ftamped the praife of univerfality on

her talents.

But let not genius, however exalted, or however judiciously cultivated, repofe too fecurely on the unchangeableness of its fituation. Surrounding nature, as well as revelation, tell us, "That nothing continueth in one fay;" and daily experience further confirms, "That time and chance, or fashion, or even caprice, will make mutations in all the great as well as frivolous departments of life.

In the winter of 1782, when Miss Younge was thus "bearing all her blushing honours thick about her," (and which, to do her justice, the enjoyed with a moderation rarely the lot of her profeffion,) Mr Sheridan, fen. introduced to Drury-lane Theatre the prefent juftly celebrated Mrs Siddons, who had performed fome inconfiderable characters about fix years before on the fame Stage, but for fome reasons, hitherto inexplicable, was fo little noticed by Mr Garrick, that the very spiritedly difmiffed herself from that engagement. This Lady's first appearance, as may be well remembered, was in Ifabella, in Southerne's Tragedy of

The Fatal Marriage," and in this character the displayed fuch genuine and original powers of acting, as to

establish her fame with the Critics the first night: her other performances fanctioned this approbation fo much with the town, that Drurylane foon became the Temple of the Mufes, and Mrs Siddons the prefiding Goddess.

In this awful and unexpected crifis, Mifs Younge fteadily kept before her the advice of our immortal Bard

"In the reproof of chance "Lies the true proof of men."

As her temper, her talents, and her affiduities, never forfook her, the fupported herself as a refpectable antagonit, doing her duty with an increafed zeal, and never once repining either at her ill luck, or detracting from the talents of her great rival. She confidered her merits as before the public, and the committed herself to their patronage and protection. Her conduct was accordingly rewarded; for though the bruit of Mrs Siddons' name carried with it the greater tide of popularity, Mifs Younge kept her rank as an excellent judicious actress, unmatched in many characters, and in powers of equal declamation superior to any one on the Stage.

IV. The ships of war or corfairs of the Powers armed against the French Republic fhall not enter, or at leaft fhall not make any stay during the prefent War, in the Ports or Roads of the Ecclefiaftical States. V. The French Republic fhall continue to enjoy, as before the War, all the rights and prerogatives which France had at Rome, and fhall be treated in every refpect as the moft refpectable Powers, and particularly fo as to what relates to its Ambaffador or Minifter, its Confuls or Vice-Confuls.

VI. The Pope shall renounce, abfolutely and entirely, all the rights which he may pretend to have in the Cities and Territories of Avignon, the Comtat Venaiffin, and its dependencies; and fhall transfer, give up, and abandon the faid rights to the French Republic.

VII. The Pope in Mke manner renounces for ever, and gives up and transfers to the French Republic, all his right to the Territories known by the title of the Legation of Bologna, Ferrara, and Romagna; and no attack fhall be made on the Catholic Religion in thofe Legations.

VIII. The Citadel and Villages forming the Territory of the City of Ancona, fhall remain in the hands of the Republic till a Peace with the Continent shall be concluded.

IX. The Pope engages for him. felf and his fucceffors, not to transfer to any one the titles of Seigniories attached to the Territory by him ceded to the French Republic.

X. His Holiness engages to pay and deliver at Foligno, to the Treafurer of the French army, before the 5th March 1797, the fum of 1,500,000 of French Livres Tournois, of which 1,000,000 shall be in fpecie, and 500,000 in diamonds and other valuable effects; befides the fum of 1,600,000 remaining due according to the 9th Article of the Armistice figned at Bologna on the 5th Meffi

dor in the 4th Year of the Republic, and ratified by his Holiness on the 27th of June.

XI. In order to fettle finally what fhall remain to be paid, in order to the complete execution of the Armiftice figned at Bologna, his Holiness fhall provide the army with 800 cavalry horfes accoutred, and 800 draft horfes, bulls, and buffaloes, and other objects produced from the Territory of the Church.

XII. Befides the fum mentioned in the preceding Articles, the Pope fhall pay to the French Republic, in fpecie, diamonds, and other valuables, the fum of 15,000,000 of French Livres,Tournois, of which 10,000,000 livres fhall be paid in the course of March and five in the course of April next.

XIII. The VIIIth Article of the Treaty of Armistice figned at Bologna, concerning the manufcripts and objects of Art, fhall be carried into complete execution as fpeedily as poffible.

XIV. The French army hall evacuate Umbria, Perugia, and Camerino, as foon as the Xth Article of the prefent Treaty fhall be executed and accomplished.

XV. The French army fhall evacuate the Province of Macerata, excepting Ancona and Fano, and their Territories, as foon as the first five millions of the fum mentioned in the XIIth Article of the present Treaty fhall have been paid and delivered.

XVI. The French fhall evacuate the Territory of the City of Fano, and the Duchy of Urbino, as foon as the fecond five millions of the fum mentioned in the XIIth Article of the prefent Treaty fhall have been delivered; and the IIId, Xth, XIth, and XIIIth, fhall have been executed. The last five millions making up the whole of the fum ftipulated to be paid by the XIIth Article, shall be paid at the fartheft in the courfe of April next.

XVII. The

children; and lived to fee fix daughters married, and three of them the mothers of fixteen children; all of whom were brought up, or are bring ing up, to be day-labourers. Strudwick continued to work till within feven weeks of the day of his death; and at the age of four score, in 1787, he closed, in peace, a not inglorious life; for, to the day of his death, he never received a farthing in the way of parochial aid. His wife furvived him about feven years; and though bent with age and infirmities, and lit tle able to work, excepting as a weeder in a gentleman's garden, he was alfo too proud either to ask or receive any relief from the parish. For fix or seven of the last years of her life, fhe received twenty fhillings a year, from the perfon who favoured me with this account, which he drew up from her own mouth. With all her virtue and all her merit, fhe yet was not much liked in her neighbourhood people in affluence thought her haughty; and the paupers of the parish, feeing, as they could not help feeing, that her life was a reproach to theirs, aggravated all her little failings. Yet the worst thing they had to fay of her was, that he was proud; which they fnid was manifefted by the manner in which the buried her husband. Refolute, as the owned she was, to have the funeral, and every thing that related to it, what the called decent, nothing could perfuade her from having handles to his coffin, and a plate on it mentioning his age. She was alfo charged with having behaved herself crofsly and peevishly towards one of her fons-in-law, who was a mafon, and went regularly every Saturday evening, to the ale-houfe, as he faid, just to drink a pot of beer. James Strudwick, in all his life, as the often told this ungracious fon-in-law, never fpent five fhiliings in any idleness; luckily, (as fhe was fure to add,) he had it not to fpend. A more ferious

charge against her was, that, living to a great age, and but little able to work, she grew to be feriously afraid, that at laft the might become chargeable to the parish, (the heaviest, in her eftimation, of all human calamities) and that thus alarmed, she did fuffer herself more than once, during the exacerbations of a fit of distempered defpondency, peevishly (and perhaps petulantly) to exclaim, that God Almighty, by fuffering her to remain fo long upon earth, seemed actually to have forgotten her. Such are the fimple annals of Dame Strudwick; and her hiftorian, partial to his fubject, clofes it with lamenting, that fuch village memoirs have not often been fought for and recorded.

"She would have handles on the coffin of her husband, and a plate recording his age!" and this was alleged against her! Yet this fimple receptacle contained a depofit, more precious than any Egyptian pyramid ever covered. "She was proud!" Yes, he had that pride that fcorns dependence, that thinks all labour honourable, but feels an obligation as a wound. We believe this pride is the foundation of every human virtue, and its want, the origin of all that degrades our nature.

Yet even this patient labour, this minute economy, this proud independence, could not protect our heroine from the fear of a workhouse, and the reception of private bounty. And all this exact care and industry were attended with an uncommon portion of conftant health, and yet the wife of James Strudwick, whofe labour has contributed to fupport lord lieutenants, and minifters of Atate, thought God had forgotten her, when fhe faw, if the grave refused her an afylum, fhe must end her life in a work-house!

Reader," if you have tears, refufe not to fhed them now;" but while you shed them, do not determine to

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