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Cornucopia. 



I April J, 



THE WARRIORS OF NAPLES. 



BY E. HANDSCOMB. 



The Doemon of Battle asfaia is uiifurliiij? 

 O'er Europe the red flag of death-breath- 

 ing war ; 

 E'eu now in the sky its broad foldings are 

 curling', 

 And shedding amaze like a comet from far. 

 No longer Pai'thenope* slumbers in langour, 

 But fiercely her sons she arouses to 

 arms : 

 Their hearts sally high to the glorious clan- 

 gour 

 Of trumpets, resounding teirific alai-ms. 

 The spirit of heroes, immortal in story. 

 Whom Fame on the walls of her temple 

 engraves. 

 Now burns in their bosoms, and prompts 

 them to glory ; 

 They feel tlmy are men, and they scorn 

 to be slnvett. 

 Round Freedom's bright standard they 

 cheerful assemble, 

 TTie war-music sounds thro' the tremu- 

 lous air ; 



* Naples, anciently so called. 



Loud neighs the bold steed, white liis nerrco 

 gaily tremble, 

 Aud each tender lover now parts with his 

 fair. 

 Aud haply some youth clad in beautiful 

 splendour. 

 Thus speaks to tbe maideu who jrules his 

 fond heart, 

 While round him she flings her white arms, 

 soft and tender. 

 And weeping, impassiou'd forbids to 

 depart ; 

 " Oh, stay thy sweet tears,- gentle .lady ! 

 from flowing. 

 And far from thy breast quickly banish 

 all woes ! 

 Where Liberty calls hivi thy lorer is going. 

 To fight with fell tyrants, aud save thee 

 from foes. 

 Then cease, gentle lady i 'with' laurels of 

 glory ••^./' -i^i I" 



I'll crown thy bright head, when I see 

 thee again ; 

 Or else I shall fall in the battle all gory, 

 Aud rest with the dead in the field of the 



slain '. " 

 Ampthill. 



CORNUCOPIA, 



0/ Literary Curiosities and Remarkable Facts. 



LAW, NEWTON anrf BEH MEN. 



THE celebraled Law, in his appeal, 

 p. 314, traces (lie disooverie.s of 

 Sir Isaac Newton to the works of Jacob 

 Bchmeu. " Tlie illustrious Sir Isaac 

 Newton,''' says lie, " wlien he wrote Iiis 

 Priucipia, and published to the world, 

 his great doctrine of attraction, aud 

 those laws of nature by which the pla- 

 nets besjan aud continue to move in 

 tlieir orbits, could have told the world, 

 that the true and infallible ground of 

 what he there advanced, was to be 

 found in Dehmcn''s Teutonic T/teoso- 

 phtts, in his thkee first proper- 

 ties OF eternal nature. He could 

 have told them that ho had been a dili- 

 gent reader of that wonderful author, 

 that he had made large extracts out of 

 him, and could have referred to liim 

 for the ground of what he had o1).served 

 of the number Seven. Now why did 

 not this great man do tliiis ? Doubtless 

 he well knew (hat prejmlice and par- 

 tiality had such power over many peo- 

 ple's judgments, that doctrines would 

 be suspected I)y some as dangerous, 

 and considered by others as false aud 

 wicked, had he made any references to 

 au autlior, that was only called an en- 

 thusiast." 

 Among Newton's MSS. in the posses- 



sion of Lord Portsmoufh, areSl sheets of 

 Flammell's Hieroglypliic Figures ob 

 the Pliilosophcr's Stone ; 40 half sheets 

 folio of Behineu's Procestus Mysteria 

 Magui ; 37 and 2.5 half sheets in folio, 

 on (he Host of Heaven aud the Sanc- 

 tuary ; and 25 half sheets on the Work- 

 ing of (he Mys(ery of Inqui{y. 



A correspondent in the Gentleman's 

 IMagazine for 17S'2, gives a furth^- 

 proof of this statement, from a letter of 

 Mr. Law, which he wrote for the sa- 

 tisfaction of a friend. " When Sir 

 Isaac Newton died, there were found 

 among his papers large extracts out of 

 Jacob Bellmen's works, written with 

 his own hand. This I have fiom un- 

 doubted authority ;* as also that in the 

 former part of his life, he was led into 

 a search of the philosopher's tincture 

 from the same author. My voucher.* 

 are names well known, and of great 

 esteem with you. It is evidently plain, 

 that all that Sir Isaac has said of the 

 universal itj', nature, and effects of at- 

 traction and of the three first laws of 

 nature, was not only said but proved^ 

 in its dee];est ground, by Jacob,Behmei^ 



* Vide the list published in the Monthly 

 Magazine ; also Hutton's Dictionary, or|ji 

 Newtoa. •;,^, 



