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Poetry.

THE TRUTH OF WOMAN.

"Woman's faith, and woman's trustWrite the characters in dust," &c.*

Tales of the Crusaders.

And this from Scotia's gifted land,
And this the lay of minstrel hand,
So worshipp'd in its ev'ry tone,

Thy minstrelsy, oh! Great Unknown!
Or am I wake, or do I dream,
And this an idle fopling's theme?
The vapourings of that brainless thing
That flits about on rainbow wing,
And now the scorn, and now the jest
Of all, save his own self confest?
What! trace upon the running stream,
Or on the moon's reflected beam,
Or weigh against the spider's thread
The tender promise of a maid,
And deem, though light as air it be,
'Twould yet outweigh her verity?
Say this of man, and I'll believe,
Born to betray, neglect, deceive;
And plant a dagger in the breast

That loves him fondest, truest, best:-
But this of faithful woman-never!
For woman loves to love for ever;
And how unkind soe'er may be

The ruler of her destiny;

If her's beneath a wintry sky
Abandoned e'en of hope, to sigh;

If her's the agony to feel,

No words might ever yet reveal,
Thy pangs neglect!—and weep away
The remnant of her darkened day!—
Or, if her happier stars decree
Love's own transporting witchery;

If her's the lot, so rare, be given,

To revel 'mid terrestrial heaven;

Alike if weal or woe may be

The master-key of destiny,

Her heart's affections changing never,

Fond woman loves, and loves for ever.

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Though free from life's intruding busy cares,

Forgot by friends, who cease thy loss to mourn, Still must remembrance claim a daughter's tears, To mourn a father never to return.

If daring to repine at Heav'n's decree,

A murmuring sigh escapes my aching heart, Religion checks the tear that flows for thee, For we shall meet again no more to part. See Science weep, her favourite son is fled,

The Muses, too, a friend and patron mourn; Fair Virtue sighs, reclines her pensive head,

And drops a tear to grace thy modest urn. Still Science mourn, for thou hast cause to weep; Behold how lifeless and how low he lies! Here Sense and Genius old and silent sleep; Ah! what avails it to be great and wise!

Shall Death, in one sad hour, with ruthless hand,
Cut short the thread of such a valued life;
And could not Pity stop the dire command,

His helpless children, and his weeping wife?
Now left to pass through life's uncertain road,
What gentle guide shall point the safest way
To lead to Virtue's peaceful, calm abode,

And teach us from her precepts ne'er to stray? Ah, me! no guide appears; still left to mourn, To struggle through this life, beset with cares, A friend and father never must return

To smooth the path, and fondly sooth our fears. Persuasive Eloquence dwelt on his tongue,

Truth and Philosophy inform'd his mind; The Muses listen'd and approv'd his song,

Where manly sense by softness was refin'd. And shall I cease to weep or drop a tear Whilst memory lives within this beating breast?

O! can I e'er forget a parent dear,

Or bid my heart's emotions be supprest? Liverpool.

TO THE EDITOR.

A. S.

Or 'long the thick wood-side, where thistles grow,
Would watch the twinkling glow-worm moving slow;
Or, on the rustic seat, with ravished ear,
I've heard the evening lute from mansion near.
Thus, till the bell the supper hour proclaims,
And drew the playful tribes from all their games.
But now those days have long, long pass'd away,
A farewell tribute 's all I now can pay:-
Farewell ye fields, ye overhanging bow'rs,
Ye nature's groves, ye blooming knots of flow'rs,
Ye drained heath, where youths, with spirits gay,
Would gambol oft, or race the measured way,
Ye lofty hills that stop the distant view,
Ye scenes of youth-ah! now once more adieu.

FRIENDSHIP.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-It has often been truly observed, that there never were two men so totally alike in form and features as not to be easily distinguishable when placed together for com parison. The diversity of character is still more remark. able than that of figure, and it would be more difficult to discover a close resemblance between the minds than the persons of men.

SIR,-While I was lately turning over some manuscripts of a friend, among them I met with the following versificaIt appears to me, that this will, in some measure, ac. tion; although not irradiated with the classic light of a By-count for the very rare existence of real friendship, as it is ron or a Scott, yet the touch of nature is so striking that I thought its value too great to lie in obscurity. If thought worthy a place in your Kaleidoscope, its insertion will oblige, yours, &c.

LINES

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impossible that different tempers and dispositions can har. monise so perfectly as to feel towards each other that mu tual esteem and affection which are absolutely necessary

to constitute it.

But the absence of the substance has rather increased Written whilst on a journey, and stopping to take refreshments, than destroyed the shadow; the feelings of common chaon seeing the school, play-grounds, and surrounding scenery,rity, or the performance of an act of benevolence, are conwhere I received my earlier education.-Scene near Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.

Come, pleas'd remembrance, come, my pen employ, Review these scenes that charmed thee when a boy, When o'er those meads in playful steps I stray'd, Or wearied sat beneath yon hawthorn shade. Oft, when the buz of morning school was o'er, I've lonely walk'd upon yon heathy moor; There, with delight, have seen fair Nature rise, In mingling colours meet the distant skies,Those blue-top'd hills, which, dusky, rear on high, Those lengthen'd plains whose margins touch the sky: With sportive joy my youthful bosom glow'd, And thought o'er thought in jocund pleasure flow'd. Oh, happy day! how calm those rural hours! Full pleased I've sung of plains, of fields, of bowers, In artless song would tell the past'ral tale Of shepherd's hamlet, or the peopled vale. Oft on some hillock, or on new-mown hay, In careless ease or thoughtful mood I'd lay, List to the bleating of the neighb'ring flock, Or count the soundings of the village clock. Beneath the shadows of yon fav'rite oak, How oft I've sat, at noontide, with my book! There, vacant, list'ning to the humming bee, My half-closed book laid resting on my knee. Oft, by the side of shallow rippling brook, I've caught the nibbling fry with string and hook; Or, by the hedge just moist by summer show'r, I've chased the gilded fly from flower to flower. Ah! on that stump oft have I studious sat, Have read of Troy, of Rome, of Grecian state; Have felt my youthful bosom glow with rage, As host with host in awful pomp engage; Or the soft tear run trickling from my eye, As fancy show'd where slaughter'd victims lie. Sometimes at eventide, when school was done, And active play and careless mirth begun, I've stolen from noise, and sought the silent way, To hear the cooing stock-dove's plaintive lay, Or from the rising hill's commanding height I've watch'd the setting sun's departing light; Or, as the shadows darker fell around, Would trace the beetle by his chirping sound;

strued into the effects of this comet of beautiful but uncommon appearance; and that name which, in its proper sense, can be seldom used, is applied to every casual acquaintance. My Lady Allgossip styles her "At Home" a party of friends, when, perhaps, not one of her company cares one straw about her; she will politely grieve that Miss this, with a head-ache, or Mrs. that, with a cold, "dear creature," should have endangered her valuable health, by leaving home on so cold a night. "O! my kind friend," replies the affectionate lady, "nothing but your party could have induced me to venture out this bitter evening." .""I'm sure you're very, very kind," gently whispers Lady A. Who that heard this conversation would believe that these ladies were only introduced a few evenings before at a card table, and that the gaiety and splendour of her ladyship were actually the only objects of regard.

My Lord Dicebox esteems among the number of his friends, those very men who gain a livelihood by defrauding him at a gambling-table; who will grieve at his death -but only because they have lost a rich victim of their villany. But the tearful eye of affection will not follow his coffin to the grave; no friendly voice will drag his fev good qualities from under the load of vice which obscures them.

It is remarkable that even some of the more ordinary feelings of humanity do not dwell in the breasts of many in whom we might fairly expect to meet the higher ornaments of affection and friendship. This not unfrequently occurs in the marriage state, and arises probably from matches being made from the consideration of external, in preference to mental qualifications, of fortune and beauty, rather than virtue and sweetness of temper.

This was exemplified a few days ago in an inn where I was residing. As I left my room, on the middle floor, my attention was attracted by the very merry giggle of a little middle-aged woman, who had just tripped up to the landing place with all the agility of a greyhound, and I found that the unhappy object of derision was her poor. gouty, fat husband, groaning with the pain, and puffing and blowing with the labour of ascending the steep stairs. This little scene spoke volumes, and led me into a train of reflections which produced the above observations of

AN ADVENTURER.

TIM BOBBIN'S DESCRIPTION OF THE LIVERPOOL
FLOATING BATH.

The following humorous letter was written soon after be establishment of the Floating Bath, by a professional friend, now abroad, who is what may be called "a dub hand" of the Lancashire dialect.

LETTER FROM A BATHER AT LIVERPOOL TO HIS FRIEND AT
ROCHDAW (i. e. ROCHDALE.)

with; this, we should think, cannot fail of being a desi-
deratum, both to holders of estates and persons travelling
in foreign countries.

in the arts, &c.

Sultry Weather.-During the prevalence of sultry weather, and indeed at all other times, remember to let your horses and dogs have ready access to water, and do not hang your birds in their cages in the sun, but keep them in the shade.

Barthe. This celebrated French dramatist was remark

able for his selfishness; calling one day upon a friend, whose opinion he was most desirous of obtaining upon a

The work, also, explains the general methods now in use, of smelting and refining the different metals from their ores, the various places in which they are found, the description of apparatus used both in the large and small way, the use to which some of the rarer metals are applied The whole is comprised in rather less than 400 neatly-comedy he had just finished, he found him in his last moprinted pages, embellished with plates of apparatus, thereby ments, notwithstanding which he proposed to the dying man that he should hear the comedy read. Remonstrance rendering it of a convenient size for the pocket, whilst the followed against the proposition Consider," said the Eh! Tummus, theaw's miss'd it wearily ot t'did naw come price is reduced to such a degree, as to render it accessible sick man, I have not more than an hour to live!"was. Theaw may say what t'loikes abcawt th' Meyles, and to every individual. "Oh," replied Barthe, the reading of my piece will not Laythom, and Blackpool, but owd Lerple for moy money, I occupy more than half that time!" say yet. Theaw said theaw'd seen aw as wur to be seen; but byr lady there's mooar thin as mitch again t' be seen neaw as there wur when thee and me coom here th' last toimeWhaw, mon, they'n getten boats neaw ot goan by a steom! engine!-theaw may stare! but it's true as th' Alminick; and us three coom i' one un um aboon twenty moile.

Egadlins!

I cud hardly perswade Sam Dootson t' venture abooard on har: he wur feeort ot gooing by steom wud be summat like Hoying or being blown up; but it's nowt o' th' soart, mon; hey dreiven throof th' wetur just th' same as t' other boats ased t' do; but istid o' sails they'n two wetur wheels ot gooan plash, splash, splash-serat, scrat, scrat, abeawt ten or eleven noile an heawr; and it is by far th' yeasiest and cheppest way ot a country lad can get hither: indeed, I think it's welly chepper thin walking; for besoide saving shoe-leather, one can do wi' so much less ale-and then one's th' benefit o' th' saat wetur aw th' way fro' Runcorn. Theawd used t' make keawnt of theaw cad taste th' sawt if t' lick'd thy lips as far O as Saint Ellen; but theaw may have it this way aboon twice as far. Here's yoar Jim says theaw dusn't loike ony body knowing mooar tin thee, and theaw'll be saying theaw's Fecord o'theese steom boats before. But there's one thing I'm

ure theaw's ne'er yeeord on:-Istid o' those foine bathing kallivans theaw used t' tell on, they'n made a greyt thing ot they cawn a "Floating Bath;" and, solidlee, I think it's th' -feest place I wur ever at i' my loife. When I first went a board on it, I thought it wur a ship beawt botham, and I've rather shoy o' jumping in, as sum chaps did, for feeor o' going eleeor throof into th' river; but, heaw'ever, I fun there a botham, and a vast foine botham too; and, aw togeher, it's th' neeotest, th' safest, the cleeonest bathing ot ever I had sin' Pre born. One may have a dip at ony time o' th' ide; oather at hee wetur or at low wetur: and there wur a felly abooard towd me as th' wetur wur as good and as strung, and had as mitch fysic in it at low wetur as it had at hee retur. Sam says this cannot be true, and ot th' felly wur Dot bat trotting us; but, heawever, we'll bring a bottle o' tooth soarts whooam wi' us, and eawr folk may try for theirels-Besoide bathing, one may stay abooard awhoile and Look abeawt one; and one sees moor o' th' river and th' shipping fro' this place i' one heawr than fro' ony other place in a whole wick. Then, there's aw soart o' meyt and drink abocard, and I think i' my guts t' best, and t' cheppest ot I fun i' aw th' teawn; and we seet amung a peawrcel o' gentlemen, reading th' newspapers and smooking. We geet oytch on us a poipe, but these quality wur smooking summut elze ot look'd like pig-tail tobacco: it had some soart of an eawtlandish name, as I cud na quoite gawm; but whotever it wur, ather it or their drink did um good, for they'r very merry They sung, and they leawgh'd; and when I sung th' "Owdham Recruit for um, I'll be shot if they did not leawgh harder thin ever. Indeed, if t'le believe me, Tum, l'se never i' better company sin' I'se kersunt; but I'll tell thee mooar abeawt it when I com whooam; and I'll oather perswede thee t' go wi' me t' next bathing toime, or I'll gi' thee leeof t' caw me a TIM BOBBIN. ninny hommer as lung as my name's

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE.

NO. VIII.

The Beauties of Chess.

"Ludimus effigiem belli"............ VIDA.

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SOLUTION TO GAME LIII.

1 Queen
2 Queen

White.
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*4 Queen .... B-8+
5 Queen ....E-5
6 Queen .... H−8+

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4 Castle
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6 King ...... F—7

7 Queen....G-7+MATE.
The white finds it necessary to give check in the fourth
move at B8, in order that he may force the black castle to cover
the check at F 8; because, if the black castle remained in the
square F 7, when the white queen threatens checkmate at E6,
the pawn C 5 might take the white bishop.

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GYMNASTIC EXHIBITION IN LIVERPOOL.

Many of our readers will recollect Mons. Beaujeux, who gratified the public with a novel and interesting display of gymnastic exploits in Paris's Rooms, in Hardmanstreet, last winter. That exhibition gave so much satisfaction, that Mons. B. was not only solicited to prolong his stay in Liverpool, but to establish an academy for teaching gymnastics, similar to those on the Continent, and that in London. Mons. Beaujeux had, however, a previous invitation to establish himself in Dublin, where we are glad to hear his reception has been most flattering. We copy the following account of one of his recent public exhibitions from a Dublin paper:

Grand Exhibition of Gymnastic Evolutions." Yester+ If the black pawn took the white bishop, or if the black king moved to F 7, the white queen would checkmate at G 7. day, Mons. Beaujeux, the celebrated Professor of GymIf the black castle moved to F 7, the white queen would check-nastics, reviewed four hundred of the boys of the Hibermate at H 8.

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Lusus Naturæ.-A slice, taken from the middle of a PRACTICAL CHYMICAL MINERALOGY; or, Concise potato, was yesterday brought to the office of the journal, and Easy Methods, illustrated by Experiments, for on which is a well defined profile of a female head, with readily ascertaining the Nature and Value of the differ. the hair made up behind, and inclosed in a cap. The ent Ores, and other Mineral Substances, as comper-outline of the face and neck is made by a purple stain, in hended in their Assay, Analysis, Reductions, &c. to- the substance of the potato. The back parts of the head gether with a Description of the Apparatus and Tests and neck are shaded by purple, blended with light brown. used by the Scientific Mineralogist, and the Processes-R. 1. Manufacturers and Mechanics' Journal. adopted by the Miner; the whole intended as a Companion to the "Portable Mineralogical Cabinet." 12mo. By FREDERICK JOYCE, Operative Chymist.

At a time when mineralogy so deservedly engages the public attention, a work of this kind must be regarded as an interesting and useful production; the author, a practical chymist, and near relative of the writer of the Scientifie Dialogues, appears to have laid down such plain and easy directions, that a person unacquainted with the general elements of chymistry can, by their means, with comparative facility, determine the nature of all the different ores and mineral substances he may happen to meet

Antiquities.-There has been discovered, in a garden belonging to R. Williams, Esq. M. P. in Dorchester, a most perfect specimen of tesselated Roman pavement, and is evidently the commencement of a passage about four feet wide. It is surrounded by a border of larger and coarser red stones, about an inch square, while the innerpart is composed of blue, white, and red circles intersecting each other.

Life. At twenty we kill pleasure-at thirty we taste itat forty we are sparing of it-at fifty we secure it—and at sixty we regret it.

nian School, in the Phoenix Park, and made them go through a variety of experimental tests, to prove their progress in gymnastic exercises, in which he has been some time past instructing them. This interesting examination commenced at three o'clock precisely, and terminated at five. Nearly all the governors of the institution were present, a great number of general officers, and military characters of distinction, and about fifteen hundred specators, including many noblemen and persons of the first rank. The performances of the boys gave great satisfaction, and drew forth the warmest expressions of admiration. The skill and ability in the arrangement, and the superior talents of the Professor in the mode of instruction, were highly praised. It was generally acknowledged that he here realized all that has been said and written on the utility of the gymnastic art; and that our bodily powers can, under a proper course of instruction, put forth all their energies and capabilities, far beyond what the most sanguine expectations could anticipate."

We are gratified to learn, by the advertisement in a preceding column, that Mons. Beaujeux, availing himself of the vacation season, has arrived in Liverpool, where he purposes to give a public lecture and exhibition on gymnastics, and also to give lessons, if a sufficient number of pupils can be found. The following complimentary notice of Mons. Beaujeux is also from a Dublin paper:

Gymnastic Exercises.-Extract from the minutes of the committee of fifteen of the Hibernian Society, for the care of soldiers' children, held at the Castle of Dublin on the 5th of July, 1825:

"Resolved, That the governors approve of the progress of the children of the school in the gymnastic exercises, under the tuition of Monsieur Beaujeux, which, they are of opinion, has tended to improve them in bodily health and character; and that the governors are fully satisfied with the zeal and

attention displayed by Monsieur Beaujeux, during the time
he has been employed in the Institution.

"Royal Hib. Mil. School, Dublin, 7th July, 1825.
"JAMES SPOTTISWOODE,
"Major Commandant, R. H. M. S."

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Miscellanies.

INCORRIGIBLE FANATICS.

As one of the signs of the times, we give a place here to the following unintelligible rhapsody of the crazy followers of that crazy old woman Johanna Southcotte: TO THE PUBLIC.

The Variation will be given in our next.

or corrupt the word of God by any mixture of human in-
vention, but take it at all times for the guide of our faith
and practice.

"True Israelites,"

SAMUEL SWIRE,
JOHN STANLEY,
HENRY LEES,

Ashton-under-Lyne.

JOHN GARLAND,
EDWARD LEES.

It is not our business to interfere with or condemn any sect or party, but believing, as we do, that ours is the everlasting gospel of the kingdom, we know that God will gather his people from amongst all, for they will know his voice, and however contemptible it may at present appear, it is the way that God has opened into his kingdom on earth, and no man can shut, and shut all other ways, and As a part of our duty, we lay the following divine reve- no man can open. Having no object in view but the lation before the public, in doing which, we shall, no glory of God and the good of mankind, we trust the foldoubt, incur the censure and ridicule of mankind in gene-lowing will be seriously considered by all inquiring perral; but believing as we do (as well as those joined with us) sons. We are, in behalf of the people calling themselves the importance of the work in which we are engaged, the result we are willing to bear. Indeed it has been the lot of God's people in all ages to be mocked and despised, which can only arise from their ways and opinions being different to those of the world in general, and of course obnoxious to it; and however painful and contrary to human pride, we Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord, O have great reason to return thanks to God that we are ac- ye house of the Gentiles, awake and tremble before your counted worthy to be called the filth and offscouring of all God, and return unto him who created you, that you may things, knowing that in due time we shall reap, if we faint have the new name given you, that your name may be not. We believe that God is going to establish his kingdom changed like Jacob's name; for God will deliver Israel, of righteousness and peace according to his word, and is without staff, sword, or any warlike instrument, for the preparing a people to be partakers of it; to this end, they battle is the Lord's. Then, O ye house of the Gentiles, must be a willing and a tried people, to whom God will give gather yourselves together, and that God that answers, let various commands and injunctions to prove their faithful-him be God; for if God be only yours, and you have the light, show it unto your brethren. Is this dispute between We trust, by the help of God, we shall be found in- Esau and Jacob? Thou Esau broke thy brother's yoke wardly, and in reality, what we are outwardly; for we will from off thy neck, when thou destroyed him who was to be add nothing to our knowledge that has a mixture in it, king, and thou got a light, and thy light has been glorious; neither will we have upon our persons, or in our houses, and why hast thou hid thy light under a bushel, and not the likeness of any thing that God has created or caused showed it to thy brother? Thou criest, thou hast showed to grow; in like manner would we be found free from thy light, and thy pomp, and thy glory; thou hast sent every false worship, or from being guided or taught by the missionaries into all nations; thou hast prepared shipping learning and precepts of men; neither will we adulterate to carry the gospel into all nations; thou hast told them to

ness and obedience.

repent, and prepare for the grave, and to meet judgment Does not Israel say unto Esau, hast thou not life before thee but thou showest us death? and thy works are all dead I tell thee, Esau, though thou hast made agreement with death, it shall not stand, for a remnant shall come out of thee, though thou refusest my name Israel--and I will tak them for servants for one thousand years. Are not these the aliens my scriptures speak of? Read and understand, O ye house of the Gentiles. Ask of your God, that you may understand the ways of Israel, for ye have sold your birth right for nothing, and I gave my life, that I might purchas yours. Then seek ye Abraham's faith, that all righteousness may be given you. Is there not a God, that is visiting this land, England? Will he not gather his elect from the four corners of the earth into this land, England, and redeem i the first? Now son of man, stand upon thy feet, and pro phesy against the house of the Gentiles and say, Hearken unto David thy brother. Did he not cry-O Absalom; 0 Absalom; would to God I had died for thee, my son! Then did not I, the Lamb of God, come and die upon Mount Calvary to return back thy birth-right? And I was to be the king at that time, and thou killed me, and thou hast been king, near these two thousand years, and yet thou hast refused thy birthright, for want of searching my scriptures. Do they not say, "Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." Thou son of man, prophesy again, and say, Thus saith the Lord, if ye will not seek out for Israel, and agree with him, the Lord your God shall burn and destroy Esau's house from the face of the earth, and it shall never be remembered any more. Have not I offered you the tree of life, before I offered you the place of an alien? Prophesy thou again, son of man, and say, Thus saith the Lord, Who are they that have caused my people to go astray? The priests, the shepherds of the flock, they have caused the kings of the nations to go astray; for they have served Baal, and not the living God. Then, O house of Baal, forsake thy ways, and hand the truth unto thy people. Does not the

w of Moses say, ye shall not wear a mixed garment, as of
len and woollen together? Then why will ye adulterate,
ye shepherds of the flock, the Lord's word? Do not the
riptures say, that, when the soul has left the body, the
ody is corrupt? Do not the scriptures say, that, when
ur Lord shall come, the corruptible body shall put on
corruption? And do not your scriptures say, that your
wing body is a mortal body; and, at your Lord's coming,
our mortal shall put on immortality? Why will ye mix
be living with the dead? Do ye want to do with me as
did before? For ye took my blood from me, and put
e among the dead; but I ever live, and am making in-
rcession for the lost sheep of the house of Israel. I have
urned my hand a second time to recover the remnant of
y people. I have set watchmen upon the walls of Jeru-
lern, which shall never hold their peace, day nor night,
Il Jerusalem be established.

Now, all ye nations of the land, assemble yourselves to-
gether, and all your shepherds, and advise yourselves what
word I may return to him that sent me.
JOHN WROE.

(Signed)

ROBT. BLACKWELL, Witnesses.

WY. COOKE.

the deed, but for one individual who relinquishes the plea-
sures of friendship from conscientious motives, I believe
there are hundreds who are seceders from disinclination
longer to fulfil its duties, or who deliberately sacrifice their
secret inclinations at the shrine of worldly interest, and
weakly yield up the spring of life's purest pleasures, to
Quaker
promote views of family aggrandizement. The "
Poet" draws no fabled picture when he says-

"How soon, ere youth itself be flown,

We learn that friends are few,
Yet fancy fondly still our own,

Unchangeable and true!

The spell is broken, and the breast
On which our hopes had lov'd to rest,

Is proved but human too;-
It brings a pang, a soul-felt grief

That withers more than flower or leaf."

BARTON.

We see innumerable instances of every tie being volunluntarily relinquished for the sake of the new one just formed the pen of friendly correspondence dropped, mental improvement no longer occupying a thought, the elegant pursuits of early life abandoned, and the friends who have shared in every youthful pleasure either alienated or compelled to dwindle into mere acquaintance. My fair country women, "ought these things to be?" No longer suffer such an imputation to be cast upon your feelings and principles, when a little more mental energy, a little more bodily activity, would enable you to find time for the fulfilment of every duty. Think you it would render your own fireside less attractive to your husband if graced by the friend of your youth, and enlivened by her anecdotes of your early life, ere, perhaps, he had the happiness to know you? or will your little cherub be more fondly caressed by a stranger, the acquaintance of yesterday, than by "the friend of twenty summers seated by your side?" Let not such a picture be longer re garded as a mere utopian flight: let us, my fair friends, see it realized. Let the orb of day be truly an emblem of friendship, when it inspires and invigorates with its morning brilliancy, rides high at noon, and sets with that majestic splendour that renders evening the sweetest, dearest part of a summer's day.

to be discountenanced as injurious and romantic, I much fear that we shall vainly expect to find, in after life, a more congenial soil for the plant to flourish in. I am far from dignifying the mere companions or associates of youth with the sacred name of friend, but I contend for the existence of a feeling worthy of being called friendship at an early period of life, and a connexion then formed has a charm derived from its association with the recollections of infancy and the freshness of our feelings in the spring of life which cannot extend to that of later date. We are far less subject to make an imprudent choice in friendship than in love: the judgment is not so much blinded by the radiance of the imagination, and the mind is less under the influence of passion; there is, therefore, a much greater probability, that we may be fortunate in our early friend than in our first love; and the being who shared with us the pleasures of youth, who participated in the first flush of newly awakened feelings, and often formed one of the happy group round the dear fireside of our earliest home, holds a key to the inmost recesses of our heart, and a thousand softening recollections of that happy period of life, which is the last to fade from our remembrance, are recalled alone by the presence of the friend of our youth. In reviewing the reminiscences which a chequered life presents, the recollection of its early friendships comes like Remarkable Case.-There is a person of middle age in a gleam of light across a dreary waste, and imparts to the he vicinity of Boston who has nothing but the muscles and sombre picture a radiance like the glow of sunrise on the ommon integuments to cover or defend the heart on the landscape; how much, soever, I may have to regret that eft side of the thorax. The heart's pulsation can be seen its beams no longer diffuse light and life upon my meridistinctly, even pressing itself beyond the anterior side of dian hour, nor will cheer the evening of my days, yet to he sternum. This is a great curiosity to the anatomist, its morning existence my heart will bear its fondest testiand strikes those who are acquainted with the beautiful mony, and gratefully avow that its happiest hours have nechanism of this never-tiring organ, with astonishment arisen from the participation of early friendship, even -as it seems, on viewing this phenomenon, as though while it laments the delusion of the hope once so fondly very succeeding diastole would burst the heart, and sever cherished, that "the beam that nurs'd its bud would bless he thread of life in an instant. The facts in relation to its bloom," and gild its close. Not to attempt, therefore, he case are simply these:--When the individual of whom forming this bond of life, till the judgment is matured, we are speaking was a child, by some strange accident all the reasoning powers fully expanded, and youth's trusting the ribs about this part were badly fractured, but instead glow exchanged for the cold calculations of worldly pru of uniting again, by a deposition of ossific matter, the dence, would be almost like banishing the sun from the bsorbents took away the injured bone, and none was after-morn of existence, or depriving the year of its spring. The ards formed, thus leaving the heart entirely unprotected. friend selected in our maturer years may be more resEven the puncture of a pin at this tender point would be pected, but will generally be less endeared than the com's death, and yet he is apparently so careless of his ex-panion of our youth; I have also considerable doubt whe- If I am correct in the opinion, that it is the cessation of stence, that he never has provided himself with any pec- ther the genuine feelings of friendship are ever expe- early friendships, from these causes, which makes them oral defence beside his common clothing.-American rienced after the period when a matrimonial connexion is to be frequently branded with the epithets of visionary Medical Intelligencer. formed, particularly if that connexion be a happy one. I and romantic, I would inquire if it be right thus to deAlteration of Style. When the former Duke of Marl- fear love must be termed a selfish feeling, for the mind,preciate a feeling that seems to require a greater degree orough and his brother, Lord Edward Spencer, were, increase, seems to contract, shuts itself up in the little circle mankind. I have always thought, Mr. Editor, there is instead of expanding as the claims upon its affections in- of virtue than is commonly attainable by the mass of The year 1753, canvassing the county of Oxford, they were of its own domestic ties, and becomes wholly absorbed in something great in the character of that individual, who, losely plying an old-fashioned farmer, of considerable its own pursuits, excluding the scarcely less sacred claims how conscious soever of his own failings, seeks not to level fluence. May it please your Grace and honour," said of friendship, under the specious pretext of interference the standard of public morals to his own imperfect prache old freeholder, "to answer me one question?"-"Any with conjugal and maternal duties. I admit the para- tice. I know not how far I may claim, by parity of reaing," quoth his Grace. "Then please to tell me, what mount obligation of those duties at all times, and I could soning, the praise of possessing benevolent and enlarged ur parliament-men, Lords and Commons, have done imagine extreme cases that might require the sacrifice of minds for those individuals who, though suffering from ith those eleven days you took from the Calender?" is Grace was confounded the farmer chuckled, and every minor tie, but I affirm such instances are out of the that breach of friendship that cannot be healed, "a trea common routine of life, and we contend not against cherous wound, or the revealing of secrets," will yet dis e county election was lost!" What dire effects from particular exceptions, but general rules. Would our tinguish between the error of the individual and the im ivial causes spring!" young married couples act upon less selfish and more libe perfection of the species. It has been much the fashion ral principles, instead of tacitly agreeing to give up their of late to burden poor human nature with the weight of respective friends, and live only for each other, and conse- all our frailties, and to adopt a spacious kind of charity quently, being reduced, when the honey-moon and a few that "thinketh no evil," singly, yet hesitates not to stig succeeding months have passed, to supply the place of matize the whole human race by referring to general alienated friends with mere acquaintance, we should hear corruption those faults that surely arise more from inless of the emptiness and deceit of the world, and more of dividual passions, which, having been suffered to gain the pleasures of intellect and the charms of rational society. the mastery unchecked, now rule, unrestrained either by They neglect to tend the source, and then wonder that the the voice of reason or the influence of religion. I am far stream should become tasteless or bitter. I am disposed from recommending the strict scrutiny of our neighbours' to think, that the more frequent recurrence of the small faults in a censorious spirit; but, if we can take warning select group, formed of the mutual friends of both parties, from their errors, and place a double guard where they united by one common feeling of interest in their happi- have been found weak, I know of no preventing precept ness, would be no bad substitute for the card-table, and to feel a humble sense of our personal demerits, yet to the indiscriminate mixture of all capacities and ages which entertain exalted conceptions of the class of beings to we so frequently see in regular visiting circles. Would which we belong will generally produce a more favourable not this kind of intercourse tend also to prolong the feel- effect upon the moral character than the proposition reings of youth, to prevent the encroachment of a worldly versed. How much soever my own later experience may spirit, and keep the heart mellow and green, retaining the militate against the warm colouring with which in mowarmth and freshness of early life, as it acquires more of ments of inspiration, excited by the recollection of early the wisdom and experience of age? I am likewise disposed feelings, I might still picture life, I never could see the to contend, that these defaulters in the court of friendship, utility of representing it to the youthful mind as a desert not only abridge their own pleasures, but, in reality, vio- abounding chiefly in the wily snake and treacherous serlate a sacred engagement, not less binding because not pent. We may check "the glow of fondly trusting restricted to one, than is the pledge of that affection which youth," and call it prudence; but we haye imparted a is redeemed only at the altar. A mere compact of conve- chill to the atmosphere that blights the opening germ of nience or interest may be dissolved when the motive for happiness. That "so few bring back at eve immaculate the coalition ceases to exist, but where friendship, in its real the manners of the morn" may, perhaps, be in some meaacceptation, has been professed, mutual reliance is im- sure attributable to those sombre moralists, who, too rapidly plied, and only the intervention of paramount duties can ascending from individual to general frailty, check that lead to the honourable dissolution of that bond, unless by expansive feeling of benevolence which alone constitutes mutual consent. It is possible the motive may sanctify no inconsiderable portion of human enjoyment. These

Turkies. It was Meleager, King of Macedonia, who Tought the first turkies into Greece, in the year of the rid 3559. The Greeks named these birds after their Prince, Meleagrides. Sophocles, in one of his tragedies, troduces a chorus of turkies, bewailing the death of feltager.

Close Shaving-In the year 1421, loud complaints aving been made by the inferior clergy as to the inequaEy of their stipends, it was graciously ordained, by the perior convocation, that each bishop's family barber uld shave each priest who had his orders from the shop, without payment.

Correspondence.

ON EARLY FRIENDSHIPS.

"Be not to all the world unjust,
Though some be faithless to their trust."
TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-Your early insertion of some of my former lucu-
ations has emboldened me to offer you a few remarks on
he existence and dissolution of early friendships. Should
he led to avow opinions opposite to those of any other
orrespondent, I beg to observe, that it is with no view of
ntering into any controversy, but simply to speak of the
world as I have found it. If the friendships of youth are

remarks may appear but remotely connected with the leading subject of my paper; but, after asserting the existence and value of youthful friendship, yet admitting the many instances of its perishable nature, it may not have been totally irrelevant to glance at some of the causes of its transient duration. I would wish to set the tone of morals high, to keep the fount of feeling pure, and to discountenance every thing that would tend to depreciate or represent as unattainable the exalted qualiWe must all acknowledge its partial corruption; but, instead of fruitlessly lamenting its weakness and imperfection, let us sedulously endeavour to cultivate its better propensities, to encourage its higher hopes, and to cherish those feelings which will smooth the rugged path of this life, and constitute a preparation for that which is to come.

ties of our nature.

NO FICTION.

THE CONDITION OF WOMAN.

How hard is the fate of all woman kind,
For ever subjected, for ever confin'd,-
Slaves to brothers and fathers, until they become wives,
And slaves to their husbands the rest of their lives!

ANON.

I call No.

3, the Father.
9, the Son.

6561, the Great Grandson.
These offspring, with their sons and grandsons, will 1
found to inherit the very singular, and, perhaps, una
countable property of their great progenitor, how f
soever removed from him.

No. 6, 12, and so on I call Cousins German,
And I hope to be able to satisfy you and your readers tha
these are very interesting and amusing relatives.
A CONSTANT READER.

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* No. 3. EXAMPLE.

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her features; her most innocent thoughts and wishes must ❘ a great deal may be said, without being tedious, and yo be kept concealed, till after marriage. The poor girl is have hitherto very slightly touched upon it. With you taught to think that all restraint ends when once married. permission I purpose, ere long, to lay before you som Alas! if she knew that then only it begins in an almost un- interesting matter relating to this number; for the prese bearable form! If she is a girl of any mind, nature gets the I shall content myself with an outline of my plan. better of discipline; and, tired of this wearisome restraint, she marries quickly, for liberty's sake. If she have many lovers, she takes whichever is least disagreeable to her. If she has none, why, she will take the very first that may offer, lest she should be left in the horrible situation of an old maid, who is the happiest of the happy, if she only knew how to prize her happiness. After being a short time in this blessed state of wedlock she finds her boasted freedom more irksome than her former slavery: she is not relieved, as she hoped she would be, from the remarks of the world; for that censor makes as free with a married woman as a maid. She finds that husband not quite as sweet as when he was courting; and, on the other hand, her own temper, so long held in restraint, breaks bounds now and then, and Coridon finds his Sylvia more woman than angel. Then, if she be a woman of sense, she finds it better to submit to this second dominion than to live in turmoil; for men will not be contradicted even when they TO THE EDITOR. are in the wrong, which, in their own opinion, they never SIR,-Being a constant subscriber to and a reader of are. She then, generally speaking, sinks into the poor, your very interesting paper, I take the liberty of addressing hopeless, family drudge, of a mere wife and mother. to you a few lines, perhaps merely for the sake of seeing Married to a good man, for whom she never felt a warmer them in print. Your work is much read, and deservedly sentiment than friendship, and who, perhaps, doating on admired in this city, and, indeed, I believe in every part her, is still a tyrant over her, and expects that return of of Ireland where it is known; and if there is any part love from her which is not in her power to bestow, to where it is not known, theirs is the loss. I am well which, most likely, she is as yet a stranger. Even thus a aware that you will be likely to call this, so far, "Irish woman may dodge well enough through life, fulfilling the blarney." I also know that you English editors hold, duties of wife and mother virtuously. If, after some years or affect to hold, the opinions of your poor neighbours on endurance of the marriage yoke, her heart should not then this side the channel in great contempt, and value their meet with its destined mate, then, indeed, the tumult beapprobation very little, except where the pocket is con- gins; for then, it is, that love to such an object takes the cerned; and in that case, I believe the most bigotted deepest root. If she have strength of mind and virtue Englishınan will make no objection to money collected enough to resist her own wishes, how heavily must her from the purses of Irish rebels, though nothing else life pass in the cold, cold path of duty, while her heart and "Hirish" can be pocketed. However, I do not want to soul long for repose on the bosom she so tenderly loves; enter into the never-ending acrimony existing between us; but she has the approval of her own conscience, and that, a subject more near home and more near my heart calls alone, will support her against all other ills. Happy, my attention: it is the state of woman-in my mind some- thrice happy is she, when compared with the woman who thing like the state of Ireland, in eternal slavery, yet feel-gives way to that love, which is most lasting because of ing eternal propensity to rebellion. Man to woman is late growth. What are her feelings when receiving cawhat England is to Ireland-an undeviating tyrant, and resses and fond attentions from a trusting husband, which yet with much appearance of kindness and complacency. she knows she can neither return or merit? Oh! there are Look at woman from the beginning; see her as soon as no daggers like these! Her children, too; every look and she at all approaches near womanhood, before the inno- smile is a reproach: and what is her reward? He, for cence and gaiety of childhood have been bid by nature to whom she sacrifices every thing, may love her as well as take leave of her heart,-a heart never again to be inhabited man can love; but can he esteem her or confide in her? by such sweet inmates; even then the tyranny of man can he believe that love sincere to him, when another is begins. Then comes the father and brothers, anxious, deceived into the opinion that he possesses it? One of them for the honour of the family, that a restraint must be im- must be wrong; and, generally speaking, the man who posed on that childish wildness, unconscious of guile, lest has full possession of her whole heart and truth is he who it might be misconstrued either into forwardness or want most doubts it, for he knows she can deceive, while of breeding. Her mind undergoes as many tortures and the other is in blissful ignorance. Her punishment is twistings by these wise tutors, as her form does from the almost equal to her crime, in feeling herself doubted where staymaker and mantuamaker. Query.-Did not the Great she is all truth, and trusted where she is all falsehood. First Cause, who made her and her instructors, understand, But I tire you with my preaching. I should like to see at least as well as they, how to mould that form and mind this in your paper, and could promise you many valuable into grace and beauty? On consideration, this question articles (don't be frightened) not of my own but my friends, implies more than I intended, as I would be for every cul- for most likely I shall not trouble you again, except en. tivation of a woman's mind, but with freedom and open-couraged by the inserting of this scribble, which proves heartedness. that'tis better to sigh and live single." Dublin. AN OLD MAID OF ERIN.

In a year or two more it is thought time she should be looking out for a settlement for life; in other words, a change of masters. She is taught the greatest circumspection before her admirers; she must neither express anger nor joy; an eternal smile of insipidity must disfigure

• If our fair correspondent should favour us with any future communication, we beg to suggest the propriety of abstain

ing from all political allusions, as we are pledged, as well as disposed, to keep completely aloof from any thing approaching party politics. We hope the fair writer will pardon us for appending a text to her sermon.Edit. Kal.

SINGULAR PROPERTY OF THE NUMBER NINE.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-I observed some time ago in your valuable paper, amongst other recreations was noticed the peculiar and unchangeable property of the number 9, that, however multiplied, its product added together would always divide by the parent number. This is a subject on which

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