night of meadows, rondeaus, fairies, and enchanted flowers. Her first care on awaking, was to go to fee if her's had fuffered no change during the night he ran towards the vafe where the had put it; but in coming near the window, he heard a great noife in the ftreet, and faw a troop of unlucky boys who followed a poor woman. The gestures and fo››leries of these boys'amufed the princess, and made her laugh ; and it was on ly after the loft fight of them, that the retired from the window to ex amine her flower. But, O heavens! what was her furprife and grief!She faw the flower of modelty beginning to lofe its beautiful carnarion colour, and the flower of beneficence alfo faded a little. Lindorine then entering, found the princess loft in grief and astonishment, and asked the reafon of it. Ah! faid Elmina, look at the flowers; they fade, they die, yet I have done nothing.

In truth the princefs was innocent, for fhe had not perceived that there was any thing bad in what had made her laugh; nevertheless the flower of modeity had occafion to fade, and the flower of beneficence to languifh, because a young girl ought never to indulge an indifcreet curiofity, far lefs laugh when they make a mock of any one.

This Lindorine explained to the princess: fhe was fenfible of her involuntary error, and was fo amiable during the whole day, that before evening the flowers had refumed their former luftre, and were even more beautiful than before. This little leffon rendered Elmina more attentive and more difcreet, and made her per ceive what pains and attention were required to preferve the flower that never fades. Elmina was fenfible and good; to do good the only had to confult the natural emotions of her own heart; but the flower of celeftial blue, the found, required from her more

difficult exertions. She was naturally lively; and upon the leaft fretfulnefs of temper or impatience, the flower of gentleness failed not to become tarnifhed, and to reproach her with her faults. The princess corrected thefe as well as the could, and was never happy till her flower refumed its native luftre; for he was perfuaded, that it is much less shameful to repair a fault than to commit it, and far lefs culpable to commit it, than to attempt to conceal it without amending it.

As to the white flower, I have heard that it always p eferved its purity: It is true that Elmina perceived one day a little mark upon it; but a tear that the dropped upon it, effaced it immediately. I know not however, what little weakness Elmina had been guilty of, because every one readily forgets a fault that has been effaced by repentant tears.

The bud of the flower of genius continued always to increase; whenever the princess had been attentive to any leffon, and docile, the failed not to examine it, and ufually found it had pushed forth fome new leaves. This flower was the most marvellous of the whole; and it augmented ' during the whole life of Elmina. Nothing could be more varied than the form and colour of its leaves. Upon one might be seen a beautiful landfcape, or rich embroidering; upon another, reprefentations of history or geography; upon some might be feen a golden lyre, or a harp of ivory; in fhort, one remarked upon thefe, all the emblems that ferve to adorn the mind of a young lady.

As to the flower of gracefulness, it flourished, as Verdurine had faid, without being attended to. Elmina. had even occafion to remark, that if ̧ the endeavoured to haften its expanfin, by practifing gracious airs at the mirror or elsewhere, this fingular flower clofed itfelf immediately. It

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opened again when the thought no thing about it. It had only three Leaves; but these were fo beautiful and fo enchanting, that I know not by what charm their luftre communicated itself to the other flowers, and gave them an ineffable sweetness they could not have had without it. You will eafily imagine, that El mina poffeffing the Bower that never fades, and cultivating it fo carefully, became the most perfect princefs of her time. The report of her fine qualities fpread around; for you know that there is a kind of a fairy called Fams, who does nothing else than run up and down in the world, and recount all that he knows ofe very person, whether good or bad, efpecially of young princeffee. Faone therefore did not ceafe to publish the virtues and the graces of Elmina; and the people of every nation withed to have a princess lo accomplished for their queen. The fon of the king of the Roxalans, heir of the greatest empire in the universe, une dertook a long journey to fee her, and demanded her in marriage of Lindorine. Lindorine agreed to beflow Elmina upon him, not because he was the heir of the greatest empire, but because this amiable prince had allo cultivated the flower that never fades for there is also one for men, which is in fome refpects different from that of which we have spoken.

The princess would not have quit a place fo dear to her, without going

to vifit once more the bower where the precious gift had been made to her, which had occafioned her happiness.

She hoped there to find Verdurine, and to thank her once more: It was just three years from the time of her first appearance. Elmina then put the flower which never fades into her bofom, and went thither; but in arriving at the bower, what was her furprife, to find, instead of Ver durine, Lindorine, whom the had left in the house.

"I am, faid the fairy to her, fhe whom you feek. It was me who gave you the flower, under the figure of Verdurine; and it is me who have aided you to cultivate it under that of Lindorine. My task is happily accomplished; the flower fhall continue always fresh, and Elmina fhall be always lovely and ever beloved; for the virtues of the heart, and the graces of a cultivated mind, confer a charm which nothing can efface.” The princess threw herself at the feet of her benefact refs, and the fairy tenderly embraced her dear princes, and then took an ætian form and difappeared,

Elmina, melted in tenderness and diftrefs, held out her hands, and called her back. The prince ran to confole her, and carried her into his empire, where they lived together many years in great happiness.

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fion, removes his foul to the place where he has feuled his affections, and lofes himself to find the object he doats upon." This pleasant straying, this delightful wandering of the foul from its own manfion, is a beautiful defcription

description of the force of love, and the power which thofe who were created to charm have to transport us, as it were, from the government of ourfelves into their own abfolute dominion. A paffion which of its own nature is so violent, renders men excufable, in a great measure, when they feem to misplace it: they can not be faid to be guilty of a fault in difobeying their relations, when they are tranfported beyond the power of giving law to themselves: they are funk in foft captivity, and captives are not free agents: either is it hard it fhould be fo in nature; on the contrary, as good and virtuous wo. men alone have the full power of moving and captivating the foul in the manner mentioned, it is fo far from being an evil, that it is a bleffing highly to be coveted. The man who is born of a good mother, fays little enough, when, tranfported by her defert, he calls women the orna ments of mankind in their profperity, and their fupports in adverfity. There is no being happy in life with out them.

Plato, in another place, has carried the fentiment to a more agreeable height: he fays, "the foul of a man in love, dieth in his own body, and liveth in another's." This is energy of expreffion; and yet there is not more of ftrength and delicacy, than of propriety and juftnefs: for the foul of a man in love, is dead to all other appetites. The man who was in love with riches, and eager in the purfuit of honor, before he beheld the fair one who captivated his foul, the moment his heart confeffes itself a victim to the enchantment of beauty, looks no longer upon honor and riches as the two principal movements; they become only fecondary bleffings, and are no farther valued than as they may help him to comfort and adorn the adored companion of his life. Love is really, with regard to other affec

tions, what the philofopher's ftone is pretended to be with regard to metals: enriches and ennobles every thing touches: it is the genuine elixir that gives a golden tincture to every difpofition of the mind: it heightens ambition-it enlarges generofity-ir quickens joy-it banishes envy-it enlivens the virtues, and extirpatés the vices of men in all ranks and conditions of life. Is there a king who is a lover of money; the beauty whom he languishes to make a queen, is valued beyond all his treafure. Is there a courtier who is warm in the purfuit of a coronet; let him be in love, and his miftrefs is his pride: without her, the coronet will not hinder his head from aching; a garter will less alfuage the fwellings of his proud heart, than a favour of her beltowing.-A man that has fulness of joy in his compofition, will grow melancholy if he lofes the fair object of his defires: mufic cannot please where her voice is not heard. Equipage, embroideries and brocades are falíe colours upon the heart that is inwardly in mourning. The envious man envies no body but his rival, while he continues a lover.

What parent can rationally expect to be heard, when he undertakes to plead against fuch powerful impreffions? All the urgings of duty will be of no effect; all the arguments that can be used, will be no arguments to thefe; all the world, befide his mistress, is nothing to the man that is in love, and she is all the world to him. What can they hope to propofe to a fon in this condition, that will deter him from his purposes?— Will they propose to him a woman whom they think more beautiful and agreeable, and that has an infinite fuperiority of fortune above the fair one that is his choice? Let her be as great a fortune as the pleases, the is no fortune at all to him; fhe would be, with all her wealth, the load and

calamity.

calamity of his life. Love, he would Say, is built upon the union of minds; bearts are not to be bribed by gold's and true paffion is not to be bought off by the treasure of both the Indies. He can have no renth in poffeffions that his defired partner fhares not -Will they add, that befides fortune, the mutreis they recomend nas infinitely more of beauty in the world's eyes; he will anfwer, the world's eye is none of his; he will grant that the may even have defect, and will not to to fav, that he is even in love with thofe defects. In fine, all they can propole will never avail; nor is it ind ed reasonable that it fhould. If they threaten him with their dif

pleature, and tax him with want of duty, he will tell them that he is de. titul in all other points; he will be forry for their difpleasure, but cannot obey in this one cafe; he will make this undeniable quotation in his defence, that "be is to leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife.” Anu truly if his parents think that he fins against prudence in chufing a fender fortune, al. the world will judge, that they would fin against jutti e, if, forcing his in linations, they make him wretched under pretence of making him rich, and render him miferable under the colour of making him fortunate. August 27, 1792.

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AVING thus eftablished the · connection of the different functions with each other, and the importance of each in preferving the principle of life; as alfo having pointed out the errors into which the different writers have fallen, the following conclufions naturally arife:

Ift. That in every drowned perfon there is an interruption or fufpenfion of all the vital fuctions, which takes place nearly at one and the fame time.

zd. That this fufpenfion of the different functions, and not of any one in particular, is the caufe of death.

3d. That the indications of re covery (to arrange them in the order they were fuggefted in the enquiry upon the different functions) are,

ift. To restore the heat of the body. For this purpose it mult be immediately ftripped of its wet cloaths, and with warm cloths wiped until it is perfectly dry: It is then to be expofed to a gradual uniform degree of heat, at first fomewhat below the natural standard, for fadden violent

heat, like an electric shock, would rather exhaust than increase the tone of the moving fibre. This may be done in a variety of ways:

ift. By placing it before the fire. ad. Expofing it to the fun if it fhines hot.

3d. By the heat of another perfon's body,

4th. If in the neighbourhood of a brewery, diftillery, or any manufac tory, where a fufficient quantity of warm water may be immediately procured, by immerfing it in a warm bath,or by covering it in warm grains, warm afhes, warm fand, or falt.

5th. By rubbing it with courfe warm cloths, and applying warm bricks, bottles of warm water, or bags of hot falt to the feet.

21. To reftore the respiration, and thereby communicate pure air to the blood. This is to be done by repeatedly inflating the lungs, and as often preffing out the air, thereby imitating the alternate motions of the cheft in the natural respiration: to effect this, the lungs may be inflated,