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 afford them shelter from the wintry winds? or, as the sharp year pinches, with their own again regale them on some smiling day? See ! where the stony bottom of their town looks desolate and wild, with here and there a helpless number, who the ruined state survive, lamenting, weak, cast out to death. Thus a proud city, populous and rich, full of the works of peace, and high in joy, at theatre or feast, or sunk in sleep, (as late, Palermo! was thy fate) is seiz'd by some dread earthquake, and convulsive hurl'd sheer from the black foundation, stench involv'd, into a gulph of blue sulphureous flame. Thomson's Autumn.

This business of murder and robbery united, is unpardonable, because nearly the same quantity of honey can be procured without the crime of such outrages. See Huish's Treatise on Bees, 8vo; Isaac's General Apiarian; Willich's Domestic Encyclopædia, article Bee; Encyclopædia Britannica; and other Encyclopædias. A sympathizing person, will disdain to partake of a sweet, purchased by the combined crimes of murder and robbery. To retain a conscience free from the imputation of being an encourager of crime, is to him of infinitely greater importance than the temporary gratification of sense.

. Among butchers, and those who qualify the different parts of an animal into food, it would be easy to select persons much further removed from those virtues which should result from reason, consciousness, sympathy, and animal sensations, than any savages upon the face of the earth. In order to avoid all the generous and spontaneous sympathies of compassion, the office of