LOVERS' SEAT.
This place is now spoken of, as it was the scene of a neighbouring amour. The visitants of Hastings, like true devotees, go there in compliment to the passion - youth from sympathy - age to refresh the fading impression of former attachments. Never was imagery better adapted ; not an object but is calculated to set the temperament to its proper heat--all is various, all is agreeable ; here is the majestic and the simple. The mind receives a thousand enjoyments from a multiplicity of detached views that no language can express. Here is subject matter for a School of Painters ; they may succeed in the description, though the writer is defeated. " I tread on classic ground," says the itinerant scholar : " the recollection of ancient genius captivates e every sense, and I perceive the inspiration of the sacred Nine ! Here is the laurel that grows by Nature's ordinance, a proper trophy for the tomb of -
