And these with sad reluctance shrink, See some, in each successive crowd, "Your end is near" They start and eye their watery shroud See numbers reeling to and fro, They plunge the troubled waters throw But mark the wise religious man, Who loves his neighbour-views God's plan, He safe descends But thy lo'ed form, where'er I rove, When a' the warl' in sleep were laid, The sighs we breath'd, and tears we shed, When death, frae warly waes and cares, My dearest bliss, in happier spheres, P. O. THE world, my dear FRIENDSHIP. is full of deceit, *And Friendship's a jewel we seldom can meet How much to be priz'd and esteem'd is a friend, bod CATRINE. MONTHLY REGISTER. Foreign Compendium. FRANCE The Royal printing-house, and ten printers, are employed night and day, in order that the list of pensions may be ready by the first of November. This list will form ten volumes in quarto, of eight hundred pages each. Each page will contain twenty-five names; and hence, according to calculation, the number of individuals pensioned amount to 200,000! The pages of the French papers are for the most part filled with detailed narratives of murder and treason, and with the proceedings of the public tribunals on the trial of parties accused of these atrocious crimes. BARBARY STATES-Algiers, Aug. 22. From the month of May we have been visited by the plague. Until the end of July the distemper was kept secret by superior authority; but the plague became so violent, that it carried off from 2 to 300 persons daily. The whole east part of the country is attacked by it. At Constantine and Bona a great many persons have been carried off; and in the latter city almost all the inhabitants have perished. The Algerine navy has risen since last year's defeat like a phoenix from its ashes. They have now 11 corsairs, including one frigate of 44 five guns; five swift sailing brigs, sels have been upon a cruize. Boones, of from 18 to 24 a The smaller ves RX SOUTH AMERICA-It was on the 17th of July that the Patriots became possessed of Angostura, when the Spaniards took refuge in the fortresses. In their retreat from the town to the fortresses they lost several vessels which the Patriots intercepted.-On the 6th of July five of the large gun-boats belonging to the island of Margarita, commanded by their brave Chief Antonia Diaz, had an action in the river with 16 of the enemy's ves. sels belonging to Guayana, and after a most bloody engagement the Royalists sheered off, leaving behind them three vessels, which fell into the hands of the Patriots. On this occasion the Royalists also lost four other vessels, which were sunk, and about 200 men killed and wounded. Admiral Brien, on the 12th of July anchored off Cabrian, two leagues from the capital of Old Guayana. His squadron consisted of 16 vessels of war, which were immediately put under three batteries, for this purpose, constructed with heavy artillery. The arrival of this nar val reinforcement spread the greatest consternation among the Royalists. A Council of War was held, and it was determined to embark all their riches on board of 25 vessels still left, and endeavour to cut their way through the line of the Patriots, and proceed down the river. All the arrangements being made, on the 3d inst. (Aug.) they left the castles, and approached the line of the Patriots, which they found well fortified. The greater part of their vessels were captured as they passed the line; some few, however, escaped, which the light vessels of the Patriots pursued, and partly captured.-By the fall of the two Guayanas and the capture of the fleet, an immense amount of property has devolved upon the Patriots. Thus have the agents of Ferdinand themselves prepared for the Patriots all the elements necessary to form a respectable navy and army. The Island of Java has suffered from the eruptions of a burning mountain, attended with all the accompaniments of an earthquake. The waters rose to an unusual height, and trees were thrown down from the mountains. Two other mountains sunk into the earth, carrying with them their unfortunate inhabitants. British Compendium. A distinguished Patriot General is arrived in town from the Spanish Main, for the purchase of large ships, in order to be converted into ships of war, to compose a respectable navy.There is no want of dollars to carry into effect his great object-The recruits are marching openly for Patriot service by dozens through London, every day, to be shipped off for the Spanish Colonies-This, and other circumstances, will give some idea how nearly the Patriots in South America are ap. proximating to their wished-for independence. Ships continue to be equipped in the river for the purpose of conveying officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, to aid the Patriots in South America. At present one vessel is quite ready to sail, having on board officers fully equipped, and 200 privates, to form a rifle corps. Another is in a forward state of preparation, and has appointments for a cavalry regi. ment, 600 strong; a third is freighted for the equipments of a lancer's corps. The officers are all men who have seen active service, and are of every rank, from Lieut.-Colonels to Ensigns. Letters from St. Petersburgh mention, that immense quantities of hemp, flax, and tallow, cannot be shipped on account of the scarcity of vessels. The Sound List mentions the sailing of from 2 to 300 ships, for the higher parts of the Baltic, The Emperor Alexander has published an ukaise, announc. ing that no recruits will be required this year for the Russian army. A letter from Russia says, "For a long time no intelligence has excited so much sensation at St. Petersburgh, as the murder of Czerny Georges, on the Turkish territory; and, as it appears, with the approbation of the Turkish Government. It forms the general subject of conversation; and even those who consider the reciprocal relations of Russia and the Porte, in a comprehensive manner, are of opinion that this event may have serious consequences; and look forward to a rupture between the two Powers, if the Porte do not submit to the conditions which, it is understood, Russia has required shall be acceded to."-See page 1st. The King of Naples has issued a Decree, prohibiting any of his subjects from applying to the Pope for dispensations, briefs, or rescripts, without his consent; and directing that no Papal Bull shall have effect in the Neapolitan territories, without his Majesty's exequatur. Such a proceeding on the part of a Protestant Prince would be quite in character; but in a Catholic, who believes the Pope to be the inspired and infallible successor of St. Peter and St. Paul, it appears extremely inconsistent. BIBLE SOCIETIES. The thirteenth Annual Report of the British and Foreign Bi ble Society contains the following specimen of the contributions in Scotland: Edinburgh 17001. Fife and Kinross 5001. Ayrshire 2501. Dumfrieshire 2401 Aberdeen 2401. Dundee 2001. Elginshire 1001. Clackmannanshire 721. Montrose 651. Arbroath 501. Buchan 501. Brechin 351. Forfar and Strathmore 301. Beith Female Society 301. &c.-The whole contributions of the year, inclusive of what was returned in Bibles and Testaments, amount to 80,2301. The Treasurer of the Ayrshire Auxiliary Bible Society has received from the Kilmarnock Branch Society, L.70 10s. 5d.from the Ardrossan and Stevenston Bible Society, L.35-from the Kilbride Branch of do. L.10-from the Largs Auxiliary Bible Society, L.30-from the Cumnock Bible Association, L.16 10s. from the Newton Female Bible Association, L.30 19s.from Whitletts Female Bible Association, L.6 11s.-and from the Newton Sabbath Evening School, L.1-These are examples of pious benevolence worthy of imitation. It appears from the Report of the Russian Bible Society, dated the 18th of June last, that the Committee of the Society had entered into engagements to circulate 13,000 copies of the Holy Scriptures in seventeen different languages, making a total of 196,000 copies.The Committee completed, in the course of 1816, an edition of 10,000 Sclavonian Bibles, 10,000 ditto New Testaments, 5000 Finlandic, 5000 French, 5000 of the New Testament in Samoyede.-The number of copies of the Bible and Testament distributed in 1816, was 19,481, |