God to man. His subject is the of the servants at his father's fate of worlds, the revolution of gate, standing round a fortuneHeaven and Earth; rebellion a-teller, who pretended, at least, to gainst the supreme King, raised be deaf and dumb, and, for a small by the highest order of created gratification, wrote on the bottom beings; the overthrow of their host and the punishment of their enemies, the creation of a new race of reasonable creatures; their original happiness and innocence; their forfeiture of immortality, and their restoration to hope and peace. Here is a full display of the united force of study and genius, of a greater accumulation of materials, with judgment to direct, and fancy to combine them. His large works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness; but difficulties vanish at his touch: he was born for whatever is arduous, and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems only because it is not the first." Great as is this praise which is bestowed by the elegant critic above-mentioned, it does not go beyond the just bounds of truth and justice. MILTON with SHAKSPEARE will descend to ages yet to come, as stars who have brightened and adorned the literature of their country. CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF of a trencher, with a bit of chalk, answers to such questions as the men and maids put to him, by the same method. As Sir William rode by, the conjurer made signs that he was inclined to tell his fortune as well as the rest, and in good humour he would have complied, but not readily finding a question to ask, the conjurer took up the trencher, and writing upon it, gave it back with these words very legible, "Beware of a white horse!" Sir William smiled at the absurdity of the man, and thought no more of it, for several years. But in 1690, being on his travels in Italy, and accidentally at Venice, as he was one day passing through St. Mark's Place in his calash, he observed a more than ordinary crowd at one corner of it. He desired the driver to stop, and they found it was occasioned by a mountebank, who also pretended to tell fortunes; conveying his several predictions to the people by means of a long tube of tin, which he lengthened or curtailed, at pleasure, as occasion required. Among others, Sir William Wyndham held up a piece of money: upon which the soothsayer immediately directed to his carriage, and said to him Sir William Wyndham, when a young man, had been out one day at a stag hunt. In returning from the sport, he found several very distinctly in Italian,-"Sig nor Inglise, cavate ill blanco consequence of the accession of the house of Brunswick; and just as Sir William's chariot was passing Tower, then in the chariot with him, and to almost every one that came to see him in his confinement; and though not superstitious, he spoke of it always as a prophecy fully accomplished,➡ But here he was mistaken (if there was any thing prophetic in it) for many years after, being out a hunting, he had the misfortune to be thrown from his saddle, in leaping a ditch, by which accident he broke his neck, and what was the more extraordinary, he rode upon a "white horse" when the acci, cavillo;" which in English, is, "Mr. Englishman beware of a white horse." Sir William im-through to carry him to prison, mediately recollected what had the painter was at work adding been before told him, and took it the "white horse," the arms of for granted that the British for-the Electorate of Hanover. It tune,teller, had made his way over struck Sir William forcibly: he to the continent, where he had immediately recollected the two found his speech, and was curious singular predictions, and mentito know the truth of it. How-oned them to the Lieutenant of the ever, upon enquiry, he was assured that the present fellow had never been out of Italy; nor did he understand any other language than his mother tongue. Sir William was surprised, and mentioned so whimsical a circumstance to several persons, but in a short time, this also went out of his head, like the former prediction of the same kind, We need inform few of our readers of the share which Sir William Wyndham had in the transactions of government during the last four years of Queen Anne; in which a design dent happened! to restore the son of James II. to that throne which his father had so justly forfeited, was undoubtedly concerted, and, on King George's arrival, punished, by forcing into banishment, or put, ting in prison all the persons supposed to have entered into the combination. Among the latter of these was Sir Wm. Wyndham, who, in the year 1715, was committed to the Tower. Over the river gate were the arms of Great Britain, in which there was now some alteration to be made, in Very devotedly your's, Logic Lane, Oxford, TRUTH AND FICTION. (Continued from page 40.) 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