The Westphalians in Holland, are what the Savoyards are in France. They are industrious, faithful, and parsimonious; they live on bread and water, with a little of their own country bacon; they are employed in all kinds of works, but in particular with the gathering in of the hayharvest, which is considerable in a country covered with fields and meadows. The women are attached to the country-houses, where they are employed in gardening. There are fewer thieves in Holland than in other parts of the world: and how could they possibly exercise the perilous trade of a highwayman, in a country cut out into ditches, canals, and rivers, and set thick, all over, with barriers? On Sunday, every man and woman are seen flocking to church; they never work on that day, neither do they buy, sell, ne gotiate, nor make any demand or payment; and Sunday is a day of liberty for every debtor. The Dutch keep their dead unburied for a whole week; they often wash the corpse with warm water, shave it, dress it, and expose it, for two or three days, to its nearest relatives and friends: they place it in an oak coffin, lined with iron plates, the head placed on a cross-bar, which serves as a pillow: the coffin is nailed and screwed down. The women are dressed in the habiliments suitable to their sex, trimmed with black ribband; the men are in nightgowns, with wigs on their heads, and are buried with an expence proportionate to their means. Translated from the French of Diderot's Supplementary Work, just published. TO THE EDITOR OF LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE. which, on easy terms, the poor may obtain access. These aids, to the admonitions of parents, friends, and employers, may avert evils more dire than the extinction of life by lingering agony-alas! too often drawn upon themselves by girls, whose personal attractions, aspiring refinement, and dependant state, are rendered, by impru the dictatorial sex shall deign to look into the chapters, the cogent appeals to a natural horror at protracted sufferings, corroborated by generous repugnance to inflict cureless ills upon others, may counteract allurements to the elegant profligacy, supposed to confer tonish notoriety upon a man of pleasure; but which, according to our mass of evidence, soon transforms him to a man of pain. SIR,-To combat with anxious energy the encroachments of folly and vice, by disseminating Christian principles and useful information, is a harmless quixotism; and it is highly encouraging to know, that schemes which, in the commencement, appeared visionary, and agency deemed too feeble for momentous effect, have, by perseverance, ultimately prospered, in attempt-dence, destructive snares; and if youth of ing, out of the beaten track, to serve mankind. Viewing society as a tree, improved in its loftiest boughs by careful cultivation applied to the root, the writer is pledged, with unwearied zeal, to provide mental melioration for the sons and daughters of industry-animated by a hope of inciting more efficient lovers of their species to confederate in saving multitudes from the most dire temporal evils, and from eternal perdition. To promote the speediest circulation of appropriate instruction, all remaining copies of the first, second, and third parts of the Popular Models are to be sold by auction, and each purchaser of a set is to receive a ticket, entitling him or her to a copy of the fourth volume, gratis. Besides these homely vehicles of edification, some hundred copies of the fourth part are to be gratuitously distributed to parochial libraries, and other collections of books, to Subjoined to those Warnings of Bitter Experience, a note, on the means for preventing a recurrence of public distress, contains many considerations, suggested by the present state of extensive districts, where crowds of children, like the birds of the air, seek their chief sustenance gathering wild berries in woods, moors, and mountains, while the parents languish under contagious fever, the consequence of scanty and unwholesome provisions. The meanest plebeian, who, after a diligent exercise of his calling, desires no relaxation except from the perusal of edifying or innocently amusing books, will, in every connection, act as a superior being, com pared to the untaught rugged slave of appetite, or conceited ape of gentility-who have no idea of gratification but in common with the brutes, or in more bestializ present season has produced an exuberant,, virtue, and to all manly usefulness. The crop let us beware of improvidence, for times less favourable will return; and the safety of the rich, and the comfort of the poor, may be ensured, by using abundance with economy, and storing the surplus out of the reach of humidity, or depredation; || and we trust the period is not remote, when millions of acres shall no longer lie waste, though crowds of famishing labourers are not only willing, but anxious, to rendering intemperance, or contemptible vanity; the soil productive-and extended tillage would augment a demand for the commodities of our trade and manufactures. To place in the most striking and unexceptionable light those truths, and the various details in the Warnings, the manuscript has been eight times transcribed, and, afterwards, several revisals have corrected inaccuracies-trusting that extracts, engrafted upon the imperishable celebrity of the most distinguished periodical publications, may transmit to posterity the general purport of our pages, conducing to elevate our national character, happiness, and political supremacy. and who own no restraint but judicial terrors, or awe of worldly censure. The cheap, safe, and instructive pleasure of reading, effectuates for working people and ser vants much more than filling up vacant time. They are withheld from grovelling and dangerous pastimes, that might gra dually entice them to misdeeds. Their ca pacity for serving others, and benefitting themselves, is expanded. Their activity receives a right direction. The money that would have been squandered in debauchery is saved, and pauperism averted; and when business claims the contented humble readers, no intoxicating fumes, no lassitude, A virtuous and intelligent populace are nor depraved notions, unfit them for exer. a wall of fire round an empire, and the de- tion. They are happy, because they demoralizing tendency of wanting uniform serve happiness; and their knowledge and opportunity for earning the necessaries of worth impart incalculable advantages to life, has recently proved more deplorable || infancy and childhood in a higher sphere. than the pain occasioned by inanition, or consequent malady. Patient endurance of extreme privation cannot be enforced by the most salutary laws-nor can the utmost vigilance of the police constrain good be haviour, nor prevent penal offences: but the poor may be exempted from frequent temptations to injure the wealthy, if constant employment shall be afforded, and their brief intermissions of labour rendered pleasant and improving, by domestic recreations. The competence earned by regular industry, is not merely appeasing the cravings of nature. The consciousness of power to be sufficient for their own necessities, permits self-reverence and indepen-influence the conduct. Exclusive of imdence of spirit, friendly to each Christian * Dangerous and tedious indisposition hastened the publication of the first, second, and third parts of the Popular Models, and the authoress has often lamented the MS. had been but twice transcribed; the copy for the press was prepared under circumstances of the heaviest affliction, and debilitating malady. Nursery attendants can largely contri bute in confirming, or deteriorating, the corporeal, moral, and intellectual constitution of their charges. Thus the most exalted rank is very deeply interested in all the good derived to the lower orders, through an abiding rational conviction, that a vast increase of true respectability and enjoyment are attainable, independent of any change in their outward condition, beyond what will result from practical knowledge, and a faithful discharge of incumbent duties. It must be so. Reiterated impressions will assert a due ascendancy over the feelings and understanding, and bibing the most pure and operative priuciples of action, we may expect, that, in furnishing the bulk of our population with means for developing their faculties, many germs of genius will be unfolded, and many fine inventions produced, and carried to perfection, by enlightened intellect, combined with handicraft skill. How many invaluable discoveries have been postpon- || dulgencies more degrading than the most ed, by the ignorance of husbandmen and || toilsome drudgery, and abject indigence. artisans, will probably appear, when daily | We hope success will reward that aim, scope for actual observation has been assist-though the original undertaking has been ed by the recorded experience of others. These probabilities have a more full description in the Popular Models; and since the sale of those volumes is a disinterested tribute to the improvement of public morals, the writer may presume to add, that, though overwhelming grief hindered a due finish to the style, many of the most powerful motives have been adduced, for prevailing with the rising generation to avoid in partly frustrated. How arduous each effort, can only be conceived by such as, with a profound consciousness of inadequate pow ers, have resolved upon taxing them to the uttermost, in elucidating topics of extreme delicacy-too long left to vague and perplexed sentiments, or to artful misrepresentation of the most pernicious tendency. B. G. THE REFORMED GAMBLER. In Or the divers passions which assail || credited what was said to him of his forthe human breast, that of gambling, long mer passion. experience has evinced to be the most un- The reason why gambling is found a governable. The man who is given to more incurable affliction, proceeds from the drinking, sometimes in consequence of do- infatuation of the gambler being a commestic infelicity, of unsuccessful specula-pound of several infirmities, such as avarice, tions, or of slighted love, will get cured of ambition, gluttony, lewdness, &c. the malady by the reform of his compa- other respects female adventurers, at the nion at home, by a happy change in his card or hazard table, will shew a boldness circumstances, or by meeting with another of spirit equal to that of the soldier or seamore amiable object, still willing to repayfaring man, who, having greater perils to his affection. Satiety, the natural incon-encounter in his professional pursuits, restancy that "our flesh is heir to," besides tains the same hardiness in the contest many other causes, will extinguish the with propitious or adverse fortune. raging flame of the most ardent lover! I cannot abstain introducing here a very extraordinary instance of a case relative to this subject, which occurred during the seven years' war. || An officer of high rank in the French army, had left behind him, in Paris, a fair lady, with whom he was desperately in love. Now in Germany, he would dispatch, daily, a messenger, with an epistle, to his beloved, from whom he was no less || anxious to receive an answer every day. This officer happened to be severely wounded at the battle of Minden, where the Scotch Greys, amongst others, performed such feats of valour. What with the loss of blood prior to his being removed to his tent, and the subsequent copious bleedings requisite, the excessive weakness of his bodily constitution, influenced his other faculties to such a degree, that he was entirely cured of his love, and scarcely No. 115. Vol. XVIII. To enumerate the expedients which are frequently recurred to in order to be able to take the field, would prove to me as arduous a task as distressing to my readers; yet, though ever so reluctantly, I cannot abstain mentioning some, which perchance meeting the eye of the offender in his cooler moments, may prevent a repetition of the nefarious transaction. Many a father will abridge the support of his family; many a debtor defraud his creditors, and in consequence be removed from his comfortable home, to an unhealthy prison, there to associate with profligates of every description, whom, at a future period, to his utmost disgrace, he will be accosted by in public. Hard as may be the lot of those. how supportable in comparison to that of the unfaithful collector, who, in hopes of being enabled to replace it, will venture to risk his charge! Though Providence befriended you once, believe not it were with X an intent to foster an imprudence; think, party, who commissions the broker to sell rather, unwary youth, it was a warning from above, and that you are more bound than ever through gratitude to that Being who has opened a door to your repentance, never more to deviate from the path of rectitude. Madame d'Imbert, a widow lady who resided in the neighbourhood of Meaux, had two sons. The younger brother, who from his earliest youth had been intended for the church, had become a rich prebendary before he was twenty years of age. In the absence of all virtues to recommend him, he nevertheless preserved a good name, owing to his being free from either of those passions which are so liable to lead || us poor mortals astray. His elder brother stood in a very different predicament. His natural abilities, improved by refined education, had made him the complete gentle man. them, which is generally done for little more than one-third, or at most one-half, of what they are charged by the origi nal vender. The broker is allowed for his trouble the copper included in the payment, which, upon an average, is the fortieth part of the sum total. But what are fiftytwo and a half per cent. interest to 'a ganbler, who, at the first deal, may get a hundred per cent.? Chance would have it one day that Madame d'Imbert was out when her son came to pay her an interested visit. Till such time as she returned he proposed to sit down and read a book, when, crossing the room to reach the library, he accidentally observed a press, with the key in it.—“Oh! oh!" quoth he, " this may be my mother's museum. Let us survey the antiques she has collected."-So saying he opened the press, which he found to contain divers articles of wearing apparel, and some of these to be rather out of date. At sight of a pea-green quilted satin petticoat—“ this," added he, "is quite out of fashion, but will make me a very comfortable coverlid; come down:" and he really did give a pull, when lo! to his utmost surprize and joy, he had occasion to suspect the under garment contained something more valuable than ordinary wadding. In fact he soon ascertained that most squares of the quilting had been made a repository, each for a double Louis. He hastily drew the running; the most expert sempstress could not have completed the work more skil fully, or with greater expedition; the threads he pocketed with the gold, return Duly qualified to sit either in a court of justice or at the head of a troop, he had preferred entering the corps of the Light Horsemen of the King's Guard, that he might not be far removed from Versailles or the capital, where he could both day and night indulge his violent passion for gambling, without, however, neglecting his military duty. His filial piety would also induce him to pay frequent visits to his mother in the country; and as the distance did not exceed ten leagues, the jaunt could be easily accomplished in the course of a few hours, and back again. It is not to be imagined that Baron d'Imbert was more secure against the arts of Greeks and sharpers than the rest of his fellow adventurers at the card-table. He, therefore, was reduced to the sad necessity of often ap-ed the petticoat to its former station, locked plying to money-lenders, in order to recruit his finances, for he durst not always make his embarrassments known to his mother. The manner in which those loans are generally procured in the metropolis of France, will appear rather curious, and open a wide field to reflection. A bill of exchange, drawn by any one, but accepted by the party in want of cash, is given to a kind of broker, who takes it to one of his compeers: this latter ascertains whether the accepter is solvent, and if the signature be really his; in this case he furnishes goods of any description, an inventory of which is produced to the the press as he had found it, and marched out of the room to retrace his steps, forgetful even of there being a library in the house. Meanwhile his mother's waiting-woman having informed him that her mistress was to dine out, he had his horse brought to him, and without loss of time made towards Paris, anxious to know what his booty amounted to. In the first intoxica. tion of his joy, he reflected not on the enormity he had been committing; neither did his guilty conscience allow him to an ticipate the expectation of returning the stolen money; he only thought of the im possibility of replacing it as he found it, which idea soon made room for another no less cutting-where was he to recruit his finances when the cormorants he was going to engage would have devoured his|| present capital? So far then his offence remained not entirely unpunished. Upon his arrival at home, the first thing he did was to count his treasure, which he found to consist of two hundred and fifty double Louis d'Ors, a very pretty round sum. From that moment the young Baron never went out without writing down the different places where he was to be found, with strict injunction to his servant to remain stationary, that in case any message or letter should come from the country it might be conveyed to him without loss of time. A whole week elapsed, and threefourths of the money were gone, when d'Imbert received the following letter: "Hasten to me, my dear son a wretch in whom I reposed the greatest confidence, has robbed me of an immense sum. I want you to help me in having the offender apprehended; we shall have her put to the rack to make her confess her guilt, and then the law will take its course. The miscreant must be hanged, as I am your loving mother, "LA BARONNE D'IMBERT." At the perusal of those few lines the pangs of the youth are not to be described. Post-horses were immediately ordered. His noble mind revolted at the very idea of leaving an innocent dependent under the lash of suspicion, whilst he alone was guilty. He flew to accuse himself, whatever might be the consequence. Let us think child? O my son! relent. No more was said upon the subject; nay, the fond parent, without inquiring what was become of the money, was the first to urge her son to return to the capital, there to enjoy such pleasures as her || chateau in the country could not afford. About six weeks after, Madame d'Imbert had invited a large party of the neighbouring nobility and gentry to a grand fête she gave in celebration of her son's birth-day. The Baron, of course, was summoned to superintend the preparations, and to act as master of the ceremonies. On the day appointed for the company to meet, although every one of the guests had reason to be satisfied with his polite reception, complimentary address, and attention, yet it could not but be observed that his most delicate assiduity was directed towards Mademoiselle du Castel, daughter to a general officer whose estate was contiguous to that of Madame d'Imbert. The Baron, who himself had not been sensible of the preference he had shown to this young lady till the company dispersed, felt no little regret when he saw her take her departure. Her sweet figure that stood before his eyes during his sleep, still haunted his imagination when he was awake, and he longed for the coming of the next day that he was to go and return thanks for their kind attendance, and to inquire after the health of all his guests after the fatigues of the night. General du Castel, as may well be imagined, was not the last whom he waited upon; and during a short conversation with his lovely daughter, the Baron had an opportunity of discovering that her beauteous figure was not her greatest recommendation. Common civility, however, would not allow him to make a longer stay; he withdrew, but the barbed arrow had been shot, and he bore it in his heart. On his knees before his mother, he had scarcely uttered these words-"It was I who robbed you," when the old lady, interrupting him, said, "I renounce you for my son, and will post instantly to Versailles, to solicit a Lettre de Cachet; you shall die in a dungeon, Sir!"-" No, Madam," replied the son, drawing his cutlass; "I will die on the same spot where I have committed the crime."-Whether he was sincere in the declaration, is more than I can tell, but I well know that the alarmed mother cried out:-"What! have I deserved being treated with such barbarity: because an angry word has escaped my lips, am I to The Baron, who had hitherto been a be threatened with the loss of a beloved "stranger to the sweet passion of love, |