Hail, holy maids! in many a ruder clime,
Than that of fairy Greece, ye linger still;
Still proudly triumph o'er the spell of time,
O'er war, o'er glory, gained from human ill;
And they, who once fame's loudest blast could fill,
Less than the humblest votary of your smile,
Now in some narrow grave forgotten dwell-

But HE, the gathering wrinkle can beguile

From Time's old brow, and seize immortal youth the while.
Are not these turrets symbols of your power?
For whom the pomp of that sepulchral cell?—
Warriors, and priests, and sages,-that their hour,
Their passing hour, have filled, and filled it well;
Warriors, who tamed the proud, the infidel;

Priests, who have led the erring soul to God;
Sages admired-yea loved; long tablets tell

Their fame, and gaudy scutcheons their abode

Yet who for thought of them, these halls and aisles hath trod.

No! no! they do not give these towers their charms,
'Tis not for them, that wandering strangers come,

That genius lingers, beauty's bosom warms—
They warm, they linger, o'er a poet's tomb.
Yes! holy maids! that poet's hallow'd doom-
Hallow'd, if generous virtues may atone
For human frailty-shall your lamp relume,

Your shrine restore, in scenes to fame unknown,
And many a breast, now cold, the potent spell shall own.

G. 23, 1831. GEORGE BLOOMFIELD DIED, ÆTAT. 73. The elder brother of Robert Bloomfield, who at one period held much correspondence with the distinguished patrons of his brother. He was a ladies' shoemaker, and lived in an obscure court, near Coleman-street, London, working with four others in a garret, when Robert, at the age of fifteen, was consigned to his care by their mother, who charged him as “he valued a mother's blessing, to watch over him, to set good

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examples for him, and never to forget that he had lost his father." George Bloomfield died at Bury St. Edmund's, where he had lived many years on the dependence of a few kind and humane friends.

25. CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL.

This festival was instituted very early. Pope Innocent III. commanded it to be kept with great solemnity; and it is mentioned as a solemn festival in the Council of Oxford held in the reign of Henry III. in the year 1222.

Of the event which this day commemorates, the following account is given in the History of the Life and Opinions of the apostle Paul :-"The miracle afforded for the conviction of Paul, arrested him on a journey from Jerusalem to Damascus, (the capital of Syria, about an hundred miles north of the former city,) when he meditated destruction to the disciples of Christ in that place. For this cruel purpose, he was clothed with authority by the chief priests; and it must be confessed, that they could not have chosen one more ready to execute the commission. He seems to have held the name of Jesus in abhorrence-for he considered him an enemy to Moses, an impious impostor, and a leader of ignorant levellers. Alas! what mistakes, what absurdities, what crimes, have been produced by prejudice! But Jesus knew his sincerity, and had compassion on his ignorance. An extraordinary light from Heaven shone upon the deluded persecutor; and the voice of Jesus addressed him in accents both of remonstrance and mercy; and interrogated, why it was that he opposed his cause? As might be supposed, this supernatural event astonished and subdued the zealous youth. He

desired instruction and direction. The miracle convinced him that Jesus was the Messiah, and that he had been opposing the messenger of the God of Israel, whom he worshipped, and acknowledged as the only true God. To this heavenly call, he says he was not disobedient. Nor did he confer with flesh and blood. On this occasion he was deprived of his sight for several days, and continued fasting and praying during the same time. But there were already many disciples of Jesus at Damascus, and one of them was specially directed to visit Paul in his perplexity, to restore him to sight, and to give him instruction, suited to his present condition. As soon as he was restored to his usual health, and to his sight, he associated with the Christians residing there, who received him with great joy, though with some hesitation at first, until assured of his sincerity. The unbelieving Jews were astonished and confounded by this event, and it was the topic of conversation among all classes of the people."

26, 1831. RICHARD PAUL JODRELL DIED, ÆTAT. 85.

Mr. Jodrell was born on the 13th of November, 1745, and received his education at Eton, and at Hertford College, Oxford. His attachment to classical studies was evinced by his various publications. He contributed largely to the Supplementary Notes of Potter's Eschylus, printed in 1778; in 1781 he published, in two volumes, Illustrations of Euripides on the Ion and Baccha; and in 1790, another volume, On the Alcestis.

Mr. Jodrell also wrote several dramatic pieces, none of which, however, attained much popularity. In 1784 he became a member of the Club held at the Essex Head, for the purpose of cheering the declining days of Dr. Johnson, and it is believed that he and Mr. Clark, who died a few days before him, were the last survivors of that celebrated literary frater

nity. In 1772 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society; n 1784 of the Society of Antiquaries; and 1793 was created D. C. L. at Oxford. For a short period he sat in parliament for the borough of Seaford With advancing years the mind of Mr. Jodrell had become obscured, and from the ar 1822 he gradually sunk, until he reached total and absolute ncapacity. It became necessary, from attempts made on his impaired understanding, to throw legal protection over his person and property, which was effected, after the proper investigation, before a commission de lunatico inquisrendo. In this unfortunate state he remained during the remainder of his life.

27, 1773. DUKE OF SUSSEX BORN.

30, 1649. KING CHARLES 1. MARTYR.

His martyrdom was a civil and political one. He need not have ascended the scaffold would he have betrayed the liberties and plundered the wealth of the nation. The King alluded to this extraordinary fact on his trial. Once turning himself to Bradshaw, and fixing his eyes on some persons near him, Charles said, "There are some sitting here that well know that if 1 would have forfeited or betrayed the liberties and rights of the people, I need not have come hither."-D'Israeli's Commentaries on Charles I.

In the same work is given an affecting picture of the sufferings of the King in his latter days." The military life of Charles the First exhibited a singular series of personal exertions, often in a state of miserable deprivation, hardly to be paralleled in the history of any other monarch or man. His painful marches, and his fugitive life, were a tribulation of nearly four laborious and afflicted years—and his two last was past in the awful repose of his imprisonment. A curious record, kept by

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one who had been his daily attendant, has the following entries: The King and his party sometimes lodged in a bishop's palace, or at the seat of a lord, or a country gentleman, and at a merchant's abode, but not unusually at a yeoman's house,' and 'a very poor man's house.'Dinner in the field,' is a very usual entry, but the melancholy one of no dinner this day' is repeated for successive days. Sunday no dinner, supper at Worcester, a cruel day.' This march lasted from six in the morning till midnight, a long march over the mountains.' His Majesty lay in the field all night, in his coach, on Bonnock Down.' The King had his meat and drink dressed at a poor widow's.""

The accompanying vignette represents Shaw House, near Newbury in Berkshire, the head quarters of Charles after the battle of Newbury. A hole in the wainscot of a window in the library is still carefully preserved; tradition asserting that it was made by a shot that narrowly missed the King whilst dressing. A basket of shot is likewise kept, that was gathered about the premises at