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ed, by the zeal and co-operation of the Auxiliary Societies noticed in former Reports, and by the still more numerous societies formed during the last year.

The Auxiliary Societies formed since the last meeting amount to fifty-one, besides sixteen branch societies, and their contributions to the parent society to upwards of 18,9001.; besides upwards of 9,700. from societies previously formed.

The Committee rejoice to see the zeal for disseminating the blessings of Revelation keep pace with that charity which has provided so many institutions for relieving temporal distress; and while they gratefully acknowledge that liberality which augments the funds of the institution, they are equally sensible of the benefits to be derived from the exertion of its auxiliaries, in supplying the local wants of their respective districts with the holy Scriptures.

The Committee express regret, that it has not been in their power to comply with the application for Bibles and Testaments in the degree required, though every possible exertion has been made by them, to procure a sufficient quantity. In addition to the two Universities, they have now obtained the assistance of his Majesty's Printers. They therefore trust, that the inconvenience from this cause will be speedily removed. But though the supply has been so inadequate to the demand, a much larger number of Bibles and Testaments has been issu. ed in eleven months, ending the 21st February last, than in thirteen months preceeding, viz. 35,690 Bibles, and 70,733 Testaments, making the total number issued up to that period, 140,415 Bibles, and 291,524 Testaments, exclusive of those circulated at the charge of the Society in various parts abroad.

V. DISTRIBUTION OF BIBLES.

Considering the poor of the United Kingdom as having particular claims on the Society, the Committee have invited clergymen and dissenting ministers to encourage Bible Associations, and to investigate the state of the poor in their several vicinities; and they have engaged to return Bibles and Testaments, at the cost price, to the amount of one half of any congregational collections they may receive within a year. The Committee are of opinion, that the plan of selling the Scriptures to the poor, where practicable, has been found to possess several important advantages over gratuitious distribution.

The list of the Society's benefactions in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, is too long to be inserted at present. Suffice it to say, that their benevolence has visited every quarter of the globe, and has contributed to cheer almost every form of misery to which man is heir.The correspondent at one of the principal naval stations, who has so frequently received the acknowledgments of the Committee, for an unwearied attention to supply soldiers and seamen, foreign troops, prisoners of war, convicts, and others, with the holy Scriptures, has devoted the same active exertions to this object, during the last year. In the course of that period, 3850 Bibles and Testaments, in various languages, have been distributed by this correspondent alone; who has received satisfactory testimonies that they were no less gratefully received than eagerly sought.

POETRY.

FROM THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE.

From the Anthologia Græca.

A CERTAIN Physician, a neighbour of mine,
Had begg'd me to tutor his son;

So I put him in Homer-" Sing, goddess divine,
Whence anger and quarrel begun."

So far pretty well-" many heroes which sent
To roam on the Stygian shore."-

But here I discover'd my time was mis-spent,

For the boy never came any more.

"Thanks, thanks!" (said the Doctor); " but now 'twere as well That the task of instruction were mine;

For my arts has sent down many heroes to Hell,
Therefore wants no assistance from thine."

FROM THE LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE.

TO A LADY WEEPING.

BY EBN ABRUM.

From Caryll's "Specimens of Arabic Poetry” WHEN I beheld thy blue eyes shine

Thro' the bright drops that pity drew,

I saw beneath those tears of thine,
A blue-eye'd violet bath'd in dew.

The violet ever scents the gale,
Its hues adorn the fairest wreath;
But sweetest thro' a dewy veil,

Its colours glow, its odours breathe.
And thus thy charms in brightness rise
When wit and pleasure round thee play;
When mirth sits smiling in thine eyes,

Who but admires their sprightly ray?
But when thro' pity's flood they gleam,
Who but must love their soften'd beam?

FROM THE SAME.

THE NURSING OF TRUE LOVE.

Imitated from the French.

LAPT on Cythera's golden sands,

When first True Love was born on earth, Long was the doubt what fost'ring hands Should tend and rear the glorious birth.

First, Hebe claim'd the sweet employ,

Her cup, her thornless flowers, she said, Would feed him best with health and joy, And cradle best his cherub head.

But anxious Venus justly fear'd

The tricks, and changeful mind of Youth;
Too mild the seraph Peace appear'd;
Too stern, too cold, the matron Truth.

Next Fancy claim'd him for her own;
But Prudence disallow'd her right,
She deem'd her Iris pinions shone
Too dazzling for his infant sight.

To Hope a while the charge was given,
And well with Hope the cherub throve;
Till Innocence came down from heaven,
Sole guardian, friend, and nurse of Love.

Pleasure, a fury in her spite,

When all preferr'd to her she found, Vow'd cruel vengeance for the slight, And soon success her purpose crown'd. The trait'ress watch'd a sultry hour, When, pillow'd on her blush-rose bed, Tir'd Innocence to slumber's pow'r,

One moment bow'd her virgin head.

Then pleasure on the thoughtless child

Her toys and sugar'd poisons press'dDrunk with new joy, he sigh'd he smil'd, And True Love died on Pleasure's breast.

FROM THE SAME.

TO COTTAGE CHILDREN.

God bless you, ye sweet little sons of the hut,
Why start ye and run from your play?
Do the sound and the sight of a stranger affright?
Then surely but few pass this way.

Yet sweet is your cottage that stands all alone,
And smooth is the sward of your vale;
And clear is each crook of the wimpling brook
That murmers each moment, farewell.

And high are the hills that enclose you around,
Where your flocks ever peacefully feed;
And blue is the sky that attract your young eye,
As it rests on the green mountain's head.

Here meek meditation might love to reside,
To silence and solitude given:

And calm as they guide, might the moments divide,
Between her mild house and the heaven.

Dear children, but small is this valley of yours;

Is this all the world that you know;

Yet behind this high mound, lies a world without bounds,
But alas! 'tis a world full of wo.

From the top of the hill, looking onward, afar,
The landscape may charm with its smile;
But approach it more near, it will rugged appear,
And lost is each scene with the toil.

Then quit not your cottage, ye sons of the wood:
And still of your cottage be fond;

For what do you lose, but a myriad of woes

By knowing not what is beyond.

Let the moss-cover'd seat, and the shade of the thorn,
Which were dear to your fathers be thine;

And the hut that now rears your infantine years,

Let its roof shade your hoary decline.

And sleep with your fathers-how soothing the thought!
When the suntide of life is gone by;

Give your clay to the sod, and your souls to the God
Who dwells on yon bright azure sky.

FROM THE SAME.

THE LOVER'S EVENING WALK.

THE sun, crown'd with blushes, was slowly declining,
The blue misty hills and the vallies among;
'Twas the mild glowing close of a sweet summer's evening,
When lonely I rov'd the green meadows along;
Far in the vale the loud laughter of happiness,
Wafted by zephyrs, would oft intervene,

With the far distant lows of the herd home returning,
To vary my thoughts, and to heighten the scene.

I trod the light turf with a heart gaily beating,
For memory dwelt on the smiles of my Jane,

I thought of the pleasure of fond lovers meeting,
But not of the torture of parting again.

Again I remember'd those glances of kindness

Which thrill'd through my heart with such exquisite joy; Again her soft cheek, and her lips gentle pressure,

My wild roving thoughts and my wishes employ.

Let others, the cold path of prudence pursuing,
In toiling for riches still wear out the day;
Or, borne on the tide of deceitful ambition,
The short fleeting moments of life waste away;
Dearer to me are the pains and the pleasures
Which in love, faithful love, I enraptur'd can find;
Dearer the transports which glow in my bosom,

While Hope fondly whispers my Jane will be kind.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

RECENT BRITISH PUBLICATIONS.

Lucien Bonaparte's Poem of Charlemagne, has been published on the Continent under a feigned name.

Clarke's Travels, part 2d, containing Greece, Egypt, the Holy Land, &c., 1 Vol. 4to.

The Life of Spencer Perceval.

The Loyalist, a Novel, by Mrs. West.

The Emerald Isle, by Charles Phillips.

History of the Translations which have been made of the Scriptures from the earliest to the present age, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. By Herbert Marsh.

RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS.

By Moses Thomas, Philadelphia.

Two Sermons, preached on the 30th July, and 20th August, (being days of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, appointed by Public Authority. By James Abercrombie, D. D. With a preface.

Also-The Beauties of Brother Bull-us, by his loving sister, Bull-a.

By Bradford & Inskeep, Philadelphia.

The Speech of Henry Brougham, esq. M. P., in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, the 16th June, 1812, upon the present state of Commerce and Manufactures; from a report taken in short hand, and corrected by himself. Price 25 cents.

By James Eastburn, New-York.

A History of French Influence in the United States. To which is added an Exposition of a Congressional Caucus. Price 50 cents.

Also-Touchstone, to the people of the United States on the choice of a President. Price 37 1-2 cents.

Also-A very interesting Pamphlet-Discourse delivered before the NewYork Historical Society, at their anniversary meeting, 6th December, 1811-by the honourable De Witt Clinton, one of the Vice Presidents of the Society. Also-The Isle of Palms, and other Poems, by John Wilson, esq., of Mag. College, Oxford.

Where lies the land to which yon ship must go,
Festively she puts forth in trim array,
And vigorous as a lark at break of day,

Is she for summers suns or polar snow?

To be had at the different bookstores in the city.

A Discourse, delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church, in the City of Baltimore, on Thursday, the 20th of August, 1812; being the day appointed by the President of the United States, for national humiliation and prayer; together with the other purposes recommended in his proclamation. Published by particular request of the military corps that attended on that occasion; and several respectable members, also, of the congregation. By Samuel Knox, A. M. Principal of Baltimore College.

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