quals his munificence, and his kindness to us furpaffes any thing I could fay of it. The beauty of the Countefs, fet off by a noble and polite fimplicity of manners, is not more eafy to be defcribed. I had not brought with me proper clothes to accompany her to the Court of the Princefs, where her obliging intention was to introduce me. Our Ambaffador accompanied my fellow traveller to the Stadtholder's. Both their Highneles were fo complaifant as to converfe with him, and the feveral perfons prefent, in the language of their respective countries, which they spoke with as much facility as if they had been natural to them. Their children learn them with fuccefs, and difcover a promiling genius. At this Court people live juft as at all others; they game, take the air, doze away their time in infipid languor, and go to ice the French comedians, who have a han ifome theatre; and to the Italian concert.

The affemblies are here just the fame as at London; and we are fo happy as to be as well received here as in that capital. The Spanish Ambatfador, Del Puerto, yesterday gave us an entertainment, which confifted of forty dishes in the best taste. Our dinner at the Prince of Naffau's to-day was equally elegant. The true Cape-wine is drank here; ours is fpurious. Fatigue is fo good for my health, that it gives me ftrength to fupport it. How is it poffible to bear up under fuch a weight of pleafures? I mult make haite to enjoy them, the time of departure approaches: We did not think of renewing thefe agreeable scenes, but my Lady Holderneffe will have it fo, and he is fo obliging as to infift upon our paying her a fecond vifit, when we have feen the other towns of Helland. We receive numerous invitations, and I readily yield to fuch kind importunities. This morning we went two leagues to fee Ryfwick, a palace famous for the peace of 1697; and this evening we fet out for Amfterdam, from whence I will write to you, if I poffibly can: The journies I make, and the feveral amufements meet with, scarce leave me time to fct my foot upon the ground:

I who by nature was defign'd
For fweet tranquillity of mind,
Rack'd by unceafing toils, in vain
A peaceful port afpire to gain.
But you, whom Pallas form'd to please,
And captivate each heart with cafe.
You, who receiv'd from every grace
Thofe charms that win all human race;
Too oft to rural shades retir'd,
Live joyless, by no crowds admir`d.

Reafon, whose just and fage controul
Rules every motion of your foul,
Through a long dreary path your flight
Speeds to the gloomy realms of night.
To that fame goal my courfe I bend,
The goal where all purfuits must end.
To reach thofe manlions of the dead,
Sometimes in rugged paths I tread;
Sometimes I rove thro' flow'ry plains,
Where fmiling plenty ever reigns.
"The stars, which o'er our lives prefide,
Through different ways our footsteps guide;
Though torrents roar and mountains rife,
Though dreary profpects meet our eyes,
Hard by mifhapen rocks are feen
Luxuriant vales and meadows green,
Where Flora, deck'd in trim array,
Adds a new luftre to the day.
But thofe who one fafe road pursue,
Where pleafing objects are but few,
Partake lefs good, endure lefs ill!
Such is high Heav'n's refiftless will.
On us poor mortals fate beftows
In equal measure joys and woes;
Grief, hope, and love, and hate and fear,
Diverfify each rolling year.

In a word, this life is but a fhort pilgri mage. I was this morning ftruck with a fable in the Spectator upon this fubje&: A dervife, travelling through Perna, arrived at laft at the metropolis; and, as he knew that the great men of their country often exhaust their treasures in building and founding caravanferas, he took the palace of the King of Perfia for one of thofe magnificent houses of public entertainment. Quite absent in thought, he croffed the first and fecond Court, afcended the galleries, laid his cloke-bag upon the ground, and was going to fleep upon it as a bolíter. One of the guards took notice of him, told him what a place he was profaning, and was going to turn him out directly. During the difpute the King paffed by, fimiled at the traveller's blunder, and asked him how he could mistake the palace of a Monarch for an inn? Shall I beg leave to ask your Majefty one question, modeftly anfwered the dervife: To whom did this fumptuous palace belong before you came to the Throne? To my father, my grandfather, and all my ancestors in their turns, anfwered the King. And for whom, added the dervife, are thefe immenfe edifices intended after you? For the Prince my fon, without doubt, cried the Monarch, with aftonishment. Ah, Sir, returned the pilgrim, a house which fo often changes inhabitants is not a palace but a caravanfera.'

Bills, paffed, 108, 162, 164, 218, 274. Entertainment, fumptuous, given by the
Botton, fee Riot.

C.
Camden, late Lord Chancellor, character
of, 47.-See Debates.
Canadian man and wife, fee Beauchene.
Cafe, paralytic, obfervations on a, 45.
Caftle-Howard, the feat of the Earl of Car-
lifle, defcribed, 113.

Cauteries, applied to the head, obfervation

on, 253.

Characters, upon extremes, 298.
Chatworth, in Derbyshire, the feat of the
Duke of Devonshire, defcribed, 225.
Chickens, new method for hatching and
rearing, 273,

Chronical, hiftorical, 49, 105, 160, 216,
273, 328.

Citron, contained in another citron, obfer-
vation on a, 10.

Cleomenes, the reftorer of the ancient Spar-
tan conftitution, hiftory of, 29.
Combat, fingle, intended between the Kings
of England and Pruffia, 89.
Compton, Earl of Northampton, genealogy
of his noble family, 37.-Bishop of Lon-
don, life of, 337.

Conduct, proper in life, difcourfe on the im-
portance of a, 3.Some inftructions
highly useful for our prefent, 254.
Conformity, occafional, fate of the bill of,
365.

Confpiracy, to overturn the Republic of Ge-
noa, 6.-At Smyrna, 158.
Contentment, hymn to, 373.
Copper veffels, dangerous effects of, 359.
D.

Dauphinefs, ceremony of her efpoufals at

late Lord Mayor, 162.

Epilogue, to the Trip to Scotland, 93.-To
the Brothers, 94.-To Timanthes, 152.
-To a Word to the Wife, 269.
Epiftle, from a young Lady, complaining of
a faithlefs lover, 40.-Ild of Horace,
imitated, 321.

Effays, on envy, 127.-On patriotifm,
169-On the inconveniencies of a foli-
tary life, 289.

An evening thought, 374.

F.

Fable, for grown Gentlemen, 42.-Of the
two candles, 94. Of the traveller and
rainbow, 270.-Of the diftribution of
gifts, 251.-Of the fnake and worm,

372.

Fallow-Deer, fee Natural history.
Fear, obfervation on the effects of, 247.
Fielding, Earl of Denbigh, genealogy of
his noble family, 149.

Fire, ball of, feen at Newcastle, 106.
Fox, fee Natural history.
Frontispiece, explanation of the, 1.
G.

Gardening, landfkip or picturesque, idea
of, 171.

Genoa, fee Confpiracy.

Glow-worm, fee Infect.

Gods, houfhold, of the Chinese, ridiculous
treatment of, 67.
Grofvenor cause, 160.

H.
Hanoverian blind Gentleman, character of,

Knowledge, whether it contributes to hap- Onflow, the Right Honourable Mr. nonfuit

Ruffian, executed at Efher, for the murder Trial,-of Mathew and Patrick Kennedy,

Directions to the Binder, for placing the Cuts in this Forty-fixth

Volume.

Quarto view of the front to the great Court Figure of the Wolf,

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