enjoy, that they fhall enter into another state of life, far more glorious. Not that John, in Rev. xx. 4. fuppofed, that they who have a part in that life with Chrift, fhould at the end of it die: no; Christ says, " he can die no more." The poffibility of paffing from one life to another, without going through death, appears from the ftory of Enoch, Elijah, &c. When I afk thofe preachers where endless life is expreffed by the word anor, not one paffage do they refer me to. They fay in the pulpit, it is ufed to exprefs endless happiness; but when I ask them where? not one text do they pretend to find me. The reafon is plain; i. e. there is no text to support their affertions. It is eafy to affert things in the pulpit, but not so eafy out of the pulpit to defend those affertions. The argument then is, If the word av conveys the idea of endless duration, then is this present ftate endlfs. But this prefent ftate is not endless: ergo, the word av conveys not the idea of endless duration. ABRAHAM BENNETT. LUXURY. T HE following inftance of Luxury in eating furpaffes even the extravagance of the Romans-- In the 10th year of the reign of Edward IV. (1470) George Nevill, brother to the Earl of Warwick, at his initalment into the archepifcopal fee of York, entertained most of the nobility and principal clergy; when his bill of fare was 300 quarters of wheat, 350 tuns of ale, 104 tuns of wine, a pipe of fpiced wine, 80 fat oxen, 6 wild bulls, 1004 wethers, 300 hogs, 300 calves, 3000 geefe, 300 capons, 300 pigs, 100 peacocks, 200 cranes, 200 kids, 2000 chickens, 4000 pigeons, 4000 rabbits, 204 bitterns, 4000 ducks, 200 pheasants, 500 partridges, 1000 woodcocks, 400 plovers, 100 curlews, 100 quails, 1000 egrets, 200 rees, 400 bucks, does, and roebucks, 1506 hot venifon pafties, 4000 cold ditto, 1000 difhes of jelly, parted, 4000 difhes of jelly, plain, 4000 cold cuftards, 2000 hot cuftards, 300 pikes, 300 breams, 8 feals, 4 porpoifes, and 400 tarts. At this feaft the Earl of Warwick was fteward, the Earl of Bedford treafurer, and Lord Haitings comptroller, with many more noble officers; 100 fervitors, 62 cooks, and 515 menial operators in the kitchen. All this extravagance was on the account of the introduction of one to an high office in the Chriftian church! I remember having read of him who held the highest office in the Christian church, that he had not where to reft his head! But fuch was the fortune of the man, that, after his extreme prodigality, he died in the most abject but unpitied poverty.--Vinctus jacuit in fumma inopia. E PANEGYRIC ON WOMAN. NCHANTING woman! thou balm of life! foother of forrow! folace of the foul! how dost thou leffen the load of human mifery, and lead the wretched into the valley of delight! Without thee how heavily would man drag through. a dreary world! But if the white hand of a fascinating female be twined round his arm, how joyous, how lightly, doth he trip along the path! That warm and tender friend, who in the most trying fituations retains her enthufiaftic fondness, and in every change of fortune preserves unabated love, ought to be embraced as the firft benizon of heaven---the completion of earthly happiness. Let a man draw fuch a prize in the lottery of life, and glide down the stream of exiftence with fuch a partner, neither the cold averted eye of a summer friend, nor the frowns of an adverse fortune, should produce a pang or excite a murmur. CLIO SAY MATHEMATICAL QUESTIONS. Question I. NAYS 'Squire Poor to Lord Rich, "The cube of my acres added to twice yours, would make 10,000.”- "Yes, (fays, Lord Rich) yet mine added to three times yours would be only 1060." How many acres had each? Question II. If two Cannons, directly oppofite to each other, of the fame fize and dimenfions, loaded with the fame quantity of powder and weight of ball, difcharged at the fame inftant, the balls meet each other half way,-what would be the consequence;-would they rife, or fall inftantly down?—and why? Amateur des Mathematiques. POETRY. SPRING. Prima novi fpargebat lumine terras, COME, gentle Spring, thy dewy nectar yield Whilft Sol defcends, each beauty to unfold, The fhepherd boy, from 'neath the wattled rock, As glimm ring Phosphor spreads his circlet pale. Near to the fide of yonder purling ftream, The myrtle grove, along the fhady trees, Virg J. BOWSTEAD TRUST IN GOD. "Confider the Ravens." Luke xii. 24. HRIST Jefus, our Lord, our teacher and king, Whatever diftrefs or want may betide, They They fow not, nor reap, nor gather in store, Your want may be great, and friends may be few, Look up to his throne, nor ever despair, Confider the Ravens, and doubt him no more. O doubt not his care, his truth, nor his love, Still, Lord, while from home a pilgrim I ftay, TO A YOUNG LADY, On her attaining her Twenty-firft AWAKE, my mufe, in joyful ftrains, Salute the rifing fun; Her age of twenty-one. The fair by her own fex admir'd, Her favour would obtain. Whate'er they with to find, Not only beauty in the face, But beauty in the mind. How bleft the fwain that fhall obtain A prudent loving wife. When they are fafe in Hymen's band, May they go fafely hand in hand, J. M. Sweetly may they together move May he the tender husband prove, And the the faithful wife. The Lord has early form'd her mind Has giv'n her grace to feek and find Oh may the now an altar raise Unto her God and king, Who graciously hath been her guide From ev'ry hurtful fuare, Thus may the fair, when life shall And find eternal life and peace, J. H. PRINCE. MONTHLY MONTHLY OCCURRENCES. April 29. BY letters from Petersburg, dated the 3d init, we learn, that, on the 21ft ult. his majesty the Emperor of Ruflia, figned the following ed & which was published a few days after: "Whereas we have remarked, for fome time pit, in the government of Hamburg, a difooition for the principles of anarchy, and an attachment to the forms of the French government, which are deftructive of all legitimate power, we order, that an embargo fhall be laid upon all the Hamburg veffels in our ports, and which belong to Hamburg fubjects: and we allo order, that a return ihall be made to us of the number of the faid veffels which are in each of our ports." 30. The laft mail relates feveral battles which have taken place between the French and Auftrians, moft of which have terminated in favour of the latter. But the moit fevere action which had taken place, happened on the 4th inft. when the Auftrians in the Tyrol, under the command of Gen. Bellegard, defeated the French with the lofs of feveral thousand men. we stated in our last number---He has taken Gaza, after defeating a Turkish army of 30,000 inen; he bas obtained poleflion of Jerufalem; and the Paris Journals add, that he has taken Acre. It is uppofed, that all Syria will fall into his hands. The neighbourhood of Damafcus is one of the finest cou tries in the world; and if he can eftablish the people of Mount Lebanon as an independant ftate, they will form a ftrong barrier againft the armies of the Porte. But private letters fay, the Divan tremble even in Conftantinople---the confternation and terror there exceed all belief; it is their fear, that Buonaparte will revolutionize all their Afiatic poffeffions, and attack the very feat of empire. 10. The letters from Ireland reprefent that country as continuing in a very difturbed itate. Several counties, but particularly Down and Antrim, are in a more compleat state of organization than ever they were. And the extraordinary and unremit. ting preparation making in the military departments, befpeak the molt ferious apprehenfions on the part of government. May 1. An article froin Frankfort, of the 15th of April, ftares, that the lalt accounts from Berlin bring intelligence that the King of Pruffia was allembling an army of 80,000 men, in S lefia, defined to cover the fron-riíh of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, to tier of his ftates on the fide of Ruflia. 3. The Breft fleet, confifting of 25 fail of the line and feveral frigates, having it is fuppofed, feveral thou fand and forces on board, has failed. The fleet is under the command of Citizen Bruix, the Minilter of the marine. 11. On Thurfday an action was brought in the King's Bench against the Rev. Mr. B ake, vicar of the pa recover eleven penalties of 10l. each, for non-relidence, he not even having a houfe in the parish, and a curate doing all the duty--Mr. Blake lives in Devonthire. Lord Kenyon delivered fome excellent and just obfervations on the impropriety of clergyThe French papers do not men not refiding among their parifhattempt to form any conjectures re-ioners, and tie jury gave a verdict for fpecting its deftination. the plaintiff. 7. Under all the difficulties with which Gen. Buonaparte has had to cocounter, difficulties that were reafonably expected to have annihilated him and his army, he has gained fucceffes only to have been looked for from troops in full health and well fupplied. Authentic advices confirm what 15. It is fuppofed that the Dutch are attempting to put their fleet to fea. A letter from an officer on board the British Fleet, cruizing off the Texel, dated the 8th inft. fays, That on the morning of that day the Director, of 64 Guns, hari Itood in to reconnoitre the Dutch force, and found ten |