No noxious weed was there allow'd to grow, shore ; Alike excluded from relentless heaven, To bright Apollo and his sister chaste. stance, a guesser might be puzzled by a disguised description of his native town, or of his present residence, &c. hence the laugh might go against him,as against a person deficient in a kind of self-knowledge, especially if a little spice of wit. descriptive of something jocularly attri buted to the town, were pointed epigrammatically in the latter verses. Some places are noted as proud, others as long -lazy-uphill and down-high-low, &c. others for customs partaking, to say the least, of the ludicrous; others for their productions, or manufactures and "cake and ale," might find their rhymes smartly, in such an assemblage, as well as laces and bobbins. The change of dialect too, might occasionally promote vivacity; and local phrases current among the people might humour the verses, which by opposing the Westmoreland dialect with the Zummerzetzhire; the superstitions of the Highlands with those of other parts, would at once amuse and improve. We forbid sacred subjects: The Roman matron whose chaste honour without the smallest relaxation from the prohibition. Correctness is of main importance in such compositions: we did not expect to find the Chinese sage Confucius, among these Classical Enigmas: and modern Reviewers, are ill associated with the gods and goddesses of Olympus,-as we could prove, did not Discretion hold up his finger at us and look!———— We add a specimen. mighty hand, While yet the stamp of innocence it bore, Each plant spontaneous crown'd the smiling land, [to shore: And halcyons swept the sea from shore In these prime golden days, as poets feign'd, (Earth's virgin bosom yet unstain'd with blood.) The Father of the gods benignly reign'd; This Father name; and then, a mount ex- Which rears its honor'd head on classic Around its breast no storms had leave to But zephyr's balmy breath perfum'a the No shelter finds in earth, or air, or waves, Till life just spent, its feeble strength subdu'd, Some gentle hand the trembling flutterer saves. Th' initials join'd will instantaneous tell In whose bright beams, life, light, and beauty slain By lawless vice, aveng'd the guiltless stain Clos'd her pure eyes in everlasting sleep. The fairest scene that fancy ever drew, The godlike hero laid aside his arms, These tell the sign when Sol most ardent And fainting nations sink beneath his beams: Arise, and taste the balmy breath of morn : * Delos, which before, it is said, floated in the Ægean. + Saturn, Take the long devious walk that friendship loves, [proves : Where converse sweet the passing hour imAnd when the sun has reach'd the west, inhale The spicy sweets that scent the evening gale.* The Causes of the present High Price of Coals, in the Port of London, explained, in a Letter to the Editor of the Times. By R. Hills. Svo. pp, 34. Richardson, London, 1814. Certainly this is an important article to the city of London. Not to the inhabitants, merely, as such, but to those innumerable proprietors of manufactories, where coals are consumed in almost unlimited quantities. The convenience of a market close at hand, confines them to the neighbourhood of the metropolis: in that neighbourhood they increase, while, at the same time, their rivals, the private houses increase also, and this demandfar from being likely to diminish-is sensibly augmented, with a few years. Mr. Hills also affirms that this year the number of sugar bakeries that have resumed their business is felt in the demand at market. We know that the proportion between the supply and the demand regulates the price of all commodities: and it is not just, as yet, to expect the full advantages of peace, in this trade, when they are felt in no other. The writer says, coals were in 1813, at the cheapest time, 64s. per chaldron; in 1813 at 63s. In October 1813 at 72s. in 1814 at 75s. The duties on a chaldron of coals he states at 7995 961 So that since the commencement of Mr. Pitt's ministerial career, the duty has increased Which makes up the total amount 4 11 14 6 Average monthly consumption of the last four years, 89,251 chaldrons; but the cold weather having continued till June, and the recently renewed activity of manufactories in which coals are used, will cause the monthly consumption of April, May, June, and October, to be more than this average; therefore say 95,000 chaldrons, multiplied by 4 July, August, and September, also were probably more per month than an average summer consumption ; therefore suppose 70,000 chaldrons per month, multiplied by 3 380,000 - - 210,000 - Total 739,251 To supply this demand, the number of cargoes was 3,280, of chaldrons 682,375, deficit 56,876 chaldrons. 66 very LITERARY REGISTER. Authors, Editors, and Publishers, are particularly requested to forward to the Literary Panorams Office, post paid, the titles, prices, and other particulars of works in hand, or published, for insertion in this department of the work. WORKS ANNOUNCED FOR PUBLICATION. ANTIQUITIES. A new work, relative to the Antiquities of Great Britain, will appear in the beginning of this month, entitled the Antiquarian Itinerary. It will be published in monthly numbers: the first number will tions, in two sizes-demy 8vo. and foolscontain fourteen Engravings, with descrip cap 8vo. No. 3 of "The Cathedral Antiquities of Great Britain," by Mr. Britton, will be published on the 1st. of February, and will consist of six Engravings, by J. and H. Le eux, from Drawings by F. Mackenzie, of Salisbury Cathedral Church, with a portion of the History of the See. Two more numbers will be devoted to this church. Norwich Cathedral to follow that of Salisbury. We had lately occasion to report the opinion of a writer who complained that the union of many trades into one hand, enabled the party to undersell less fortunate tradesmen: the public papers have charged the high price of coals to the union of the mine-owner, the shipowner, and the coal-merchant, in one hand. Either these arguments balance each other, or one must fail. Mr. Hills urges that the gentlemen of Northumberland and Durham are intelligent, alive to their interests, eager in commercial enterprize, fond of mining. and opulent: yet almost every transfer of coal-mining property, of late years, has been to London purchasers;-to persons quite new in the line." If this be true, then mining continues to be, what it ever was, a lottery, in which some lose and some win. We conjecture, without affecting to be deeply in the secrets of the coal-market, that much the same is the state of the trade in the port of London. The article is too bulky to be stored to a preposterous extent: the expence of demurrage is too heavy to keep coals on Comte de Laborde, the learned author of board of ship longer than necessary— "Voyage Pittoresque et Historesque de (the usual allowance of time for sale, is P'Espagne," in 3 vols. folio; and of other the second day after arrival) and the spi-highly interesting works on Autiquities, rit of emulation to get first to a market suffers no time to be lost after the cargo is completed, or during the passage. Exceptions must be allowed; but the general facts should guide opinion. After all, the power of capital reigns in this trade, as in others: the great capitalist can to a certain degree, affect the market. Yet we know not how to banish great capitalists from the market; for then in case of a glut, who will buy the commodity? And if there be a difficulty in selling the commodity, who will risque the expence and trouble of resorting to that market again? 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