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Where then is earthly blifs? Where does it grow?
Know, mortal, happiness dwells not below!

Look up to Heaveu !-be Heaven thy darling care;
Spurn the vile earth, and feek thy treasure there;
Nothing but God,---and God alone you'll find,
Can fill a boundless, and immortal mind!

E. C.

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Written on a Window at an Inn, under fome infamous Verfes.

WHEN DRYDEN's clown, unknowing what he

fought,

His hours in whistling spent, for want of thought, The guiltlefs fool his vacancy of sense

Supplied, and amply too, by innocence.

Did modern fwains, poffefs'd of CYMON's pow'rs,
In CYMON's manner wafte their weary hours,
Th' indignant trav'ller would not blushing fee
This chrystal pane difgrac'd by infamy!

SEVERE the fate of modern fools, alas! When Vice and Folly mark them as they pass: Like pois'nous vermin o'er the whiten'd wall, The filth they leave---still points out where they crawl!

E. C.

To

To Mr

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on receiving a blank letter from him on the first of April.

PARDON, Sir, the trick you've play'd me, When an April fool you made me;

Since one day only I appear

What you, alas! do all the year.

E. C.

LORENZO.

Abridgement of a Sermon which took up an hour in delivering, from these words-Man is born to trouble.

My Friends,

THE

HE fubject falls naturally to be divided into three

heads:

1. Man's entrance into the world.

2. His progrefs through the world.

3. His exit from the world; and,

4. Practical reflections from what may be said.

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First then, Man came into the world naked and bare.

2. His progress thro' it, is trouble and care. 3. His exit from it is—none can tell where. 4. But if he does well here--he'll be well there.

Now I can fay no more, my Brethren dear, Should I preach on the fubject from this time till

next year.

E. C.

ΑΜΕΝ.

GENTEEL ECONOMY.

A CERTAIN lady, whofe tafte is equal to her

economy, was under the neceffity of asking a friend to dinner; the following is a bill of fare, and the expence of each dish, which was found on the carpet..

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Bottom, three mutton chops, cut thin,

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One fide, one pound of small potatoes,

On the other fide, pickled cabbage,

Fish removed, two larks, plenty of crumbs,
Mutton removed, French roll boiled for pud-

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THE dinner was ferved up on china, looked light, tafty, and pretty-the table fmall, and the dishes well proportioned.

WE hope each new married lady will keep this as a leffon; it is worth knowing how to ferve up feven dishes, confifting of a difh of fifh, joint of mutton, couple of fowls, pudding, vegetables, and fauce, for feven pence.

E. C.

SIR,

YOU have informed us that a Reverend clergyman has lately received an appointment in America. Pray, Sir, is this the fame person whose letter addreffed to Dr Wotherspoon I lately read ?—If it is, I congratulate Scotland on his departure, and I fhall pity America on his arrival. Is this the man who encourages our youth to emigration, and advifes the Rev. Dr Wotherspoon to banish the poor Loyalists, "thefe vipers in your bofom," as he calls them, and fays, "make them the firft exports of your trade?" Good God, what can equal the barbarity of such a fentiment! Shall these unhappy fufferers in the unfuccefsful cause of the rights of their mother-country—in the defence of the principles of equity, and of that juft, mild, and equal government, which extended

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tended to every branch of the empire, protection, law, and liberty, be devoted to exile and slavery!— Forbid it Heaven !-forbid it every principle of humanity! Is it thus he would bind up the brokenhearted, and comfort them that have no friend? Is this the language of the mild precepts of the gospel, whofe doctrines he profeffes to teach, or of the meek and humble JESUS, the Saviour of mankind, who faid to his fervants, "Love your enemies---Do good to them that hate you---Bleffed are the peace-makers, for they fhall be called the children of God." Does the Christian religion breathe the spirit of rancour, malice, and revenge? If it does, then, is this man a teacher of the the gospel?

YE poor unhappy Loyalifts, have ye not fuffered enough! Is the measure of your misfortunes not yet full? and muft the last bitter dregs be poured into the cup of your fufferings by the hand of a Chriftian Divine? Where will you find a good Samaritan? for, alas! this Levite, not like his brother of old, content to turn afide an indifferent head, points a fword to rip up your yet unclofed wounds. Bereaved of property, and of every comfort in life, for your steady attachment to your duty, your King and your country, you must yet fuffer greater ills!--Banifhed from your friends and connections, with bleeding hearts and mangled limbs, you must be fent to tread the barren wild, or feek the inhofpitable fhore, without profpect of peace till you fhall reach that haven where the weary are at reft!—This

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