phia, and was greatly distinguished in privateering in the war of 1756. This gentleman had a brother in the 16th regiment, in the British fervice, at the time of Montgomery's expedition in Canada, and who was as violent in favour of the English goverment, as this General's aid de camp was enthufiaftick in the caufe of America; the latter had accompanied his general, a day or two previous to the attack in which they both loft their lives, to view and meditate on the spot where Wolfe had fallen; on his return he found a letter from his brother, the Englith officer, full of the bittereft reproaches against him, for having entered into the American fervice, and containing a pretty direct wifh, that if he would not abandon it, he might meet with the deferved fate of a rebel. The aid de camp immediately return

ed him an answer, full of strong reafoning in defence of his conduct, but by no means attempting to shake the oppofite principles of his brother, and not only "free from acrimony, but full of expreffions of tendernefs and affection; this letter he dated," from the fpot where Wolfe loft his life, in fighting the caufe of England in friendship with America." This letter had fcarcely reached the officer at New-York, before it was followed by the news of his brether's death. The effect was inftantaneous; nature, and perhaps reafon, prevailed; a thoufand not unworthy fentiments rufbed up. on his diftreffed mind; he quitted. the English service, entered into that of America, and fought every occafion of distinguishing himself in her service!"

American Farmer.

THIS is to be understood as a proverbial kind of expreffion, fig. nifying the certainty of Chrift's meffiahfhip. The fkeptical pharifees, defirous of damping the joy, and quenching the zeal, of thefe pious jews, who glorified God for vifiting and redeeming his people, requested Jefus to rebuke his extravagant difciples, and teach them moderation. "By no means," he replies. "Their rejoicing is in the highest degree reafonable and decorous. This is the most joyous day ever known in Judea. It is the happy

era, of which your prophets have prophefied, and your poets fung. In their predictions you boat a future Prince of peace, and exult in the expected privileges of his reign. That Prince hath come, and his reign is commenced. His works and triumphs inconteftibly prove it. The blind receive their fight, and the lame walk; the lepers are cleanfed, and the dif hear; the dead are rifed up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. Thefe bleffings your fathers faw in vition only; but you fee them literally: it was their's

to enjoy them in mere profpect; it is your's to taste and realize them they could fay, Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, for thy king COMETH ; but far more bleffed are your eyes, which behold this king ALREADY COME, actually difpenfing the light of his doctrine and the honours of his falvation. Amidst these brilliant proofs of the Mefliah's advent, it is evidence of your ftupidity to deny his divine miffion, and of your envy and malice to attempt repreffing the rapture of his followers.. For, if his entrance into your city, on this remarkable occafion, fhould excite no acclamations of the people, inanimate nature would accufe them of infenfibility and ingratitude, and the very fones in the Street become the organs of his praise."

honeft man, ere we should meet a party more difpofed to be pleased, or more qualified to pleafe. Every paffion, whofe fingle force is pleafure, united in each breast to yield them delight, and reciprocal confidence was the bafe of their friendship.

There was an invisible and fubtle agency pervaded their fociety, which rendered every thing interefting. Yet there are those, whofe groffer perceptions will laugh at pleasure of a caft fo different from their own; but it has not yet been difcovered, why ignorance laughs at what it does not understand.

Time rolled imperceptibly onward, and fix weeks elapfed ere they thought one departed. There was little variation of circumftance, but every day came fraught with new and refined pleasure ; the natural confequence of intellectual purfuits, and the interchange of fentiment.

Selina's character received a brighter polish from this intercourfe; it became fixed, more true, more powerfully magnetick. It is an incontrovertible truth, however prudes and cynicks may deny it with their lips, that to the attraction of the fexes to each other does the character of cach owe its greatet radiance.

The female mind, that an extenfive knowledge of literature has not yet expanded, feizes with avidity, and appreciates the matured and critical observations of enlightened and liberal men; and the alliciency of beauty and innocence, the affociated radiance of virtuous grace, adds a fuavity to their manners that finishes their character.

If there is a reciprocity of improvement, a mutual light reflected, and this has been allowed by fome of the most philofophick men on modern record, the conteft for acknowledged equality in the great fcale of nature is an idle ftruggle.

Let man enjoy in idea his vifionary pre-eminence! it is harmless; for amidst his loudest vauntings, he will not venture to affert there is fex in foul.

Where is the retreat of that wisdom which governs kingdoms; that valour which commands armies; that patriotism which oppofes defpots, (deeds that refult from the full affemblage of fuperiour intellect) when man becomes the victim of the being he pretends to despise, then his actions contradict his affertions. The monfler-killer Hercules, after all his gigantick feats of ftrength and valour, meanly fubmitted to handle the diftaff and when Phyne lifts up her veil, the whole areopagus is corrupted.

If man wifhes to convince us his claim to pre-eminence is more than a phantom, the pride felflove has conjured up, let the confiftency of his actions prove it. If created to protect us, let him not expofe us to danger; if gifted with ftrength to aid our erring judgments, let him beware of misleading us : if formed to fafcinate our fenfes, let him not feck to corrupt the heart and meanly make weaknes his victim; or, with the collected force of every science in his head, he becomes more an object of contempt in the eye of virtue than the reptile he crulles under his feet.

Since our party had been domefticated, no interruption had broke the harmony of their "feast of reason, and their flow of foul." Small parties of military had called to refresh themselves at the garrifon; but the ladies had not appeared-their pleafures were ftill drawn from intellectual refources, that never ceafing spring; and let those who are condemned by neceffity to so small a circle as our friends, (and who are languifhing for the frivolity of the great world, through which they have hitherto fluttered, and fancied themselves happy) examine with a wifh to find if the exertion of their intellects will not be a refource against that deplorable liftlefsnefs, that lethargy of the foul, which enthrouds the faculties, and plunges them too often into a gulph from which they never emerge.

If they feek, they will find; and as their mental perception clears, and the light of knowledge bursts on their darkened minds, the foul will paufe to view the change, and acquire new vigour from the profpect; the bright conftellation of knowledge will expand the heart to the calls of social duty, and the confcioufnefs of having performed it, will give comfort to that hour which fplendour cannot gild, nor acclamation exhilarate; that hour when the foul retires into itfelf for confolation. They frequently walked out to enjoy the pure breeze of the atmosphere, unadulterated with the fmoke of cities; and as they paced the now defolated fields, and reflected on the eftrangement of their friends and kindred, the tear of deep regret

would fall from the eye of Mrs. Marshall and Selina ;-there was now no friendly neighbour to vifit after a pleasant ride, where they used to enjoy the focial evening in cheerful chat, and on the morrow return to review with increase the joys of home, that place of comfort. All was changed

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every eye was filled with doubt of his neighbour's fidelity-the father truited not the fon, nor the fon the father-unnatural difunion! lamentable exchange ! fufpicion, and its attendant corruption, for the folace of confidence, and the delights of affection. (To be continued.)

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ANTHOLOGY. Sir,

WHEN I first heard, that publick Bathing Rooms were to be established in this town, I applauded the project, and hoped it would foon become fafhionable for both fexes to frequent them. Notwithstanding it was very apparent, that fcarcely any ufe was made of the tubs previously to be found in almoft every family, my expectations were justified by remarking the management of the proprietors who, as is ufual in this place with those who would recommend any novel production to the patronage of the genteel, fixed the enjoyment of them at a high price. Whether the rich and fashionable alone have need of this cleaning operation, I fhall decline, however useful it might be, to difcufs: It feems to be taken for granted, that they require it rather more than the lower claffes. I wrote the greatest part of the following lines. under the impreffion of thofe hopes and expectations, but though the event has difappointed me, it being notorious that fcarcely any females refort to the publick baths, I have continued them for the pleasure of praising a wholesome practice, even though our countrywomen have not the virtue to call it their

own.

BATHING.

DEEP within the founding flood Dread Nereus' cryftal palace stood, Tranfcending by a gemmy blaze Its light repell'd the folar rays:

When Tritons rous'd the ocean fong, His faithful fea-nymphs there would throng,

And Naiads from their verdant caves

Bring tribute to the king of waves. Poffefs'd of each fupernal blifs, Compris'd within the vast abyfs, What richer joys could earth disclose To charm him from divine repofe? Say where the impious fair abode, Who fcorned to blefs the water god!

His faithful Nymphs employ'd to glide Along the fubterranean tide, And freflen'd waters to diftil Their fern-crowned fifters' urns to fill, Unto the hollow oak would roam, And taste the wild bee's honey-comb : Hence, made to linger at the spring, They heard our woodland Poets fing→ Oft heard their love-indited strain Repeated by the Dryad train : Boftonia's fair the rapt'rous theme, In beauty and in worth fupreme.

Diana and her nymphs were wont To cheer them in the cooling fount; The Graces oft were wont to lave In Céphifus' tranflucent wave, But yet Boftonia's fair, more chaste, No water spirit e'er embrac'd. Apollo's bright Meliffan troops, Reclufe beneath the hazel copfe, Libations drew felect, and meet To water Ceres' hallow'd feet: While in a ruftick row they fat