1811.] 
monumental memorials of their founder 
have been completely swept away. 
¢¢ Vain then are pyramids and motto’d stones, 
And monumental trophies rais’d on high ; 
For Time compounds them with the crumbling 
bones, 
That mix’d in hasty graves unnotic’d lie.” 
Edmund, who succeeded to the earl- 
dom of Cornwall on the death of his 
father, presented to the monks of Hailes 
a small portion of the blood of our Sa- 
viour, which had been found among the 
stores of the ancient emperors. This 
proved an inestimable acquisition, and 
was productive of great profit by the vast 
‘concourse of pilgrims which it attracted, 
Tc was inclosed in a richly-adorned crystal 
cabinet, one side of which by its thick- 
ness and opacity intercepted the view of 
this sacred treasure,while the other, pur- 
posely prepared, exposed it to the sight 
of the enraptured devotee, who had paid 
for a sufficient number of masses to wipe 
away his crimes. This miraculous blood 
was reported by the visitors at the disso- 
lution of the abbey to be merely that of 
some animal frequently renewed; but 
the bishop of Rochester, who exhibited 
it in the course of a sermon which he 
preached upon the subject at St. Paul’s 
cross, described it as being clarified honey - 
coloured with saffron. 
The feeling excited by these ruins is 
rather that of desolation than of grandeur: 
€¢Inexorably calm—with silent pace 
Here lime hath passed. What ravage marks 
his way: 
This pile now crumbling o’er its hallow’d 
base 
Turn’d not his step, nor could his course 
delay.” 
What unexpected revolutions ‘has the 
Japse of time produced! ‘Where is now 
the strong-hoid of the douzhty baron— 
Where the sacred sanctuary of the gloomy 
recluse? Where now repose the remains 
of him whose mandate was law, whose 
frown was fate-—-Where rest the ashes of 
her whose presence diffused’ hilarity 
Revenues. | Charges. 
First year of ok 
‘new charter | 8,276,770] 6,066,923 
1793-4 ee 
owen 8,652,032 8,417,812 
eate 
Papers velaiwe to the East India Company. 
Interest. 
759,326 ny 
13,464,537|11,043, 108] 1,577 ,922 
15,217,516|15,561,330|2,070,7921 .. a. 
14,614,261|13,436,19812,197,160] .. «. 
\ 
eee | 
around, whose smile wasthe signal of joy ? 
A thousand masses chaunted for the peace 
of your souls, could not secure your mouls 
dering bones one little spot in which 
they might silently decay. How unsta- 
ble is greatness, how uncertain is power ! 
We build, but we know not who will 
destroy——-we consecrate, but we know 
not who will prophane—we endow, but 
we know not who will enjoy. 
A 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
EXTRACTS from PAPERS laid before the 
HOUSE of commons, relative to the 
AFFAIRS Of the EAST INDIA COMPANY. 
it ere East India Company’s receipts 
for sales of goods from March 1, 
1803, to March 1, 1806, fell short of the 
receipts in the three years immediately 
preceding 3,268,671. This was owing 
to the reduction of the prices of India 
goods in the home market, a conse= 
quence of the state of Europe, and by 
large importations to London through | 
the medium of private merchants, 
The sale amount of India goods: 
1798 9 stoodat <= - 1.4,667,! 
1805-6 reducedto -« 
1806-7 fellto .« - 
1807-3. - - 
1803-9 = ~ 
1,309,080 
aid 1,191,2 BS i 
The unsold goods in their warehouses 
in London on the 1st of March; 1808, 
and expected in the course of the'season, — _ 
% 
at prime cost, amounted to /.7,148,440; 
valued at theselling pricesat 13,086,303; 
The ladia debt, according to the best 
estimate that can be formed ofits amount 
on the dst of May, 1808, stood at 
1.31,895,000. sara? 
There had been, on the whole, no die 
minution of civil and military expendi 
‘tures to compensate for the heavier charge 
of interest ; but, on the contrary, waile the 
revenues had from different acquisitions 
and annexations, been greatly enhanced, 
the expenditure kept pace with the 
increase, and had even outrun it; so that 
Deficit. Deb; 
Surplus. 
April. PN 
4 Li wt 
526, 20511,685,642 oe ee 17952 7,971,668 
1798. . 10,866,588 
an 525,106|1799.. 12,811,863 
$43,507| ..  «-. 11803... 19,593;737 
9,414,606] 1806. . 28,538,804 
1,019,097|1808. 31,895,000 
although 
