interesting young ladies, are quite cast into the shade by language used
in the following extract from the Portsmouth, N.H., "Oracle of the
Day," Nov. 24, 1798:--

MARRIED]--In this town, on Sunday evening last, by the Rev.
Dr. Haven, MARK SIMES, Esq. Deputy Post-Master, &c. to the
elegantly pretty and amiably delicate Miss MARY-ANN BLUNT,
youngest daughter of the late Capt. John Blunt, of
Little-Harbour.

_Genius of Hymen; Power of fondest Love!
In showers of bliss descend from worlds above,_
_On_ Beauty's _rose, and_ Virtue's _manlier form,_
_And shield, ah! shield them both, from time's tempestuous storm_!



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A FEW years since, a young gentleman at the University in
_Cambridge_ asked of a Collegian the loan of his _W_irgil.
The inelegant pronunciation of the word _Virgil_ was
burlesqued by the young Collegian in the following story,
with which his invention readily supplied him:--_Lately_
(says he) _I set out on a woyage to Wersailles, with one
Captain Winal, in a British wessel called the Wiper; but we
soon met with a wiolent storm, which drove us into a port in
Wirginia; where one Capt. Waughn, a wery wicious man,
inwited us aboard his wessel, and gave us some weal and
wenison, with some winegar, which made me wery sick; so I