further ceremony, committed him for barfe ftealing. Mr. Rigby next proceeded to Mr. Evelyn, to give him an account of thefe events, in which he was in fact fo much interested, and which had probably preferved his daughter from impending ruin. The father heard the flory with aftonifliment, and Mits Evelyn with no little morritication. After they had fomewhat recovered from their furprife, Mr. Rigby thus addrefied the young lady, in the language of fincerity and friendship have laid down, we find it very dif ficult to determine which are the beft. Has what is called a juft and accurate taste a foundation in human nature? If it has, we must fearch for it there, and not in the caprice of fashion. If we pretend to give the preference to one mode of taste rather than to another, we ought, undoubtedly, to be able to give a better reafon for that preference than common mode, or particular fancy. And whence fhould that better reafon be derived but from nature itself? Appeals to the prin"You now perceive, Mifs, how ciples of human nature, which muft little dependance is to be placed on be invariable, offer faireft to decide exterior appearance. Tinfel may the point; and that mode of taste, have a brighter glare than the moft in any of the fine arts, which apprecious of metals. Neither too hafti- proaches nearest to nature, and ly admire in others, nor be too eager beft correfponds with its obvious to acquire yourself, thofe fashion-dictates and principles, muft certainable manners which are principallyly be the most accurate and juft. founded in falfehood and vanity. To investigate thefe principles is the Learn, from what you have now province of judgment; and that teen, how eafily even the vulgar and tafte must be fuperficial and mothe vile, if they have but uthicient mentary, which is not under the dieffrontery, may imitate the frippery ection of the unde: standing. of high-life; and let your efteem be A perfon may be extravagantly only beflowed on good fenfe and fond of a piece of poetry, painting, virtue. You are young, you are in-feulpture, or architecture, that wideexperienced; but your heart, I am perfuaded, is truly good. Shun vanity,deteft affectation, defpife noulenfe,—and you will be truly amiable." The accomplished Mifs Evelyn received this wholefume advice with fubmiftive patience, which may appear fomewhat extraordinary; and, what is fill more extraordinary, fue profited by it. ly deviates from the principles of a chafte and accurate tafte. Various things may concur to impofe upon his judgment, and lead him to miftake blemishes for beauties. But unless there is fome capital fault în the conftitution of his mind-fome unhappy derangement of his faculties and feelings--unlefs his tafte has been totally vitiated by the overbearing power of prejudice, he will foon difcern his error when fairly pointed out by a skilful finger. The cloud which cu.om and prejudice 7 HAT is the ftandard of taftc? throws over his eyes, hinders him ou what principles muft it from perceiving thofe deviations he fixed, by what laws directed? from nature, which conftitute a taste This qution, notwithfarding that is faife in its principle, and fleetthe various and very ingenious ating in its existence. A judicious tempts to anfwer it, remains, perhaps, yet undecided. Amid the different meatures of tafte which the greateft connoideurs in the fine arts On TASTE. perfon, by pointing out what is oppofire to and inconfiflent with nature, will cafily conect his judgment, e pecially if the defects are capital. capital. The reafon is evidently, this: all men, generally fpeaking, have those principles and that common nature to appeal to, which form and govern genuine and permanent taste. are defpifed in proportion as a na tion emerges out of barbarifm. Why fhould thofe of ancient Rome, and of more ancient Athens, be efteened and copied ftill? Why fhould they be fo greatly admired above any other, and even be, as it were, recalled from the dead, after having been buried in forgetfulness to long? Mut there not be fome permanent beauties in thein; and must not those beauties have a foundation in reafon and nature? Liverpool, Jan. 12. E. L. ANECDOTE of the famous CATHA A RINE TUDOR. T Liewenne (fays Pennant, in his Journey to Snowdon) is the portrait of a lady exceedingly celebrated in this part of Wales, the famous Catharine Tudor, better known by the name of Catharine of Derain, from her feat in this neigh There feems to be one certain period of elegance and refinement to which the wifeft and most polifhed nations have advanced, beyond which the power of imagination had not been able to proceed. There was one point of excellence at which the genius of Athens and Rome was at a ftand, from which it foon receded with a fwiftnefs proportionable to its advance. The period of the molt complete elegance being attained, both countries afterwards degenerated in every fcience connected with the fine arts. When the most finished models of architecture, fculpture, and painting, were grown familiar by custom, any thing was relished for novelty or variety fake, that ftruck out of the common path. Un-bourhood. She was daughter and der pretenfions of carrying the fine arts to a higher pitch of elegance and perfection, fome bold and novel adventurers forgot the beauty and fimplicity of nature, and others, following them, receded farther and farther from the original principles of tafte, and impofed falfe ones on their deluded admirers. Their ima-church by Morris Wynne, of Gwedir, ginations, caught with new objects, got the better of their judgment. But nature will affert her prerogative in the end. The reign of a fickly fancy cannot be long. Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, will be ever admired and relifhed. A dark age may be blind to their beauties, but they will outlive a dark age: their beauties are as permanent as nature herself. I am inclined to think that there must be fome fixed standard of tafte from thefe obfervations: they are founded on the judgment of the wifett of all ages and countries. The models of Gothic architecture, Flemish painting, and Monkih poetry, heires of Tudor ap Robert Tycham of Berain. Her first huband was John alufoury; and, on his death, fhe gave her hand to Sir Richard Clough. The tradition goes, that, at the funeral of her belo spouse, John Salufoury, he was led to the church by Sir Rich Ped, and from the who whispered to her his wifh of being fecond. She refufed him with great civility, informing him, that, in her way to the church, he had accepted the propofais of Sir Richard; but affured him, that he might depend upon being her third, in cafe he ever performed the lame fad duty (which he was then about) to the knight. She was as good as her word. As foon as he had compofed this gentleman, to fhew that he had no fuperftition about the number three, fhe concluded with Edward i helwal, of Pias y Ward, Efq. departed this life Auguft 27, and was interred at Llanivydd, on the 1ft of September, 1591 On On the STATES of the Poor and RICH. Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in fe, To nought more hard is hapless penu- Than pride's neglect, and wealth's infulting fcorn. made him friends: nor can you utterly overthrow a man in the world's opinion, till you have faid he is poor. This is the emphatical expreffion of praife and blame; for men fo ftupidly forget their natural impotence and want, that riches and poverty have taken in our imagination the place of innocence and guilt. He, therefore, that has fuffered the confumelies, difappointments, and miferies which attend the poor man's condition,--and, without running into bafe, indecent, or fervile arts for his redrefs, hath returned upon an infolent world its fcorn, he (I fay) has fought a nobler fight, conquered greater difficulties, and deferves a better station, and higher reward, than ever Fortune beftowed on the moft fondled and moft gaudy of her favourites. This combat, however, few, very few indeed, with to engage with, and would rather leave the flow martyrdom of fcorn, infült, and neglect, to others, than obtain even praife and reward from heaven, for paffing through the fiery trials that lead to it. Tis in every body's obfervation what difadvantage a poor man fuffers in the moft ordinary affairs, much more difputing with the whole world, and in contradiction of the rich, that is, the wife; for as certainly as wealth gives acceptance and grace to all that its poffeffor fays or does; fo poverty creates difefteem, fcorn and prejudice, to all the undertakings of the indigent. The neceffitous man has neither hands, lips, nor understanding, for his own or friend's ufe, but is in the fame condition with the fick. with this difference only, that his is an infection no man will relieve or affift; or if he does, it is feldom with fo much pity as contempt, and rather for the oftentation of the phyfician, than compaffion on the patient is a circumftance, wherein a man finds all the good he deferves inacceffit,all the ill unavoidable. Under there preflures the poor man fpeaks with hesitation, undertakes with irrefolution, and acts with disappointment. He is flighted in men's converfations, overlooked in their affemblies, and beaten at their doors. But from whence, alas, has he this treatment? from a creature that has only the fupply of, but not exemption from, the wants for which he defpifes him: for fuch is the unaccountable infolence of man, that he will not fee that he who is fupported is in the fame clafs of natural neceffity with him that wants a fupport: and to be helped, im-him juftice, he would, with fire, plies to be indigent. In a word, fword, and bloodshed, ravage the after all you can fay of a man, con- whole kingdom, and compel him clude that he is rich, and you have to it, or perifh in the attempt. 8 A SUMMARY and SOVEREIGN TOW Henry, inftead of the N° mi de Luces, quarters the three Fleer de Luces in his arms as the king of France then bore them, and that he might not be thought to feal advantages, fent his ambassadors to Charles VI. then king of France, requiring in a peaceable manner the furrender of the crown of France, which if he confented to, king Henry would marry his daughter Catharine; but if he refused to do PICTURE CURES. (From Dr. Cogan's Rhine.) PICTURE of a WESTPHALIA INN,plicity, was fomewhat encouraging. and INFORMATION for EP-Its whitened walls adorned with fmall pictures of faints,-an image of the Virgin, that was placed upon a large family-cheft, as the protectrefs of fome old china ranged in the front, a crucifix, under an antique-framed mirror, manifefted the owner's difpofitions both for devotion and ornament, while they gave us hopes that matters would not go very bad in fuch good company. As S foon as we entered the village where we were to remain, the joyful tidings were announced by a crack of the whip, and an exclamation, " Dafs ift das dorff," This is the village-But we were still to experience rockings and joltings, in a rough and ftony road, through rain and wind, for the fpace of a tedious half hour, before our driver could exclaim "Da is das wirthfhaus."-There is the inn. means Although we were fo defirous of fhelter from the ftorm, yet our countenances were by no brightened up when we beheld the We mean appearance of our inn. inquired if it were the best in the village, and were answered, "It is the only one where you can receive any accommodation." Our ideas had given it a much better form, and these were in fome measure authorifed by the fpecimen we had had of a poft-house between Xanton and Duffeldorff. Our hoft, his fair fpoufe, and bare-footed maiden, feened equally ftrangers to the whole fomne duties of ablution; nor did a peep into the fombre aud dirty kitchen give us any great appetite for our future fupper. Our repaft was fimple, but in abundance; and it was ferved up with attention and civility: a clean table-cloth, napkins, and plates, with burnished knives, fharpened the appetite, which had loft its edge from a perfpective of the kitchen. Our bedchamber (the arrival of other company had deprived us of feparate rooms) partook of the fame neatnefs and fimplicity; and we awoke in the morning much more refreshed, and better fatisfied, than the first appearances had promifed the preceding evening. No horfe,-or, to elevate the fimile as much as poffible, when I compare myself to a beaft of burden,-no mettlefome courfer, could feel more indignant terror on his fpirits, upon being forced into the fhop of a rude-handed farrier, than was felt by your humble fervant upon his being urged by neceffity into this wirthfhaus; and from a fimilar reafon-from the apprehenfion of rough treatment within. I recollected thofe mife If inns they could be call'd, that inns were not, into which my waggon-fhaken bones entered in hopes of reft and refreshment, but returned without either. After we had fettled accounts with the driver, who was the re-rable inns in Weftphalia, prefentative of the ftable-keeper of Duffeldorff, while he fupported claims and privileges of his own (in which double capacity he employed all the intrigues of a minifter of ftate, to deceive; and we, all the These are termed Scheueren, or firmness of found policy, to maintain our known and acknowledged barns, where rationals and irrarights), we were conducted to our tionals, men, women, and children, apartment, or tube, oppofite to the with all their live ftock, dwell under kitchen. Its clean and neat ap- one roof, and in the fame apartpearance, notwithstanding its fim-ment. The family occupy the exVOL. XXVII. Ι treme fpacious apartments,thefe ovens may be useful and neceffary; but, in these small stubes, they yield an imappear to me the chief causes of pure and fuffocating heat. They thofe pulmonary complaints that are fo frequent in Germany, as well as in England, where you ftudy fo much the luxury of warm apartments, while they are scarcely the fudden change of atmosphere. treme part of the building, at the greatest distance from the door, which is moftly at the gable-end; horfes, milch.cows, and oxen, are ranged on the right and left, towards the entrance; hogs and poultry take poffeffion of the middle space. In confequence of this difpofition, the hearth or fire-place is very remote from the door; and the fmoke, which is moftly of oak wood, find-known in Holland, where the rooms ing no chimney, or immediate vent, collecting in ample ringlets in the violent, and the inhabitants warmer are much more lofty, fires are less upper regions, is diffufed in copious clad; fo that they are happily exftreams over the whole building,empt from the ill effects attending and its fuper abundance efcapes at the barn-door. At once to form a bencficial ftream, and to facilitate its paffage, a large reflecting-board is placed perpendicularly above the fire place, at fuch a due height, that it prevents the finoke from collecting among the beams and rafters, by diffufing each column, as it rifes, over the middle regions. By condefcending to compare myfelf to a quadruped, furely I have purchafed a right to compare this machine to the founding-board of a pulpit, which it refembles in fhape and fize, and alfo in its manner of reverberating. Some of thefe fcheueren, or harns, have a fecondary apartment, called a tube, or flove-room, which is warmed by a ftove or furnace, placed contiguous to the wall, and geney heated from without, by an opening in the partition wall; fo that the air in the apartment has no accefs to the fuel, but receives a clofe, fultry, and unwhoiefome heat, from the accumulation of ignited particles, which have no proper vent. Thefe machines are called ovens, a generic term that we have appropriated to a particular fpecies of furnace, to which the most common ones in Germany bear a clofe refemblance. The ovens of the rich and great are very elegant, confifting of caft iron, highly ornamented with figures in relief, or cafed with va in great abundance in fo large a The filth, which muft accumulate family, is formed into a dunghill, planted immediately before the door. All the villages, therefore, as they abound with farmers, abound with hefe mountains; the infufion of which, in a rainy feafon, flows, in copicus ftreams, along the ftreets, and neceflitates thofe inhabitants that are above abject poverty to modern fashion, ufe boots. May we not trace the of fafhin, of wearing morning in your men boots in clean streets, up to this in their frequent Germán camfource?-As thus-English officers, paigns, were under a neceffity of imitating the German officers, and perpetually encaling their legs, je defendende, until they acquired the habit; and upon their return to their native foil, they gave following the example of the milito thofe gentry who are fo fond of tary, in every thing but in.expofing their lives for the good of their country. I propofe this merely as a conjecture en pafjant.--What i am about to advance is much more important, and is founded on a minute attention to cause and effect, for which I claim a double portion of honour. the ton Felix qui potuit rerum cognofcere caufas. Although it is my phyfical and luable saxon china. In large and i metaphyfical creed, that every dif COVELY, |