luable lives of British subjects, and so many millions of British property, are daily exposed to shipwreck on her shores -to erect stations all along the coast, within sight of each other-at each of which should be constantly posted a few men, ready at all times to afford this or any other practicable assistance to distressed mariners, instead of leaving their lives and property at the mercy of the merciless horde of wreckers ?

"These stations would answer another useful purpose-that of preventing the clandestine ingress or egress of improper persons, and watching the motions of smugglers and enemies. The expense, for any number of men kept on this duty, would be little or nothing, if soldiers from the standing army or militia were employed for the purpose *-suppose, at each station, a corporal's guard from the nearest regiment, to be relieved at short intervals. Perhaps, for many reasons, it might be thought more adviseable to have those parties each under the command of a

In war-time, land-soldiers; in time of peace, the unemployed marines from the navy, who, being accustomed to the sea, would be better qualified to render effectual service on such occasions.

On earth and ocean o'er Britannia's foes; The Senate there, who to the vanquish'd brave,

[dom gave. Her arts, her equal laws, her rescued freeWorthy are they to clasp the gilded spur, To pace with plumed head, and gartered knee,

While velvet glows beneath pale minever,

The sumptuous garb of antique chivalry; For not at high Poitiers beat hearts more free,

[met, Not hardier knights the proud Armada Than gird thy golden pall, and beat for thee,

Monarch, whose rule in Albion's crown hath set [Plantagenet. Gems that may Tudor mock, and shame

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An experiment for saving lives from shipwreck, on Mr. Tregrouse's principle, has been lately tried with success in Yarmouth Roads, by RearAdmiral Spranger. It consisted in throwing, by a rocket, a line from the ship to the shore, and when the communication is once established, binding to that a deep-sea line, or any of the running rigging; and when these reach the shore, a larger rope, sufficiently strong to bear four men in a chair, which is pulled on shore by means of the small rope, and returned empty to the ship for a fresh cargo. The chair was on shore in five minutes after the firing of the rocket.

POETRY.

Princes before thy throne their fealty vow, Attests the homage of thy native land. And every voice, and each exultant hand,

The white-robed choir respond, and music's wings,

Fraught with a nation's prayers, for heaven expand;

From base to battlement the fabric rings, And silence guards no more the sepulchre of kings.

Dreams my fond brain-or hath that sound affrayed [tomb?

The slumbering tenants of the sculptur'd Methinks I track along the dim arcade Whose storied panes increase its twilight

gloom, [doom. Long-buried chiefs that wait the day of Sebert is there, who bade the cross

tain fort;

[court And there strides on the Knight of AginIn equal pace with him of Cressy's field, Victors in vain, since Fortune's fickle sport

Το

Now aid me, Muse! for much thy aid I need.

Then come; nor let me longer vainly plead.
Be not a niggard of thy favors, pray:
But let me prithee, do-this once display
My learning-Pshaw! no! learning's not
the thing:

For I ne'er sipp'd from the Pierian spring.
No linguist I: my head I know too weak,
To study Latin, or more arduous Greek.
Let the grave scholar to his study creep,
And, o'er dull folioes, pore himself to sleep;
Then, starting, rub his eyes, his snuff-box
[candle;

handle,

Snuff up th' enliv'ning pinch, and snuff the Then sit, unconscious of the lapse of time, "Till on his ear the hour of morning chime, And bright Aurora, 'blushing " rosy red," Sends him at length, reluctant, to his bed. Let him, when there, his darling theme pursue;

(For still the pillow is to study true,)
And, while be muses on the learned dead,
Lament that Genius from the world is fled;
Refuse to modern merit just renown,
Yet, for himself, dare hope t' obtain the

crown.

But hold, my Muse! nor thus, with flip

pant prate,

[great. Pass thy pert censures on the wise and Is it for thee to aim at stars, whose rays, Like meteors, strike the vulgar with amaze? Ah! no! presumptuous thought!-No more aspire :

But learn at awful distance to admire. Untaught thyself, to Learning bend the knee[thee.

Too high, too great, to heed a Muse like

The poet thus: and thus the Muse replies:

Are men of learning then the only wise? Shall they alone acquire the deathless name? Alone stand blazon'd on the list of Fame? Forbid it Justice! Still, in Pride's despite, Thy song, O native Genius! shall delight. Still shall the lib'ral few accord thee praise, And Candor crown thee with unfading bays. What, though the learned proud, with scornful eye,

Glance o'er thy labors, and thy pow'r deny? What, though, unmindful of thy source divine,

He to oblivion would thy name consign? Still shall thy page, 'till Time and Nature sleep, [to weep; Teach us, with Mirth to laugh, with Grief Waft the rapt soul to realms of fancied joy, Where Scorn no more can wound, or Fear

annoy ;

Or teach it, fix'd on humbler scenes below, To "turn and tremble" at ideal woe;

The lover's hopes, the lover's fears to share, And feel with him the tortures of despair.

Nor will the truly great, the learned wise,

The humble efforts of the Muse despise :

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For Learning, when to sense and worth allied, [Pride; Soars above Envy, and looks down on Contemns the rules by rigid pedants taught-Rules, fram'd to check the native pow'rs of thought.

Proud to encourage Genius, and display Her hidden treasures to the eye of day, He, like the bee, th' uncultur'd wild explores, [stores. And gives to man its choicest, sweetest

'Tis thus my Muse (presuming where she can)

[man Dares prate on subjects, which, aspiring Would fain persuade us, were alone design'd

For the vast pow'rs of his capacious mind. But you, my friend, on whose instructive tongue

I have so oft in mute attention hung! Forgive the Muse, who thus, in artless

strain,

[vain. For Genius pleads: nor let her plead in

Errata. P. 264. In Mrs. Carey's Address "to Simplicity," 1. 8, read " Vice and Folly meet: and in l. 12, read, " Vice can Virtue's guise assume."

"But O! ye distant climates! ye did "All-all I ask'd-was, but at home to [giv'n; "Lo, to my prayer the gracious boon is "And from my earthly Parent's roof, I fly Triumphant, to my Father's house,' in heaven!"

Errata in "Stanzas written at Polwhele." P. 263, col. 2, 1. 20, read ills.-l. 21, read they have.-1.25, read bulwark'd.-P. 264, 1. 6, read Academus'.-1. 50, read minions or of Power, &c.

SYMPATHY.

WHEN Heav'n first seated Man on earth

'Mid ev'ry natural sweet,

Till she, our general help-mate smil'd,
His bliss was incomplete:

For then the pouring out of hearts,
The interchange of soul,

Grew with a growth as great as now,
Nor knew, nor fear'd controul.
Unhappy man-forlorn, abas'd,
If each alone had liv'd;
Nor each, that others like himself
Breath'd kindred air, perceiv'd.
E'en two fond saplings, side by side,
Rude sympathy display,
And each to each assistance lends,
And guides the other's way.
And if the blasts of angry North
The pride of one should crop,
The other sympathetic droops,
Nor more extends her top.
Sweet balm of human woe, to share
With friendly hearts our grief;
And sweet, when others mourn in turn,
In turn infuse relief.

And oh, what added bliss, when joy
Distends the bounding heart,
With kindling eyes, and hope-fraught lips,
The valued news t' impart.
There, Sympathy, the praise, and thine,
Celestial good, the strain:

If ought deserves the meed, 'tis that
Which leaves us less of pain.
Me may thy sacred flame inspire,
And kindle, ail, with love;

And friendship, love, and social joys,
With Charity be wove.

[Oct.

If ought a Saviour's name avail, A Saviour's precept keep; "Rejoice with them that do rejoice, "And weep with them that weep."

EXTRACTS

From CLARE'S "Poems ;" reviewed in p.346.. I. TO MY MOTHER.

WITH filial duty I address thee, Mother,

Thou dearest tie which this world's wealth possesses;

Endearing name! no language owns another

That half the tenderness and love ex

presses;

child

The very word itself breathes the affection, Which heaves the bosom of a luckless [tection, To thank thee, for that care and that proWhich once, where fortune frowns, so sweetly smil'd.

Ab, oft fond memory leaves its pillow'd anguish, [was sound; To think when in thy arms my sleep And now my startled tear oft views thee languish, [wound:

And fain would drop its honey in the But I am doom'd the sad reverse to see, Where the worst pain I feel, is loss of helping thee.

II. TO AN INFANT DAUGHTER. SWEET gem of infant fairy-flowers! Thy smiles on life's unclosing hours, Like sunbeams lost in summer showers, They wake my fears;

When reason knows its sweets and sours,
They'll change to tears.

God help thee, little senseless thing!
Thou, daisy-like of early spring,
Of ambush'd winter's hornet sting
Hast yet to tell;

Thou know'st not what to-morrows bring:
I wish thee well.

But thou art come, and soon or late 'Tis thine to meet the frowns of fate, The harpy grin of envy's hate,

And mermaid-smiles

Of worldly folly's luring bait,
That youth beguiles.

And much I wish, whate'er may be
The lot, my child, that falls to thee,
Nature may never let thee see

Her glass betimes,

But keep thee from my failings free,-
Nor itch at rhymes.

Lord knows my heart, it loves thee much;
And may my feelings, aches, and such,
The pains I meet in folly's clutch
Be never thine:

Child, it's a tender string to touch,
That sounds "thou'rt mine."

SPAIN.

On Sept. the 18th, General Morillo resumed the military command of Madrid, and of the province of Castile. On the 18th the Political Chief published an Ordinance prohibiting all kinds of public meetings, the object of which should be contrary to the laws of Police. This measure was produced by a plan which was known to exist, of carrying the portrait of Riego through the streets. The Ordinance also declares, that the club at the Fontana d'Or shall be suspended for the present. Just when the Ordinance was published, with a great display of public force, a group of persons, 20 or 30 in number, appeared towards night-fall at the Sun Gate with a portrait of Riego. They passed before the troops at the Sun Gate, but as they contented themselves with making a great noise the Officers did not think fit to disperse them: emboldened by this forbearance, they proceeded to the Municipality, where the Political Chief, the Commandant, and some General Officers were assembled. When the Political Chief saw this procession, which had increased, arrive before the Hotel of the Municipality, he attempted to persuade them to separate. The Commandant placed himself at the head of the bat talion of National Militia, on duty at the Municipality, and cleared the square with the bayonet. The Political Chief himself charged the factious sword in hand, and seized the portrait of Riego. Some Alguzils mixed, by order of the Authorities, among the attendants of the portrait, and watched the most seditious, several of whom have been arrested.

GERMANY.

VISIT OF GEORGE IV. TO HANOVER. His Majesty having prepared for his visit to his Hanoverian dominions, embarked at Ramsgate on the 24th of September. Having landed at Calais, and passed through Lille, Brussels, Aix-laChapelle, Dusseldorff, and Minden, where he arrived on the 5th Oct. his Majesty entered the German dominions by way of Glandorf, and arrived at Osnaburg at half-past five in the evening. At St. John's Gate, the citizens took the horses from the carriage, and drew his Majesty (who graciously saluted the crowds on all sides) slowly to the Palace. His Majesty was received at the

Palace-gate by the Minister of State Count Hardenberg; by Count Kielmansegge, Master of the Horse; and by Count Wangenheim, Master of the Household; the Chamberlain on duty, Von Bar, &c. &c.

On the 7th, in the morning, his Majesty was pleased to admit the Officers of the Palace, and the Authorities, to an audience, and to review the 8th regiment of infantry, which is garrisoned at Osnaburg. At 11 A.M. his Majesty, accompanied by the blessings of all those of his subjects who first had the pleasure of seeing their Sovereign, continued his journey to Nieuburg, where be arrived at seven in the evening, and passed the night in the Court-house, which had been prepared for his reception. His Majesty was then met by his Royal Brothers the Dukes of Cumberland and Cambridge, with whom he dined. His Majesty set out from Nieuburg at about half-past 11, and soon arrived at the Palace of Herrenhausen.

His

Hanoverian Papers of the 13th give an account of the King's Public Entry into Hanover on the 11th inst. His Majesty mounted his horse at Herrenhausen at half-past one o'clock. The Procession was arranged as regulated in the Programme previously published, and proceeded through the avenue of Herrenhausen, at he entrance of which his Majesty allowed the City Guard, on horseback, to escort him. At the gate were the Civil Authorities and the Clergy, who complimented his Majesty. A salute of 101 guns announced the entrance of his Majesty within the walls of his faithful German Capital. Majesty passed through a double file of artillery to the triumphal arch, ac companied by the ringing of all the bells, by the thunder of the cannon, and the incessant rejoicings of the mul titudes that thronged the streets. Immediately before the King rode his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland; on the King's right hand the Duke of Cambridge, and on his left the Archduke Ferdinand. His Majesty wore the uniform of a Hanoverian Field Marshal, with the insignia of the order of the Guelphs. The splendid procession, increased by a numerous suite of cavalry, passed between files of the citizens, and then of the military, through several streets, to the palace of the

Duke