Shall after death to life awake,
And of celestial joys partake?
Hope of remifsion, does excite

To leave what's wrong, and do what's right.
Who would repent of actions bad,

If he no hopes of pardon had?

What would make men from evil cease,
But hope of pardon,-favour,-peace?
Forbidden pleasures we despise,
In hope of pure immortal joys.
We praise and pray, we fear and love,
Hoping for mercy from above.

May virtue be our fixed choice,
That in our hopes we may rejoice.
If what in us is wrong we mend,
Our hopes will in enjoyment end.
They who sincerely do their best,
In a well-grounded hope may rest.

THE ORPHAN.

Poor boy-though in thy tender years,
Thine eyes are dim'd with flowing tears,
Thy little heart dissolv'd in grief,
Thou canst not hope from man relief!

O child of sorrow cease to weep,
Though in the dust thy parents sleep;
The bands of death thou canst not break,
Nor from the tomb the slumb'rers wake.
An early orphan left alone,
Upon the world deserted thrown;
A mother's love who can supply?
Or watch thee with a father's eye?
Though all unmindful of thy good,
Forgetful of a brother's blood,
And heedlefs of thy woeful state,
Thy kindred cast thee off to fate-
The God, who gave to them the pow'r
To aid thee in this trying hour,
To thee his mercies may extend,
And ever prove thy stedfast friend.
His love thy tender youth may shield,
His hand exhaustlefs treasures yield,
His wisdom pour the precepts kind
Of life eternal in thy mind.

Cease child of sorrow, cease to weep,
Though in the dust thy parents sleep,
The Saviour of the world fhall be
A father ever unto thee.

A .D.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

NOTICES OF SOME INTERESTING PARTICULARS COMMUNICATED TO THE ECONOMICAL SOCIETY OF ST PETERSBURGH, EXTRACTED FROM THE RECORDS OF THAT SOCIETY

BY ARCTICUS.

On the White Sea fifberies, by a Russian merchant of Arch angel, Alexander Fomin.

THIS fishery was first set up by the present emprefs, who

engaged some Hollands fishermen to carry it on for govern

ment account, and teach the business to a certain number of her subjects, selected for that purpose. As soon as the thought they were sufficiently instructed to carry it on by themselves, the left it to a company furnished with necefsary privileges, who seem to have made as little profit by it as the crown had done, and now it is in the hands of the peasants, who catch the fish for a few of those instructed by the Hollanders, who cure them each for his own account without any monopoly.

In answer to some questions afked by the society, at one of these instructed Russians, who now speculates in the trade for himself, a certain Swagin, relative to the causes of bad succefs in this great national object, he gives a few which he divides into political and natural. The natural are simply the scarcity of herrings and cod in some seasons; and the political, first an impolitic law which subjects to a duty as foreign fifh, such as the

*These notices are chiefly valuable because they afford a view of the internal state and polity of the Russian empire that is not to be found but in such local difsertations as the present; what a miserable prospect does this afford of the fisheries in the White Sea! Edit.

Russians catch and cure in the Danish bays, when they are more plentiful there than in their own.

2dly, The rude treatment the peasants met with from the Dutch boors quartered on them, who literally smoaked them out of their cottages, without paying attention to the dislike they have to tobacco; especially a sect of fanatics called Rofkolnicks, who are very numerous inthese parts, (resembling in some degree our British methodists,) and who regard the smoak of tobacco as a species of religious abomination, as the Jews did pork &c.; this treatment alienated so completely the peasants from the fishery, that they could only be compelled by force to work at it, and secretly hurt it by every means in their power, so that the expences were scarcely paid by the profits, when in the hands of government, and the company who next took it up. The principal drawis open to all without

backs upon its succefs, now that it restriction and monopoly, arise from the article of salt, like those of your Scotch fisheries, which otherways must be a great national blessing. What a pity it is that your ministers, now that they have given up all thoughts of drawing any revenue from the salt used in your fisheries, to the great honour of the legislature, cannot find a little time to take off a set of useless checks in the old regulations, which operate, as I see by different accounts, as a sort of prohibition to what, if properly regulated, to the ease and profit of the thousands who emigrate from the north, would equal if not surpafs, any coloneal advantage, which the happy and towering island, ever did, or ever will draw, from many it has planted in distant regions. It would appear to me as a laudable species of ambition to a certain countryman of ours, who has at present that influence in the ministry, which his great and solid talents, joined to his honourable station' in it,'

naturally create, to take the lead in all great national objects to the north of the Tweed, and not leave them in the hands of political adventurers, whose greatest merit is what you call the gift of the gab, and who only take up such affairs in hopes that the landed and burgh interests in Scotland will defeat the application, to teize and distress government; not caring a farthing, or I am much mistaken, if you should all be obliged to live on what Johnson has learnedly discovered in his dictionary to be food for men in Scotland, and for horses in England.

But to return to Mr Swagin's causes of want of success in the White Sea fishery, the last he states, and which led me into this long digression, arises from the article salt, but not from old impolitic regulations respecting it, but a real deficiency in that necefsary and indispensible ingredient, which you certainly cannot complain of, surrounded as you are by the sea, more salt than that at Archangel. He gives the following little history of the different kinds of it used in the White Sea.

Whilst government kept the fishery, Spanish salt was used; and the company had no other.

In 1780 government imported a cargo of British salt, which lasted eleven years, or till 1791, so that we can guefs at the extent of the trade; and since that is done, Rufsian salt is their only resource, which unfortunately is so scarce, that they have not permission to carry it out to salt their fish at sea; nay even on land, that necessary operation feels the want of that abundance which would make it flourish if plentiful; although he thinks the herrings of the White Sea not so good as those caught by the Dutch on the coast of the island. of Great Britain, partaking in some measure of the fat of that pampered country.

He pretends not to state the quantity cured by other adventurers in the fishery, but mentions his own at 120 small barrels yearly, which he makes of oak and larch.

On the economical uses of the helianthus annuus, or sun Flower.

The seeds afford a good eatable oil; the stalks potafh when burned, like those of Turkish corn. From the large quantity of pith obtaining in the stalks, paper may be made.

The young stalks are eat at Frankford on the Main as greens; and the old used as fire wood.

Lastly, the stalks when broken by the wind, will unite again if tied up *.

On the sesamum orientale.

All that I shall extract from this paper, as the plant will not answer in your climate, is that its seeds afford a salad oil equal to what is drawn from olives, in the large proportion of one half pound from two pounds of seed. This I only give as a matter of curiosity, although it may be useful in our colonies; but I have, and shall be more full, on all such hardy plants, as

promise to be of use to Great Britain, for which you know my attachment, and contempt for all innovators who would trouble its peace, if the good sense of the nation did not keep them in awe.

I send you some very fresh seed just obtained from the Boucharian Tartars, of the sesamum orientale, which

*This plant has been recommended to the notice of the farmers in France some years ago, in the memoirs of the Society of Agriculture Paris, for nearly the same purposes as are mentioned here. It is a strong growing plant, but does not ripen its seeds soon enough to admit of being cultivated with any prospect of profit in Scotland or suppose in any part of Great Britain. Edit.