ties of Nature, and the productions of God 1 never made an unfuitable return for their affection, it increased to fuch a degree, that their existence feemed to hang upon J mine. To make as much of a child fo beloved, as his natural talents would allow, no expence was fpared in my education: from childhood, every inftruction that money could purchase, and every allurement to learn, that fondness could fuggeft, were bestowed upon me; while my beloved father, tracing the advances I made with the magnifying eye of affection, would hang over me in rapture, and enjoy, by anticipation, the fame and honours that, overweening fondness fuggested to him, must one day furround me. These prejudices, my dear friend! arifing from the excefs of natural affection, are excufable, if not amiable, and deferve a better fate than disappointment. Alas! my honoured father, you little knew-and, oh! may you never know, what fort of fame, what fort of Art, were poured with the profufion of fond paternal affection into my lapwhen troops of friends hailed my rifing profpects when health and peace made this perfon their uninterrupted abodeand when the most benignant love that ever blessed a mortal filled up the meafure of my blifs. Yes, Campbell! it was once my happiness, though now, alas! the fource of poignant mifery, to be bleffed with the beft parents that ever watched over the welfare of a child ➡with friends, too, who loved me, and whom my heart cherished-and-O God! do I think of her, and yet retain my fenfes with the affections of a young lady, than whom Providence, in the fullness of its power and bounty to mankind, never formed one more lovely, one more angelic in perfon, more heavenly in difpofition, more rich in intellectual endowments. Alas! my friend, will you, can you pardon thefe warm ebullitions of a fond paffion? will honours, await your child! May the you for a moment enter into my feelings, and make allowance for thefe tranfports? But how can you! Your friendship and pity may indeed induce you to excufe this interruption; but, to fympathife truly, and feel as I feel, you must have known the charming girl her felf. My father, though he did not move in the very first walk of life, held the rank of a gentleman by birth and edu-, cation, and, was refpectable, not only, as a man of confiderable property, but as a person who knew how to turn the gifts of fortune to their best account: he was generous without prodigality, and charitable without oftentation: he was allowed by all who knew him to be the most tender of husbands; the most zealous and fincere of friends; and I can bear witnefs to his being the best of parents. As long as I can remember to have been able to make a remark, the tenderness of both my father and mother knew no bounds: I feemed to occupy all their thoughts, all their attention; and in a few years, as I thank anguifh he endures, and his most cala- ! Thus years rolled on; during which, time feemed to have added new wings to his flight, fo quickly did they pafs. Unmarked by any of those finif ter events that parcel out the time in weary stages to the unfortunate, it slid on unperceived; and an enlargement in my fize, and an increase of knowledge, were all I had to inform me that eighteen years had paffed away. It was at this time that I first found the fmooth current of my tranquillity interrupted, and the tide of my feelings swelled and agitated, by the acceffion of new streams of fenfation: in short, I became a flave to the delicious pains of love; and, after having borne them in concealment for a long time, at length collected courage to deciare it. Franknefs and candour were among the virtues of my beloved: fhe liftened to the proteftations of affection, and, rifing a : bove the little arts of her fex, avowed it might, my mifery could not furpass a reciprocal attachment. The measure what I then felt from the mysterious of my blifs feemed now to be full the manner in which he spoke. purity of my paffion was fuch, that the thoughts of the groffer animal defires never once occurred; and happy in loving, and in being beloved, we paffed our time in all the innocent blandifhments which truly virtuous love infpires, without our imagination roaming even for an instant into the wilds of fenfuality. As I was to inherit a genteel independent fortune, my father propofed to breed me up to a learned profeffionthe Law; rather to invigorate and exercife my intellects, and as a step to rank in the State, than for mere lucrative purposes. I was put to one of the univerfities, with an allowance fuited to his intentions towards me; and was immediately to have been fent to travel for my further improvement, when an unforfeen accident happened, which completely crushed all my father's views, dafhed the cup of happiness from my lips, and brought me ultimately to that deplorable state in which you have now the misfortune to be joined along with me. He then told me that he was an undone man-that he had, with the very beft intentions, and with the view of aggrandizing me, engaged in great and important fpeculations, which, had they fucceeded, would have given us a princely fortune-but, having turned out, unfortunately, the reverfe, had left him little above beggary. He added, that he had not the refolution to communicate his loffes to me, until neceffity compelled him to tell me all the truth. T. Although this was a fevere fhock to me, I endeavoured to conceal my feelings from my father, on whofe account, more than on my own, I was affected, and pretended to make as light of it as fo very important a misfortune would justify; and I had the happiness to perceive, that the worthy man took fome comfort from my fuppofed indifference. I conjured him not to let fo very trivial a thing, as the lofs of property, which could be repaired, break in on his peace of mind or health, which could not; and observed to him, that we had all of us ftill enough-for that my private property (which I poffeffed independent of him, and which a relation left me) would amply fupply all our neceffities. It was but a few months antecedent to my embarking for the Eaftern World, that my father, whom I had for fome time, with forrow, obferved thoughtful, ftudious, and melancholy, took me into his study, and, feizing my Having thus endeavoured to accohand, and looking earnestly into my modate all my unhappy father's feelings face, while his countenance betrayed to his loffes, I had yet to accommothe violent agitation of his mind, afked date my own; and began to revolve in me emphatically, if I thought I had for- my mind what was likely to enfue from, titude to bear the greateft poffible cala- and what step was moft proper to be mity? I was horror-ftruck at his emo- taken in, this dreadful change of cirtion, accompanied by fuch a question cumftances. That which lay nearest to but replied, I hoped I had. He then my heart first occurred; you will reaafked me, if I had affection enough for dily guefs that I mean my love: to inhim to forgive him if he was the cause volve her I loved moré, far more, than of it? I answered, that the idea con- my life, in the misfortunes of my faminected with the word forgiveness, was ly, was too horrible a confideration to that which I could never be brought by be outweighed even by the dread of loany earthly circumftance to apply to my fing her. I knew not what to do, and father; but begged him at once to dif I thought upon it till I became almost close the worlt to meas, being what enfrenzied. In this state I went to her, and and unfolded the whole state of our concerns, together with my refolution not to involve her in our ruin;-whencan you believe it? the lovely girl in fifted on making my fate indiffolubly her's-not, as fhe faid, that she had the smallest apprehenfion lapfe of time, or change of circumftance, could make an alteration in our affection, but that fhe wifhed to give my mind that repofe which I might derive from fecurity. This I would by no means accede to; and, for the prefent; we contented ourfelves with mutual vows of eternal fidelity. his cheeks), and will foon, foon bring me to my end. Not to detain you with vain efforts to defcribe all our feelings, I will confine myself in telling you, that after having made every neceffary preparation, and divided with my much honoured parents the little property I poffeffed, I fet fail for India, in a state of mind compared with which the horrors of annihilation would have been enviable: the chaos in my thoughts made me infenfible to every object but one; and I brooded with a fort of stupid, gloomy indulgence, over the portrait of Mifs As foon as I thought my father's -, which hung round mind fit for fuch a converfation, 1o- my neck, and was my infeparable compened to him a plan I had formed of panion, till the people who feized me coming to India, to advance my fortune. as I came afhore plundered me of it, His understanding approved of it, but his heart diffented; and he said, that to part with me would give the finishing ftroke to his misfortunes: but, as my intereft was tolerably good, I reprefented to him the great likelihood I had of fuccefs; and at last, with some difficulhe confented. My next step was to acquaint with my refolution. I purpofely pafs over a meeting which no power of language can defcribe'. then how can I-Oh! Compbell, the remembrance of it gnaws me like a vulture here (and he put his hand upon his heart, while the tears rolled down ty, Mifs and thereby deprived me of the laft refuge for comfort I had left. Oh ! monsters! barbarians! had you glutted your favage fury by diffevering my limbs, one after another, from my body, it would have been mercy, compared with depriving me of that little image of her I love! But it is all over, and I fhall foon fink into the grave, and never more be bleffed with the view of those heavenly features, till we meet in that region where all tears are wiped away, and where, I truft, we fhall be joined together for endless ages, in eternal, never-fading blifs! MINUTES OF AGRICULTURE, &c.. MANAGEMENT OF WOODLANDS. AS the management of wood, principally for the fake of the bark, is now an object of much importance in the Highlands of Scotland, the following will fhow the method practifed in Suffex regarding this article: By the Rev. Arthur Young. Sussex has long been celebrated for the growth of its timber, principally oak. No other county can equal it in this refpect, either in quantity or quality. It overfpreads the Weald in every direction, where it flourishes with a great degree of luxuriance. The foil, which is beft adapted for raifing this plant, is a ftiff strong loam, upon a red. brick earth or clay bottom. Large: quantitics of beech are ufed upon the chalk hills, which tree alfo flourishes in great perfection. The great demand for oak bark, has, of late years, been the cause of the large falls of oak, which has, in confequence of the high price of bark, rifen fo amazingly, that the fee fimple of extenfive and well wooded tracks, has been paid by the fall of timber and underwood in two of or three years. Upon fome eftates in nerated an affertion, which is strongly believed, that no land pays the proprietor equally with woodland, and that grubbing and converting it to tillage is so much money loft. No tythes, rates low, and outgoings trifling, are great advantages, which it poffeffes over other lands; but when we take into account the fact, that the woods are fo thickly fcattered over a country, naturally one of the most inclined to wet; and that it excludes from thefe lands the beneficial effects of winds and fun, thereby rendering the furface still wetter; that all the inclofures are unusually fmall, for the benefit of the timber; and that round every distinct field is a wood feveral roods wide, and crowded with trees; the confequent lofs from having cultivation enveloped in a wood, must be highly injurious to corn particularly and the landlord must feel this in the low rents of his arable and pafture; and the effect on the tenant is fufficiently confpicuous in his general method of living; and, until the woods shall be grubbed up, farms enlarged, and the petty inclofures laid open, no flourishing fyftem of hufbandry will ever take place in the wet foils of Suffex. the western part of the county, the value of oak has increased 100 per cent. in twelve years. When, to this amazing increase in the value of wood, is added the more eafy communication to fea-ports than formerly, from the improvements, which have taken place in the roads, it is not furprising, that the late fails have been fo large, and that greater fupplies have been brought to the dock-yards, than the country will be able in future permanently to fupply. The quantity now ftanding,. of a fize fit for the royal navy, compared to what it has been within half a century, is inconfiderable; and as there is no regular fucceffion in referve, it must follow, that the fupply will annualy grow lefs. In order to form fome idea what the increase in the quantity of felled is now, and the proportion it bears to what it did twenty years back, the account is inferted of the export coastwife, from one poft in this county, of the total quantity of timber and bark, in two periods of five years each; the first from 1763 to 1767, the other from 1788 to 1792. In other parts of the county the fame proportion prevails. Load of Timber. Ton Bark. 454 1763 to 1767 4769 1 The large fums of money that have lately been gained by timber, has ge It is ufual to cut the underwood from thirteen to feventeen years growth; it is applied to a great variety of purpofes; it makes poles for hops, faggots for the lime kilns, and cord-wood for coal. Of all forts of underwood, afh pays beft, fince a fmall piece is of ufe, and fitter for a greater variety of workmanfhip than any other wood whatfoever. Excepting chefnut, it makes the beft and most durable hop-poles: it is alfo quartered and made into hoops for the coopers ufe, and the younger growth is cleaved and made into smart hoops. Young oaks, that grow fcrubby, at the age of thirty or thirty-five years, are made into pofts, rails, and used for repairs in general; the ftraight, trees being left for timber. * The time of felling oak is always ruled by the barking; when that flows, which is in April, (although the bark through the branches and roots of the this year did not run before May) the (To be continued.) A CURE FOR THE WATER IN SHEEP. IT has often been remarked how little the disorders incident to sheep are even known in fheep countries. The common fhepherds keep pace with the common farmers, and only obferve, that the animals have always died, muft die, and they cannot help it. nips was gone entirely, and another tenant had the offer of them for nothing, provided he would eat them up, to which he agreed. The following experiment, therefore, may be useful to be made public: He fent there fix hundred and thirty fheep, fo that the experiment was a very full and fair one. The method he purfued he had heard of in Northumberland. As foon as the sheep had A farmer near Kilham turned his filled themselves with the turnips, he flock of fheep into a field of turnips he made his fhepherd go amongst them and had hired, which were remarkably move them about. They voided in strong and good. In a fhort time he confequence a good deal of water. He loft about twenty of them by the difor- did this for fome days, at stated intervals. der called the Water. He grew fo and fometimes, made his fhepherd go alarmed in confequence, that he remov- amongst them in the middle of the ed his fheep, and would eat no more night. By this method they were never of the turnips. On this the owner of fuffered to lie long and fwell with what the land remonstrated, and insisted on they had eaten. The confequence of the turnips being eaten upon the ground, this proceeding was, that after eating After fome little time and altercation, up the whole of these fatal turnips, he the farmer brought back his flock, and removed his fix hundred and thirty fhortly after about fix more died. On fheep all in good condition, without the this he took his final leave of the tur- lofe of a single sheep." nips, and faid, they killed sheep, and would have nothing more to do with them. The owner of the land had them publicly cried, but the turnips had got fo bad a name, that with no little difficulty they were let at half price. The next farmer fent on his sheep, and in a fhort timé loft about eight or ten. On this fecond difafter the reputation of the tur Two circumftances may fairly be deduced from the above experiment: The firft, that the complaint of the Water, which frequently kills fheep when first put on to turnips, arifes from their gorg ing themselves with this watery food, and then remaining without exercise to carry off the beginning complaint: The fecond, that this method may tend to pre |