To the Memory of the late
RICHARD REYNOLDE, of Bristol.

THEY need not tears, the pious and the just,

Who, when the turmoil of the day is o'er, Sink down in quiet glory to the dust,

And sleep that tranquil sleep which wakes no more,

rest

Or wakens but in Heaven-their place of [be Is hallow'd to them; therefore thine shall For ever holy, and thy memory blest

Through all the world!-I thought to mourn for thee,

But Nature chid me, and with proud delight

Forbad my grief, rejoicing to behold Her faded splendour beaming yet so bright, [mould

Through the dark covering of this earthly They need not tears, a blameless course who run,.

Who live as thou hast liv'd, and die as thou hast done!

WM. C**.

Dec. 90.

Mr. URBAN, PRAY indulge an old Correspondent's wish by the insertion of the two following Sonnets, calculated, it is true, more for Cambridge attention, than your own Magazine, but the Author is desirous that they should not be quite strangled in their birth at home, and therefore places them under your protection. Yours, &c.

J. W. On seeing Dr. KAYE, Master of Christ's College, elected Regius Professor of Divinity, by the death of Dr. WATSON, late Bishop of Landaff.

MARGARET, by Royal-gifted patromage, [endows; God's-house with Worthies, see how Time First of their class, encircling Granta's [sage, Mede leads the van, with More, Platonic And Cudworth vers'd in "plastic Nature's"

brows.

page, [rage! Such Intellectuals quell'd the Atheist's But oh, the blot! your doors how could you close

[Sin,

'Gainst Paradisal powers of Death and Save that Mathesis wise, in reasoning prose, Our Christian Morals trains, our Faith de

When native worth is seen to pine in want: When the tight rope 's the certain road to fame,..

And apes outlandish Britain's sons sup

plant.

Ye sons of Genius, emulous above

The crowd of souls ephemeral to rise, Seek not to visit the Pierian grove;

The road to fame through other regions

lies.

When is heard the Woodman's stroke,
As he cleaves the stubborn oak,
And the wild-bird's lay of love,
Carol'd in the dusky grove,
And the milk-maid's sprightly song,
As she trips the meads among,
When the lowing cattle raise,
In Nature's voice the note of praise,
O! rústic nymph! with frolie air,
Thou, sweet Poësy, art there!

When 'tis Noon, and ardent fire
Bids a fainting world retire-
And labour wipes the humid brow,
And seeks the shade the trees bestow;
And beneath some rugged rock,
The shepherd views his panting flock;
And all is quiet stillness round,
Save, that's heard the plaintive sound
Of the young rook's ceaseless call,
And the plashing waterfall,
And the gnat with busy wing,
When the herald of the spring,
As a shepherd's clock the note,
Doth the fleeting hour denote,
In Nature's barmony around,
Thou, sweet Poësy, art found!

When Evening comes with purple ray,
And beams the faint decline of day;
When the bee with waxen thighs
Homeward swiftly, laden hies;
And his task of labour v'er,
Seated at the cottage door,
The peasant quaffs the nutbrown ale,
And hears again the oft-told tale;"
Whilst as the ling'ring hours begnil'd,
The housewife rocks her sleeping child;
Or, the mother's love exprest,
Fondly lulls it on her breast;
When young and old, beneath the tree,
Dance to village minstrelsy;
With cheerful face, and modest mien,
Thou, sweet Poësy, art seen!

When Night, with sable stole around, Invests the world with gloom profound; And Nature hush'd to soft repose, Man seeks oblivion of his woes! When Luna's tranquil, pallid beams, O'er the dark foliage silv'ry gleams; And Heaven with sparkling, brilliant rays, Lifts the rapt soul to sacred praise ! When angels wake their golden lyre, And hymning seraphs to the choir, In varied melody the strain, Their great Creator's love proclaim! Celestial guest! and power divine! Sweet Poësy! the lay is thine! Somersetshire, Aug. 20.

G.H.T.

Upon the late Mr. SHERIDAN. FAREWELL, great Genius, Sheridan

adieu!

[which few

The following beautiful stanzas are indubitably, though far from generally known as such, an extemporaneous production of the late Mr. Sheridan. They are addrsssed to the Ladies Eliza and Mary Birmingham, daughters of the late Earl of Louth. The Element is supposed to speak :

IN Poets, all my marks you'll see,

Since flash and smoke reveal me; Suspect me always near Nat. Lee; E'en Blackmore can't conceal me. In Milton's page I glow by art,

One flame intense and even;

In SHAKSPEARE's blaze! a sudden start
Like lightnings flash'd from Heav'n!
In many more as well as they,

Thro' various forms I shift;

I'm gently lambent while I'm Gay,
But brightest, when I'm Swift.

From smoke, such tidings you may get ;
It can't subsist without me;
Or find me like some fond Coquet,
With fifty Sparks about me.

In other forms I oft am seen,
In breasts of Young and Fair;
And as the Virtues dwell within,
You'll always find me there.

with pure, piercing, brilliant gleams,
Can arm ELIZA's eye;
With modest, soft, ethereal beams,
Sweet MARY'S I supply!

HIS.

COMMITTEE ON AFRICAN FORTS.

The

The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Papers relating to the African Forts, is very brief, and is as follows:-" Your Committee regret, that the late period of the Session at which they were appointed, has precluded them from entering into the detailed examination, without which they feel it impossible to make any report on the subject referred to them, which can be satisfactory to themselves or the House. They, however, cannot conclude without expressing the hope, that the House will, early in the next Session, re-appoint a Committee to inquire more in detail into the subject." Annexed are the minutes of the evidence taken before the Committee, and an Appendix amounting to 214 folio pages. They afford a great mass of interesting information on the state of trade, policy, and natural productions of Africa. principal witness examined before the Committee was Mr. Swanzey. This gentleman states, that an individual may travel between two and three hundred miles into the interior, from the Gold Coast, in perfect safety; and is also clearly of opinion, that, to reach the Niger, the point from which the exploring of the interior of Africa should commence, is the Gold Coast. Merchants from Howsee, a large town on the Niger, beyond where Mr. Park explored, he says, were in the habit of coming down to the Gold Coast with trade; the journey then occupied about three months. "Slaves," he adds, "have been brought down to the Gold Coast by Ashantee Traders from a country called Donco, before the Abolition of the Slave Trade, who must have come at least 1000 miles from the interior, by the time it was said they occupied in their journey." These Ashantee Traders represented their own country as exceeding ly fine, containing large quantities of gold and elephants, cattle of all sorts, common to other tropical climates, and their capital as a place of great extent.

were beautiful when viewed only as speci mens of Fine Art; but, when considered as delineations of real objects, many of them unknown to the persons present, and 40, or more, species new to the philosophical world, you can easily conceive what a treat we had. It was, indeed, a grand and admirable report on the Ichthyology of these parts of North America. - Among them was an herring of Erie, and its continuous floods; and a cod, inhabiting the same place; affording a decisive proof of the correctness of my doctrine-that the great lakes of North America were, originally, filled with salt water, and that they have parted with it, and been replenished with fresh water, in the course of time; while some of the fishes have gradually accommodated themselves to their new element, and remain living wit nesses to the former state of things. The descendants of Oceanic animals, are, at this day, inhabitants of the Upper Lakes, I am well assured, and by a very competent witness, Alex. Macomb, esq. that a finned or marine tortoise has been repeatedly seen, and by himself, among others, at Detroit, M. Rennesque had informed me some weeks ago, that on his excursion to Lakes George and Champlain, and to Saratoga and their neighbouring streams, he had discovered about 20 sorts of fishes. He calculates, that M. Le Sueur has added 40 at least to the list of discoveries: and it was agreed that, in my Memoir published in the New York Philosophical Transactions, I had described 80 which the Europeans had never heard of; so that the scientific world will have a present of 140 kinds of fish to add to their present stock. I have been engaged, during my spare hours, in examining the fossil genealogy around New York. It is curious beyond any expecta tion I had entertained when I undertook the task. I am satisfied that I have before me the remains of 14 animals, raised from the strata under ground, that are no longer inhabitants of this world; their whole races having become extinct. Why it has pleased the Creator thus to destroy the beings which he once formed, I know not! But the actual specimens now before me prove the existence, in former days, around New York, of an amphibious reptile resembling the famous fossil crocodiles of Maestrict-of an elephant peculiar to America-of a rhinoceros different from that of the transatlantic countries-of the great mastoden-of an extinct oyster-of spirulus-of a madrepore, belemite, tere bratula, &c. &c. not now found alive, and known only by their disinterred remains: besides the bones of land animals, relics of

fishes,

fishes, and various other memorable objects of this class. Thus, you see, we are taking independent ground, and doing business in earnest."

Sir Gregor M'Gregor, (see p. 552) a leader of the independents in South America, in return for his exertions to overturn a hateful tyranny, is designated by some London prints " a Scotch adventurer;" but he is in fact the representative of a respectable and antient family, was Captain of our army in Spain, became Colonel in the Spanish service, had a Spanish Order of Knighthood conferred on him, and was allowed by the Prince Regent to assume the title in this country. In Spain he fought to free the country from invaders; but, when he saw its present Monarch reward the friends of liberty with dungeons and death, he gladly joined the party in America, who are endeavouring to emancipate themselves from the oppressions of the mother country. His intimacy with one of the Royal Dukes, distinguished for his liberality and Whiggish principles, is said to add to his influence with his compatriots. He left Scotland with the suitable retinue of a General, to which, as a Highlander, he thought a piper a necessary addition. Whatever turn affairs take in the new world, it must be a proud consideration for Scotland, that Americans fought for liberty under a Scottish Chieftain, and marched to battle to the sound of her native pipe. The gentlemen who has given me the information I now communicate, adds, that Sir Gregor is not only a gentleman by birth, education, and manners, but that he is also a man of considerable literary attainments, and that he took with him on his chivalrous expedition a valuable library."- Edinburgh Journal.

Extract of a Letter from Baroda, dated June 26, 1816.

"A report was brought by a cultivator about eight o'clock yesterday morning, of two large tigers having taken up their abode the preceding night in a garden, within a mile of the West extremity of the town. The Gentlemen of the Residency, after a hasty breakfast, anxiously pre'pared rifles, fusees, and muskets, and attended by 10 sepoys of the Resident's escort, went forth in search of the animals. The place in which they were said to have taken shelter was covered by bushes of the mogree flower plant, extremely thick, and standing about four feet high, with narrow pathways, occasionally intersected by hedges of the prickly milk bush, and low and thick ramifications of the aloe tree.

"The party beat about the jungle (for it had this appearance rather than that of a garden) when by great good fortune it

had a glimpse of one of the animals making off with some rapidity. It was first taken for a large grown calf, a misconception very natural, as the sequel will. show, and as by the report of the morning the party expected to meet with tigers. The appearance of the animal, however, gave a stimulus to the exertions of the gentlemen, who moved forward in the low jungle, surveying every bush, and expecting each instant to hear a tremendous roar, or perhaps to encounter the savage attacks of the animals. Little more search brought the two beasts in full view, when one of them started off, receiving a ball from a gentleman in the side. It went rapidly past two others of the party, and was wounded by a single shot in the flank. These wounds appeared to have produced no decided effect, and a quarter of an hour had elapsed before it was again discovered crouching in a thick plantation of aloe trees. It was here that a few sepoys and one of the gentlemen, advancing within eight paces, brought the beast prostrate on the ground; when, for the first time, considering the indistinct view obtained in the low jungle during the pursuit, it was found that, instead of tigers, the objects of the chase were lions of considerable size! Some danger attended the death of this animal (which was a lioness), as the other party were diametrically opposite to the aloe plantation when the volley was fired into it. The balls whistled over their heads and around them, but happily without bad consequences to any body.

"The success which attended the first hunt redoubled exertion, and, with great management, the party scoured the bushes in search of the lioness's companion. Some time passed, and a great deal of laborious exertion, before the animal was traced by his footsteps to one of the high hedges which intersected the garden. The party approached within eight yards, when, by previous concert, two gentlemen and two sepoys fired, independently, with effect. The animal moved off immediately on the other side of the hedge, and in ten minutes more, he was discovered lying under another hedge, groaning with rage and pain. Some pieces were instantly fired, which exasperating him, he rushed out, and nobly charged his assail. ants, his tail being curled over his back. In his advance he was saluted, with great coolness, with several balls from all the Gentlemen and a few sepoys of the party who had come up; and, though within a few yards of the objects of his attack, he suddenly turned off (it is supposed on aeconnt of being severely wounded), and sprung upon a sepoy detached to the right, with whom he grappled, and afterwards, by the violence of the exertion, fell to the ground beyond him.