THE HERMIT.

PILGRIM AND HUNTER.

Pilgrim loquitur.

Where dwells your pious Hermit, good St. Eustace ?

Hunter.

That cell's his home, there, musing, will he sit
And watch the bubbles of yon gurgling rill,
In meditation lost: calm holiness

Beams from his tranquil eye-the crucifix
Oft kiss'd in pious rapture, and the beads
(Dependent from his venerable neck),
The lone companions of his solitude.

The village hinds with reverence greet the sage,
Whene'er, perchance, they cross his lonely path,
And awe-struck children pause, and bow their heads
In token of respect. Still there are some

Who think that coward conscience racks his breast;
That many a crime, done in the lust of youth,
Disturbs the tranquil eve of mortal life.-
Strange tales of mystery catch the vulgar ear,
And Superstition finds a ready soil

To graft her legends on, among the poor
Untutored rustics of these distant wilds.

But I deem time more "sinned against than sinning,"

As does our pastor; for at yonder cross

He's oft a suppliant, and, on bended knee,

Pours forth his prayers and thanks to heaven's high port, Invoking pardon for his worldly foes.

EPIGRAM.

While her cheeks youth's glow display
Maria's teeth do wear away,

Some say, and truly say, no doubt,

Her ceaseless tongue 'tis wears them out.

6. C.

BANKKUPTS.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19.-W. Middleton, Liverpool, tea dealer. -J. Wood, Bishopsgate-street, grocer.-O. Mills, Warwick, wine merchant.-J. Buckley, Hollingreave, Saddleworth, York, woollen cloth manufacturer.-J. Cayme, jun. and T. B. Watts, Yeovel, Somerset, spirit merchants.-J. Day, Fenchurch-street, merchant.-J. Durham, Lower Shadwell-street, butcher.-W. B. White, Strand, draper.-G. D. Clark, Strand, merchant.-C. Chambers, Steel-yard, Upper Thames-street, ironmonger.-E. Weaver, Bristol, ironmonger.-S. Salmon, Regent-street, stationer.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22.-J. Hewlett, Gloucester, cabinet maker. -J. Fox, Bath, grocer and tea dealer.-L. Evill, Walcot, Somerset, money-scrivener.-W. Gregson, Kingston-upon-hull, linen draper.-R. Childe, Little Stretton, Salop, blacksmith.E. Wilson and P. Wilson, Methley, York, malsters.-G. Blackband, Guosall, Stafford, grocer.-A. Cuming, Claines, Worcester, draper.-J. Kewer, Golden square, Middlesex, carpenter.-R. Birkett, Liverpool, Lancaster, dealer and chapman.-R. Leyland, Liverpool, Lancaster, soap boiler.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26.-W. C. Gill, Melksham, Wilts, linen draper.-W. Armstrong, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchant.-A. Bremnef, Bond-court, Walbrook, merchant.-R. Belawy, Spaxton, Somerset, shopkeeper.-P. Robinson, Kendal, Westmorland, mercer and draper.-R. Henessey, Whitecross-street, timbermerchant.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29,-J. Lee, Horsleydown, Surrey, lighterman and wharfinger.-W. Hudson, late of Camberwell, Surrey, bricklayer.-J. Eastwood, York, clothier.-W. Whittle, Dorset, tanner.-J. Douglass and D. Russell, London, drapers, and mercers.-H. Underwood, Cheltenham, builder.-W. Barratt, Holborn, bricklayer.

MARRIAGES.-On the 10th ult. Mr. Corney, of Arundel, to Miss Newland, of Torrington.-On the 14th ult. at Broadwater church, Mr. James Jutten, builder, to Miss Ann Peakins, Both of Worthing. At Ripe, Mr. Edward Mannington, miller, to Miss Lucy Radford, of the same place.-At Newick, Mr. John Sturt, to Miss Mary Holman, both of Lewes.—A short time since, at Brighton, Mr. James Mullerns, of Acton, to Miss Eliza Chapman, of Lewes. -On the 26th ult. at Broadwater church, by the Rev. Peter Wood, George Grenville Pigott, Esq. to Miss Charlotte Long, youngest daughter of E. B. Long, Esq. of Hampton-Lodge, in

the county of Surrey.-On the 28th ult. Mr. H. Miller, stud groom to Sir J. Shelley, to Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, both of Maresfield.—In this town, on the 29th ult. M. Binan, professor of languages, to Miss Westbrook.

DEATHS. On the 21st. ult. at Millington, near Lewes, Mr. John Morris, aged 78.-At Felpham, Mr. Robert Sparks, yeoman, of that place, aged 63.-October 18, Mr, Richard Blukman, of Yapton. On the 22d ult. at Hastings, William Oswell, Esq. of Winstead, Essex.-October 24th, at Chichester, Ann, the wife of John Barton, a member of the society of friends.—On the 19th, at Hastings, John Henry Smith, Esq. M. P. for the University of Cambridge, aged 42.-At the same place on the 20th, Mrs. Ann Williams, of London, aged 22.-At Tunbridge-wells, on the 26th ult. Samuel Rhodes, Esq. of Islington, aged 57.—On the 28th ult. at her residence at Uckfield, Mrs. Simmons, widow of the late Mr. E. Simmons, of the same place, yeoman, aged 77.On Thursday last, Mrs. Baldey, of Ship-street, mother of Mr. A. Baldey. She was an old inhabitant of Brighton,―her age, ninety. Mr. Thomas Knott, aged 78 years; he was formerly an eminent solicitor of the city of Chichester.-At the house of his father, Chichester, on Wednesday last, in the 23d year of his age, Peison Webber, third son of the Rev. Archdeacon Webber.

High Water at Dieppe the same time as at Brighton.

Those who have a recollection of this town, even during the period of the last ten years, have it in their power to testify, that the hand of improvement in it has not been idle; nor, from present appearances, does it seem destined, as yet, to become inactive for a series of years. The character of a town, perhaps, may be inferred, by the peculiar manner in which it is regulated and kept, as the dress and deportment of an individual may be supposed often to convey a tolerably correct idea of his personal worth and understanding. A lavish and useless expenditure betrays folly even in the opulent-but parsimony, where its opposite would lead to a public good, is more to be guarded against and despised. Much is to be effected even with slender means, where such means are suitably economized, directed, and applied -and that much has been done within our local limits, without the boasted overflowing of an exhaustless purse, within the period