A most faithful and deserving fellow,

Gomez by name→a man after my own heart.'

The following quotations are better, though by no means remarkably meritorious, since they are in some respects liable to the objection of prosaick expression :

'O what an awful moment of suspense

Is that which separates us from our bliss!
With firmness we resist the ruder shocks,
Which harass and perplex the life of man ;
And our fortitude forsakes us only

When those misfortunes, which we dread to meet,
Are just about to vanish.'

5 Policarpo. Revenge! trust me my friend, it is a jewel,

Which seldom is attain'd, unless dug up

With golden spades : poor men should rest content
To use the spade in service of the rich :
The willing hand may seldom need employ.
Gomez. I understand thee, Policarpo-Well,
Inlist me then, and I'll dig up the mine;
I'll turn up e'en the very hugest mound,
To find this precious gem; I'll labour hard,
Although it should adorn another's brow:

This once I'll find it, should I lose my soul !'

On the whole, though we cannot discover in the composition many of the particulars which constitute an excellent play, yet we are free to say, that we have perceived in the composition of Mr. White, something like genius for the dramatick; and we do not by any means, conclude him incapable of producing an excellent play, merely because his Venetian Exile is not eminent for its success.

FOURTH OF MARCH.

THE meetings of the Friends of the People on this glorious day will be multiplied in every section of our country.' Mr. Madison is this day inducted to the chair of state; the people's voice has been elevated in favour of this distinguished patriot, who has long been celebrated for his love for the COMMERCE of the United States and the prosperity of New-England! Like another Jefferson, he will begin his career all honey and roses; but let us beware of offending him, lest he should afterwards, from the example of his predecessor, diet us with gall and hemlock. Confident of the people's love, he will mag

nanimously disregard the opinions of Federal disorganizers; and will hold his course right on, careless of the opposition of opinion.

"Hereafter, free from care his skiff shall glide,

Its compass Folly, Theory its guide

Adown the stream of state; no rocks t' impede,
No federal shoals to intercept its speed.

And should, perchance, from Eastern climes arise
The howling storm, and darken o'er the skies;
Though the rent sails be driven before the blast,
The cordage snap, and spring the groaning mast;
Yet on one anchor firm will he confide,
And all the perils of the storm deride.
The people's favour is that anchor sure,

With which, through every gale he'll ride secure ;
And though, from want of skill, midst breakers cast,
That ever safely brings us up at last.'

MEETING OF THE PEOPLE'S FRIENDS.

Let the Press perish,' loud the patriots cry,
'Let the Press perish,' echoing walls reply;
'Flourish Democracy,' the shout goes round,

'Flourish Democracy,' the walls resound.

AVALUABLE Correspondent has been kind enough to favour us with some anticipated Toasts, which are to be given on this day The quotations from various authors will serve to show the erudition of the democrats, as well as their enthusiasick patriotism.

TOASTS.

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THE OCCASION. Glorious in the American annals; though dawn is overcast' and the 'tempest growls,' may the rays of the sun and the genial breeze,' make our difficulties vanish like the snow' in our streets; and may the pack horse of delusion no longer carry ammunition through our country, to blow up the administration,** which now comes into power.

JAMES MADISON, ESQ. The worthy successor of the illustrious THOMAS JEFFERSON, ESQ.

"Our rulers must in turn obey,

"That every dog may have his day.'

* Chronicle.

THE FOURTH OF MARCH, 1809.

The great, the important day,

Big with the fate of Cato and of Rome;'

May our Federal Cæsars be slumped in the quick sands of Numidia before they can get to Utica,

'Where Cato gives his little senate law.'

BRITISH HIRELINGS. May those Tories who are paid for changing our constitution in British GUINEAS, never be able to obtain an American CROWN.

Confusion to the Press and Federal Printers.

''Tis clear enough we cannot get along,
Unless we shackle every Federal tongue;

Our fame in garb inviolable dress,

And bind in chains the freedom of the press.

And though with them 't were base, with us 'tis fit,

Since "one man's poison is another's meat ;"

Nor does the adage in this case hold true,

That "Sauce for goose is sauce for gander too."

The Principles of Democracy. We hold them to be the ark of our safety, and the rock of our defence,' and clinging to them, we must either sink or swim.

The Republican Majority in Congress.

Wizards know their times;

Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,
The time of night when Troy was set on fire;
The time when scritch-owls cry and ban-dogs howl,

When spirits walk, and ghosts break up their graves,
That time best fits the work we have in hand.

The morbid state of the Federal Body.' May the grand restorative of military tonicks' be rigorously applied to it.

The conclusive EMBARGO. Your majesty' and we that have empty purses,' it touches not us ;'

'Let the gall'd jade wince, our withers are unwrung.'

LIEUT. GOVERNOUR LINCOLN. Whose inimitable speech has promulgated doctrines, which his conduct as Commander in chief has confirmed.

THOMAS JEFFERSON. His second retirement to the mountains, equally evincive of patriotism as his first was of bravery, will tell well in history.' Song-Go to the devil and shake yourself. [We shall endeavour to obtain a copy.]

VOLUNTEERS.

One of the committee being called on for a toaft, rose. 'Mr. President,' said he, 'people in general may suppose I am not firm in my adherance to the cause, on account of my having once supported opposite principles. But, sir, I wish to have it understood, in order to show the stability of my opinions, and the disinterestedness of my republican attachment, I rise to give the health of that undeviating patriot, the Hon. Wm. K- -g. 13 cheers-Vicar of Bray.

By the God of War.-A Military Academy.
Delightful task, to fetch the soldier up,

And teach the young republicans to shoot.

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cheers; shoot the Feds,' from all quarters.

By Mr. Kn.-May the Spanish Patriots soon be cut out by Boney, and all the Tories in this country receive a complete suit of tar and feathers. The Done-over Tailor.

After several of the leaders had retired, a gentleman from the North End addressed the company. 'As the Doctor and the General and the Marshal are gone,' said he,' I s'pose I'm a right to speak. I own I don't feel what is called comfortable. To be sure I can't complain of the goodness of the dinner, or its cost, because the extra is made up by our leaders, but confess I had rather a dined somewhere else.— Your damask curtains, and sillabubs, and flummery, may suit the Essex Junto and the Spanish Junto, and them folks, but it don't suit me. Its what none of us hav'nt been used to. I therefore move that the wine on the table be cork'd up and sent back to the landlord, and that we adjourn to the Green Dragon, to spend the rest of the evening in a truly republican fashion.' (Carried by acclamations.) What took place at the adjournment, we have not yet learned.

BOSTON THEATRE.

• Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more;
• Macbeth hath murder'd sleep.'

WE have always believed that whatever is exhibited for publick encouragement, is a subject of publick investigation; and that the performers of the Stage, in a particular manner, are open to general criticism, not only from a right of prescription, but from the sound reason on which the practice is founded. Whoever pays the price of his ticket is immediately invested with the authority of a judge; and of course has an unquestionable right to hiss, or otherwise condemn those performers who are imperfect in what they undertake to play; whether

from natural ignorance, perverse inattention, or offensive intoxication. The performers of the Boston Theatre, we presume, have formed a resolution not to suffer any animadversions to be made upon their conduct before the publick (and with no other have we any concern); since we were yesterday most violently assailed by one of them, who declared he had neither insulted nor offended the audience, on Mr. Bernard's benefit night, and of course that the insinuation contained in the last Ordeal, was FALSE. We take it for granted the audience are the true judges, whether they have been offended or insulted or not, and the best expression of the sense of such offence or insult is a general hiss! But Mr. Caulfield says he did not offend or insult them, and we have declared the contrary. Now, we are not so foolish as to imagine that if we prove this performer to have been intoxicated, on Mr. Bernard's benefit night, that the circumstance will be sufficient to convince him of the offence or insult. We presume he will hereafter be as ready as he has been before, to come forward to the audience, both deficient in his part and reeling in his liquor; and bustle through the performance without either correctness or sobriety.

This kind of conduct in him, and this alone, restrained us from inflicting as far as lay in our power, such personal chastisment as his unparalleled insolence of deportment most uuquestionably deserved. But if we are ever obliged to descend to act the part of a gladiator, we hope we shall perform it with propriety, and not reduce ourselves to the level of every bachanal who may happen to offend or insult us.

Mr. Caulfield was announced to sing the song of Hail Columbia, for the benefit of Mr. Bernard. He appeared before the audience, and made some fruitless efforts to effect the object in contemplation; but in vain,

'Twice he essay'd to speak, and twice his tongue,

"In his half open'd mouth, suspended, hung.'

He first attempted an apology, then tried a second time to sing; failed again, and then sat down. It might have been supposed that his words were frozen in Nova Zembla, had it not been evident that they were floating at random in a warmer region. The audience,at least, those with whom we have conversed, are with us in the opinion, that Mr. Caulfield both offended and insulted them on this occasion, and the best proof they could possibly advance of the truth of this assertion, is that they gave him a pretty general hiss.

If Mr. Caulfield supposes, that because he may have been correct in his various parts, and in his sober senses, for a few weeks, he ought not to be censured for his misconduct on Washington's birth night; the answer is apparent, that such disgrace is the more inexcusable on that very account; since it proves at once, his capability of doing well, and his want of shame in neglecting to do well.