Fearetas but access bie is every one. The priblication of La Thon we had a ways tierstood, that the good things of I work were arded among the high and the noble, and the poorer classes, those who were oppressed and degraded, were 52 to be ext ties to the joys of Heaven and immortality, through a never-ending eternity, wile they had the satisfaction of seeing their oppressers cotized in inter regions, Blessed are the pour la spirit for they shall inherit the kingdom of Heaven, was the max n of Jesus, wilt he firber exemplifes in the parable of Lies and Lazara Bit we will give as analysis of the Work, and car readers stall judge for themselves. The poem is Coulded into twelve books: the first, is The Trance." The post Relating ene dil night, bears a bell toll, which reminds him, ta: hing George is buried that day. He then feels a stroke · as of Lightning, and he knows not then what has become of his, whether be bas sense or not, or whether he is dead or alive. He, Lowever, makes a prayer, and in the next book, 'The Vanit,' fods Klasif in a vault, surrounded with offics, lighted by a cerclean light, while some angels are tuning away at their harps. In the Bext book, 'The Awakening, the King, old George, and the poet awake, ascending to the gate of Heaven. Here the King meets Perceval, who was shot by Bellingham, and who relates to kim what was dose on this world in 1913, 14. and 15, relative to the downfall of Buonaparte. The King enquires if the radicals are quiet, and whether the maititude know their blessings at last, and Perceval assures him, that the spirit of evil and of faction is still at work, violent as ever. The next book, The Gate of Heaven,' treats us with a picturesque view of the New Jerusalem, and an angel standing on the walls of Heaven, summons the deviis from the black dominions, to appear as witnesses before the King of Heaven, against King George. The rabble rout of devils come in a mob, making great noise and bustle; The Accusers' relates the trial.

In the front of an amphitheatre, is Ineffable Presence, the judge, around him angels and archangels, cherubs, spirits, &c. stretching far away further than the eye could see. The devil comes forward, produces John Wilkes, and Junius, who neither of them dare say a word, as king George seems to be in high favour with the court. The devil vexed at their silence seizes them with horrible grasp gigantic, and whirls them way into the sulpherous darkness. The devil himself is hurled away the next minute

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by a whirlwind from Ineffable, the judge and ends this court trial; which is something like what the courts used to be in the good king's days, the judges as tyrannical, and the witnesses as terrified. Then the Absolvers' comes, among whom we find George Washington, who is made to pay a compliment to the old king. Then the Beatification where the king, drinking ́of the Well of Life, is fit to enter into Paradise and over which the angels chaunt a merry psali. The Sovereigns' giveth an account of the kings of England that are in Heaven. Among whom we find old Glentoe William, the Dutchman, Charles I. without his head, Elizabeth, Edward VI., Edward III. and the Black Prince, and the Lion-Hearted Richard, and Alfred, with the Saxon worthies. Then comes the Elder Worthies' who consist of Bede and Wickliffe, Chaucer, Craumer, Cecil, Shakspeare and Spencer, with Milton, who is now reconciled to kings and priests, and from which we learn that none but high church Tories must be in heaven. Then comes the Worthies of the Georgian Age,' among whom is the apostate Burke, and the next book is the Young Spirits,' which is succeeded by the Meeting' where the old king arrives safe in Heaven, meets all the Royal Family that have died, and who kindly take him in their club of chaunters, there to sing hosannahs and hallelujahs, for ever, and ever. Southey wanting to get in, finds himself bilked, and tumbling down from heaven, hears only the bell, toll, toll, thro' the silence of the evening. The work is dedicated to the present King, and no doubt met with a pleasant reception.

The second" Vision of Judgment" is by Lord Byron, and is in theDon Juan" metre, and takes a very different view of the question. It opens with a very humourous view of St. Peter, sitting outside Heaven, with his rusty key—and

"The angels all were singing out of tune,
And hoarse with having little else to do,
Excepting to wind up the sun and moon,
And curb a runaway young star or two."

Excepting the "recording angel," mentioned by Sterne, who, having stripped off

"Both his wings in quills

And yet was in arrear of human ills."

So he had six angels, and twelve saints, given him as clerks, till at the "crowning carnage, Waterloo," they gave up their tasks

in divine disgust, shocked at the infernal scene. Thus things go on, till George the Third dies, making no great stir on earth, excepting bis grand funeral, where the black made all the woe, and where the tears that were shed were bought at their full value.

"And when the gorgeous coffin was laid low,

It seem'd the mockery of hell to fold

The rottenness of eighty years in gold."

Then the poet digresses respecting blasphemy and damnation, in a way that will make our pious and loyal critics stare, and shake in their shoes.

A dialogue next ensues between one of the cherubs that bring Old George, and St. Peter, who gives us a description of Louis, with his head in his hand-the reception he met with-the headless how he set up on his being refused admittance-and the sympathy of the martyr saints for his awful condition.

The Devil next arrives, followed by Michael, to hold the court, and a fine description is given of these two immortal personages, and their civil behaviour towards each other. Michael asks what Satan has to say against the King, and the Devil gives a very eloquent and just picture of George's reign. He describes how grew upon his heart a thirst for gold, which can but overwhelm the meanest hearts, and says:

"From out the past

Of ages since mankind hath known the rule

Of monarchs-from the bloody rolls amassed

Of sin and slaughter-from the Cæsar's school,

Take the worst pupil, and produce a reign

More drench'd with gore-more cumbered with the slain."

The Devil allows that George possessed some neutral virtues, such as being temperate, a good husband and father

"And this was well for him, but not for those

Millions who found him what oppression chose."

The Devil then, by a sly hint, alarms St. Peter respecting Old George's refusal of Catholic Emancipation; and insinuates, that the good old saint is interested in this. St. Peter here rises in a deadly passion, and cries—

"You may the prisoner withdraw;

Ere heaven shall ope her portals to this Guelf,
While I am guard, may I be damn'd myself."

And vows that he will change places with old Cerberus, rather than permit this "royal Bedlam bigot to range the azure field of heaven." Michael interposes in a very friendly manner, and hopes that the Devil will excuse St. Peter's warmth. Satan then brings his cloud of witnesses, a vast mass, from all countries. Michael turns pale-hopes that the Devil and himself are not personal foes, if political enemies-and says, that the testimony of one or two will suffice: to which the Devil very politely consents, and brings forward Wilkes and Junius. The former refuses to say any thing against the old blind monarch, and votes for his admission into heaven.

"Wilkes," said the Devil," I understand all this,

"You turn'd to half a courtier ere you died,

"And seem to think it would not be amiss

"To grow a whole one the other side

"Of Charon's ferry."

Junius comes next, and bids them ask the blind King for his answer to his (Junius's) letter.

The court is here interrupted by the appearance of the Laureate, Southey, of whom we have a fine description. He says that he has anticipated the decision of the court in his " Vision of Judg ment," which he will read to them. He begins-but

"These grand heroics acted as a spell,

"The angels stopp'd their ears, and plied their pinions,

"The devils ran howling, deafened, down to hell,

"The ghosts fled gibb'ring to their own dominions."

And, in the bustle, King George slips into heaven.

"And when the tumult dwindled to a calm,

"I left him practising the hundredth psalm."

Such is the extraordinary work which has excited, in no common degree, the wrath of our ultra-loyal and pious hypoRam. Mag. XI.

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crites. It has spoken the truth. It has placed George the Third, both in his political and private character, in a true point of view. It is time that the veil which has covered the infirmities of kings should be removed, and that they be exposed to the world in all their native deformity. If flattery has elevated such a piece of stupidity as George the Third into a great man, it is but right that another picture should be drawn, which will shew him in his true colours. Talk of respect for the visitations of providence, indeed! A king is a public man; every thing about him-his vices, his virtues, his graces, and his blunders, are public; and if he must be lauded for qualities which he never possessed, it is but fair that satire should laugh at those vices that oppress the world. To George the Third, individually, is owing the American revolution, and the long exterminating war with France. He was a despot in mind and in deed, incapable of any generous impulse, or gallant exploit-confined in his intellectual views, and sordid in his passions. He is now the property of History, who will no doubt appreciate his worth, and that of his

successors.

Anecdotes, Bon Mots, Jeux d'Esprits, &c.

A WORK OF LOVE.-The following notice was distributed at the doors of Edmonton Church, on the 10th of September, after a sermon, preached there, by the Rev. Dr. Hawker. A tradesman, of domestic habits and retired life, between thirty and forty years of age, who has been some time in a respectable trade in London, by which he has acquired of this world's goods from one to two thousand pounds; but, from his situation in life, has not had an opportunity of settling himself with a companion of similar habits-he trusts he will be found of an accommodating disposition, and determined to make every one with whom he has to do, comfortable, to the utmost of his power-is desirous of meeting with a female of similar habits and circumstances in life, well versed in domestic concerns, good-tempered, obliging to her friends, yet not extravagant, or given to much company, neat in her appearance, of light complexion; but above all, having the grace of God in her heart, and believing Jesus Christ to be