Thy rival planet if we see, Through monthly changes run, From waning where is beauty free, Though radiant as the sun? True, on thy checks youth blooming glows, Yon virgin dew which decks the rose, Yet, Asuf, why the boon deplore, That chance alone can give! Sare, absence wounds his breast no more, In bliss, like saints above; Take this last breath! returned again, These translations into Rhyme, demand much allowance iu point of previse verbal resemblance to their originals: prose translations with less spirit, may retain greater accuracy, we, therefore, add a specimen which requires no versification to render the sentiment it conveys penetrating. It is the contrasted advices of Ambition and Wisdom. In this manner, Ambition was yesterday giving me encouragement,-How very charming the country of Greece! and how truly grand the empire of Russia! If they could be acquired, then with what delight one might enjoy life: on that side the melody of the lyre, on this the cheering sound of the warlike drum: Hearing which, Wisdom thus addressed me:-Come along that I may show thee a spectacle, thou who art a captive m the bonds of desire. Having pointed out two or three tombs, she began to tell me,-this is Alexauder the Great, here lies Darius, and there-the mighty Mede: Well, ask of these, whether at present even any part of the magnificence and splendour of their worldly possessions be left with them, expecting their sad repentance and lasting regret? Perhaps, there is a still more impressive image of desolation in a verse of Suoda; but it requires the promptitude of Eastern imagination to enter at once into its full meaning. I have long since with my mind's eye espied a weary wight at the Palace gate, even of the mighty Fureedoon, who, knocking, roars out" Is there any one here or not? THE INQUISITION. Lines on the tyranny and fall of the Inquisition, occasioned by reading accounts of its abolition in Spain and Goa, Oct. 1813, BY A YOUNG AMERICAN LADY. IN distant ages, number'd now and gone, When Superstition sat on Reason's throne, When o'er the world her veil of darkness hung, Forth from the deep abyss a monster sprung; Earth trembled as his foot her verdure prest, And hollow groans seem'd murm'ring in her breast. At first a weak and with'ring wand he bore The mask of Sanctity his features wore, Though dark resolves, and deeds of fiend-like spite, [light Lurk'd in his heart, scarce、 hidden from the A holy zeal he prais'd with vile intent, And to the holy church obsequious bent; Bow'd like her slave, then as her champion rose, Though leagu’d in secret with her deadly foes. Swoln with success, his brow was seen to low'r, And his rude band to grasp the rod of pow'r, While with her thunders arm'd, her pomp array'd, O'er her own head he shook his reeking blade. Deep draughts of blood in secret cells he drains; His ear finds music in the clank of chains; Forth to the rack the tortur'd form he leads, Devouring flames with guiltless victims feeds, With bolts and bars his wretched prey confines, And holds in vassalage immortal minds. His lofty dome rose frowning on the shore, Black as his sins, and mystic as his lore. When midnight wrapt the world in darkest shade, The first accursed stone was hewn and laid, Hell from beneath beheld the proud design, And lent him treasures from her burning mine, Deep in the cavern'd vaults with malice fraught, Dire Cruelty and Superstition wrought; Mistaken zeal the pond'rous arches rear'd, Paus'd o'er her work, and, as she saw it, fear'd; And close-veil'd Mystery with finger slow Plac'd on the massy gates the seal of woe. High on the dome her audit Terror kept, While in the hidden cells pale Misery wept, And prison'd Virtue scarce with constant care Could keep her lamp from quenching in despair. The voice of Cruelty, the groan of pain, He to one fold his ransom'd flock shall draw, never beam'd. He heard the bursting bars, the captives free, His horrid temple totter'd to its base; Hoarse moving thunders roar'd a mighty The glad earth shouted, as the prison fell; Ou came the conqu'ring One—no armed Or martial trump, her silent footsteps boast; wore, And not on raven's wings her flight she bore, And pave the entrance of the Prince of Life. The skies shall sparkle, man to joy awake, March 20, 1814. A. H. VALUABLE DISCOVERIES. VEGETABLE NOVELTIES. Urtica Whitlowi.-A new species of plant, as a substitute for hemp and flax, was exof the House of Commons, in the room of hibited lately to a great number of members the Speaker's Secretary. It has been brought from Canada by Mr. Whitlow, a gentleman of extensive learning and botanical science, who has devoted a considerabie part of his life in exploring the natural sources of wealth in foreign countries. It is in its texture as fine as silk, and has been ascertained, by various and convincing experiments, before the Society of Arts in London, and many other learned societies, to be nearly double the strength of the best Pilau hemp. Its durability is a still more distinguishing quality, as it has been found incorruptible in water. It is also infinitely more prolific and productive than hemp, as it will grow on ground of almost any quality, and has the farther advantage of being perennial, and, once sown, requires no farther culture. several specimens of this plant, as broken Mr. Whitlow exhibited by Lee's patent flax machinery, at Bow, in Essex; and also ropes made of the tow of the plant and of the fibre. He also exhibited a new species of the Asclepias or Swallow Wort, which is recommended as an excellent substitute for different manufactures of cotton and silk. The meeting consisted of upwards of fifty members of the House of Commons, including many of those most distinguished by their attention to agriculture, the arts and sciences, who mens, and expressed themselves in terms seemed highly pleased with the speciof the highest approbation of these useful discoveries. 150,000 "All the Merchants rejoice that they are no longer obliged to shut their shops 15,000 Trade will no longer be 12,000 on Sunday. shackled; and the workman, who has no 40,000 10,000 other day but this to make his little pur20,000 chases, will no longer be obliged to sacrifice a part of his time devoted to labour for this purpose." 822,000 The exchange at Vienna was, on the 1st of April, 402. Vienna, March 20. Forty disguised Frenchmen made an attempt last night to seize the King of Rome, and carry him off to France, and the plan nearly succeeded. Our ever watchful police was led to suspect something from the circumstance that sixteen hackney coaches were ordered, at the same time to one place, soon after the preparations made at the next post stages were also discovered, and so the whole plan was found out. Among the per sons arrested on this occasion, are a General and two Colonels. It is now known that relays of post horses were bespoke as far as to the Rhine; it has therefore been judged proper to prepare roomy apartments for his august mother and him, in the Imperial palace. They have already left Schonbrunn. Austrian Brewers: bad Beer. A Continental paper says, "The Austrian Government has just issued an ordinance permitting the importation of foreign beer and ale, which had been hitherto prohibited. The mischiefs arising from the monopoly of the Austrian brewers gave rise to this measure." If this is one of the blessings which this regenerator of liberty has restored to the French people, we believe that there are few, very few, of our countrymen, whether merchants, tradesmen, mechanics, or la bourers, who would accept of, much less rejoice for, such a blessing. It is to be observed, that the permission to open the shops on Good Friday, granted byNapoleon, was universally declined: and the shops continued shut, because he had wished they should be opened. Conjectural Statement of the present force of the French Armies. A statement of French Forces now at the disposal of Buonaparte, which were not near enough to defend Paris when it was taken, March 31, 1814. Half of these, reckoned as effective; 50,000 8,000 20,000 besides Italians Corfu French Absentees.-As far as Frenchmen can be depended upon, Talleyrand, the great political Mentor of Bonaparte; Berthier, his friend, and artist of all his great campaigns; Marmont, and Clarke, still adhere to Louis the XVIII. In a very old publication of the "Causes Criminelles" that were tried in the last century in France, is preserved the following address of a banditti to their leader, which might find its applications in modern times The Prince D'Aremberg.-This Prince, who died at Vienna on March the 7th, lost his life by the following accident :-A very spirited horse which he was riding in St, Joseph's-square, knocked down a woman. The Prince with much difficulty succeeded in stopping his horse, and alighted to enquire into the situation of the woman, who had fortunately received no serious injury, though greatly alarmed. The young Prince again mounted his horse, which appeared tranquil, but shortly afterwards reared and "CAPTAIN ! Since you were deporteé threw his rider. His head was uearly laid (i. e. transported), we have had a sad sni- open, and the horse with a single kick velling fellow amongst us, who tried to cabroke several of his ribs. He was conjole us by endeavouring to induce us to re- veyed in a lifeless state to the house of enter (as he expressed it) the honourable his brother-in-law, Prince Schwartzenberg. ranks of life, and comport ourselves properly. This accident calls to mind those which What we answered was, Set a purse be- have already taken place in the same fafore us, and see what we will do for it.'mily. The father of the young Prince reNow, Captain, the golden times are come again. In you we see the key to every rich man's chest, and if we do not open them as fast as we can, deem us unworthy to have a place in your troop." ceived when hunting a gun-shot in his eye, by which he was deprived of his sight; his mother was guillotined; his brother was forced to banish himself in consequence of a duel, in which he had the misfortune to kill his adversary; and finally, his sister perished in the fire which broke The King of Wurtemberg opened the out in the house of Priuce Schwartzensitting of the States-General with a speechberg, at Paris. from the throne, in which he said,— GERMANY. States-General Opened. "For the first time I see the representatives of my people assembled around my throne. I have anxiously looked forward to this moment. It was my wish to connect in the closest manuer all the different portions of territory and subjects which providence has placed under my sceptre, for the common maintenance and welfare of all, As soon as external events per INDIES EAST. Fatal Erent. Rangoon, Sept. 10.—Mr. F. Carey havfrom his Burman Majesty, for his proceeding, at his own request, obtained an order ing up to Ava, he set out accordingly about 20 days ago, accompanied by his Company's cruizer, which he purchased wife and family in the vessel, formerly a mitted it, and when those obstacles were removed which separated various districts, last year in Ca cutta. They had got as far I sought to attain this object; and unity of lected, but which is situated a little below as a town, the name of which is not recolconstitutional principles, and sameness of action in all the various parts of the realm, mismanagement, the vessel upset, and imPadoung, when by some misfortune or were the first fruits of my labours. After the restoration of general peace, I came which belonged to her happened at this mediately sunk. Unhappily, the boat under an engagement to the lasting main- time to be on shore for necessaries, and the tenance of the states, as the key-stone of Burman boats attached were at a great the constitutional structure, by giving my distance-a-head, so that before any assistpeople this proof of my paramount regard for their wants and welfare. The personal ance could be rendered, Mrs, Carey and freedom and civil rights of all classes are two children, the gunner, four female serthereby secured, and the nation is sumvants, and two lascars perished. The rest, moned, by means of its representatives, to by the aid of hen-coops, oars, spars, &c. unite itself with the authorities of the state, Mr. Carey himself had taken his eldest for the exercise of the most considerable child in his arms, but finding his strength rights of government. This constitution will, I trust, lay the foundation of the last-who bore him up as long as he was able, exhausted, relinquished him to a lascar, ing felicity of my people; they will lay aside all little and merely personal views, and manifest a spirit which will for ever actively contribute to the real interests of the state, and the welfare of all. were enabled to reach the nearest shore. but was also obliged at length to let him go, to save his own life. On Mr Carey's reaching the shore, the Governor of the place supplied him with every necessary; and gave him a thousand ticals and a boat to convey him to Ava, to which place he has proceeded. Bengal: God consumed by vermin. July, 25.-Passed a place now fallen into decay, although it had been the dwel ling-place of a god, where during the last dry season, a buffalo had been sacrificed for the purpose of obtaining rain-enquired after the god, of which nothing remained. Asking several persons what had become of the god? they said, “The white ants had eaten him." ITALY. Flight of his Holiness from Rome, Florence, March 20.-His Holiness arrived here last night, having quitted Rome on the 22d. Before his departure he established a Junta, of which Cardinal Somaglia is President, and ordered two proclamations to be published, stating the reasons of this resolution. The first proclamation states, that his Holiness, though acquainted with the fact, that the Neapolitan troops daily approached nearer to his frontiers, did not, however, fear any thing, because he was at peace with all the world. The demand of the Neapolitan court to be allowed to march two divisions, one by Terni, the other by the environs of Rome, in order to join them at Ancona, under pretence that the road through the Abruzzos is impassable, caused some uneasiness. His Holiness refused this demand positively, for many reasons; yet he has had the sorrow to learn that the Neapolitan troops have begun to violate the neutrality of the peaceful Roman territory. His Holiness, therefore, protests against this violation, renewing also his protest against the occupation of the Marches. To mark this refusal more strongly, he thinks it bis duty to retire for a time from his capital to a city near his dominions. He is expected at Genoa. The second proclamation, signed also by Cardinal Pecca, merely announces this step and the formation of the Junta, TURKEY. New Forts constructed.-Accounts from the Dardanelles state, that, by order of the Grand Seignior, two new forts are to be constructed there, one on the European and one on the Asiatic side, exactly on the sites of the ancient castles of Sestos and Abydos, where Xerxes had a bridge laid over the straits. The Sultan has assigned 365,000 piastres for the construction of these forts, and ordered that each shall contain a magazine and a bagnio. The garrison of each is to consist of 2,000 men, with sixty pieces of cannon. National Register: BRITISH. "Windsor Castle, April 1. "STATE OF THE KING'S HEALTH.-His Majesty has passed the last month in an uniform state of tranquillity, but his Majesty's disorder continues unaltered." (Signed as usual.) Sinking Fund.-The Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt, appointed by the 26th Geo. III. cap. 31, have certified, that the capital stock purchased by them on account of the public funded debt of Great Britain, up to the 7th day of March inclusive, amounts to 282,507,4264 10s. 6d. and they further report, that the several sums of capital stock, and the interest or yearly dividend thereon, purchased up to the 7th instant, exceed the capital stock and annual charge in perpetual redeemable annuities of the public funded debt of Great Britain, by 22,349,652l. 128. 101d. capital stock, and by 3631. 4s. annual charge. Court of Chancery, Lincoln's Inn, April 3, Temporary Loss of the Mace. At ten o'clock this morning, the Lord Chancellor came to his private Chamber behind the Court, pursuant to previous appointment, to take his seat in Court, in order to hear bankrupt petitions-when the mace was missing, which always precedes his Lordship's ingress and egress in this Court, as well as in the House of Lords. Messengers were dispatched quickly in search of the badge, and first to his Lordship's house, in Bedford-square, where it was not found. After some consideration, his Lordship took his seat in the Court without the mace. It was, after some time, recollected, that the mace had been sent several days ago to the gold burnisher or finisher, for cleansing or polishing, and that instead of returning the same back to his Lordship's house, it was sent to and deposited, newly embellished, in the House of Lords. The proper officer, after some time, returned to Court with the mace, to the no common gratulation of all the officers engaged in the anxious and novel search. Mr. Nash's plans for building improvements from Pall Mail, &c. are suspended by order of the Prince Regent. Attempt to Steal the Crown.-Friday March 31st, a woman decently dressed, but of humble appearance, attempted several times to obtain admission to the Jewel-Office in the |
