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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.
Otium Divos rogat, &c.

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HEN howling winds and howling skies
The light untimber'd Bark furprize.
Near Orkney's boisterous feas,

The trembling crew forget to fwear,
And bend the knees, unus'd to pray'r,
To ask a little ease.

For eafe the Turk ferocious prays-
For ease the barbarous Ruffe-for ease

Which Pk could ne'er obtain;
Which Bedford lack'd amidst his ftore,
And liberal Clive, with mines of ore,
Oft bade for-but in vain.

For not the liveried troop, that wait
Around the manfions of the great,
Can keep, my friend, aloof,
Fear, that attacks the mind by fits,
And care, that like a raven flits,
Around the lordly roof.

"Oh well is he," to whom kind heaven
A decent competence has given,
Rich in the bleffing fent;

He grafps not anxioufly at more,
Dreads not to use his little ftore,
And fattens on content.

"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.

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Then why, dear Jack, fhould man,
Magnanimous ephemera! ftretch
His views beyond the narrow reach
Of his contracted span?

Why should he from his country run,
In hopes beneath a foreign fun,
Serener hours to find?

Was never man in this wild chace,
Who chang'd his nature with his place,
And left himself behind.

For, wing'd with all the lightning's speed,
Care climbs the bark, Care mounts the steed,
An inmate of the breast;

Nor Boreas' heat, nor Zembla's cold,
Can drive from that pernicious hold,
The too tenacious guest.

They, whom no anxious thoughts annoy,
Grateful, the prefent hour enjoy,

Nor feek the next to know:
To lighten every ill they strive,
Nor, ere Misfortune's hand arrive,
Anticipate the blow.

Something must ever be amifs-
Man has his joys; but perfect blifs
Lives only in the brain.

We cannot all have what we want;
And Chance, unafked, to this may grant
What that has begg'd in vain.

Wolfe rufh'd on Death in manhood's bloom,
Paulet crept flowly to the tomb-

Here breath, there fame was giv'n:

And that wife power who weighs our lives,
By contras and by pros, contrives

To keep the balance even.

To thee the gave two piercing eyes,

A body-juft of Tydeus' size,

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A judgment found and clear;

A mind with various fcience fraught,
A liberal foul, a thread-bare coat,
And forty pounds a-year.

To me, one eye, not over good,

Two fides, that, to their coft, have flood
A ten years hectic cough;
Aches, ftitches, all the numerous ills,
That fwell the devilifh doctors bills,
And sweep poor mortals off.

A coat more bare than thine-a foul
That fpurns the crowd's malign controul;
A fix'd contempt of wrong;
Spirits above Affliction's pow'r,
And fkill to charm the lonely hour
With no inglorious fong.

[True Briton.]

A GENERAL SPEECH,

ADAPTED TO ALL OCCASIONS, AND TO THE MEANEST

SIR,

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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

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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,

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Quid fit futurum cras, fuge quærere
Carpe diem.

[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.

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