They mind not poor lovers, walking above, No whisper, there, no glance, can pass Through wickets, or through panes of glass; In every grave, make room! make room! The state is, now, love's foe, love's foe; But, oh! sad chance! the judge was old. Lovers, go woo the dead, the dead! Lie two in a grave! and to bed, to bed! DDRESS from the Glacier Goddess to Dr. Darwin. By Miss Williams. [ATIVE of that green isle, where Darwin waves NAT His magic wand o'er Nature's vernal reign, Her airy essence, and her central caves, Her fires electric, and her Nereid train. Go, tell him, stranger, had his muse explor'd My realms, new marvels had enchain'd her eye; Go, tell him, in my sunless fanes are stor'd Treasures no vulgar glance shall e'er descry. Stay thy rash steps! my potent hand impels The rushing Avalanche to gulphs below! 1 can transfix thee numb'd, in icy cells, Or shroud thee in unfathom'd folds of snow! Come not in hostile garb!—with softer art, With dearer power, my yielding spirit seize, Wake thy rich lyre, and melt my gelid heart With incense sweeter than the western breeze. Thy muse shall mount my I ammer-Geyer's wing, For thee unlock the river's viewless source. For thee my sylphs, with tender care, small mark Where chemic nature mystic wealth distils. For thee, my sylphs, in distant lands, shall trace, To life and love, awake my wedded flowers, For thee, but ah, my pensive form he flies For nymphs of golden rocks, and florid hue! -She wept, and, folded in a cloud, withdrew. THE ENTAIL, a Fable. From the Works of the Earl of Orford. Na fair summer's radiant morn, A butterfly divinely born, He He thinks the thorns embattled round Such ample blessings swell'd the fly! These manors ne'er shall pass to snails. A subtle slow conveyancer, Who, summon'd, waddles with his quill To draw the haughty insect's will. None but his heirs must own the spot, Begotten, or to be begot : Each leaf he binds, each bud he ties To eggs of eggs of Butterflies. When lo! how fortune loves to teize Account Account of Books for 1798. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales; with Remarks onthe Dispositions, Customs, Manners, of the NativeInhalitants of that Country. To which are added, some Particulars of New Zealand; compiled, by Permission, from the MSS of Lieut.-Governor King. By David Collins, Esq. Judge-Advocate and Secretary of the Colony. Illustrated by Engravings. 170S. 4to. FEW productions more naturally fix the attention of the generality of readers, than a well-written account of the foundation and progress of an infant colony. We are pleased with tracing new modes of life, divested of the forms which a long established society imposes; and we become interested for those who are destined to encounter the dangers and difficulties, which are inseparable from attempts at introducing civilized establishments in the untrodden desart; or which is traversed only by untutored savages. The establishment of the English colony in New South Wales must have been attended with more than ordinary difficulties, arising from the character of those persons on whose cxertions its success was to depend, and from the peculiar circumstances in which the new colonists were placed. Of such dangers and difficulties, the copious volume before us affords a minute detail, which will, no doubt, be received by the public with that approbation to which the great industry and ac curacy of the author entitle it. He has written it in the manner of a journal, comprehending the tran sactions of each month in their cr⚫ der, and it is brought down from the commencement of the colony in 1788, to the close of the year 1796. It is also illustrated by a chart of the three harbours of Botany-Bay; and by twenty-three engravings of views in different parts of the settlement, Captain Collins went out as judge-advocate, with the first fleet which sailed for New South Wales; and he completed his voyage in eight months and one week. On the 25th of January, 1788, the governor (captain Arthur Phillips) anchored in Port Jackson, the place selected for the settlement. The spol chosen for this purpose, was at the head of the cove, near a run of fresh water, which stole silently along through a very thick wood, the stillness of which had then, for the first time since the creation, been interrupted by the rude sound of the labourer's axe, and the downfal of its ancient inha bitants;-astiliness and tranquillity which, from that day, were to give place ace to the voice of labour, th onfusion of camps and towns, and he busy humof its new possessors.' hat these did not bring with them Minds not to be changed by time or place,' vas fervently to have been wished; nd, if it were possible, that on aking possession of nature, as we had thus done, in her simplest, purest garb, we might not sully that purity by the introduction of vice, profaneness, and immorality. But this, though much to be wished, was little to be expected; the habits of youth are not easily laid aside, and the utmost we could hope in our present situation was to oppose the soft harmonizing arts of peace and civilization to the baneful influence of vice and immorality. In the evening of this day the whole of the party that came round in the Supply were assembled at the point where they at first landed in the morning, and on which a flag-staff had been purposely erected and an union-jack displayed, when the marines fired several vollies; between which the governor and the officers who accompanied him drank the healths of his majesty and the royal family and success to the new colony. The day, which had been uncommonly fine, concluded with the safe arrival of the Sirius, and the convoy from Botany Bay,thus terminating the voyage with the same good fortune that had from its commencement been so conspicuously their friend and compa nion. The disembarkation of the troops and convicts took place from the following day until the whole were landed. The confusion that ensued will not be wondered at, when it is : considered, that every man stepped from the boat literally into a wood. Parties of people were every where heard and seen variously employed; some in clearing ground for the different encampments; others in pitching tents, or bringing up such stores as were more immediately wanted and the spot which had so lately been the abode of silence and tranquillity, was now changed to that of noise, clamour and confu sion: but after a time order gradually prevailed every where. As the woods were opened, and the ground cleared, the variousencampments were extended, and all wore the appearance of regularity. The public stock, consisting of one bull, four cows, one bull-calf, one stallion, three mares, and three colts (one of which was a stone-colt) were landed on the east point of the cove, where they remained until they had cropped the little pasturage it afforded; and were then removed to a spot at the head of the adjoining cove, that was cleared for a small farm, intended to be placed under the direction of a person brought out by the governor. As soon as the hurry and tumult necessarily attending the disembarkation had a little subsided, the governor caused his majesty's commission, appointing him to be his captain-general and governor-in-chief in and over the territory of New South Wales and its dependencies, to be publicly read, together with the letters patent for establishing the courts of civil and criminal judicature in the territory; the extent of which, until this publication of it, was but little known even a mong ourselves. It wasnow found to extend from Cape York (the extremity of the coast to the north |