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And matter's cumbroushapings. Youth beloved
Of fcience of the mufe beloved, not here,
Not in the maze of metaphyfic lore,
Build thou thy place of refting lightly tread
The dangerous ground, on noble aims intent;
And be this Circe of the ftudious cell
Enjoyed, but ftill fubfervient. Active fcenes
Shall foon with healthful spirit brace thy mind:
And fair exertion, for bright fame fuftained,
For friends, for country, chafe each fpleen-
fed fog

That blots the wide creation

Now heaven conduct thee with a parent's love!

SONG.

THINK no more, my gentle maid!

To withhold the promis'd treature ; Can thy tongue delay perfuade,

While thine eyes perfuade to pleasure? Long, too long, thine arts have ftrove

'Gainst my love to arm my reafon :
Pleading youth in bar of love
Is in Capid's court a treason.
While from day to day I fpy

Some new charm its fweets difclofing,
Thought prefents to fancy's eye

What from day to day I'm lofing. Shall the budded rofe expand

On the air its beauties wafting, Cropt by no defiring hand,

None its early fragrance tafting! Gentle maid! refign thy fears;

Or, if fears thou must be feeling, Dread the filent theft of years,

Youth, and joy, and beauty ftealing. Shield thee, fhield thee, in my arms,

From the fiend all bliss destroying ; Make me guardian of thy charms; I'll fecure them-by enjoying.

LOGOGRIPHE.

INSPIR'D by me Anacreon fung,

And laugh'd intruding cares away, In myrtle bowers the lyre he ftrung, Clofe fhelter'd from the fervid ray.

Behead me, and by magic skill At once appears a wondrous change; No more a flave, where'er I will, Wing'd with new life the groves I range. In attic fhades, my blefs'd retreat, I hail mild Cynthia's rifing beam; Or feek Minerva's rocky feat, And threatning, from her helmet gleam.

But if, fair maid, with timorous hand
You doubt to do the work of death;
If unrefolved you lingering ftand,
Nor take my head to give me breath;
Fear not to amputate my tail,
Spare not the more ignoble part;
This operation cannot fail
To give a proof of fairy art.

I then no more, infpiring fong,
Adorn the Teian's feftal board;
To warlike chiefs I then belong,
Companion of the murderous fword,

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And the fweet Philomela had finish'd her fong; A fage child of forrow repeated his tale,

And figh'd to the ftream as it murmur'd along.

"I have feen the glad profpect which led me aftray,

Change its luftre, and fade like the tints of the morn;

I have feen the meridian fplendor of day,

But night has fucceeded, and found me forlorn.

"I have feen, as I pafs'd, how the rose blushing gay,

To the gale of the morning its bofom difplay'd;

I return'd, but its beauties had faded away, And the pride of the morn e'er the ev'ning was dead.

"I have feen (oh how lovely!) the maid of the dale,

Flufh'd with health and with beauty tri

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VARIETIES,

LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL;

Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign.
Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received.

HE plan for an Inflitution for the application of philofophy to the improvement of the mechanical arts, which was announced in the laft number of our Magazine, is, by the active and patriotic zeal of fome of the most eminent perfons in this country, now advancing, with furprifing rapidity, into full accomplishment. Its author is COUNT RUMFORD; a man who has vifited various parts of the world, and to every one he has vifited, has been a diftinguished benefactor. Nearly three thousand pounds fterling have been already fubfcribed for the purpose of defraying the expences of the establishment. The contributors are to confift of three claffes; subscribers of fifty guineas each; fubfcribers of ten guineas each; fubfcribers of two guineas each. The fubfcribers of fifty guineas are to be managers and hereditary proprietors of the establishment. Subfcribers of ten guineas are to have for life, free accefs to all the ufes of it. Subfcribers of two guineas, are to have fimilar accefs but for the space of a year only. The establishment is to confift of a Repofitory for the prefervation of models of all new inventions in the arts,--of an office of corref pondence for receiving and communicating new information concerning all improvements which the arts receive in every different part of the worldof an inftitution of Lectureships for the application of fcience to the im. provement of the arts. The fubfcribers of fifty guineas each, already amount nearly to the number of fixty. They have had one or two meetings, have elected a Committee of managers; and have agreed to apply to the crown for an incorporating charter. The following are the names of the noblemen and gentlemen who have been chofen as the first managers of this inftitution: EARL SPENCER, COUNT RUMFORD, RICHARD CLARK, Efq. for three years.--The EARL of EGREMONT, the Right Hon. Sir J. BANKS, RICHARD JOSEPH SULLIVAN, Efq. for two years.-The EARL of MORTON, the Right Hon. THO. PELHAM, THO. BERNARD, Efq. for one year.

Dr. BEDDOES announces for publication in two or three weeks, an effay on Pulmonary Confumption for the ufe of families. Dr. GARNETT profeffor of natural MONTHLY MAG. NO. XLIII.

philofophy and chemistry in the academical inftitution founded at Glasgow, in confequence of the will of the late profeffor ANDERSON, has been for fome time laboriously engaged in the compofition of a work upon the Topography, the Antiquities, and the Natural Hiftory of the Highlands of Scotland. It will fill two volumes in quarto; and will be accompanied with maps and other illuftrative engravings. It is now nearly ready for the prefs.

The Rev. Mr. TooKE, formerly Chaplain to the British Embaffy at St. Petersburgh, is now employed in the compofition of a Topographical Work upon the Provinces of the Ruffian Empire, which will fhortly be given to the public.

The publication of the Works of Sir WILLIAM JONES which the public were led to expect in the beginning of the month of March,has been delayed in confequence of the communication to the editor, of genuine materials for an additional volume. It will take place, early in May. The editor is the Dean of St. Afaph's.

There has been lately communicated, to the Royal Society of London, a very curious anatomical paper which accounts, by a theory of great ingenuity and fimplicity, for the origin of whatever is peculiarly and strikingly mafculine in the appearance and manners of any individuals of the female fex, in any species of animals; and, on the contrary for any thing remarkably feminine in the appear

ance and manners of individuals of the male fex.

Dr. GUTHRIE of Peterburg, has recently communicated to his friends in this country, a diverfity of remains, apparently of Egyptian Antiquity, which were found upon the fhores of the Euxine fea

The Doctor, has for fome time, taken pains, at a very confiderable expence, to form a collection of remains of ancient art from the banks of the Euxine. His object is to afcertain, if poffible, fome capital hiftorical facts concerning that Egyptian Colony, which some hints in ancient Grecian hiftory, reprefent, as having formed a fettlement in Colchos. He is exceedingly defirous to be made acquainted with any new facts Gg

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concerning that obfcure portion of ancient hiftory, which may have become known to the learned in this country.

The Rev. Mr. LAPSLIE minifter of Campfie, a Scottish Clergyman, who has greatly diftinguished him elf in the general affembly and other courts of the church of Scotland, by copioufnefs and parade, if not by pointed propriety and true perfuafiveness of eloquence; has been for feveral years employed in the compofition of a Hiftory of the Church of Scotland; which will alfo, neceffarily invoive much of the Civil Hiftory of that country, during the last century; which would have been ere this time, ready for the prefs,had not his houfe been fome time fince fet on fire, by the malice of a militia mob, and his manufcripts reduced by the conflagration, into the ftate of the less precious ones of Herculareum; but which will now, at last be speedily fent forth, to gratify the impatient curiofity of the public.

Dr. JENNER, to whom the world is indebted for the important information relative to the preventive ufes of the cowpox, has in the prefs further obfervations on that difeafe, which will speedily be published.

At Guy's Hofpital the following are prize questions for the prefent year.-What is the origin of the cow-pox-and in what does, it differ from the finall-pox-are its effects on the human conftitution milder than those of the inoculated fmall-pox-and is a patient who has been inoculated for the cow-pox, and experienced its conftitutional effects, equally fecure from the contagion of the small-pox ?

How do the vegetable and mineral poifons act upon the body?-and what are the best means of preventing their delete rious effects?

Mr. ALEXANDER THOMSON, of Scotland, the author of two poems entitled, "The Paradife of Tafte," and " Whist," has in the press, we understand, a poetical work of fome confiderable extent, to be entitled," Pictures of Poetry."

Mr. THOMAS CAMPBELL, of Edin burgh, is alfo printing a poem entitled, "The Pleafures of Hope," in two parts, with engravings, defigned by GRAHAM.

The new edition of Biographical Memoirs of Public Living Characters of 1798-9, has been deferred by the quantity of new and original materials that have been communicated to the Editors.

A letter from Dr. EUSTIS of Bofton which appeared in the first number of

the Medical and Phyfical Journal confirms by new and ftrong cafes, the usefulness of the application of cold water in fevers lately developed by Dr. CURRIE of Liverpool.

The apple-trees in the English orchards having been much injured of late years by an infect appearing like a white efflorefcence, which, being bruifed between the fingers, gives out a blood-red fluid, Mr. FORSYTH has difcovered a remedy for this disease, which confifts of a mixture of human urine and cow-dung, of the confiftence of paint, wherewith the infected trees are to be anointed about the end of March.

A magnificent work is now announced at Paris; "Ei turefque Travels into Syria Phenicia, Paleftine, and Lower Egypt.” The celebrated French painter CASSAS, in the courfe of his travels in the above countries, having executed a great number of designs, has procured the affiftance of feveral eminent literary characters, particularly DuTHEIL, LEGRAND, and LANGLES, to introduce this work to the world in a fhape that will do honour to himself, his affociates, and the nation. This will be the more readily believed, when we learn that the French Government, feconding the efforts of the author, have undertaken to furnish the whole expence required for the fplendid engravings, as well as printing the text.

A fingular coincidence has lately taken place in refpect to an extraordinary publication. Two authors, Mr. WOLKE, a German profeffor of the institute at Deffau, and the learned citizen MEYVIEUX, of Paris, have almoft at the fame time announced the difcovery of an univerfal fymbolical language, which all nations may re dily understand, without the neceffity of translation from the language of the writer to that of the reader. The German calls his fyftem Pafiphrafia, and the Frenchman ftiles his Pafigraphie. Which of thefe ingenious men has the best title to originality may be worth enquiry. The idea is far from being new, but it has never been reduced to practice. Bifhop WILKINS, in 1668, published Efay towards a real Character, and a Philofophical Language." And about the fame time Profeffor BECCHER, the celebrated chemift and physician to the elector of Bavaria, published a book entitled "Character pro notitia linguarum univerfale." And in the year 1772, a noble and learned Hungarian writer, GEORGE KALMAR, wrote an ingenious and elaborate

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treatise; which, from the diftreffing famine which that year pervaded the country, never got properly into circulation. It was called "Præcepta Grammatica atque Specimina lingua Philofophica five univerfalis, ad omne vitæ genus accommodate." This work contains general rules for an universal symbolical language, illuftrated by a great variety of examples, which the inventor has felected from phyfical, mathematical, juridical, medical, chemical, metaphyfical and moral works of different writers; he has alfo added one of the pfalms o: David expreffed by fymbols, to prove how concifely every idea and fentiment may be represented by means of characters, the construction and use of which may be easily retained in memory, and applied to practice.

The Jena Reviewers ftate a requeft that has been made them by a clergyman, to give the review of books of religion not in the vernacular, but the Latin language, in order that the comments and obfervations fometimes neceffary to be made on facred subjects, may not be made too familiar to the vulgar, the rage for investigation into matters of religion, having begun to extend itself through Germany in an alarming degree.

The Imperial Free Economical Society of St. Petersburg, have lately presented one of our most eminent artists and mamufacturers (Mr. BOLTON, of Soho, near Birmingham) with an Imperial diploma, which has been tranfinitted to him by the hands of the Ruffian ambaffador. There has been lately published at Copenhagen, in the only Norwegian Journal printed, a difcourfe delivered to a party of patriotic friends at Chriftiana, by I. N. WILSE, a refpectable and learned clergyman, "On the national inactivity and apathy that prevails in places far from the Capital; chiefly applicable to "Norway; with a view of the progress and impediments to the formation of a national Academy. The fentiments contained in this difcourfe, by a perfon fo much refpected; the patriotiim it inculcates, and the energy of its language, are faid to have produced a very fenfible effect upon the Norwegians, attached as that people are to ancient opinions, and who, of all the nations of Europe, retain most of original character.

By a late ukafe, all private printing offices in Ruffia are fuppreffed, except fuch as are in the largest cities; in five only of thefe, tribunals of cenfure are to be erected, and perfons inclined to print

their works, must send their manuscripts to the distance of two or three thousand miles. All foreign publications which may appear dangerous to the cenfor, are to be burnt on the fpot; and, in order that they may come under the immediate notice of the cenforfhip, they are to be tranflated previously into the Ruffian language. Many numbers of the Univerfal Gazette of Literature of Jena have been already prohibited at Riga, and among other books, the German work of Madame MEREAU: Das Bluthen alter der Empfindung, that is, the age of fentiment, or wherein fentiment flourishes. It was referved for the Ruffian cenfors to inform the rest of Europe that this is a very dangerous work, and which truly would hardly have been deemed fo any where elfe. Thousands of perions who lived by their typographical labours have been reduced to indigence by these new arrange

ments.

Among other works, which have not yet been burned, but have been confifcated, are the following: The Livonians, by M. MERNEL, in German ; the Spec tator of the North, in French; of the works of VOLTAIRE, his Correspondence with the Emprefs; Le Salon, of DIDEROT; and the Univerfal German Library (Allg meine Deutsche Bibliothek) one of the moft ancient, complete and beft literary gazettes in Germany.

The fociety of natural history of Bourdeaux, has been lately created into a fociety of fciences, Belles Lettres and Arts; it is divided like the National Institute, into three claffes; the Mathematical and Phyfical Sciences; the Moral and Political Sciences; and Literature, and the fine Arts.

Citizen HUZARD, in a literary and bibliographical hiftory of a disease in horfes, viz. an involuntary fpermatic running, defigned to be a fequel to a Amilar work publifhed by him in 1787, and wherein he fets afide the only means of cure, hitherto employed among all nations, as aftringents and corroborants, and recommends, what has never yet been fuggefted by any author, the application of a cautery; among other curious literary refearches, advances and proves, that the Spaniards, whofe fcientific works and labours are but little known in Eu

rope, poffefs a well-founded claim to a very diftinguished rank among authors who have treated of the veterinary arts.

LAHARPE, whofe name is fo well known to the learned, by his Course of Literature,

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