June 10. Mr. URBAN, THE Correspondent who sent you the Latin Epigram, p. 448, apparently not aware that it is to be found in Vincent Bourne's Works, has transcribed it either incorrectly, or from an incorrect copy. The Greek word ΡΟΝΚΑΣΕΙ should be poyxier, and another distich should be inserted after caupo sedet: Nec vix illuxit, quin hine agitamur et illinc, Aspera quà ducit, quà salebrosa via. In the course of my morning's ride, the following almost literal version suggested itself, if not verbum verbo, versum versu. Bourne himself dealt much in translations; but his were eminently beautiful. being translated, he must not expect the par pari, but rather the fate of Glaucus, who commuted his gold for Diomedes' brass. F. R. S. In I take a place i' th' coach which runs that Betwixt two fat old dowagers to squeeze. O'er pavements hard, through sloughs of mud, we 're jumbled. My neighbours cough, or scold; Boniface See + from the Southern climes the hast'. ning Spring, Expands the blossoms with his silken wing: See him, attended by the gladsome Hours, With verdure clothe thy path, and deck with flow'rs. May sure protection thy return await With gratulations to thy native State! May'st thou firm amity still closer bind, And bear our mem'ry ever in thy mind! May the two Nations the same course [view! And their Ancestral Friendship keep in Together may they tread the sacred way, Till shines reveal'd the Everlasting Day. JOHN TURNER, a Member of the British Russia Company. pursue, of which I some time ago attempted a free THE following Latin lines contain a sort of argument for the modern Undress, translation, which I now send. Yours, &c. -F. Expers vestis erat mulie dum criminis expers, Peccat et induitur; vestis origo scelus!— Hinc nostræ oderunt vestemque scelusque puellæ, Hinc sine labe puta, quam sine veste vides! FREE TRANSLATION. Our mother Eve, while free from vice, Was free from dress, and knew no harm in 't; But when she sinn'd in Paradise, 'Twas then she first put on a garment. Alluding to the extraordinary pleasantness of the season. That That wickedness each maid abhors, Of putting clothes upon their bodies. Now, ladies argue to the letter, And thus excuse their want of dress; They prove unblemish'd virtue better, Who shew uncover'd nakedness. Mr. URBAN, June 14. F. TILL sorrow can be soothed by raising a suitable Memorial over the remains of an amiable and much-beloved Wife, pray let the following more than pleasing tributary lines to her departed worth appear in your respectable pages: where, perhaps, they will survive what the sculpWhen you tor may place near her tomb. are informed that they are the production of a youth only fifteen years of age, and that youth the son-in-law of her whose loss he deplores,—they will prove alike creditable to both their hearts: to her's, whose maternal fondness inspired such lively regard; and to his, which uniformly felt for her the dutiful affection of a son. Dudley Vicarage. FILIAL SORROWS, L. B. On the Death of an excellent Mother. TEACH me to mourn, Urania! sacred maid, [strains; A dear-lov'd Mother's death, in solemn So will I sigh a requiem to her shade,So will I show affection still remains. So, pure departed Spirit! will I sing A dirge that flows spontaneous from [spring, the heart: For, oh! what solace does to sorrow What joy in grief does Poësy impart ! Yet, why thus mourn-from suffering a release To one, who was by all rever'd, belov'd? One, who, now bless'd with everlasting Then, O my soul! repress the rising sigh: For, sure shall I behold her face to face, In God's own Paradise ; —no more to die, My Friend- my Mother there again embrace. power! Be thou my guide, RELIGION! heavenly T. W. BOOKER. grave,To mourn thy loss deplore: My sorrows thus thy sepulchre shall lave; For I shall see thee love thee here no more! Yet, if 'tis true- and Scripture's words are truth, That sainted Spirits guard their favou rite's path, Oh! be the angelic Guardian of my youth! Shield me from danger, wickedness, and wrath. * A few hours before she expired, the mournful directions concerning her inter ment, &c. were closed with these words: "I earnestly entreat that nothing like pomp may mark my funeral; nor any See the thing like eulogy-my tomb," present Month's Obituary, p. 566. But, A weary Traveller asleep was laid, But, short, alas! are all terrestrial joys, Or sleeping, or awake! - a sudden noise (At such a time it would a saint provoke!) From his unfinish'd meal the trav'ller 'woke; On silent wing the black-bon'd chicken fled, And crowds of Monkeys chatter'd overhead; [cries, "Ye Caitiffs! is it you?" enrag'd he "At your respected summons must I rise? Ye vile, mischievous, imitating crew! Had I my rifle, and a ball or two, Though now you chatter, grin, and frisk on high, [lie. Soon low and quiet should your worships Hence, to your native junguls, ere too late, Nor, by remaining, dare to tempt your fate. [plan; There live, like Quadrupeds, on Nature's And cease to imitate your sovereign, Man." [above Thus spoke the Traveller: when, from Swift as the light-heel'd messenger of Jove, [haunch, A Monkey sprang; and, seated on his Took sole possession of a neighb'ring branch. His person such (we must not that neglect) Such as you see him, now to speak began This vet'ran in reply: "Insatiate Man! Whose pow'r so wide extends, o'er great and small; And art thou, then, unsatisfy'd with all? This tree, which yet for centuries may stand, (Blest be the planter's charitable hand!) This bounteous tree, for insect, bird, and beast, Affords a frequent and delicious feast: The nimble squirrel here supplies his needs, [feeds: And here the party-colour'd maniek * The noisy perroquet, the pidgeon too †, Whose colour screens him from the sportman's view; The sable crow (I aim not to describe Each long procession of the insect tribe,) And here, as you have seen, we Monkeys And baffle all pursuers. Sir, good day!" The Man, abash'd, confounded, hung his And not a syllable in answer said. [head, The fatal tube arriv'd; (the mark was fair) He took it up, and fired in the air. J. A bird in shape and size not unlike a black-bird. HISTORICAL HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. PROCEEDINGS IN THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE FIFTH PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 7. Mr. Bragge Bathurst and Lord Castlereagh intimated, that, as the example had been given, the House ought not to be less anxious to vindicate its privileges upon politicks than it was upon police; and that the principle originated by the other side of the House ought to be generally acted upon. The Rev. Mr. Thirlwall then addressed the House. He expressed a hope that the justice and liberality of the House would dispose it to believe that he felt the deepest regret and sorrow at having been betrayed into any transgression of its privileges. This unfortunate transgression appeared in a book which, he assured the House, was written in great haste, and which he was impelled to write through a desire to vindicate his own character, and that of the other Magistrates, from the obloquy cast upon them by the witnesses adduced before the Committee for inquiring into the conduct of the Police. If, in his zeal to accomplish the object he had in view, he had been betrayed into any animadversions inconsistent with the end which he had prescribed to himself, or exceeding the limits of his object, he could assure the House that he felt the most sincere regret, especially in violating the respect due to that Hon. House, or to its Hon. Committees. But he trusted to the clemency of the House, under all the circumstances of his case. He ventured to hope and petition, that no proceeding would be taken against him that could serve to degrade his character as a Magistrate and a Gentleman, After some further conversation, the Speaker stated to the Rev. Gentleman, that he was commanded by the House to acquaint him, that having taken into consideration the complaint made against him, of having violated its privileges, with his defence, explanation, and apology, it had come to a resolution that he had been guilty of a high contempt of its authority, and a breach of its privileges, but that, in consequence of the acknowledgment of his fault, and under all the circumstances of his case, the House was content to proceed no farther. means of preventing explosion in steam. boats. Mr. Bennet made his promised motion on the subject of the appointment of Mr. Herries, late Commissary-in-Chief; and concluded by moving the following resolution: "That the allowance to the late Commissary-General - in - Chief, of one half of his salary, on his retirement, was an excessive remuneration, regard being had to the length of his services; and that the grant of a permanent office of 1500l. a year, in addition to the same, was an improvident expenditure of the public money, and formed a precedent injurious to the public interests." After a short discussion, in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Castlereagh, Messrs. Tierney, Ponsonby, and Grant, participated, the motion was negatived, by 93 to 42. May 9. Several of the Petitions on the table from the British and Irish Catholicks having been read; Mr. Grattan briefly adverted to the favourable aspect of affairs under which the petitioners again urged their claims upon the attention of the Legislature, and concluded by moving, that the House should resolve itself into a Committee, to inquire into the state of the Laws affecting the Catholicks, &c. Mr. L. Foster opposed the motion. He contended that neither the Veto, nor the mode of Domestic Nomination, would afford a sufficient guard to the Protestant Establishment. Why did the Irish Catholicks object to the arrangement which the Prussian Catholicks admitted, by which the Government, though Protestant, nominated their Bishops? The Emperor of Russia, too, though of a schismatic Church, appointed the only Catholic Bishop in his dominions. He referred to the revival of the Order of the Jesuits, to the Papal Bull of the 19th March, 1816, enjoining resistance to all innovation, and to the approval, by the Roman Conclave, of Dr. Gandolphy's book, in which the Bishop of London was described as "the emissary of darkness, the father of lies," to shew the necessity of getting some further securities than the Catholicks were disposed to grant. He believed that now, as in the time of Charles I. the population would go with the Clergy in preference to the Aristocracy. The Clergy, at that period, excommunicated the Duke of Ormond, Lord Castlehaven, and several other Noblemen, blemen, and then threw them into prison. The conciliating, therefore, of the Catholic Aristocracy was not enough. He then alluded to the attacks invariably made upon the Protestants by the Catholicks in the North of Ireland after their processions; and concluded with protesting against going into a Committee to grope for securities. Mr. Yorke suggested that it should form one provision of the Bill to be brought in, that nothing should be granted till the authentic ratification of the Pope, as to the domestic nomination of the Bishops, &c. should have been promulgated and further, that there should be a clause introduced into the Bill, enabling his Majesty's Government to enter into such negociation with the Pope. He would not object to the admission of Catholicks to civil and military offices, with a very few exceptions; but, as to allowing them to sit in Parliament, he had great doubts. He should have no objection to seeing the Howards and the Talbots from this side of the water, and the Plunkets and the Barnevilles from the other side of the water, sitting in Parliament; but he was afraid of the Catholie body of Ireland, who were the most bigoted of any in Europe, and in civilization at least 300 years behind those of France or Germany. Still the matter was a fit subject of inquiry. Sir J. C. Hippisley repeated his former opinions on the subject. Sir H. Parnell contended that the arrangements and oaths consented to by the Catholicks, afforded every reasonable security that could be required. Mr. Webber thought what was called Catholic Emancipation would be the signal of the overthrow of the Protestant Esta blishment in Ireland. Four-fifths of the Irish electors were Catholicks; and the result would be, that very few Protestants would be elected Members. In the Irish Parliament of 1688, there had been only six Protestant Members. Mr. W. Elliot supported the motion. As to Gandolphy's pamphlet, it should be known, a letter from the Pope's Legate to Dr. Poynter had since stated that the approval of that pamphlet had been surreptitiously obtained, and Dr. Gandolphy had, in consequence, been suspended. Mr. B. Bathurst thought the Catholicks already had every indulgence that could be granted them, consistent with the secu rity of the State. Lord Castlereagh thought the present moment peculiarly favourable to an attempt to admit the Catholicks to participate in all the privileges of the Constitution. The power of the Pope to embroil the States of Europe on the score of religion was at an end; for at the Congress of Vienna, he could assure the House, the question of religion was not alluded to, except to acknowledge the equality of all religions. A few Catholic Noblemen and Gentlemen in Parliament would contribute mainly to bring about that happy and con. ciliatory spirit so necessary to the peace of Ireland. They had the Pope's authority to say, that there was nothing in securities required of Catholicks by the Government of this country which ought to be revolting to the conscience of any good Catholick. He looked at this question as he did at the Union, as necessary for the tranquillity and security of the country. Mr. Peel gave the motion his decided negative. Mr. M. Montague supported it. Mr. Canning contended, that the admission of the Catholicks into Parliament, and to civil and military offices, was pregnant with less danger than their perpetual exclusion. As to the question of securities, that was entirely in the hands of Parlia ment, and he would take what might seem necessary, without consulting the Pope or any other person. After a reply from Mr. Grattan, the mo tion was negatived, by 245 to 221. HOUSE OF LORDS, May 12. Earl Grey addressed the House at great length on the subject of Lord Sidmouth's Circular. There was no precedent of such an interference on the part of a Secretary of State with the administration of justice. Even if it had been proper to circulate such a letter, the Lords Lieute nants were not the persons to whom it should have been addressed, in order to their instructing the Magistrates. The opinion of the Law-officers was couched in vague and ambiguous terms; and the conclusion to which it led, namely, that individual justices of the peace might, of their own authority, commit, and hold t bail persons charged with libel, was erro neous in Law, and in practice pregnant with the most dangerous consequence to the liberties of the people. He was anxi ous to have the particular case produced on which the opinion of the Law-officers had been required, and to this point alone he would confine his present motion. Looking with regret to the fact, that for a length of time the object of parliamentary jealousy had been, not apprehended encroachments on the liberty of the subject, but whatever was dangerous or adverse to the power of the Crown; he would not submit, on this occasion, any resolutions involving the point of Law, because he bad good reason to fear that, if he were to of fer such propositions, he should be only adding another decision to those which had already been given in support of that which it appeared to be the chief object of the Two Houses of Parliament to uphold and |