States that their new captivity bemoan'd,
Armies of martyrs that in exile groan'd,
Sighs from the depths of gloomy dungeons heard,
And prayers, in bitterness of soul preferr'd,
Europe's loud cries, that Providence assail'd,
And Anna's ardent vows at length prevail'd;
The day was come when heav'n design'd to show
His care and conduct of the world below.

Behold, in awful march and dread array
The long-extended squadrons shape their way!
Death, in approaching, terrible, imparts
An anxious horror to the bravest hearts;
Yet do their beating breasts demand the strife,
And thirst of glory quells the love of life.
No vulgar fears can British minds control;
Heat of revenge, and noble pride of soul,
O'erlook the foe, advantag'd by his post,
Lessen his numbers, and contract his host;
Though fens and floods possess'd the middle space,
That unprovok'd they would have fear'd to pass;
Nor fens nor floods can stop Britannia's bands,
When her proud foe rang'd on their borders stands.
But oh, my muse, what numbers wilt thou find
To sing the furious troops in battle join'd!
Methinks I hear the drums tumultuous sound,
The victors' shout, and dying groans confound
The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies,
And all the thunder of the battle rise.

"Twas then great Marlbro's mighty soul was prov'd,
That, in the shock of charging hosts, unmov'd,
Amidst confusion, horror, and despair,
Examin'd all the dreadful scenes of war;
In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed,
To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid,
Inspir'd repuls'd battalions to engage,
And taught the doubtful battle where to rage.
So when an angel, by divine command,
With rising tempests shakes a guilty land,
Such as of late o'er pale Britannia pass'd,
Calm and serene he drives the furious blast,
And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform,
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

The Campaign.

THE PASSION OF HOPE, AND DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS IN MAN.

(Alexander Pope.)

[Born, 1688; died, 1744. Principal Works: Essay on Criticism, Rape of the Lock, Temple of Fame, Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady, Windsor Forest, Translation of Homer's Iliad, Essay on Man, and the Dunciad.]

HOPE springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be, blest,
The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor❜d mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
His soul proud science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk or milky way:

Yet simple nature to his hope has given,
Behind the cloud-topped hill, a humbler heaven;
Some safer world in depth of woods embrac❜d,
Some happier island in the watery waste,
Where slaves once more their native land behold,
No friends torment, no Christians thirst for gold.
To be, contents his natural desire.

He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire;
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.

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O Happiness! our being's end and aim,

Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name;
That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,
For which we bear to live, or dare to die;
Which, still so near us, yet beyond us lies,
O'erlook'd, seen double, by the fool and wise!
Plant of celestial seed! if dropped below,
Say, in what mortal soil thou deign'st to grow ?
Fair opening to some court's propitious shine,
Or deep with diamonds in the flaming mine?
Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield,
Or reaped in iron harvests of the field?
Where grows?-where grows it not?
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
Fixed to no spot is happiness sincere ;

If vain our toil,

'Tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere;
'Tis never to be bought, but always free,

And, fled from monarchs, St. John! dwells with thee.

Ask of the learn'd the way? The learn'd are blind;
This bids to serve, and that to shun, mankind.
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease;
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these,
Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain;
Some, swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain;
Or, indolent, to each extreme they fall,
To trust in everything, or doubt of all.

INSURANCE.

Essay on Man.

(1) What must I pay to insure £500 at £1 13s. 4d. per cent.? (2) What amount can I insure for £37 10s. at 1 per cent.?

(3) What premium must I pay for insuring £2,500 at 2s. 6d. per

cent.?

(4) What is the rate per cent. if it cost me £17 1s. 3d. to insure £750?

(5) What will be the insurance on £10,000 if I pay for of the amount at 10s. 6d., at 12s. 6d., and the remainder at 15s. per cent.?

(6) If the government duty on all fire insurance policies were 3s. per cent., how much must be insured to produce a revenue of half a million?

THE LAPPS, AND THE GEYSIRS OF ICELAND,

(From 'Letters from High Latitudes,' by Lord Dufferin.)

hex-ag-on-al, having six angles
trail, the track of a beast

troph'-y, a memorial of a victory
typ'-i-fy, to represent by an emblem or
type

en-dow'-ments, gifts of nature
res'-tive, unmanageable

Cro'-sus, an ancient king of Lydia, noted for his great riches

dow'-er-ed, possessing a dowry or marriage portion

si-mul-ta'-ne-ous-ly, at the same time
or'-i-fice, an opening

con-ge'-ries, a mass of small bodies
sil-i-ca, the chief component of flint,
sand, &c.

cur-so-ry, hasty, slight

func'-tion-ar-y, one who fills any office chap-er-on-age, attendance as a guide im'-pro-vise, to make a thing without forethought

in-cip'-i-ent, beginning

In the summer-time they live in canvas tents; during winter, when the snow is on the ground, the forest Lapps build huts in the branches of trees, and so roost like birds. The principal tent is of an hexagonal form with a fire in the centre, whose smoke rises through a hole in the roof... Hunting and fishing are the principal employments of the Lapp tribes; and to slay a bear is the most honourable exploit a Lapp hero can achieve. The flesh of the slaughtered beast becomes the property, not of the man who killed him, but of him who discovered his trail, and the skin is hung up on a pole, for the wives of all who took part in the expedition to shoot at with their eyes bandaged. Fortunate is she whose arrow pierces the trophy,—not only does it become her prize, but in the eyes of the whole

settlement her husband is looked upon thenceforth as the most fortunate of men. As long as the chase is going on, the women are not allowed to stir abroad; but as soon as the party have safely brought home their booty, the whole female population issues from the tents, and having deliberately chewed some bark of a species of alder, they spit the red juice into their husbands' faces, typifying thereby the bear's blood which has been shed in the honourable encounter.

Although the forest, the rivers, and the sea supply them in a great measure with their food, it is upon the reindeer that the Laplander is dependent for every other comfort in life. The reindeer is his estate, his horse, his cow, his companion, and his friend. He has twenty-two different names for him. His coat, trowsers, and shoes are made of reindeer's skin, stitched with thread manufactured from the nerves and sinews of the reindeer. Reindeer milk is the most important item in his diet. Out of reindeer horns are made almost all the utensils used in his domestic economy; and it is the reindeer that carries his baggage, and drags his sledge. But the beauty of this animal is by no means on a par with his various moral and physical endowments. His antlers, indeed, are magnificent, branching back to the length of three or four feet; but his body is poor, and his limbs thick and ungainly; neither is his pace quite so rapid as is generally supposed. The Laplanders count distances by the number of horizons they have traversed; and if a reindeer changes the horizon three times during the twentyfour hours, it is thought a good day's work. Moreover, so just an appreciation has the creature of what is due to his great merit, that if his owner seeks to tax him beyond his strength, he not only becomes restive, but sometimes actually turns upon the inconsiderate Jehu who has overdriven him. When, therefore, a Lapp is in a great hurry, instead of taking to his sledge, he puts on a pair of skates exactly twice as long as his own body, and so flies on the wings of the wind.

Every Laplander, however poor, has his dozen or two dozen deer; and the flocks of a Lapp Croesus amount sometimes to two thousand head. As soon as a young lady is born-after having been duly rolled in the snow-she is dowered by her father with a certain number of deer, which are immediately branded with her initials, and thenceforth kept apart as her especial property. In proportion as they increase and multiply does her chance improve of making a good match. Lapp courtships are conducted pretty much in the same fashion as in other parts of the world. The aspirant, as soon as he discovers that he has lost his heart, goes off in search of a friend and a bottle of brandy. The friend enters the tent and opens simultaneously-the brandy and his business; while the lover remains outside, engaged in hewing wood or some other menial

employment. If after the brandy and the proposal have been duly discussed, the eloquence of his friend prevails, he is himself called into the conclave, and the young people are allowed to rub noses. The bride then accepts from her suitor a present of a reindeer's tongue, and the espousals are considered concluded. The marriage does not take place for two or three years afterwards; and during the interval the intended is obliged to labour in the service of his father-in-law, as diligently as Jacob served Laban for the sake of his long-loved Rachel.

THE GEYSIRS.

I do not know that I can give you a better notion of the appearance of the place than by saying that it looked as if-for about a quarter of a mile-the ground had been honeycombed by disease into numerous sores and orifices; not a blade of grass grew on its hot, inflamed surface, which consisted of unwholesome looking red livid clay, or crumpled shreds and shards of slough-like incrustations. Naturally enough, our first impulse on dismounting was to scamper off at once to the Great Geysir. As it lay at the farthest end of the congeries of hot springs, in order to reach it we had to run the gauntlet of all the pools of boiling water and scalding quagmires of soft clay that intervened, and consequently arrived on the spot with our ankles nicely poulticed. But the occasion justified our eagerness. A smooth silicious basin, seventy-two feet in diameter, and four feet deep, with a hole at the bottom as in a washing-basin on board a steamer, stood before us brimful of water just upon the simmer; while up into the air above our heads rose a great column of vapour, looking as if it was going to turn into the Fisherman's Genie. The ground about the brim was composed of layers of incrusted silica, like the outside of an oyster, sloping gently down on all sides from the edge of the basin.

Having satisfied our curiosity with this cursory inspection of what we had come so far to see, hunger compelled us to look about with great anxiety for the cook; and you may fancy our delight at seeing that functionary in the very act of dishing up dinner on a neighbouring hillock. Sent forward at an early hour, under the chaperonage of a guide, he had arrived about two hours before us, and seizing with a general's eye the key of the position, at once turned an idle babbling little Geysir into a camp-kettle, dug a bakehouse in the hot soft clay, and improvising a kitchen-range at a neighbouring vent, had made himself completely master of the situation. It was about one o'clock in the morning when we sat down to dinner, and as light as day. As the baggage-train with our tents and beds had not yet arrived, we fully appreciated our luck in being treated to so