a liberty with his Lordship, and the more especially, as it was well known that Malagrida was a very honest man! When Gray published his charming Elegy, as written in a Country Churchyard, the late Duke of Northumberland sent him five hundred pounds fterling as a recompenfe to the Lyrift, for the pleafure he had derived from his labours. This circumstance was soften mentioned by Goldfmith, with that fort of concern, as fignified that he imagined himfelf as in fome degree entitled to a fimilar tribute; as this difpofition of mind was known, the Doctor's creditors yfed it to his difcomfiture. He was at that time embarraffed and refufed to fee company: they wrote a letter, as from the Duke, appointing him to come to Northumberland Houfe, at a particular hour, and by this ftratagem they drew him forth from his retirement. The Doctor obeyed the injunction with the most lively fatisfaction: he went in a hackney fedan chair, with the curtains drawn closely round. On arriving at the Duke's palace, the chairman knocked very loudly, when the porter furlily inquired what they wanted, by making fuch a confounding noise. I want the Duke, faid the Doctor: The Duke is out of town, and will not return until the end of the month: That cannot be poffible, rejoined the Doctor, for here is a letter in his own hand writing, which I received yesterday, appointing me to come at this hour precifely. It's all a d-d lie, retorted the faucy Cerberus, and fhut the gate in his teeth-the Doctor stood aghaft with astonishment, at this DAVID and SOLOMON. "It is an error," you fay, "to call the Pfalms-the Pfalms of David." This error was obferved by St. Jerome, many hundred years before you were born. His words are, "We know that they are in an error who attribute all the Pfalms to David." You, I fuppofe, will not deny that. David wrote fome of them. Songs are of various forts; we have hunting fongs, drinking fongs, fighting fongs, love fongs, foolish, wanton, wicked fongs; if you will have the " Pfalms of David to be nothing but a collection from different fong-writers," you must allow that the writers of them were infpired by no ordinary spirit, that it is a collection incapable of being degraded by the name you give it; that it greatly excels every other collection in matter and in manner!-Compare the Book of Pfalms with the Qdes of Horace or Anacreon---with the Hymns of Callimachus-the golden Verfes of Pythagoras-the Chorufes of the Greek Tragedian, (no contemptible compofitions any of thefe) and you will quickly fee how greatly it furpaffes them all in piety of fentiment, in fublimity of expreffion, in purity of moral ity, and in rational theology! As you efteem the Pfalms of David a Song-Book, it is confift ent enough in you to esteem the Proverbs of Solomon a Jeft-Book there have not come down to us above eight hundred of his jefts; if we had the whole three thou three firft Proverbs in Solomon's "Fest Book ;" if you read it through, it may not make you merry; I hope it will make you WISE that it will teach you, at least, the beginning of WISDOM-the fear of that Lord whom Solomon feared: SIR William Dawes, Archbishop of York, was very fond of a pun. His clergy dining with him, for the firft time, after he had loft his lady, he told them, he feared they did not find things be in the time of poor Mary; and, in fo good order as they ufed to looking extremely forrowful, added, with a deep figh, "She was indeed, Mare pacificum!" A cuhe had been, called out, rate, who pretty well knew what Aye, my lord, but he was Mare mortuum firft." Sir William gave within two months. KING of GREAT-BRITAIN. fand which he wrote, our mirth would be extreme! Let us open the book, and fee what kind of jefts it contains take the very first as a fpecimen. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of him a living of zool. per annuny knowledge; but fools defpife wif dom and instruction." Do you perccive any jeft in this? The fear of the Lord! What Lord THE King of Great-Britain is does Solomon mean? He mear's a ftout, muscular man about five that Lord who took the pofterity feet eleven inches in height: he of Abraham to be his peculiar is rather in-kneed, but looks repeople; who redeemed that peo-markably well on horfeback: his ple from Egyptian bondage, by a miraculous interpofition of his power! who gave the law to Mo fes! who commanded the Ifrealites to exterminate the nation's of Canaan! Now this Lord you will not fear the jeft fays, you defpife wisdom and inftruction. Let us try again" My fon, hear the inftruction of thy father, and forfake not the law of thy mother." If : your heart has been ever touched by parental feelings, you will fee no jeft in this! Once more "My fon, if finners entice thee, confent thou not!" Thefe are the hair is nearly white, which is a characteristic of the Brunswick race his countenance is fair and ruddy; his eyes grey, and his teeth are regular and white, but unufually large. He is a gentleman of plain habits, and feldom eats of more than one difh; and he is very moderate in the use of wine. He rifes, in fummer, at five o'clock in the morning, and in winter at day-light, and fometimes before. He is exceedingly familiar and kind in his language to the poor people about Windfor. He is inceffant in his quef tions tions, but feldom gives the party time to return an answer. In the hours of relaxation from the fatigues of government, he amufes himself in agricultural pursuits, or hunting, or liftening to the best airs and fonatos of Handel, of whofe mufic he is paffionately fond. I have feen fome architectural drawings, by his Majefty, which were not deftitute of merit, He is a patron of the fine arts, and created the Royal Academy, a circumftance of national glory, that reflects the highest credit upon his name. His memory is very tenacious, and when he has imbibed an opinion, it is fcarcely poffible to remove it by any argument that wifdom may dictate. He is unquestionably a benevolent man, and means to be right; and it is a lamentable circumstance for his own country, and a great portion of human nature, when he is influenced to give his fanction to a deed of impolicy, by a weak or wicked Coufellor; he enforces the precepts of morality by all the means within his power, and is, in his own perfon, an illustration of the beauty of private virtue. ough; Bob fhall have a company in the guards; and Polly-yes, Polly fhall take the booing Earl of Littledale. “I am worth at least a plumb! and was just fixty-five last Candlemas. I am yet hale and strong; none better plays his part at our civic feafts, Go to: I'll now withdraw from the bustle of the. world, and the bufy hum of men. I'll fecede, like others, to my bill I'll retire, and enjoy life. "Good!" continued old Grubs, manfully ftumping up the mountain's fide; "Good! I am worth at least a plumb! I'll build me a fnug warm box: here I'll plant my orchards; on this fide shall be my fummer-houfe; on that my hot-beds; round that jutting an gle we'll run up the ftables; and there I'll fink my cellars and my ice-houfe.--Whew! How all thofe dd huts and hovels obstruct my views! No matter. I'll e'en take them off 'Squire Bump kin's hands at once; and thenevery one of them comes down.' "Confider, your worship!" in terpofed the fteward, confider, Sir, what will the poor labourers or their wives do without cottages to rooft in ?". "Do? Curfe 'em! Do? Why let them do as they 'Tis no concern of mine. Hark-ye, do'ft fee that fame mill yonder, which keeps up fuch an infernal clack? Do'ft fee, I fay, how its wheel disturbs my ftream? Come, come; no words; that fhall go along with them." can. "Dear, your honour, only confider. Where fhall the country people get their corn ground?""Fiddle-faddle, man! Wherethey like, to be fure! But not upon my grounds." So old Grubs came home, rejoicing in the projects of his brain. He fupped heartily; he took his ale, and he cracked his jokes; he fmoaked out two pipes of the best Virginia, and he went to bed. A fit of apoplexy came on fuddenly in the night; and-Grubs never more awoke. ་ག་ The cots, therefore, and the village mill continue as they were, and the peafantry live on as they were wont: whilft old Grubs, who, was worth at least a plumb, rots in the village church-yard, and his name is forgotten upon 'Change. [To be continued.] BIOGRAPHY OF BUONAPARTE. NAPOLEONE BUONA PARTE was born in the town of His father, who was alfo a native of Ajaccio, was bred to the civil law at Rome, and took part with the celebrated Paoli, in the ever memorable struggle made by a handful of brave iflanders, against the tyrannical efforts of Louis XV. and the Machiavelian fchemes of his minifter Choifeul. Upon the teftimony of a near relation, he not only laid afide the gown upon this occafion, but actually carried a musket as a private centinel ! On the conqueft of the island he wifhed to retire with the gallant chieftain who had fo nobly ftruggled for its independence; but he was prevented by his uncle, a canon who exercifed a parental authority over him. In 1773, a deputation from the three eftates was fent to wait on the King of France; and on this occafion, Charles Buonaparte was felected to reprefent the nobles. He was foon after promoted to the office of procuratore reale of Ajaccio, where his ancestors, fupposed to have been originally from Tuscany, had been fettled nearly two hundred years. The family of the elder Buon aparte was numerous, for he had feven children-four fons and three daughters. It was his good fortune, however, to be cherished by the French; and both he and his family lived in the greatest intimacy with M. de Marbœuf, the governor. On the death of his father, M. de Marboeuf continued to patronize his family, and placed his fecond fon, Napoleone, at the military academy. The advantages refulting from this feminary, which has produced more great men than any other in Europe, were not loft on young Buonaparte. He there applied himself with equal affiduity and addrefs to mathematics, and studied the art of war as a regular fcience. Born in the midst of a republican struggle in his native land, it was his good fortune to burft into manhood at the moment when the country of his choice fhook off the chains with which fhe had been manacled for centuries. There was alfo fomething in his manners and habits that announced him equal to the fituation for which he feems to have been destined; inftead of imitating the frivolity of the age, his mind was continually occupied by ufeful studies; and from the lives of of Plutarch, a volume of which he always caried in his pocket, he learned at an early age to copy the manners and emulate the actions of antiquity. With this difpofition, it is but little wonder that he fhould have dedicated his life to the profeffion of arms. We accordingly find him, while. yet a boy, prefenting himself a candidate for a commiffion in the artillery; he proved fuccefsful in the competition, became a lieutenant in the French army, and ferved as fuch during two or three years, in the regiment of La Fere. On the fecond expedition against Sardinia, having attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of a corps of Corfican national guards, he embarked with his countrymen, and landed in the little island of Maddalena, which he took poffeffion of in the name of the French Republic; but finding the troops that had been got together for this expedition neither poffeffed organization nor difcipline, he returned to the port of Ajaccio, from whence he had fet out. the mean time a scheme was formed for the annexation of Corfica to the crown of England. aparte had a difficult part to act on this occafion; he was perfonally attached to Paoli; he refented the treatment he experienced during the reign of the terrorifts, and had actually drawn up, with his own hand, a remonftrance, tranfmitted by the municipality of Ajaccio, against the decree declaring the General an enemy to the commonwealth. Indeed, he was fuppofed to be fo intimately connected with him, that a warrant was actually iffued by the commifhioners of the convention, to arreft young Buonaparte! Never In Buon thelefs, he was determined to remain faithful to his engagements, and learning that the English fleet had failed for the purpose of seiz, ing his native island, he embarked with his family for the continent, and fettled within 18 leagues from Toulon. That town had just been delivered up to the English Admiral, Lord Hood. The military talents of the young Corfican were well known to Salicetti, who introduced him to Barras, to whom he gave indubitable proof of the fincerity of his profeffions, at a period when fufpicion was justified by the most ferious and frequent defections. He was accordingly advanced to the rank of General of artillery; and directed under Dugomier the attacks of the various redoubts, that furrounded and ftrengthened this important port. It is needless to add, that the iffue of these operations was a speedy restoration of the key of the Mediterranean to France. The conqueft of Toulon contributed not a little to raise the reputation of Buonaparte; and proved equally advantageous to his friend Barras. That deputy had alfo been bred a military man, and was employed by his colleagues on all great occafions. One of thefe foon occurred; this was the commotion amongst the fections of Paris, known by the name of infurrection of Vendemaire. On this occafion, he took care to be furrounded by able men; luckily for the convention, one of thefe was Gen. Buonaparte, and it was to the masterly difpofitions made by him, that the triumph of the reprefentative body was principally afcribed. A nobler field now opened for his exertions. In |