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Presto! -- I'm in Greece a maiden Пain-[Lane! Now!-- ftranger still! -- a maid, in DruryNo more by barb'rous men, and laws confin'd, [mind. I claim my native rights to fpeak my Tho' poring pedants should applaud this piece,

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Behold a champion,--foe profeft of Greece! I throw my gauntlet to the critic race : [Throws down her glove. Come forth, bold Grecians !--Meet me face to face!

Come forth, ye men of learning, at my call! Learning a little feeling's worth it all! And you of taste, and fashion, I defy!

[Throus down another glove. But hold---you hate the Greek as much as I; Then, let us join our force, and boldly fpeak-

That English ev'ry thing furpaffes Greek.

Kill a young virgin, to refift unable !-Kill her, like house-lamb, for a dead man's table!

[pale! Well may you tremble, ladies, and look Do you not shudder, parents, at this tale? You facrifice a daughter now and then, To rich, old wither'd, balf-departed men ; With us, there's no compulfive law, that [man; Make a live girl, to wed a quite dead Had I been wedded to fome ancient king! I mean a Grecian--Ancient's not the thing: Then had our Bard made ample reparation !

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Then had you feen a Grecian coronation! Sneer not, ye critics, at this rage for fhew, That honeft hearts at coronations glow ! Nor fnarl that our faint copies glad their eyes, [rife. When from the thing itself, fuch bleffings

An Account of the Dislocation of a Thigh-Bone, and the Manner of its being

reflored.

Weft Cowes, Isle of Wight, Nov. 18. Sailor, about twenty-five years of age, A whofe horfe had run away with him, endeavouring to difmount whilft on a full gallop, threw his right leg over the horfe's head, and fliding down his fide, was struck fo forcibly on the left thigh by the near hind foot, as to caufe a dislocation of the thigh-bone. Being fent for, I got him laid on his back on a bed, with his right thigh and leg duly extended: on comparing the limbs, I eafily faw the defect; for near the fpine of the Os ilium, there was an unusual fwelling, which, by my feeling, and the patient's agony, together with the shortnefs of the limb, an inability of motion, and the knee and foot being inverted, I judged could be nothing else than the head of the Os femoris; and finding the accident to be quite recent, had recourse to the following operations:

As the patient lay near the edge of the bed, I placed a strong man at his left-fide, with his back to the bed's head, his left hand paffed under the patient's buttock, and was met and grafped by the right hand so as to prevent the patient from iding when the extension should be made;

then, taking a very long towel, I tied it once round the patient's knee, and giving its ends to two affistants, bid them draw gradually, and both together; whilst I (feated on the patient's left fide, my face to his, my left hand on his knee, and my right hand near the great trochanter) when a due extenfion was made, guided the bone, and, by one pufh, was fo happy as found it made, the patient's immediate to replace it, which was confirmed by the relief from his agony, and the equality of this limb with the other. I then embrocated the whole joint, applied a roller, bled the patient in the oppofite arm, and off the roller, and, renewing the embrorecommended reft: the next day I took cation, rolled it up again. Next morning, to my great furprize, I was told my pablaming him for his rafh and indifcreet tient was walked out; and at night, behaviour, he told me he could walk as well as ever; and, luckily for him, no tamour, inflammation, or other bad fymptom followed; and he foon after went to fea.

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to make fure of their prey against that affiftance which the cries of the victim never fail to bring, haften into the water, where they immediately drown it, and then return to the furface, and devour it at leifure.

Though this fpecies of crocodiles in South-America are lefs fierce than many in other countries, and will plunge into the water on the approach of a man near the banks of the river; yet, if they can fecurely furprize any one fleeping, they never fail to take advantage of the opportunity. Their voracity has been felt by fome of the boatmen, who have inconfiderately slept with one of their arms or legs hanging over the fide of the boat, which these animals have feized, and fo drawn the whole body into the water. Crocodiles which have once feafted on human flesh, are known to be the met dangerous, and become as it were inflamed with an infatiable defire of repeating the fame delicious repaft.

covering them flightly over, fo that the crocodiles fall into them when they come afhore, and having let them remain there feveral days, till they are weakened by hunger, they hamper them with ropes, and draw them out alive. They have likewife a way of making fome animal cry near the river, which entices the crocodile out, and a man who lies concealed, takes an opportunity of thrusting a fpear into his belly, armed with a bearded point, which being faftened to a rope, they let him run into the water to fpend his ftrength, then drag him out, and tie his jaws together. The fame method is practifed, if they can find by accident a crocodile fleeping in the fands. Another form of taking thefe creatures is by a piece of flesh ftuck on an iron hook, and let down into the river by a rope, the other end of which is faftened to a flake: when the crocodile has feized the bait, he is drawn to land and killed. A more extraordinary method than any of thefe was made ufe of to catch one of thefe creatures, that had done much mifchief: the person who undertook it for a reward bound his fon, a young lad, to a ftake in the place where the crocodile ufed to come, and laid himfelf befide him, flat on his belly, but fo that he could fee when the creature approached, having in each hand a fhert club, one of which was wound round at the end with a very large ball of coarfe thread dipped in pitch, and fo waited for the crocodile; which coming out of the river, and fmelling the fleth, made directly towards the boy, (who was placed in a confpicuous point of view) not observing the father, who lay as if he were dead without motion. No fooner did the furicus animal open his mouth to feize the lad, than the father thrust the staff with the pitched ball into his jaws, which sticking in his teeth, and entangling them as he bit it, the man with the other club broke his back, and killed him. This happened in Egypt, where the crocodiles are the most furious, though their number are diminished very much fince the decay of the fertility of that country. None are now to be feen below the cataracts. The flesh of the There are various ways of killing thefe crocodiles is white and fat, and a delicious creatures. The ufual method is by fhoct- dish when they are young. The Arabs of ing them in the belly, where they are Upper Egypt are very fond of it, and forvulnerable, as we obferved above. Some- merly the inhabitants of Elephantis used times the people dig pits near the river, alfo to feed on it. Whether the Egyptians eat

It has been faid that the ichneumon, a large Egyptian rat, is a destroyer of the crocodile, by creeping down their throats whilft they fleep with their mouths open, and having fed upon their liver, gnaw a way out again through the belly; but this feems to found very much like a fable. However, this rat is said to be of great fervice in Egypt, by hunting out, and breaking the crocodile's eggs; and thereby becomes another obstruction to the increase of those destructive creatures. Though we have no pofitive affurance of the truth of this, it is not at all imp obable. But we can hardly give credit to the account we have of a little bird called Trochillus, which is faid to be the only creature that the crocodile is in friendship with, and does not endeavour to deftroy; but this, it feems, is for the fervice the bird does him, by flying into his mouth, and feeding upon the meat that flicks between his teeth, or cleanfing his jaws of the leeches that infeft them. Pliny tells us that the crocodiles lie hid in caves during the winter; but Dr. Pococke affirms he faw great numbers of them in January, and was affured that they never go above thirty or forty paces from the river.

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H......'s. Away they poft to Sir Jofeph H......'s in Fenchurch-ftreet; but being unfortunately too late there alfo, they drive again in purfuit of Mr. P... to the court end of the town, where being again difappointed, and dinner time now arrived, they return to the Blue boar, and fix the Thursday following for the celebration of their nuptials. The next day (Friday) they coach it again to Mr. P....'s in Lincoln's Inn, in order to execute the deed of conveyance; but the lawyer not being ready, they return without executing it. That very fame afternoon, however, the accompanies Mr. E.....n to his woollen draper, chcofes four fuits of clothes for him, which are fent to the taylor fome further directions are, at the fame time, given by her, relative to the prefents he must make his brother clerks. The next morning E......n receives a letter from her, requesting his immediate attendance at the Blue boar. The galant obeys; but, on entering the room, is furprized to find the lady in tears. To increase his confternation, he is told, her grief is occafioned by her father's fudden death, and that in confequence thereof their marriage would probably be prevented, as she would now fall into the power of her relations. The lover bursts into tears, grafps her knees, and, after much intreaty, obtains her confent to be married that very day. To Doctors Commons, therefore, they hie, and having procured a licence, are fafely married at Aldgate church. We shall now take leave for a while of this happy couple, and inform the reader what was doing at another quarter of the town. Some of Mr. E........n's fellow clerks, having gained intimation of the affair, and being uneafy at his abfence, are afraid left their poor harmless friend should be bit. Happening to get intelligence of the taylor, who was to make the clothes, they go to him, afk him where he is to carry them, and being told, to lord BUCCLEUGH BOOTH BY'S, in Grofvenor fquare, fet him upon the hunt, to fee if he could find out any fuch peifon as his lordship. "The taylor flies about the fquare with the agility of a Mercury, but no lord BUCCLEUGH BOOTHBY is to be found." From this intelligence Mr. E......'s friends are convinced that all is not right. While they are laying their heads together, contriving how to

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difcover his prefent place of abode, a footman comes to Mr. B......o's, and asks if there are any letters for Mr. E....... They give him one, and then ordering the footman to be dogged, discover their friend's habitation at the Blue boar. Being determined at all events to pay him a vifit, three of them go there, get a fight of their friend by accident, and are introduced to the lady. The scene now becomes truly comic. "Gentlemen,....... Lady Caroline Boothby.....My dear, this is Mr. Mr....... Pray, gentlemen, be feated." The first cere. monies being over, they feat themselves, fup, chat, and retire. Next morning, Mr. E.......n defiring to be introduced to the Boothby family, a coach is called, and the new-married couple driven to Grofvenor-fquare. The coach stops within a little way of the mother's house, but the lady's spirits failing at the thoughts of seeing her, they drive home again. Next morning her ladyship proposes their removing to their own house near Grofvenor fquare, which Mr. E......n having no objection to, is immediately put in execution. Here the lady changes her story; tells him he is not at all related to the Boothby family, but is fister to the duke of Beaufort. E.......n now begins to fufpect. A letter, however, is dispatched to his grace of Beaufort, requesting his attendance; in reply to which a verbal message is brought back, purporting, that his grace would be there at eight o'clock. No duke then appearing, the lover's eyes begin to open, a debate enfues, the family are alarmed, and John, the lady's faithful companion in all her adventures, is conveyed for his spirited behaviour to the round-houfe. The whole plot is now unravelled; difcovery follows upon difcovery; the lady is coached to and fro to Sir John Fielding's, Lady F......., Mrs. W.......n's, in Bond-street, at all which places they are only confirmed in the fufpicion of her being an imposter. A cobler is found from whom he had taken a pair of stays. This naturally bangs her to the Old Baily, where the is tried upon feveral indictments for robbing her lodgings; but the court being of opinion that the profecution is malicious, the is difcharged, and E.......n prepares to fet off for Barbacoes.

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Mag. Reflections on Human Happiness:
count of the remarkable things he had feen
there, and defcribed a battle, which, dur-
ing his administration, happened at the
mouth of the Nile, then called Heraclioti-
cum, between the crocodiles and dolphins.
He reported that a fhoal of the latter,
rushing up the river, attacked a great
number of the former, both fighting as it
were for the fovereignty of the watery
element; but that the dolphins at last ob-
tained the victory; for, by fwimming un-
der the bellies of their antagonists, they
wounded them in thofe foft parts with
their fins, deftroyed feveral of them,
and made the rest to fly.

There is a fmall fpecies of crocodiles,
which are found near the Nile and Red-
Sea, called the little or land crocodile,

addressed from a Father to his Son. 637 about the bigness of a lizard, with a round tail covered with fcales. It usually feeds on the most odoriferous flowers, and the flesh is of ufe in phyfic; great numbers of them for that reafon being carried, to Venice, and other places.

We have only to add, that most writers make the alligator and the crocodile the fame, and we are inclined to fall in with that opinion; at least, there is but little difference between them. Those who think otherwife, obferve, that the crocodile has longer legs, the knots on his back are thicker and higher, and his flesh has not fuch a muíky fcent as that of the alligator. Befides, fay they, the crocodile carries his tail bent upwards, whereas the alligator drags his on the ground.

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Reflections on Human Happiness: Addreffed from a Father to his Son.

FLOR 10, faid the dying FLAVIAN, thou

who hast been the dream of my fleeping, and care of my wakeful hours, thou in whofe life mine has ever been wrapt up, attend to the last words of thy departing fire. I am now about to leave this world for that beyond the stars, and to exchange time for eternity. When I am gone, let not a fruitless grief too much opprefs thee for my lafs: forrow, when too much indulged, not only blasts each joy, but, by encouraging a melancholydifpofition, greatly injures each focial virtue. Think therefore of me, as of one who is removed from a ftormy fea to a safe harbour, from earth to heaven.

With calmnefs and compofure I leave all earthly enjoyments, which, as I enjoy ed them thankfully, when bestowed on me, fo I now can quit them without a figh--long expecting the closing scene; it is no wonder that I am prepared for it-my only remaining care is to make as fmooth as poffible to thee the rugged journey of life.

Happiness, which like the running ftream, for ever purfued, recedes for ever from the grafp, is what we all feek, and all fucceffively fall fhort of obtaining. Thou too, my fon, wilt doubtless follow the flying phantom, and like the rest of her disappointed train, at laft find the vanity of hoping uninterruptedly to pof

fefs her.

True and permanent felicity (properly fo called) is not attainable below. Partial and imperfect are thofe trifling elations of the mind which we all by turns experience, and learn ail by turns to condemn. A fettled courfe and tenor of fatisfaction, can alone deserve the name of real happinefs; and fuch is to be found only in those bleft abodes, where joy for ever dwells, and where, as every pleasure refides, fo all thofe pleafures are eternal.

What then, you will fay, is man, the lord of the creation, born to inevitable mifery? Is he for ever to be preffing to the goal, and never attaining the prize? Not fo---though perfect felicity be not attainable in this life; yet fuch a state is within every one's reach, as if it does not render him perfectly happy, will, however, enable him to improve every pleasure, and alleviate the weight of his misfortunes, and that is all that can here be expected.

The paffions, as they are the ground of every vice, fo likewife from their roots, well cultivated, each virtue fprings, and, in confequence, each focial joy, and every heart-enlivening blifs.

When the All-Wife Difpofer of the univerfe formed various men with different tempers and different minds, he left it in every one's power to enjoy, each in his feparate fphere, a different kind of happinefs and notwithstanding the feemingly

ill-proportioned diftribution of bleffings here below, it is more than probable, (excepting fuch only to whom guilt denies peace of mind) that all enjoy a nearly equal share of felicity. But we all confider our particular misfortunes to be greatest, unknowing, and not confidering what more grievous preffure of affliction our neighbours may fuftain.

"Can any one be fo miferable as I am," (fays the unfortunate Lucio) reduced from a plentiful eftate by one adverse turn of fortune to poverty. "Who ever, knew forrow like mine, (cries Acafte) my only child, the darling of my eyes, fnatched from the embraces of her parent, juft when the fhould have been the comfort of his declining years." "Oh grief inexpreffible! Oh lofs irreparable! (exclaims the youthful Philander, robbed of his dear Emilia on the nuptial day) I will not long furvive; death only can put a period to my grief. Oh wretched Philander !--Oh fatal love."

Thus every one magnifies his own afAictions. Such misfortunes indeed are great, and the torrent of forrow at first will overflow all bounds. But a patient refignation, and the lenient hand of time, at laft will pour a balm into the bleeding wound.

There are fome again who fink beneath every trifling difafter; while others, fecure in confcious innocence, with unruffled

fouls, can meet misfortune ;--happy as mortals can be, their hours glide smoothly on, bleffed with ferenity. In fuch a foil, in the funshine of fuch a cloudless temper, (the paffions being kept in due order) each virtue too will flourish, and piety, integrity, and benevolence, like Elyfian flowers, fhoot up in fuch a cli

mate.

Be it your care, my fon, to acquire fuch a habit of mind, restrain each immoderate fally of the foul, and promote and encourage every generous emotion. It is needlefs to mother, but highly neceffary to refrain the paffions. Aggravate not an itremediable affliction, by adding to it a fruitlefs repining. When thou art happy in the moderate ufe of any pleasure, blunt not its relish by excefs, and torment not your felt with the view of diftant and uncertain evils, but be careful when they approach to prevent them. Above all things adhere to virtue, and shun a diffolute life, which can poffibly be productive of nothing but remorse. Adieu, my fon, remember, and put in practice thefe 'precepts of thy dying father; fo fhall content, the chief happiness of man, be yours; fo fhall your youth be unmolefted by the ftorms of paffion, and age, as it advances, carrying with it the reflec tion of a well-fpent life, add to your licity.

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J. W.

On PERSECUTION.

THERE is not a more unjust, a more

common, and yet a more ineffectual method for conviction, and bringing over a perfon from his own, to a contrary opinion, than force and perfecution. That this method is often practifed, all who read hiftory muit acknowledge. The defign of this treatife is to fhow,

1. The injuftice, and,

2. The inefficacy of this method, and that force only rivets one more strongly in his own prejudices and opinions.

I. Divine Providence has thought proper to implant into mankind different and diftinft ideas, fo that one feasible perfon's opinion, about a matter indiferent, is quite contrary to another perfon's, who is as fenfible. This is only in matters indifferent; but in respect to what is intrinsically

right and wrong, he has fixt a monitor within, to incite to virtue, and deter from vice. Thus all agree, murder to be a monftrous and fhocking villainy, the fame opinion they entertain of theft, robbery, and unnatural lufts; on the contrary, (whatever their practice be) they will extol to the skies generofity, charity, benevolence, and even piety. But if you ask their opinion, whether the church of Eng land, or of Rome, be the true church; whether the Tory or the Whig be the true Patriot, there they will differ, there they will exclaim against each other, and they will carry their folly and injuftice fo far, as to hate a perfon more for thefe indifferent matters, than if their antagonist was a villain, a robber, or a mean wretch, who

bafely fold his country for pelf. But how unjuft

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