murs of heart give imperceptible ftrokes. to those delicate fibres of which the vital parts are composed, and wear out the machine infenfibly; not to mention thofe violent ferments which they ftir up in the blood, and those irregu in the animal fpirits. Health and chearfulnefs mutually beget each other, with this difference, that we feldom meet with a great degree of health which is not attended with a certain chearfuluefs, but we often fee chearfulnefs where there is no degree of health. Great as Carantani's obduracy had hitherto been, he now burst into tears, and became frantic with despair. He accufed himself too late as the murderer of his daughter, and ftung with this, tormenting thought, which was but too much the fuggeftion of truth,lar, disturbed motions which they raise he fled from the convent, and even from the city, with the greateft precipitation. He mounted his horfe with a defign to conceal his shame, his grief, and his remorse, in the obfcurity of a country-feat.--But heaven defigned him for a public example. He had fcarce rode fix miles, when his horfe taking fright, threw him, and his foot hanging in the stirrup, he fuffered a death yet more dreadful than that of his unhappy daughter. Dragged by his horfe, which ran full speed, every limb was broken, and his body was covered with wounds and bruifes. Divine juftice feemed to extend itself even to his carcafe after he was dead; for his head and arms were entirely feparated from it. The horse did not ftop till it got home. Who can conceive the horror and confternation of his family, when they faw the horfe furiously galloping, and dragging after him the torn and bloody trunk! Victoria, who was an eye-witnefs of this dreadful event, could not fuftain the complicated calamity, which was thus heaped upon her, on the very day in which the expected to have been completely happy. The death of her fifter, and of her father, attended with uncommon circumstances of horror, and the lofs of her lover, who refused to enter into an alliance with a family which fuicide had dishonoured, made fo deep an impreffion on her mind, that he died two days afterwards, and clofed, by her death, that feries of difaftrous events, which afford inftruction of the maft memorable kind to parents, with regard to their conduct towards their children. Chearfulness bears the fame friendly regard to the mind as to the body. It banishes all anxious care and dif content, fooths and composes the pasfions, and keeps the foul in a perpetual calm. The man who is poffeffed of this excellent frame of mind, is not only eafy in his thoughts, but a perfect mafter of all the powers and faculties of his foul. His temper is even and unruffled, whether in action or folitude. He comes with a relish to all thofe goods which nature has provided for him, taftes all the pleafurcs of the creation which are poured about him, and does not feel the full weight of those accidental evils which may befal him. A chearful mind is not only difpofed to be affable and obliging, but raises the fame good humour in those who come within its influence. A man finds himself pleased, he knows not why, with the chearfulnefs of his companion: it is like a fudden fun- fhine that awakens a fecret delight in the mind, without his attending to it. An inward chearfulness is an implicit praife and thankfgiving to Providence under all its difpenfations. It is a kind of acquiefcence in the state wherein we are placed, and a se». cret approbation of the divine will in his conduct towards man, In the fecond book of his Paradife Loft, Milton has introduced a fimile which cannot be read without the. greatest pleasure by a perfon of a chearful difpofition; the recital of it HEARFULNESS, fays Mr. Addi-is fufficient, one would imagine, to An Essay on CHEARFULNESS. CHBAR FULNESS, promotes of trike the rays of chearfulnefs into the health. Repinings and fecret mur-moft cloudy mind. As Atteft their joy, that hill and valley ring. B. II. 488. There is alfo a fimile in the fourth book, calculated to excite a train of fimilar ideas in the mind. -As when to them who fail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at fea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the fpicy shore Of Araby the bleft. with fuch delay Well-pleas'd they flack their course, and many a league Chear'd with the grateful fmell old Ocran fmiles. B. IV. 159. In the third book, when our author complains of the lofs of fight, he seems to dwell with a particular pathos on the exclufion from a view of chearful fociety. -Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns * Day, or the fweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or fight of vernal bloom, or fummer's rofe, Or flocks or herds, or human face divine; But cloud inftead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the chearful ways of man Cut off B. III. 40. The following fimile in the fame book may be added to the two foregoing ones, as chearful ideas will be naturally excited by it. This beautiful turn of the words is copied from the beginning of the third act of Guarini's Paftor Fido. Mirtillo addreffed the Spring Tu torni ben, ma teco, Non tornano, &c.. Tu torni ben, tu torni, Ma teco altro non torna, &c. Thou art return'd, but the felicity Thou brought'ft me laft is not return'd with thee; Thou art return'd, but nought returns with thee Save my last joys regretful memory. FANSHAWE. As when a fcout Thro' dark and defert ways with peril gone All night, at laft by break of chearful dawn Obrains the brow of fome high-climbing hill, Which to his eye difcovers unaware The goodly profpect of fome foreign land First feen, or fome renown'd metropolis, With glitt'ring fpires and pinnacles adorn'd, Which now the rifing fun gilds with bis beams. B. III- 543. The recollection of another paffage in the fourth book will not permit me to deny it a place in a collection de dicated to chearfulness. Bloffoms and fruits at once of golden hue Appear'dt, with gay enamel'd colours mix'd, On which the fun more glad impress & his beams Than in fair ev'ning cloud, or humid bow, When God hath fhow'r'd the earth; fo lovely feem'd That landícase; and of pure, now purer air It is highly probable that Milton remembered a very fine paffage in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, at the beginning, when he wrote thefe lines. -Like the fweet fouth, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. ̧ An ingenious critic, however, (M. Thyer, of Manchefter) is of opinion that Milton rather alluded to the following lines of Ariofto's defcription of Paradife, where, fpeaking of the dolce aura, he fays, E quella à i fiori, à il pomi, à vezura E di tutti facera una mistura, ORL. FUR. Can. 34, St. 51. The two first of these lines express the air's ftealing of the native perfumes, and the two latter that vernal delight which they give to the mind. Befides, it may be further obferved, that this expreffion of the air's ftealing and difperfing the fweets of flowers is very † In Paradife. com The Governess. "Whoever has paffed an evening," fays Mr. Hume, the late ingenious philofopher and hiftorian, "with ferious, melancholy people, and has obferved how fuddenly the converfation was animated, and what sprightlinefs diffused itself over the countenance, discourse, and behaviour of the whole circle, on the acceffion of a good-humoured, lively companion; fuch a one will easily allow that chearfulnefs carries great merit with it, and maturally conciliates the good-will of mankind. No quality, indeed, more readily communicates itself to all around; because no one has a greater propensity to difplay itfelf in jovial talk, and pleasant entertainment. The flame fpreads through the whole circle, and the most fullen and morofe are often caught by it." Few men would envy the character which Cæfar gives of Caffius: 633 fuch confpicuous merit as the Female Reformer. I must acknowledge myfelf to be a great admirer of the Lady's Magazine, and have read with particular pleasure many useful admonitions addreffed by you to our sex, therefore am difpleafed that any one of them fhould act with fuch ingratitude, as to find fault with fo laudable an undertaking. As to what the lady in queftion prefumes to alledge against you, I fhall pay little attention to: but she must give me leave to conjecture that the real cause of her epiftle proceeds from fome pique which the has received on reading fome of your just obfervations on the great impropriety of conduct of the generality of our fex, and is in hopes, by her late proceeding, to put an entire ftop to your future remarks. But I fhall be exceedingly forry to lofe your valuable inftructions, therefore beg you will not mind the menaces of Amelia Stanhope, but purfue with alacrity your excellent advice to effect a female reformation, which will greatly oblige, good Sir, THE Your fincere well-wisher, MARIA MEANWELL. GOVERNESS, (Continned from Page 581.) Replied, that all he had faid appeared to be very reasonable; but that as Mrs. Gaskin had intrusted me with the care of the young ladies, and as he had ftrictly injoined me not to admit any vifitors, he muft excuse my defiring him to leave the room, left the fhould come in and find him there, or be informed by the fervants of his having attempted to fee her daughters contrary to her inclinations. I was, I own, very forry to be obliged to make fuch an oppofition to the behaviour of a man, to which I could not give my approbation; efpecially as I really thought it might be the probable way of putting an end to the confinement of my young pupils, who looked frightened almoft out of 4 M bellished their minds, external orna ments are the less necessary, the less defirable." There is, undoubtedly, a charm is flattery which carries every thing be their wits at the fight of the young | gentleman; while he replied, in the molt infinuating accents, that he must beg my pardon for not complying with my request, which arofe, he flattered himself, rather from an idea of propri-fore it'; and it had fuch an effect upety, than from any prepoffeffion againft him adding, that he could not help being perfuaded I should be more ready to liften to his side of the question, when I was thoroughly acquainted with his pretenfions to vifit the Mifs Gafkins. He then turned from me to the eldest of the two young ladies, took her hand in his, called her his dear coufin, and faid he was extremely happy in having the pleasure of seeing / her. on me, that I was almoft as well pleased with this relation of theirs, as they themselves could have been. Convin ced, however, that it would not be dif creet to keep up the conversation, and that I ought inftantly to put a stop to it, I again begged him to leave us. He replied, that he would obey me for the prefent, as he should be very forry to occafion me any difquiet; bat added, that he could no longer forbear to affert his claim to Mifs Gaskin, who This unexpected addrefs threw the was also his relation, as her father was poor girl into a violent flutter of fpi- his mother's brother, who had in his rits; fhe recovered herself enough, will appointed him his guardian, and however, to fay, though with a faul-defired he might marry one of his tering voice, and a face glowing like coufina. He concluded with faying, crimfon-"I am much obliged to you, "Having frequently expoftulated with Sir; but I wish you had not feen me Mrs. Gaskin upon this subject, and intill my mother could have been pre-treated her to introduce me to her vailed upon to let me appear like other young people of my age." "That with is fufficient, my amiable coufin," replied he; " and while your good-fenfe and good-nature is fo confpicuous, it is not material in what drefs you are feen. Appear in what drefs you will, you are fure of pleafing." daughters, in vain, as she rather difcovered a defire to enter into a fecond marriage herself, than to settle her children, I determined to come at the fight of my coufins, and to endeavour to make myself agreeable to them; and if I am fo happy as to gain the ef teem of her whom I prefer, I fhall give myself no trouble about the old This fpeech by no means tended to lady, though she has done me the holeffen Julia's confufion, which he feemnour to take particular notice of me." ed not to obferve, but turning to Do- No fooner were thefe words uttered, rothea, made her a compliment, fome-than the door of the room bounced what in the fame ftyle; though he gave open, and the lady in queftion p the preference, I thought, to her fifter, peared. vifibly; efpecially as he, immediately upon quitting Dorothea, began a converfation with Julia upon the work the had in her hand, and the employments to which fuch a young perfon had been, moft probably, accustomed: he then paid a compliment to me, for the care I had taken of the education of both the young ladies. "There is no occafion, Madam," continued he, "for any apology with regard to their drefs, as their outward appearance is conformable to the will of their mother." nature and you have fo highly em It is no eafy matter to defcribe the looks and behaviour of the es raged Mrs. Gafkin; nor can I find words to paint the fituation of fer daughters, Mr. Thompfon, and my self.--We all directed our eyes to each other. The girls feemed terrified-I was confounded-Mr. Thom fon, taking Julia's hand, bade her look up, and have courage, as he would protect her. "You protect her!" cried the di appointed Mrs. Gafkin. "You, wha can, after having deceived a mother The Matron. No. LXXVII. attempt to deceive her child, and at the fame time have the monftrous infolence to infinuate fcandalous reflections on my age? Pray, Sir, I fhould be glad to know what you fee in me to justify your calling me old; merely because I happen to have children who are really quite infants, and whom I brought into the world when I was quite a child myself? You had better not to have mentioned my age, Sir; no, nor have thought about it. However, it is altogether indifferent to me what you fay or do: as long as I have my children left in my own hands, I fhall take care they fhall never be in your's. So, Sir, I defire you to leave my houfe directly, and never to let me fee your face again.” THE (To be continued.) MATRON. S feveral domeftic occurrences have lately prevented me from paying that attention to my corref pondents to which they are fairly entitled from their extreme politenefs to me, I think it incumbent on me to give fome account of the matters which have fo much engaged my time. My daughter Staples, my niece Partlet, and myself, are always invited by my fon to keep our Christmas at the Manor ; we were to be joined there by Mr. and Mrs. Mancel; but the marriage of Charles Staples, at which we were defired to be prefent, and which was not celebrated till the Thursday before Chriftmas-Day, kept us longer in town than we could have wifhed. Just as we were preparing to fet out, Mrs. Dawson was taken very ill. Mr. Dawson immediately fent for her mother. She remained with her but two days, before he was brought to bed of a fon. Yet notwithtanding all her fufferings, notwithstanding the joy at having been relieved from them by the birth of a fine boy, and the extreme fatisfaction which her husband difco 635 vered at her safety, and at the fight of his fon, fhe has not been in the least affected by all these things. She perfifts in refufing to let the child receive the smallest nourishment from her, and fhe has alfo obliged her husband, a second time, to be at the expence of a wet-nurfe for his infant.--Being invited by Mrs. Myers, as the filter of Charles, to be prefent at their nuptials, to go with them to Richmond after the ceremony, and to ftay with them during the holidays, fhe accepted of the invitation, though both my daughter and Mrs. Dawson remonftrated against her leaving her house, when he was fo very near her time, only for a fingle day; but their remontrances were vain. She not only went to church with the bride, but made a new Polonefe of a rofe-coloured fatin, with a Devonshire-brown petticoat.On Mr. Dawfon's telling her he thought the drefs by no means fuited her fize, fhe pertly replied, "That objection will foon be removed, and I will then have my gown altered to my fhape."-She was not able, however, to accompany her new fitter to Richmond finding herfelf much indifpofed during the ceremony, fhe was prevailed on by her brother to go home in a chair, with a defire, if the found herfelf well enough, to come to them the next day but fhe continued to grow worfe and worfe till the birth of her fon, and was foon after in as fair a way of doing well as an obstinate woman could be faid to be. Mrs. Myers alfo paid Charles's whole family the compliment of defiring their prefence at her marriage : but my daughter and I defired to be excufed. My niece Pen, however, could not relift the temptation; she, therefore, dreffed herfelf in a new facque, Barré-coloured fatin, trimmed with gauze, which being fpread over a pretty large hoop, made a most flaming appearance, and formed a striking contraft to the bride's white fatin Poonefe, with a dove-coloured petticoat. Pen told us, when he came home in the evening, (for fhe was not afked to be one of the Richmond party) that |