TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD.

Truth is always consistent mith itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.—Tillotson.

Miscellany.

THE DESIRE OF FAME.

Great kings and conquering nations have been the subject of these ancient histories, which have been preserved, and yet remain among us, and withall of so many tragical poets, as, in the persons of powerful princes and other mighty men, have complained against infidelity, time, destiny, and, most of all, against the variable success of worldly things and instability of fortune. To these undertakings these great lords of the world have been stirred up, rather by the desire of fame, which ploweth up the air and soweth in the wind, than by the affection of bearing rule, which draweth after it so much vexation and so many cares. And that this is true, the good advice of Cineas to Pyrrhus proves. And certainly as fame hath often been dangerous to the living, so to the dead it is of no use at all, because separate from knowledge: which were it otherwise, and the extreme ill bargain of buying this lasting discourse understood by them which are dissolved, they themselves would then rather have wished to have stolen out of the world without noise, than to be put in mind that they have purchased the report of their actions in the world by rapine, oppression, and cruelty, by giving in spoil the innocent and labouring soul to the idle and insolent, and by having emptied the cities of the world of their ancient inhabitants, and filled them again with so many varia. ble sorts of sorrows.-Sir Walter Raleigh.

A COMPLIMENT TO A STATUE.

They tell us that Michael Angelo once found the following graceful compliment written on the pedestal of his beautiful statue of Night-represented as a sleeping woman—in the Grand Duke's Gallery at Florence:

"La Notte che tu vedi in sì dolci atti
Dormire, fu da un Angelo scolpita

In questo sasso; e perchè dorme ha vita;
Destala se no'l credi, e parleratti."

The poetical artist immediately answered the lines with these; supposed to be spoken by the statue herself-in her sleep.

"Grato m'è il sonno, ma piu l'esser di sasso,
Mentre che il dauno e la vergogna dura;

Non veder e non sentir m'è gran ventura,
Però non mi destar-deh! parla basso."

We add here the translations of these verses by Mr. Bland, for the benefit of those of our readers who cannot enjoy the originals in the Italian-or even if they can—for it is always pleasant to compare.

Inscription on the Statue of Night.

"Night in this lovely posture you behold.
An Angel's art to rugged marble gives

This slumbering form. Because she sleeps, she lives.

Doubt you? Then wake her; by herself be told."

B.

The Answer.

"Grateful is sleep-but more to be of stone,

While guilt and shame upon the earth appear.
My lot is happy nor to see nor hear:

Then wake me not-I fain would slumber on."

B.

We add also the following translations by another hand,

which some of our readers may perhaps like better: or they will at least vary the pleasure.

Inscription.

This lovely Night, so soft and meek,
Was fashioned by an Angel's hand;
Of stone; but sleeps, you understand,
So lives; awake her and she'll speak.
The Answer.

'Tis sweet to me to sleep-and so

In stone-while crimes and woes abound,
And fill the waking world around,
I would not see nor hear-speak low.

POETRY AND RELIGION.

The poetry of our thoughts, like our religion, is apt to be kept apart from our every day lives; neither influences us as it ought to do. We should be wiser and happier if instead of secluding them in some secret shrine in our hearts, we suffered their hu manizing qualities to temper our habitual words and actions.

ANNE AND JANE.

Anne and Jane are such a pair

I could fancy either fair,

And to either plight my troth;~

So I must be false to both.

Martial Minor.

IN VINO VERITAS.

In Vino Veritas-in wine is truth:
Hear this old saw, ye gay and giddy youth,
Nor drink too freely, lest ye should reveal
What ye would do more wisely to conceal.

Mentor

LORD CORNWALLIS'S ACCOUNT OF HIS CAMPAIGN IN VIRGINIA, IN 1781.

[We have here before us, at this time, a small volume entitled "An Answer to that Part of the Narrative of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton, K. B., which relates to the Conduct of Lieutenant General Earl Cornwallis, During the Campaign in North America, in the year 1781. By Earl Cornwallis. London: Printed for J. Debrett, (successor to Mr. Almon.) opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly. 1783. 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 260; and we propose to give our readers so much of this publication as relates to his Lordship's famous campaign in our State in 1781, or at least what we think the best part of it, as the whole would be quite too long for our pages. With this view, we submit now what his lordship calls "The Introduction," and which explains his reasons for coming into our State; and we shall follow it up, in our next number, with several of his Letters to General Clinton, in which he describes his movements within our limits, until the final surrender of his post and army at York Town; all which we think our readers will find highly interesting.]

THE INTRODUCTION.

The feelings, which dictate this publication, have originated from the contents of a Narrative, signed by Sir Henry Clinton, late Commander in Chief in America. In which

Narrative, events are attributed to my conduct during the campaign of 1781, which, I trust, it will appear, were by no means the unavoidable consequences of any part of it.

The materials, hitherto produced, cannot be deemed complete, either in form or substance. There were many deficiencies in the papers laid before the House of Lords; in particular, four letters, dated July the 24th, August the 16th, 20th, and 22d, from me to Sir Henry Clinton, were wanting; one of which contained my reasons at large for undertaking the march into Virginia: This omission, as the Secretary of State informed the House, was owing to their not having been transmitted by the Commander in Chief. Four other letters (three of them dated the 2d, 27th, and 30th of August, and one the 14th, 15th, and 18th of October) from Sir Henry Clinton to me, were read to the Lords, according to the order of their dates; although they were only delivered to me, by the Secretary to the Commander in Chief, in the latter end of November, at NewYork, above a month after my surrender; and consequently, their contents could not influence my conduct in any

manner.

I own I am perfectly aware of the impropriety of publishing official letters for private reasons; but since the measures with respect to America have now undergone a total change, I hope, I shall in some degree stand excused for producing the whole correspondence, in my possession, relative to the principal transactions of that campaign; as it is the most candid and complete mode, in my power, of submitting them to the public consideration.

The pernsal of this Correspondence will, I think, render not only the military, but every other reader a competent judge of the propriety of my conduct, either when I acted under positive orders, pressing contingeucies, or discretionary powers.