Apollo gave chase, but was destined to fail;
  The female had safely been lodged in the mail,
    Now flying full speed to the borders;
  So the doctor, compelled his sad fate to endure,
  Came back to his shop, commissioned to cure
    All disorders but Cupid’s disorders.

Monthly Magazine.

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BAMBOROUGH CASTLE.

The origin of this princely establishment may be new to our readers:—­One of the owners of the castle, John Forster, member for Northumberland, having joined in the rebellion, and being general of the English part of the rebel army, of course his estates, then valued at 1,314 l. per annum, were forfeited; Crewe, bishop of Durham, purchased them from the government commissioners, and settled the whole, by his will, on charitable uses.  Under a clause which left the residue of the rents to such charitable uses as his trustees might appoint, the “princely establishment of Bamborough” has arisen—­where

  “Charity hath fixed her chosen seat;
    And Pity, at the dark and stormy hour
  Of midnight, when the moon is hid on high,
    Keeps her love watch upon the topmost tower,
  And turns her ear to each expiring cry,
    Blest if her aid some fainting wretch might save,
    And snatch him, cold and speechless, from the grave.”

BOWLES.

The charitable intentions of a testator have never, in any instance, been better fulfilled than this; the residuary rents, owing to the great increase of rental in the Forster estates, became considerably the most important part of the bequest; and the trustees, who are restricted to five in number, all clergymen, and of whom the rector of Lincoln College is always one, being unfettered by any positive regulations, have so discharged their trust as to render Bamborough Castle the most extensively useful, as well as the most munificent, of all our eleemosynary institutions.  There are two free-schools there, both on the Madras system, one for boys, the other for girls; and thirty of the poorest girls are clothed, lodged, and boarded, till, at the age of sixteen, they are put out to service, with a good stock of clothing, and a present of 2_l_. 12_s_. 6_d_. each; and at the end of the first year, if the girl has behaved well, another guinea is given her, with a Bible, a Prayer-book, the Whole Duty of Man, and Secker’s Lectures on the Catechism.  There is a library in the castle, to which Dr. Sharp, one of the trustees, bequeathed, in 1792, the whole of his own collection, valued at more than 800_l_.; the books are lent gratuitously to any householder, of good report, residing within twenty miles of Bamborough, and to any clergyman, Roman Catholic priest, or dissenting minister within the said distance.  There is an infirmary also in the castle, of which the average annual number of in-patients is about thirty-five—­of out-patients above one thousand.  There is an