ing the voyage, any of them fhould be conveniencies, with a hurdle, fitter to Here, gentlemen, you will do well to paufe a little, and adore the goodness of the great Father of all, who hath graciously caft your lot in a land of liberty; and whilst your hearts beat high with grateful tranfport for the ineftimable bleffing, think, I entreat you, on the wretched African, the offspring of the fame God, the heir of the fame heavenly inheritance, with yourselves, wearing away life in hopeless mifery, and deprived, under a British Government, of all pro tection. is come; Liberty is proclaimed to the WH T. who ANECDOTE Of the prefent Marquis of LANSDOWN. WHEN this nobleman, of the plainfimplicity of whofe diction, we cannot nefs of whofe manners, and the fpeak in terms fufficiently ftrong, paid his laft vifit to his eftates in Ireland, he attempted to exercife the captivations of his addrefs on his unfufpecting tenants in that kingdom, but not on all with an equal degree of fuccefs. Riding out one day, he met with a Mr. Woccupied a large farm from his Lordship; and understanding that he was haftening home to the chriftening of one of his children, the Peer very frankly offered himself to be his gueft: The other, bowing very refpectfully in return for this offer, replied, "that he could not poffibly accept of the honour intended him;that his friends, who were affembled on the occafion, were all boneft plain-speaking men, and as fuch could not be fit company for his Lordship.” It is impoffible adequately to reprefent the varied injuries, the multiplied wrongs, which these our fellow creatures fuffer from unrelenting tafk-mafters, who, inftead of fympathifing with them, deride their forrows, mock the tears they force to flow, enjoy the groans, and as it were, lap the blood of mifery; Nor can we be at all furprised to find that not less than twenty thousand die annually in what is (jocularly perhaps) called the feafoning. If roufed by thefe intolerable injuries, the hapless victims of the most infatiate cruelty fhould at any time attempt to reaffert that liberty which alone makes life valuable, this is confidered as an ample juftification of the moft diabolical barbarity-Never fhall I forget the account which a Weft Indian planter once gave me of the punishment inflicted on fome rebel flaves (as they were termed) in Antigua; who, having not forgotten that they were born free, and had never fold their liberty, refolved, if poffible, to recover" their Soul's beft, only bleffing." They failed; and horrible was the vengeance of their tyrants. As far as it is in my power, I will recollect his very words" Martial law was proclaimed. We feized feventy of the rafcals, and, making large fires, chopped off the legs and arms of feveral, and threw them into the fire, before their eyes. Some of them we hung alive in chains, on a beach where you would think no European A certain CURE for the MEASLES in could live twenty-four hours: one hardened dog lived fome days, bawling incef-T frequently happens that swine are fantly, Water! Water!" When, after furviving diftreffes next to intolerable, the much-injured Africans are landed in a Chriftian Country, our Weft-India fettlements-the dominions of England; they are expofed to fale, ex-fhocking; but they are very neceffary." actly like cattle in a market, and, having undergone a fhocking examination by thofe who gage and span SWINE. killed when difordered with the meaMy blood ran cold, and my heart died fles, which is eafily difcovered by the within me at the recital; which the meat or flesh containing finall globular red planter perhaps obferving, faid, with or white puftules of different fizes, varymuch indifference, "These things feeming according to the different degrees of the difeafe; which originates from their being fed with fufty damaged corn, or fome unwhole fome food; or from their being boiled in lead and copper veffels, in which it has lain too long; or from their being kept in a wet or dirty pen; either of which caufes tends to obftruct the free circulation of the fluids; hence arife those globular puftules, which are the juices rendered vifcid and coagulated.--About once a week mix too spoonfuls of madder in their food, which prevents obftructions, acting as a diuretic, and is at the fame time an aftringent. And on fome other day in the week give a spoonful or two of an equal quantity of flour of fulphur and falt petre, well pounded and mixed, which purifies and cools the blood. All these different articles added to each pail of food in the morning, on feparate days, entirely prevent the meafles, keep the fwine extremely healthy, and fatten them more expeditiously. cry of the needy, and of those that have Perifh, fay I, (anticipating, Gentlemen, your own feelings) for ever perifh the commerce which makes fuch horrid And buy the mufcles and the bones of man," cruelties neceffary. Let us unite to aboare fold to the best bidder, branded lish them, and call, with a voice which on the breaft with a hot iron, and have must be heard, on our Representatives in their ears flit. This cruel introduction Parliament, to rescue the unjustly-afflicted. to their flavery being finished, they be-Africans from violence, to liften to the come the abfolute property of their purchafers, and may be beaten, tortured, mangled, murdered, ftarved, at the will and pleafure of their mafters. From five in the morning till nine at night, during the greater part of the year they are compelled to ftrain every labouring finew, in a burning climate, under the eye of merciless agents, deaf as the lafh they wield to all the inabilities of weakness, over fatigue, or fickness; and when this tedious day of wretchedness is paft, they are graciously permitted to return to "a narrow, unwholefome hut, without any To fee you, gentlemen, nobly taking the lead in this great work of philanthropy, is my ardent wifh; and fhould you be difappointed-but it cannot be Already fee I the glad veffel, freighted with the precious boon of freedom, on her way (whilft every propitiatory wind kifles all her fails) I witnefs the extatic joy which penetrates the bofoms of thy fons, O Africk! and hear thefe joyous founds wafted over the vaft Atlantic; "Behold the acceptable year of the Lord THALIA'S Invocation to Mrs. ABINGTON. COMER OME, Abington, thou ever honour'd name, Pride of my theme, and guardian of my fame; Forego the habits of luxurious eafe, And deign to act as you were born to please. And fhew where Honour trembled when he writ; For the COUNTY MAGAZINE. THE TORN AN SUICIDE. ORN from his home by iron-handed pow'r, Irrefolution ftill his courfe attends, Nor choral fongs could charm his fick’ning ear. For baffl'd hopes that once 'bove worlds could foar, Wake keener woes that bleed upon the fight; Thefe crouding rife, and urge the defp'ra te lore, "To fink defpondent in the shades of night." Now as fome wretch 'fore whom in tort'ring dreams, In horrid forms-nocturnal spectres play, He starts aghaft!—but foon his visual streams For now reflection, with a thousand tongues, Half-footh'd, he hears-when-lo! a form before ren's charms; Alas! to thee the ear of Fate is steel'd! He ends;-and now refolv'd from all that charms, Oh, Virtue! thee in vain have I ador'd, Then, then I yield; 'tis juft-oppofing strife W. H. R. The LOVER and the FRIEND. Er blefs the firft and fairest born, NDU'D with all that could adorn, A foul!-that looks fuperior down, Let giddy fortune fmile or frown; With age's wisdom not her years, Stella, all excellence appears :Then who can blame me, if I blend The name of Lover with the Friend? Like Noah's dove, my busy breast, Has rov'd to find a place of reft! Some faithful bofom, to repose, And hufh the family of woes. Then, do I dream? or, have I found The fair and hofpitable ground? Oh! quit your fex's rules, and lend A Lover's wishes to the Friend. Abfence I try'd, but try'd in vain! It heals not, but upbraids my pain ; For thee! I'd bear the reaper's toil; For thee! confume the midnight oil; This tyrant oft' to cross and joftle tried, In youth he faw the high-bred cattle train'd But of late years he train'd the useful plough, And the green turf, which they were wont to tread, O may this fod, with thorny texture bound, * The King's Plate Course. + A steep afcent in the Long Course. A long ftrait Courfe of four Miles. Chapel, and was written when he was a BUT now alas! far other views difclofe Bows his meek head, and God eternal dies! And canft thou, ftupid Man, thofe forrows fee, Nor fhare the arguish which he bears for thee? Thy Sin, for which his facred flesh is torn, Points every nail, and sharpens every thorn; Canft thou?-While Nature fimarts in every wound, And each pang cleaves the fyınpathetic ground! Lo! the black Sun, his chariot backward driven, Blots out the day, and perifhes from Heaven: Earth, trembling from her entrails, bears a part, And the rent rock upbraids Man's stubborn heart. to the proprietors of the foil. The fuperior elegance of the mahogany to any fpecies of our native timber, must be admitted, but, nevertheless, the walnut is far from being devoid of beauty when properly worked up; and as for durability it is preferable, as may be evinced, by beams of that timber being frequently found in old caftles and manfions in England, which, after fome centuries from the time of their being cut down, were very little injured by the weather, or the deftructive tooth of time. To the Editor of the COUNTY MAGAZINE, SIR, HERE cannot be a ftronger argu TH of the military unneceffarily, than the conment against increafing the number fideration that most of the nations of the world, who have been enslaved, have been deprived of their liberties by a very smallnumber of men. He Oliver Cromwell left behind him no more than 27,000 men. The Duke of Monmouth, the darling of the people, was fuppreffed with 2000. Cæfar feized Rome itself with lefs than 5000. fought the battle of Pharfalia, which decided the fate of the world, with 20,000. Most of the revolutions, both of the Roman and Ottoman Empires, fince Cæfar's time, were caufed by the Prætorian Bands, and the court Janiffaries; the former of which never exceeded eight, nor the latter 12,000 men. If no greater numbers could make difturbances in thofe vaft empires, what might only an equal number do, against the people, when fupported by royal authority. The army, in fhort, is not a part of our Conftitution; the Militia is. To the Editor of the COUNTY MAGAZINE. SIR, APPENING to fee in a late publi Hcation, fome remarks upon different Vegetables, one in particular on Parfnips, that if dried, they would, when foaked fome time in water, regain their pristine ftate, and be as ufeful as at first. I made an experiment, by running a thread through the taper end of them, and hung them in my kitchen as far from the fire as poffible, that they might not dry too quickly: they became to hard and brittle that you might break them short as a people. This proved a great encourage-dry stick. On putting them in water, for ment to planting; and while the trees fenced the lands from the inclement and corroding blafts from the northern points, and proved a fhelter to the corn and vegetables, they alfo proved of vaft advantage 24 hours, they became properly fwoln out; and on boiling were very good. As this is the feafon for trial, the roots being, I apprehend, at their full growth, I hope the good wives of feafaring men men will lay in a ftore for their hufbands; who will, when all other vegetables fail at fea, be grateful to their kind mates, as thefe roots when well dried and packed in cafks to keep them from the moist sea air, will of courfe remain unhurt, longer than almoft any other vegetable they can carry, and when boiled with the falt meat will be an agreeable repast. I recommend a dry place for the experiment, as I tried fome in a more open one, with no fire, but they in confequence of the moift air, became rather mouldy on the outfide, and never became hard as the others. I recommend you and your brother printers will make this as public as poffible immediately, as this is the proper season; if no one else thanks them, I fhall, and I affure them that I am their friend, if reading all the newspapers I can lay my hands on is a proof. BENVOGLIO. ACCOUNT OF THE CHICKEN OVENS AT MANSOUTA, IN EGYPT. [FROM SAVARY'S LETTERS.] IMAGINE a building of two ftories, one under ground, and the other but little above it, equally divided lengthways by a narrow gallery; on the right hand and left are small cells were the eggs are put; the upper ftory is vaulted with an Ox-eye aperture at the top, and a smaller one on the floor, by which heat is communicated below; both have a small window carefully clofed, and only one low door for the whole building. The eggs are arranged in heaps in the lower ftory, and a fire of fun-dried cow-dung kindled in the upper, morning and night, an hour each. This is repeated for eight days, and the building, being fufficiently heated, the fire is put out, every aperture clofed, and a part of the eggs heaped up below are carried above. On the nineteenth day the chickens begin to move in their cells, nibble with their beaks on the twentieth, endeavouring to break their prison, and are ufually completely hatched on the twenty-firft. Then do thefe heaps of eggs, apparently lifeless, begin to move, and roll about the floor, and thousands of little various coloured chickens to run and hop about the apartment. They are carried about in panniers the next day, and fold at a halfpenny a-piece. be paralleled by the fuccefs which has been its confequence. His fermons preached at Bampton's Lecture are defervedly admired, not only with refpect to their ftyle as models of English compofition, but as exhibiting the cleareft and most fatisfactory view of Mahometanifm as contrafted to Christianity. trafted to Christianity. We rejoice to hear that the Profeffor is now seriously employed upon a work, which promifes the most beneficial confequences to fcience. The hiftory of Ancient Egypt prefents to the ftudious mind an inexhauftible source : it is to be confidered as the parent fountain, to which every production throughout all the regions of Literature owes both its fertility and beauty. Upon this important and interesting work Mr. White is at prefent employed, and we are happy tounderstand it is in no inconfiderable forwardnefs. It does not appear that promotion and reward have hitherto gone hand in hand with this gentleman's claims; he enjoys, however, one fair and unfading meed, the admiration of scholars and the efteem of his countrymen, teftified by the extreme folicitude with which his future works are expected, and his former publications are procured. TO ANNA MATILDA. N the fea-fhore with folded arms I stood, And the curl'd furf was ting'd with golden spray. Far off I faintly track'd the feathery fail; ear, Borne on the bofom of the flutt'ring gale, One ruby spark fhall to his gloom be given, And catch a ray of bliss-a glimpse of heav'n. Vain in the morn of life, and thoughtless too, 1 He rush'd impetuous as strong passion drove, Has felt the potent eye inflict the wound, And all, except its fad regret, is past. For this, he hies him at the peep of dawn, O'er the lone heath, or near the torrent's fide, Quaffs the bleak bev'rage on the midnight lawn, Or chafes glitt'ring meteors as they glide. Ah! had he met thee in his happier hour, Ere yet he languifh'd in the gripe of care, O diff'rent lot! for he who daily grieves, more. He would have led thee with attentive gaze, Have hung entranc'd upon thy living lays, While the dear Songftrefs had melodious ftole Had ftrain'd the dearer woman to his breast. Or had the faid, that war's the worthiest grave, Have dar'd perhaps to rush among the brave, Have gain'd perhaps the glory-of a smile. And 'tis most true, while time's relentless hand, Tho' on the plain he lies, outstretch'd, and pale, O'er that dread spot, the melancholy Moon Shall pause a while, a fadder beam to shed, And starry night, amidst her awful, noon, Sprinkle light dews upon his hallow`d head. There too the folitary birds fhall fwell With long-drawn melody her plaintive throat, While diftant echo from refponfive cell, Shall oft with fading force return the note. Such recompence be valour's due alone; ¡To me, no proffer'd meed must e'er belong, To me, who trod the vale of life unknown, Whole proudest boast was but an idle song. DELLA CRUSCA. For the COUNTY MAGAZINE. "Excufe me, Emmeline, if I think never! A mind thoroughly vitiated can never regain its original purity-I have, indeed, frequently heard the light, unthinking part of our fex exclaim, Re charming idea!-the ties of blood, doubly | fofter fenfation; for we cannot efteem formed rakes make the beft hufbands.' 66 Monstrous vanity! to think we poffefs The following is the exquifite SONG, written M DESCRIPTION of the PLATE Embellishing this Number. THE following excellent letter of being?-Could I have my wish, my be advice upon the most important of loved fifter fhould be united to one of all fubjects, (the choice of a husband,) untainted morals; who, on a nearer ac-THE beautiful and inestimable antique rewritten by one fifter to another, is ex-quaintance, fhould become more eftitracted from Mrs. Holmes's new favourite mable: whofe good qualities fhould daily is in the Great Hall of WILTON HOUSE, lievo whereof this drawing is an exact cop}, production, entitled, "Clara and Em- develope; not one, who, like a flash of the feat of HENRY Earl of PEMBROKE:"meline." It is neceflary to obferve, that lightning, fhould inftantly evaporate, the fifter who is fuppofed to be the writer, and leave a peftilential breath behind, It reprefents the flory of that noble Roman, is married by compulfion to Mr. Welford, to poifon love, and embitter every fu- QUINTUS CURTIUS, in the act of leaping a wretch devoted to gambling, women, and all manner of vice; and who is re- by no means pleafed at matches made The story will be found at large in LIVY: ture promised hour of happiness.-I am into the fiery gulph in the Forum at Rome. commending his friend, a debauchee, fuddenly by immoderate love without It is briefly this, that the earth being funk a knowledge of difpofition there cannot be efteem: people of very different tem-with a wide gap in the Forum at Rome, pers, in an hour of gaiety, may be vio-whence iffued frames of fire; it was reportlently fmitten with each other; but whened that it could not be filled up unless fome time removes the mask, the gay will feek prime young Nobleman were put into it; the gay-and the serious be left to con- CURTIUS hearing this, mounted his horfe, template alone. A marriage, on the contrary, which commences in efteem, is and boldly rode into it, whereupon the earth far more likely to be happy-Friendship, inftantly clofed upon him; thus gloriously in the beginning, may eafily become a giving up his life for his country's good. likewife as a hufband to the fecond fifter. She likes him, and applies to her elder fifter for advice. The following letter is in answer: Mrs. WELFORD to Miss GoWER. Harley-freet. "WHAT words can I find, my much loved fifter, to thank you for your confidence? You know me then your friend; |