ia counfels contrary to our inclinations, and reproach us with the faults we may have committed; they blame the principle whence they arofe, although in other cafes they have a thoufand times admired it. When fortune is adverfe, the fuffering friend becomes a subject, upon which felflove, and an imperious mind are anxious to exercise an empire. There is a degree of diforderly conduct and wickedness in gallantry, which can no where be met with but in the person of a woman of elevated rank. She knows that audacity aftonishes, and that there is nothing which a woman of fuperior understanding, added to high birth, may not rifk. But woe to the woman in the city, who fhould with to follow her fteps; fhe would fall into the mire of public contempt. Interelt contains fo active and subtle a poison, that affection, the moment it is joined to it, is corrupted, and at length extinguished. A man paffes all his time with his miftreis-his wife dies; he is looked upon as happy in being at liberty to purfue his inclination, and having the power of uniting himself to the object of his affections. But if this man, who is accustomed to go from home every day at four o'clock, fhould marry his miftrefs, where then will he have to go at that hour? What is called bon ton is effential to men of mediocrity, but a man of fuperior understanding cannot fubject himfelf to the laws it impofes. It would be necessary to facrifice his ideas or to weaken them. The dictionary of bon ton is not extenfive enough for him. A certain difcernment is necellary to discover ridicule, and to exprefs it in an agreeable manner. But the fuperior wit finds nothing ridiculous; he fees nothing particular, and manners, customs, and the oddities of men and nations appear to him to be in the nature of things. What appears extraordinary to others is familiar to a man of this defcription; his aftonishment is at an end. It is upon the fame principle, that a man is not 5 affected by that which furprifes a child, or makes him laugh. The great advantage arifing from the poffeffion of money, is the power of haftening, in fome measure, the progress of time, and of accelerating events. By means of this powerful agent, distances are fhortened, and projects fpeedily executed. Perfons who can fecond our views, are anxious to remove every difficulty. A rich man can produce every thing with money, as fruits are produced in hot-houfes; he multiplies enjoyment, and has the greatest variety of them within his reach.. In confidering the impatient ardour of the pallions in youth, we might be led to fuppofe that life was to laft but for a day; but the precautions of the aged feem to be fuch as if it was eternal. This happens because defire is extreme in youth, and fear, without bounds, in age. For thefe reafons, ftrong minds, and youth, which is the age of strength, are eager to enjoy, and unacquainted with avarice. The age of the paffions, and of talents, is the epocha of every kind of fuccefs. None but perfons of this time of life can inspire enthufiaim and excite a tender concern. Moft men die young, like Alexander and Germanicus, to make their remembrance dear, and leave behind them great names. When we think of Mithridates with a long beard, we coldly affent to his talents and courage. A man who puts his whole confi-, dence in a phyfician of great reputation, is much to be pitied. When he is ill, perhaps fome circumftance prevents his having his affiftance. If he travels, he will certainly be deprived of it; if he be in the country, he cannot have it in time. In proprotion as a perfon poffeffes a greater fund of real property, he has lefs need of fpecie; fo in proportion as he has a greater degree of conception, or intuition, knowledge is lefs effential to him. C. C. C. METIO OBSERVATIONS on the DISEASES in January 1794. THE acceffion of cold at the clofe of the year, produced a very material change in the difeafes which then prevailed: pleurifies and infammatory complaints in general, became frequent, and it was neceffary to use the lancet freely and to adopt the antiphlogistic regimen. Smallpox was feldom met with, and it would perhaps have totally ceafed, had not inoculation kept it alive; which method of communicating the difeafe is now fo generally ufed as to be perfifted in throughout the whole year, as well in the depth of winter, as in the height of fummer; thoufands no doubt owe their prefervation to it, and though fome few prejudices against it ftill remain, yet it is likely they will foon be obliterated. In the early part of this month, the city was for feveral days enveloped by a thick fog; it was particularly great on the tenth, fo as to render it impoffible to diftinguish objects across the ftreet even in the middle of the day; the air confequently became loaded with smoke and other impurities, and was rendered very unfit for refpiration; people in general were fenfible of its effects, but afthmatic and elderly perfons, or those with weak lungs, were more particularly fo; many fell immediate victims to its influence, and those who recovered mended flowly and with difficulty. Complaints of the breast, accompanied with a dry cough, fucceeded, and became quite epidemic; with children in particular thefe degenerated into the hooping cough, which became very univerfal in the latter part of the month; among adults the cough was very frequently accompanied with fpafmodic affections of the glettis and trachea, fo as to render refpiration occafionally difficult: bleeding became frequently neceffary, but the application of blifters to the chest, with the ufe of opium and fquills in fmall dofes, proved very beneficial by taking off fpafm and producing expectoration. Inflammations of the eyes were likewife epidemical; but it rarely happened that both eyes were affected at the fame time: the inflammation commenced, in general, with a fenfation fimilar to that occafioned by particles of duft or fand getting into the eye; and as the inflammation fubfided in one, the other became affected: topical bleeding was now and then neceffary, but a weak folution of any of the preparations of lead proved a speedy and effectual remedy. An Account of RUTLANDSHIRE: With a neat and accurate MAP of that County. RUTLANDSHIRE, the fmalleft county in England, is bounded on the north and north-east by Lincolnshire, on the fouth and fouth-eaft by Northamptonshire, and on the welt and north-west by Leicestershire; extending from north to fouth about fifteen miles, from east to west ten or twelve, and about forty in circumference. It is divided into five hundreds, in which are only two markettowns and forty-eight parishes. It lies in the diocese of Peterborough, and fends only two members to parliament, which are the knights of the thire. This county is fuppofed to have re ceived its name from the red colour of its foil, which, in fome parts, is a fort of ruddle, ftaining the fleeces of the fheep. It is bleffed with a pure air; and the foil is fertile, and beautifully varied in its furface with gentle fivells and depreffions. It abounds in clear foft fprings, gufhing from the fides of the hills. Its products are chiefly corn and fheep. Some of the finest feed-wheat in the kingdom is grown in its open fields; and its fitrefs for fheep is particularly notice l by the poet Dyer, when enumerating the |