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BNL.771.048
13 Jun 1771:32 (3531)
Mr. Draper, please to insert the following in your next.
Where can philosophers, and sages wise,
Who read the curious volumes of the skies,
A model more exact that dancing name,
of the creation's universal frame ?
Where worlds unnumber'd, o'er th' aetherial way
in a bright regular confusion stray ?
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Where can the mor'list find a juster plan,
Of the vain labours, and the life of Man ?
As an introduction to the last Monday's Boston-Gazette, we
are favoured with a fresh variety of scandal, discharged at
the first magistrate of this province: But, unfortunately
for the author, with as little foundation in truth, as other
impotent and fruitless insults of the same kind.
The public are, by this candid and ingenuous writer, very
decently told that, not only his Excellency the G-------r,
the Hon. the Com--------rs, of the C------ms, Commodore
G--b--r, the officers of his Majesty's A--y and N--y, and
all the gentlemen and ladies, who celebrated the birth of
the King on the evening of the 4th instant at Concert-Hall,
were a sett of revellers; + lascivious, lustful, and
excessive wine-bibers: Unequalled falshood ! intolerable
effrontery !--Whatever might have been the preciseness of
Governor Endicott, that induced Charles 2d to desire his
removal from the colony; the vain Puritanism of this
unpolished babler, is surely sufficient to exclude him the
company of those who are eminent either for understanding or
morals.
No one who is in the least acquainted with the
entertainment of a ball, consisting of a number of persons,
of the first rank and of both sexes, can suppose it
convenient for the purpose of indecent levity; on the
contrary, the agreeable mixture of age and youth, forms a
reciprocal check, and amusement becomes the school-mistress
of polite and social manners.
Let the discipline of the churches, either in Old or
New-England, have been heretofore what it may, thank God,
the dominion of the priesthood is not now extensive: We are
in that respect free. " There is, says Solomon, among other
things, a time to dance," and I will not imagine that even
lawned or unlawned prelates, would in our days with a
monkish austerity, call those in question, who having a turn
for this species of amusement, associate in an assembly
innocent, if not divine, for an hour of festivity and mirth.
Whoever are acquainted with his Ex-------y G------r
H--------n, must be convinced, that music and dancing, are
neither his business nor his pleasure: The entertainment at
noon was the offspring of his own liberality and loyalty, at
that of the evening he was only an invited guest; and tho'
we are informed that " the company at Concert-Hall did not
disperse " 'till the next morning, his ---------- being the
first " that moved;" it is well known that the G------r took
his leave of the company at 11, and before 12 was in bed.
This is sufficient to convince the world, to what pitiful
shifts, the enemies of the fairest character in the province
are driven, in order to sully his reputation and destroy his
influence; but this kind of treatment, will like the stone
of Sisiphus perpetually recoil upon themselves, and be still
an unconquerable labour. SALTATOR.
+ Vide the text cited by the Author, 2 Pet. ch. IV ver.3.
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