While all my functions act their parts as true,
As those who boast a bright and fairer hue;
My pulfe, to time, as conftantly will beat,
When cold, I fhiver, and I burn with heat,
And when distress'ful tales affail my ears,
My bofom fighs, my eyes o'erflow with tears;
Ah, where's the heart, or where's the eye will fhew,
A figh for me, a tear to footh my woe;
Tho' bleeding here, a spectacle I stand,
Doom'd to the lafh of a ftern tyrant's hand; :
Deny'd in torture even to complain,

Left ev'ry figh fhould cause a double pain."
Thus fpoke, a-while, the fad-defpairing flave,
When, riding high, majestic on the wave,
BRITANNIA'S form appear'd; the Triton's round,
With fhells uplifted, rais'd a chearing found;
O'er AFRICK's barb'rous coaft the maiden trod,
While tyrants crouching trembl'd at her nod...
She fhouted LIBERTY! the rocks reply'd,:
And Heaven's high concave fpread the echo wide,
While Mercy fever'd ev'ry favage band,
And gladnefs fmil'd extatic, thro' the land!-
The news to ALBION, pofted on the wind,
Where the diftrefs'd a timely fuccour find;
Fom town to town, the "AIRY COURIERS" fly
And steal a tear of joy from ev'ry eye!

ANECDOTE

Anecdote of JOHN the SECOND,

THI

DUKE OF BOURBON,

HIS Prince, in the year 1369, inftituted an order of Chivalry. One of the ftatutes of it is curious, and fhews the high opinion he entertained of the influence of the female fex upon the virtue and happiness of mankind. According to this ftatute, the Knights are obliged to pay due respect to all ladies both married and unmarried, and never to fuffer any thing derogatory to their reputation to be faid in their prefence; "for," adds the ftatute, "those who speak ill of women have very little honour, and (to their difgrace be it mentioned,) fay of that fex, which cannot re, venge itself, what they would not dare to fay of a man; for from women, after God, arifes a great part of the honour that there is in the world.

CRUEL Τ Υ.

ALEXANDER

LEXANDER JANNEUS, prince and high-priest of the Jews, being affronted at the feast of tabernacles, a civil war enfued between him and his fubjects. In the course of this war, which continued for fix years, Alexander, having taken a city wherein a great number of them had fhut themfelves up, carried eight hun

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dred of them to Jerufalem, and caufed them all to be crucified in one day. When they were fixed on the crofs, he ordered their wives and children to be brought out, and to have their throats cut before their faces. During this cruel execution, the high-prieft regaled his wives and concubines in a place from which they faw all that paffed; and this fight was to him and them the principal part of the entertainment. Horrid gratifications!

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ANECDOTE.

Certain clergyman in the weft of England being at the point of death, a neighbouring brother, who had fome intereft with his patron, applied to him for the next prefentation; upon which the former, who foon after recovered, upbraided him with a breach of friendship, and faid, "he wanted his death." "No, no, doctor," fays the other," you quite mistake; it was your living I wanted."

FINIS