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INDEX.

Agricultural Experiments, 20
A Little Hurly-burly, 130
Advantages of the Sexes Associa-

ting, 237
Accession Dinner, 269
Anecdotes, 287

Adventures of a Beggar, 339
Day in London, 362
Madrid, 364

An Allegory, 408
Apparitions, 418

Anecdote, from a French Work,

466

Complaint of the Dying Year,

360

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Prayers, 357

Pompey's Pillar, 358
Pastoral Life and Infidelity of

Shepherds, 420

Pavilion, British Court, &c., 457
Questions, 376
Remarkable Discovery in Gal-
licia, 224

Rencontre between a Missionary

and a Tiger, 292
Remarkable Anecdote of a Sheep,

344

Happiness, 143

Mercury, 189

Mount Hecla, 222

Ætna, 298

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The French Soldier, 432

The Birth of a Poesy, 435

The Funeral, 436

The Two Heroines, 481

The Oak, 196

Sal Sapit Omnia, ib

Extempore, ib.

Epigram, 197

Vaults of St. Michan's, Dublin, Paradox, ib

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Impromptu, ib.

Lines written under a Lady's

name, 258

The Invitation, ib.

Epigram, 259

The Primrose, 319

Epigram, 320

Battle Song of a German Sol-
dier's Mistress, 321

Fragment, ib

'Tis Fancy governs all, 322
Lines written in Richmond

Church-yard, 385

Riddle, 387
The Rubber, ib.
Remember Thee, 450

Sonnet, 450, 451

Riddle, 452

A Highland Coronach, 453
Solution to a Riddle, ib.

Lines from Little's Poems, 507

Law-suits, ib.

Adam's Lament over the dead Sonnet on the Recovery of

body of Eve, ib.

The Sybyl's Tomb, 157

Madrigal, ib.

The Rebel, 195

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For some time past, there has appeared to exist a regretted difference in opinion and action, between the Magistracy, who hold their sittings, twice a-week, in this town, and the legally constituted and numerous body of Local Commissioners. This difference, in an abstracted point of view, has puzzled many to account for, and may puzzle many more, who merely content themselves with looking at the surface of things. To render the matter, therefore, more easy of comprehension, a slight retrospect is necessary. The fashionable celebrity of our town, every one knows, is but of recent origin-less than sixty years ago, it was little better than a mere village, and its revenue chiefly depended upon its fishery. The salubrity of its situation -proximity to the metropolis, and other causes, at length, brought it into fostering notice, and the resuscitating rays of royalty completed what fashion, in pursuit of health, had begun. The government of the place, of course, was with the democracy; but loyalty, vivid and active in its principle, was never absent from its councils. As the place rose in importance, and increased its population, an Act of Parliament was obtained for its government, with executive vested in the body called Commissioners. This Act, as the town enlarged, after a lapse of years, was con

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