and looking like a dragon." And pray, Sir, what bufinefs have fuch a one as you to think you fee?"" And pray, ma'am, will you be pleafed to speak perhaps, ma'am, he'il`condescend to obey you ma'am, will you be pleased to forbid him my dairy-for here he comes prying and fpying about-and how, ma'am, am I to anfwer for my butter and cream, or any thing at all?-I'm fure it's what I can't pretend to, unless you do me the justice to forbid him my places." Mrs Pomfret, whofe eyes were blinded by her prejudices againft the folks of the Villaintropic Society, and allo by her fecret jealouty of a boy whom the deemed to be a growing favourite of her miftrefs's, took part with the cook, and ended, as fhe began, with a firm persua fion that Franklin was the guilty perfon. "Let him alone, let him alone!" faid The ; " he has as many turns and windings as a hare; but we fhall catch him yet, I'll be bound, in fome of his doublings. I knew the nature of him well enough, from the first time I ever fet my him; but mistress shall have her own way, and fee the end of it." eyes upon Thefe words, and the bitter fenfe of injuftice, drew tears at length faft down the proud cheek of Franklin, which might poffibly have touched Mrs Pomfret, if Felix, with a fneer, had not called them crocodile tears. "Felix too!" thought he, "this is too much." In fact, Felix had till now profeffed himself his firm ally, and had on his part received from Franklin unequivocal proofs of friendship; for it muit be told, that every other morning, when it was Felix's turn to get breakfast, Felix never was up in decent time, and must inevitably have come to public difgrace, if Franklin had not got all the breakfast things ready for him, the bread and butter spread and the toast toafted; and had not moreover regularly, when the clock ftruck eight, and Mrs Pomfret's foot was heard overhead, ran to call the fleeping Felix, and helped him conftantly through the hurry of getting dreffed one inftant before the housekeeper came down ftairs. All this could not but be prefent to his memory; but, fcorning to reproach him, Franklin wiped away his crocodile tears, and preferved a magnanimous filence. To be continued. * Sir William Jones, the author of many valuable papers in the "Afiatic Refearches," published a volume of Eaftern Poems before he vifited the East. In 1784 he was appointed chief judge in India, with an annual falary of 8ocol. In 1794 he died, and left behind him a fortune of 60,000l. In India he paffed his life as an economist and a philofopher. The poems alluded to in the text are not thofe publifhed in the Afiatic Mifcellany, printed at Calcutta, but poems confifting chiefly of translations from the Afiatic language, which poffefs much true poetry. Rogers, the ingenious author of the "Pleafures of Memory," is a banker, as was his father. The poem is printed in an elegant and expenfive form; and, having paffed through eight editions, muft be supposed to poffefs no fmall portion of the public favour. The celebrated Grecian, a learned and benevolent man, editor of Gulielmi Bellendeni de Statu libri tres. Of a perfon who has been fo induftriously and fuccessfully employed in the education of youth as Dr Parr, I cannot allow myself to fpeak as a modern fatirift; “In nullum reipublicæ ufum ambitiofâ loquelâ inclaruit." In the early part of life, the Doctor was fecond mafter at Harrow school; in a subsequent period, he conducted, with great reputation, a claffical school at Norwich he now refides, not overburthened with preferment, in the neighbourhood of Warwick; and, were he unknown as a man of letters, he might be beloved as a friend to the diftreffed. * Dr Aikin, an ingenious and induftrious writer, has published works on topography, fuch as the " Hiftory of Manchefter," &c. and the "Calendar of Nature:" he is likewife the author of a volume of poems, as well as editor of fome of our English poets. † Dr George Gregory, prebendary of St Paul's. A prebend in this cathedral is little more than a feather in the cap. Dr Gregory is the tranflator of Bp. Lowth's "Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews," biographer of Chatterton, and author of a philofophical work, in three volumes, intituled," the Economy of Nature." In the laft work, the learned Dr makes the following declaration: "I never yet have been enabled to gain, by the exercise of my profeffion, a livelihood for myfelf and family." Alludes to the cafe of the Licentiates and College of Phyficians. Rich. Porfon, a celebrated philologift, and critic in Grecian literature; whose abilities, fuch as dread the feverity of his criticifm, no less than such as admire the independence of his character, are equally forward to compliment. Porfon is Greek Profeffor in the Univerfity of Cambridge. But what is the amount of the Greek profefforfhip-Forty pounds a year !!! Dr Geddes, an eminent linguift, and author of "A New Tranflation of the Bible," now carrying on, is a Catholic clergyman; though, as the Doctor expreffes himfelf" Catholic only abfolute; Roman Catholic, fecundum quid. ** William Frend, fellow and late tutor of Jefus College, Cambridge, author of fome theological and political tracts, and of a “ Treatise on Algebra," lately publifhed, a perfon confpicuous at Cambridge as a man of learning, and allowed by all to poff is that character. What then? He embraces fuppofed heretical opinions; he ventures to circulate them in the Univerfity of Cambridge; in confequence of which, he is firft ejected from the tuition of Jefus College (worth about 300l. a year) and afterwards from the very bofom of Alma Mater ; and he is compelled to leave her, crying out, "A cruel mother haft thou been unto me."-William Frend now gives lectures on mathematics. + Gilbert Wakefield, the learned author of numerous publications, theological, controverfial, political, and critical; editor alfo of elegant editions of fome of the Greek and Latin claffics. The prefaces are, many of them, composed in a ftrain of fatirical remonftrance, and of serious complaint, reprefenting the prefent times as not peculiarly favourable to claffical literature. Thomas Northmore, editor of Tryphiodorus, tranflator of Plutarch's incom. parable treatife on the Diftinction between a Flatterer and a Friend, and author of fome anonymous publications, is a man of fortune. Thomas Maurice, the ingenious author of “ Indian Antiquities,” and of the "Hiftory of Indoftan." Thefe volumes call in the aid of the Eaftern aftronomy, to confirm the Mosaic records; amidst investigations more recondite, and discove ries more important, they trace the analogies between the triangle, the numen triplex of the Egyptians, and the doctrine of the Trinity. The above fplendid and expenfive publications have, it is faid, involved the author in the res augufta domi. *Thomas Taylor, the indefatigable tranflator of many of the Greek writers, particularly Paufanias's Hiftory, Proclus's Commentary, the Orphic Hymns, &c. On the mention of Sydenham's name, every friend to humanity will drop a tear. At the clofe of life, this learned and uteful man was involved in the greatest difficulties, an acquaintance with which excited the fympathies of fome literary, benevolent men, and gave birth to that excellent inflitution, established for the purpofe of relieving authors in diftrefs, intituled, The Literary Fund. That is, with his own proper fire, and the fire of the other planets. JOHN AND JOAN. A TALE. From Peter Pindar's Ode to the Livery of London. HAIL "AIL, wedded love! the bard thy beauty hails! Tho' mix'd, at times, with cock and henlike Spurrings; But calms are very pleasant after gales, And dove-like Peace much fweeter after warrings. I've written-I forget the page indeed, But folks may find it, if they choose to read "That marriage is too fweet without some four "Variety oft recommends a flow'r. "Wedlock fhould be like punch, fome fweet, fome acid; “Then life is nicely turbulent and placid. "A picture that is all in light"Lord, what a thing! a very fright! "No, let fome darkness be display'd; "And learn to balance well with hade." John married Joan-they frown'd, they fmil'd; Now parted, and now made a child; Now tepid fhow'rs of love, now chilling Snows; Much like the feasons of the year; Or like a brook, now thick now clear; Now fcarce a rill, and now a torrent flows. One day they had a defperate quarrel, About a little fmall-beer barrel, Without John's knowledge flily tapp'd by Joan; For Joan t'oblige her old friend Hodge, Thought afking leave of John was fudge; And fo the wifely left the leave alone. It happ'd that John and Joan had not two beds To reft their angry, frowning brace of heads; Ergo there was but one To reft their gentle jaws upon. I'll have a board between us,' cried the "Who this fame wondrous board compofe? "There are not wifer fellows than mySelf." To give the Devil his due, While Pitt harangues on France and Spain, A fly, a toad, a tadpole's tail: Sir Jofeph's on a weed and fnail! On what may lift us from the bog; The knight his head for flea traps rakes, Or loufe-traps, or deep-ftudying makes A pair of breeches for a frog *. While Majefty and his wife nobles bles, PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE EIGHTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF THIS GREAT BRITAIN. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Bank Indemnity Bill. HIS Bill being recommitted to a Committee of the whole Houfe, the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved for the introduction of a claufe, to make Bank notes a legal payment to the Collectors in every department of the public revenue. The claufe was received, and read a first and second time. The Chancellor of the Exchequer then ftated, that he had to propose another claufe of much more importance, and which related to the commercial intercourse of individuals. At prefent, however competent perfons might be to the payment of their debts, they were liable to be arrefted if they were not able to make their payments in fpecie. His object was, not to make Bank notes a legal tender, but to provide that no perfon fhall be arrested, on firft procefs, who fhall tender Bank notes to the amount of his * See the works of Bonnet and Spalanzani, a pair of frog taylors, who employed a great deal of time and ingenuity in cutting out taffety breeches for the males of the little croaking nation, during their amours, in order to establish fome beautiful and delicate facts relative to impregnation. |