I've seen thee in thy beauty, Baby! thou seem'st to me. By the convulsed lid, Their pupils darkly blue. Thy little mouth half open- Mount up, inmortal essence! How beautiful thou art! Oh! I could gaze for ever An Angel's dwelling place. Thou weepest, childless Mother! Aye, weep 'twill ease thine heartHe was thy first-born Son, Thy first, thine only one; "Tis hard from him to part! 'Tis hard to lay thy darling Deep in the damp cold earth His empty crib to see, His silent nursery, Once gladsome with his mirth. To meet again in slumber To feel (half conscious why) That thou art desolate! F "And when the hour arrives From flesh that sets me free, The first at heaven's gate, To meet and welcome me1.' *5.-SAINT PIRAN'S DAY. is claimed as a holiday by the tinners of 11, by a custom established from time immewhich sanctions a suspension from all labour, e St. Piran is supposed to have communicated ancestors some important information relathe tin manufacture.-(Hist. of Cornwall.) *5. 1821.-RICHARD TWISS DIED. was well known in the literary circles, by seworks which attained a considerable share of rity. Of these, his Travels through Portud Spain,' written at an early period of his xcited much notice. His next work was a through Ireland,' a publication distinguished humour and originality, and equally so by the m of its remarks. He likewise wrote Anecof Chess,' A Trip to Paris,'' Miscellanies,' His fortune, which was originally very ample, een materially injured by an unsuccessful speon of manufacturing paper from straw. 7. PERPETUA. 6 petua, a noble lady of Carthage, only twentyears of age, suffered martyrdom in 203, by orE Minutius Firmianus, under the persecution of mperor Severus. 0. 1820.-BENJAMIN WEST DIED, ÆT. 82, esident of the Royal Academy, a name which ever be forgotten in the annals of British art. historical productions of this self-taught painter cast a lustre on the British School during the last years, and have reflected much credit on the taste royal patron, George III. As an artist (says 'Blackwood's Magazine, vol. ix, pp. 369, 370. Mr. Galt), he will stand in the first rank. His nam will be classed with those of Michael Angelo and Ra phael; but he possessed little in common with eithe As the former has been compared to Homer, an the latter to Virgil, in Shakespeare we shall perhap find the best likeness to the genius of Mr. Wes He undoubtedly possessed, but in a slight degre the peculiar energy and physical expression of cha racter in which Michael Angelo excelled, and in still less that serene sublimity which constitutes th charm of Raphael's great productions. But he wa their equal in the fulness, the perspicuity, and th propriety of his compositions. In all his gre works, the scene intended to be brought before t spectator is represented in such a manner that t imagination has nothing to supply. The incider the time and the place, are there as we think th must have been; and it is this wonderful force conception which renders the sketches of Mr. We so much more extraordinary than his finished pi tures. In the finished pictures we naturally institu comparisons in colouring, and in beauty of figu and in a thousand details which are never noticed the sketches of this illustrious artist. But althou his powers of conception were so superior,-equal their excellence to Michael Angelo's energy, or R phael's grandeur, still, in the inferior departme of drawing and colouring, he was one of the great artists of his age: it was not, however, till late life that he executed any of those works in which thought the splendour of the Venetian school mig be judiciously imitated. As a man, he was w known for his amiable and irreproachable charact as all will be ready to admit who have seen the 1 portrait of him in the late exhibition at Somer House, and who are inclined to put any faith physiognomy: the evidence of Mr. Galt, howev who enjoyed his confidence and friendship for ma years. is perfectly satisfactory on this head s born in Pennsylvania, in the United States ica; and the biography of his early life is terest; but for this, and other particulars reat artist, we must refer to the two parts of an Galt's Life and Studies of Benjamin West,' 6-20. Mr. West was interred with great fump, in St. Paul's Cathedral, on the 29th of 1820. 12.-SAINT GREGORY. Gregory, surnamed the Great, was born about 540. Gadianus, his father, enjoyed the digsenator, and was very wealthy. Our saint, outh, applied himself to the study of grametoric, and philosophy; and afterwards to the w, and the canons of the church, in which well skilled. He was consecrated Pope ne year 590, and died in 604. Before his adent to the see, Gregory projected the converthe English nation, but did not accomplish es until he had assumed the papal chair. - 1800.-HON. DAINES BARRINGTON died. was fourth son of Lord Barrington, and was t up to the law. In 1757, he was made a Judge, after which he was appointed second of Chester. He resigned these offices long his death, and lived in a retired way in the e, amusing himself chiefly with natural hisd antiquities, on which subjects he publisheral papers in the Philosophical Transactions e Archæologia. He was vice-president of the arian Society. He published tracts on the Dility of reaching the North Pole, and Obsers on the Statutes. But our principal reason entioning him here, is on account of his Nast's Journal, a form which he drew up for keepJournal of the State of the Weather, and of currences and Appearances in Nature during ear. It consists of fifty-two pages ruled for week in the year, with directions for the nature |