4G Extracts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. [Aug, I, 



Where's n«i» thy veft of azure, green, and 

 gold? 

 The blaftiiig winds thy raaibow-dyes de- 

 face, 

 A<id doom'd to die, with hunger pinch'd, and 

 cold, 

 The feeble remnant of thy num'rous race. 



What tlio' the genial heat awhile prevails, 



Awhile retards the fate thou canft not fliun. 

 To lengthen out thy fpaa, ah ! what avails 



The weaken'd radiance of a winter's fun ? 

 Thus the gay courtier, for a paffing while, 



All joyous (ails on Pleafure's downy wing, 

 Bii&s iu the fun-lhine of a monarch's fmile. 



An idle, flutt'ring, linfell'd, giddy thing. 

 The defpot frowns, and foon from native 

 home. 



From wife and children, ever dear, he 

 goes, 

 Condemn'd for life a banifli'd man, to roam 



Thro' wilds Siberian, hid in endlefs fnows. 



There clad in robes of never-varying 



while. 

 Sits Horror brooding o'er the drearj 



wafte. 

 And Silence, ne'er difturb'd, favc when at 



night 

 The howl of wolves rides dreadful on the 



bidft. 



In vain th' unhappy exile lieaves the figh, 

 Hope never comes thofe fdvage wildj to 

 cheer, 

 But Grief and Solitude are ever nigh, 

 And Mclanclioly, nurfc of comforl!cf» 

 Defpair. 



But (liort his date— for life's now cbhing fa!T, 

 Aniidft the arrtic Winter's drear domain. 



Where Sorrow, keener than the northern 

 hlaft, 

 Lays hun a corfe along the frozen plain. 



Extracts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 



TEA-fKK?. 



TEA-URNS pafs for a modern and a 

 BiitiUi invention : their applicntion 

 only' is new. I have i'een among the finds^ 

 at Pompeii, prelcrvcd in tiie Mufeum of 

 Portici, an urn cuiitamins; a hollow me- 

 tallic cylinder, for the infertion of red- 

 hot iron, in m hich water was thus kept 

 boiling. The whole apparatus in form 

 and ItiuiSturc clolely rcl'embles oar own 

 utcnlils. Ilcro, in "his Pneumatica de- 

 fcnbes this machine by the name unthcp- 

 Ja. Cicero mentions it in liis oration for 

 Kofcius AnuiiBUS as of Corinthian ori- 

 gin. The Chincle have it not; for in 

 Kicn Long,'s Ode to Tea he defcnbes a 

 kettle on the fire. 



CHAMFION OF ENGLAND. 



The claim of Dymocke of Scrivelby 

 to the ollice of champion, though allowed 

 at the coronation of Richard the Second, 

 appears to have been difpuled again at 

 the coronation of Henry the I'ourth, .is 

 jippears from the following paflage ia 

 Holinfhcd: 



" Ihomas Dimocke, in right of his 

 mother, Margni-ct Dimocke, by reafou 

 of the tenure of his manor of Scrivelbic, 

 clairaed to be the king's champion at his 

 coronation, and had his fuite granted ; 

 notwithllandinw a claimc exhibited by 

 Baldwin Frcvill, demanding thatotfice by 

 rcatbn of his caitle of Taniworth, in War- 

 wickfliire. The faid Dimocke had for 

 his fees one of the belt courfers in the 

 king's ftable, with the king's laddie and 



all the trappers and hamefle appertain 

 ing to the fame horfe or courfer : he had 

 likewife one of the befi armors that was 

 in the king's armorie for his own bodic, 

 with ail that belonged whoUe thereunto." 



THK DUXMOW BACON. 



This whinifical inftitution, it fliould 

 fecm, was not peculiar to Dunniow. 

 There was the fame in Bretagne : — " A 

 I'abbaie Saiiict ;Melaine, pres Kennes, y 

 a plus de fix cens ans font, un colic de 

 lard encore tout frais et ordonne aux pre- 

 miers, qui par an et jour enfemble ma- 

 ricz out vefcu fan debat, giondei«ent, et 

 fans s'en repentir." — Contes d'Entrap. 

 t. ii. p. 101. 



TOt.r.DO. 



Trom the Ta\x\ of Strathmore and Mr. 

 Pitt's oblervations on Spain and Portu- 

 gal, 1760, it appears that the Roman an- 

 tiquities at Toledo are rather truces than 

 remains. A theatre, a circus, and an 

 aqueduft, are all. The area of the circus 

 vvai the Moorilh burying-place ; and thfi 

 Holy Inqiiifition built it in a place where 

 half a century .igo the Jews, who fell uii« 

 der its greateiV cenfure, were burnt. 



THE EPITAPH. 



Tlie firft epitaphs among the Kings of 

 France « ere thofe of Pepin and Charle- 

 magne. On the tomb of the fonncr v, as 

 <' Cy git Pepin, le pere de Charlemagne." 



Among what Frenchmen rank as their 

 belt epitaphs, is that for Ic Murechal dm 

 Muy, who died in 1775. 



TOBACCO, 



