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My great Master still allows
Needful periods of repose:
By my heav'nly Father blest,
Thus I give my soul to rest;
Heav'nly Father! gracious name!
Night and day his love the same:
Far be each suspicious thought,
Ev'ry anxious care forgot!
Thou, my ever bounteous God,
Crown'st my days with various good;
Thy kind eye, that cannot sleep,
These defenceless hours shall keep:
Blest vicissitude to me!

Day and night I'm still with thee.

What though downy slumbers flee,
Strangers to my couch and me?
Sleepless, well I know to rest,
Lodg'd within my Father's breast.
While the empress of the night
Scatters round her silver light;
While the vivid planets stray
Various, through their mystick way;
While the stars unnumber'd roll
Round the ever constant pole;
Far above these spangled skies
All my soul to God shall rise;
'Midst the silence of the night
Mingling with those angels bright
Whose harmonious voices raise
Ceaseless love and ceaseless praise
Through the throng his gentle ear
Shall my tuneless accents hear;
From on high he doth impart
Secret comfort to my heart.
He, in these serenest hours,
Guards my intellectual pow'rs,
And his spirit doth diffuse,
Sweeter far than midnight dews;
Lifting all my thoughts above
On the wings of faith and love.
Blest alternative to me,
Thus to sleep or wake with thee!

What if death my sleep invade?
Should I be of death afraid?
Whilst, encircled by thine arm,
Death may strike, but cannot harm.
What if beams of op❜ning day
Shine around my breathless clay?
Brighter visions from on high
Shall regale my mental eye.
Tender friends a while may mourn
Me, from their embraces torn;
Dearer, better friends I have
In the realm beyond the grave.
See the guardian angels nigh
Wait to waft my soul on high!
See the golden gates display'd!
See the crown to grace my head!
See a flood of sacred light,
Which no more shall yield to night!
Transitory world, farewell!
Jesus calls with him to dwell

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Ah me, behold yon brother toil
Up that sandy hill's high length,

With feeble steps and slow; the while

The thirsty sun-beams drink up all his strength!

And his back a burden bears,

And his head is white with cares;

On his cheek sits want all-pale,
And his languid eye-balls fail;
Labour, penury, and he
Hand in hand, a woful three!
Tott'ring on her staff behind,
Weak in body, sad in mind,
Lo-up she drags her weary frame,
His long apprev'd industrious dame;
Sighing oft as on she goes,
Revolving all her long life's woes!

Tell me, oh tell, ye aged pair,
As my flaunting wheels whirl by,
Can ye behold me seated here,
With other than a discontented eye?
I marvel not; and, gracious heav'n,
If aught, sure this may be forgiv'n;
How they labour! while I ride,
Dear affection by my side.
Full health mantling in my eye,
Gladness, peace, vivacity!
Soothing friendship gives her balm;
Soft content her happy calm;
"Plenty wears me at her breast;"
"Pleasure lulls my soul to rest."
Every hope and fear flows even,

From their source, firm faith in heaven?

Thrice holy,-whence such love to me!
These, these are thine as well as I;
My fellow-christians, dear to thee-
For, ah! for them thou didst not scorn to die!
Let me then the thought improve
Into gratitude and love!

Come, and make my heart thy home
Humanity, bright cherub, come:
And my inmost soul impress
With sympathetick tenderness;
Time prolong, but to bestow
Balm to every brother's wo;
Love I ask-may love be giv❜n;
God is love; and love is heav'n!

TO A CHILD OF FIVE YEARS OLD.

BY DR. COTTON.

FAIREST flow'r all flow'rs excelling,
Which in Eden's garden grew;
Flow'rs of Eve's imbower'd dwelling,
Are, my Fair one, types of you.

Mark, my Polly, how the roses
Emulate thy damask cheek;
How the bud its sweet discloses,
Buds thy opening bloom bespeak.

Lilies are, by plain direction,
Emblems of a double kind;
Emblems of thy fair complexion,
Emblems of thy fairer mind.

But, dear girl, both flow'rs and beauty
Blossom, fade, and die away;
Then pursue good sense and duty,
Evergreens that ne'er decay.

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LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE.

FOREIGN.

In the press: Elements of Agricultural Chymistry, by Sir H. Davy, illustrated with plates;-Theological Disquisitions on the characteristick excellencies of the Jewish dispensation, by Dr. Cogan;-England safe and triumphant; or Researches into the Apocalyptick little Book, by the Rev. F. Thurston;-The Poetical Register for 1809;-A Collection of curious and interesting Letters, translated from the Originals in the Bodleian Library, with illustrations;-A Reformed Communion Office for the administration of the Lord's Supper, by the Rev. Mr. Anstis of Bridport;The Travels of Professor Lichtenstein in Southern Africa, translated by Miss A. Plumptre; and a volume of Sermons, by Dr. Watts, never before published, edited by Dr. Pye Smith.

Preparing for publication: A History of England, since the Revolution, intended as a Continuation to Hume, by Sir James Mackintosh;-The Remains of the late Professor Porson, arranged and Digested by Professor Monk and Mr. Blomfield; -A Second Volume of Mr. Ivimey's History of English Baptists;-A Metrical History of England, by the Rev. T. B. Dibdin;-First Part of Studies of History, being an abridged History of Greece, by the Rev. T. Morell;-A Guide to the Reading of the Holy Scriptures, translated from the Latin of Professor Franck, with a Life of the Author; by Mr. W. Jaques of Chelsea.

By the report of the Committee of Agriculture, it appears that the total amount of waste lands, in the United Kingdom, is as follows:-England, above six millions of acres; Wales, two; and Scotland about fourteen.

It is said, that salted bacon, and unsalted beef or mutton, and other kinds of animal food, when too long kept, or improperly cured, so as to be tainted with putridity, may be perfectly recovered, or rendered quite sweet, by being buried in fresh earth, a foot deep, for a few days.

The canker in the stems and branches of apple trees may, it is said, be cured, merely by lifting the trees in October or November, planting them again above the land's level, upon little hills of common road-sand, taken from the scraped heaps by the highway side. No other application is wanted for the cankered holes in the stem-rub the road-sand into the wounds, after cutting out all the black. Branches must be cut away to sound wood; and, if you reduce the tree to a mere post, a new head will quickly shoot forth.

The Abbe Romanelli has visited, lately, all the catacombs which surround Naples. He likewise entered the subterraneous caverns of the church of St. Janvier; and, assisted by a guide, explored them to the extent of two miles and a half, in the midst of human ashes, broken coffins, skeletons, and ruins. He beheld, on all sides, Greek inscriptions, sculptured upon stone or marble; and paintings of Christians who had suffered martyrdom. He also noticed the remains of some altars, the tombs of the first Neapolitan bishops, and one catacomb, the inscriptions on which recorded the ravages of pestilence in Naples, 1020.

Mr. Price, a gentleman attached to the English embassy to Persia, is said to have made drawings on the spot, of every town, village, castle, ruin, mountain of note, &c. during the whole route from the Persian Gulf to Tehran, the Persian capital; and to have made panoramick views of Shiraz, Persepolis, Ispahan, Kashan, Kom, and Tehran; giving the costumes of the people, &c.: so that on his return to England, the publick may expect to be gratified with the fruits of his labour, through this extensive and interesting tract of country, hitherto so little known in Europe.

Among the inventions for which prizes have lately been given by the London Society of Arts, are the following, viz.-To Mr. M. Cook, for a machine by which blind people may both learn and teach musick; to Mr. Machell, for an annular saw, which can cut deeper than its centre; to Dr. Cumming, for a cheap vapour, or

hower bath, for hospitals or families; to Mr. Goss, for an instrument to work addition of numbers with accuracy and despatch; to Mr. Perry, for an instrument to on the hand in writing; to Mr. Hodge, for a mode of preserving butter from Becoming rancid in hot weather or hot climates; to Mr. Davies, for a cheap and safe temporary scaffolding; to Mr. Bowler, for a mechanical method of destroying rats and other vermin; to Mr. Sampson, for a new chain; to Mr. J. Martin, for a method of relieving a horse fallen down in the shafts of a loaded cart; to Mr. Patchie, for a compensation pendulum, to prevent the going of a clock from varying by beat and cold; and to Mr. J. King, for a machine to enable shoemakers to work without pressure on the breast and stomach.

Dr Thomas Clark, of Denmark Street, has represented an injection of a decoction pecacuanha as a certain cure for dysentery, and he cites so many proofs that it fearly deserves a fair trial in every case of this disease.

At the York assizes, a cause came on to recover of the defendant, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Cathcart, sundry penalties for non-residence. The jury found a verdict gainst him for 6617. 148.

VACCINATION. The following is the substance of the Report of the National Vaccine Establishment, which was laid on the table of the House of Commons at the lose of the last session.

During the year 1811, the surgeons appointed by their authority to the nine stations m London, vaccinated 3,148 persons, and distributed 23,794 charges of vaccine mph to the publick. Since the commencement of this establishment, not a single, stance of small pox, after vaccination, has occurred to any of their surgeons. In consequence of an order from the Admiralty, vaccination has been practised in the navy to a great extent; and though not universally adopted, the mortality from the small pox, among seamen, is already greatly diminished. In the army, the practice of vaccination has been long established, and its effects have been decidedly beneficial. A disorder formerly so fatal to the troops, is now considered as nearly extinguished the army Vaccination is almost every where gaining ground, throughout the Brinsh dominions; and it is found that the number of deaths from the small pox is Anuformly decreasing, in proportion as vaccination becomes more general, and the noculation of the small pox declines. The disappearance of the small pox from the Island of Ceylon, was noticed in the Report of last year; and in consequence of Vaccination, this disease has in no instance lately occurred in the island of Anglesey, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the town of Petworth, or in the adjoining district. Preous to the discovery of vaccination, the average number of deaths by small pox, within the bills of mortality, was 2000 annually; whereas in the last year only 751 persons have died of that disease, although the increase of population within the last ten years has been 133,139. The reports from Dublin and from Scotland furnish dence of the general and rapid increase of vaccination, and give the most satisfacory proofs of the success and efficacy of the practice.

In the cases which have come to the knowledge of the Board, the small pox after Vaccination, with a very few exceptions, has been a mild disease; and out of the many hundred thousand persons vaccinated, not a single well-authenticated instance has been communicated of the occurrence of a fatal small pox after vaccination. The Beport adverts to the mischiefs which are daily arising from the diffusion of the fatal Contagion of small pox in the community, in consequence of various inoculation, among the lower classes of the people, which constantly keeps up the contagion, and where it saves a single life, exposes numbers to a most dangerous disease. It is greatly to be wished that this evil could be checked, by such measures as Government in its wisdom might judge proper to frame, in order to prevent the spreading of the small pox, and thus keeping up a continual source of infection in the heart of the metropolis. The constant renewal of the contagion of small pox in this capital, is strikingly contrasted with the advantages enjoyed by several of the other capitals of Europe, in consequence of the universal adoption of vaccination by medical Practitioners, seconded by the authority of government. The cities of Vienna and Milan, in which the mortality from small pox was formerly more considerable in proportion to their population than in London, have been for some time freed altogether from this destructive pest; the first for five, and the latter for eight years, According to the statement of Drs. De Carrio and Sacco; and in the city of Geneva, he small pox has been nearly extirpated. In Switzerland in general, but more particularly in Geneva, the extension of the blessings connected with vaccination, has in a great degree depended on the warm and active co-operation of the clergy,

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