she did sometimes, however, betray by implication which was her native country, the following anecdote will serve to evince. At the time of which I speak, the church in Calcutta was not built, but divine service was regularly performed to a numerous congregation in a room appropriated to this purpose. At Chinsurah there then stood as now the church, built long ago by the Dutch, but which, at that time, used to be very thinly attended. Belinda and a large party-amongst whom was Warren Hastings-in an excursion on the river, happened to pass by Chinsurah; and, at the sight of this religious place of worship, and being told to how little use it was applied, the lady could not help exclaiming-" Is it not very strange now, Mr. Hastings, here is a fine church, and nobody at all goes to it, and, in Calcutta, where there is no church, why every body goes to it ?"

"HAPLY the little simple page,

Which votive thus I've traced for thee,

May now and then a look engage,

And steal a moment's thought for me."

T. MOORE.

Extremum hunc, Arethusa, mihi concede laborem."

VIRGILIUS.

ON CENTOS.

"From different nations next the Centos crowd,
With borrow'd, patcht, and motley ensigns proud ;——
Not for the fame of warlike deeds they toil,
But their sole end, the plunder and the spoil."

CAMBRIDGE'S SCRIBLERIAD.

SIR, AS many of your readers, I doubt not, feel emulous to shine in your poetic department, yet are restrained from making the attempt by foolish qualms of diffidence, conscious inability, &c. &c., things totally exploded from the new school, I shall consider myself as rendering you an important service, in discovering to these a mechanical way of making verses, by which they may ascend Parnassus with as little trouble or genius, as may serve a person to cast up half a dozen figures on Neper's bones.*

The following is my recipe ;-let the lover of the Muses first purchase any one of the fashionable poets' vade mecums,—“Enfield's Speaker,' "Beauties of the Poets," or Elegant Extracts," for

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* Neper's Bones,—an instrument, by which multiplication and division of large numbers are much facilitated and expedited— so called from its inventor, J. Neper, or Napier, Baron of Merchiston, in Scotland, born in the year 1550; died 1617.

Neper's name was chiefly immortalized by his fortunate discovery of logarithms, and their application to all trigonometrical calculations, by which, improvements in the sciences of astronomy, navigation, &c. have been wonderfully facilitated.