Last Martinmas gone a year The gallant waiting men So teasing, pleasing is the pain When the brave would win the fair Vulcan's Cave.-M. Lonsdale and J. W. Graves 508 The White Cliffs of Albion.-Henry Holstead. 515 My Lovely Fair.-Christopher Bulman An Evening Lay to the Vale of Sebergham.- The Ship-Boy's Letter.-J. J. Lonsdale LIFE OF THE REV. JOSIAH RELPH. BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. HE Rev. Josiah Relph was born in 1712, at Sebergham Church-town, a beautiful village ten miles from Carlisle, on the banks of the river Caldew. He was the son of a Cumberland statesman, who, on a paternal inheritance which could not exceed, if it even amounted to, thirty pounds a year, brought up a family of three sons and one daughter, one of whom he educated for a learned profession. Josiah was sent first to Appleby school,*-one of the many excellent schools of this country; and then to Glasgow. He afterwards engaged in a grammar school in his native place, and succeeded to the perpetual curacy there; but there is no reason to believe that his income was ever more than fifty pounds. It appears from his Diary that his stepmother was harsh and unkind to him and to his sister, whom he [* The teacher at that time was Richard Yates, one of the best schoolmasters of his age, who has justly been called the Northern Busby.] |