al fervice; and here recollecting the not very good casing, yet their quills will be useful in the family, either for mifs Maria to write her love letters, or her mulic mafter to tune the piano forte. fate of poor Gilpin, provide yourself When tired of the gun, the delights of fishing naturally prefents themfelves; for this purpose you must be fitted out; it is impoffible but that the fimple country filh must be easily taken in by a city fly. When fetting off for your day's diverfion, let your basket be large enough, fot though you may not fill it with trout, or grayling, yet it will be handy enough for your bread and cheese and porter. As fifh eat beft when just out of the water, (and if not to be or two, and a pair of horns! eaten, why fhould you be at the After your hot fummer, and the trouble of catching them?) take novelty of the harveft is over, it is care to be provided with a conjuror high time to declare war against the not a conjuror to tell where the fish patridges-if you have already been haunt, but a conjuror to cook them trained to stand fire, in the artillery when caught. If the day is cloudy, ground, you have overcome one that the fith cannot fee your bait, great difficulty; having, thus learned throw a few ftones into their holes to to fire, your next object is to learn drive them into the stream, and then to hit the mark; you may, therefore if they wont bite, you may confole commence with a dead hen, thrown yourself, that it is not your fault.→→ up in the air, at which you may fire As patience is a neceffary accomwith your eyes fhut, as he cannot plishment for a fisherman, you may fly away if you mifs her; 'after a few even, whilft in town, praclife a lit Ay trials, you may, perhaps, be able to tle in the canal or liffey; fhould you kill her to hit her I would fay- catch nothing, you can always purand having fucceeded in this you may chafe fix-pennyworth of flounders to prepare for the work of death. Load- fhew at home. ed with amunition, like a tumbril cart, and accompanied by your pointers from the dog fhop, you fally forth and Lord have mercy upon the patridges! Take care before you fet out, to give the poor animals a hearty breakfast, as that will prevent them from running away from you; fhould any of them obftinately ftand, and not come when you call to him, you may fire at him to frighten him, and who knows but you may kill a bird or two, If you hould obferve much game in a fubble field, kill a few, if you can-for though, perhaps, you may You will naturally join in other rural fports, of the bowling-green or cockpit; in the latter, the politeness of the company will make up for the barbarity of the amusement; as a ftaunch patriot, you must alio encourage the breed of race horses, though after much croffing and joftling, you may get the wrong ide of the poft. As you will, at the country club, or quarter-feffions, be a great ftickler for liberty, you must prove it on your own manors, by a strict adheren e to the game laws; you will naturally confider your game as valuable, and and fo indeed it is, as it is most likely that it cofts you ten times more than it is worth; and though your preferves destroy more corn than the parfon claims, yet you must always exlaim against tythes. If an unlucky fellow in your neighbourhood should have a tafte for poaching, as long as he keeps off your manors, you may be conveniently blind, particularly if he has a pretty wife or daughter; the advantages of this are felf-evident, but when he is fit for killing, you must be careful that the tables are not turned upon you, like the fporting parfon in one of the fouthern counties. This fprig of divinity having brought an unfortunate poacher be fore the magiftrates, the proofs were fo glaring, that they refolved to punifli the offender in the mitigated penalty of five pounds, although his reverence, heedlefs of the poor man's folicitations, infifted ftrongly on the full penalty being levied. After the order was made out, the offender ad. dreffing the bench, begged to know of their honour's worthips, if fo be as how he could not fine meafter Parfon; on being anfwered in the affirmative, provided he could make out his cafe: Why then, ecod, meafters,' faid he, meafter Parfon ha got ne'er a ftamp in his hat.' The cafe was clear, his reverence was fined ten pounds, half to the informer, which was a clear fet off to the poaching penalty. By a ftrict attention to these hints, you may foon become notorious, and will be remembered in their prayers, by all the neighbouring poor tbat is they will remember to leave you out, but that is immaterial, for as they have fo little intereft in the courts below, it is not to be fuppofed they can have any in the courts above. I have thus given you a few hints for your commencement, but as I thall have an opportunity of paying you my refpects again, in my vifit to the country Squires, I fhall, for the pre fent, with you a good morning. Curious Invention in Clock-making. MR. GREBEL, watch-make at Paris, has obtained a patent for: difcovery which may become of g neral utility. He has invented a par dulum which has no weight, ar which has entirely the form of a bal the dial is tranfparent; and, by means of a reflecting lamp, and a cur rent of air, fhews the hour at a grea distance. In confequence of a peculiar contrivance, neither the hands, the pivot on which they turn, nor the ba lance, caft any fhadow. A confider able degree of light may be given to it; which, if neceffary, may be dimi nifhed to the fimple gleam of a rul light, thus forming a moft convenien appendage to the chambers of the fick it will alfo prove very advantageous to all claffes of fociety, as it may be adapted to public clocks; and while renders the hour diftinguishable a every moment of the night, will, a the fame time, prove an excellen reverberating lamp. Sabbath. By the Rev. J. Brown. ALTHOUOH an obfervance of the fabbath be only a duty pofitive and not of eternal obligation, it is, notwithstanding, fo conducive to the culture and prefervation of religion in the world, and is, in its own nature, fo detached from fenfe, and fo conver fant with fpiritual objects, as to merit the diftinguifhed ftation it occupies in the moral law, inftituted by God him felf, and promulgated by Mofes,The objects, of its commemoration, under the Mofaic economy, were the creation of the world, and the deliverance of the Ifraelites from the preure of Egyptian bondage. Thele were two fplendid events, to which the atten tion of the human race, and of this nation in particular, behoved to be devoutly directed, and nothing but an event of fuperior magnitude could Among the various remidies profuperfede them; which having taken pofed for this diforder, the most complace, under the moral government of mon is fulphur and tar; but this is a God, that which was once principal, nalty application, and fo tedious, that is now esteemed fubordinate'; and the it may be used for many months withday for the commemoration of the out effecting à cure. Gunpowder, fublimeft and most interefting event Scotch fauff, infutions of tobacco, viis changed from the 7th to the 1ft of negar, and mushroom juice, have all the week, on which day the Saviour been tried with different fuccefs; but, of the world arofe from the dead to nothing, as yet, appears to have been authenticate his divine miffion, and discovered which can be depended on confequently the refurrection and fal- as a certain cure. vation of the humane race. In proportion then as it is more beneficent to fave, than to create; to regenerate moral, than to produce phyfical exiftence, to eternize mind, than to form body, in the fame proportion is the obligation to obferve the Chriftian fabbath, fuperior to that by which the obfervance of the Jewith is enforced. It is conceded, that there is no exprefs and ifolated precept in the new Testament for this fabbatical change; but as it is founded in the nature of things, as a 7th part of our time, and not a precife day of feven, is required for confecration, and as the alteration was sanctioned by the practice of the apoftles, and after them, by that of the primitive church downwards, we Chriftians, in our imitation of them, conceive that we are juftified by fuch practice and authority, as well as by the eternal and unalterable nature and fitnefs of things. If, therefore, any of the medicał readers of your useful mifcellany could make it convenient to turn his thoughts to his fubject, and have the goodness to give fome information as to the nature and predifpofing caufe, as well as the best way of preventing its spreading in- large families, and of treating it, he will be entitled to the thanks of the public at large, and will oblige many of your readers. August 13, 1858, J. H' On the Ufe of Vine Leaves as a Subfitute for Tea, Sc. Sc. MR. EDITOR, FROM the experiments I have tried, I find, on being dried, which fhould be done in the fhade, the leaves of the vine make an excellent and extremely wholesome tea, though fomewhat different, both in taste and flavour from that generally ufed.I have alfo found that, befides being admirably calculated for making vi negar, the prunings of the vine, on being bruifed and put into a vat or mathing-tub, and boiling water poured on them, in the fame way as is done on malt, produce a liquor of a fine vinous quality, which, being fermented, forms a fine fubftitute for beer; and which, on being diftilled, produces a very fine fpirit of the nature of brandy. As this is the feafon for pruning the vine, many thoufand cart loads of which are, year after year, thrown away as ufclefs, where there are not goats to eat them: and the the idea here fuggefted is, not only Aug. 30, 1808. British Theatrical Journal. HAYMARKET. THE expected play from the pen of mr. George Colman, was on Friday night, July 30, performed for the first time, at this theatre. It is entitled The Africans; or, IVar, Love and Duty. DRAMATIS PERSONE. Farulho (the Prieft) mnr. Thompfon; Torribal, mr. Farley; Madiboo, mr. Fawcett; Selico, mr. Young; Damba Sego Jalla (King of Kaffon) mr. Palmer, jun.-Beriffa, mrs. Gibbs; Darina, inrs. St. Leger; Sutta, mrs. Liston. Selico is enamoured of Beriffa, the daughter of an African prieit. Every thing is prepared for the celebration of the nuptials, when in the midst of the ceremony, the chief of the Mandingo warriors fuddenly attacks the town, which he deftroys by fire, and involves every thing in ruin and defolation.-Selico is perfuaded that Beriffa and her father have fall. en in the general maffacre, and flies to the relief of his mother, who had efcaped into the woods under the protection of two more of her fons, by all of whom he is moft fondly beloved. But although the efcaped the cruelty of the enemy, the is on the point of falling a victim to famine, to refcue her from which, every fratagem is anxiously thought of by the filial affection of her fons, particularly by Selico. He firft endeavours to get himfelf fold as a flave, that the purchase money may procure a fuftenance for his mother, failing in this, he endeavours to C Ja 23 procure a large reward offered by the king for difcovering the perfon wh allowed the favourite flave he had t taken in the town to efcepe from his ta camp. That flave is no other than Beriffa. Selico prevails upon one of his own brothers to carry him before the enraged king, as the perfon who favoured the efcape of the fair cap tive, that he might receive the reward, and thus fecure the means of comfort to his mother-in this he fucceeds, but is himself condemned to a crud death. Hence arife the most affect. ing incidents of the piece: Selico it tied to the stake, to be burnt alive, and, while in that dreadful fituation, Beriffa and his mother appear-the one as his fellow fufferer, the other as a mother in defpair, explaining the nature of her fon's conduct, and foliciting his releafe. The king, touched with the fingularity of his ftory, not only grants him pardon, but beftows on him the hand of his beloved Reriffa, as the reward of fuch rare virtues. The fable of this piece is taken from the French of Florian. The different characters of the brothers are ftrongly marked; and the ferious part is confpicuous for its fimple dignity and unlaboured cafe. The pal fions are not forced beyond their natural level: there is a controuling tafie in their wildeft extravagance they ebb and flow under the influence of human nature, and, wherefoever the hurricane rages, the effect is not inadequate to its cause. The comic part of this play is principally refted upon the thoulders of Mr. Mug, a turner in ivory and wood, from Snow-hill, Fleet-ftreet; by a fudden misfortune made a flave in Africa; and, by an equally unexpected change, raifed to the dignity of fecretary of flate to the black monarch of Mandingo. This character was eminently fertile of humour in the hands of mnr. Celman.-There was fome very pleafant pleafant raillery upon the forms of been remedied by the laws paffed recabinet minifters, official difpatch- fpecting the fame, have, in their firft es,' and the ceremony of parliamen- report, come to fix refolutions, the tary debate.-Mr. Mug was, in fubftance of which follows:truth, as pleasant a fellow as we have lately met with on the ftage.-He maw and then dealt about him fome unneceffarv puns. but the tenor of his difcourfe was in the happieft mode of ridicule and farce: he commanded an inceffant laugh, and came on and went off the decided favourite of the night. It would be unjust not to add, that Lifton's performance of this character was an unrivaled piece of comedy. The characters of the play were very well fupported by the other performers, particularly by mr. Young, mr. Fawcett, and mr. Farley.-The mufic was by mr. Kelly.-The play was received throughout with great and merited approbation. Theatrical Chit-Chat. On the 12th of August the furniture of the theatre, Tottenham Court Road, taken in execution, was fold by auction. Some of the valuablesLot 84. A ftage dreffer. 86. Sundry tin fheets. 93. Two rope firetchers. Query two of the company. ? "y7. A ladder and flage box. 119. Animal basket work, conffling of a Bull, Goofe, and five ponies. 129. Eight Spanish jackets and ne pair of breeches. 142. Nine mens yellow dancing Ries, fix women do. 168. Five petticoats, wrapper, and fundry articles. 175. Sundry fide doors, water eces, &c.' Mr. Williams' Catalogue. So paffeth away the glory of this world! Report on State Lotteries. THE committee of the houfe of ommons appointed to enquire how the evils attending lotteries have ift. It is their opinion, that in cafe it fhall be thought expedient to conti nue ftate lotteries, they thould be limited to two, yearly, of not more than 30,000 tickets each; that the days of drawing fhould be eight inftead of ten, and that the number of tickets to be drawn fhould be kept fecret till the clofe of the drawing each day; care being taken that too many fhall not be left to be drawn on the latter days. 2dly. That no perfon fhould be permitted to deal in lottery tickets, except thofe who take out a licence, and their agents. 3dly. That, to prevent perfons fetting up lottery-offices, as a cloak for carrying on illegal infurance, no perfon fhould be entitled to a licence unless he thared 150 tickets, inftead of 30, the prefent number, 4thly. That all lottery offices fhould not be permitted to do bufinels before eight o'clock in the morning, or after eight o'clock in the evening. 5thly. That the practice of illuminating lottery offices for outfide flew, exhibiting lottery bills and fchemes upon boards, carts, or carriages, in town or country, should be fubjected, on conviction, to a confiderable penalty, or the party imprifoned for a limited period. 6thly. That the exemption of lottery office keepers from the jurifdiction of juftices of the peace and police magiftrates, fhould be difcontinued as inexpedient. The committee, in their fecond report, fay, that the foundation of the lottery is radically vicious, and that parliament cannot adopt any lyftem of regulations to make it an efficient fource of revenue, and at the fame time diveft it of all the evils and |
