SECTION VI. MISCELLANEOUS. AN ANECDOTE. Counseller Jekyl, so celebrated for his ready wit, was some time since engaged in a cause at Exeter, in which the names of the Plaintiff and Defendant were Barnes and Thorne. The cause related to a water, which passed through a bore in a dam. Discovering that his opponent advocate Mr Abraham Moore has the best of the argument, and was likely to terminate the cause in favor of his client, Mr. Jekyl wrote with his pencil the following lines extempore, and threw them across the table to Mr. Moore. Good Abraham, stop your brazen throat, In this same bore of Barnes and Thorne, In Hale's Chronicle, a story is told of Hi and Ho, two Chinese astronomers, who were appointed to watch an eclipse; but getting intoxicated and neglecting their duty, they were condemned to be executed by the Chinese emperor. This gave occasion to the following epitaph. Here rest the bones of Ho and Hi, Being Being hung because they could not spy An Address to the Inhabitants and Visitors of Swansea. Mr. Thomas Lemon, Has had the honor to carry arms in the Cardigan Battalion, and was particularly distinguished in the course of last campaign, when he had the good fortune to be employed on some eminent services, not far from the encampment at Wevel near Gosport, the advanced post of his Majesty's British Dominions. He combines the intrepidity of Alexander with the caution of Fabius; his principles are patriotic; equal to Cæsar as a man, nor inferior to Brutus as the friend of liberty; amorous as Antony, and like him too of irresistible person; incorrupt as Aristides; patient as Socrates; eloquent as Cicero; in manners and address what Chesterfield was, he is; although a stranger to Locke, and unacquainted with Newton; he is familiar with the seven wise masters. This extraordinary young man, at the conclusion of the war, received his discharge from the service of his country, not enriched by plunder, rapine or extortion; poor as Fabricius he retires; and now practises the improvement of those heads without which nothing can within. them. He is avowedly the first hairdresser. shaver and wigmaker of the present age, and humbly solicits that encouragement and support his transcendent abilities and exalted virtues so justly demand! AN In Lydford Church-yard, Devonshire. Here lies in horizontal position George Routleigh, Watch-maker; Whose abilities in that line were an honor Till he had relieved distress. Who did not know Even then he was easily He had the art of disposing his time That his hours glided away Of pleasure and delight. Till an unlucky minute put a period to He departed this life, November 14, 1802. In hopes of being taken in hand And of being thoroughly cleaned and repaired And set a going In the world to come. EPITAPH EPITAPH, In Deptford church-yard. Life's but a cobweb, be we e'er so gay ***************** SECTION VII. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. We are happy to state that the second Anniversary of the Tavistock Auxiliary British and Foreign Bible Society, which took place on the 21st of September last, was very respectably attended. The Reverend J. Hughes, and the Reverend C. F. Steinkopff, Foreign and Domestic Secretaries to the Parent Institution attended; and the business of the day was opened by the Chairman, the Reverend E. A. Bray, Vicar of Tavistock, in a short yet comprehensive speech, in which he deprecated the idea that the views of this Society were any way repugnant to the Church of England, of which he was a zealous member, declaring that if at any time he found reason to think they were, he would immediately withdraw his support from it. Mr. Steinkopff and Mr. Hughes then addressed the meeting in speeches of considerable length, replete with interesting matter, and delivered with an energy and pathos, which shewed they truly felt what they said. The Reverend W. Rooker, then rose and said, that independent of the general and obvious views of the Bible Society, there there were many collateral advantages of which it was productive, namely that it united the hearts and energies of Christians of different denominations. Even the animosity of national warfare was softened by its influence, of which a pleasing instance occurred in a generous donation of 150l. from the Massachusek's Bible Society to the Parent Society, to indemnify it for Bibles to that amount, captured by an American Privateer. Mr. Rooker spoke particularly of the benefit arising from this institution as a means of increasing information, as a kind of MORAL TELEGRAPH, communicating a knowledge of the most important interests of society from one extremity of the globe to the other. He concluded an excellent speech by recommending the strenuous support of an Auxiliary Society to the inhabitants of Tavistock, which being a manufacturing town, and surrounded by mines, naturally abounded with the lower classes of Society, to whom the Bible might become the best of treasures. The Reverend G. I, Freeman. in moving a vote of thanks to the last year's Secretaries, briefly expressed his approbation of the views of the Society as one whose object was the distribution of the Bible, and added, that he should use his influenɔɔ with his Parishioners for its support and encouragement.' Mr. J. H. Gill, in rising to propose a tribute of thanks to the Reverend J. Hughes and the Reverend C. F. Steinkopff for their valuable assistance that day, expressed a strong sense of the honorable and delightful task allotted to him, with the utmost diffidence in his own abilities to discharge it. He enlarged on the meritorious labours of those Gentlemen, whose well known pious exertions in disseminating the Holy Scriptures throughout all lands, transcended any eulogium he could pronounce. He represented the Bible, as the only Book whose saving knowledge constitutes the ornament of youth, the strength of manhood, the joy and hope of declining years; and after apostrophizing our own happy country, as that of all others re served to be the chosen instrument of diffusing the sacred Vo lume, |