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ja the county of Cork, arranging and of forty guineas a year, by fale to Paletting part of the estate of Lord Vif. ris; but above all the reft the whole ecount Kingsborough. Of the account ftate, confifting of turnip-land adapted of these journies he fays, "I have not to a profitable Norfolk course for sheep; much apprehenfion; though the fuccefs though yielding at prefent to the propriein relation to profit was nothing, yet it tor for the half thare of the produce no will ftand its ground, and, I truft, me- more than 2 s. 6 d. per acre, notwithrit, in some small degree, the moft flat- ftanding he is at the expence of provitering encomiums it has received in ma- ding all the live stock. I could have ny parts of Europe." In confequence made the purchase without money, by a of that work 40,000 1. a-year was faved rent-charge of 500l. a-year; timber to to the public on the inland carriage of a confiderable value (very fine oak,) the corn, as Parliament immediately adopt furniture of the chateau, and the cattle ed his ideas. of the whole eftate, 900 fheep, feventy cows, and eighty oxen, &c. all given into the bargain. I have not a doubt but that I fhould in five years have quadrupled the annual value; but the Revolution and the ftate of the kingdom were too much in my head; my family would have been alarmed, and probably unwilling to go to France. I left the province, therefore, not convinced that I was turning my back on one of thofe opportunities that rarely prefent themselves. Living in eafe and even affluence in a fine climate, could not but in my mind form an agreeable profpect, when contrafted with the narrow, cramped, and anxious fituation to which I was doomed on my return to England.”

In 1784 he began "Annals of A. griculture," a work of great merit, as a repofitory of authentic and valuable information on the agriculture of this and other kingdoms. This work is ftill continued, and we cannot but agree with the author, that it may be cited as a proof of culpable inattention in country gentlemen, in clergy who farm, and in opulent tenantry, that they do not give better encouragement to fuch a work.

On an invitation from Monf. Lazowfki to accompany him and Count de la Rochefoucauld to the Pyrenees, Mr Young was induced to make his firft journey into France in the year 1787. He returned to England in the winter, and continued fome time in London attending to the Wool Bill, then before the Parliament. He then made his fecond tour, and in 1789 finished his travels. In the course of this journcy, to ufe his own words, "I was greatly tempted to fettle in France. In a fine part of the Bourbonnois, which poffef fes a climate equal to any in that kingdom, I met with a compact enclosed eftate, of near 4000 acres, fituated on the great road from Paris to Lyons, and near Moulines, the capital of the province; the chateau and offices complete and well built; the garden excellent: twenty acres of vineyard, the wine, both red and white, fo good, that I wished for them in my cellar at Bradfield; ffhpools formed by ftreams banked in the vales, fo confiderable as to yield the chateau a conftant fupply, and a revenue

The next year we find Mr. Young oppreffed with illaefs, acquired in a farming expedition, and writing the account from which the foregoing particulars are extracted, and in a frame of mind not well difpofed to view his fituation with any degree of fatisfaction. Since that period he has published an account of his "Journies through France," a work uniting usefulness and entertainment, and which we believe has fucceeded better than he apprehended in his defponding moments. He has alfo been appointed Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, and has publifhed fome very feasonable and fatisfactory pamphlets on the French Revolution, which, we truft, have been attended with great advantage to the nation. Inconfequence of thefe exertions he has, as might be expected, been very liberally abufed by the abettors of faction.

If no other benefit had refulted from his "Example of France a Warning to Britain," than being unquestionably the origin of the Yeomanry Cavalry at prefent established in the kingdom, it would by this alone be entitled to refpect.

It will afford but little encourage. ment to public fpirit to hear from Mr Young the following complaint, which we hope he will not have caufe to perfevere in, and with which we conclude this account. "When I adopted agriculture as the purfuit of my life, and as a mean of effecting better things than the culture of a little farm would allow, I should have been instructed, for I was too young: knowing, that it being a merely useful art, ablolutely unconnect ed with the decoration or with the pleafures of human life, nothing could ever

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be done in it. Inftead of really and actively attempting to accomplish what I have aimed at, if it had been my good fortune to have been able to present such a series of labours, in tolerable colours, by means of the pallet, or compofed good mufic, the tafte of the age would have convinced me of the propriety of my choice. Arts fo agreeable fecure patronage and fortune; but to do what others only defcribe, is the road to neglect and indigence. But much better than all this, had I been born and educated behind the counter of fome grocer or draper in a borough town, where legiflators are elected by a few votes, my merit would then have been confpicuous and acknowledged, and the fair gale of profperity would have blown steadily in my stern."

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vaftated this unfortunate country, was as offenfive to them as the light of day to the fullen bird of darknefs. It happened that this family had, for twelve years paft, been in poffeffion of a parrot, whom different perfons had taught its mimic leffons. The eftate of the Marquis was fituated on the limits of the German empire; part of his grounds belonged to that territory, and the parrot had been instructed to cry "Vive l'empereur !" and also to call the "petit Louis," the name of a young child who lived in the house. The agents of Lebon received intelligence, that those forbidden words had been uttered by the parrot; the bird was denounced, feized▾ as a criminal of importance, and depofited in the house of a revolutionary commiffary, where the feathered culprit repeated the guilty founds. The tidings fpread through the city, of the arrest of an audacious counter-revolutionary parrot, who boldly cried " Vive le roi!" and who, it was afferted, had even carried his effrontery to fuch a length as to exclaim, "Vivent les preties!" Vivent les nobles!" So far we may fmile at the abfurdities of our ty rants; but that difpofition is converted

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into feelings of indignant horror, when we learn that an act of accufation was immediately iffued against M. Viefville, his daughter, and her waiting-woman, who were dragged from their retirement, and led before the revolutionary tribunal.

The jury unanimously declared that thofe perfons were convicted of being the authors or accomplices of a confpiracy against liberty and the French people; and of unlawful refistance to revolutionary and republican government; having affiduously taught a parrot to utter the deteftable phrase of “ Vive le roi ! Vive l'empereur ! vivent nos pretres ! et vivent les nobles !" and, by fo doing, having provoked the re-establishment of royalay and of tyran ny; for which reafons they were condemned to die.

The old man fummoned all his fortitude, and went to the scaffold with the calmness of innocence; often lifting up his head, which was bowed down with age, to gaze upon his admirable daughter, who met death with the fame courage, and who seemed to forget her own fituation in that of her beloved pa

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Such are the crimes which cannot but excite horror in those who have lived at a distance from their fanguinary influence, but the reflection on which, to those who have been witneffes of their enormity, renders existence hateful.-Such are the monsters into which men are transformed by unlimited power; whether arrayed in imperial purple, and furrounded by pretorian guards; or wearing for a diadem a jacobin cap, and followed by an executioner and a revolutionary jury.

From Mifs Williams' Letters..

OPINION and belief are influenced by many things totally unconnected with the object, that our opinion of human wifdom never ought to rife very high. Opinion and belief, fays Lord Kaimes, are influenced by affections as well as by propenfity. The noted ftory of a

fine lady and a curate viewing the moon through a telescope, is a pleasant illuftration: "I perceive, fays" the lady, 66 two fhadows inclining to each other; they are certainly two happy lovers.”"Not at all replied the curate, 66 they are two steeples of a cathedral !"

ALGEBRAICAL characters have generally paffed with the vulgar for the inftruments of magic. Soon after the art of printing was known at Paris, some one undertook to print Euclid's elements. The workman employed, obferving that it contained a number of fquares, circles, triangles, &c. imagined that it was a book of forcery, intended for raifing the devil, who, for ought he knew, might fetch him away in the midft of his work; he therefore declined it; but his mafter infifted on his perfevering. The poor fellow, believing that they were determined on his deftruction, was fo terrified, that, deaf to reafon and his confeffor, he died of the fright a few days after.

The vanity and folly of placing our affections on grandeur have been judiciously expofed in a great variety of moral and religious writings. There is fcarcely, however, any thing of the kind fhorter or better than these four lines of Butler, the author of Hudibras, in one of his pofthumous poems;

Our nobleft piles, and statelieft rooms,
Are but outhoufes to our tombs;
Cities, though e'er fo great and brave,
But mere warehouses to the grave."

The fondness of moft people for fine clothes, and the contempt they have for tailors, are contradictions not more eafily reconciled than their fondness for the stage, and yet their averfion to any connection with players. The best reconciler is perhaps that given by Butler, in one of his profe effays. (fays he) love and admire fine clothes, but fcorn and defpife him that made them, as princes approve of treafon, but hate the traitors."

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THE DELUSIONS OF THE HEART.-
CONCLUDED FROM P. 16.

-A TALE.

ONE still evening, while the fun was fetting, they had ftrayed to the foot of the adored cliff; and feating themfelves beneath it, Bentinck began to expatiate on the charms of the declining orb. Finding his fpirited encomium not replied to, or obferved by his companion, he turned towards her, and beheld her holding a paper in her hand, while her eyes rained down with a torrent of tears. "Miranda!" exclaimed he; fhe raifed her head, and recollecting the was beheld, hid her face haftily with both her hands. "Allow me the privilege by Effex might be brought to return to = of friendship,”-faid Bentinck, taking up the paper she had dropt.-Miranda replied only by a loud fob: he opened it, and read, written apparently in a disordered hand, thefe lines to Miranda:

Ah! it was too fufceptible for its own peace!"

Bentinck, during these incoherent expreffions, fat filent: at laft he asked her the caufe of fuch myfterious behaviour : twilight had obfcured the fky; and the preturbed beauty, gathering courage from its gloom, ventured, in broken accents, to disclose the whole narrative of Plantagenets ill-ftarred paffion. Ben- ! tinck replied in the foft blandishments of friendly condolence, and faithfully promised to invent fome means where

O my Miranda, if the woes
Of Effex wound thy lov'd repose,
Ah! banish from thy virgin breaft
Aught what disturbs that bofom's reft;
But O! beneath the lowering fky,
Sleepless and fad, uncouched I lic.
Frantic, thy name I oft repeat,
And kifs the printings of thy feet.
In vain for eafe, for peace, I rave,
Peace can be mine, but in the grave.
O my Miranda! when this heart
Shall beat no more, and ccale to imart,
When stretch'd in death, this form is laid,
When my last mournful couch is laid,
Amid the flowers that deck my hier, -
Say, will you shed one woe-fraught tear?
Ah! come then, Death, and ceafe this ftrife,
O! end his grief, with Effex's life.
Bentinck turned pale, and fpeechlefs
gazed upon the reclining head of Mi-
randa, who first broke filence, by fay-
ing with a tremulous accent, Now,
fee the extent of
my friend, you
wretchednefs; I am leved by one who
believes I hate him, and flies my pre-
fence, because my eyes were not fo foon
opened as his were.-O! Plantagenet!
beneath the fhade of thofe trees which
crown this cliff, and whofe wind-tofled
boughs configned this treafure to my
hands, did you alas! did you spend
that laft wretched night? did not my
heart appear to thee cold and infenfible?

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Hundfon caftie. In the mean time Lady Hundfon was planning fchemes for the deftruction of her too innocent child. The fudden departure of Effex Plantagenet had alarmed her; and fetting her imagination to work, fhe fancied that it could be for no other reason, than to prepare every thing for the carrying away of Miranda. Full of this idea, fhe fought for her husband, and affuming the utmost appearance of maternal fondness, began a long difcourse, wherein the reprefented the beauties and virtues of his daughter in the strongest light; expreffing the fervor with which fhe had hoped to behold her united to fome one, whofe rank and fortune might not only be equal but fuperior to her own; and then with the tears of a cro

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codile, and faultering voice, concluded with faying "fuch joys were never for her, as the law too plainly, that the affections of his child were caft away upon Effex Plantagenet,-he, whom neither his ftation in life, or character, could entitle to fuch a preference.' His Lordship, alarmed, tenderly conjured her to give him an account of the proofs which had convinced or staggered her. After earnest entreaties the complied with his requeft, bidding him call to mind their frequent meetings in the loneliness of night-their being never happy but when togetherand laftly, the abrupt departure of Er fex, which fhe was certain was only

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All these circumstances corroborat ing together, worked in the mind of his Lordship, (whose temper resembled the tempeft, that which is the longest of brewing, is always the moft formidable) and raised such a commotion, that bursting out into a perfect hurricane, he ordered his daughter to appear before him. She was fought for, and obeying his mandates, as fhe always did with pleasure; entered the apartment to behold him darting flames from his eyes, and fury from his lips.Ungrateful wretch," cried he, as fhe came forward, "Is this the return of all my fondness? does thy viperish heart bafely, and cunningly contrive with the calm malice of a demon, what will be the means of shortening my existence? Have I not a thousand times expreffed my hopes of feeing you united to a fplendid and powerful house? And wilt. thou wantonly crush all my projects by flying with a pauper, a Plantagenet But, if thou doft, the heaviest curse a parent's aching and incenfed heart can forge, light on thy difobedient head! here, in the face of heaven, I denounce, and breathe the deepest execrations upon thee if ever- ""Oh stay my father! my ever-revered father!" cried the horror-ftruck innocent, finking at his feet. "Oh! do not breathe curfes upon one who never fwerved in thought nor deed from her duty! hear me!"-" I will not, (interrupted her father) I will not, left you add to your guilt that of deceiving me-you are going to elope with Plantagenet-I know it." By my every hope of future comfort" (exclaimed Miranda with streaming eyes,)" I never once harboured fuch a thought !"- "wretched creature!" cried her father, break ing from her eager grafp-" I behold you with horror! have 1 a child fo loft to every fenfe of virtue! away from my fight, and I charge you-if you yet dread a parent's curfe, never to appear before me again."-As he said it, he Blew from her, followed by his lady.VOL. VLII

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"Mother! my compaffionate mother!" fobbed out Miranda,--" your tender heart will liften to the atteftations of my innocence-you too will not curfe a child, who loves you more than all the world!"-" loft creature !" was all the uttered as the difengaged herself from her clinging arms, and rushed out of the room.

Miranda raifed herself from the ground, and staring wildly about her, feemed to regard every thing that had paffed as a vifion: at laft, awakening from her ftupor, the exclaimed—“ Ï am a wretch indeed !—a friendless father lefs wretch!-my mother! O my father, never more to behold youwhither fhall I go?-who will receive a guilty creature whose touch is pollution, and who is labouring beneath the weight of a parent's malediction ?—but, I will fly: this face, once loved, shall never obtrude itself, to disturb their peace.—And while I am finking under the oppreffion of want and mifery—O ! may the heart of my father, never experience one reproachful pang!"-A shower of tears stopped her utterance, and feeking her own apartment, the penned a hafty letter to William Bentinck, acquainting him with the preceding scene her determination to leave Hundfon and requefting him to affift her in her refolves. This the fent by her own maid, who delivered it to Bentinck, just as he was entering from a walk.The moment he had read it, he flew to her apartment, and found her in all the agonies of grief, which he kindly endeavoured to foothe, by affuring her of his conftant and unshakable friendship. Miranda could only thank him by her tears, and all that he could utter was

"Oh! let us fly William let us leave this still dear habitation !" "First allow me to intercede with his Lordfhip-where will you fly to my dear Miranda?""To any place whereever you will take me, for I am too fenfible that my father is inexorable." -Bentinck asked if he was ready to go that inftant? and being answered in N

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