There will come a time, when this tempoary solitude may be made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desart in its room. What cities, as great as this, have once triumphed in existence, had their victories as great, joys as just, and as unbounded; and with short-sighted presumption, promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some; the sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others; and, as he beholds, he learns wisdom, and feels the transitoriness of every sublunary possession. Here, he cries, stood their citadel, now grown over with weeds; there, their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile: Temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruin. They are fallen; for luxury and avarice first made them feeble.The rewards of state were conferred on amusing, and not on useful, members of society. Their riches and opulence invited the invaders, who, though at first repulsed, returned again, conquered by perseverance, and, at last, swept the defendants into undistinguished destruction. How few appear in those streets, which, but some few hours ago, were crowded? and those who appear, now no longer wear their daily mask, nor attempt to hide their lewdness or their misery. adapted to its impulse! Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it, more wretched than the object which sues for assistance. Adieu. Epigrams. To A LADY Who laughed at her Lover for dying in a Copy of Verses. And why fair trifler, should your meaning eye, The soul in both, from its own body flies. RIGHT AND WRONG. Metaphysical Jack, in his study one night, "I've been without money, the Lord knows "And say all they can-I am sure that is wrong." prose, THE DILEMMA. Job himself scarcely patience would keep! dose, But who are those who make the streets their couch, and find a short repose from wretchedness at the doors of the opulent?These are strangers, wanderers, and orphans, whose circumstances are too humble to expect To hear NED, by the hour, blunder forth his vile redress, and whose distresses are too great even for pity. Their wretchedness excites rather horror than compassion. Some are without the covering even of rags, and others emaciated with disease. The world has disclaimed them; society turns its back upon their distress, and has given them up to nakedness and hunger. These poor shivering females have once seen happier days, and been flattered into beauty. They have been prostituted to the gay luxurious villain, and are now turned out to meet the severity of the winter. Perhaps, now lying at the doors of their betrayers, they sue to wretches, whose hearts are insensible, or debauchees, who may curse, but will not relieve them. Why, why was I born a man, and yet see the sufferings of wretches I cannot relieve!Poor houseless creatures! the world will give you reproaches, but will not give you relief.The slightest misfortunes of the great, the most imaginary uneasinesses of the rich, are aggravated with all the power of eloquence, and held up to engage our attention and sympathetic sorrow. The poor weep unheeded, persecuted by every subordinate species of tyranny; and every law, which gives others security, becomes an enemy to them. Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! or, why was not my fortune Yet so noisy we can't go to sleep. PROPORTION. R. A. D. How well has Heaven proportioned SYLLA'S whole; A little body to a little soul! REVENGE. R. A. D. ON A LETTER-FOUNDER, AT OXFORD. Under this stone lies honest SYL, Who dy'd-though sore against his will; ON WILLIAM GIBSON, OF SLEAFORD. ON AN ACTOR. In the Church-yard of Gillingham, Norfolk, is the following curious Epitaph: "Sacred to the memory of THOMAS JACKSON, Comedian, who was engaged December 21st, 1741, to play a comic cast of characters in this great theatre, the world, for many of which he was prompted by nature to excel.-The season being ended-his benefit over -the charges all paid, and his account closed, he made his exit in the tragedy of Death, on the 17th of March, 1798, in full assurance of being called once more to rehearsal, and where he hopes to find his forfeits all cleared, his cast of parts bettered, and his situation made agreeable by him who paid the great stock debt, for the love he bore to performers in general." Extracts. PARTY.-Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few. There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent, for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead. However, such instruments are necessary to politicians, and perhaps it may be with states as with clocks, which must have some dead weights hanging at them, to help and regulate the motion of the finer and more useful parts.-SWIFT. FEAR. To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the great prerogative of innocence, an exemption granted only to invariable virtue; bnt guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes, and to make it yet more shameful, is doomed to stand in awe of those, to whom nothing could give induence or weight, but the power of betraying.-JOHNSON. SECRECY.-It is a mark of the soundest wisdom not to pry into a secret, and when found, of the purest honesty uot to reveal it — MOIR. THE WORLD.-The world is a sea, and life and death are its ebbing and flowing. Wars are the storms which agitate and toss it into fury and faction. The tongues of its enraged inhabitants are then as the noise of many waters. Peace is the calm which succeeds the tempest, and hushes the billows of interest and passion to rest. Prosperity is the sun, whose beams produce plenty and comfort. Adversity is a portentous cloud impregnated with discontent, and often bursts into a torrent of desolation and destruction. IBID. DR. WATTS Being looked upon with contempt for his little Body, spoke as follows: Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by my soulThe mind's the standard of the man. Flesh is the vilest, and the least Ingredient of our frame; Pleasures of sense we leave for boys; Be shining dust the miser's food; Let fancy feed on fame and noise, Souls must pursue diviner joys, And seize th' immortal good. On receiving a beautifully worked Purse, as a present from a Lady. BY MR. BISSET. I've heard it said "There is no curse More dreadful than an empty Purse. " The legend's false, I now declare it, (If put upon my oath, I'll swear it.) The present just received from you, With pleasure I will always view, And prize it more than worldly nianies Would prize a purse brimfull of guineas. Leamington Spa. Miscellanies. The following very curious pedigree of his present Majesty, not, we believe, very generally known, is extracted from Mr. Yorke's 46 Royal Tribes." It has all the appearance of authenticity, and makes his Majesty, as will be seen, right heir, in direct succession (the Catholic line of course excluded) to the British, Cambro-British, English, and Scottish Kings. BRITISH DESCENT OF GEORGE III. 1. Cadwaladr, last king of the Britons. 2. Idwal Iwrch, his son. 3. Rhodri Molwaog, son of Idwal. 4. Cynan Tyndaethwy, son of Rhodri. 5. Esyllt, daughter and heiress of Cyuan, married to Merfyn Frych. 6. Rhodri Mawr, their son, 7. Anarawd, son of Rhodri. 8. Idwal Foel, son of Anarawd, 9. Meurig, son of Idwal. 10. Iago, son of Meurig. qu. II. Cynan, son of lago. qu, 12. Gruffydd, son of Cynan. 13. Owain Gwynedd, son of Gruffydd. 22. Roger, their son. 23. Anne, daughter and heiress of Roger, married to Richard of Conisburg, Earl of Cambridge. 24. Richard, Duke of York, their son. 25. Edward IV. eldest son of Richard. 26. Elizabeth, Edward's eldest daughter, married to Henry VII. 27. Margaret, their eldest daughter, married to James IV. of Scotland. 28. James V. of Scotland, their son. 29. Mary, Queen of Scots, daughter of James. 30. James I. of England, son of Mary, by Lord Darnley. 31. Elizabeth, daughter of Jaines, married to Frederic Elector Palatine. 32. Sophia, their daughter, married to Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover. 33. George I. their son. 34. George II. his son: which, according to the reigning fashion, is so exquisitely nice, that the sexes are scarcely distinguishable?" MARRIAGE. The custom of wearing wedding rings, originated with the Romans, who uniformly placed it on the fourth finger of the left hand of the bride, at their nuptial ceremonies, because they believed that a nerve reached from thence to the heart. LAWYERS. In the Rolls of Parliament A.D. 1445, is a Petition from the Commons of two Counties of England, stating, that the num ber of attornies had lately increased from sir or eight to twenty-four, whereby the peace of those counties had been greatly interrupted by suits. The Commons therefore petition, that it may be ordained that there shall be no more than six common attornies for Norfolk, the same for Suffolk, and two for the city of Norwich. Any other person acting as an attorney, to forfeit twenty shiltings! A Village Parson's Apology to his congre gation, for having, in his sermons, taken a pitch of mentality a little above their compre hension.-RESPECTED FRIENDS,-My oral do-cuments having recently been the subject of your vituperation, I hope it will not be an instance of vain eloquence or supererogation, if I 35. Frederic, Prince of Wales, son of George II. laconically promulgate, that avoiding all syllo and father of 36. George III. his present Majesty. From No, 2, to No. 18, were all Princes of Wales. 66 MORALITY MADE SUBSERVIENT TO LUCRE. In 1665, Coffee-houses were suppressed by a proclamation of the gay and dissipated Charles the Second, as being places where the disaffected meet and spread scandalous reports concerning the conduct of his Majesty and his Ministers." This prohibition, however, was shortly after repealed, not as being inimical to the liberty of the subject, but as prejudicial to the revenue-the very reason now given by our pious Chancellor of the Exchequer for licensing Lotterics and Gin-shops. SUMMARY JUSTICE. It is stated in the American Village Recorder, that a Pedlar, at Easton, was discovered to have two negro children in his cart. On examination one of the little sufferers was found to have been crammed in in such a manner, that his ear was rubbed off! The people indignantly rose and cut off the pedlar's ear. "I am no advocate," says the Recorder, "for the violation of the laws; but from my heart I can't feel sorry for him!" SUPERIORITY TO REVENGE.-The illustrious Descartes used to say, that when he received an injury he seated himself so high above it, that it could not reach him. ROMAN DANDYISM.-Tiberius, Emperor of Rome, speaking in the Senate, nearly 1800 years ago, concerning the growth of luxury, aid, "How shall we reform the taste for dress, gistical, aristocratical, and peripatetical propositions, all hyperbolical exaggerations and extenuations, whether physically, philosophi cally, philologically, politically, or polemically Considered, either in my diurnal peregrinations, or nocturnal lucubrations, they shall be defi nitively and categorically assimilated with, and rendered congenial to the occupits, caputs, and cerebrums of you, my most superlatively respectable auditory. At the late assizes at Lancaster, a very old man, an Irishman, was found guilty of an offence for which he was sentenced to fourteen years transportation. On receiving sentence, he bowed profoundly to the Court, and thanked his Lordship, "For indeed (says he), I did not think I had so long to live, till your lordship told me!" An elopement, from a young Ladies' boarding-school to Gretna-Green, is noticed in a provincial paper under the head of "Effects of the genial influence of the season." Puns, etc. Those of our Readers who are in the habit of reading the Newspapers, are in possession of the circumstances growing out of the recent representations of Mr. Buck's Tragedy of The Italians On the second performance of that piece, it seems buckets of water were emptied upon the audience in the pit. This proceeding, in the first instance, was attri Pray is this the Aquatic Theatre?"—" No, madam, it is what they call on dry land, an overflowing house." Have they changed the play of The Italians, and is this the first representation of the Delage?""I fancy it is, although I did not conceive the Deluge could be well adapted to the stage." "It is fortunate for the author.". "I do not now that. It would be as well for the author to be damned as drowned." “There you are mistaken, sir. There is a tide in the affairs of man, that taken at the flood leads on to fortune." P.S. It appears that the performances of the evening to which the above reters, have been withdrawn, in consequence of a portion of the audience having thrown cold water upon some of the proceedings. NECK AND HEELS.-A young man of the name of Neck, was recently married to a Miss Heels; they are now, therefore, tied Neck and Heels together. Satire. DESERT. CASTLEREAGH. A man so full of charming tropes, A man so trusted with our hopes, Deserves to be an HONEST CREATURE! SIDMOUTH. A worthy man, of looks demure, In form a most precise one; A man so simple and so pure, Deserves to be a WISE ONE. MR. SOUTHEY, P. L. Sure such a man of tags and rhimes, A man, unequalled since the fall, ON DRESS. The attribute call'd Sense, which so much grae'd Tales. THE DEAD SHOT. BY THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD. In the year 1723, Colonel Ridley returned from India, with what in those days was counted an immense fortune, and retired to a country seat on the banks of North Tyne, in Northumberland. The house was rebuilt, and furnished with every thing elegant and costly; and amongst others, a service of plate supposed to be worth £1000. He went to London annually with his family, during a few of the winter months, and at these times there were but few left at his country-house. At the time we treat of, there were only three domes tics remaining there; a maid-servant, whose name was Alice, kept the house, and two men, who thre-hed the corn and took care of some cattle, for the two ploughmen were boarded in houses of their own. One afternoon, as Alice was sitting spinning some yarn for a pair of stockings for herself, a pedlar entered the hall, with a pack on his back. Alice had seen as long a pack, and as broad a pack; but a pack equally as long, broad, and thick, she declared she never saw. It was about the middle of winter, when the days were short, and the nights cold, long, and wearisome. The pedlar was a handsome welldressed man, and very likely to be an agree able companion for such a maid as Alice, on such a night as that; yet Alice declared, that from the very beginning she did not like him greatly, and though he introduced himself with a little ribaldry, and a great deal of flattery interlarded, yet, when he came to ask a night's lodging, he met with a peremptory refusal ; he jested on the subject, said he fancied she was in the right, for he believed it would be impossible for him to keep his own bed, and such a sweet creature lying alone un |