ORIGIN OF THE PEOPLE. 



for the exportation of the luxurious produce of the East, until then 

 altogether unknown or of rare occurrence in more northern climes. 



The merchant summoned forth all his energies, and ventured all 

 his wealth in a field of enterprize promising to crown his labours 

 with go rich a reward. Venice, Pisa and Genoa, started first and 

 foremost in the golden race. Their numerous fleets, freighted with 

 the produce of Europe, rode proudly over the waves to the havens of 

 Syria, to the ports obtained by arms or purchase on the shores of 

 Greece, and returned laden with a rich and bounteous freight. But 

 this lasted not with them. The gloomy reign of tyranny, the oppres- 

 sive sway of cruelty and injustice, the encroaching desire for foreign 

 dominion, brooked not the existence of that freedom, at once the 

 parent and child of commerce. With the fall of freedom, commerce 

 drooped and declined, and at length abandoning the unhealthy soil 

 of Italy, fled to a northern but more genial clime, where, flourishing 

 under the auspices of liberty, it has contributed to form those insti- 

 tutions, to establish that constitution now the pride and boast of 

 England. It has made her the arbitress and mistress of nations, an 

 object of wonder and admiration to the world, the fruitful source 

 whence the greatest improvements in science, literature, and the arts 

 have emanated, the bearer of true religion to the unenlightened and 

 the savage, the protectress of the weak and oppressed, the chosen 

 soil of liberty. 



Long may that freedom, her proudest boast, survive ; may her 

 gallant navies still ride triumphant over the waves, bearing the labour 

 of her sons to distant climes ; may she still afford a model to which 

 the nations of the old and new world may look and strive to imitate. 

 Thus shall she raise for herself a memorial more durable than monu- 

 ments of stone one graven deep on the hearts of men an impe- 

 rishable record of her glorious and eternal fame. 



ARCHITECTURAL TASTE. 



Ned Hudson, of old, was a drawer of teeth, 

 An extractor I beg his pardon 

 For the mouths of his friends he'd a tender hand, 

 But their purses, egad ! he laid hard on. 



Now this gentle tooth-drawer, by powder and puff, 

 And such lore, grew wealthy and proud ; 

 He resolved on erecting a " Forceps Hall," 

 From the spoils of the fangless crowd. 



And away to Curran he went, the wag 



Who a dentist could never endure, 



" Pray what order ?" said he, " ought my hall to be ?" 



" Whv, the Tuskzn to be sure !" 



