efs of Bedford; and Elizabeth resolved to embrace fuch a favourable opportu .nity of obtaining fome grace from this gallant monarch. Accordingly the came into his presence, and throwing herself at his feet, implored a maintenance for herfelf and children. The fight of fo much beauty in diftrefs made a deep impreffion upon the amorous mind of Edward: love ftole infenfibly into his heart under the guife of compaffion, from which, in its first emotions, it is not very different; and her forrow and affliction so graceful in a virtuous matron, recommended her no lefs to his esteem and veneration, than her personal beauty made her the object of his affection. He raised her from the ground with affurances of favour: he found his pasfion daily ftrengthened by the company and conversation of the lovely widow; and he was foon obliged, in his turn, to become the fuppliant of the woman whom he had lately feen on her knees before him. But Elizabeth, either too virtuous to gratify his paffion in a difhonourable manner, or too fenfible not to perceive that he might eafily raife herfelt to the highest rank, obftinately refufed to grant his request; and all the entreaties, endearments, and careffes of the young and amiable Edward, were unable to bend her rigid and stubborn virtue. She plainly told him, that though the was unworthy of being his queen, the thought herfelf too good to be his concubine, and was therefore willing to remain in the humble station in which Providence had placed her. His paffion, inflamed by oppofition, and heightened by his esteem for fuch honourable fentiments, hurried him at laft beyond the bounds of reafon and prudence; and he offered to thare his throne, as well as his heart, with the woman, whose personal and mental accomplishments feemed to render her fo deferving of both. And the nuptials were fecretly folemnized at Grafton. VOL. III. From the COURT MAGAZINE. The Story of Mr. Mountain. Yo one of the most agreeable women in England, have an unabating paffion for my wife, and every reason to ima gine her fentiments are equally tender for me; there is nothing of confequence but what we continually study to oblige each other in; yet at the fame time there are a thoufand little trifles in which we are always fure to difagree; and which are not only an endless source of difquiet to ourselves, but of uneafiness to our whole family. Laft night for instance, after fupper I acquainted Nancy that a.Vintner, who owed me a hundred pound for fome Lisbons, (for you must know I am a Wine-merchant) has failed, and that there was but little probability of expecting two and fix pence from the fale of all his effects. I furthermore informed her, that I was much to blame in the affair, and that I had trufted this man contrary to the advice of an intimate friend, who was perfectly conver fant with his circumftances. My wife, instead of reprchending me for indifcretion, as the generality of her fex would have done in the fame cafe, made ufe of every argument in her power to diffipate my chagrin; told me, the most careful were unable now and then to avoid an error, and bid me confole myfelf under my lofs, by thanking Providence that I had not been a fufferer in double the fum. I was greatly charmed with this difpofition in Mrs. Moun tain, and expreffed my fenfibility of it in a manner with which the feemed infinitely pleafed. Well, after all this would you imagine, that a moft trivial circumftance fhould make us part beds for that night. My favourite liquor is a glafs of punch, and it happens to be my wife's too; making a little tift as we were alone, I happened to fquecze the pulp of the lemon into the bowl, upon 000 upon which the immediately exclaimed with fome warmth, "Lord, my dear, you have spoiled the punch,-No, my love (replied I) the pulp gives it a fine flavour, and befides you know I am very fond of it,"—" Ay, but (fays fhe) 'you are fenfible I can't abide it ;", Then, my dear, returned I, 'tis an eafy matter to avoid putting any in your `glass.” "Lord, Mr. Mountain, I have spoke to you a thoufand times about this very circumftance; I believe in my confcience you do it on purpose to give me disgust. Here we began a conteft; feverity produced feverity, till at laft I ordered a bed to be made for myself, and poor Nancy retired to her own, with her eyes fwimming in tears. For the whole night neither of us (for I judge of her by myself) had a fingle wink of fleep; we tumbled and toffed, canvaffed the matter fifty ways in our minds, and at laft concluded, like Lockit and Peachum in the Beggar's Opera, that we were both in the wrong. Yet notwithstanding all this, when we met at breakfalt but an hour ago, neither of us would condefcend to fpeak firft; we affected a resentment of countenance, that was utterly foreign to our hearts, and endeavoured to keep up the appearance of an unremitting anger, when we both of us longed to be reconciled, and had the moft paffionate inclination to be pleafed. Breakfaft was over before we exchanged a fyllable, when the fervant had left the room, I prepared to go out, and had got just to th the parlour door, when poor Nancy, unable to hold it out any longer, cried in a tone of irrefiftable foft Whenever they fee us cool towards one another, they titter and laugh, and fay the poor things will foon kifs and make it up again. "Twas no later ago than last week, that I overheard my rafcal of a coachman tell one of his fellow-fervants, that his mafter and miftrefs were nothing better than an overgrown boy and girl, and that he fancied a little of his horfe whip would be of great fervice to both of us. 'Tis very odd, that people who really love one another, and are not wholly deftitute of understanding, should give way to fuch refentment in the mereft trifles, who in the most important circumstances of life, are above feeling the fmalleft refentment, or entertaining the minutest disesteem. Many is the time, I have found fault with my wife for stirring the fire, when her spending five hundred pound has not given me the leaft uneafinefs; and many a time has the falled out with me, if in cutting up a fowl I happened to fplath ever so small a drop of gravy on the table cloth, though the has felt no difcompofure in life, if I fpoiled a rich filk, or dirtied a fine head drefs. This morning, however, we have agreed, as a means of keeping ourselves from paf. fions of this nature for the future, to fend you the foregoing account, and if it should turn out any way serviceable to others, as I hope it will, I fhall have a double reason to be pleased. From the CoURT MAGAZINE. The Defects of Education confidered. HATTING yesterday morn. gers, and will you go without speaking Cing with my old acquaintance a word: here our whole ridiculous quarrel was at an end: I turned to her with all the fondness I could poffibly affume, and held her in my arms for fome moments, while the returning the fervor of the embrace, burft into a flood of tears. Tis inconceivable to think, how contemptible these little differences have made us in the eyes of our own fervants. Ned Headstrong, his eldest fon, a lad about fifteen, happened to come into the room: as I knew he was defigned for the university, I entered into a little claffical converfation with the young gentleman, and foon discovered that he had no extraordinary turn for literature; fearing to difconcert him, I dropped the discourse, and he went about his bufinefs, as I thought, very happy happy in an opportunity of making fo early an efcape. He was no fooner gone than his father began, "Ah, my old friend, you never gave a greater inftance of difcretion in your life than in continuing unmarried: children are certain cares but very flender comforts :-the better they are, the more unceasingly folicitous we are for their welfare; and if they happen to run counter to our expectations, nothing can fill us with greater anxiety and diftrefs In fhort, the pleasure of having them is no way equal to the uneasiness of bringing them up, and tho I would not for the world part with one of my poor boys, yet I would give the world, if I had it, and was to begin life a fecond time, ne ver to have a child at all. There is Tom for inftance, whom you faw this minute, my heart is fet upon feeing him well established in the church, but the dog has fo unaccountable a hankering after the army, that I am forced to drive him to his studies, and even now, tho' he is of age to go to college, he can fcarcely conftrue me twenty lines of his Virgil without the help of Ainlworth's dictionary." When I parted with Mr. Headftrong, I could not help reflecting upon the general abfurdity which prevails among parents in providing for their children; nor avoid condemning the principal fuppofition which they adopt, that the inclination of the young people are upon all occafions to be regulated by their own; possibly nothing has ever been a greater fource of misfortune than a fuppofition of this nature; it has given birth to numberless calamities, and perhaps one half of the common miscarriages in life might entirely be placed to this account. -In former ages, where a man had children, before he ever thought of educating them to any profeflion, he always confulted the frame of their feveral difpofitions, and carefully examined the extent of their various abilities in proportion as the first were rational he indulged them and in proportion as the second were liberal or contracted, he pitched upon, thole avocations where genius had either an unlimited circuit, or was abfolutely confined. Hence, in former ages, both the fciences and the arts were more fortunately cultivated than in the prefent era, and hence our forefathers were more wife and happy than their offspring of the fucceeding generations. Every man was employed in the particular department beft adapted to his inclination and abilities, and confequently had a much greater probability of meeting with reputation and juccefs. How widely different is the conduct of the present to thofe of the past ages! A man now-a-days fcarcely provides his child with a nurse, before he talks of the profeffion to which he intends bringing him up; and without ever confidering but he may turn out the rankeft blockhead in the creation, mentions thofe avocations that require the molt confummate abilities. The plan thus chaiked out during the earliest infancy of his fon is purfued with the moft religious veneration when he advances in years, and hence it frequently happens that we fee a hero in the church, and a coward at the head of our armies; hence we thall fee a fellow not half a remove from an ideot expounding the laws upon the Bench, and meet with a man of uncommon genius at Lloyd's Coffee-houte felling a hogfhéad of tobacco or a puncheon of rum. Were we to reflect ever fo little upon this injudicious method of bringing up our children into the world, the confequences one would imagine, fhould make us a little more attentive and circumfpect. If we were to confider,that educating a fon of narrow abilities the either to the church or bar, You must not only reduce him to to the meanest fhifts for preferment, but expofe him moreover to the univeral co contempt; a reasonable man would think a fecond time before he made an abfolute choiĉe; the fame may be faid in all the other profeflions; if we bring up our chil dren to trades they are not adapted to, inftead of laying a foundation for their credit and their fortune, We only expofe ། them to poverty and disgrace; and how. ever we may be offended at their not fucceeding in life, the fault is in reality our own, who have thus laid a manacle on their hands, and utterly ftripped them of the means. But if the education of our children to profeffions which are either above or below their various capacities be lo extremely erroneous, what fhall we fay where we compel them to cultivate thofe avocations to which they are totally averfe? In the former case, perhaps, by an uncommon industry a man might fave himself from being abfolutely delpi 'cable; or give, by the fuperiority of his talents, a tuftre to his trade; but here if our children should turn out to be dunces, we lay a temptation for negligence to add to their incapacity; and if they should be otherwise, raile a fresh machination to fink them into contempt. 'Tis in vain to say that neceffity will oblige them to a proper attention in a business which they detest; a blockhead is incapable of difcovering the neceffity; and a man of abilities confiders it as an additional motive of disgust. The consequence is plain, aversion must be the parent of negligence, and that negligence muft in its turn keep them at least from rifing in the world, if it does not continually keep them in penury and distress. in very narrow circumftances, and before he was diftinguished by his writings was many times put to his shifts even for a dinner. The debts he then contracted lay very heavy upon him for a long time afterwards; and upon the publication of his feasons one of his creditors arrested him, thinking that a proper opportunity to get his money. The report of this misfortune happened to reach the ears of Mr. Quin, who had indeed read the feafons, but had never feen their author; and upon stricter enquiry, he was told that Thomfon was in the bailiff's hands at a (punging houfe in Holborn; thither Quin went, and being admitted into his chamber, Sir, faid he, in his usual tone of voice, you don't know me, I believe, but my name is Quin. Mr. Thomfon received him politely, and faid, that tho' he could not boaft of the honour of a personal acquaintance, he was no ftranger either to his name or his merit; and very obligingly invited him to fit down. Quin then told him, he was come to fup with him, and that he had already ordered the cook to provide fupper, which he hoped he would excufe.-Mr. Thomson made the proper reply, and then the discourse turned indifferently upon fubjects of literature. When fupper was over, and the glass had gone briskly about, Mr. Quin then took occasion to explain himselt by saying, It was now time to enter upon bufinefs. Mr. Thomson declared he was ready to serve him as far as his capacity would reach, in any thing he should command, (thinking he was come about fome affair relating to the Drama.) Sir, fays Mr. Quin, you mistake my meaning. I am in your debt. I owe you a hundred pounds, and I am come to pay you. Mr. Thomson, with a difconfolate air, replied, that as he was a gentleman whom, to his knowledge, he had never offended, he wondered he fhould feek an opportunity to reproach him under his misfortunes. No, by G-d, faid Quin, raising his voice, I'd be d-n'd before I would do that. fay, I owe you a hundred pounds, and there I 1 there it is, (laying a bank note of that value before him.) Mr. Thomfon was aftonished, and begged he would explain himself. Why, fays Quin, I'll tell you; foon after I had read your fea. fons, I took it into my head, that as I had fomething in the world to leave behind me when I died, I would make my will, and among the rest of my legatees, I fet down the author of the feafons a hundred pounds, and this day hearing that you was in this houfe, I thought I might as well have the pleafure of paying the money myself, as to order my executors to pay it when perhaps you might have lefs need of it; and this, Mr. Thomson, is the bufinefs I came about. I need not exprefs Mr. Thomson's grateful acknowledgments, but leave every reader to conceive them. From the COMPLETE MAGAZINE. TH Some Account of the Palatines. HE people called Palatines are properly natives of the Palatinate, an electorate in the German empire, in the cirle of the Lower Rhine: great numbers of whom were invited over in the reign of queen Anne, to fettle on the continent of North America; her majefty being thereto induced both by political and religious motives. The Proteftant fubjects of the Palatinate, at that time, laboured under a fevere perfecution from the state under which they lived. This difpofed them to accept of such terms, for emigration, as promised to place them in a peaceable enjoyment of their religion and liberty. And they being Proteftants of the Lutheran confeffion, for which they were perfecuted, the queen was the more ready to extend her compaffion towards them, and to receive them under her protection. Since that time, as our fettlements required more hands for cultivation, than could be drawn from the mother country, the population of our plantations in North America has been con ftantly improved and augmented by frequent draughts of German Protestants, not only out of the Palatinate, but from other parts of the empire, particularly from Saltzburg, who have in difcriminately been deemned and reported to be Palatines, by the generality of the people. The emigrants are always ready to embrace every propofal that has been offered them, to fettle under a government where they can enjoy the free exercife of their religion, and the fruits of their labour. Their religious, peaceable principles, robust conftitutions, industry, and being inured to hard labour, recommend them for the purposes of fettling or improving our colonies in North America, in preference to all o ther nations. No people are able to live upon less expence; nor are there any more able and willing to cultivate the earth, and undergo the difficulties infeparable from new colonies; their very women and children being trained up from their infancy to do every drudgery, and to affitt in procuring the neceffaries of life. Being Proteftants, they are continually harraffed by their Popish fovereigns, for their religious principles, though under the protection of the evangelic body and the imperial conftitutions; which difpofes them to leave their country: and we embrace them as brethren, knowing that they will make good fubjects under a Protef tant king. The particular cafe of those German Proteftants, commonly called Palatines, who at prefent have engaged fo much the attention of all ranks and degrees of men in and about this metropolis, arifeth from a pretence fet up by one, who had no authority, as it now appears, to make a contract with them, or to procure them a fettlement in any of our American plantations; tho' the poor deluded people had great reafon to hearken to fuch proposals, as were tendered to them, in the name of a nation, which had always given them the preference in fuch cafes, and could not poffibly people and cultivate their new acquired |