A PRUDENT CHOICE.

When Loveless married Lady Jenny,

Whose beauty was the ready penny;

“I chose her,” says he, “like old plate,

Not for the fashion, but the weight.”

ANECDOTES

EMINENT PERSONS.

Mesdemoiselles De Fernigs.

These two young heroines were the daughters of a quarter-master of cavalry, and by accompanying the French troops in their excursions at the beginning of the war, attained a certain degree of attachment to military exploits, and even an enthusiasm against the common enemy. Unlike the “maid of Orleans,” they were dressed in female attire, and pretended neither to prophecy nor revelation, but they headed the French troops, in 1791, with the same boldness that the martial female alluded to, was accustomed to do, two centuries before.

Dumourier, who never let slip any occasion of inspiring his army with confidence, invited these ladies to the camp at Maulde, and made such a flattering report to the Convention of their modesty, intrepidity, and good conduct, that they received a house, and an adjoining piece of land, as a present from the republic.

On the defection of this general, preferring gratitude to duty, and personal attachment to the love of their country, they both took part with him, and were out-lawed.

Moreau

Is a native of Morlaix, in the ci-devant Bretanny, 29 miles distant from Brest. When about 18 years of age, he was sent to Rennes, to study the law; and he who might have proved but an indifferent avocat, has, at the age of 33, acquired the character of a skilful commander.

He first distinguished himself in Holland, and then served with great éclat under Pichegru. The late brilliant passage across the Rhine, without the loss of a single man, was achieved under his auspices. His father is said to have perished during the tyranny of Robespierre; the son is a zealous republican, and fights and conquers in that cause.

The Abbe De Lille,

Like the bards of old, is at once a poet and a musician: and, in consequence of a rare union of both characters, he composed the Marsellois Hymn, which, by connecting his name with the history of the French Revolution, will render it immortal.

In addition to his other works, he has meditated a poem on the “Imagination,” for what is singular enough, this has never as yet been committed to paper. The truth is, that the Abbé, relying on his extraordinary memory, never copies out any of his verses, until they are about to be printed.

He was arrested during the short-lived tyranny of Robespierre; and if he had perished on that occasion, both the poem and the poet would have been lost together.

NEW-YORK.

MARRIED,

On Saturday evening the 6th ult. at Augusta (Georgia) by the Rev. Mr. Boyd, Mr. James Cooper, merchant, to Miss Susan Winslow, both of that place.

On Sunday evening the 21st ult. by the Rev. Dr. Linn, Mr. Nicholas Roome, to Miss Jemima Lewis, both of this city.

By the Rev. Dr. Moore, Mr. Patrick Munn, to Miss Ann Maverick, both of this city.

By the Rev. Dr. Moore, Capt. Woodham, of the ship Swan, to Miss Rebecca Maverick, of this city.

On Saturday se’nnight, by the Rev. Dr. Foster, Mr. Benjamin Gifford, to Miss Sally Anderson, both of this city.

On Tuesday evening se’nnight, Mr. John Lockwood, to Mrs. Sarah Smith, relict of Mr. Stephen Smith, both of Norwalk.

Same evening, by the Rev. Dr. Moore, David A. Ogden, Esq. to Miss Rebecca Edwards, both of this city.

On Saturday evening, by the Rev. Dr. Linn, N. Prime, Esq. of Boston, to Miss Cornelia Sands, daughter of Comfort Sands, Esq. Merchant, of this city.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.

From the 28th ult. to the 3d inst.

	Thermometor observed at				Prevailing winds.		OBSERVATIONS on the WEATHER.
	6, A.M. 3, P.M.				6.	3.	6.	3.
	deg.	100	deg.	100
May 28	60		68		sw.	nw.	fgy. lt. w.	cl. h. w. lg. t. r.
29	55		71		w.	sw.	clear lt. wd.	do. h. wd.
30	55		52		e.	ne.	cly. lt. w. r	do. p. r.
31	52		66		n.	nw.	cly. lt. w.	clear do.
June 1	50		69		nw.	w.	clear lt. w.	do. do.
2	50		62		nw.	se.	cl. lt. wd.	cly. do. p. r.
3	59		76		s.	do.	cly. calm	clear lt. wd.

[ RESULTS OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.]

FOR MAY 1797.

Made in the Cupals of the Museum, by G. Baker, Proprietor.

Mean temperature		ofthe	Thermometer	at sun-rise	52	13
Do.	do.	of the	do.	at 3 P. M.	63	3
Do.	do.	for the whole month			57	58
Greatest monthly range between the 3d. and 11th.					33	0
Do.	do.	in 24 hours, between the 10th. and 11th.			20	0
Warmest day the		11th.			75	0
Coldest day the		3d.			42	0

13	days it rained, and an uncommon quantity hasfallen.
19	do. the wind was at the westward of northand south, at both obser.
12	do. the do. was to theeastward of do. and do.
17	do. the do. was lightat	both observations.
2	do. the do. was high at	do. do.
12	do. it was clear at	do. do.
7	do. it was cloudy at	do. do.
6	days it Thundered and Lightened, in considerableabundance.