he faw it would be expedient to carry back Mrs. Cowflip, and lodge her at the place where Mr. Clump had promifed to vifit her with intelligence; for, in all probability, it was not for want of inclination that he had not kept his promife. Dolly did not exprefs any averfion to the fcheme of returning to London, where the hoped once more to rejoin her dear lady, to whom by this time, fhe was attached by the strongest ties of affection; and her inclination, in this refpect, was affifted by the confideration of having the company of the young lawyer, who, it plainly appeared, had made ftrange havock in her heart, tho' it must be owned, for the honour of this blooming damfel, that her thoughts had never once deviated from the paths of innocence and virtue. The more Sir Launcelot furveyed this agreeable maiden, the more he felt himfelf difpofed to take care of her fortune; and from this day he began to ruminate on a fcheme which was afterwards confummated in her favour-In the mean time, he Iaid injunctions on Mr. Clarke to conduct his addreffes to Mrs. Cowflip, according to the rules of ho nour and decorum, as he valued his countenance and friendship. His next step was to procure a faddle-horfe for Dolly, who preferred this to any other fort of carriage; and thereby gratified the wish of her admirer, who longed to fee her on horfeback in her green jofeph. The armour, including the accoutrements of the novice and the fquire, were left in the care of the inn-keeper, and Timothy Crabflaw was fo metamorphofed by a plain livery-frock, that even Gilbert with difficulty recognized his perfon. As for the novice Crowe, his head had almoft resumed its natural dimenfions; but then his whole face was fo covered with a livid fuffufion; his nofe appeared fo flat, and his lips fo tumified, that he might very well have paffed for a Caffre or Ethiopian. Every circumftance being now adjusted, they departed from Bugden in a regular cavalcade, dined at Hatfield, and in the evening arrived at the Bull and Gate inn in Holborn, where they established their quarters for the night. [To be continued. ] 355 The following Copy of an original Letter from Queen Elizabeth, to Heaton, Bishop of Ely, is taken from the Regifler of Ely. I PROUD PRELATE, Understand you are backward in complying with your agreement; what you but, I would have you to know, that, I, who made, you are, can unmake you; and if you do not forthwith fulfill your engagement, by, I will immediately unfrock you. Your's, as you demean yourself, ELIZABETH. Heaton, it seems, had promifed the queen to exchange fome part of the lands belonging to the fee for an equivalent, and did fo, but it was in confequence of the above letter, Refections T Reflections on the Profpe&t from RICHMOND HILL. HE affemblage of objects, known by the name of landfcape, is fo interefting to the eye and affecting to the imagination, that where nature did not fupply fufficient variety to regale the faculty of fight and the powers of fancy, the most eminent painters have employed their talents in exhibiting artificial views and profpects, in which the great and fublime, the gay and agreeable objects of inanimate nature are varioufly combined, fo as to furnish an infinite fund of entertainment, according to the different difpofitions of the human mind. At one mo-, ment the imagination loves to contemplate the awful fcenes of folitary nature, fuch as stupendous rocks, gloomy forefts, and louring fkies; fometimes, to furvey the terrible, arrayed in ftorms, the foaming billows, the roaring catarafts, the foundering veffel, the tumbling ruin, the oaks up-torn, the blackening cloud, and gleaming lightning. Those are scenes that ftrike the foul with a kind of pleafing horror, and fill it with fublime ideas of greatnefs and immensity. Such were the fubjects that employed the pencil of the celebrated Salvator Rofa, in contradiftinction to the more mildly pleafing fcenes which rose from the labours of a Pouffin, and Claude Lorrain, accordIng to the characters delineated in thefe lines of the poet : Whate'er Lorraine light-touch'd with Or favage Rofa dafh'd, or learned But, the genius of painting never contrived a view more rich and rural, more gay, magnificent, and inchanting, than that which Nature herfelf prefents from Richmond Hill, an imperfe&t delineation of which we have procured for the reader's amufement. Well might the poet exclaim, Richmond! that fees an hundred villas rife, Rural, or gay Let us fuppofe a man of an enthufiaftic turn of mind, bred in an uncivilized, remote, and barren country, and tinctured with all the extravagance of superstition; let us fuppofe it poffible to convey him afleep from his native cottage to the fummit of Richmond Hill, and there awake him abrupt. ly in a ferene fummer evening; what would be his fenfations, when he gazed around, and furveyed the particulars of the profpect? when he beheld the level plain below arrayed in all the gorgeous pride of cultivation, when he faw the intermingled fcene of trees and fields, and villas, towns, and villages, extending far as the vifible horizon, except where the fight is agreeably bounded by the diftant hill, crowned with the towers of lofty Windfor; when he regaled his eye alternately with the delightful groves of Kew, and Ham, and Petersham; and viewed the filver Thames winding in fweet meanders through the bosom of the vale, bursting in delightful maffes on the ravifhed fight, difplaying a number of verdant iflets, and wafting a fucceffion fucceffion of boats and veffels on his gentle tide; when he confidered the whole profpect amazingly diverfified into light and fhadow, by a partial gleam of the fetting fun when he obferved the walk embellished with the happy daughters of Britain, fhining in all the elegance of drefs, and fmiling in all the bloom of native beauty: when his hearing was on one fide, rejoiced by the rural concert of the feathered choir, and on the other, his attention engaged by the harmonious notes of artful minstrelly; what could he fuppofe, but that he ftill remained under the illusion of a happy dream; or, that all he faw and heard, was a fairy vision, conjured up by the power of magic to regale his fenfes. An Account of the New Comedy, called ALL IN THE WRONG, now acting at Drury-Lane Theatre, opened for the Summer Seafon, under the Management of Meffieurs Murphy and Foote. The scene opens with Sir. John Restless exclaiming to Robert against the perfidy of a wife he is paffionately fond of; and being told he is gone towards the horseguards, his head aches, his fore-head burns, and his horns cut:" he is refolved, as fhe went out the back way through the Park, never to live in a houfe that has two doors, and intends to give immediate warning to the landlord.---Equally jealous and equally fond of her husband, lady Restlefs obferves Tattle in conference with Marmalade, who had been on a vifit to the former; and imagining Tattle in the intereft of Sir John, the looks upon Marmalade as a creature of his, and breaks into a paffion. Marmalade is commanded about her bufinefs, and the lady retires to worm the fecret out of Tattle.---- Beverly and Belmont met in the Park, and are joined by Clariffa and Belinda; Belmont takes Clariffa afide, and Beverly, after making a needlefs excufe for fome imaginary offence he had given his mistress, makes her a prefent of his picture. Sir William Belmont and Sir William Blandford appear, and the lovers are obliged to separate, the old gentleman having defigned the fon of the one for the daughter of the other. Belinda's father, upon pain of his eternal difpleasure, commands her to think of Belmont as a husband, and leaves her in a fituation fo affecting, that the is falling inRr to |