she is remarkable, "I can, and I fincerely do forgive what, perhaps, in the pride of family, or in the affectation of needlefs delicacy, I fhould treat with contempt or derifion; but the affections are involuntary; and I will not add to the diftrefs you muft already experience, fuppofing your declaration to be true, by refuting you my pardon. You have it, Sir; but no further induigence muft you ever expect: this is a duty I owe to nyfelf and to you--I will confefs that fuch fentiments in my favour from a gentleman and a fcholar would contribute fomething to my own happiness, but that from you they wound me.""In what particular am I thus unfortunate?" he asked. "It is not," the anfwered," from any unfortunate circumfance, that you are deprived of my attention it is rather owing to a favourable cir cuinfance: perhaps there are those who are not much more worthy of your regard, but who may be willing to return an affection

which has fentiment for its object

Pardon me, madam," he exclaimed with a degree of impatience, none can be more worthy; nor could fortune, however exaited, nor talents, however brilliant, tempt me to think a moment of any one but your felf. But how good, how benignant it is thus to flatter me into an opinion of myfelf, that I may, for a moment, forget your perfections!-It will, indeed, be but for a moment; and this kindness but ferves to encreafe that affection which I know not how, and which I do not wish to extinguish."They were now approaching the house, and I met them in the garden. I faw that both of them were unusually pensive. Mr. C, however, addreffed himfelf to me in general terms, and the converfation turned on different fubjects, 'till we were interrupted by the arrival of a mellenger from his father, who was fuddenly indifpofed, and requested his immediate attendance.-After his departure, my fifter related to me the converfation that had paffed between them; and we were mutually aftonifhed at our ignorance of the caufe of his conduct. " Truly," faid Anna," I fear he indeed loves me, inftead of thee: for real affection is extremely diffident; and that apparent neglect which we attributed to indifference, was the effect of fuppreffed paffion. "What, my dear girl, fhall we do, to have this affection transfer red?"-" Do not," I replied, "jeft with the weaknels of my heart, Anda: I feel myself mitcrable, but that should be no bar to your felicity. You cannot be infenfible to the good qualies and the endearing accompliments of C. You, indeed, was the first to acknowedge them--and fince he loves you, why, my dear fifter, why should you not accept". 13 Believe me, I am not fo far captivated by the good

graces of Mr. C as to think feriously of his profeffions: befides, I regard him too ftrongly in another light, ever to think of him as a lover; for, from the moment my dear lifter candidly confeffed the hidden prepoffeffion in his favour, I have regarded him as a brother; and fo ftrongly is the fraternal idea impreffed on my mind, that no change of circumflance, no declaration of affection, will ever induce me to regard him as a lover."-Having thus become acquainted with the fentiments of Mr. C thing remained for me but to endeavour to extinguish the flames of a paffion which I found muft otherwife confume me. But at this time an event took place which gave another colour to my fortunes, and was productive of fcenes new and uxexpected at lodge.

(To be continued)

The Tender Farewell.

ALBERTUS was a youth born to a fortune fufficient to entitle him to an univerfity education. He had been fome time at our great feminary of education, when one day fitting at his window, intent upon his ftudies, he was fuddenly roufed by a noife beneath his window. He found it proceeded from fome of his brother students, bantering an elderly country gentleman, whole uncouth garb had drawn upon him their ill-judged farcafms. Albertus haftened to the relief of the ftranger. He rallied his contemporaries with a grace that befpoke the man of fenfe and politenefs. He exclaimed that their conduct was rude, mean, and unmanly. "If you, fays he, "wish to act the part of buffoons, inftead of the fcholars-throw off your gowns, and let one of you clothe himself in a coat of many colours, and he may ferve the reft to laugh at.”

The rebuke was too keen for retort; for, though covered with fhame and indignation, they retired. Albertus taking the venerable firanger by the hand, entreated him not to judge of the college by the fample he had received, and prefied him to refresh himself, in his apartment, with a glafs of wine. Benignus, for fo we fhall call the good old man, had not yet spoke a word—his attention was too much engroffed in marking the contraft in youth educated under the fame difcipline. Benignus, determining to see the influe of his adventure, followed the youth, and accepted his invitation. Albertus, by every foothing means, befought his gueft to accept his attention; not more on account of the rudeneis he had just experienced, but becaufe friendship and benevolence were acquirements which he earnestly fought to pofiels.

At length Benignus replied, by remarke ing, that as he had lived long in the world,

fo he thought himself capable of judging of mankind. "I wifhed," continued he, to be affured of the reality of what appears in you, so very different to that of the emptypated youths from whofe illiberality you refcued me; and now that prejudice is in fome measure worn off, I have no longer a Felitation to accompany you through the college, the curiofities of which I was proceeding to view when befet below your window." Albertus found the old gentleman to be of exquifite tafte and judgment. His garb appeared rather as a foil to fet off his qualities; and, notwithstanding the difparity of age, Albertus found himself more happy with him, than in the company of the moft learned of the college-for a knowledge of the world will not be acquired by pedantry and deep learning alone."

After they had feen each curiofity, "It is now," faid Benignus, "high time for you to know who it is that is indebted to you, for fuch conduct should not go without its proper reward." Albertus anfwered, that he was fufficiently rewarded by a confcioufnefs of having barely done his duty to his elder. "I have been your gueft," continued Benignus," and you fhall render me a fimilar return. I will lead you to thofe who fhall thank you. My family is at the inn: they confift of my wife, daughter, and a ward, who I alfo confider as my child; and though you are a collegian, I fhall no longer fcruple to introduce you to them." Albertus requested him to throw off his gown, which he remarked, from the recent affair, would not favour an introduction to the ladies. This done, they proceeded to the inn. "I have brought to fee you a fcholar and a gentleman, would I could fay as much for every colleg'an:" thus fpoke the good man as we entered the room. The ladies received Albertus cordially, but appeared as aftonished, till the adventure was related to hem. There are certain indelible characters in every face, which foon discover the fentiments of the heart; and however reciprocal affection in the opposite fexes, at the firft interview, may be contended againft, the fentiments of Albertus and the beautiful daughter of Benignus, is an additional refutation to fuch as deny it. Though the fon parents retained in full enjoyment each faculty, yet age had worn from their minds the vifible effects love like this has on youth. --They attributed their daughter's embarraffinent to the mere effects of feeing a ftranger, and confufion depreffed-not here unnaturally-Albertus.

The day was spent happily. In the after noon they took a walk round the town, attended by our ftudent, to the no small morsification of thofe who had fallen un er his rebuke. The morning was to take the Gent. Mag. April, 1788.

charming Louifa from his fight-perhaps, for ever With a heavy heart he returned to college, after promifing to breakfast with this happy family. The morning only encreafed his affection. He determined on extorting an invitation from Benignus, but the good man needed no fresh inducements-he infifted on a vifit the firft vacation; and, on their fetting off, Louifa, who evidently contrived to be the laft that stepped into the coach, with a look that pierced the youth's heart, told him not to forget her father's invitation.

Albertus was inconfolable; and, to add to his unhappiness, his fellow ftudents failed not to retaliate on him, for they justly conceived the caufe.-All, but one, rallied him: the affront to Rinaldo, one who had hitherto been his intimate, was unpardonable. These circumftances were unneceffary to henceforward make the college odious to Albertus. Louifa alone engaged his thoughts, and he determined on making a vacation for himself. Accordingly, pretending important business called him home, and to colour the meafure, he produced a forged letter; and then he fet off for

hall, the refidence of his love. He was received with open arms by Benignus, and was bleft with the fmiles of Louifa. He foon had an opportunity of informing her of the caufe of his hafty vifit, to which the liftened with attention and pleafure.-Several weeks had imperceptibly glided away, each day adding affection hetween the lovers. Terefa, the ward of Be nignus, was the confidante, and through her, their mutual love was, by confent made known to Louifa's parents. Benignus, on hearing it, haftened to the youth; who, knowing the purport of lerefa's converfation, concluded all his hopes were blafted:

but who can paint his feelings, when he heard the parent confent to their union, adding, that he knew his worth and fortun?

The day was fixed, and each preparation made for the folemnization, when a letter came directed to Benignus, and in it were thefe words:"You are deceived; Albertus is not what he feems." The fatal paper was fhewn to Albertus; and though he was affured by the whole family, that none but a villain could contrive it, yet fo ungovernable, fo impetuous was his temper, that neither the perfuafion of the parents, nor the intreaties of Louifa, could prevent his inftantly fetting off to punish the writer, whom he perfifted was Rinaldo. In vain did Penignus and his wife remonftrate; in vain aid Louifa intreat, and reprefent her forebodings, that he would never return; till the good man, in order to repel his rathness, laid his commands, as a father, on him not to quit his roof on fuch an e d. He af

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fected compliance; but, feizing the opportunity of the old people paying a vifit, he prepared to execute his revenge. His appearance booted, and otherwife prepared for a journey, renewed, with too much reafon, the fears of the young ladies, who were left at home with him. Opportunity offered to clear his wounded honour, and tears and fupplications could not over-balance the injury. He took an affectionate leave, and promised to return immediately.Thus was the happiness of a family deftroyed by the impetuofity of youth, fearching after that bubble, honour; for fuch it proved to Albertus. The affaffin was Rinaldo, and Al. bertus fell in a duel, by his hand.

An Exalt Copy of the Late Pretender's Proclamation, on his landing in scotland in the Year 1745.

Charles, Prince of Wales, &c. Regent of the Kingdom of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. &c. and the dominion thereunto belonging: Unto all bis Majefty's fubjects, of what degree foever, greeting.

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S foon as we were conducted, by the providence of God, into Scotland, and were joined by a handful of our royal father's faithful fubjects, our first care was to make public his moft gracious declaration; and in confequence of the large powers by him vefted in us in quality of regent, we al fo emitted our own manifefto, explaining and enlarging the promises formerly made according as we came to be better acquainted with the inclination of the people of Scotland. Now that it has pleafed God fo far to fmile on our undertaking, as to make us mafter of the ancient kingdom of Scotland, we judge it proper, in this public manner to make manifeft what ought to fill the hearts of all his Majefty's fubject, of what nation or province whatfoever, with joy and fatis faction-We therefore, hereby, in his majefty's name declare, that his fole intention is to reinflate all his fubjects in the full enjoyment of their religion, laws, and liberties, and that our prefent attempt is not undertaken in order to enflave a free peop1, but to redress and remove the encroachments made upon them; not to impofe on any religion which they diflike, but to fecure them in all the enjoyments of thofe which are at prefent refpectively established amongst them, either in England, Scotland, or Ireland: and if it fail be deemed proper that any farther fecurity shall be given to the efla blished church, and clergy; we hereby promife in his name, that he fhall pass any law that his parlament fhall judge neceflary for the purpose, In confequence of the eCtitude of our royal father's intentions,

we muft further declare his fentiments with regard to the nation's debt-that it has been contracted under an unlawful government, nobody can difown; no more than that it is now a moft heavy load upon the nation, yet, in regard it is for the greateft part due to thole very fubjects whom he promifes to protect, cherif, and defend, he is refolved to take the advice of his parliament concerning it, in which he thinks ke acts the part of a juft prince, who makes the good of his people the fole rule of his actions; furthermore, we, here in his name declare, that the fame rule laid down for the funds fhall be followed with respect to every law, or act of Parliament fince the revolution; and in fo far as in a free and legal parliament they fhall be approved, he will confirm them-with refpect to the pretended union of the two nations, the king ed remonftrances against it from each kingcannot poffibly ratify it, fince he had repeatdom; and fince it is inconteftable, that the fion of the royal family, from their undoubtprincipal point then in view, was the exclued right to the crown, for which purpofe the groffeft corruptions were openly used to bring it about; but whatever may be here after devifed for the joint benefit of both nations, the king will moft readily comply with the request of his parliament to eablish.

And now that we have, in his Majefty's name, given you the most ample fecurity for the religion, properties, and laws, that the power of a British fovereign can grant ; we hereby for ourselves, as heirs apparent to the crown, ratify and confirm the fame in our name, before Almighty God, upon the faith of a Chriftian, and honour of a prince: let me now expoftulate this weighty matter, with you, my father's fubjects; and let me not omit this firft public opportunity of awakening their understandings, and of difpelling that cloud which the affiduous pens of ill-defigning men have all along, but chiefly now, been endeavouring to caft on the truth: Do not the pulpit and the congregations of the crgy, as well as your public papers, ring with the dreadful threats of popery, flavery, tyranny, and arbitrary power, which are now ready to be imposed upon you by the formidable powers of France and Spain; and is not my father reprefer ted as a blood-thirty tyrant, breathing out nothing but deftruction to all those who will not einbrace an odious religion? Or have I myself been better used; but liften to the naked truth: I, with my own money, hired a fimall veffel, ill-provided with money or friends, I arrived in Scotland, attended by feven perfons-I pùblish the king, my father's declaration, and proclami his title, with parden in one

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hand and in the other liberty of confcience, and the most folemn promises to grant what ever a free parliament fhall propofe for the happiness of a people; I have, I confefs, the greateft reafon to adore the goodness of the Almighty God, who has, in fo remarkable a manner, protected me and my small army through the many dangers to which we were firft expofed, and who has led me in the way to victory, and to the capital of this ancient kingdom, amidft the acclamations of the king, my father's fubjects -Why then is fo much pains taken to fpirit up the minds of the people against this, my undertaking-the reafon is obvious, it is, left the real fenfe of the nations prefent fuffer, as fhould blot out the remembrance of past misfortunes and of the qutcries formerly railed against the royal family, whatsoever mifcarriages might have given occafion to them, they have been more than atoned for fince; and the nation has now an opportunity of being fecured againft the like for the future. That our family has fuffered exile thefe fifty years, every body knows-Has the nation, during that period of time, been more happy and flourifhing for it-Have you found reafon to love and cherish their governors as the fathers of the people of Great Britain and Ireland, but a family upon whom a faction unlawfully bestowed the diadem of a rightful prince, returned a due fenfe of fo great a truft and favour-Have you found more humanity and condefcenfion in thofe who were not born to a crown, than in my royal forefathers? have their ears been open to the cries of the people? Have they, or do they only confider the intereft of thefe cations? have you reaped any other benefit from them than an immenfe load of debts? If I am anfwered in the affirmative, Why has their government been fo often railed at in all their public affemblies? Why has their nation fo long, in vain, being crying out for redress, against the abuse of liaments, upon the account of their long duration-the multitude of placemen which occafions their venalty; the introduction of penal laws, and in general against the miferable fituation of the kingdom, both at home and abroad? all these, and many more inconveniences must now be removed, un

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lefs the people of Giet Britain be already fo far corrupted, that they will not accept of freedom when offered to them: feeing the king on his restoration, will refuse nothing that a free parliament can ask for the fecurity of the religion, laws, and liberty of his people. The fears of the nation, from the powers of France and Spain, appear ftill more vain and groundless; my expedition was undertaken unfupported by either; but, indeed, when I fee a foreign

force brought by my enemies against me, and when I hear of Dutch, Danes, Heffians, and Swifs, the elector of Hanover's allies, being called over to protect his go vernment against the king's fubjects, is it not high time for the king, my father, to ac cept alfo the affiftance of those who are able, and have engaged to fupport him? But will the world, or any one man of fenfe in it, infer from thence that he inclines to be a tributary prince, rather than an independent monarch? Who has the better chance to be independent on foreign powers? he, who with the aid of his own fubjects can wreft the government out of the hands of an intruder; or he who cannot, without affiftance from abroad, fupport his govern ment, though established by all the civil power, and fecured by a strong military force against an undisciplined part of thofe he has ruled over for fo many years; let him, if he pleafes, try the experiment, let him fend for his foreign hirelings, and put the whole upon the iffue of a battle? I will truft only to the king, my father's fubjects, who were, or fhall be engaged in mine, and their country's caufe; but notwithstanding all the oppofition he can make, I shall truft in the juftice of my caufe, the valour of my troops, and the affiftance of the Almighty, to bring my enterprize to a glorious iffue. It is now time to conclude, and I fhall do it with this reflection:

Civil wars are ever attended with rancour

and ill will, which party rage never fails to produce in the minds of thofe whom different interefts, principles, or views, fet in oppofition to one another; I therefore, earneftly require it of my friends, to give as little loofe as poffible to fuch paffions; this will prove the most effectual means to prevent the fame in the enemies of our royal caufe; and this, my declaration, will vindicate to all pofterity, the nobleness of my undertaking, and the generofity of my in

tentions.

4. Art thou in adverfity, fhe will comfort, affift, bear a part of thy burden to make it more tolerable.

5. Art thou at home, fhe will drive away melancholy.

6. Art thou abroad, the looks after you going from home, wifbes for thee in thy abfence, and joyfully welcomes thy return.

7. There is nothing delightfome without fociety, no fociety fo fweet as matri

mony.

8. The band of conjugal love is adamantine.

9. The fweet company of kinsmen increafeth, the number of parents is doubled, of brothers, fifters, nephews, and ieces.

10. Thou art made a father by a fair and happy iffue.

i. Mofes curfeth the barrennefs of matrimony-how much more a fingle life.

12. If nature efcape not punishment, furely thy will fhall not avoid it.

Notwithstanding all this is true, how eafy a matter is it to make an anti-parody quite oppofite to it!

1. Haft thou means, thou haft one to fpend it.

2. Haft thou no means, thy beggary is increafed.

3. Art thou in profperity, thy happinefs is ended.

4. Art thou in adverfity, like Job's wife he will agravate thy mifery, vex thy foul, make thy burden intolerable.

5. Art thou at home, he will scold thee out of doors.

6. Art thou abroad, fhe will, perhaps, graft horns in thine abfence, and feold upon thee coming home.

7. Nothing gives more content than folitarinefs-no folitarinels like that of a fingle life.

8. The band of marriage is adamantine, no hope of lofing it-thou art undone. 9. Thy numbers increafeth, thou shalt be devoured by thy wife's friends.

10. Thou art made a cornuto by an unchafte wife, and fhalt bring up other folks children inftead of thine own.

11. Paul commends marriage, yet he prefers a fingle life.

12. Is marriage honourable---what an immortal crewn belongs to virginity?.

R. P. an author of credit in his Blazon of Jealoufy, telleth a flory of a fwan about Windfor, that finding a strange cock with his mate, fwam feveral miles after to kill him, and when he had fo done came back to kill his hen.

There was fome philofophers who would have women come abroad but thrice all their life, to be baptifed, married, and buried.

The wheels in clock-work feem to crofs sch other, yet all help the motion forward,

The darkness of the night sets off the beauty of the morning light, and makes it to be more wonderfully accepted.

Those planets have the fweetest and moftbenign influence which are of the floweft motion.

The best way of perfuading is by example.

We prize what we obtain with difficulty. When the proper feed-time is loft, the foil grows ftiff and untractable.

The labour of learning averts childhood, and the fhame of it is manhood.

Sejanus, that prodigious favourite, the fame day was attended by the fenate, and torn in pieces by the people.

The witty etimology which the Lord Chancellor Bacon gave of a libel, that it was derived of a lie, forged at home, and a bell to ring it up and down the country.

Laws fhould not be like cobwebs, to catch only fmall flies, and to be broken by great

ones.

What feems a Juno in the purfuit, is often found a cloud in our poffeffion.

Life is to be measured by our actions, not by time; a man may die old at thirty, and young at eighty-the one lives after death, the other perifhed before he died.

Any affectation in drefs implies a flaw in the underflanding.

Modefty is the only fure bait when we angle for praise.

Ufage and cuftom determine all langua

ges.

Good-nature and sense must ever join. We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Never procraftinate, never put off till tomorrow what you can do to day, never do that by another which you can do yourself. Those who want advice moft like it, and follow it leaft.

If you would convince others, feem open to conviction yourself.

Cufiom can never alter the nature of good and ill.

He that would quench an impure defire by enjoyment, is like him that would throw gun-powder into the fire to extinguish it.

The confcience of giving good example is one of the greatest obligations any man can lay upon the age he lives in.

When the afs diftinguished himself in the lion's fkin, he frightened all the beafls, and even the cunning fox till he heard him bray. Obfcene difcourfes are the peft of converfation.

In Sparta, when all laws against theft proved ineffectual, at laft they fixed the penalty upon them that were robbed, and that did the business; and if it were made amongst us as infamous to be flattered as it is 'to

flatter