ORIGINAL POETRY. Το The fecond volume of the Monthly Magazine, page 614, has preferved a propofal for feparating, in a new place, the fecond and third Odes of Horace's third book. put the English reader in poffeffion of the whole evidence, in behalf of the alteration fuggefted, a tranflation of both poems feems requifite. The remaining one, therefore, is now offered for infertion. The progrefs of this Ode furnishes two additional arguments for fuppofing the four litigated quatrains to have originally formed no part thereof. 1. Romulus and his apotheofis are alluded to in an oracular manner; Invifum nepotem Troia quem peperit facerdos Marti. The effect of which would be enfeebled by any previous mention. 2. They are defcribed in a vein of poetry, which being put into the mouth of a goddefs, ought to have furpaffed any other description of the fame event in the fame poem: whereas the "Arces attigit igncas," and the "Purpureo bibit ore Nectar," are much more poetical than the "Lucidas inire fedes," and the " Ducere Nectaris fuccos," of this fecond Ode; to fay nothing of the poverty and inutility of fuch artless repeti ion. Flow her dread name to every tide-wash'd shore, That Europe, or that Afric decks with towers, Where drifts the unmelting fnow. But to the warlike Romans, this, I fwear: If leaning on a frail profperity, They, with too pious hand, Their father's hearths rebuild; Again fhall clap its wings a bird of night O'er the new Troy; again fhall Ate stroll, Clanking the fword and chain, Led by the wife of Jove. If thrice by Phæbus' toil re-rofe its wall Of molten brafs, thrice shall my Greeks o'erthrow, And captive mothers wail Their fons, their busbands flain. Ceafe, Mufe; fuch folemn founds ill fuit thy Hip: Prefume to mock the fpeech of gods no more Chafe the forbidding look, I love thy brow of fmiles. SONNET TO THE NIGHTINGALE. OFT let me wander at the moonlight hour, bow'r ; When ceafe the carrols of the plumy throng, O Zephyr, fleeting Zephyr, longer stay, Then will I ftrive to learn thy piteous tale, And fwell, with thee, fweet bird, the evening gale. From every grofs enjoyment free, Heart-fubduing sympathy ! Original Poetry. Freebro's huge mount, immortal Arthur's tomb. And Hunley, fcowling to the diftant main, With cloudy head, involved in murky rain. Skelton, beneath the jocund mufes' bow'r, Smiles on her bard, and ancient humble tow'r, Where feeling Triftram dwelt in days of yore, Where joyful Panty made the table roar. Behold Upleatham, floped with graceful eafe, Hanging enraptured o'er the winding Tees; Proud provinces extended at her feet, And crouded feas, that feem one endless fleet: No favage beauties here with awe surprise, Sweet heart-felt charms, like Lady Char lotte's eyes. Mark Tockets, nurfe and cradle of the loves, Where Venus keeps her children, and her cious plains, Circled with woods, are Chaloner's domains ; A gen'rous race, from Cambro Griffin traced, Fam'd for fair maids, and matrons wife and chafte. Obferve, nor let thofe ftately piles below, Nor Turner's princely realms, unnoticed go. Forced, like Rome's conful, with reluctant brow, To leave his oxen, cabbages, and plough; His all that coaft, and bis that wave-wash'd feat, Godtham, where Cleveland nymphs and naiads meet. Next fishy Redcar view, Mark's funny lands, And fands beyond Pactolus' golden fands; 209 Till fhelyy Saltburne, cloath'd with fea-weed reen, And giant Huncliff, close the pleasing scene*. IMITATION OF CATULLUS. "Vivamns, mea Lefbia, atque amemus. LET us, fair beauty, live and love, And all the fweets of Venus prove; Nor heed those rumours, which defame The pureness of our mutual flame! Bright funs may fet, and rife again! When once our wand'ring light is fled; We feek its orient courfe in vain; In night eternal sleep the dead! Fair beauty, coldly ceafe to measure Thy virgin love, profuse of pleasure! Ah! let my lips in many a kifs Imbibe the foft ambrofial blifs! Mingled with mine, while fondly glow Thy lips, as roses blushing fweet; So kifs, my love! that none may know, How oft our lips in kiffes meet! F. Æ. C. D. SONNET. WILL ever thus this tide of paffion roll? *NOTES AND REFERENCES. Loftus, the leat of Sir THOMAS DUNDAS, late T. Moore, Efq. Kilton Cafile, JAMES TALLIES, Efq. Freebro, the pyramidical mount feen at a distance, fuppofed to be king Arthur's tomb. Henley, a great promontory, projecting into the ocean, belonging to Mr. JACKSON. Skelton Cafle, the feat of JOHN STEVENSON HALL, Efq. the author of this poem, Crazy Tales," and "Fables for Grown Gentlemen," &c. 66 Upleatham, feat of THOMAS DUNDAS, Efq. Tockets, feat of General JOHN HALES, Gifbro', a market town, once a famous priory belonging to Mr. CHALONER, where remains a very ftupendous Gothic window, 100 feet high. Goatham, CHARLES TURNER, Efq. a fishing town and bathing place, Redcar, ditto, a fishing town, Marsk, ditto, and a house belonging to Sir LAWRENCE DUNDAS, Saltburn, ditto, belonging to JOHN S. HALL, Efq. Huncliff, Mr. JACKSON'S. The face of the promontory 300 feet high. Kirkleatham, the feat of CHARLES TURNER, Efq. lord of the princely realms above defcribed. N. B. Feeling Triftram alludes to the Rev. Lawrence Sterne, who ufed frequently to be at Skelton Cafile, (or Crazy Caftle.) Joyful Panty, Mr. LASCELLES, a clergyman, ditto." MR The pines refponfive in thrill murmurs figh; What weight of woes you venturous band sustain, The fea their home, their labour, and their gair. The fish their fcant, precarious meal supplies, Their fhip protects them from th' inclement fkies. Let me in fleep beguile the tedious hours, Where its tranfcendant waves the fountain pours; The obfequious murmurs, as the current Sooth the tired fwain his languid eye-lids TO THE ENQUIRER AFTER A STANDARE ASK not of me th' effential form That high-priz'd beauty bears; For there the fecret's found VARIETIES, LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL; PHILIPPA Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. * Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. R. NORTHMORE, of Cleve, near cording to the latest improvements, with Exeter, is engaged in writing" A additions. New System of Education, founded upon Principles." It is expected to be ready for the prefs about May or June next. con Dr. HARRINGTON has in the prefs, "A Letter to Mr. CAVENDISH,' taining fome pointed animadverfions, with ftrictures upon the chemical papers in the last volume of "The Philofophical Tranfactions:" alfo, upon the laft French chemical publications. Mr.SILVESTER HARDING has undertaken to publish at least one hundred portraits, for the illuftration of "The Account of Royal and Noble Authors." His defign is, to complete the feries of engravings which are to illuftrate all the other parts of Meffrs. ROBINSON'S edition of the Earl of Orford's Works. Mr. HARDING's work is to be completed in 25 numbers, royal quarto; each number to contain four portraits of royal or noble authors. A volume of poems by Mr. FAWCETT, will make its appearance early in the month. "The Art of War" will be introduced, with confiderable alterations, under the title of " Civilized War;" together with "The Art of Poetry," ac The Third Differtation on Fever, by Dr. FORDYCE, will also be ready for delivery in the courfe of April; as will a new edition of " Dr. GREGORY'S Economy of Nature," enlarged and improved. The lovers of the arts as applied to fubjects of natural hiftory, will also be gratified by the 5th volume of that beautiful work," LEWIN's Birds." MORISON, who, as printer to the univerfity of St. Andrew, has published handfome and correct editions of "Salluft" and "Horace," with the notes and emendations of Profeffor JOHN HUNTER;is about to add to them, an edition of "Virgil," in the fame style of typographical execution, and enriched with the notes and emendations of the fame learned editor. In the courfe of the prefent month will be published, in London, a valuable elementary treatife upon Mathematical Analysis, the work of the learned Profeffor VILANT, of the university of St. Andrew. We understand feveral gentlemen are, at this time, employed in procuring anec dotes Interefting Botanical Information. dotes of diftinguished perfons, who are now living; the firft volume will be prefented to the public in the course of the enfuing autumn. The characters are to be drawn with a due leaning to the libe. ral fide, and to be entirely devoid of calumny as well as of every reflection which may hurt the feelings of the parties fpoken of. The first volume will have for its title "Public characters of 1798;" and it is intended to publish a fimilar volume, under the fame title, about the fame period of every fucceeding year. Mr. PERKINS, of Leicester-fquare, has taken out a Patent for a diicovery of the Influence of the Metallic Traitors on the human body; made by Dr. PERKINS, of Connecticut.--The relief which thefe traitors have given, in many obftinate topical pains, and inflammatory affections incident to the human body, is generally imputed to their influence on the animal electricity. An analysis of the specification will appear under its proper head in our next Magazine. FRENCH. The following very laudable attempt to naturalize certain exotics in France, cannot fail to excite curiofity. Something of the fame kind has been attempted by individuals among ourselves, on a fmaller fcale. There, the effort is now made by public bodies, and the confequences are far more propitious than could have been expected.-Were it poffible to realize the philanthropic project here projected, negro flavery would be at an end the cane-plant and the coffeetree would become indigenous to Europe; thefe productions of our fouthern climates, would be gathered in by the hands of sturdy freemen, and no longer, as at prefent, be moiftened by the blood and the tears of the oppreffed Africans! The information which we prefent to the public, is extracted from "An Efay towards the Naturalization of certain Vegetables in Fran e," by the Citizen BERMOND, who was inftructed by the Mufeum of Natural History and the Commillion of Agriculture, to endeavour to naturalize the vegetables hereafter mentioned, in his department of the Maritime Alps." The vegetables confided to the department of the Maritime Alps, are : 1. The indigo of Java-Pondicherry -Agra-the Ile of France-and the Antilles. 211 A young plant in good health, of each of the above, and a pot of each of the vegetables, which bear the following names, have been also sent to the Citizen BERMOND. II. The cotton-bearing plant-herba ceous of Malta-wild (a coton fauve) of Siam, in form of a tree-twifted of Cay enne. 1. (L'Herbe d'Ecoffe.) Scotch-grass; a new fpecies of andropogon, and one of the family of graffes, is cultivated at St. Domingo *, as a moft excellent fodder for horned cattle. 2. (L'Herbe de Guinée) † Guineagrafs; panicum altiffimum. M. P. Another vivacious grais, that grows in the fands, on the borders of the fea, and which alfo produces a moft excellent fodder. The English of the Antilles, who are perfectly acquainted with the merit of this plant in wafte lands, and for fattening their cattle, term it Guinée-grajs、 (Guinea-grass.) 3. (Le Laurier de Madére.) The laurel of Madeira; Laurus Maderienfis. L. A grand and charming tree from the Canary Islands; the feeds of which were fent to the museum by the botanists who accompanied Capt. D'ENTRECASTEAUX: its fruit is very aromatic, and contains much effential oil, highly perfumed. 4. (Le Chou Caraïbe violet.) The violet cabbage-tree of the Caribbee Ilands; Arum fagitti-folium. L. A vivacious plant, with a tuberous root, and a very large volume. It contains much nutrition, grows on banks bordering on water, and produces a healthy and abundant aliment. 5. (Le Thé de Saint Domingue.) The tea plant of St. Domingo; Capraria biflora. L. This is an evergreen fhrub, the leaves, of which are employed by the inhabitants of the Antilles, for the fame purpofe as the tea of China and Japan. It would be curious enough, were we, fome day hereafter, to tranfport this fpccies of tea to China, and it to obtain a preference there over the native tea of the country; this is not impoffible. 6. (L'Acacie de la gomme Arabique.) The gum-arabick-bearing acacia; Mimoja Nilotica. L. Although it be very probable, that the gum produced by our common ftone-fruit trees, purified to the fame degree, would form a good fubftitute to that which comes from Arabia, *And alfo in Jamaica, where it is principally ufed by horfes. Traní. So called, as having come originally from the coaft of Guinea. It is very comduced into our fettlements in the East-Indies, mon in Jamaica, and has of late been introwhere it thrives wonderfully, and has been productive of the greatest advantages. Tranf. it 212 Interefting Botanical Experiments. it is useful to know, whether the tree which produces the latter, would fuit the climate of Europe. Should this be naturalized here, there is no reason to doubt, but that all vegetables whatever may live in our climate; as that, of which it is a native, is the hotteft in the globe. The fand-plains of Senegal are its native country. 7. (Le Gouavier.) The guava; Pyodium Goyava, a fruit,tree of the Antilles; the productions of which form a moft excellent fweet-meat. It is not to be doubted, but that this tree will thrive in the plains of Nice, as it has fucceeded at Lavalette, in Provence; where it has been fo productive, that feveral vigorous young plants have been reared from the feed. 8. (Le Cirier d'Amerique.) The wax bearing tree of America; Myrica Penfyl vanica, M. P. A fhrub, the feeds of which are enveloped in a matter, out of which tapers are made. Thefe give much light, and afford a balfamic odour, very ferviceable in pulmonary complaints. Our candles, on the contrary, are highly pernicious, even to the ftrongeit lungs. (Le Cedre du Liban.) The cedar of Lebanon; Pinus Cedrus. The talleft and largest tree of the temperate climates. This tree ought to be planted on a high mountain, with a northerly expofition; its wood is the leaft corruptible of we are acquainted with. The progreffion of its growth, in a climate warmer than our own, would be an interefting acquisition to natural history. any 10. (Le Bananier.) The banana; Mufa Paradifaca. L. A grand herbaceous plant, that produces a bunch of fruit, fometimes weighing Solb. It is ufed as a food in America; and is favory, nourifhing, and healthy. By planting it near a brook, and fheltering it from the winds, it is probable that it will grow and multiply exceedingly †. 11. (Le Canne a fucre.) The fugarcane; faccharum officinarum L. A gramineous plant, which has occafioned the death of more men than exists, perhaps, at this prefent moment on the face of the globe; as much by the devouring. avidity of riches, infpired into the breafts of Europeans, as by the horrible devaftation of Africa, whither thousands *Très propre à rétablir les poitrines delabrées. Notre luminaire, au contraire, detruit les poitrines les mieux conflituees. Orig. I faw a banana, bearing fruit, about three years fince, in Kew gardens. Tr. of men, who traffic in men, repair an nnally, to carry away its labourers into climates, equally fatal to flaves and their proprietors. This too famous plant is already cultivated in the ifles of the Archipelago, in Sicily, and the kingdom of Valencia, in Spain. Wherefore is it not alfo cultivated in the dominions of the Maritime Alps? There it would vivify, instead of deftroying, 12. (Un jeune pied de caffè). A young ftem of the coffee-tree; coffea Arabica. L. What has been faid of the fugar-cane, may be faid alfo of the coffee-tree. There exifts more probability, however, in fayour of the naturalization of it,than of the former. All that rocky country, in which Monaco is fituated, appears exceedingly proper for its cultivation, and perhaps alio, for giving to its berries a quality approaching that of the mocha, which is very different from what is produced on the hills of the Antilles. Progrefs of the above plants, during a fhort efidence in the department of the Maritime Alps. The citizen entrusted with the conveyance (et de l'education) and culture of thefe precious vegetables, has invited the conftituted authorities, and thofe converfant in fuch fubjects, to examine their prefent ftate. It refults from this examination, that the fugar-cane, which, on its departure from Paris, on the 29th of Prairial, was cne feet, five inches in height, in the firft decade of Vendemaire, had attained five feet feven inches, and hot forth thirty-three fuckers, of which three have been replanted. The coffee-tree, at its departure, was abfolutely fripped of its leaves; the vegetation is now abundant, and it has pufhed forth fmail branches. The cedars are covered with new buds. Four different fpecies of cotton were fown on the 8th Thermidor, viz. 1. That of St. Domingo: it is 30 inches in height. 2. That of Siam: it is 28 do. 3. That of Pondicherry: it is 20 do. 4. That of Malta: it is 22 do. On the fame day were fown, four different fpecies of indigo, viz. 1. The indigo of. Java: it is 8 in-. ches in height. do. 2. That of Pondicherry: it is & 3. That of Agra: it is ra do. 4. That of the Ille of France, which has not rifen. The different teas are all in a fine ftate of vegetation. The |