every thing around feemed to breathe tenderness and love;-and I reflected with delight that the fair form-the elegant mind that made these arrangements was foon to be mine.-The day was to be named in which this my happiness was to be completed, and eager to hear it, I was impatient for the arrival of my beautiful Marianne; whose delay, after near half an hour had elapfed, fomewhat furprised me. The female negroes who ufually waited about the apartments were not now seen; but with a defign to call one of them, that she might let her mistress know of my attendance, I stepped into the colonnade or gallery, which looked into a court, when I was struck with a fight that has for ever cured me of trufting to the appearance of female softness and tenderness.

My fair, my gentle Marianne, whom I have feen weep over the fictitious diftreffes of a novel, and fhrink from the imaginary forrows of an imaginary heroine, walked with cool but stately steps before two old negro women who dragged between them a mulatto girl of ten or eleven years old, while another ftout negro woman followed with the inftrument of punishment in her hand, which I foon found was to be applied to the unfortunate little creature, who, while one of the old monsters bound her and another endeavoured to stop her mouth, pleaded as well as fhe could for mercy to her " dear Mifly"and pleaded in vain. Oh, Warwick! I faw this woman, with whom I had fondly dreamed of paffing a life of felicity --I saw this Marianne, to whom I had given my fincereft affections, direct the punishment, and increase its severity;-I heard the fhrieks of the miferable little victim;-I saw her back almoft flayed; and Mifs Shaftesbury feemed to me to enjoy the fpectacle-a fpectacle which I was fo little able to bear, that I ran back to the apartment I had left, where the cries of the fuffering child ftill rang in my ears. I recovered my breath and recollection only to determine never to expofe myself to fee such a scene again, and never to unite my destiny with that of a woman who could act in it: and I left the houfe without feeing Mifs Shaftesbury, or otherwife informing her of my being there than leaving a meffage with the flaves in the stable that I was taken ill, and had returned to Kingston."

"And what," faid I, " dear Jack, doft thou intend to do?" 66 Nothing," "anfwered he :-" for I fhall never go near her again. No, Warwick, though I were fure I must continue a lieutenant,fand without a fhilling but my pay for the reft of my life, I would not marry Mifs Shaftesbury, even though instead of the fortune she was to bring me, her portion were half the kingdoms of Europe."

"Moft people, my good friend," replied I, "would reckon you more nice than wife."

"I believe they would," anfwered he; " but as it is my happiness that is the question, and not that of " most people," I shall most affuredly take my leave of the lady for ever." In this refolution my friend perfifted; and all I could prevail upon him to do was to

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write a letter to the father, affigning the diffatisfaction of his friends in England as a reason for relinquifhing the honour intended him. The regiment, which had nearly been its time in the island when my friend and I joined it, was ordered home very foon afterwards, where we heard that the lady confoled herfelf with a young American of fortune, who foon after addrefied her, and whofe heart the contrived to break in about two years; though he probably felt no fuch antipathy to the difcipline in which the excelled in regard to the negroes; for the continental Americans, like thofe of the Weft Indies, confider fuch things as mere matters of course-though it is faid that they are lefs fevere in their treatment of that unhappy race of people.'

Mrs. Smith proceeds to draw a parallel between the negro and the English pauper, in which the feems, along with fome other writers, to give the preference to the state of the negro, She does not, however, run into declamation on either fide, but feems to have weighed the arguments with candour, and ftated the circumftances with impartiality. Yet furely fhe forgets that the fingle circumftance of not being fubject to the lafh, that is to fay, to torture, at the will of a master, is alone fufficient to turn the balance in favour of the former.

About half the volume, and the most interefting part of it, contains the history of a Portuguefe, who falls a facrifice to the unconquerable violence of an unhappy paffion; his languishing and fentimental character well contrafts with the gayer and lighter difpofitions of Warwick and his wife, and his catastrophe is affecting. Part of the fcene being laid in Portugal, gives our auther an opportunity to gratify us by her elegant talent in landscape-painting.

All Portugal, however, is not fo dreary and defolate as fome accounts of it reprefent. I have paffed through villages where the houfes, low indeed, and without glafs in the windows, were fhaded by beautiful bay-trees, as large as trees which are called timber in England, contrafting their deep and glofy verdure with the white cottages, they fheltered; while along the middle of the street (as we call a double row of houfes in England) are conftructed a fort of rude treillage, on each fide of which vines arife in fuch luxuriance as to form a kind of arbour, and from the fides and top rich clusters of purple grapes offer themfelves to the paffenger. The figures that adorn thefe fingular landscapes do not difgrace them. The men are ugly enough; but the women, while young, are many of them extremely beautiful, and, with the light forms of nymphs, have the moft lovely eyes and the fineft teeth that can be imagined: you fee them at work, feated on mats or on the floor in their cottages, finging airs, which, though fimple, are extremely paffionate and expreflive-or carrying baskets of fruit, or in other domestic or rural

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employment, in which the girls and young women appear with peculiar grace and fimplicity. There was one line of country that we paffed which was beautiful and fingular: it confifted of hills very steep, almost every other one of which was covered with ever-green oaks, cyprefs, bay or olives, while the next perhaps was without wood, and its neighbour on one fide more richly clothed, while on the other, the want of wood was compenfated by its being crowned with a ruined tower, or the broken walls of a decayed convent; for, notwithstanding the ftrictnefs with which the Portuguese adhere to the Roman Catholic religion, there are in this county convents decayed and decaying. I faw one where the nuns, though greatly reduced in number, declared that they had not enough to fupport their existence.

I do not, however, mean to defcribe the general appearance of Portugal as beautiful: we often travelled over plains where even the ugly fence which aloes form was wanting; and for a great tract of country nothing was to be feen but the heath of the fouth of Europe-feme fpecies of broom, which is more elegant than any I have obferved in our gardens-and low aromatic plants, fuch as thyme, rofemary, lavender, and fouthern-wood."

The defcription of the moon-light fcene on the mountain of Montferrat, is charming.

Calepin; ou Grammaire Philofophique, ou Efquiffe des Mœurs du Dix-Huitième Siècle, ou Tout ce que l'on voudra. Compole par Mr. Grimani, qui n'eft ni Docteur, ni Prêtre, ni Academicien. Ouvrage Infructif, Amujant & Intéreffant; a la portée de tout le Monde, quand il eft de mauvaise Humeur, ou qu'il n'a rien de mieux à faire. 8vo. 5s. Boards. Robinfons. 1792.

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T was obferved by Pope, in his farcaftic letter to lord Hérvey, that his lordfhip was the first perfon who ever expected wit in a dictionary. Whether wit is become a more plentiful commodity fince the time of Pope, we know not, but it is certain that dictionaries, not content with their old dull province of explaining words, have likewife been made not uns frequently the vehicles of fentiment and farcafm. Johnson, himself, now and then enlivens his mechanical talk by a fly ftroke at parties or opinions, and Voltaire, in his Dictionnaire Philofophique, has given the example of a dictionary of wit, fentiment, and fyftem. Our author is not a Voltaire; he follows his fteps, non paffibus equis; he intends to be witty in every page, but the utmoft we can allow him is pleafantry. The fentiments are fuch as prevailed among the efprits forts previous to the late revolution, for neither in politics nor in religion (we

(we beg pardon, we mean in irreligion) does our author ge the lengths of the more modern French philofophers. The articles are ranged without any particular order; they are fhort, and form altogether a book which may afford fome entertainment, when a man is difpofed for a literary lounge. We fhall give a few fpecimens of the author's manner:

• Chapeau. Surface circulaire de gros drap, qui foutient au milieu un Cylindre de la même étoffe pour garantir la tête des hommes des intempéries du temps. Les payfannes des pays chauds en portent des pareilles, mais de paille pour ne pas expofer leurs têtes aux rayons cuifant du foleil; en Angleterre les Dames s'en font toujours fervies pour fe garantir de la pluye, mais au lieu de gros drap, leurs chapeaux out toujours été de paille, ou de carton couvert de foie, ayant la tête plus légère que celle des hommes. Les Dames françoifes voyant de temps en temps des Angloifes voyageufes, dont la beauté étoit beaucoup admirée parmi le fexe viril, s'imaginèrent que les chapeaux augmentoient de beaucoup les grâces des Dames, c'eft pourquoi cette mode fut bientôt à Paris, & de-là elle fe repandit par toutes les provinces ; les Angloifes piquées d'avoir été imitées, & fongeant qu'à la vengeance, quittèrent les chapeaux de foie, en prirent de gros drap, pour montrer que leurs têtes n'étoient pas fi légères que celles des Françoifes. La forme des chapeaux anglois eft fi variée, & fi bien confidérée, qu'un jeune. homme n'a pas befoin d'aller à l'Univerfité pour s'inftruire de toutes les figutes de géométrie, car il y en a des triangulaires, des circulaires, des carrées, d'autres en forme de cône ou de cône tronqué, d'autres en ellipfe, en chaife-Enfin il y en a qui donnent une idée très-claire de Saturne avec fa bague, près duquel il eft très-aifé de trouver les Satellites.'

Hat. A circular furface of thick ftuff, fuftaining in the middle a cylinder of the fame fabric, intended to guard the heads of men from the inclemencies of the feafon. Similar coverings are worn by the female peasants in hot countrics, but made of straw, to preferve their temples from the fcorching rays of the fun. The ladies of England have always made ufe of them against the rain, but inftead of thick ftuff, as their heads are lefs folid than those of men, they have made thern of ftraw, or of pafteboard covered with filk. The French ladies having feen from time to time English female travellers, whose beauty was much admired by the men, took it into their heads that their charms would be much improved by the hat. It was therefore foon adopted by the Parifians, and fpread from them into the provinces-Upon this the English ladies, piqued at having been imitated, and meditating vengeance, left off the filk hats, and took those of thick ftuff, to thew that their heads were more folid than thofe of the French ladies. The form of the English hats is to various and fo well fancied that a young man has no occafion to

go to the univerfity in order to acquaint himfelf with geometrical figures, for there are hats, fquare, circular, triangular, conical eliptical, truncated, in the form of a close-----. Finally there are fome which give a very clear idea of Saturn and his ring, to which we may add that his fatellites will always be found at no great diftance.

'Eau. Tous les animaux fur la terre font Hydropotes, car le Créateur ne leurs a donné d'autre boiffon que de l'eau ; Vin, Bière, liqueur, &c. font des inventions humaines, dont l'excès nous empoifonne : L'eau eft la principale nourriture des végétaux, & fans elle il n'y auroit point d'animaux. Dans les pays habités par les catholiques l'eau eft auffi la boiffon de l'ame, mais il faut qu'elle foit mêlée avec du fel, & bénite par le Prétre: il n'eft pas néceffaire qu'elle foit limpide car l'ame n'eft pas fi délicate que le corps: il y en a dans les Bénitiers depuis plufieurs mois, remplie de faloperie, où mille doigts fales y ont trempé, & cependent les plus grands perfonnage, & les Dames les plus délicates s'n fervent pour mettre fur leur front, leur nez, & leur menton; cette même eau a la vertu de chaffer les Diables des poffedés, mais non pas les Diablesses de la ville,'

Water. All the animals of the globe are hydropotes; for water is the only beverage given them by the Creator. Wine, beer, fpirits, &c. are human inventions, by excefs in which we poifon ourfelves. Water affords the chief nourishment of vegetables, and without water, animal life could not be fupported. In Catholic countries water is likewife the beverage of the foul, but then it muft be mixed with falt and receive the benediction of the priest. It is not neceflary however that it fhould be pure, for the foul is not fo delicate as the body. In the holy-water vafes you will fee water that has flood there for many months, filled with all forts of abominations; defiled by hundreds of dirty fingers which have been dipped in it, and yet you will fee the greateft perfonages and the mott delicate ladies make use of it to wet their nofe, their forehead, and their chin. This faid water has likewife the virtue of driving away the demons of the poffeffed, but not the demoneffes of the town.

Serment. Affirmation d'une chofe en prenant à témoin l'Etre Suprême. Ce n'eft que par le fensde l'ouïe que nous entendons le. témoignage des hommes: de quelle manière donc enter drons-nous celui de Dieu ? comment une chofe invifible peut-elle nous prouver une vérité phyfique? Prendre Dieu à témoin d'une faufleté fait friffonner & trembler les plus fcélérats, & c'eft fur cette bafe que nous avons fondé la preuve du Serment; mais fommes-nous convaincus que tout le monde conçoit une telle horieur pour les faux Sermens? Tous les hommes font-ils juftes & fages? Et fi tous Pétoient, quelle quantité d'obftacles n'ont-ils pas à affranchir pour

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