excellent poet of our own, we may

ste

Worlds behind worlds that deep in

ather lie.

And suns that twinkle to the distant

rye.

We know very well as to our human constitutions, that motion, which is inc eas'd and promoted by exercise, is better than any receipt in the whole materia medicu, for the preservation of health and strength.

Behold yon man of great wealth and indolence, sunk in inactivity, vapoured all over, enervated with luxury, tortur'd with pain and sighing after health: When he sees the ruddy vigour of the laborious hind, the elasticity of 'his nerves, the pliancy and strength of his limbs, and the goodness of his di gestion free from care, void of pain and thought, and whistling to his team in the furow, may no such a wealthy, miserable wretch be allowed to envy the flicity of this hearthy clown? May he notwith seeming jus ice, complain of the inequality of fortune in bestowing blessings with so partial a

hand.

Reflections of this kind may not prove an improper lesson to an idle and indolent race, who rain themstives and their posterity by an intemperate use of penty; for these evis are generally bought upon them by, what they call, the blessings of an easy fortune.

But what can wo say to those. people who purchase a sort of sickly ease at the expence of solid virue, who fine fo diseases, and imagine themselves to be the greatest among men, while they are the lowest among slaves?

What conld surprise one more, (if the sight were not very common) than to see creatures who know, who are well assured the great Change must come, and that too in the short circulation of a few years, thus foolishly anxious, and in a perpetual pursuit of pain and. dishonor; if they conceive that happiness consists in power and wealth,they reason wrong; if they would be pleased to imagine that it recided in heal h and virtue, they would reason, right.

PHILANTHROPOS.

For the Lady's Miscellany."

Abuses in relation to the
BEAU MONDE.

I am no Politician, and therefore have nothing to say about Hes. sians ŋd Hanoverians: The city address, whether it contained 100 little, or just enough, is nothing to me: And yet I am not wholly unC oncerned, about the state of the Nation. The gay part of the nation, the Beau Monde, is what I mean. A great number of abuses, that deserve a legislative redress, are crept into this community, of which I shall now enumerate a

lew.

Advertising after a Bedfellow, as we have seen it practised by both sexes, unless the town has been grossly imposed upon, is one of these abuses. I am scandalis'd whenever I see this infringement of all good manners, this contempt of that respect which I have hitherto thought due from the sex to each other. It is no more nor less than se'ting themselves up to sale, to be carried off by the first person who bids to the price? If there was indeed a scarcity on one side; if the men had been lost in war; or if there had been a mortality a mong the women, there might have been some excuse for this practice. But as matters are at present, when, by what appears,every John may have his Joan, if ne will but ask the question, I cannot but look on this innovation as very unnecessary in the men, and very indecent in the women.

statures, features, for unes, whatever the register keeper should be empowered to ask, under e same solemn penalty of an outh; the men in one book, and the woman in another; which should never be opened but to the contrary sex. After such a register was established, if any man or woman took upon them to advertise in a public news paper, they should be suspected of impos use in some article or oti er; either that they were not so rich, so handsome, so young, as they pretended, or that there was some other defect or obstacle, that prevented their coing to the fair market.

My second complaint is chiefly levell'd against the fair. It is a gainst an affection that prevails a mong some of them, on certain occasions, to dress so mushike men that there may be great danger of their being taken for such, and of many a pretty fellow being taken for a lady, especially if the customi should grow more general. Now as I can hardly think the re a.e me ny women, however they may be pleased with mimicking another manner, that would in reality he willing to pass for w'at they are not, I hope the hazard they un will sufficiently convince them, by authority of Legislature, a pub-without any new inte pe sition of the legis ature.

Yet, lest it should so happen that any of the former, through dint of meer native modesty, otherwise called sheepishness, should not be able to open his mind; or any of the latter, by great ill luck, should live till thirty without having it in her power to give a deniel; I would humbly propose, for the benefit of such, that there erected

lic register office, for single persons, into which none should be ad mitted who did not previously make oath, that they were free from all engagement. In this office such persons should enter their ages

When Jack Dapper and his sister Lucy tide cut together, there is ro difference to be seen betwixt them, but in the petticoat and

breeches: a diam very apprehen sive if a stop be not put to this assimilating taste, that these two gaments may in time come to a compromise If this should ever happen what should we do when there was a fenie voice in the man, and a mascaune in the wo Toan and the voices are so muc alike in the two I have mentioned, that when Jack calls in the nex room, noting is more common than for the servants to answer, Madum!

QUIZ.

For the Lady's Miscellany.

Oathe Folly of sacraficing COMFORT

to LASTE.

There are certain homely, but sweet comforts and conveniencies, the absence of which no elegance can supply. Since however, they have nothing of external splendour, they are often sachficed to the gratification of vanity We live too much in the eyes and minds of others, and too lite to our own hearts, too little to our own sciences, and too litle to our own satisfaction We are more anxious to appear, than to be happy.

con

tion in every part of their conduct
similar to that of the Frenchman'
who hao rather go without a shirt,
than without ruffles; rather starve
as a count, than enjoy affluence &
independence as an honest mer.
chant. Men idolize the great,and
the distinctions of fashionable life,
with an idolatory so reverential and
complete, that they seem to mis-
ake it for their duty towards God.
Fo- to use the words of the chate-
chism, do hey not appear
to be-
lieve in them, to fear them, to love
them with all their hearts, with all
their minds, with all their souls,
and with all their strength, to wor-
ship them, to call upon them, to
honor their names and their words,
and to serve them truly all the
days of their lives? As they wor.
ship faise gods, their blessings are
of the kind which corresponds with
the nature of their deities. They
are all shadowy and insubstantial;
dreams, bubbles and meteors,
which dance before their eyes, and
lead them to perdition.

It is really unaccountable to behold families of a competent fortune and respectable rank, who (while they deny themselves even the common pleasures of a plentifu: table, while their kitchen is the Accarding to the present modes. cave of cold and famine, while their of living, and ideas of propriety. neighbours, relations, and friends an ostentatious appearance must be phy and despise as they pass the at all events, and in all instances, comfortless and unhospitable door) supported. If we can preserve a scruple not to be profusely expenglitering and glos y varnis, we sive in dress, furniture, building, is egard the interior mate fals & equipage, at public entertainments substance. Many shew a disposi-in excursions to bath, Tunbridge

or Bigthelmstone. To feed the fashionable extravagance, they rob themselves of indulgencies which they know to be more truly satis factory; for which of them return" eth from the midnight assembly, or from the summer excurtions, without complaining of dullness. fatigue, ennui, and insipidity? They have shewn themselves, they have seen many fine persons, and many fine things; but have they feit the delicious pleasures of domestic peace, and tranquil delights of social intercourse at their own towns and villages, the solid satisfactions of a cool collected mind, the comforts arising from a disem. barrassed state of finances, and the love and respect of a neighbour hood?

To run in debt and be involved in danger of arrests and imprisonment, are in this age almost an object of fashionable ambition. To have an execution in the house, is to be in the same predicament with his boronet, and the other lord or with his grace the duke. The poor imitator of splendid misery, little greatness, and titled infamy, risques his liberty and last snilling to become a man of taste and fashion. He boasts that he is a hap py man, for he is a man of pleasure he knows how to enjoy life; he professes the important

science called the Scavoir Vivre Give him the distinction which in the littleness and blindness of his soul, he considers as the source of happiness and honor. Allow

him his claim to taste, give him
the title of a man of pleasure, and
since he insists upon it, grant him
his pretensions to Scavoir Vivre.
But at the same time he cannot
deny that he is hunted by his cre-
ditors, that he is obliged to hide
himself least he should lose his
liberty; that he is eating the bread
and the meat, and wearing the
clothes of those whose children are
crying for a morsel, and shivering
in rags.
If he has brought him-

self to such a state as to feel no un.
easiness, when he reflects on his '
embarrassment, and its conse.
quence to others; he is a base,
worthless and degenerate wretch.
But if he is uneasy, where is his
appiness? where his exalted en-
joyments? how much happier had
been this boaster of happiness, had
he lived within the limits of reason
duty, and his fortune, in love and
unity with his own regular family,
at his own fire-side, beloved trust-
ed, respected in the neighbour-
hood, afraid of no creditor or per-
secution, nor of any thing else, but
of doing wrong? He might not in-
deed have made a figure on the
turf; he might not have had the
honor of leading the fashion; but
he would probably have had health,
wealth, fame and peace. Many a
man who is seldom seen, and never
heard of, enjoys, in the silence and
security of a private life, all which
this sublunary life can afford to
sweeten the cup, and to lighten the
burthen.

In things of an inferior nature,

and such as not immediately con- often renders the sublime and nected with moral conduct, the magnificent taste in gardening insame predilection for external ap-compatiable with comfort. Winpearance, and the same neglect of solid comfort, when placed in competition with the display of an af fected taste, are found to prevail. Our houses are often rendered cold, small and inconvenient, for the sake of preserving a regularity of external figure, or of copying the archi cruse of a warmer climate. Our carriages are made dangerous or incoinmodious for the sake of attracting the passengers eye, by something new or singular in their shape, strength, or fabric. Our dress is fashioned in uneasy forms,and with troublesome superfluitits, or uncomfortable defec's, just as the Proteus, Fashion, issues out of the capricious edicts of a variable taste. We even eat and drink see and cording to his own

hear, not ac

appe ites and senses, but as the prevalent taste happens to direct. I this refined age we are all persons of taste, from the hair dresser and millener, to the duke and duc ess. question is not what is right, pru. dent, pleasing, comfortable, but, what is the taste. Hence beggariy, finery, and lordly beggary.

The

ter, as the poet says often lingers in the lap of may. How pleasing to step out of the house, and bask under a sunny wall covered with bloom. to watch the expansion of a rose bud, and to see even the humble pea and bean shooting up with all the vigour of vernal fertility. But now the mansion house stands naked and forlorn. You descend from the flight of s eps. You are saluted by the rudest breath of Eu us and Boreas. No trees, no wails, no out-houses, even the ki chen and offices subterraneous, Not a corner to seek the genial warmth of a meridian sun. Fine prospects indeed all around. But you cannot say to look at them. You fly to your chimney corner, happy if the persecuting blast pur sues you not to your last recess. We allow all that taste can claim. We admire and love her boauties; but they are dearly bought at the expence of comfort.

A little and enclosed garden adds greatly to the real enjoyment of a rural retreat. Though taste has thrown down the walls,and laid all open; I venture to predict that before the lapse of half a century, good sense and the love of comfort will rebuild them. The grounds beyond may still be laid out in the grandest and most beautiful style; but let the house stand in the midst of a small cultivated spot, where

The sacrifice of comfort to taste is vissible in our modern gardens. I rejoice in the explosion of the Dutch manner. I expatite with raptured eye and imagination over the noble scenes created by a Kent and a Brown. But at the same time I lament that our cold climate every vegetable beauty and delica