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There is no wrinkle on my brow,
No sadness in mine eye;
Who ever saw my tear-drops flow,
Or heard my plaintive sigh?
And ever jocund is my smile,

And joyous is my tongue;
Who then would guess how all the while
My heart of hearts is wrung?

While jests are flowing from my lip,
While loudest is my laugh,

Or while with those, who largest sip,
The cheering bowl I quaff,-
Who would suspect that all inside
No touch of joy can feel?

Or that a smiling face should hide
A soul of lifeless steel!

Yet so it is! no care have I

For ought I say or do ;

Deep in yon grave my fond hopes lie,
Under the Church-yard yew.

I live without an aim-an end-
A purpose to pursue;
And care not how through life I wend,
So that it WBRE passed through.

But why should I my friends torment
With sorrows all my own?

It gives my bosom more content
To sit and sigh alone.

The site of their convent is now occupied by a Mr. Bound's iron-foundry.

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8. HORSE-BREAKING. Man's Skill in horses doth so much excel, That no man living breaks them half so well:

But see, one sille shrew controls his art, And, worse than all those horses

BREAKS HIS HEART..

4. THE GAMESTER. Aske Ficus how his luck at dicing goes, Like to the tide (saith he) it ebbes and flowes.

Then I suppose his chance cannot be good,

For all men know'tis longer ebb than flood.

5. THE MANHATER.

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THE Editor has received Clio's. Jast communication (25) and has commnicated to Mr. Wallis the friendly propo sal it conveyed.-Sandy Gordon must not be impatient, but may rely upon our promise." The Emigrant's return to the House of his Childhood" is an

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position: it shall appear immediately.. RECEIVED. Apex Truth LL Geo. P. and Ariel-Alphus-J. H. B. -and P. P.

REJECTED. Lomax and S*.

LONDON--Printed and Published by I. Wallis Camden Town; and also Published by C. Harris. Bow Street, Covent Garden, by whom Comniuwachung for the Editor are received.

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from the intense and almost irresistible desire of respite from his agony*; for which reason, though recommended by anccient and general example, it has been properly by the nild and cautious system of jurisprudence established in this country.(Compare Nic-Nac, vol. 2, p. 97)

In many nations, however, and especially among those of the East, the application of torture is a common practice. Oue of the infernal modes invented, either to punish crime or force confession, is represented in our cut. The head and heel of a criminal being forcibly drawn towards each other, and made fast, he is suspended from a kind of gibbet, for a period proportioned to the enormity of his offence, or until he declares himself willing to make a full avowal The degree of violence emploved in distorting the culprit's spine, depends upon circumstances, but the exquisite agony it produces will be readily imagined.

The abominable practice of extorting confession by the application of torture, is one of the worst part of the criminal laws of China; but they pretend to say this mode is seldom resorted to, unless in cases where the guilt of the accused has been made to appear almost certain by circumstantial evidence. It is, however, a common punishment in cases of misdemeanour, to squeeze the fingers violently, and is particularly practised towards females who purchase licences for breaking the rules of chastity. Descriptions of one or two other modes of punishing offences among this people are subjoined, which we have extracted from Ellis's "Embassy to China," 4to. 1817:

"We witnessed this morning the punishment of face slapping, inflicted with a short piece of hide, half an inch thick; the hair of the culprit was twisted till his eyes almost started from the r sockets, and on his cheeks, much distended, the blows were struck. His crime was said to be rubbing from the baggage-boats; the

* Compare, Nic- Nac, vol. 1, p. 397.

executioner. and those concerned in his punishment, seemed to delight in his sufferings."

"I this day saw the pan-tze, or bambooing, inflicted upon one of the boatmen, and was surprised at the comparative lenity of the punishment; the strokes, 25 in number, were inflicted on the back part of the thighs with a half bamboo, six feet long, and two inches wide; but so little force was used, that the suffering certainly did not exceed that of a tolerably severe flogging at school. The culprit, according to established usage, returns thanks, by prostration to the mandarin, when the punishment was over."

TEA.

Concluded from p. 396, vol. ii.

DR. CHURCHILL, in his "Genuine Guide to Health," has the following remarks on the use of Tea, &c. which as they appear to differ from the opinion of physicians in general, we submit to the notice of our female friends:

ON TEA AND COFFEE.

"A vast deal of pains have been taken by many authors, to prove that foreign tea is uncommonly pernicious, and the habitual drinking of it more destructive to the human frame than even the frequent practice of drunkenness. It, however, unfortunately happens for these alarmists, that there must be a positive negative to such assertions, by a simple appeal to real matter of fact. Had the article of tea been a new production about to be introduced to general use, such insinuations might go down tolerably well, and the dreadful effects attributed to it might operate as scarecrows, to warn us of our danger; but as we know from experience, that nothing of the kind does nor ever did exist, I consider it very little short of a libel on common understanding in any one who would be bold enough to advance such hypothetical dogmas, altogether unsubstantiated by reason or truth.

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"Whoever has made but the smallest degree of observation on this subject, much be convinced of the futility of such vague theory, particularly when he recollects that there never was a period, since the introduction of this plant in this country, in which it was so much in general use, among all classes of people, as the present; and that we do not find any of the frightful consequences resulting from it, with which these gentlemen are so desirous to alarm us.

"Although I have never taken any pains to analyse its properties, yet I believe I am warranted in say ing, that at least it is perfectly harmless, for, after drinking it twice a day for the last forty years of my life, had it been so very deleterious as is represented, I must, long before this period, have made some discovery of the kind. Advancing that it is harmless only, may be considered by some as applying merely to its negative qualities; but, experience bears me out in saying something of its positive virtues, which I account to be a grateful, aromatic, and refreshing beverage, possessing some antispasmodic as well as tonic qualities. So far from tea being productive of nervous affections or complaints in the stomach, I never find any thing like the refreshment from wine, or any other stimulant, that I do from tea; and in the unavoidable fatigue attending the practice of midwifery, I never feel any thing so reviving or so much of a cordial, when professionally engaged through the whole night, as from this liquid. This, therefore, creates in my mind much wonder that such theories should be broached in the very face of truth and common sense. The late Dr. Beddoes, in his Hygeia, or Essays on Health,' has even attempted to prove, by experiments on this herb, that it is an absolute poison; as he was a man of sound judgment, matured by study and observation, I cannot but feel surprized that he should fall into so absurd an opinion; but he was by no means singuJar: Dr. Buchau too, poor man, who was very soon alarmed at shadows,

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concludes his learned observations on this subject with saying, 'Did wo men know the train of diseases induced by debility, they would shun tea as the most deadly poison; whilst another physician, of equal-celebrity, has added, that tea will induce a total change in the constitution; in the people of this country it has made a complete conquest of the one sex, and is making hasty strides towards vanquishing the other. So much for theory!

"The relaxing and debilitating impression it is said to make on the stomach and digestive organs is equally chimerical with some other theories on the subject. So far from this being the case, it possesses qualities the very reverse of these, and it is not only a pleasant and refreshing liquor, but it incontrovertibly contains, from its apparent astringency, a conisderable share of tonic power; and that the stomach is invigorated by its use, when it is not drunk weak: it certainly promotes perspiration, takes off the natural morning paroxysm of fever, and rouzes the mind to a state of action, when torpid from violent heat or fatigue of body.

"If ill consequences have ever followed the use of foreign tea, I am very well assured that they have arisen from the vehicle in which it has been taken, or, in other words, from the sole effect of the water. We learn from the immortal Hippocrates, that too great a use of warm fluids softens the flesh, weakens the nerves, renders men stupid, and occasions hemorrhages, syncope, and death, Tea, therefore, in this respect, from the manner in which we take it, may, in a degree, have injurious effect; but, as far as relates to the quality of the herb itself, all the melancholy accounts which authors have exhibited on the subject, have originated in visionary alarm, to which fart and real observation give a decided contradiction. If the lower orders of people ever feel any inconvenience from it, this arises from the very same cause: they generally make up for the quality of their tea by the quantity of water;

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