The Massachusetts Spy

MISCELLANY.

Celebrations of Independence.

Mr. Editor,

I send you a hasty sketch of the Uxbridge Celebration, with the toasts. I wish you to exercise your judgment on the toasts: publish a part, "either or neither," as you think proper, or find convenient.

In great haste, yours respectfully.

Celebration at Uxbridge.

Our National Anniversary was celebrated at Uxbridge by the citizens of several towns in the south section of the county of Worcester. The procession moved from Mr. R. Chapin's Inn, to the Meeting-House, under the escort of the Uxbridge Grenadiers. The services at the Meeting-House consisted of appropriate musick, a solemn and fervent prayer by the Rev. Mr. Judson, and an Oration by George Wheaton, Esq. The Oration was pronounced in a chaste and impressive manner. Just in its sentiments, and happy in the illustration of them, it was a production of no common elegance throughout.

After the services at the Meeting-House, a large number of citizens repaired to an arbour, and sat down to a table furnished in handsome style by Mr. Chapin. After the cloth was removed, thirteen toasts and several volunteers were drank by the company, accompanied by the discharge of cannon and national airs by the Douglas band.

Toasts.

The States of the Union—Spokes in the same wheel, impelled by the same power, and in the same direction, and united by a common bond—may they never be broken by accident, nor displaced by violence.

The President of the United States—Worthily has he worn the mantle of Washington.

Education, Agriculture, Manufactures and Commerce.—The head, the heart, and the arteries of the body politick.

Our nearest relatives and neighbours—The republicks of South-America.—The youngest of the family of republicks, but old enough to teach kings their duty, and subjects their rights.

Union,—Religious, political, and matrimonial.

Ambition's patent ladder.—It has eleven rounds, and on each round a candidate for President—a safe ascent to castles in the air.

The American Navy.—Though her Hull be sound, yet the air of Courts-Martial may be unfavourable to the verdure of her laurels.

The American Army.—Our defence in war—the pioneer of national improvement in peace.

The members of the present Congress.—In their anxiety to promote retrenchment, may they not under-rate the value of their own services.

The late noble specimen of honourable duelling.—We concur in the opinion, that the shooting "star of Carolina has set forever."

"The Holy Alliance."—The only alliance which we call holy, the alliance "for better and for worse."

The proposed Worcester and Providence Canal. The nature of its opponents' objections compel the belief that charity not only begins at home, but sometimes stays there.

The following article is no "fancy piece" of ours; its brevity, however, induces us to gratify the writer, not, we hope, at the expense of any others of "those concerned."