All from the heart beftow'd, to smooth her path,

To guard her steps, and make her pleas'd with life.

No pleafing cares do now my mind employ; In mournful mufing creep the heavy hours: Scenes of paft pleasure, ne'er to be renew'd, By mem'ry's aid in quick fucceffion rife, Whilft all the future wears an aspect dark.

Perhaps he knows how dear her mem'ry is, How in my heart she holds hier wonted place: May heav'n in mercy grant, that when from earth

I'm call'd, we may united be, and know Thofe promis'd joys which God referves for thofe

Who truft his word, and ftrive to do his will. S. T.

By Johnson fnatch'd from death's oblivious night;

For him who fixt, in glowing colours bright, Thofe fmiles that wont the paffing hours to cheer,

And gave, unchanging still from year to

year,

The form ador'd to blefs your longing fight;

O heave the grateful fympathetic figh:

But fighs recal not back the filent dead! An aged mother, by his labours fed, Looks round in vain, and fees no comfort nigh;

O, then, reflect his virtues to her view,
And be to her what Johnson was to you.

ELEGY

On the death of a Young Lady, who died in a fate of lunacy.

HUSH'D in the filent grave, thy forrows fleep;

No more in fecret anguish to repine ! And foft humanity no more fhall we p

To fee the wreck of fuch a mind as thine, Ey'n he who unrelenting faw that mindA father! ftruggle with defpair in vain, While reafon's ruin'd empire fell, confign'd "To blank confufion and her crazy train." Ev'n he, barbarian! fhall with callous heart No more disturb the bed of thy repofe; No more fhall try with ev'ry hellish art

To lengthen the fad period of thy woes! For now at length thy pains, thy troubles ceafe, The gloomy midnight of thy grief is o'er; And on thy foul the blissful morn of peace

Arifes bright-to be o'ercast no more. And tho' a little space contains full well

Thy peerless form, with ev'ry beauty bleft, Without one" frail memorial" to tell The palling trav'ller where thy ashes reft; Yet, to thy mem'ry, many a facred tear

Shall flow, with many a fympathetic figh; And on foft pity's heart, to virtue dear Thy name fhall be engraven-ne'er to die! Leeds. W. G.

A SONNET,

Addreffed to Mifs Eliza Coltman, on receiving from ber a prefent of Mrs. Rowe's Devout Exercifes of the Heart, &c.

SACRED to virtue be the gifts of fong,

Nor madly let the genuine bard diffufe The dregs of Circe's cup, nor dare to wrong

Meek-ey'd religion !-but may the mufe, Proud of her birth, in rapt'rous ftrains afpire, To hallow'd themes that breath'd from Rowe's pure lyre;

Or your's, Eliza! when with fervent zeal You fing of tranfports angels only feel; And foaring, reach the bright ætherial road, Where hymning Seraphs warm devotion

thew;

Catch

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works of fome young, but rifing artifts, who have not yet obtained a name pro portionate to their merit.-Like former exhibitions, the prefent one proves that the branch of the art in which our painters are most encouraged, to which they chiefly devote themselves, and in which they fucceed the best, is portrait painting. It contains, nevertheless, a number of works of fancy and fentiment, which do equal honour to the genius and difinterestedness of the artifts, confidering how little fuch fubjects are in requeft. The number of those who have attempted landscape is fmall-till fmaller of thofe who have fucceeded. Of the drawings, fome are truly beautiful-others highly pleafing and refpectable. In fculpture the exhibition this year is particularly poor. It can only boast a few heads, and bas-reliefs, which however well exeeuted, are of little confequence, when compared with the groupes and figures as large as life, which the public have contemplated with pleasure in former years. But, whatever may be its defects, the perfons who are acquainted with the state of the arts abroad, will feel no hesitation in pronouncing that no foreign fchool can produce an annual exhibition equal to that of England.

Mifs LINWOOD's exhibition of pictures in needle-work, continues to attract and astonish the lovers of the fine arts and the fashionable world. No private collection has ever been more refpectably patronized in this metropolis.

Meffrs. BOYDELL have added a dozen new pictures to the Shakespeare Gallery, by SMIRKE, WESTALL, WHEATLEY, and RIGAUD. The gallery is alfo enriched at this time by the whole of the beautiful Milton drawings by WESTALL. The thirteenth number of the Shakespeare will be ready for delivery in the courfe of the month.

The fame gentlemen having purchafed the admired pictures of the " Seven Ages," by SMIRKE, which are now exhibiting at Somerfet Houfe, propofe to publish prints from them, of the fize of the originals.

Mr. JOHN IRELAND's fupplementary volume to "Hogarth Illuftrated," will poiitively be delivered in a few days.

Mr. CAPEL LOFT writes to us from Trofton, that after repeated obferva

* In his letter of last month, in a few copies, our readers are réquefted, for Bofton," to read Trafton, and for "fish," to read difk.

tions from the 13th inft. to the z2d, both inclufive, he is wholly disappointed as to the expected re-appearance of the folar pot; and must therefore conclude no more will be feen of it. This, confidering its permanence for feveral revolutions, and its apparently unaltered state as to figure, denfity, and fize, when it was last feen, is to him exceedingly unexpected.

Dr. SOMERVILLE, author of "The Hiftory of Political Transactions, and of Parties, during the Reign of King Wil liam, has in the prefs a complete history of Great Britain, during the reign of Queen Anne. The author has had access to a great variety of original papers, fome of the most curious of which will be printed in an appendix at the end of the volume.

The Literary and Philofophical Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, have just printed their " Fifth Year's Report ;" and likewife fome copies of "Two Essays," read before them by JOHN RALPH FENwick, M. D. one containing " Reflections on Calcareous Manures;" the other, "Some Reflections on the Importance of Elastic Fluids in Vegetation, and on the Prefervation and Application of Fold-yard Manure."

Mr. COMBE, the author of "The Diaboltad," is engaged upon a work to be published in four volumes, which will include biographical sketches of eminent characters, and the history of the most confiderable events of the prefent reign.

Captain DAVID COLLINS, of the marines, judge advocate, and fecretary of the colony, has announced for fpeedy publication, "An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales," from the departure of the first embarkation in the year 1787, to the 29th of September 1796: with occafional remarks on the natives of New Holland, from actual obfervation. He propofes to add an Account of New Zealand and its Inhabitants, taken, by permiffion, from the MSS. of Lieutenant Governor King.

Mr. ALLWOOD, fellow of Magdalen college, has circulated proposals for publifhing by fubfcription, a work on "The Literary Antiquities of Greece:" as developed in an attempt to afcertain principles for a new analyfis of the Greek tongue; and to exhibit thofe principles t as applied to the elucidation of many paffages in the ancient history of that country. To which he propofes to add, fome obfervations concerning the origin of feveral of the literal characters in ufe among the Grecians. The

The novel of Mifs CLARKE, the grand-daughter of the late Col. Frederic, will be published in the course of the month.

Mrs. ROBINSON has announced a complete edition of her poetical works, in three volumes. 8vo. The terms of fubfcription one guinea.

A third volume of the work under the title of "The Comparative Difplay of British Opinions refpecting the French Revolution," is preparing for the prefs..

The firit volume of Mr. MILNER'S History of Winchester is in confiderable forwardness at press.

The Hiftory of the City of Bath, by Mr. WARNER, author of "An Illuftration of the Roman Antiquities of Bath," &c. embellished with engravings, will be ready for publication about Michaelmas

A very interefting journal of occurrences in the Temple, during the confinement of Louis XVI. king of France, is extracted from M. CLERY, the king's valet de chambre, and the last and only fervant of the royal family. At the end of the work fac-fimiles will be given of the hand-writing of the queen, of the young king Louis XVII. of Madame Royale, and of Madame Elizabeth, from two notes written while they were confined in the tower of the Temple, to the prefent king of France, and to the count d'Artois, now Monfieur.

Mr. BOOSEY has announced a new and fplendid edition of "Glover's Leonidas," to be printed in two volumes by Mr. BENSLEY, and to be embellished with fix engravings, executed in the most finished manner by Meffrs. Bartolozzi, Heath, Holloway, Neagle, and Delatre; from the defigns of Meffrs. Hamilton, Stothard, and Burney.

We have feen in London, a copy of the first part of DIDOT's magnificent Virgil, and confider it, in refpect to its typography and engravings, as ftanding altogether unrivalled. It will be completed in three parts, at nine pounds each for proof plates, or at fix pounds each for plates which are not proof: the price to be advanced after the 10th of May. This work alone ferves to evince, that the

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In the fitting of the National Institute, held at Paris on the 6th of laft October, after reading the memoirs of the three claffes, which were noticed at length in the preceding numbers of the "Monthly Magazine," Citizen VILLARS, fecretary to the third, and LASSUS, fecretary to the first class, delivered a difcourfe in honour of LouVET and PELLETIER *, GUYTON read an interefting memoir upon vegetable substances, made ufe of for the purposes of dying; which was fucceeded by a differtation by MONGES, on the infcriptions of coins and medals. ROEDERER, as the organ of the fecond clafs, delivered fome obfervations on the prize fubject, Who are the most proper inftructors to regulate the morals of a nation? MOLE read a dialogue between two journalists, on the application of the words monfieur and citizen. LEBRUN terminated the fittings with reciting two odes, one against anarchy, the other against royalty.

The fittings were divided into two feffions, to give an opportunity of publicly rewarding the pupils in painting, fculpture, and architecture, to whom the prizes had been adjudged in their refpective fchools. The following is a lift of the prize fubjects, with the names of the fuccefsful competitors:

1. Painting. Subject, the death of Cato of Utica, in the moment when this illuftrious patriot recovers from his fwoon, pushes away the phyfician, opens his wound with his own hands, and expires in the very act of tearing his entrails. The grand prize was adjudged to, 1. PIERRE BOUILLON, a native of Thiviers, in the department of Dordogne, and a pupil of MONSIAU. 2. To PIERRENARCISSE GUERIN, of Paris, a pupil of REGNAULT. 3. LOUIS ANDRE GABRIEL BOUCHE, of Paris, a pupil of DAVID. The second prize was allotted to, 1. LOUIS HERSENT, of Paris, a pupil of REGNAULT. 2. MATTHIEU IGNACE VAN BREE, a native of Antwerp, in the department of Deux-Nieuvres, and a pupil of VINCENT.

II. Sculpture. Subject, Ulysses and Neoptolemus purloining the bow and ar rows of Hercules, to compel Philoctetes to accompany them in their expedition against Troy. The grand prize was

* A biographical notice of this excellent chymift was given in the Monthly Magazine" for February laft.

awarded

awarded to CHARLES ANTOINE CALLAMARD, of Paris, a pupil of PAJOU. The fecond prize, 1. TO AIME MILHOMME, of Valenciennes, in the department of the North, and a pupil of ALLEGRAIN. 2. TO JEAN LOUIS DUVAL, of Paris, a pupil of BoizoT.

111. Architecture. Subject, plan of public granaries for the fupply of a large city, fituated on the banks of a river. The grand prize was adjudged, 1. to LOUIS AMBROISE DUBUT, of Paris, a

pupil of LEDOUX. 2. JEAN ANTOINE CoussIN, of Paris, a pupil of the late BELIZARD. Second prize, 1. To ELOr LABARRE, a native of Ourfcamp, in the department of L'Oife, and a pupil of RAIMOND. 2. MAXIMILIEN HUR TAUT, of Paris, a pupil of PERCIER. Thofe pupils who obtained the grand prize, are to let out for Italy to perfect themselves in the arts, at the expence of the republic.

M. QUATREMER DISJONVAL, whofe ingenious difcoveries in araneology we noticed in our VARIETIES for January laft, has, in a fubfequent publication, treated of the great utility of spiders in protecting cattle, and more especially horfes, from the bite of flies and gnats. It is a common prejudice, he obferves, that spiders are noxious animals; whereas, in fact, a more uteful appendage to a ftable, or a cow-houfe, cannot be found. It is well known, that horfes which are kept in aftable during the fummer months, fuffer from the gnats and 'flies, in an equal, and even in a greater degree, than thofe which are employed in the field, or for the purposes of travelling. The reafon of this is obvious: the vapours which exhale from the animals, added to the ftrong fmell of a stable or a cow-houfe, naturally attract the flies in numbers to those places. If, therefore, fpiders, inftead of being fwept away and deftroyed, were rather encouraged, they would offer an effectual remedy to this inconvenience, by stationing themfelves in ambush at the doors, the windows, and other apertures of places deftined for the reception of cattle and horfes, and thus deftroying their enemy at his very firft onfet. M. DISJONVAL concludes in the following words: readily acknowledge, that spiders and their webs are no proper appendage to the habitations of men; but I require, that they be left in full and undisturbed poffeffion of all places deftined for the reception of cattle and horfes. In a word, as revolution feems to be the order of the day, I demand, that the innovation lately

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adopted in the adminiftration of the penal code, by tranfporting, instead of executing the profcribed deputies, be adopted likewife with respect to spiders; and that their punishment, when found in our rooms and houses, confift not in death, but in banishment to the ftables, or other appropriate places.-M. DISJONVAL has fubjoined to the above remarks, a very curious fact, of which himself, together with Citizen MERCIER, a member of the council of five hundred, and General BELAIR, were eye-witneffes. The spider, it feems, is not only a prognosticator of the weather, but likewife an amateur of good mufic, and will leave his lurking place, when an inftrument is fkilfully played. A very large fpider in the house of M. DESMAINVILLES, near the barrier of Clichy, on hearing the found of mufic, immediately left his retreat, and continued to traverse the floor of the room, following exactly the motions of the performer. This experiment was feveral times repeated, and always with the fame effect. Hence, instead of terming the spider a noxious and offensive animal, we ought rather to join in the panegyric beftowed upon this ingenious infect by Ovid: fires a Pallade doctam.

GUYTON, in the 71ft number of the Annales de Chemie has introduced the following interefting obfervations on the acid of tin, and the analysis of its ores: It has long, he fays, been obferved, that the concentrated nitric acid oxidates without diffolving tin: for this metal has fo ftrong an affinity for oxygen, that it immediately decompofes the nitric acid into oxygen and nitrous gas. If the acid be mixed with water, the oxidation of the metal is ftill more rapid, accompanied with the evolution of nitrate of ammoniac, produced by the hydrogen of the water, and the azote of the nit. gas, united with a fmall portion of nitrous acid. If nitrous acid be added, as long as it continues to be decompofed, the oxide of tin at length affumes the characters of an acid, and is converted into the fiannic acid. If to a folution of gold in nitro-muriatic acid, a few drops of the tannic acid be added, a purple powder is precipitated, formerly called purple powder of caffius, and which, in reality, is ftannate of gold, produced by fingle elective attraction. In KLAPROTH's analyfis of the ores of tin, particularly that species which is called wood tin, he was unable to caufe any portion of it to diffolve in the muriatic acid: this he attributed to an excess of oxygen in the

ore,