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Prayers, 357

Pompey's Pillar, 358
Pastoral Life and Infidelity of
Shepherds, 420

Pavilion, British Court, &c., 457
Questions, 376

Remarkable Discovery in Gal-
licia, 224

Rencontre between a Missionary
and a Tiger, 292

Remarkable Anecdote of a Sheep,

344

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Mercury, 189

Mount Hecla, 222

Ætna, 298

126

Tide Table, 79, 119, 159, 200,

259, 323, 392, 456, 509

The Sun, 105

Translumination from the Che-
mical Transmutation of Dead
Human Bodies, 145

The King, 202, 268, 329, 396

The Unlucky Mistake, 236

The Devil's Sonata, 249

The Gamester, 293

Parias and Pooleahs of the Hin- The Revenue, 308

doos, 31

Power of Genius, 147

Providential Deliverance, 220
Punning, 226

The Boa Constrictor, 352

The Spectre of Pont Pathu, 366
The Palace, 393

The Almanack of Life, 426

The French Soldier, 432
The Birth of a Poesy, 435
The Funeral, 436

The Two Heroines, 481

Vaults of St. Michan's, Dublin,
216

Westminster Hall 109

The Oak, 196

Sal Sapit Omnia, ib
Extempore, ib.
Epigram, 197
Paradox, ib

On the Birth of a Child, ib.
The Drinking Song, 256

Widow Chilcot, and Old John Fragment, 257

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Lines written under a Lady's
name, 258

The Invitation, ih.
Epigram, 259

The Primrose, 319
Epigram, 320

Battle Song of a German Sol-
dier's Mistress, 321

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THE BRIGHTON GLEANER.

"Honour and worth from no conditions rise;
Act well your part, there all the honour lies."

No. 1.

OCTOBER 7, 1822.

VOL. II.

Brighton.

LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

For some time past, there has appeared to exist a regretted difference in opinion and action, between the Magistracy, who hold their sittings, twice a-week, in this town, and the legally constituted and numerous body of Local Commissioners. This difference, in an abstracted point of view, has puzzled many to account for, and may puzzle many more, who merely content themselves with looking at the surface of things. To render the matter, therefore, more easy of comprehension, a slight retrospect is necessary. The fashionable celebrity of our town, every one knows, is but of recent origin-less than sixty years ago, it was little better than a mere village, and its revenue chiefly depended upon its fishery. The salubrity of its situation -proximity to the metropolis, and other causes, at length, brought it into fostering notice, and the resuscitating rays of royalty completed what fashion, in pursuit of health, had begun. The government of the place, of course, was with the democracy; but loyalty, vivid and active in its principle, was never absent from its councils. As the place rose in importance, and increased its population, an Act of Parliament was obtained for its government, with executive vested in the body called Commissioners. This Act, as the town enlarged, after a lapse of years, was con

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