? recovered, and the child added to his bleffings and her own many years; in the filing courfe of which, the young lady's virtues attracted the affections of a very wealthy and worthy gentleman, whofe power and inclinations not only enabled the merchant to make reftitution of the generofity received from the phyfician, but to make alfo the refidue of that man's life, from whom he derived the best and lovelieft of wives, as happy in profperity as it had been refpectable in misfortune. A ANECDOTE. fake than mine, on my lift. Some merit, however, or infinite good fortune I must needs have had, fince from a yearly gain of one hundred, I have increafed my income to feveral thousands per annum; and yet it I do not take fees for one in forty of my prefcriptions.--My houfe is too large for my family.-Wilt thou come once again into the bufy world with this mountain bloffom, and occupy fome of my apartments This as thou wilt. At prefent I must give thee a few words of parting advice, and must rely on this dafel to fee that it is adopted. Thou art fo much thy former felf, friend, that fear not a relapfe; MAIDEN lady, of a certain but to fortify and ftrengthen thee in market-town in the centre of my abfence, I have written and England, celebrated for ages for antimade up a prefeription which I am quated maidens, at length engaged convinced hits thy cafe exactly. to accon.pany a young man to the alHearing fomething of thy maladies tar of Hymen. She was at that time from the friend who conveyed to in poffeffion of a competent eftate me thy Amelia's meflage, and form-fituated at Temple B, in the ing a judgment foberly thereupon, I brought with me fuch drugs as I thought could not be readily procured in thy neighbourhood. They lie, however, in a mall compafs, even in this little box: yet being compounds of peculiar ftrength, they will last thee, I judge, for at least a year to comé, probably more: -if they fhould not, thou knoweft where to addrefs the prefcriber for a fresh fupply. There, friend, take it, but do not open it till thou shalt feem to wish for fomething of a cordal nature. It will then, I have no doubt, do thee good." He received their tearful embraces, and departed. You are impatient to lift up the lid of the box. When it was opened by the merchant and his daughter, they difcovered two feparate pieces of paper; the one a prefent from a phyfician in London, the other from the ftranger who had given him an account of this itile family. I muft not deny you the gratification of knowing that the father county of W, which, according to the feudal fyftem, was fubject to feveral finguler customs, one of which was, that, previous to the entrance into the connubial ftate of any lady who was poñeled of lands in the manor, he was to proceed to an ancient temple which is ftill there ftanding, and there proftrate herfell, and place her right arm in a particular posture in a crevice in the temple, and on her knees repeat certain fentences.-The anticipations of matrimony, as may naturally be fuppofed, appear to have bet n'fo fuperior to every other idea, that no obfervation was had of this relic of the feudal lyftem: and the confequence of the marriage without a due attention to this fingular and extraordinary cuftom, we understand to be a forfeiture of the eftate to the lord of whom it was holden. However, we are happy in noticing, much to the credit of the lore, that ou the lady's fupplication on her knees, and payment of a finall fine, fhe has been again re inftated in this extraordinary tenure, POETI POETICAL ESSAYS. And what car'ft thou, if thou canst Illuminations and huzzas, [blaze? Tho' half the city funk in one bright A patriot! no; for thou doft hold in hate [flate: The very peace and welfare of the When anarchy affaults the fovereign's throne, Then is the day, the night thine own; Thou canst affect humility, to hide And in a canting conventicle note Thou haft no fenfe of nature at thy heart, for art, No ear for fcience, and no eye. We take thy didates upon truft: In truth and justice thou haft no delight: So from the prifons, or the stews, Thou doft but make a ladder of the mob, You've ferved my turn, and, vagabonds, adieu !" Increasing fervour fupplicates the reft! A death as placid!-a reward as fure ! LINES from Mrs. Robinson's enter taining Novel of Angelina. HEAV'N knows! I never would re pine, [mine; Tho' fortune's fierceft frowns were If fate would grant, that o'er my tomb One little laurel wreath might bloom; And mem❜ry fometimes wander near To bid it live, and drop a tear ! I never would, for all the fhow That tinfel fplendour can beflow, Or wafte a thought, or heave a figh ;For, weil I know, 'tis pageantry! Soon fading to the grave, 'tis o'er, A pleafing phantom, feen no more! I ask not worldly pow'r to rule The drooping child of mis'ry's school: To tyrannife o'er him, whom fate Has deftin'd to a lowly Itate, To me would prove a fource of woe More keen than fuch a wretch could know. O! did the little Great endure Give me the fenfate mind that knows But though ungentle Fortune flies, |