is not allowed to marry, after he has quitted her, but is obliged to go into a nunnery.

3. Neither the Queen, nor the ladies of the first quality in Spain, sit upon chairs, but upon sofas in the Turkish manner, both to take their meals and rest themselves.

4. If the Queen's horse should happen to overturn, or if she should fall from her horse, nobody but the King, or the maids of honour are permitted to help her; if her gentlemen were to of fer it, they would forfeit their lives by their officiousness.

5. No married men but the King, and no married women but the Queen, dare lie at the palace; and all other persons that live there, are such as always were, or, at least, are then single.

6. All the grandees keep their hats on in presence of the Queen, as likewise all other persons of quality when they converse with any court lady in her Majesty's presence. To excuse them it is said, that they are so dazzled by the beauty and shining qualifications of the lady, with whom they have entered into conversation, that such a piece of unpoliteness is excusable.

7. The three different ranks of the grandees of Spain are thus distinguished. The first class consists of those who keep their hats on before they speak to the King. The second consists of those who keep their hats on after they have begun to speak. And the third of those who do not put them on till they have done speaking, and are retired to their places. However, none of these

are permitted to cover themselves till the King has made them a sign. There are ninety-three different degrees of quality in Spain.

Garden of Mousseau. After dinner we drove to the beautiful garden of Mousseau, formerly the property of the Duc d'Orleans. It is laid out with great taste, and delights the eye with the most romantic specimens of improved rural beauty. It was originally designed by its detestable owner for other purposes than those of affording to a vast and crowded city the innocent delights and recreations of retired and tasteful scenery. In the gloom of its groves, all sorts of horrible profanations were practised by this monster and his midnight crew, at the head of whom was Legendre, the butcher. Every rank recess of prostitute pollution in Paris was ransacked to furnish materials for the celebration of their impure and impious orgies. The ode to Atheism and the song of blasphemy were succeeded by the applauding yells of drunkenness and obscenity.

At the time we visited this garden it belonged to the nation, and was open on certain days to well-dressed people. A few days afterwards it was presented, as a mark of national esteem, to Cambaceres, the second Consul.

To the Printer. I happened to find myself lately in a select company of very ingenious gentlemen

when the conversation turned upon the universally interesting topic of love; and a query, to the following effect, was proposed by one of them :

Supposing a lady is courted by two gentlemen that have both attained to years of discretion, or their twenty-fifth year and that one of them never was in love before, and the other has been, which has the lady reason to think the most sincere lover, and which ought she to prefer as likely to make her the fondest and the best husband?

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This question, Sir, gave occasion to a very long, and, as I thought, very able discussion, and a great deal was urged pro and con; but it was finally concluded by all present in favour of him who had been in love. It was granted indeed, that there was something highly flattering to a woman's pride in the addresses of a man, who had never before acknowledged the power of any other female, and that there was an appearance of reason in inferring, that the love of such a person would, upon that account, be the greater, and his constancy more to be depended upon, than that of a man who had ever been affected by any other object. But it was determined, that though there may be something unpleasing to a lady, in the reflection, that a gentleman who courts her hand, ever distinguished any other woman, yet that very circumstance was, in fact, so far from being a rational objection, that it ought, when rightly considered, to be the strongset recommendation of a man to a woman who

has any knowledge of the human heart; for that the experience of all ages has established it as a known truth, that the natural tempers and real characters of men, may be pretty well guessed at from their being more or less sensible, in their younger years, of impressions from the other sex; and that an early susceptibility of love and friendship is an infallible mark of a good and

A friend, who heard each fretful word,
Struck with complainings so absurd,
And with his folly much affected,
The murm'rer smartly thus corrected:-
"Peace! thou gloomy murm'rer, know
That nothing's perfect here below;
Yet half the woes which life invade

Are by our own misconduct made;

Bless'd with the rosy bloom of health,
By fortune crown'd with stores of wealth.
What cause hast thou, in strains like these,
To censure Heav'n's all-wise decrees?
The blessings in thy power enjoy,
Nor seek their value to destroy.
'Tis impious in a clouded state
To murmur at the stroke of fate;
But when we bask in sunny days,

The heart should bound with grateful praise.
No longer, then, vain man, repine,
Life's greatest blessings all are thine:
Enjoy them with a thankful mind,
And be to Providence resign'd."

The following sublime and elegant description, which comes from the pen of a very popular writer, has already been printed on a small slip of paper, and distributed among his friends and acquaintance. A correspondent having favoured us with a copy, we hope we shall not offer an unpardonable violence to his modesty, by communicating it to the public.

Extract of a Letter to ***.

"In my way to the north from Hagley, I passed through Dovedale, and, to say the truth, was disappointed in it. When I came to Buxton, I visited another or two of their romantic.scenes, but these are inferior to Dovedale. They are all poor miniatures of Keswick, which exceeds

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