Agricultural Experiments, 20 Complaint of the Dying Year, 360 Advantages of the Sexes Associa- Charlotte Charke, 430 Adventures of a Beggar, 339 Difference of Temper in the Dissection of a Beau's Head, 498 Anecdote, from a French Work, 401, 465 Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, 23 Biblical Curiosities, 30 Effort of Human Art, 26 260, 324, 389, 454, 510 Epitaphs, 136, 173, 243 Benefit of Presence of Mind, 175 Extraordinary Circumstance, 300 Foreigners' Character of the Eng- Brighton Picture Gallery, 201 lish, 17 Fleurette, 103 148 Foreign Executioner, 211, 277 February, 295 Friendly Barter in Horseflesh, Fate of Genius, 375 Chinese Justice and Mercy, 141 Festival of the Rose, 473 Character of the principal Na Groaning and Crying, 227 Conviviality, 233 History of Sugar, 144 Inhuman Atrocity, 111 Prayers, 357 Shepherds, 420 Questions, 376 Remarkable Discovery in Gal- licia, 224 and a Tiger, 292 Sandy Deserts of Africa, 64, Self Interest, 81 --- of Birds, 146 .. Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 193, 250, 309, 377, 446, 501 Singular Circumstance, 237 40, 79, 118, 159, 199, 262, Subterraneous Festivities, 304 Selico, a Tale, 345 Serpent Charming, 355 ;;::. Story-telling, 467: Singular Circumstance, 477 Simonides' Satire on Women, 491 Severity of Venetian Laws, 494 Town and County, 10, 51, 86, 126 Tendaramas, 66 Tide Table, 79, 119, 159, 200, 259, 323, 392, 456, 509, mical Transmutation of Dead Human Bodies, 145 The Gamester, 293 The Boa Constrictor, 352 The Spectre of Pont Pathu, 366 The Almanack of Life, 426 The French Soldier, 432 The Oak, 196 Extempore, ib. On the Birth of a Child, ib. The Drinking Song, 256 Lines written under a Lady's name, 258 The Invitation, ih. Epigram, 259 The Primrose, 319 Epigram, 320 Battle Song of a German Sol- dier's Mistress, 321 Fragment, ib 'Tis Fancy governs all, 322 Lines written in Richmond Church-yard, 385 The Rubber, ib. Remember Thee, 450 Sonnet, 450, 451 Riddle, 452 A Highland Coronach, 453 Solution to a Riddle, ib. Lines from Little's Poems, 507 Law-suits, ib. Health, 508 On being awakened by a Sere- nade, ib. The Kiss, 509 THE BRIGHTON GLEANER. “ Honour and worth from no conditions rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.” For some time past, there has appeared to exist a regretted difference in opinion and action, between the Magistracy, who hold their sittings, twice a-week, in this town, and the legally constituted and numerous body of Local Commissioners. This difference, in an abstracted point of view, has puzzled many to account for, and may puzzle many more, who merely content themselves with looking at the surface of things. To render the matter, therefore, more easy of comprehension, a slight retrospect is necessary. The fashionable celebrity of our town, every one knows, is but of recent origin-less than sixty years ago, it was little better than a mere village, and its revenue chiefly depended upon its fishery. The salubrity of its situation -proximity to the metropolis, and other causes, at length, brought it into fostering notice, and the resuscitating rays of royalty completed what fashion, in pursuit of health, had begun. The government of the place, of course, was with the democracy ; but loyalty, vivid and active in its principle, was never absent from its councils. As the place rose in importance, and increased its population, an Act of Parliament was obtained for its government, with executive vested in the body called Commissioners. This Act, as the town enlarged, after a lapse of years, was con VOL. II. |