66 Note of the Editor. Citizen Calvet who kindly communicated this extract, has some of these seeds in his possession, and is about to subject them to a chemical analysis. Some other gentlemen have received some of them from Spain, and have shewed them to the scientific men who accompanied the Egyptian expedition, and who seem to recollect them to be grains peculiar to Africa; they might probably have been carried away by a whirlwind or ar earthquake. One circumstance is rather remarkable, that these grains are each covered with a husk, and it does not appear that since their fall in Spain, any loose husks have been found." The rich cabinet of the most exquisite productions of the arts, formed at Paris under the name of the Napoleonmuscum, was opened by the First Consul, on the 16th of August last. While he was standing before the Venus of Medicis, Denon, director-general of the Museum, presented to him a medal, containing on one side an excellent likeness of the First Consul, and on the other the above masterpiece of sculpture with the inscription-" Aux arts la Victoire." Mr. D'Arracq, apothecary at Dax in the department of Landes, has discovered and ascertained by a variety of experiments, that pumice-stone, reduced to a very fine pow der, and mixed with a sixth part of oxyd of manganese, in order to render it fusible, gives an excellent cover or varnish for earthenware, very pleasing to the eye, without the least inconvenience to health, and less expensive than the compositions hitherto used for that purpose. B. Rochon, who invented, two years ago, a telescope of crystal, which conveys to the eve a two-fold representation of the object observed, has lately made experiments, frota which it appears, that his invention is likely to become extremely useful to navigators, and of considerable service in warlike operations both by sea and land. His experiments having been repeated at St. Cloud before the First Consul, he ordered of Citizen Rochon several telescopes of his invention for the army and navy. Mr. Poulleau, a musician at Moscow, has invented a new musical instrument, to which he has given the name of Orchestrino. It is played like a harpsicord, and is said to imitate in a striking manner the sound of a fiddle, viol, On the occasion, that a complete collection of all Russian minerals, by command of Alexander I. was lately sent from Petersburgh to the Academy of Sciences at Berlin, Count Strogonoff, President of the Academy of Arts, presented his Russian Majesty with a pyramid of exquisite workmanship, composed of all the different sorts of marble which have been hitherto discovered in the vast Russian Empire. Biot has lately presented to the National Institute, a report of his journey to the department of Orne, under-violoncello, and viole d'amour. taken by order of the French Government, to inquire into the particulars of a phenomenon, observed on the 26th of April last, in the vicinity of Laigle. It appears from this report, that on that day a tremendous shower of stones fell on a space of upwards of two square miles, and that at least two to three thousand stones were found, the weight of which varies from drachms to 17 pounds. This event was preceded by the explosion of a fire-ball, which appeared in the atmosphere a few moments before. The class of physical and mathematical Sciences has ordered Biot's report to be printed, and a correct plan of the country to be annexed to it. The circumstance that the direction of the explosion perfectly coincided with the direction of the magnetic me-perity of his subjects, has established an institution at the ridian, deserves peculiar notice. M. Larive, the Mayor of Montlignon, in the valley of Montmorency, about four years ago discovered a spring of mineral water which has lately undergone a complete anaJysis, by the members of the Society of Medicine at Paris; the following report of the result was read at the Society, on the 12th Fructidor, year 11. 1. That every pint of the water of Montlignon, contains 3 grains of muriate of magnesia, 1 grain of carbonate of magnesia, 2 grains of muriate of chalk, grain of sulphate of chalk, 2 grains of carbonate of iron, and an indeterminate quantity of carbonic acid. 2. That this water is of, the class of those which remain the longest time without alteration, when not exposed to air and beat; that the fixity of the carbonic acid and carbonate of iron, which are found to be completely combined, is a great advantage, and appears to give this water a title to be considered one of the most precious of the kind. A letter from Fassy in Moldavia, of the S0th of May last, contains the following passage:-" Our reigning Prince in addition to the numerous wise and benevolent establishments, already formed for the happiness and pros hospital of St. Spiridon, where, under the direction of his first Physician, Dr. Hesse, the children of poor inhabitants of Fassy are inoculated for the cow-pox. The last time, he visited the hospital, he ordered a new wing to be added to the principal building for the better acconimodation of the sick, which is to be constructed after the plan of the best European hospitals." A Board of Agriculture has lately been established in Philadelphia on a very extensive plan. Mr. James Madison, Secretary of State, has been chosen President, Dr. Mitchel and G. Logux, are Vice-Presidents, and Mr. Isaac Briggs, Secretary. Two gentlemen of respectability and information have been chosen correspondents in every State of North America. On the 24th of August last, died at Milan, Abbé Fontana, one of the most celebrated Physiologists in Europe, at the advanced age of 68 years. Mr. Engellman at Schmiedeberg, in Silesia, late Director of the bleaching grounds near that city, has taken up the discovery said to have been made in this country, of manu 3. That in comparing this water with others to which it has an analogy, and of which the medical properties are known, it inay without doubt be classed among the tonic,facturing paper from straw, and is carrying on this munu stommebic, strengthening, opening, and diuretic waters. M. Larive, therefore, proposes to build in the most agreeable part of his estate, in the enchanting valley of Montmorency, several honses for the accommodation of those who wish to drink this water. facture on an extensive scale. VOLUME II.] THE LITERARY JOURNAL. LITERATURE. REVIEW OF BOOKS. be separated from the main body of the work, and placed in an Appendix.-The remarker's preface, the greatest part of which consists of personal reflections An Illustration of the IIypothesis proposed in the Dis- on Mr. Marsh, or relates to what the Remarker supsertation on the Origin and Composition of our three poses to have been personal reflections on himself, first Canonical Gospels. With a Preface and Appen- Mr. Marsh in his preface has chiefly considered. dix, containing Miscellaneous Matters. The Whole Having in the first instance exculpated himself from being a Rejoinder to the anonymous Author of the an imputation of offering, any personal affront to the Remarks on Michaelis and his Commentator. By Remarker, by declaring that he wrote in perfect igHerbert Marsh, B.D. F. R.S. Fellow of St. John's norance of him, and that though the Remarks be now College, Cambridge, Sro, 230 pp. Rivington. ascribed by report to a particular person, yet that report had not reached him, nor, he believes, any man at Cambridge till after his answer was published. TH || HE controversy which will probably end with this publication, began before the appearance of our JOURNAL.-Beside the many notes and corrections "But," adds Mr. Marsh, "if the person of the author which Mr. Marsh had subjoined to the work of was wholly unknown to me, it is manifest, that no personal affront could have been offered him. Even now I have no Michaelis, a Dissertation was annexed by him, on the Origin and Composition of our first three Canoauthority to assert, that the report is true. The author himself has not sanctioned it: for he still remains anonynical Gospels. This, from the complexity of its namous in his Reply. And as to internal evidence, it is ture, rather than an ambiguity in the statement, strongly against the report. When any writer makes an having not been sufficiently understood, was unspar-attack upon another, and yet conceals himself from public ingly attacked by (it has been said) the Bishop of view, he betrays either a want of courage or a want of geOxford, in a pamphlet entitled, Remarks on "Minerosity and it would be strange indeed, if that man were chaelis's Introduction to the New Testament, vols. iii. anonymous, who ought on two accounts to acknowledge iv. &c." An answer followed in a series of "Letters his name and character, when he writes on subjects of Dito the anonymous Author of Remarks on Michaelis and vinity." his Commentator."-To these, in what is styled a second edition of the Remarks, a preface and notes were annexed in reply. As the Remarks were at first expressly published, "BY WAY OF CAUTION TO STUDENTS IN DIVINITY," and though the author had his own reasons for concealing his name, yet persons well known to him having given out that the Remarker was no other than Dr. Randolph, Regius Pro-clared that the report of the Remarks being written fessor of Divinity at Oxford, and Bishop of that diocese, we cannot wonder that Mr. Marsh should have been somewhat exasperated, as well at the appearance of this preliminary caution, as at the repetition of it; especially from its being placed in the front of the Remarks. Suffice it, however, to say, that whether the Remarks themselves have been truly, or not, ascribed to the Bishop of Oxford, our readers, we have no doubt, will agree on perusing this Rejoinder, that the Remarker can have but small cause to glory. In a word, we have placed it on the same shelf with Bentley's answer to Boyle, and Porson's to Travis. Mr. Marsh, after observing that his adversary has republished (not reprinted, except the last page, which, if he had not, would have made the discovery at once,) his remarks; and now prefixed to them a short preface and annexed seventy pages of notes by way of reply to the letters, adds, that as sixty of these pages relate, or are intended to relate, to the Hypothesis itself, his principal attention must be directed to them; but in order to preserve unity of design, whatever observations it may be necessary to make either on the remaining ten, or on those among the sixty, which relate not to the hypothesis, they shall VOL. II. To the accusation that Mr. Marsh "bas in his Reply very much departed from the character of a liberal-minded scholar," it is retorted, "this means nothing more, than that Mr. M. has very much departed from that tone of submission which his antagonist (though anonymous) with great seriousness expected from him." Had not Mr. M. before de by the Bishop of Oxford did not reach him till after his Reply was published, it would look as though the Remarker were persuaded otherwise, or else on the ground of his keeping his own secret in the withholding his name, the charge here brought could hardly have been made,-unless indeed Mr. Marsh was to have developed the secret from some such ex-. pression as this: "The sacred writings Mr. M. must allow US to watch over with extreme jealousy." On the declaration: "I lament that I shall have occasion here (Preface, p. 7,) to call in question the fidelity and correctness of Mr. M. for which I was inclined to give him full credit at the beginning;" we meet with the following stricture: "The latter clause I suppose means, that at the beginning of our controversy, before I had taken liberties with with want of fidelity, &c. but if he turns to p. 28, of his him, he was not inclined to charge me in express terms will find the very same charge, united moreover with the Remarks, which were the overture of our controversy, he charge of fabrication of authorities. It is true, that he there likewise is concerned to say,' as in the present instances he laments,' and is sorry to say: but such lamentations rather aggravate, than mend the matter. However, he does not always adopt this condoling style: he 2 S sometimes rises higher. For instance, Pref. p. 6, I hope to shew that Mr. M. in his Letters, is as deficient in argument as he is abundant in anger.' Again, in Pref. p. 7, alluding to two passages where I observed he had borrowed from other writers, he says, It is a pitiful insinuation ;' and then turning with a rhetorical apostrophe, from the subject of discourse to the person of his antagonist, he exclaims, To him therefore I have no more to say, except to intreat him to return to a better temper. Whether this thetorical apostrophe will prove my intemperance, or his own, must be left to the decision of those who are better judges than either of us. These passages I have selected from his Preface, where, like his caution' on the titlepage, he has announced his charges, long before he could enter on any proofs of them. To inquire therefore at present into the validity of his proofs, which, if he has any, can only come under consideration when the opportunity offers, would be foreign to the subject now before us. The above-quoted passages (to which I could add some more from his Notes as well as his Preface) are introduced only as specimens of that "civility and decency of manners,' of which my adversary boasts, and which he seriously recommends to his opponent." Paris as it Was, and as it Is. (Continued from our last.j Y. In Letter XII. of Vol. I. we have a short, but satisfactory account of the grand monthly parade of the troops of the Consular guard, and of those quartered in Paris. On this occasion our author first saw Bonaparte, although he reserves a personal description of him to a future letter, but in the mean time pays him Shakspeare's compliment to Henry V. on mount.g With the same keenness of discrimination and logi-propriate to enkindle the wrath and anticipate the his horse. Shakspeare's compliment was artfully ap cal precision, Mr. Marsh not only repels the charges disappointment of Hotspur. When Bonaparte leaped brought against him, but unanswerably supports the imputations which the Remarker had compelled him of his troops might have performed as well. But alon the saddle, he did no more than twenty thousand to retort. Of the latter, a most striking example may lowance must be made for an author's enthusiasm be seen in the second Section of the Appendix, p. 9, || when he first sees a Chief Consul. in which Mr. Marsh has evinced in the fullest manner, that the Remarker did not only borrow materials, but unfairly use them. The Hypothesis itself, which it is the chief object of this Tract to illustrate, is thus expressed : "St. Matthew, St. Mark, and St. Luke, all three, used copies of the common Hebrew document : the materials of which, St. Matthew, who wrote in Hebrew, retained in the language in which he found them, but St. Mark and St. Luke translated them into Greek. They had no knowledge of each other's Gospels: but St. Mark and St. Luke, beside their copies of the Hebrew document, used a Greek translation of it, which had been made before any of the additions a, ß, Sc. had been inserted. Lastly, as the Gospels of St. Mark and St. Luke contain Greek translations of Hebrew materials, which were incorporated into St. Matthew's Hebrew Gospel, the person who translated St. Matthew's Hebrew Gospel into Greek, frequently derived assistance from the Gospel of St. Mark, where St. Mark had matter in common with St. Matthew; and in those places, but in those places only, where St. Mark had no matter in common with St. Matthew, he had frequently recourse to St. Luke's Gospel." The discussions of Mr. Marsh on this subject are divided into two parts, of which the first is occupied by an "examination of the questions, whether the authenticity, or the credibility, or the integrity, or the inspiration of the Gospels, be affected by the proposed hypothesis?"—and the second, by an examination of the question," Whether the proposed Hypothesis be TRUE?" In the latter investigation a "" statement of the test is presented, by which the Hypothesis must be tried, previous obstacles are removed, and the Hypothesis itself is tried by its proper test, in our udgment, with perfect success. The Appendix, beside the section above referred to, contains two others, one including distinct observations on the first ten pages of the Remarker's Reply "It is no less extraordinary than true," we are told, "that the news of the establishment of this grand parade produced on the mind of the late Emperor of Russia the first impression in favour of the Chief Consul. No sooner did Paul I. hear of the circumstance, than he exclaimed: Bonaparte is, however, a great but slender praise, yet even that is not clear from this man." The approbation of such a man as Paul 1. is expression, if correctly given. However is an exception, or a qualification of something which went before, but is here omitted. XIII. is very minute, and contains some curious anec dotes illustrative of the state of morals in Paris. In The concluding paragraph of this Letter we copy, as a confirmation of some of the sentiments advanced in the introductory part of our criticism in the last Literary Journal. that of every thinking person, is, that in the midst of "What cannot fail to excite your astonishment and these executions, in the midst of these convulsions of the state, in the midst of these struggles for power, in the midst of these outcries against the despots of the day, in the midst of famine even, not artificial, but real; in short in the midst of an accumulation of horrors almost unexampled, the fiddle and tambourine never ceased. Galas, concerts, and balls were given daily in incredible numbers; and no less than from fifteen to twenty theatres, besides several other places of public entertainment, were constantly open, and almost as constantly filled." This horrid statement appears to be true in every respect: it was not only reported at the time, but has been confirmed by every traveller who has lately had an opportunity to acquire information on the spot. What a field of reflection is here opened! that they make no scruple to avail themselves of every prejudice formerly entertained in favour of this grand emporium, in regard to taste, novelty, &c. by a still further inkeepers established here is the chance custom, arising from crease of their prices. No small advantage to the shopsuch a variety of trades being collected together 90 couveniently, all within the same inclosure. A person resorting hither to procure one thing, is sure to be reminded of some other want, which, had not the article presented itself to his eye, would probably have escaped his recollection; and, indeed, such is the thirst of gain, that several tradesmen keep a small shop under these piazzas, independently of a large warehouse in another quarter of Paris. Pamphlets and other ephemeral productions usually make strangers may rely on being plagued by a set of fellows their first appearance in the Palais du Tribunat; and who here hawk about prohibited publications, of the most The account of the Fête in honour of the peace, immoral tendency, embellished with correspondent engrav which occupies Letters XIV. and XV. excites but ings; such as Justine, ou les malheurs de la vertu; Les little interest, although it is enlivened by some amusing quarante manières, &c. They seldom, I am told, cany anecdotes. The description of the Gallery of the the publication about them, for fear of being unexpectedly Louvre, however, we may pronounce a permanent ar-apprehended, but keep it at some secret repository hard by, ticle, and what will be of great service to future trawhence they fetch it in an instant. It is curious to see with what adroitness these vagrants elude the vigilance of vellers, both in directing their eye and their taste. The author of a work like this indeed, compiled from the police. I had scarcely set my foot in this building before a Jew-looking fellow, coming close to me, whispered the most authentic materials, and arranged in the best "Monsieur veut-il la vie polissonne de Madame manner, cannot but regret that the utility of his labours ?" Madame who do you think? You will stare has been abruptly interrupted. In the great gallery when I tell you to fill up the blank with the name of her of the Louvre are suspended about nine hundred and who is now become the first female personage in France? fifty pictures, which, with ninety in the Saloon, ex- I turned round with astonishment; but the ambulating tend the number of the present exhibition to one book-vender had vanished, in consequence, as I conclude, thousand and forty, a matchless collection undoubt of being observed by some mouchard. Thus, what little edly, but which we cannot review without certain virtue may remain in the mind of youth is contaminated reflections on the way in which it was procured, in a fair way of being even more corrupted than that by precept, as well as example; and the rising generation which our author spares. which has preceded it. For the length of the following extract our readers, we are persuaded, will demand no apology: "If the ci-devant Palais Royal has been the mine of political explosions, so it still continues to be the epitome of all the trades in Paris. Under the arcades, on the ground floor, here are, as formerly, shops of jewellers, haberdashers, artificial florists, milliners, perfumers, printsellers, engravers, tailors, shoemakers, hatters, furriers, glovers, confectioners, provision-merchants, woollen-drapers, mercers, cutlers, toymen, money-changers, and booksellers, together with several coffee-houses, and lottery-offices, all in miscellaneous succession. "Among this caumeration, the jewellers' shops are the most attractive in point of splendour. The name of the proprietor is displayed in large letters of artificial diamonds, in a conspicuous compartment facing the door. This is a sort of signature, whose brilliancy eclipses all other names, and really dazzles the eyes of the spectators. But at the same time it draws the attention both of the learned and the illiterate: I will venture to affirm that the name of one of these jewellers is more frequently spelt and pronounced than that of any great man recorded in history, either ancient or modern. "With respect to the price of the commodities exposed for sale in the Palais du Tribunat, it is much the samne as in Bond-street, you pay one third at least for the idea of fashion annexed to the name of the place where you make the purchase, though the quality of the article may be nowise superior to what you might procure elsewhere. As in Bond-street too, the rents in this building are high, on which account the shop-keepers are, in some measure, obliged to charge higher than those in other parts of the town. Not but I must do them the justice to acknowledge in my car: "Elas parentum, pejor avis, tulit Besides the shops, are some auction-rooms, where you may find any article of wearing apparel or household furniture, from a lady's wig à la Caracalla to a bed à la Grecque: here are as many puffers as in a mock auction in London; and should you be tempted to bid, by the apparent cheapness of the object put up for sale, it is fifty to one that you soon repent of your bargain. Not so with the magazins de confiance à prix fixe, where are displayed a variety of articles, marked at a fixed price, from which there is no abatement. "These establishments are extremely convenient, not only to ingenious mechanics, who have invented or improved a particular production of art, of which they wish to dispose, but also to purchasers. You walk in, and if any article strikes your fancy, you examine it at your ease; you consider the materials, the workmanship, and lastly the price, without being hurried by a loquacious shopkeeper into a purchase which you may shortly regret. A commission of from five to one half per cent, in graduated proportions, according to the value of the article, is charged to the seller, for warehouse-room and all other expences. "Such is the arrangement of the ground-floor; the apartments on the first floor are at present occupied by restaurateurs, exhibitions of various kinds, billiard-tables, and académics de jeu, or public gaming-tables, where all the passions are let loose, and all the torments of hell assembled. "The second story is let out in lodgings, furnished or unfurnished, to persons of different descriptions, particularly to the priestesses of Venus. The rooms above, termed mansardes, in the French architectural dialect, are mostly inhabited by old batchelors, who prefer economy to show; or by artists, who subsist by the employment of their taJents. These chambers are spacious, and though the ceilings are low, they receive a more uninterrupted circulation of fresh air, than the less exalted regions. "Over the mansardes, in the very roof, are nests of little rooms, or cock-lofts, resembling, I am told, the cells of a bechive. Journeymen shop-keepers, domestics, and distressed females are said to be the principal occupiers of these aërial abodes. "I had nearly forgot to mention a species of apartment little known in England: I mean the entresol, which is what we should denominate a low story, (though here not so considered), immediately above the ground-floor, and directly under the first-floor. In this building, some of the entresols are inhabited by the shop-keepers below; some, by women of no equivocal calling, who throw out their lures to the idle youths sauntering under the arcades; and others again are now become maisons de pret, where pawnbrokers exercise their usurious dealings. In the Palais du Tribunat, as you may remark, not an inch of space is lost; every hole and corner being turned to account: here and there, the cellars even are converted into scenes of gaiety and diversion, where the master of the house entertains his customers with a succession of vocal and instrumental music, while they are taking such refreshiments as he furnishes. 66 This speculation, which has, by all accounts, proved extremely profitable, was introduced in the early part of the revolution. Since that period, other speculations, engendered by the luxury of the times, have been set on foot within the precincts of this palace. Of two of these, now in full vigour and exercise, I must say a few words, as they are of a nature somewhat curious. "The one is a cabinet de dicrotteur, where the art of blacking shoes is carried to a pitch of perfection hitherto unknown in this country. took the hint from Vespasian. As that emperor blushed not to make the urine of the citizens of Ronie a source of revenue, so the learned projector in question rightly judged that, in a place of such resort as the Palais du Tribunat, he might, without shame or reproach, levy a small tax on the Parisians, by providing for their convenience in a way somewhat analogous. His penetration is not unhandsomely rewarded; for he derives an income of 12,000 francs, cr £500 sterling, from his cabinets d'aisance. "Since political causes first occasioned the shutting up of the old Theatre Français, in the Faubourg St. Germain, now reduced to a shell by fire, Melpomene and Thala have taken up their abode in the south-west angle of the Palais du Tribunat, and in its north-west corner is another theatre, on a smaller scale, where Momus holds his count; so that be you seriously, sentimentally, or humorously disposed, you may, without quitting the shelter of the piazzas, satisfy your inclination. Tragedy, comedy, and farce all lie before you within the purlieus of this extraordinary edifice. "To sum up all the conveniences of the Palais du Tribunat, suffice it to say, that almost every want, natural or artificial, almost every appetite, gross or refined, might be gratified without passing its limits; for, while the extrava gant voluptuary is indulging in all the splendour of Asiatic luxury, the parsimonious sensualist need not depart unatisfied. "Placed in the middle of Paris, the Palais du Tribunat has been aptly compared to a sink of vice, whose conta gious effects would threaten society with the greatest evils, were not the scandalous scenes of the capital here concentrated into one focus. It has also been mentioned, by the same writer, Mercier, as particularly worthy of remark, that, since this building is become a grand theatre, where cupidity, gluttony, and licentiousness shew themselves under every form and excess, several other quarters of Paris are in a manner, purified by the accumulation of vices which flourish in its centre. 66 "Not many years ago, it was common, in Paris, to see Whether or not this assertion be strictly correct, I will counsellors, abbes, and military officers, as well as pelit-not pretend to determine: but, certain it is that the Palois maitres, of every denomination, full dressed, that is, with du Tribunat is a vortex of dissipation where many a youth heir hat under their arm, their sword by their side, and is ingulfed. The natural manner in which this may happen their hair in a bag, standing in the open street, with one leg I shall endeavour briefly to explain, by way of conclusion cocked up on a stool, while a rough Savoyard or Auvergnat to this letter. hastily cleaned their shoes with a coarse mixture of lampblack and rancid oil. At the present day, the décrotteurs or shoe-blacks still exercise their profession on the Pont Neuf and in other quarters; but, as a refinement of the art, there is also opened, at each of the principal entrances of the Palais du Tribunat, a cabinet de décrotteur, or small apartment, where you are invited to take a chair,sity, perhaps, if not decoyed by some sharper on the look and presented with the daily papers. The artist, with due care and expedition, first removes the dirt from your shoes or boots with a sponge occasionally moistened in water, and by means of several pencils, of different sizes, not unlike those of a limner, he then covers them with a jetty varnish, rivalling even japan in lustre. This operation he performs with a gravity and consequence that can scarcely fail to excite laughter. Yet, according to the trite proverb, it is not the customer who ought to indulge in mirth, but the artist. Although his price is much dearer than that demanded by the other professors of this art, his cabinet is seldom empty from morning to night; and, by a simple calculation, his pencil is found to produce more than that of some good painters of the modern French school. "At the first view of the matter, it should appear that the other speculation might have been hit on by any man with a nose to his face; but, on more mature consideration, one is induced to think that its author was a person of some learning, and well read in ancient history. Île, no doubt, "A young Frenchman, a perfect stranger in Paris, ar rives there from the country, and, wishing to equip himse'. in the fashion, hastens to the Palais du Tribunat, where finds wearing apparel of every description on the ground floor: prompted by a keen appetite, he dines at a restaurateur's on the first-floor: after dinner, urged by mere curio out for novices, he visits a public gaming-table on the same story. Fortune not smiling on him, he retires; but, at that very moment, he meets, on the landing-place a captivating damsel, who, like Virgil's Galatea, flies to be pursued; and the inexperienced youth, after ascending another flight of stairs, is, on the second-floor, ushered into a brothel. Cloyed or disgusted there, he is again induced to try the humour of the fickle goddess, and repairs once more to the gaming-table, till, having lost all his money, he is urder the necessity of descending to the entresol to pawn his watch, before he can even procure a lodging in a garret above. "What other city in Europe can boast of such an assemblage of accommodation? Here, under the same roof, a man is, in the space of a few minutes, as perfectly equipped from top to toe, as if he had all the first tradesmen in Lendon at his command; and shortly after, without setting his foot into the street, he is as completely stripped, had fallen into the hands of a gang of robbers. "To cleanse this Augaan stable, would, no doubt, be a as if he |