. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. he piece figned A. O. N. O. A, is ftill under confideration, there-fore the author is miftaken in fuppofing it was alluded to in the iaft ad-drefs to our Correfpondents. The gentleman who propofes to oblige us with an Eflay for each Month,may depend upon our Ciindor in confidering his pieces. Lauras Letter, and her Poetry, will be attended to. We are forrythat the Vcrfes on the Death of Mifs Langley, one of the Sifters of Beth-lehem, arrived too late for infertion in the prefent number. Hamptons problem, a Long Story, Jgricola^s Eflay, Philade
. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. he piece figned A. O. N. O. A, is ftill under confideration, there-fore the author is miftaken in fuppofing it was alluded to in the iaft ad-drefs to our Correfpondents. The gentleman who propofes to oblige us with an Eflay for each Month,may depend upon our Ciindor in confidering his pieces. Lauras Letter, and her Poetry, will be attended to. We are forrythat the Vcrfes on the Death of Mifs Langley, one of the Sifters of Beth-lehem, arrived too late for infertion in the prefent number. Hamptons problem, a Long Story, Jgricola^s Eflay, Philadelphienfesand on the ufes of a Long Queu, and the Political Foxcraft, a Fable—-fhall be publifhed in the enfuing magazine. N. Ns Sabbattical exercife, andfeveral other pieces are under confider-ation. The verfes figned G. Scipio to Hannibal, and Mad Tom are inadmif-fible, on account of inaccuracy in fome refpefts, and perfonality in others. Several ingenious anfwers to the Rebus in our Iaft number, have beenjreceived, befides that now inferted«. ,.^^1?^,^/^,^^<^^«^ ^.*,<^*^^ •*^*^^^^^^^.-*^•*»^*^^*^i^ # # ; # ,^^ i^h ^^ ^f # # # # ? THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE, For OCTOBER, 1787. AMELIA: OR the FAITHLESS ^n Original Novel, founded upon recent fa^s. THE revolutions of government, andthe fubverfions of empire, which havefwelled the theme of national hiftotians,have, liktwife, in every age, farni(hed anec-dote to the biographer, and incident to thenovellift. The objefts of policy or ambi-tion are generally, indeed, accompliHied atthe cxpence of private eafe and profperity ;while the triumph of arms, like the funeralftftivityof a favage tribe, ferves to announcefome recent calamity^—the wafte of proper-ty, or the fail of families. Thus, the great events of the late M-ar,which produced the reparation of the Bn-tifh empire, and eftabliflrcd the fovereigntyof America, v/ere chequered with fccnes ofprivate forrow, and the fuccefs of the con-tending forces was alterna
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