marry from fenfual motives, but merely in order to conform to the divine commands. They alfo abftained from fwearing and curfing. At the death of their relations they fhowed the greatest refignation to the will of God, and even returned thanks to the Almighty in their churches for having fpared their friends fo long a time, and having fuffered them to live fo long with them, and in that he now called them to himself to be partakers of his heavenly bounty. They also showed fo little of extravagant lamentations and grief, that it appeared juft as if the deceafed had laid himself down and fallen into a fweet fleep. If the perfon who died was married, the widow, on the day of burial, prepared a fumptuous banquet for the neigh bours; when the herfelf, as well as her guests, appeared in their beft clothes; and on this occafion the intreated the guests to eat and drink heartily in memory of the deceased, and to his eternal repole and happiness. They went conftantly to church, praying there devoutly on their knees, and kept the faft-days very strictly. Their houses were made of wood, and were of a round form, with a hole in the middle of the room for the admiffion of the light; which hole in winter they covered with a transparent fuh-fkin, on account of the feverity of the cold. Their clothes were made of coaric cloth, manufactured at London and elsewhere. As to furs, they wore them but feldom; but in order to use them felves the better to the cold, they would lay their new-born infants, the fourth day after their birth, naked under the fky-light, which they then opened in order to let the fnow fell upon thera; for it fnowed almoft continually during the whole winter that Quirini's people were there, from the 5th of February to the 14th of May. In confequence of this treatment, the boys are fo inured to the cold, and become fo hardy, that they do not mind it in the least. The Ile of Roft is furrounded by a great number of fea-fowl, which the inhabitants in their language call Muxi. They are fond of living near mankind, and are as tame as the common pigeons, They make an inceffant noife, excepting in the fummer, when is one continued day, and then they are fi lent for about four hours, and this filence ferves to point out to the inhabitants the proper time for them to retire to reft. In the carly part of the fpring arrived alfo an amazing number of wild geefe, that made their nefts upon the island, and that fometimes against the walls of the houses. They likewile were very tame, infomuch that, when the mistress of the houte went to take tome eggs out of their nefts, the female would walk flowly from the neft, and ftay away till the housewife had taken as many eggs as the wanted for baking. As foon as the good woman was gone, the goofe would immedi ately fet herfelf on the neft again. In the month of May the inhabitants began to prepare for their voyage to Bergen, and were willing alfo to take the ftrangers as long with them. Some days before their de parture, the intelligence of their being at Roft reached the wife of the Governor over all these iflands; and her husband being at the time abfent, fhe fent her chaplain to Quirini with a prefent of fixty stock-fish, three large flat loaves of rye-bread, and a cake; and at the fame time let him know, that the had been informed their hofts had not used them well, and defired them to mention in what point they had been wronged, and that they should receive instant fatisfaction; it was alfo recommended to the inhabitants to treat them well, and to take them over to Bergen along with them. They thanked the lady; and giving their teftimony to the innocence of their hofts, fpoke of the recep tion they had met with in the higheft terms; and as Quirini had ftill remaining a firing of amber beads, which he had brought from St. Jago in Gallicia, he took the liberty of fending them to the lady, and defired her to pray to God with them for their fafe return to their own country. When the time of their departure was come, the people, by the advice of the Dominican friar, forced them to pay two crowns for each month, that is, feven crowns apiece: and as they had not cash enough about them, they gave, befides money, fix filver cups, fix forks, and fix fpoons, together with fome other articles of fmall value, fuch as girdles and rings. The greater part of these things fell into the hands of the rafcally prieft; who, that nothing might be left to them of this unfortunate voyage, did not fcruple to take them, under pretence that it was due to him for having acted as their interpreter. On the day of their departure all the inhabi tants of Roft made them prefents of fish; and at taking leave, the women and children shed tears, as did alfo the ftrangers themfelves. The prieft, however, accompanied them, in order to pay a visit to the archbi flop, and give him part of his booty. At their departure from Roft, the feafen was fo far advanced, that, at the end of the month of May, during their run, they faw the image of the fun forty-eight hours above the horizon; but, as they continued failing farther on towards the fouth, they loft the fun for a fhort time, though but for one hour, it being all the while broad day-light. They failed conftantly between the rocks; and they perceived here and there, near the projecting points of the land, marks of deep and navigable water. Many of thefe rocks were inhabited; and they were kindly re ceived 1786. Pietro Quirini's Voyage to the North. ceived by the inhabitants, who gave them meat and drink without accepting any recompenfe. The fea-fowl, that when awake were always fo loud and noify, they found had built their nefts upon all thefe rocks, and the ftillness and filence of thefe birds was a fignal for them alfo to retire to sleep. In the course of their voyage they met the bishop of Trondon (Drontheim), who, with two galleys, was making the tour of his diocefe, which extended all over thefe countries and iflands, attended by above two hundred people. To this prelate they were now prefented; who, when he was informed of their misfortunes, their rank, and family, expreffed great compaffion for them. He gave them a letter of recommendation for Trondon, his archiepifcopal fee, where St. Olave, one of the kings of Norway, was buried, which procured them a kind reception; and a horfe was given to Quirini. But as the King of Norway happened at that time to be at war with the Germans, their hoft, who was likewife mafter of the vessel, refufed to fail any farther, but landed at a little inhabited ifle near Drontheim; and afser recommending them to the inhabitants, returned directly. The next day, being Afcenfion-day, they were conducted to Drontheim, into the church of St. Olave, which was very handfomely ornamented, and where they found the Lord Lieutenant with all the inhabitants. There they heard mafs; after which they were conducted before the Lord Lieutenant, who immediately afked Quirini if he fpoke Latin? and being informed by him that he did, invited him, together with all his attendants, to his table, whither they were conducted by a Canon. They were afterwards taken, by this fame Canon, to good comfortable lodgings, and amply provided with all kinds of neceffa ries. Quirini wifhed for nothing more than 'to return to his own country; and he therefore defired advice and affiftance to enable him to return home by the way of Germany or England. That they might avoid travelling too much by fea, which was not fafe on account of the war, they were advifed to apply to their countryman, Giovanne Franco, whom the King of Denmark had knighted, and who refided at his caftle of Stichimborg (Stegeborg, in Eaft Gothland) in the kingdom of Sweden, fifty days journey from Drontheim. Eight days after their arrival, the Lord Lieutenant gave them two horfes and a guide to take them to Stichimborg: but as Quirini had prefented the Lord Lieutenant with his fhare of the ftockfish, a filver feal, and filver girdle, he received from the latter a hat, a pair of boots, fpurs, and leathern cloak-bag, and a mall axe, with the image of St. Olave, and the Lord Lieu 531 tenant's coat-of-arms on it, together with a packet of herrings, fome bread, and four guilders Rhenifh. They had befides this a third horie from the archbishop of Drontheim; and now, being twelve in number, they all fet out together on their journey with their guide and three horses. They travelled on for the space of fifty-three days, chiefly to the fouthward (fouth-eaft), and frequently met with fuch miferable inns on the road, that they could not even procure bread at them. In fome places they ground the bark of trees, and with milk and butter made cakes of it, which they eat inftead of bread. Befides this, they had milk, butter, and cheese, given them, and whey for drink. They ftill proceeded or their journey, and fometimes met with better inns, where they could have meat and beer. One thing, however, they every where found in great abundance; and this was a kind and friendly reception, fo that they were extremely welcome wherever they went. There are but few dwellings in Norway, and they often arrived in the night at the hour of repofe, though it was not dark but broad day-light. Their guide, who knew the cuftom of the country, opened the door of the house, in which they found a table furrounded by benches covered with leathern cufhions, ftuffed with feathers, which served inftead of mattreffes. As nothing was kept locked up, they took fome of the victuals they found there, and then went to reft. Sometimes the mafters of the house happened to come in and fee them afleep, and were much amazed, till the guide, who heard them, acquainted them with the particulars; upon which their aftonishment was mingled with compaffion, and they gave the travellers every neceffary, without taking any recompence, by which means thefe twelve peopie and three horses did not spend on a journey of fifty-three days, more than the four guilders they had received at Drontheim. On the road they met with horrid barren mountains and valleys, and with a great number of animals, like roes (reindeers, cervus ta a dus befides fowls, as hafel-hens and heath-cocks, which were as white as fnow (probably ptarmigans, tetrao lagopus), and pheasants of the fize of a goofe (probably the tetrao urogallus). In St. Olave's church they faw the skin of a white bear, which was fourteen feet and a half long. Other birds, fuch as gerfalcons (falco gyrfalcus), gofs-hawks (falco aftur brifs), and various other forts of hawks, are whiter here than common, on account of the great cold of the country. Four days before they reached Stichimborg (Stegeborg) they came to a place callel Vathena (Wadlena) where St. Bridget was born, and had founded a monaftery of X X X 2 Nur breathe, whilft the pale phantom, in a hollow voice, thus fpake with indignation: Nuns, together with chaplains of the fame order. At this place the northern kings and princes have built a moft magnificent church, covered with copper, in which they counted fixty two altars. The nuns and chaplains received the ftrangers very kindly, who, after two days ftay there, at length fet out, in order to wait on the Chevalier John Franco, who did all he could to comfort them in their diftres, and relieved them in a manner that did honour to his generofity. A fortnight after, there was given at St. Brigitta's church in Wadstena a plenary indulgence, of which the people of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, as well as thofe of Germany, Holland, and Scotland, came to partake. Some of them came from the distance of fix hundred miles. The Ghoft's Speech. "ARE these the great, the nobles of the land? Thefe! who like her meaneft fons, like common fharpers, thus confume the night in riot and gaming? Alas! Ireland, what haft thou o hope, when thefe, who, by their birth, their fortune, and their fitua tion, fhould look upon themfelves as guar dians of the commonwealth, thus spend their time like its moft idle, bafe, and worthless members? But far, far more excufable are they; want, perhaps, compels to try the meaneft arts and shifts for a fubfiftence; or whofe uncultivated minds are not prepared to relish or enjoy more rational amusements; far more excufable, I fay, than you, whom education has formed with her beft care, whom fortune has bleffed with affluence, and placed above the common herd. "What, in the name of madness, is in this plague, which thus infefts your minds? Is it the love of money? O! rather learn to cultivate your lands, if lands are yet in your poffeffion; thus you, with credit and with honefty, may improve your patrimonies, and enlarge your income. This science requires genius, memory, application; and moft of you have but a small pretence to any of all thefe. Some few indeed, who can defcend to drudge and make a trade of it, and whom nice honour binds not with too ftrict a hand, such as lord They went to the indulgence at Wadftena with the Chevalier John Franco, in order to see whether they could not procure fome intelligence there of any fhips bound for Germany or England; there being always at that time a great concourfe of people. The Chevalier was five days on the road, and had more than one hundred horfes in his train. Here they took leave of their beneficent countryman, who had furnished them plentifully with clothes and money for their journey, and had ordered his fon Mathew, a very amiable young man, to accompany them to the distance of eight days journey to Lodefe (on the Gotha Elf), where they were lodged at his own houfe, the fhip not fetting fail directly. He had lent them his own horfes all the way from Stichimborg, and forme others, may find it worth and as Quirini was ill of a fever, he mounted their while, in point of profit, to continue him on a horfe, which had an eafier pace gamefters; efpecially whilft they have fuch than ever he had met with in one of these bubbles as you my lord, anima's before. From Lodefe three of his crew went home in a veffel bound for Roftock, and eight of them accompanied him to England, where they came to their friends in London by the way of Ey and Cambridge; and after a two months refidence there, continued their route through Germany and Bafil, and at length, in the fpace of twenty-four days, arrived fafe and in good health at Venice, Mat, Rev. A For the Hibernian Magazine. FEW evenings fince, whi¦ft a number of our patriots, fenators, and fages of the law were affembled, and intent on the myfteries of play, there was profound filence, the tapers, initead of light, caft round a gloomy dimnefs, when lo! a blaze of light ning flashed, a fudden burft of thunder fbook the temple, and in the midft of this aftonified crowd appeared the ghoft of All rofe affrighted, fear hook their joints, and raised their trembling hands; they flood aghaft, quick palpitations feized their hearts; they ftared with horror, and fearce dared to the earl of or or you you —, or you —, to exercise their precious talents upon: but what pretence have you to game, who, ignorant of the laws of chance, know not the odds which lie against your fortune? Nay, grant your knowledge equal to the beft, who but a madman or an idiot would ftake for happiness a mifery upon the hazard of an equal chance? "But you will fay, perhaps, it is a plea fure and amufement you purfue. Dear chil dren, why do you not return to push pin or to marbles? or exercife yourfelves at leap frog? It were far lefs infamous, and not much more ridiculous, if Fame (peak truth of all the filly pranks, the idle fchemes, and poor contrivances, which your depraved imaginations have found out, to ruin and confound your fortunes. "It is true, when one confiders how worthlefs in yourfelves, how shameful and ignominious to your friends, and how ufe leis, if not mischievous to your country, the generality of you are, who thus confume your time and wafte your fortunes; the ruin and mifery that is brought upon yourfelves mayes ៩ 1786. Anee lotes of the late Count O'Rourke. moves no compaffion, no regret, in any human breaft. But what confideration can alleviate the fevere unmerited diftrefs of an innocent wife, whose fortune perhaps is fquandered away, or at least whofe peace and happiness are thus deftroyed? How will you retrieve from poverty and fhame a beggared offspring? Or what fatisfaction can you make for the miferies and diftrefs of many an honeft tradesman and his family, whom your long bills unpaid have brought to ruin and deftruction? For this is one of thofe upright and honourable maxims, which rooks and sharpers, who devour you, wifely propagate and fupport, that the debts of honour muft firft, muft inftantly be fatisfied. Prepofterous and abfurd; does not the tradefman truft to and depend upon your honour? You have from time to time a valuable confideration for your money, the product of his honefty, induftry or labour; add to this, his credit as a trader, and his happiness as a man, perhaps, depend on your juft dealings with him. And fhall an honourable rafcal, who from his fuperior fkill, or greater roguery, hath drawn you in to be his debtor, be preferably fatisfied, and have his debts difcharged before the other? You cannot answer it to your confciences, to your reason, or to your honour. "But why do I talk of thefe to fuch as you? As well may I to fmugglers, to that lawless troop of bod affaffins, who defy the laws of God and man, and with the bloody hand of force and murder carry on the trade of fraud; as well there, might one declaim upon the villainy of their proceedings, and from confideration of public good, and the injury they do the fair trader, hope to reclaim them from their practices. For whilft there are amongst you fuch abandoned wretches as in the fenate will give their votes to laws which they have refolved before they fleep to break, what fear of fhame, what plea of reafon, what restraint of law, can be contrived to bind you, or convince you? "What therefore fhall I fay? Or with what words can I hope to move you to reflection. Yet, for fhame awake, aroufe yourselves from this lethargic flumber! Confider what you are, what the sphere of human life in which you are to act; and if not with dignity, at leaft with decency perforin your parts. On you depends, too much depends, the finking virtue of your country. The examples which are fet by you will certainly be followed in fome degree by all ranks of men. If you break through the laws, and laugh at order and decency, licentious nefs is catching, there are enough ready to 533 wrong conduct and contemptible behaviour? For your family's, your honour's fake, learn to know and venerate yourselves; and do not, by actions unbecoming even in your meaneft vaffals, disgrace that dignity you are born to, nor fully thofe honours which you ought to adorn. For your country's fake, attempt to gain the praise, or fomething worthy the high ranks and eminent ftations you are to fill in life. How noble were it, and how easy to you, to protect and patronize the liberal arts; to raise public works; to call forth and encourage private worth; to found academies for polite and useful fcience; to reward the poet's, the painter's, the fculptor's amiable toils! Thefe, fuch as thefe, were pleasures and amusements worthy of the great, the wife, and wealthy; beneficial to your country, and glorious to yourselves. "Inftead of thefe, which is it you purfue? What are your pleasures? What are your employments? Alas! regardless, neg ligent of fame, deaf to the voice of virtue, to the call of honour; all noble emulation dead within your breafts, you fuffer yourfelves to be led blindfold to fhame by vice and folly; bewildered in your minds, em barraffed in your fortunes, funk in your cha racters, and loft to every useful, every noble purpose. O yet return! yet make one generous effort to recover! Rekindle once again the dying fpark of virtue in your bofoms. It is honour, it is your country, it is your friends who call upon you; nay, it is the voice of Heaven, who with a kind benevolent inter t hath thus appointed me, and doth permit my thade to break the filent mansions of the dead, and at this folemn hour to make one trial, if happily a departed friend, arisen from the grave, might have the power to win you back to reafon. No more, my allotted time on earth is spent. Adieu!" Here the honeft Ghost, knowing himself exempt from the laws which punih scandalum magnatum, took the liberty of mentioning feveral noble names, which it would not on•ly be prefumption, but rafhnefs and impu. dence in a printer to tranfcribe. He there. fore leaves these blanks to be filled up by the reader as he can meet with information ; having no defire or intention to ftigmatize particular characters, or to offend any individual perfon. Anecdotes of the late Count O'Rourke. HIS very remarkable gentleman, whose T delceny was from the antient Sove reigns of Breffny and Convacny, was born at a village near the antient caftle and extenfive foreft at Woodford in the county of Leitrim, and province of Connaught, which was the refidence of his ancestors. He acquir ed with a knowledge of the language, the accent and manners of his native country, fo fixed and rooted, that though he lived ever fince his 24th year abroad, he preferved the broad dialect, and the peculiar ftile of Ireland. In his 25th year he went to London, where he remained upwards of five years, experiencing many disappointments. He embarked in feveral purfuits, but ultimately fixed on the military profeffion, as the best suited to his genius and difpofition. In the firft troop of horse guards he received the rudiments of arms, but being a Roman Catholic, he was forced to refign. He then went to France, and prefented to the King at Verfailles a petition, fpecifying his princely Origin, and praying for a regiment. In confequence of which, in the year 1758, he was made a Captain of the Royal Scots in that fervice. It is well known, how difficult a matter it is for a foreigner to get advanced in that jealous and national corps. As few inftances of irregular promotions had been known in the Brigade, the Lieutenants were all, to a man, hurt at the appointment; and being refolved to conteft the matter with him, it was decided at the point of the fword, and the count, in the fpace of a few days, fought four duels, in which he gained great reputation; not more by his gallantry in the field, than by honourably confelling, that he thought it an injury to the national regiment, that a foreigner fhould be thruft upon them; and he therefore gave up his commiffion, informing the Grand Monarch that it was a dear purchase to fight for it every day. At this time, he formed an intimate acquaintance with the Polish Ambaffador, and with his lady. A foldier of fortune is a foldier for the Ladies; and it had through life been the plan and ambition of the Count, to connect gallantry with enterprife, and pay as much regard to the eyes of beauty, as to the ftandard of his commander. The beau monde of Paris declared him to be the Cecifbeo of the Ambafiador's lady, through whofe intereft he was introduced to King Staniflaus, from whom he received the promife of an honourable appointment: but having too much activity in his nature to wait in idlenefs for the flow performance of a Royal promife, he went to Ruffia, with a ftrong recommendation from France to the Court of Peterfburgh, which being then engaged in a war with Prudia, was the fcene for adventure and fame. He was appointed first major of horfe cuiraffers, in the regiment of body guards; and in the courfe of the war, he diftinguished himself greatly, and in particular by florming the city of Berlin, which he laid under contribution. At the end of the war, he was invited by the great Frederic to come and fee him at his court. He was advifed not to go, as tie foldiery had committed several of thofe outra ges which are but too frequent in the heat a conqueft; but the Count said, that the man who was a brave enemy, could not be i dangerous friend; and he went to Berlin, where he was moft graciously received by the Pruffian monarch. În a converfation betwee them, Frederic afked him, how he could entertain the ambitious hope of fucceeding in an attempt against Berlin? The Count repli ed, in one of thofe gafconades that are par donable in a knight errant, that if he had been ordered by his commanding officer, to ftorm the heights of Heaven, he would have made the attempt. The Count now returned to France, with certificates of his gallant conduct from Peter the Third, Prince General Wolkonkoy, and General de Souverow. On his return he was appointed by King Staniflaus one of his Chamberlains, which appointment took place in 1764. In the year 1770 he was appointed by the French King a Colonel of horfe, and was enrolled among the nobility of France; and in the year 1774 he was honoured with the order of St. Louis, At the commencement of the late war he came over to England, declaring, that as his own country wanted his arm, he would not fight under a foreign banner. He brought with him all his certificates, titles and recom mendations; and, among others, one from the King of France to his prefent Majesty. He was introduced by his friend, the late Lord Cuningham, to Lords North and Stormont, and was introduced by Lord Stormont to the King at St. James's. He propofed to Lord North to raise three regiments of Roman Catholicks in his native country, to be employed aganft the Americans, provided they would give him the cominiflion of Colonel Commandaat; but his offer was rejected; and in all his app ications he was treated, by the Miniftry, with indifference or fcorn. He propofed to them to quell the riots in 1780, at the head of the Irish chairmen; but all his offers were treated contemp tuoufly; in confequence of which he diftri buted a genealogical account of his defcent, and along with it all the certificates and be nours which he received during his refidence abroad. He preferved all the dignity of Prince, and many anecdotes are mentioned to fhew how much he difdained the upfart families, as he called them, of England. Talking in a circle at Bath, of an intention which he had of making an excurfion to Effex, a famous Bath Doctor, remarkable for his mock greatnefs and fham friendship, offered him a letter of recommendation. "You," fays the Count, raifing himle fon the recollection of the many Royal recom mendations he had in his pocket-book, "you |