'Twill answer-No! ye self-deluded, no!

There ye will find that not by outward looks,

By a "sad countenance," nor by " much speaking *”
GOD is well pleased. He looks into the heart!

While prayers for show made long †, "vain repetitions+"
And trumpet-sounded alms § want value with Him,
He looks benignant on the humble Widow

That casteth in her mite; and th' listening Angel

Bears up with favour to his Mercy-seat

The prayer of the good lowly Publican,

"O, GOD! be merciful to me a sinner ¶!"

* MATTHEW, VI. 7.
† LUKE, XX. 47.

MATTHEW, VI. 7.

§ MATTHEW, VI. 2.
|| MARK, XII. 42.

LUKE, XVIII. 13.

TO

AFTER HAVING GIVEN HER A LOCK OF MY FATHER'S

HAIR.

, my love! at Ackland's hand receive

A pious relick from affection's store; And trifling tho' it seem, dear girl, believe

He could not give thee aught he values more.

With precious tears my off'ring thou bedew'st,
And serious thoughts thy gentle breast engross :
Alive, his virtues and his worth thou knew'st,

And now canst join with me to mourn his loss.

"Alas!" thou criest, "my Ackland, see 'tis grey!"

-Care, more than Time, the envious deed had done: Good man! he should have liv'd a longer day,

A little longer liv'd to bless his son.

Thou sigh'st; and how that sigh thy love endears!
But He is gone, is happy, and at ease!

Then cheer thee, love; let Ackland dry thy tears;

Pious the kiss which dries such drops as these.

And when my little gift shall meet thine eye,

Do not the thought connected with it shun; But, for the parent while thou heav'st a sigh,

Give a kind thought, my *******, to the son..

A WARNING.

If we are to be relieved from any evils, under which we may at present labour, by means of this new light, I for one beg leave to enter my solemn protest against the idea. The doctrines upon which it is founded are, as I have already said, false, shallow, and presumptuous; more absurd than the most pestilent theories that were ever engendered by the disordered imagination of man: more hostile to the real interests of mankind, to national prosperity, to individual happiness, to intellectual and moral improvement, than any tyranny by which the human species was ever afflicted. And, for this new luminary, shall we abandon the polar star of the British Constitution, by which we have been led to happiness and glory; by which the Country has supported every danger which it has been called upon to encounter, and risen superior to every difficulty by which it has been assailed? PITT's Speech, on Mr. GREY's Motion for a Reform in Parliament. May, 1797.

WHEN, train'd in wiles, Sedition's desp'rate band
First aim'd destruction at fair GALLIA's Land;
Leagued 'gainst Religion, Government, and Laws,
What was the specious watchword of the cause?

What their pretext who rais'd the fearful storm?
Oh hear it, mark it Britons,-'twas Reform!

Hence war and rapine rag'd with fearless sway,
And daring murder brav'd the face of day;
Hence, borne away by Revolution's tide,

Full many a loyal gallant Frenchman died;

FRANCE, which renown'd among the nations stood, Became one wide-spread theatre of blood;

And her proud eagle droop'd, and flagg'd his wing, As Treason's bloodhounds glutted on their King! In sway successive hence each low-born knave Slaughter'd that Country he profess'd to save; Hence devastation stalk'd throughout her plains, Hence now she groans beneath a Tyrant's chains.

ENGLAND! My Country! is the Warning vain? Despisest thou th' admonitory strain ?