Majefty, the punishment of which crime is beyond our power to describe. 5th. He totally divefts himself of the image of God and Chrift, and puts on the refemblance of the devil, who was a murderer from the beginning; but appears, in this refpect, more horribly criminal than Satan, because he murders himself. 6th. He turns his back on the whole fyftem of Chriftianity, and from a difciple of Chrift, becomes a revolted traitor, like Judas Iscariot. 7th. He doth himfelf an irreparable injury, and the most horrid mischief that can be conceived; for, by putting an end to his life, he cuts off his time of repentance and grace, after which there is no falvation. 8th. With his wretched life he deftroys his character, and leaves a deplorable legacy of affliction and trouble to his unhappy relations. 9th. He has not the leaft warrantable plea to urge for his horrid crime. He does not find that exemption from pain and remorse, which he feeks; but on the contrary, plunges himself into the deep abyfs of grief, horror, and despair; and confequently is moft wretchedly blinded and deceived by Satan, and his own unaccountable frenzy. To the Editor of the COUNTY MAGAZINE. Y inferting the following Enigmatical Lift of Young Ladies refident in Poole, in your next County Magazine, you will much oblige your conftant reader, JUVENIS. 1. Three-fifths of the world, and threefifths of poifon, changing a letter. 2. Two-fifths of a useful beaft, half of a token, and two-fifths of to build. 3. Half of an arch look, a vowel, and the initial of a kingdom. 4. Two-fifths of a report, one-fourth of a noble beaft, and a vowel. 5. One-fourth of an infect, one-fifth of the god of marriage, half of an hint, and one-fixth of the woman who obtained power to change her fex.. 6. Two-fifths of the god of laughter, a confonant, half of a boundary, and twofifths of a flave. 7. One-fifth of a flame, half of a bird, one-feventh of the fon of Agamemnon, one-fourth of a monarch, and one-third of the ocean. 8. Half of a fifh, and three-fifths of to deferve. 9. Two-fourths of a month, onefeventh of the fifter of Mars, and threefifths of a fruit. 10. Half of an infant, one-tenth of the fon of Ulyffes, two-thirds of a foreign plant, and one-sixth of a fox. 11. Two-eighths of might, two-fevenths of the first king of Rome, one-fourth of intelligence, and the initial of a famous river of India. 12 Two-fixths of the fon of Erebus, the fifth letter of the alphabet, two-fixths of a convoy, the fecond vowel, and a human being. 13. Three-fevenths of mirth, half of a fea-port in Dorfetfhire, one-fourth of a manor, and one third of a fruit. 14. One of the twelve Apoftles, and. one of the mafculine gender. Hence, ftudious Legg! thy worth, thy candor Their magic forms to terrify unfold. dows, heirs, executors, legatees, and pur-While heav'nly notions warm th' enraptur'd breaft, f. Hence fears and horrors of peculiar mould, chafers, of which numbers of melan-And ev'ry earth-born passion finks to reßt. choly inftances may be produced in this county, and in Hampshire, and what adds to the injury, it is not perhaps difcovered until paft remedy (viz.) after the party's death, and then often by a law fuit, arifing folely from fuch perfon's blunders, and their undertaking through igno rance and prefumption, what they are utterly incapable of performing; fcarce a line of good fenfe and grammar appearing in their wills and conveyances, and but few words fpelt right. It is fit therefore the unwary public fhould be cautioned against the rifks they run by employing fuch bold conveyancers, and fhewn they would act wifely in applying to the regular-bred man in every profeffion, as the true way to have their bufinefs well executed; and though perhaps it may coft two or three fhillings in a pound more, yet the différence is the beft money that can be expended, as it infures fafety. A place for this juft obfervation in your ufeful Magazine, will oblige, Sir, your conftant reader, and a well-wifher to the public weal. PHILANTHROPOS. To Mr. J. LEGG, near Market-Lavington, Wilts, in Confequence of reading his Critical Remarks on a Poem lately publifhed in Devizes. Nor doft thou envy once the pomp of kings. Some Critics cenfure by no other rule, Averfe to this, long may'st thou live to know, Why then with fighs inceffant heaves thy breast? Nor think that aught her own could better please! We all fome fav'rite pleasure wish t'attain, YES, Legg! to thee the lay I'll gladly raise, Much pleasure springs from candor's upright laws, Ah think while thousands live in jarring strike, In lonely woods and moffy rural cells; Those lov'd repasts that otherwise may cloy, Hid from the world and all its various ways, and the hungry ox. + The fweets of folitude in fome shapes are inex-. preffible. The mind being literally difengaged from the world, undergoes not so many divifions that must naturally be the cafe when our eyes are attracted by a great variety of animate and inanimate objects. Hence our bofoms, lefs taken up, and what with the gloom and pleafing horrors of a folitary retirement where every thing is ftill, fave the gentle zephyrs blowing among the trees, the perpetual founds of falling water, and the wild melody of birds; we direct our thoughts to fubjects of that ferious kind, Should thefe affections, plaintive Legg, be thine,. Mix with those men who chearful are and wife, Thy gloom difpers'd, ftill own the Delian fhrine, Devizes, Sept. 12, 1787. PHILANTHROPOS. which never fail to make the best and most useful impreffions on our minds. It is in fuch calm retreats we seem to feel a more than ordinary respect for the Supreme Being, and find ourfelves better prepared to converse with him. Here is folitude abundant with delight. But we are apt fometimes, when we are too much by ourselves thus fituated, to form a group of extravagant notions and incoherent conjectures concerning what is not to be revealed unto us, which mostly gives birth to a kind of melancholy fear and dread that will never leave us. Let us not too much indulge in enquiries of this ferious kind: I have experienced the very ill effects of it in more than one of my acquaintance. Solitude is neceffary very often; but when used excef. fively, it is highly pernicious-nay to fome minds dangerous. ing to defend himself against thirty grenadiers, who threatened every instant to run him through the body if he did not fubmit. The King, amazed at his valour, and pitying his rafhnefs, cried out, Auftrian! why don't you furrender? Are you made of iron or marble, to withftand the fury of thirty armed men?' Pleafe your Majefty, faid the Auftrian foldier, I was of the former garrifon, and being afleep at the evacuation of the town, I could not perfuade myself that your Majefty had any right to detain me as a prifoner of war, being included in the general capitulation.' True, replied the King, you cannot alone be a prifoner, when the whole garrifon have marched out.' Your grenadiers would have made me fo, faid the Auftrian, if I had not refolved to lofe my life in defence of my liberty.' 'Brave, but rafh man, anfwered Frederick, give up thy arms, and fave thy life.' Then call off thefe grenadiers,' replied the Auftrian. The King ordered away the party, and going close to him, demanded his musket and bayonet, faying, A man who has so high a sense of honour, can never be guilty of a bafe act; the lefs thou feemeft to value thy own life in this cafe, the more thou wilt regard mine.' The Auftrian fell on his knees, and delivered his firelock into his hands; his Majefty bade him rife, returned his arms, told him he was free, and offered him a pair of colours in his own fervice. 'I cannot accept your favour, faid the Auftrian, I have fworn allegiance to Mary Terefa, and will not fight against her, • Illufthough to be made a general.' trious foldier! replied the King, go thy way in peace, but not without a few pieces to drink my health with thy comrades. Not a penny, anfwered the Auftrian; I return your Majefty my moft fincere acknowledgments, and vow to drink to your good health with my Royal Miftrefs's money.' So faying, the Auftrian faluted the King, and marched off to join his companions with his firelock on his fhoulder, and three-pence halfpenny in his pocket, leaving the King, and all who heard him, aftonished at his courage, probity, and true greatness of mind. TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. TICKEL L. EPLETE with every charm to win the heart, Roothe life's forrows, or its joys impart, Soft-timid-elegant! her beauteous mien BY giving the following a place in your entertaining Magazine, you will oblige your conftant reader, and humble fervant, ELOISA. An Enigmatical Lift of ten Gentlemen and as many Ladies, in and near Newport, in the Isle of Wight, as they were lately drawn in Pairs at a Game of Lottery. I. Two-fevenths of a fickle divinity, and what rhymes to a public newspaper." Two-thirds of an appendage to the tea-table, and ditto of a maket-town in Suffex. II. An affembly for Chriftian worship, and an Hibernian faint. What gamefters do with a die, onefixth of a precious ftone, and the eldest fon of a patriarch. III. One-fourth of a country in European Turkey, and three-eighths of a title of nobility. Two-fifths of a heavy mafs, threeeighths of a Grecian hero, and the fhallow part of a river. IV. Half of a play-thing, and the beft fauce for chicken. An article of Norvegian commerce, one-third of a learned profession, and 2240 lb. weight avoirdupois. VERSES addreffed to Mr. MOSENEAU on the late fcarcity of ROSES. By aLADY. mer morn, WHEN June with radiance crowns the fum- How painful then, that Boreas rugged hand, Should steal the Rofes from this favourite land? A fweet apology for Rofia's love. years, Yet Fortune, from her earliest In childhood's helpless state, bereft One only fault the Maid poffefs'd- Unvers'd in woes that others find, But ah! ere yet the lucklefs Maid Young Henry, with fuccessful art, Her pure, unspotted fame, By honour's dictates unreftrain'd, So poor Eliza's hapless fate Fill'd Henry's breast with care; He faw the beauties once he priz'd For how could injur'd honour look No forrows could afford relief, No penitence atone; The figh the gave to others grief, She wanted for her own. The partners of her youthful years' Unpity'd her distress, Nor kindly help'd to dry her tears, Nor ftrove to make them lefs. Her lov'd companions turn'd away, So ever thro' the world we find Each breast at woe recoils, And all the favours of mankind But laft while fortune fmiles. Too juft, life's guilty joys t' endure, Awhile the heaven's forgiveness pray'd, Unfkill' in life's precarious way, In vain they with repentant fighs, Their fad experience mourn; E'en thofe, who ought to fympathize, Abandon them with fcorn. Say why, ye virgins, who bestow On moft compaffion's tear; The pangs alone yourselves may know, You thus refufe to cheer? O rather kindly condescend To aid the drooping fair; Your mercy with your justice blend, And fnatch them from despair. Eliza's death, when Henry heard, He gave a piteous groan; The cenfure of the world he fear'd, But more he fear'd his own. In vain he flew to crouds and courts, Guilt every blifs deftroys; Intruded on his morning ports, And damp'd his evening joys. At length, with constant grief o`ercome, He hied him to the lonely tomb There weeping o'er the turf-clad ground, He caft his streaming eyes around, Thus warn'd, ye fair, with caution arm Let Hymen's facred bands unite, So fhall no rankling cares annoy, ARLEY. THE LITTLE CAPTIVE. SAY AY, little futt'rer, whither would't thou fly! Devoid of harm thyfelf, thou fear'ft no harm: Yet know, unnumber'd fnares befet thee nigh, Snares which too late thy fafety may alarm. Too delicately fledg'd to brave the air, Lur'd by the visionary tints, she bends, And finiling spreads her little fingers wide; As premature thy fate, unguarded thus, To flutter long the much-frequented way; Perhaps, difcover'd by fome agile pufs, That grimly pleas'd, fhall with thy plumage Then let me hence conduct thee, helpless bird! No wiry limit fhall my bird immure, No fi ken gvve immanacle thy feet; Nor fatal feel, from flight thy wing secure, To damp the fong of freedom, wildly sweet. The peaceful garden be thy facred home, If bent on wandering, this gay parterre Yields not fufficient charms to stay thy wing; Fly where thou lift, may fafety tend thee there; There chaunt thy vefpers; there thy matins fing. Go, little captive, liberty is thine; Enjoy the privilege that nature gaveAnd ever be the sweet reflection mineFrom harm, unguarded innocence to save. The GRAVES of LLANELTHY. [From Mr. MATTHEWS's "Tour of Obfer"vation and Sentiment, through a Part of "SOUTH WALES." See P. 312. NOME, darling Muse, who lov`st to fing COME, bluffoms of the Spring; Who lov't to linger o'er the ground And fince thou dat'st thy birth from heaven, When through the fields the youthful feet Brush forth, the orient fun to meet, The infant ardor of the mind Perceives the wint'ry frofts unbind, And Nature's renovated scene Her ruffet changing into green; When, Nature's folemn tribute paid, Then melts the bofom-heaves the figh, "And now the officious youth prepare Each well-known fpot with pious care, Mark out the little foot-way round, And fimooth, with art, the facred ground; Then cull wild flowers from the brake, The primrose and the vi’let take; The crocus from the garden bring, And each gay herald of the Spring: And while their bufy hands they spread, Adorning all the precious bed, And call to mind the fond embrace, And dwell upon some parent's face: Or prattling playmate's gentle smile, That us'd the moments to beguile; Inftructed by fome grandfire's choice, (Convey'd in fecond childhood's voice) The fairest flow'r pick from the rest, And plant it blooming o'er the breast, And lastly, when the work of love, That vies with meeknefs of the dove, Is ended, and their eyes furvey The decorations of the day, As Youth and Age, a tender train, In filence feek their cots again, Full oft they stop to trace once more The scene from which they turn'd before; And linger on the facred place, While folemn fadnefs pales their face; As oft around th' ideal bier, They fhed again the mournful tear; And with the fondeft parting view They breathe their filent laft adieu! "Let not the proud, or the profane, Thefe rites of Nature's woes difdain; Nor cold Philofophy, the mode Of fuch benignant worth explode; Nor ftern fectarian zealots blame Such incenfe, offer'd in the name Of him who wept o'er Laz'rus' grave, Nor without tears mankind could fave." } of certain obfervations, which naturally occurred to a by-ftander: Perhaps fome of your readers will agree, that the hurry of an affize town, a fort of vanity fair in miniature, may not be unentertaining to a reflecting mind: obferve, I do not mean to include the prifoners, or other parties interefted. The trumpet founds three times, as the boys at play fay, one to begin, two to make ready, three and away. Apropos; an odd ftory here obtrudes itself; and as the celebrated Sterne faid, though with much better reafon, and by the bye, it may be ftill the better, because he said it, and is fince dead; CC my pen governs me, I govern not it." Well, now for the ftory. Once upon a time, there was a Judge upon his circuit, who invited the gentlemen of the Long Robe to an Affize dinner: upon recollection, I believe the High Sheriff gave the dinner; however, that is not material, you know;-after the cloth was removed, the bottles paffed brifkly round the table, there not being any more causes to try, and almost every one faid, or attempted to fay, fomething smart upon the occafion; a junior counfel, who had never spoken in public before, feeming uneafy to exhibit in turn, or, as the lawyers would fay, to make an incipitur, afked the Judge if his Lordfhip had feen the wonderful Rhinoceros which was in town? His Lordship answered without the least hesitation, " No, Sir, we both travel with trumpets, and believe ftand upon ceremony-the ceremony of who fhall make the first visit." Whether there was any room for the young Barrister to reply or not, leaving your judicious readers to determine, I proceed. The trumpet founds in the high street, the ladies in full drefs flock to the windows, to fee, I mean rather to be seen, for certes there is very little to fee, and the Sheriff bows politely as he paffes; at this inftant a man, with a moft earnest countenance, demanded of me, "if the last trumpet had founded?" My anfwer was, "I hope in God not, Sir, for I am by no means prepared;" "Nor I, as I am a finner,' exclaimed a well-known attorney, who ftood on my left hand: a third perfon on my right declared he was doubtful, whether my Lord, the Barristers, nay the whole Court, were not in the fame predicament. I foon loft my companions, and having been hustled into the channel, was forced along by the croud into a place caled a Hall, fcarce big enough to contain, with any degree of conveniency, half the company: His Lordship bows, and feats himfelf, having four-and-twenty ladies on each fide, all of a row; and underneath, To the Editor of the COUNTY MAGAZINE. four-and-twenty black-gowns, all of a SIR, row; they brought to my mind the old fong of Four-and-twenty Fiddlers, &c. but matter for that: on fecond confider H country town during the aflize nional believe there were above thirty week, I cannot avoid difburthening myfelf Barrifters, many of whom, I was informed, U u |