the fuppreffion of perfpiration, caufed by fleeping in the open air, the eyes having been previoufly weakened by the intenfely-bright funfhine to which they are expofed in that country. Topical evacuations were fouud ufeful, and weak folutions of verdigreafe and ceruffa acetata opium was loinetimes productive of great benefit. 126. A Letter to the Right Hon. William Windham, Secretary at War, on the Subject of exercising Volunteers on a Sabbath-day. By a Lord of Parliament. THIS (we fuppofe a spiritual) Lord urges the ufual arguments on the fubject, which he exhorts may be obviated by an exprefs claufe, WHILE fome admire this plan of education for the loweft and most outcaft children of the State, by leading them infenfibly to letters and figures, and thereby to ideas and improvement, the friends of civilized fociety, with the talent of reading and writing with fomething decifive to be inculcated to be read and written, fome fundamental principles of religion and morals, commonly known by the name of Chriflianity, hot, curtailed or obfcured by Quaker conceits, that the national fpirit fhould not be ftudioufly depreffed by prefuming war to be inconfiftent with Chriftianity; and that fome ftandard of truth fhould be adopted to prevent déception and mistakes. "A fyftematic plan has long been fet on foot, and induftriously acted upon, for the purpofe of fapping and undermining the Church of England; ample funds are privately provided, with the view of carrying feparation from it to the utmoft poffible ftretch, by multiplying meeting-houfes in all parts of the country; whilft not one public effort has been made to counteract the grow MANY fenfible and judicious obing evil, by bringing forward a propofervations are here made on the Acts fal for erecting places of worship, unof the S6th of the King, c. 83, and der the Etablishment, in fome degree the 43d, c. 24, the one extending he powers of the bithops in regard to cut-proportioned to our increafed popula 127. Reflections on the recent Extenfion of the Powers of their Lord/hips the Bishops, tending to determine how far they are confiftent with the Principles of the Confiitution, the Union with Scotland, and the Coronation Oath; and to efiimate their probable Influence on the Prelacy, the Church, the Clergy, and the Kingdom at large. but rates, and. the other in refpect to refi- 128. A Letter, respectfully addressed to the tion." (p. 52.) 129. Continuation of the Airtual MeteoroLogical Register kept at Mansfield Woodhoufe, from the Year 1804 to the End of the Year 1805. By H. R. AGAIN we have the pleafure of finding our worthy friend at his mete orological ftúdies. Long may he fur vive to afcertain "the fudden tranfitrons in the temperature of air," the refult of which "made the lat Summer remarkably cold, and the weather changeable throughout the year; bad coughs and colds, with rheumatic complaints, prevailing in this neighbourhood, which the Faculty found difficult to remove." This able champion of facred literature is not weary of the combat, but maintains, against all oppofition, that, "in eight different texts in the New Teftament the fupreme title of God is exprefly attributed to our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, according to a regular form of conftruction, which does not appear in the prefent authorized English verfion of thofe eight particular texts; though the fame idiom, or mode of expreffion, occurs in a variety of other texts throughout the Greek New Teftament; 25 at leaft, wherein two perfonal nouns of the fame cafe are connected by the copulative a, the first noun only having the definitive article, and not the fecond; in which cafe only one perfon is to be underflood, according to Granville Sharpe's rule." 131. Memoirs of the Rife and Progress of the Royal Navy. By Charles Derrick, Efq. of the Navy Office. THIS valuable work, which bears on the face of it the most indifputable marks of accuracy and authenticity, is with great propriety infcribed to Lord Barham, with whom Mr. Derrick, during a long courfe of years, has had the honour of a perfonal acquaintance; and had many opportunities of contemplating officially thofe mafterly talents for bufinefs, that energy of exertion, and indefatigable application, and that profound and comprehenfive knowledge of naval affairs, which diftinguifh and adorn Lord Barham's public character." This Dedication is not in the ordinary language of indifcriminate flattery; and we are of opinion, with the writer of it, that, with the name of the gallant Lord Nelfon, that of the wife, the vigilant, the experienced Lord Barham will defcend, applauded and venerated, to the moft remote periods of future time." In a Prefice of extreme modefty, Mr. Derrick folicits indulgence, which a generous and candid Publick will readily grant to him, for "imperfections in the flyle of an author whofe life has been spent in the active fcenes of official business, more than in lite rary pursuits.” "The great importance of the Navy, particularly at the prefent crifis, whereby every circumftance relating to it becomes an object of national concern, will enfure a favourable reception of an attempt at a diftinct and brief account of its rife, and advancement to the exalted pitch it has now attained. To profeffional men fuch an account may prove inftructive, and effentially ufeful; while the generality of readers will find in it a fund of amusement and valuable information. "If the hiftory of the Navy is divided into two parts, the latter fhould perhaps Eighth; before which time there was, commence with the reign of Henry the ftrictly speaking, no Royal Navy. But, as a large fhip was built by Henry the Seventh, this reign may, from that circumftance, be deemed entitled to be held the true æra of the origin of our Navy; and thefe Memoirs accordingly commence from this period." The principal object of our Author has been, "to fhew the state of the Navy, as to the number, tonnage, &c. of the feveral claffes of the Ships and Veffels at different periods; when the Naval Force was promoted, neglected or, at leaft, not augmented; and at what periods improvements in Shipbuilding were introduced into it." And, that being his defign, he has very properly taken notice of but few circumftances relative to Sea affairs, that the main points might not be confufed by a great variety of matter. Some interefting articles, however, are intro duced, relative to the Dock-yards and magazines of Naval Stores, from documents which have never hitherto been acceffible to the publick; and a reprefentation is given of that famous fhip The Henry Grace de Dieu. Such is the plan of Mr. Derrick's publication; and it is but juflice to fay that it is ably completed. The variety of lifts and tables muft have been a tafk of infinite labour; and their perfection confifts in undoubted veracity. In a future number fome hiftoric particulars fhall be felected. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. The Earl of Buchan, with that zeal for genius by which he has always been diftinguished, and a fpirit of benevolence fill more honourable to his character, is collecting all the Manufcript Works and Drawings of the late Mr. Barry, with an intention to publifh them for the advantage of fome indigent relations of the departed Arift. The Rev. Mr. Cook, of St. John's College, Cambridge, has in his poffeffion upwards of one thousand Roman coins, lately dug up near an encampment on the coast of Norfolk, together with with the fragments of the urn in which they were found. Á German Translation of the Bishop of London's Lectures on the Gospel of St. Matthew has appeared at Berlin. In a periodical work publithed at Peterburg, intituled the "St. Peterburgifche Monathfcrift," there is a very interefting article on the progrefs of learning and civilization in Ruffia, from the moft remote antiquity to the time of Peter the Great. What will particulaly attract the attention is, the hope of recovering fome of the works of the antients, fuppofed to be irretrievably loft. It appears that Jarif laus I. fon of Waladian the Great, invited to his court a great number of learned Greeks, and employed them in tranflating into the Slavonic language Greek works, the original of which were depofited in the church of St. Sophia. Conftantine was fo great a lover of the fciences that he collected more than 1000 Greek manufcripts, feveral of which he caufed to be tranflated and diftributed to the schools in his dominions. Alexis Michaelowitz, wishing to compare the Slavonic verfions of the books ufed in the churches with the originals, caufed to be purchafed in Greece, and particularly at Mount Athos, about 500 MSS. which are fill preferved in the library of the Synod at Mofcow. Even allowing that the laftmentioned collection confiits of copies of the Holy Scriptures, and of the Fathers, yet it may reasonably be conjectured that this was not the cafe with respect to the 1000 MSS. collected by Conftantine; and it may be afked, what is become of thofe prefented by him to the fchools? and whether the fill more numerous collection of Jarillaus I. has not remained at the church of St. Sophia? It is to be hoped that all the convents of Ruffia will be called upon to furnish a catalogue of heir libraries; by which means we may flatter ourfelves to bring to light fome precious remains of antient Greek literature. Mr. Tham, of Skara, in Sweden, is occupied on the Runic characters found on one of the famous lions of Venice, which was not removed to Paris: Mr. T. is extremely well verfed in this branch of Northern literature, and has already fucceeded in deciphering a confiderable part of them. From the refearches of Profeffor Munter, of Copenhagen, it appears that almoft all the infcriptions found in the iflands of Malta and Gozo, and fuppofed to be Phoenician by Torremuzza, who published them in his Infcriptiones Siculæ," are E-yptian. Having compared them with the inferiptions which are acknowledged by all Antiquaries to be Egyptian, and with the Papyri published in Denon's Travels, the Profeffor found a great conformity between all thefe different monuments. He purposes to publish his researches, from which we may expect new and curious refults relative to the hiftory of thefe countries. This work will be accompanied with comparative tables of the characters. Mr. Munter has alfo difcovered a weaving inftrument engraved on the coins of thofe iflands; where, as appears from Diodorus (lib. V. c. c. XII.), the Carthaginians had confiderable factories; and is of opinion that a figure on fome coins of Coffura, which has been taken for a column, or can dalabra, is nothing elfe but the Kawy of the antients. Profeffor Muller, of Copenhagen, has been prefented with the large medal of the Danish Academy, for his memoir on the two large antique golden horns which fome time ago were ftolen from the King of Denmark's cabinet, and melted down by the robbers. He confiders them to have been of Celtiberian origin, as the characters engraved on them perfectly refembled thofe found on Celtiberian medals. The King of Denmark's cabinet of medals has lately been enriched by the acquifition of the fine collection of Don Aleftio Motta (Baron Recupero) at Rome, which confifts of about 1600 Greek medals in bronze, for the moft part of Sicily and Magna Græcia. Among the MSS. dug out from the ruins of Herculaneum, a fragment of a Latin poem in hexameters has been difcovered, containing from 60 to 70 verfes. They relate to the battle of Actium, and, as it would feem, the death of Cleopatra. The MS. is writ ten in the large letters called uncial, and all the words are feparated by points. It is hoped that this will prove to be the poem of Varius, the friend of Horace and of Virgil, and that the whole of that work will be recovered. The following is one of the verses : "Confiliis nox apta ducum, lux aptior armis." THE Poor, Sheva icorns ungrateful to appear: And whilft in rambling and unftudied rhyme [clime, He points the bounties of this happy His grateful thanks for Britons' foft'fing care, [fhould fhare. This annual fight demands his friends Much have I travel'd o'er this earthly fpace; [race. A wand'ring offspring of a wand'ring Sore with Oppreffion's fcourge ;" and long rejected, [te&ed; "Unhoufel'd, unanneal'd," and unproOur hapless Nation meets the fcorner's brow, [ing bow! And under numerous ills muft unrepinThere, tax'd with threefold load, behold we groan; [moan! Unprivileg'd, there, pour the piteous Afail'd by Envy's taunts and Slander's 'breath, [to death! There, for our fathers' faith, condemn'd Rome's fcarlet Hierarch gives the dread, [wand; command; Fierce Perfecution waves the bigot And ftreams the life-blood of our guilt lefs band! hand I know that each with ftrong-nerv'd filial [land! Would all deyote, to fave this gen'rous. Then to fwords turn your ploughfhares, my brethren fo bold, And your reaping-hooks ftraiten to fabres and Tpears! [be told, In Fame's future page your atchievements And your mem'ries embalm'd in Old England's rich tears: See, Britannia, arous'd at fall'n Europe's deep groans, [reftore Her fetters to break, and her balance And He, who the laws of all nations difowns, [no more! By Britannia defeated, fhall triumph Some beft-favour'd' arm, in his furious advance, [rapturous vifion!) (What heart but high bounds at the Shall forceful arreft this swOLN TYRANT OF FRANCE, [cifion! And millions fet free by this gallant deThen to fwords turn your ploughmares, my brethren fo bold; Chang'd to fabres and fwords your reaping-hooks bring: So, in Fame's future page, be your 'prowefs enroll'd, [of your King! As the ARMS of old England, the SHIELD Mr. URBAN, T June 16. N the prefent time, precocity of genius occurs fo frequently, that the fellowing lines from a young gentleman only thirteen years old may probably be looked on as not very extraordinary. They were written to invite a brother, feveral years older, into the country during the Winter feafon; and strongly mark the turn of mind of the author. In this, as in all other juvenile productions; very many errors may be perceived; but as your pages have been the frequent vehicle of ufhering into the world the firft effays of men who have afterwards attained high fituations in the Republic of Literature, it is hoped they will gain admiffion, especially as many lines are dmitted; being fearful left they might trench on articles of greater importance. Their infertion will oblige your occafional correfpondent E. D. With many a found or fight that vies And when upon the diftant fhore Ah! could I tell you all I've felt Would brave all forms to meet your A ANACREONTIC. WREATH of flow'rets, Cupid, twine, Tó deck the brows of her I love, While on her bofom I recline, And all thy amorous transports prove. I prize alone her native charms; Which makes her fold me in her arms TO you, though diftant, I would fend Mary, my heart thy heart has chofen, The greetings of a bofom-friend; Dearer than brother, for you claim 1 With me the fcenes I now relate. The Country ftill has charms for me! If Nature awfully fublime If you When the hard froft seems to yield, And each fhall blefs the other's choice; My raptures are beyond concealing, Full well I know a Lover's blifs; ON THE BATTLE OF HOHENLINDEN, N Linden, when the fun was low, But Linden fhew'd another fight By |