INDEX. Agricultural Experiments, 20 ting, 237 Adventures of a Beggar, 339 An Allegory, 408 Anecdote, from a French Work, 466 Biblical Curiosities, 30 Bankrupts, 4, 78, 118, 158, 198, Benefit of Presence of Mind, 175 Court and Fashionable, 4, 44, 84, Corn Markets, 80, 120, 160, 200, Chinese Justice and Mercy, 141 Character of the principal Na- Cross Readings, 275, 424 Complaint of the Dying Year, 360 Dissection of a Beau's Head, 498 Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, 23 Extraordinary Circumstance, 300 Fleurette, 103 Frederick the Great Defeated, 148 Information, 207, 271,333 Life and Reign of Charles I., 13, Miscellanies, 33, 72, 112, 151, Marriages, Births, and Deaths, Mountain of Miseries, 91 Prayers, 357 Pompey's Pillar, 358 Shepherds, 420 Pavilion, British Court, &c., 457 Rencontre between a Missionary and a Tiger, 292 344 On the Music of Nature, 27 Opening a Mound, and Discovery of Skeletons, 69 Parias and Pooleahs of the Hin- 126 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 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- Fragment, ib 'Tis Fancy governs all, 322 Church-yard, 385 Riddle, 387 Sonnet, 450, 451 Riddle, 452 A Highland Coronach, 453 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 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 |