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cline the latter to relinquish his truft, and is of courte rejected with indignation.

A double aflignation is made between lady Dormer and Sedley, and between Sir Charles and Mifs Montford, but without the confcioulness of the latter, at the houfe of Mils Danby, Sir Charles arrives unexpectedly, and his lady receives him in a mafk, and they are broken in upon by Montford, in fearch of his daughter. Lady Dormer is by this means difcovered, and the circumftance gives birth to fome pleafant recrimination. Sedley entering, is on the eve of quarrelling with the fuppofed Wilkins, when William an old fervant, difcovers to the former, that the latter is no other than Montford, his guardian, his protector, and his friend. The remaining part of the fcene is directed to general explana tion; and the piece concludes with the union of Sedley and Mis Montford.

Anecdotes of Arthur Phillip, Esq. Governor

of New South Wales.

ARTHUR Phillip is one of thofe effe

cers, who, like Drake, Dampier, and Cook, has raifed himself, by his merit and his frvices, to diftinction and command. His father was Jacob Phillip, a native of Frankfort in Germany, who, having fettled in England maintained his family, and educated his fon, by teaching the lan guages. His mother was Elizabeth Breach, who married for her firft hufband captain Herbert of the navy, a kiníman of lord Pembroke. Of her marriage with Jacob Phillip, was her fon Arthur, born in the parish of Allhallows, Bread-ftreet, within the city of London, on the 11th of October 1738.

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to marry, and to fettle at Lyndhuft in the New Foreft, where he amuted himself with farming, and, like other country gentlemen, difcharged affiduoufly those provin cial offices, which, however unimportant, occupy refpectably the owners of land, who, in this ifland, require no office to make them important.

But failors, like their own element, are feldom at reft. Thofe occupations, which pleated Phillip while they were new, no longer pleafed him when they became fami liar. And he haftened to offer his skill and his fervices to Portugal when it engaged in warfare with Spain. His offer was readily accepted, becaufe fuch skill and fervices were neceffary amid an arduous ftruggle with a too powerful opponent. And, fuck was his conduct and fuch his fuccefs, that when the recent interference of France, in 1778, made it his duty to fight for his king, and to defend his country, the Portugue court regretted his departure, but applauded his motive.

His return was doubtless approved by thofe who, knowing his value, could advance his rank: for he was made master and commander into the Bafilifk firefhip on the ad of September 1779. But in her he had little opportunity of difplaying his zeal, or of adding to his fame. This ftep, however, led him up to a higher fituation; and he wat made poft-captam into the Ariadne frigate, on the 13th of November 1781, when he was upward of three and forty. This is the great epoch in the lives of our naval officers, becaufe it is from this that they date their rank. In the Ariadne, he had little time for 'active adventures, or for gainful prizes, being appointed to the Europe of fixty four guus on the 23d of December 1781. Dur ing the memorable year 1782, Phillip promoted its enterprizes, and thared its glories. And, in January 1783, he failed with a reinforcement to the Eaft Indies, where fa. perior bravery contended against fuperior force, till the policy of our negotiators put an end to unequal hofilities by a neceffary peace.

Teing defigned for a feafaring life, he was very properly fent to the fchool of Greenwich, where he received an education fuitable to his early propensities. At the age of fateen, he began his maritime career, under the deceased captain Michael Everet of the navy, at the commencement of hoftilities in 1755: and at the fame time that he learned the rudiments of his proicion under that able officer, he par ook with him in the early misfortunes, and fubfequent glories, of the feven years war. Whatever opulence Phillip acquired from the capture of the Elavannah, certain it is, that, at the age of twenty-three, he there was made a lieutenant into the Stirling-cafde, on the 7th of June 1761, by Sir George Pococke, an excellent judge of naval accom-idered as important.' Juliaments,

His equipment, his voyage, and his fettlement in the other hemilphere,' fays the Editor of the Voyage, will be found in the following volume. When the time fhall arrive that the European fettlers on Eydney Cove demand their hiftorian, thele authentic anecdotes of their priftine legifla tor will be fought for as curious, and con

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10th of July, anchored at Otaheite. On vant readily conduct me to him, though he the 23d they left this ifland, and, on the had forbidden them to let any body come 29th, brought to off Owharree harbour, in to him. I found him leaning at a table with the island of Huhahcine. Here they learned, a book before him, and faw, methought, a that after Omai had got perfectly fettled, he concern in him much deeper than that feri. found himself under the neceffity of purchaí- ouliefs which arifes from reading only, ing a great quantity of cloth, and other ne- though the matter upon which a man has ceffaries, for himself and family, of which his been employed has been ever to weighty. neighbours took advantage, and made him He faw in me, I believe, a friendly curiofity pay extravagantly for every article he pur to know what put him into that temper, and chafed; that he frequently vifited Uliatea, and began to tell me that he had been looking never went empty handed, fo that by thefe over a little collection of books of his wife's; means he expended much of his treafure: and faid, it was an inexpreffible pleasure to he died at his own houfe, as did the New him, that, though he thought her a moit Zealand boys; but in what order their excellent woman, he found, by perufing litdeaths had happened Tutti could not give tle papers and minutes among her books, information. Upon Omai's deceafe, the new reafous for loving her: this, continued Uliatea men came over and attacked them he, now in my hand, is the " Contemplati for his property, alledging that, as he was ons, Moral and Divine, of Sir Matthew a native of their ifland, they had an undoubt- Hale:" he has turned down and written ed right to it. Tutti faid they carried away little remarks on the margin as she goes on. a confiderable part of his remaining property, In order to give you a notion of her merit and particularly his mufquets, the flocks of and good fenfe, pray give me leave to real which they broke, and took the powder and three or four paragraphs which the has buried it in the fand. He added, that the marked with this pencil. He here looked conflict had been very fierce, and that great upon the pencil, till the memory of fome numbers were flain on both fides, nor were little incident, of which it reminded him, they friends even at this time. Three of filled his eyes with tears; which, to hide the natives who came on board, had the new reafons for loving (but he only difcoos frontis fractured in a terrible manner, at vered his grief the more) he began in a trothey were then perfectly recovered of their ken voice to read fir Matthew's fecond wounds. The houfe that captain Cook had chapter, in his Difcourfe of Religion. built for Omai was ftill in being, and was covered by a very large one, built after the country fafhion; it was taken poffeffion of by the chief of the island. With respect to the hories, the mare had foaled, but died fcon afterwards, as did the foal; the horfe was still living, though of no benefit. Thus were rendered fruitlets the benevolent intentions of his majefty, and all the pains and trouble captain Cook had been at in preferving the cattle, during a tedious paf. fage to thefe iflands,

On the Happiness of the married States
To the Editor.

SIR,

TROUBLE you with an extract from fir Richard Steele's Lover, a work I be lieve in very few hands, and which many of your readers may perhaps never have feen. The following little effay contains fome traits of tendernets which I think are not exceeded by any thing in our language, and, I am perfuaded, will afford much fatisfaction to fuch of your readers as value the happiness of the married state.

"Mr. Ofwald," fays our author, "who is a widower, and in the first year of that diftreffed condition, having ablented himLelf from our meetings, I went to vifit him this evening My intimacy made the fer

The truth and fpirit of religion comes in a narrow compass, though the effect and operation thereof are large and diffufive. Solomon comprehended it in a few words, "Fear God, and keep his commandinents, for this is the duty of man:" the foul and life of religion is the fear of God, which is the principle of obedience; but obedience to his commands, which is an act or exercife of that life, is various, according to the variety of the commands of God. If I take a kernel of an acorn, the principle of obedience; but obedience to his commands, which is an act or exercife of that life, is various, according to the variety of the commmands of God. If I take a kernel of an acorn, the principle of life lies in it; the thing itself is but fmall, but the vegetative principle that lies in it takes up a lefs roent than the kernel itfelf, little more than the quantity of a fmall pin's head, as is eaty to be obferved by experiment; but the excicile of that fpark of life is large and comprehenfive in its operation: it produceth a great tree, and in that tree the fap, the body, the bark, the limbs, the leaves, the fruit; and fo it is with the principle of true religion; the principle itself lies in a narrow coinpals, but the activity and energy of it is diffufi e and various.

"This principle hath not only producione that naturally Now from it, but where it

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is, it ferments and affimilates, and gives a kind of tincture even to other actions, that do not in their own nature follow from it, as the nature and civil actions of our lives, under the former was our Lord's parable of a grain of muftard-feed; under the latter, his comparison of leaven, just as we fee in other things of nature. Take a little red wine and drop it into a veffel of water, it gives a new tincture to the water; or take a grain of falt and put it into freth liquor, it doth communicate itfelf to the next adjacent part of the liquor, and that again to the next, until the whole be fermented; fo that the small and little vital principle of the fea of God doth gradually, and yet fuddenly, affimilate the actions of our life flowing from another principle. It rectifies and moderates our affections, and paffions, and appetites; it gives truth to our speech, fobriety to our fenfes, humility to our parts, and the like.

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nothing can mend the heart better than an honourable love, except religion. It fweetens difafters, and moderates good fortune, from a benevolent fpirit that is naturally in it, and extends itself to things the inot remote. It cannot be conceived, by thofe who are involved in libertine pleafures, the fweet fatisfactions that must arife from the union of two perfons who have left all the world, in order to place their chief delight in each other; and to promote that delight by all the methods which reafon, urged by religion and duty, forwarded by paffion, can intimate to the heart. Such a pair give charms to virtue, and make pleafant the ways of innocence; a deviation from the rules of fuch a commerce would be courting pain; for fach a life is as much to be preferred to any thing that can be communicated by criminal fatisfactions (to fpeak of it in the mildeft terms) as fobriety and ele gant conversation are to intemperance and rioting.

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"Religion is best in its fimplicity and purity, but difficult to be retained fo, without fuperftitions and acceffions; and those do commonly in time flife and choak the fimplicity of religion, unless much care and dir- From the French of Prince Baris de Galitzin. cumfpection be used: the contemperations are Had once a lovely friend: Louisa was fo many and fo cumberfome, that religion her name, the was beautiful as the mernlofeth its nature, or is ftrangled by them; jung rofe befprinkled with the dew, fweet as as a man that hath fome excellent fimple cordial the honey of the illuftrious bee. I loved my fpirit, and puts musk in it to make it fmell charming friend-I was beloved by her. ! fweet, and honey to make it tafte pleafant; once was happy! and, it may be, cochineal to make it look glorious. Indeed, by the infufions he hath given it a very fine fmell, and tafte, and colour; but yet he hath fo clogged it, and fophifticated it with fuperadditions, that, it may be, he hath altered the nature, and detroyed the virtue of it.".

Here my friend could go on no farther, but reaching to me the book itlelf, he leaned on the table, covering his eyes with his hands, while I read the following words on the markin,-"Grant that this fuperaddition which I make, may be love and conftancv to Mr. Ofwald !"- No one could be unaffected with this incident, nor could I for. bear falling into a kind of confolatory difcourse, drawn from the fatisfaction it muft needs be, to find new proofs of the virtue of a perfon he fo tenderly loved; but, obServing his concern too quick and lively for converfation on that fubject, I broke off with repeating only two diflichs of Mr. Cowley to my lady Vandyke, on the death of her husband.

"Your joys and griefs were wont the fame

to be.

"Begin not now, bleft pair, to disagree."

Soon as the moon arofe, we were wont to

repair to a clump of fhady elms. There, feated on the verdant turf, we faid to each other, Shall we be always thus happy And the birds fang in the thick foliage, and the brook fweetly murmured. Oft did we in terrupt our difcourfe, to liften to it; oft did it feem to fufpend its murmurs, as if liftening to our tender effufions. Ah! we were happy once under the fhady elms.

But how folitary now the grove! The nightingale no longer fings! The brook murmurs ftill, but with a fad and plaintive nose. The melancholy cyprus now appears, where once role the lofty clms Louita is no more. And II no longer feek the grove.

Anecdote.

INDE X.

Anecdotes of Henrietta Anne of England 530 Carhampton, Lord, Speeches of

544 Caricatures explained

568 Carysfort, Lord. Speeches of

576 Cavendish, Sir H. Speeches of 269, 3:5
326, 433, 437, 438, 490, 545, 601,
603, 659, 661
Chancellor of the Exchequer. See Parnell.
Character of Dr. Leland and Dr. Jortin 114
of Hyde, Earl of Clarendon 13