But vanish'd was that heav'nly art
That once could strike the throbbing heart-
Past was that echo, loud and clear,
That held the captivated ear.

"Ullin, thy soothing strain no more

Shall rouse the rural throng;

Nor glen, nor grove, nor mountain hoar,
Again shall echo to thy song.
At length the vital tide retires,
At length the fading spark expires;
Through ev'ry nerve, through ev'ry vein,
I feel a dreary chillness reign;
Involving darkness spreads around,
And all is solitude profound.

Oh! see the bier-oh! mark the throng
In slow procession pass along:
Solemn resounds the warning knell-
The gloomy grave appears-Vain flecting
world, farewell!

"And sure that sweetly-pleasing strain,
That warm'd the sinking soul with holy fire,
Rose as the music of the heav'nly choir;
And hark! it sounds again!

O'er yonder skies

Now turn thine eyes,

And see what varying views arise! Aloft behold

The gates of gold

The circling courts of heav'n unfold! Around them pours a dazzling stream of day; And lo! descending on the sparkling plain, Cutting with airy plume the blue serene, The messenger of fate pursues his way. His awful air, his form divine, Declare him of the seraph line: Ambrosial tints his waving wings adorn, Light as the genial gales of morn: Around his path, around his way, Mark how the glancing lightnings play! His course at pleasure see him changing, O'er the fair fields of ether ranging, Through distant tracts the prospect bending, And thence again at ease descending; See! now he turns-and now he steers Where yonder sunny cloud appears ; Thence, wheeling from the clear cerulean

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Each look, each voice, each beaming eye,
Joins the full flow of harmony:
To them the blissful boon is giv'n,
The joy, the love, the light of heav'n;
To them the spot where, clad in charms
divine,

Thrones, dominations, pow'rs, and blazing scraphs, shine.

"Misfortune, now thy fleeting sway,
Thy frowns are rendered vain ;
The transient terrors of thy reign
Are but the evils of a day:
The ling'ring pang, the struggling sigh,
The tear that trembles from the eye,
Affliction's ever-changing form,

Each care that rends the tortur'd heart,
Like summer's transitory swarm,
Like meteors mingling with the storm,
All, all at once depart :

Thick hov'ring round
Yon chasm profound,
Alternate disappear
The joys, the pains,

The varying scenes,,

That mark this mortal sphere. But see the sacred form from realms of day Bends the bright eye on heav'n, and warns me far away.

"Where is that dread appalling pow'r

Where is that spectre, stern and bare,
The grisly phantom of despair,
The guardian of this awful hour?
Oh! what is death?-a flitting scene,
A trivial stroke, a partial pain.
'Tis guilt alone whose aching eye
Should close against eternity;
'Tis guilt on whose afflicting end
The tear, the groan, should still attend.
Let Virtue guide thy pilgrimage beneath,
Thy youth to Piety be giv❜n,

[heav'n, And Faith shall lead thy falt'ring steps to And Peace shall smooth the low'ring brow of

death.

Oh! learn to seek the tranquil train That bend to Reason's placid reign: Mild Charity, with melting eye; Devotion, ardent and sincere ;

bends his flight.

These shall direct thy progress here; These shall through life their sacred pow'r

employ,

And deck the final hour with happiness and joy.

"Strike the resounding string again,
And pour aloud the solemn strain;
Let joy, let transport touch the lyre
With native force, with native fire!
On Rapture's rising wings I fly!
I trace the road to realms on high !
'Tis past-'tis o'er-
The glittering shore,

The world of light and life appears:
Ye heav'nly hosts, convey me hence-
Oh! lift me to the spheres!"

'Tis silence all-the falt'ring song No more the echoing hills prolong;

The trembling nerve, the palsied hand,
No more the yielding wires command;
The votive harp, no longer struck,
At once his loos'ning grasp forsook;
His bosom heav'd a parting groan-
The spring, the source of life was gone!
His voice was weak, his eye was dim;
Sunk was each pulse, and stiff each limb;
The blood was chill'd in ev'ry vein ;
And Death-all conqu ring Death! frown'd
on the fatal scene.

Bolton-street, Dublin.

THE AMOROUS BEE.

By the late Mr. JOHN ELLIS, Author of the "Travestie of Maphæus," and other Poems.*

A busy humble bee am I,

That range the garden sunny ;
From flow'r to flow'r I changing fly,
And ev'ry flow'r's my honey.
Bright Chloe, with her golden hair,
A while my rich jonquil is,
"Till, cloy'd with sipping nectar there,
I shift to rosy Phillis.

But Phillis's sweet opening breast
Remains not long my station,
For Kitty must be now addrest,
My spicy-breath'd carnation;
Yet Kitty's fragrant bed I leave,
To other lovers, I'm rover;
And all in turn my love receive
The gay wide garden over.
Variety, that knows no bound,
My roving fancy edges;
And oft with Flora 1 am found
In dalliance under hedges:
For as I am an arrant bee

Who range each bank that's sunny,
Both fields and gardens are my fee,
And ev'ry flow'r's my honey.

THE PRUSSIAN FRONTIER EAGLE.
From the German of THEODORE Körner.
I hear the rushing of thy wing!
I feel my heart exulting spring
To conquest in thy shade,
Before thy flight the clouds give way,
And hope anticipates a day,

To freedom sacred made.
Fly thou avenger o'er the hill
Of thy slain sons-to triumph still
The signal and the guide,
The once free courser+ champs his rein,
No more he wanton paws the plain
To bitter slavery tied.

This ingenious man was the last master of the company of scriveners, and many years deputy of Cornhill ward. He was the intimate friend of Dr. Johnson, who at one time of his life generally dined with him at his house, behind the Royal Exchange, once a week. Mr. Ellis died in 1791, aged 96. † Arms of Hanover,

The golden rue is deadly pale,
And withers in the blighting gale,
Of dire adversity:

The lordly lion+ crouches low,
Beneath a proudly vaunting foe,
With a submissive eye.
Thou only lift'st thy pennons free,
With courage and with liberty,
Undaunted and alone,

As the bright orb that rules the day,
Shines with an undiminished ray,

When all the rest are gone.
Soon shall I find thy children stand!
Soon shall I meet thee in a band
Of warriors true and brave;
Thou hoverest only on the field,
Where free-born men the sabre wield,
For victory or the grave.
Then whatsoe'er my fate may be,
O spread thy pinions over me,

While thousands round me bleed: E'en if my sword should only gain, A grave for me among the slain, Upon my lov'd my native plain, By its exertions freed.

FAME.

What is fame? an empty bubble Floating on a sea of trouble, Hard to win, but easy lost, Seldom valued at its cost; Sought by all, by few obtain'd, Not enjoy'd when it is gain'd; Like the echo of the horn, Like the dew at early morn, Glittering for awhile, and then Soon it vanishes again; When the trumpet's sound is o'er, Echo answers then no more: Mortals see the empty prize Glit'ring in their eager eyes; Emulation fires the heart, Envy prompts with meaner art, Pale revenge and angry strife, Then creep in t' imbitter life; He who thirsts for fame will find Little real peace of mind, Ever anxious to obtain it, Anxious still if he should gain it; 'Tis indeed an empty bubble Floating on a sea of trouble.

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R. PRIEST.

The Rev. GEO. GLYN SCRAGGS, A.M. of Buckingham, is preparing for the press, in one thick vol. 12mo., Theological and Literary Essays on a great variety of Practical Subjects in Divinity, and on Interesting Subjects in Literature.

A translation from the original German of Professor MORGENSTERN's Tour in 1809 and 1810 through part of Switzerland, Italy, Naples, &c. with additions, is in the press.

Speedily will appear a publication entitled Practical Political Economy: being a systematic arrangement for facilitating the operations of our Foreign and Domestic Commerce, for affording additional Encouragement to our more distant Agriculture, and for effecting a Saving to the Inhabitants of London and its Environs of upwards of One Million Sterling per Annum in their Housekeeping Expenses.

Mr. N. ROGERS has in the press, in royal 12mo. Lectures on the Elements of Evangelical Religion, in which several Important Differences between Modern Arminians and Calvinists are impartially considered, with a view to promote mutual forbearance.

Mr. THOMAS WILSON is printing by subscription a Descriptive Treatise ou the Method of Waltzing. The work will be published in parts, each part embellished with engravings of the human figure, illustrative of the manner of performing the different steps, and of the appropriate accompaniments of the head, arms, and body.

Mr. COULTON, of Devizes and of Swindon, Wilts, is preparing for publication a new edition, being the third, of his Doctrine of the Bible, in one thick vol. demy 12mo. it is expected to appear about the middle of July.

The first number of a new and beautiful edition of the works of Sterne has just been issued from the stereotype foundry of Messrs. DAVIES, MICHAEL, and HUDSON. The vignettes, &c. taken from the incidents occurring in the work, are original, and excellently stereotyped from wood-cuts designed by Thurston. The size is the Elzivir, and 21 numbers will complete the work, which will be issued monthly.

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Sir HENRY C. ENGLEFIELD will publish, in a few days, A Description of the principal Picturesque Beauties, Ant quities, and Geological Phænomena of the Isle of Wight; with Additional Observations on the Strata of the Island, and their Continuation in the adjacent parts of Dorsetshire, by Mr. THOMAS WEBSTER. It will be illustrated with maps, and nearly 50 engravings, by W. and G. Cooke, from drawings by Sir Henry and Mr. Webster.

Dr. JOHN THOMSON is preparing for publication a Report of Observations made in the British Military Hospitals in Belgium after the Battle of Waterloo, with some Remarks on Amputation.

The Rev. G. S. FABER has in the press an 8vo. volume of sermons on various

subjects and occasions.

Sir JAMES BLAND BURGES, will speedily publish a collection of Dramas in two 8vo. volumes.

A life of the late Mr. Whitbread has been undertaken by one of his literary and political friends.

Mr. EDWARD DOUGHTY, surgeon to the forces, is preparing for publication, in 1 vol. 8vo. Observations and Inquiries into the Nature and Treatment of the Yellow, or Bulam Fever, in Jamaica and at Cadiz; particularly in what regards its Primary Cause and assigned Contagious Powers: illustrated by Cases and Dissections, with a view to demonstrate that it appears divested of those quali ties assigned to it by Mr. Pym, Sir J. Fellowes, and others.

Miss LEFANU, niece to the Right Hon. R. B, SHERIDAN, will publish in the month of June her long-expected novel of Strathallen.

In the press, Memoirs and Remains of the late Rev. CHARLES BUCK, collected and arranged from his papers, and interspersed with Observations illustrative of his Character, with a brief Review of bis various Publications, by JOHN STYLES, DD. This work is printed for the benefit of the widow and family of Mr. Buck.

The Rev. R. P. BEACHCROFT has in the press a Collection of Sermons, in two 8vo. volumes.

Dr. HUGHSON, the historian, is engaged at the express desire of the Lordmayor on a work relative to the Privileges of London and Southwark, as specified and confirmed by Charters, Statutes, Customs, &c. Since the commencement of Dr. H.'s laborious investigation of these subjects, the inhabitants of Southwark have been extremely desi

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rous of ascertaining the validity of those privileges which the corporation of London claim to exercise in that district, as is evinced by their re-establishing various courts of record in that borough. Of this work only a limited number will be printed.

A new satirical pocm, entitled The Talents run Mad, or Eighteen Hundred and Sixteen, is nearly ready for publication by the well-known author of All the Talents.

A novel, entitled Adolphe, will shortly appear, from the pen of M. BENJAMIN DE CONSTANT, author of the tragedy of Wallstein, &c.

Speedily will be published The Florist's Manual, or Hints for the Construction of a gay Flower Garden, with Directions for the Preservation of Flowers from Insects, &c. by the author of Botanical Dialogues and Sketches of the Philosophy of Vegetable Life.

A new edition of Glenarvon is to appear in a few days. It was at one time, we understand, the intention of the family of the noble author to suppress this work, on account of the masked satirical portraits it contains of several very distinguished personages.

A fourth edition, in French, of the Memoires de la Marquise de Larochejaquelein will presently appear, embellished with a portrait of the late Marquis. The annual dinner of the subscribers to the LITERARY FUND, was held on the 10th of May at the Freemasons' Tavern. This commendable institution, which, during the 26 years of its existence, has been the means of alleviating the wants and soothing the sorrows of many of the needy sons and daughters of genius, cannot but excite a lively interest in the bosoms of all the friends of literature and science. His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent presided at the meeting, supported by the Duke of Somerset, the Bishop of Cloyne, Lord Brandon, Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, Sir John Coxe Hippesley, and other distinguished patrons of the institution. The Royal Chairman, after the usual toasts, on proposing Success to the Literary Fund," gave an eloquent and luminous statement of its origin and purpose, lamented most feelingly the present afflicted state of the venerable founder, and, after - touching with much taste and judgment on the benefits derived to the community, both in instruction and amusement, from those exertions of literary genius and talent, which frequently failed to procure for the studious author even

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the common necessaries of life, called upon all who possessed the means to afford this Society the power of dispensing more largely its intended assuasives of dis tress, in the manner in which its assisting hand is always extended, not as the dole of mere charitable benefaction, but as an act of justice, the reward and acknow ledgment of benefits conferred. Mr. Wm. Fitzgerald then recited a poem, being the 20th written by him for the anniversaries of this institution; at the conclusion of which he intimated that this would be his farewell tribute. The Duke of Kent justly complimented Mr. Fitzgerald for his long continued and beneficial exertions in behalf of the fund, and earnestly requested him not to withdraw his muse from the service of the annual festival, but to continue his benevolent assistance to the cause of suffering genius. From the printed account of the present state of the institution, it appears that the Prince Regent has for ten years past munificently contributed 200 guineas annually to its funds. The total receipts by subscriptions and denations to the permanent fund, from its commencement to May 10, 1816, amount to 5,846., which has been expended in the purchase of stock. The receipts on account of the house fund are 3,1914; while the payments up to the same date are 3,2317. The whole income of the institution during the past year was 1,356/.; out of which 9071. had been paid upon applications for relief, purchase of stock, and incidental expenses.

As it is our wish to do justice to merit wherever we find it, we think it right to give place here to some observations addressed by Dr. W. BEID CLANNY, of Bishopwearmouth, in a letter dated the 11th April, to the owners and others concerned in the management of collieries, on the lighting of mines without the danger of explosion. The writer sets out with stating, that he has bestowed more pains, more time, and more money upon this subject than any other person whatever.

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"Six years ago," says he,

you were informed, through the me dium of the public journals, that the great desideratum of a safe-light in a field of fire-damp had been discovered and carried into effect? and I beg to remark, that, had my safety lamps been employed, all the deplorable accident, from fire-damp, which have occurred since that time, would have been prevented. I do not attach any blame to those concerned in the management of coal inines, being aware that the reason