Rofe with undaunted zeal, and check'd their pride, See the brave Curtis join the martial strife, Speak in his words, and fparkle in his eye? Such heroes fill'd the Spanish ranks with dread; T. T. A SPANISH SONG. [Tranflated from the Hiftory of the Civil Wars of Grenada, beginning with, "Legrimas que uo pudieron.] F LOW my tears in ceaseless torrents, Never can my bleeding bofom With her beauteous image part. Prudence cries" At once forget her :" But the flies me! tears and anguish Come, Come, and this ill-fated paffion Vanquish, break the potent charm Tears which ev'n rude rocks and mountains Into foftness can fubdue, Firft in rigour, as in beauty, She with cold disdain can view! Fruitless tears, then cease your torrents, J. N. PUDDICOMBE. For the WEEKLY ENTERTAINER. WE EPIGRAM. To CHLO E. HEN first I did your portrait view, But now my fault I see ; And now, on nearer view, must own, 'Tis only like in this alone, EPIGRAM. TASSO. On a Barrister's faying, "Thank Heaven I have not been educated in a School of Honour." N And lawyers oft gave honour for their toast; EPITAPH. IFE is a fleeping dream; and death, S. T. THE WEEKLY ENTERTAINER. For MONDAY, October 6, 1783. F The PICK-POCKET: A FRAGMENT. EELING a hand in my pocket, I feized it.-Man pof feffes a natural inftinct, which impels him voluntarily to defend his perfon and property from attack and plunder. I had no fooner feized the pick-pocket's hand (for a pick-pocket it was), than he fell upon his knees, and implored forgiveness in a voice trembling with terror. He was fcarce twelve years of age.-I should certainly have emancipated him; but, at the inftant I was about to give him freedom, a perfon, who was constable of the night, laid hands upon the petitioning culprit, and informing me he had been a spectator of the whole tranfaction, desired I would accompany him to the round-house, to give the boy in charge. I begged his permiffion firft to enter the house, with which he complied; and my friend being up, he difmiffed the nocturnal fuperintendant of the ftreet, with a promife that I should meet him in the morning at the juftice's office. Fatigued with what I may fairly term the fatigues of my journey, (I mean from the Hay-market to Broad-fireet, not from Wales to London,) I begged the liberty of retiring immediately to bed, which was granted, and a maid-servant attended me up stairs with a candle. The next morning, at ten, according to the direction of the conftable on the preceding night, we attended the house of the worshipful juftice Trick, who, at about twelve, condefcended to make his appearance. VOL. II. 40. 2 R By By this time the room was crouded with culprits, profecutors, ard conftables; and his worship having fwallowed a large bowl of tea, with a heap of toaft, which lay piled ftratum fuper fra tum Juftice has been defcribed as blind, but nothing is more certain than that juflice Trick difpenfes his judgements with his eyes open; and that his worship's eyes are bent, not upon the equity of the cafe, but upon the pocket of both profecutor and offender. "Put the first to the bar," faid juftice Trick, with his mouth half full of toaft, and the butter running down his chin. A young girl was immediately thrust into a kind of dock, to fland examination. "Well, what have you to fay to this girl, mafter farmer " faid juftice Trick. "An't pleafe your worship," anfwered the farmer," he and I had a little natural talk together." "You mean criminal converfation," interrupted juffice Trick. "Yes, an't pleafe your worship, and fo fhe picked my pocka of a watch and five guineas in a purfe." "A watch and five guineas!" exclaimed juftice Trick :— "Oho, has the property been found ?" "Yes, an't please you," answered the farmer." Here it is," faid a conftable. "Let me fee it," faid the juftice, feizing the young farmer's watch and cafh: " bind him over to profecute; Í shall take care of the watch and cafh, that it may be produced upon evidence on trial." "Trial, your worship! I would not expofe myself in court for double the money: befides, I live one hundred and twenty miles off all I want is my property-do you think I'd hang fuch a poor devil as she ?" "That's no bufinefs of mine; I cannot part with the evidence: bind him over to profecute, and commit the girl." So faying, the juftice depoited the farmer's five guineas in his pocket, and put the watch into his defk. A handfome, well-drefied young man, was next put forward, charged with having been found at night with inftruments about him. "We charge this man (faid the conftable) with being abroad at night, contrary to the late act of parliament." "What did you find on him " faid juftice Trick. The conftable produced a faw, feveral other inftruments, and fixteen guineas. 9 "Hand "Hand me thofe things," said juftice Trick: " you must be a very old offender, young man ; you have robbed fome poor perfon of this money," faid the juftice, as he fecured it: "but are you fure (continued he, addreffing himself to the conftable,) that there was no more money ?" "Not a farthing," answered the constable. "I have been robbed of a ten-pound bank note," faid the prifoner. "Silence, you villain," faid juftice Trick; " are not here inftruments for burglary? His face is quite familiar to me.""We all remember to have feen him tried at the Old Bailey," faid the conflables. "Commit him," faid the justice. - At this inftant a refpectable-looking man made his appearance, and demanded to know what crime the young gentleman' flood charged with; and being informed, he with great mildnefs reproved the rafhness of the proceeding; explaining to the magiftrate, that thofe inftruments which had been found on the young gentleman, were for the purpose of amputation and trepanning. A thoufand apologies were immediately made, and the inftruments were returned. "My money!" faid the young gentleman. "Bless me, that's true," exclaimed the juftice: " there, my good Sir, there is your money." "Here are but twelve guineas," obferved the young gentleman," and the conftable gave you fixteen." "Blefs me!" exclaimed the justice again, "I am really fo confufed-there, Sir,"-and he returned the other four. The young gentleman then applied for his ten pound note; but the thief-taker, who had purloined it, was gone, and the juftice and his runners declared folemnly, and no doubt would' have fworn it, they had never seen him before. I fhall not enter into an altercation with you, Sir," faid the young gentleman's friend; " an attorney fhall fettle this bufinefs." So faying, they withdrew, leaving his worship fuffering under the tortures of a mortified proud mind, and quaking with apprehenfion. THE FOLLY OF DESPAIR. [Continued from page 292, and concluded.] ARRY, after having liftened very attentively to the above Hfpeech, started up at the conclufion of iv, and, clasping |