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London, England, 1819-02-28 00:00:00

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" That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause
all the public deposits iu the Bank of the United State• s
and as several offices of discount and deposit, to be
withdrawn on the first day of Jaly next ; that after
the said day, the bills or notes of the said Corpoia-Lot
shall no longer be receivable in any payment to the
United States; 'and the Attorney-General of the
United States shall oa that day, or as soon thereafter
as may be, cause a mire fasias to be sued do in con-
formity to the provisions of the ' Act to. incorporate
the subscribers to the Bank of the United States,' call.
ing upon the said Corporation to show cause why its
Charter shall, by a legal Act to be delivered ta, and
appruved by the Attorney-General, and to be by
'aim transmitted to Congress at the nezt Se::sion there-
yf, declare its asents to the following propositions, on
or befooe the Buhl Ist day of July next."
The provisions are t..velve in number, and have fa
their object, to place the Bank entirely under the con-
irol of Congress in all its transactions After a slight
discussion, in which there seemed no disposition on the
part of the speal:ers to soften the proceedings, the reso-
lution was ordered to lie on the table.

In the Committee of Congress upon the S:rniuole
war; several Members spoke for and against the censure
propoxl by the Military Corumitte.. The question
v•as then a,ljourned.

Wednesday the first Annual Meeting of the fcridicity
Society was held ut the Loudon Tavern, the Duke of
Northturberland in the Chair. The Report was real.
Since March last, 2676 cases had been referred to the
Society, which had atfbrded food to the applic.ints, and
to 677 children ; .561, impostors were detected, and or.
dere.l to be prosecuted. The Report was ordered to be
printed ; and some alterations to be made in the re-sti-
la, ions.

REVIEW OF LITERATURE.

Meditations of a Neophyte.

PEI; !;t3

These Meditations arc dedicated to a very large
class of Frsonages in the present day ; for they are
dedicated to the PROFESS/NO WORLD of every Chris.
lion demohliaation. Ntie would rather it had lincit to
the preclisiog world of every Christian precept ; bet,
assuredly, if the author's ohjeet was to address hini,er
to a numerous triloe of roaders, he has chosen the 1,,r,,;er,
though it does not follow that it should be ‘• the better
part.'' The me litations themselves are very szrio;s,
ani very well-meaning ; but very dull a».l vc:y b 4
poetry. A: a specimen of it, we quote a ruzage at
rindom, though we acknowledge that we have not
found another worse; perhaps, because we had net
looked for it.
.• A deltr,e of iniquity o'er prowl the land ;
.1. Impiety Ali protlig tay, open vice.
• One [awl of sinner,! Hot a lead, 1,/703.0 blood
Sal on the heads of thoxe who went before ;
.. Woo in unrigh.eoustie.s held the truth,
And made it utliotni to the people's eyes."

It is the state of the nation in the time of Charitz
the second that is. hero descended; but we must take
the liberty of teliing the auLhor, that hail its enemies
been e :hotted with more vigour and eloquence than
these line contains it would have still been in the cla.
dition he here reprobates; rntl we advise him, the LAt
time he addresses the Professing World, to lay and the
restraint of measnred lines, as they may increase the
difficulty of composing his Meditations to himself,
certainly do not enable him to present them to his
readers in t:ie shape of any thing like poetry, t zzepting,
indeed, as each line begins with a capital letter.

"The Co hers of Carrick, a Love Talc, and Clandcstine
Marriage the thirteenth centary.—"

" Capabilities„—it has capabilities," was the fa.
vorite expression of Brown the landscape gardener ;
who sometimes applied it to objects where few capabi-
lities of any thing excellent would have been discerned
by any excepting those who, like him, had improved
a natural lover of the beautiful by an earnest and habi-
tnal search after it. %%len we say, therefore, that
this poem shows capabilities for better things amidst
the inaccuracies, the feeblenesties and the absurdities
with which it alatends, we are perhaps, with Mr.
Brawn, in our mind's eye, complimenting ourselves as
remelt as the author. Tha truth is, where we see a
pae•ical tnaginations, and a rectitude of feeling, we are
very ready to excuse-errors of composition ; and parti-
calarly when they occur, as we suspect is the case in
the work before us in the productions of those who
have defended us duriag the dangers of war, and only
clause the innocent pastime of courting the muses
during the week, "piping time of peace," which de-
prives them of any more profitabM (elevation.
The author of this little poem has dedicated it to
Lady Frances Vane Tempest in a more prolix manner
than fashion, has of late allowed to dedications ; but
the style of his is natural and animated that the length
will rot be decrne l. impertinent, we hope, by the fair
lady herself; who cannot take it amiss that any one,
who has an opportunity of addressing hituself to her,
th )ugh even only on paper, should. endeavour to pro-
long us dis.sourse at much as rosdble. Tile heroine of
V.e tale is very loving, and more candid in confe:sinr.,-
lizrseif to- le so than modTne young ladies generally
are ; in speech, at least; but as she, though tatherles,
and. an heiress, is nut a ward in Chan• cry, she c natives
to marry the men if her choice, without any other
inconvenience than a little temporary exile on the sea
sl,o-e: not so very severe a punisment in a honey-
moon, and fine weather. Wishing that all young ladies
in the like situations may be equally tintun,:e, we fake
our leave of the Bard Caroline; advising him nut to be
idle; fur his voice will improve by singing.

Goltvonin's Recollection of Japan.

Captain Golwonin's Narrative of his " three years
captivity in Japan," was sufficiently interesting to mate
t.:c.ie recollections desirable. They are given in the
timue unaffAted style with his narrative ; and have the
same great m'Jfit, of never attempting to sti!,ply by
conjectur,: wimt he was prevented from his own obrer-
vations, or by information from those OR whose veracity
he could depend.
In addition to Captain Golwonin's remark, tha
tnr has given us a general introduction to them, cum-
prising the accounts of most writers of any note re-
specting the Empire of Japan ; and emiehed them with
notes, which altogether form a compendious body of in•
thrination respecting a country, of whirl', notwith-
standing our termer intimacy with it, little more is at
present known to us than the situation and name ;
which with proper management, might be rendered an
object of much importance to our commerce and mar:-
time warfare. At the end of the work will he titer d
an interesting, though short account of Licutenants
Chwostoff and Dawidoff, whose names are tbinently
mentioned with sonic asperity by Coin.!in :n

le. as

his mutative ; under the idea that is was then impru.
dent and unjustifiable provocation of the Japanese
nation whif.l led to the subsequent capture and impri-
fontnent of him and his crew. The anecdotes here
given, hawever, not only sufficiently exonetate thou
from the charge of hiving acted without authority fr9m
their superior officer ; but likewise places their charac-
ters and actions in so engaging a point of view, that the
frc wet which they tlso contain of the ealy fate of two
suAt young men, who wet with derath, as they
had often dare 4 at, together and at the same moment,
will not be read without mingled feelings of admiration

and regret.

The .1176,:s of England ; or, Triumphs of the late War

This is a book which we presume every lover of iris
country must desire smile pleasure front looking into ;
and even shnuld the reader get nu further than the table
contents, will, if he have a grain of admiration in
Lis rountre tiir patriotism and courage, dwell upon it
with feelings of no common sort—a series of victories,
beginning with that of Lord Howe, off Brest, and
xvil.h the reduction of Algiers by Lord Exmouth, and
the restoring of tranquillity in India by the Marquis
cf ILstings, includes such a number of gallant actions,
performed in so many and such distant parts of the
habitable globe, that the imagination fires at the thought
of the wide field in which British valour has displayed
itself ; and inspires in every one who has the happy
power of saying so, the exultant exclamation, .1 and I
also am a Briton." The purport of this work is to col-
lect into one focus the tributes of eloquence and grail-
tab whi;:h have been excited from the country in the
t!)anks of Parlioment, by the bravery and skill of our
array and n,-vy, which has been deemed deserving this
feeling
acknowleme t of national feelin • and at the
• e.
cal of the account of each action biographical and mili-
tary notices are given, respecting the individuals who
vac concerned in it. We hart, thus the force and
salearii y of the areicnt honorary orations, combined
withe familiarity of anecdote.: and whether as a grati-
fieation of taste, of feeling, or of curiosity, the .2Egis
of England will be found to posse" sufficient claims on
the attention of the English reader.

POETRY.
-4.--
'EPIGRAMS.

(FROM TIlk: FR Egelly),
Von acy, wnsne'er aurotttl you roan..
You meet with none but fools and ISSN ;
Would ynu avoid them, keep at home;
ye—break yourlookitt; gfc•:e:

- •
THE BOOK.
A poriii; wight, w!io, being wed.
Was always reading. in his bed,
Ills wife address'd with gentle look.
And said. " I would I were a look!"
" Why so, good dame ?" the sage replied,
"-Because you'd love me Oen,' she cried.
Why. that might Se," he straight res:om'd,
" But 'twould depend upon the kind—.
• .‘n Alnianak, for instance, dear,
" Ta have a new one every year."

.77- STATE OF THE POLL.

AT TOE CLOSE YESTERDAY 95
937
I I uhholise. 307
Cartwright

A Protestant Bible Snciety has just been formed at
uncier the sanetioa of the Frcn:h Government.
The nirrinis de liocourt, Minister of State and Peer
of France, is u,t the head of it.
- • •

• ora doubts have arisen as to the best situation in
wIlia:11 to place the IMlAer:y cast of the tine Colossal
Status, by Phitlias, sent as a present fr.an Rome to the-
Pri:.cc Regent. Waterloo-place was at first fixed upon
but it hts since been sti;;;;.z.estedi that the centre of the
new Circus, in Piccadilly, will display this admirublo
wo:.-}i of art to die best alvan..age.

An Inquest was held, tart treek, rt •"te Volunteer, in il tkci'-'ort
Portort.i.•Ativre, en tov L •ot• ••t :tnn Col, heck, who ;.0t,,,0•tl
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On Tiestily it,:, about tw o'elork in the enintr. a iire
covered At the seat nil'. T. Wykisin. Esn- s: Artlllli ,wsnt, 11,10r.1-
shire. broke out in the servants' spa, tn.ents, und
great fur/: the wind heir iu the npposite direction to the house, for-
tunattly nreventol this splendid inninion becoming a Joey to the de-
sourin; el !nent. Two or ttree rick:, were at onetime on tire, and the
bow. in t VI:3Z.: writ i. elk; r.

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