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Poems: By Mrs. Opie.

We have formerly had occafion to

fpeak in terms of commendation of this Lady's talents as a moral Novelift. Of the elegant little volume of poems now before us, the contents are chiefly of the penfive caft; but the subjects are, in general, well-chofen; the ftyle is eafy and flowing; and the thoughts have frequently the twofold merit of juftnefs and originality.-We fubjoin the following specimen :

LINES WRITTEN AT NORWICH ON THE

FIRST NEWS OF PEACE.

WHAT means that wild and joyful cry? Why do yon crowds in mean attire Throw thus their ragged arms on high? In Want what can fuch joy infpire ? And why on ev'ry face I meet

Now beams a fimile, now drops a tear? Like long-lov'd friends, lo! ftrangers greet,

Each to his fellow man feems dear, In one warm glow of christian love Forgot all proud diftinctions feem; The rich, the poor, together rove;

Their eyes with anfwering kindness

beam.

Bleft found! bleft fight -But pray ye paufe,

And bid my eager wonder cease?— Of joy like this, fay, what's the cause ?A thousand voices anfwer-' PEACE!' O found most welcome to my heart! Tidings for which I've figh'd for years!

But ill would words my joy impart ;
Let me my rapture speak in tears.

Till prudence points the happy choice, the while, [imile. Propitious friends and fav'ring fortune Proud luxury forbids that early youth Should tafte the purer joys of wedded truth; [ing heart, When fruitless paffion claims the yield. Then mental peace and life's belt joys depart;

Defpair, grief-fed with unrelenting lour, Rears his dark form, and chills each joylefs hour."

Small 8vo. pp. 192.

Ye patient poor, from wonder free

Your figns of joy I now furvey, And hope your fallow cheeks to lee

Once more the bloom of health display. Of thofe poor babes that on your knees

Imploring food have vainly hung, You'll foon each craving want appeafe,For Plenty comes with Peace along. And you, fond parents, faithful wives, Who've long tor fons and husbands feared, Peace now fhall fave their precious lives; They come by danger more endeared. But why, to all these transports dead, Steals yon fhrunk form from forth the throng?

Has he not heard the tidings (pread?

Tell her thefe fhouts to Peace belong"Talk not of Peace-the found I hate,"

The mourner with a figh replied; "Alas! Feace comes for me too late,For my brave boy in Egypt died !” Poor mourner! at thy tale of grief

The crowd was mute and fad awhile; But e'en compaffion's tears are brief

When general tranfport claims a fmile: Full foon they checked the tender figh

Their glowing hearts to pity gave; But, while the mourner yet was nigh, They warmly bleis'd the daughtered brave :

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And from all hearts, as fad the paffed,

This virtuous prayer her forrow draws: "Grant, Heaven,thote tears may be the laft That war, detefted war, thall caute !" Oh! if with pure ambition fraught

All nations join this virtuous prayer, If they, by late experience taught, No longer with to flay, but ipart,

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Then hoftile bands on War's red plain For conquest have not vainly burned, Nor then through long long years in vain Have thousands died and millions mourned.

The "Epifle to a Friend" on New Year's Day 1802 we should gladly

felect for its poetical merits; but juftice to the Author forbids our taking farther liberty in the way of extract. We, therefore, conclude with faying, that Mrs. Opie's literary character will certainly receive additional lustre from the prefent volume.

Confiderations on the Neceffity and Expediency of fupporting the Dignity of the Crown and Royal Family in the fame Degree of Splendour as heretofore ;-on the due Proportion of Income between the Poffeffor and Heir Apparent of the Crown -on the Claim of Right in the Heir Apparent to fuch Rents and Proceeds of the Eltates vefted in him at his Birth, as were collected during the Minority of his Royal Highness, and stand yet unaccounted for. 8vo. pp. 48.

IN this pamphlet we have a laboured plea for the right of his Royal Highnefs the Prince to the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall from his birth. The Author, who we infer is a profeffional man, quotes much legal as well as historical matter in fupport of his argument; and is by no means fparing in his cenfure of the late Adminiftration, for having, as he fays, advifed the K- to retain the rents belonging to his fon for one-andtwenty years together, and to refufe accounting for them for twenty years more, although the fon was for the greater part of that time under the greatest embarrassments-not to fay neceffity.

Obferving, in substance, that the King and the Parliament have both been mifled by Minifters who are no longer in existence, he propofes a mode for rendering juftice to his Highness without laying farther burthens on the people. After alluding at fome length to the 44 per cent. Weft India duties, and more briefly to the principality of Wales, the earldom of Chefter, the dukedom of Rothfay, and the barony of Renfrew (all of which, for certain reasons, he rejects), he points out three unappropriated funds, out of either of which his Royal Highnefs may with great propriety be indemnified. Thefe

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"The Duchy of Lancaster is a part of the confolidated eftate of the Crown; in lieu of which the civil lift fund was granted to the King at his Majesty's acceffion to the crown; yet the public derive no advantage from it. It is therefore beft adapted to the purposes of remuneration, and re-establishing the prefent and future Heirs Apparent of the Crown in the means of supporting the dignity of their ftation. I would humbly fuggeft the propriety of fettling the Duchy of Lancatter on the Heir Apparent of the Crown, in the fame manner as that of Cornwall is already fettled on his Royal Highness; and that the act by which this fettlement shall be made fhall alfo regulate the mode in which the estates of both Duchies fhall be managed, and the revenues of them uplifted, and applied during the minorities of every future Heir Apparent.

"In return for this grant, I would humbly fuggeft alfo, that it would be proper his Royal Highnefs the present Prince of Wales fhould grant an acquittance of the debt now due unto him by the King and the two Houses of Parliament conjunctively.

"The only objection to this arrangement which occurs to me is, that if, during the minorities of future Heirs Apparent, the revenues of Cornwall and Lancafter both fhall be accumulated for twenty years together, the Heirs Apparent of the Crown may come to have, at the end of them, an income beyond the proportion which I have fuggefted as the proper one between the poffeffor of the Crown and his Heir; but of that there would be no danger; and Parliament might, and certainly would, on the Heir Apparent's coming of age, proportion the

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THIS is intended for an antidote to the sceptical spirit of the prefent age, ‣ and contains much useful matter wor thy of attention. Paine's objections to the Bible, the state of Church preferments, and of Methodist Societies, nonrefidence, patronage, and pluralities, the articles and canons, the liturgy, and other public offices of the Church, are difcuffed, and cenfured or approved according to the Author's judgment of them. Two Appendixes are fubjoined: the former containing thoughts on a ⚫ national reform; and the latter the reasons of the Author (who is now no more) for refigning his preferment in the religious eltablishment of the country, and declining to officiate as a Miniiter in the Church of England. In the course of the work many amusing anecdotes are introduced, which con tribute to render the volume as entertaining as it is important. The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1801, Vol. V. 1mo.

Of the former volumes of this work we have at various times given our opinion. The present is fully equal, if not fuperior, to any that have preceded it. From it the manners, customs, fashions, follies, and extravagancies of the times, will be better learnt than from any other fource that can be pointed out.

Cafes of Cancer; with Obfervations on the Ufe of Carbonate of Lime in that Difeafe. By Edward Kentish, M. D.

8vo.

Dr. Kentish, in this pamphlet, gives the hiftory and refult of two cafes in this dreadful disease, one of which had a fortunate termination, the other the contrary. He has in both inftances difclofed with great candour the whole circumstances of each case; and con

we cannot deny that his pamphlet difplays confiderable ability, and is highly deferving of perufal by every one who would wish to form just notions of the important queftion about to be canvassed and decided in the High Court of Chancery.

cludes, that though he is not warranted in looking upon the use of carbonate of lime as a ipecific, yet that it appears to merit the utmost attention of the faculty, not only in cancers, but in various other obftinate fores. This pamphlet calls for the notice and attention of every medical practitioner.

The Gentleman's Guide in Money Negociations, and Banker's, Merchant's, and Tradefman's Counting-boufe Affiftant.

12mo.

from the examination of a few of them, Contains many useful tables, which, we believe to be accurate.

Mentor; or, the Moral ConduElor of Youth from the Academy to Manhood: a Work. the Refult of actual but painful Experience candidly flated, and usefully adapted to the Level of youthful Understanding; being a Sequel to the Art of Teaching, or communicating Inftruction, and digefted on the fame Principle. To which is added, as an Incitement to the Study of it in grown Youth, during their Hours of Relaxation from Business, an Effay on the extenfive Utility, Advantages, and Amufement of Mathematical Learning. By David Morrice. 8vo. pp. 286.

We have with great fatisfaction perufed this volume, and feel, ourselves bound, by the duty we owe to the Public, as well as in juftice to the Author, to fay, that as a practical treatife for the regulation of conduct in life it is deferving of the moft extensive circulation. The leffons which it inculcates are, we are affured, founded an actual experience, and have, therefore, the ftrongest claims to attention; and there is nothing dry, harth, tedious, or in any way repulfive, in the Author's ftyle of illuftration.

The work is defigned for the admonition and inftruction of grown youth about to leave fchool, whether de figned for the university, the countinghoufe, the public office, the army, of the navy; but particularly for those

who

who come under the defcription of apprentices: and we think that a parent or guardian will but imperfectly difcharge his duty to a youth about to

enter on the bufy fcene of the world, if he do not enable him to avail himfelf of the affiance of this Mentor.

THE

LYCOPHRON's CASSANDRA.

L. 1351-1361.

Αυθις δὲ κίρκοι Τμῶλον ἐκλελοιπότες, Κίμψατε, καὶ χρυσεργὰ Πακτωλοῦ ποτά, Καὶ νάμα λίμνης, ἔνθα Τυφώνος δάμαρ Κευθμώνος αιόλεκτρον ἐνδάνει μυχόν, *Αγιλλαν Αυσονίτιν ἐισεκώμασαν, Δεινὴν Διγυστίνοισι, τοις τ' αφ' αίματος Ρίζαν γιγάντων Σιθύνων κεκτημένοις, Λόγχης ἐν ὑσμίνῃσι μίξαντες παλην. Εἷλον δὲ Πίσσαν, καὶ δορύκτητον χθόνα Πᾶσαν κατειργάσαντο τὴν Ὄμβρων πέλας, Καὶ Σαλπίων βεβῶσαν ὄχθηρῶν πάγων.

HE fables of antiquity, with which the former part of Caffandra's narrative abounds, are fucceeded in the latter by selections, not from fabulous, but from true hiftory. These felections are regularly arranged ac cording to the order of time; and are inferted, as being not only antecedent, but introductory to the war of Troy. The portion of hiftory, now before us, refpects Tyrrhenus and Lydus, the fons of Atys, king of Lydia. Lydia is not exprefsly named, but denoted, as Caffandra's cuftom is, by its towns, its river, and its lake. During the famine, that threatened to defolate his country, Atys prevailed on his fons to emigrate, and plant a colony in Italy. Their emigrations, fuccefs, and fettlements, are here celebrated. They entered Italy on its western fide, towards Liguria. The Ligurians are reprefented as a warlike people, who are faid to have fprung from the giants of Thrace. The Thracians had fpread themselves over different and diftant countries at an early period. Some of them had fettled in there parts of Italy. The brave Ligurians vigouroufly oppofed the progrefs of their invaders. But the Lydians were ultimately victorious. They took posfeffion of Agylla, of Pyfa, and of all

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Enough is faid on the fubject to excite curiofity, but not enough to fatisfy it. For fuller information recourfe must be had to the Greek

hiftorians. To encourage this research formed no inconfiderable part of our poet's defign. R.

THEATRICAL JOURNAL.

JUNE 24,

DRURY-LANE THEATRE clofed for
the feafon, with Twelfth Night and
The Flitch of Bacon. Between the Play
and the Farce Mr. Kemble came for-
ward. In the name of the Proprietors,
he returned thanks to the audience and
to the Public for the patronage with
which they had been honoured; and
in the name of himself and the per-
formers, for the teftimonies of favour
and indulgence which they had expe-

rienced.
[Mr. Kemble has fince fet out on a
tour to Spain.]

25. Covent Garden Theatre clofed, with The Bufy Body and Rofina. After the Play Mr. Lewis came forward, and returned thanks, on behalf of the Proprietors and Performers, for the liberal patronage received from the Public. The feafon, he faid, had proved the most profperous in the annals of the Theatre; and he affured the audience, that every exertion should be made to merit a continuation of fuch diftinguished favour.

The Haymarket seafon opened the fame evening, with The Heir at Law and The Review; which were attended by a numerous audience, and received with great applaufe. Among the performers engaged for this feafon are, Mr. Murray, Mr. Barrymore, Mr. C. Kemble, Mr. De Camp, Mrs. St. Led. ger, Mrs. Harlowe, and Mifs Howells.

28. A MISS NORTON made her debut at the Haymarket, in the character of Amelia Wildenbaim, in Lover's Vows, and difplayed a degree of merit that obtained much applaufe. We underftand that he is the daughter of Mrs. Norton, a very useful actress in the Covent Garden Company.

JULY 6. MRS. EMERY (mother of the Comedian of that name), from the York Theatre, made her first appearance at the Haymarket, as Dame Afhfield, in Speed the Plough. She acquitted herfelf with great credit, and was much applauded.

10. A new Comedy, in three acts, was prefented for the first time, under the title of "BEGGAR MY NEIGHBOUR; or, A Rogue's a Fool," the principal characters of which were as follew:

Mr. Winnington
Henry Evelyn
Philip Evelyn

Dalton
Rebate
Jemmy
Gaby Dolt

Mr. MURRAY.
Mr. FAWCETT.
Mr. C. KEMBLE.
Mr. WADDY.
Mr. SUETT.

Mr. DE CAMP.
Mr. EMERY.

Mrs. EMERY.

Mrs. MOUNTAIN.

Mrs. Winnington
Patty
Harriet Winnington Mifs NORTON.

FABLE.

The scene lies in a village near London. Mr. Winnington, a merchant of the most respectable character, is brought, by the benevolence of his own temper, and the artifices of Dalton, an upstart man of fortune, into great embarrassments. Dalton is the fon of a man who had been footman to Winnington's father, and owes his wealth chiefly to that connection. Winnington's daughter, Harriet, is a very amiable girl, and the object of attachment to Philip and Henry Evelyn, the fons of an old friend of her father's. She is alfo beloved by Dalton, whofe pretenfions had been rejected by Mr. Winnington. Harriet herfelf prefers Henry. The two brothers are of very different difpofitions. Philip is grave, ftudious, and humane; Henry is wild and diffipated, but, with all his levities, poffefles a good heart. Dalton is employed by Henry to manage his pecuniary concerns, and the former has availed himfelf of the opportunity of enriching himself by every poffible artifice. A large fum is owing by Winnington to Henry; and as Dalton has the controul over the property of the latter, he revenges himself on Winnington by an execution on his pro. perty, founded on Henry's claims. The family of Winnington are therefore thrown into the utmost diftrefs and

confufion,

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