The GUILLOTINE: A FRAGMENT. By the Author of " ESSAYS AFTER THE MANNER OF GOLDSMITH."

I WAS Croffing la rue de Vernueil with a fmall fprig of myrtle in my hand:Je vous prie m'en donner," cried a little garçon citoyen, as I was turning round the corner.

"Phaw!" faid I.

The poor boy hung down his head. I had not gone ten paces before I began to reafon and deliberate, and expoftulate with myself on the subject.

"You might have anfwered him kindly," whispered Good Nature."You might have topt a moment," cried Regret.-"You might have given him a fmall fprig," said Liberality.— "You are not a jot better than that poor boy," cried Humility.-"Phaw! nonfenfe!" answered Fretfulness.. "A poor foolish boy," interrupted Pride. "You had not much to fpare, faid Meannefs." Let him go." cried Indifference; "he wou'dn't have played with it five minutes."-"Yes, -he would have danced, and fkipt, and capered, and have fung Vive le Roi !la Republique !—l'Empereur I should say, with his playfellows, and have been as happy as a prince."

The comparison was unlucky, but it ferved to touch the chord of fympathy.

Merciful Providence! how doft thou by thy foltering hand, and fome little hpfe of time, heal the wounds which the ftabs of anarchy and revolution have made!

The boy don't care a fig about the matter, much lefs about a bit of myrtle. Thou art but a bad grammarian, not

No modification, no tranfpofition, no combination, can give fweetness to them: try all manner of ways, and it all won't do. They are barbarous, and unfonorous.

"I have hit it," faid I.

"I hate the French; they are cruel, difloyal, fantastic, inconfequential people."

"The poor boy can't help that." "It won't do," faid I; "walk away as fast as you can."

"You are only getting from bad to worse."

"It was nothing in the world but ill nature."

Whether the poor garçon had turned to the right, or to the left, or up fome ruelle, I can't fay; but by fome chance or other it happened that he stood right before me again.

I thought that he leered wiftfully at the myrtle. I looked him full in the face: he was a rofy cheeked boy, with fine dark eyes, and a brown complexion. I thought I faw fiertè in his features.

"This," faid 1, "is a little Robefpierre.

“Aimez-vous l'Empereur ?" said I to

him.

guinary monsters! Bafe, faithlefs, deceitful French! enemies of the universe and of yourselves! Savages, who offer up your fathers, your brothers, your countrymen, for fhow and pattime. If it was liberty you wanted,

The poor boy locked up in my face"If it was liberty you wanted, you might have fought her in the juft affurances of morals, of purer manners, of your religion. They would have required no horrid facrifices; and would by degrees have changed the bitter dregs of pride and oppreflion into the fweetness of fellowship and brotherhood. The Almighty loves not that we should fhed blood, nor can any po licy justify it to the mind of reafon and humanity."

I found that I had hurried with the lalt fentences of my apoftrophe to within a few doors of my lodging. I had kept fait hold of the poor boy's hand all the way.

"Vous êtes Anglois, Monfieur !" cried the boy, quite pleafed.

"Oui, ma foi!" returned I;

fonnier auf."

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The poor boy fhrugged up his fhoul

ders.

"Je n'ai plus de mauvais humeur, mon enfant," faid I: but I would not have you think, child, that an Englishman, because he is rough and uncourtly in his manners, does not carry a little humanity in his breaft to fpare to the wretched and unhappy of any country. Venez, déjeuner, mon enfant," faid I, pulling him up flairs by the arm, "and we will talk this matter over."

I would not at this moment have changed places with an EMPEROR!

EPITAPH on EDWARD GIBRON, the

HISTORIAN.
By Dr. PARR.

EDUARDUS GIBBON,

Criticus, acri ingenio, et multiplici do&rinâ ornatus,

Idemque hiftoricorum qui fortunam Imperii Romani,

Vel labentis et inclinati, vel everfi et funditùs deleti Literis mandârunt

Omnium facile princeps, Cujus in moribus erat moderatio animi Cuin liberati quâdam fpecie conjun Sta. In fermone

Multà gravitate comitas fuaviter ad fperia;

HIS is a very ancient castle in the THIS Idle of Portland, in form of a pentagon full of finall loop holes, fituate a little to the Eaft of the old church, and fifty feps of ftone above it. The foundation of it was much above the top of the tower of the church, and must have been impregnable before the invention of ordnance. It has been vulgarly called Rufus's Cafle, perhaps because built by him. Robert Earl of Glou celter, in 1142, tock it from King Stephen for the Emprefs Maud.-Hutchins's Dorfetfhire, Vol. I.

VESTIGES,

VESTIGES, collected and recollected. By JOSEPH MOSER, Efq. No. XXXII.

ALICE, DUTCHESS DUDLEY.

IT. was a habit not peculiar to Dr. Johnfon or Dr. Goldsmith, (though many muft have observed that they were much addicted to it,) that when either of them took up a book, they glanced first perhaps on the title, then certainly at the conclufion, and then, with a view, it is imagined, to make both ends meet, they did what the learned term dipping; by which means they collected a number of disjointed hints and fentences. So that the belt connected work muft, in the minds of thofe Gentlemen, have been rendered a mifcellanv.

A mifcellany then, I think, we may fairly infer, was the delight of thefe truly excellent writers; which inference is ftill further corroborated and confirmed by a reference to the number of detached pieces which they have each of them published, diffimilar in their ideas, manner, and fubjects; many of the hints of which it is fuppofed were under the guidance of genius and talte, and, by keeping nature in view, collected in this mode of defultory reading.

Upon this general principle, feveral of the faint outlines of the fubjects which more accurate refearch have enabled me to fill up, have been delineated for thefe veftiges. Others, have had their origin in tradition and while a third fpecies exhibit the emanations of comparison, a fourth, which the reader will easily difcriminate, are the offspring of fancy.

Among thofe that reft upon the firm bafis of history, or unquestionable tradition, none, it does icem, have met with more fuccefs than the biographical anecdotes, and their elucidatory notes, which are dispersed through this work; therefore it may fairly be prefumed, that the continuance of them requires but little apology. Biographical traits are always read with pleasure, for many reafons. I hope the beit is, that from them, in most instances, may be made fome useful deduction.

This propofition will appear fo obvious in the notice of the fair and noble Lady that is the fubject of this veitige, that if ever an introduction to a character might have been fpared, it is in this cafe; therefore the only excufe that can

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be made for it is, a wifh to impress upon the mind of the reader the importance of example, and, at the fame time, calt a flight retrospective glance at the tyf tem in which many fuch anecdotes is introduced.

This pious and benevolent Lady was the third daughter of Sir Thomas Leigh, Bart. of Stonely, in Warwick thire: her mother was Catherine, daughter of Sir John Spencer, of Wormleighton, Kat. and great-grandfather to the Earl of Sunderland. She was married to Sir Robert Dudley, Knt. natural fon to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who for his great merit was created a Duke by Ferdinand the IId, Emperor of Germany She furvived her husband many years; and was, by letters patent bearing date 20th May, 20 Car. I, advanced to the title of a Dutchefs: fo that it appears fingular the did not take the title of her husband. She had, it appears, five daughters, and lived to the very advanced age of ninety. She died at her house in St. Giles in the Fields *, and was buried in the church of Stonely †, in Warwick thire, in which parith the was born.

Lyfons fays, that it does not appear whether the refided at Acton, or what connexion the had with that parith. That the had fome connexion with the parish of Acton is certain, by her having bestowed on the church a donation of plate; but there is no reason, at least there appears none from any veftiges that can be traced, to believe it arofe from refidence, because it is upon record, that her bounty, which was as extentive as her riches, mult

It is most probable, that this houfe, upon the fite of which Dudley-court and part of Denmark-itreet were erected, was in an oblique direction fronting the ancient church of St. Giles. This church, as appears by the oldet plans, stood in a different direction from the prefent.

In this place, which is near Warwick, King Henry the IId founded a fmall abbey, oppofite to which, on the bank of the Avon, ftood a caitle, called Stonely Holme, in Holme Hull, which has been rendered remarkable by being the fcene of peculiar cruelty and devafta tion, when England was fo milerably harraffed and overrun by the Danes, under Canute.

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