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A CHARADE.

My first does affliction denote,
Which my second is destined to feel;
And my whole is the best antidote,
That affliction to soften and heal.
C. Fox. 


So long as public men, in public stations, exert themselves in those situations, to fulfil the duty demanded from them by the public, they will always find the British nation ready to heap upon them the utmost extent of its gratitude and its applause. . Lord Nelson.


To weep he blush'd not! well it suits his woes,
For pity's tear from valour's fountain Hows.


On the death of a natural child, murdered by its mother.

Translated from the Latin.

While love to give thee birth o'er shame succeeds,
From shame, tho' love implores, the victim bleeds.


He was pruden rather than wise, and so fearful of doing wrong, the' -ie seldom did right.