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prive this gentleman of his undoubted claims to perfect originality in his own walk, or have overlooked or under-valued that originality, as displayed in those works most characteristic of his peculiar genius, that he might insidiously describe him generally as an imitator. Indeed, here too, as before, the critic seems to be accompanied with an under belief of the utter silliness of all he is saying, and really characterizes some of the productions of this gentleman very fairly indeed, very liberally indeed; but, unluckily, every word he jots down refutes his own sage theory; and it is at once melancholy and ludicrous, to see him cutting his own throat with the neb of his pen, and jagging his tongue for uttering opinions opposite to his paper. Finally, what more absurd abstract idea can the most facetious mind figure to itself, than that of a forty-page article in a Quarterly Review upon a number of works, on whose merits all the world has made up its mind for days, weeks, months, or years? Sometimes, in private life, one hears a dull dog, at the close of a clever evening, begin prosing out piece-meal all the good things that have been said since the turkey. But here an attempt is made to throw light on subjects that are already glaring; and, after fourteen millions of people have given their opinions on these books, what can be more bairnly, than to pop up your nose as if from the bottom of a coal-pit, where you had been settled since the revival of letters, to chatter away for an hour and three-quarters, with much vehemence and pertinacity, 'on questions long since set at rest, and to give certificates of character to men of genius, who had all long enjoyed the benefit of good air and reputation, while you, insensible to the sounds of the upper world, were snoring at the bottom of the shaft.

C. N.

A Happy New-Year

To the True Men of the Land

From Christoyber North,

1.

Hark! hark! the sharp voice of Old Christopher North
Rings out from Edina, the gem of the Forth:
The year twenty-three like a vapour has past,
And he's nearer by one twelvemonth more to his last.
He dreads not that day-for he trusts he has stood,
Though too freakish at times, yet in all by the good;
So he watches the march of Old Time without fear,
And wishes you, darlings, a Happy New-Year.

2.

He greets you, because the dear bond of our love
Is flourishing proudly all others above;

Her sons still as manly, her daughters as true-
[He speaks of the many, and mourns for the few-
That she still is the realm of the wise and the free,
Of the Victors of Europe, the Lords of the Sea-
And gratitude dims his old eyes with a tear,
While he wishes you, darlings, a Happy New-Year.

3.

His heart sings with joy, while all round him he sees
Her citizens prosper, her cities increase,-
Her taxes diminish,-her revenues rise,-

Her credit spring up, as her oaks, to the skies,-
Her coasts full of commerce,-her purses of gold,-
Her granary with corn, and with cattle her fold.
He prays
that for ay such may be her career,
And wishes you, darlings, a Happy New-Year.

4.

He is proud to see Monarchs bend low, cap in hand,
To ask aid from her merchants, plain men of our land,
To see them their millions so readily fling,

And book down as debtor an Emperor or King;

That a nod from her head, or a word from her mouth,
Shakes the World, Old and New, from the North to the South;
That her purse rules in peace, as in war did her spear,
And he wishes you, darlings, a Happy New-Year.

5.

Laugh, fiddle, and song, ring out gay in the town,
And the glad tally-ho cheers the dale and the down;
The rich man his claret can jollily quaff,

And the happier poor man o'er brown stout may laugh;
And the demagogue ruffian no longer can gull

With Jacobin slang, for John's belly is full;

And 'tis only when hungry that slang he will hear—
So, Kit wishes you, darlings, a Happy New-Year.

6.

He rejoices to see every engine at work,

From the steamer immense, to the sweet knife and fork;
The weaver at loom, and the smith at his forge;

And all loyal and steady, and true to King George.

Whigs, therefore, avaunt! there's no chance now for ye

We forget they exist in the general glee ;

He begs you won't let them diminish your cheer,

So he wishes you, darlings, a Happy New-Year.

7.

There's the King, bless his heart, long is likely to live,
And the Duke at the head of the army to thrive;
There's Wellington extant, who badger'd the Gaul,
And Eldon still sitting in Westminster-Hall.

There's Scott writing prose-and there's-who writing verse?
Why, no one; but, hang it, think never the worse.
Sure, there's Christopher North writes your Magazine here,
And wishes you, darlings, a Happy New-Year.

8.

In the midst of this wealth, of this national pride

Of our honour, our glories, spread far, far, and wide,
While proudly we traverse the sea and the sod,
Let us never forget for a moment our GoD!

It was he raised us up, and, remember, his frown,

If we swerve from his cause, would as soon cast us down;
But that so we shall swerve shall Old Kit never fear,
And he wishes you, darlings, a Happy New-Year.

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Sanfoin,per qr. 30 to 36 0Rye Grass,
Turnips, bsh. 10 to 15 0 Ribgrass,
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METEOROLOGICAL TABLES, extracted from the Register kept at Edinburgh, in the Observatory, Calton-hill.

N.B.-The Observations are made twice every day, at nine o'clock, forenoon, and four o'clock, afternoon. The second Observation in the afternoon, in the first column, is taken by the Register Thermometer.

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APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c.

Capt. Lutyens, 20 F. Maj. in the Army 5 July, 1821. 7 Dr. Gds. Maj. Hancox, from 15 Dr. Lt. Col. by p. vice Col. Dunne, ret. 18 Dec. 1823. Bt. Maj. Daly, from 9 Dr. Maj. by p. vice Bt. Lt. Col. Bunbury, ret. do. Capt. Robinson, from 17 Dr. Capt. vice Bt. Maj. Power, ret. 19 do. Pratt, from 4 Dr. Capt. vice Smyth, ret. 20 do. Lt. Sale, from 17 Dr. Capt. by p. vice Pratt, 7 Dr. Gds. do.

4 Dr.

9

Coldst. Gds. Ens Hon. H. S. Fane, from 93 F.
Ens. and Lt. by purch. vice Hall,
35 F.
27 Nov.

3 F. Gds. Batt. Surg. Salmon, Surg. Maj. vice
Hay, ret.
4 Dec.
As. Surg. Ward, Batt. Surg. do.
T. Richardson, As. Surg.
do.

1 F.

Lt. Eyre, Capt. by purch. vice Mosse, 13 Nov.

ret.

Ens. Stayte, Lt. by purch.

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E. Macpherson, Ens. by purch. do.
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Ens. Cowell, Lt. vice Mainwaring,

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1 Dec.

11 Feb.

11 Dec.

E. C. Lynch, Ens. by purch. vice
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Skinner, prom.

Ens. Colquhoun, Lt. by purch. vice
4 do.
2d Lt. and Adj. Bourchier, rank of
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20 Nov.

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R. J. Elton, Cor. by purch.

Gren. Gds. Lt. Col. Woodford, Maj. with rank of
Col. by purch. vice West, ret.

20 Nov.

Capt. Lindsay, Capt. and Lt. Col. by
purch.

Lt. Loftus, Lt. and Capt. by purch.
do.
Fred. Clinton, Ens. and Lt. by p. vice
Lyster, prom.
19 do.
R. W. Astell, do. by p. vice Loftus,
20 do.
John Humphries, Solicitor, vice Wil-
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11 Dec.

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Robison, from 1 W. I. R. do. do. Yorke, from h. p. 17 F. do. do. Brownson, from h. p. 5 Gar. Bn. do. repaying diff. he rec. on exch. to h. p.

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Lt. Dickens, from 2 Vet. Bn. Lt. do. Cusine, from h. p. 95 F. do. do. Mayes, from 1 Vet. Bn. do. do. Saunders, from 3 do. do. do. Gordon, from h. p. 48 F. do. do. Newhouse, from h. p. 65 F. do.

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Sperling, from h. p. 9 F. do. do. Carruthers, from h. p. 17 F. do. do.

Dickson, from 2 Vet. Bn. do. do. Trant, from 38 F. do. do. Ens. Mayne, from 2 Vet. Bn. Ens. do. Bunbury, from do. do. do. Harrison, from 3 do. do. do. Young, from h. p. 52 F. do. do 2d Lt. Parker, from h. p. Rifle Brig. do. do.

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20 Nov. 1823. Capt. Bullock, from 2 W, I. R. Capt. vice Le Mesurier, h. p. Newf. Fen.

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Lt. Dowling, from h. p. 19 F. Lt. vice Worlledge, rat. list

Hill, from h. p. 59 F.

Johnston, canc.

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