Some respectable persons contended that this linen fhould be placed on the noses of dying persons, and others that it fhould not.

Djamasp very judiciously determined, that it was not absolutely essential to the salvation of a dying man, that the Penom fhould be applied to his nose;" as such applications were not customary at Kirman.

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A violent ferment arose, and the unfortunate Djamasp was forced to return to Kirman, from whence he had been sent, leaving behind him several disciples and books for the instruction of the people.

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Mr Anquetil de Perron took advantage of these broils, to obtain copies of good books given him by persons of both contending parties, with a view to his conversion.

While these interesting disputes were carrying on in the year 1758, the amiable East India Company of England were laying siege to the city of Surat.

Such is the end of all foolish disputes, where morality and humanity are out of the question. A. B.

READING MEMORANDUMS.

For the Bee.

WHAT kind of reading must that be which can at-
tract or entertain the languid morning spirit of mo-
dern effeminacy? Any, indeed, that can but prevent
the insupportable toil of thinking; that may serve
as a preparatory whet of indolence to the approaching
pleasures of the day. Thus it comes to pafs that

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trifling essays upon nothing, amatory plays, and corrupting novels, satirical political pamphlets, that abuse men's characters without improving the knowledge or principles of the times, together, with a general hash of these served up in some monthly mess of dullness, are the meagre literary diet of town and country.

Of how great benefit to his country would that man be, who fhould render virtue and rational research palatable and agreeable to people of fafhion, through the same channels that had formerly degraded their understandings and corrupted their sentiments!

How much is it to be regretted that that charming sex, formed by the bountiful Author of nature to be the refiner and solacer of man; his amiable gentle, chearful, intelligent companion; and the guardian of his family, fhould set themselves up as mere toys for the public; undervaluing their own capacities, and levelling themselves with the insignificant pageants of equipage!

That they should pass their nights in fretting like players on the stage of fruitless, joylefs difsipation; and their days in the languor of unnatural rest, or in the agitations of artificial sorrow.

Are there any remedies for this miserable calami. ty of the age and country, but storing the infant minds of that charming sex with useful knowledge, and with resources to guard them against that wretched dependence upon artificial amusement, which is the disgraceful lot of the illiterate.

Dances forth in trim array,

Blith as an eastern bridal queen,

blow Towed the lord of day!

st to the strea

streams clear

And see where smiling nature homage pays, 97 Isnort and all her breathing incense pours along ; The kindest gales, test wrablers lay 5, and the poet's song, 19mAllah are thine earths air, and sea, and fky,u010 All wake for thee, fair spring, their sweetest minstrelsyk 19 beiquiios bas

I too the gentle influence feel,

And join the rapt'rous choral song;

16110 1 Musing smooth numbers, as I steal,

thy banks along.

Oh Camebanks no myrtle breathes perfume,
Though on

aldais No rose unfolds its blushing beauties there,
No tulip there displays its gaudy bloom,

1516No stately lily decks the gay parterre.

Inclos'd within the garden's bright domain,

These all, in eastern pride, laugh round their splendid reign. ebo awo lisdi qurate

ingrou Yet wild flow'rs o'er the simple scene.

the warm touch of gentle May,

Till up they spring, a num'rous train!
As and rich as they.

xigime the violet hath a balmy sweet,
donisqTome the king cup scatters golden hues ;
E'en in the primrose modest beauties meet,

Jast Een the meek daisy can instruct the muse.
Roving with s.lent eyes, the loves to stand;

And ev'n in field flow'rs views a master's matchlef hand:

st of the swan majestic sail,

Nor

in vain

109 Nortroving bees buz on the flow"ry brink, Nor fishes down the

Nor little songster er current steal,

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on the margin drink;

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And, fhiv'ring wild, their fhining pinions ply,

While with their feather'd loves they vernal gambols try.

Oh spring! I love thy gentle reign,

Yet I could leave thee, gentle spring, What time his wisdom fhail ordain,

Who reigns the sov'reign king.

Yes! thy kind fhow'rs, thy fkies of silver hues,
Thy meads and vales, soft gales and glofsy bloom,
I'd leave them all, so friendly to the muse,

And uncomplaining wait the chearless tomb,
Where death's cold season chills the poet's tongue,
Nor more the sylvan muse fhall wake the vernal song,

Yes, I must leave thee, spring tide fair,
Yet there's a brighter spring above,
Gay smiles the sun the live long year,

And all is light and love.

There, gales immortal, sweetness breathe around,
There spring fair fhining fruits, and golden flow'rs,
Cherish'd luxuriant in the laughing ground,

With heaven's own dews, and pure ambrosial show'rs. There happy beings rest, their conquests won,

And weave from heav'nly trees, a never with'ring crown.

WHAT IS HAPPINESS?

BY THE LATE DR LADD

Is an empty fleeting fhade,

By imagination made;

"Tis a bubble, straw, or worse,
'Tis a baby's hobby horse.
'Tis two hundred fhillings clear,

'Tis ten thousand pounds a-year;

'Tis a title, 'tis a name,

'Tis a puff of empty fame.

Fickle as the breezes blow,
'Tis a lady's yes or no!

And when the description's crown'd,

'Tis just no where to be found.
Arouet fhews, I must confefs,
Says Delia what is happiness?
I wish he now would tell us what
This self same happiness is not;
What happiness is not I vow
That Delia, you have pos'd me now,
What is it not?-stay! let me see,
I think dear maid, 'tis not for me.

THOUGHTS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE COAL DUTY, UPON THE

PROSPERITY AND INDUSTRY OF THE REMOTE AND THINLY PEOPLED COASTS OF

BRITAIN' A

It cannot be supposed that the parliament of Great Britain will ever lay any sort of burdens upon the united kingdoms, but what they fhall find of necessity at that time, for the preservation and good of the whole; and with due regard to the circumstances and abilities of every part of the united kingdoms. TREATY OF UNION, art xiv.

No maxim in political economy can be lefs exceptionable than that which I have chosen as a motto to this paper; nor could any thing tend more to the aggrandisement of a nation, than a strict adherence to the principle here inculcated. In that case, the amount of the revenue would be augmented, while the prosperity of the people would be increased in an equal degree. I am aware, indeed, that it has become the fashion of late, to inveigh against taxes in general; and to hold out to the public, the great amount of the present revenue of Britain, as a demonstrative proof of the opprefsion under which the people groan, and to represent that as an unavoidable cause of general poverty. But in few cases could men have reasoned more unconsequentially; because incontrovertible facts may be brought to prove, that nearly the reverse of this is the truth. The experience of all ages sufficiently fhows, that wherever a people have afforded a great revenue, in proportion to their whole numbers, these people were in thriving and prosperous circumstances; and wherever they are poor, abject, and opprefsed, the amount of the taxes they pay is next to nothing. Spain, for example, is at present a poor country,—the people are opprefsed with taxes, which are levied from