daunt, with whom he had always | been, in fome degree, a favourite, and to whofe ample property, eftimated, including real and perfonal, at more than a hundred thousand pounds, he had, apparently, an extremely wellfounded expectation of being the heir. To this gentleman, Frederic, when the murmurs of his creditors were no longer to be appeafed by the plaufible profeffions of polite procraftination, faw himself obliged to intimate the posture of his affairs. Mr. Mordaunt, after a fhort lecture on the value and beneficial nature of economy and prudence, to the practice of which he earnestly exhorted his nephew, enabled him to fatisfy the most urgent demands made on him; and, as he said, to give him employment, procured him a commision in the army. Mr. Courtenay now lived in gaiety and eafe; his gratitude to his uncle caused him to be affiduous in his vifits of respect; and his engaging manners, and truly amiable qualities, quickly advanced him to the higheft degree of favour with Mr. Mordaunt, who now determined to patronife him to the utmost extent of his influence, and make him his fole heir. latter, he pointed out to him a rich heirefs, to whom he recommended him to pay his addreffes, affuring him that nothing fhould be wanting, on his part, with refpect to any pecuniary advances or ftipulations which might be neceffary in the courfe of the negotiation of the hymeneal treaty. This propofal was not received by Mr. Courtenay with any extravagant rapture; but, from refpect to his uncle, he confented that he fhould introduce him to the young lady, and began the operations of · the amorous fiege at a convenient diftance. But he found her person unlovely, her understanding trivial, her converfation infipid, and her manners inelegant, and even grofs. Slow was the progress,—or, rather, rapid was the retroceffion,-of his love: yet, from his regard for, and gratitude to, his uncle, who confidered the effecting of this union as a mafter-ftroke of generalfhip, which would complete the fortune of his nephew for life, and enable him to attain the most enviable stations of wealth, honour, and power, he was inclined to fubmit to the yoke. But fate had otherwife decreed: for another female, caft in a different mould, infpired him with a paffion he found it impoffible to vanquish. Maria Nugent was the daughter of a gentleman of inconfiderable fortune, but of the fairest character for probity and honour. To her, Nature had been lavifh of her bounty; her Mr. Mordaunt was a man neither devoid of fenfe nor generofity.Nature had endowed him with an excellent understanding, which he had improved by literature. He had lived a life of elegant pleasure, and feen much of what is called the world, both in his native land and foreign countries. With refpect to his moral philofophy, he had adopt-exterior charms were not easily to be ed the fyllem of a late courtly peer, and held that all men were knaves or fools, and all women babies and prostitutes, as led by intereft or paffion. There was no error against which he more carefully endeavoured to guard his nephew than that of being made the dupe of pretended friendship, or love; and, more effetually to protect him from the defcribed, and her understanding and heart were correfpondent to their excellence. To her Mr Gourtenay in a fhort time united himself, with all the rapture of affection; to the great aftonishment and indignation of his uncle, who now found that all his inftructions to his favourite nephew, all his lectures on the neceflity of making intereft the great were as great fpring of every tranfaction of! life, and the folly of yielding to the delufions of friendship or of love, water fpilled upon the ground; and, as he deemed now his fimplicity to be incorrigible, he fwore in his wrath that he would not encourage him in it, and that he fhould never receive a penny from him, neither while he continued in this world, nor when he had arrived at that which is to come. In the mean time Mr. Courtenay and his amiable bride were rich in the treasure of love; in other refpects they propofed to practise economy: but fuch refolutions, in certain fituations of life, are much more eafily made than carried into effect. Mr. Courtenay had the genteeleft ANECDOTE of Dr. CARYL, Mafter of Jefus College, Cambridge. (From Mr. Wakefield's Memoirs of his own Life.) election, contended with unN the occafion of an university common ardour and animofity on both fides, in which fervices Dr. Caryl was esteemed without an equal for dextrous and prudent management; after the committee, of which he was a member, had been deliberating with great feriouf nefs on the posture of affairs, he obferved, on their feparation for adjournment, with inimitable folem connections, and had been accuftom-nity, interpofing, as his cuftom was, ed to live at an expenfe greater than a dozen feconds between every his income, by the encouragement of his uncle. He foon, therefore, faw himfelf, involved in difficulties, and preffed by urgent demands. Thefe he parried, by the affiftance of his friends, during three or four years, in which time his wife brought him two lovely boys; but, at length, one impatient creditor feized the whole of his effects; his wife was obliged to feek refuge in her father's houfe, and Mr. Courtenay to take the best measures he could to preferve the liberty of his perfon by concealment. A few days after this event, Mr. Courtenay fuddenly entered the half word, -- Gen-le-men !-we -hall-either-lofe-this-elec tion,-or-we-hall-win-this-Here a confiderable election". paute took place, and he seemed to labour with the pregnancy of the fentiment. The committee looked riment and wonder, unable to fathom the profundity of this fage remark.. They were reminded, I prefume, of that fine ridicule of the oracle-mongers of antiquity : at each other with a mixture of mer "O Laërtiade! quicquid dicam, aut erit aut non." "O fon of Laertes! whatever I fhall apartment in which his wife was foretell, will either happen or not hap fitting, with her fifters and her chil- | pen." dren, and exclaimed, to their great but most pleafing furprife, My Their impatience, and propenfity angel! we are reftored to liberty, to laughter, interrupted the fpeaker happinefs, and independence!" before the conclufion of his affertion. -fhall How this happened, will be ex- He began afresh" Gen-theplained by the account which he men!-we-fall- either-lofegave his Maria, in the following nar-this-election,-or-werative of his adventures, fince he had win-this-election,-bylaft feen her. (To be con.inued.) fingle vote." -A prediction exactly correfpondent to the event. DESCRIP DESCRIPTION of the CITY of F RANKFORT upon the Maine is the principal of the imperial and free cities of the Wetteraw, and its capital, on the confines of effe and Franconia, in Germany. It is a populous, rich place, one of the hans towns, and the feat of the imperial diet, being governed by its own magiftrates. It is divided by the river into two parts; that on the fouth fide is called Saxenhaufen, being joined by a ftone bridge of fourteen arches. It is well fortified, and has a great trade by the Maine and Rhine, and several other streams which fall into them, by that means bringing abundance of corn and wine from the Palatinate and Franconia. Here are two annual fairs, lafting three weeks, the one fifteen days before Eafter, and the other on the 15th of September, with merchandise and every kind of commodity, particularly books, from all parts of Europe. Here are alfo three marts every year.. The city is of a circular form, and has no fuburbs: the streets are, in general, large. Among the public ftructures, St. Bartholomew's cathedral is a venerable pile; in it the emperors are crowned after their election in the town-houfe. In the city are feveral noble fountains, mineral fpring, and baths. The magiftrates, and moft of the inhabitants, are Lutherans, who have five churches. The papifts are allowed to celebrate their fervice in the cathedral, but must make no proceffions. The Calvinists have no churches within the city,-but two about a league off, one for the German, and another for the French refugees. Thefe are the moft preeminent in trade and merchandise. The principal public building is the town-houfe, which is very large and handfome, but built in the ancient tafte: in this the Golden Bull is preferved, which prefcribes the manner of electing an emperor, and is the original of the fundamental laws of the empire. The Jews here have a fynagogue, and particular quarter, in which they are fhut up all night, and are obliged, by way of distinction, to wear a piece of yellow cloth. The territory of Frankfort, lying on both fides the Maine, extends for. eleven miles from fouth to north, and fourteen from east to west. It is in general covered with woods and vineyards. To this account we shall add fome remarks on this city, made by the ingenious Mrs. Radce, in her Journey through Holland and Germany, lately published. Frankfort has gates and walls, but the magiftrates do not opprefs travellers by a military examination at their entrance. Having feen the worthleffness of many places which bear oftentatious characters either for fplendor or trade, we were furprifed to find in this as much of both as had been reported. The quays were well covered with goods and labourers; the ftreets nearest to the water are lined with fhops, and thofe in the middle of the city with the houses of merchants, of which nearly all are spacious, and many magnificent. Some, indeed, might be called palaces, if they had nobili y for their tenants; but, though the independence which commerce fpreads among the middle claffes does not entirely deter the German nobility from a refidence here, the fineft houfes are the property of merchants. "In our way to the Cigne Blanc, which is one of the beft inns, we pailed many of fo good an appearance, that it was difficult to believe there could be better in a German city. But Frankfort, which is the pride of Germany, in this refpect, has probably a greater number of large |