Alnwick.

On the Changes effected by Time.

All nature's works are food for Time,
Earth, ocean, air, even worlds sublime,
He shall at length consume ;-
The brightest gems shall melt away,
As flowers that hasten to decay
And lose their vernal bloom.
Nor long shall ought on earth remain,
Nor long their present forms retain,
All things are stationless ;-
On flinty rocks and mountains rude,
On sweet society and solitude,
Time shall his age impress.
Rivers shall dry and flow no more,
The mighty sea desert its shore,
The tempest's voice be still
Mountains shall sink and disappear,
Their frowning cliffs with awe and fear
Nor long the soul shall fill!
Yet what are these? The azure sky,
Far spread in blue immensity

Whose beauty poets praise;
The spangled canopy of heaven
By Time's controul to ruin given,

With its own fires shall blaze!
Death's frozen grasp no power can fly,
It is the law, not pain-to die,

Which all things must obey-
By this decree the just and brave-
All shall be mingled in the grave,

And worlds shall waste away!

--

GENOA.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)

Genoa "the proud," thy pride is humbled now,
And the scathed wreath drops withering from thy brow;
The merchant brow, that once bid Monarchs wait
In trembling expectation at thy gate,

Must smooth its burning frown beneath the rod,
That lifted waits a petty tyrant's nod;

Smile when he smiles, and bless the auspicious hour,
Which gave those walls to his protecting power;
Content to live and eat-'tis all a slave
May have 'tis all a slave deserves to have.
No fond remembrance of thy glories past,
Can make despair forget they are the last,
Or deck the dim horizon of thy sky,
With one faint gleam of dawning liberty.
Think not a DORIA's heart will swell to save
This land from death, more awful than the grave;
Or that the chains, which faithless Monarchs made
For the lost captives whom their arts betrayed,
Will shiver, when thy unavailing grief,
Instead of striking, prays of heaven relief.
Thee, too, those chains become, for thou hast been
From infancy to dotage, ever seen

A tyrant or a slave ;-the one to those,
Thy friends in bondage, and thy fallen foes,
Yet crouching to the many-headed thing,
Child of thy loins, which, gathering strength to sting
Its parent from the blood which gave it birth,
Trod on thy neck and pressed thee to the earth.
On that ill-fated, well-remembered day,
When British thunder rolled along thy bay,
Pledged was a nation's faith, a soldier's word,
'Twas Freedom's sacred cause called forth the sword ;-
Oh! let thy curses fall on those who deem
Freedom a plaything, honour but a dream
A people's groans meet music for the ear
Of kings; and love more dangerous than fear;
Those panders to their master's vicious mood,
E'en like a vampire's, when it thirsts for blood;
But think not he was faithless, or that we
E'er aim a willing blow at Liberty ;-

;

Would that the hour were come, as come it must,
When Europe's sons, now trampled in the dust,
Impatient of the chains, which cannot bind
Their still increasing energy of mind,

Shall, with one mighty effort, raise on high
Their front, in renovated majesty ;

Blushing to think what slaves they were before,
And swear, and feel, they will be such no more;
-Thou, sea-girt daughter of fair Italy,
Wilt, with the rest, then perish or be free!
Genoa, Sept. 1822.

HYMN FOR EASTER.*

I.

Lift your loud voices in triumph on high,
For Jesus hath risen, and man cannot die,

Vain were the terrors that gather'd around him,

And short the dominion of death and the grave;
He burst from the fetters of darkness that bound him,
Resplendent in glory, to live and to save.
Loud was the chorus of angels on high,
"The Saviour hath risen, and man shall not die."

II.

Glory to God, in full anthems of joy;
The being he gave us, death cannot destroy.

Sad were the life we must part with to-morrow,

If tears were our birth-right, and death were our end;
But Jesus hath cheer'd the dark valley of sorrow,
And bade us, immortal, to heaven ascend—

Lift then your voices in triumph on high,
For Jesus hath risen, and man shall not die.

"Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea,
Jehovah hath triumphed, his people are free."

F.

The above is extracted from the Christian Disciple, No. I. Vol. I. p. 38. Some of the readers of the Monthly Repository may be acquainted with an animated air and chorus in the collection of "Sacred Melodies," (of which Moore and Sir J. Stevenson are Editors,) adapted to a triumphant song on the overthrow of the Egyptians :

The above lines, to the same tune, are more suitable to Christian worship, and particularly adapted to Easter Day.

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VOL. XVIII.

EPITAPH.

The mortal remains of
PATIENCE HOPE,

Who lived and died an illustration of
Her expressive name,
Are deposited in this
Unconsecrated ground.

Hence Superstition! hence thy train,
Of clouded minds and gloomy birth,
Revolving her eventual doom,

Who rests in this unhallowed earth!
For she was wise,-in speech, in act,

She glowed with mental energy;
For she was good,-her moral course

From stain or imputation free.
And by religion's sacred flame,

Her heart was kindled to rejoice
In her Creator, whom she sought,

As conscious of his cheering voice.
And where the pious, good and wise

Repose, where'er that spot is found,
Without a priestly sanction, there

Be sure thou tread'st on holy ground.

INTELLIGENCE.

DOMESTIC.

Presbyterian Academy, Carmarthen.

THE Triennial Visitation of this Academy was held in the beginning of July. The Visitors appointed by the Presbyterian Board were the Rev. Dr. Rees (the Secretary), the Rev. R. Aspland, and James Esdaile, Esq. (the Treasurer). The following Report is from the Carmarthen Journal of Friday, July 4:

"On Wednesday and Thursday, the Annual Meeting connected with the Presbyterian College in this town, was held at Lammas-Street Chapel, on Wednesday evening. The Meeting commenced by singing and prayer, by the Rev. W. H. Lewis, of Glastonbury, and the Rev. Mr. Bulmer, of Haverfordwest, and the Rev. Mr. Williams, of Llanwrtyd, preached from 1 Kings xix. 19-21, and 1 Cor. ii. 2; the former in English, and the latter in Welsh. On Thursday morning, at 7, the Rev. Mr. Davies, Cardigan, prayed; and the Rev. Messrs. Griffiths, Alltwen, and James, of Cardiff, preached from Luke x. 2, and Psalm cxix. 114; both in Welsh. At ten o'clock, the Rev. Mr. Davis, of Evesham, prayed; and the Rev. A. Rees, LL.D., [D. D.] from London, and the Rev. Mr. Jones, of Llannwchllyn, preached from John xv. 17, and Psalm cxvi. 12-14; the former in English, and the latter in Welsh. At three o'clock, the Rev. Mr. Aspland, of London, preach

BREVIS.

ed in English, and the Rev. Mr. Jones, of Denbigh, in Welsh, from Psa. cxxxix. 7-9, and Ezek. xvi. 19, 20. This morning, the Triennial Examination of the Students took place before the Rev. Dr. Rees, the Rev. Mr. Aspland, &c. &c. &c. (which is to continue this day and tomorrow), and we have reason to expect that, from the strict attention paid by the Students of the College to their studies, the Deputation from the Board will be highly gratified with the great improvement they have made since their last visit."

At the close of the Examination on Saturday, both Dr. Rees and Mr. Aspland addressed the Students at some length, expressing, upon the whole, much satisfaction in the progress of their studies. There are twelve Students upon the Foundation. The Tutors are the Rev. Mr. Peter, and the Rev. D. Jones. On the following Sunday Dr. Rees preached for Mr. Peter in the morning, (Mr. Aspland conducting the devotional service,) and in the evening Mr. Aspland preached at the Unitarian Chapel for Mr. Evans.

Quarterly Meeting of Presbyterian

Ministers.

On the 23rd of July a Quarterly Meeting of Ministers of the Presbyterian de nomination was holden at Llwyn-rhydowen, Cardiganshire. On the afternoon

next Quarterly Meeting of the Unitarian Ministers is to be held at Blaengwrach, Glamorganshire, the Rev. John Davies, of Capel-y-Groes, to preach.

of the preceding day, the Rev. Thomas
Griffiths, of Cribin, conducted the devo-
tional part of the service; the Rev.
Evan Lewis, of Kilgwyn, preached from
Heb. xii. 1; and the Rev. Timothy Davis,
of Evesham, from Phil. iii. 8, 9. On the
23rd, the service commenced at 10 o'clock
in the morning. The Rev. E. Lewis
prayed; and the Rev. John Jeremy, of
Caeronen, preached from John vii. 46;
the Rev. David Jones, Tutor of the
Carmarthen College, from Matt. xii. 50;
and the Rev. Timothy Davis, of Eves-
ham, from 1 Tim. vi. 12. The meeting-
house was crowded, and some hundreds
were out of doors, so that the preachers
were obliged to stand on one of the win-
dow seats, in order to be heard by those
within and without. As a proof of the
Welsh desire to hear sermons, it may be
observed, that the three preachers were
heard with great attention, and though
very heavy showers of rain fell during
the service, those that were without stood
their ground unmoved. A little after
one o'clock the services were over, and
those who came from a distance partook,
in the meeting-house, of some refresh-
ment provided for them by the congre-
gation; and the ministers, fourteen in
number, dined at the inn adjoining. In
less than an hour they met again in the
meeting-house to hold an open confer.
ence. The question discussed was "the
Origin, Design and Abolition of Sacri-
fices."
The meeting was crowded till
five o'clock in the evening, when the con-
ference closed by a prayer from the Rev.
D. Davis, who had been nearly fifty years
minister of the congregation, and all de-
parted seemingly highly gratified with
what they had seen and heard.

August 12, 1823.

Unitarian Chapel, Edinburgh.

THIS building is nearly completed. It is to be opened on Sunday, Sept. 14. The Rev. W. J. Fox, of London, is to preach on the occasion, morning and evening.

Unitarian Congregation, Ilminster,

Somerset.

WE are requested to state that this congregation will be vacant after the 28th of September, by the resignation of the Rev. T. Bowen.

LITERARY.

Mr. FRANCIS KNOWLES, of Park Lane, Ashton, near Wigan, proposes to publish by subscription, in Numbers, (probably 16, to form an 8vo. volume,) once a fortnight, price 6d., The Test of Truth; or, the United Evidence of the Sacred Scriptures respecting the True Object of Religious Worship, and the Condition of Acceptance; in the Language of the Scriptures; including the Evidence of the Scriptures on the Person, &c. of Jesus Christ.

Unitarian Society in South Wales.

THE Annual Meeting of the Unitarian Society in South Wales was held at Capely-groes, Cardiganshire, on the 26th of last June, at which the Rev. J. James, of Gelli-Onnen, preached. The Rev. John Jones, of Bridgend, and the Rev. Thomas Davies, of Coed-y-Cymmar, preached on the preceding afternoon at Ystrad, a place connected with Capel-y-Groes. On the 26th, after service at Capel-y-Groes, the question," Whether Christ's Judging the World be a proof of his proper Deity," was discussed, and after that the business of the Society was transacted. Its next meeting was appointed to be held at Aberdår, Glamorganshire, and the Rev. John Thomas, of Pant-y-defaid, Cardiganshire, to preach on the occasion. The

THE Continuation of Mr. Booth's Analytical Dictionary of the English Language is now in the press, and the several parts will be published, successively, at short intervals. The printing of the Second Part was necessarily delayed for the purpose of calculating, with some degree of probability, the number of copies that would be required.

THE Berwick New and Improved General Gazetteer, or Compendious Geographical Dictionary, containing a Description of the various Countries, Kingdoms, States, Cities, Towns, &c. &c., of the known World, brought down to the present period, accompanied with twenty six elegant maps, from the latest authorities, in three handsome volumes, 8vo.. is just published, price 21. 2s. or in 16 parts, price 2s. 6d. each.

MISCELLANEOUS. Presbyterian Synod of Munster.

ON Wednesday, the 2d instant, the Synod of Munster held its Annual Meeting at Bandon. The business of the day