in danger, and make a merit of an abftinence, which in them is no longer meritorious. Like nuns, they are defirous that every women fhould renounce those pleasures of which they are deprived, that all women fhould live fingle; and they extol a fingle life:-but the farcafms which they throw on the other fex are a proof how feverely they feel the ftings of difappointment. That monfter man is the conftant object of their thoughts; and their conftant fiudy feems to be to repay by flander his neglect of their charms. Cleora's governefs was one of the fevereft of the filterhood. She had early in life met with a misfortune in love: fame had been bufy with her character; her fuitors left her; her matri monial hopes difappeared; and, in order to draw fome degree of respect, fhe affumed the character of a voluntary veftal. From this pretended man-hater Cleora received the rudiments of that education, which threw a cloud over her rifing years, and afterwards involved her in vice and folly. What a warning to the inftructors of the fex! Cleora had only attained her fifteenth year, when her aunt died, and left her a fortune of twenty thousand pounds. She now became the ward of an uncle, who lived in a manner little lefs retired, and whose character was fcarcely lefs fevere. He had three fons and one daughter. The youngest fon, a youth about eigh teen, and intended for the church, was at home when Cleora came to refide with his father. He was almoft the only young man that she could say she had been in company with ;-and yet, alarmed as fhe was by the admonitions of her aunt, fhe faw fomething in him that led her to make a companion of him. He was glad to find fo agreeable a relaxation from his books, (of which he was very fond) as the company of his fair coufin; and as the expreffed a defire to learn, he took a pleasure in teaching her all that he knew. Charmed with fo much gentleness and condefcenfion, things to which the was little accustomed, Cleora began to think, and not without reason, that all the leffons of her aunt were not worth one of the young divine's ;-nay, fhe began to think all that had been told her was a Jie. "How can I be afraid," said the to herself," of a perfon, who never addreffes me but in the fofteft voice; who never approaches me but with respect; and who trembles when he touches my hand?-My aunt has known nothing of men, or wanted to deceive me.-She was afraid that I fhould leave her-little wonder," (laughing)" and run away with the firtt fweet fellow I faw." Such were Cleora's reflections; and the might fafely have indulged them along with her young preceptor, who was a youth of honour and principle; but he returned to the university as foon as the vacation ended, and was fucceeded by his brother the Templer.-A few days made the cousins acquainted; a few more made them familiar; and a few weeks brought Cleora's virtue to the precipice. But, alas! fhe was not fenfible of it. "He is warm," faid her inexperienced heart," but I have nothing to fear. He kneels and kiffes my hand, and he would kifs my foot if I should defire him. What a fool was my aunt to be afraid of the men! they are the most pleasant and harmless creatures in the world." Cleora, however, foon found reason to think otherwife, if fhe thought at all. The Templer eafily triumphed over her mifguided virtue, and carried her down to Scotland, as the only method of at once fecuring her fortune and her character. They were married, and returned to London; where the Templer met with his old miftreffes, and Cleora with new gallants.—She had married the man who had abused her confidence:-fhe faw little harm in abufing his; and ftill lefs in following his example. twenty thousand pounds were diffipated in a few years; and the deluded couple experienced a variety of neceffities, and were guilty of many meanneffes. At laft the young counfellor, roufed to a fenfe of his difhonour, fet out for India, in order to push his fortune; and Cleora now pushes hers in town, in a way too infamous to be named. The If the two fexes were taught to view each other in a truer light; if they were made sensible, that their virtues and vices are nearly the fame; that their talents, making allowance for the difference of education, are much alike; that their paffions are their most powerful feducers, and their weakneffes their greateft betrayers, they would fee lefs reafon for reciprocal reproaches. If they were alfo made fenfible that felf knowledge, that the ftudy of the human heart is the most valuable science, diffidence the best guardian, and mutual respect the road to mutual happiness, love would weep over fewer misfortunes, beauty would find lefs cause to mourn, and the joys of Hymen would be more lafting and fin cere. The The Prudent Wife. A Moral Tale. PR RUDENCE is a refpectable quality in either fex, and highly meritorious in a woman, even where it concerns herfelf only; how truly valuable muft it then be in a wife, whofe concerns are one with thofe of her husband! whofe moderation, forbearance, and felf-command, are effential to matrimonial felicity! Mr. Underwood, an eminent country attorney, and now a man of confiderable property, married at an early period of life; and contrary to the practice of moft gentlemen of his profeffion, married without any views of intereft. His wife was his choice, equally in regard to the qualities of mind and perfon; the was at once his mistress and his companion. They lived happily for many years, and faw their children, the remembrancers of their paft joys, and the fource of prefent fatisfaction, fmiling around them, without being fenfible of any coldness on either fide. Such a condition is of all others perhaps molt to be envied: it unites the highest real pleasures with the most pleafing visions of future felicity; the raptu rous feeling of virtuous love, the gladning emotions of a parent's heart, the elevating hopes of honour and confequence in the pledges of a tender affecnon-And fuch feemed to be the lot of Mr. Underwood and his wife, when the bewitching charms of a nursery-maid had almoft blated their whole harvest of happinefs. The girl was affuredly handsome, and the knew it: he was alfo young, blooming, full of paffions, and void of principle. Mr. Underwood, who was of a jocular humour, and had frequently occafion to chat with Polly about his children, accidentally paid her a compliment upon her perfon The manner in which fhe took it furprized him. Her pride was flattered. He was tempted to repeat it, accompanied with certain liberties, which did not feem to difpleale. Her downcaft eyes but imperfectly con cealed the wiflies of her guilty bofom. He pushed his advantage ani fucceeded. She feemed happy to be thought worthy of the fame favours with her mifirefs. From this moment of infidelity Mr. Underwood neglected his virtuous confort; and though the ftill held the firft place in his affection, he was left to prefs her lonely pillow, whilft he fat up, ader pretence of business, and ftole to ly's bed, which was in 2 chamber ad joining to his office. He could not disturb Mrs. Underwood, he faid, at the hours convenient for him to retire; he therefore ordered a feparate bed to be prepared for himfelf; and if ever he visited his wife's bed, it was always towards morning. Mrs. Underwood bore this neglect for fome time with great good humour; and as her husband fill treated her with refpect, the infolence of the rival maid was the first thing that awakened her jealou fy, by alarming her pride. She wifely however concealed her fufpicions, till the had full proof of their justice; and even then the concealed them: an example of rare and exemplary prudence, and very remarkable in a woman. The night that Mrs. Underwood received the infult from her maid, fhe took a candle, at a late hour, and went to the girl's bed-chamber, where he found her hufband and his favourite, clasped in each other's arms, and both afleep. She had almost fainted at the fight; but, afhamed of her weakness, the recalled her fpirits, recollected herself, and took the bracelet which fhe ufually wore from her arm, and tied it round her husband's. He ftill flept, and the retired without obfervation. Next morning, when Mr. Underwood came to break faft, he feemed in much agitation of mind: he wished to speak out, but was at a lofs what to say. She faw his embarrassment, but did not attempt to relieve him from it. At laft he faid, with as much ease as he could affect, My dear, I have got fomething of yours, I find, though by what means I cannot tell. If it came by your hand, 'twas very kind to take fo gentle a method of reminding me of my duty.-The caufe of your uneafiness shall be speedily removed.” "By no means," replied the, "I have rather occafion to beg your pardon for my intrufion: it is but reasonable that you should please yourself in your companions; but I could not help indirectly telling you, that if my image has no longer any place in your bofom, it is improper that your's fhould adorn my arm. Love must be mutual or nothing. "For heaven's fake,"-cried he fpare me! and let the wanton be immediately difmiffed." No, Sir," replied the: "I muft keep her, till I learn whether the or I have the strongest hold of that heart, after you have been acquainted with us both; and fhould I difcover it to be her, I will walk walk out. You fhall never find me a bar in the way of your happiness. Befides," continued fhe, perceiving his emotion too great for words, "it would be an injury to the girl to expofe her by fo precipitant a flep, and a cruel mortification to me, to have it faid, that I have been fo had a wife as to lofe the affections of my husband, before I can either plead age or infirmities as an apology." Mr. Underwood fell on his knees, and bathed his wife's hands with his tears, again begging that he might no more fee the shameless accomplice in his guilt. on. "You fhall not, my dear," faid fhe, "fince you appear fo truly penitent.-I will take the chance of your reformatiBut before I remove her, which fhall be as foon as prudence will permit, you must provide her with a maintenance for life, as we cannot give her a character that will introduce her into any other family; and I cannot bear to think that the woman who has fhared your embraces fhould ever want." He agreed to fo humane and generous a propofal: the girl was removed; and Mrs. Underwood continues to enjoy the undivided affections of her husband, as the reward of her moderation and prudence; whereas, if, like too many loving fpoufes, fhe had repaid infidelity with reproach, her husband might still have remained a wanderer, and she a neglected wife. rally either the caufe or effect of the other. This flux is not to be ftopped by aftringents, or opiates, but the sharp humours are first to be blunted by abforbent teftaceous powders, and then carried off with magnefia or rhubarb, or a little of both mixed. Then give fperma-ceti in the powder, ground with an equal quantity of white fugar or fugar candy. Aftringent drugs are here dangerous, as they flop the flux, and turn the harp humour on the nerves and noble parts; and though narcotics, or opiates, appease the ferocity of the turgent humour for a time, yet they afterwards break out with greater force: befides, opiates are too powerful for the tender conftitutions of fuch young patients, whofe folids are naturally too lax to be rendered more fo by benumbing narcotics. They fhould never be given them but in very extreme cafes, and even then with the utmost caution; but in a fever opiates cannot be given at all without great danger; what a murderous dagger has diafcordium long been then in the ftupid or lazy hands of many unthinking mothers and nurses! The best method is to give fuch patients, in fine powder, coral, crabs eyes, chalk, or the infide of oyster-fhells that have been well bleached as they lay along the fhore, about eight or twelve grains at a time, in pap or mother's milk, which will foon abate the orgasm of the vellicating humour, and that without kindling any new heat; after the re On the Difeafes incident to Infants, parti- peating of which abforbents the cure cularly the Diarrhea. MELA may be compleated with magnefia alba; a tea-fpoonful of fyrup of rhubarb ; or a few grains of its powder, from fix to ten, in a little of the folutive syrup of damask roses.. In dangerous cafes a few grains of that bark called eleuterrum, or lafcarilla, may be advantageously added, or a dram of extract of jefuits bark may be diffolved in half an ounce of mint water, or single cinnamon water, and given from one to nine drops, every three or four hours. I have cured a diarrhoea even in adults with bark when nothing elfe could do it. ELANCHOLY it is to reflect that almost one half of the human species perith in infancy, by improper management, or neglect. This confideration made me wish to be the happy inftrument of alleviating the miferies of thofe helpless and fuffering innocents, or of rescuing them from the untimely grave. No one who has not had an opportunity of obferving them, can poffibly think or imagine what abfurd and ridiculous practice till prevails in the common nurfing and management of infants, and what Externally the belly may be anointed numbers of mankind die daily by thefe with expreffed oil of nutmegs, impregpernicious practices: many of them, how-nated with carminative and ftomachic ever, are owing to ignorance. Wherefore I both with and hope that when honeft nurses are better informed they will alter their conduct; for wicked ones are not worthy employing. After the cholic in infants, in your last magazine but two, we will treat next of a diarrhea, or looseness, as it is gene oils, fuch as cinnamon, mint, and cloves, J. COOK. (To be continued). ALLING the other day on an old friend, a Spaniard, I found him at his defk, with an old manufcript fheet before him, which he faid was intended as a chapter in the firft edition of Don Quixote, but was fuppreffed on account of the reflection it might caft on the unfortunate expedition of Charles the fifth. The title of it is, Of Don Quixote's famous Scheme for fubjugating the Moors of Barbary, with Sancho's Remarks thereon. tack infidels; and I fhall offer my poor abilities to be employed in the further reduction of the great continent of Africa. I make no doubt of penetrating to the court of the great Prefter John of Ethiopia, and receiving his fubmiffion to our auguft fovereign. Why truly, Sir, faid Sancho, nothing would redound more to the honour of our Catholic king, than to fubdue that circumcifed race of Moors; which I, like a good old Chriftian, have always abhorred: and no matter whether it were done by fire and fword, or hy halters and axes, or even by caftration; the intention is "Sancho, fays Don Quixote, my con- good and praife-worthy; but I must own verfation laft night was rather founded I have my doubts. They cannot fight us upon crude materials, but the meditation at fea you fay; but the fea may fight for I made thereon, when in my bed, has them; and it is a terrible enemy, and full produced a plan which I have thoroughly of its tricks; a Chriftian has no better digefted. It is no long-winded complicated fyftem of political military arrangements; but at first fight, one may perceive the utility of the undertaking, the moral certainty of fuccefs, and the lafting glory redounding therefrom. In few words here it is: First, the Moors have no fhips of war, except a few Corfairs; but Spain has a mighty navy, the greatest of any nation; therefore we can go to them, and they cannot come to us. Secondly, the infidels have no difciplined troops. Their officers have not ftudied the arts of war; but we have a numerous body of difciplined veterans; our officers are knowing in all the arts of war; difcipline, artillery, attack and defence of places. &c. I have known one regiment of guards drive ten thousand of the rabble before them in the streets of Toledo. We have only to land thirty or forty thousand men, with a proportion of cavalry, and a large quantity of artillery on the coast of Africa. We will then lay fiege to Algiers or Tunis; of one or both, we will make military garrifons; from whence we will fend our generals to right and left, and ftraight forward to burn and deftroy all refifting, and to receive the allegiance of those who fubmit. As fast as we conquer, we fhall establish a proper fyftem of government, that Spain may be repaid all the expences of her armaments; that she may retain the Moors in a state of dependance, and that they may pay in future a certain annual tribute. No fooner faid than done, cries San cho; and pray what part will your honour take in this important bufinefs? Why, Sancho, replied the knight, it is the very quinteffence of chivalry to at chance there than an infidel. But you fay, Sir, that they are like our rabble of Toledo. Nothing more likely, or rather grant me, Sir, that Moors in Africa are like Moors in Spain, and if they get weapons in hand can do mischief; and why not? when it is well known that moft foldiers are originally rabble: infomuch that we may fay a mob is an undifciplined army, and an army is a difciplined mob. I do not pretend, like the cobler, to go beyond my laft. I am no military man, and the devil take him who invented fighting; but I have fenfe enough to fee and know, that both men and beafts fight their battles in their own way, and Moors will not fight us just as we would have them to do it, but in their own way. I never loved to push even a cat up into a corner, and if we invade Barbary, there is no fort of cunning stratagems but will be practifed against us. They are very expert at your on and off work; and when we fhall aim at the right, they will be on the left, and contrariwife, if we push forward, they will retreat, and presently be feen behind us. But we all know how long the fiege of Granada lafted; and should Algiers prove as obftinate, your honour would not dine with Prefter John for two leap years to come: nay, inftead of fumptuous fare, and receiving tributes, between the Moors on one fide, and the fea on the other, we fhould run the risk of being starved, and of all miserable deaths I dread it as the worst." Here the chapter ended, and I then afked my friend, whether he intended to put it into a new edition of Don Quixote, as a hint to his prefent Catholic majefty? At the fame time, I made feveral reflections on the prefent rage rage of his countrymen for modern crufades against the Moors: I called it Quixotifm and I know not what. Like a true Spaniard he heard me with great patience, and then replied, My good friend, how every day's experience fhews the excellency of the maxim, know thyself? How readily you could reprobate the meafures purfued by your neighbours the Spaniards! But what will you fay, you who have unthinkingly figned what is called a Tory addrefs, of your own people, the English; that nation of philofophers, as Voltaire ftiles them. Read but the chapter over again, and take this key to it. For Barbary and Africa read America; for Spain, England; for Moors, Americans; for Algiers and Grenada, Bolton, &c. Finding myfelf caught in a trap, I gave my friend a grateful embrace, and ran home immediately to communicate this to the prefs for the benefit of all imitators of Don Quixote; of which no doubt England has its fhare as well as other nations. * tended to enter any farther into the merits of this controverfy, than to adduce from the date of it, that he muft, at that time, in all probability, have been upwards of twenty years old. Sir John was originally bound apprentice to an apothecary, and at the termination of his time, entered upon the profeffion him:felf, opening a fall fhop in James's-ftreet, Covent-garden. This profeffion, however, he did not long purfue, as it did not produce a fufficiency to fupport himfelf and family *; and, miftaking his talent, he commenced actor, and firutted a bufkined hero at the Wells in May-Fair. He afterwards attempted fone characters at Covent-garden theatre, and feemed to be the most fuccefsful in those of friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet, and the fecond fpirit in Comus. Being foon convinced of his error, he quitted the boards, and found better employment in his botanical purfuits, being now employed by the late duke. of Richmond. and lord Petre in regulating their gardens, with refpect to the most curious plants. By their munificence he was Memoirs of the Life of the late Sir John enabled to travel through various parts Hill. with of the kingdom, to collect fcarce and uncommon THIS genteman, who might priced this journey with fuccef, he propofed nomenon in literature, lately departed this life, and was, perhaps, one of the moft voluminous writers that this, or perhaps any other age has produced; yet upon an examination of his works, it will plainly appear that he has juft inverted the fentiment of Horace, which may thus be tranflated: I not for vulgar admiration write: To be well read, not much, is my delight. Sir John was the fecond fon of Mr. Theophilus Hill, a clergyman, who was alfo a profeffor of phyfic, and refided at Peterborough. Our author must have been born about the year 1717, the writer of this article having heard Sir John fay, he was nearly of the fame age as Mr. Garrick. Another circumftance corroborates this opinion: in the year 1740, he engaged in a controverfy with the late Mr. Rich, concerning an opera the doctor produced, under the title of Orpheus and Euridice, which Mr. Rich, after perufing, rejected, and brought out, foon after, his celebrated pantomime with the fame name, which made Mr. Hill fufpect he had borrowed the hint from him, though in fact the matter was quite different. It is not inAppendix, 1775 publifhing by fubfcription, a defcription of the plants he had collected. The publication of his propofals introduced him to the acquaintance of Martin Folkes, Efq; then prefident of the Royal Society, and feveral other members, and gentlemen of eminence in literature. By their introduction, he was admitted into almost every literary fociety, and greatly carefied by them. He was, nevertheless, not yet in affluent circumftances, having always the ambition of making a genteel appearance in public, though it is to be feared, in private, the neceffaries of life were fometimes unprovided for. About the year 1746, he was appointed apothecary to a regiment in the Savoy, which alleviating his diftreffes, he had leifure to apply himfelf to the tranflation of a fmall Greek tract upon ftones and gems, from Theophrastus, which did him great honour in the literary world; and the bookfellers became very defirous of employing him in their fervice. He now commenced author at large, and engaged in a number of voNOT E. He married the daughter of Mr. Tauver, fteward to the late earl of Bur lington. luminous Kkkkk |