fee a vision of Bacchus. Nay, the God would at times appear upon earth, which the Heathen Greeks called Epiphania, or the Appearance. At prefent, this celestial light irradiates no man's tabernacle, except where a great crevice gapes in the upper ftudy. I fancy the true folution of the question may be learned from Catullus (p.) He fays, that while mankind were juft and holy, the Gods frequently favoured them with their company; but when all decorum, virtue, and religion, went to wreck, the Gods withdrew themfelves, and have never, from that time to this, paid us poor mortals a vifit. Thus far I have written, to convince my enemies how mistaken they were, when they afferted that my bolt was shot, and that I had nothing more to advance. I can truly fay with Pindar (9), " that I have ftill under my arm a quiver, ftored with darts, which found to the intelligent, but to the multitude require an interpreter." It is now, I think, time to take leave of Bacchus and his Orgies. However, by divine permiffion, and the aid of Tooke's Pantheon, I can fend you, if you want them, fome fimilar ftories, full as authentic, and I hope as diverting, as the Arabian Nights; at least they have one quality in commonthey are Oriental Tales. Whenever you can fpare a column from religion, politics, the national debt, the King's bathing, and other matters in which the falvation of the public is concerned, I may perhaps trouble you with an explication of fome other points of Pagan Theology, as they were (I will not fay, believed or understood, but) profeffed by the ancients. MYTHOLOGUS. (p) Nupt. Pelei et Thet. prope fin. (g) Olymp. II. 149. VERSES ADDRESSED TO THE REVEREND JOHN IRELAND*, BY WILLIAM GIFFORD, ESQ. IMITATION OF HORACE, LIB. 11. ODE 16. WH HEN howling winds and howling skies The trembling crew forget to fwear, For eafe the Turk ferocious prays- Which Pk could ne'er obtain; For not the liveried troop, that wait "Oh well is he," to whom kind heaven He grafps not anxioufly at more, "Oh well is he,"-for life is loft, Amidst a whirl of paffions toft *Now Vicar of Croydon, in Surry, and Author of "Dif courfes on the Rejection of the Gospel by the Antient Jews and Greeks. Then Then why, dear Jack, fhould man, Why should he from his country run, Was never man in this wild chace, For, wing'd with all the lightning's speed, Nor Boreas' heat, nor Zembla's cold, They, whom no anxious thoughts annoy, Nor feek the next to know: Something must ever be amifs- We cannot all have what we want; Wolfe rufh'd on Death in manhood's bloom, Here breath, there fame was giv'n: And that wife power who weighs our lives, To keep the balance even. To thee the gave two piercing eyes, A body-juft of Tydeus' size, B b A judg A judgment found and clear; A mind with various fcience fraught, To me, one eye, not over good, Two fides, that, to their coft, have flood A coat more bare than thine-a foul [True Briton.] A GENERAL SPEECH, ADAPTED TO ALL OCCASIONS, AND TO THE MEANEST SIR, UN CAPACITIES. NUSED, unacquainted, unhabituated, unaccuftomed to public fpeaking, I rife, Sir, in confequence of having caught your eye, Sir, to exprefs with the utmost diffidence my humble ideas on the important fubject now before the house. I will therefore, Sir, be bold to affirm, and I am alfo free to declare, that I by no means meet the ideas of the nubble Lud in the blue ribband. I will not, however, go over the fame ground, or commit myself, by taking up a principle without the moft perfect confideration. But as I am upon my legs, I certainly fhall not blink the question; nor am I at all inclined to meet him half way, because, on the first blush of the business, I was determined to fcout the idea in toto; for if, Sir, the well-being of civilized fociety, and the eftablishment of order and tranquillity, is the grand-object of our investigation, I cannot hesitate to pronounce Sir! I cannot hefitate to pronounce, that I want words to to express my indignation at the general tenor of the arguments fo ably agitated by the honourable member on: my left hand. But, Sir, the idea does not attach, and when my learned friend profefled to lay down his principles with fo much method, he only proved his weaknefs by undertaking to cleanse the Augean ftable, and to perform the labours of Hercules himself. No, Sir: I am again free to affert, and, Sir, I am by no means difinclined to prove, that if gentlemen, under the existing circumftances, do not act with vigour and unanimity against the introduction of French principles, our glorious conftitution, produced by the wifdom of our ancestors, may fall to the ground, Sir !-yes, fall to the ground by the impulfe of a Jacobin innovation. But on this head we are ripe to deliberate; and I truft the gentlemen with whom I have the honour to act, and who conftitute the decided majority of this honourable house; for whose worth, integrity, firmnefs, perfpicuity, ingenuity, perfeverance, and patriot fim, I have the moft dignified refpect, and in whom alfo I place the most perfect confidence; I fay, Sir, I truft they will preferve the privileges of this affembly from the lawlefs banditti of acquitted felons, who not having been killed off, infult us daily by their negative fucceffes, and circulate their feditious principles, to the danger of every refpectable man in the community, and who, by poffeffing property, becomes an object for their diabolical depredations. Not, however, to trefpafs any longer on the patience of the houfe, I fhall conclude by obferving, with the great Latin poet of antiquity, I Quid fit futurum cras, fuge quærere [Telegraph.] EXEUNT OMNES. EXTRAORDINARY PHÆNOMENON. MR. BALDWIN, Beg leave to communicate to you the following very extraordinary Phænomenon. It appears on the fouth wall of the parish church of Streatham, in the county of Surry. Bb 2 The |