How sweet, my friend, at this lone hour, to scale With all its shadowy isles ;-to list alone Falls on the ear that deep and nameless tone, Made of all mingling sounds,-so like the moan 3. TO THE SAME. THEY call'd us brother bards!—The same blue streams Which, with the tide of feeling, swells or falls, ON THE DEPARTURE OF AUTUMN. 1. THEY are gone, the bright visions for ever are past, The enchantments of autumn are vanished, and now 2. There were hours of enchantment, when heavenly light, 3. There were forms of enchantment that floated around 4. There was music divine, when the redbreast at morn 5. There was joy most enchanting, when morning awoke 6. But a weight on my breast, and a fire in my brain, BALLA D. 1. WHEN the sky is black above, and the billows white below, But dreadful though it be, yet it cannot us appal, For we feel Affection pours her prayers, and mercy hears them all. 2. When the ship is on her beams, and the masts are all a wreck, O think ye not, ye landsmen! it is a scene of fear? 3. and mercy hears them all. But see, the morn approaching, a vessel heaves in sight, hear them all! W. M. T. VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF DR JOHN LEYDEN. WHERE sleep the brave on Java's strand, When triumph's tale is westward borne, Near Jura's rocks the Mermaid's strain Shall change from sweet to solemn lay; For he is gone, the stranger swain, Who sung the Maid of Colonsay. The hardy tar, Britannia's pride, I see a weeping band arise, Her mountain sons their loss bewail. The Minstrel of thy native north Yes, he who struck a matchless lyre BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, WITHIN THE YEAR 1811. BIRTHS. JAN. 1. The wife of Lieutenant-Col. Sir Howard Douglas, a daughter. 7. The Hon. Mrs Werninck, a son. 8. The Right Hon. Lady Bruce, a son.-The Countess of Selkirk, a daughter. 10. The wife of Sir John Lowther Johnstone, a son and heir. 14. The wife of the Hon. Herbert Gardner, a daughter. 15. The Marchioness of Queensberry, a daughter.-Lady Jerningham, a daughter. 17. The Countess of Albemarle, a son. 21. Viscountess Hamilton, a son and heir. 23. Mrs Col. Lamont, a son. 24. Lady Anne Montgo mery, a son and heir.-The Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Ramsay, a son.-The Lady of Colonel Goldie, of the 6th dragoon guards, a son. 25. Lady King, a son. 27. At Madeira, the wife of Major-General the Hon. Robert Meade, a daughter. 28. The Countess of Harrowby, a daughter. Lately, the wife of Sir Henry Fletcher, Bart. a daughter. The Marchioness of Douglas, a son and heir. FEB. 3. The wife of William Gordon, Esq. M. P. a son. 5. The Hon. Mrs Codrington, a daughter. 9. Countess of Mansfield, a son. 12. The wife of Major-Gen. the Hon. Alexander Hope, M. P. a daughter. 19. The Lady of G. R. Redmoni, deputy inspector of hospitals, a daughter. 25. The Hon. Mrs Ponsonby, a daughter. -Lady Emily Henry, at Leinster House, Dublin, a daughter. 26. The wife of Hen. Bonham, Esq. M. P. a daughter. Lady Sondes, a daughter. The wife of C. Jenkinson, Esq. M. P. a daughter. MARCH 1. Mrs Graham Stirling of Duchray and Auchyle, a daughter. 7. The Hon. Mrs Edward Stewart, a son. 15. Lady Georgiana Barnes, a daughter. 17. The wife of Major the Hon. Henry Murray, a daughter. 24. The wife of General Burr, a son and heir.-The Lady of Commissioner Jackson, a son.-The Marchioness of Lansdown, a son and heir. Lady Harriet Drummond, a son and heir. Lady Henry Fitzroy, a son. Lady Francis Bentinck, a daughter. Lady Bagot, a son and heir. APRIL 8. The Marchioness of Bath, a son. 14. Lady Brownlow, a daughter. 15. The Countess of Romney, a daughter. 20. The wife of Sir Henry Lushington, Bart. a son.-The relict of the Hon. Willoughby Bertie, late captain of the Satellite, a son and heir.-The wife of Sir John Sinclair, Bart. M. P. a son. 22. The Marchioness of Ely, a daughter.-The wife of William Blundell, Esq. of Crosby Hall, Lancashire, a son and heir. 23. The Right Hon. Lady Caroline Capel, a daughter. 26. The Marchioness of Waterford, a son. 29. Lady Charlotte Hope, a daughter. Lately, the Countess of Bristol, a daughter. The wife of Sir C. W. Malet, Bart, a son. The wife of Sir T. Ackland, Bart. a son. The wife of Captain Sir M. Seymour, Bart. a daughter. The Countess de Salis, at Dublin, a son. MAY 22. The Duchess of Newcastle, a son and heir. 23. The Lady of John |