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wife of a nobleman, and being obliged to cross a churchyard, in which was an image of the Virgin, he never failed to proltrate himielf before it, that he might then fin with comfort. He hit upon an admirable expedient, in his laft moments, to repel the blow of the grim tyrant Death: he covered himfelf all over with relics; and St. Vincent de Paul (who was truly a

faint, fuch a one as our Howard, who' was certainly a faint, if unbounded beneficence could procure canonization) was fent for from Italy on purpole, and not permitted a moment to leave his chamber. But, ala! all would not do; neither the faint nor the relics could avail; and the wretched monren expired amid horrors inexpresible.

An Account of SHROPSHIRE: With a neat and accurate
MAP of that County.

SHROPSHIRE, or Salop, a county of England, bounded on the north by Cheshire, and a detached part of Flintshire; on the east by Staffordfhire; on the fouth-eaft by Worcesterfbire; on the fouth by Herefordshire; on the fouth-weft by Radnorfhire, in South Wales; and on the weft by the Welth counties of Montgomery and Denbigh. It extends about fifty miles in length from north to fouth; is al moft of a circular figure, with many indentations and projections; and is divided into two nearly equal parts by the river Severn. It is partly in the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, and party in that of Hereford; contains fourteen hundreds, fixteen market towns, and 170 parithes; and fending twelve members to parliament; namely, two for the county, and two each for Shrewsbury, Lud low, Bishop's Castle, Wenlock, and Bridgenorth. The air is falubrious, and not very fharp, except on the hills. The foil is generally fruitful, efpecially in the northern and eastern parts, which produce plenty of wheat and barley. The fouthern portion, which was anciently a part of Wales, partakes of the mountainous character of that region; especially the fouthwestern angle. In the northern por

tion there is a confiderable part flat, though it is not without high hills, particularly on the borders of ales. The noted mountain, the Wrekin,' is in this divifion, not far from the centre of the county. There are mines of lead, copper, iron, limeftone, freeftone, pe-clay, and iaexhauitible coal-pits. Over mot of the coal lies a tratum of a blackish, hard, porous fubftance, containing great quantities of bitumen, which being ground to powder in horsemills, and boiled in coppers of water, a bituminous matter fwims on the furface, which, by evaporation, is brought to the confitence of pitch; or, by the help of an oil distilled from the fame fubftance, and mixed with it, may be thinned to a fort of tar: both thefe fubftances ferve particularly for caulking of hips, as well, if not better than pitch and ́ tar, they being lefs liable to crack. The wool of many parts of this county is remarkably fine. The principal rivers are the Severn and the Tend. The Severn is navigable in its whole courfe through this county, which has moreover, the advantage of that noble canal, called The Grand Trunk, the Staffordshire Canal. The capital is Shrewsbury.

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OBSERVATIONS on the DISEASES in MARCH 1794.

HIS month proved more than ufually healthy, and till the zoth, when disease was rarely met with; fome few cafes of plurify then occurred, and induration of the glands became common, which frequently terminated by fuppuration. The hooping cough till continued to prevail; and there were a few cafes of fcarlet fever. Erysipelas likewife was occasionally met with, but conftantly with intammatory symptoms, which required the free ufe of the lancet, and faline purgatises.

Curious PARTICULARS of the City of PARIS, and of the FRENCH NATION, in the Years 1786 and 1787; with Interesting Reflections on the fubfequent Revolutio.

[From Dr. Smith's Sketch of a Tour on the Continent, 3 vols. 8vo.]

tion, of an uniform pale red, clofe ftuck in the button-hole, in the place of the ribbon of St. Louis, which these flowers exactly refembled in colour, and might at a distance be mistaken for it. Although I may incur cenfure for charging even French vanity with fuch a foible, I cannot help believing the imitation was defigned. A Frenchman might retaliate upon me by noticing a fimilar faihion, very common in London not long ago, of encircling the coats-of-arms upon carriages with an ornament looking as like a garter as it dared, and this was more particularly practifed by thofe who were farthest removed from all poffible chance of a real garter. Human nature is every where much the fame.

Fall thefe fine things [the curiofities in the Gardé Meuble] and, ala! of the noble monuments I have defcribed at St. Denis, we can now only fay they were the admirable ftatue of Henry IV, on the Pont Neuf, that too is no more! In la. menting their downfall, and the concomitant events, much as we may ad mire and venerate the arts when confecrated to virtue, it is not merely the detration of fuch monuments that we deplore; it is the vaft wreck of human happinefs that engroffes every pang of fympathy'-the innocent confounded with the guilty-the difperfion of families the diffolution of the fweet bonds of focial intercourfe. Even the chaftifements of unbounded vice and depravity are become fo terrible, that we ftand appalled at their Paris began at this feafon to grow irresistible unrelenting feverity, even very dirty and difagreeable, on actill compaflion arifes for their abject count of the almot perpetual wet. victims. The world impatiently The want of footways in fo large a waits to fee Frenchmen atone for all town is a glaring defect; in confethis. If they finally obtain a good quence of it the general ftyle of walkgovernment, its greate merit will ing about Paris in dirty weather is h: that of rendering irpoible for the only stepping from one great flippery future fuch actions as thl have led to ftone to another, and perhaps fliding its establishment.-But I mean not into the ditches of mud between. yet to enter on this fubject. Some thefe comforts may be added the perprevious remarks on the French na-petual danger of being run over by tion are neceffary.

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than in all the tackle belonging to car- flaves of a perfon of the leaft rank or figure, might behave with any degree of infolence to the moft refpectable tradefman; nor were blows even to be always refented.

riages. Their rope harneffes, and clumfy yokes, are fo unmanageable it is impoffible to drive their carts and waggons with any accuracy; and their prepofterous axletrees, projecting half a yard farther on each fide than they ought, feem purpofely calculated to take hold of all the pofts they can find, or, like the faulchions of the war chariots of old, to fweep down every living being that comes in their way.

No wonder then accidents were fo frequent. To be run over might be reckoned a fort of natural death in Paris. I have heard that about 100 perfons generally made this kind of exit every year. Many a time, as I have fhrunk into a corner to avoid thefe form dable axletrees, have I thought of the fate of poor Tournefort, who was crushed by one of them fo feverely, that he acquired a spitting of blood, which in time proved fatal. I faw no figns of their being more inclined to fpare one botanist than another; and when I happened to be in a carriage, I felt little lefs apprehenfion for thofe who were then at the mercy of my wheels. For not being one of the nobleffe, thofe refined ornaments of fociety, I could not drive through a crowd carelefs whether it were age or infancy that might be crushed in my progrefs. It is incredible what a happy tranquillity perfons of any figure had acquired on this fubject. I have actually feen a poor old man run over by a gentleman's carriage with the most wanton careleffness on the part of the coachman. Not being able to retrain the indignation natural to an Engl fhman, Why,' faid I, is not the carriage ftopped, and the fellow fecured?' A thrug and a ftare were the only anfwer. Was it not the fault of the coach

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If a well-dreffed perfon in England has occafion to enquire his way, or to afk any other queftion, of a fentinel, he thinks he pays fufficient respect in treating him as a fellow-citizen, and calling him friend. In France none of thefe gentlemen were ever addreffed without Monfieur and a respectful bow, and it was then ten to one whether or not Monfieur would deign to return a civil aniwer.

But above all did the tyranny of the higher powers fhine out in its native glory with refpect to game. Not to mention innumerable inflances beades, I remember taking a walk with a friend and his family out of the gates one evening, in a place about as much trodden as the most public part of Hyde Park, or St. George's fields before they were fo much covered with buildings. A fellow in rags, without any infignia of office, though with all the infolence of it, came up to my friend and told him he must not walk on the grafs. Why not? Because of the King's game. There can be no game of any kind here, nor within fight, and every body does walk here.' This fignified nothing; and as we could not tell but this might be a game-keeper, though he might poffibly be only a ruffian, who not daring to attack and rob fo many of us, gratified his fpleen by this pretence to interrupt our recreation, we were obliged to comply; elfe we might have had a chance of being lodged in the Bicetre, or fome other of the

King's cafties at Paris;'not till our cafe had been fairly judged, but till we had made intereft with fome great man to get us out, by as little attention to law as we had been got in. None but poor unknown villains, unconnected with greater ones, ever suffered from fo obfolete a thing as the law.

In walking over the Prince of Condé's

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