return. They candidly agreed with me that there was no vessel in the Barnstaple trade at all to compare with the Britannia, either for size or model; yet we have two excellent Dock yards, and one of them has produced a Gentleman's Pleasure Boat, excelling in beauty and velocity all other boats as much as the moon exceeds the smaller lights in beauty, or, in phrase more german to the matter, as her own coxswain exceeds all others in skill and urbanity. Travellers may safely assert, that human beauty is more predominant in the North than in the South of Devon; for this, though always fond of arithmetic, I cannot account; a friend of mine who is more fanciful than deep, thinks it may be owing to the neighbourhood of Cornwall, which is partly peopled by deserters from the Phenician and Carthaginian navy: every body knows the treaty between Hannibal and King Arthur, by which the Carthaginians, on terms of the utmost favored nation, were allowed to import elephant's teeth and gold dust in return for Cornish diamonds and tin sauce-pans. Be that as it may, of four enchanting young ladies in Exeter two had a very extraordinary tinge of blue in the complexion, and the other two (one especially) had an organic affection of the brain, termed, in modern nosology, devellopments.

(We are obliged to break off abruptly for want of room.)

ODE.

O happy my life, while content with my lot,

Again I live o'er my past years,
Implore my Creator my vices to blot,

And accept of sincerity's tears:

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For the pleasures I have ever grateful, that He
Hath lent from His treasures of goodness to me.

I'll thank Him that He hath instilled in my soul
A passion for virtue;-tis this

Which alone hath replenished my o'er-flowing bowl,
And filled up my measure of bliss:

Tis the staff of religion that helps me through life,
Redoubles my joy, and suppresses my strife.

For the rich and the gay no envy shall rise,
The proud shall my pity employ;

Gay or wealthy the man he no happiness buys,
And pride will her servants destroy.
Tis ambition increases the troubles of man,
And mars our Creator's benevolent plan.

As I am ever blessed-my wants all my care,
With voluptuousness nothing to do-

The poor and the needy my blessings shall share,
Relieving the objects of woe:

Compassion hath claims on the mercies of God,
For that purpose alone were its blessings bestowed.

And thus, O my God! when my days shall be full,
With calmness and pleasure of mind,

To Thee may 1 tranquilly yield up my soul,

O take it for ever tis thine :

The friends that surround me by this I shall cheer,
That thus I have finished my earthly career!

To our London Contributor we owe two apologies; one for the typographical errors in "The Burning Key"--but let us say that his hand, though neat and beautiful, is, nevertheless, one which would incur Cobbett's censure---another, for that we did not sooner knew his opinion of "Ipomydon," which else had been concluded, but we feared, in our modesty, that the article was becoming a BORE. That article, however, and the Southern journey, abruptly broken off in this Supplement, shall, with all other promises, be continued and performed when the Magazine shall be resumed. In the mean time health and prosperity to all who have favored us, better humour and better taste to all who have allowed us the shadowy side of their countenance.

The plate adjoined is but of humble pretensions, yet it may serve to give a local habitation to ideas suggested by names not familiar to our most distant, and, we sorrow to say, our most numerous class of readers.

Charades, 36, 42, 76, 165, i; 212, ii. Embarkation in Packets, advise on,

Holderness, Mrs., review of her Cri- Moral of the rose, 18, ii.

mea, 25, i..
Hymn, Evening, 48, i.
Honi Soit! on the Barum Periodi-
cals, 64, i.

Horace, imitations of, 73, 85, 137,
185, 248, i: 63, ii.
Herrings, an essay on, 127, i.
Hatchment, 28, ii.

Horace, O' Construe, 198, i.

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Mumbles Lighthouse, 25, ii. ⠀
Moreton Woods, 32, ii.
Money and white smoke, 61,
Maid, Old, unfit for portrait, 67,
Minister-wise-wine, long life to,102, ii.
Meaux, seige of, 115, ii.
Modern literature, mistakes in,131, ii.
Martialis Epigrammata, 143, ii.
Mars and Bacchus, 152, 196, ii.

Hume and Smollett's England, 208, ii. Mistranslation, 201, ii.

Medical men in Barum, 207, ii.
Mince-pie, literary, 213, ii.
Monkeytricks in the Gazette, 152,
Moonshee and Pundit, 259, ii.

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Medt vd bonil
Nolan, 122, 138, 1.
Natural History, 171, i.

North Devon Infirmary, 187, i..

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Miscellany of
of the

Muses, 199, i.

Northam Melody, 19, ii.
Neath, Vale of, 118, ii.
Napoleon, 134, ii.

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Nostradamus the conjurer, 202, ii.

Oddune, Earl, 14, i.

Ovid's Tristia, 39, i.

in Saunton, 185, i.

Otricoli, 26, ii.

Oarston Boat race, 27, ii.

Oystermouth Castle, 120, ii. X
Old English Epistles, 202, ii.