TO MARIA, ON A RETROSPECT OF HER SINGING.
For the Bee.

Ax! why Maria should thy magic sounds

Have broke the chain of happiness and rest?
Why, as thou sung, should mis'ry's fest'ring wounds
Have banish'd peace for ever from my breast?

"Twas then, entranc'd in extacy divine,

That Fancy drew thy features still more fair;
And lost in faithlefs transport made thee mine,
Rewarding every pang of anxious care.

Till fate, relentless, woke me from my trance,
For ever snatch'd me from my native place;
And, frowning, wither'd with destructive glance,
Each smile that beam'd in Hope's celestial face.
While ev'ry fairy vision fled away,

And chang'd the summer scene, to darkness and dismay.

ARMINE.

ODE TO THE POPPY.

Oh! that I could steal one from the knowledge of my own miseries!

Mem'ry but renews my woe;
Come then, all thy aid bestow:
To my rudely tortur'd breast,
Grant the visionary rest,

Whose leaden slumbers blefs

With calm forgetfulness,

So may heaven's kindest dews refresh thy soil,
And mildest moon beams o'er thy slumbers smile.

Then on my head thy leaves profusely strew,
And bathe my parch'd lips with thy balmy dew.

IV.

Now, now, thy wild delirium I feel,

And all thy languors on my senses steal :

But ah! I wake again,-the soothing dream is o'er,
And all those pangs return I felt before.
Short is the joy those anodynes supply ;
Morn comes, but brings again my woe,
Though morn, sweet flow'r, thy roscid tear may dry,
Mine will for ever flow.

V.

I find that though thy poison fell,
Throws o'er the sense a torpid spell,
Yet thy enchantment steeped bowl,
Frees not from pain the sick'ning soul ;
He who plies his thirsty lip,
Only a momentary ease can sip ;
Ineffectual is thy balm,

To heal the bleeding wounds of care,

Sorrows beating breast to calm,

Or stop the oft descending tear."

Trifling to me has been thy hop'd relief,

Thou hast but check'd, not sur'd my still corroding grief,

ALTHOUGH the news contained in this letter comes to you from a lower latitude than the north polar circle, still the title given to my former budget, containing some intelligence really arctic, may just do as well as any other, and may therefore stand 'now, and in future, at the head of the article containing our northern news.

Tartarian mulberry.

This first paragraph will serve as an answer to your queries concerning the morus Tartarica, or Tartarian mulberry tree.

Our distinguished and liberal naturalist Dr Pallas, has written with much readinefs and pleasure to the Crimea, for seeds of it, wifhing heartily that this little service, or any other which his very limited leisure permits, may tend to forward your well meant endeavours; but he is afraid that species of mulberry will not meet your expectation with regard to quickness of growth; as in that respect he does not think it has advantages over those you pofsefs already in Britain. However you will obtain in it a very hardy plant, well suited to the climate, and which the silk worm eats most readily: it never grows to a great height, and may be compared to the hawthorn in both that and constitution.

A curious volcanic production.

Much has been written and said in Britain on volcanic productions, since the able researches of Sir William Hamilton into the curious phenomena of the classic mountain Vesuvius, drew the attention of his countrymen to these

interesting and tremenduous objects of philosophic contemplation.

Of all the modifications of matter by subterraneous fire, one of the most curious in my opinion has been lately discovered by a son of professor Laxman, inspector of our Siberian fossils.

The younger Laxman discoverd on the coast of the sea of Ochotz, about twenty verst from the city of that` name, a sort of conic hill, composed of a species of brittle calcined like substance, of a pale ash colour; one side of it is stuck full, like pudding stone, of roundish semitransparent peebles of a whitish colour, and size of nuts; the other side is studded in the same manner with opaque reddish stones, affecting a similar form and magnitude. A more particular account of these will be found in my second table of stones which I mean also to send to you as a supplement to the first (when I can get it copied) and which will complete that branch of mineralogy as far as the confined bounds of such a plan will permit. There you will find some experiments made on this curious matter by professor Lovitz, son of the academician, flayed alive by the barbarian Pugatchef, for being a scholar, and above the degree of a peasant, the rank to which the levellers of that day meant to reduce the whole human species,cruelly mafsacring every man, woman, and child, who fell in their way, supposed to contain a drop of superior blood in their veins, according to their view of the rights of man. So that neither a certain nation, nor a certain stay maker,' have any title to plume themselves on a priority of disco

* Along with many other valuable communications from this ingenious writer, the Editor has been favoured with a full and accurate table of gems, of the first and second orders, which will be presented to his readers as soon as the proper arrangements for printing it can be made; the cotinuation of this table is anxiously looked for every day, which will.complete a very important subject.

very, as Pugatchef, in Rufsia, preceded them a dozen years at least; and if unsuccessful attempts might be wanted, Jack Cade and Wat Tylor in England, preached and practised the same doctrine before their great grandfathers were born. So much for unfounded claims to priority in discovery, so justly reprobated in Britain, and which it certainly is every man's duty to refute when it falls in his way.

It may be necessary to add to the short notice given above, of the lefs destructive vomitings of the physical vofcano on the coast of the sea of Ochotz, properly the subject of this article, that it appears from experiment made on both the containing and contained matter, on the concrete afhes and peebles, that they resemble the frothing stone of Iceland and Hungary, mentioned by Born,(equally suspected of volcanic origins,) in the singular property of frothing in the fire, pofsibly from all three containing a portion of zeolite. ARCTICUS.

SLIGHT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE LIFE OF THE CELEBRATED

MR JOHN HENDERSON OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD. THIS was one of the most extraordinary characters which have appeared upon the stage in modern times; and, like every other extraordinary person, his singularities attracted the notice of all who knew him, and excited the warmest approbation, or the severest censure, according to the circumstances in which the observers were placed with respect to him, and the peculiar sketch of their talents, or bent of dispositions.

This singular person was born at Bellegarance, near Limerick, in Ireland, March 27. 1757, where his parents at that time accidentally happened to be. His father, Mr Richard Henderson, was then a preacher in connection with Mr John Wesley, and his mother is said to have been related to