Cornwallis, and received in return, the command of the royal regiment of Horfe Guards Blue. Soon after this, he retired from public life, and refided chiefly at the family-feat in Suffex. Goodwood was, by his care, and under his own immediate infpection, in part rebuilt, and confiderably enlarged by the addition of two fine wings. The bricks were made out of his own earth, and by his own workmen. The timber was felled, measured, and cut out, under his eye, and all the eftimates prepared with a degree of accuracy and correctnefs that would have done credit to any builder in the kingdom, Of late, the health of this nobleman has been on the decline, and he may be fairly faid to have been dying for the last Axteen months. At length his conftitution yielded in the ftruggle, and he re figned his life at his favourite manfion of Goodwood, in the 71ft year of his Age. While famming up the character of the Duke of Richmond, he must be allowed to have been one of the greatest men of his day, and to have derived this greatness neither from his rank, which was eminent, nor his fortune, which he had, by a prudent economy in his eftablifhment, greatly increafed, but by his talents and abilities alone. He commenced his education as an orator at the India Houfe, and was at fint but little efteemed on the fcore of eloquence.• It must be allowed, that It has been faid, that the witty Charles Townshend having been afked what he thought of his firit fpeech, which proved a pretty long one, he replied, that it reTembled a diabetes, as it proceeded entirely from weakness of parts." he never, at any period of his life, acquired an eafy flow of language, or was enabled to call into his aid thofe happy allufions, or that claflical imagery, with which the minds of fome of his contemporaries were fully ftored. But his arrangement was judicious; his facts pointed; his charges manly; his accufations bold, and it may be added, generally unaufwerable. All this, however, applies to an early period of his life, when young, ardent, and in Oppofition; for, after his Grace had fully attained the objects of his ambition, he appears to have been lefs fortunate in his fpeeches, and lefs happy in the fubject of them, as they were generally occupied with the defence of the political conduct of his colleague Mr. Pitt, or his own fchemes of fortification, whieh feemed calculated, according to the opinion of many able men, to lull the nation into a state of heedlefs fecurity, and render our attention to the Navy but a fecondary object. The remains of the Duke were in-. terred, January 1807, in the family-vault at the Cathedral-church of Chichefter. The infcription on the central plate of the coffin was as follows: The Most Noble Prince CHARLES, And High Steward of Chickefter; Born 22d of February, 1735, qalalari bila je 2044 ORIGINAL POETRY. cik ketdilan! W IRREGULAR ODE TO THE MOON, By the Late THOMAS DERMODY! Now, when faint purpling o'er the western The lord of day his faded luftre weaves, O! let me woo thee, from thy fapphire 25 € (farine ; To my rapt eye thy fnowy breaft difplay. The manquil paufe, the ecstacy divine, The poet's fabling fancy told, To tafte immortal love in mortal arme. Averfe to amorous pangs and ruder joy Nor to another bard deny witcheries of the Mufe are The mikinefs of thy front, the fondness of Monthly Mag, No. 153, thing eve! Lo! from thy beamy quiver fati Arrowy points, that pierce the ground, And light the glow-worm's twinkling lamp; O'erthe pale lake's margin damp The fiery phantoms dance around, Till feared by frolic Echo's cavern'd call, They burst their circle, fhudd'ring flit away, And meltingly in thy wan veil of humid light decay. Oft let me, by the dimpled stream, The folemn hour of midnight fpend; For ftrife is his, and mad'ning war, And deaf'ning tumult, never mute: But on thy filent-moving car Wait Peace, and dew cy'd Pity's tender train, And Love, fweet warbling to the foothing Aute, What though, beneath thy startled fight The hideous hag of night Gores with deep lafh her vifionary mare; Or, brooding on some beauteous breast, Chills the cramp'd vein, and ftops the liberal courfe Of Nature, wither'd by the powerful peft, Who, grappling on the heart with tyger-force Her flethlefs fangs, beholds with iron ftare Each struggling pant of weak despair, And gluts with (mother'd fhrieks the demon ear: Soon fades the bafeless spell, Soon drops th' ideal arm its harpy hold; And fmiles to feel her frame by fancy' There the calm, the folemn hour, Are alfo thine; The free embrace that tells the heart fincere, Aloof his dubious dull attendants draws, Lo! on thy lucid vault of spotless blue How, mingling, melts the humid glow Of blended colours, in one matchlefs blaze, Studding with golden rays The fplendid cope, where theeted wide Thee, too, the fwelling Ocean meets with pride; And, as he heaves his azure breast, Courts from thy kindling glance the vivifying gleam Which bids his fparkling furges fhine, In borrow'd beauties dreft, Till, in the boundless mirror, thou can't fee Thee ever praifing, ever fed by thee! O! parent of each nobler deed, Thy midnight counfels, in his country's right Bid the patriot dare to bleed; Thy plasid fcene. of undisturb'd delight Awake, Awake th' ecftatic lyre ; Though obfolete, alas! thy line, Thy fcenes, where Peace and hermit Wifdom And doomed in cold neglect to shine, hoar For holy intercourse retire, To thun of waffail noife th' unmeaning roar ; That Will Omnipotent, whofe fteady arm And, providently pleas'd with all, Breath'd o'er thy favorite face an inexpreffive charm! LINES ADDRESSED TO CHAUCER, SOUTHWARK, WHERE THE PILGRIMS BY PETER PINDAR, Esq. OLD jocund bard, I never pafs And midft the bands a jovial host, That cleans from Satan's foot the foul: hit referved for me alone Ob then be formed a club of fame And let me join the choral throng. what though, obfolete, thy phrafe thee 1 ftrive to charm our isle ; By me fhall Chaucer be rever'd; THE PERSIAN LOVER. THE fportive zephyr plumes his wing He mark'd not when sweet buds unfold; In lilies' bells, and cups of gold, Which ftring the new-blown jonquil's fles And hang at eve, in lucid gems, The gloom of night, the blush of morn, And apt his lute's enchanting found There, while the shepherds figh'd in vajn, Since the falfe Azza mocks my pain, I'll quit the roseate vale, To check the whispering gale, From grots, and moffy dell, They feem to check this fond delay, Some mountain cave I'll quickly feek, And when the dawn is overcast, O'er dangerous rocks I'll fray; And lightnings round me play. H R. M. SONNET Why tarrieft thou, my pretty bird? Cold is the midnight air; Tarry not then, my pretty bird; Why tarrieft thou, my pretty bird, Why tarrieft thou, my pretty bird? Tarry not then, my pretty bird; Though all thy friends are flown, P. P. & PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. Mbefore the Royal Society fome R. EVERARD HOME has laid obfervations on the camel's ftoinach, refpecting the water it contains, and the refervoirs in which that fluid is enclofed, with an account of fomne peculiarities in the urine. The camel, the fubject of thefe obfervations, was a female brought from Arabia; it was 28 years old, and faid to have been 20 years in England. It appears that the auitual was worn out, and in a ftate of great debility before it came into the hands of the college of furgeons, and in April laft they put an end to its miferies by means of a narrow double-edged poniard paffed in between the fkull and first vertebræ of the neck: in this way the medulla oblongata was divided, and the animal instantaneously deprived of fentibility." In the common mode of pithing an animal, fays Mr. Home, the medalla fpinalis only is cut through, and the head remains alive, which renders it the most cruel mode of killing an animal that could be invented." The ftomachs of this animal were the first things examined, and on meaturing the capacities of thefe different refervoirs in the dead body, the anterior cells of the first fto much were found capable of containing one quart of water, when poured into them. The pofterior cells, three quarts, One of the largest cells held two ounces and a half, and the fecond ftomach four quarts. This is much thort of what thofe cavities can contain in the living animal, fince there are large mufcles covering the bottom of the cellular ftructure, to force out the water, which muft have been contracted immediately after death, and by that means had diminished the cavities. By this examination it was proved that the came', when it drinks, conducts the water in a pure itate into the fecond ftomach, that part of it is retained there, and the rett runs over into the cellular fracture of the firft, acquiring a yellow colour. That the fecond ftomach in the camel contained water, had been generally alerted; but by what means the water was kept feparate from the food had never been explained, nor had any other part been difcovered, by which the common otices of a fecond flomach could be performed, To this Mr. Hunter did not not give credit, but confidered the fecoud ftomach of the camel to correfpond in its ufe with that of other ruminants. This difference of opinion led Mr. Home to examine accurately the camel's tomach, and also the stomachs of those ruminants which have horns, in order to determine the peculiar offices belonging to their different cavities. The belt mode of communicating the refult of this enquiry is to defcribe the different ftomachs of the bullock, and then thofe of the camel, and afterwards to point out the peculiarities by which this animal is euabled to go a longer time without drink than others, and thereby fitted to live in thofe fandy deferts of which it is the na ¡ural inhabitant. When the first ftomach of the bullock is laid open, and the folid contents removed, the cavity appears to be made up of two large compartments, feparated from each other by two tranfverfe bands of confiderable thickness, and the fecond ftomach forms a pouch or leffer compartment, on the anterior part of it, rather to the right of the oefophagus, fo that the first and fecond ftomach are both included in one general cavity, and lined with a cuticle. The cefophagus appears to open into the firft ftomach, but on each fide of its termination there is a mufcular ridge, projecting from the coats of the first ftomach, fo as to form a channel into the fecond. Thefe mufcular bands are continued on to the orifice of the third ftomach, in which they are loit. The food can readily pafs from the cefophagus, either into the general cavity of the first ftomach or into the fecond, which laft is peculiarly fitted by its fituation; and the mufcular power of its coats both to throw up its contents into the mouth, and to receive a fupply from the general cavity of the firft ftomach at the will of the animal. The fecond ftomach contains the fame food as the firft, only more moift; it must therefore be confidered as a thelf from which the food may, be regurgitated along the canal, continued from the cefophagus. There is indeed no other mode by which this can he effected, fince it is hardly poffible for the animal to feparate finall portions from the furface of the mafs of dry food in the frit stomach, and force it up into the mouth. It is also ascertained that water mais received into the second stomach while the unimal is drinking, and is thus enabed to have its contents always in a profate of moillure to admit of its being wadily thrown up into the mouth for ru mination, which feems to be the true office of this ftomach, and not to receive. the food after that procefs has been gone through. When the food is fwallowed the fecond time, the orifice of the third ftomach is brought forwards by the muscular bands, which terminate in it, fo as to oppofe the end of the cefophagus, and receive the morfel without the malleft risk of its dropping into the third ftomach. The third ftomach of the bullock is a cavity in the form of a crefcent, containing 24 fepta, 7 inches broad; about 23.4 inches broad; and about 48 of 14 inch at their broadeft part. Thefe are thus arranged: one broad one, with one of the narrowest next it; then a narrow one, with one of, the narroweft next it; then a broad one, and fo on. The fepta are thin membranes, and have their origin in the orifice leading from the cefophagus, fo that whatever, paffes into the cavity muft fall between thefe fepta, and defcribe three-fourths of a circle, before it can arrive at the orifice leading to the true fiomach, which is fo near the other, that the distance between them does not exceed three inches: and therefore the direct line from the termnination of the cefophagus to the orifice of the fourth ftomach is only of that length. While the young calf is fed on milk, that liquor, which does not require to be ruminated, is conveyed directly to the fourth ftomach, not palling through the plica of the third; and afterwards the folid, food is directed into that cavity, by the plice being feparated from each other. The third ftomach opens into the fourth by a projecting valvular orifice, and the cuticular lining terminates exactly on the edge of this valve, covering only that half of it, which belongs to the third. The fourth or true digefting ftomach is about 2 feet 9 inches long: its internal membrane has 18 plica beginning at its prifice, and continued down, increaling to a great degree its internal furface: beyond thefe the internal membrane is thrown into ruga which follow a very ferpentine direction, and clofe to the pylorus there is a glandular projection, one end of which is oppofed to the orifice, and closes, it up, when in a collapfed itate. The camel's ftomach, anteriorly forms one large bag, but when laid open is forced to be divided into two compartments on its pofterior part, by a trong ridge which palles down from the right fide of the orifice of the oefophagus in a longitudinal direction. On the left fide of the termination of the cefophagus, broad |