: : 1 pleases rather because it is restrained by no rule, than because it is conformable to any that custom has established. Camilla puts you in mind of the most perfect music that can be composed; Flora, of the wild sweetness which is sometimes produced by the irregular play of the breeze upon the Eolian harp. Camilla reminds you of a lovely young queen; Flora, of her more lovely maid of honour. In Camilla you admire the decency of the Graces; in Flora, the attractive sweetness of the Loves. Artless sensibility, wild, native feminine gaiety, and the most touching tenderness of foul, are the strange characteristics of Flora. Her countenance glows with youthful beauty, which all art seems rather to diminish than increase, rather to hide than adorn; and while Camilla charms you with the choice of her dress, Flora enchants you with the neglect of hers. Thus different are the beauties which nature has manifested in Camilla and Flora! yet while she has, in this contrariety, shewn the extent of her power to please, she has also proved, that truth and virtue are always the fame. Generosity and tenderness are the first principles in the minds of both favourites, and were never possessed in an higher degree than they are poffefsed by Flora: the is just as attentive to the interest of others, as she is negligent of her own; and tho' she could submit to any misfortune that could befal herself, yet she hardly knows how to bear the misfortunes of another. Thus does Flora unite the fstrongest fenfibility with the most lively gaiety; and both are expressed with the most bewitching mixture in her countenance. While Camilla inspires a reverence that keeps you at a respectful, yet admiring distance, Flora excites the most ardent, yet most elegant defire. Camilla reminds you of the dignity of Diana, Flora of the attractive fenfibility of Califto: Camilla almost elevates you to the sensibility of angels, Flora delights you with the loveliest idea of woman. Greville. $142. A Fable by the celebrated Linnæus, translated from the Latin. Once upon a time the seven wife men of Greece were met together at Athens, and it was proposed that every one of them should mention what he thought the greatest wonder in the creation. One of them, of higher conceptions than the rest, propofed the opinion of fome of the astronomers about the fixed stars, which they believed to be so many funs, that had each their planets rolling about them, and were stored with plants and animals like this earth. Fired with this thought, they agreed to fupplicate Jupiter, that he would at least permit them to take a journey to the moon, and stay there three days, in order to fee the wonders of that place, and give an account of them at their return. Jupiter confented, and ordered them to affemble on a high mountain, where there should be a cloud ready to convey them to the place they defired to fee. They picked out fome chosen companions, who might affift them in describing and painting the objects they should meet with. At length they arrived at the moon, and found a palace there well fitted up for their reception. The next day, being very much fatigued with their journey, they kept quiet at home till noon; and being ftill faint, they refreshed themselves with a most delicious entertainment, which they relished so well, that it overcame their curiosity. This day they orly saw through the window that delightfal spot, adorned with the most beautiful fowers, to which the beams of the fun gave an uncommon lustre, and heard the finging of most melodious birds till evening came on, The next day they rose very early in order to begin their observations; but fome very beautiful young ladies of that country coming to make them a visit, advised them first to recruit their strength before they exposed themselves to the laborious task they were about to undertake. The delicate meats, the rich wines, the beauty of these damsels, prevailed over the resolution of these strangers. A fine concert of music is introduced, the young ones begin to dance, and all is turned to jollity; so that this whole day was spent in gallantry, till some of the neighbouring inhabitants, growing envious at their mirth, rushed in with swords. The elder part of the company tried to appease the younger, promifing the very next day they would bring the rioters to justice. This they performed, and the third day the cause was heard; and what with accusations, pleadings, exceptions, and the judgment itself, the whole day was taken up, on which the term set by Jupiter expired. On their return to Greece, all the country flocked in upon them to hear the wonders of the moon described, but all they could tell was, for that was all they knew, that the ground was covered with green intermixed with flowers, and that the birds sung among the branches of the trees; but what kind of flowers flowers they saw, or what kind of birds they heard, they were totally ignorant. Upon which they were treated every where with contempt. If we apply this fable to men of the present age, we shall perceive a very just fimilitude. By these three days the fable denotes the three ages of man. First, youth, in which we are too feeble in every respect to look into the works of the Creator: all that season is given up to idleness, luxury, and pastime. Secondly, manhood, in which men are employed in settling, marrying, educating children, providing fortunes for them, and raising a family. Thirdly, old age, in which after having made their fortunes, they are overwhelmed with law-suits and proceedings relating to their eftates. Thus it frequently happens that men never confider to what end they were destined, and why they were brought into the world. B. Thornton. § 143. Mercy recommended. My uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries; not from want of courage,where just occasions presented, or called it forth, I know no man under whose arm I would fooner have taken shelter;-nor did this arife from any insensibility or obtuseness of his intellectual parts; he was of a peaceful, placid nature, no jarring element in it, all was mixed up so kindly within him: my uncle Toby had scarce a heart to retaliate upon a fly: - Go,says he, one day at dinner, to an overgrown one which had buzzed about his nofe, and tormented him cruelly all dinner-time, and which, after infinite attempts, he had caught at last, as it flew by him; I'll not hurt thee, says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand. - I'll not hurt a hair of thy head:-Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke, to let it escape;-go, poor devil,-get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? - This world, surely, is wide enough to hold both thee and me. * This is to serve for parents and governors instead of a whole volume upon the subject. Sterne. §144. The Starling. -Beshrew the fombre pencil! faid I vauntingly-for I envy not its powers, which paints the evils of life with so hard and deadly a colouring. The mind fits terrified at the objects the has magnified herself and blackened: reduce them to their proper fize and hue, she overlooks them. 'Tis true, said I, correcting the propofition-the Bastile is not an evil to be despised-but strip it of its towersfill up the fosse-unbarricade the doorscall it fimply a confinement, and suppose 'tis some tyrant of a distemper-and not of a man-which holds you in it-the evil vanishes, and you bear the other half without complaint. I was interrupted in the hey-day of this foliloquy, with a voice which I took to be of a child, which complained " it could "not get out."- -I looked up and down the paffage, and feeing neither man, woman, nor child, I went out without further attention. In my return back through the passage, I heard the fame words repeated twice over; and looking up, I saw it was a Starling hung in a little cage" I can't get out-I can't get out," said the Starling. I stood looking at the bird; and to every person who came through the passage, it ran fluttering to the side towards which they approached it, with the same lamentations of its captivity-" I can't get out," faid the Starling-God help thee! faid I, but I will let thee out, cost what it will; fo I turned about the cage to get at the door; it was twisted and double twisted so fast with wire, there was no getting it open without pulling the cage to pieces-I took both hands to it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis, pressed his breast against it, as if impatient. I fear, poor creature! faid I, I cannot fet thee at liberty-" No," said the Starling." I "can't get out, I can't get out," said the Starling. I vow I never had my affections more tenderly awakened; nor do I remember an incident in my life, where the dissipated spirits, to which my reason had been a bubble, were so suddenly called home. Mechanical as the notes were, yet so true in tune to nature were they chanted, that in one moment they overthrew all my fyftematic reasonings upon the Bastile; and I heavily walked up ftairs, unsaying every word I had faid in going down them. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, flavery! faid I-still thou art a bitter draught! and though thousands in all ages have been made to drink of thee, thou art no less bit ter 11 1. ing another day of mifery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down-shook his. head, and went on with his work of afliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle-He gave a deep figh-I faw the iron enter into his foul-I burit into tears-I could not fustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn. ter on that account. 'Tis thou, thrice §145. The Captive. Sterne. The bird in his cage pursued me into my room'; I sat down close by my table, and leaning my head upon my hand, I began to figure to myself the miseries of confinement: I was in a right frame for it, and fo I gave full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery; but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and that the multitude of fad groupes in it did but distract me I took a fingle captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture. I beheld his body half wasted away with Jong expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of fickness of the heart it was which arifes from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverith: in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood-he had feen no fun, no moon, in all that time-nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice his children -But here my heart began to bleedand I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait. He was fitting upon the ground upon a little straw, in the furtheft corner of his dungeon, which was alternately his chair and bed: a little calendar of small sticks were laid at the head, notched all over with the dismal days and nights he had passed there he had one of these little flicks in his hand, and with a rusky nail he was etch. Commandment. Ibid. -Pr'ythee, Trim, quoth my father,-What doft thou mean, by "honouring thy father and mother?" Allowing them, an't please your honour, three halfpence a day out of my pay, when they grow old.-And didst thou do that, Trim? faid Yorick. -He did indeed, re plied my uncle Toby. Then, Trim, faid Yorick, springing out of his chair, and taking the Corporal by the hand, thou art the best commentator upon that part of the Decalogue; and I honour thee more for it, Corporal Trim, than if thou hadit had a hand in the Talmud itself. Ibid. The authors gives fome account of bimself and family: bis first inducements to travel. He is shipwrecked, and fawims for his life : gets fafe on shore in the country of Lillput; is made a prisoner, and carried up the country. My father had a small eftate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five fons. He fent me to Emanuel college in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I refided three years, and applied myself close to my ftadies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years; and my father now and then fending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be fome time or other my fortune to do. When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father; where, by the afsistance of him and my uncle John, and fome other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I ftudied phyfic two years and seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages. Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended by my good master Mr. Bates to be furgeon to the Swallow, captain Abraham Pannell, commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two into the Levant, and fome other parts. When I came back, I refolved to fettle in London, to which Mr. Bates, my mafter, encouraged me, and by him I was recommended to several patients. I took part of a small house in the Old-Jewry; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hofier in Newgate-ftreet, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a por tion. But, my good master Bates dying in two years after, and I having few friends, my business began to fail; for my confcience would not fuffer me to imitate the bad practice of too many among my brethren. Having therefore confulted with my wife, and some of my acquaintance, I determined to go again to fea. I was furgeon fucceffively in two ships, and made several voyages for fix years to the East and WestIndies, by which I got fome addition to my fortune. My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, antient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was athore, in observing the manners and difpositions of the people, as well as learning their language, wherein I had a great facility by the strength of my memory. things would mend, I accepted an advantageous offer from Captain William Pritchard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South-Sea. We fet fail from Bristol, May 4th, 1699, and our voyage at first was very profperous. The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the fea, and intended to flay at home with my wife and family. I removed from the Old Jewry to Fetter-lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the failors: but it would not turn to account. After three years expectation that. It would not be proper, for fome reafons, to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas: let it fuffice to inform him, that, in our passage from thence to the East-Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the north-weft of Van Diemen's land. By an observation we found ourselves in the, latitude of 30 degrees 2 minutes south. Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour, and ill food; the reft were in a very weak condition. On the fifth of November, which was the beginning of fummer in those parts, the weather being very hazy, the feamen spied a rock within half a cable's length of the thip; but the wind was so strong, that we were driven directly upon it, and immediately split. Six of the crew, of whom I was one, having let down the boat into.. the fea, made a shift to get clear of the ship and the rock. We rowed by my computation about three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship. We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves, and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from / the north. What became of my companions, in the boat, as well as of those who escaped on the rock, or were left iu the vesich, I cannot tell; but conclude they were all loft. For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide. I often let my legs drop, and could feel no bottom: but when I was almost gone, and able to struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth, and by this time the ftorm was. much abated. The declivity was so small, that I walked near a mile before I got to the shore, which I conjectured was about eight o'clock in the evening. I then advanced forward near half a mile, but could not discover any signs of houses or inha-. bitants; at least I was in so weak a condition, that I did not observe them. I was extremely tired, and with that, and the heat of the weather, and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as I left the ship, I found myself much inclined to fleep. I lay down on the grass, which was very short and soft, where I flept sounder than ever I remembered to have done in my : I life, and, as I reckoned, about nine hours; for when I awaked, it was just day-light. I attempted to rife, but was not able to stir; for as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each fide to the ground; and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner. I likewise felt several flender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards, the fun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. heard a confused noise about me; but, in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky. In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when bending my eyes downward as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not fix inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back. In the mean time, I felt at least forty more of the fame kind (as I conjectured) following the first. I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud, that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my fides upon the ground. However, they soon returned, and one of them, who ventured so far as to get a full fight of my face, lifting up his hands and eyes by way of admiration, cried out in a shrill but distinct voice, bekinah degul: the others repeated the same words several times, but I then knew not what they meant. I lay all this while, as the reader may believe, in great uneasiness; at length, struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground; for, by lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken to bind me, and at the same time with a violent pull, which gave me excessive pain, I a little loosened the strings that tied down my hair on the left fide, so that I was just able to turn my head about two inches. But the creatures ran off a second time, before I could feize them; whereupon there was a great shout in a very fhrill accent, and after it ceased, I heard one of them cry aloud, tolgo phonac; when in an instant I felt above an hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, which pricked me like so many needles; and besides, they shot another flight into the air, as we do bombs in Europe, whereof many, I suppose, fell on my body, (though I felt them not) and some on my face, which I immediately covered with my left hand. When this shower of arrows was over, I fell a groan. ing with grief and pain, and then striving again to get loofe, they discharged another volley larger than the first, and some of them attempted with spears to stick me in the sides; but by good luck I had on me a buff jerkin, which they could not pierce. I thought it the most prudent method to lie e still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loofe, I could eafily free myself: and as for the inhabitants, I had reason to believe I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me, if they were all of the same size with him that I faw. But fortune disposed otherways of me. When the people observed I was quiet, they discharged no more arrows: but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased: and about four yards from me, over-against my right ear, I heard a knocking for above an hour, like that of people at work; when turning my head that way, as well as the pegs and strings would permit me, I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants, with two or three ladders to mount it: from whence one of them, who seemed to be a person of quality, made me a long speech, whereof I understood not one syllable. But I should have mentioned, that before the principal person began his oration, he cried out three times, langro dehul fan; (thefe words and the former were afterwards repeated and explained to me.) Whereupon immediately about fifty of the inhabitants came and cut the strings that fastened the left side of my head, which gave me the liberty of turning it to the right, and of observing the perfon and gesture of him that was to speak. He appeared to be of a middle age, and taller than any of the other three who attended him, whereof one was a page that held up his train, and seemed to be somewhat longer than my middle finger; the other two stood one on each side to support him. He acted every part of an orator, and I could observe many periods of threatenings, and others of promises, pity, and kindness. I answered in a few words, but in the most submifsive manner, lifting up my left hand and both my eyes to the sun, as calling him for a witness; and being almost famished with hunger, having not eaten a morsel for fome hours before I left the ship, I found the demands |