tude; whose eye glitters like the fashionable parts of this vast metropolis northern star; a King, as spiritual never exhibited the effect of those attracas a ball is round; who, when he tions in greater assemblages of brilliant rises, shades all his people; from fompany fuller of idle and luxurious population under whose feet a sweet odour is

wafted.

The King of Persia's titles, though adulatory, are beautiful: he is called The Branch of Honour; The Mirrour of Virtue; and The Rose of Delight.

A QUEER EΡΙΤΑΡΗ.

On a tombstone in Lyme (Ame

In truth, London never was

than during this spring; and Bond-street, St. James's-street, Pall Mall. Oxfordstreet, and Hyde Park, have, between the hours of one and five, been daily crowd

ed beyond example. The carriages in the central parts of these districts usually, at certain hours, form a walking procession, from the difficulty of passing; and, if the minister does not increase the duty on these appendages of wealth, or the the

will render them useless to their

roughfares are not made wider, their rica,) there was a few years since, owners. The company itself forms a and perhaps is at this time, the fol- spectacle no where else to be seen, and lowing epitaph, said to be written by worthy alone of a visit from distant parts the person for whom it was inscrib- of the empire.

ed

"A deacon aged 58-58,

On earth no more is sarvin;
He for a crown no longer waits,
Lyme's Captain Renald Marvin.

From the Literary Gazette, April, 1818.

Many years since, a French teacher, resident in Oxford, of the name of Ducane, called on Mr. Wickham, a mercer, who lived opposite University College, for a waistcoat piece, but could not recollect the name of the

Tradition says that the above Captain Marvin, when young, courted one Betty Lee, a handsome hearty lass, whose father was violently opposed to the match. Every pro- material he wished for. He said bable measure was taken to mollify "he thought it was de Englis for de the old gentleman, but all in vain. Diable." Mr. Wickham mentioned The young folks were as obstinate as the several names of his infernal the old one, and determined to have Highness, such as Old Nick, Beelzetheir own way. As in those good bub, &c. -" No, no, it was not dat," old times none could be matrimonial- was the reply. At last Mr. Wickly fettered without a previous mani- ham thought of satan. "O dat is

festo, either from the mouth of the minister or nailed on the door of the meeting-house, they made choice of the latter method, and Renald wrote the following stanzas, which was nailed as aforesaid :

vat I vant," said Ducane, " I vant

a Satan vestcoate."

A stupid person one day seeing a man of learning enjoying the pleasures of the table, said, "So, Sir, philosophers I see can indulge in the greatest delicacies." Why not,' replied the other, do you think Providence intended all good things for the ignorant?"

A wit wishing to annoy a general officer of no great merit, who had affronted him, offered to publish a volume entitled, "The Exploits of the Famous General * * **." After the title page there were only some blank leaves.

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Anecdote of the Emperor Joseph 11.

From La Belle Assembleé, for June, 1818. INITATION OF A NUN AT MESSINA,

I WENT this morning to the convent of St. Gregorio to see a young

The Emperor Joseph II. heard every body who pretended to dis

cover to him any thing useful. By lady take the veil; a ceremony worth

this means he often fost much precious time.

Baron Calisius once begged an audience to propose to the Emperour a matter of great importance; it was granted him: the conversation was as follows

seeing: heard high mass, and very fine musick. On such occasions the friends invite the principal nobility and gentry to the ceremony, and I had my invitation. We all first assembled in a room, where the novice conversed with every one; chocolate, coffee, and cakes where handhour we went into the church-the ed about. After spending a full

Calisius. The city Comorn in Hungary has the misfortune to be visited nearly every five years by earthquakes, which have often occa- ladies and gentlemen all in full sioned great damage, and still expose dress; the church illuminated: the it to the utmost danger, threatening it with total destruction. atening lady to take the veil sat behind the have remarked, that in Egypt there grating, which was now open, so that never were nor are any earthquakes. like a singer in front of an orchestra. she appeared in front, very close, But as Egypt differs from other coun- _ After high mass, she and her sistries only in having pyramids, it follows that pyramids must be sure preventatives of earthquakes.

The Emperor. So then it would be good to build some of these edifices in Hungary ?

Calisius. This is my humble proposal, and here I present your Majesty a plan how they may be erectThe Emperor. But have you calculated the expense P

ed.

Calisius. No: but I believe for

three or four hundred thousand florings two handsome pyramids might be built; a little smaller indeed than those in Egypt.

but who will not become nuns) sang: ters (for she has two in the convent, she then took up the scissors, and made the signal of cutting to her acquaintance, laughing, and seeming superstitious, or she acted her part she is certainly either very she did all in her power to prevent admirably: her mother assured me her becoming a nun, but to no purpose: she was most splendidly dressof diamonds; for, on these occasions, ed, as if for court, and had a profusion they are lent by all the relations and friends. After the blasphemous song of "Oh! Jesus Christ, Jesus priest got into the pulpit, and preachChrist, come and mary me," a Calisius. No, but I hope your church musick succeeded, during ed a sermon: a grand concert of Majesty will contribute, and the rest which she was taking up the scissors, might perhaps he raised by a subscrip- and making significant signs, when The Emperor. Well, I have noth- and cut off her fine hair: she then the chief priest and lady abbess came ing against it. If a suitable place began to undress, throwing into a can be found, which is fit for nothing large dish the worldly folhes of else, and you will undertake the dress; the diamonds, earrings, bracework on subscription, begin to build lets, &c. &c. all were tossed away as soon as you please; but I cannot with disdain: after which she went fix the amount of my subscription out, and returned, in ten minutes, before I see at least one pyramid completely metamorphosed, in the quite finished. dress of the order-a gloomy black,

The Emperor. Has the city of Comorn so much money ?

and very badly made: the company as this lady was the daughter of the withdrew to the room we first as- grand judge. The ceremony ended sembled in; her friends and the la- with a discharge of guns and paterdies were all presented, and kissed reroes. her; strangers bowed; I conversed The black veil is a more singular with her, and advised her to repent. ceremony, as I am told, and more The rule is this :- After the no- expensive. On this occasion, the viciate, they take the white veil, nun, being married to Jesus Christ, as above; and this day she spends renounces the world for ever; and, with her family: at night she re- in testimony thereof is put into a turns to the convent, and no one coffin, surrounded with candles, and can see her for a month, after which ends with three vows of poverty, she may come to the grate like the obedience, and chastity.-General others; at the end of one year she Cockburn's Voyage to Sicily, Malmay take the black veil, which is a ta, Gibraltar, &c.

fatal vow never to be reversed; or,

WALTHAM FOREST.

Hainault or Waltham Forest, viz.

rather, she then takes the vows: but, if she chooses, she may ask another year, and even a third, at LINES written on seeing the folthe end of which she must declare lowing jeu d'esprit in a handbill her intention finally. They say posted up in Plaistow, as a "Cauthere is no force; but there 15 the tion" to prevent perso from supsame thing. These poor girls are porting the intended inclosure of educated for it, and their minds warped, and perverted for the purpose. I advised her to renounce at the end of the first year; she, however, smiled, and said her resolution was taken. These ceremonies, when publick, like this, are expensive, and defrayed by the family. Every person, of any distinction, in Messina, attended on the occasion,

"The fault is great in man or woman,
"Who steals a goose from off a common;
"But what can plead that man's excuse,
" Who steals a common from a goose?!"

Does he, who seems to plead a goose's cause,
Not read, or not believe, his Maker's laws?
Who says-" Set not thy heart on worldly pelf,
But love thy neighbour as thou lov'st thyself."
Or may we gather from this smart excuse,

He'd starve his fellow-creatures while he feeds a goose.

POETRY.

Thou flower of heav'nly seed!
Emphatical delight!
Thou, in whose leaves we read
The soul of crimson light!
That married art, indeed,
And vow'd to Summer bright;
And didst of Spring proceed;
What tongue can paint thee right?

Ere thou art born on earth,
The shepherds sing thy praise;
The cities waken mirth,
In hope of flowry days:
Thou art the chiefest birth,
That swelling Nature pays,
To ransom Winter's dearth,
And Spring's unkind delays.
The pink and violet meet,
The jasmine dwells in thee,
The honeysuckle sweet,

The jacinth budding free; In thee what odours greet The longing sense, agree; And reign in lovely heat

As fountains in the sea.

Methinks, thou hast a tongue,
That answers me again,
With lovely Muses hung;
"O, waste not love in vain;
But let HIS praise be sung,
Who bade me blush, and reign
O'er flowers; by whom I sprung;
The God of land and main!

"My life, I know, is brief;
My crimson shall grow pale;
And I shall shed my leaf,
And all my odours fail :
But this can breed no grief;
I love, and shall prevail;
And God shall give relief,

And raise me up from bale.

"And what the Spring to me,
Prophetick may appear,
Is Heaven, O Man, to thee,
An ever-blooming year;
Where thou shalt Angels see,
And their sweet harpings hear;
If thou God's servant be,
And keep his counsel dear."

The visions of my boyhood glide
In long review before me

One lovely eve, at such an hour,
The woods were green, the sun was
shining;

And I, within this beechen bower,
Upon the bank reclining;

When up yon path my loved one came,
In all the pride of vernal brightness,
With brow of snow, and lip of flame,
And form of fairy lightness.

I clasp'd my seraph to my breast,
With ecstacy my heart was beating,
And hers, within its joyous nest,
Was throb for throb repeating.

We roamed about this woodland scene,
And down the hill, and through the
meadow,

Till lowering, sombre and serene,

,

The evening threw his shadow.

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DESULTORY ESSAYS.

From the Edinburgh Magazine, for April, 1818.

ON THE DARWINIAN SCHOOL OF quillity of his little farm; and the

POETRY.

# Others for language all their care express,
And value books, as women men, for dress:
Their praise is still- The style is excellent;'
The sense they humbly take upon content."

other to Aben Hassen, in the Arabian Tales, who was transported from the tavern to the palace, when under the influence of a somniferous potion, and awoke amid the musick Pope. of a morning serenade, and surrounded with all the splendours of mock royalty.

IN matter, and manner, the Lake and Darwinian schools of poetry are the very antipodes of each other, Were it not for the similes, which -hostile in all their doctrines, and are, however, too frequently pressed opposite in every characteristick. into the service, the Botanick GarThe one endeavours, and too often den and the Temple of Nature, with succeeds, in debasing what is natu- all their luxuriant description, and rally dignified and lofty, by meanness splendid imagery, and pompous verof style, and triteness of simile, and sification, would be the most tedious puerility of description: it clothes and uninteresting performances;Achilles once more in female habili- the only redeeming virtue would be ments, and sets Hercules to the dis- found in the notes. The subjects, taff. The other endeavours if we abstractedly considered, wholly premay be allowed the simile-to buoy clude all passion, pathos, and symup the materials of prose into the pathy, which are unquestionably etherial regions of poetry, by putting among the more fascinating elements them into the car of an air balloon, that enter into the composition of not expanded by the divine afflatus, poetry. What end could be gained but by means of hydrogenous gas, by describing in verse the machinery while the aeronaut, as he ascends, of a cotton-mill, or the improvewaves his embroidered flag, and scat- ments on the steam-engine? If Dr. ters among the gaping crowd below, Darwin intended to excite pleasuragold leaf, and tinsel, and roses. The ble feelings in his readers, he might one reminds us of Cincinnatus, who, unquestionably have chosen a more after having held the helm of state, appropriate subject; if instruction and led the armies of his country to was his aim, he could have attained victory, sighed for unambitious re- it far more commodiously in prose. tirement, and threw off the ensigns We are told, indeed, that "it is the of office, and withdrew from the bus- design of the Botanick Garden to tle of cabinets and camps, to the tran- enlist Imagination under the banner MAG. 4.-VOL. 1.