would be still more extensive and useful in domestic life. The obligations of gentlemen to qualify themselves by knowledge and industry to discharge the duties of benevolence, would be increased by marriage; and the patriot-the hero and the legislator, would find the sweetest reward of their toils, in the approbation and applause of their wives. Children would discover the marks of maternal prudence and wisdom in every station of life ; for it has been remarked that there have been few great or good men who have not been blessed with wise and prudent mothers. Cyrus was taught to revere the gods, by his mother Mandane-Samuel was devoted to his prophetic office before he was born, by his mother Hannah— Constantine was rescued from paganism by his mother Constantia and Edward the Sixth inherited those great and excellent qualities, which made him the delight of the age in which he lived, from his mother, lady Jane Seymour. Many other instances might be mentioned, if necessary, from ancient and modern history, to establish the truth of this proposition. LINES ON SEEING AN OLD COPY OF THOMAS MORE'S MISCELLANEOUS LATIN POEMS DRILLED THROUGH BY WORMS. BY J. C. SNOWDEN. ONCE on a time (the story's short) And famed for repartee and freak. It chanced, a quidnunc, t'other day, The name and style-Sir Thomas More; Poems of every name and nature, Odes without fire, and harmless satire, * Penances to which Sir Thomas thought proper to subject himself. And epitaphs that moved no pity, To o'ershoot the mark-but came not near, Or else he deem'd the banquet spare: These past, a strange amorphous group Beneath him lay-an armed troop, That naughty dames and lords assailed, Not such as those old Martial writ, That show'd their teeth, and barked, and bit; But e'en in death (so true is Pope) THE PESTILENCE OF 1793. BY C. B. BROWN. IN proportion as I drew near the city, the tokens of its calamitous condition became more apparent. Every farm-house was filled with supernumerary tenants; fugitives from home; and haunting the skirts of the road, eager to detain every passenger with inquiries after news. The passengers were numerous; for the tide of emigration was by no means exhausted. Some were on foot, bearing in their countenances the tokens of their recent terror, and filled with mournful reflections on the forlornness of their state. Few had secured to themeslves an asylum; some were without the means of paying for victuals or lodging for the coming night; others, who were not thus destitute, yet knew not whither to apply for entertainment, every house being already overstocked with inhabitants, or barring its inhospitable doors at their approach. Families of weeping mothers, and dismayed children, attended with a few pieces of indispensable furniture were carried in vehicles of every form. The parent or husband had perished; and the price of some moveable, or the pittance handed forth by public charity, had been. expended to purchase the means of retiring from this theatre of disasters; though uncertain and hopeless of accommodation in the neighboring districts. Between these and the fugitives whom curiosity had |