ciety, in whatever light thofe vain and frivolous characters, which are always floating on its furface, may regard you. "It is not," Mifs Hamilton very judiciously obferves*, "by a careful cultivation of all the faculties, by extensive knowledge, or claffical learning, that women are in danger of being led from the duties of their proper fphere. No; it is from the filly vanity which is a confequence of the partial cultivation of the intellectual powers; from falfe affocia tions, which annex ideas of importance to what is trifling and infignificant, and which connect ideas of glory with the filly admiration of fools and coxcombs, that the mind is effectually perverted."I cherish the fond hope that you will carefully avoid fo fatal an abufe of the means of improvement which you have happily enjoyed. For to what other purposes than thofe of virtue and good conduct ought fuperior advantages of education to be applied? and of what value will the utmost attainments in knowledge, or the moft engaging accomplishments, be regarded in the eye of Reafon or of Heaven, if they are not accompanied by higher religious and moral qualifications; if they do not render you more amiable as daughters, wives, or mothers, as well as more diftinguished and more exemplary in all the other important relations of focial life? May you receive this parting advice, my dear pupils, as the dictate of the trueft friendship! It is not more expreffive of my own than it is in uniton with the fentiments of her whofe labours have

been unweariedly employed in adorning your minds and forming your manners; and from whofe affectionate attentions and maternal admonitions you have derived advantages upon which it becomes not me to lavish encomiums, yet which I believe you will not be reluctant to acknowledge have not been small. Believe me when I declare to you, that when you

are removed from our immediate care, and ufhered into the world, we shall both of us feel not lefs interested in your refpectability and welfare than we have hi therto done. It will then appear what benefit you will have derived from the anxious pains which have been uniformly taken to promote your intellectual and moral improvement. Great will be the fatisfaction which we fhall moft affuredly receive from finding that we have not been folicitous for you in vain; and that in whatever ftations you are deftined to move you are revered for your piety, admired for your prudence, and beloved for your humility and goodness."

"Letters upon Education," GENT. MAG. April, 1808.

62. The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1807. Being an impartial Selection of the most ingenious Effays and Jeu d' Effprits that appear in the Newspapers and other Publications. With Explanatory Notes, and Anecdotes of many of the Perfons alluded to. Ridgway, 12mo, 6s.

THIS is an annual Publication, which we have before occafionally noticed, and which has the merit of collecting into one body those several detached pieces of wit or humour, which almost every one is at times inclined to cut out or tranfcribe front the daily prints. Without refpect to party, the Ins and the Outs are here alternately introduced, to laugh at each other, and enter ain the publick; and occafionally public Follies are ridiculed, and public Vices reprobated.

Sometimes, though rarely, original articles are introduced; one inftance of which, in the prefent volume, is thus introduced:

"The Editor has again to return thanks to his very worthy and much-respected friend Mr. Mofer, for the chearful promptitude with which he met a requeft, that this work might a fecond time commence with a Dramatic Piece from his pen. It must be a gratification to all Mr. M.'s friends to obferve, that he can so plea fantly unbend his mind in those short intervals, which the more important and fatiguing duties of a judicial ftation, in one of the moft populous districts of the town, can be fuppofed to afford a man fcrupulous in difcharging a facred truft to the fatisfaction of his honour and confcience."

Mr. Mofer's performance, which is intituled, "The best Heart in the World: a Dramatic Sketch, in two Acts," exhibitsaknowledge of men and manners, and poffeffes literary merit.

66

The Spirit of the Journals" has now flood the test of eleven years; and is creditable both to the taste and to the induftry of the Compiler,

63. Popular Objections to the Efablished Church, ftated in a Letter to our Neigh bours. Burditt, 12mo, 2d.

THIS little tract, dated " Olney, March 14," under the pretext of being "written merely in confequence of an unprovoked attack," is an outrageous Philippic against the very vitals of the Eftablished Church; and the fmalinefs of its price, while it makes it more mischievous, unfortunately renders it

more

more likely to be looked over unnoticed by those who would otherwise expofe the doctrines contained in it. It is evidently intended to be induftrioutly circulated among the people; and is certainly, from its condenfation, and popular flyle, well contrived for the purpose.

The avowed intention of the Letterwriter is," to prefent fome of the permanent objections which the Diffenters have to the Eftablishment;" and they are thus firongly stated :

"We object to the Church of England as by law established, becaufe we conceive it to be,-Unwarrantable in its Authority,-Oppreffive and degrading to its Minifters,-Injurious to the People, Trifling in its Ceremonies,-and Incongruous in its Offices."

"It is unwarrantable in its Authority: Because we find no fuch Church, or its ceremonies, or offices, mentioned in the Scriptures, which we, and all Proteftants, who profefs the name of Chrift, declare to be the only rule of our faith and prac tice. In the Scriptures we find no prefcribed form of prayer for public worship, no fuch fervice as Confirmation, no form

for the burial of the dead, nor directions when we are to fit, fiand, or kneel; no fuch ceremonies mentioned, as, figning with a Crofs in Baptifm, kneeling at the Lord's Supper, or bowing towards the Eaft;

unlefs indeed in Ezekiel's Chamber of Imagery, where, in defcribing the Hea then abominations, he found among others, between the porch and the altar, about 25 men, who were bowing with their faces towards the Eaft, worshipping the fun."—"It is oppressive and degrading to its Minifters: Becaufe they are obliged to fubfcribe Articles which were drawn up by fallible men, and which many of them do not believe, but preach in direct contradiction to."

As proofs of the Church being "incongruous in its Offices," thofe of Ordination, Baptifm, Confirmation, Vifitation of the Sick, and Burial of the Dead, are particularly the objects of reprobation.

The remarks on the "Vifitation of the Sick," may afford a fpecimen of the ftyle and of the religious fentiments of the Letter-writer:

64. The Comic Works, in Profe and Poetry, of G. M. Woodward. Tegg. 8vo. 4s. 6d.

ONE of thofe light publications of the prefent age which a ferious reader will alternately condemn and forgive; the whimficality and innocence, however, of the trifle under confideration will extori a fmile from the fplenetick, and afford an hour's harmless entertainment to the flippant.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

THE Second Volume of the Hiftory of SURREY is refumed at the Prefs, on a new and beautiful Type; and may be expected, in a reasonable time, to appear in a manner fully equal, if not fuperior, to the former Volume of that much-etleemed Publication.

The concluding Volume of LEICESTERSHIRE is alfo again in the Prefs, on a new Type; and will be proceeded with as fpeedily as the nature of fo very laborious a Work will permit.

Dr. HAWES's Annual Report is al most entirely re-printed.

Mr. NEILD'S Philanthropic Labours are already fo far advanced in a new Impreffion, that the "Hiftory of Prifons" will be published within a month.

The " Biographical Anecdotes of HOGARTH," by Mr. NICHOLS and the late Mr. STEEVENS, will not experience any interruption in the regularity of Publication. Nine Numbers have already appeared and the Tenth, which completes One Quarto Volume, beautifully printed, and containing Eighty Plates engraved in a maflerly ftyle, will appear early in May,

Amongst the Works of which all the unfold Copies were deftroyed by Fire, and which probably will never be reprinted, are, Bartlett's Hiftory of Manceter; Monck Berkeley's Poems; the Parts which have been published of Bigland's Gloucestershire (which will, however, not impede the new Part's being printed); Ducarel's Hiftory of the Alien Priories and Abbey of Bec, and his Hiftories of Croydon and Lambeth; Bingham's Differtations and Effays; Born's new Procefs of Amalgamation of Metals; Bowyer's fine Greek Teftament, and Miscellaneous Tracts; Brunck's Epigrams; ButJer's Life of Dean Stanhope; Courayer's laf Sentiments of Religion; Cozens's Tour in the fle of Thanet; Denne's Lambeth; De la Motte's Hif torical and Allufive Arms; Dyion's Tottenham, Fofbrooke's Monachifm;

Gibfon's

Gibfon's Comment on Antoninus, and Hiftory of Caftor; Heylin's Help to English Hiftory; Hay's Mifcellaneous Works; Hutton's Hiftories of Derby, Scarborough, Blackpool, and the Roman Wall; Illustrations of the Manners and Expences of Antient Times in England; Ironfide's Twickenham'; Kennett on the Cavendish Family; Macaulay's Hiftory of Claybrook, and Martin's Hiftory of Thetford; the Medical Spectator; Milner on Salisbury Cathedral, Parfons's Monuments in Kent Progreffes of Queen Elizabeth; Dr. Pegge's Lives of Wefeham and Groffetefle, his Annales de Trickingham, Sylloge of Inferiptions, and Hiltory of Beauchief Abbey; his Son's Curialia; Governor Pownall's Provincia Romana, and Antiquarian Romance; Preftwich's Refpublica; Sanders's Hiftory of Shentone; Steele's Profodia Rationalis; Tanner's Notitia

Mr. PARKINSON is expected to pub lifh the Second Volume of Organic Remains of a former World in the begin ning of June. It will contain twenty Plates, in which will be reprefented nearly 200 different fossils of the remains of Zoophytes, coloured from Nature; among which are folsils, prōving that at least twenty fpecies of the Encrines have exifted. Many of thefe latter fofsils are ftill to be found in different parts of Somerfetfhire, Derbyfhire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Gloucef terhire, Dorfetfhire, Warwickshire, and indeed in many of the Counties of Great Britain.

"Studies, Sacred and Philofophic, adapted to the Temple of Truth," will fpeedily be published.

INDEX INDICATORIUS. MENTOR, regretting the reflections caft (in p. 207) on the Female Author of

wishing the Author to be "better em

Mr. GEORGE COOPER, of Wimpolefireet, has published his first and fecond Numbers of Architectural Reliques," confifting of feveral Views, &c. of Llandaff Cathedral, and Tyntern Abbay, Monmouthshire. The whole of the Plates are from Drawings taken on the fpot by Mr. Cooper. This Work is to be continued in Numbers, with Letterprefs Illustrations, and Drawings of the molt interefting Remains of Architectural Antiquity in Great Britain.

Dr. Uwins, of Aylesbury, intends fhortly to publifh a fmall Tract, intituled" Modern Medicine," which will contain a familiar explanation of the most prominent difcoveries and doctrines that have conduced to the recent advancement of Medical Philofophy; a critical difquifition on the mode in which Medicine is cultivated and practifed in the prefent period; and an enquiry how far the principles upon which the Healing Art is founded may, with propriety, conftitute a fubject of unprofessional refearch.

An Examination of the Charges maintained by Meffrs. Malone, Chalmers, and others, of BEN JONSON'S Enmity to Shakspeare, by Mr. Octavius. Gilchrift, has lately been anHounced for fpeedy publication.

ployed," hopes the will again exert her Mufe upon fome more extended fubject. "It certainly," he obferves, "has many beauties; and the fhortnefs of it (though neceffary), if any, is its only failing."

A KENTISH CLERGYMAN must have feen but little of the tricks of trade, when he expected any thing like perfection in books' introduced to the world by founding names of perfons who never had exiftence. The publication he speaks of is too contemptible to claim our attention.

We are much obliged to VVS.-But his very excellent Article is much too

long; and we know, by dear-bought Experience, that the Subject is too local to defraythe Expence of a feparate Publication.

Our Friend W. H. of BARTON conjectures too truly.

Our facetious Friend STEPHANUC, though on new ground, has for once overhot his mark.

We shall notice the Preferment of "A Subfcriber," though he forgot to pay the Postage of an Article relative folely to

his own concerns.

Subject to the reftri&tion pointed out by himfelf, the request of VERITAS Will be complied with.

Mr. HAMPER'S Favours are received; as is that of AN OLD WOMAN.

Our fteady Friend D's Letter came as we were winding-up this page. We shall give his P.S.: "My hints (in vol. LXXII. p. 217) have been attended to by Dr. R.; who has fince engaged real men of bufnefs, and thereby much improved his Encyclopædia; and I truft alfo has increased the fale."

NEW

NEW GAMES AT ST. STEPHEN'S CHAPEL.

W

HILE honest John Bull,

With sorrow brim full,

Lamented his trusty friend Pitt,
Some Sharpers, we 're told,
In cheating grown old,

Thus tried all their Talents and Wit:

Let's invite him to play,

John never says nay,

So they ask'd him what Game he approv'd;
John talk'd of All fours,

Or beat Knave out of doors,
The games of his youth that he lov’d.

L*** II***** spoke first;

In these games I'm not vers'd, But they surely are old-fashion'd things; The best game, entre nous, Is the good game of Loo, Where Knaves get the better of Kings.

S** W******** rose next, By all Court-cards perplex'd, Since at his trade they reckon no score; For at Cribbage 'tis known' That with Court-cards alone

You can't make fifteen two fifteen four.

Then S******* rose,
Saying he should propose

Brac'd with keen Yorkshire air, Young L*** M***** drew near, Who, improv'd in all talents of late, Said he fear'd not success

In a bold game at Chess,

And should soon give the King a check

mate.

Hush, says G********, young man, I'll whisper my plan:

While possessing great zeal for the Throne,
We may leave in the lurch

Both the King and the Church,
By encouraging slyly, Pope Joan.
In one hand a new dance,
In another finance,

To throw on each subject new light,
Young P**** appeared,

And begg'd he might be heard
In settling the game of the night,
Cassino, he cries,

Sure of all games supplies Amusement unblended with strife: For if black, grey, and fair,

With their fellows should pair,
Must to all form the pleasures of life.

Without further debate
Down to Cass then they safe,

The good old game of Whist,
For, if Honours were miss'd,

He was sure to succeed by the trick.

Now with blustering noise
T****** roar'd out, My Boys,

I approve none of all your selections:
What I'll recommend

To myself and my friend

Is to play well the game of Connections.

By his Master respected,
By both sides neglected,
Telle est la fortune de la guerre ;

Once the Minister's Ombre,

Now deserted and sombre,

The good S******* preferr`d Solitaire.

Next, with perquisites stor'd,
Spoke T*****'s good Lord,

All whose wants are supplied by the Nation; From the memory blot, Pique, Repique, and Capot,

And let's practise, my friends, Speculation.
L*** G******** stood by
With considerate eye,

Which forbore e'en his hopes to express ;
But W******, less mute
Own'd each game in each suit
Ile had play'd without any success.

Try again, Sir, your skill,

Said B******, at Quadrille, There seems none but your friends to ask leave;

As for calling a King

I shall do no such thing, But shall soon play alone, I believe.

The Knaves all pair'd off,

Of all Court cards the scoff,

And in triumph the King clear'd the board,

John, rubbing his eyes,

At length, with surprise,

Discover'd the tricks of the crew;

And gaining in sense

What he first lost in pence,

From those Wolves in Sheep's clothing withdrew.

Then spoke the bride's father, his hand on his sword, [a word,) (For the poor Craven bridegroom said never "Q come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, [Lochinvar ?" Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord "I long woo'd your daughter, my suit its tide Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like And now I am come, with this lost love of mine [of wine. To lead but one measure, drink one cup There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far [Lochinvar ! That would gladly be bride to the young

you denied;

Hastings, esq. and was suggested by the circumstance of his having removed a number of large stones, which lay in the neighbourhood, to form the rock work 'terials chiefly for a little Island, and the which adorns his grounds, furnishing madeclivities of an artificial Cascade. These stones which were situated on the summit of a hill in the parish of Addlestrop, in Gloucestershire, near the point where it borders upon the three adjoining counties, bad stood for time immemorial; and whether they owed their position to Art or Nature, accident or design, has never been determined but popular tradition, as is usual in cases of the like dilemma, has furnished a ready solution to this inquiry, by ascribing their origin to enchantment. It is accordingly pretended that as an old woman was driving her geese to pasture upon Addlestrop hill, she was met by one of the Weird Sisters, who demanded alms, and upon being refused, converted the whole flock into so many stones, which have ever since retained the name of the

:

Grey Geese of Addlestrop Hill. In relat ing this Metamorphosis, no variation has been made from the antient legend; nor has any deviation from truth been resorted to in the narration of their subsequent history, farther than in attributing to the magical completion of a fictitious prophecy, what was, in reality, the effect of taste and a creative invention in the amiable proprietors of Daylesford House. THE GREY GEESE OF ADDLESTROP HILL. "Et me fecere poctain Pierides; sunt et mihi carmina; me quoque dicunt

Cinnâ

Vatem pastores: sed non ego credulus illis. Nam neque adhuc Vario videor nec dicere [olores." Digna, sed argutos inter strepere anser VIRGILII ECLOga, ix, v. 33. BENEATH the grey shrowd of a wintery cloud

The Day-star dimly shone;

Aud