from Flatman? If not, the coincidence is remarkable: has it been noticed before? Perhaps some of your readers may be better able to enter into the subject than he who communicates this.

WILLIAM BARTON.

19. Winchester Place, Southwark Bridge Road.

"THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL.

"Vital spark of heavenly flame,

Quit, oh, quit this mortal frame!

*Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying;

Oh the pain the bliss of dying!

Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,

And let me languish into life!