inclination and ability to imitate his generofity. fubject of feduction, because till this instant I did not recollect it, what a gentlemen told me : I should then find fome little excufe for a noble lord, who used to profefs, without difguife, that the" daughters of parfons, young and tender, were the enviable objects of his earneft, and too often his fuccefsful" criminal purfuits. The important imbecility of his age and infirmities, would excite in a lefs degree our anger and contempt, if he would make fome little provifion for these unhappy children, whom he has rendered unable to get an honeft fubfiftence; inftead of cafting out helpless infants on the town, difho noured, deftitute, and unhappy. I believe I have exhausted all that I had to fay on this topic, and that I have fatigued my reader. I therefore clofe it, by repeating, on the "In all my warfare with women (faid this perfon) I never confider"ed myfelf as juftified either to ufe "violent force, intoxicating drugs, or to delude them by promifing "marriage, or by a mock reprefenta"tion of the ceremony.. 66 " "It is a ferious affair, and not to "be trifled with; nor is it a fair proceeding. If I could work on their vanity, their paffions, their hopes, " and their fears, it was fair fighting "on equal ground; but having re"courfe to the modes above men"tioned, is like fighting with in"fected weapons, or poifoning the "wells and fprings of a garrison or "country, and contrary to the laws " of war." INTERESTING ANECDOTE OF A CELEBRATED ENGRA VER. [From A Journey from Utrecht to Frankfort; chiefly by the Borders of the Rhine; and the Paffage down that River from Mentzto Bonn; by T. Cogan, M. D.' 2 vol. 8vo.] SOME OME years ago, while profeffor Krahe was fuperintendant of the gallery of paintings at Duffeldorff, he received a vifit from a young baker of the town; who, after a very fhort introduction, took a book out of his pocket, which he prefented to Mr Krahe, expreffing a defire that he would purchase it. The fuperintendant found, upon examination, that it was a prayer book, ornamented, in the ancient ftyle of religious. foppery, with a number of coloured figures and engravings. It was the one which the elector Clement Auguftus, of Cologne, had ordered to be published, and was become very fcarce and valuable. The profeffor inquired whence he had it; and the young man answered, with a modeft bluth, that it was a copy from one he had borrowed. By whom? By myself,' rejoins the youth. Upon a clofe examination, Mr Krahe could fcarcely diftinguish the copy from the original. He could not conceal his furprife, and afked, why he did not practife engraving, rather than continue a baker? The youth anfwered, that it was the wifh of his foul; but his father having a numerous family, could not afford the expence of fuitable instructions. I defign to travel,' adds he; but, as my father cannot furnish the means, and as I knew that you were fond of drawings, I was emboldened to make this application to you, in hopes that you would purchase the copy, to furnish immediate help, and I must trust to my industry and good fortune, for future advancement.' Call here to-morrow, without fail,' fays Mr Krahe, with an empha fis that manifested pleasure and afto 'nishment. Early the next morning, the profeffor called upon an intimate friend at Keyferfwerth, a few miles diftant from Duffeldorff, of which place the young man was a native. This friend, with the power, had the difpofition to do good. Krahe told him the ftory, fhewed him the workmanship, and begged him to lend the young artift two hundred crowns. 'He will, doubtlefs,' adds he,' become, in a few years, a diftinguished engraver, and be able to reimburse you. I will be fecurity for the payment.' 'I take no fecurity, answered his friend; and he advanced three hundred crowns. Krahe returned to the aftanished and tranfported baker with the money. He quitted the oven, learned geometry and perspective, applied to drawing according to the rules of the art, and acquired a competent knowledge of hiftory. After affiduous application for the space of two years, the young man had made fuch rapid progrefs, that Mr Krahe advised him to quit Duffeldorff, where no further improvement was to be expected, and vifit Paris, promifing him a letter of Introduction to Mr Willes, a celebrated engraver in that metropolis. Schmitz (for this was the young man's name) put his advice into execution; and, in order to economize his little ftore, he travelled on foot from Duffeldorff to Paris. But unfortunately, he fell ill immediately upon his arrival; and, although he applied to a monaftery, where he was hofpitably received, and carefully attended, yet incidental expences, during an illness of fome continuance, had exhausted his little ftore. Upon his recovery, that delicate kind of pride, which fo frequently accompanies true genius, forbade his making application to Mr Willes, while he muft appear as an indigent beggar. -One day as he was walking penfively in the streets, his mind occupied with his unfortunate fituation, he was met by two foldiers of the Swifs guards; one of whom accosted him with the inquiry, Young man, are you not a German? Yes.' From whence? From Keyferfwerth, near Duffeldorff.'-' You are my countryman.-What do you do here?'-Schmitz relates to himthe particulars of his hiftory, adding, that a long illness had exhaufted a large portion of his time, and all his money; and that he could not fupport the idea of being troublesome to any one. The foldiers advised him to enlift, affured him that the fervice was not fevere, and that he would have leifure to follow the bent of his genius. Schmitz accepted the propofition, was introduced to the captain of the regiment, was enlifted for four years, and fhortly after was introduced to Mr Willes by the captain himself. As much time was indulged to him as the nature of the fervice could poffibly admit, to pursue his favourite object, under the direction of Mr Willes. He continued in this fituation the four years, when he received his difmiflion. Finding that he was in the line of improvement, he continued at Paris two years longer, applying himself, with the utmost diligence, to the art of engraving: at the expiration of which term, he returned home, with the best atteftations concerning his talents, induftry, and moral conduct. Profeffor Krahe received him with open arms, was charmed with the progrefs he had made, and engaged him to work in the cabinet. He continued to work under the infpection of the profeffor about two years, conducting himself in fuch a manner, as to gain upon the affections of his patron. It was about this period, that the profeffor profeffor invited our artist to an en- to obey. But the ftruggle was too tertainment, where feveral of his friends were to be prefent. He met his friends, and was entering into the joys of convivial intercourfe, when he was informed that the entertainment was in honour of a ftranger. But, alas! this ftranger was the deftined husband of the profeffor's eldest daughter;-beautiful, in his eyes, as an angel; and wife, in his judgment, as a goddess of wisdom. He made as precipitate a retreat as decency would permit, and left the brifk glafs and jovial fong, to circulate among the happy. The next morning, he returned to the cabinet with the utmoft dejection of mind and countenance. This fud. den change was noticed by his bene. factor, who inquired into the caufe. Schmitz, in confused expreffions, and with faultering voice, confeffed that he had fallen deeply in love with that very daughter who was shortly to be in the poffeffion of another. Have you intimated to my daugh. ter the ftrength of your affection?' 'Never,' anfwered the noble youth; " not in the most diftant manner. Could I, without title, fortune, or pretenfions of any kind, be fo bafe as to fpeak of love to the daughter of my friend, my patron, my benefactor? I was contented to fee her, and was careful to conduct myself in fuch a manner, that no fufpicions might arife, to debar me of that happiness; and now, I learn, that I am fhortly to be deprived of the only fatisfaction to which I dared to aspire.' The benevolent profeffor tried his utmoft to foothe and comfort him, affured him of the strength of his affection, that he loved him as his own child, but warned him to fubdue his love for Henrietta; expa, tiating upon the criminality, circumstanced as they were, of indulging the paffion. The poor young man admitted the force of the argument, and promised The intended hufband returned to his parents; and it was not difficult to perceive, from the tenure of his letters, that certain objections were ftarted by them to the union. Although he dared not to exprefs his own fentiments fully, upon this occafion, yet Henrietta divined them, and gave him full power to follow the genuine bent of his own inclinations, renouncing every claim upon his promife, The anfwer was correfpondent to her expectations; and, allowing a short interval for the fuppreffion of that chagrin which the injured pride of every young lady muft fuffer in fuch delicate fituations, fhe permitted the fuffering of Schmitz to engage more of her thoughts,generously indulged her compaffion, until the found it blended with affection,-and, finally, addreffed her fa→ ther thus: Sir, I know it has been your wish, to have Schmitz for your fon-in-law-Every obftacle is removed-Tell him, that Henrietta will be his, if she can promote his felicity. The joyful father informed him of this declaration in his favour. But the good news was as like to have proved fatal, as his defpair. Recovering from his emotion, and leaning on the arm of his benefactor, he was conducted to the generous object of his paffion; and, by paffing the even ing in her company, he was cheared, comforted, and reitored. But, how great was the furprise of every one, when they learned, the next morning, that the lover had left the town, in a carriage with four horfes, and had carried his plates and drawings with him!-What astonishment to Krahe!-What a thunderftroke to poor Henrietta! This was fo apparently the act of a difordered brain, that his return was dreaded as much as his flight was lamented! Nor did they receive a fingle line in the interval, to remove their doubts. On the ninth day, he returned from Munich, with an order for a penfion of fix hundred florins per annum, to be paid to Schmitz, by the treasurer of the Palatinate. He had been to throw himself at the feet of the elector Palatine. He discovered to him his love, his fituation,-shewed him the certificates of his conduct, and the fpecimens of his workmanship. The heart of the elector was moved, and he gave him the penfion. Now, Sir,' fays the generoushearted Schmitz, I am more worthy of my Henrietta.' This event took place in the year 1782. The particulars are extracted from a publication, in high repute, entitled, Museum fur Kunstler, und fur Kunftliebhaber; or, Hiftory of German Artifts. I am very forry, that my total ignorance of the anecdote, when at Duffeldorff, prevented me from making thofe inquiries, which more than curiofity would have dictated, relative to this worthy couple, or the prefent ftate of our engra foldiers, with their captain,-the engraver Willes, the elector Palatine, and the amiable Henrietta; and then revert to my propofition, that the private hiftory of individuals, would, in general, give us more favourable ideas of human virtue, and of human happiness, than thofe are apt to imagine, who direct their chief attention to the ambition of the great, and the fubverfion of empires. Numberlefs are the inftances, where individuals emerge from obfcurity, and act a confpicuous part on the theatre of life. We behold and applaud the actor, without adverting to the dif ferent ftages through which he must have paffed, before he was prepared for this honourable exhibition, and how far he must have been affifted, in each stage, by thofe who were around him. Go to, ye libellers of your fpecies! ye defamers of God's most perfect workmanship below! ye that delight to sketch out figures with charcoal, add horns, a tail, and cloven-feet to your sketch, and call it human! Man is naturally a friend to man. Adventitious circumftances may fupprefs this kindly temper, until the most contracted selfishness is deemed a fyftem of genuine prudence! Ty, ranny may deprefs the mind, until it be rendered incapable of our virtuous exertion! Falfe theology, by reprefenting the heart as naturally vicious and depraved, may deftroy the choiceft fprings of action, may perfuade us, that to act the knave or fool, is merely to act in character: whereas, a confciousness that we are capable of doing much good,a conviction that we are naturally difpofed to do good,-that the inftinet was given us, that we might become the active inftruments of the divine benevolence,- -an inftinct fo firong, that it is deemed inhuman to ftifle its impulfe,-thefe are admirably calculated to quicken the difpofition, improve the habit, and extend the effects. THE 298 THE EFFECTS OF SENSIBILITY; A TRUE STORY. (CONCLUDED FROM P. 224.) E were now arrived at that crifis WE to which my apprehenfions had been to long directed: but this was not all;-my poor friend was to undergo another fhock, in the lofs of his mother. -She had long been in a declining ftate of health, and feemed only to want this blow to get rid of all her cares at once in the grave. She concluded her dying addrefs to her fon with telling him, that he muft cherish no hopes of the leaft return of his father's affection, but by a total difavowal of his prefent refolutions; I fhall not pretend to advife you,' faid fhe, in a matter wherein you must be the judge for yourself.-Heaven, my dear boy, has, perhaps, ordered thefe things for the beft:-My laft counfels however are, to fubmit to the divine will, and to preferve your integrity in fpite of every trial and temptation. I have nothing more to wish you,' continued fhe, but my patience, nor to give you, but my bleffing.'-Then raifing herself to embrace him, her ftrength failed her, and, finking down upon her pillow, the cloted her eyes for ever. She bequeathed whatever the poffeffed to her fon, which might have been very confiderable, if she had ever fuppofed the poffibility of the event which had fhortened her days; but, as it happened, all her effects amounted to little more than a thousand pounds. The letters which Mr M had written to Flanders, previous to this period, were calculated to quiet Marguerita's doubts on the prolonged delay of his returning to her ;-but it now became abfolutely neceffary to inform her of every circumftance that had happened, without referve, and I undertook the unpleafing tafk. I accordingly wrote an exact ftate of my friend's fituation, with an offer, on his part, to be united to her, and to retire to any part of the world fhe might chufe, where they might find thofe riches in mutual love and affection which fortune had denied them. A confiderable time elapfed before an anfwer arrived from Marguerita ;-who, after expreffing the deepeft affliction at having been the caufe of my friend's ruin, there remained,' the faid, but one step to be taken on her part, which fhe had already done,' and referred him to the inclofed letters for an explanation of her conduct. "I Have received a letter from the friend of your fon, informing me of the late event which has fo much diftreffed your family and yourself.-I fear that I have been the fatal cause of it, and my diftrefs is beyond what I can exprefs. But, light and trifling as my character may appear to you,-I can command my inclinations to fubmit to my duty.-Let your fears, I pray you, with respect to me, be at an end:-I have undergone every fatigue, and run every risk, with view to make the beft of men happy.Far from fuppofing that I fhould be an intruder upon any family, I had expect→ ed to receive a moft honourable welcome into your's. To diffipate at once the domeftic troubles which I, alas, have innocently occafioned, I offer myself a wil ling victim, and am refolved to forego what I have rifked my life to obtain, the honour and happiness of being united to your fon.-Be at eafe then ;-let your fears of me reft for ever, and take back your offspring to your affections. It is true, I have broken one engagement, and a folemn one it was;-bat to repair that infidelity, I declare, by all that is dear to me here, and by all my hopes of hereafter, that I will never give my hand but where heaven has given my heart; and that an union with your fon, who irrevocably poffeffes it, fhall continue to be oppofed by me, if you do not command it, if you, yourself, do not with to poffefs a daughter in "Madam, Marguerita." "To Marguerita. "I difcarded Mr M Dublin from me, for his difobedience to the tendereft and beft of fathers; and they who know me, will juftify my affuming fuch a title.-I had formed a domeftic plan, which was to have made me amends for all my paft forrows, and have given comfort to the clofing years, of my life; the happiness and honour of that unfortunate young man, whom I once called my fon, were to be the foundation of it,and he has boldly refused to take his fhare in it.I have, therefore, thrown him from me, and his offence, Madam, is much encreased, in my opinion, by his having de |