172 State of the Jews in France.-Manners of the English in the Seventeenth Century. [December 20, 1817: soon as the certainty of the king's return arrived in Scotland, I believe there was never accident in the world altered the disposition of a people more than that did the Scottish nation. Sober men observed, it not only inebriat, but really intoxicate, and made people not only drunk, but frantic; men did not think they could handsomely express their joy, except they turned brutes for debauch rebels and pageants: yea, many a sober man was tempted to exceed, lest he should be condemned as unnatural, disloyal, and unsensible. Most of the nobility, and gentry, and hungry old soldiers flew to London, just as the vulture does to the carcase; and though many of them were bare enough, they made no bones to give 15 of the 100 of exchange. Then when they were come to court, they desired no more advyce but to know the king's inclinations, and he was the best politician that could outrun obedience, by anticipating a command.” State of the Jews in France. periodical publication. These exertions good sport in that excellent comedy of Manners of the English in the Seventeenth "I knew one, who in winter would ordinarily, in a cold morning, whip his boys over, for no other purpose than to get himself a heat. Another beat them for swearing, and all the while he sweares himselfe with horrible oathes, he would forgive any fault save that. I had, I remember, myselfe (neere St. Albane's in Hertfordshire, where I was born) a master, who by no entreaty would teach any scholler he had, farther than his father had learned before him; as if he had onely learned but to read English, the sonne, though he were with him seven yeares, should goe no further; his reason was, they would then proove saucy rogues, and controule their fathers: yet these are they that oftentimes have our hopefull gentry under their charge and tuition, to bring them in science and civility." (Compleat Gentleman, p. 26, 27.) THE Country-schoolmasters, if we trust the accounts of Ascham and Peacham, were in general many degrees below the pedagogue of Shakespeare in ability; tyranny and ignorance appear to have been their chief characteristics; to such an extent, indeed, were they deficient in point of necessary knowledge, that Peacham (in his Compleat "This sort of people, the yeoman," THE French Jews live free and un- Gentleman, Edit. of 1634,) speaking of says Harrison, "have a certaine prehemimolested under the protection of the bad masters, declares" it is a general nence, and more estimation than labourpresent constitution: so much the more plague and complaint of the whole land; ers and the common sort of artificers, mortifying to them is the blind opposi- for, for one discreet and able teacher, and these commonlie live wealthilie, tion made by some of the commercial you shall finde twenty ignorant and keepe good houses, and travell to get towns of Germany to the reasonable careless; who (among so many fertile riches. They are also for the most part demands of their Jewish citizens. Some and delicate wits as England affordeth) farmers to gentlemen, or at the leasttime since, a M. Bail published a work whereas they make one scholler, they wise artificers, and with grazing, frewith the title:-Des Juifs au dix-nieu- marre ten." quenting of markets, and keeping of vieme Siecle-which, though it cannot To the charges of undue severity and servants (not idle servants, as the genclaim the merit of solidity, yet paints in defective literature, we must add, the tlemen doo, but such as get both their lively colours the state of that people, infinitely more weighty accusations of owne and part of their masters living) and supports their demands with the frequent immorality and buffoonery.do come to great welth, insomuch that best arguments that policy and the pre- Ludovicus Vives, who wrote just before manie of them are able, and doo buie vailing spirit of toleration can suggest. the age of Shakespeare, asserts, that the lands of unthriftie gentlemen, and This work displeased the learned Sil-" some schoolmasters taught Ovid's often setting their sonnes to the schooles, vestre de Sacy, who printed a letter, in books of love to their scholars, and to the Universities, and to the Inns of which he asserted, more like a theologian some made expositions and expounded Court; or otherwise leaving them suffithan a statesman, that the descendants the vices;" and Peacham, at the close cient lands whereupon they may live of Abraham must, in spite of all human of the era we are considering, censures, without labour, doo make them by those efforts, continue to form a separate com- in the strongest terms, their too common meanes to become gentlemen: these are munity among all the nations of the levity and misconduct : "the diseases they that in times past made all France earth; and contends that the resolutions whereunto some of them are very sub- afraid. And albeit they be not called of the Sanhedrim assembled about ten ject, are humour and folly (that I may master as gentlemen are, or sir as to years since at Paris are null and void. say nothing of the gross ignorance and knights apperteineth, but onelie John On the opposite side of the question two insufficiency of many) whereby they beworks have appeared, both published by come ridiculous and contemptible, both Treuttel and Wurtz-the one by Rabbi in the schoole and abroad. Hence it de Cologna, president of the Jewish comes to passe, that in many places, esConsistory, who refutes with much tem- pecially in Italy, of all professions, that per the positions of M. de Sacy; and of pedanteria is held in basest repute; the other by the Jewish officer M. Mayer the schoolmaster almost in every comedy Dalmbert. The principal Jewish writers being brought upon the stage to parallel in France are also about to establish a the Zani or pantaloun. He made us and Thomas, &c. ; yet have they beene found to have doone verie good service; and the kings of England in foughten battles, were woont to remaine among them (who were their footmen) as the French kings did among their horsemen; the prince thereby shewing where his chiefe strength did consist." The houses or cottages of the farmers December 20, 1817.] Manners of the English in the Seventeenth Century. 173 were built, in places abounding in wood, acre; but in the reign of Elizabeth its oxen very understandingly, and speaks in a very substantial manner, with not value rapidly increased, together with a gee and ree better than English. His more than between four, six, or nine proportional augmentation of the com- mind is not much distracted with obinches between stud and stud; but in forts of the farmers, who even began to jects, but if a good fat cow come in his the open and champaine country they exhibit the elegancies and luxuries of way, he stands dumb and astonished, were compelled to use more flimsy ma- life. and though his haste be never so great, terials, and here and there a girding to Contrary to what has taken place in will fix here half an hour's contemplawhich they fastened their splints, and modern times, the hours for meals were tion. His habitation is some poor thatchthen covered the whole with thick clay later with the artificer and the husband- ed roof, distinguished from his barn by to keep out the wind. "Certes this man than with the higher order of so- the loopholes that let out smoak, which rude kind of building," says Harrison, ciety; the farmer and his servants usual- the rain had long since washed through, "made the Spaniards in queene Maries ly sitting down to dinner at one o'clock, but from the double cieling of bacon on daies to wonder, but cheeflie when they and to supper at seven, while the gen- the inside, which has hung there from saw what large diet was used in manie tlemen took the first at eleven in the his grandsire's time, and is yet to make of these so homelie cottages, in so much morning, and the second at five in the rashers for posterity. His dinner is his that one of no small reputation amongst afternoon. It would appear, from the other work, for he sweats at it as much them said after this manner : These cottage to the palace, good eating was as at his labour; he is a terrible fastner English (quoth he) have their houses as much cultivated in the days of Eli- on a piece of beef, and you may hope made of sticks and durt, but they fare zabeth as it has been in any subsequent to stave the guard off sooner. His relicommonlie so well as the king. Where- period; and the rites of hospitality, gion is a par of his copyhold, which by it appeareth that he liked better of more especially in the country, w re he takes fram his landlord, and refers our good fare in such coarse cabins, than observed with a frequency and cordiality it wholly to his discretion: yet if he of their owne thin diet in their prince-which a further progress in civilization give him leave he is a good Christian to like habitations and palaces." The cot- has rather tended to check than to in- his power, (that is) comes to church in tages of the peasantry usually consisted crease. Of the larder of the cotter and his best cloaths, and sets there with his of but two rooms on the ground floor, the shepherd, and of the hospitality of neighbours, where he is capable only of the outer for the servants, the inner for the farmers, a pretty accurate idea may two prayers, for rain, and fair weather. the master and his family, and they were be acquired from the simple, yet beauti- He apprehends God's blessings only in thatched with straw or sedge; while the ful strains of an old pastoral bard of Elia good year, or a fat pasture, and never dwelling of the substantial farmer was zabeth's days, who, describing a noble-praises him but on good ground. Sundistributed into several rooms above and man fatigued by the chase, the heat of day he esteems a day to make merry in, beneath, was coated with white lime or the weather, and long fasting, adds that and thinks a bagpipe as essential to it cement, and was very neatly roofed with heas evening prayer, where he walks very reed; hence Tusser, speaking of the solemnly after service, with his hands farm-house, gives the following directions for repairing and preserving its coupled behind him, and censures the thatch in the month of May:— dancing of his parish. His compliment with his neighbour is a good thump on the back, and his salutation commonly some blunt curse. He thinks nothing to be vices, but pride and ill husbandry, from which he will gravely dissuade the youth, and has some thrifty hob-nail proverbs to clout his discourse. He is a niggard all the week, except on marke day, where, if his corn sell well, he thinks he may drink with a good conscience. He is sensible of no calamity but the burning a stack of corn or the overflowing of a meadow, and thinks Noah's flood the greatest plague that ever was, not because it drowned the world, but spoiled the grass. death he is never troubled, and if he get in but his harvest before, let it come when it will he cares not. Where houses be reeded (as houses have need) reed: The juster ye drive it, the smoother and plaine, More handsome ye make it, to shut off the raine. men. Did house him in a peakish graunge, Wheare, knowne. and welcom'd, as the place And persons might afforde, Were set him on the borde: A cushion made of lists, a stoole Half backed with a houpe, Were brought him, and he sitteth down Besides a sorry coupe. Were wheat, their whig were perry, Their bacon beefe, their milke and curds The following, illustrative of rural A few years before the era of which we are treating, the venerable Hugh Latimer, describing, in one of his sermons, the economy of a farmer in his time, tells us, that his father, who was a yeoman, had no land of his own, but only a farm of three or four pounds A plain country fellow is one (says by the year at the utmost; and hereup- the bishop) who manures his ground on he tilled so much as kept half a dozen well, but lets himself lye fallow and unHe had a walk for an hundred tilled. He has reason enough to do his sheep; and my mother milked thirty business, and not enough to be idle or kine. He kept his son at school till he melancholy. He seems to have the puwent to the university, and maintained nishment of Nebuchadnezzar, for his him there; he married his daughters conversation is among beasts, and his with five pounds, or twenty nobles a tallons none of the shortest, only he eats piece; he kept hospitality with his neigh-not grass, because he loves not sallets. bours, and some alms he gave to the His hand guides the plough and the poor; and all this he did out of the said plough his thoughts, and his ditch and farm." Land let, at this period, it should land-mark is the very mound of his mebe remembered, at about a shilling per ditations. He expostulates with his Epitaphs. For DR. YOUNG, in his preface to one of his Night Thoughts, remarks, that it would be as well if we were at war with the Levities, as with the people of France. It is but fair to balance the 174 Epitaphs.-Letter of David Hume. nister or curate of the parish, would at [December 20, 1817. David Hume. WE subjoin two further extracts from account, and as we are at peace with the French nation, to let no undue prejudice prevent us from acknowledging in the young and thoughtless, where Mr. Hume's unpublished correspondand even adopting whatever we find they ought to be serious. I shall not worthy of attention, and which may repeat many of these fooleries, but to which made a prominent feature in Juence the first letter touches on a point have escaped our notice. There has show they are yet of a recent date, nius' Letters, and is besides rather curious appeared in the French papers a recent in Doncaster church-yard, 1816, may for the manner in which it treats of diregulation to be observed in bringing be seen the following:into a more rational and moral view the plomatic subjects: the short extract proves that our first writers, 50 years inscriptions and epitaphs in the different cemeteries of that kingdom. ago, called things by their proper names, more than is the custom in our improved and polished age. Here lies 2 Brothers by misfortune seround ed; One dy'd of his wounds & the other was drownded." And in a neighbouring burying ground London, 19 June, 1767. It was not surely, dear Madam, with indifference that regarded your displeasure against me. Nothing could have given me more uneasiness, and I was more afraid of the coolness of your reproaches than even your anger. But your last letter has brought me great relief. Tho' our commerce should Elsewhere we find William Williams never go beyond letters, (an idea, however, Farewell my friends all, And have got no other. interred, with this epitaph on his tomb- which I will never allow myself to entertain), stone: Here lie the remains of W. W. Who never more will trouble you, trouble you. your friendship would still be dear to me, and I should regard the loss of it as a great calamity. Happily my dread of that event proceeded more from my own anxiety than from On a person distinguished for a wide any reality on your part. You are only unkind not to have told me so sooner. You ask mouth, shocking profanity is superadd-the present state of our politics. Why, in a ed to folly : If the subject were not too serious for such a remark, one might be inclined to say that a collection of church-yard poetry would rival Joe Miller, and stand next upon the laughing list to Colman's Broad Grins. But wit or humour upon a tomb-stone is like placeing a cap and bells upon a death's head. The elegant author of the Elegy in a Country church-yard, has very judiciously kept out of sight the productions of the unlettered muse, or they would have put to flight the serious tone and sober garb with which his fancy has pictured the rustic's grave. It is sometimes the mark of a great mind or a good temper when a man jests with his own infirmities, but a jest upon our last remains has too much of levity or pride; and is far removed from that elevation of soul which regards death with equanimity, upon the principles of piety and resignation. It should seem, how-been blessed with children: ever, from the ludicrous inscriptions to be met with in our church-yards, (more especially in the country) that men were determined to make a jest of the grave, and we can hardly tell whether to drop a tear on the weakness, or to smile at the folly of these "frail memorials," so different from what the poet beautifully expresses, And many a holy text around she strews Andrew Thomson lieth here, Who had a mouth from ear to ear; word, we are all in confusion. This, you'll say, is telling you nothing new, for when were we otherwise. But we are in greater confusion than usual, because of the strange condition of Lord Chatham, who was regarded as our first minister. The public here as well as with you, believe him wholly mad, but I am assured it is not so, he is only fallen into extreme low spirits and into nervous disorders, which render him totally unfit for business, make him shun all company, and, as I am told, set him weeping like a child, upon the least accident. Is not this a melancholy siru Under this stone lies Margery Gregg, In Bedford Church-yard, Devon. And wedding clothes provided; In Seven Oaks, Kent. And is it not even an addition to his unhappiness that he retains his senses? It was a rash experiment, that of repelling the gout, which threw him into this state of mind, and perhaps a hearty fit of it may again prove a cure to him. Meanwhile, the public suffer extremely by his present imbecility: No affairs advance. The ministers fall in variance: and the king entertains thoughts of forming a new "Life is a jest and all things show it, administration. The first person, whom he I thought so once, but now I know it," Vast strong was I, but yet I did die, addresses himself to is your friend the Duke we are inclined to think the witty auAnd in my grave asleep do lye; of Bedford, whose cons.deration is very great, thor of them had no other intention than My grave is stoned round about, on account of his quality and riches, and that of making a couplet; as the senti- But I hope that God will find me out. friends, and above all of his personal characIt was very happy for the duke, that, at ments of a wise man they will hardly We shall conclude with one placed the time of poor Tavistock's death, there were be admitted. "All may be vanity," on the tomb of a man who had desired public transactions of moment before the parbut not a jest ; and we cannot consider by will to have something said on his liament, in which his friends urged him to that a proper regard has been paid to grave stone; he was rich, but alas! take part. The natural fervour of his charac ter insensibly engaged him in the scene. He his memory by giving them as his last that was all; his executors were conwas diverted from his own melancholy reflecsentiments; there is too much of the scientious men, and at a loss how to de-tions, and business thus p oved to him the best absurd: the idle, and the vain, too often signate a character, where there was no consolation. He has not however recovered take occasion from such opinions to character at all, at length hit upon the thoroughly that terrible shock, and the duchconfirm themselves in error, not to say followingvice. "Silence is wisdom." Inscriptions and epitaphs under the Few but must be aware of the universal inspection of, and regulated by the mi-suitableness of this short sentence. ter. ess, to whom the world did not ascribe so great a degree of sensibility, is still more inconsolable. On the whole, you see, that we are, at present in a crisis. The Duke of Bedford would be received with open arms, but he' December 20, 1817.] Letter of David Hume.-Of the Aborigines of the Western Country. 175 has formed some connexions, particularly with to the westward in any numbers. British Abuse of American Manners. Mr. Grenville, which are not so acceptable; We deem it, therefore, natural and just [From the American Port Folio.] and it is uncertain, whether we are to have a to conclude, that the Aborigines be- THE principal schools of classical educhange of ministry or not, tho' the former is much more probable. longed to a stock of those who moved cation in England for the sons of the But pray, who are you to give us as am- eastward from the Euphrates, cross-nobility and gentry, were, in my time, bassador from France, in place of M. de Guer-ed at Behring Straits, and came to our and I believe still are, Eton, Wincheschi, who has succeeded very well among us? western country from the north-west ter, Westminster, and Harrow. Each The Mexicans invariably declare that of these took pride in raising the most their ancestors came from the north-accurate classical scholars, who should west. be capable, not merely of perusing the I think I know more or less all your grands seigneurs, and I amuse myself by forming conjectures on that head. M. de Chabelet, it is said, might be the man, but he did not like us enough, when he made us a visit, to be willing to pass years among us. M. de Castries is named, and I believe he France, for a station so delicate, and so essen It is an acknowledged fact, that the classic authors, with relish for the beauantediluvians, at the event of the de-ties displayed in them, but of composing would succeed perfectly except only that he luge, had arrived to a great improve-in prose and in verse with elegance and has not a wife whom he could bring along ment and refinement in the arts; and facility. Nor indeed are the modern with him, but he is on such cordial terms it is also an important fact, that a re- Latin poets of England inferior to those with your minister, as to make him hope for spectable portion of this knowledge was of any foreign country. Cowley, Milthis employment. I believe the Count d'Ayen preserved from the wreck, and commu-ton, and Cowper, were fine poets in Laaspires to that embassy: but he is perhaps too nicated by the sons of Noah. The de- tin as well as in their native tongue. young, and has besides something of the pedant about him. Would the Prince of Beau- scendants of Shem, the first settlers of The epigrams of Owen yield to no moveau wish for this station. He is not supple Asia, or what is synonymous, the ten dern Latinist in the same style of comnor pliable enough: the Princess is likely to tribes, probably retained this know-position; Buchanan is far superior to succeed extremely, could she submit to the ledge, and transmitted it, until, through Casimir; the Musæ Anglicanæ of Addidrudgery of being affable to all the world, as Mde de Guerchi is. The other day I was the lapse of time, it became extinct. son is a fit companion for Pope's Poematalking of this subject to the prince of Masser- From the descendants of Shem, or from ta Italorum Selecta. The Lusus Westane, who said that he knew not whom your the Israelites, we derive the commence- monasterienses, and the prize composicourt would choose, but surely, added he, ment of all that knowledge which serv-tions of Eton college, are highly respectthey ought to choose the wisest man ined to keep the vast continent of Asia able specimens of juvenile effort, nor tial towards preserving the general tranquillity. from total barbarism. The Israelites does the happy felicity of expression of I wish the choice may fall on the prince and carried captive by Salmanaser, in the Loveling and of Vincent Bourne, greatprincess of Beauveau, and that you may come time of Hoshea, became, in a great mea-ly yield even to Horace and Tibullus. over with them. I should like to have affairs of state to transact with you and her. You sure, incorporated with the neighbour-Holdsworth's Muscipula, Geddes's Elecknow that ministerial falls are very light ac ing nations; and from this source, or in tion Ball, and some late translations, are cidents in this country a fallen minister im- this channel, we deduce many of the specimens of easy Latinity, and pleasing mediately rises a patriot, and perhaps mounts customs which prevailed, and continue composition, which the most rigid critic up to greater consider tion than before. For to prevail in Asia, and which have been may peruse with delight. hinder us in this family from being in great frequently recognised among the Tar- In all these schools, classical érudijoy, by the marriage of Miss Conway to Mr.tars, the Aborigines of the western tion, and facility in perusing ancient auDemar. They are both your acquaintance, country, and the present race of Indians. thors, and comprehending the beauties and seem to make a very proper marriage. We may here introduce a striking pass- and defects of style, are greatly promotYou say that you have many interesting matters to tell me, but do not care to trust them age of history from the second book of ed by the universal practice of compo"Those are the ten tribes, sing in Latin or Greek metre; which which were carried away prisoners, out compels the student to translate the ideas of their own land in the time of Osea which he conceives in English into so the king, whom Salmanasar, the king of many forms of classical language to suit Assyria, led away captive, and he car- the metre, and compels him to such laried them over the waters, and so came borious research for synonymous expresthey into another land. But they took sions as well as synonymous words, that this counsel among themselves, that they I do not hesitate in giving it as an opiwould leave the multitude of the hea- nion requiring no further illustration then, and go forth into a further coun- from fact, that to the practice of comtry, where never mankind dwelt." We posing in ancient languages is owing, do not pretend to say that this country exclusively, the greater proficiency of where never mankind dwelt extends to English and German classical scholars. America, but we consider the passage The French and Italians of modern days of history important, and equally weigh-are by no means equal to the English, ty as such, although apocryphal. The who, if not as learned and laborious as Of the Aborigines of the Western Country natural consequence of this determina- the Germans, are their superiors in dis this reason our tottering situation does not by the common post. If they interest you, they cannot be indifferent to me. Give me Do they concern yourself in particular. Are there any new prospects 'some hint of them. opening to You know my meaning: or what is next best, have you lost all hopes and laid aside all desire of that object. London, 23 Dec 1768. I believe the duchess of Grafton was your acquaintance. Her adventure cannot be unknown to you. It is not doub ed but, as soon as she is divorced, she will marry Lord Ossory: and the duke his kept mistress, who was very lately a lady of the town. These are strange scenes, and very contrary to your man ners. of America. Esdras. tion and progress of the ten tribes, cerning and imitating the beauties of classical authors. In London, of which Westminster is always regarded as a part, there wer two schools where the scholars annua 176 exhibited a dramatic performance; at Westminster school, the custom has long been, for the senior students who are about to leave that seminary for the university, at the age of from 16 to 18, to get up a play of Terence. At Soho Square, the students annually perform ed a play of Shakespeare. I do not recollect that this theatrical custom was followed at any other place of education in England; what the case is now, I do not know. British Abuse of American Manners. [December 20, 1817 ta: but what are you about? why is all of shooting! the partridge flies about this preparation? Are you a free man? commonly in the very streets. Do you Ge. I shall be by and by, or I am mis- love your glass? every hour brings with taken. Da. I understand all your con- it a fresh bumper. There you have the cerns succeed wonderfully under your Gum-tickler, the Phlegm-cutter, the management. Ge. To others perhaps; Gall-breaker, and the Antifogmatic. but not to me, Davus. In the common And then, Davus, precious liberty! no: rejoicing, I alone am neglected; so that no man is a slave there. Da. Except I must look to myself. Da. What do the negro. Ge. Negroes are not consiyou propose? Ge Flight Da. Goddered as of the human species in Ameprosper you: but you will not go has-rica. Every man there thinks what he tily, I hope. Ge. I have just scraped pleases, of whom he pleases, and does To the play of Terence thus annually together my little property through fear what he pleases. In that happy land, performed, there was usually a Latin of delay. Da. Whither do you propose every man starts up a legislator by inprologue, and also an epilogue composed to fly? Ge. To America. Da, What! tuition, however unlearned; and be and spoken on the occasion. The epi- to that country which is beyond the comes in like manner, merchant, judge, logue turned, for the most part, on the ocean: a country barbarous itself, and general, philosopher, or physician. The manners of the day, that would bear the inhabited by barbarians? Ge. Even that young men spurn the restraint of laws gentle correction of good humoured sa- country to which our colonists formerly and of manners: his own inclination is tire, in elegant Latinity. The plays resorted, and which is the only Elisium there every man's sufficient diploma. Da. were confined to those of Terence: Plau- the world affords. Da. To that coun- Why, to be sure, bridewell and the stews tus being obscure, abounding in obso- try, of whose inhabitants a classic ear supply them with senators, and their lete expressions, without elegance of cannot tolerate the very names, and respectable chief justice is a worthless diction, and with somewhat of coarse- which the tongue is almost afraid to profligate. Does a senatorial erator dexness in his plots, as well as his language. pronounce! Choctaws, Cherokees, Paw-terously aim to convince his antagonist? Terence, therefore, a school-book in was, Chickesaws, Michilimackinaws, and he spits plentifully in his face. And England, was always chosen. Yankee-doodles! Ge. To that country, that this species of rhetoric may be more I cannot say that I am an advocate which of all that have been, or are, or efficacious, tobacco furnishes an abunfor theatrical performances of any kind. will be, excels in virtue, honesty, majes dance of saliva for the purpose. The The morality of stage plays is very fiim-ty, arts, arms in counsel, in eloquence, highest praise of a merchant, is his skill sy; their immorality too plain to be in manners, in wit. If our age can boast in lying; the great anxiety of a general, justified, and too freqeunt to escape the of elegance, if the golden age of the to manage his diarrhoea. Then, their slightest observation. Even in the plays poets can exhibit any character of di- amusements! to gouge out an eye with of Ierence, there is much to condemn vine simplicity, America has all this to the thumb, to skin the forehead, to bite and little to approve. The plot turns, boast. Nor has Astræa as yet left our off the nose! and to kill a man, is an for the most part, on the attempts of globe, but remains well pleased in the admirable joke. But consider, Geta, dissipated young men and thoughtless cultivated regions of that happy clime. what is this precious liberty of which young women to cheat parents and guar-Da. But in that country, Geta, Astræa you speak? Believe me, in the first dians, and of servants to blind the eyes is not a virgin, but a virago: sometimes, place, even if the black vessel of transof their masters. These are always re- as report goes, she is a drunkard, often portation you embark in, should bear presented as successful. Young as a pugilist, sometimes even a thief. Nor you safely to this elysium of yours, the was, when I attended these performan- is it easy to say whether the tenor of very passage would exhaust all your ces, it could not escape even my juve- their manners is more to be admired for funds; and your whole life would be nile understanding, that the morals of simplicity or elegance: a negro wench, held in pledge, never to be redeemed: Terence were not the morals inculcated as we are told, will wait on her master your destiny at last would be to feed the by those whom I was taught at home, at table in native nudity; and a beau rats of a prison. But come, think betand with great reason, to respect. When will strip himself to the waist, that he ter of this scheme while you have it in I sat, therefore, amidst the surrounding may dance unencumbered, and with your power. Let the ruined man, the crowd of men of rank and fortune, of more agility. There, too, we hear of impious wretch, the outlaw, praise Amedignitaries of the church, and reverend the practice of bundling, without any rica, if you are yet in your senses, Geta, fathers of families, to hear these plays infraction of female modesty; and the stay at home. If not, good bye to you. performed, I could not help thinking the chaste maiden, without any deception, And good bye to all those who prefer a spectators were not in their proper place, but with right good will, ventures to foreign land to their native soil. and the time and talents of the young share the bed with her chaste swain! Thus it is, that at an age when impresperformers very ill applied. Oh what nights and banquets, worthy sions are apt to take the strongest hold It was before such a description of of the gods! what delightful customs of the mind-with the concomitant asspectators, nobility, gentry, and clergy, among these pious people! Ge. But sociations most calculated to give vivid. that a translation of the following classic listen, if you please, to the better side, ness and effect to the sentiments utterabuse was uttered lately, in the form of and the true side of the story, as I shall ed—at the direction, and under the suan epilogue, by one of the young per-relate it. Are you a farmer! a thou-perintendance of the reverend precepformers in the Phormio of Terence. sand acres, as yet unharassed by the tors in the first school of education that Da. I am glad to see you again, Ge- plough, await your team. Are you fond | Great Britain can boast—in the pre |