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Philad. 1814.-By Anthony Finley, publisher, Hall's Law Journal, vol. 5, 8vo. Baltimore. 1814. Containing the publications of Thomas Jefferson and Edward Livingston, on the disputed Batture at New Orleans-By Moses Thomas. Sur des Cristaux de Pyroxène des Environs de New-York.M. Hauy, Paris, 4to. ORIGINAL POETRY-FOR THE PORT FOLIO. For the following selection and translation we are indebted to the taste and pen of a young gentleman, who is only fourteen years of age. It is evident that the translation is entirely his own, inasmuch as it bears no resemblance to that of Dryden, Pitt, or any other writer. We thank him for this early though creditable effort, and exhort him to perseverance in his classical studies, assuring him that nothing else is necessary to rank him, at no very distant period, among the elegant scholars of his country. ED. Tempus erat, quo prima quies mortalibus ægris In somnis ecce ante oculos mastissimus Hector Raptatus bigis, ut quondam, aterque cruento Pulvere, perque pedes trajectus lora tumentes. Vel Danaûm Phrygios jacuiatus puppibus ignes! Compellare virum, et mœstas expromere voces." Virg. Æn. lib. 2, l. 268. 'Twas now the hour, when first around our heads How chang'd alas! from him who from the toils Still fresh he show'd; I then my grief express'd, THE BEAUTIES OF YORK. Inscribed to Thomas S. Pleasants. Various considerations unite in inducing us to admit the following des criptive poem to a place in the Port Folio. Although not characterized throughout by uniform excellence, it is, notwithstanding, in many of its parts, unusually beautiful. It was written by a youth of a mind and character peculiarly interesting, but who had never enjoyed the advantages of a liberal education. He was the poet of nature no less exclusively than the unfortunate Burns. But our strongest motive for printing it is, the elegant tribute it pays to the amiable, the heroic, the neglected Pocahontas--a princess who, in other countries, if not actually deified, would have been worshipped, at least, as a tutelary saint; but who, in this, where virtue, talents, and worth constitute the only legitimate title to distinction, has been suffered to be almost lost to fame. Whatever production or document makes honourable mention of the name of that extraordinary woman, should be prized as sacred and piously preserved by the people of America Under Providence, she was more instrumental than any other being in the original colonization of these United States. The poet, the painter, the sculptor, and the statuary should vie with each other in doing justice to her achievements and in perpetuating her renown. ED. THY pleasing shores and stream, O York, I sing, Accept, O Pleasants, these untutored strains, Smooth flow my strains to York's fair silver tide, A gentler motion marks, O York, thy streams, A brighter sun sends forth his golden beams |