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This, this was Vesta's seat-sublime, alone,
The mountain crag appear'd her Virgin throne,
In all the majesty of Goddess might,

Fann'd by pure gales, and bathed in cloudless light;
Her's was the dash of Anio's sacred tide,

The flame from Heaven's ethereal fount supplied,
And the young forms that trod the marble shrine,
For earth too fair, for mortal too divine.

And, lo! where still ten circling columns rise
High o'er the arching spray's prismatic dyes,
Touch'd, but not marr'd-as time had paused to spare
The wreaths that bloom in lingering beauty there--
E'en where each mouldering wreck might seem to mourn
Her rifted shaft, her lov'd acanthus torn,

Nature's wild flowers in silent sorrows wave
Their votive sweets o'er Art's neglected grave.

But ye who sleep the calm and dreamless sleep, Where joy forgets to smile, and woe to weep, For you, blest maids, a long and last repose, Has still'd each pulse that throbs, each vein that glows; For oft, too oft, the white and spotless vest Conceal'd a bleeding heart, an aching breast; Hope, that with cold despair held feeble strife, And love that parted but with parting life; Still would the cheek with human passion burn, Still would the heart to fond remembrance turn, Vow all itself to Heaven, but vow in vain, Sigh for its thoughts, yet sigh to think again.

And thou, Immortal Bard, whose sweetest lays Were hymn'd in rapture to thy Tiber's praise, What, though no more the listening vales prolong The playful echoes of thy Sabine song;

Weep not her olive-groves' deserted shade,

Her princely halls, in silent ruin laid,

Her altars mouldering on a nameless hill

There all is beauty, all is glory still;

Flowers-yet more bright than Roman maiden wreath'd;
Prayers yet more pure than virgin priestess breathed;
A fane-more noble than the vestal trod-

The Christian's temple, to the Christian's God!

INDEX.

to the [N. B. The figures with crotchets refer to the History; those with a Appendix to Chronicle, &c.; and the others to the Chronicle.]

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ABOLITION Of Slavery, treaty with Brazil for, 72* Accidents explosion of Mr. Brock's firework manufactory, Whitechapel, 123 -breaking of a bridge at the launch of the princess Charlotte, Portsmouth, 129; fall of a rock at Carvalinho, Portugal, 135; fall of a bridge at Nienburg, 169 Adams, Mr., chosen president of the United States, [195]; his inaugural address, 109*

Adultery: case of an offender being shot

by the husband, 28; laws against, in Siam, 220*

Africa, see Sierra Leone, Sherbro, Tripoli 226*; Clapperton and Denham's account of the interior, 254* Agriculture and Botany, 262* Alexander, Emperor; proclamation to the Polish diet, [156]; his illness, [157]; death, [158]; character, ib. America, North; dreadful fire at Miramichi, New Brunswick, 135, 173; Rules of the Equity courts, United States, 136; church establishment and missionaries, 47* ; See Canada, United States.

America, South; Recognition of the independence of Buenos Ayres Colombia, and Mexico, [14]; confederation of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata, [212]; national army, [213]; insurrections at Cordova, San Juan, ib. congress of Panama [214]; letter from Mr. Canning to the Chevalier de los Rios, relative to the conduct of Great Britain toward the Spanish colonies, 51*; mines, 285*; See Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Rio de la Plata.

Amiens, a parricide executed at, 64
Anatomical invention 245*

Andrews, Dr., dean of Canterbury, death of, 254

Animal ingrafting, experiments of, 246*
Antique coins, forgery of, 104
Antiquities: excavations at Pompeii, 122;

Roman boat discovered at Glasgow, 279

Army; regulation for the sale and pur-
chase of commissions, 57
Army of the United States, 1
Arracan, taken by Gen. Morrison, [136]
Assassination at Chartres, 28
Assassins executed at Naples, 55
Assizes and Sessions: Antrim.-Jones v.
O'Hara, 22*

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Bridgewater; Hannah Taunton, killing her husband, 117

Bucks; Charles Lynn, murder of Abraham Hogg, 3*

Cork; A. Keefe and Thomas Bourke, murder of the Franks family, 31* Derby; G. Bally, rape, 37 Kilkenny; Farley v. J. T. Haydon, libel, 20*

Lancaster; W. Cherry, rape, 39 Leicester; Hannah Read, murder of her husband, 112

Limerick; Patrick Cusack, Eleanor
Ryan, &c., murder, 23
Lincoln; R. Maydwell, murder, 37
Maidstone; Poolly v. Pybus, for a inali-

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cious commission of bankruptcy, 46 Old Bailey; C. Wood, rape, 5; John Palin, stealing four £1000 bank notes, 151

Sussex; G. and E. Daw, murder, 41; C. Holder and D. Gardiner, threatening letter, 5*

Westminster Sessions, J. G. Muirhead, misdemeanor, 139; Robert Charles, assault and attempt to violate, 145 Astronomy, &c. 251* Avalanche, fortunate escape from, 1; five men killed by, near Morsine, 53 Aurora Borealis, 258* Australia, new se tlement in, 83 Austria: emperor's speech to the Hungarian diet, 92*

Autographs, at sale of Boswell's Library, 81 Ayr Steam-boat, Comet run down by, 142; trial of the master, &c. 174; liberation of ditto, 184

Baden, speech of the Grand duke to the

establishments of offices for carrying on the trust business are more numerous and expensive than they ought to be; the trusts consequently in debt, and money borrowed even at annuity interest, to provide a mode of discharging it. The committee, therefore, recommend that all the trusts near London should be consolidated under a single set of commissioners, for the sake of effecting the three grand objects of durability in the work, economy in the expenses, and relief to the public, by the removal of vexatious obstructions, from the frequency and inconvenient position of the toll-gates.

Poor's Rates.-There has been published by order of the House of Commons, an abstract of returns prepared by the direction of the select committee of last session, appointed to inquire into the practice which prevails in some parts of the country of paying the wages of labour out of the poor's rates, and to consider whether any and what measures can be carried into execution for the purpose of altering that practice, and to report their observations thereon to the House. The present document consists of returns only of the rate of wages throughout the several counties of England, and of answers to a circular list of questions bearing upon the proposed subject of investigation. The committee have not annexed to the abstract a single observation or opinion of their own.

With regard to the wages of labour, it seems worth notice how the growth of manufactures in a country tends to improve the comforts of the agricultural classes in their neighbourhood. The manufacturing districts of Lancashire, the West Riding of Yorkshire, and

generally the northern counties, present a far higher average of wages than those of the south of England, besides the benefit, which does not appear on the returns, of a supply of fuel at a much easier price.

In comparing the several districts where the custom prevails of assisting the farmer to pay his labourers out of the poor's rates, with those where such a practice has not yet been suffered, we cannot find that there is any obvious relation between the existence of that abuse, and either a high or low rate of wages. Thus, in the division of Bassetlaw, county of Nottingham, the wages being from 10s. to 12s. per week, are paid in part out of the poor's rates; while, in Southwell division of the same county, the rate not exceeding 10s., the poor's rate is never so applied. Hundreds of instances, bespeaking similar irregularity, might be enumerated, and lead to the belief that more depends on the caprice of the magistrates than on the necessity of the case. Where the system has once commenced, we are aware that more than ordinary skill and firmness are requisite towards its abolition: and in the instance of a labourer with a numerous family, the difficulty of introducing any change seems almost insurmountable. Something less than one-third of the kingdom is visited by this perversion of the poor's rates.

England Fifty Years ago.-In seventy years the people of Great Britain have advanced full eight millions in number. In twentyfive years, the number of inhabited houses in England and Wales alone have advanced one-half. Fifty years ago, the very existence of canals was a matter of incredų

lity. Fifteen millions of public wealth have now been profitably absorbed by these mighty ducts; and at least half as much more is at this hour destined for their formation. Fifty years ago, there was hardly a steam-engine in the kingdom. There cannot now be less than twelve thousand- —a creation of power equal to at least a quarter of a million of horses; an energy which, in a single day, would have raised up the great pyramid of Egypt. Fifty years ago, our annual export of manufactured cotton did not amount to a quarter of a million in value: it has now swollen to nearly thirty millions. In the same period, our exported woollens, in defiance of Saxon, Prussian, Spanish, and American competition, have advanced more than two millions. Fifty years ago, our imports of raw silk were only three hundred thousand pounds in weight: they are now nearly three millions. Fifty years ago, our export of iron was hardly twelve thousand tons: it is now about ten times as much. Fifty years ago, our exports of linens were about four millions of yards: they are now nearly forty millions. Fifty years ago, the whole value of our exported produce, both native and foreign, was just fifteen millions of money: the value of British produce exported, alone, is now more than fifty millions. A hundred and twenty years ago, says old Tucker, there were only two or three vessels in Scotland above two hundred tons; our whole tonnage is now more than a quarter of a million, employing twenty thousand souls. A hundred and fifty years ago, says Chalmers, the whole navy of Britain did not amount to a hundred thousand tons: it is now at least

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three millions of tons, employing about two hundred thousand souls.

American Statistics.-The whole number of people in the United States, by the late census, is 9,629,000. Of this number it is stated that 2,065,000 are engaged in agriculture, 349,000 in manufactures, and 72,000 in commerce. Only the efficient or labouring persons in each class appear to have been enumerated. Add the women, the children, and the invalids, and there will be found to be about 8,000,000 in the agricultural class, 200,000 in the commercial, and 1,300,000 in the manufacturing. In England, the agricultural class does not exceed one-third of the whole population. This one-third is not only sufficient to produce bread, stuffs, and provisions enough for themselves and the other two-thirds, but also to produce enough wool for all the extensive woollen factories in the kingdom, with the exception of a small quantity of fine quality. The wool produced amounts annually to 28,000,000 of dollars in value.

Four-fifths of our nation are employed to produce the same effects that follow from the labours of one-third of the British nation.

American Mines.-The mines in Spanish America had been brought to their fullest height of production by the end of the last century, and continued to give to the world annual supplies of unprecedented magnitude till the year 1810. It was then the disturbances broke out, originating in the struggle for independence, and partly from the conflicts of rival parties, which desolated the country, and interrupted the mining operations, especially in Mexico, Peru, and Buenos Ayres.

The

degree to which the produce of the mines fell off, has been thus given in a recent publication, "Tooke on High and Low Prices."

Annual produce of American Mines in

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1800 to 1810.

.30,000,000
5,480,000
866,000

Buenos Ayres.. 3,640,000

Brazil 4,340,000 New Grenada.. 2,735,000

After 1810.

47,061,000 24,501,000

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106,000, Versailles 40,000, and Amiens 40,000. In the royal liorary at Paris there are several uncollated-MSS. of the Scriptures. Prison Discipline. The state of crime in Sweden is less than in most other countries. The whole

number of persons committed to 12,000,000 prison for offences does not exceed 2,740,000 866,000 1,500-viz., about 800 convicted 1,820,000 of various crimes, and 700 impri4,340,000 soned for vagrancy and other of2,735,000 fences of police. A royal commission has been appointed to superintend all the prisons and houses of correction, so as to place their discipline and administration on a common footing. A house of correction is building at Stockholm, in which the prisoners will be allowed part of the gains made by their work, and may lay it up to form a sum against the time of their liberation. Similar measures are also in progress at Christiana, in Norway.

Thus the quantity of the precious metals derived yearly from these sources was reduced one-half in consequence of the war.

Public Libraries in France, In Paris the royal library has above 700,000 printed volumes, and 70,000 MSS. The library of Monsieur 150,000 printed volumes, and 5,000 MSS. The library of St. Genevieve 110,000 printed volumes, and 2,000 MSS. The Mazarine library 92,000 printed volumes, and 3,000 MSS. The library of the city of Paris 20,000 volumes. All these are daily open to the public. In the departments there are 25 public libraries, with above 1,700,000 volumes, of which Aix has 72,670, Marseilles 31,500, Toulouse 30,000, Bordeaux 105,000, Tours 30,000, Lyons

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Wolves in Russia. The following is the official account of the devastations committed by the wolves in the government of Livonia only, in the year 1823: they devoured-horses, 1,841; foals, 1,243; horned cattle, 1,807; calves, 733; sheep, 15,182; lambs, 726; goats, 2,545; kids, 183; swine, 4,190; sucking pigs, 312; dogs, 703; geese, 673.

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