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be allowed to remark that it will be quite time enough to adopt his mode 

 of relief when Great Britain shall have relapsed into the same " compa- 

 rative barbarity" as that of the country which owned him for its monarch. 



In fine, however we may admit the truism, " that nothing can remove 

 the present overwhelming distress but the adoption of some measure 

 which will either raise the price of produce to the level of the burdens 

 imposed, or bring down the burdens to the level of the present prices," 

 still we do not think that the best mode of obtaining that object is by 

 continually tampering with the currency. 



Since writing the above, we learn from an advertisement in the pub- 

 lic journals, that, at a meeting of the committee, held this day, Dec. 26, 

 it was resolved — " That the objects of the Central Agricultural Society 

 be exclusively national ; directed to no theoretical purposes, but formed 

 solely with a view to procure the co-operation of the owners, and occu- 

 piers of land in every practicable measure which can afford relief to the 

 present distressed state of the agriculturists, as regards poor-rates, 

 county-rates, poor-laws for Ireland, unequal parochial taxation, &c. ; 

 and, also, with a view to improvement in every branch of practical agri- 

 culture." 



To what extent agriculture can be relieved in this way, we know 

 not ; but this we know, that it is by far the more open, straightforward, 

 and fair way of obtaining any such relief, than that of raising the price 

 of land produce by flooding the country with one-pound notes ; in other 

 words, by establishing a war circulating medium in time of peace. 



TO THE POET'S MISTRESS, WITH A NOSEGAY. 



Go, happy flower, and touch the beauteous hand 



Of her whose smiles would " cheer" a drooping land : 



Go, and approach her lips of roseate hue, — 



Enchanting thought! — go, taste the balmy dew : 



From her sweet lips, where loves and graces play. 



Imbibe the rapture which her words convey. 



Mortals with envy shall behold the rest, 



lAixuriant seat upon her swelling breast ; — 



That throne of bliss, where Cupid lurking lies, 



And steals unerring darts from Adah's eyes. 



Go, — but when every fibre she has fir'd. 



And every leaf with rapture is inspir'd ; — 



For beauty, heavenly beauty, nerves the weak ; 



Gives eyes to blindness, makes the tongueless speak; — 



Remember me, in terms resistless prove 



The fire of feeling and the force of love. 



