While urg'd by fires beneath, the mingled mass,
High o'er the brim, hoarse muttering strives to pass;
No Matter can reside, for Motion's power
Impels the pudding's rise, and torrent's roar ;
But when the torrent in a pond subsides,
By storms unruffled, and unmov'd by tides,
When freed from fire, the pudding swells no more,
And e'en its last faint, dying, sputtering's o'er,
Quick to her wonted home, the foe now gone,
Matter returns, and occupies her throne.

Yet should we farther go, and e'en suppose
That Matter no resistance will oppose,
But fir'd with saintly, Methodistic pride,
Bear like an ox the basting of his hide,
Patient as Fakir,‡ who from high rais'd chair,
Exhorts the crowd with sanctimonious air,
And fill'd with somewhat singular a notion,
Makes of his rump a pin-ball of devotion-
That is, her vis inertia wholly gone,
And left poor Matter empty, and alone,
Still no assistance to their systems vain,
These idle sons of Newton will obtain,
For ne'er by strong attraction's impulse led,
Will brother Matter sister Matter wed,
As we can prove by father Nile's† assistance,
When FURTUM keeps the Moon at proper distance.

† A peculiar kind of devotees in India, who prove the fervency of their piety, by sitting upon cushions made of ten-penny nails.

† A wicked wizard, who by the assistance of a magical type, in which the Planet Furtum and the Moon, occupy the principal places, pretends to surprising discoveries, and has been sentenced by a court of justice to pay an exemplary fine, as the righteous retribution of practising the black art.

Long has the world been lur'd by Newton's schemes His systems strange, and philosophic dreams,

And long has fashion bid all ranks proclaim,
In terms of loud applause his hallow'd name,
From the Astronomer whose piercing eyes,
Beholds events dark-pictur'd in the skies,
Young bratling planets in their cradles sleeping,
And stars as yet unhatch'd in egg-shells peeping,
To Show-man wondrous, who, by feats so rare,
With magic lantern makes the children stare,
Thus when Redress from Stamp-act's dreary night,
O'er fair Columbia shed its morning light,
The cheering ray thro' all her regions ran,
And grateful incense warm'd the heart of man,
While each bright city from Bostonia's shore,
To southern Charlestown join'd in glad uproar,
Gilt with their streaming fires the shades of even,
And bade the cannon tell the news to heaven;
Fair Hebron felt inspir'd, and from a stump
Her sons, for lack of cannon, fir'd a pump.†
But hence Newtonians vain no longer dare
With heaven-taught truths your sophistry compare,
Nor with your brittle arguments essay
To prove that Matter's legs, and runs away;
Why Moodust groans in such convulsive frolics,
And why Hull's physic cures all sorts of cholics,

† Vide Peters' history of Connecticut-a performance so celebrated for a close adherence to Truth, that many people have conjectured the holy divine pumped the old lady out of her well by the assistance of a Hebron Cannon.

† A place celebrated for a kind of home-made earthquakes, which will probably at some future day make a conspicuous figure in the natural history of this country.

Relinquish then the unvailing strife,

For while I've matter left, or breath, or life,
I'll prove, should logic fail, by force of fist,
That Plenum Vacuums every where exist;
Then will you gladly own yourselves mistaken,
And give your tenets up to save your bacon.
So when proud Pharaoh, loth with Jews to part,
Froze his dark soul, and steel'd his harden'd heart,
Though frogs, and lice around the monster pour'd,
Fleas bit his back, and thunder o'er him roar'd,
Though murrain, boils, and blains attack'd his hide,
Yet nought could start him 'till his children died.

ECHO.....NO. VII.

From the National Gazette.

<2 FARTHER AND CONCLUDING THOUGHTS ON THE INDIAN WAR, BY H. H. BRACKENRIDGE, OF PITtsburg.

“I CAN easily excuse those, who, from motives of humanity,

call in question the justness of our cause in the war against the Indians. But could I make my observations theirs with respect to the ruthful disposition of a savage, that is not soothed continually by good offices, or kept down by fear; could I give my knowledge, recollection, and impression of the accumulated instances of homicide committed by the tribes with whom we are at war, the humane would be more humane, for their feelings would be more awake, not in favour of these people, but of the persons butchered by them in cold blood, or dragged to that pole seen by the soldiers under General HARMAR, by the Miami village, where the ground was beat like a pavement by the miserable victims moving round the stake to avoid the still pursuing tortures, which the circle of black coals, at a distance from the piles burned, shewed whence they brought their brands and heated gun-barrels to afflict the object. All this, though there have been but three 'instances since the conclusion of the war with Britain, where an Indian has been hurt on our part; one on the Susquehanna, and two on the Ohio : with respect to one of which instances, that of M'Guire and Brady, it is a doubt whether they were hostile or peaceable.

"I consider men who are unacquainted with the savages, like young women who have read romances, and have as improper an idea of the Indian character in the one case, as the female mind has of real life in the other. The philosopher, weary of

the vices of refined life, thinks to find perfect virtue in the simplicity of the unimproved state. He sees green fields and meadows in the customs and virtues of the savages. It is experience only can relieve from this calenture of the intellect. All that is good and great in man results from education; and an uncivilized Indian is but a little way removed from a beast, who, when incensed, can only tear and devour, but the savage applies the ingenuity of man to torture and inflict anguish.

"A great dependance seems to be placed on Cornplanter and his party. I know Cornplanter, and Big-Tree, and Half-Town; they are good, as Indians, and are well disposed to us, because they can be of little or no account on the other side. Brandt treats them with contempt, and adheres to the British. Instead of bringing them down at a great expense, and presenting them in Philadelphia, and appropriating 800 dollars for their maintenance and vestment, were things put upon a right footing, and Presqu'isle garrisoned, we should have no more occasion for Cornplanter, or Big-Tree, or Half-Town, than they would have for us; and if we gave them goods, they would give us furs.

"I have seen a certain blind Sam, so called, because blind of an eye, taken down to this city, passed for a warrior, dining at clubs, and have heard of him presented at a ball, on his way down: the favoured ladies looking upon themselves as beatified in receiving the salute of a king. When he returned, with a laced waistcoat, the vulgar Indians that before thought him one of them, laughed immoderately at the farce.

"As these are desultory observations, I remark and conclude that some think me rather rash in presuming that the king of Britain has given any countenance, directly or indirectly to the Indian depredations or armaments. I should be sorry to do injustice to any power, and it was with great difficulty that I admitted the idea, but I have been convinced of it, and can have no doubt, because that government couldnot but have heard of the hostilities, and by one simple word of the commandant of Detroit to M'Kee and Brandt, we should have had a perfect peace. But M'Kee and Brandt, when messengers were sent to call the Indians to the