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The 114veitiNft; mrd ether Poem. Dy Le B. L.

111 mo. London, left

There May be charms in poetry which none but poets
feel, but it requires no inspiration to appreciate the
beauties which are so thickly strewed in the improvim-
trice and the other poems of which the volume before
us consists. The author, * young Lady, who we are
assured has not yet reached her twentieth year, has
long been favourably known to the public by several
poetical contributions to the Literary Giant ;. in the
Improvisatrice, however, she has far outstripped her
former efforts, and given to the public a poem Of sin-
gular beauty and originality. We have only room for
a short extract, and though perhaps not the most
favourable that might be selected, will speak more for
the accomplished author than we can do by our praise.

SONG.

Wb.e should levees breathe their wove?

When should Ladies bear them?
When the dew Is en the boeghs,

When hone else *re over them ;
When the moon shines cold and pale,
When the birds are sleeping,
When no voice is on the gale,

When the rose is weeping ;
When the stars are bright on high,

Like hopes in young Loves dreiuning,
And glancing round the light clouds ay,
Like soft fears, to shade their beaming.
The fairest smiles are these that live
On the brow by star-light wreathing ;
And the lips their richest incense give

When the sigh is at midnight breathing
Oh ! softest is the cheek's lovaray
When seen by moonlight boors;
Other roses seek the day,
But blushes are idgbbibriters!
Oh! when the moon and stars are bright,

When the dew-drops glisten,
Then their vows should lovers plight—
Then should Ladies listen !

VISITATION of the ARCHBISHOP of DUBLIN.
The appeal case of Mr. Smith to the Archbishop of
Dublin, against the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church
(which has appeared in a former number of this Paper),
was adjourned from that Church, when his Grace was
refused admittance to the Cathedral of St. Patrick,
came on to be heard at ten o'clock on Friday morning.
The Archbishop, with his Chaplains and the Judges
and Registers of both the Ecclesiastical Courts, having
attended Divine Service, the proper officer proceeded
to call over the names of the Dean and other Dignita•
ries of Christ Church, when Drs. Moore and Stock ap-
peared on behalf of the Dean and Chapter, and pre-
sented a legal protest, by which they claimed an ex-
emption from the supposed, or pretended visitation of
his Grace, alleging, that the right lay in the Lord
Chancellor of Ireland, or in persons holding the Great
Seal in Commission. It appeared that they claimed
this right of exemption under an old statute of Henry
VIII. transferring the rights, privileges, and immunities
of the old Priory to the Dean and Chapter of Christ
Church end their successors, which Actwas confirmed
by a subsequent one of James L letters patent having
been granted in both cases ; but the Dean and Chapter
acknowledged the right of the Archbishop to hold a
visitation on the Monday after Dieter week. The pro-
test concluded, by declaring the proceedings under the
supposed visitation null and void. His Grace, after
consulting with his Commissary, Judge Radcliffe, de-
creed, that the decree of contumacy should not then be
considered, that the Dean and Chapter could not ap-
pear before him till purged of their offence ; that if
they wished to appear, they should proceed elsewhere
to absolve themselves, end chew their obedience to his
authority in the usual way.
Doctor Moore then tendered two affidavits, to prove
that the Dean and Chapter had never heard of his
Grace's intention to visit their church. To which Judge
Radcliffe replied that this was a contradiction to their
first line of defence, namely, their protest against his
authority, and that when the case came on to be heard
in the proper place, it would be shewn by their own
officer, that they acknowledged having received the
usual canonical notice, or citation. After some further
conversation respecting the administration of those affi-
davits (which was ultimately over-ruled), his Grace pro-
rogued his visitation to Friday, the 23d inst. on which
day he declared, whether the Chapter previously purged
themselves, or still remained under censure, he would
proceed to the ultimate decision of Mr. Smith's case.--
The names were again read over, and the sentence of
contumacy a second time pronounced.

On disbanding the army at the conclusion of the
American war, the Government being unable to pay the
soldiers in'money, gave to each what was called a cer-
tificate Of his debt, payable at some future time. These
certificates became off such reduced value, as to have
been disposed of at the rate of half a crown in the pound.
At this depreciation great numbers were purchased by
one individual, who ad been previously Paymaster of
the Army. In time, the Government resolved to cancel
those certificates, by grants of land, of which the indi-
vidual alluded to, is said to have received not less than
a million of acres. This immense territory, together
with his other property, descended to his two daughters;
the name of one of whom has lately acquired an unfor-
tunate notoriety. _ _ _

A Hoes.—A very hospitable and rich English mer-
chant at St. Petersburgh, who was much in the habit
of receiving Gentlemen who visited that city, had at
his table one day an English traveller, who had been
that morning to see the collection of wild beasts. On
expressing his surprise that a large elephant that he saw
there should be able to endure the severe frost of so cold
a climate, the merchant gravely told him that her Im-
pel ial Majesty had often said she would never again re-
ceive elephants as presents, as they were the most ex-
pensive appendages of her establishment. Each ele-
phant, said he, eats a good, or about forty pounds weight,
of nutmegs every day to warm its systems The traveller
stared, calculated the expense to a fraction, and care-
fully committed the information he had received to his
common-place book. .
A fine boy, six years of age, was killed on Tuesday
evening, facing the Bad Lion, Pearl-row, 13Iackfriars-
road, being run me: by a horse that bob loose.

LONDON SESSIONS, JULY 15.;
--aii.

CitltlST CHURCH 0. sr. Ate.

This was an appeal on the pert of Christ Church, I
Nevrgate-street, against an order obesihtdd by the pettish
of St. Augustine, for the removal of a pauper, fiesta
John Surrufge, and affords a curiae: specimen of tbi
manner by which it is contrived to swell the article
" law expeases" to the excessive arnottnt that it gest&
rally appears in the accounts of alrinsit every paddy;
The expenses of this appeal, even before it cattle to etek
final hearing, Mr. Law on the last adjourned day ob-
served, would have purchistd a itifileienr anbuity to
have maintained the pauper for the rest of his life.
From the history of the case as it tame out in eei-
dence, it appeared that the pauper, who is now kid,
thirty-seven years of age, was the illegitimate child of
Mary Ann Surridge, a servant girl, by one John Mere.
dish, who at that time was a waiter at the New Lends*
Tavern, Cheapside. The settleinent of the mother being
clearly in Christ Church, the Overseers of that parish,
knowing her to be pregnant, took her before the Lord
Mayor for examination, on the 10th of July, 1787, and
upon her oath, obtained a warrant to apprehend Mere-
dith, the reputed father, when Mr. Lewis, his master,
settled the business with the parish officers, by advanc-
ing for his waiter 10/. which they received as an indem-
nification. The womagdpas delivered in the October
following, and on the Seer January, 1788, the child
was baptized at Christ Church, the entry in the bOok
noting him to be a pauper and a bastard, with the let.
ters C.C. annexed, to signiff that he belonged to
Christ Church, and not to St. Leonard's, Foster-lane,
Christ Church and St. Leonard being united parishei.
It was in evidence, that Christ Church relieved the mo-
ther, both before and at the time of her delivery; and
nn the 26th of November following, that is, as soon M
the child could safely be removed from the mother,
took him into their workhouse; at the proper age, got
him into the ward school, and had continued to relieve
him almost constantly during a period of nearly forty
years, down to the present time; and so, it should seem,
would have continued to relieve him, but that some
very inquisitive clever fellow happened to light upon
the following entry in the Churchwardens' accounts :
" 1787, Oct. 26.—Mary Surridge brought to bed of a
male child in the Old 'Change." Unless fraudulent
collusion be proved, the place of birth of a bastard is
his place of settlement. Old 'Change is in the parish of
St. Augustine. The mother of the pauper died some
time since, but an old woman nearly 70, named Sarah
Cook, was found, who recollected something about
Surridge coming to lie-in at Nicholls's, in the Old
'Change; and upon these grounds, notwithstanding all
their acts of ownership, as Mr. Law termed them, for
nearly forty years, refused to relieve the pauper any
longer. St. Augustine then relieved him, and passed
him, by the order of removal, against which Christi
Church now appealed. The only addition to the eti-
dence of Mrs. Cook, who was not present at the birrk
was the production Of an examination taken at the MSO.I
sion-house on the 20th of November, 1787, at the lao
stance of the officers of St. Augustine, for the purpose
of removing the mother and her son, then about five.'
weeks old, to Christ Church. From this it was wished
to be inferred that the child Must have been born in St.
Augustine's parish.
The RECORDER said, there were cases in which the'
birth-place of a bastard might not in law be the place
of settlement, and in his judgment the eviderce brought
forward on the part of St. Augustine's parish far out-
weighed that adduced in support of the appeal, and the
COUrt confintied the order of removal to Christ Church,
Ltimissing the appeal, and, which is very unusual in
of this sort, with chits.

IDDLESEM szaszota,

JULY is.

fax Lovacut

am. IP INF ...0.1.1•• •
The property of the dock had been rated at the value
of 10,0001. but the parish determined to raise that rate
to 15,0001. Against this the Company appealed.
The CHAIRMAN, after commenting at great length
On the evidente adduced oh both sides, allowed the ap-
tieal, and ordered that the appellants in future be rated
at 10,0001.

We understand the duty paid last month on the resi-
duum of the personal estate of the late Sir Prea.s Morrro, was cal-
culated upou 5C282,000 sterling.

A messenger proceeding with a dispatch from Dysart
to the Sheriff-Substitute at Cupar-Fife, on the night of
the 2d inst. was attacked on the high road, near the
New Inn, about ten o'clock, by two men, who made up
to him, pretending to be glad of his company, as, ac-
dording to their expression, " the road was loose."—
' They had not, however, proceeded far on their road,
when the strangers (according to the report of the mes-
senger) violently attacked their new friend, knocked
him down, robbed him of Is. 6d. and of every article
of wearing apparel, except his shirt, trQwsers, vest, and
shoes. In this state he trudged on to Cupar, a distance
of nine miles, where he made his case known to Mr.
STARK, Procurator-Fiscal for the County; who, with
the most praiseworthy alacrity, took immediate and
proper steps for securing the perpetrators of such a
daring outrage. The robbers were traced to Dundee,
where they were apprehended, and conveyed in safety
to Cupar jail. One of the men calls himself Abraham
Meharg, from Belfast, county of Down; and the other
says his name is George M'Guire, and that he belongs
to Dromore, in the county of Dublin. Both of the
culprits profess being hawkers, and Meharg had a li-
cense, but M'Guire had neither license nor goods.
Tuesday, an Inquest was held at the Sun, ill Deve.
rent-court, near Temple-bar, on the body of John Seim-
ner, supposed to be a foreigner. It appeared that the
deceased arrived at the beforementioned house on Mon-
day last, and said he came from Dartford ; he was ac-
commodated with lodgings, and appeared to be a
person who had formerly filled some respectable situa-
tion in life. On leaving the 'house on Tuesday morn-
ing, he staggered against the door, and fell to the
ground, when it was discovered that he was dead, and
had burst a blood vessel. Several persons tame to see
the body in the course of the day ; one woman posi-
tively said his name was Seinner, and that he was a fo-
reigner ; another said that she had been informed by
the deceased that he came from Constantinople, and
that he had offered a number of pawnbrokers tickets
for sale for 11. another he had informed that he came
from Calais, and that he passed through Dartford, where
he changed a 201. note, but on searching his pocket 3s.
was all the money found. He was a tall man, with
large black whiskers, and, from some papers found in
his pocket, he appears to have been a trumpet-major in
his Majesty's 3d Regiment of Hussars, King's German
Legion, and that he was present at the battle of Water-
loo.—The Jury, however, upon the evidence, returned
a verdict 4! That he died by the visitatioo of loo.",

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