Health flies her dwelling, dark fufpicion - low'rs [bow'rs. Her gilded roof around, her fragrant In Indian climes inviting trees arife, With fruit o'erhung that tempt unwary eyes ;

But fmiling poifon thofe, for e'en the dews Their leaves diftil contagious drops diffufe;

Love, delicately chafte, the wanton flies, Bears not expanfion, without virtue dies. "And e'en from chafter love thy foul refrain ;

O fhun the premature diftra&ting pain;

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

Each to his fellow man feems dear. In one warm glow of chriftian love Forgot all proud distinctions seem ; The rich, the poor, together rove;

Their eyes with anfwering kindness

beam.

Bleft found! bleft fight !-But pray ye pause,

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 fpeak in tears.

Vol.

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

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

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Ye patient poor, from wonder free
Your figns of joy I now furvey,
And hope your fallow cheeks to fee

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 for fons and husbands
feared,

Peace now fhall fave their precicus lives; They come by danger more endeared. But why, to all these transports dead, Steals yon fhrunk form from forth the throng?

Has the not heard the tidings spread?

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

The mourner with a figh replied; "Alas! Peace 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 transport claims a fimile: Full foon they checked the tender figh

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

And from all hearts, as fad the paffed,

This virtuous prayer her forrow draws: "Grant, Heaven, thofe tears may be the last That war, detefted war, fhall caufe!" Oh! if with pure ambition fraught

All nations join this virtuous prayer, If they, by late experience taught,

No longer wish to flay, but ipare,

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.

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

felect for its poetical merits; but justice 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 luftre from the prefent volume,

IN N 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 profefional man, quotes much legal as well as hiftorical 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 embarrafiments-not to fay neceffity.

Obferving, in fubftance, 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 Highnels without laying farther burthens on the people. After alluding at fome length to the 4 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 reafons, he rejects), he points out three unappropriated funds, out of either of which his Royal Highnefs may with great propriety be indemnified. Thefe

"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 Majefty'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 fupporting the dignity of their station. I would humbly fuggeft the propriety of fettling the Duchy of Lancaster 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 fhall be made fhall alfo regulate the mode in which the eftates of both Duchies shall 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 Highness the prefent Prince of Wales fhould grant an acquittance of the debt now due unto him by the King and the two Houfes of Parliament conjun&tively.

"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 Lancaster 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 poffeflor 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

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 scene of the world, if he do not enable him to avail himfelf of the affittance of this Mentor.

THE

HE fables of antiquity, with which the former part of Caffandra's narrative abounds, are fucceeded in the latter by felections, not from fabulous, but from true history. Thefe felections are regularly arranged according to the order of time; and are inferted, as being not only antecedent, but introductory to the war of Trov. 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 spread them felves over different and diftant countries at an early period. Some of them had fettled in thefe parts of Italy. The brave Ligurians vigour oufly oppofed the progrefs of their invaders. But the Lydians were ultimately victorious. They took poffeflion of Agya, of Pyfa, and of all

[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 molt profperous in the annals of the Theatre; and he affured the audience, that every exertion fhould be made to merit a continuation of fuch diftinguifhed favour.

The Haymarket feafon 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 feason are, Mr. Murray, Mr. Barrymore, Mr. C. Kemble, Mr. De Camp, Mrs. St. Ledger, Mrs. Harlowe, and Mifs Howells.

28. A MISS NORTON made her de

but at the Haymarket, in the character of Amelia Wildenboim, in Lover's Vows, and displayed a degree of merit that obtained much applaufe.-We underftand that the 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 Ahfield, 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 follow:

Mr. Winnington
Philip Evelyn
Henry Evelyn
Dalton
Rebate
Jemmy
Gaby Dolt

Mrs Winnington
Patty

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

Mr. DE CAMP.
Mr. EMERY.

Mrs. EMERY.

Mrs. MOUNTAIN.

Harriet Winnington Mifs NORTON.

FABLE.

The scene lies in a village near London. Mr. Winnington, a merchant of the moft refpectable character, is brought, by the benevolence of his own temper, and the artifices of Dalton, an upstart man of fortune, into great embarraffments. 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 Eve. lyn, 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 diflipated, but, with all his levities, poffefles a good heart. Dalton is employed by Henry to manage his has availed himfelf of the opportunity pecuniary concerns, and the former of enriching himself by every poflible artifice. A large fum is owing by Winnington to Henry; and as Dalton has the controul over the property of the latter, he revenges himfelf on Winnington by an execution on his property, founded on Henry's claims. The family of Winnington are therefore thrown into the utmoft diftrefs and

confus