But, fir, although you may carry | fubdued kindness. "How is it,"
faid one of the company,
"that this
favage animal is fo attached to Mr.
Johnfon?" "From a very natural
caufe," replied Mallet; "the bear
is a Ruffian philofopher; and he
knows that Linnæus would have
placed him in the fame clafs with
the Englifi moralift. They are
two barbarous animals of one fpecies.

your pride to the loweft grave, your
power draws apace to its period.
Health, even with temperance and
virtue, has neither permanence nor
certainty. Penfive moments will
come, to make you wretched, when
you least expect them. The days
of your feeming profperity wear to
their end; your pleafure decays in
every enjoyment. All that ferenity,
which feemed to light you the way
to happinefs, is but the

unreal

The Doctor difliked Mallet for his tendency to infidelity, and this farcafm turned this diflike into pofimockery" of a deluded mind, Ative hatred, He never fpoke to him cloud of mifery hangs over your afterwards, but has gibbeted him in head, to darken the days of remorfe: his octavo Dictionary, under the when they come, as foon they muft, article A liar. you will be the first to pronounce, that you are unfit to live, yet more unfit to die,

DA

ANIEL Burgess, of whimfical Referve this letter for the first in-out an hour-glafs, and he frequently memory, never preached withterview you fhall have with your-faw it out three times during one felf. If that interview be of your own fermon. In a difcourfe which he feeking, it will be a friendly diffua- once delivered at the conventicle in five; if not, and you be driven by Ruffel-court, against drunkenness, difeafe to feck for death, it will ome of his hearers began to yawn join with your bitterest reflections: at the end of the second glass: but your end will be miferable, as your Daniel was not to be filenced by a life has been vicious. yawn; he turned his time-keeper, and altering the tone of his oice, de fired they would be patient a while longer, for he had much more to fay upon the fin of drunkenness ; "Therefore," added he," my brethren, we will have another glais

ANECDOTES.

OF DOCTOR JOHNSON.
WHEN the Doctor firft became

WHEN

let, they once went with fome other

"my

gentlemen to laugh away an hour ACCOUNT of BUCKDEN PALACE,

HUNTINGDONSHIRE.

[With an elegant Engraving ]

T

HIS is a very pleasant, though

at Southwark fair. At one of the booths where wild beasts were exhibited to the wondering crowd, was a very large bear, which the fh wman affured them was cotched in the un- ancient palace, of the bishops difcovered deferts of the remorett of L ncoln. The house and gardens Ruffia. The bear was muzzled, and are furrounded by a wide and deep might therefore be approached with moat of water. There is a fmall fafety; but, to all the company, ex-but pretty chapel, ornamented with cept Johnfon, was very furly and a painting against the wall, repreill tempered;. of the philofopher, he fenting an organ in a feeming organappeared extremely fond, rubbed loft. This is capitally ex: cured, and against him, and difplayed every a very great deception. mark of awkward partiality, and