wished-for physician was an intimate acquaintance of the traveller, and "all the interefts of an old affection fhall be tried with the doctor," exclaimed the tranger, " as foon as I get to town, on condition that you will now go home to your father with this purfe, and an affurance that although I ani an ufurer, I will receive neither principal nor intereft, He did not give the astonished Amelia time to refufe: but feeing the weather inclined to remit its rigours, he put half a crown into the hands of the peafants, to drink the young lady's and her fick father's health; and ordering his hore to the door, mounted and proceeded on his journey. Does not your bounding heart af fidering you and he are to be fupported as gentlefolks. It is plain to see there is a great deal of diftrefs upon your mind, and it is natural to guefs the caufe of it may be removed. I am not, by any means, a wealthy man ; but I have had my fhare of evil fufficiently to make me feel for the unfortunate; and I have always, thank God, a fomething to fpare for the mitiga-till he is very able to pay both." tion of honeft diftrefs, in whatever country it is prefented to my view. I beg you will prefent this trifle, (giving her a bank-bill) with compliments, begging the favour of his making ufe of it, till if may fuit his circumftances to return it. I have no manner of occafion for it till about this time next year, when I will call to afk after his health, which, I hope, will long ere that be re-efta-fure you, his feelings would have blifhed; and if it should not at that time be convenient to make reftitution of the loan, we will put it off till the year after, when I will pay a fecond vifit to you: as I purpofe paffing through this country into Ireland, where I have concerns, annually. I am now going to Lon-volence had, indeed, fo animated don." her, that its fudden and invenfe This laft fentence feemed to anni-rays might have been too strong hilate the reft. The very name of London had, at that inftant, more charms for Amelia, than it could ever boast of creating in the head of any mifs in her teens, who had her mama's promife to pafs the winter among the fine folks and fine fights with which it abounds. But it drew the attention of Amelia from fuperior motives. It was the refidence of her poor father's phyfician, on whofe heart the now refolved to make an attempt, by the medium of the generous ftranger, who, fhe rightly judged, would fuffer his bounty to take any direction fhe might wish, and to whom the stated the merchant's anxious but hopelefs defires. defended him from beftowing a thought "on the peltings of the pitilefs ftorm," had they continued to rage? And does it not alío inform you, that this fair pattern of filial piety was proof against the war of elements? The funshine of bene for her tender frame, had they not been moderated by a fhower of tears. She had fcarcely regained her cottage, indeed, when, overcome by her fenfations, the fainted in the arms of her aged nurfe, who had been rourning her delay. Alas, my friend, what fragile creatures we are! How much at the difpofal of contrary events! How totally the vaffals of forrow and of joy! How little able to encounter the extremes of either! But you will not easily forgive exclamations that detain you from poor Amelia, whom I lef. in distress to indulge them. My heart is but too often the mafter of my pen, and guides it as it lifterh. Let me haften You have juft the foul, my dear to make atonement by informing friend, to fuggeft the ecftafy of you that our lovely fuficrer, on her Amelia's on hearing that this much-recovery, had the pleasure to find S that that her father had dosed beft part | of the morning; and though he miffed her from his apartment when he awoke, he told the nurfe, that he hoped the was taking a little neceflary reft in her own room, where he defired fhe might remain undisturbed. re This gave her opportunity to manage her good fortune, of which fhe refolved to be fo excellent an œconomist, that the fupply the had received fhould anfwer the wifeft and happiest purposes: fhe recollected, that, the day before she met the benevolent ftranger, her father had received by the poft a bank-bill, to the amount of the quarterly divifion of his annuity; of courfe a further reinforcement was not immediately neceffary; on which account fhe had to regret, that the flurry into which her fpirits were thrown had hindered her from perfifting in her refufal of the loan, to the acceptance of which, however, fhe was fomewhat reconciled, when the r flected on the condition annexed to her borrowing it; and an idea which just then started to her imagination, of the manner in which it might be appropriated, completely fatisfied her feelings on the occafion. She confidered the gentleman's bank-bill as the luckieft fund in the world, to ferve as the phyfician's fee, in cafe the generous ftranger fhould prevail on him to come; and to that facred ufe her heart devoted it. The fum was fifty pounds,-a, recompenfe which her igno ance in the price of medical advice in the golden climes of England led her to fuppofe would be all-fufficient for a journey down to Wales. Alas! were a regular charge to be made out by doctors W. R. G. F. L. or any other of the popular fons of fculapius, of London, for fuch a tour from the grand mart of cuftom, the 50l. would fcarcely be thought by thofe mef३ fieurs a more than fufficient fum to pay travelling expenfes. In many parts of the continent, indeed, where a fhilling value in coin that has lefs of filver in its compofition, than would be found in the analyfis of a filver penny, is received as a fettled gratuity for running a German mile, fifty pounds would cut a handfome figure in phyfic, and go very far towards curing a whole city of an epidemy fo far as prefcriptions could affist in its recovery. Ás, however, the vift of Dr. *** was a point rather "devoutly to be wifhed," than expected, it being the middle of a very hard winter, Amelia thought it prudent to conceal the little adventure at the public house from her father, whose malady, nevertheless, rather increafed than abated: and his love of life being in effect his love for his daughter, he could not help occafionally regretting his inpaffable diftance from the only man, by whofe aid there might be a chance of refifting his disease. There is, you know, a fort of fuperftition which often runs through a family in favour of its family phyfician, Nor is it altogether without a fupport from reafon, fince the perfon who has long been in the fecrets of our conftitution and familiar with our habits of living, muft in all general cafes be better able to apply the proper remedies, than he who is called into our bed-chamber, when there is a difeafe in it, and when he fees us for the first time under its influence: befides which, an old phyfician is commonly an old friend, and unites the lenitives of affection to the cathartics of science; no wonder, then, that we have faith in him,-and faith, you know is a great doctor in itself, performing a thousand cures, which the highest profeffional fkill has not been able to accomplish without it. (To be continued.) POETI POETICAL ESSAY S. In bag and ruffles, fixty years ago! The city coxcomb then was feldom feen. [Green :) (Confin'd to Bunhill-row or BethnalWelt of Cheapfide you then could fcarcely meet [street! The gay Lothario of ThreadneadleHis folly rarely met the public eye, Or like a fhadow pafs'd unheeded by. Tradesman and rake were then remov'd as far As gay St. James's is from Temple-Bar: But now the Cit muft breathe a purer air ; [fquare; The Change he vifits-lives in BedfordInfures a fleet-then Bootle's club attends, [friends; Proud to be notic'd by his titled And ftrives to join, by diffipation's aid, The man of fashion with the man of 'trade. Vain to affociate with fuperior rank, He quits his ledger-for the faro bank: His dafhing curricle down Bond-ftreet drives, [ives; Rifking his own-and, worfe-his horfes' Till urging fortune's glowing wheel too faft[laft! This empty air-blown bubble breaks at Though trade may give fuch upftart mushrooms birth," beflows * The Mufe pays homage to its real worth: This ifle to commerce owes her fplendid ftate, [great; The fource of all that makes her truly And 'midft her bufy fons enough are found (ground. To raife dejected mis'ry from the While commerce, with a lib'ral heart, (woes, Her wealth to mitigate the poor man's Seeks out the wretch, his gloomy prifon cheers, [dow's tears, And wipes with pitying hand the wiTh'applauding world will fay (fich bounty giv'n) [of heav'n! The English merchant is the fteward Our author now that candour, would implore [before; Which your indulgence has bestow'd Still on a gen'rous public he depends. Give your fupport-he asks no better friends. ray, There-(charming fcene!) as undif-, Whofe mind, illum'd by nature's fober may'd we ftrut, [full butt! Dogs, mifles, dukes, and draymen, meet There, lounging arm in arm, halfbooted Crops, With heads fo dark---you'd fwear they were-black mops; There muslin petticoats, with mud fo lac'd; (waistHere fcarlet fpencers with an inch of So fcarlet, all my rouge they feem to fcoff, [cut off. And look like lobfters with their tails [afplash." Here for a husband is the scene to dafh! Here for a town-bred mifs to make The plump, brifk widow takes a different road: [fhe's a load: She cannot walk down Bond-freétGood fixteen ftone to carry-but yet Atrong, [as long. She rolls a wool-pack Venus - broad Yet fhe's a tender paffion for the stage; With her, dear private acting is the rage: Shakspeare confeffes beauties not his choice, [voice. And Juliet grieves in a fine maniy Her Romeo, a lord, might fuit your pocket, [focket. Looks like candle funk into the In tones like these their mutual paffions run Difdains to rule, and chooses to obeyWho, like the Briton, conquers to increafe Domeftic happiness and lafting Peace! SONNET To HOPE. WHEN grief poffefs'd my carefraught breaft, Depriv'd of joy and wonted reft, Oh! fhould stern fate once more demand, For oh! thy fmiles afford relief, (From POEMS By the Rev. T. COLE.) MITISSA, well-bred pufs, defcended From cats of Cyprus much commended; In whom more fondling arts are seen, Than had that wheedling Cyprian queen ; Thy beauteous coat unrival'd shines Thy longings for a little fporting! Thy eyes alone its track-purfue; The prize is held, with waggling tail. I home return; clofe fide by fide, Thou trotteft on with focial pride. Then to my ftudy we repair; But fcarce I'm fixt in elbow chair, To read or write one line fcarce able, Ere thou art perch'd upon the table; As if, an owl fince Pallas chufes, What pride difplay'd with back inflected, And fwelling tail in ftate erected! Myfelf infected with thy love. Finding thy felf at length neglected, And my thoughts, fixt where first directed, Demure and grave thou canst retreat, Thy quick attentive ear now catches. caper. But this rude trick, though far from pleafing, Is yet fo comical y teafing, That, quite unable to refent,. But ftill perplex'd, and longing much |