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to me to introduce the fame hair-mole horseback, to throw a dwarf, or fome fuch contrafted figure, into the background: Should any artist be in want of fuch a thing, I can very readily fupply him with my hare-lipped boy: if otherwife, I am not totally without hopes that he may fuit fome Spanish grandee, when any such shall vifit this country upon his travels, or in the character of ambaffador from that illuftrious court.

into the whiskers of Bruin, which I had fo fuccefsfully copied from her chin, and certainly the thought was a happy one, for it had a picturefque effect; but in doing this I was naturally enough, though undefignedly, betrayed into giving fuch a general refemblance to the good dame in the reft of Bruin's features, that when it came to be exhibited on the fign-poft all the people cried out upon the likenefs, and a malicious rumour ran through the town, that I had painted my grandmother inftead of the bear; which loft me the favour of that indulgent relation, though Heaven knows I was as innocent of the intention as the child unborn.

The difguft my grandmother conceived against her likeness with the ragged staff, gave me incredible uneafinels, and as he was a good cuftomer to the landlord and much refpected in the place, he was induced to return the bear upon my hands. I am now thinking to what ufe I can turn him, and as it occurs to me, that by throwing a little more authority into his features, and gilding his chain, he might very poffibly hit the likenefs of fene lord mayor of London in his furgown and gold chain, and make a refpectable figure in fome city hall, I am willing to difpofe of him to any fuch at an easy price.

As I have alfo preferved a fetch of my famous Ourong-Outong, a thought has ftruck me that with a few finishing touches he might eafily be converted into a Caliban for the Tempest, and, when that is done, I fhall not totally defpair of his obtaining a niche in the Shakspeare gallery.

It has been common with the great mafters, Rubens, Vandyke, Sir Joshua Reynolds and others, when they paint warrior, or other great perfonage, on

Before I conclude I fhall beg leave to obferve, that I have a complete fet of ready-made devils, that would do honour to St Antony, or any other perfon, who may be in want of fuch accompaniments to fet off the self-denying virtues of his character: I have alfo a fine parcel of murdered inno, certs, which I meant to have filled up with the ftory of Herod; but if any gentleman thinks fit to lay the scene in Ghent, and make a modern compofition of it, I am bold to fay my pretty babes will not difgrace the pathos of the fubject, nor violate the Coftuma. I took a notable sketch of a man hanging, and seized him juft in the dying twitches, before the laft ftretch gave a ftiffnefs and rigidity unfavourable to the human figure; this I would willingly accommodate to the wishes of any lady, who is defirous of preferving a portrait of her lover, friend e hufband in that interefting

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Picture of an ill natured Man.

T is wonderful to me that any man

flave of peevish and irafcible humours, that annoy his peace, impair his health and hurt his reputation. Who does not love to be greeted in fociety with a faile? Who lives that is in fenfible to the frowns, the fneers, the curfes of his neighbours? What can be more delightful than to enter our own doors amidst the congratulations of a whole family, and to bring a chearful heart into a chearful house? Foolish, contemptible felf-tormentors ye are, whom every little accident irritates, every flight omiffion piques! Surely we should guard our paffions as we would any other combustibles, and not spread open the inflammable magazine to catch the firft fpark, that may blow it and ourselves into the air.

Tom Tinder is one of these touchy blockheads, whom nobody can endure: The fellow has not a fingle plea in life for his ill temper; he does not want money, is not married, has a great deal of health to fpare and never once felt the flightest twinge of the gout. His eyes no fooner open to the morning light than he begins to quarrel with the weather; it rains, and he wanted to ride; it is funfhin and he meant to go a fishing; he would hunt only when it is a froft, and never thinks of fkaiting but in open weather; in fhort the wind is never in the right quarter with this tefty fellow; and though I could excufe a man for being a little out of humour with an easterly wind, Tom Tinder fhall box the whole compafs, and never fet his needle to a fingle point of good humour upon the face of it.

He now rings his bell for his fervant to begin the operation of dreffing him, a task more ticklish than to wait upon the toilette of a monkey: 3 E 2

As To fhifts his fervants about as

regularly

the world to nothing if the poor devil does not ftumble at starting; or if by happy infpiration he should begin with the right foot foremost, Tom his another infpiration ready at command to quarrel with him for not setting forward with the left: To a certainty then the razor wants ftrapping, the fhaving water is fmoaked, and the devil's in the fellow for a dunce, booby and blockhead.

Tom now comes down to breakfast, and though the favage has the stomach of an oftrich, there is not a morfel paffes down his blafpheming throat without a damn to digest it; 'twould be a lefs dangerous talk to ferve in the morning mefs to a faiting bear.→→ He then walks forth into his garden; there he does not meet a plant, which his ill-humour does not engraft with the bitter fruit of curfing; the wafps have pierced his nectarines; the caterpillars have raifed contributions upon his cabbages, and the infernal blackbirds have eaten up all his cherries: Tom's foul is not large enough to al low the denizens of creation a taste of Nature's gifts, though he surfeits with the fuperabundance of her bounty.

He next takes a turn about his farm; there vexation upon vexation croffes him at every corner: The fly, a plague upon't, has got amongit his turnips; the fmut has feized his wheat and his fheep are falling down with the rot: All this is the fault of his bailiff, and at his door the blame lies with a proportionable quantity of bleflings to recommend it. He finds a few dry fticks pickt out of his hedges, and he blafts all the poor in his neighbourhood for a fet of thieves, pilferers and vagabonds. He meets one of his tenants by the way, and he

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has a petition for a new gate to his farm-yard, or fome repairs to his dovehouse, or it may be a new threshingfloor to his barn-Hell and fury! there is no end to the demands of thefe curfed farmers-His ftomach rifes at the request, and he turns afide fpeechlefs with rage, and in this humour pays a visit to his mafons and carpenters, who are at work upon a building he is adding to his offices: Here his choler inftead of fubfiding only flames more furiously, for the idle rafcals have done nothing; fome have been making holiday, others have gone to the fair at the next town, and the mafter workman has fallen from the fcaffold, and keeps his bed with the bruifes: Every devil is conjured up from the bottomlefs pit to come on earth and confound thefe dilatory mifcreants; and now let him go to his dinner with what ftomach he may. If an humble parfon or dependant coufin expects a peaceful meal at his table, he may as well fit down to feed with Thyeftes or the Centaurs. After a meal of mifery and a glass of wine, which ten to one but the infernal butler has clouded in the decanting, he is fummoned to a game at back-gammon: The parfon throws fize-ace, and in a few more cafts covers all his points; the devil's in the dice! Tom makes a blot, and the parfon hits it; he takes up man after man, all his points are full, and Tom is gammoned past redemption-Can flesh and blood bear this? Was ever fuch a run of luck? The dice-box is flapt down

with a vengeance; the tables ring with the deafening crash, the parfon ftands aghaft, and Tom ftamps the floor in the phrenzy of paffion-Despicable paffion! miferable dependant !

Where is his next refource? the parfon has fled the pit; the backgammon table is clofed; no chearful neighbour knocks at his unfocial gate; filence and night and folitude are his melancholy inmates; his boiling bofom labours like a turbid fea after the winds are lulled; fhame ftares him in the face; confcience plucks at his heart, and to divert his own tormenting thoughts, he calls in thofe of another perfon, no matter whom the first idle author that ftands next to his hand: he takes up a book; 'tis a volume of comedies; he opens it at random; 'tis all alike to him where he begins; all our poets put together are not worth a halter; he ftuinbles by mere chance upon The Choleric Man; 'twas one to a thoufand he should frike upon that blafted play-What an infernal title! What a canting, preaching puppy of an author!-Away goes the poet with his play and half-a-dozen better poets than himself bound up in the fame luckless volume, the innocent fufferers for his offence.

Tom now fits forlorn, difgufted, without a friend living or dead to chear him, gnawing his own heart for want of other diet to feed his fpleen upon : At length he flinks into a comfortlefs bed; damns his fervant as he draws the curtains round him, drops afleep and dreams of the devil.

The Effects of the Cold of the Winter 1788-89 on Animals and Vege tables Read by P. Cotte in the Royal Society of Agriculture of Laun September 5, 1789.

TH

HE winter 1788-89 was rendered remarkable by the intense cold felt all over Europe, by the enormous quantity of fnow, which

covered the earth, and the effects which the froft produced upon meя, animals, and vegetables. The froft commenced the 25th of November,

and

and continued till the 13th of Janu- the trees themfelves withered, and ary, including a fpace of fifty days fome brought their fruits to maturifucceffively, with the intermillion of ty, but are expected not to furvive auonly one day of thaw (the 25th of December). This period was at tended with confiderable injury to animals and vegetables; fome of its effects, taken from obfervation, we Thall proceed to enumerate.

I. The VINE.

The effects of the froft on the vine were perceptible from the different colour of that part of it, which was above, from the withered state of the ftems, and the colour of the juice, which was black. What is remarkable, the young and flender vines fuffered lefs than the old, which were taller and ftronger, and even than those which were grafted. In fpite of the precautions which were taken in fpring to give them air, there were but few clusters produced; the frost had feized the aqueous part of the vine, and at the moment of thaw, from the improper combination of the water with the fpitit of the vine, there was occafioned a decay in the quality and colour.

II. FRUIT-TREES.

It was remarked that young trees, whofe bark was fmooth, fuffered lefs than old trees, whose bark was rough; from which it was concluded, that the congealed water fixed in the cavities of the bark had occafioned all the injury. It was remarked that the bark of the frozen trees was black, and the wood of a yellow colour; the body of the tree and the branches were injured in feveral places: no means that were employed to remedy the effects of the froit completely fucceeded. Several trees did not flourish, and were abfolutely dead; others produced a few buds that were foon deftroyed; fome trees produced flowers and fruits, which fell in fummer,

tumn. Some trees were faved by cutting them very fhort, or by making incifions in the bark. Those which futtered most were the walnut-tree, the winter pear-tree, the apple-tree, part of the peach-trees, and the figtree; thofe which fuffered leaft were the plum-tree, the apricot-tree, the cherry-tree: thofe were moft damaged which were expofed to the fouth.

III. FOREST-TREES.

The effect of the froft on the forefttrees has been to rend them, which occafioned the lofs of a confiderable number. Thofe which fuffered most were the oak, the afh, the elm, the linden-tree, the filberd.

IV. FOREIGN TREES.

Thefe are but little cultivated in this country. It was remarked that the ever green trees as the laurel, loft their leaves; thofe called Les Arbres de Judee, and the toxicodendron, withered, both trunk and branches, but the roots produced new ftems.

V. GRAIN.

The grain did not fuffer where it was covered with fnow, and the harveft was fufficiently plentiful from Champagne to S. Quentin, where the fnow had fallen two days after the frolt: no grain was hurt except what had been fown late. But from S. Quentin to Flanders the fnow did not fall three weeks after the frost, which made aftonishing ravages in almost all French Flanders, and a good part of Artois. The winter-barley, and the corn fowed late, were entirely loft. After the thaw winter grain was fown on the former feed, in order to pre

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Character of the Honourable Sir Francis Buller, Bart. one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench.*

"Our city's inftitutions, and the terms
Of common juftice, y'are as pregnant in,
As art and practice hath enriched any
That we remember.

THE great and learned Judge Buller was admitted of the Inner Temple on the 8th of February, 1763, and called to the bar after the ufual period of probation, from the honourable fociety of the Middle Temple; from the fame fociety he was alfo made a ferjeant, and, almoft immediately after, promoted to the rank of a judge of the Court of King's Bench.

This is the age, of young men we now fee men born ftatesmen and lawyers. They are tranflated almoft from the cradle to the government of kingdoms, and to prefidency in legiflation. In former times, none but men advanced in years were permit

Shakspeare's Measure for Measure.

ted to affume the dignity of the coif, or to afcend the magifterial bench; a period indeed, beyond the bloom of manhood, cuftomarily elapfed before their "call to the bar." In the inftance before us, we fee a judge eminently qualified for the ftation he fills, almoft in the bloom of youth.

Mr Buller's first entré into the profeffion, was in the department of fpecial pleading. He studied under the prefent Judge, then Mr. Afhhurst, and, like Demofthenes, excelled his mafter,t and was always ranked amongst the most eminent of the profeffion. His acceffion to business, as a common law draughtfman, was immediate and immenfe; his practice as

* From Strictures on the Lives and Characters of the most eminent Lawyers of the + Ifæus was the preceptor of the great Athenian orator.

préfent day.

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