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LONDON, Printed by JOHN NICHOLS and SON,
at Cicero's Head, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street;

where LETTERS are particularly requested to be sent, POST-PAID
And sold by J. HARRIS (Successor to Mrs. NEWBERY),'
at the Corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, Ludgate Street. 1809.

ON THE ANNUAL BILL OF MORTALITY.

Vitæ summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam. Hor.
AGAIN we look with fearful eye

On Death's continued page;
Again with falling tears descry
The fall of youth and age.
One ere the blossom can unfold,
The blossom sweet and fair,
Just peeps-perceives the Seasons cold,
And shuns th' inclement air.
Another, like the spreading Oak,
Expands his branches round,
Nor dreads the unexpected stroke
That fells him to the ground.
In virtue firm, a few take root;
(But, ah! how few are they!)
Then drop like fine well-cultur'd fruit,
Delicious in decay.

When Man at first receiv'd his breath,
And from the dust arose,

Saw spread before him Life and Death,
Alas! how ill he chose.
But blame not Adam-still do we
Choose just as Adam chose:
Eternal glory though we see,

We take eternal woes!

We hear the voice of God from high,
And Conscience call within;
We see a bleeding Saviour die,

Yet sink confirm'd in sin!
As the tree falls, so must it lie,
And under foot be trod:
Impure and filthy if we die,

Can we behold our God?
Each year the numbers I recount;

O may they joyful rise!

Drink life from God's eternal fount,

And flourish in the skies.

Northampton, Dec. 31.

INDEX to the PLATES in VOL. LXXIX. PART II.

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Meteorolog. Diaries for June and July 1809 594 Origin of Cards.-Precedence.-Irish Peerages 631

Place of Interment of the late Major Pitcairn 595 LITERARY INTELLIGENCE....... 681, 632

Dress of Ecclesiastics.-Mess: Stuart & Revett? 596 REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS; viz.

Proceedings at Henry VII.'s Chapel defended 597 Halfpenny's Gothic Ornaments, &c. at York 633

Family of the late Sir Charles Corbett, Bart. 500 Rev. Archdeacon Pott's Charge, 1809... 634

Interesting View of Rochester Castle&Bridge601 Nubilia in Search of a Husband, &c. .... 635

Bp.Gleig's Vindication of Scotch Episcopacy602 Sacred Elucidations, by Mrs. Pilkington 637

Pillar of Eliseg.-Castell Dinas Brân....604 Account of Life and Writings of Mr. Bruce ib.

Thief in a Candle.-Voltaire's "Henriade" 605 The Academy. Pleasures of Benevolence. 644

Mine Adventurers?-Black Beules.-Ague 606 The Tarantula-Auctioneer's Companion 645

Various useful Receipts and Remedies... 607 Ld. Erskine's Speech on Cruelty to Animals ib.

Quality of Bath Waters.-Quacks in Trade 60s Dr.Mavor's Catechisms for Children,&c. &c. 648

Original Letter from Pope to Earl of Oxford. 609 Index Indicatorius.-Questions answered. 652

Biographical Memoirs of Mr. Sam. Goadby ib. SELECT POETRY for July 1809... 653-656

--W.Burgh,Esq.LL.D.611 Proceedings in the late Session of Parliament 657

Illustrations of Horace, Book II. Epistle III. 615 Interesting Intell. from the London Gazettes 661

Family of Lyster.-Mr. John Walker....619 Abstractof the principal ForeignOccurrences 666

THE PROJECTOR, No XCVIH..

620 Country News-Domestic Occurrences. . 671

Dr. Mills's Natural History of Surrey?... 63 Theatrical Register.-Circuits of the Judges 674

Biographical Account of Chas. Montague, Esq.ib. Character of the late Bishop PORTEUS... 675

Dr. James Anderson." Boke of Hawkynge"624 Births and Marriages of eminent Perions 675-676

Farther Proceedings at Henry VII's Chapel 625 Obituary with Anecd. of remarkable Perfons 677

Remedy for Lameness.--Cruttenden's Letters 626 Bill of Mortality from June 25 to July 28 686

Greek Inscription.-Greek Proverbial Sayings 627 Average Prices of the Markets for July... 687

ARCHITECT. INNOVATION, No. CXXXVI. 628 Daily Variations in the Prices of the Stocks. 688

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