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Poetry.

FROM LITTLE'S POEMS.

Come, tell me where the maid is found
Whose heart can love without deceit,
And I will range the world around,
To sigh one moment at her feet.
Oh! tell me where's her sainted home,
What air receives her blessed sigh,
A pilgrimage of years I'll roam

To catch one sparkle of her eye!

And if her cheek be rosy bright

While truth within her bosom lies,
I'll gaze upon her morn and night,

Till my heart leave me through my eyes!
Shew me on earth a thing so rare,
I'll own all miracles are true;
To make one maid sincere and fair,
Oh! 'tis the utmost Heav'n can do!

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Unhappy Chremes! neighbour to a Peer,
Kept half his sheep, and fattened half his deer;
Each day his gates thrown down, his fences broke,
And injur'd still the more, the more he spoke ;

At last resolv'd his potent foe to awe,
And guard his right by statue and by law :
A suit in Chancery the wretch begunj

Nine happy terms through Bill and Answer run,
Obtain'd his cause, had costs, and was undone.

SONNET, ON THE RECOVERY OF HEALTH.

Mens Sana, in Corpore Sano.

Hail to the purple tide of health
Whose beating pulses, bounding play,
A fountain far surpassing wealth
That cheers the exile's weary way.
For I have felt fell sickness' throes-

The madding brain-the fevered heart,
And wrestled with life's varied woes,

Though 'scaped from death's all dreaded dart.
Thus, when the suff'rer from his bed,
Surveys the beauties of day,

The simplest note, the feathered shed,
Joys to his soul display.—

These joys for me reveal their glitt'ring wings-
For me the zephyrs blow-for me the songster sings.

ON BEING AWAKENED BY A SERENADE.

Gentle dreams with silent pleasure
Softly o'er the fancy creep;
Briskly beats each pulse to measure,
While I awake from downy sleep.

Hark! 'tis music, 'tis enchantment!
Music warbles o'er the string;

Gently floating undulations

Waft it round on balmy wings.

Every nerve obeys the motion,
Sweetly moves the passing sound :
Lightly borne on midnight silence
Loves and graces dance around.
Far away the music hastens,

Scarce the fading strains I hear,
Every note, like breath of zephyrs,
Gently srikes the listening ear.
Gentle dreams with silent pleasure
Softly o'er the fancy creep ;
Gently beats each pulse to measure,
While I sink again to sleep.

DAYS.

THE KISS.

Grow to my lip, thou sacred kiss,

On which my soul's beloved swore
That there should come a time of bliss,
When she would mock my hopes no more:
And fancy shall thy glow renew,

In sighs at morn, and dreams at night,
And none shall steal thy holy dew
Till thou'rt absolv'd by nature's rite.
Sweet hours that are to make me blest,
Oh! fly, like breezes, to the goal,
And let my love, my more than soul,
Come panting to this fever'd breast:
And while in every glance I drink
The rich o'erflowing of her mind,
Oh! let her all impassion'd sink,
In sweet abandonment resign'd,
Blushing for all our struggles past,
And murmuring, "I am thine at last!"

TIDE TABLE.

BRIGHTON.

DOVER.

LONDON.

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High Water at Dieppe the same time as at Brighton.

BANKRUPTS.

TUESDAY, APRIL, 1.-J. Mundell, Liverpool, draper.-T. Crawford, Liverpool, ship chandler.-J. Jackson, Holborn Hill, wine merchant.-J. Smith, Newbery, Berkshire, baker.-F. Fredricks, Crickhowell, Breconshire, banker.-S. Hodgson, Dover-court, Piccadilly, hotel keeper.-J. Whiddon, Exeter, grocer.-J. Squire, Kendal, watchmaker.-R. Flack, Shepherd-street, Oxford-street, cabinet maker.-J. Hellicar, Andover, Hants, linen draper.-J. and J. Green, Warminster, brewers.

SATURDAY, APRIL, 5.-B. Hill, Bath, fúrniture broker.—J. Kemp Alderson, Norwich, plumber and glazier.-J. Barker, Crane-court, Fleet-street, shoe factor.-W. Haigh, and R. Cout, Leeds, York, dyers.-S. Dickenson, Great Driffield, York, money scrivener.

TUESDAY, APRIL, 8.-T. Huntington, Gilsland, Cumberland, innkeeper.-H. P. Evans, Birmingham, broker.-J. Morris, Whistones, Worcestershire, carpenter.-Q. Levitt, Kingstonupon-Hull, merchant.-T. Smallwood, Drayton-in-Hales, Shropshire, banker.-I. Isaacs, Chatham, slopseller.-W. Crowther, Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital, coachmaker.

SATURDAY, APRIL, 12.-W. Bignell, Gloucester-street, Savagegardens, wine and porter merchant.-W. and D. Gunston, St. John-street, Clerkenwell, cheesemongers.-J. W. Hayward, late of Bread-street, but now in the King's Bench, coal merchant.— W. H. Tucker, late of High Holborn, window glass cutter.-W. Mitchell, Wanstead, Essex, butcher.-Sarah Darbon, Mary-leBone-street, wine cooper.-Mary Amelia Shirreff, Duke-street, St. James's, dress maker.—R. Redford, St. Martin-le-Grand, plumber.-S. Tabberner, City-road, linen draper.

TUESDAY, APRIL, 15.-T. Lloyd, Ross, Herefordshire, grocer.-J. Sowden, jun. Wakefield, Yorkshire, corn factor.-J. Dicken, Burslem, Staffordshire, hatter.-H. Hewitt, Princesstreet, Drury-lane, printer.-R. Pratt, Archer-street, Westminster, iron founder.-R. Pettit, College-hill, packer.-T. Holt, Arnold, Nottinghamshire, dealer.-A. T. Rigby, Liverpool, porter dealer.-J. Purley, Old Kent-road, egg salesman.-J. T. Clement, Broad-street, insurance broker.-T. Maxfield, Salisbury, linen draper.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 19.-T. Hodges, Bristol, grocer.-H. A. Cooper, Stocklinch, Ottersoy, Somerset, dealer.-L. Lewis, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, milliner and dress maker.-D. Nash, Finsbury

place, livery stable keeper.-W. Leonard, Norfolk-place, Newington Butts, tea dealer.-H. and J. Wainwright, Liverpool, timber merchants.-H. Chabaud, late of Plumbtree-street, Bloomsbury-square, jeweller.-P. and J. Hardern, Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk manufacturers.-W. Henty, Pluckley, Kent, smith.-C. H. Bambury, Wood-street, Cheapside, silk and ribbon manufacturer. -J. Binion, Edward-street, Portman-square, ironmonger.-W. Hilder, New Windsor, Berks, saddler.-F. Brown, Warton, Lancaster, dealer.-J. Kirby, Chelsea, Middlesex, linen draper.-C. Spikins, Bethnal-green, Middlesex, bookseller.-H. F. T. Miller, Frome Selwood, Somerset, money scrivener.-J. Dryden, Rathbone-place, Oxford-street, haberdasher.

TUESDAY APRIL 22.-J. Wilde, Adlington, Cheshire, farmer.— J. Fowle, Sandwhich, common brewer.-J. Sprent, Gosport, builder.-H. Denison, Liverpool, money scriviner.-T. H. Carter, Minories, vitctualler.-B. Barge, Clifford-street, Bond-street, wine merchant.-E. Beckett, Crawford-street, St. Mary-le-bone, printer.-J. Antrobus, Liverpool, draper.-J. Titterton, Wilmingtonsquare, Spa Fields, surgeon.-J. Godsel, Winchester, linen draper. J. Hammon, Great Portland-street, Oxford-street, plmber.-J. Fox, Claremont-place, Kent-road, Camberwell, poulterer.-D. Evans, Marchmont-street, draper.-M. J. Joseph, Fox Ordinarycourt, Lombard-street, merchant.-W, Herbert, Goldsmithstreet, Cheapside, riband manufacturer.

SATURDAY, APRIL, 26.-J. Furrence Haswell, Curtain-road, Shoreditch, horse dealer.-W. Hickman and D. Timothy, Leicester-square, hosiers.-G. Grove and H. Wilkinson, Liverpool, ironmongers.-J. Jefries, Dove-cottage, Lissen-green, Paddington, ink manufacturer.-E. Davies, High-street, Southwark, hatter.-J. Jermain, Cumberland-street, New-road, upholsterer.J. Lowe, Warrington, Lancaster, currier.-I. Ablett, Bucklersbury, London, and of Manchester, fustian and velveteen manufacturer.-G. Wright, St. Martin's-lane, boot and shoe factor.W. Skinner, Bradninch, Devon, serge maker.-J. Robertson, Wilton, Wilts, surgeon and apothecary.-T. Kinning, Oxfordstreet, linen draper.-D. Fowler, Copthall-court, broker.

TUESDAY, APRIL, 29.-E. Dodd, Manchester, painter.-W. Lomer, jun. Southampton printer.

MARRIAGES.

At St. Leonard's Lodge, Horsham, Francis Fletcher Vane, Esq. eldest son of Sir Frederick Vane, Bart. of Cumberland, to Diana, third daughter of Charles Beauclerk, Esq.-Mr. Wm. Tuppen, of

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