are fubjects of invaluable confideration, and, like the lilies of the valley, are here to-day and gone to morrow. The opportunity fo unexpectedly conferred was not thrown away. I watched them with a parent's care, and am convinced they like, as much as the Robin does, to gain the notice of man. We may occafionally whiftle with the Red-breaft, but all the human Rofignol monfters of Italy cannot equal a fingle Nightingale. Sometimes, buried amidft foliage, they remain unfeen, though clofe to us, on first coming they are fo very fhy. Having built their nefts in fafety, they will often fhew themselves, and pour out the moft exquifite melody when you are within a few yards of them. An invaluable friend and obferver and I were one morning led to an open bufh by the "juk! juk! juk!" and we were allowed to approach a moft melodious little being. We faw the fwelling of the throat, and the bill in full action. You must guefs at our admiration after the "juk! juk!" which was clofe to us, to perceive the breaft labouring; yet the found appeared not to flue from the bird; it was the call, and feemed to echo to us from a distance, and acted like enchantment on our minds; for we inftantly declared the found proceeded from the powers of the very bird before us, and at the fame moment pronouneed that it was "A VENTRILOQUIST." Yours, &c. A RAMBLER. By the fide of Old Parr, and nearly oppofite to Handel's monument, in Westminfter abbey, a ftohe has lately been laid down, with the following infcription: "To the memory of MARY-ELEANOR BOWES, Countess of Strathmore, only child of George Bowes, Efq. of Streatham Caftle, and of Gibfide, in the county of Durham, who died 28th April, 1800, aged 51 years." Dr. Johnfon derives nightingale from "night and galan, Sax, to fing" and adds, that "galm, Teutonick, is a found, or ecibo.” The following very curious communication has accidentally been long mislaid. Mr.URBAN, Mofco, Dec.28,1797.O.S. AM very doubtful whether the folI a corner in a Mifcellany, which is fo lowing little anecdote is worthy of replete with inftruction and entertainpitched our tents in this hyperborean ment; particularly to us, who have region; but, as it ferves to fhew in what point of view our new fovereign looks upon French principles, French manners, and above all, la costume Françoife dominante, I thought it might not be altogether unacceptable. Madame du V. a French lady, who refided at Mofco a few years ago, was a demirep of the very firft ton, and equally remarkable for the beauty of her perfon, the elegance of her drefs, and the licentioufnefs of her conduct. Having paid a visit to her native country, the returned to St. Petersburg about the beginning of this winter, and appeared in public in a drefs entirely à la fruff, made fo as to fit clofe to the guillotine, that is to fay, in a fearlet body, with pantaloons defcending to the fale of the feet, and covered with a flight tranfparent gauze; the breafts entirely bare, as well as the arms up as high as the fhoulders; the hair from behind drawn back very tight, and faftened emblematically on the top of the head. At a ball given by Strogofucceeds Shoualloff, lately deceafed, in nof, the new lord chamberlain, who that office, three Ruffian ladies of the first quality, ftruck with the novelty, thought proper to exhibit their charms in this very drefs. The confequence was, that they were all conducted home by the officers of the police, with orders to keep their houfes for a certain number of days, and an injunction never to appear in public in fuch a drefs again. Madame du V. being known to have introduced it, was immediately fent out of the country, with pofitive orders never to fet foot in it again on pain of receiving the knout and, to complete the misfortune, two French merchants, one of whom had been fpeculating to a great amount in thefe Antimonarchical trappings, arriying in St. Petersburg about the fame time, were both arrefted, their goods confifcated, and, by the clemency of the emperor, had the good fortune to be conducted to the frontiers, inftead of being fent to pafs the remainder of their lives in the mines of Siberia. MOSQUENSIS. THIS LIFE THE 12 DAY OF DECEMBER, and to pay a trifle for his educa [IN THE 50 YEARS OF HIS AGE AND WAS BVRIED THE 15 OF [THE SAME MONTH ANNO DOMINI 1710. HE IS NOT DEAD On another: [BVT SLEEPETH. Here lies the body of Sha'l rife among the juft. THE BOY OF DUNDEE. "A youth to fortune and to fan.eunknown;" Sed tamen in pretio." HOR. BUT STILL IT HAS A VALUE." URING my journey in Scotland, , a few weeks ago, a gentleman, in the vicinity of Dundee, informed me that his fifter, on going to vifit a poor woman in an obfcure part of the town, was directed, by mistake, to the lodging of another perfon; and knocking at the door, was defired, in a low female voice, to come in. On entering the room, the found a poor helpless woman on a bed, emaciated by illness, and apparently in a miferable fituation, in confequence of a paralytic ftroke five years before; during which period The had been confined to her bed, and rendered incapable of affifting herfelf Her friendly visitor, pitying her condition, was furprized by her anfwer, that the thought herfelf one of the happiest of mortals; and on defiring an explanation, the poor woman, in fimple language, related the following particulars: That in the younger part of life he had been left a widow, with an only fon; who, when the received the ftroke, was twelve years of age; until that time, by fpinning and other work, he had been enabled to maintain herfelf and child, tion. Since that trying difpenfar tion of Providence, confined to her bed, and deprived of the ufe of her limbs, the had been incapacitated from doing any thing for herfelf, and having no money to pay another, her fou, at that early age, trufting to the Divine bleffing, took the noble refolution, by the labour of his own hands, to relieve the wants, and alleviate the diftreffes of his afflicted parent. A female neighbour occafionally called in to perform fome kind offices; but her chief comfort and fupport arofe from the filial affection and unremitted attention of her fon. He immediately procured fuch work as his juvenile years admitted of, in the Ofnaburg manufactory at Dundee; and, after cleaning the room in which they dwelt, getting ready their breakfaft, and making his mother comfortable for the day, he left her every morning with a fmiling countenance, to attend the labours of the loom; and returned in the evening with his well-earned pittance, to enjoy a cheerful meal with his beloved parent. And thus,. for the fpace of five years, have the revolving days fucceeded each other. But this is not all; his mother could not read; the child, by her affiduity, had acquired that advaptage: he had not indeed read the claffics, nor ftudied in the fchools of philofophy; but he had perused the facred Scriptures, and knew the truth as it is in Jefus; he had tafted the fpiritual bread, and drawn water from the wells of falvation. In the midft of apparent poverty, he had found durable riches; and although furrounded by outward ditreffes, he had a heart-felt experience that the ways of Religion are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths, paths of peace! Reflecting, therefore, on the many hours he was under the neceflity of leaving his mother alone and unemployed, and defirous that the alfo fhould participate in the fupe |