North Wales Gazette

EPITAPH. j Here lies old Squeezem, farmer, miller, swailer, Cheesemonger, malrster, and withall a tailor, w hose callous heart for other's wants ne'er felt, j Nor honnty to the needy—ever dealt. Affection to his kindred, children, wife, He never exercis'd, through a Ion?: life. In dearth, and scarcity he foot delight, Of ri sing markets never losing sizlit Fxpectiwg length of days-when beyond hope, His breath was s opt—by failure of a rope, Whilst raising: to his granaries a sack Of corn, suspended-—drop upon his back And pu' a period to his life, and views, Of still tacreasiti,what, he ne'er could use.

■ ■ i ■><—— DAMOiV. BodTorftV wy'n wastad wrth ystlys fy mun, Lie byddo "V ban raunaid mwy cywies y wV hin A rhediad atonyrid drwy genlenuydd glan, Y wyalclieu ar Hinos yn Honwych ett can. LAURA. Pan fyddoch yn agos nid ofnaf ddim braw, Tfr wyn yn ddlog..1 a tigbariad wrth law. Y mynnod cy dnei:IUi«t chwaraeant ym mhob llwyn, Fy nghalon yn esrnwyth am bugat yn fwyn. DAMON. IforwTnier gwlarl Frytfaisi rhai anwada'n I)yniu»»ad pob calon drla v fydd, Jia ytiiiowch i wr gwlaciaidd gwael ydoedd ein saif, C") s ilwn a'cai cflrfwya n'ch cyromer yvi wraig. LAURA. Ciiwi ievaingc a ofnai, ond eunhiaw gwedd wych Fhyddhewch > rhai hynpy heb chwanegn eunuch 1'r rhain ita wnewch gamwedd cich commorlh ) 11 I'itw yflil, Na bradychu un radd, i'w gwared ruae'ch swyud. BWRDWN. Am urddas rhianod ,i'n rhinwedd mac sÔn, JJ iil oes An gwr ifafngc ai rvfyp yirt mini, Ymddygiacl eu tegwch hawddrarwch (Oil gwen, Pasgasaat yo ievangc cuniynant yn hen. IIUGII Hughes.

THE OLD MUD. A PARODY. I do remember a precise old maid, And hereabouts she dwells—whom late I noted In rustling gown with wan and withor'd lips, Demure and formal, dusting cloth in hand, Subbing; her chairs, and meagre were her looks. jSnvy had worn her to the very bones; And in her shining parlour !low'r pots stood, Deck'd with geranium and jessamine, And orange-trees, and roses, pinks, and lilies, 4 Bachelors Buttons,'crisp as she herself, And lowly passion flow'r the type of love Six chairs, two tables, and a lookingglass. Where buruiih'd bright and oft, and round the room lmit wall, in closet, or on ipanfle piece, An old work-basket, sal vOlatile, Portrait* of maiden aunts, a ball room suit, With lamb or lap-dug hanging on the arm, Novels from Circulating Library, -,La. Seriomt Caft to Unconverted Folks,' Love elcgta, a bible, and a cat, Were dgtq W for ornament or use, Mm spften pmvaii'd of,vuitorg rame In. Ligualog. 4w tin law* her shrill voice ficream'A, her ;,Lwvaw# to mfMt I aairi. And if a n an did wish to fam a W te, With show of courtship, here's an ancient, maid, Whose lips have practised long before the glass, The faint refusal—and the eager yes. Following as quick as echo to the sound, And this saine thought does but forerun my need, I'll ills taut, reek-socne younger maid to wed As I remember, this should he the house Being twilight hour, she's out upon the trot, l'o barter scandal for a cup of tea.

For the North fVales Gazette, THE POOR OLD MAN's PETITION. VII; Cambrian Bards, and Gentry, hear my tale, A talc of woe I offer to your ears4 And let my humble muse at length prevail, To ease my sufferings, and dry up my tears. Pity the sorrows a poor old man., Whom, now, decrepitude has rendered weak; Whose sands from out his hour-glass nearly ran, Have urfd him thus, hi3 woeful plaiuis to make. «' A lonely wretched man, In pain I go, u None want my relieve my woe; to Soon win my bones henea f h the tuff be laid, 0, And men forget the wretch they won dnot aid. •4 ? once was chief of all the rustic trade, «• INly steady hand the straightest furrow made, H Full manya prize I won, and still ant proud, To think, the triumphs of my youth allow'd. »l A transient pleasure sparkles in my eye, « I bear—and smilc-then think—and heave a vieb # « For now I journey to my grave in pain, It The rich disdain me—nay the poor disdain. •« Alternate masters now their slave command, H To urge the efforts of my feeble hand And when my age attempts the task in vain, with ruthless taunts—of lazy poor, complain. In retrospective views of former dys, When health and strength, invigorate by youth; "When ev'ry labour was perforni'd with ease, When ev'ry friend and neighbour spoke the truth I J say, when recollection brings to mind, The comforts I eujoy'd in homely cot; Biest with an offspring, and a wife most kind, Oh! happy days—how blissful then my lot. I then, with swains—my daily labour done, With rural games play'd down the setting sun, I ttruek with matchless force the setting ball, Or made the pond'rous quoit obliquely fall u Or like huge Ajax, terrible and strong, Engag'd soiueartful stripling of the throng u"Who fell beneath me, foil'd, while far around, Hoarse triumphs rose, and made the rocks resound. '1 I then was chief in all their playful sport, And like a Monarch, rul'd their little court, at The pliant bow I forrn'd-the flying hill- The bat-t Ie wlcket-were my lahours all. J, in your service spent my youthful strength, To yon, devoted days and years of care 0 let me not bewail—tind say at length, Yon've doom'd me—parish pittance but to share. ye rich, who wealth possess, bestow your aid, In augmenratioDof this niggsrd plan The (,0" will recompence-tt ant afraid. Y'i'T t<f-unty—to a woro OUt poor O'd Van. jyty* Glv>&. Rvhicvs,

':I To the)'EdiIIJrs of the Norlh frales Gazette. Gentlemkn, SktrAal months have elapsed since I aet- dressed myself to your notice in some obser- vations upon Planting, at lheanme time ex- pressing my hopes tiiat 1 should see in v<itir columns, accounts of the proficiency in "that usefui employment. 1 have been lately in- dulged with the perusal of several (If YOllr papers, furnished by one of ,your subscribers, ard am highly ratified in perusing the lau- dable efforts of the Agricultural Society in North Wales, and particularly, 011 observing' Ihe names of some patriotic gentlemen, who have made very large plantations of trees; highly creditable lo their good sense and fore- sight 4 and I eulertainJiopes, that I may have hereafter the pleasure of reading of their J laudable example being followed by others. 1 I need uot observe to you, how heedless, aiv ] even regardless the tenantry are to embark i n this scheme of public utility nay, many af them kre (iiiite adverse to it. Therefore Ihr ;ie should be some stimulus applied—some re- muneration offered, by their latiltilords, to in- duce Ijjpm to comply. If this was done, by some Ihe ieadiug gentlemen who possess exL nlive estates, it might in a proporti. >nate degree, he adottted by those of an in frrior rank anion* them. Perhaps the re sidenl clergy might tu thair respective parish* j* ffliti iticaits ti) encourage, either by their ex ample, or their persuasions, a matter of slIch n.ational consequence. I trust, if these obse rvations are noticed in your Gazette, that son Ie of the members of that Society, will be ii'iduced to Consider of a plan, which if adopted "will pro- duce the desired effect, and rescue the denuded parts of Anglesea, and the other counties in North Wales, from the present dreary ap- pearance which travellers have represented them to bear. SYLVA.

To the Editors of the North IVales Gazette. Gentlemkh, Mr. Harmar in his 37 Observations on the the state of Judea. says" The treatment of those shut up in Eastern prisons differs fr^m our usuages, but serves to illustrate several passages of Scripture. Sir John Chardin's manuscript relates several circumstances con- cerning their prisons.whicitareturious. The Eastern prisons are lIot. public buildings erected for that purpose; but a part of the house in which their original judges dwell As the Governor and Provost of a town, or the Captain of Ihe watch, imprison such as are accused in their own houses, they set apart a canton of it for that purpose, when they are put into these offices, and choose for their it jailor the most proper person they can find of their domestics. Sir John supposes the prison in which Joseph, together with the chief butler and the chief baker of Pliaraoli, was put, was iu Poiiphar's own house. But! will apply this account to the illustration of another passage of Scripture. Wherefore," it issaid Jerem. XXXVIII. 15, the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jona- than the scribe, for they had made that the prison." Here we see the dwelling house of an eminent person was madca prison. See also Jercm. XXXVI. v. 12. A second thing relating to the Eastern prisons, taken notice of in this MS. is that a discretionary powey is given to the keeper to treat his prisoners j list as he pleases, all that is required of him being only to produce them when called for. After having remarked, that several things he melt. tions relating to the imprisonment of Joseph, must appear very unaccountable to an Euro- pean, he goes on to this purpose. Those that have observed the manners of the modern Eastern people, will find that the like things are jpractised among them; they have not different prisons for the different classes of criminals; the judges do not trouble them- selves where the prisoners are coiifiiied, or how they are treated. If the jailor or his servants have large fees, let a. person be the greatest • iiiaiu M. tho Will hI. he shall be lodged in the jailor's own appa/tment on the coiiti- those that have imprisoned a man give the gailer greater presents,-he will treat the pri- soner with the greatest inhumanity. What energy doth this account of an Eastern prison give to those passages of Scripture, that speak f the sorrowful sighing of the prisoner, and its coming before God < Of Jeremiah's being kept in a dungeon many days, and his suppti- eating that he might not be remanded limber, leal he should-4ic thocc.

Observations en the net in Sfietp, j :1 This disease may generally be prevented by I- good management, the basis of which consists in completely draining the land. The manner in which the land should be stocked is alt another important consideration. By draining, the reptile, or whatever it mnf be, from which the fionk derives its origin,19 S deprived of its favourite places to deposit if egg, and therefore seeks some other spot, for the better security of its young. It prefert 1 those partu where there is stagnated water, and consequently where it is least likely to ba eaten by cattle or sheep, which is a natural instinct observeable throughout animal life.—* Sheep will not resort to such places, unless • they are very short of feed, and necessity com- r pels them to it; but draining will remolo, the eVIl Itogether. When land subject to the rot is lightly j stocked, as with only one half the sheep it would keep, they frequently escape the diR- ease, which is a strong proof that they in- stinclly reject the spots that are unwholesome and will never eat of them, but from great icarciiy Horses should never be put witli sheep on land where the rot prevails, as they bite very near, and eat the best grass froins the souiwl high grounds, which the sheep would in course make choice of, who are th! driven to those low punny spots, where they lick up, with the herbage, the egg or animal- eule that produces the flotik.-Cliingii), of i theep about, by putting the whole of the flock ikst into one pasture and then into auother, to eat all up, is also very improper; from which some have been led to suppose 1 that short grass rots sheep it is not, however < possible, that this reptile can have its origin in any kind of food, as no plant can produce at itself t living aninial. 1 It is a matter of great surprise, that wlicm a sheep affected with the rot, from strength of constitution, survives and fattens, yet the flonks slill exist in the liver; and when the sheep is killed, these reptiles very soon appeaf to be dezd, although at the moment the livt<* 1 is taken ont, and cut into, they are as liveif | as freslj caught Hal-fish, and much resembia 1 them. From what creature these reptiles are j Keno jted is also surprising, us thereItas never been discovered, on grounds Subject to the j rot, any thing resembling them, nor does it app far that those very Hooks formed in the she »p can have any opportunity to return to wh d they came from, which renders the dis- c< rery too intricate and as naturalists i« ge- n ;ral do not allow that there is such a tfeiug S M spontaneous generation, the origin of this 1 feptile is extremely mysterious. The egg of animalcule must be very abtin- ) < dant, as a flock of sheep have been known to I take the infection in a few iiiiiii-itei. A Bock of one thousand was driven from the high Downs, where sheep never take the rot, once only in a valley to drink, after a heavY shower of rain, and suffered to eat rn there for about fifteen minutes, when two hundred died rotten in the winter following* and how matiy more were affected was not known. It has hi'lherto been impossible to give ao.1 medicine f o kill or discharge these flonks froii* the fiver it is a subject, however, well worl,lT the -,Ittco :"ion of the medical world, and, if > crowned with success, would amply reward t the ialnj ur aud research bestwwed upon it. [

To the Editors of the North Wales Gateti,e- G | NTLEMEN, PFti uit me to adduce to the notice of patriot ic gentlemen, who have lately fonned consul erable plantations of trees, in situation! where apprehensions are entertained by ob- server s, that from their being planted within* j the re ach of the sea spray, or influence of sal^ f water aiir, they are not likely to flourish. It j is vei y true, they will not flourish, particU" | larly the oaks; but if a sufficient number of j sycao 101 e plants were distributed properly amongst the oaks, they would, by hcin proo fag ainst the influence of the saline pff*- ticle i, s ufficiently guard against them tlir sycamoi e comes earlier into foliage in spring and thei r large extended leaves remain after the oak has finished the Midsummer shooM and ithe ir more rapid growth, will conLinuaJlr supply a shelter to the young oak plantS- Scotch firs, as skreens, have been found 06 I experit jnce insufficient for this the syc amorcs have fully answered every ex- pectati on. I have been told that the plane treeg I equall y defy the effects of the salt air; btft as the y are so much later in putting put theif leaves 'in spring, and their growth almost 3* tardy as the oak, I should conceive that thef"! arc II )1, on that acconnt, so eligible as iyea- more The sycamore plants may bo readily" j reinr .ved when they are observed to interfere | with the oaks, and may be transplanted sue* cess Trilly, when they are of a considerable size AGITICOLAO

JII .Inecdote.-The late Reverend Mr. Hal4c4, of Elworth Hall, near Sandbacht rCheshire* p< iKsesscd a considerable landed estate, and WO d iscended from the antient fanvily of tlJØ I lulses, of Marbury, in that CJluntF. He t a widower, and for many of the.lattter yeajs < J It is lifelahuured under severe paint occasion* e J by the stone and gravel; ha had been 1. s: jbject to fainting fits, which the kind asol" d uity and attention of his housckee per, ha d ifFerent times removed by admin id tering cof' d ials, and applying drops to his c ostrils tl Jinples. At length he was seize d with oafi o f these fits stronger and more vi oleut thaØ 7 II IlInl, to which, however, her affet ;tionate t, 311tioti afforded again relief; at length .r scovered his speech, and said, 4 1 0 Naolly N 'sumy, you have done very wron] -if it h4j 11 ot been for your foolish twittlt 1, s tould now have been in heaven you ça.1 «*> II at what hour the last fit seiZef I iiie, and sh ai tiav„ »..»ihor at obuut that t ime tweivo ho IKS, and insist upon it, that ifyc .ucannotbf stii I and Igt me die quietly, that yi >u will the rootj), send Ihe servant t o sit by bed snj(if" \vlijch she promised to do **t f at t be hour lie .hé\d I)re(licteil,, t)t was wtcd, with another faintu>g fit, m<r pired. left Jus estate, aftpjr providing for his 1 keej' er, to the J, « j a, Lei '4ure#hL|>, r t j I