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melancholy, at length, with great reluctance confents to the repeated requests of her lover, who appears to doat on her with the most ardent paflion; and they go off together, in order to undertake their matrimonial expedition. Old Grifkin directly returns, and fays he has found out the route his niece has taken, for that four or five couple went off poft that morning for Scotland; and that, by the defcription, Jemmy Twinkle and Mifs Grifkin must be among them; he therefore defires his housekeeper to go with him, in order to recover the young Lady. Mrs. Fillagree, who appears to have a defign upon her mafter, feems startled at this requeft, and gives several hints that she shall lofe her character by accompanying him on the journey; and that the family of the Flacks, their near neighbours, of whom they feem to ftand in great awe, will certainly propagate a terrible ftory upon the occafion. Grifkin then tells her, that the will absolutely make him diftracted, and that the knows the may trust him.

Fil. Truft you?-To tell you the truth, I hardly know whether I dare truft myself. You are an old man, to be fure; but I'cod you are a very fmug one. And how does one know what the devil may put into one's head?--I will not go, pofitively.

Grif. Now, dear Fillagree.Fil. Keep your diftance. Don't grow fond, I beg of you. It frights me to death. I am all over in a tremble.-I will go, however, and get your things ready, for I think I hear the poft-chaife ftop at the door -But I defire you would not come up ftairs after me, for I am refolute in my determination. [Exit.

Grif. I will follow you tho', for I am fure you love the girl fo much that you must comply. And there fhall be no pains wanting on my fide to bring it about.-Hark! It is the chaife. I hope old Flack, has feen nothing of it. I will just go and speak to the boy.-Poor Fillagree! I do not believe the has her equal for virtue in the world. She is rather a comely woman too, and, tho' her temper is a little violent, fhe has many good qualities.-A finug old man; he, he!I with I have not more to fear on my fide than fhe has on her's. But go fhe must, at any rate. A fmug old man, he,

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The Scene changes. A Dance of Poftilions and Chambermaids. After the Dance, enter CUPID. CUPID.

Well, Gentlefolks, though you refuse my aid, I've got good customers, and been well paid,

And now, in hopes it may encourage you, I'll fhew you what the power of love can do. Your Grecian bards in their immortal, fcenes

Have deities descending in machines; And many a knotty point their godships clear,

Which you, bold fons of Britain, fcarce would bear.

-Hold! fcarce would bear ? --not in a ferieus play,

But in a trifling farce perhaps you may; Where Love, the great magician, waves his wand,

And then, as Chorus, lends a helping hand. Hey, país, begone! Swift as the lightning's gleam,

Or lying Mahomet's fictitious dream,
Time, Ipace, be nothing!

On his waving his whip, the scenes fhift, and the inn appears.]

Since I saw you last, Days have roll'd on, and weary miles bsen pafs'd;

Without one feeming interval between, You're now in Yorkshire, and the fcene an

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Our landlady appears! Herfelf a ftorm!
A ftorm I fly from.
[Runs off.

The infide of a large inn is immediately difcovered. A great noife is heard among the fervants. Several travellers are introdu

ced by the waiters, and accommodated according to their defires; and the landlady, enjoying a fort refpite from the buffle, cies out, Well, thefe Scotch marriages are glorious things for our road. Heaven bless their good hearts who fiift thought of evading the law. Nothing but poft-charles day from London and night, night and day; to Scotland, from Scotland to London; up and down, down and up: And then the young couples are fuch open-hearted, generous fouls, that I warrant you fome of them. spend half their fortunes in the journey.

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Mifs Griskin, now Mrs. Twinkle, appears in high fpirits, and tells the landlady the is quite another thing fince her wedding, and that, if he was to be married fifty times, fhe would, from the many agreeable circumftances fhe met with upon the journey, make all her lovers run away with her to Scotland. After fome time, her husband arrives, counting his money, and calculating his expences, in a very fullen humour, and feems to be very infenfible of the affiduities of his new wife, who accuses him of coldness, and declares her difappointment at his not acting confiftent with his profeffions to her during his courtship, when he wrote the verses on her first appearance at Haberdashers-hall, and the lines on her biting a finger off her glove at the White Conduit-house, which laft, the faid, there was nothing like in all Pope's Works. Sweet lovely maid, were I a glove. This flattering idea caufes an immediate reconciliation, and they retire in good humour to their apartment.

A violent difturbance next enfues, occafioned by old Griskin's putting up at the inn, which he infifts upon fearching from top to bottom, in order to find his niece. After fome oppofition from the landlady, and Mrs. Fillagree, who declares she is unable to travel any farther, he begins to be in tolerable good humour, and agrees to lie there that night. On the landlady's inquiring, who fuppofes them man and wife, whether they chufe to lie in one bed, Mrs. Fillagree is thrown into great distress with refpect to the injury her character will fuftain from her attending Griskin upon his journey, and is not at all fatisfied until the is affured the fhall have a bed at leaft fix chambers diftant from his. On their going off, the chamberlain enters, and acquaints his mistress that the young couple have been detected by the old Gentleman, and that very difagreeable confequences are likely to enfue. Cupid then enters, laughing and finging :

Ha ha, ha ha, Ha ha ha!
Cupid triumphs o'er all ages,
Beardless youths and bearded fages
All fubmit to Cupid's law.
Ha ha, ha ha, Ha ha ha!
Conqueft to the fair belongs,
Be they foolish, be they witty,
Be they frightful, be they pretty,

All, ay all have flattering tongues.
All, ay all have flattering tongues.

He speaks:
Well, thus far I have brought, you see,
My couples pretty handsomely;
And every thing has been exprefs'd:
-Then why proceed? You know the reft.

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You know in cafes fuch as thefe,
How nature works by just degrees;
What dreadful storms at first arise
Of clamorous tongues and weeping eyes,
Till all their griefs, beyond expreffing,
End in a calm, and, Sir, your bleffing.
Suppofe we then our doating fage
Has fpent his impotence of rage;
That pouting Mifs had wept her fill ;
That Fillagree with female skill
Has touch'd each kind confenting chord,
Has wheedled, threaten'd, and implor'd,
And brought at length her feveral views,
Juft to the crifis fhe would chufe.

By your confent the rest we'll spare,
Jump to th' event, and catch them there.
[*He waves his whip.
They rife, they speak! and I refrain-
Be courteous, and I'll come again.

[Nodding to the audience, and exit. [*On CUPID's waving his whip, the fcene fhifts, and difcovers Mr. Grif kin and Fillagree in earnest converfation on a couch, Mifs leaning against one fide-fcene pouting, and leering at Jemmy, who leans against another scene, twirling his hat, and playing with his fingers. The landlady, fervants of the inn, &c. appear listening at the fe veral doors ]

Fillagres [rifing and coming forward.] Well then, upon that condition, and upon that condition only, there's my hand.

Griskin (grafping her hand eagerly.) 'Tis a hard one, Fillagree.-But I must comply. Come hither, you ungracious couple you! I am forced to forgive you.-Get up, get up, and don't plague me any more about it. You may thank Fillagree for it. I was as hard as adamant till the foftened me. (Ogling her) And now, Fillagree, I have but one care remaining; if I could but get over that curfed difficulty of the Flack family, I fhould be a happy man, indeed.

A reconciliation having now taken place, the landlady, fervants, Cupid, and the young couples that were in the inn, enter, and give then joy. Mifs Dolly Flack, among them, intreats Griskin to compaffionate her misfor tunes, which, fhe fays, have been occasioned by her eloping to marry a young fellow, who even now, before half their journey was accomplished, treats her with the most cruel indifference. Griskin inquiring into the cause of this behaviour, Tom Sotherton, the young man, tells him, that, being a ftrollingplayer by profeffion, he came up to London in order to be engaged at one of the Theatres, but, having been disappointed in his profpects, he flattered himself a marriage with Mifs Flack would repay him for all his

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trouble, efpecially as a friend affured him, the had 10,000l. in her own poffeffion; that upon this hint he spoke, and found the Lady, from her violent paffion for romance, very ready to acquiefce with his propofals; that they fet out from London in high fpirits, but, before they had reached York, an exprefs reached him from his friend, affuring that Mifs Flack's fortune intirely depended on the will of her father, a grandmother, and two maiden aunts; yet, as he was too honeft to make the young Lady a beggar, he was determined to break off the match, and

hoped by fuch proceeding his conduct would be applauded rather than blamed.

Grifkin overjoyed to find the family of the Flacks had no right to accufe him with the misconduct of his niece, nor his own matrimonial engagement with Fillagree, undertakes to reconcile Dolly Flack to her parents. Fillagree and Cupid, by way of Epilogue, then concludes the piece, with recommending to all young Ladies to think seriously before they venture upon marriage, and not to be too precipitate in their engagements.

LETTER to Baron VON POLLNITZ, at Berlin.-From Letters, just publifhed, of Baron Bielfeld.

SIR,

Hanover, Aug, 6, 1740.

So then, the King is returned to Konig berg in Pruffia! I give you many thanks for the relation you have had the goodness to fend me of his Majefty's journey. I have read it to fome perfons of merit here, who are in raptures with thofe marks of clemency and greatness of foul that the King has every where fhewn; and with that ingenious manner in which you recount all thefe actions, and the remarkable ceremonies that have accompanied the receiving of homages. This interefting defcription is, in a manner, a continuation of your memoirs, which afford fuch a pleaing entertainment to the polite world. We are not furprised that the King has not been crowned. Frederic, the firit King of Pruffia, had good reafons for fubmitting to that ceremony; but his fucceffors receive the crown from the hands of Providence, and not from their fubjects. They content themselves with adminiftering the oath of fidelity to the troops, to the Nobility and the people. Meff. Dacier, medallifts at Geneva, have just struck a very fine and large medal, which correfponds with this idea. It is in bronze; on one fide is feen the bust of the King, with the ufual infcription, Fredericus II. Rex Borruffiae;' and on the exergue, his Majefty's motto, Pro patria & pro gloria. The reverfe reprefents the city of Konigsberg, over which is an eagle with extended wings, and thefe words, Rex natura.'

The King, who is not fond of ceremo. nies, is, I believe, very well pleased with avoiding this, though he will have others to undergo in his journey to Weftphalia, Cleves, and Wefel All these journies will form fo many courses of exercises for you Courtiers. Your minds, as well as your bodies, muft be not a little folaced with the intervals of reft. To amule your leisure, pernit me,

Sir, to fend you a fhort account of our fø

journing together in dierenly seemay not are gard as altogether indifferent, feeing you are acquainted with the principal actors who fhine on this theatre.

Scarce had Frederic William closed his eyes, before we faw arrive at Berlin, as you remember, Baron Munchaufen, firft Minifter of the King of Great Britain, in his electorate of Hanover, in order to prefent, on the part of his Britannic Majefty, the compliments of condolence and felicitation to our new King. This arrival was fo fudden, that Baron Munchaufen could not have received the order from London, fince the death of the late King. From whence we conclude, that the embassy of this Minister had been determined in England, from the time they knew of the dangerous difor ler of the Pruffian Monarch; and this remarkable attention gives room to conjecture, that the Court of London endeavours to prevent ours, by fo much politenefs, in order to efface the remembrance of that perfonal animofity which fubfifted, from their early youth, between Frederic William and the King of Great Britain, and by which their Minifters have been frequently greatly embarraffed. They fay, that this natural antipathy, which is worse than hatred, had once rofe fo high, that the two Monarchs, after the example of Charles V. and Francis I, had determined to decide it by fingle combat; that the King of England had fixed on Brigadier Sutton for his fecond, and that his Pruffian Majefty had made choice of Colonel Derfchau; that the territory of Hilderthein was appointed for the rendezvous. His Britannic Majefty was then at Hanover, and his Pruffian Majefty was already arrived at Saltzdahl, near Brunfwic. Baron Von Bork, who had been the Pruffian Minifter at London, and was difiniffed from that Court in a very ungracious manner, ar

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living at Saltzdahl, found the King his mafter, in fo violent a rage, that he did not think it advifeable directly to oppofe his defign; but, on the contrary, in order to gain time, feemed to approve of the choice of a fingle combat, and even offered his fervice to carry the cartel. But, entering the King's apartment about an hour after, he took the liberty to fay, Sire, I am convinced that your Majefty's quarrel ought not to be decided but by a duel, and, if I may be allowed the expreffion, as between one Gentleman and another. But your Majefty is fcarce recovered from a dangerous illness, and have still remaining all the symptoms of your late diforder: How unfortunate therefore would it be, if you should relapse the evening before the combat, or even that very morning; what a triumph would it be for the English King? And what would the world fay? What odious fufpicions would it caft upon your Majefty's courage? Would it not, therefore, be far better to poftpone the affair for a few days, till your Majefty's health is eftablished? The King, they fay, acquiefced, though with difficulty, in thefe reafonings; the cartel was not fent; the Minifters on both fides gained time; the wrath of the two Kings by degrees evaporated, and, by the next year, they became in a manner reconciled.

I do affure you, Sir, that we do not now find the leaft traces here of that ancient animofity between the Houses of Pruffia and Great Britain: It seems to have been buried in the grave with Frederic William. We find no thing at Herenhaufen, but politeness and attention. That Court feems to endeavour after a clofe and fincere attachment with ours; and, if I am not mistaken, will be charmed to cement this new connection by a marriage between the Prince of Pruffia and the Princefs Louifa of Great Britain, of whom they talk with raptures.

We had no fooner alighted at the hotel of London, where apartments were prepared for us, than Count Trouchses sent Captain Von Queis to Lord Harrington, the English Secretary of State, and to Baron Munchaufen, to notify our arrival. The latter came, about an hour after, to vifit all the embaffy; talked with great refpect to the Count, and advised him not to make use of his credentials immediately, in order to avoid much troublesome ceremony; but to remain tranquil at home for a couple of days, to receive the vfits of all the Court, and to prepare for h's public audience, which he promised thould be the third day. The Count followed his advice. The next day we put on our mourning habits, and received, in fact, the vifits of

all the Minifters, Generals, Courtiers, and in fhort, every one of any diftinction in Hanover. Our rooms were thronged with a continued proceffion. The day of audience Baron Munchaufeu came to take us in the King's coaches, which were very magnificent. He fat with Count Trouchfes in the firft. In the fecond were two Hanoverian Gentlemen. Then came the grand state mourning coach, drawn by fix horfes, and preceded by two Marshals: The Pages were on the outfide, and two Gentlemen of our embaffy within. Next came the Count's fecond mourning coach, with the third Gentleman of the embaffy; and, laftly, came my coach, and in which I fat, rather uncomfortably, alone. Some empty coaches, belonging to the principal Minifters, clofed the proceffion. At the gates of the city, and on entering the Court of the palace of Herenhaufen, the guards prefented their arms, the Officers made the falute, and the drums beat the march.

We were conducted into an antichamber, where we found the whole Court assembled, and in a mourning almost as deep as our own. Count Trouchfes wore a peruke of an immenfe fize, and a cloak that trailed fome yards behind him, which gave to his figure of fix feet high, a very fingular appearance. In about a quarter of an hour, Lord Harrington came to introduce us to the audience. The doors of the hall were thrown open, and the King of Great Britain appeared in all his glory. He was dreffed in purple, and adorned with his grand order of the Garter. Count Trouchfes prefented his credentials with a good deal of grace, and with an air of dignity, but he had not time to make a long harangue; for the King interrupted and answered him with the greatest goodness; and afterwards talked to him with an air of cordiality, that delighted every one who beheld him. His Majefty could not fufficiently admire his grave and folemn appearance, and faid to him softly, with a finile, Count Trouchses, one would imagine, by your appearance, that you were in despair for the lofs of your late Mafter.” We were all of us afterwards presented to his Majefty, who faid to each of us fomething gracious and condefcending. When we came out of the hall of audience, the Count laid afide his cloak, and foon after fat down to table. Our Ambafador had the honour to dine with the King; and we had an excellent dinner at the table of the Marihal. When the King role from table we returned into the hall where his Majefty dined, and where we found a great number of Courtiers of the firft quality, who received us glafs in hand.

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The great Cupbearer was at his poft, that is to fay, at the beaufet, and exercised the functions of his office with the best grace in the world, by charging us with numberless bumpers. After this Germanic ceremony, we were presented with coffee, and then conducted into the large and noble garden. This garden is rather fuperb than pleafing: The alleys are fpacious, and the hedges high and beautiful. There are bafons of water, and fountains that are admirable. The grand jet in the middle is the finest in the whole world: It is two feet in diameter, and ufually rifes 80 feet high, but, when all the machines are going, it may be raised to 120 feet. The day the King fhewed this matchlefs fountain to the Duchefs of Dorfet, I was a witness with what impetuofity this water rifes into the air, and then falls down like a liquid and transparent mountain, efpecially in calm weather. The bafon, though large, is not of a fufficient width: There reigns too much uniformity in these gardens, and they have no profpect. The verdant theatre is one of their greatest ornaments.

After the walk there was a French comedy: The company is a very good one. Mademoiselle La Vois, Mademoiselle Amoche, and Meff. Serigni and du Clos, are the best actors. On coming out from the comedy, the King took another walk; and all the Court attended him. We fupped at Herenhaufen, and about midnight returned to Hanover; quite fatisfied with the gracious reception we had met with both from the King and all the Court.

The days pafs here with an uniformity very much liken that of a convent. Every morning at eleven, and every afternoon about fix, we go to Herenhaufen, through an endless alley of lime-trees, fcorched by the fun; and twice a day our mourning clothes and equipages are covered with duft. The King eats by rotation with the fame company; makes every night a party at ombre with the fame perfons, fups, and goes to bed. There is twice in a week a French comedy, and the other days are devoted to play in the great gallery; fo that, were his Majefty conftantly to refide at Hanover, one might make a kind of almanac for ten years to come; and predict what dishes would be ferved each day at his table; what would be his employments, and what his amufements., Notwithstanding all which, I do not find the time here in any degree tedious. The first days were spent in receiving and paying vifits. I am very often invited to dine or fup with fome of the principal perfons in the ci ty: I walk, I eat, I drink, I fleep, I make love, negotiate, write my difpatches, cypher

and decypher: Add to all this our jaunts to Herenhaufen, and you will fee that I have employment enough for any reasonable man.

I find, befides, among the Courtiers that are here, a confiderable number of men of fenfe and merit; from whofe conversation I receive both inftruction and amusement. There is not, moreover, any one Prince in Germany, great or fmall, that does not fend a Minifter to compliment his Britannic Majefty on his arrival in his electoral dominions. Foreigners alfo arrive here from every quarter, but they are, for the most part, birds of paffage, who disappear at the end of a certain number of days; fo that Herenhausen resembles a dove-house, or, if you please, a magic lanthorn, where the objects pass rapidly before the fpectators eyes.

They make, in general, very good chear, at Hanover, but efpecially at M. Von BHe is a tall, well-made man, of an agreeable appearance; has a good deal of wit, and ftill more money. He was formerly employed as Envoy from the Elector of Hanover, at Paris; and, on his return from thence, he had the misfortune, by the kick of a horfe, to lofe one of his eyes: The blow was fo violent that the nerves and the mufcles of the other eye were greatly injured at the fame time. This accident gave him inexpreffible pain; and he was obliged, by or der of his physicians, to obferve a very exact regimen, and which was to him still more infupportable than the pain itself. The remaining eye, notwithstanding, became every day worfe; and, at last, his doctors informed him that it was impoffible to fave it; that in a few days he would lofe his fight intirely, but that he would be delivered from his pains, and might then live as he pleased. He received this news with transports of joy: He regulated all his affairs as long as his fight lafted; faw every thing that was curr ous, furnished and fet his houfe in order, and waited the total eclipse of his fight with as much impatience as another man would have waited for a recovery. At length his eyes were both extinct. With his laft eye he loft his griefs; and from that day began to live again. As he has neither wife nor child, he has devoted a confiderable part of his income to his table. It is regularly ferved for twelve perfons, with great abundance and equal delicacy. This Gentleman feems, by the lofs of his fight, to have improved his other senses: His feeling, his taste, and hearing are amazingly acute. His chief pleasure is in drinking healths to his friends, in bumpers, and in which they are obliged to pledge him: The Butler always brings

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