The New-York Weekly Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository Part 79

Every species of vice originates either from insensibility, from want of judgment, or from both. No maxim can be more true than that all vice is folly. For either by vice we bring misery more immediately on ourselves, or we involve others in misery; if any one bring evil on himself, it is surely folly; if his present pleasure be to make others miserable, were he to escape every other punishment, he must suffer for it by remorse, or it is a certain proof he is deprived of that sense or sympathy which is the opposite to dullness; in either of which cases, it is evident that all vice is folly.

Whatever pleasures are immediately derived from the sense, persons of fine internal feelings enjoy, besides their other pleasures; while such as place their chief happiness in the former, can have no true taste for the delicious sensations of the soul.

_NEW-YORK._

MARRIED,

On Thursday the 3d inst. at his Excellency John Jay's, Esq. by the Rev.

Dr. Rodgers, JOHN LIVINGSTON, Esq. of the Manor of Livingston, to Mrs.

CATHARINE RIDLEY, daughter of his Excellency William Livingston, Esquire, late Governor of New-Jersey.

On Sat.u.r.day evening the 5th inst. by the Rev. Dr. Foster, Mr. PETER WARNER, of Boston, to Miss ELIZABETH AMELIA FIELDING, of this city.

On Sunday evening the 6th inst. by the Rev. Dr. Moore, Mr. THOMAS LLOYD, to Mrs. SARAH ELLIS, both of this city.

Same evening, by the Rev. Dr. Ireland, Mr. WILLIAM WATSON, of this city, to Miss JEMIMA HONEYWELL, daughter of Israel Honeywell, Esq. of West-Chester.

On Monday the 7th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Ogden, of Newark, Mr. JOHN STEVENSON, of this city, to Miss HANNAH KINGSLAND, daughter of Mr.

Joseph Kingsland, of Second River, New-Jersey.

On Tuesday evening the 8th inst. by the Rev. Dr. M'Knight, ROBERT LEE, Esq. to Mrs. CAROLINE BETTS, both of this city.

On Friday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Rattoone, EBENEZER BROWN, Esq.

of Philadelphia, to Miss ESTHER ANN WATSON, sister to James Watson, jun.

of this city.

_METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS._ _From the 30th ult. to the 12th inst._

_Thermometor observed at 8, A.M. 3, P.M._ _Prevailing winds._ _OBSERVATIONS on the WEATHER._

deg. deg. 6. 3. 6. 3.

100 100 Oct. 30 46 57 w. do. clear light wind. do. do.

31 44 54 w. sw. cloudy lt. wind do do.

Nov. 1 37 45 n. do. clear high wind do. lt. wd.

2 35 49 nw. w. clear light wind. do. do.

3 41 52 sw. w. clear high wind, do. lt. wd.

4 43 44 w. do. cloudy lt. wind, clear do.

5 47 53 50 w. nw. cloudy high wd. cr. lt. wd.

6 45 50 46 25 sw. nw. clear lt. wd. do. high wind.

7 32 44 nw. do. clear high wd. do. lt. wind.

8 38 50 25 sw. do. clear lt. wd. cloudy do.

9 46 48 sw. do. cloudy lt. wd. do. do.

10 43 75 56 50 sw. e. cloudy lt. wd. do. do.

11 48 75 53 e. do. cloudy lt. wd. do. do.

12 43 50 52 n. do. cloudy lt. wd. clear lt. wd.

RESULTS OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.

_For October 1796._ deg. 100

Mean temperature of the thermometer at Sunrise: 49 18 Do. do. of the do. at 3 P.M. 58 5 Do. do. for the whole month 53 61 Greatest monthly range between the 25th & 28th 40 Do. do. in 24 hours, the 25th 24 Warmest day the 25th 77 The coldest do. the 28th 37

2 Days it has rained, and but a small quant.i.ty.

11 days it was clear at the observation hours.

11 do. it was cloudy at the same do.

18 do. the wind was light, at do. do.

2 do. the wind was high do. do.

18 Days the wind was to the westward of North and South.

18 Do. the wind was to the Eastward of do. do.

_For the +New-York Weekly Magazine+._

[The Editor is exceedingly thankful to MONIMIA for the three different views of Winter, which she has so beautifully contrasted.

--The first is presented to the admirers of Poesy, the two latter shall follow in rotation.]

THE BELLE'S INVOCATION TO WINTER.

Winter, dear season of delights, Of joyous days and brilliant nights!

Oh haste, on swiftest pinions haste, For summer's lingering hours are past, And dreary Autumn ready stands To yield the sceptre to thy hands.

Too long by potent heats subdued, I've sought refreshment in the wood; Where dull retirement's drowsy charms Have raised no bustling dear alarms.

Then winter haste, and bring again Enchanting pleasure's golden reign: Oh! waft me on thy snowy wings, To charming York's bewitching scenes; Where fas.h.i.+on all her offerings brings, And dulness never intervenes.

The sprightly dance, the magic song, Shall then the festive night prolong; The tragic muse shall lend her aid, In JOHNSON's matchless charms array'd; Or MELMOTH rouse the tender tear, Now melt in woe--now start with fear; While every sportive Thalian grace, In either HODGKINSON we trace.

Enticing cards shall next invite To scenes of ever new delight, We'll spend the night at dear _vingt-un_, Retire at two, and sleep till noon.

Now seated in the social sleigh, To Haerlem or the Bridge, away; While frolic joy usurps the hour, Unaw'd by form's despotic power; For though her laws we all obey, We sometimes love a holiday.

At thy approach, dear winter, too, The Beaux present themselves to view: Their nerves by piercing Boreas brac'd, And summer's languor's all eras'd; They then, attendant at our side, Through every scene of pleasure glide; Admire our dress, our beauty more, And (as in duty bound) _adore_.