
 
 THEATRICAL REPORT. 
 
 On Wednesday evening was performed 
 Foote's celebrated comedy of the Liar, pre- 
 ceded by a very humorous description of a 
 sea-fight by Mr. Beechey, in the character of 
 a sailor, and which afforded great amusement. 
 
 As the Dramatis Personee have not yet 
 appeared in our paper, we now insert them. 
 
 MEN. 
 
 Old Wilding, Mr. Nias. 
 
 Young Wilding, Captain Sabine. 
 Papiliion, Mr. Beechey. 
 
 Sir James Elliot, Mr. Wakeham. 
 
 WOMEN. 
 
 Miss Grantham, Mr. Ross. 
 Miss Godfrey, Mr. Beverley. 
 
 Kitty, Mr. Hoppxer. 
 
 SERVANTS. 
 Messrs. Halse and Bushnak. 
 
 As far as we have been able to learn, this 
 evening's entertainment went off even better 
 than that with which our theatre opened, 
 and was, if possible, received with more rap- 
 turous applause. 
 
 The Liar is a play which requires consi- 
 derable quickness and animation in the per- 
 formance ; and in this respect so much did 
 the performers appear at home, that we feel 
 confident they may now attempt any play 
 which the theatrical library affords. 
 
 It is particularly pleasing to observe the in- 
 terest which the ships' companies take in 
 these performances ; the very preparation of 
 the dresses and scenery in the intervals be- 
 tween them, and of the stage, iSjc, for two 
 
 days previous to each play, gives occupation 
 to many : and the looking forward to a repe- 
 tition of this amusement once a fortnight 
 during the winter, is sure to produce a relax- 
 ation and variety which their minds essen- 
 tially require, and which i night have been 
 difficult to effect in any other way. 
 
 A song by Mr. Palmer, between the acts, 
 being the original production of an author 
 who signs himself " Simon Dogrellicus," was 
 well received and encored. We shall content 
 ourselves with repeating our congratulations 
 on the ability, spirit, and good humour, with 
 which our theatrical amusements have hi- 
 therto been conducted, and our hearty good 
 wishes for their long and successful conti- 
 nuance. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir — In going from the ships towards 
 the observatory the other day, I chanced to 
 stumble on a bundle of papers. On exami- 
 nation, I found them to consist of a number 
 of fragments of letters and other scraps, 
 some in prose, and some in "crse, evidently 
 intended to fill some of your future pages, 
 but which want of leisure or inclination 
 had prevented the author from finishing*. 
 As I consider this accident likely to prove a 
 serious loss to your columns, and therefore 
 to the public, unless the papers be returned 
 to the owner in proper time ; and, as I know 
 no method of giving them publicity, so effec- 
 tually as through the medium of your paper 
 for which they were intended, I send you 
 copies of two or three of the fragments, as 
 they Ue before me, for insertion if you think 
 proper. Should the lawful owner of the said 
 papers make application to you for them, I 
 
 
 * May not this be the identical packet which Mr. Little-care Leave-about conceives to have been 
 stolen fram him, (see his Affidavit,) but which may in reality have dropped out of his pocket during 
 his walk?— Ed. 
 
 4,--. 
 
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 will endeavour to stuff" the whol bundle by 
 
 piece-meal into your box, on the first notice 
 
 you are pleased to give to your constant 
 
 reader, 
 
 Richard Roam-about. 
 
 Fragment, N°. I. 
 
 Sir — Having puzzled the little brains I 
 have, to no purpose, for a fortnight, I did at 
 length attempt the other day to scramble 
 unperceived a note into your box ; but, after 
 attempting for some minutes to make it fall 
 into the slit, I found, to my utter astonish- 
 ment, that it refused to drop through, and 
 actually rose again as often as I attempted 
 to thrust it in ; so that, after repeated endea- 
 vours, I had the mortification to be obliged 
 to withdraw my maiden contribution, on 
 hearing a footstep approaching. I am much 
 at a less to account for this extraordinary, 
 and to me alarming, phenomenon, unless it 
 be, that in the present cold, and therefore 
 dense, state of the atmosphere, it must, 
 according to the laws of floating bodies, 
 require something of considerable weight to 
 fall into your box ; whereas, my production 
 being, as I confess, one of the hghtest things 
 imaginable, rose in spite of my endeavours, 
 and would probably, had it not been stopped 
 by the housing, have soared into its own 
 native region, among the clouds. Being 
 
 much discouraged by this first attempt, I 
 wish any of your learned correspondents, 
 who have instructed us so much on the 
 subject of intense cold and its effects, would 
 give me a hint whether the phenomenon I 
 have alluded to might not have proceeded 
 from some other cause than mere lightness. 
 At all events, should my first apprehensions 
 prove correct, I will endeavour to take 
 example from Philosophicus, Philo-Comus, 
 Philo-Somnus, and the rest of your Philo- 
 correspondents ; and have no doubt I shall 
 in time be able to produce something heavy 
 enough to gain admission into your box, 
 and perhaps even to deserve insertion in 
 your pages. 
 
 Fragment, N°. II. 
 
 Advertisement.— In preparation, and 
 shortly will be circulated gratis, for the be- 
 nefit of all contributors to 2 he Weekly Chro- 
 nicle, and particularly the younger ones, a 
 complete list alphabetically arranged, of 
 the most approved anonymous signatures, 
 adapted to every subject that is likely to 
 employ the pens of the said contributors, by 
 
 # # * * * # * 
 
 (As the author could jiot find a signature 
 for this Advertisement, I am afraid this pro 
 mised list is in no very forward state.) 
 
 R. R. 
 
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 '^^tmt Hogalt i^ott]^ OKeorgta* 
 
 On Wednesday, December 8, 1819, will be Performed the Farce of 
 
 THE CITIZEN. 
 
 MEN. 
 
 Old Philpot, Mr. Parry. Sir Jasper Wilding, Mr. Nias. 
 
 Beaufort, Mr. Wakeham. Young Philpot, Mr. Beechey. Young Wilding, Mr. Hoppner. 
 
 Dapper, Mr. Griffiths. Quilldrive, Mr. Bushnan. Will, Mr. Halse. 
 
 V/OMEN. 
 Maria, Mr. Hoofer. Corinna, Mr. Ross. 
 
 The usual Accompaniment of Songs between the Acts. 
 Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the Curtain will rise precisely at Seven o'clock. 
 
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THE 
 
 NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 N°. VI— MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1819, 
 
 TO THE 
 
 Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 A REMARK which appeared in your 
 •^ ^ first Number, that you were willing to 
 " admit questions which may exercise the 
 ingenuity of your readers," ^c, has en- 
 couraged me to propose one, which, per- 
 haps, may be considered as answering that 
 description. It is said that instances have 
 occurred of the sinking of ice, and this 
 m seas (for example, those of Spitzbergen 
 and Davis' Straits) nearly as salt as the 
 main ocean, and of which the temperature 
 is seldom or never more than ten dearees 
 above the freezing point of salt-water. It is 
 evident that the lue cannot sink till its spe- 
 cific gravity exceed that of the fluid in which 
 it is immersed. I should be glad to be in- 
 formed by any of your Correspondents, by 
 
 what possible combination of circumstances 
 
 so unusual a condition might be brought 
 
 about. 
 
 I am, Mr. Editor, 
 
 (^c. ^c. Ac, 
 
 SCEPTICVS. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mr. Editor — I wish you well — indeed I 
 do — but the more I try to compose any 
 thing for the paper, the more stupid 1 find 
 myself. Being desirous, however, to offer 
 my humble services in some way or other, 
 this is to inform you, that I am a tolerable 
 hand at making pens, though but an indif- 
 ferent one at using them; and I cannot 
 help thinking, that I might be of use to se- 
 veral of your Correspondents, for I judge by 
 their style, that some of them write with too 
 
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 THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
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 hard a pen, and some with a very soft one. 
 I could mention three or four, whose cramped 
 manner indicates a dev'lish stiff nib, Mr. 
 Editor, and as many whose pens have cer- 
 tainly no point at all. I confess that the 
 pens of most of your Correspondents require 
 Uttle or no mending, but even the best of 
 them would not be the worse for a fresh nib, 
 which might, perhaps, set them a-going with 
 fresh vigour — so if you choose to employ 
 me in this way, you shall be welcome to the 
 humble services of 
 
 Timothy Quill-Sputter. 
 
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 For the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 To the Right Honourable t .e Lord Chief 
 Justice, and the Worshipful Court of 
 Common Sense, the Memorial of Manna- 
 duke Trim, Reporter of Pleadings, SscSfc, 
 
 Humbly sheweth, 
 
 ®fiat by the exercise of the said calling, 
 your memorialist hath lived, in good credit 
 and report, until the last week, when your 
 memorialist discovered, in the public papers, 
 a statement of your lordship's decision, pur- 
 porting to have been taken by himself, in a 
 cause recently pending, before your lord- 
 ship and this honourable court ; whereas, on 
 the day aforesaid, your memorialist was con- 
 fined at home by urgent business. Your me- 
 morialist hath since discovered the decision 
 above-mentioned to have been erroneously 
 stated, as your lordship then declared that 
 defendants were entitled to indulgence, and, 
 in your goodness, were accordingly pleased 
 to grant them such further delay as they 
 might themselves think requisite : 
 
 That the said incorrectness, arising, as 
 your memorialist believes, from the reporter 
 
 leaving the court before the decision was 
 given, is most unjustly attributed to your 
 memorialist ; and he finds it, therefore, im- 
 possible to vend particular speeches of cele- 
 brated counsellors, confessions of prisoners, 
 4fc. 8iX., as heretofore, among his friends, the 
 hawkers, ballad-singers, 8fc., those gentlemen 
 having taken offence at his supposed want of 
 veracity, and he is, in fact, entirely thrown 
 out of employmen' . 
 
 That these disasters having befallen your 
 memorialist, in consequence of the fictitious 
 use of his name by the said reporter ; your 
 memorialist humbly solicits that your lord- 
 ship will be pleased to affix to the follow- 
 ing bill of damages, such sums as your lord- 
 ship shall consider a sufficient remuneration, 
 and compel the said fictitious Mr. Trim to 
 pay the same, or else to take your memo- 
 rialist's wife, and six hungry brats, off his 
 hands. 
 
 And your Memorialist will ever pray. 
 
 Sfc. Sfc. Sfc 
 
 Trim. 
 
 Bill of Damages referred to in the foregoing 
 Memorial. 
 
 To a severe fit of head-ach, on receiving 
 news of the said affair. 
 
 To a two-hours' lecture from my wife, for 
 daring to be sick without her leave. 
 
 To pay of six strong-lunged hawkers, for 
 crying about the " Defence of Reporter 
 Trim," for two days. 
 
 To the hire of two female ballad-singers, 
 a bankrupt bellows-mender, and a dog with- 
 out a tail, roaring a song, called Trim and 
 Trim's Ghost, through various streets, lanes, 
 and alleys. 
 
 To the loss of forty-eight hours' sleep al- 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 ready, and the probable loss of as many 
 more. 
 
 To the cure of a broken nose, two black 
 eyes, and a scratched face, received from 
 my wife, for letting her and the children 
 starve. 
 
 To total loss of business, impediments, 
 obstructions, 4fc. Sfc, caused by the said 
 fraud. 
 
 ^Hbmfsrments. 
 
 Tl^ANTED, a middle-aged Woman, not above 
 thirty, of good character, to assist in DRESSING 
 the LADIES at the THEATRE. Her salary will be 
 handsome ; and she will be allowed tea and small beer 
 into the bargain. None need apply but such as are per- 
 fectly acquainted with the business, and can produce 
 undeniable references. — A line addressed to the Com- 
 mittee will be duly attended to.— N. B. A widow will be 
 preferred. 
 
 ■fl/'ANTED immediately, a few BALES of 
 READY WIT, done up in small parcels for the 
 Winter Ckromck. This article being scarce in the market, 
 a good price may be depended on. Samples will be re- 
 ceived by A. B., Agent to the Editor. 
 Please to apply on or before Thursday evening next. 
 
 T OST, on Monday evening last, between the 
 ■*^ two Ships, a PART of a LETTER, giving an account 
 of the proceedings of the Expedition, with other mntters 
 of a private nature, and beginning " My dearest Susan." 
 —Whoever has found the same, is requested to address 
 it, L. A., Editor's box. 
 
 N. B. The letter is of no use to any body but the 
 owner. 
 
 FOR SALE BY AUCTION, 
 By NICHOLAS KNOCKDOWN, at the Observatory, 
 
 on the Coldest Day in January next, 
 A QUAN riTY of NANKEEN, the property 
 of p. Gentleman, who expected to get into the Pa. 
 cific in September last. 
 
 *,* Flannels and furs will be gladly taken as part pay* 
 ment. 
 
 ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. 
 
 Saturday. — This morning Canis Vulpes*, 
 a state prisoner, who had been confined in 
 the Barrel, succeeded in effecting his escape, 
 by breaking the chain with which it had 
 been found necessary to secure him, and 
 went off with it appended to his neck. An 
 immediate, though fruitless, pursuit was 
 made, but it is hoped he will not long escape 
 the vigilant eye of our police. 
 
 Two P.M. — One of our scouts, Don 
 Carlo t, who has just returned, saw the pri- 
 soner in close conference with the proscribed 
 traitor, Canis Lupus'!!;., ^"d his wife ; but he 
 so carefully avoided surprise, that the Don 
 had no opportunity of serving the warrant 
 with which he was charged. He gained, 
 however, some important intelligence, hav- 
 ing overheard the late prisoner disclosing to 
 his companions the various scenes which he 
 had lately witnessed. He described the 
 cave in which he was confined as inhabited 
 by animals standing upright on their hind 
 legs, who were almost always eating ; that 
 notwithstanding their formidable appear- 
 ance, he believed them to be a very timid 
 race; for that, every morning, he saw a 
 great many of these creatures meet together, 
 and all at once, upon hearing a sharp shrill 
 noise §, which he thought was made by some 
 other animal they stood in great terror of, 
 they ran away and hid themselves in another 
 cave they had under the first; and he 
 strongly insisted on it, that this noise was 
 not half so terrific as that of Canis Lupus. 
 His spleen was, however, more particularly 
 directed against one which he supposed was 
 
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 * A fox escaped from the Griper on that day. 
 
 t A dog named Carlo. 
 
 I Wolves were often seen about the ships during the winter. 
 
 § The boatswain piping to breakfast. 
 
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 THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 a cub, who had not yet learned to walk up- 
 right, as he always went on all fours; his 
 spite arose, he said, from this little creature 
 making faces and growling, and doing all 
 he could to annoy him, whenever he put 
 his head out of the hole in the side of his 
 cave. The conference ended by a mutual 
 
 agreement to seize this wifortunate animal, 
 as soon as opportunity offered, from whom 
 they expected to learn more of the prowess 
 and habits of their new foes ; and for 
 this purpose a variety of stratagems were 
 proposed, which will probably be put in exe- 
 cution. 
 
 
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 For the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 A THOUGHT OF HOME. 
 
 Lovely Woman's the pride of our Isle, 
 
 With Beauty's soft image imprest, 
 Fondly raptured we gaze on her smile, 
 
 To harmony soothing the breast ! 
 The rose-bud's young opening dye, 
 
 And the lily's pure vesture she wears ; 
 But the love-beaming glance of her eye, 
 
 With lilies nor roses compares. 
 
 Bounteous Nature her flow'rets may paint 
 
 With tinctures of azure and gold, 
 Yet their lustre shines dimly and faint, 
 
 Till sun-beams their splendour unfold : 
 So the mild dawning virtues that dwell 
 
 In a bosom enchantingly fair. 
 Bid that bosom more beauteously swell 
 
 The woes of another to share. 
 
 In those virtues we happiness feel ; 
 
 The source of our transport below. 
 Not the charms of the sex can reveal ; 
 
 From the mind, soul-enchantment must flow. 
 When sorrows intrude on our peace. 
 
 When wrung by anxiety's wound. 
 Her endearments procure us release ; 
 
 How sweet is her tenderness found ! 
 
 Man is gifted with firmness of mind. 
 
 In dangers and triumphs to share. 
 But each beauty and softness combined, 
 
 Distinguish the lovely and fair ; 
 All the soul -winning graces and loves i , 
 
 On Britain's fair footsteps attend ; , 
 
 And when Beauty too transient removes 
 
 With the Virtues, above, they shall blend. 
 
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 For the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 " Come write i, i the paper," the Editor cries, 
 
 'Ti8 Thursday— my box has no stuffing." 
 Egad then your box, as at present it lies, 
 
 Is just like my head, a mere puffin I 
 I have not one jot, or one atom of brain, 
 
 At this present moment of writing ; 
 And whilst I so dreadfully stupid remain, 
 
 'Tis nonsense to think of inditing. 
 Should a smart witty thought ever happen to light. 
 
 By design or by chance on my skull, 
 You, then, may rely on't I'll instantly write, 
 
 And just give you the subject in full 
 
 Little-brain Lack-wit. 
 
 Reflections on seeing the Sun set for a Period of three Months. 
 
 November, 1819. 
 
 Behold yon glorious orb, whose feeble ray 
 Mocks the proud glare of Summer's livelier day ! 
 His noon-tide beam shot upward thro* the sky, 
 Scarce gilds the vault of Heaven's blue canopy^ 
 A fainter yet, and yet a fainter light — 
 And lo ! he leaves us now to one long cheerless night ! 
 
 And is his glorious course for ever o'er ? 
 And has he set indeed — to rise no more ? 
 To us no more shall Spring's enlivening beam, 
 Unlock the fountains of the fetter'd stream — 
 No more the wild bird carol through the sky. 
 And cheer yon mountains with rude melody ? — 
 
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 Once more shall Spring her energy resume, 
 And chase the horrors of this wintry gloom — 
 Once more shall Summer's animating ray 
 Enliven Nature with perpetual day — 
 Yon radiant orb, with self-inherent light 
 Shall rise, and dissipate the shades of night, 
 In peerless splendour re-possess the sky, 
 And shine in renovated majesty 
 
 
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 THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE. 
 
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 In yon departing orb methinks I see 
 
 A counterpart of frail mortality. 
 
 Emblem of man ! when life's declining sun 
 
 Proclaims this awful truth, " Thy race is run !" 
 
 His sun once set — its bright eiTulgcnce gone, 
 
 All, all is darkness — as it ne'er had shone ! 
 
 Yet not /or ever is man's glory fled, 
 
 His name for ever ' numbered with the dead' — 
 
 Like yon bright orb, th' immortal part of man 
 
 Shall end in glory, as it first began, — 
 
 Like Him, encircled in celestial light, 
 
 Shall rise triumphant 'midst the shades of night, 
 
 Her native energies again resume. 
 
 Dispel the dreary winter of the tomb, 
 
 And, bidding Death with all its terrors fly, 
 
 Bloom in perpetual Spring thro' all eternity ! 
 
THE 
 
 NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 N". VII—MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1819. 
 
 Mr. Editor, 
 fY^HOUGH I have not the pleasure of 
 ^ your personal acquaintance, yet the 
 favourable impression I have received of 
 your humanity wheii you interfered to save 
 me from the tonsorial operation rrcom- 
 mended by Philosophicus, emboldens me 
 to apply to you for advice in a case where 
 not only my hair, but skin, carcass and all 
 are in danger, amidst the horrors of Winter, 
 of being reduced to ashes. 
 
 You must know then, Sir, that a certain 
 gentleman, (whom I will not describe to you 
 as a sedate looking sort of a man, with a 
 thin face, and so on, because that might 
 seem to result from ill -nature,) — this gentle- 
 man I say. Sir, takes particular delight, 
 when I am sleeping before the fire, in putting 
 a hot cinder under my thigh, and then 
 laughs most heartily to see me run away. 
 
 holding it fast, from the sense of pain, until 1 
 am fully awake. Now, Sir, I have endured 
 this and similar tricks for some time, and, 
 though often meditating retaliation, I dare 
 not execute it, as the result of biting his legs, 
 besides perhaps breaking my teeth against 
 the bones, would be banishment from the 
 fire-aide, and I would submit to any indignity 
 rather than forfeit so great an advantage. 
 
 I dare say you participate somewhat in 
 my feeUngs; but to put the case more 
 strongly, suppose, Mr. Editor, some wight, 
 when you were sunk in sound repose, should 
 clap a hot coal under you ! Now, this was 
 just my case the other night; and, as I am 
 a poor helpless innocent, if you can inform 
 me how I can obtain revenge, consistently 
 with my interest, or escape the future perse- 
 cution of my tormentor, you will confer a 
 deep obligation on Pincher. 
 
 [■III 
 
:JS 
 
 THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 THEATRE ROYAL NORTH GEORGIA. 
 
 On Wednesday evening, the Farce of 
 The Citizen was played with a spirit and 
 success fully equalling the expectations 
 to which the former performances at this 
 theatre had given rise. We cannot omit 
 to notice especially the animation and effect 
 with which the very difficult scene was car- 
 
 ried through, in which Old Philpot is dis 
 covered under the table inCorinna's lodgings ; 
 during all this scene the house was kept in 
 continual laughter. 
 
 Two songs were introduced at intervals — 
 the well-known one of " Arthur O'Bradley," 
 by Mr. Beechey, and a new song written 
 for the occasion, and sung by Mr. Palmer, 
 to the tune of " The Bay of Biscay O." 
 
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 ^i^eatre l^osal, iiortj^ ^tox^ti* 
 
 On Thursday, December 23, 1819, will be performed Garrick's celebrated Farce of 
 
 THE MAYOR OF GARRATT. 
 
 MEN. 
 
 Sir Jacob Jollup, Mr. Nias. Major Sturgeon, Mr. Bushnan. 
 
 Jerry Sneak, Mr. Beechey. Bruin, Mr. Wakeham. 
 
 Crispin Heeltap, Mr. Hulse. Matthew Mug, Mr. Parry. 
 
 Lint, Mr. Beverley. Snuffle, Mr. Griffiths. 
 
 WOMEN. 
 Mrs. Sneak, Mr. Hooper. Mrs. Bruin. Mr. Ross. 
 
 Mob, cj-c. §c. 
 
 After which will be represented, an nntire new Musical Entertainment, written 
 expressly for the occasion, called, 
 
 THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE; 
 
 OR, 
 
 THE VOYAGE FINISHED. 
 
 MEN. 
 
 Seamen of the Hecla. 
 Tom, Mr. Nias. Harry, Mr. Griffiths. Bill, Mr. Palmer. 
 
 Seamen of the Griper. 
 Jack, Mr. HopPNER. Dick, Mr. Wakeham. 
 
 Landlord, Mr. Bcshnam. Brother to Susan, Mr. Hulse. An Esquimaux, Mr. Hulse. 
 
 WOMEN. 
 
 Susan, Mr. Hooper. Poll, Mr. Ross. 
 
 Doors will be opened at Half past Six, and the Curtain will rise at Seven o'clock precisely. 
 
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 ^libettisemtnts. 
 
 ^liyANTS a PLACE, u Gentleman, who will 
 ' ' undertake to write IXXlCiil'.L VKRMCS for the 
 
 THEATRE or NEWSI'Al'KK. Will luntrHct lu write by 
 
 the foot, yard, or fathom. 
 Fleaie to apply to (). V. , Dvxt door to Q.'g PrintinK 
 
 OlUce. No connexion with Siniuu Doggrelllcui, Albert, 
 
 orU. 
 
 "ITir ANTED, for the use of the Performers, 
 a considerable PORTION of ASSURANCE; alio 
 a quantity of aound retentive memory, (I'ur repalri) at 
 per yard. Any gentleman poiicsging a tupi-rabundance 
 of these re(|uUltea will be treated with on liberal termi. 
 Apply to the Committee. 
 
 A N Amateur is desirous of procuring a GOOD 
 ■^ VOICE, with Instructions for its mimagemcnt. 
 
 Application to be made at the Club Room, Pipe-street, 
 prior to Christmas Eve, 
 
 A CELEBRATED Literary Character has pro- 
 "^^ cured, during an excursion among the Stars, some 
 very BRIGHT IDEAS, which be means to submit to the 
 inspection of his friends and the public, In the course of 
 the ensuing week. 
 
 A GENTLEMAN, labouring under the incon- 
 ■^^ venience of an increasing corporation, would give 
 his VOTE and INTEREST at the next CITY ELEC- 
 TION to any person removing the complaint without a 
 reduction of diet. 
 Particulars may be obtained at the Pump Room, Bath. 
 
 T OST, Stolen, or Strayed, a WHITE FOX, 
 with a long tail and a longer chain ; answers to 
 the name of Jack, As he must be somewhere on the 
 island, or on the ice in its immediate neighbourhood, be 
 may easily be found. 
 
 Address to O. R. No. 2, North Georgia. 
 
 A GENTLEMAN, who has rndeavourcd to 
 lii'guilulho ti'dhiuK wintry liuiirs in iirnrtiHing 'umv 
 piccen of music, prcicntfcl to him by a liiir and much 
 esteemed frirml, hitving lifrn pi'culiiirly unfurtunnte in 
 breaking the strings <if his vlnlln, wlihci to purrhitie 
 ONE of the FELINE SPECIES, in order to replact- 
 them. 
 
 Inquiry to be made at the Academy of Arts and 
 Sciences. 
 
 T EFT, l)ehind the scenes, after the per- 
 formance, on Wednesday fvcning, n BOX, cun- 
 tainlng a parcel of comfits, two bottles of liivi'ndrr water, 
 a small packet of rouge, some white powder, live aril- 
 ficinl teeth, one pair of eye-brows, three Urge mus- 
 tachios, with whiskers to correspond ; sixteen papers of 
 court plaster, a silver thimble, marked E, U,, it pair of 
 ladles' garters, seven gold rings, with varioim slimes, uiic 
 having the device of two hearts transllxeil with an ar- 
 row, three smelling bottleH, a pin-cushion, a pair of 
 curling' Irons, several bottles of rose- water, and various 
 other perfumes ; with a number of smaller articles, 
 among which is a recipe for promoting thi growth of a 
 beard. 
 
 The owner may have it again, by describing the bo\, 
 on application at the Green-room of the Theatre. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir — I beg to correct an error which lias 
 crept into, the third page of your last Num- 
 ber, under the head of accidents, offences, 
 Sjc. The prison from which the state pri- 
 soner therein mentioned made his escape, 
 was not the Barrel, but the Fleet 
 
 Yours, ^c. 
 
 Pitiful Punster, Bart, 
 
 
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 For the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 THE GREEN-ROOM, OB A PEEP BEHIND THE CURTAIN. 
 
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 Come list to a story my Muse would relate, 
 
 A story she long will remember, 
 To tell it in verse, she has puzzled her pate ■. 
 'Tis a scene that occurred in North Georgia— late 
 
 One evening in gloomy December* 
 
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 THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 11. 
 
 'Twas ni<;ht, and the moon had illumined the hill, 
 
 Not a leaf on the mountain-top trembled, 
 The wolf ceased his howling, and each purling rill 
 Had forgotten to murmur, as frozen streams will, 
 Not a sound could be heard, for all nature stood still, 
 While the players in the green-room assembled ! 
 
 III. 
 
 First old Daddy Philpot * came tottering in, 
 
 As tall and as stiff as a hop-stick. 
 With woe-begone visage, lank chops and long chin, 
 He for all the world look'd like the picture of Sin, 
 
 Or like a Death's head on a mop-stick ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 " Adzooks !" quoth Maria *, " this body won't meet ; 
 
 " How the deuce shall I e'er get my sash on ? 
 " These shoes are too clumsy by half for my feet — 
 " So do what I will I shall never look neat, 
 
 " It 's enough to put Job in a passion !" 
 
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 Then comes the young Cit *, in his coat of light green, 
 
 (Nota bene, 'twas made of a curtain,) 
 Like a true city counting-house dandy, I ween : 
 Such a medley of finery never was seen. 
 
 At this end of the town, I am certain. 
 
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 VI. 
 
 " You Tom," cries Corinna, " come lace up my stays, 
 
 " But tuck my shirt carefully first in." 
 Tom puU'd till Corinna look'd red in the face. 
 But she bore it, sweet soul, with a very good grace. 
 When, bounce ! went an eye-let hole, crack went the lace, 
 
 'Twas like a ripe gooseberry bursting '. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Then enter poor Beaufort, with look so profound. 
 You 'd have sworn he was troubled with phthisic ; 
 
 " You look, sir," quoth Moll, " like a sheep in a pound, 
 
 " Or a soldier afloat, or a sailor aground, 
 " Or a monkey about to take physic ! t" 
 
 • Characters in the Citizen, which was preparing for representation, 
 t " I like a simile half a mile long."— iMario in the Citizen. 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
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 VIII. 
 
 And here my poor Muse is in utter despair, 
 To record half the pother unable, . 
 
 Such bustle and racket, and uproar were there, 
 
 She cannot find ought that may with it compare ; 
 
 Yet, stay — ^was you ever at Bart'lemy fair ? 
 'Twas a downright theatrical Babel. 
 
 IX. 
 
 " You've laced me so tight, I declare I'm half dead," 
 " Pooh, nonsense, make haste, put your shoes on. 
 
 " Where the devil's my wig ?" — •' Why, a top of your head." 
 
 " Who can lend me a pin, or a needle and thread? 
 
 ** I wish it was over, and I snug in bed." 
 Happy scene of theatric confusion ! 
 
 X. 
 
 But see ! the confusion draws near to a close, 
 
 And the Muse has near done her inditing. 
 The painter his art on each visage bestows ; 
 By skilful arrangement on many a nose 
 The lily now blooms, where before blush'd the rose. 
 
 Good luck to vermilion and whiting ! 
 
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 Hark ! hark ! 'tis the prompter, whose magical bell 
 Makes the stoutest heart feel palpitation ! 
 
 I shall not detain you, kind reader, to tell 
 
 How this one played passably, that very well. 
 
 With other important events that befel 
 The Dram. Pers. on this merry occasion ! 
 
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 Yet lest you should fancy my Muse meant to teaze, 
 
 Be this the last verse of her story ! 
 Long, long, may their efforts continue to please, 
 And long may Old England have actors like these. 
 And ships to conduct them across the proud seas. 
 
 To add a new wreath to her glory. 
 
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 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 N°. Ill— MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1819. 
 
 TO THE 
 
 Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 TN looking over some old manuscript 
 sea-journals, which were bequeathed to 
 me by my grand-father, and which I had 
 never till now leisure or curiosity to exa- 
 mine, I find an imperfect one which seems 
 to relate to an attempt very similar to that 
 in which we are now engaged. The date 
 is uncertain, the second and most mate- 
 rial figure of the year being unfortunately 
 erased thus " A.D. 1-19." Thinking, how- 
 ever, that it may amuse some of your readers 
 if inserted in your paper, I transcribe all 
 that is legible : 
 
 " So seeing wee might make no 
 
 more progresse this yeare, wee did counselle 
 to come to lande if a haven there might 
 
 be found, for winter-secu.itie ; and having 
 searched diligentlie for y' same, by God's 
 goodnesse, and our pilot's skille in marine 
 affaires, we came to anchor in a goodlie 
 bay, where by divers goode observations 
 we did find the height of y' Northern Pole 
 near seventie-and-five degrees. 
 
 Here wee did abide about nine months, 
 and having good storo of provisions (beside 
 deere and other meate that wee did kill";^ 
 we wanted for nothing but employment in 
 this our icy prisonne, and that our companie 
 might not runne into mischief, for lack of 
 hilaritie, wee did contrive sundrie jocose 
 plans for our merrie-making, insomuch that 
 his Highnesse the Devil could never gaine 
 the ascendancie. But there were three or 
 foure amongst our companie (who as wee 
 did conceive did entertaine secret commu- 
 nication with his Worshippe) who willed 
 
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 not to joyne with us in this our hilaritie, 
 albeit they did not fail to benefitte therebye 
 without any pains by them taken. There- 
 upon, our captaine, observing the same, did 
 justlie order them to be shortlie provisioned, 
 like men in a garrisonne who will not fight 
 the enemie, ' for' said he ' those which do 
 not benefitte the communitie, the commu- 
 nitie is not bounden to benefitte them.' So 
 they're choppes grew more leane than ordi- 
 nairie, and likewise theyre legges which 
 caused them to wax exceeding wrath, and us 
 exceeding merrie. Albeit, our companie 
 nothing heeding theyre indignation, did 
 cause theyre cheekes to be singed with a 
 red-hotte ironne, fashioned after the letters 
 N. C. (whose meaning, being no scholar, i 
 could not fathome) by which our friendes in 
 Old Englande might aske and know theyre 
 historic. After this fashion wee did turne 
 theyre inactivitie to our own merrimente, and 
 did so compasse the Devil and his Impes, by 
 turning theyre own weapones againest them 
 
 It is much to be regretted that no more 
 of this curious manuscript is legible ; for, 
 the old navigator seem to have been placed 
 in a situation so exactly similar to ours, 
 that I doubt not we might uave received 
 many useful hints from their experience, 
 in addition to those I have transcribed. 
 
 I am, Mr. Editor, 
 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 T. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir — I regret to acquaint you, that in 
 consequence of the chief justice having 
 ruptured a blood-vessel in a violent fit of 
 laughter, occasioned by seeing Counsellor 
 
 Puzzlewell enter the hall with a conical 
 paper cap on, fantastically ornamented with 
 small bells, the Court of Common Sense is 
 at present closed. The period of its re- 
 opening has not yet been determined on. 
 
 Observer. 
 
 ^bertisement. 
 
 CTRAYED from their Owner some Time during 
 the last two Months, a couple of FINE CALVES.— 
 Whosoever will give such Information as may lead to 
 their recovery, will be handsomely rewarded, on apply- 
 ing at No. 1, Bell-lane, next door to the Club-room. 
 
 To the Manager and Committee of the 
 Theatre Royal, North Georgia. 
 
 Gentlemen — I am a widow, twenty-six 
 years of age, and can produce undeniable 
 testimonials of my character and quaUfica- 
 tions ; but before I undertake the business 
 of dressing the ladies at the theatre, I wish to 
 be informed whether it is customary for them 
 to keep on their breeches ; also, if I may be 
 allowed two or three of the stoutest able-sea- 
 men or marines, to lace their stays. So no 
 more at present from, 
 
 Gentlemen, yours as may be, 
 
 Abigail Handicraft. 
 
 P. S. Could you allow hollands instead 
 of beer ? As for tea, that is no object. 
 
 To the Editor of the North Georgia 
 Gazette. 
 
 Sir — As I was yesterday indulging in a 
 fit of somnolency, or in other words, dozing 
 before the fire-side, a sort of waking dream 
 presented itself to my fancy, which I beg the 
 liberty of detailing. I thought I was in one 
 
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 of the cabins, observing the operations of a 
 gentleman in the next to it, through a chink 
 in the bulk-head. He was sitting at a table 
 facing me, and I soon discovered " the 
 poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling." He had a 
 sheet of paper before him, on which his hand 
 unconsciously wandered with a slower or 
 more rapid motion, as the bright ide-is seemed 
 to float on his intellectual sight. After a 
 pause of a few moments he began, but I 
 must ever regret that the tone, the energy of 
 the voice, the expression of the dark eye, 
 the fierce animation of the countenance, 
 cannot be conveyed by words. He began 
 as follows : 
 
 " The moon, resplendent orb, I ween 
 " Shone brilliant, like 
 
 " Like, like, let me see — I have it 
 
 " like our soup tureen ; 
 
 " The shaggy wolf stalked on the shore 
 " Like, 
 
 " Like what ? for I must have another simile 
 — boatswains — no, no, he's too dark — stop I 
 can remedy that— 
 
 " Like boatswain daub'd with lime or flour. 
 " The stars half quench'd, seemed scattered there 
 " Like bristles on 's chin. 
 
 " While in the hollow ships we lie," 
 
 " That Une's good , but useless ; un ler s I get 
 some lofty shining touch every two or three 
 lines, these epics go for nothing. One's 
 comparisons should be natural, striking 
 easily flowing into the verse. Such a one 
 has just popped into my head, and I'll go 
 over it once again. 
 
 " While in the hollow ships we lie, 
 
 " Like pears or blackbirds in a pie; 
 
 " Or like that fish so much renown'd, 
 
 " That on the Cornish coast is found 
 
 " A Pilchard bight — who same as we 
 
 " Peeps through the crust, the stars to see." 
 
 Judge ray disappointment, Mr. Editor, 
 when the dinner-bell ringing, started the 
 
 poet from his reverie ! But, if before his 
 features glowed with Achillean fire, they 
 now assumed the glare of the hungry tiger ; 
 and, I doubt if the latter would have outdone 
 his speed in reaching the dinner-table. I need 
 hardly add, that the same bell which called 
 my friend away, put an end to the delu- 
 sion, by awaking me. 
 
 I am, Sir, your sincere well-wisher, 
 
 Philo-Somnus. 
 
 Philo-Somnus's letter reached us last 
 week, but our columns did not admit of 
 its insertion; since which, a circumstance 
 has occurred which makes us consider the 
 delay as especially fortunate. We regarded 
 his communication simply as a. jeti-d' esprit, 
 without a suspicion that it had its founda- 
 tion in reality. We were most agreeably 
 surprised, therefore, on receiving during the 
 present week the effusions of the poet whom 
 Philo-Somnus overheard in the act of com- 
 position, completed for our pages sucli as 
 we now subjoin them. Philo-Somnus's letter, 
 however, is not the less interesting ; it may 
 remind some of our readers of the pleasure 
 with which they have read the original 
 draft of Mr. Pope's translation of the Iliad, 
 as compared with the finished and published 
 copy. 
 
 TO THK 
 
 Editok of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mr. Editor, 
 If the followng efforts of my Muse should 
 be deemed worthy a place in your valu- 
 able columns, their insertion will aflford much 
 gratification to, 
 
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 The moon, resplendent orb, shines bright I ween, 
 
 Its brilliance is just like our soup tureen. 
 
 The snow-drift, wafted by the passing breeze. 
 
 Looks like that vessel fill'd with boiling pease, 
 
 That thrice each week smokes fragrant on our board 
 
 In shape of soup, pea-soup, to feed the horde. 
 
 The shaggy wolf stalks slowly on the shore, 
 
 Like boatswain when with hoar-frost cover'd o'er. 
 
 The stars shine dimly, and seem scattered thin, 
 
 Just like the bristles seen on 's chin, 
 
 Like leaves in spring, when trees begin their budding, 
 
 Or like the plums stuck in our Sunday's pudding. 
 
 While in the hollow ships we snugly lie 
 
 Like blackbirds — or black-berries in a pie ; 
 
 Or like that iish so long, so much renown'd, 
 
 That on the Cornish coast in swarms abound, 
 
 A pilchard hight, who, quite as snug as we, 
 
 Peeps through the crust, the moon and stars to see; 
 
 And hence, by people, keen and sharp as razors, 
 
 Have they, as we, been oft-times call'd star-gazers. 
 
 We muster twice on each revolving day, 
 
 Like shepherds who take care their flocks don't stray. 
 
 We keep a watch by night, I'd have you know, 
 
 But then 'tis like a watch that does not go. 
 
 We take each meal at its accustom'd hour. 
 
 What hunger once made sweet, but now tastes sour. 
 
 Our appetites have left us, much like those 
 
 From whom pale sickness steals away health's rose : 
 
 But not like those we sleep — for, know, we snore 
 
 Like men who knew not how to sleep before. 
 
 Thus do we watch, eat, drink, and sleep amain, 
 
 And then, we watch, eat, drink, and sleep again. 
 
 — To drive this dull monotony away. 
 
 Once every fortnight we get up a play ; 
 
 Delightful bustle, each face wears a smile, 
 
 There's nought like plays dull tcedium to beguile ; 
 
 With Spring's return, I trust they'll still be found 
 
 A record how good humour may abound ; 
 
 And shew that men, who take the proper course. 
 
 May always in themselves find such resource. 
 
 As to ensure of care the baiiishment, 
 
 And shew how much depends on management. 
 
 With Spring's return, like the industrious bee. 
 
 Behold all bustle, alUactivity ! 
 
 At Spring's return, when Phoebus shews his head. 
 
 Like Sluggard rising from his feather-bed. 
 
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 We'll shake dull sloth and indolence away, 
 And give our minds no longer to a play. 
 Fired with fresh ardour, and with bold intent. 
 Our minds shall, like our prows, be westward bent, 
 Until Pacific's waves pour forth sweet sounds, 
 Chiming to us like — Twenti/ thousand pounds ! 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir — At first sight of your correspondent 
 P's rebus inserted in your fifth number, I 
 gave myself credit for having at once disco- 
 vered the solution ; but the two-fifths of the 
 first article destroyed my airy hope, until by 
 chance a day or two since I met with a 
 seaman's letter, wherein his dear Sally ex- 
 
 presses an earnest hope thai her letter will 
 reach him in the enjoyment of good Helt/i. 
 Now, Sir, as I coneider Mr. P. has pos- 
 sibly learned to spell out of the same dic- 
 tionary with Sally, I shall no longer hesitate 
 in laying before you the score of lines which 
 I have eked out, in elucidation of the au- 
 thor's meaning. 
 
 I am, ^f . S)-c., 
 
 CaSTI«AT(iR. 
 
 SOLUTION. 
 
 On the wave or on the shore. 
 Nobly born or humbly poor, 
 Blest with competence or wealth 
 Man's first wish must still be helth ; 
 What on monarchs' thrones can shine, 
 Fair as Clemency divine? 
 Who could with Adonis vie. 
 Peerless in a Goddess' eye ? 
 If the parts of these you join, 
 In the word you thus combine, 
 You '11 a vessel's name disclose 
 Dreaded oft by Britain's foes * ; 
 Now commission'd to explore 
 Unknown seas to Asia's shore ; 
 And in this unpeopled isle, 
 Tho' the fact may make you smile, 
 Doubtless all their ship admire, 
 Seated round her winter fire. 
 Loudly sound thy trumpet, Fame, 
 Say, the Hecla is her name. . 
 
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 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 " He snuflg far off the anticipated joy, 
 " Turtle and "6018011 all hiH thoughts employ, 
 " Prepares frr meals, as jockeys take a sweat, 
 " Oh, nauseous ! an emetic for a whet !" 
 
 Mr. Editor, 
 
 Happening to stumble a day or two ago 
 upon the above lines, they brought to my 
 recollection an advertisement that I read in 
 your Chronicle last week, dated from the 
 Pump-room, Bath. Notwithstanding the ad- 
 dress, however, I suspect from the style of the 
 gentleman, that he is better acquainted in a 
 well-known city somewhat to the eastward ; 
 but that is a matter of little import to me, my 
 aim not being so much to gain the no common 
 reward which he holds forth, as to give a free- 
 dom to the overflowings of the milk of ..uman 
 kindness, with which my nature (with mo- 
 desty be it spoken,) is too full. I cannot. 
 
 however, proceed without making a strong 
 protest against those false and squeamish 
 feelings of the poet, which prompt him to 
 nauseate, or aflect to nauseate, the really 
 harmless means which the subject of his 
 rhymes adopted for the attainment of a praise- 
 worthy and voluptuous end; a means too 
 so innocent as to have been practised for 
 time immemorial by many a worthy citizen, 
 without so much as a wry face, still less 
 dreaming of the least indelicacy, in a practice 
 that administered so much delightful sensa- 
 tion. But these poets, Mr. Editor, have been 
 so pampered with high seasoned viands, that 
 it is almost impossible to find food or physic 
 of a material nature sufficiently refined to suit 
 the exquisite sensibihty of their appetites. 
 Instead of feeding like other good souls 
 upon turtle or venison, they have fed on 
 ambrosia with the gods. Instead of good 
 
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 old port, they maat htre nectar, and rejeeting 
 Calvert's fine brown-stout, and Meux's en- 
 tire, nothing forsooth will serve them but 
 gulping down whole streams at the foot of 
 Parnassus. Setting aside, therefore, any a^ 
 tempt to please such dainty gentlemen, I 
 shall leave them to their prejudices, and pro- 
 ceed to offer my adrice to the gentleman of 
 the Pump-room. In the first place, let him 
 set the poets at defiance ; and in the next 
 commence a course of what the latter has 
 been pleased to call " nauseous," but which 
 the alderman found so useful as a prepara- 
 tive ; he however sat 
 
 '* Abdominous and wan, 
 " Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan." 
 Now, I presume it is the idea of this pic- 
 ture that haunts the imagination of our 
 citizen of the Pump-rooin, the evils of which 
 he foresaw and justly deprecates. Certainly 
 it seems a melancholy prospect, but hap- 
 pily for him, I can place within his grasp 
 the means of contravening such a calamity. 
 I shall endeavour to imitate the skilful phy- 
 sician, and point out how that which was a 
 bane to the one, may be rendered an antidote 
 to the other. My plan, Mr. Editor, has 
 simplicity to recommend it, a quality by 
 which it is distinguished from regular me- 
 dical practice in general ; it consists merely 
 in the trifling inversion of the order of meals 
 and medicines. The alderman took his dose 
 as a preparative, always before his meals: 
 let the Pump-room citizen, then, whose object 
 is so different, only get his food first, and take 
 his dose regularly an hour afterwards. And, 
 as long as he shall persevere in the plan, I 
 will readily stake all my credit upon its 
 efficacy. I am. Sir, Sfc. S,-c., 
 
 Philanthropus. 
 
 THEATRICAL REPORT. 
 
 Thursday evening's entertainment com- 
 
 menced with The Mayor of Carratt / a farce 
 which notwithstanding its characters are 
 drawn from low and vulgar Ufe, has ever 
 maintained its popularity by its nbundant 
 humour, and by its pointed satire of exten- 
 sive applicatioh. We are of opinion that 
 in none of the preceding performances at 
 this theatre have the characters generally 
 been so well sustained ; a circumstance which 
 we are pleased in ascribing to the increased 
 acquaintance of the dramatis personte with 
 the manners and customs of the stage. 
 
 The Mayor of Gurratt was followed by a 
 new musical after-piece, the joint production 
 of our principal bards and wits, entitled The 
 North West Passage, or the Voyage Finished. 
 The characters having been already an- 
 nounced in the advertisement of last Monday 
 selnnight, and the subject pf the piece being 
 obvious from its title, we proceed to give a 
 short account of it. It is divided into five 
 acts for the sake of convenience. The 
 scene of the first is laid at Winter Har- 
 bour, and the time is that period to which 
 we so anxiously look forward, viz., when 
 the season of active exertion is recom- 
 mencing ; the Hecla's boat lands, and meets 
 the Griper's sailors on shore ; they speak of 
 their future prospects, and many jokes are 
 passed on the transactions of the winter. 
 The act concludes with an appropriate song, 
 and three cheers on leaving Winter Harbour. 
 The second act is supposed to take place early 
 in the summer of 1820, when the ships have 
 succeeded in passing the meridian of Mac- 
 kenzie's River. Here the same crews meet 
 on the ice, congratulate each other on having 
 gained the second prize, and cheer on to 
 Behring's Straits. During the conversation 
 a bear which is supposed to have been seen 
 in the morning, being allured by the burning 
 of some whales' flesh, appears in the distance 
 chased by > boat which is observed to fire 
 at it. Til. men secrete themselves, and the 
 
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 b^tir re-appear8 in the digtance but a little 
 nearer, and at length comes on tlw stage, 
 where the kettle containing the fish had been 
 left for the purpose of attracting hira ; 
 atler a nhort encounter, in which one of the 
 Hecla's sailors receives a hug, the bear is 
 killed and carried off. During this act the 
 ships are seen in the distance under sail, 
 and at the conclusion of a song, on a signal 
 of recall being hoisted and a gun fired, the 
 boat pushes off. In the third act the scene 
 changes to Deptford, where Poll and Susan, 
 the sweethearts of Tom and Dick, are disco- 
 vered sitting at work, and expressing their 
 anxious alarms for the safety of their lovers, 
 of whom no tidings have as yet been re- 
 ceived. They are joined by their brother, 
 who produces a newspaper, containing infor- 
 mation which the government had obtained 
 from the master of the Brunswick whaler, 
 from the particulars of which, and the circum- 
 stance that this was the only vessel by whom 
 the Discovery Ships had been seen in the 
 summer of 1819, the best hopes are augured 
 of their safety and success. In act the 
 fourth we return to the expedition, having 
 now, (i.e., in the autumn of 1820,) reached 
 the so anxiously-desired Behring's Strait. 
 Here nautical congratulations, and the pros- 
 
 pects of the Voyage Finished occupy them, 
 until their attention is called off by an Es- 
 quimaux sledge seen in the distance, and 
 subsequently by the Esquimaux himself, 
 where a scene occurs which brought to our 
 recollection the most interesting event of the 
 expedition of discovery which preceded the 
 present. After making friends with him, by 
 presents and a song, the sailors induce 
 him to accompany them on board. In the 
 fifth and concluding act the scene shifts 
 again to Deptford; the voyage being now 
 finished, the sailors are met at the Prince 
 of Wales, where heartily welcomed by the 
 landlord and joined by their sweethearts, 
 they talk over the difficulties they have 
 passed through, and the good fortune they 
 have enjoyed, and the act concludes with 
 " God save the King" and three cheers, in 
 which the audience most heartily joined. 
 
 We shall only add, that the piece pro- 
 duced in its fullest extent the interest and 
 entertainment which were designed. We 
 are all witnesses how much the ship's com- 
 pany participated in these feelings, but it is 
 not easy perhaps fully to appreciate the per- 
 manent impression which such representa- 
 tions as these are calculated to establish in 
 their minds. 
 
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 ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1880, 
 When will be performed the celebrated Farce of 
 
 BON TON ; 
 
 Or, HIGH LIFE ABOVE STAtHS. 
 
 MEN. 
 Lord Minnikin, Captain Sabine. Sir John Trotley, Mr. Parry. 
 
 ColonelTivy, Mr. Ross, Jessamy, Mr. Griffiths. 
 
 Davy, Mr. Nias. Mignon, Mr. Bushnan. 
 
 WOMEN. 
 
 Lady Minikin, Mr. Beechey. Miss Tittup, Mr. Hooper. Gymp, Mr. Beverley. 
 
 SONGS will be introduced between the Acts. 
 
 The Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the Curtain will rise precisely at Seven o'Clock 
 
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 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir — The Committee beg you to insert 
 
 the enclosed in your Paper, for which they 
 
 will feel greatly obliged. 
 
 I am, Sir, 8sc., 
 
 Snip Quill-drivb, 
 Secretary to the Committee, 
 
 To Mrs. Abigail Handicraft. 
 
 My dearMadam— The Committee hav- 
 ing sat for a considerable time upon your let- 
 ter, published in last week's Paper, beg me to 
 acquaint you, that the contents have penetrat- 
 ed each member aufond: that they feel sore 
 at the prospect of losing your services at the 
 theatre, which they fear will be the case, when 
 you are informed that the gentlemen say that 
 they can't perform their ladies' parts properly 
 with their can't-mention-ums on. The Com- 
 mittee, however, hope that this will not pre- 
 vent you from accepting the office. 
 
 They desire me to add, that two stout 
 able seamen shall attend you with marline- 
 spikes, levers, nnd white-line ; and that gin, 
 instead of beer, at your request, will be al- 
 lowed, upon promise that you give not a 
 drop to the actresses, as the consequences, 
 
 you must be aware, may greatly retard th< 
 performances of the piece. 
 
 I have the honour to be, Madam, Sfc, 
 
 S.QUILL-ORIVB, 6Vf. 
 
 jQlrt»rt(Mmrnts. 
 
 T OST, either in the Pit or Lobby of the 
 Theatre, na Thunday lait, a SMALL MEMO- 
 RANDUM BOOK, containing notei and stricturea on 
 tlie n«w entertainment ; alao remarlii, on the merit* of the 
 retpectire perfurmers, made on tlie ipot, and CHlculated 
 to affiird liinta for an elaborate criticiim on tlie above 
 ■ul^ecti, intended to form an Appendix to the Writer'* 
 Journal, which will be puolished on the return of the Eli- 
 pedition. — Whoever baa found the lame, and will re- 
 turn it to No. S, Link-lane, will be handaomely rewarded 
 for their trouble, 
 
 A N Amateur, who has generally had female 
 character* auigned to him, i* deiiroa* of receiving 
 a FEW HINTS on the rnont becoming attitude*, action*, 
 and articulations, for a Woman of Fashion ; alio, on the 
 most approved method of obtaining the fashionable stoop, 
 without appearing round-shouldered. 
 
 Application to be made at No. 3, Ordaance-square, 
 
 rnHIS is to give Notice, that a couple of FINE 
 CALVES have, within the last week, been graud 
 by Deal Board, Carpenter, who reside* at the foot of 
 Hatchway Passage, and that they were carried away 
 flrom thence by a atout man, to be dre**«>d ; but it wa* 
 inpposed that they would produce more tne than weal 
 to the thief, as they were thought to be the identical 
 Calves that had strayed from No. 1, Bell-lane. 
 
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 SONG FROM THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 
 
 WRITTEN BY MR. WAKEHAM. 
 AND SUNG BY MR. PALMER. 
 
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 When a ship boy at first on the ocean's rude wave, 
 1 was taught to disdain ev'ry thought of a slave, 
 Bold freedom to nurture, that valour inspires. 
 And proves England's tars still are worthy their sires. 
 
 As to manhood I grew, and a sailor became, 
 Ev'ry hope , ev'ry wish of my heart was the same ; 
 My Susan, my parents, but strengthened the claim, 
 I knew that their bliss must depend on my fame. 
 
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 Stern war wni p^one by, and our cniif^nii no more 
 Waved proudly triumphant o'er each hostile ihore ; 
 But I heard of two ships that were fitting to seek 
 For new lands in the North, where the winds bellow bleak. 
 
 IV. 
 
 My bosom was fired, and I soon was enroll'd 
 In the fortunate band, for adventure so bold, 
 Whom I now see before me resolved to maintain 
 That their country shall never call on them in vain. 
 
 V. 
 
 And say if privations or perils should rise. 
 Why what would they weigh in a true seaman's eyes ? 
 He' d scorn the base thought of e'er turning his back, 
 His hand ever ready— his heart never s)i^k« 
 
 VI. ''""' 
 
 If one dastard like this!— no — such one there can't be 
 In these ships that have dash'd thro' this ice-fettered sea 1 
 Then may those who act nobly — as all of you will, 
 Safe returned, have of love and of pleasure their fill. 
 
 VII. 
 
 May the Butcher and Bull, Prince of Wales, and each port 
 Where the Hecla's and Griper's incline to resort. 
 Abound with good liquor, with fiddles and song, 
 And plenty of lasses to cheer up the throng. 
 
 
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 REPLECTIONS ON THE MORNING OF CHRISTMAS DAY, !819, NORTH GEORGIA. 
 
 Rich from the blushing East no glory darts 
 
 To chnse the shadowy night ; — but all is gloom. 
 
 Save where the moon's young crescent o'er the snows 
 
 Emits a trembling radiance, faintly seen 
 
 Through mists obscure ; — or sparkling seen on high 
 
 The countless myriads of the stars diffuse 
 
 Their distant, glimmeiing, scarce-enlightening rays I 
 
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 Shoots up its pointed spires— again immerged, 
 Sweeps forth with sudden start, and waving round 
 In changeful forms, assumes the brighter glow 
 Of orient topaz— tlien as sudden sinks 
 In deeper russet, and at once expires 1 
 
 Here then we view, in Northern Isle immured 
 Midst ceaseless drifts and long-enduring ice . . . 
 The wonder of His pow'r, whose awful voice 
 Spoke earth into existence, and the sun 
 That now, Britannia ! o'er thy favour'd land 
 Lights up the day thro' winter's cheerless reign. 
 
 Hail, sacred hours ! that to my mind recal 
 
 His wuadrous goodness. His, the Great Supreme ! 
 
 Once was thy mom in other splendour drest, 
 
 When to the shepherd-train's astonish'd eyes 
 
 Celestial ^6fy shone, and angel choirs 
 
 Hymn'd the Messiah's birth in songs divine ! 
 
 And shall not man prolong the wondrous strain, 
 
 For whom this mightiest, greatest work was done ? 
 
 Yes, whether bord'ring on the Icy Pole, 
 
 Or where the genial ray with fruits and flow'rs 
 
 Bedecks the pendant bough, or paints the vale, 
 
 Still let the hymn of t;iumph rise on high, 
 
 The hymn of grateful joy incessant rise 
 
 To Jesu's name, our Saviour and our God ! 
 
 Who laid his glory by, and wrapt in flesh '" ' ' 
 
 Our natures shared, exempt alone from sin, ' ' 
 
 For purposes of love ; to save mankind, ' "• " 
 
 To raise us to a higher state of bliss 
 
 Than in primeval innocence enjoy'd 
 
 Our great progenitor — fruition pure, 
 
 Eteriial, full, unmeasurable joy ! '^ '' '■ 
 
 Still as expiring years shall roll along 
 
 Be this our theme, when wintry skies proclaim ^ 
 
 This sacred day's return : and higher thoughts 
 
 Than sordid pleasures fill our tongues with praise. 
 
 Our hearts with love, our bosoms with desire 
 
 To live to Hitn who gave His life for us, ^ i^ 
 
 While yet we are on Earth ; and when at length 
 
 The hour that frees th' imprison'd soul shall come, 
 
 Calm, may we view the stern approach of Death 
 
 But parting from a world of painAil toil 
 
 To dwell for ever near Jehovah's throne ! ' ! 
 
 To whom be glory, pow'r, dominion, praise, 
 
 Ascribed for ever, and for evermore ! 
 
THB 
 
 NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 N°. X,— MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1820. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chrv>nicle. 
 
 SlH, 
 
 Winter Harbour, North Georgia, 
 Saturday, Jan.l, 1820. 
 
 It has always appeared to me, that the 
 frequent recurrence of the various holy- 
 days and festivals ordained by the Church, 
 independently of the important events which 
 they are intended to commemorate, may 
 be considered as contributing essentially 
 to the welfare and happiness of man- 
 kind. Each of these may be said to 
 constitute a kind of era, which marks the 
 progress of time iu a very decided manner, 
 forces up(m the notice of even the most 
 giddy and thoughtless, the recollection that 
 another week, or month, or year, has passed 
 by, and involves in this recollection the 
 awful certainty, that tlie stream of time is 
 
 flowing fast away, and must speedily be 
 swallowed up in the ocean of eternity. With 
 a very large portion of mankind, the smooth- 
 ness with which time gUdes away resembles 
 the travelling of an easy carriage : its pro- 
 gress would be often forgotten^ were it not 
 for certain occasional stoppages which re- 
 mind them that it has been in motion, and 
 that it is carrying them forward with a rapid, 
 though insensible pace, " towards that bourne 
 from whence no traveller returns." 
 
 There is no season which may more aptly 
 be compared to one of these stages in the 
 great journey of life, and which induces 
 more serious reflection in a considerate 
 mind, than that at which we have just 
 arrived. The period when one year finishes, 
 and another commences, forms an epoch 
 in our lives, which is perhaps more strongly 
 marked than any other. At tliis sea- 
 
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 ner prepared for serious contemplation, by 
 the recent commemoration of one of the 
 most important events that the world has 
 ever known— the birth of the Redeemer of 
 mankind — an event, which should fill our 
 minds with the most solemn awe, and our 
 hearts with the most lively sensations of gra- 
 titude and devotion. 
 
 At this period, it is natural as well as 
 profitable to look back on past events. 
 When we recal to mind the road we have 
 travelled, nnd the scenes we have witnessed, 
 how chequered is the prospect which me- 
 mory presents to our view! the sports of 
 childhood, the hopes of youth, the opening 
 prospects of manhood rise in review before 
 us, with their accompanying train of fears, 
 anxieties, and disappointments. It has, 
 however, been justly remarked, that " we 
 have many days of pleasure for one of pain, 
 many hours of health for one of sickness;" 
 and to a mind not jaundiced by prejudice, 
 nor distempered by vice, the retrospect of 
 life will afford a thousand recollections we 
 shall fondly cherish, and ten thousand mer- 
 cies which demand our warmest gratitude. 
 
 If the above remarks are found to hold 
 good with mankind in general, to us they 
 must apply with peculiar force and energy : 
 for surely. Sir, few human creatures have 
 more cause for serious contemplation, or for 
 sincere and lively thankfulness than our- 
 selves ! Let us but look back for one year, 
 and consider what our situation and prospects 
 were. The greater part of us had just re- 
 turned from a similar enterprise, vexed and 
 mortified at the ill success x.hich we had 
 met with. Our own hopes, and those of our 
 country, disappointed, nothing appeared left 
 for us, but a long season of inactivity, and 
 leisure to brood over the past ! 
 
 How different is the prospect we have 
 
 now before us ! Selected once more for this 
 interesting service — ^placed in a situation of 
 credit and honour, which the sons of no- 
 blemen may reasonably envy, and which 
 thousands of our own profession and rank 
 would gladly fill — with the eyes of our 
 country and of all Europe fixed upon us — 
 how highly should we value these proud dis- 
 tinctions! If we further consider the ex- 
 traordinary success which has attended our 
 labours, what heart is there among us that 
 does not beat high with exultation and hope ? 
 Could it have been predicted to us before 
 we left England, that we should winter com- 
 fortably in a secure harbour of our own find- 
 ing, near the 11 1th degree of longitude, 
 who that is accustomed to the navigation 
 of icy seas, would not have declared this to 
 be success beyond his most sanguine expec- 
 tations? And yet it is even so— we have 
 succeeded in breaking the spell, which made 
 the sea of Bafiin a bay, have advanced near 
 five hundred miles directly towards Behring's 
 Strait, and found a secure port just when 
 the season unexpectedly closed upon us, 
 and obliged us to relinquish further opera- 
 tions. 
 
 Nor have we, in accomplishing this much 
 of our enterprise, suffered privation or want 
 of any kind. We have been abundantly 
 supplied with all the necessaries, and many 
 of the luxuries of life— we have most of us 
 enjoyed our health — our ships have been 
 preserved uninjured, under circumstances 
 of frequent and unavoidable danger ; and 
 being furnished with resources which will 
 enable us to renew the attempt with the same 
 vigour as at first, we seem destined by Pro- 
 vidence to decide a great geographical ques- 
 tion, which, for centuries past, has been an 
 object of curiosity to every ration in Eu- 
 rope. 
 Perhaps no expedition which England has 
 
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 ever equipped, has been regarded with a 
 more hearty feeling of national interest, than 
 those in which we have been employed. 
 Persons of every rank, and age, and sex, 
 flocked to our ships — the philosopher ap- 
 proved a scheme whose object was the 
 promotion of science — statesmen and pre- 
 lates condescended to visit those, whose 
 names might perhaps grace the page of fu- 
 ture history — the merchant hoped that we 
 might find a shorter way to China — the pa- 
 triot, that we might add new lustre to Old 
 England's glory — and, to crown all, the 
 smile of beauty beamed upon us from 
 every quarter, to inspire us with fresh 
 ardour in the accomplishment of our glo- 
 rious enterprise ! The remembrance of these 
 visits should long be cherished in our breasts : 
 they were cordial and unequivocal expres- 
 sions of regard from a warm-hearted and af- 
 fectionate nation ! 
 
 We cannot, perhaps, expect that this ge- 
 neral interest should continue still to operate 
 in the same degree as at first ; for the public 
 feehng is seldom very long fixed to one 
 point — but how strongly would tlipt interest 
 be re-excited, could information of our pre- 
 sent situation and prospects be at this time 
 conveyed to England ! A new field would 
 be opened to speculation — the northern 
 boundary of America would assume a more 
 decided character upon the maps — the san- 
 guine would be confirmed in their expec- 
 tations, and even the most cautious sceptic 
 would be forced to admit — not only the 
 great probability of the existence of a north- 
 west passage, but that there is some chance 
 of its being at length actually effected. 
 
 But highly as it becomes us to appreciate 
 the warm interest which the country at large 
 has evinced for the success of our enter- 
 prise, there is another feeling, which, even in 
 a still greater degree, must come home to the 
 bosom of every one among us — I mean the 
 
 anxious solicitude which must now be en- 
 tertained by our relations and friends. 
 Happy as we should undoubtedly be to 
 remove some part of their anxiety, by 
 making them acquainted with the comforts 
 of our present situation ; yet by a certain 
 feeling inseparable from human nature, and 
 no doubt implanted in our breasts for wise 
 and benevolent purposes, there is, perhaps, 
 nothing which produces a more exquisite 
 degree of gratification than the certainty of 
 our being the objects of that very solici- 
 tude to those we love. Whatever contradic- 
 tion this may at first appear to involve, and 
 whatever perverseness it may seem to argue 
 in the constitution of our nature, yet it 
 would be hard to call that selfishness, 
 which leaves upon the most tender con- 
 science no impression of wrong, and which 
 is, in fact, the source of one of the purest 
 and most refined pleasures of which we are 
 capable. 
 
 At the season of Christmas, when it is 
 customary for all the branches of a family 
 to assemble around the same social fire-side, 
 it is natural for them to think much of those 
 who are wanting, to complete the circle. 
 All expectation of our return this winter will 
 now be at an end, and a severe conflict of 
 contending emotions will succeed — the hope 
 that our absence indicates success — the ap- 
 prehension that some untoward accident has 
 befallen us — at one moment, perhaps, ex- 
 ulting at the thoughts of our success, and 
 firmly suppressing every wish but for our 
 eventual benefit, they anticipate with proud 
 and eager delight the time when we shall 
 return to them with credit and honour, 
 to reap the rewards of our labours — at an- 
 other, imagination presents us to their view, 
 suffering under privation or disease, and ex- 
 posed to all the rigour of this inhospitable 
 climate— then will nature break forth, in 
 spite of every exertion— the tear of silent 
 
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 anguish will be shed — the fervent prayer of 
 pious devotion be offered to Heaven for our 
 safety ! 
 
 The considerations which I have now 
 urged, a j<i in which I have endeavoured to 
 set forth some of the cirrumstancssby which 
 our situation is distinguished, should make us 
 especially careful that our conduct be such as 
 to justify the expectations which our coimtry 
 and our friends have formed of us. They have 
 performed their part by placin? us in our pre- 
 sent station ; — it remains for us to prove our- 
 selves deserving of that station — not merely 
 by the ardour which, as young men, we 
 have all naturally felt at the beginning of a 
 great and honourable enterprise — not by 
 occasional sallies of zeal and exertion, which 
 relapse into carelessness and inactivity as 
 soon as the occasion ceases — but by a 
 steady, imiform, and honest principle of 
 duty, unmoved by circumstance, unshaken 
 by difficulty, unaltered by time. We should 
 reflect that our station can, in itself, confer 
 no real dignity or honour: it is only the 
 medium through which our good or bad 
 conduct will be made the more conspicuous ; 
 it is the hinge on which our future hopes 
 and prospects in the world must inevitably 
 turn. 
 
 Above all — amidst the bustle of active 
 life, and the discharge of our public duties, 
 let us never forget what we owe to God and 
 
 to our neighbour. Immured as we are to- 
 gether for a certain period, and secluded 
 from the rest of the civilized world, it is no 
 less our interest than our duty to keep 
 a constant guard over our conduct to- 
 wards each other. We should be particu- 
 larly careful to restrain the natural irritabi- 
 lity of temper, to which all are more or less 
 subject; to check the risings of peevishness 
 and ill-humour; to forgive others, as we 
 ourselves hope to be forgiven. Let us ever 
 be ready to assist each other in all the kindly 
 offices which smooth the rugged path of 
 life ; and discarding all those petty animosi- 
 ties, those little passioas, which serve but 
 to disturb the tranquillity of society, and to 
 disgrace us as Christians and as men, let us 
 cordially unite with heart and hand in the 
 great work we have undertaken. 
 
 By whatever distance we may be sepa- 
 rated from our country and our friends ; let 
 us remember that we are ever mutually pre- 
 sent with God ! His all-seeing eye beholds 
 us at one glance, his arm is ever stretched 
 out to protect us— the mercy and benefi- 
 cence of the Almighty are equally extended 
 to us, whether we traverse the frozen re- 
 gions of the north, or bask in the sunshine 
 of our native plains. 
 
 I am. Sir, 
 
 Yours, ^c. 
 
 Amicus. 
 
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 For the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 THOUGHTS ON NEW YEAR's DAY, A. D. 1820. 
 
 The moments of chasten'd delight are gone by, 
 When we left our loved homes o'er new regions to rove, 
 
 When the firm manly grasp, and the soft female sigh, 
 Mark'd the mingled sensations of friendship and love. 
 
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 That season of pleasure has hurried away, 
 
 When through far-stretching ice a safe passage we found *, 
 
 That led us again to the dark rolling sea, 
 And the signal was seen " on for Lancaster's Sound f." 
 
 The joys that we felt when we passM by the shore, 
 
 Where no footstep of roan had e'er yet been imprest, 
 When rose in the distance no mountain-tops hoar, 
 
 As the sun of the evening bright gilded the west Xl 
 Full swiftly they fled— and that hour too is gone 
 
 When we gain'd the meridian assign'd as a bound §, 
 To entitle our crews to their country's first boon, 
 
 Hail'd by all as an omen the passage was found. 
 
 And past with our pleasures, are moments of pain ; 
 
 Of anxious suspense, and of eager alarm — 
 Environ'd by ice, skill and ardour were vain 
 
 The swift moving mass of its force to disarm ; 
 Tho' dash'd on the beach, and our botits torn away, 
 
 No anchors could hold us, nor cable sec re ; 
 The dread and the peril expired with the day. 
 
 When none but high Heaven could our safety ensure. 
 
 Involved with the ages existent before 
 
 Is the year that has brought us thus far on our way. 
 And gratitude calls us, our God to adore 
 
 For the oft-renew'd mercies its annals display ; 
 The gloomy meridian of darkness is past. 
 
 And ere long shall gay Spring and the herbage revive. 
 O'er the wide waste of ice shall re-echo the blast, 
 
 And the firm prison'd ocean its fetters shall nve. 
 
 Now dawns the New Year ! but what mind can expose 
 
 The events that await us before it expires ? 
 In the isles of the south to remember its close. 
 
 Or in regions of frost mourn our frustrate desires ! 
 Yet Hope points the track that our vessels shall force 
 
 Till Pacific's wide ocean around us we view ; 
 Bright Hope shall expand as we follow our course. 
 
 And the dangers we meet but our courage renew. 
 
 * Our ships were the first that succeeded in effecting a passage to the westward, through the ire 
 which occupies the middle of Baffin's Bay in the early part of the summer. 
 
 ^ Telegraphic signal made by the Hecla, after breaking through the first barrier of ice. 
 
 t The evening was beautifully clear when we sailed over the spot assigned to CROKER's 
 MOUNTAINS. 
 
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 The friends we have left, at this season of mirth 
 
 Do their bosoms or pleasure or anguish sustain ? 
 Do they deem us yet safe in these wilds of the earth. 
 
 Or whelm'd in the surges that whiten the main ? 
 No longer they now can expect our return, 
 
 No longer they mark ev'ry change of the breeze ; 
 But the thought of despair fond affection will spurn, 
 
 And confident rest on Almighty decrees ! 
 
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 With them we but share the proud hope of success, 
 
 And look forward with joy to the days yet to come ; 
 When, the heart overflowing, warm tears shall express 
 
 How sincere is the welcome that greets us at home ; 
 Be happiness theirs while we severed remain ! — 
 
 Be fortitude firm, and exertion, our own ! 
 Till the shores of Old Albion once more we regain, 
 
 Once more to enjoy every bliss we have known. 
 
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 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
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 N°. XI— MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1820. 
 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Sheltered under the indolent plea 
 of inability, I have never taken any other 
 part in our theatrical amusements than that 
 of a spectator. I have, however, been a 
 constant attendant, and witnessing the stre- 
 nuous efforts mar!e by each amateur, I have 
 felt no small degree of concern at the loss 
 of time, and the immensity of trouble, which 
 these exertions occasion ; the time which 
 is necessarily occupied in studying new, and 
 sometimes long parts, and the trouble and 
 expense, (if I may be allowed to apply the 
 word to the sacrifice of sheets, curtains, 
 and various other articles,) of preparing new 
 dresses on every occasion, must be a very 
 serious tax, particularly to those gentlemen 
 who have other and more pleasing pursuits 
 
 to occupy the leisure which this season of 
 inactivity affords. 
 
 Moreover, it is well known how very 
 limited the theatrical library is, and, judging 
 from the representation on Thursday even- 
 ing, I am inclined to think, the small stock 
 of pieces that contained humour suited to 
 the audience, has been exhausted. 
 
 The good effects produced by the plays are 
 too obvious to be questioned ; and I should 
 be the first to lament their discontinuance, 
 until our labours recommence; but consi- 
 dering the very great amusement and grati- 
 fication which the men have derived from 
 the former representations, why, let me ask, 
 might not some of them be repeated ? Far 
 be it from me to impute the slightest blame 
 either to the manager or committee, who 
 are entitled, (especially the manager,) to our 
 best and warmest thanks for the pains which 
 
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 they have taken ; but is it not possible that 
 in their zeal for the public welfare, they may 
 overlook the best means of accomplishing 
 the object in view ? 
 
 If their aim is, as I believe, the amuse- 
 ment of the men, surely the most effectual way 
 of obtaining this, would be to repeat those 
 pieces from which they have already derived 
 the greatest share ; why not act again the 
 amusing farce with which the theatre so suc- 
 cessfully opened? Why should not Jack 
 again enjoy the humours of Jerry Sneak ? 
 But, above all, why is not the North West 
 Passage repeated? This piece, which cost 
 so much in preparation, was got up so suc- 
 cessfully, and which not only gave the most 
 ecstatic delight to the men during represen- 
 tation, but afforded them in the recollection 
 a fund of amusement even to this day— - 
 why, I say, should it be thrown by, as if 
 it had wholly failed? Surely, Sir, this is 
 an oversight that only needs to be pointed 
 out to be remedied. Permit me then, through 
 the medium of your valuable columns, to 
 offer these remarks to the committee, which 
 nothing but a strong conviction of their truth 
 would have dictated ; and at the same time 
 to make the best apology I can to your 
 readers, by assuring them that the general 
 good of our community has been my first 
 and only purpose in this communication. 
 I am, Mr. Editor, ^-c, Sfc. 8(c., 
 
 A Looker-on. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 SiK — Understanding that it is in the con- 
 templation of several gentlemen to establish 
 a new weekly paper, for the purpose of 
 affording greater scope to the exuberance of 
 genius, which I am sure, from your well- 
 known liberality of sentiment, will meet with 
 your most cordial support, I am emboldened. 
 
 humble as my pretensions are, to solicit tlie 
 public patronage, and offer myself as the 
 Editor. 
 
 To discharge the duties of this office sa- 
 tisfactorily, it is not requisite that I should 
 possess an extraordinary degree of intellect ; 
 for, unlike editors in general, who have to 
 insert their own lucubrations to fill a vacant 
 page, I am doubly assured by the very high 
 opinion I entertain of the talents of its in- 
 tended supporters, and by their own repeated 
 professions of strenuously exerting them, 
 that the only difficulty in my way will be 
 the selection of such strokes of satire, or 
 flashes of wit, as may best accord with the 
 taste of the moment. 
 
 I am positive that nothing flat, low, or in- 
 sipid, will ever be found on my files — a few 
 touches beyond the sublimity of Milton ; a 
 style more easy and elegant than Addison ; 
 powers more splendid and versatile than 
 Shakspeare's may occasionally be met with ; 
 but no paucity of materials, (except it be of 
 paper,) to perpetuate the literary fame of the 
 independent and highly-gifted youths, whose 
 chosen servant I am anxious to become. 
 
 I think I can command every requisite 
 for immediate publication; pens and ink I 
 have no objection to furnish, and paper for 
 the early numbers, provided they do not 
 require more than three sheets each. One 
 quill-driving (not printers') devil, I am pre- 
 pared with, and a second is in training. 
 The liberality of a friend has furnished me 
 with an empty puncheon, in one of the heads 
 of which I intend having a slit cut for the 
 reception of contributions. These particu- 
 lars are enumerated to demonstrate the very 
 great interest I take in the cause, and I hope 
 the reasons which have been adduced will 
 be deemed sufficient to prove, that an editor 
 for a work which promises to establish an 
 em in the annals of literature may be found 
 in one possessing only the feeble judgment. 
 
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 contracted mind, and circumscribed inven- 
 tion of, 
 
 Sir, your most obedient Servant, 
 
 Henry Hakmless. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mr. Editor — ^Will any of your corre- 
 spondents assign a reason, or hazard a con- 
 jecture, why 10 freshening of the wind 
 should be accompanied by a considerable 
 rise in the temperature of the air ; which we 
 have found, I beheve, invariably the case, 
 from whatever direction the wind blows. 
 I am, Sir, Sfc. Sgc. Sfc, 
 
 A Constant Reader. 
 
 THEATRICAL REPORT. 
 
 On Thursday evening the officers of the 
 Expedition performed the farce of Bon Ton, 
 
 or High Life above Stairs. It happened 
 unfortunately that the weather, which pro- 
 mised fair in the morning became inclement 
 in the afternoon, and continued so much so 
 during the performance, ns materially to in- 
 convenience the performers, and to lessen 
 the gratification which the audience would 
 otherwise have received from their exertions. 
 
 We are informed that the thermometer 
 was at twelve degrees below zero on the 
 stage, a degree of cold ill suited to the 
 dresses of the fair sex especially. 
 
 Whilst on the subject of our theatrical en- 
 tertainments, we beg leave to return our 
 thanks to the contributor of the first article 
 of the present number. We are persuaded 
 that many of our readers will join with us, in 
 the hope that its subject will not be deemed 
 beneath the consideration of the committee 
 of stage-management. 
 
 WbtHtxt l^osal) i^ortjb CSreotgia* 
 
 MEN. 
 
 Colonel Feignwell, Mr. Pa rut. 
 
 Freeman, Captain Sabine. Sir Philip Modelove, Mr. Griffiths. 
 
 Obadiah Prim, Mr. Wakeham. Tradelove, Mr. Hoppnee. 
 
 Mr. NiAS. Sackbut, Mr. Bushnan. 
 
 Mr. Beverley. Amminadab, Mr. Halse. 
 
 WOMEN. 
 
 Mr. Hooper. Ann Lovely, Mr. Rosst 
 
 SONGS as usual will be interspersed. 
 Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the Performance to commence at Seven o'clock. 
 
 Periwinkle, 
 Simon Pure. 
 
 Mrs. P'im, 
 
 * You 're the characters cast, and now guess at the play ,• 
 But waitl I'll endeavour to shew you the way ; 
 The Play that 's to steal a dull hour of your life. 
 By the Author was named— il Bold Stroke for a Wife. 
 The day that's appointed is next Wednesday week. 
 Should it not be too cold for the Actors to speak. 
 
 The Committee of the Theatre request the Editor will give publicity to their disavowal of any parti- 
 cipationin Snip Quill-drive's Letter, which appeared in the 9th Number of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 • In writing the fair copy of this Number for circulation on board, the date and title of the play 
 were accidentally forgotten, when these lines were bubjoined to supply the omission. 
 
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 The following communication reached us 
 on Friday night, but just in time to save 
 the press. On reuding it, we perceived that 
 the writer is suffering under a grievance, 
 which, so far as we understand him, makes 
 him urgent for the immediate insertion of his 
 letter. We have, therefore, been induced to 
 wave the consideration which it is our cus- 
 tom to give to the articles with which we fill 
 our columns, and have submitted his letter, 
 without delay, to our readers. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 I am rather surprised, Mr. Editor, since I 
 believe the original intention of the Winter 
 Chronicle was exceedingly foreign to what 
 appears, by degrees, to have crept into it, 
 and which is far on the climax to decided 
 personality; I mean the various attacks 
 made on the several members of our com- 
 munity. Mine, Mr. Editor, is a case in 
 which a pair of calves were declared to have 
 strayed from their owner's. No. 1, Bell-lane, 
 next door to the Club-room. Now, as I 
 am confident you are a man who values a re- 
 spectable reputation in an infinitely higher 
 degree than the advantages derived from 
 your Weekly Numbers, I consider it my 
 duty to warn you against a person who, at 
 this time, I am aware, constitutes a small 
 part of the little society who contribute to 
 its weekly existence ; for I understand, and 
 that from the most respectable authority, that 
 the said person is in the habit of, what I sup- 
 pose he would call revising, but from the ac- 
 counts I have of the matter, absolutely alter- 
 ing and re-modelling it, according to his own 
 fancy. Since this is the case, I am strongly 
 ' led to imagine that the advertisement alluded 
 to was intended for a neighbour of mine, re- 
 siding in Ordnance-square, next door to 
 Apothecaries' Hall, whose calves, I know 
 
 strayed some time ago, and I hear have now 
 entirely left him : not mine, Mr. Editor ; on 
 the contrary, mine indeed, are at this time 
 in an exceedingly forward state. I am na- 
 turally fond of the picturesque, and there- 
 fore have them in front of my premises. I 
 take as much delight in them as I do in my 
 very self, and shall for ever have them before 
 me. This, Mr. Editor, is not the whole of 
 my complaint. I was the other day abso- 
 lutely insulted to my face ! ! As I was sit- 
 ting at my table, studying in happy quiet, 
 who should pop in but one of your devils : 
 the ipjpudent fellow, regardless of my age 
 and infirmities, commenced his insinuations, 
 and by degrees told me I was the identical 
 little man alluded to in your gazette. 1 
 have, Mr. Editor, patronised it from its 
 commencement, and, as my residence in 
 some degree excommunicates me from so- 
 ciety, no part of it fails to excite my strictest 
 scrutiny. But I shall proceed with my griev- 
 ance, he explained to me, as I said before, 
 that " I was the little man stated to have 
 risen from the band-box, and that I also, 
 one day or the other, would be subject 
 to a hen-pecking." — It would have been as 
 well for the scribbler had he kept this part 
 of his article in hh inkstand — for here I 
 have him — 1 have often expressed my inten- 
 tion never to marry ; and suppose 1 should ? 
 I well remember the opinion of a friend of 
 mine, who was kind enough to sympathize 
 and condole with me, on a similar occasion ; 
 and as he is a man who has lived longer, 
 and I am sure, knows more of the world than 
 I do, I consider his first-rate authority. 
 He said — " That little men were usually 
 marked with extraordinary talents — that they 
 were so polite, so kind, so every thing a 
 lady could wish ;" and, therefore, I am al- 
 most confident they are subject to less pur- 
 gatory than persons of a contrary descrip- 
 tion. And suppose the conclusion here 
 
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 drawn to be perfect, I may rely, Mr. Editor, 
 on leading a most quiet and peaceable life, 
 were I to venture to-morrow to the matrimo- 
 nial shrine. Trustin^r you will be convinced 
 of the perfect fiction of the one case, and in 
 some degree, if not altogether, coinciding 
 with my hypothesis in the other, which ap- 
 pears to me to be tolerably well founded, I 
 conclude, trusting you will in future, for the 
 sake of your reputation, examine your paper 
 immediately previous to its appearance in 
 public, that such alterations which your prin- 
 ters may have taken upon them to make, may, 
 by your timely scrutiny, resume their origin- 
 ality, and thereby rescue your chronicle from 
 impending defamation, which will await it, 
 if this my prescription be not enforced. 
 
 I am, Mr. Editor, 
 
 Your sincere well-wisher, 
 
 N.C. 
 
 P. S. You will pardon the shocking state, 
 Mr. Editor, in which I put this to your hand, 
 not being Friday night ; and strongly at this 
 moment provoked, I send this rough as it is, 
 in order if any case relative to N°. 1, Bell- 
 lane, be intended for insertion in your next 
 Number, you may have an opportunity of 
 preventing it. 
 
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 On SATURDAY, the FIRST DAY of APRIL, 1820, 
 
 Will be publUhecl the First Number ul' a new Weekly 
 I'aper, tu be called, 
 
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 OH, 
 
 OPPOSITIOS JOUR^AL. 
 
 PROSPECTUS. 
 
 As the (leiiign of this paper is solely to act in opposition 
 tu the Winter Chronicle, Sir Stephen Stingnll, who has 
 undertaken to be the editor, will consider hlniBrlfrt'spon- 
 sible that no article whatever shall be omitted, which to 
 his knowledge contains an attack upon any individual ul' 
 the chroniclers, reserving to himself, however, the dis- 
 cretionary power of adding to or altering any contribu- 
 tions, which way appear to him to admit of mure pointed 
 satire, or on any other similar account, and of either briefly 
 assigning his reasons, or otherwise, as he niny think 
 proper. 
 
 Original contributions on this subject, consistent with 
 the plan of the Paper, will be acceptable. 'I'lie KUitor 
 begs it, however, to be distinctly understood, that he is 
 wholly independent of the gentlemen of the ICxpedition 
 for its support, he having laid in, on his own account, a 
 sufllcient stock of the necessary ingredients to answer all 
 the purposes of the N. C. P. Orders and communica- 
 tions, if post-paid, will meet with immediate attention, on 
 being addressed to the Editor at the O. P. library. Fleet- 
 market, where may be obtained all the periodical pam- 
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 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
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 N°. XII— MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1820. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 It is not to be wondered at, that our 
 having observed, on Wednesday last, the 
 greatest degree of natural cold ever before 
 recorded *, should have excited a consider- 
 able interest in the minds of your corre- 
 spondents ; for, independently of its being 
 an interesting fact in the history of our 
 voyage, it seems to have served the useful 
 purpose of relieving us from that dull 
 monotony, with which, for some weeks past, 
 one day has succeeded another. Nor can 
 any thing be more natural, and I may justly 
 add, more praiseworthy, than the eagerness 
 
 with which it has been debated at our tables, 
 whether the thermometer stood at 50J,or 50 J, 
 that is, whether we beat the rest of the world 
 by half, or by three quarters of a degree ! I 
 have even heard it asserted by one gentle- 
 man, who seems determined to hand our 
 names down to posterity with all the ho- 
 nour which extreme frost can confer, that 
 the thermometer actually and fairly, and 
 without any fudging, or wincing of an eye, 
 stood at— 51 for upwards of half an hour! 
 In order to decide the matter, I beg to make 
 your readers acquainted with the result of 
 some very careful and minute observations 
 made by myself on the only two thermo- 
 meters used on that eventful day. They 
 
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 achromatic telescopes, of great magnifying 
 power, with a micrometer-scale applied to it 
 by myself in a very ingenious manner, by 
 which I found thermometer N°. 1 to intimate 
 - 50°.6 15, and N°. 2 - 50°.845. The mean 
 of these, ciz., 30° .730 may, I think, be fairly 
 stated as the actual degree of cold to be 
 registered. I trust, Sir, that the care with 
 which these observations were conducted, 
 the excellence of the instruments employed, 
 and my well-known skill in these matters, 
 will be sufficient to set this most interesting 
 and important question at rest for ever ; and 
 that your readers will be satisfied that they 
 have as yet out-shivered the rest of the ha- 
 bitable globe only by 730 thousandth parts of 
 a single degree of Fahrenheit's scale. 
 I am, Mr. Editor, 
 
 Your modest, humble Servant, 
 
 Simon Set-right. 
 
 P. S. Being desirous to add all in my 
 power to our frigorific fame, it is my inten- 
 tion to renew my observations whenever the 
 thermometer again falls below par, and 1 
 doubt not I shall be able by means of some 
 improvements now in hand, to screw out 
 anothei quarter of a degree of cold, for the 
 benefit of our meteorological journals. 
 
 Since writing the above, I have re-exa- 
 mined my instruments, and think I have 
 discovprP''. an index-error of two thousandth 
 parts nearly. I cannot refuse myself the 
 gratification of assuring your readers that 
 this error is additive, and therefore all in our 
 favour. 
 
 Before we give publicity to the subse- 
 quent letters, occasioned by an article which 
 we inserlod in our last Number bearing the 
 
 signature of N. C, we beg to offer a few 
 remarks to the consideration of our corre- 
 spondents and of our readers, but especially 
 of the former. 
 
 From the commencement of our under- 
 taking we have been aware of the delicate 
 ground on which we suffered ourselves to be 
 placed, in admitting articles containing per- 
 sonal allusions, however inoffensive. We 
 were induced, however, to take upon our- 
 selves this responsibility, requiring a more 
 than ordinary caution, by the following con- 
 siderations ; first, the difficulty which our 
 Correspondents represented, of finding other 
 subjects productive of equal amusement, 
 with which to fill our columns; — second, 
 from our experience of the care so assiduously 
 maintained on the one side, to keep strictly 
 within the bounds of playful and harmless 
 raillery, and of the thorough good-humour 
 with which it was met on the other : — third, 
 from witnessing the enteri-ainment which 
 our readers received from these communica- 
 tions ; and, finally, perhaps, from feeling that 
 we had it in our power to put a period to 
 them, whenever they should approach the 
 limits which had been hitherto respected. 
 We were not, indeed, without a hope, that 
 in the course of time, such subjects would 
 give place to others of more intrinsic merit, 
 and useful as well as entertaining. This 
 consideration augmented the gratification 
 with which we received the excellent letter 
 which forms the greater part of our tenth 
 Number; and we are happy in believing, 
 that were this letter viewed in no other light 
 than as an experiment, to ascertain how far 
 matters of useful, and even of serious, ten- 
 dency, would be appreciated by the readers 
 of the Winter Chronicle at their just value, 
 the result was most highly satisfactory and 
 encouraging. 
 
 We should have preferred awaiting the 
 ordinary progress of this change in the 
 
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 69 
 
 subjects chosen by our contributors, without 
 endeavouring to hasten it by any remarks 
 of our own, had we not been constrained 
 to the present notice by the letter of N. C. 
 above-mentioned ; not merely in consequence 
 of his advice, for which we return him our 
 acknowledgments, but because he has himself 
 indulged, even beyond his predecessors, in 
 the practice which it was his especial object 
 to caution us against. 
 
 We have availed ourselves of the occasion, 
 to express thus much of our sentiments, per- 
 suaded that our correspondents will ever re- 
 member with ourselves, that it is of far 
 more importance to avoid giving pain, than 
 to amuse, and that self-love will frequently 
 point a shaft, which is designed to be, and 
 is in itself, entirely hiirmless. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mr. Editor — I have ever considered 
 cheerfulness as a duty we owe to society ; and 
 regarding your papers as a means of promo- 
 ting good humour among us, I have always 
 felt disposed to receive entertainment from the 
 lively sallies of wit which have occasionally 
 filled its columns, notwithstanding they have 
 sojietimes approached that " climax of de- 
 cided personality," which N. C. complains 
 of, and towards which he certainly ad- 
 vances some f'^w steps beyond any of his 
 competitors. 
 
 Nor should I now, Mr. Editor, feel any dis- 
 position to complain of the liberty taken with 
 my person, had your Correspondent clothed 
 the words, which he has thought proper 
 to put into my mouth, in good honest Eng- 
 lish dress ; but when, on Monday morning 
 last, I heard read from your columns, a let- 
 ter, purporting to come from my residence. 
 No. 1, Bell-lane, I own that I felt a strong 
 desire to detect the author. After the butch- 
 
 ery tliat had been committed, I had no 
 hopes of seeing the strayed calves, but I 
 thought it possible a mangled limb might be 
 detected ; and on looking minutely around 
 the table, I am sure I espied a solitary head 
 served up without the usual garniture of 
 brains : but this was not sufficient evidence, 
 and I had recourse to a second reading of 
 the letter ; but the difficulty of comprehend- 
 ing it gave me little hopes of success. I 
 fancied, however, that in the writer's ex- 
 treme fondness for the *' picturesque," and 
 his determination to have calves in the front 
 of his premises, instead of the usual orna- 
 ments of Mercury's, Hercules's, S;c. S^c, I 
 could discover a strong smell of the citizen ; 
 and I was the more inclined to this opinion, 
 when I found the quotation of " so kind, so 
 polite," ^c. ; because this is well known to 
 be the language of the city only, and used 
 by the fair admirers of the Major Sturgeons 
 of the day. 
 
 But all this, Mr. Editor, amounts only to 
 suspicion ; and as I am fond of plain-deal- 
 ing, I resolved to request you to give publi- 
 city to my disavowal of the letter written in 
 my name, and to my desire that the gentle- 
 man, whoever he may be, will not again 
 choose me for the father of his wit. 
 
 I am, Mr. Editor, 
 
 Your humble Servant, 
 
 JosEPHus Not-far-off. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir — I remember having once read, in 
 Gulliver's Travels, of a machine, the motion 
 of which formed letters into words, and words 
 into sentences ; and it is to a similar me- 
 chanical source that I ascribe the letter of 
 N. C. in your last number. 
 
 It appears, however, to be the effort of a 
 novice 'n the management of the book- 
 
 
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 making apparatus; for had the instrument 
 usually produced such effects, not even the 
 sages of Laputa had tolerated its use. I 
 would advise your Correspondent to try an- 
 other turn, and if this fails another yet; but 
 should he still find himself unsuccessful, he 
 may try what it will avail to write the sen- 
 tences produced in two columns, when, per- 
 haps, the cross-reajdings may be a nearer 
 approximation to sense. Beginners are ever 
 in a hurry fur the completion of their scheme, 
 and I think it probable such a feeling may 
 have induced the artist, instead of waitin;]; 
 for the production of syllables from their ele- 
 ments, (letters,) to throw in ready-made words 
 (i so hard a nature, as to cause the injury 
 of the mechanism. B 1 1 may be wrong in 
 my conclusion ; and, therefore, confessing 
 my own total inability to discover the secret, 
 request that you will inform me what 
 meaning, if there be any at all, attaches to 
 the paper in question. ^ 
 
 I remain. Sir, 
 
 Your constant reader, 
 
 John Slenuer-brain. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mr. Editor. — ^The perusal of an article 
 in your last week's Number, has strangely 
 puzzled me : that much labour had been ex- 
 pended in its composition was sufficiently ob- 
 vious ; but after repeated readings, or attempts 
 to read it through, I had well nigh despaired 
 of discovering the object of so much pains ; 
 when a surmise suggested itself to me, which, 
 amongst the many conjectures which I have 
 heard in the course of the week, is the only 
 one that supplies any satisfactory method of 
 accounting for it. 
 
 It is well known, Mr. Editor, that the 
 Non-contributors tc your columns, anxious 
 to prove that inability has not kept them 
 
 silent, have been of late making a strong 
 canvass to establish an opposition paper. 
 Now, as in all warfare, stratagems are resorted 
 to, may it not be as important to weaken 
 an enemy's position as to strengthen one's 
 own ? Consider then this extraordinary 
 letter, as the joint production of the junto 
 of opposition, written with the insidious de- 
 sign of raising a laugh at the expense of the 
 paper which should insert it ; wearing the 
 semblance of grievance and complaint, to 
 secure a reception which it might not other- 
 wise have found ; intended, moreover, per- 
 haps, as a subject for the first essay of op- 
 position-criticism on the 1 st of April ; and 
 it cannot fail to strike you as so well adapted 
 for the purpose, as to give considerable pro- 
 bability to my surmise. 
 
 It may then be deemed a fair sample of the 
 talent and ingenuity, perverted, perhaps, in 
 this one instance, with which you will have 
 to contend; exerted here most success- 
 fully in producing a laboured compo- 
 sition which shall appear at first sight 
 perfectly natural. 
 
 Should the master-hand that directs this 
 knot of oppositionists possess, in an equal 
 degree, the skill of producing the reverse 
 effect to the present; should he, in other 
 words, be able to extract a meaning, and 
 re-model in an intelligible form, such a he- 
 terogeneous composition as the letter of N. C, 
 J fear his success against you will be in- 
 evitable. 
 
 My purpose, Mr. Editor, has been to put 
 you on your guard against attempts of this 
 kind in future ; perhaps, also, in ascribing 
 the letter of N. C. to the quarter I have 
 pointed out, you may partake of the advan- 
 tage which I have found, in being able to 
 join heartily in the frequent laughs whicli 
 it has occasioned, unembarrassed by the fear 
 that the mirth of some one unfortunate wight 
 of the laughers around me was assumed, to 
 
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 shield him from a quiz which he had brought 
 on himself. 
 
 I am, Mr. Editor, 
 
 Your humble Servant, 
 
 Smell-hat Smoke'em. 
 
 OBITUARY. 
 
 On Monday, the 9th instant, between the hours of six 
 and eight in the moming, died, in the prime of life, John 
 Gull*, a youth of very promising talents, and extraordi- 
 nary endowments. He was descended from an ancient 
 and respectable family in the north, and was on his tra- 
 vels to see the world, accompanied by his twin-sister, 
 when he was suddenly snatched away, leaving her to 
 deplort' his irreparable loss. It is supposed that had he 
 lived to reach England, he would have obtained one of 
 the first situations vacant in the British Museum. 
 
 ^tibertisements. 
 
 TWO GUINEAS REWARD. 
 T OST, within the last month, a LINDLEY 
 ■^ MURRAY'S GRAMMAR and BROWN's FOLIO 
 DICTIONARY. The owner having much occasion for 
 them, and labouring under serious inconvenience from 
 
 the.r loss, is induced to offer the above reward to any 
 person or persons, who may have found, and will 
 return the same to his ^rt^idence, Rudder-Head-House, 
 near After-Hold, within the ensuing week. 
 
 Early in May will be published, in One Volume Octavo, 
 neatly bound in Calf, 
 
 CLAVIS CHRONICLARIA ; 
 
 OR, 
 
 A KEY TO THE WINTER CHRONICLE, 
 
 Containing a full and [correct account of the' Author 
 of each article in that Paper, ,vith fav'-similes of several 
 of the hand-writings. 
 
 BY PETER PRY-ABOUT. 
 
 ■> 
 This Work is also designed to contain criticisms on 
 many of the learned communications, both in prose and 
 verse, which are found in the columns of the Gazette, 
 with copious annotations, elucidations, and illustrations, 
 of several obscure, and apparently unintelligible, pas- 
 sages. The Author has spared neither time nor labour to 
 merit the public patronage and encouragement ; and will 
 feel extremely obliged by any communications which may 
 assist in rendering his work more complete. He will be 
 particularly thankful for all hints which may tend to 
 elucidate any part of N. C.'s letter, in the Eleventh Num- 
 ber of the Chronicle, as the Author freely confesses him- 
 self at a loss either to discover t'le writer, to unravel the 
 mysterious intricacies of his plot, or ei en in some parts 
 to trace the language to that of any kno;vn nation, in an- 
 cient or modem times. 
 
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 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 N°. XIII— MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1820. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mr. Editor, 
 
 I will not endeavour to conceal from 
 you or your readers, the mortification I felt 
 at hearing your last week's paper read 
 at the breakfast-table on Monday mornino-. 
 You must indeed confess, that a paper 
 almost exclusively devoted to lampoons upon 
 one unfortunate wight, was sufficient to appal 
 an author much more accustomed than 
 myself to the fioe and unrestrained attacks 
 of public criticisms. But, as soon as the 
 xoar of merriment, which the contents of 
 your columns had raised at my expense, 
 had subsided, and I had leisure only to 
 reflect on what had passed, I felt convinced 
 that however severe a roasting your corre- 
 spondents had thought proper to give me, 
 1 had certai'\ly brought it upon my own 
 
 shoulders, and that any attack which migh* 
 be made on my letter was only a return in 
 kind, of which I had no ght to complain. 
 It has always been my wish to contribute 
 my mite to the support of your paper, be- 
 cause I consider it the duty of every member 
 of a community to do his best to promote 
 the public welfare. And, that your paper 
 tends to piomote that object, no sensible 
 man will, of course, doubt. But something 
 or other, Mr. Editor, has always come in 
 the way, to prevent my putting my intention 
 in execution, till Old Nick in an evil hour, 
 persuaded me to drop into your box the 
 letter of the unfortunate N. C, which letter, 
 as all your readers know, might as well, 
 to use my own expression, have been " kept 
 in my ink-stand." Having heard it hinted, 
 however, by several persons whose good 
 taste and judgment I highly respect, that 
 
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 the subject of my letter and not its style 
 was the real occasion of the general attack 
 made upon it, I am induced to flatter myself 
 that it was not quite so badly written as 
 some of your witty and facetious friends 
 pretended ; and, I have even some hopes 
 that by giving my compositions another turn 
 in the machine, as recommciided by John 
 Slenderbrain, I may perhaps produce some- 
 thing more worthy a place in one of your 
 future Numbers. Be this as it may, 1 have 
 derived great satisfaction from the perfect 
 good humour with which every shaft has 
 been pointed against my first literary effort, 
 and I beg to assure you, that no other feel- 
 ing exists on my part towards the individual 
 who has justly taxed me with " choosing 
 him for the father of my wit," or towards 
 any of those who, in espousing the cause 
 of my friend Josephus Not-f\ir-off, have han- 
 dled poorN. C. thu" severely. 
 
 Before I conclude my letter, I must notice 
 the mistake into which the Non-contributors 
 to your paper have fallen, in supposing my 
 initials to have a reference to then^, of all 
 people under the sun ! a mistake which has 
 subjected me for this week past to a torrent of 
 the most affectionate sympathy from some 
 members of this now slender tribe. Now, 
 Sir, I do think it ra^'^'er hard, that I cannot 
 be allowed to select any two letters from the 
 alphabet for my anonymous signature, with- 
 out having a little word tacked on to the 
 first, and a confounded long one to the 
 second, by any of those tender, sympathetic 
 friencl'" "*''nine who choose to try this method 
 of enl.. ' me under their standard ! As 
 you are a military man, Mr. Editor, you 
 must surely be aware that this is a most 
 unwarrantable manner of making a man take 
 the shilling. 
 
 As I am anxious to make known these 
 my candid and undisguised sentiments with- 
 out delay, I beg you will insert them, if you 
 
 have room, in your next week's paper ; both 
 as a proof that I can take a joke as well as 
 give one, and, as an earnest of the sincerity 
 with which I remain, Mr. Editor, 
 
 Your friend and well-wisher, 
 
 N. C, i. e., No Churl. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mr. Editor — I was agreeably surprised 
 on reading in your last Number, the candid 
 manner in which you suggested to your cor- 
 respondents, the subjects you would prefer 
 for the pages of the Winter Chronicle; I say, 
 agreeably/ surprised, because I had been con- 
 fidently assured your sentiments were widely 
 different, and that " men of scientific know- 
 ledge were withheld from writing, because 
 it was understood that nothing but the trifling 
 nonsense that had lately appeared would be 
 acceptable to the editor." 
 
 As I have a great regard for your paper, 
 Mr. Editor, you will readily believe the 
 satisfaction I felt on discovering the whole 
 of this to be without foundation, and this 
 satisfaction was considerably increased by 
 the hope that another piece of scandal which 
 had reached my ears might be equally untrue. 
 This is no less a charge than that the ori- 
 ginal communications of your correspondents 
 are altered, at the caprice, not of yourself 
 indeed, but of those employed under your 
 direction! When I first heard this, Mr. 
 Editor, I could not help exclaiming it was 
 impossible ; but my informant assured me it 
 was true. " Nay," says he, " the Editor 
 has himself declared that he has no longer 
 any control over the paper, and that his 
 devils, in spite of all he can say, take upon 
 themselves to alter the articles in such a man- 
 ner, that when he again seoh them in his co- 
 lumns, he is scarcely able to recognise them." 
 
 Now, Mr. Editor, if this be true, I have 
 done ; your paper must fall to the round ; 
 
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 and if it be not true, it is imperative upon 
 you to contradict it, and, as a "word to 
 the wise" is sufficient, I shall only add, that 
 I am 
 
 Your sincere well-wisher, 
 
 • Veuitas. 
 
 We have not been able wholly to make 
 up our minds whether we should consider 
 the letter of " Veritas" as a squib ; or, in a 
 more serious light, and according to its 
 ostensible purport. Were we to judge by 
 the contents alone, we should incline to the 
 first opinion ; and as such should scarcely 
 deem it worthy of insertion ; but its style and 
 signature wear the appearance at least of 
 one who is no jester. 
 
 As we are always ready to give a rea- 
 sonable explanation to those who ask it in a 
 reasonable manner, we purpose a reply ; 
 and we devote the necessary space with the 
 less reluctance, because we have not often 
 intruded ourselves on the attention of our 
 readers, preferring at all times that they 
 should be amused by our correspondents 
 rather than by ourselves. 
 
 We notice, first, Veritas's principal alarm, 
 that " original communications are altered 
 at the caprice, not of the Editor indeed, but 
 of those under his direction." Veritas pro- 
 fesses to disbelieve " this piece of scandal," 
 as he terms it ; we shall, nevertheless, con- 
 sider him in our reply as the person who 
 made the observation, leaving it to the indi- 
 vidual who really did so, if such one there 
 was, to substitute his own name for tliat 
 of Veritas, and he will find his answer. 
 
 Veritas must either be a contributor, or a 
 non-contributor ; if the first, then has he 
 not dealt fairly with us, since truth should 
 have obl"'^ed him to acknowledge, that 
 whatevr iiers might say they had expe- 
 rienced, nis papers had never been so im- 
 properly treated ; if, on the contrary, the ob- 
 
 jector be a non-contributor ; if, when others 
 are employing their time, and using their 
 best exertions for the public amusement, he 
 has withheld, under the plea of inability or 
 any other which he may wish to substitute 
 in preference, the attempt to assist in pro- 
 moting a public good, we should conceive 
 that the matter of his objection is no con- 
 cern of his ; that even if it had a foun- 
 dation, it would be wholly between the 
 writers and the Editor; that those who do 
 not write, certainly can have no title to find 
 fault. 
 
 But a moment's thought might have satis- 
 fied Veritas, that if original communications 
 had been so abused, we should have heard 
 long since an outcry from the writers them- 
 selves. No person would see his composi- 
 tion altered without appealing to the Editor, 
 who well knows, that if redress were refused, 
 he would soon find that individual case, (and 
 not the vague surmise that such things may 
 be) the subject of general remark. 
 
 The Editor pays but a small portion of 
 the acknowledgments due from the public 
 to the gentlerhen, facetiously termed by 
 Veritas the " Editor's Devils," who have 
 so kindly devoted a large portion of their 
 weekly time to the task of transcribing the 
 paper for their companions' perusal, when 
 he takes the occasion to remark, that sue', 
 is their habitual accuracy, that scairclv a 
 single instance has come to his knowledge 
 of even an accidental mistake havin;j- or 
 curred iu copying from the original docu- 
 ments; and these are sometimes not a little 
 difficult to decipher. Verbal alterations are 
 occasionally made by the Editor himself, 
 though very sparingly; for, he considers 
 himself in no way responsible for the style, 
 any more than for the arguments, senti- 
 ments, or consistency of the articles which 
 pass through his hands, beyond his original 
 engagement, to insert nothing which ht 
 
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 alterations, none have been made, but with 
 the knowledge and consent of the contri- 
 butors themselves ; and for such and for 
 every alteration, whether accidental or other- 
 wise, the Editor has been always aware of 
 his responsibility to the authors, but to 
 them alone ; and as he has been careful 
 heretofore, so he will continue to main- 
 tain his responsibility, and to be able to 
 return an answer whenever he may see it 
 expedient to do so. 
 
 We proceed to notice the other matter 
 which Veritas has heard alleged against 
 us, viz., " that men of scientific knowledge 
 are withheld from writing, because it has 
 been understood that nothing but the trifling 
 nonsense which had lately appeared would 
 be acceptable to the Editor." Veritas must 
 pardon us if we hesitate to consider this other- 
 wise than as a jest; as such, some one may 
 have said it, but surely no one in earnest ; for 
 a moment's reflection would have reminded 
 him, that our prospectus invited communi- 
 cations from writers of various descriptions, 
 the philosopher amongst others ; and that, iu 
 our first Number we took Cv.casion to make 
 known expressly, our desire to promote ob- 
 jects of scientific inquiry generally ; we have 
 also subsequently inserted letters at different 
 times, requesting information on particular 
 points of science ; it is true these letters are 
 unanswered, but we have not heard that 
 any complaint has been made of answers 
 having been sent, and not admitted. We 
 can therefore very confidently affirm, that 
 if " men of scientific knowledge" have been 
 indeed " withheld from writing," alas ! alas ! 
 some other cause must be sought to account 
 for this backwardness on the part of these 
 scientific gentlemen, than the fear lest their 
 contributions should not be acceptable to 
 the Editor. The fact is so obviously on the 
 other side, that we scarcely suppose any 
 
 person could seriously commit himself in so 
 gross an error as that which the words 
 quoted by Veritas convey. 
 
 But we would address a few words to 
 any person who is disposed to cavil at the 
 Winter Chronicle, on the score of deficiency ; 
 who finds fault because such and such 
 subjects do not occupy so much of its co- 
 lumns as he thinks they might with advan- 
 tage. We would ask such a person, whether 
 he has endeavoured to remedy the fault by 
 sending an article himself on such subjects \ 
 and whether it has been refused admittance ? 
 If not we would ask him, does he know that 
 any other person has tried and been un- 
 successful? If he cannot answer these 
 questions in the affirmative, he is manifestly 
 without ground of complaint against the 
 Editor, or the paper ; and, if he is still dis- 
 posed to censure, we recommend him to 
 count up the number of officers in Loth 
 ships, when he will know precisely how 
 much of his censure falls to his own share, 
 as well as be able to distribute to his friends 
 around him, the exact amount of their pro- 
 portions. 
 
 THEATRICAL REPORT. 
 
 On Wednesday evening was performed 
 the Comedy of A Bold Stroke for a Wife; 
 it gave us the most sincere pleasure to per- 
 ceive, that the audience appeared to derive 
 from this performance even greater amuse- 
 ment and delight than from any of the preced- 
 ing entertainments. We are, indeed, p*" opi- 
 nion that none of them have been kept up with 
 more spirit and success throughout, than the 
 present ; and this will be considered as no 
 mean praise by those who have been accus- 
 tomed to private theatres, and who are 
 aware of the difficulty with which a five-act 
 play is usually supported by amateur per 
 formers. 
 
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 The thermometer in the air was at 26" 
 below zero; but such were the improve- 
 ments made in the warming of the theatre, 
 that the snow upon the roof was thawing 
 within ; a degree of warmth that contributed 
 much to the comfort of the spectators and 
 performers. We shall only repeat our con- 
 
 viction of the extreme usefulness of our 
 theatrical entertainments, and cannot better 
 express our good wishes than by a hope, 
 that they may continue to be conducted in 
 the same masterly manner which has hitherto 
 ensured their success. 
 
 tS^^eatte ^oijal^ ^ottt^ (Sreorgfa^ 
 
 On Wednesday, February 2, 1820, will be performed, for the second time this Season, 
 
 the Farce of 
 
 MISS IN HER TEENS. 
 
 After which, the new Musical Entertainment of 
 
 THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE; 
 
 OR, 
 
 THE FOYAGE FINIS H ED. 
 
 HYPERBOHKAN BONNETS. 
 
 Miss Betty Scraggles begs leave to 
 soUcit the patronage of her country-women, 
 in favour of the above elegant and tasteful 
 article, to the improvement of which she 
 has exclusively devoted her time since the 
 commencement of winter ; and is now ex- 
 tremely happy in being enabled to offer to 
 the ladies, in this season of carol and hila- 
 rity, this sine qua non of the miUinery world. 
 
 Miss Scraggles also flatters herself with 
 the approbation of her patriotic country-wo- 
 men, for breaking the trammels of Parisian 
 fashions, so long and unworthily borne. 
 
 Specimens of the above incomparable ! ! 
 may be viewed by the fashionable dashers of 
 the west end, at her bazaar, No. 2, Capstan- 
 square ; and for the accommodation of the 
 fair citizens, at the manufactory. No. 10, 
 Cheese-market, Pump-lane, City-road. 
 
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 Wild scenes of winter ! what can ye disclose 
 To feast the sight or give the eye repose ? 
 Can frozen grandeur, snows, cr solid floods 
 Compete with Britain's fields, or waving woods ? 
 Stern awe and horror ye may well inspire. 
 But not one pleasing thought, one fond desire. 
 No lover wand'ring thro' the leafy shade 
 In blissful converse with his charming maid, 
 
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 Breathes in her car the ardent vow of truth, 
 While she delighted hears the favour'd youth. 
 No warbling bird attunes the evening lay, 
 If o'er yon rugged hills we chance to stray ; 
 No distant light proclaims the social dome, 
 No loved relations wait us at our home. 
 What pleasures th-.n, from scenes so dear apart, 
 Have power wit' us to soothe the swelling heart? 
 What shall we deem the source of happiness 
 When Nature wears no more her lovely dress? 
 While, exiled from society, we roam 
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 Not lavish Nature, or the charms of Art, 
 Contentment or repose can i 'er impart, 
 If sensr of error wound the feeling breast, 
 By conscience unrelenting deep imprest. 
 True happiness in virtue must bo sought, 
 Ensur'd at once, performing what we ought ; 
 To others doing what we would receive ; 
 The grief too poignant seeking to relieve, 
 To heal the wound that sorrow's shaft has made 
 With point more anguish'd than the reeking blade. 
 Each passion's sway restraining from excess. 
 And making thus our daily errors less ; 
 Led by His word, who made and still sustains 
 This pendant orb, and o'er Creation reigns. 
 
 Roll on, ye wintry hours ! no real woe 
 Can all your stormy horrors yet bestow ; 
 A transient gloom ye may awhile impose, 
 Like yonder cloud before the moon-beam rose ; 
 But when the lamp of life shall feebly shine, 
 When youth's and manhood's fires alike decline : 
 And when the last loud trump shall bid us soar 
 To hear our doom, when " time shall be no more," 
 The soul relying on the Saviour's power, 
 Shall stand undaunted in that awful hour. — 
 His will on earth perform'd— our God shall bless 
 And clothe the sinner with his righteousness ! 
 
 NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
 
 llie Editor wishes tliat a practice, which has prevailed delivering their contrihutiona, may be disrontinued. The 
 of lute, among some of his Correspondents, of personally box is always to be found on tlie Oun-room sky-light. 
 
THE 
 
 NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 N°. XIV— MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1820. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir — I cannot refrain from expressing to 
 you my ftelings, on hearing the keen, yet 
 good-humoured, raillery, with which, in 
 your last Number, you handled the subjects 
 contained in the letter of Veritas. Re- 
 thought every fresh sentence added fresh 
 gout to the tea I was sipping, and I do not 
 know when I have so much relished my 
 bread and butter as on Monday morning 
 last. You must know that I have been a 
 constant, though perhaps unknown, ad- 
 mirer of your Paper, and have laboured 
 through many dull lines in some of your 
 columns, for the sake of the wit and inge- 
 nuity contained in others; and still more so 
 for the general tendency of your plan. I 
 have even scribbled hard to copy your 
 Papers ; and mean, when we get home, to 
 
 have the King's arms nicely printed at the 
 head of each ; and if you will consent to 
 sit for your picture, I have no objection to 
 make you the frontispiece to the handsome 
 little volume they will compose. 
 
 But your remarks upon Veritas's letter I 
 mean to have neatly bordered with gold 
 leaf, and surmounted with a long six-pounder 
 on one side, and a Congreve's rocket on the 
 other ; as emblems at the same time of your 
 military profession, and of the skill with 
 which you canjire a shot when occasion re- 
 rcquires. 
 
 Before the appearance of your last Num- 
 ber, Mr. Editor, you had been very long 
 silent, or, at best, had but mumbled out, 
 now and then, a formal demi-official remark 
 or two, or a theatrical puff, at proper inter- 
 vals, as in editorial duty bound ; the conse- 
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 ceipt of more than a thousand a-year by 
 your labours! They apparently forgot, till 
 you properly reminded them of it, that you 
 cared not a straw whether they were pleased 
 by tlie subjects chosen by your Correspond- 
 ents or not; that you were one, among 
 many other gentlemen, whose amusement 
 you were endeavouring to promote, at the 
 expense of a considerable portion of time 
 and attention ; which, as far as regarded your- 
 self alone, might always be better employed ; 
 and that it was only just, that those who did 
 not write should not be amused by those who 
 did. 
 
 One thing, however, is evident, that the 
 number of your Correspondents is weekly 
 increasing ; and that your Paper never stood 
 on such firm footing as at present. The 
 N. C.'s !— but alas, the very name is now al- 
 most extinct ; and serves but to remind one 
 of that beautiful and expressive idea of the 
 Arabian MSS., which may thus be para- 
 phrased — " I looked into the Editor's box, 
 and cried ' the Non-Contributors where are 
 they V and Echo answered—* Where are 
 they?"' 
 
 I am, Mr. Editor, 
 
 Your constant reader, 
 
 Peter Plainway. 
 
 2'o the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mr. Editor — You made a fine palaver 
 in your last paper about the accuracy of 
 your devils : but this is to inform you, that 
 even in my own communications, which 
 are not numerous, 1 have discovered no 
 less than seven errata, consisting of three 
 DASHES altogether overlooked, one comma 
 and two semicolons omitted ; and once you 
 and your devils, with a plague to you, made 
 me come to Vifitll stop when I had no such 
 
 meaning. You must know very well that 
 there is often more latent sense concealed 
 under a single mysterious dash,^-ot a well- 
 applied note of admiration ! than in all the 
 rest of a letter put together ; and, as an in- 
 stance of the serious mistakes which have 
 occurred for want of attention to correct 
 punctuation, permit me to relate the follow- 
 ing story : The day after a sailor went to 
 sea, his wife called upon the parson, to desire 
 the prayers of the parish for his safety ; the 
 clergyman consented, and wrote his memo- 
 randum accordingly as follows : " A man 
 going to sea, his wife desires the prayers 
 of the congregation :" but having unfortu- 
 nately put the comma in the wrong place, 
 he read it from the pulpit thus : " A man 
 going to see his wife, desires the prayers of 
 the congregation." 
 
 Now, Sir, it is, I suppose, by some such 
 accident as this, that one or two of my best 
 productions have been made absolute non- 
 sense, when read at the breakfast-table ; and, 
 as I am sure you must commiserate the 
 case of an unfortunate author, who is obliged 
 to hear his productions thus tattered and 
 torn ; I trust you will take this hint as it is 
 intended, and make your devils mind their 
 p's and q's in future. 
 
 I remain, Mr. Editor, 
 
 Your well-wisher, 
 
 Stephen Stop-well. 
 
 HOSTILITIES IN THE NORTH. 
 
 General Frost continues to prosecute 
 the siege of Fort Nature with every demon- 
 stration of vigour. The approaches have 
 been pushed to the foot of the Glacis and 
 some horn-works which covered it destroyed, 
 but the defences of the body of the place are 
 yet so numerous, that it is considered im- 
 possible to effect a breach, and the unre- 
 
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 mitting vigilance of the garrison precludes 
 all hope of starving them ; but various sallies 
 have taken place, and many of the defenders 
 have fallen ; on the other hand, masses of 
 the general's troops are almost daily cap- 
 tured, and those who escape the steel are 
 given over to the Jinmes *. 
 
 The Army of Observation^, has been a 
 particular object of attack, but the only 
 advantages which have as yet resulted, are 
 the burning of one or two of the bridges of 
 communication, whose defence had not been 
 properly attended to. The general's oppo- 
 nents are, however, not idle, and his posts 
 are incessantly annoyed by red hot shotX, 
 Skirmishes happen every day, and frequent 
 enterprises are attempted by the besiegers, 
 but they are generally defeated with loss, 
 although it is said that affairs have occurred, 
 in which they have actually surprised their 
 foes in bed. 
 
 Stratagem forms, apparently, a favourite 
 part of the general's system, as a relation of 
 his, with several adherents, were lately found 
 concealed in the water-casks, and at present 
 remain in " durance vile." 
 
 On a recent occasion, this officer is report- 
 ed to have displayed a degree of coolness never 
 before witnessed, which had the effect of im- 
 parting surprising Jirmness to his troops. It 
 is truly remarkable, that though these troops 
 await the charge perfectly immoveable, they 
 drop off" with great celerity when exposed to 
 a lively fire. The general's forces are ex- 
 pected to be entirely broken early in the 
 summer, and preparations are making for a 
 vigorous pursuit ; of the entire success of 
 which the most sanguine hopes are enter- 
 tained. Philo-Caloiiic. 
 
 A Baker ^ belonging to one of his Ma- 
 jesty's ships, who has long groaned under 
 the tyranny of the Boatswain §, having by 
 a hurt in his leg, become incapacitated for 
 active duty, solicits the subscription of the 
 charitable and humane, with a view to form- 
 ing an establishment of his own ; and being 
 no Pinclier^, hopes to ensure tlie favour of 
 a generous public, which will make him as 
 happy as a Prince%. 
 
 ^Hbertfsttnent. 
 
 NEW PUDLICATION9. 
 
 '' I(e Wiiki' from ulnmbrrw, soitrM alofl fur f«ti»*,'' 
 \nil " liip'd in iiiinihern, fur the iiiiiiilivrt cKiue." 
 
 In tlip I'rpK.i, and speedily will he published, hnnd- 
 somely printed in one neat pocket volume, l2nio., price 
 Is. G(/., hiiir Imund, 
 
 IHE NOPTHERN MALLEMUKE||j 
 
 OR, 
 
 HYPF.RBOREAN SONOSTF.H. 
 
 Being a choice Collection of the most approved Songii 
 that have been sung at the Theatre Royal, North (leorgia, 
 during the winter of 191'J-20 ; to which many vnluable 
 additions will be made by the Editor, Carolux Composi- 
 tor, who will be obliged by any communicHlions that mny 
 be addressed to his OOice, Hatchway House, Squeeze- 
 lane, Urigge'g Town. 
 
 Cnme.ttirtlie (Ire, unci mdkc a chcerfnl bl«w", 
 Let mirth ami iukm nn'l liuinoiir miw abonml ; 
 Nuw hnniuli rnrr, anil enrli iliill tlinnght iTimc, 
 Here wil for all may reacly-inaile he fniinil. 
 
 About the same time will be publislicd, in one volume, 
 printed and bound uniformly with the above, 
 
 THE NORTH GEORGIA NUT-CRACKER; 
 
 OR, 
 
 ESSENCE OF ARCTIC WIT: 
 
 Being a selection, containing upwards of five hundred 
 puns, bon-mots, repartees, t(c. Ifc. Ifc, never yet heard 
 without the Arctic Circle.— Any hints or contributions, 
 being original, will be thankfully received by Mons. Le 
 Savant, at the Winter Chronicle Office, No. 4, Bomb- 
 liine. Artillery-ground, not far from Ordnance-square. 
 
 • An allusion to the masses of snow which were melted in the coppers for a supply of water. 
 
 t The individuals engaged in celestial observations, whose noses were frequently frost-bitten by 
 coming in contact with the telescopes. 
 
 * Heated shot that were employed to warm the officers' cabins. 
 ^ Names of the dogs on board the Hecla. 
 
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 SiK — I send you the following lines which 
 were picked up the other evening, between 
 the two ships. Although I cannot claim 
 
 them as my own, I hope nevertheless to be 
 permitted to sign myself 
 
 A CONTRIBUTOJI. 
 
 Sick of the dullness of the times 
 
 I sat me down, to write some rhymes ; 
 
 T' avert tie shaft ironical 
 
 Of writers in the Chronicle 
 
 'Gainst every sinning, luckless wight, 
 
 Who, tho' they can, yet will not write ; 
 
 But, lack-a-day! my muse is dumb, 
 
 And " dinner" calls! — I come ! I come ! 
 
 Our correspondent, with whose contribution we have been much amused, will perceive the 
 alteration of a single word which we have been compelled to make in the lines which he 
 has picked up. We are quite aware how much we have sacrificed to a sense of propriety. 
 
 For the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 LINES SUGGESTED BY THE BRILLIANT AURORA, > .n. IS, 1890. 
 
 High quiv'ring in the air, as shadows fly, 
 The northern lights adorn the azure sky. 
 Dimm'd by superior blaze, the stars retire, 
 And heav'n's vast concave gleams with sportive fire. 
 Soft, blazing in the east, the orange hue, 
 The crimson, purple, and ethereal blue. 
 Form a rich arch, by floating clouds upheld 
 High poised in air, with awful mystery swell'd ; 
 From whose dark centres, with unceasing roll 
 Rich coruscations gild the glowing pole. 
 Their varied hues, slow waving o'er the bay, 
 Eclipse the splendour of the dawning day. 
 Streamers in quick succession o'er the sky 
 From the Arc's centre far diverging fly ; 
 Pencils of rays, pure as the heaven's own light, 
 Dart rapid upward to the zenith's height. 
 
 Transfix'd with wonder on the frozen flood. 
 The blaze of grandeur fired my youthful blood ; 
 
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AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 Deep in th* o'crwhelming maze of Nature's laws, 
 'iMidst her mysterious gloom, I sought the cause; 
 But vain the search ! inscrutable to man 
 Thy works have been, O God ! since time began, 
 And still shall be.— Then let the thought expire ; 
 As late the splendours of Aurora's fire 
 To dark oblivion sank, in wasting flame ; 
 Like the dim shadows of departed fame ! 
 
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 called h.8 Devils, presumes that the following lines are designed as a return : 
 
 To the EDITOR of the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 Dear Sir, your generosity 
 Displny'd without pomposity, 
 Impells with new velocity 
 
 Of gratitude the strain. 
 
 II. 
 
 Such kindness in replenishing 
 The pens, your papers finishing 
 Is ev'ry week diminishing, 
 
 Enhances my esteem. 
 
 III. 
 
 Philosopher's profundity. 
 Or sparkling wit's fecundity. 
 Or citizen's rotundity. 
 
 They each may yet record. 
 
 IV. 
 
 North Georgian geology, 
 Improvements in conchology. 
 Or touches of dog-ology, 
 
 Or more upon my word. 
 
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 Nay, fond attempts poetical. 
 Opinions hypothetical. 
 And systems theoretical, 
 
 May by their nibj be traced. 
 
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 THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 VI. 
 
 I 'm prouder in possessing them, 
 When on the paper pressing them, 
 Than was the goose when dressing them. 
 Whose buoyant wings they graced. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Mr. Editor, adieu ! 
 Believe me very true 
 And faithfr.Dy your friend, 
 Until your pens shall end ; 
 
 And now of rhyme 
 
 Enough this time,— 
 
 At wit a nibbler, 
 
 I am 
 
 A SCRIBBLBK. 
 
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 It has given us great pleasure to perceive 
 a considerable increase in the number of 
 our correspondents during the last week. 
 To all of these our acknowledgments are 
 due, but particularly to the author of the 
 
 " Lines suggested by the Aurora Borealis." 
 This production we do not hesitate to pro- 
 nounce at once extremely descriptive and 
 liighly poetical ; we congratulate our readers 
 on such an acquisition to our Poets' Corner. 
 
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THE 
 
 NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 N°. XV.— MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1820. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mb. Editor, 
 
 The promptness with which the Com- 
 mittee of Management attended to the sug- 
 gestions contained in my last letter, touching 
 our Theatrical Amusements, afforded me much 
 gratification and pleasure, and has produced a 
 full conviction on my mind that they are actu- 
 ated by no other motive than a sincere desire 
 to do their best for the public amusement. 
 Having, in some degree, staked my credit 
 on the success which should attend the re- 
 production of some of the former pieces, 
 you may readily suppose I took my station 
 among the audience at our Theatre, on Wed- 
 nesday Evening last, with no Httle share of 
 anxiety for the result, and you will as readily 
 enter into the lively and pleasurable sensa- 
 tions which arose on seeing my most san- 
 
 guine expectations exceeded. The generality 
 of our audience, Mr. Editor, are not blessed 
 with very quick comprehensions, or clear 
 understandings ; and many of the most amus- 
 ing speeches in a play pass unnoticed on a 
 first representation : the general plot, iiow- 
 ever, impresses itself on their minds, and 
 prepares them to enter more fully into tlie 
 spirit of the piece on a second performance, 
 when nearly all the sly jokes, that before 
 escaped their notice, burst upon them, 
 and the entertainment afforded is con- 
 sequently much greater than before I was 
 also much pleased, Mr. Editor, in remarking 
 that the Characters, without a single excep- 
 tion, were supported with much greater ani- 
 mation than before, and that the whole piece 
 was conducted with more propriety and 
 spirit than any former representation on our 
 
 ill 
 
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 The gentlemen were evidently actuated by 
 one common feeling, the desire to afford 
 amusement, and in this they succeeded. The 
 conviction that such were their motives, 
 caused me to blush for my own want of ex- 
 ertion, and made me resolve that, in the 
 event of our being called upon to beguile the 
 dull hours of another winter in these regions, 
 I would be amongst the first, in endeavour- 
 ing to promote so laudable a design ; and, 
 that after this season, Mr. Editor, I would no 
 longer remain 
 
 A LoOKER-ON. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mk. EniTou, 
 
 Aftek a very short absence, on Monday 
 morning last I met with one of my younger 
 children ; but to my surprise and grief, its 
 features were so much altered and mutilated, 
 (in consequence of unskilful treatment,) by 
 the small-pox, or some other dreadful malady, 
 that I could scarcely recognise the poor little 
 innocent. My feelings were so shocked by 
 the appalling sight, that it was some time 
 before I regained my usual serenity. 
 
 On recovering a little from my confusion, 
 I determined on laying my case before your 
 readers, through the medium of your paper, 
 that they might adopt proper measures for 
 guarding against a similar misfortune. 
 
 Don't you think, Mr. Editor, there is a 
 defect in our legislature, and there might, 
 and ought to be, some law enacted for pu- 
 nishing the miscreants, who, under pretence 
 of mending the constitutions of their patients, 
 torture and mangle them to death ? 
 ( am, Sir, 
 
 Your most obedient Servant, 
 Anne Anti-scalp. 
 
 Had our fair correspondent omitted her 
 
 signature, and concealed her sex, we might 
 have been so much misled as to suppose her 
 letter alluded to an alteration which we felt 
 ourselves compelled to make in the lines in- 
 serted in our last paper, and which were 
 sent to us as having been found between the 
 two ships. 
 
 But as the alteration was then acknow- 
 ledged, and as the result of necessity, not 
 as a supposed improvement ; as it was, in 
 fact, the correction of a slip of such a na- 
 ture, that we are persuaded no female pen 
 would have made, we are driven from this 
 interpretation ; however much we might de- 
 sire to avoid the alternative, of being wholly 
 at a loss to discover the lady's meaning ; per- 
 haps our readers may be more successful, 
 and as we have already had experience of 
 their ingenuity in solving enigmas, we solicit 
 their assistance. 
 
 THEATRICAL REPORT. 
 
 We feel, if it be possible, even more satis- 
 faction in noticing the effect which the 
 second representation of Miss in her Teem has 
 produced, than when we had the pleasure 
 of congratulating our readers on its success, 
 as the opening piece of our Theatre. 
 
 If we were then of opinion that it was de- 
 sirable to establish such sources of amuse- 
 ment, experience of their beneficial tendency 
 has since far more fully convinced us how 
 important it is that they should be continued. 
 We were early apprized by the Manager 
 that hie stock of plays was very limited, and 
 when we saw the indifferent piece of Bon 
 Ton given out for representation, it was too 
 evident that but little choice remained ; we 
 viewed, therefore, the repetition of a piece 
 already acted as an experiment, on the suc- 
 cess of which the continuance of our Thea- 
 trical Entertainments essentially depended. 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
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 As such we could not but feel unxious dur- 
 ing the performance, and although we were 
 aniongHt tliose who anticipated that several 
 plays would gain, rather than lose, by repe- 
 tition (chiefly for reasons which are assigned 
 by our correspondent, " a Looker-on,") we 
 were highly pleased to find that the interest 
 of the audience exceeded rather than fell 
 short of our expectations. Of the attractions 
 and fascinations of novelty none can be 
 unaware ; and did we possess the means of 
 bringing out a succession of new and suitable 
 pieces, it is probable that there would be no 
 question as to the expediency of doing so ; 
 and that the additional trouble that they 
 would occasion, would be but little regarded 
 by the gentlemen who have so cheerfully 
 and diligently exerted themselves to lighten 
 the tediousness of our winter. Repetition 
 might then (if it ever took place) have been 
 confined to plays which had given a more 
 than ordinary pleasure on their first per- 
 formance. 
 
 But if we have been rightly informed that 
 the choice of the managing committee has 
 been divided between the measure which they 
 ultimately adopted, and the desire to under- 
 take one of the three remaining plays. The 
 Beaux Stratagem, The Suspicious Husband, 
 or The World, — that in their zeal to 
 attempt whatever it might be possible to 
 effect, they did actually for a time contem- 
 plate the performance of one of these plays, 
 
 until experience of the absolute inadequacy 
 of their means obliged them to relinijuish it ; 
 if such be indeed the case, we tlo not hesitate 
 to consider them entitled to the public thanks 
 for adhering to the principle of novelty as 
 long as it could well be maintained. We 
 express this opinion in the perfect recollec- 
 tion that the resources of the theatre have 
 been found competent to do full justice to 
 the only five-act play which has been 
 attempted. But the Bold Stroke for a 
 Wife, difl'ers essentially from the three 
 plays above-mentioned ; it depends upon the 
 skill and exertions of a single actor, and in 
 this respect we are not deficient : whereas 
 the other plays, independently of much ditfi- 
 culty in scenery and decorations, would re- 
 quire a greater number of competent actors, 
 much above par, both for the male, as well 
 as female parts, than our theatre can produce. 
 We do not fear censure in making this avowal ; 
 we are persuaded that we do no more than 
 justice to the majority, at least, of the per- 
 formers, in believing that they do not over- 
 rate their own qualifications ; that they are 
 actors, not from choice, but from a sense of 
 duty ; a consideration which would alone 
 have induced many amongst them to place 
 ;h?mselves in situations, in which it can be 
 ossible discredit to them to say. Nature 
 diu not design them to excel, nor would in- 
 clination have ever prompted them to make 
 the attempt. 
 
 Cficatre »ofial, i^oxit (JSeorgia. 
 
 ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1820, 
 Will be repeated the much-admired Comedy of 
 
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 Fathionable Arrival in Morth Georgia. 
 
 On Thursday last, about noon, after an ab- 
 sence of three monthH, arrived at hin scat, 
 Snow-Hill, in the Isle of White, the Earl of 
 Sol, Viscount Caloric, well known as one of 
 those distinguished luminaries which seem 
 bom to enlighten and adorn the world. His 
 lordship has been on his travels in the south, 
 during the winter, accompanied by a nu- 
 merous retinue of faithful adherents, who 
 rould not bear the thought of being sepa- 
 rated for so long a period from their illus- 
 trious benefactor. Many of these are such 
 fine bucks in their appearance, and have such 
 fawning manners, that into whatever country 
 they go, they are generally made game of; 
 and yet, in spite of this, they aie always deer 
 to those who know them. 
 
 It is said that his lordship's protracted ab- 
 sence has been severely felt in this neigh- 
 bourhood, and that it has even produced a 
 ronsiderable degree of coolness between him 
 and his tenants in this country ; but ns it is 
 well known that his lordship possesses the 
 peculiar quality of imparting his own warmth 
 of heart and melting disposition, to all who 
 are fortunate enough to be placed within the 
 sphere of his genial influence, little doubt 
 can be entertained of a speedy reconciliation. 
 
 His lordship is already on his way to the 
 metropolis, but intends travelling by easy 
 journeys, not exceeding twenty miles a day. 
 HiH noble sister. Lady Luna, has set out to 
 meet him. 
 
 FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. 
 
 We understand the Earl and Countess of 
 Musk-Ox, Lord and Lady Deer, with their fa- 
 milies, are shortly expected from the conti- 
 
 nent. It is supposed they will not stay long 
 in the metropohs, as they intend passing the 
 summer on their estates in the interior. 
 
 We also hear several other persons of dis- 
 tinction are to arnve early in i\\v spring. 
 Among these are the gallant Admiral Lord 
 OlaucuM, Colonel Swan, Major Goose, with 
 their amiable Indies, who start immediately 
 for the Lakes ; the Hon. Captain Mallcmuke, 
 R. N., Sir Eider and Lady Duck, whose ac- 
 couchement is expected to take place shortly 
 after. The Arch-Duke Bruin is recovering 
 from his late attack of somnolency, and will 
 soon be able to venture out. We are con- 
 cerned to state that the Prince has been suf- 
 fering severely from the toothach, and that 
 all the tine teeth which added so much to 
 his expressive countenance are in a rapid 
 state of decay. 
 
 The celebrated Mr. Fox, we are informed, 
 has offered to dispose of the valuable chain 
 and collar which he brought away with him 
 on his recent escape from the enemy. 
 
 It is with infinite pain we announce the 
 sad accident which befel Lady Georgiana de 
 Loup, after her return the other night from 
 Don Carlo's concert *. Her ladyship was 
 just going to sit down to a light supper, 
 when she placed her foot upon something 
 which severely lacerated it. Doctor Nature 
 was immediately called in, whose eminent 
 skill is, we are happy to hear, likely soon to 
 restore her ladyship to the fashionable world. 
 
 Great apprehensions are entertained for 
 that amiable and distinguished nobleman Don 
 Carlo, who has for some time absented him- 
 self from his disconsolate friends. His spirits 
 were observed to decline very much ever 
 since the affair mentioned in our last, and it is 
 (;,reatly feared that the malignant aspersions 
 of his enemies have induced him to elope. 
 
 ♦ An ailusi( to a wolf which about this time was caught by the foot in a trap, 
 -J but succeeded in getting away, although severely hurt. 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE 
 
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 For the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 AN INVITATION TO TIIK FEATHERED RACE. 
 
 CoMK, ye iiuitliitrii Hy-uwuyg, 
 
 Meet the nun'a returiiiii(( rays ; 
 
 Little awks and dovcLies loo, 
 
 Try what our ,food shots can do ; 
 
 LooiiiH aud fltoriny nialkmukes, 
 Flockii of youii(f and tender ducks, 
 
 Stoutly lor the honour vie 
 
 Of a stew, or good »ea-pie ! 
 
 Think, artbrding such a treat, 
 
 How we 11 praise you when we eat ! 
 King of all the plumy train 
 
 Of the Hyperborean main •, 
 
 Down whose throat, when wanting prey, 
 
 Hapless ducklings find their way; 
 
 Well I know, when nicely drest 
 
 You can please a city guest. 
 
 i^ome ! for happy are their fates 
 
 Wlio are smoking on our plates, 
 
 Tomb'd your well-pick'd bones shall lie 
 
 Deep beneath your native sky. 
 
 And your royal skin we '11 stuff, 
 These are glories great enough ! 
 Next advance, ye stately geese. 
 
 How I long to break the peace. 
 And my appetite to pall 
 With jour breast, legs, wings, and all ! 
 Come, my wishes realize, 
 Feast my palate and my eyes. 
 Dull and formal owls, away, 
 You, as useless things, may stay : 
 Yet your skins I won't refuse, 
 Men of science to amuse. 
 Come ! but only two or three, 
 That will surely plenty be ! 
 All the rest of feather'd race. 
 Prone to flight or rapid chase, 
 Midst the Arctic icy sea, 
 Come or stay — your will is free. 
 
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 BoaUwaint who can't pipe to grog, 
 
 'IdMg with ut shall never jog. 
 
 And those littlo squealing brats. 
 
 Tern, are only fit for bats ; 
 
 Kittiwakes and icc>gulls too, 
 
 I 'II no powder waste on you. 
 
 Go among the whalers' prey, 
 
 Full you 're pleased — and so are they. 
 
 Pudlns, ugly, useless things. 
 
 Ne'er among us ply your wings. 
 
 But, ye sav'ry land-birds, haste, 
 
 Tit'biis for a pamper'd taste ! 
 
 Partridges, delicious food t 
 
 And snow-buntings, small, but goo«l, 
 
 Dotterels, and all the lot 
 
 Which I've omitted or forgot ; 
 
 Plume your wings, and seek once more 
 
 Northern Georgia's barren shore. 
 
 Now become the haunt of man. 
 
 And we '11 shoot you— if we can. 
 
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 LINES ON THE RE-APPEARANCE OF THE SUN. 
 
 Tub splendid sun, with rc-ascending ray. 
 Sheds o'er the nortliem world the flood of day. 
 Lost in the blazing radiance, sable night 
 Resigns her empire to the kindling light. 
 Serenely clear the heaven's blue concave glows, 
 And glitt'ring sunshine gilds the mountain snows. 
 Prccursive of the general fire, a stream 
 Of reddish light shooU up its beauteous gleam, 
 Tlie conscious skies Ihe blushing tint extend. 
 Till with their azure dye its glories blend. 
 
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 Such was the infant orb's primeval ray 
 That rose o'er fair Creation's early day ; 
 Such was the beam that saw the deluge pout 
 O'er all the guilty world an ocean's roar ; 
 And such shall be its blaze thro' lasting time, 
 Tdl o'er the earth consuming fires shall climb. 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 Till that Almighty Voi<o that bade it rise, 
 Shall blot it* glory from the burning ikics I 
 
 When day'* returning light illume* the pole, 
 Ijff'i crimiou streumt in iwifker currents roll. 
 Nor man alonu the iheerful joy parlukei, 
 The shaggy bear hii lavage den funakei ; 
 Tlie variouM beuAts that haunt the piny wood— 
 The hardy people of the northern flood — 
 The sportive birds that itkim along in air, 
 Or on the liquid surface seek their fare, 
 Return from milder climes, by instinct taught, 
 Where shelter from the wintry blast they sought ; 
 All nvture fecU the life-inspiring ray. 
 The herbs revive— the ice dissolves away. 
 Its wonted spring the active mind regains. 
 No gloomy scene its energy restrains ; 
 But, OR the renovated solar light 
 Impels the ling'ring shades to rapid flight. 
 More clearly shine the intellectual pow'rs, 
 To loftier thoughts the soul aspiring towers. 
 
 Man with the sun his upward course puriuei 
 While vig'rous youth his daily force renews : 
 Like him, when wasting age those fires consume, 
 Declining, sinks to death'!) untravcll'd gloom ! 
 May we, like him, before the final scene, 
 Enlarge our lustre, splendid, yet serene ; 
 And, us his glowing disk with soften'd light 
 Still painU the skies when sunk beneath our sight, 
 In bright remembrance long unfading shine, 
 By Sovereign Meicy saved, and Love Divine. 
 
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 NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
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 WINTER CHRONICLE, 
 
 N^. XVI.— MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 18-20. 
 
 To the Editou of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I DO not know whether you take cogni- 
 zance of such matters as I am now to ad- 
 dress you upon ; but if you do, I hope you 
 will endeavour to remedy the grie'ance 1 
 complain of. However improbable it may 
 seem to you in these times of somnolency I 
 like to read for an hour or two now and 
 then, and even to write a little occasionally, 
 beyond the daily repetition of " moderate 
 breezes and cloudy," and the formal assertion 
 that we have been " employed as necessary." 
 
 Under these circumstances, added to the 
 great scarcity of light in our own cabins at 
 this season, you will, I am certain, enter 
 into my feelings of annoyance, at the innu- 
 merable disturbances to which our tables 
 are subject; I allude to the habits which 
 
 some members of our community have ac- 
 quired in earlier life, and which they con- 
 tinue to practise daily, to the interruption of 
 the more industrious, and to the absolute 
 preclusion of all serious occiination. I have 
 endeavoured to class these annoyances, or 
 rather those who practise them, under sepa- 
 rate heads, of which the first are the 
 ly/tislfen, who, having a tolerable ear them- 
 selves, seem to forget that the rest of us 
 have any ears at all, and are continually 
 serenading us with " Molly, put the Kettle 
 on," or the " Duke of York's March," with 
 variations, to the utter discomfiture of every 
 reader within hearing. Of the Whistlers 
 there are frequently more than one, and in 
 that case the process is as follows : Whistler 
 the first (whom 1 shall call A,) commences 
 a tune: Whistler the second (B,) takes it 
 up about the third or fourth bar, and ac- 
 
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 companies him to the end of the stave, by 
 which time A has exhausted his wind, and 
 stopt to replenish his lungs. In the mean- 
 time B continues, and just as you are flat- 
 tering yourself with a hope that he also will 
 soon be winded, and allow ^ou to pursue 
 your employments, a third Whistler (C) at 
 the other end of the table, unexpectedly 
 opens his pipes, and takes a spell at the 
 bellows ; soon after which A once more 
 joins the concert with renewed vigour, — and 
 so on ad libitum. 
 
 Second are the Hummers, who are closely 
 allied to the first class, and are distinguished 
 by employing the greater part of the day in 
 humming songs, which they usually do out 
 of tune, and always out of time. They are 
 in general more sentimental than the Whist- 
 lers in their selection of tunes, confining 
 themselves to the Irish melodies, or some 
 plaintive Scotch ditty. Of these they will 
 hum you a detached bar or two occasionally, 
 in the most pathetic strain imaginable, and 
 are particularly fond of filling up in this 
 manner all the little intervals of time, which 
 are not easily disposed of in any other way, 
 such as while the ink is drying on one side 
 of the paper, or while they are mending their 
 pens, or warming their fingers : perhaps, Mr. 
 Editor, you can recommend some mode of 
 proceeding, by which it shall necessarily fall 
 out that all our pens want mending, and all 
 our fingers warming, exactly at the same in- 
 stant. We could then all have our hum at the 
 same time, and no disturbance would result, 
 as at present, to any individual of the party. 
 The third c'..'\ss are the Drummers, who, 
 to borrow a vvell-known joke from Joe 
 Miller, were certainly born to make a great 
 noise in the world. They have, like the 
 Whistlers, a tolerable ear for music, and 
 occupy a great deal of their time in drum- 
 ming most musically with both hands upon 
 the table ; they usually join the Whistlers, 
 
 to whom they may, indeed, be considered 
 as an accompaniment. They have been 
 lately practising a new mode of drumming, 
 which is performed by placing the wrist 
 upon the table, and then bringing the nails 
 of each finger, beginning with the little one, 
 in quick succession, one afler the other, 
 upon the wood, or what is considered more 
 sonorous and musical, upon a hard-covered 
 book, which they keep by them shut for 
 the purpose. I beg leave strongly to recom- 
 mend this mode, as infinitely more neat and 
 gentleman-like than the other, which con- 
 sists in merely thumping the table unmerci- 
 fully with both hands, like a common drum- 
 mer, and making the candlesticks and ink- 
 stands dance a horn-pipe. Perhaps these 
 first three classes might be employed with 
 advantage for a couple of hours daily, in 
 whistling, humming, and drumming to the 
 ships' companies, when they take exercise : 
 and a convenient spot for practising their 
 arts might be selected in the neighbourhood 
 of the boat-house, or the green ravine. 
 
 Fourth in order are the Bangers, who 
 never bring a book or a desk, or any thing 
 else to the table, without banging it down 
 with all their might and main, to the sad 
 derangement of all weak nerves, and the 
 production of many an unintentional pot- 
 hook in their neighbour's writing. This 
 practice would seem intended to announce 
 the arrival of the said Bangers, as if they 
 had exclaimed, *• Behold, I say ! I am ac- 
 tually going to write !" Such an event 
 which, it must be confessed, is singular 
 enough in itself, and of vital importance to 
 us all, might, I should think, be announced 
 with full as much effect, and vrith much 
 less disturbance to others, by all the Bangers 
 being furnished with a conical cap and bells, 
 such as is described to have been worn by 
 Counsellor Puzzlewell on a certain occasion ; 
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 notice of their approach, and save our 
 table many a lusty thump, which even the 
 strongest of them cannot stand without 
 shaking. 
 
 The fifth class consists of the Blowers, 
 so called from the frequency with which 
 they blow their noses, when nature requires 
 no such operation. By constant practice 
 they have attained such perfection in that 
 noisy art, that it is now really a public 
 nuisance. It resembles the sound of a fer- 
 ryman's conch, or a news-boy's horn, and 
 being repeated at regular and mechanical 
 intervals, completely distracts your atten- 
 tion. There is a custom on board some 
 of our ships, of sending buglemen to prac- 
 tise at the bowsprit-end, that they may not 
 disturb anybody else. The same situation 
 would be an eligible one for these unnatural 
 and preposterous nose-blowers, who might 
 there be indulged in their propensity to pull 
 their own noses, without annoying their 
 neighbour's ears. Having already exceeded 
 the limits of a letter, I am under the ne- 
 cessity of concluding, without having half 
 finished my list, and shall, perhaps, resume 
 the subject at some future time, should I see 
 occasion to do so. In the meanwhile I re- 
 main, Mr. Editor, 
 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 Z. 
 
 BIRTHS. 
 
 On Sunday morning last, at her residence near Cu- 
 liniiry Range, Bed-placc-square, the lady of Sir Thomas 
 Mousewell, of a son and daughter. Surprising as it may 
 appear, it is nevertheless an undoubted fact, that these 
 infants were endowed with the power of walking imme- 
 diately on their birth, while both were totally ^unable to 
 gee. We are concerned to state, that a fatal accident 
 
 occurred in consequence, as the former having rambled to 
 the entrance of the apartment, was so severely brulseti 
 by an attendant shutting the do<jr hastily, that it expired 
 the same evening. Lady M. and her daughter are doing 
 well, and grent hopes are indulged, that in a few dnys 
 the latter will ei\joy perfect sight. 
 
 DOMESTIC INTELLIGEXCE, Sic. 
 
 On Monday last, that well-known many- 
 headed monster, the Encea Borealis, vul- 
 garly called N. C, was caught in a trap, 
 and firmly tied down \vith strong lashings. 
 This animal is not described by Linnaeus, 
 nor by any other naturalist, and is now gene- 
 rally siipposed to be peculiar to North 
 Georgia. The attempts which, for at least 
 fifteen weeks past, have been made to secure 
 him, have, we are happy to find, at length 
 succeeded, and the public may congratulate 
 themselves on their deliverance from this 
 monster, whose attacks at one time seemed 
 to threaten serious injury to the community. 
 The first accounts concerning him, state 
 him to have had seven or eight heads, and 
 as many tongues ; some of these were very 
 venomous, while others only snarled and 
 growled, and were perfectly harmless. 
 
 The manner in which these heads, ifc, 
 have been gradually got rid of, is remarkable 
 enough : it was accidentally discovered that 
 a certain composition, with which it was 
 customary to bait the traps every Monday 
 morning, had the extraordinary effect of de- 
 stroying animation, in a short time, in one 
 or more of the heads ; so that, by repeated 
 doses of the same nature, they have nearly 
 all dropped off one by one, and the animal 
 may now be considered perfectly harmltbS 
 and inoffensive. 
 
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 ON THK DEATH OF A FAVOUHITE SETTER DOG. 
 
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 Farewell, poor Carlo ! hapless dog, adieu ! 
 
 We mourn thy fate unknown * ; but fate too sure ; 
 For fled is ev'ry hope that Fancy drew, 
 
 Nor could thy frame the piercing frost endure. 
 
 II. 
 
 A wilder'd wanderer in the midnight shade. 
 Sagacious dog, thou wert not wont to stray ; 
 
 And long thy wish'd return, tho' still delay'd, 
 We vainly look'd for ea<:h revolving day. 
 
 III. 
 
 On these drear plains, exposed to ev'ry blast, 
 Thy bones shall whiten in tlie wintry wind : 
 
 For ah ! thy generous confidence at last, 
 Betray'd thee friendless to the savage kind ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 Lured 'mid the rabid wolf's ferocious tiain. 
 Thy guiltless blood distain'd the fleecy snow ; 
 
 Indignant courage fired thy heart in vain. 
 Yet wert thou not in fight a feeble foe. 
 
 V. 
 
 Long shall thy mem'ry in each bosom dwell 
 That beats to Nature's warm emotions true ; 
 
 Oft too for thee the rising sigh shall swell, 
 And fond regret thy timeless fate pursue. 
 
 * Poor Carlo continued his daily rambles with the she-wolf until, at length — he went and re- 
 turned no more. His fate was never ascertained ; but there can be little doubt that he fell a 
 victim in an encounter with the male, as Boatswain, another of our dogs, who was decoyed away 
 in the same manner a few days afterwards, returned to us after a combat, in which it was evident 
 he had hardly escaped with life. 
 
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 VI. 
 
 For animation fill'd thy sparkling eye, 
 And gentle pleasure every look exprcss'd, 
 
 When some loved footstep heard approaching nigh, 
 Inspired with joy thy almost reasoning breast. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Farewell, poor Carlo ! tho* no tablet rise 
 The frail memorial of thy fatal doom, 
 
 Thy faithful worth the generous mind will prize, 
 While Winter's gather'd snows adorn thy tomb ! 
 
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 HYPERBOREAN PRIVILEGE. 
 
 Young Cupid ! fond of unity 
 Our Boreal community 
 Defy you with impunity ; 
 
 Your arrows and your bow. 
 
 This day of sensibility 
 And Valentine's fertility, 
 Displays invincibility 
 
 Among the northern snow. 
 
 Your daring animosity 
 Imparts a tremulosity. 
 And winds its sinuosity 
 
 Around each beating heart ; 
 
 That beauty, smiling graciously 
 Altho' perhaps fallaciously, 
 Rut catching one incautiously. 
 
 Will make it sorely smart. 
 
 But no universality 
 Attends on this formality. 
 Without congeniality 
 
 Of sun-beams, groves, and bowers. 
 
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 Here Sol obliquely glittering, 
 Prevents the bosoms twittering, 
 That pert young ladies tittering 
 Attribute to your powers. 
 
 Blest with inflexibility 
 
 To bright eyes and gentility, 
 
 We owe no liability 
 
 Of being hurt by you. 
 
 'Tis pity man so spirited 
 Should bear such ill unmerited, 
 And be so sadly ferretted 
 
 By passion strong and true. 
 
 Almost devoid of covering. 
 In southern climes stay hovering. 
 The cold would set you shivering, 
 So urchin boy, adieu ! 
 
 For o'er our hearts you must yourpow'r resign, 
 Till we returning bow at Beauty's shrine. 
 
 TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
 
 riie cumuiunications from A. T. aad Consiantine Cata- 
 plasm have been received. 
 Feter I'asiural is too lol'ly for our compreltension. 
 
 Tiie Lady who quarrels wttli her husband must excuse us 
 
 if we decline interfering in a case so delicate. 
 Peter Query is under consideration. 
 The hint jjivun by our friend M. will be attended tu. 
 
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 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 SlK, 
 
 The melancholy event which happened 
 on Friday on board the Hecla, I mean 
 the non-cookery of our pies in proper time 
 for dinner, has given rise to some reflections, 
 which, as the matter concerns us all alike, 
 may not be uninteresting to your readers. 
 
 It was truly distressing to see the long 
 and woe-begone faces to which this unusual 
 and imexpected occurrence gave rise. One 
 member had just warmed and rubbed his 
 hands, and then declared that he was " quite 
 ready," when it was announced on authority 
 that could not be disputed, that the pies were 
 not quite so ready ; in short, that a whole 
 hour at least must elapse before the said 
 pies, or any substitute for them, couM pos- 
 sibly be brought to table. 
 
 It often, I believe, happens that the 
 half hour which precedes the announce- 
 ment of dinner is an insipid one rather 
 than otherwise; but how would it be 
 possible to cive an adequate idea of 
 the horror of the whole hour, which pre- 
 ceded ours on Friday last ! Innumerable 
 schemes were resorted to, to wile away the 
 tedious interval ; the Hummers, Drummers, 
 and Whistlers went to work in their re- 
 spective branches of discord, and this for 
 the first quarter of an hour seemed to suc- 
 ceed to admiration. Then the dog was 
 plagued and the fire poked ; and then the 
 dog plagued again, but all in vain ! Nei- 
 ther poking, nor plaguing, nor humming, 
 nor drumming, were ever known to satisfy 
 the cravings of hunger such as ours. At 
 length an expedient was happily hit upon. 
 " Tir'd Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep," 
 
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 as the poet has it, slept into our relief, 
 and hunger and thirst were in an instant 
 forgotten. 
 
 I doubt whether history can produce an- 
 other such instance as this of cheerful resig- 
 nation, and heroic fortitude ! Amidst all the 
 hardships which we have been called upon 
 tu suffer, none, Mr. Editor, has equalled 
 tliis. And how did our gallant comrades 
 conduct themselves under this affliction? 
 Let it ever be recorded to their immortal 
 renown, that they patiently bowed down 
 their heads under the stroke, and instead of 
 murmurs and complaints, nothing but — 
 snores were heard till dinner arrived. 
 
 Little do they think at home, Mr. Editor, 
 what we have been, and are still, undergoing 
 for our country's sake ! Little do they think 
 that we have only as much to eat as we can 
 conveniently stuff into our maws, and that 
 us one of your early correspondents remarks, 
 we can only " snatch our ten hours' rest 
 at night !" How would their heart sink 
 within them, could they be told, that once 
 in nine months we have been reduced to the 
 heart-breaking alternative of going without 
 our dinner, or of roughing it upon half a pound 
 of fresh meat, ditto bread, with all the little 
 supplementary etceteras of cheese, brandy, le- 
 mon-juice and wine, with which his Majesty 
 has been graciously pleased to supply us ! 
 
 Snore on, ye adventurous youths, ye 
 " marine worthies !" continue to display this 
 magnanimous self-devotion, and you will 
 not fail to meet a rich reward from a gene- 
 rous and grateful country ! 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your most obedient Servant, 
 A Spectator. 
 
 To the Author of the Letter signed Z in last 
 Week's Chronicle. 
 
 understand in the last Chronicle, that you 
 intended to continue your account of the 
 different annoyances to which our tables 
 are exposed, I write to beg you will not 
 forget the " Door-slammers," who have been 
 for months past a daily and hourly incon- 
 venience to 
 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 X. 
 
 My dear Mr. Z — As you gave ns to 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir — Being encouraged by the manner 
 in which my last meteorological communi- 
 cation was received by you and your readers, 
 I venture once more to intrude myself upon 
 your columns, and trust I shall, on this 
 occasion, receive credit for the same pubUc- 
 spirited intentions by which my former letter 
 was dictated. My present purpose is some- 
 what similar, it being my desire to correct 
 an error which has somehow or other crept 
 into the heads of some members of our 
 community, respecting the actual tempe- 
 rature of the atmosphere on the 15th of this 
 month. My observations on this impor- 
 tant subject were carried on with the same 
 instruments, and the same care, as before ; 
 and I do assure your readers that 54 degrees 
 and 984 thousandth parts below zero was 
 all I could conscientiously screw out by 
 hook or by crook. I hope, therefore, that 
 those who have marked 65° in their journals 
 will immediately cause so gross a mistake to 
 be rectified, especially as my extensive read- 
 ing on philosophical subjects has enabled 
 me to ascertain, since I last addressed you, 
 that a natural temperature of — 57° has ac- 
 tually been before registered ; so that unless 
 the sticklers for our frigorific fame can 
 manage to suggest some mode of escaping 
 such eternal infamy, we must rest content 
 under the dreadful certainty of having been 
 
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 outHhivered by others, the enormous quan- 
 tity of two degrees and forty-six thousandth 
 parts. I am sorry that I cannot assist these 
 gentlemen in their laudable designs, and 
 remain as before, 
 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 Simon Set-rioht. 
 
 THEATRICAL REPORT. 
 
 the second time this season, the comedy of 
 The Liar. 
 
 The extreme coldness of the night, and 
 the impossibility of keeping the theatre at a 
 comfortable temperature, deprived the au- 
 dience of much of the gratification which 
 they have hitherto received from our theatri- 
 cal amusements, and which the unrentittcd 
 exertions of the perfonners would otherwise 
 have ensured. 
 
 On AVednesday last was performed for 
 
 €f}tMxt UouaXt j^ort]^ (Srcorsia. 
 
 On Wednesday, March 1, 1820. 
 Will be repeated the ftiuch admired Farce of 
 
 THE CITIZEN. 
 
 After which 
 
 THE MAYOR OF GARRATT. 
 
 The doors will open at Half past Six, and the Performance commence precisely at Seven o'Clock. 
 
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 For the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 I SAT me down with firm intent 
 
 To write for the Gazette, 
 But soon the cold my fingers bent, 
 
 And made me fume and fret. 
 
 My great coat then I button'd up, 
 Put my night-cap on my head, 
 
 (3f coffee took another cup, 
 And ate some toasted bread. 
 
 Then with the poker stirr'd the fire, 
 Which speedily burnt clearer, 
 
 Put on some coals to make it higher. 
 And drew my chair in nearer. 
 
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 My fingers still were cold as lead, 
 My toes with pain were smarting, 
 
 My teeth kept chattering in my head, 
 And life seem'd fast departing. 
 
 >Vhen, notwithstanding this sail plight. 
 
 My subject I had chosen, 
 Produced my paper fair and white, 
 
 Behold ! my ink was frozen I 
 
 Adzooks, quoth I, this ne'er will do, 
 
 The matter* s very clear. 
 One cannot write with any godt, 
 
 In such an atmosphere. 
 
 I therefore beg, good Mr. E, 
 
 You will excuse a letter. 
 And publish my apolo — gy 
 
 For want of something better. 
 
 Q. 
 
 To the EDITOR of the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 Sir, having met 
 
 In your Gazette 
 Some lines that plainly shew, 
 
 That all should write 
 
 And send their mite, 
 No matter sense or no. 
 
 I muster'd strength, 
 
 And strove at length 
 To jingle words together, 
 
 But 'twas no joke 
 
 For any folk 
 To write in such cold weather. 
 
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 So thought my Muse, 
 Who did not choose 
 
 T' impart ideas clear, 
 But did uphold 
 That 't was too cold 
 
 For her to tarry here. 
 
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 In truth, I said, 
 
 My gentle maid 
 The case is clear you sec, 
 
 If I don't write, 
 
 And that this ni^ht, 
 They 'II class me wiih N. C. 
 
 Why, that 's no matter. 
 Hold your chatter, 
 
 I 'm not now in the cue : 
 When it grows mild 
 I 'II \\e\p you, child. 
 
 Till then I bid adieu, 
 
 HI 
 
 Meredith MitKEsniiT. 
 
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 NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 N". XVIII— MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1820. 
 
 lo tilt Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 SiK, 
 
 In |)ert'ormunce of the promise mude to 
 you and your readers in your last Number but 
 one, 1 continue my account of the several 
 annoyances by which our tables have been 
 long visited ; and I beg at the same time to 
 oHer you my acknowledgments for the part 
 you have taken towards their eradication, by 
 inserting a letter of such unconscionable 
 length as my last, in yuur gazette. The class 
 standing next upon my list is that of the 
 Siiorers, who are upon tlie whole, so inof- 
 fensive a set, that it almost goes to my heart 
 1(1 hold them up to public notice. There is, 
 moreover, some danger, lest by doing any 
 tiling to break tliem of snoring, they might 
 also be prevented from sleeping ; and this 
 would be an irreparable injury to our com- 
 
 nmnity, because, whilst in this state, they 
 are certainly much less annoyance to us than 
 when wide awake ; for you must know, Mr. 
 Editor, that these same snorers, as soon as 
 they open their eyes, are generally converted, 
 as if by magic, into hununers nr drummers, 
 or some other of the noisy classes I have 
 before described. Rather, tlierefore, than 
 be the means of robbing our tai)ies of one 
 hour's quiet during the day, by tiiuling fault 
 with so laudable a practice as that of slee|^ 
 ing, I shall dismiss this part of tiie subject 
 with expressing a hope that some means may 
 1)1 suggested of teaching these gentlemen to 
 sleep without snoring. Perhaps it might be 
 of some service to have attached to each of 
 them a flapper, such as we are told by Gul- 
 liver, the great people in Laputa have. I 
 dare say the marines could easily be trained 
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 them a good smart box on the ear at every 
 snore, and then to smooth them down, to 
 re-compose them to sleep, taking particular 
 care, which a few days' practice would enable 
 them to do, to make them feel the blow 
 pretty sharply, but by no means to run the 
 risk of absolutely awakening them. 
 
 I now come to the Sniffers, who, by some 
 means or other, have got out of their place 
 in my catalogue, as they ought to have fol- 
 lowed the Blowers ; because, like those, the 
 offence they give is chiefly by the nose. 
 
 They are, however, in one essential point, 
 the very reverse of the blowers; because, 
 whereas these last are always using their 
 pocket-handkerchiefs, the Sniffers never use 
 any, but perform the same office more eco- 
 nomically, more frequently, and I must in 
 justice add, with less disturbance to others 
 than those tremendous Conch-Blowers. The 
 Sniffers have been observed to increase very 
 much since the last cold weather set in, and 
 there is, perhaps, some excuse for them ; but 
 I do hereby give notice that all Sniffing, after 
 the 10th of March, must be considered abso- 
 lutely inadmissible; and the Sniffers are 
 hereby required, in the mean time, to provide 
 themselves with a proper number of hand- 
 kerchiefs, and to blow their noses like gen- 
 tlemen, after that date, on pain of being 
 posted for the non-performance of the same 
 in the succeeding week's newspaper. 
 
 Next in order on my list I find the Slara- 
 mers, or as my correspondent X. has deno- 
 minated them, the Door-Slammers. These, 
 Mr. Editor, are indeed as Mr. X. has ex- 
 pressed it, " a daily and hourly inconveni- 
 ence." But alas ! what chance can any ef- 
 fort of mine have of correcting this noisy 
 practice, when even a civil request publickly 
 made by the commander of the expedition to 
 have mercy on his own door, and the adjoin- 
 ing bulk-heads, has not yet had any percep- 
 tible effect? It is not necessary for me to 
 
 explain in what the art of the Slamraers con- 
 sists, for the word nmst at once convey 
 to our minds, what our ears are so con- 
 stantly in the habit of experiencing. But 
 there are some circumstances attending 
 the practice of this art, which my constant 
 observation has made me acquainted with, 
 and which your readers will, upon trial, find 
 to be correct. 
 
 It may be relied on as an incontrovertible 
 fact, that the force with which the Slammers 
 shut the doors, is intended by them, as by the 
 Bangers, to announce their arrival ; for, with- 
 out some such means, so important an event 
 might possibly remain unnoticed, and for 
 this they would never forgive themselves. 
 Some of the more inveterate of this class, 
 after they have slammed the door with be- 
 coming energy, on entering stand awhile to 
 assure themselves, that all hands are made 
 aware of their coming; and then, and not 
 till then, complacently take their seats. It 
 has often been remarked, Mr. Editor, that 
 little people are more consequential than 
 those who are taller. Whether this be the 
 case or not, I will not pretend to determine ; 
 but certain I am that, with very few excep- 
 tions, the great people of our community 
 slam the doirs the hardest, and the little- 
 great people the hardest of all. Indeed so 
 exactly proportional have I generally found 
 the slam of the door to be to the size of the 
 person, and according to the popular notion, 
 to his consequence also, that I would be 
 bound to guess a man's height within an 
 inch or so, by the manner in which he shuts 
 the door. Perhaps, if you knew my own 
 size, you would allow that I have, in the 
 following description, sacrificed all per- 
 sonal feeling to a sense of justice and truth. 
 Your King-John's man, commonly said to 
 measure four feet nothing, enters with a tre- 
 mendous slam, — like Jove he carries his 
 thunder about with him! A neat dapper 
 
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 little fellow of five feet throe or four inches 
 makes the bulkheads quake a(;ain, and what 
 is even worse, by his ill-managed violence, 
 causes the door to re-open, so that he stuns 
 and freezes you at the same time. As we 
 get to five feet six, and from that to five 
 feet ten, the doors are shut more mode- 
 rately ; and a decent sized fellow, of near six 
 feet or upwards, even of considerable conse- 
 quence, may go in and out of an apartment 
 and scarcely be heard. I know of one way, 
 and only one, in which the Slammers can 
 possibly be cured of their habit. I have heard 
 of a dog having been broke of worrying a 
 cat by muzzling him, and then letting pussy 
 scratch his nose in security. My recipe 
 for the Slammers is of the same kind. Let 
 their heads be securely and closely tied to the 
 most rattUng door in either ship, then let two 
 stout men, one on each side, be employed for 
 an hour in opening and shutting the door, as 
 often and as hard as they are able. If this 
 dose taken three times a day, for one week, 
 does not cure the most inveterate case in the 
 history of this disease, the Slammers may 
 indeed be pronounced absolutely incorrigible. 
 I now come to the Growlers, a very teasing 
 class, of whom I had a good deal to say, but 
 I find I have been anticipated by a more sati- 
 rical writer in your last gazette, who took 
 occasion to descant on this subject, when, 
 lamentable to relate ! the pies on board the 
 Hecla, were not cooked in proper time for 
 dinner. As your correspondent " A Spec- 
 tator," may have it in contemplation to re- 
 sume this fertile subject at a future time, I 
 shall very willingly leave it in his hands, and 
 as I fancy you and your readers will begin to 
 think I am again growing tedious, I shall re- 
 serve the remainder of my list to some other 
 time ; and I assure yon I have yet a choice 
 collection. By way of reporting progress on 
 my last communication, I shall only at present 
 add that one Nose-blower has been reclaimed ; 
 
 but another is as bad as ever. I have heard 
 two Whistlers stifle their tunes in the middle, 
 and they may therefore be said to be half 
 corrected in their habit. 
 
 The Bangers all laugh at my joke ; but one 
 of the principal of them does not put the cap 
 on his own head, for which it was chiefly 
 intended. No amendment is yet perceived 
 in the Hummers or Drummers, and I there- 
 fore give notice to the said Hummers and 
 Drummers, that as they are unanimously 
 declared to be the greatest pest, except the 
 Slammers, which our tables have, they must 
 either mend their manners, or expect to be 
 handled more severely in some future com- 
 munication, 
 
 From your obedient Servant, 
 
 Z. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mr. Editor. — As I was passing one of 
 the cabins the other day, my ears were sa- 
 luted by such an extraordinary medley of 
 murmuring sounds, that I could not for the 
 life of me, although averse to such practices, 
 refrain from peeping in. If my wonder was 
 before excited, how much greater was it upon 
 finding the cabin, except its usual furniture 
 and a red-hot shot, perfectly empty. 
 
 After reflecting a few moments on this 
 curious phsenomenon, the enigma was at 
 length solved by my recollecting to have 
 read of some travellers whose voices froze 
 durins the winter, and on the return of 
 milder weather formed a similar concert. 
 Being now satisfied that the sounds were 
 caused by the influence of the red-hot shot 
 on the surrounding atmosphere, I entered 
 the cabin, and enjoyed one of the most 
 deUghtful half hours you can possibly ima- 
 gine. 
 
 The words were uttered, if I may be al- 
 lowed the expression, in a soft musical ca- 
 
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 by the gradual process of thawing, and occa- 
 sionally interspersed with sighs and inter- 
 jections, produced such wild and soothing 
 harmony, that my senses were soon lulled 
 into a most delicious torpor. The tunes, to 
 be sure, were sometimes broken by harsh 
 and dissonant notes, but for the most part 
 their melody abundantly compensated for 
 those trifling annoyances. 
 
 I wish it was in my power to give you an 
 adequate idea of this aerial concert; but as it 
 would be vain to attempt such a task, I shall 
 content myself with subjoining a short spe- 
 cimen of the language, leaving the rest to 
 your imagination. 
 
 Resplendent orb ! — in shady groves — heigh 
 ho ! — bright progeny of Jove — nine times 6 is 
 64. — ^The hero fired — fatal charms — Heaven's 
 vast concave — Abound in firm ice the fettered 
 ships — pshaw !— -flour and suet for 491 days 
 —Mr. Editor— 
 
 Sof; was the lustre of her heavenly eye, 
 Like the mild splendour of an arctic sky — 
 
 Coals two chaldrons — alas ! woe is me — can- 
 dles—after—hold — Non — Contri— do— fa — 
 
 ce." As the shot cooled, the words gra- 
 dually lengthened, and became incohe- 
 rent; then were only half expressed; and at 
 length the sound finally ceasing, all was 
 hushed in silence. 
 
 It has frequently been the subject of re- 
 gret with me since, that from the want of 
 talent, I lost so fine an opportunity of fur- 
 nishing something for the last week's paper ; 
 it is, indeed, a pity some others of your cor- 
 respondents were not present who, by exert- 
 ing a little of their wonted ingenuity, might 
 soon have collected materials enough for 
 either poetry or prose, and rendered their 
 apologies unnecessary, besides filling the half 
 sheet which the disappointed community 
 was deprived of by the frigidity of the wea- 
 ther. 
 
 However, should their wits fail them upon 
 any future occasion, a glowing loggerhead 
 placed in any of the cabins, which probably 
 you can point out, will not fail of supplying 
 abundant store of elegant, witty, and bril- 
 liant ideas. 
 
 I remain, Mr. Editor, 
 
 Your most obedient. 
 
 Peeping Tom. 
 
 For the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 REFLECTIONS OCCASIONED BY THE FIRE AT THE OBSERVATORY HOUSE, AT 
 WINTER HARBOUR, FEBRUARY 24th, 1880. 
 
 Thy mercies, O Eternal King ! 
 
 Still guard the creatures of thy pow'r, 
 Thy glories wond'ring angels sing. 
 
 Thy goodness marks the passing hour. 
 
 Dark, formless chaos at thy word 
 
 Submissive into order roll'd. 
 Thy hand the new civ.ation stored. 
 
 And deck'd the skies with living gold. 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 Each fleeting moment speaks thy love, 
 Our ev'ry pulse proclaims thy grace ; 
 
 To distant lands if we remove, 
 We still thy loving-kindness trace. 
 
 When borne upon the northern blast 
 Was heard the dismal cry of fire, 
 
 A chill thro' ev'ry bosom pass'd, 
 A nameless horror, deep and dire. 
 
 But hope again each eye illumed, 
 
 Twas not our ships involved in flame ; 
 
 Tiie labours of our hands consumed. 
 Yet we survive, to praise thy name. 
 
 At such a time the scene how dread ! 
 
 Keen frost pervading all the air. 
 Had quickly number'd with the dead 
 
 The few the elements might spare. 
 
 Thou Great Supreme, Almighty Lord, 
 
 Preserve us safe from ev'ry ill. 
 Thy guardian presence still afford, 
 
 And let us taste thy bounty still ! 
 
 When, at thy nod, the doom-born flame 
 Shall burst the womb of ending time, 
 
 May Jesu's merit give us claim 
 To dwell with Thee in worlds sublime. 
 
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 LFNES SUGGESTED BY THE DEATH OF A GULL, 
 
 WHO WAS BURNT IN THE FIRE WHICH BROKE OUT IN THE OBSERVATORY HOUSE 
 
 Unhappy gull, thy luckless end 
 
 May almost claim a tear ; 
 And thus to all that wiil attend 
 
 I 'II make the matter clear. 
 
 Thy parents on the sea-wash'd beach 
 Fell, pierced by fatal lead; 
 
 In vain from swift pursuer's reach 
 Thyself and brot'ier fled. 
 
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 What tho' denied aloft to soar, 
 
 Or skim the waters round ; 
 You both upon North Georgia's shore 
 
 Pea-soup in plenty found. 
 
 Yet food affords but small delight 
 When squabbles break our rest ; 
 
 And John and you would often fight, 
 The cause yourselves knew best. 
 
 But Johnny died — and this last source 
 
 Of pleasure with him fell, 
 When dire ennui's all-fretful force 
 
 Did in your bosom swell. 
 
 At length the fatal morn arrives, 
 
 Unusual flames ascend ; 
 Had you possess'd an hundred lives, 
 
 They all had found an end. 
 
 I feel, 'tis true, some sense of pain 
 
 Your suff'rings to review ; 
 But such regrets are ever vain, — 
 
 Miss Jenny Gull — adieu ! 
 
 For the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 A PHILOSOPHIC REVERIE. 
 
 Poor tatter'd remnants of my wash, 
 Tho' yon no more my shoulders grace ; 
 
 Vexation would appear so rash, 
 I must put on a smiling face. 
 
 Some tail-less— frill-less some, I find. 
 Some collar-less and arm-less too, 
 
 Some quite to tinder scorch'd behind, 
 And all will mending want, with new. 
 
 
 'Tis very true the shirts are gone. 
 But what are they, if safe the skin ! 
 
 Some skins I 've lost, but there is one 
 Yet safe and sound— and that I'm in ! 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 I view'd the blaze, and bit my thumbs, 
 
 Then heaved a scientific sigh ; 
 But since the clicking pendulums 
 
 Are saved— I'll now to dinner fly. 
 
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 For the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 THE EDITOR BE-DEVILLED. 
 
 Said Devil the first to his partner one day 
 
 Wiien meeting in office, to set up the type ; 
 " For once, brother-devil, we '11 have our own way ; 
 
 " So suppose that we give our dear master a wipe." 
 
 This made the poor editor look quite demure, 
 
 When he found that their jokes at himself were thus levdl'd; 
 " Never Editor had two such devils, I 'm sure, 
 
 " For between them, I own myself fairly be-devill'd." 
 
 For the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 The Commander exclaim'd, " What a fine thing is Peat 
 
 For making a fire, and giving out heat ; 
 " That 's true," replied Fur-flad, who by it was seated, 
 
 " I strongly advise you to have it re-peated." 
 
 
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 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 N°. XIX-MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1820. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 ^ I 'HE cry of Reform having reached even 
 •^ to North Georgia, I shall request of 
 you to exert your interest with Z in my 
 behalf, trusting that the commisemtion 
 which my case must excite, will induce him 
 to adopt measures for effecting its speedy 
 amendment. You must know then, that I am 
 very fond of telling a good story, or what is 
 technically called " spinning a yarn ;" have 
 doubled the Cape, been at Pulo Penang, 
 Palambang, Tanjong, Goonting, Mangalore, 
 Cannanore, and most of the pulo's, banji;s 
 and ores in the Indian and China seas. 
 
 What I have to complain of is this — 
 having finished what I believe to be a very 
 marvellous story, up rises one of these gentle- 
 men, whom I shall distinguish by the appel- 
 lation of a walking phenomenon, who, not 
 
 having doubled the Cape, is not a privileged 
 man, and relates something similar, but three 
 times more extraordinary, and immediately 
 robs me of that awe and admiration which 
 we Cape men are alone entitled to. 
 
 Now, Mr. Editor, I'll leave it to your im- 
 partial judgment, whether my case does not 
 deserve notice. Pray, do all you can for 
 me with Z, and use your editorial influence 
 and authority to lay these unqualified won- 
 der-mongers. 
 
 .1 am, Sir, 
 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 Nathan Long-bow. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 My dear SiB^Captivated by the deli- 
 cacy, the exquisite sentiment, and the tender- 
 
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 ness for the feelings of others, displayed by 
 the charming Mr. Z., I beg, through your 
 means, to implore the publication of his 
 essays in a separate form, and that my name 
 may be placed at the head of the list of sub- 
 scribers, to ensure me the estimation of the 
 public, which he has so liberally endeavoured 
 to procure for his companions. 
 I remain, my dear Sir, 
 
 Your ever-obliged 
 
 Emily. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mr. Editor — Lest you or your readers 
 should think I have any thing to do with 
 your correspondent who has thought proper 
 to assume my signature in your last Number, 
 and who seems to be so well versed in the 
 art of extracting, not only sense, but " abun- 
 dant store of elegant, witty, and brilliant 
 ideas," from loggerheads, I beg to disclaim 
 all knowledge of or connexion with him, 
 and to subscribe myself as before. 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 Peeping-Tom, the First. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir — Being one of those who have felt 
 it my duty to contribute my mite occa- 
 sionally towards filling the columns of your 
 Gazette, I have been desirous for these two 
 or three weeks past, to drop something into 
 your box, and have therefore essayed to 
 write an article, but in vain ; the severe cold 
 weather which called forth the apologies of 
 your more constant coiTespondents, in the 
 last Number but one, has so cramped the 
 few ideas which I possess, that I have been 
 rendered totally incapable of producing any 
 thing. Under these circumstances, I became 
 
 apprehensive lest the same cause producing 
 similar effects upon our community in ge- 
 neral, should leave your pages blank, and 
 deprive us of our usual Monday morning's 
 entertainment. Ouess, then, the relief which 
 my anxiety felt on finding this dreaded 
 vacuum so ably filled up by the effusions of 
 " a glowing loggerhead !" 
 
 I confess, Mr. Editor, that since my 
 residence in North Georgia, I have been 
 mightily taken with the society of those 
 self-same loggerheads, and have used my 
 besl endeavours to obtain them as guests in 
 my cabin as frequently as possible. It is 
 true, they are in general much addicted to 
 irony, but when warmed into a proper temper 
 by the neighbourhood of a good coal-fire, 
 they become the most agreeable companions 
 that can be conceived, and I boldly venture 
 to affirm, there is not a man of sense in our 
 whole community who does not feel plea- 
 sure in receiving a visit from one of the 
 loggerhead tribe, when their noddles are 
 thus heated to a glowing temperature. 
 
 But, Mr. Editor, highly as I appreciate 
 their talents in diffusing warmth and cheer- 
 fulness to all who come within the sphere 
 of their genial influence, I could not help 
 expressing the most agreeable surprise on 
 finding that one of them had not only sur- 
 passed the rest, but actually outstripped all 
 others of our community by producing " such 
 wild and soothing harmony," as tended to 
 " lull the senses into a most delicious torpor !" 
 Although the cooling process, I presume 
 caused much of the iroiii/ I have before 
 spoken of, to be mixed up with the wit and 
 good-humour contained in the disjointed 
 sentences which " Peepi<ig Tom" has tran- 
 scribed, they are, nevertheless, so amusing, 
 thf>t 1 equally regret with himself, the cause 
 by which he was prevented from giving us 
 more of them. As, however, the ice is 
 broken, the thawing process will, in all pro- 
 
 
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 bability, continue ; and as Peeping-Tom's ac- 
 quaintance with the Loggerheads who afford' 
 ed us this aerial concert, will enable him to 
 keep a watch upon them, I hope to see many of 
 your future columns filled by effusions of the 
 same kind, in which (contrary to what might 
 i»ave been reasonably expected,) there is 
 neither perversion of sense, nor inversion of 
 
 sound, but an excellent substitute for the 
 themes which were " nipp'd i' the bud" by 
 the frigidity of the weather, and which ren- 
 dered necessary the apologies of so many 
 of your Correspondents, among which I beg 
 may be included 
 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 Tom Peepeo-at. 
 
 For the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 Hyperborean Soporifics. 
 
 No sylvan scenes around me lie, 
 
 That can my Muse incite 
 From famed Parnassian regions high, 
 
 To wing her hasty flight. 
 
 But in my cabin's snug recess. 
 She sometimes deigns to sit, 
 
 Descant upon dark Winter's dress, 
 Or sharpen up my wit. 
 
 And now I feel the maid inspire 
 
 The concave of my head, 
 Creating in my brain a fi: \ 
 
 To sing an Arctic bed. 
 
 When from the lagging hours of day 
 
 I hasten to repose, 
 The cold admits of no delay, 
 
 In taking off my clothes. 
 
 Prepared at length, a shiv'ring wight, 
 
 Quick-into bed I leap. 
 And 'neath six blankets' cumbrous weight. 
 
 Compose myself to sleep. 
 
 O'er all to guard from frosty air 
 Is stretch'd a wolf's warm hide. 
 
 Which I, with more than common care 
 Tuck in on either side. 
 
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 In woollen wrapt o'er head and ears 
 
 I more till mornings-light, 
 While dreaming fancy often rearit 
 
 A scene of past delight. 
 
 But at my door the servant stops, 
 
 " Sir, 'tis almost seven bells ;" 
 Then in a light he quickly pops. 
 
 Which every fancy quells. 
 
 The drowsy yawn which still precedes 
 
 Ere off our sleep we shake, 
 Against the ice my elbow leads, 
 
 And shivers me awake. 
 
 A moment then in state I lie, 
 
 All thoughts of slumber lost ; 
 While beauteous crystals meet my eye 
 In varied works of frost. 
 
 Illumined by the candle's rays 
 
 They deck my cabin's top, 
 But feeling soon the heated blaze 
 
 They liquefy and drop. 
 
 ! more than eastern luxury, 
 
 Without the artist's aid. 
 In 8hower>bath to mollify, 
 
 At ease so haply laid I 
 
 But hark ! that noise ! each clanging cup 
 
 And saucer rattles round ; 
 The signal heard, I 'm quickly up, 
 
 And soon at breakfast found. 
 
 Philo-Somnus. 
 
 »i| 
 
 NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENI'S. 
 
 We liavo lu apulugize to our Correspondent Z for the 
 accidental oraissiou in our last week's Paper, of an ac- 
 knowledgment which we bad designed to make, in con- 
 
 sequence of having felt ourselves under the necessity ol 
 omitting a stction of his second communication. 
 
 We hope he will favour the Public with his promised 
 continuation. 
 
THE 
 
 NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 ?' 
 
 N°. XX— MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1820. 
 
 ol 
 eil 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 The very flattering encouragement which 
 I met with in your last Number, not only 
 from yourself but from two or three of your 
 Correspondents, has made me venture an- 
 other letter into your box. Authors are 
 naturally as proud of their productions as a 
 mother is of her children ; but nobody but 
 authors can conceive the rapture experienced 
 on hearing their works praised by the public, 
 and especially by the softer sex. 
 
 Such was the rapture your humble ser- 
 vant Z experienced on reading Emily's short 
 but sweet epistle in your last Gazette. Pub- 
 lish my essays in a separate volume ! Dear 
 creature, to be sure I will ! What can Z 
 refuse his Emily ? Pray, Mr. Editor, endea- 
 vour to fish her residence out for me, and 
 
 she shall have the two first copies that come 
 from the press ! But I had almost forgotten 
 my purpose ^perhaps woman, charming 
 woman — will be a sufficient apology. 
 
 I do not quite understand whether you 
 received a note from me on the subject of 
 the omission of a part of one of my com- 
 munications, to which omission you have 
 alluded in your last week's paper. In that 
 note, I think, I said that perhaps my communi- 
 cations were too long for your purpose ; and, 
 as you have not taken any notice of this, I 
 conclude that you have glanced it over with 
 your usual courtesy, and shall take your 
 hint accordingly, by making this letter of a 
 more moderate length than my former ones. 
 If I do not mistake, some of your readers 
 will be much obliged to me for this new 
 arrangement, by which I shall be obliged to 
 confine myself to a brief description of the 
 
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 118 
 
 THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 ,1 
 
 it 
 
 I", 
 
 Stampers, a class of people who are distin- 
 guished by the loudness and frequency of 
 their stamping when they first enter our 
 apartments, and for some time afterwards. 
 The Stampers may say their toes are cold, 
 hut it is no such thing, Mr. Editor, take my 
 word for it. Ten times in eleven that they 
 thus disturb us, their toes are warm enough ; 
 i)e8ide8, if we admit this excuse for the 
 Stampers, I suppose the Drummers will tell 
 Its their fingers are cold, and the. Snorers 
 tiiat they sleep to keep their eyes warm; 
 at all events I think, the least the Stampers 
 can do, is to have their stamping out on 
 deck, where, duiing the cold weather, they 
 are certainly privileged to exercise their art 
 to the full extent of their wishes, as long as 
 they keep before the main-mast. 
 
 I rather think, however, that if this prac- 
 tice could be banished from our apartments, 
 the sum total of stamping would be much 
 reduced ; for, you must know, Mr. Editor, f 
 have reason to suspect that the motive is 
 generally the same as that by which the 
 Bangers, Slammers, ^c, are actuated. In 
 short, that it is only another ingenious expe- 
 dient for announcing to us, in a way which 
 cannot possibly escape notice, the actual 
 arrival of the party concerned. 
 
 But it is time for me to report progress. 
 Alas ! what progress have I to report ! I see 
 no improvement excepting a slight amend- 
 ment in the Whistlers, who, by-the-by, I am 
 sorry to hear, are gaining the languishing 
 sentimental style of the Hummers. 
 
 The Drummers indeed, have shewn some 
 signs of a new pest which they are prepar- 
 ing for us; not satisfied with what their 
 fingers can perform upon the tables, 1 have 
 heard a foot or two at work under them for 
 some time past, by which a sort of tattoo 
 has been produced, almost as melodious as 
 the other. If the Drummers mean to con- 
 tinue this, they ought in common decency, 
 
 to sit without shoes, that their tapping may 
 not disturb uh. The Slammers are worse 
 than ever, but until my remedy hns been 
 fairly tried, they nuist not be pronounced 
 incorrigible. The Snorers snore less, but I 
 fenr I have done mischief, for they sleep less 
 also. 
 
 My compUments to " Nathan Long-bow," 
 and I will take his case into consideration, 
 respecting the Wonder-mongers. 
 
 If my friend " A Spectator," does not 
 give the Growlers a hint or two, it will be a 
 great pity ; for, our late hardships hove 
 brought them out, as a warm sun does the 
 flies in spring. 
 
 Best love to Emily, from her constant 
 
 slave, and 
 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 Z. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mr. Editor — I have to request you will 
 allow me a short space in your columns, to 
 make the apology to Peeping-Tom the First, 
 which the grossness of my offence demands ; 
 and I beg to assure him, that when I as- 
 sumed his title, my secondary right to it 
 was omitted purely from inadvertency, and 
 not from the slightest wish to claim any con- 
 nexion with him. To tell you the truth, 
 (between ourselves, for I would not have it 
 generally known,) I quite forgot the exist- 
 ence of that pre-eminent personage. Sic 
 transit gloria mundi, 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your most obedient Servant, 
 Peeping-Tom the Second. 
 
 To the Editor oJ the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mr. Editor— If I was gratified by the 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 Ill) 
 
 visitH which were pnid to our shipa thiH time 
 last year, when in the river, how much more 
 HO was I in thiit desolate place, to meet my 
 friend Sir Partial Thaw, under the stern on 
 Tuesday last. I gave him an invitation to 
 stay, but he said that he regretted his visit 
 must be short, for he was obliged to attend 
 in other places ; and, while he assured me 
 that it was with groat reluctance he left us, 
 he was so deeply uttected, that the natural 
 warmth and goodness of his heart over- 
 flowed, and trickled down upon the snow. 
 He had been upon the lower deck, he said, 
 but finding his near relation, General Thaw, 
 engaged the attention of every body, he had 
 taken his leave for a short time. 
 
 I was going to pay the General a visit, 
 when a desperate contest arose between 
 Sir Partial and General Frost. It appeared 
 that the latter had so long occupied the 
 space under the stern, that he defined Sir 
 Partialis visit an infringement on his prero- 
 gative, and that Sir Partial, from dictates of 
 humanity, was desirous of expelling him 
 from his post, and ridding the ships of a 
 very disagreeable and intruding visitor, who, 
 he said was not contented with remaining 
 on the upper-deck, but, on finding a difh- 
 culty in getting down the hatchways, had 
 had the impudence to creep in at the cabin 
 window. The General was obdurate, and 
 Sir Partiali tinding knock-down arguments 
 did not swr^eed, endeavoured by gentle 
 means to soltiua) the General into compliance, 
 and was so wu • essful, that he was content 
 to sculk behind a cask for a considerable 
 time, until Sir Partial was gone, when he 
 stole out by degrees. N. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir — Having accidentally heard it ru- 
 moured, that it is in contemplation to send 
 
 • ofli* a certain number of balloons, with letters 
 containing an account of our situation, Sfc, 
 it has occurred to me, that it would be a 
 good opportunity of conveying also to Eng- 
 land a copy of the Winter C/iroiikie, by which 
 our friends might be informed before-hand, 
 in what manner we have endeavoured to 
 ilrive away the ennui of a winter in North 
 Georgia. Indeed, I know no mode of con- 
 veyance so exactly suited to most of the 
 productions which iill the pages uf your 
 Journal. There are many which being, as 
 the writers confess, " the lightest things 
 imaginable," are peculiarly fit for this kind 
 of travelling : and, I think it is not impos- 
 sible, that some of your correspondents, if 
 requested, might furnish an article or two 
 light enough to assist the balloons in their 
 aerial voyage, so as to economize the inflam- 
 mable gas, which, with the heavier produc- 
 tions, must, as you will readily allow, be 
 used in profuse abundance. Even the hea- 
 viest of them, however might perhaps, with 
 good management, and a little clipping and 
 curtailing, be made to rise much above the 
 level which has hitherto been assigned to 
 them by your readers ; but whether this is 
 expecting too much of the inflammable air, 
 I leave to your more scientific correspon- 
 dents to determine. 
 
 Such communiv.'vtions as consist of high- 
 flown language, lofty conceptions, elevated 
 sentiments, S^c, will find themselves quite 
 at home when thus conveyed among the 
 clouds : and our poets who kindly furnish 
 their weekly quota of rhymes for our 
 amusement, and who have hitherto had 
 the mortification to see their works confined 
 to earth, like mere vulgar prose, may now 
 hope to behold the efforts of their respec- 
 tive muses, keep pace with the most poe- 
 tical imagination, and soaring aloft into 
 " Heaven's vast concave," take a higher 
 flight than even Pegasus himself ever at- 
 
 I) 
 
120 
 
 THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 tempted. In pursuance of the plan which I 
 have here proposed, it would be adding much 
 to the obhgation you have already conferred 
 upon the public as Editor of the Gazette, if 
 you would employ a few of your leisure 
 n^oments, in selecting such articles from your 
 (ioUnnns as appear to you best qualified for 
 the respective purposes of carrying or being 
 carried ; and it will naturally occur to you, 
 that the fairest way of executing this useful 
 project will be to tack a light and a heavy 
 one in the same parcel, and thus to consign 
 
 them to the atmosphere. For example, if 
 the letter of Z, in your last Number but one, 
 which was universally allowed to be a heavy 
 one, »».nd that of " N. C", in a former one, 
 were pinned into one bundle, there would, 
 perhaps, be httle left for the gas to do. And 
 so of many others, which your ingenuity 
 will easily enable you to couple in a similar 
 manner. 
 
 I am. Sir, 
 Your most obedient, 
 
 Hilary High-vlver. 
 
 For the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 Deus nos ducat *. 
 
 To lie io bed and meditate, 
 And then succesB anticipate. 
 Until my heart did palpitate. 
 
 Has been my greatest pleasure: 
 
 When cold has set me shaking, 
 And sleep my eyes forsaking, 
 Our glorious undertaking 
 
 Has warmed me beyond measure. 
 
 When pain has set me whining, 
 And health has been declining. 
 What kept me from repining .' 
 
 'Twas Hope, and trust above ! 
 
 in 
 
 God is our shield defensive 
 Throughout the world extensive, 
 His mercy comprehensive. 
 
 Deserves our warmest love. 
 
 Should hardships overtake us, 
 Let them nor danger shake us, 
 Our God will ne'er forsake us, 
 
 Who worketh all for good ! 
 
 The motto upon the binnacle of the Hecla. 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 When perils bid defiance 
 To human skill and science. 
 On Him be our reliance 
 
 Who shed for us his blood ! 
 
 181 
 
 SONG FROM THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 
 
 WRllTEN BY MR. WAKEHAM, 
 AND SUNG BY MR. PALMER. 
 
 I. 
 
 Farewell to the land where the winter we 've past, 
 The ships all a-taunt-to, we leave it at last, 
 
 While our bosoms are swelling 
 
 For deeds of renown ; 
 Beneath their snug bousing the cold we've defied. 
 We 've tripp'd for our health o'er the firm frozen tide. 
 And merrily keeping up cheerfulness still , 
 Eat our grub, drank our ^rop:, with a hearty good will, 
 
 While our bosoms were swelling 
 
 For deeds of renown. 
 
 II. 
 
 'Tis said, when the sun in this region sinks low, 
 The bears take a long nap — ^but we did not so, 
 
 While our bosoms were swelling 
 
 For deeds of renown ; 
 We had snow to be melted, ere dinner was drest, 
 We had beer to be brew'd, and 'twas some of the best 
 But what most I admired, while we wanted the light, 
 Were the plays that amused us once a fort-night, 
 
 While our bosoms were swelling 
 
 For deeds of renown, 
 
 III. 
 
 Before it was dark in this desolate spot, 
 
 The deer came around us, and died by our shot, 
 
 While our bosoms were swelling 
 
 For deeds of renown. 
 N\ itii venison and beef, we cared not the least 
 Foi the famed turtle soup of an alderman's feast; 
 
198 
 
 THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 A sailor lives well, if he gets but enough 
 Of something substantial, or tender or tough, 
 
 While our bosoms are swelling 
 
 For deeds of renown. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Now the day-light's return'd, we '11 push on without fear, 
 And prove to our country that while lying here, 
 Still our bosoms were swelling 
 
 For deeds of renown. 
 If ice should impede us, our progress tho' slow, 
 We Ml advance all we can ; if wind fails us we '11 tow ; 
 If channels are opened, our ships track'd along 
 Shall follow us close, and we '11 tune up a song, 
 
 While our bosoms are swelling 
 
 For deeds of renown ; 
 
 The voyage completed, and doubled Cape Horn, 
 How joyful we '11 hail the bright blush of the mom, 
 
 While our bosoms are swelling 
 
 For deeds of renown ; 
 That shews us again that loved rock of our isle. 
 Where around us our wives and our little ones smile. 
 And rewards that await us return'd from afar. 
 Prove how warmly Old England remembers the tar, 
 
 While our bosoms are swelling 
 
 For deeds of renown. 
 
 SONG FROM THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 
 
 WRITTEN BV MR. WAKEHAM, 
 
 AND SUNG BY MR. HOPPNER. 
 
 Tune — " Come cheer up, my lads." 
 
 I. 
 
 At last brother tars here we are at the strait, 
 And the famed North-West Passage is travers'd complete ; 
 O'er the wide rolling waves to the southward we '11 steer. 
 And quickly arrive at the land of good cheer. 
 
 In the ice of the north British hearts were our own, 
 Still seeking for glory, 
 Famous in story, ' ' ' 
 
 We've gain'd for Old England new ways of renown. 
 
 ' ■■ -■"■»^"S^.^ 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 II. 
 
 'Mid darkness and storms a longer winter we stay'd, 
 While the crystallized ocean our efforts delay'd, 
 Till summer returning again set us free, 
 And open'd the way to that far western sea. 
 In the ice of the north British hearts were our own, 
 Still seeking for glory, 
 Famous in story, 
 We've gain'd for Old England new ways of renown. 
 
 III. 
 What feelings of pleasure, what joys shall expand, 
 When once more we 're nearing, fair Albion, thy strand ; 
 Delighted our bosoms with transport shall swell. 
 And fondly each tongue of its happiness tell. 
 
 In the ice of the north British hearts were our own, 
 Still seeking for glory, 
 Famous in storv. 
 We 've gain'd for Old England new ways of renown. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Our country shall hail our emprize with acclaim, 
 Attempted for ages by chieftains of fame ; 
 For firm perseverance evinced in her cause, 
 Has ever yet met with true Britons' applause. 
 
 In the ice of the north British hearts were our own. 
 Still seeking for glory, 
 Famous in story, ** 
 
 We 've gain'd for Old England new ways of renown. 
 
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THE 
 
 NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 AND 
 
 WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 N°. XXI— MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1820. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Sir, . 
 
 I HEAR it said that the North Georgia 
 Gazette is soon to die a natural death, and I 
 am sorry for it ; for then must your cor- 
 respondent Z. leave half his purpose unfi- 
 nished. — " Othello's occupation's gone!" 
 
 I had prepared a letter in pursuance of 
 my former plan ; but as I am informed that 
 this !S the last communication which I shall 
 have an opportunity of laying before your 
 readers, during this season, I suppose I must 
 change my note, and be upon my good be- 
 haviour. 
 
 It has been very amusing, and I must add 
 very flattering to me, to hear the conjectures 
 which have been formed concerning the au- 
 thor of Z.'s letters, and the remarks which have 
 been made upon them by the individuals of our 
 
 community ; and I am not altogether with- 
 out hope that I have done something towards 
 removing, at least in part, the annoyances of 
 which I complained. 
 
 A friend of mine in London, who has a 
 share in a patent-shot manufactory, once ex- 
 plained to me the manner in which the round 
 or perfect shot are separated from those 
 which are oval, and therefore unfit for use. 
 Being all made to roll down an inclined 
 plane, the round ones roll straight forward to 
 the lower end, while the oval ones are found 
 to waddle to the edge of the plane, and fall 
 over before they can reach the bottom. I 
 have often been reminded of this contri- 
 vance, in observing that the Whistlers, Slam- 
 mers, S^c. S^c. S^c, have waddled on one side 
 when applied to the inclined plane afforded 
 by Z.'s communications, and have immedi- 
 ately fallen into the ranks, under the several 
 
126 
 
 THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
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 heads to which, according to their respective 
 quahfications, they know themselves to be- 
 long. Some of them have not much relished 
 being made to waddle in this manner, and 
 would rather have been allowed to roll on 
 straight forward to the end of the chapter. 
 This is all very natural, but it is no fault of 
 mine ; they are no shot of my making. I 
 think I have done them some service in 
 pointing out their deformity; and if they will 
 get their oval ends rounded off before the 
 recommencement of the News-papers, I pro- 
 mise them they shall hear no more from Z. 
 
 But, to be serious, if the annoyances 
 to which my letters allude are real, they 
 ought to be remedied ; — if imaginary, if no- 
 body practises them, then is there no " galled 
 jade to wince," — all our " withers are un- 
 wrung," — in short, if the cap fits nobody, 
 let nobody wear it ! 
 
 But since the game is up for the pre- 
 sent, I have no hesitation in assuring you 
 and your readers, that the classes describ- 
 ed in my first letter are as completely the 
 creatures of imagination, as ever entered 
 into the head of a poet. I had at that 
 time no intention of continuing my cor- 
 respondence, much less had I conceived 
 any thing like a regular series of such de- 
 scriptions. It was your readers themselves 
 who first put this into my head, and made 
 me look about me for such subjects, as well 
 by the hints with which their remarks daily 
 furnished me, as by the earnest applications 
 made to me, through the medium of your 
 paper. It was then, and then only, that I 
 began to be really in earnest, and to copy 
 from life. For instance, the public are wholly 
 indebted for the description I have endea- 
 voured to give of the Siiorers, to the unncon- 
 scious suggestions of one of that dozing fra- 
 ternity ; and the same is true of the more in- 
 nocent Stumpers. As for the Slammets, it is 
 more than probable that they would have 
 
 remained altogether unknown to Z,, unless 
 they had been pointed out to his notice by 
 his correspondent X.; and so of one or two 
 other classes. 
 
 So much for the account I purposed to give 
 of my letters ; may I be permitted to say 
 a word or two of myself, as it is a subject 
 which has afforded me much entertainment. 
 There is scarcely one among us who has 
 not hazarded a conjecture who Z is. One 
 I find " knows me well;" a second has 
 found me out by the shortness of my sen- 
 tences ; another '* detects me at first sight," 
 by a certain fault in my grammar, of which 
 he has observed I am often guilty in conver- 
 sation ; a fourth declares it " impossible to 
 mistake me," though he does not say why, 
 " and wonders at the want of discernment in 
 those who are at a loss about me ;" and a 
 fifth is " quite positive" who I am, on ac- 
 count of a particular turn of expression which 
 always was, is still, and ever will be mine, 
 and mine exclusively. 
 
 A messmate took me aside the other day, 
 and with a look full of mysterious importance, 
 told me in confidence that he knew who Z, 
 was. " Do you really ? " said I ; " Yes, 
 it is so and so." " No! is it indeed?" 
 " Yes," replied my cunning messmate, with 
 a knowing shake of the head, " I had it from 
 good authority." Thinks I to myself, you 
 know nothing at all about it ; but I promised 
 to keep his secret, and so I will. 
 
 The truth is, Mr. Editor, that having for 
 the first ten weeks of the publication of your 
 paper openly avowed my incapacity or un- 
 willingness to write for it, and, to my shame 
 be it recorded, even spoke disrespectfully of a 
 scheme of amusement to which I was myself 
 too indolent to contribute, I have found my- 
 self securely sheltered of late under my for- 
 mer declaration, and have thus been induced 
 to join in the general laugh, or to put up with 
 any occasional expression of displeasure with 
 
AND WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
 127 
 
 as much apparent unconcern as any I see 
 about me. It is no great wonder that others 
 do not easily find him out, who has hardly 
 been able to persuade himself that he has 
 written. 
 
 When children play at hide and seek, they 
 are told that they " burn" when they come 
 :iear the hiding-place ; but I can assure those 
 who have searched for Z., that they have 
 never been warm, no not within a mile of the 
 fire ; they are all equally knowing, and all 
 equally wrong. 
 
 Adieu, Mr. Editor, for the present. I 
 
 trust my next communication may be the 
 
 growth of a more genial climate ; may it 
 
 spring up amidst the rich luxuriance of the 
 
 South Sea Islands ! Believe me, there are 
 
 none of your correspondents or readers who 
 
 entertain this hope more confidently, and who 
 
 are willing to do more towards its completion, 
 
 than your 
 
 Unknown and obedient Servant, 
 
 Z. 
 
 Sir, — 'As I was one of the first among your 
 correspondents to address you at the com- 
 mencement of your editorial labours, and to 
 express my good wishes for the success of 
 your undertaking, so I am equally desirous, 
 now that I understand your paper is shortly 
 to be discontinued, to express to you the 
 gratification I have derived from the spirit 
 with which the Winter Chronicle has been 
 supported for one-and-twenty weeks, and the 
 amusement I have received from many of its 
 pages, during that tedious interval. 
 
 As an individual of that community to whose 
 amusement you have, during the winter, de- 
 voted a certain weekly portion of your time, 
 I am anxious to convey to you my share of 
 the acknowledgment which is so justly your 
 due. Nor can I omit to express my obliga- 
 tion to the two gentlemen whose zeal in the 
 cause of good humour and cheerfulness has in- 
 
 duced tliem to copy, with unceasing punctu- 
 ality, for our perusal, the various communi- 
 cations with which your box has been fur- 
 nished. It will he generally allowed that the 
 original purpose of the Winter Chronicle has 
 been completely answered. It has certainly 
 served to " exercise the ingenuity" of se- 
 veral of our community ; and we have seen 
 it raise many a laugh, and many a hearty one 
 too, at a time when in the ordinary course of 
 our affairs, there was little or nothing to make 
 us smile ; and besides the amusement it has 
 afforded at the time of reading it, I have ob- 
 served that some of the articles in each paper, 
 have usually furnished subject for good- 
 humoured conversation during the ensuing 
 week, at the expiration of which a fresh sup- 
 ply has been brought forward to fulfil the 
 same end. It will, perhaps, be objected by 
 some of your more serious readers, that the 
 time thus spent might have been better em- 
 ployed ; to which I may reply, that it might 
 also have been worse employed, or even not 
 employed at all. " Better do mischief than 
 do nothing," says the proverb, and the spirit, 
 if not the letter of this maxim, is right. 
 
 But it is said that there are one or two of 
 your readers who have not derived so much 
 amusement from the perusal of your papers, 
 as the rest of us, and who are even said to be 
 rather offended at some of the waggish com- 
 munications contained in them. If this be 
 the case, which, however, I can scarcely be- 
 lieve, there is now no remedy for it : but I 
 will venture to assert, that no one article has 
 been penned with any intention of giving 
 offence to an individual of our party. 
 
 We are now, Mr. Editor, to enter on a 
 different occupation, in which all your readers, 
 whether contributors or non-contributors, 
 will, I am sure most cordially join ; and I 
 hope yet to see those at whose expense a 
 laugh has occasionally been raised in the 
 Winter Chronicle, laugh in their turn when 
 
128 
 
 THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
 they shall see their names occupying a more 
 honourable place in the London Gazette. 
 I am, Mr. Editor, 
 Your obliged and obedient Servant, 
 Philo-Comus. 
 
 To the Editor of the Winter Chronicle. 
 
 Mr. Editor, 
 
 Before your papers cease for this season, 
 allow me to insert some wishes which I most 
 fervently entertain, and in which I doubt not 
 that many of your readers will join with me. 
 First, then, I wish your entertaining papers 
 may appear at our breakfast-table with the 
 very first Monday after our housing is put 
 over the ships the next winter — should such 
 again be the case. 
 
 Next, I wish an early summer to such as 
 want to go westward, and eternal frost to 
 those whose minds are bent the other way — 
 if any such there be. 
 
 I wish a safe passage to the rein-deer, a 
 southerly wind to the ducks, and success to 
 the sportsmen. 
 
 I wish an idle birth to our doctors for the 
 remainder of the voyage, and a day's sick- 
 ness to those who lightly treat the complaints 
 of others. 
 
 I wish a speedy sight of Behring's Straits 
 to the sanguine, disappointment to the de- 
 sponders, and moderation to boasters. 
 
 To advocates for cold, I wish frost-bitten 
 fingers; andtocomplainersofit,avertical8un. 
 I wish to husbands patience, to their wives 
 constancy, and to lovers fidehty. 
 
 Lastly, I wish perfect health to every one ; 
 the pleasure of revisiting our native country 
 to all; reformation to Snorers, Slammers, 
 Bangers, ^c; success to our voyage, and 
 pleasure to my readers. 
 
 I am, Mr. Editor, 
 
 Your well-wisher, 
 T. 
 
 THEATRICAL REPORT. 
 
 On Thursday evening was performed the 
 farce of the Citizen \ to which was added 
 the Mayor of Garratt; being the last of 
 our Theatrical Entertainments for the sea- 
 son. At the end of the last scene an appro- 
 priate and animated Farewell Address, from 
 the pen of Mr. Wakeham, was spoken by that 
 gentleman in the character of a Sailor, and re- 
 ceived with the most rapturous applause. The 
 whole concluded with God save the King, in 
 which all the performers, as well as most of 
 the audience joined; and the curtain fell 
 amidst the loud and hearty cheers of the 
 whole house. Our readers will find a copy 
 of the Address, with which we have been 
 favoured, in the subsequent pages of this 
 Number. 
 
 Thus has ended a series of Dramatic En- 
 tertainments, which have served to beguile the 
 tedious season of a long and cheerless win- 
 ter. In the progress of these entertainments, 
 we have taken frequent occasion to express 
 our conviction of the good effect which this 
 kind of amusement has produced among 
 those for whose diversion they were chiefly, if 
 not exclusively, intended ; and we may now 
 add, that each successive representation has 
 tended to confirm the conviction. 
 
 The promotion of cheerfulness among the 
 men was an object which, in our present si- 
 tuation, called for our best exertions. To 
 persons possessing no sources of amusement 
 within themselves, some such means were 
 more than usually necessary, especially in a 
 climate where the rugged aspect of nature 
 has little to enliven the mind, or to dissipate 
 the gloom of despondency. 
 
 The good consequences resulting from 
 the unremitted exertions that have been 
 made to attain this desirable end, cannot, 
 perhaps, be sufficiently apprehended at pre- 
 sent ; their influence may be expected to 
 
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 120 
 
 extend to the Intest period of our voyage, and 
 may, perhaps, he hereafter considered as hav- 
 ing materially, though indirectly, contributed 
 to the ultimate success of our enterprise. 
 
 THEATRE ROYAL, NORTH GEORGIA. 
 
 The Manager and Committee take this 
 public method of returning their best thanks 
 
 to the gentlemen who have so liberally con- 
 tributed towards the support of the theatre. 
 
 Nor can they let the opportunity pajus 
 without expressing the high gratification they 
 have received in the discharge of their duty 
 as Committee-men, from the willingness with 
 which each gentleman has endeavoured to 
 support the characters which have been as- 
 signed to him, and from the good-humour and 
 unanimity which have prevailed throughout 
 the season. 
 
 For the last Number of the WINTER CHRONICLE. 
 
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 Come Muse, and attend to my last invocatioD, 
 Come mourn with your pupil the Chronicle's close ! 
 
 No more shall we hear Monday morn's titteration, 
 That welcomed its pages in verse or in prose. 
 
 What wonders performed by its two sheets per week ! 
 
 How strain'd our invention and faculties all ! 
 If half the bulkheads of the cabins cou'd speak, 
 
 They'd shew that invention, nor feeble, nor small. 
 
 Fair Dames it has brought to North Georgia's shore. 
 Manufactured a ghost and an animal strange ; 
 
 That (named the Encea) you '11 hear of no more 
 In forests or floods through all nature's wide range. 
 
 Here you and your sisters inspired our gay youth, 
 Till " Heaven's vast concave" resounded their songs ;- 
 
 Much nonsense we 've read, and a great deal of truth. 
 Well-founded complaints, and some fanciful wrongs. 
 
 Ev'n loggerheads well could contribute their shares 
 To the weekly contents of the Editor's box ; 
 
 The world was soon told of our weighty aifairs. 
 The death of a gull, or escape of a fox. 
 
 There's Q in the corner, with X, Y, and P, 
 Phiio-Comus and Albert, and Simon Set-right, 
 
 Maria and Emily, fair maids I see. 
 
 And Anti-scalp Anne, not in charms quite so bright. 
 
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 THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE, 
 
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 There 's a posse besides, but by naming them all 
 I patience and paper should equally waste ; 
 
 The meanings of some would a counsellor pall : — 
 But now to lament their misfortunes I haste. 
 
 The Plays and the Papers together expire, 
 
 And Poets, and Actors, and Dames breathe their last ; 
 To soothe parting moments I '11 say thit their fire 
 
 Has not, in this region, been ever surpass'd. 
 
 Wintry wits of the North ! who have scribbled away 
 To shave or amuse us, accept a sad sigh 
 
 From one who has sometimes attempted a lay; 
 And thus, Brother-Scribblers, I bid you good-bye! 
 
 A. 
 
 A FAREWELL ADDRESS 
 
 WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY MR. WAKEHAM IN THE CHARACTER OF A SAILOR, AT 
 THE FINAL CLOSE OF THE PERFORMANCES AT THE NORTH GEORGIA THEATRE. 
 
 Drear was the night that Nature's face o'erspread, 
 When light's last gleam this sadden'd region fled ; 
 No active scenes disarm'd its torpid power, 
 Nor soft society beguiled the hour ; 
 The dark dull season call'd for other aid. 
 Our comic talents then we each essay'd— 
 Here Garrick's heroes mimick passions move, 
 And list'ning ladies melt at tales of love ; 
 For woman's semblance graced our Georgian stage, 
 The strangest medley of the present age ; — 
 A paper bonnet oft her head embraced. 
 Her canvass stays were by a sailor laced. 
 The dress in which her beauty sought to shine 
 Form'd and arranged by fingers masculine !— 
 Her ribbons, painted — tin, her glitt'ring fan — 
 Bright beads her diamonds, and herself — a man ! 
 The Drama's beaux were not to be outdone, — 
 Fox-hunting squires in paper boot-tops shone, — 
 And the plump landlord, when he took a swig, 
 Conceal'd his blushes by an Oakum wig, — 
 
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 Tin spurs, and paper frills for Dandies made, 
 And bear-skin whiskers help'd the gay parade :— 
 But jesting o'er— to-night the plays we dlose. 
 For passing winter asks no more repose. 
 
 As the brave soldier, on the martial field 
 O'erbornc by tenfold odds and forced to yield, 
 Press'd by the captive chain feels not its weight, 
 When on the thunders of the nearer fight 
 His fate suspended hangs, till Vict'ry's tide 
 Proclaims the conquer'd now the ronqu'ring side ; 
 Then freed once more he shines in radiant arms, 
 And mingling eager in the war's alarms 
 Feels the new wrong within his bosom glow, 
 And bursts indignant on th* embattled foe. 
 So we, secured by Winter's icy chain. 
 Awhile the pris'ners of its gloomy reign. 
 Hear in the blast that sweeps the frozen sea 
 The friendly sound that soon shall set us free. 
 When hasting forward with impatient force 
 Hope's cheering ray shall gild our Western course. 
 
 If from the past our future scenes we trace. 
 The prospect wears an animating face, 
 For providential mercies open wide, 
 And show that fav'ring Heaven has been our guide. 
 When in our front the ice opposing lay. 
 
 Still thro' the mass we found a devious way, 
 
 If humid fogs obscured the mid-day sun 
 
 From ev'ry danger safe, we still have run : 
 
 Unfaithful here the guiding needle, flies. 
 Now points to Northern, now to Southern skies ; 
 But ever have we kept the path design'd. 
 And left the distant Eastern shores behind. 
 What breast unconscious of the heav'nly Hand 
 That saved our vessels from the fatal strand. 
 When far extended floes with headlong sway 
 Drove fiercely shoreward in yon western bay?— 
 Yet morning's light, tho" human help was vain. 
 Beheld us riding on the liquid main : 
 And still, I trust, that Hand, which rules o'er all, 
 Which guides the motions of this whirling ball, 
 Will lead us onward thro' the icy road 
 To where the southern joins the polar flood, 
 Until at length that happy morn appears 
 When Behring's Strait shall echo British cheers. 
 
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 Sons of my country ! in her cause allied, 
 A sailor's feelings arc my bosom's pride, — 
 Those feelings tell me that each brother tar 
 Exults in cherish'd hope, — advanced thus far — 
 The hope that soon success shall crown our toil, 
 And honours greet us on our native soil. 
 Britannia's hopes arc centred in our deeds — 
 To this emprizc the path of glory leads !— 
 Her ancient chiefs of ever-honour'd name, 
 Call on us now to emulate their fame : — 
 Each tender tie that deep infixes here. 
 Bids us our country and ourselves revere : 
 Then, sailors, thus I 'II your resolve express, 
 " We can't command, but will deserve success." 
 
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 The Editor would be ill satisfied with himself were he to permit the Winter Chronicle to 
 conclude without expressing his thanks to his Correspondents generally, for the courtesy 
 with which they have addressed him ; and to those gentlemen particularly, who have princi- 
 pally supported the Paper, for the readiness with which they have at all times attended to his 
 request of contributions, and frequently at a very short notice . 
 
 His more than thanks are due and are felt to his two friends who have so cheerfully and 
 kindly taken on themselves, even from the commencement, the manual duties of the 
 editorial office ; leaving to the Editor himself little more than the honour of the name. 
 
 Winter Harbour, March 18, 1820. 
 
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