sion for splendour, with an inadequate income to support it; and when the polished, phæton, or smart landau with corresponding livery, &c. takes place of the onehorse shay or gig, farewell to peace and punctuality. The tradesman and merchant may go neglected till his patience becomes exhausted. But pride will have a fall; and that dame who cannot go to church if a horse be lame, or if a pin be lost in the shandrydan, lest the sun visit her too hotly, (gentle and adorable and religious creature,) must soon, I guess, walk to church, if she remain religious, whether horses be sick or carriages be sound. If ever I marry, I hope Sathan will never lead into such a temptation, WILL SINGLETON.

THE WAY TO MAKE MONEY PLENTIFUL IN EVERY MAN'S POCKET.

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At this time, when the general complaint is that I money is scarce," it will be an act of kindness to inform the moneyless how they may reinforce their pockets. I will acquaint them with the true secret of money-catching. The certain way to fill empty purses, and how to keep them always full; two simple rules, well observed, wil, do the business.

1st. Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions; and,

2dly. Spend one penny less than thy clear gains,

Then shall thy hide-bound pocket soon begin to thrive, and will never again cry with empty belly-ache; neither will creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor nakedness freeze thee. The whole hemisphere will shine brighter, and pleasure spring up in every corner of thy heart. Now, therefore, embrace these rules, and be happy. Banish the bleak winds of sorrow from thy mind, and live independent. Then shalt thou be a man, and not hide thy face at the approach of the rich, nor suffer the pain of feeling little when the sons of fortune walk at thy right hand; for independency, whether with little or much, is good fortune, and placeth thee on even ground with the proudest of the golden fleece. Oh, then, be wise, and let industry walk with thee in the morning, and accompany thee until thou reachest the evening hour for rest. Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul, and never forget to have a penny when all thy expences are enumerated and paid; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse, because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.

The House-keeper's Guide.

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This Gossip could receipts detail,

For Beauty's face, or Autumn ale.''

Chatterton

DIRECTIONS TO MAKE LEAVENED BREAD.

Save two pounds of dough from the last baking, cover it with flour, and keep it in a little flower barrel; the night before you intend to bake, put the dough or leaven into a peck of flour, and work them well together with warm water; let it lie in a dry wooden vessel in a warm place, covered with a linen cloth, and a blanket over the cloth; if the dough is kept warm, it will be sufficiently fermented by the next morning to mix with two or three bushels of flour. Work it up with warm water, and a pound of salt to each bushel. When well worked, and thoroughly mixed with all the flour, let it be covered with the linen and blanket till it rises; then knead it well, and work it up into loaves and bricks; make the loaves broad, and not so thick and high as for yeast bread; bake them carefully in an oven the more leaven there is put to the flour, the lighter the bread will be.

Yeast.-There cannot be lighter bread than in France and Italy, and they have no yeast there, because they brew no ale or beer. A lady, who had a family, and had lived two years in Italy, said, they merely put a bit of leaven in, and worked the bread a long while, which is the cause of its being light.—I think she said three-quarters of an hour, but am not certain.

Remedy for Tainted Meat.-Salted bacon, and unsalted beef and mutton, and other kinds of animal food, when too long kept, or improperly cured, so as to be tainted with putridity, may be perfectly recovered, or rendered quite sweet, by being buried in fresh earth for a few days.

Cheap Dinner.-In the year 1752, a dinner was provided by John Harvey, Esq. at Wexford, for Colonel Tottenham, M. P. Cæsar, Colclough, M. P. and John ̋ Grogan, Esqrs. the expense of which was only eleven pence half penny, viz.—a cod, three pence; a widgeon, threepence; two pair of pigeons, threepence; and a pair of rabbits, twopence halfpenny.

Rheumatism.-A young man who resides in the neighbourhood of this city was, for some time, so severely afflicted with the rheumatism, that he was under the necessity of having recourse to the use ofcrutches: he was recommended to apply young nettles to the parts affected; and after continuing the use of them three or four times a day, for three days, he was completely cured.-Carlisle Journal.

The Cornwall Correspondent.

The Estates in this neighbourhood in general have already commenced crop with prospects of good returns, even exceeding their expectations from the late heavy rains, which at this season of the year is supposed to impoverish the juice of the canes; and we sincerely hope, that the favourable crop weather already commenced may continue, and that the returns may answer the most sanguine wishes of the planters, on whose success the prosperity of the country altogether depends.

The Lord Bishop, on his return from Montego Bay, arrived here on Tuesday last, and on Ash-Wednesday, delivered, in the church here a sermon appropriated for the occasion. His Lordship left Falmouth on the same day. We understand that he returns in November, and that, in the meantime, he has recommended the formation of a Sunday School, for which funds are vested in his Lordship's hands.

How to be considered a very civil sort of a man.-If you expect a favour from a great man, be extremely complaisant, good natured and boo as gracefully as you are able. Never contradict him, even though you hear him embellish a little-he may be a man of genius and learning; besides it would be most impertinent in you to be a better judge of truth than him. If he has a friend that may pop in (another great man,) and any thing intended for funny happen to be said by either, comport yourself as an attentive man (as Lord Chester) field advises attention) and seem vastly pleased. These general principles obtained, you will soon learn the rest, and you will pass for a very civil kind of a good sort of a decently disposed man.

Bied,

In this parisb-At Belmont estate, on the 1st instant, George Innes Gunn, M. D.-At Montego-bay, on Saturday, the 4th inst. after an illness of twenty-four hours, Jacob P. Corinaldi, Esq. an old inhabitant, leaving a disconsolate widow and nine children to lament their irreparable loss.

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THE description of the features, temper, and qualifications of character is not very dissimilar to that of the description of the symptoms of disease, and creates in the mind of some readers an imaginary identity with all of them. So that the reader of the Gossip, like the un-medical reader of Buchan's Domestic Medicine, must not for a moment apply the qualities of my Gossips, nor allow the obtrusive impertinence of any one to apply them for him, under the penalty of being dubbed a greater Gossip then they.

Some men obtain their characters pure and unmixed from nature, others are so disguised by an ha

bitual hypocrisy, or affectation, that the pristine traits are almost obliterated. Such is not the subject of our present sketch, Captain Caleb Croak, a skilful mariner, and by no means a bad man. He says he is descended from an ancient family of that name; but the Croaks and Croakers, a collateral branch of the same tree, are every where so abundant, that it is difficult to trace the tree, or family, to its root. His views, however, even in our cloudless climate, are seldom painted in the most brilliant colours. In fact he has a strong propensity for the dismal. In the morning he makes his voyage through the archipelago of houses in our town, and being a 'good portly man' and fat with melancholy, he respires and wheezes like a turtle removed from his element. Every day brings some dismal novelty upon him, and he takes pet, and will be uncomfortable with himself. He is addicted to grumble aloud his vexations, and when men laugh, he becomes displeased to see them merry, and wonders what they can find to laugh at. Sometimes an overexcitation will draw his lips into a smile, which is followed immediately by a bailiff grin and growl that brings him into his old temperament again. He will tell you that hospitality has fled the land; that men are not men now; that the country is going fast to ruin; that there is nothing doing now; that twenty years ago there was something doing; but the most woful complaint of all is-that there is a paucity of that "yellow, glittering, precious ore!"

"That makes the wappened widow wed again; thus having fallen out with the world he girds* at them, by comparing the fancied happier days of our fathers, To gird, is to sneer at, or scorn any one. Falstaff says.men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me."-Henry IV. P. 2