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himfelf with a {cornful fmile. This mer- 
chant too is dead, elfe I fhould find it dif- 
ficult to conceal his name. G. M. 
“POPE PIUS VI. 
Every new elected pope is greeted with 
the formule, Sande Pater, non videbis an- 
nos Petri.—Peter, as Catholic annalifts 
tell us, was pope exaétly twenty-four 
years, five months, and ten days. None 
of his fucceflors fo nearly approached 
‘him in the duration of his office as Adrian 
I. who is faid to have been pope about 
twenty-four years. Pius VJ. was elected 
pope on the rs5th of February 1775, 
and crowned on the 22d of the fame 
month. Thofe who are inclined to believe 
in the popedom of Peter, and in the 
length of his reign, and to confide in the 
efficacy of formules fanétioned by long ef- 
tablifhed ufuage, will eafily find the predic- 
tion verificd likewile in the petfon of 
Pius VI. if he fuppofe his popedom to 
have terminated at the time of his being 
carried away from Rome, in which cale, 
he indeed comes the neareftto Peter in the 
duration of his epifcopate, but does not 
altogether attain it—However, as the 
Romanift muft acknowledge him pope to 
the time of his death, no depofition or ab- 
dication having taken place; it appears 
that Pius VI. poffefled the fee of Rome 
longer than Peter. But perhaps orthodox 
Original Poetry. 
[Auguft 1, 
chronologifts may find means to add to the 
number of years which Peter is fuppofed to 
have fatin the epifcopal chair of Rome: 
to others it is a matter of indifference. 
A PERPETUAL PEACE. 
The projeét of a perpetual peace had 
been ftarted before St. Pierre, in a book 
entitled Le Nouveau Cyneas. The un- 
known author repeats the well-known ad- 
vice given to Pyrrhus; that princes fhould 
prefer repofe to ambition: and recom- 
mends a common tribunal to fettle their 
differences. I think, adds Leibnitz, this 
tribunal might fit at Rome, with the pope 
for ptefident : he has often judged between ~ 
Chriftian princes. It would be only re- 
viving the ancient influence of the clergy, 
and accuftoming nations to tremble once 
more at an interdict and an excommuni- 
cation. In order to induce the Protef- 
tants to confent, the church might be re- 
ftored to what it was before Charlemagne’s 
council of Frankfort ; and the after-coun- 
cils, which cannot be called cecumenical, 
might be given up. The popes, too, muft 
refemble the early bithops of Rome. All 
thefe things may be accomplifhed as 
eafily as the the projects of Abbé Saint 
Pierre. Living man abhors the repofe : 
pax perpetua is an infcription for a burial 
ground. 


ORIGINAL POETRY. 
ee 
To the Editor of the Mouthly Magazine. 
F you think the following tranflation of a 
very fine paflage in Horace worthy of a 
place among your poetry, it is at your fervice. 
Dorchefier-Goal, G1L BERT WAKEFIELD. 
Fulyy 13, 1800. 
HORACE, Booki Epift. 13 Verfe 96. 
to the ends 
"YY Dst all thy cares, fome hours of re- 
fpite find, 
With ftores of fcience to enrich thy mind; 
Her votaries afk, thofe votaries only know, 
How clear and calm the ftream of life mutt 
flow 3 
Left fears and fruitlefs hopes deftroy thy reft, 
Or craving paffions rankle in thy breatt: 
Afk them, if learning virtue’s robe impart, 
Or nature weave the tiffue in our heart : 
What boundaries, afk, care’s wide excurfions 
end ; 
What lore will make thee to thyfelf a friend: 
Tf that pure blifs, compos’d affections know, 
Jn the rank foil of wealth and grandeur grow 3 
Or in the ftill fequefter’d vale alone, 
Where winds the path unaotic’d and un- 
knqwn ? 
Sooth’d by the waves, that cool Mandela’s 
{wain, 
*Midft the full glories of my rural reign 5 
Say, friend! what thoughts engage my bo- 
fom there ? ; 
What the fond proje&, and the fecret prayer ? 
Without one with to make my fubftance more, 
Tho’ time impair the pittance of my ftore, 
E’en thus my future days, if Heaven thould 
give 
Thofe future days, I to myfelf will live. 
May year by year of food its portion find, 
And books, the nobler banquet af the mind 3 
Left my loofe purpofe, fway’d by fartune’s 
power, 
Float on the balance of each wavering hour ! 
For life and life’s fupport, to Jove I pray; 
Thofe his high will, or grants, or takes away. 
Thofe if he give, myfelf fupplies the reft, 
Curb’d paffions, fix’d refolve, and tranquil 
breaft, ' 
eT 
VERSES on the MEMORY of the late REV. DA- 
VID WILLIAMS Of SWANSEA. 
THY {miles were glad, when laft we met, 
Thou obje& of my mournful tear! 
But now in fhades thy fun is fet, 
Mine eye with Imiles no more ta cheer. 
. How 
