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the new buildings the name of St. James's. It was much enlarged by Charles the Second, who added several fields to it, planted it with rows of lime trees, laid out the Mall, formed the canal with a decoy, and other ponds for water-fowl.Charles the Second was very fond of this park. He was in the habit of frequently walking there, attended by his dogs. He was also very fond of his ducks, which inhabited a spot called Duck Island. He had also an aviary (or collection of birds) in that part which still bears the name of Bird-cage Walk. In a house looking into the Bird-cage Walk lived the poet Milton.

Prohibited Goods.-The Solicitor to His Majesty's Board of Customs attended before the sitting Magistrates, at the office in Hatton Garden, to bring charges against several persons for having in their possession various silk goods of French, Chinese, and Persian manufacture, contrary to the statute. A hostler at an inn at Hounslow was fined Sl. 7s. 6d. and 15s. costs, for having in his possession three French silk handkerchiefs. His sister, for the like offence, was fined 21. 3s. 6d. with costs. A glover in Regent Circus was fined 77. 10s. for having thirty-five foreign handkerchiefs in his possession. A gentleman of Covent Garden was fined 31. for having in his possession a piece of Bandana silk handkerchiefs. Two of his servants were also fined- a man to the amount of 391. a woman 31. The law inflicts a penalty to the amount of three times the value of the goods seized: but this may be mitigated to half the full penalty. A custom house officer, receiving private information where prohibited goods may be found, is authorized to search any gentleman's house, open his trunks, drawers, &c. and seize whatever he finds of this description. It is to be hoped that this will tend to check the encouragement of smuggling in cases where the right motive does not operate.

A young prince having requested his tutor to instruct him in religion, and teach him to say his prayers, was answered, "That he was yet too young." "That cannot be," said the little boy," for I have been in the burial ground, and measured the graves, and found many of them shorter than myself."-School Miscellany.

A man of the name of Irving was lately found dead, leaning on the table of an ale-house, early in the morning. He had been sitting up drinking the night before; his companions had left the house; he had fallen asleep unobserved. He slept to wake no more in this world.-London Paper.

At the Essex Assizes an action was brought against the owners of the Southend coach for the negligent driving of their servant, whereby one of the plaintiff's shoulders was dis

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located. A witness deposed that he saw the coachman driving at a dangerous rate; and when the coach was descending a hill, the velocity increased, and it became unmanageable, and after proceeding a great many rods on two wheels only, it swayed on one side, and at last fell with a tremendous crash at the bottom of the hill, scattering the passengers in all directions. Several of them were severely hurt, and among others the plaintiff, who had his shoulder dislocated, and re ́ceived other bruises and contusions. For these injuries the action was brought. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages One Hundred and Twenty Pounds.-St. James's Chronicle.

When Dr. Whitgift, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, he sent unto his pupil, (Sir Edward Coke,) when Queen Elizabetl:'s attorney, a fair New Testament, with this message: "He has long enough studied Common Law, now let him study the Law of God."-Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography.

A few days ago, at Wellington, in this county, a little boy, about eight years of age, entered the timber-yard of Mr. W. Moore, between eight and nine o'clock in the evening, to find some place of rest for the night-his mother having turned him out of doors. In the yard was kept a large and very fierce dog, to whose kennel the boy went, and enticed him out with part of a penny roll some one had given him, and while the dog was eating it, the boy crept into his kennel, and lay down, where he was shortly joined by his canine friend, and both slept together till morning. On Mr. Moore entering the yard next morning, he was much alarmed at perceiving the boy's legs stretched out at the kennel door, and supposing him killed, and dragged in by the dog, ran to obtain help from the neighbours; but, to their agreeable surprise, the boy was safe and fast asleep with the dog. The boy was quite a stranger, and came from Dawley.-Shrewsbury Chronicle.

Discovery Ships.

"His Majesty's Ship Hecla, Captain Parry, Davis's Strait, lat. 69 N. long. 54 W.

"Whale-fish Island, June 29.

"We arrived here, as I had anticipated, on Saturday morning, and have been since busily engaged in removing our stores from the transport, which will, in all probability, leave us on Thursday morning, and, as I am going on an excursion to Disco, about twenty miles from this, I must finish my letters to-night. There is resident on this island a Danish governor,

or merchant, and about eighty or ninety Esquimaux, or rather a mixed race of Danes and Esquimaux: they are mostly Christians, and it was quite delightful to find the Holy Scriptures among them, and to see almost every one of these poor creatures enabled to read the blessed word in their own language. The huts of these people are, comparatively, clean and comfortable; they possess a great many of the European comforts of life; and among the things that excited our astonishment was their having, in almost every hut, a musical instrument, called a mandolin, on which all the Esquimaux women play very tolerably."

Hint. Before gentlemen or ladies put on their boots or shoes, it is a good plan to turn them upside down, that they may be perfectly cleared and at full liberty to receive the foot. A pebble stone between the foot and the leather is not agreeable. A bee or a wasp are very unpleasant company; and if a black beetle be in the toe of a boot or a shoe, it is a very inconvenient occupation both for the black beetle and for the wearer of the shoe or boot.

From "The Remains of Robert Bloomfield, Author of the Farmer's Boy," &c.

[Robert Bloomfield, as many of our readers know, belonged to a very humble station in life, but was one of those who had a singular natural talert for poetry. The following lines shew a truly kind and affectionate disposition.]

To his Wife.

I rise, dear Mary, from the soundest rest,
A wandering, way-worn, musing, singing guest.
I claim the privilege of hill and plain;

Mine are the woods, and all that they contain;
The unpolluted gale, which sweeps the glade;
All the cool blessings of the solemn shade;
Health, and the flow of happiness sincere ;
Yet there's one wish-I wish that thou wert here;
Free from the trammels of domestic care,

With me these dear autumnal sweets to share;

To share my heart's ungovernable joy,

And keep the birth-day of our poor lame boy.
Ah! that's a tender string! Yet since I find

That scenes like these can soothe the harass'd mind,
Trust me, 'twould set thy jaded spirits free,

To wander thus through vales and woods with me.

Thou know'st how much I love to steal away
From noise, from uproar, and the blaze of day;
With double transport would my heart rebound
To lead thee where the clustering nuts are found;
No toilsome efforts would our task demand,
For the brown treasure stoops to meet the hand.
Round the tall hazel beds of moss appear,
In green swards nibbled by the forest deer,
Sun, and alternate shade: while o'er our heads
The cawing rook his glossy pinions spreads;
The noisy jay, his wild woods dashing through;
The ring-dove's chorus, and the rustling bough;
The far-resounding gate; the kite's shrill scream;
The distant ploughman's halloo to his team.
This is the chorus to my soul so dear;
It would delight thee too, wert thou but here:
For we might talk of home, and muse o'er days
Of sad distress, and Heaven's mysterious ways;
Our chequered fortunes with a smile retrace,
And build new hopes upon our infant race;
Pour our thanksgivings forth, and weep the while;
Or pray for blessings on our native isle.
But vain the wish!-Mary, thy sighs forbear,
Nor grudge the pleasure which thou canst not share;
Make home delightful, kindly wish for me,

And I'll leave hills and dales and woods for thee.
Whittlebury Forest, Sept. 16, 1804.

R. BLOOMFIELD.

NCTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have received Extracts from Nichols's Literary Ancedotes of the 18th Century.

The Advent Collects in our next.

We return our thanks for the School Boy's Manual.

THE

Cottager's Monthly Visitor.

NOVEMBER, 1824.

REMARKS ON THE NINETEENTH CHAPTER OF GENESIS.

(Continued from Page 340.)

THE 19th Chapter of Genesis gives an account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and of the preservation of Lot.

V. 1.-" Bowed:" not in religious reverence, for he took them for travellers; (Heb. xiii. 2.) but as a customary civility.

V. 8. The light of the body," says our Lord, "is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness." If that which should be our light, which should direct us, see confusedly or irregularly, no hope of safety remains and so, if conscience be misdirected, if that which should be our guide be itself in darkness and misinformed, how great is our darkness. We may mean well, as Lot did in this instance; but that is not enough; we shall not do well, if God's word be not our rule; and that expressly forbids us to "do evil, that good may come." The word of God is that which enlightens the mind; and much commerce with an ungodly world perverts and deadens it. "Be not deceived: evil coramunications corrupt good manners." And thus Lot's sense of what was right seems to have NO. 47.-VOL. IV.

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