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This fragrant flower, dear, lovely child!
To me, thyself, pourtrays!

Like it, thy beauties, fair and mild,
Now fhoot their vernal rays.

Like it, thy brighteft charms must fade,
Thy fpark'ling blue eyes clofe;
Nor in thy face be long difplay'd,
The vi'let and the rofe.

Dear child! may heaven protect thee ftil!!
And give thy opening fenfe
To know and do thy Father's will,

Till HE command thee hence.

A long and useful life below,
If He shall please to give,
'Tis well-if not, dear Emma go,
In heaven a cherub live.

Sidbury Vale.

E. B.

THE MISER.

DACTYLICS.

OOK at the mifer! morofe, fullen, meagre wretch !
Happin the mines from boom for ever gone,

Charity, kindness, and pity, fled long ago.

Mark how of pleasure and comfort he robs himself,
Scarcely indulging in life's common requifites,

Though he is master of wealth in abundancy.

Wealth! which the fummit of blifs he had thought to find! Wealth! which he labour'd and toil'd for moft eagerly!

Wealth now repays him in care and anxiety—

Renders him daily a prey to difquietude;

Haunts his weak mind in the midst of his flumbering,
Breaks his repofe and destroys all serenity,

First in the morning he haftes to his treasure-bags,
Laft in the evening he fees them in fafety lodg'd;
Waking, he trembles each moment away from them;
Dofing, he dreams but of thieves and of plunderers.
Solely engrofs'd by defire to encrease his flore,
Deaf to the plaints of distress are his ears become,
Blind are his eyes to the hardships of poverty;-
Sorrow and pain he attempts not to mitigate,
Widows and orphans in vain for relief implore,
Beggars, unheeded, are turn'd from his gate away.
Selfish and mean, and without generofity,-
Strangers he shows not the least hospitality,
And of his kindred he fhuns the fociety:

Hated, detefted, defpis'd univerfally,
Living, no creature his welfare rejoices at,
Dying, no tears will be fhed for the lofs of him.

Father! his life and his end, oh! preferve me from!
Let me retain mediocrity, fatisfied,

Rather than rich, like the mifer, be mis'rable.

CHERTREA.

Literary

Literary Review.

Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides, undertaken for the Purpose of examining the State of the Arts, Sciences, Natural Hiftory and Manners in Great Britain, 2 vols. Translated from the French of B. Faujas Saint Fond. Ridgeway.

THE hiftory of the globe is a momentous fubject,

but we should begin our studies of this kind with a knowledge of our own country. Our native land fhould be the first object of attention, and then with the utmost propriety we may proceed to inveftigate the remaining regions of the earth.

It is a little remarkable, that from foreigners we are deftined to learn this neceffary knowledge; but fuch is the cafe, nor fhould we be the less inclined, on this account, to perufe their performances, whence we may derive much fatisfaction.

The prefent production flows from the pen of a fenfible and intelligent Frenchman, who, in his vifit to this country, appears to have been highly gratified with his I reception. His account of us is flattering, and many curious particulars are communicated refpecting our foil, climate, and manners. The ftyle alfo is lively and animated, so that the whole work, with a few exceptions, combines no small degree of inftruction and entertain

ment.

In the first volume the author informs us that he vifited most of our literati, and his account of them is VOL. VII. gratifying

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gratifying to the curiofity, though fome of them are evidently overcharged with panegyric. This latter circumftance must be afcribed to the amiable principle of gratitude, and to that warmth of imagination which is the characteristic trait of Frenchmen.

We shall transcribe his vifit to HERSCHEL, the famous aftronomer, with which the reader must be highly pleased.

"I arrived at Mr. Herfchel's about ten o'clock. I entered, by a staircase, into a room which was decorated with maps, inftruments of aftronomy, and natural philosophy, spheres, celeftial globes, and a large harpsichord.

"Instead of the matter of the house, I observed, in a window at the farther end of the room, a young lady feated at a table, which was furrounded with feveral lights; fhe had a large book open before her, a pen in her hand, and directed her attention alternately to the hands of a pendulum-clock, and the index of another inftrument placed befide her, the ufe of which I did not know: fhe afterwards noted down her observations.

"I approached foftly on tiptoe, that I might not disturb a labour, which feemed to engage all the attention of her who was engaged in it; and, having got clofe behind her without being obferved, I found that the book fhe confulted was the Aftronomical Atlas of Flamstead, and that, after looking at the indexes of both the instruments, the marked, upon a large manufcript chart, points which appeared to me to indicate flars.

"This employment, the hour of the night, the youth of the fair ftudent, and the profound filence which prevailed, interefted me greatly. At last fhe turned round her head accidentally, and discovered how much I was afraid to disturb her; The rofe fuddenly, and told me the was very forry I had not informed her of my arrival, that she was engaged in following and recording the obfervations of her brother, who expected me, and who, in order that he might not lofe the precious opportunity of fo fine a night, was then bufy in his obfervatory.

66 My brother,' faid Mifs Caroline Herschel, has been studying these two hours; I do all I can to affift him here. That pendulum marks the time, and this inftrument, the index of which communicates by ftrings with his telescopes, in

forms

forms me, by figns which we have agreed upon, of whatever he observes. I mark upon that large chart the flars which he enumerates, or discovers in particular conftellations, or even in the most diftant parts of the fky.'

"This fraternal communication, applied to a fublime but abftrufe science, this conftancy of study during fucceffive nights, employed in great and difficult obfervations, afford pleafing examples of the love of knowledge, and are calculated to excite an enthufiafm for the sciences, fince they present themfelves under an afpect fo amiable and fo interesting.

"Mr. Herfchel's obfervatory, to which I repaired fome montents after, is not built on an eminence, nor on the top of a houfe; he has preferred placing it on a verdant plain, where the wind is not fo likely to shake his inftruments, and which is fufficiently extenfive to permit all the motions fuch large machines require.

"His telescopes are elevated in the air, and mounted in a moft fimple and ingenious manner: a young man is placed in a kind of chamber below, who, by the means of machinery, turns the telescope and the observer together in a circle, with a gradual motion correfponding to that of the earth; thus the reflexion of the ftar obferved is retained on the metallic mir

ror.

"These large machines are, befides, conftructed with that precifion, folidity, and care, which renders them capable of bearing the intemperateness of the air; and the mirrors are so difpofed, that they can be taken out and replaced at pleasure, with the greatest facility, notwithstanding they are of confiderable weight.

"Here I saw that ever-memorable telescope with which the eighth planet was discovered *, Mr. Herschel gave to it the name of the King of Great Britain, and called it Georgium Sidus. But all aftronomers, actuated by a feeling of general gratitude, have, with one unanimous voice, unbaptifed it, and given it the name of the planet of Herfchel.

* It was difcovered in 1781; its motion is from west to eaft, like that of the other planets. By obferving it attentively with the largest telescopes, Herfchel has difcovered two fatellites moving round the planet, in orbits nearly circular, and almost perpendicular, to the plane of the ecliptic.

"This

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