lication called "the Librarian," proposes publishing in the ensuing month, an Essay on the Varieties observable in the Structure of Parish Churches, from their Erection in the First Ages of Christianity in this Island, to the End of the Fifteenth Century; by which a common observer will be able to distinguish the age of nearly every ecclesiastical building of the above description now standing.

Dr Stokes has in considerable forwardness, a Botanical Materia Medica, consisting of the generic and specific characters of the plants used in medicine and diet, with synonyms and references to medical authors.

The author of the Refuge, has in the press a piece on the sufferings of Christ. Mr Mortimer's new Dictionary of Commerce, Trade, and Manufactures, will appear in a few days.

Mr Adams, Geographer to the King, has just produced a new and elegant pair af nine-inch Globes, to accompany the improved System of Geography of Dr Smith.

Professor White will shortly publish, under the title of "Synopsis Criseos Griesbachianæ," an explanation, in words at length, of the marks and ab. breviations used by Griesbach, in his edition of the New Testament.

A literary society, entitled the Ionic, has been founded at Corfu, the princi pal of the so-called Seven Islands recently ceded by Russia to France. It has already proposed a prize of 600 francs, for the best treatise on the Statistics of these islands. The president of the senate of those islands has also of. fered a prize of the like value, for the best answer to the following question: "Why do the inhabitants of the Ionian islands, though not deficient in talents, occupy themselves only with

frivolous and unimportant objects? and by what means may their genius and attention be drawn to things of higher consequence?

The Jablonowski Society, at Leipzig, has proposed the following prizequestions, for the year 181-In history, the origin of cities, and civil economy in Poland: in mathematics, to ana lyze the various theories, on which, according to Leibnitz, Newton, d'Alembert, la Grange, T'Huilier, and others, the infinitesimal calculus depends; and to determine which of them deserves the preference: in natural philosophy, a comparative consideration of the grounds, for and against admission of peculiar substances in light, heat, electricity, and magnetism.

The new edition of Wincklemann's works, commenced by the late Professor Fernow, of Weimar, will be contr nued by Professor Meyer, of the same place. All the smaller pieces, originally written in German, together with M. Fernow's observations and additions, Occupy the two first volumes, which terminate with the Essay on Allegory. The succeeding volumes will consequently comprehend Wincklemann's grand work, the History of the Arts, and a translation of the Discorso prelimi nare to the Monumenti antichi inediti.

M. Geislier, the engraver, of Liepzig, is engaged on a new botanical work, by the celebrated Pallas. It contains descriptions and delineations of 127 beautiful, and, for the most part, new vegetables, of Russia and Siberia, on one hundred folio plates, and forms an indispensable supplement, or third volume, to the Flora Rossica. The drawings were executed under Pallas's direction, by M. Geisler, the faithful companion of his travels, and the descriptions are from the masterly pen of the former.

To the Memory of Mr JOHN FLETCHER, Surgeon; who died of consumption in the Hospital of Malta, in June last,

OH! lovely Queen of pensive Night,

Calm Contemplation's hour is thine, Burst forth in thy unbounded light, While Silence worships at thy shrine:

For to the joyless, anguish'd heart,
Thy melancholy look is dear,
And, sympathizing with its smart,
Thy gloom and death-still scenes appear.
And thou, fair- beaming star of ev'n,
That fairest of Heaven's stars appears,
Adorner of the brow of Heaven!

Shine as if glittering thro' pure tears:

Thou

Thou art my grief's awakener, Star!
Dumb Monitor! thou mak'st me know
What were my joys, what now my care,
Melting my soul in love with woe!
For oft beneath thy silver beam,
In friendship's joys the hours I've past,
Joys vanish'd like a pleasing dream,
Dear mortal joys! not form'd to last,
For thou art ever, ever gone
O Fletcher, and I left to mourn;
And do I live but to bemoan,
My friend, my brother, from me torn,
O Death why still by thee pursued,
The sweetest flower is snatched away?
Why prematurely seize the good
And claim them as thy proudest prey?
O why is sacred friendship doom'd
Sad Vigils with its cares to keep?
And why o'er modest worth entombed
Is kindred virtue doomed to weep?

! Fletcher, can thy pitying eyes
Behold thy friend for thee distrest:
And hail thy shade 'mong heavenly joys
Where virtue in its God is blest?
Banks of Esk.

LINES

J. L.

Given to a Young Lady, on her soliciting

the Author to make known to her his
waking Wish on New Year's morning,
BY W. C.

WISH'D that two vowels were join'd
In Wedlock, so holy and true,

I could not but think in my mind

That the vowels must be I and U. I turn'd it again in my thoughts,

And turn'd myself round with a sigh, Nought else could I make of the two, For, inverted, they came U and I. VERSES

Occasioned by the perusal of a very ingenious invention to perpetuate the meaning of monumental inscriptions when defaced by accidents, and the lapse of time; by Mr Alexander Molleson, Bookseller, Glasgow, and author of many valuabls publications.

By the Rev. Mr S. of B. LONG had the world been destin'd to

lament,

That deeds heroic, her proud ornament, To distant ages should be dubious shown, By time-worn legends on the mould'ring stone,

When griev'd that thus oblivion should

annoy,

Its bane, see genius labours to destroy,—

* See Hints for perpetuating Inscriptions at the end of Inscriptions for Nelson.

Nor genius less than his, whose tuneful

lays t

Had from his Scotia earn'd the poet's bays, Whose moral page 4, delightful as his song, Had won the suffrage of the learned throng, Whose aim to snatch from harmony's controul,

Bland melody, whose strains subdue the soul,

Had warn'd the critics, with a scienc'd flame,

And crown'd the author with no vulgar fame,

Ha, Molleson! before thy magic wand, Long, long immur'd, bright, sculptur'd lines expand,

Whence, tho' by days, and clownish rage defac'd

The monumental tale is clear retrac'd,
Of every grand, heroic, matchless feat,
Old as the years of ancient Noah's date.

LINES

soul,

And rouse each feeling that the good extol;

To make sweet virtue lovely in our eyes,
To point at vice in ev'ry foul disguise;
To fire our reason with the love of truth,
And plant each virtue in the breast of
youth.

Is there alive a wretch who does not feel
The soft emotions language can't reveal ?
When sad Matilda treads the midnight dew,
To pour the tear to dear remembrance due,
And oft in ceaseless agony of pain
Deplores her infant lost-her husband
slain?

Sure all that read the soul-transporting page

Now melt in pity, then are swol'n with rage;

Sure all that think on curst Glenalvon's frown,

Must pant to make young Norval's cause

their own.

Scot

A small volume of ingenious poems, were published by Mr Molleson.

This refers to Mr Molleson's volume of miscellanies.

Mr Molleson's Essay, entitled "Melody the Soul of music," which has received the marked approbation of many Reviews, is admirably calculated to retrieve music from the Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-deé of the present nerveless system, and restore to it the energy of the ancient music.

Where, jutting o'er the briny foam,

A rugged rock o'erhangs the flood. Thither, where thickets form a shade, And shelter from night's chilly breeze, To weep her woes, the lovely maid Sought night's deep solitude, and these.

"What if, by dauntless Nelson led,
My love has lately fac'd the foe?
What if, in honour's blood-stain'd bed,
His lifeless clay this night lies low?
What if, by deadly ball propell'd,

Or vengeful cutlass trenching deep,
His bright expressive eyes are seal'd,
For ever clos'd in lasting sleep?

Where fishes skim the ooze beneath, And huge sea monsters darkly roam.Ah me! I fear that now in death

My darling gluts some living tomb.” "Yes," from the beach, reply'd a voice, 'Twas William's very voice she ken'd; "Ah, Mary! now our wonted joys, And promis'd bliss, is at an end. For cold in death my body lies,

Transpierc'd with wounds beneath the
flood,

Where fell the brave, no more to rise-
Oh this has been a day of blood!
Yet conquest to my country falls;

Still Britain, in her wooden walls,
Maintains her empire o'er the main.
Their naval pride upon the main

Nor has our blood been shed in vain;

No more Britannia's foes may boast, But, wailing o'er their numbers slain, They weep this night a navy lost. When first the foe appear'd in sight. And all our decks for battle clear, In haste I did my Mary write;

'Twas well I did, my fate was near. And from my locks the ringlet shorn Therein I careful did inclose, That this to thee might hence be borne, If I my life should chance to lose.

Then take, dear maid, what Henry gives,

When him in port you hap to see, For he, my faithful messmate, lives, To bear my last sad boon to thee."

Then light as air the spirit pass'd,

(For by this time the grey cock crew,) And cry'd," Sweet maid, I hie to rest. Adieu my Mary, hence adieu!"

Then Mary tore her yellow hair,

Big heav'd her breast with heavy woe, And from the rock, in wild despair, She sunk down in the deeps below.

PRO

HOUSE OF LORDS*.

Friday, April 21.

LORD Grey made his promised motion respecting the conduct of the war in Portugal and Spain. In a long speech, he took a view of the whole transactions since the commencement of resistance in Spain, and censured Ministers for the conduct which they pursued; blamed them for not ascertaining exactly the disposition of the people in Spain, and for spreading the belief in this country that they were enthusiastically determined to resist the French. He blamed equally the conduct of Mr Frere in his style of writing to Sir J. Moore, and considered him as unfit for his situation. He stated the money lavished on our expedition to Spain at L. 8,000,000, and our loss at more than 7000 men ; and considered such a prodigal waste of our resources as highly improper in the present situation of the country. He concluded by moving,

"That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, to represent to his Majesty that we have considered, with attention, the various documents, incomplete as they are, which have been laid before us, respecting the efforts made by his Majesty, during the last campaign, in support of the resistance of the people of Spain and Portugal to the unjust aggression and usurpation of the French Government.

"That we feel ourselves bound to represent to his Majesty, that, on the result of this examination, we have seen, with mor tification and grief, the disgrace brought on his Majesty's Councils, and the injury sustained by the British empire, from the want of information and foresight which has been evinced in every part of the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers. That no rational plan of operations has at any time been formed by them, either for the direction of our own exertions, or for combining them with those of the Spanish and Por

The extreme length and importance of the details of the military operations on the Continent of Europe, have prevented us from inserting so regularly and completely as we wished, an account of the proceedings of last session of Parliament; and the limits of this department are still so restricted, that we have been able only to give an outline of the most material business which came under consideration.

December 1809.

tugueze nations; no just view taken of the political state of either country, nor any due attention paid to the supply of those means which alone could have enabled the British armies to act with a reasonable hope of suc

cess.

"That, with such proofs before us, it would not be consistent with our duty to withhold from his Majesty a declaration of our fult conviction, that, owing to the rashness and mismanagement of his Majesty's Ministers, the hopes which the nation had been led to entertain have been disappointed; a large and useless expenditure of the means and resources of the country has been incurred; a great and dangerous accession of political, naval, and military strength has already been obtained by the enemy; and above 7000 of his Majesty's brave troops, together with their gallant Commander, have been sacrificed without advantage, in enterprises without plan, combination, or foresight, and equally ill fated and misdirected.'

He was answered by Lord Liverpool, who, in a very able speech, opposed the motion, and defended the conduct of Ministers. He endeavoured to prove that the plan actually followed had proved a most seasonable diversion, and had in fact saved the south of Spain, which would have been immediately overrun by the French, had their attention not been called to the British army, and thus the armies in the south had been allowed time to collect and form themselves for the defence of their country. He compared the state of Spain to that of America at the beginning of their war with this country. They had been beaten in every engagement, and their towns taken; yet they had been fi nally successful. He trusted it would prove so with the Spaniards.

Lord Moira took an extensive view of the campaign from its origin, and contended that Ministers had acted without any fixed plan, and without concert with Spain. They had neglected the proper moment of sending troops to Spain, and when they did send them, had established no plan of operations with the Spanish armies. The Noble Secretary had talked much of the energy of the Spaniards; but that General, who had been on the spot, and had laboured under so many difficulties from this very cause, had stated their disunion and general want of attachment to the cause. That there

there had been a great deal of enthusiasm in Spain he admitted, but the measures of this country, he contended, had contribu ted as much as any other cause to diminish it. The acknowledgement of Ferdinand, instead of his father, shewed clearly that the Spaniards wished a reform in their system of government, and that it was their design to stipulate with the new King for this purpose. This spirit, however, had been suppressed, and all the defects of the former government professedly countenanced, which, he had no doubt, had operated much in cooling the ardour and zeal of the Spanish nation.

Lords Erskine, Grenville, and Grosvenor, supported the motion; Lords Mulgrave and Westmoreland opposed it. On a division, 92 voted in favour of the motion, and 145 against it.

Monday, May 1.

Lord Buckinghamshire animadverted, at considerable length, on the impropriety of the conduct of our Commanders in Portu

gal, in their appointment of a regency, odious to the people of Portugal in general. It had tended materially to weaken the power of that country, by the divisions and jealousies it had occasioned, and had greatly retarded the march of our troops to the assistance of the Spaniards. He expressed the highest satisfaction at the recent ap pointment of Lord Wellesley to be Ambassador in Spain, and of his brother to be the Commander of the British army. He concluded by moving for a copy of the proclamation issued at Lisbon by Sir H. Dalrym. ple on the 28th September 1808, and for several other documents. The motion was opposed by the Earl of Liverpool, as unnecessary, and as likely to be prejudical to the public service. The regency appointed was what had been originally formed by the Prince Regent. To appoint the same persons again was the shortest process, and at the time expedition was requisite. The motion was supported by Lords Sidmouth and Grenville, and opposed by Lord Harrowby. It was negatived without a divi

sten.

Tuesday, May 2.

Lord Auckland made his promised motion respecting divorces, which was, that it should be a standing order in that House, not to receive a divorce bill, unless it contained a clause prohibiting the intermar riage of the criminal parties. A debate of some length ensued. The proposal was objected to by Lords Radnor, Mulgrave, and Darnley, and supported, with much force and eloquence, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Erskine, and Lord Chancellor, Lord Grenville and the Earl of Liverpool. The House divided, For Lord Auckland's motion 28; against it 12.

Friday, May 4.

Lord Selkirk rose, to submit a motion respecting the character of the affair which took place in 1807, between his Majesty's frigate the Leopard and the frigate of the United States, the Chesapeake. His Lordship stated a rumber of circumstances, have been aware that the men demanded showing that, the American officers must back were British subjects. The American Government must have been aware of the same thing. Our naval superiority was the source of our greatness, and it was necessary for the support of neutral nations; it ought to be acquiesced in by other States. To support it, he thought it necessary not to submit to such conduct as the Americans had followed. He therefore moved that an address be presented to his Majes ty, praying that he would be pleased to direct, that, in the negotiation now pending, this point be particularly attended to. The motion was objected to by Lord Liverpool, as an encroachment on the Royal preroga tive, and negatived without a division. Monday, May 8.

On the question for receiving the report of the Scots Courts Commissioners bill,

Lord Grenville highly disapproved of a bill of such peculiar importance being brought in without notice, and carried so far in its progress in utter silence. It went to extend the time for making the report to November 1810. Now, before they ought to agree to such a delay, the House ought to be informed what progress the Commissioners had made in their inquiries.

The Lord Chancellor defended his conduct with respect to the bill; he explained its necessity originally, and if the Noble Lord did not attend, it was not his fault. The Commissioners represented their inability to get through in the time specified in the Courts of Justice bill. The report was received.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Tuesday, March 21.

Mr C. Wynne moved the order of the day for resuming the adjourned debate on the question of Gen. Clavering's prevarication. After a pretty long speech, he moved, that Gen. Clavering, in his exami-, nation on the charges preferred against the Duke of York, had been guilty of prevarication, and that he be committed to the custody of the sergeant at arms. No member spoke in favour of the General, who being taken into custody, Mr Wynne again moved, that he be committed to the prison of Newgate. Ordered accordingly. (The General continued in jail till the 22d of June, when he was liberated by the proro. gation of the Parliament.)