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the stable, Dobbin, post-horses, sheep-stealing dogs, walks occasioned thereby, the ghost, lambtime, returning spring, conclusion. In this part the fire-side, post-horse, and ghost, are the most impressive. The pictures are drawn with the high enthusiasm of sensibility. The wood-cuts are executed with elegance and accuracy, Such then is the Farmer's Boy characterised throughout by an exquisite variety. Scotland has her Burns, and now England has her Bloomfield. The patronage the latter has experienced does honour to the nation. We trust that the author and his family (for he has a wife and children) will reap substantial benefit from the bounty he has received.

The poem is introduced by an account of the author and his work, written by the ingenious Capel Lofft, which imparts a pleasing idea of his benevolence and humanity. The Proprietors also are entitled to great praise for the readiness which they discovered in bringing forward so deserving a publication. Such individuals not only encourage private merit, but may be pronounced benefactors to mankind. For want of such promptness, the poem called the Grave, and Blair's Sermons had like never to have seen the light-than which no Iwo works have attained to a greater extent of popularity. The Grave was actually offered to Several booksellers by the great Dr. Watts, yet they refused to hazard its publication. Blair's Sermons were on the point of being sent back to Scotland, had not Johnson taken the manuscript home, and then sent the bookseller a note con¬ cerning it, strongly expressive of his approbation. By means of a similar timidity, the Farmer's Boy might have remained in the garret, where it was penned, or have been consigned over to irretrievable obscurity. This circumstance, therefore, respect

that some amicable accommodation might take place. The shedding of human blood ought never to be made but in cases of the most imperious necessity.

We are in a state of suspence respecting the King of Prussia, who has not yet fully explained himself respecting this out dispute with the northern powers-for it now appears to involve Sweden · and Denmark. Should this monarch side with the Russian, our situation must be highly unpleasant. But, unacquainted with the maxims by which this crowned head may be governed, we pretend not to hazard an opinion on the subject. Time will develope the mystery.

With respect to FRANCE,their late attempt on the life of BONAPARTE, their grand consul, has made great noise, and occupied much attention. Four persons have on this account been condemned to death, and one hundred are to be sent to Cayenne, in South America. As to the latter, it must excite indignation, to find that these unfortunate men should be transferred to this inhospitable region without a public trial. This is the extremity of injustice; and we condemn it the more severely, because it occurs in a country where the warmest zeal has been expressed for the preservation of the liberties of mankind.

In GREAT BRITAIN our attention is turned at this moment on the meeting of the Imperial Parliament, containing the members of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Such an event rouses our expectations-which, we trust, will be realised. Empowered to legislate for millions of the human race, may they be actuated by a superior wisdom; and may their measures, at all times, and on all occasions, prove favourable, not only to the prosperity of this country, but to the peace and happiness of the world!

MONTHLY CHRONOLOGIST.

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1801.

JAN. 1. HE new century commenced with the union of Great Britain and Ireland; and here it may not be improper to introduce to our readers, a representation of the Union Flag, which is composed of the three orders of St. George, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick.

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That the union may be productive of the hap piest effects must be the ardent wish of every friend to his country.

His majesty, by his royal proclamation, bearing date the 1st instant, after referring to the Acts of Union of the respective parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland, and mentioning his titles, &c. directs that the same shall be expressed in the Latin tongue by these words:" GEORGIUS TERTIUS, Dei Gratia, Brittanniarum Rex Fidei Defensor:" And in the English tongue by these words: GEORGE the THIRD, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith." And that the arms or ensigns armorial of the said united kingdom shall be quarterly, first and fourth, England; second, Scotland; third, Ireland; and it is our will and pleasure, that there shall be borne therewith, on an escocheon of pretence, the arms of our dominions in Germany, ensigned with the Electoral bonnet. And it is our will and pleasure, that the standard of the said united kingdom shall be the same quartering as are herein-before declared to be the arms or ensigns armorial of the said united kingdom, with the escocheon of pretence thereon, herein-before described: and that the union flag shall be azure, the crosses-saltires of St. Andrew and St. Patrick quartered per saltire counter changed argent and gules; the latter simbriated of the second; surmounted by the cross of St. George of the third, simbriated as the saltire.” The proclamation further directs that all coin current in the united kingdom prior to the 1st inst. shall continue so, together with such other money as may be coined of similar description, until his majesty's pleasure shall be further made known.

The arms on all the royal carriages are altered. The fleur de lis is left out, in lieu of which the Electoral cap is introduced; the shamrock is also introduced in the different orders.

The standard of the united kingdom is thus mar

shalled in four great quarters are-1st, on the dexter side, in a field gules (red) three lions passant guardant, in pale or (yellow) for England.-2d, Azure (blue), a harp or (yellow) stringed argent (white) for Ireland.-On the similar side-3d. Field or (yellow) a lion rampant, within a double tressure, flowered, counter-flowered with fleur de lis, gules (red) for Scotland.-4th. Field gules (red), two lions passant guardant or (yellow) for Brunswick: his majesty's paternal coat.-In base gules (red) an horse current argent (white) for Hanover. The shield gules (red) seine of hearts or (red) surmounted with an Electoral cap, proper. -These are to be the arms in all official seals: in all which the English rose, the Scotch thistle, and the Irish Shamrock are conjoined, springing from

one stem.

2. Lavater, the physiognomist, died at Rome, of the wounds he received from the French soldiers some time since in Switzerland.

3. In the London Gazette of this date. there are no less than eighty-s -seven promotions of admirals. 9. A baker's covered barrow or truck, with 135 loaves of new bread, was stopped by two informers in the Borough, and carried to Union Hall, under authority of the law which forbids the sale of bread within a given period. The baker, by his counsel, contended, that the bread was neither sold nor exposed for sale, and did not come within the purview of the act :-the magistrates, however, after three hours deliberation, fined the baker 55. for cach loaf, and sent the bread to be distributed amongst the prisoners in the County Goal.

15. A general court of India proprietors confirmed a resolution of the court of Directors, granting to the Marquis Wellesley an annuity of 5000l. for 20 years, to commence 1st. Sept. 1798, the

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