plaint, was perfuaded to take, every night going to bed, the quantity of a large nutmeg of this pleafant medicine; the effect of which was, that the tone was broken in pieces, and voided in granules, fome of them nearly of the fize of pepper-corns, manifeftly appearing to be portions of a much larger fubftance. The Gentleman, though more than fourscore, is now enabled to discharge thefe ftony particles without much difficulty, and finds no other inconvenience than a frequent irritation to make water. . Take Blackberries, before they are quite ripe, when turned; pick them, and put them into a kettle of water; let them stand over a fire till they are reduced to a pulp; then strain them, and to a pint of juice put a pound of powdered sugar; boil it to a jelly, and put it up for use.' Copy of a Letter from the Right Hon. James Earl of Derby, to Licut. Gen. Ireton, in Anfer to his Summons to jurrender the Isle of Man. I SIR, Received your letter with indignation, and with fcorn return you this anfwer, that I cannot but wonder whence you should gather fuch hopes of me, that thould prove, like you, treacherous to my fovereign; fince you cannot but be fenuble of the manifeft candour of my former actings in his late majelly's fervice, from which principles of loyalty I am no with departed. Ifcorn your proffer; I difdain your favour; I abhor your treafon : and I am fo far from delivering up this ifle to your advantage, that I Receipt to fain Bone or Ivory of a beautiful bright red Colour. IMMER fcarlet cloth, cut into very fine fhreds, in a fufficient quantity of water; as foon as the water begins to fimmer, throw in four ounces of Ruffia pot ashes, which will extract the fcarlet colour from the cloth; add a little alum to fine the liquor, and train it thro' a linen cloth dip the bone or ivory in aqua fortis, afterwards fteep it in the above dye. If you are defirous to make the bone or ivory variegated with white fpots, drop thereon in different places melted wax, and the parts whereto the wax adheres, will not be tinged with the dye. A Receipt to flain Ivory black. STEEP it five or fix hours in an infufion prepared of pot-ashes, arfenic and gall nuts, of each equal parts, then lay thereon feveral coats of the black varnish which is used to ebony wood. Or, Diffolve a little pure filver in aqua fortis, then add to the folution a little fcabious or rose water, and rub it over the ivory, and afterwards dry it in the fun. Striking Striking Letter on an interefting Subject. HE undoubted original of the hands ere the ink was dry. If it should ftrike you as it did me, the trouble of tranfcribing it will be more than repaid. Yours, &c. T. C. "WAS ever situation fo circumftanced as mine? unfortunate in the midft of happiness, rained by fuccefs, and driven to defpair by the attainment of my wishes. "Why, ye Powers, did you not give to the lovely Sophia lefs love, or more refolution to refift; or to me a smaller thare of art and endearments to perfuade? Had I never poffeffed her, I had ftill been happy: but the, by liftening to my prayers, has undone my quiet; I am doomed, in fpite of reafon, of honour, and of gratitude, to entertain fufpicions of that virtue which melted before the flame of my love; yet ftill, in fpite of thofe fofpicions, to continue to love and adore. for "In vain I reprefent to myfelf, that the conqueit was the confequence of my affiduity; that her paffion for me was the unhappy caufe of an unbounded confidence in me; and that art in me finished what nature had begun in her. "For, alas! reflection ftill draws me back to imagine, that looks as paffionate, vows as ardent, a manner as engaging, and a form as pleafing, as feduced her at firft, may again find access to her heart; and the fame cause may, nay muft, have the fame effect; what pleafed in me may please in another; for felf-love fails me, when I ftrive to flatter myself as being poffeffed of attractions which only can allure. "To what, then, can I have recourfe for peace? Shall I be moved by her tears, and yield to her inJanuary, 1774. treaties, (the only means of pre honour to thofe of love, and creating in her a duty to fecure her affection? "Shall I excite the devotion of the wife, tó preferve and endear the tenderness of the mistress? Ah! no; in proportion as I fhall have more at flake, my apprehenfions muft increase; every circumstance that can augment our connections, muft add force to my fears nor can I hope they will be extinguished in matrimonial endearments for all the attention of her life, the moft artless love, the most studied affection, can never fatisfy where the conviction of reafon has failed. "How can I expect to find a cure for my fufpicions in her beha viour, who doubt even in spite of myself: She cannot undo what is done! fhe cannot recal the luckless moment, when, in spite of the reftraints of her fex, her virtue fell a victim! nor therefore can the fave the from the torturing thought, that, weakened as the fortrefs is by the demolition of the ftrong outworks of prejudice, it is rendered the readier to furrender by being familiarized to the idea of a furrendry for oppofition will be ever more or lefs faint, in proportion as the worst of the event can be expected with more or lefs concern ş and female virtue is half fubdued at leaft, when it has once brought itself to think that it may fall. "But fince happiness is not to be found with her, fhall I endeavour to feek it without her? and, banishing myself from her fight, fhall I take the first step to wean from her my heart? Honour calls me back, and forbids me to forfake her who forfook all for me! gratitude interpofes, and prevents E me me from caufing her fufferings, who threw afide all that was dear to her to remove mine! and love, yet ftronger than the calls of honour and the ties of gratitude, ftill nurfes that paffion which poffeffion has but heightened, and inceffantly prompts my defire for an object, where concentered meet every charm, which, feparately diftributed, could create and distinguish beauty; where every grace attends on every charm; where art rivals nature, and the ornaments of the mind vie with the perfections of the perfon; where fenfe, which might command attention in the parties of the philofophers, is foftened and adorned by tafte, which might add refinement to the polished affemblies of the courtier, "Can it be wondered that I have fo ftrong an attachment to fo valuable a poffeffion? Can it be wondered that I dread to lofe it?, Attracted by unbounded love, repelled by inextinguishable fufpici. on, when I think of leaving her, I fee nothing before me but defpair; and when for quiet I indulge the, oppofite thought, and incline to fatisfy her prayers and my wishes, To EDMUND BURKE, Efq; upon Confefs I have been many times I highly entertained with your philofophy, but never convinced :' It is a Jack in a lanthorn, which pleases one on the discovery, hoping it may prove a true light; but alas! it only creates a fudden hope to leave one in more impenetrable darkness. Lucretius, a fenfible old Don, tells us, in his fortuitous Syftem of Seeds, that the foul is a little blue flame. You have deviated from that fyftem, and in your Effay on the Sublime and Beautiful, page 206, you tell us, that men without fhining then jealoufy with all her gloomy train ftartles my imagination, and drives me back to my former ditraction. "Since doomed to mifery myfelf, may I have the confolation of being a warning to others! Let the gay, the giddy, the gallant know, that anguish is not the portion of the feduced, the deferted, the miferable fair alone! If a mistaken notion of gallantry built on vanity, from the attractions of their perfons, and on glory from an idea of conqueft, be the idle motive of fo much mischief; let them know, that, fooner or later, remorse will make fufficient atonement for the deftruction of the peace of a mind, whofe only crime was fondness for them, and for the ruin of a reputa tion, which never, alas ! can be iеpaired. But if love mixes his gentle force, let them prepare for a dilemma like mine, and with a life of care dearly repay a moment of pleafure. Let them prepare for an anguish of mind, which will increase in proportion to delicacy of fentiment and refinement of honour." reading his Sublime and Beautiful. qualities, or ftrong virtues, poffefs the foft green of the foul. If fouls are to be coloured according to their faculties, violent fouls may be red; bad fouls may be black; pure fouls may be white; jealous fouls may be green; and patriotic fouls may be the true blue. As this little ftroke of your philofophy has much puzzled many of your readers, you will do them a great honour by an explanation.-An epicurean would have laughed at your green foul, and would have thought it applicable, with our modern city gluttons, to the green fat of a Jamaica turtle. DEMOCRITUS. THE W THE DISTRACTED HUSBAND. A Moral Tale. WHILE gaming continues to be a fashionable vice, vain will be all the falutary corrections of the stage, or even of the pulpit, to put a flop to its deftructive progrefs. In spite of all the daily diftreffes which it occafions, in fpite of the fatal confequences with which it is almoft hourly attended, the gamefter is ftill a flave to his tyrannically ruling paffion, and nothing but abfolute ruin can poffibly convince him of the folly (to fay nothing of the criminality) of his attachment to play. Not that every man is a gamefter who fhuffles a pack of cards, or fhakes a dice-box; he may do both without reprehenfion, by doing both with prudence. The celebrated duke de Rochefocault (whofe maxims in general do more honour to his head than to his heart) has fomewhere faid, "that there are many people in the world who would never have been in love, if they had never heard talk of it." Strange as this affertion may appear, with regard to love, it may, without much impropriety, be applied to gaming. There are undoubtedly many men who have been talked into a paffion for play, by their ftimulating companions. One of thefe men was a Mr. Sullivan, the fon of an eminent merchant in Ireland. Harry Sullivan, having been made independent by a generous father, might have enjoyed his fortune in the most honourable manner, by a proper attention to his affairs; but by choofing his companions without judgment, and by affociating with extravagant young fellows, with whom he ought not to have had any connec tions, he gradually involved himfelf in difficulties and diftresses, and was, at laft, by them plunged into the moft pitiable fituation to be conceived. It was with the greatest concern that Mr. Sullivan faw his fon affociate with young fellows who could be of no fervice, who might be extremely detrimental to him, by the laxity of their principles, and the licentioufnefs of their lives; and it was with the fincereft regard for his welfare, both prefent and future, that he endeavoured, by pointing out the indifcreetnefs of his connections, to difengage him from them: but all his friendly admonitions, all his parental entreatics were thrown away. Harry was incorrigible; he was even fo undutiful one day, when his father came, with his ufual mildness, to acquaint him with an infamous tranfaction, of which one of his dearest friends had been guilty, to defire him not to take any trouble about his conduct, adding, with a very unbecoming afperity," that he was old enough to govern himfelf, that he did not want his advice, and that he would not bear any more of his correction." By this unkind, ungrateful, and impolitic declaration, Mr. Sullivan, though naturally of a patient difpofition, was not a little provoked; and refentment, at that inftant, extinguifhed every fpark of his paternal love. "It is mighty well, Harry," replied he, with a warmth in his language which he had never till then difcovered, "it is mighty well; I have not, I think, deferved this treatment from you; old enough indeed you are to govern yourself; but you are certain E 2 1 ly not wife enough. Your ingratitude is equal to your imprudence, and till fee a great reformation in you, be affured, that you fhall not receive another farthing from mę." With these words, warmly and emphatically delivered, he quitted his fon's houfe, and returned to his own, determining to have nothing to fay to him, till a proper change in his behaviour induced him to believe, that he would merit the restoration of his favour. Mr. Sullivan, soon after his return home, received a vifit from an old neighbour, to whom he had been long accustomed to communicate the joys and the griefs of his heart. Mr. Boyne, finding his friend remarkably grave and difpirited, though not lefs glad to fee him than he had ever been, could not help taking notice of his dejection, which ftruck him the more, as he was the most chearful man of his acquaintance, nor could he help inquiring into the cause of it. Mr. Sullivan, not in the leaft wishing to conceal his uncafinefs from the man who, he knew, would fincerely fympathize with him, readily informed him of the treatment he had met with from his fon, and of his determination in confequence of it; confeffing, at the fame time, that he should fuffer exceedingly by being obliged to adhere to it. Mr. Boyne, who, on his friend's account, was almost as much conce.ned about his fon, as if he had ben himfelf inftrumental to his e.iftence, expreffed his feelings upon the unwelcome occafion, which proved the fincerity of his friendhip, and made feveral attempts to induce him to expect the defired reformation, dwelling particularly on the justifiable refentment he had fhewn, on being treated in a way which he had no reason to expect, which he furely had no reason to overlook. Harry does not want fenfe," continued Mr. Boyne; "he has parts, but his paffions are violent. He has hitherto prefumed too much upon your indulgence: and indeed, to fpeak the truth, my good friend, I must say, that you was too hafty, when you placed him in a fituation to live genteelly without your pecuniary affiftance." Mr. Sullivan, thore ghly fenfible of the precipitance for which his friend gently jeproved him, replied, with a figh, "I was indeed too hafty when I made my fon independent; for, fetting afide the ill ufage I have received from him, I have, I am afraid, by carrying my indulgence to my indulgence to a cenfurable height, armed him with weapons for his own deftruction. By having enabled him to live like a gentleman, I have alfo enabled him to mix with men who will, moft probably, reduce him to a condition infinitely below that of thofe on whom he now looks down with the utmost contempt. I fee, I feel my error; yet, ungrateful as my fon's behaviour has been to me, I cannot diveft myself of the parent while I reflect upon it. However, with all my partialities on his account ftill clinging to me, I am refolved to keep up the appearance of refentment. He ball never enter my doors again, till he withdraws himself from his licentious, and confequently dangerous companions, and convinces me, by a new courfe of life, that he is actuated by new principles. And yet to fee him hurrying to ruin, without ftretching out my hand to fave him! Oh! my dear Mr. Boyne! it is impoffible for me to defcribe the anguifh of my heart at this moment; it bleeds for my graceless boy." |