child, but warned him to fubdue his love for Henrietta; expatiating upon the criminality, circumstanced as they were, of indulging the paffion. The poor young man admitted the force of the argument, and promifed to obey. But the ftruggle was too much for his conftitution. He fell ill, and continued in a dangerous ftate, upward of four months. Mr. Krahe paid him every attention, and gave him every confolation in his power. But in all their interviews, the name of Henrietta was never mentioned. His lamentable fituation, however, could not be concealed from her. She fympathized, and moft fincerely pitied; but, though Pity is fo near a-kin to love,' duty and honour interpofed a barrier between them. The intended husband returned to his parents; and it was not difficult to perceive, from the tenure of his let ters, that certain objections were started by them to the union. Although he dared not to exprefs his own fentiments fully, upon this occafion, yet Henrietta divined them, and gave him full power to follow the genuine bent of his own inclinations, renouncing every claim upon his promife. The answer was correfpondent to her expectations; and, allowing a fhort interval for the fuppreffion of that chagrin which the injured pride of every young lady muft fuffer in fuch delicate fituations, the permitted the fuffering of Schmitz to engage more of her thoughts,-generously indulged her compaffion, until the found it blended with affection,-and, finally, addreffed her father thus: fir, I know it has been your wish, to have Schmitz for your fon-in-law-Every obftacle is removed-Tell him, that Henrietta will be his, if he can promote his felicity.' The joyful father informed him of this declaration in his favour. But the good news was as like to have proved fatal, as his defpair. Recovering from his emotion, and leaning on the arm of his benefactor, he was conducted to the generous object of his paffion; and, by paffing the evening in her company, he was cheared, comforted, and reflored. But, how great was the surprise of every one, when they learned, the next morning, that the lover had left the town, in a carriage with four horfes, and had carried his plates and drawings with him!-What aftonishment to Krahe!-What a thunderftroke to poor Henrietta! This was fo apparently the act of a difordered brain, that his return was dreaded as much as his fight was lamented! Nor did they receive a fingle line in the interval, to remove their doubts. On the ninth day, he returned from Munich, with an order for a penfion of fix hundred florins per annum, to be paid to Schmitz, by the treasurer of the Palatinate. He had been to throw himfelf at the feet of the elector Palatine. He discovered to him his love,-his fituation, -fhewed him the certificates of his conduct, and the fpecimens of his workmanship. The heart of the elector was moved, and he gave him the penfion. Now, fir,' fays the generoushearted Schmitz, I am more worthy of my Henrietta.' This event took place in the year 1782. The particulars are extracted from a publication, in high repute, entitled, Mufeum für Kunftler, und fur Kunftliebhaber; or, Hiftory of German Artifts. I am very forry, that my total ignorance of the anecdote, when at Duffeldorff, prevented me from making thofe inquiries, which more than curiofity would have dictated, relative to this worthy couple, or the present state of our engra ver. See there, my friend, in one short hiftory, the eulogium of numbers! I befeech you to make due comments upon the excellent character of our artist, the hero of the piece, upon the benevolence of the profeffor,-of his friend, Keyferswerth, the monks in the convent, - the two foldiers, with their captain,-the engraver engraver Willes,-the elector Pala- to your sketch, and call it human! tine, and the amiable Henrietta; Man is naturally a friend to man. and then revert to my propofition, Adventitious circumftances may fupthat the private hiftory of individuals, prefs this kindly temper, until the would in general, give us more fa- moft contracted felinefs is deemvourable ideas of human virtue, and ed a fyftem of genuine prudence! of human happiness, than thofe are Tyranny may deprefs the mind, until apt to imagine, who direct their chief it be rendered incapable of our virattention to the ambition of the great, tuous exertion! Falfe theology, by and the fubversion of empires. Num- reprefenting the heart as naturally viberlefs are the inftances, where indi- cious and depraved, may destroy the viduals emerge from obfcurity, and choiceft fprings of action,-may peract a confpicuous part on the theatre fuade us, that to at the knave or of life. We behold, and applaud the fool, is merely to act in character: actor, without adverting to the dif- whereas, a confcioufnefs that we are ferent ftages through which he must capable of doing much good,—a conhave paffed, before he was prepared viction that we are naturally difposed for this honourable exhibition, and to do good,-that the instinct was how far he must have been affifled, given us, that we might become the in each ftage, by thofe around him. active inftruments of the divine beneGoto, ye libellers of your fpecies! volence,-an inftinct fo strong, that ye defamers of God's most perfect it is deemed inhuman to ftifle its imworkmanship below! ye that delight pulfe,-thefe are admirably calculated to fketch out figures with charcoal, to quicken the difpofition, improve add horns, a tail, and cloven-feet the habit, and extend the effects. T LOCAL CURIOSITIES. HE indifference with which even the crime of murder is regarded among the lower claffes of the Italians, is remarkably illuftrated by the following anecdote. A gentleman of Naples, in paffing occafionally before the king's palace, had frequently noticed a man of fingular appearance at work. He was chained to fome others, and affisted in removing rubbish, and bringing ftones for a new building, the foundation of which had just been laid. The man, by having often feen him pafs, recollected his perfon, and always took off his hat, as he found an opportunity. The gentleman, not knowing how to account for his attention, was induced, one day, to inquire the caufe of his civility and of his chains. To the first part of the query he answered, in the Neapolitan tyle, that it was il fuo dovere, his duty; and to the second he faid, that he was in that predicament for una m.nchioneria, a trifle.' Ho ammaz zata filamente una donna,' faid he, 'I have only killed a woman.' NECESSITY is the great prompter and guide of mankind in their inThere is, however, fuch ventions. inequality in fome parts of their progrefs, and fome nations get so far the ftart of others in circumitances nearly fimilar, that we must afcribe this to fome events in their hiftory, or to fome peculiarities in their fituation, with which we are unacquainted. The people in the island of Otaheite, in the Southern Pacific Ocean, far excel most of the Americans in the knowledge and practice of the arts of ingenuity; and yet, when they were firft difcovered by captain Wallis, it appeared, that they had not invented any method of boiling water; and having no veffel that would bear the fire, they had no more idea that wa ter could be made hot, than that it could be made folid. Μετεο OBSERVATIONS on the DISEASES in February 1794. THE HE hooping cough became quite epidemic, not only in London, but in the neighbouring villages; its fymptoms were rather fevere, and it frequently proved fatal. An occafional ufe of emetics, with a frequent change of air, was confidered as the most efficacious means of relieving the violence of the cough, and fhortening its duration; but when fever came on, or peripneumonic fymptoms appeared, recourfe was had to more efficacious remedies; bleeding then became neceffary, which was frequently repeated while thofe fymptoms continued, together with the ufe of blifters and antimonials in small dofes. Various remedies have been recommended as fpecifics in this disease, but none feem to deferve that appellation: extract of hemlock has been given, and a decoction of bark with tincture of cantharides have been highly extolled; but frequent change of air, with the ufe of emetics and purgatives now and then, as before noticed, prove more generally useful. A few cafes of (carlet fever occurred, but no other difeafe worthy of notice. THE BRITISH MUSE. ODE TO THE SPRING.. [From Poems by George Dyer, M. A.] I too the vernal influence feel, No rofe unfolds its blufhing beauties there, No stately lily decks the gay parterre ; Yet wild flow'rs o'er the fimple scene matchlefs hand. And fee! the glowing fun-beams play, Nor does in vain the fwan majestic fail, Or to their feather'd loves their sweetest Oh Spring! I love thy gentle reign Yes! all thy clouds, and fries of filver Thy hills and vales, foft gales and glossy bloom, I'll leave them all, though friendly to the mufe, And uncomplaining wait the cheerless gloom; Where death's cold feafon chills the poet's And weave from heav'nly trees a neverwith'ring crown. ODE TO THE IMAGINATION. [From The Advantages of Education, a Novel, 2 vol.] E pleasing phantoms, foothing forms, Which animates the brave to dare; Life owes to you its happieft hours Ye rival nature's plastic powers; Benignant to a wretch distress'd, For me your magic fimples cull The faithlefs friend, or lover loft; Confine affection's wailing ghoft; Oh, from a heart too much deceiv'd, Come-bid the fenfe of honour rife; The artful fnare of ruin laid: ODE On the Confolations of AFFLICTION. HEN Sorrow barbs her murd'rous No more the fyren Pleasure charms; Fancy, who oft in happier hours, She darts into the fever'd brain, She fills with horrors not its own, Say, fons of forrow! have ye e'er, So with Profperity's warm gales, Where falfehood wore the mask of love; Ne'er let it paint the form divine, Where every virtue feem'd to dwell; Or tell how from his lips benign The hony'd accents graceful fell; Oh let not his idea reign, E'en if my vacant heart no other form re tain. 5 Gay in her own Arcadian reign, And bids deluded man adore the phantoms More certain aid, more lafting fires Its horrors to relieve; Yet |