year. Paul, during his infancy, was brought up on the sea coast, where Arbigglingly is situated, and a sea-faring life being adapted to his disposition, he early acquired the habits and manners peculiar to its nature, which the local circumstances of the people and country assisted. The choice made by Paul of a profession, to the dignities of which he aspired, contributed, eventually, to his rise and celebrity, by lifting him from obscurity, and enabling him to play, at least, a secondary part, on the stage of public politics. The sea proved fatal, however, to his legitimate brother, the heir to the family estate, who perished during a voyage in an open boat, between Arbiggling and Carlisle; his first cousin now enjoys the estate. Paul went to sea, sailed to America, and there found himself an humble adventurer: but his conduct manifesting all the characteristics of intrepid and persevering valour, aided by active vigilance, his sentiments also being truly patriotic, on the war breaking out he displayed a degree of vigour, which gave an impulse to American energies, and his exertions contributed to their assistance, in repelling the aggressions of Great Britain. Paul had military talents, with coolness and judgment. In his cruise in the British seas, he signalized alike his skill and prowess, and from the promptness and decision with which he acted, our officers conceded to him superior understanding and a determined mind. He was a man much talked of in the world, and if caressed by the principal actors in different governments, it was personal merit that constituted the ground of his fame and elevation. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. To deliver my opinion on this subject, I shall premise that my sentiments are similar to the language which philosophy has ever assumed. That labour is honourably and profitably employed by parents in the instruction of their children, which exhibits and inculcates, produces and confirms, mildness and benevolence of character towards their fellow animals. Moral improvement ought to be a general object, preparatory in education to that which is intellectual. It is not the bipes impennis only that can resist and complain. Other species, whatever be their necessary inequality, are adapted to their different functions, in the or der of beings, and are equally proper for their several destinations in the diversity which pervades the fitness of things. As those are the best governments, and the best upheld, which act systematically on this principle, a portion of tuition, public and private, ought to be directed accordingly. Parents should enter fully and minutely into this subject, as it is a matter of the first importance to render liberal sentiments compatible with extensive knowledge and mental vigour. Man arrogates to himself the proud title of Lord of the creation: if he is the first in dignity, he should extend his protection to the dependent creatures, a part of whom suffer from his unparalleled injustice, supported by his extraordinary power. The parent who, either from indifference, or a savage disposition, allows a son to be brought up without forming or correcting his judgment, in accordance with the principle here considered, must expect to reap a crop of ingratitude on the part of the child. Without knowing or wishing to know any thing of his family, sure I am that some gross mismanagement must have taken place in the education of the late Mr. Aof Hampstead, or he could not have ordered a game fowl to be roasted alive, because it had refused to fight another animal of the same kind at a cockpit. APOLOGIES for ABUSES. In There is no abuse, ancient or modern, for which ingenious men will not employ their art to find an excuse. France was overrun by a swarm of drones, secular and regular, "black, white, and grey, with all their trumpery." A display of erudition is pleaded in extenuation of the offence of idleness. "Laboriosus nihil agendo” we discover the great character of the genus, and we put it to this test, but we see that it is connected with some collateral good in the species. Hence we are told that the Benedictines cherished a love for the knowledge of antiquities; that the Dominicans, for their scholastic philosophy, reflected lustre on their order; so also the Jesuits, for raising literary fabrics, formed on classic models, and the Oratorians as men of capacity and information in the higher branches of the mathematics. CURE for the GRAVEL. Take leek roots, cut them into pieces, and boil a quart until reduced to a pint, in Monthly Mag.N.360 At the Come sor June 16.474. 1. ABD chamber for the & this Evening Mary and ophia & Couch and ms Cheveley M. Var dill be werking Mackenther, Maren M. day and miss albert. Brown, Clarke, Give The late King was a man of minute detail. He regulated every thing, particularly in his own household and family. The following documents, in his own hand-writing, will illustrate this habit in a remarkable manner. The first consists of his arrangements for a journey to Portsmouth, and a note directing a change. The other consists of his own selections of music, performed at his private concerts, neatly written on a card. At the Commissioners. 1. A bedchamber for the King and Queen; if with convenience, a small room for the Queen to dress, if not, can dress in the bedchamber. 2. A bedchamber for the Princess Royal and Princess Amelia. 3. A bedchamber for Princesses Augusta and Elizabeth. 4. A bedchamber for Princesses Mary and Sophia. Mrs. Clevely, Mrs. Sands, Miss Mackenthun, Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Willis, and Miss Albert. Brown, Clarke, Gisewsell, Albert, Duream, Robinson, Colseham, and Cox. 2 footmen of the King 4 ditto of the Queen 2 hobby grooms, and 12 coach horse servants. 20 coach horses Horses for three post coaches, five post chaises, and two saddle horses on the Monday; on the Tuesday, for two post coaches and six saddle horses. Windsor, June 16th, 1794. this evening, it Since I have seen is settled that Princess Royal will not go to Portsmouth, consequently not Miss Mack enthun, and the two next Princesses will take but one servant between them, consequently Mrs. Clevely, Mrs. Sands, Mrs. Willis, and Miss Albert, will go in the post coach, and one post chaise will be wanting at every stage on Monday. G. R. Chorus, N. 7. Deborah 5th Concerto, from Corelli's Solos Concerto French Horn Chorus, N. 10. Deborah 6th Concerto from Corelli's Solos Divertissement, Bass-et Horn. Chorus, N. 12. Deborah. Concerto Oboe Chorus, N. 13. Deborah 7th Concerto from Corelli's Solos Concerto Flauto Concerto Violoncello Chorus, N. 14. Deborah Chorus, N. 2. Jephtha. Tuesday, May 7th, 1793. Overture, Julius Cæsar Concerto Oboe Chorus, N. 1. Esther 8th Concerto from Corelli's Solos Concerto Flauto Concerto French Horn Chorus, N. 2. Esther Overture, Radamisto Chorus, N. 3. Esther Thursday, May 9th, 1793. 9th Concerto from Corelli's Solos Concerto Flauto Divertissement, Bass-et Horn Overture, Water Music Concerto Violino Chorus, N. 6. Esther Tuesday, May 14th, 1793. Overture, Theseus Concerto Oboe Chorus Above 120 battles have been fought in Europe, since the year 1600, and amongst them all ten only were decisive. History is only a detail of the same events, repeated with some variation. In ancient times a battle consisted of a multitude of single combats, in which there was less noise, but more slaughter than at present. At the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, the Marquis de St. Severin, said "that he came to fulfil the words of his master, and that he would make peace, not as a merchant but as a king." In all important state affairs there is an avowed pretext, and a concealed reason. DR. FRANKLIN and his SON. In the month of February, 1801, I dined with Governor F. at the house of a relation, and was highly entertained. I heard the quondam governor describe the much vaunted and trifling process by which his father proved that lightning was electricity. He entered into the particulars of making the kite, an operation at which he himself assisted; the mode of letting it fly during a thunder-storm, at a little farm belonging to his father, about two miles from Philadelphia. His father had retired, in consequence of the rain, to a shed in the neighbourhood, but emerged from time to time, to survey and state the phenomena. At length the critical moment occurred, but no metallic thread was twined round the string, but being wet, it became a conductor. Undue importance is attached to this experiment-no person in Europe ever doubted that lightning and electricity were identical. |