Napoleon the Great to all Conftellations, Stars, and The Epiftles of Paull ib. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE GYPSIES: A CHRISTMAS GAMBOL, IN TWO ACTS, SCENE-The Coast of Devonshire, and an adjacent Manfion. ACT I.-SCENE I. A View of the Shore.-Rocks on the Fore-ground.-The Sea, and a Ship at a great Distance. Enter Lieutenant FENWICK, SO! I have once more caught a view of my dear element. Efcaped from yonder town, which has * This little piece was haftily sketched out by its author, foon after the ever-memorable battle of Trafalgar, and prefented to the Editor of this work; but too late to be inferted in the volume which was at that time in the prefs. Though, perhaps, not coming ftrictly within the letter of our title, we do not think it ftands in need of any apology, and sruft that our readers will be of the same opinion. all all the dirt, buftle, noife, and inconvenience of a fmall port, and all the avarice and impofition of a large one, my thoughts are at liberty to roam to my friends; to my Agnes! and, folitary as the fatisfaction is, I feem for a moment to enjoy myself. Enter FREDERIC ORLOP. Frederic. Do you, Charles? Delightful enjoyment truly, this frofty morning. I know that the falt water has ftronger attractions for you at all times, than it has at certain feafons, when the mania seems to predominate among our metropolitan friends: though I think if you do not indeed come down here to pay your devotions to Venus, you ought by this time to have had enough of the disorder which they generally labour under. Lieutenant. What diforder is that? Frederic. Repletion, or, in plain English, a furfeit of toil, as they have a surfeit of eafe and luxury. Let me tell you, seven years are long enough to be under a courfe fo devilish hot, that, as Splinter our furgeon ufed to fay, a lodging in a terrene mattrafs, over the fire of a chemift, would be Spitzbergen to it. Lieutenant. You are right, Frederic. The climates in which we have ferved, from Egypt to the fouth of Europe, have been fufficiently hot, and fo has been our duty; and if we had experienced nothing but toil, we might perhaps have wifhed to relax a little; but we have been fharers in our country's glory. Frederic. Alas! Lieutenant. I fee, while your bofom, my brave young friend, heaves that figh, your eyes are fixed upon your crape, and I anticipate your feelings: indeed, I might more correctly fay, I participate in the general fenfations of the British navy for the lofs of our Hero. Yet let it be our confolation, as it was his own, as it was |