gay,

How oft has pleasure, in the social hour,
Smil'd at his wit's exhilirating power;
And truth attested, with delight intense,
The serious charms of his colloquial sense.
His talents, varying as the diamond's ray,
Could strike the grave or fascinate the
His critick labours, of unwearied force,
Collected light from every distant source,
Want with such true beneficence he cheer'd,
All that his bounty gave his zeal endear'd,
Learning as vast as mental power could seize,
In sport displaying, and with graceful ease ;
Lightly the stage of chequer'd life he trod,
Careless of chance, confiding in his Goð.

DAVID GARRICK, ESQ.

1.

W. H."

WE question if all the pages of praise and compliment, justly bestowed on that unequalled and immortal actor Garrick, can furnish an effusion of equal strength and point with the following by the reverend James Townly. Within a few days of Garrick's departure in 1764, for his continental tour, he was passing an evening with his friend Mr. Townly, and facetiously asked him if he had no poetick adieu ready; which in a few minutes produced the following:

"When Garrick's steps the Alps have trod, Prepar'd to enter mighty Rome,

The amphitheatre shall nod,

And Roscius shudder in his tomb."

THE ROSE.

From the Greek.

SHOULD Jove select a flower to reign
Queen over Flora's wide domain;
Say, if a flower more lovelier blows,
More worthy empire than the ROSE?

The ROSE,

whose fragrance and whose teints outvie

Sabæa's spicy gale, and Sarra's crimson die.

The radiant gem of each parterre,
Her damask petals wave in air,
Clustering as tresses that bedeck

The Wanton Chloe's snowy neck;
Whilst smiling Zephyr on the balmy gale

Wafts the bland fragrance round, and scents the distant dale.

Circles the sparkling goblet round,
Unless with blooming roses crown'd;
Roses, that tune the amorous lays,

And wake the string to Venus' praise;

Courting, as round the festal chaplets move,

The Queen of soft desire, and balmy breath of Love.

The following lines were handed to a beautiful lady, who was attending the trial of criminals in a court of justice.

While petty offences and felonies smart,

Is there no jurisdiction for stealing the heart?
You, fair one, will smile, and cry," laws, I defy you;"
Assur'd that no peers can be summon'd to try you.
But think not that paltry defence will secure ye;
For the Muses and Graces will just make a jury,

FROM a volume of poems lately published by William Ingram, Aberdeen, a writer of considerable poetical merit, possessing sound morals and a feeling heart, we select the following:

TO MY AULD COAT.

"Farewell! farewell! long hast thou worn;
Though threadbare, clouted now and torn,
A trusty servant, e'en and morn,

To me thous't been

And gratefu' still, I winna scorn
My guid old frien'!

"A bield thou wast in stormy weather;
And mony a blast we've brav'd together;
And mony a time did I consider,

With downie mane,

What way I wad procure anither,

When thou wast gane.

"I ne'er was fond of being braw; And poets maun na often fa'

To cast their duddy claise awa',

When they turn bare ;
Their thraldom aften is na sma
Ere they get mair.

"Ance on a day I was right vain
To countenance these as my ain,
And to protect thee fra' the rain,
Wi' jerkin blue,

That stormy weather might na stain
Thy glossy hue.

Corroding time! thy tooth devours,
The brazen walls of massy towers,
And levels potentates and powers
To low estate;

Nor strength nor beauty here insures
A better fate.

"Since the best things decay and rot,
Need I repine that my auld coat
Is doom'd to share the common lot,
And yield to time!

Like it I shall be soon forgot-
For a' my rhyme.

FASHIONABLE CHURCH LIVING.

WHAT must be the reflexions of serious minds on reading the following advertisement, copied from the Oxford Journal!

NEXT PRESENTATION.

"To be sold by Auction, by Hoggart and Phillips, at the Auction Mart, opposite the Bank of Engiand, on Thursday next, the 11th day of April, 1811, at twelve o'clock-the next Presentation to a most valuable Living, in one of the first sporting countries: the vicinity affords the best coursing in England, also excellent fishing, an extensive cover for game, and numerous packs of fox-hounds, harriers, &c. ; it is half an hour's ride from one of the first cities, and not

far distant from several most fashionable watering places; the surrounding country is beautiful and healthy, and the society elegant and fashionable.

"The Incumbent is about fifty years of age. "Particulars may be had, fifteen days preceding the sale, of Mr. Annesly, Solicitor, Temple; at the Mart; and of Hoggart, and Phillips, 62, Old Broad-street, Royal Exchange, London."

LUDICROUS EFFECT OF NEWSPAPER ERRORS.

From the European Magazine.

A REVEREND divine lately advertised for a Curate to serve two churches; "the two stipends 1507. per ann. together with surplicefees," &c. But the compositor made it," the two stipends, with surplice fees, 50l. per annum."

The reference for enquiry was to Mr. Sharpe, the respectable bookseller, in the Poultry.

In consequence of the above unlucky blunder, a torrent of anonymous epistles soon arrived; some of a humorous, and others of a very contrary kind. One of these letters the writer of this article obtained permission to copy; which is as follows:

"WORTHY SIR,

"Looking sharply over the advertisements in yesterday's paper, I saw an advertisement,