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Charles gave himself up; and the old woman made a curt'fey, in anticipation. Caroline enjoyed the dilemma, and prolonged it by an elegant compliment on the graceful modefty which glowed fo vifibly on his

cheek.

"Do you know, my dear fifter," continues Caroline," that Mr. Wildflor fays he faw your picture at Mr. Cofway's, and that he thinks it a moft faithful and elegant likeness.”

Mrs. Sourcrout made him one of the most complaifant of her bows, to which he, his heart filled with the happiness of Caroline's unlooked-for furrender, was utterly unable to attend; and, making his obedience to the old lady, he ejaculated—

"Charming Caroline, I fhall hope to meet you there."---Chronicle.

MR. EDITOR,

E have feveral Tranflations of Horace; but

W none that I have seen appear to do the author

juftice. There is in Horace a grace, a delicacy, a liveliness, a fulness of expreffion, and a harmony of verfification, that at once captivate the ear and the heart. I need not explain to you how far short of these excellencies our tranflators in general have fallen. Having myself ftudied this poet with uncommon attention, I have, with all my might, endeavoured to preferve these qualities in my verfion, of which I fend you the inclofed Ode as a fpecimen. If you judge it to have lefs merit than the partial parent believes, you will still allow it, I hope, to foar above the common flights of modern poetry. It is not heavy as lead, like Mr. ; nor dull as ditch-water, like Ánna Matilda; nor mad as a March-hare, like our present excellent Laureat; nor ftupid- but I should never make an end, if I went on with my comparisons, If this fample takes, I mean to publifh a tranflation of the whole by fubfcription; it will be printed on wire

wove paper, and hot-preffed-not to exceed two vomes quarto. A great number of engravings will be added by the most eminent artists. The obfcenities will be left out of the common copies; but printed separately for the use of the curious and critical readers. The paffages that have an improper political tendency will be carefully omitted; fuch as

Sed magis

Pugnas, et exactos tyrannos

Denfum humeris bibit aure vulgus.

"The clustering mob is more delighted to hear of battles and the expulfion of tyrants.”

Or that addrefs to Fortune

Purpurei metuunt tyranni,

Injuriofo ne pede proruas

Stantem columnam; neu populus frequens
Ad arma ceffantes, ad arma

Concitet, imperiumque frangat.

"Purple tyrants dread thee, O Fortune, left thou fhouldft kick down the standing pillar [of exifting circumstances]; left the thronging populace fhould fummon the loiterers TO ARMS, TO ARMS;-and demolish the empire.'

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But these paffages, thank God! are very few, and fhall be ftudiously fuppreffed. Luckily, Horace is full of loyal effufions, which I fhall endeavour to render with ípirit as well as fidelity. What, for inftance, can be more applicable than the following paffage to the present holy war?--

-Diu

Lateque victrices catervæ,
Confiliis Juvenis repreffa,
Senfere, quid mens rite, quid indoles
Nutrita fauftis fub penetralibus
Poffet-quid Augufti paternus
In pueros animus Nerones.

"The

"The armies, fo long and fo far victorious, were checked by the conduct of a young Prince, and became fenfible what could be done by a mind and a difpofition duly nurtured under an aufpicious roof-what could be achieved by the paternal affection of Auguftus to the young Neroes."

But it is time to release you from this tedious preface, and give you my specimen.-Why, thus it runs,

then:

HORACE, LIB. I. OD. 27, TRANSLATED.
Fye, friends! were glaffes made for fighting,
And not your hearts and heads to lighten ?
Quit, quit, for fhame, the favage fashion,
Nor fall in fuch a bloody paffion.

"Pistols and ball for fix!" what sport!
How diftant from-" Frefh lights and Port !"
Get rid of this ungodly rancour :
And bring your elbows to an anchor.
Why, though your stuff is plaguy heady,
I'll try to hold one bumper fteady,
Let Ned but fay, what wench's eyes
Gave him the wound, of which he dies.
You won't?-then, damme if I drink!
A proper queftion this to blink!
Come, coine; for whomfo'er you feel
Those pains, you always fin genteel.
And were your girl the dirtieft drab-
(You know I never was a blab)
Out with it; whisper foft and low ;-
What is it fhe? the filthy frow!
You've got a roaring fea to tame,
Boy, worthy of a better flame!

What Lapland witch, what cunning man,
Can free you from this haridan ?
St. George himself, who flew the dragon,
Would idly wafte his ftrength this hag on.

HORAT,

HORAT. CARM. I. 27.

Natis in ufum lætitiæ fcyphis

Pugnare Thracum eft; tollite barbarum
Morem, verecundumque Bacchum
Sanguineis prohibete rixis.

Vino et lucernis Medus acinaces
Immane quantum difcrepat: impium
Lenite clamorem, fodales,

Et cubito remanete preffo.

Vultis feveri me quoque fumere
Partem Falerni? Dicat Opuntiæ
Frater Megillæ, quo beatus
Vulnere, qua pereat fagitta.

Ceffat voluntas? Non alia bibam
Mercede: quæ te cunque domat Venus,
Non erubefcendis adurit
Ignibus, ingenuoque femper

Amore peccas. Quicquid habes, age;
Depone tutis auribus. Ah mifer!
Quanta laboras Charybdi,

Digne puer meliore flamma!

Quæ faga, quis te folvere Theffalis
Magus venenis, quis poterit Deus?
Vix illigatum te triformi
Pegafus expediet chimæra.

Chronicle.

QUESTIONS FROM A MAN OF KENT.

BEIN

EING a plain countryman, and mafter of a farm of two hundred acres of land, though I fay it, as good arable as any in the parifh, I have neither time nor opportunity to look into old records of State Trials or books of law, by which many things that are paffing at prefent might be rendered intelligible to me. I fhould therefore be very glad if any of your larned correfpondents would answer a handful or two of queftions that I am going to put to them. N

Was

Was there as much talking on the trial of Algernon Sidney, who was talked to death by the Crown Lawyers, as on the trial of Horne Tooke and Hardy?

As the Attorney and Solicitor General affirmed, that all attempts to reform the Common's House of Parliament were treafon by clear law, what made them talk ten or a dozen hours each to prove it?

Is there fuch a term in the language of the courts as legal botheration?

The Crown Lawyers and the Bench admitting that Mr. Pitt and the Duke of Richmond are criminal, as well as the perfons at prefent under trial, can the Attorney-general, confiftently with his duty, neglect to profecute them?

How happens it, that the meaning of the law of treafon, which was enacted by a Parliament where no lawyer was allowed to fit, fhould be a legal queftion, and not to be understood by any man, who has not a big wig upon his head?

When Judge Fofter faid, that " The prison and the grave of a King are not far diftant," was it a witty laying, or a pofitive truth, fufficient for the conftructing of a new fpecies of treason?

If to confpire to depofe a King, neceffarily implies his death, how comes it that the laft King whom we depofed lived to a good old age in France, and at last died quietly in his bed?

Were the Englifh affociates of King William, who depofed King James, and fettled the fucceffion on the houfe of Hanover, guilty of high treason in fo doing?

If they were, what fort of a title has his Majelty, God biefs him! to the throne?

When Edward the Third's parliament declared that nothing was treafon but levying war against the King, compaffing his death, or adhering to his enemies, did they mean that any thing else was?

How happens it, that the Court Lawyers, one and all, are fure to find treafon, where Juries can fee no fuch thing?

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