will plunge you, I fear, into the deepeft forrow. Br the other night the called me to her bedfide, and taking me by the hand, faid, "My dear child, I am just go ing to leave you; a few hours will bear me to the "world of fpirits. I willingly refign you, my dear "charge, and your brothers, if they are yet alive, to "the care of a good God, who will always befriend "the virtuous. I rejoice you are of that number: If 86 you continue as you have fat out, you cannot fail of "being happy. When you have an opportunity to "write to your brothers, or fhall fee them, tell them, "I died with them on my heart, left them a mother's "bleffing, and had no higher wish on earth than to hear "they were wife and good. Alas, poor Pamphilus ! "would to God he were fo: Were I fure of this, I "fhould die perfectly eafy. I hope Ebulus will return "to you, and heaven make you happy in each other. Farewel, my dearest child! May heaven preferve you wife and good; and when you drop a tear to the memory of a loving mother, be excited thereby to imitate whatever you thought good in her. Oh! "farewell." With thefe words, the dear woman refigned her foul into her Maker's hands, and fmiled in the agony of death. Oh! my dear brother, grief overwhelms me; I can add no more, but that I long exceedingly to fee you, that will be my only cordial, to alleviate the heavy loss of your affectionate sister, ELIZ. KOWE. The FROM A YOUNG LADY, [Whefe vivacity can give intereft to trifles, and entertainment to "You made me promife, on leaving town, that I would write to you whenever the country afforded any thing worth writing about. The country, at prefent, merely as country, prefents no landfcape but one undif tinguished tract of fnow; vegetation is locked up in frost, and we are locked up within doors; but fomething might be traced within doors, had I a good pencil for the purpose-Mine hoft, of whom you have heard a good deal, is no bad fubject: fuppofe I make him fit for his picture. "Believe me, he is not quite the fenfible intelligent man we were told he was-So much the better; I like oddities-even now and then, in town; ftill better in the country;-but in froft and fnow, and all the dreary confinement of winter-Oh! your battledore and fhuttlecock are a joke to them. "You remember, a long while ago, (fo long, that I have forgot every part of the book but the name,) we read Nature difplayed together. You then told me of a certain Mr. Leeuwenhoek, I think you called him, whose whofe microscope fhewed the circulation of a frog's blood, the fcales of the fcales of fishes, the briftles of mites, and every tiny thing in the world. Now, my worthy landlord, Mr. G. R. has always fuch a glass as Leeuwenhoek's in his noddle; every little thing is fo great to him, and he does little things, and talks of little things, with an air of fuch importance!-but I hate definitions; pictures are ten times better; and now for a few sketches of my winter-quarters, and of the good man under whofe government I live. "I discovered, on my first entry into his house, that every thing was in exact order, and every place inviolably appropriated to its respective ufe. The gentlemen were to put their hats and sticks in one corner, and the ladies their clogs in another. I have hitherto efcaped much cenfure on this fcore: luckily I have attracted the regard of Mr. R's youngest fifter; a grave, confiderate, orderly young lady. I don't know how it is, but I have often got into favour with thofe grave ladies--God knows, I little deferve it-Mifs Sophia R therefore keeps me right in many important particulars, or covers my deviations with fome apology; or, if all won't do, I laugh, as is my way: Mr. R- calls me Rattlefcull, fays he fhall bring me into order by and bye, and there's an end on't. "By that attention to trifles, for which, from his earlieft days, he was remarkable, Mr R made himself commodious to fome perfons of confiderable influence, and and procured many advantages, to which, neither from birth nor fortune, he was any ways entitled. He travelled in company with a gentleman of very high rank and distinguished abilities, by whose means he procured an introduction to many eminent men in foreign countries; and, when he returned from abroad, was often in the fociety of the eminent men of our own. But his brain, poor man! was like like a gauze fearce; it admitted nothing of any magnitude: amidst great men, and great things, it took in only the duft that fell from them. "He was reading in the news papers, the other morning, of the marriage of the honourable Mifs W to Sir H. S. Ah! (faid he) to think how time paffes! I remember her grandfather, Lord W well; a great man, a very great man. We met at Naples, and afterwards went to Parma together. I gave him the genuine receipt for the Parmefan cheese, which I went purposely to procure, while he was examining fome statues and ancient manufcripts. We were ever afterwards on the most friendly footing imaginable. I was with him a few mornings before the marriage of Lord C. W, this very Mifs W's father. I remember it well-it was at breakfast-I often breakfafted with him before he went to the houfe-he always eat buttered muffins; but, when I was there, he used to order dry toast; I always eat dry toast.-The bride was with us; I was intimately acquainted with her too: she let me into the whole fecret of the courtship. Her father's principal inducement to the match--it was a long affair—the B― eftate was to be fettled on the young folks at the marriage,- -no not all—part of the Beftate, with the manor in Lincolnshire.-But, as I was faying, we were at breakfast at Lord W's. His fon and the bride were by; Lord C had velvet breeches, and gold clocks to his stockings; the queflion was, whether this was proper? I put it to the bride; fhe was a fine woman, a prodigious fine woman; fhe always used my wash-ball; I wrote out the receipt for her; it was given me at Vienna by Count O; a very great man Count O and knew more of the affairs of the empire than any man in Germany-From him I first learned with certainty, that the Dutchefs of Lorraine's two fore-teeth were falfe ones. I remember he had an old grey monkey-Sifter Mary, you have heard me tell the story of Count O's monkey.'-But here it pleased heaven that William called his mafter out of the room, and faved us from the Count and his old grey monkey. This fuperficial knowledge of great men, and accidental acquaintance with fome of the vocables of fstatebusiness, has given him a confequential fort of phraseology; which he applies, with all the gravity in the world, to the most trifling occurrences. When he orders the chaife for his eldeil fifter, himself, and me, the white pad for Sophy, and the old roan mare for her attendant, he calls it regulating the order of the proceffion.' When he gives out the wine from the cellar, and the groceries from the store-room, (for he does both in perfon,) he tells us, he has been granting the fupplies.' The |