Sir Henry Moreton is fo unfashionable as to dare to moralize.-Temptation is dangerous when a lovely female terflies. A profitable patient to phy- ficians.-A money-lender, who battens THE honourable Mr. Pellet, who entertained a real affection for his coufin, determined to pay her a vifit, and declare his intentions of offering herhis hand and fortune. He concluded this as a matter already granted, and that he had but to make known his fuit; and he was confident that his coufin, beautiful as fhe was, could not withstand his charms. As he furveyed himself in a glass the morning he determined to call on her and declare his paffion, he uttered the following foliloquy : "Emma's too fine a girl to remain fingle. Who must she marry then? Why the matter is obvious; the argument runs thus: Emma is fingle; fingle women may be courted, and their confent won if followed with perfeverance. I intend to court Emma, and to perfevere until I gain her confent; ergo, I must be married to my cousin Emma, who is a fingle woman; cadit argumentum, rectè refpondifti." Excellent logician! He had forgotten, however, how fuperior truth is to all the jargon of logic, and that the lady could fet afide his arguments by a fingle negative: but when he caft down a look on his fashionable buckskin breeches, his waistcoat about twelve inches in length, and his elegant coat, he confidered the cafe as abfolutely certain, imagining that the match was agreed upon, that the bride-clothes were befpoken, and only dreading the fatigue of the ceremony |