Doncaster, Jan. 15.


--SI PROPIUS STES,
TE CAPIET MINUS.

_(From the Latin of Vincent Bourne.)_

Glide down the Thames by London Bridge, what time
St. Saviour's bells strike out their evening chime;
Forth leaps the ompetuous cataract of sound,
Dash'd into noise by countless echoes round.
Pass on--it follows--all the jarring notes
Blend in celestial harmony, that floats
Above, below, around: the ravish'd ear
Finds all the fault its own--it was TOO NEAR.

RUFUS.


_St. Evona's Choice._--To your citation of Ben Jonson's exceptional case
of the Justice Randall as "a lawyer an honest man," in justice add the
name of the learned and elegant author of _Eunomus_; for Mr. Wynne
himself tells the story of St. Evona's choice (Dialogue II. p. 62. 3rd
ed. Dublin, 1791), giving his authority in the following note:--

"The story here dressed up is told in substance in a small book
published in 1691, called a _Description of the Netherlands_," p.
58.