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all curious, all eccentric, and what is more important, all true. We 

 have been more interested by the work than by any biographical 

 collection we have ever seen. 



We give the following specimen of politics in poetry, on a Shut-up 

 Country Church, from a country paper, whose correspondent recom- 

 mends its insertion, as a specimen of " native talent/' and calls upon all 

 the friends of British genius to propagate its fame, " in the hope of 

 exciting other bards to rivalry." The lines, we admit, are of different 

 lengths ; but much must be allowed for genius, and it will be found 

 that the long and the short are equally charming. 



The Deserted Church. 



Neither Parson, Clerk, Sexton, is here to be found 

 The Church quit neglected, while 1 till my ground, 

 one fourth of my produce, deducting 1 Expences 

 Is paid to the Parson, Heaven save all our senses. 

 Is not this tiranicle. I ask you by passers 

 From the other three forths. I pay Rent and Taxes 

 The Church being shut up. and our Prayers neglected 

 No Tithe for no Duty is what. I reasonably expected 

 But reason says the Parson, has nothing to do with my Claim 

 I insist on my Tithes, if nothing you gain. 

 I will be Lord of this Parish, and if I cant have my way 

 I will take up my Tithes, without further delay. 

 I will stop the repairs of the Church, and oppose all the People 

 I will take off the roof, and if posihle the Steeple, 

 Altho Times are so bad, I will load you with Expences 

 No reduction in my tithes, because of offences 

 The tithes of the Clergy, is the cause of much derision 

 And a Subject of course, that stands in need of revision. 

 The sistum is bad. the emolument too much. 

 I call forth the attention, of all that think such 

 To remedy the evile. it is my opinion 

 Somthing should be said, about a begining 

 By calling a County Meeting, a Petition to send 

 To Parliment praying, the Tithe Laws to mend. 



If some Gentlemen of Independence, would step forward in this Cause 

 They would have the support of the County, and meet great applause. 



At the Annual General Meeting of the West India body, at the City 

 of London Tavern, in August, a Report of great interest was read. 

 We have not now further space than to say, that in a very temperate, 

 but very decided manner, it announced the hopelessness of getting any 

 thing like good out of the brains of the present sages of Downing- 

 street. All their proposals for relieving the pressures of this greatest of 

 all our commercial interests, have been met by civil speeches, promises 

 of relief, and practical negation of every thing in the shape of relief. 

 But what can be expected from the best of Quarter-Masters, and the 

 most stubborn, and puzzled of Chancellors of the Exchequer ? 



The results of this puzzledom will be practical, however. The West 

 Indians will not suffer themselves to be bankrupt for the blunders of 

 any one. Some of them are already speculating on a safer outlay of their 

 property in America ; to which, when half-a-dozen planters are once 

 fairly removed, as many hundreds, who now merely wait to see the result 

 of the experiment, will instantly follow. The project of cultivating East 

 India sugar, to the prejudice of West India interests, will not be suffered 



