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The brave but unfortunate
COUNT DILLON

A General in the French Servial,
who fell a Victim to the mistaken rage of his own Soldiers
on the 29 April, 1792.

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ttt Solicitous to prefent our Readers with every memorable and interesting Engraving, we used our beft Endeavours to procure a Picture, or Print, of the late Count Dillon, and it was but lately we were gratified. Erafmus Blake, Efq. (who a month fince arrived from the Continent) very obligingly lent us an original miniature Picture; and from it the Print in our Magazine has been engraved, and faid to be an excellent Likenefs. [For Particulars of his unfortunate Fate, fee cur Magazine for May laft, p. 451.]

Emphatic Address of Count Dillon to the French Army, when he faw their Reluctance to engage the Auftrians, at Tournay, April 29, 1792.

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Citizens, and Fellow-Soldiers, Tis with extreme regret I behold the present timidity: who are thefe Auftrians, whom you are afraid to encounter? they are not invincible, nor are they, I hope, of more perfonal valour than the troops I have this day the honour of commanding. Confider the glory of contending for liberty-ineftimable liberty, created by our new conftitution, and must be supported by the exertions of our arms. If you fly from the fupporters of defpotifm and injuftice, I must give you the epithet of cowards-but I cannot for a moment harbour fo injurious an opinion.-I have ferved in arms for forty years, and often a witness of French bravery-let us therefore nobly attack our adverfaries, determined we will conquer, or glorioufly fall in the field. If you difappoint my hopes, furrounding ftates will execrate you your country will defpife and expel you.

Hib. Mag. July, 1792.

On Modefty. From Mifs Wallflonecraft's
Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

PERHAPS there is not a virtue that

mixes fo kindly with every other as modefty. It is the pale moon-beam that renders more interefting every virtue it foftens, giving mild grandeur to the contracted horizon. Nothing can be more beautiful than the poetical fiction which makes Diana, with her filver crefcent, the goddess of chastity. I have fometimes thought, that wandering, with fedate ftep, in fome lonely recefs, a modeft dame of antiquity must have felt a glow of confcious dignity, when, after contemplating the foft fhadowy landfcape, fhe has invited, with placid fervor, the mild reflection of her fifter's beams to turn to her chafte bofom.

A chriftian has ftill nobler motives to incite her to, preferve her chastity, and acquire modefty; for her body has bee called the temple of the living God; of that God who requires more than modefty of mien. His eye searcheth the heart; and let her remember, tha if the hopeth to find favour in the figh of purity itself, her chastity must b

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founded on modefty, and not on worldly ty that tranquil retreat, where the delights prudence; or verily a good reputation to dwell, in clofe union with humanity. will be her only reward; for that awful intercourfe, that facred communication, which virtue establishes between man and his Maker, muft give rife to the wifh of being pure as he is pure.

After the foregoing remarks, it is almoft fuperfluous to add, that I confider

all thofe feminine airs of maturity, which fucceed bafhfulness, to which truth is facrificed, to fecure the heart of a husband, or rather to force him to be ftill a lover, when nature would, had the not been interrupted in her operations, have made love give place to friendship as immodeft. The tendernefs which a man will feel for the mother of his children, is an excellent fubftitute for the ardour of unfatisfied paffion; but to prolong that ardour, it is indelicate for women to feign an unnatural coldnefs of conftitution. Women as well as men ought to have the common appetites and paffions of their nature,they are only brutal when unchecked by reafon but the obligation to check them is the duty of mankind, not a fexual duty. Nature, in thefe refpects, may fafely be left to herfelf; let women only acquire knowledge and humanity, and love will teach them modefty. There is no need of falfehoods, difgufting as futile, for ftudied rules of behaviour only impofe on fhallow obfervers; a man of fenfe foon fees through, and defifes the affectation.

Would ye, O my fifters, really poffefs modefty, ye muft remember that the poffeffion of virtue, of any denomination, is incompatible with ignorance and vanity!-Ye muft acquire that fobernefs of mind which the exercise of duties, and the purfuit of knowledge, alone infpire, or ye will fill remain in a doubtful dependent fituation, and only be loved whilft ye are fair! The downcaft eye, the rofy blufh, the retiring grace, are all proper in their feafon; but modefty being the child of reafon, cannot long exift with the fenfibility that is not tempered by reflection. Befides, when love, even innocent love, is the whole employ of your lives, your hearts will be too foft to afford modef

Character of the Notable Woman and Fine Lady contrafted.

(From the fame.)

WOMEN when they receive a care

ful education, are either made fine ladies, brimful of fenfibility, and teeming with capricious fancies, merely notable women. The latter are often friendly, honeft creatures, and have a fhrewd kind of good fenfe joined with worldly prudence, that often render them more ufeful members of fociety than the fine fentimental lady, though they poffefs neither greatnefs of mind nor tafte. The intellectual world is fhut against them; take them out of their family or neighbourhood, and they ftand ftill, the mind finding no employment; for literature affords a fund of amufement which they have never fought to relifh, but frequently to defpife. The fentiments and tale of more cultivated minds appear ridiculous even in thofe whom chance and family connections have led them to love, but in mere acquaintance they think it all affectation." A man of fenfe can only love fuch a woman on account of her fex, and refpect her, becaufe fhe is a trufty fergant. He lets her, to preferve his own peace, fcold the fervants, and go to church in clothes made of the very beft materials. A man of her own fize of underftanding would, probably, not agree fo well with her; for he might wish to encroach on her prerogative, and manage fome domeftic concerns himfelf. Yet women whofe minds are not enlarged by cultivation, or the natural felfifanefs of fenfibility expanded by reflection, are very unfit to manage a family; for, by an undue ftretch of power, they are always tyrannifing to fupport a fuperioritythat only refts on the arbitrary diftinction of fortune. The evil is fometimes more ferious, and domeftics are deprived of innocent indulgences, and made to work beyond their strength, in order to enable the notable woman to keep a better table, and outfhine her neighbours

in finery and parade. If the attend to her children, it is, in general, to drefs them in a coftly manner-and whether this attention arifes from vanity or fondnefs, it is equally pernicious.

Befides, how many women of this defcription país their days, or, at leaft, their evenings, difcontentedly! Their hufbands acknowledge that they are good managers, and chafte wives; but leave home to feek for more agreeable, may I be allowed to use a fignificant French word, piquant, fociety; and the patient drudge, who fulfils her tafk like a blind horfe in a mill, is defrauded of her juft reward; for the wages due to her are the careffes of her hufband; and women who have fo few refources in themfelves, do not very patiently bear this privation of a natural right.

A fine lady, on the contrary, has been taught to look down with contempt on the vulgar employments of life; though he has not only been incited to acquire accomplishments that rife a degree above fenie; for even corporeal accomplishments cannot be acquired with any degree of precifion unless the underftanding has been ftrengthened by exercife. Without a foundation of principles tafle is fuperficial; and grace muft arife from fomething deeper than imitation. The imagination, however, is heated, and the feelings rendered faftidious, if not fophifticated; or a counterpoife of judge ment is not acquired, when the heart ftill remains artless, though it becomes too

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forry to be compelled to fay, that there is much reafon for the accufation. I fhall, however, at prefent confine myfelf to the period and manner of mourning for our relations.

Swift faid, that he always obferved the merrieft faces in mourning coaches, to which might be added, that black clothes are but feldom accompanied with forrowful countenances. On the other hand, I know two ladies who are very melancholy because they have not lately left a relation, that they might with propriety go into mourning, as it is of the greatest advantage to their complexions. One of them was upon the point of marrying a gentleman of confiderable fortune during the laft general mourning; and the attributes the lofs of her husband folely to the curtailing the period of lamentation. The other is a brifk widow, who caught her husband in a fable net, and would probably have made another conqueft in her weeds, if he had not unfortunately been feized with the. finall-pox a few days after his death. The diforder, however, has no ways im-! paired her face, and her faithful mirro till tells her, that he wants nothing but a favourable opportunity of thiningin black, to change her name once more to advantage. Sir Harry Lovewife was the firft night at a new play in blac and weepers; and though he had buried, his wife but a week, he laughed as hear. ty as if he was to have been marrie the next day. Lady Harriet F danced at the Rotunda with colong M a fortnight after the lots c her dear and beloved lord, whom the followed to the grave with as a forrow as even the Ephefian matrit It would, neverchelos, methinks, be of Hof ceffary that fome few rules thould be at ferved, by way of public decorum, or the fe occafions; and as I never met w any etiquette of this kind, perhaps t following outlines may furnith a fupe. : or pen with hints for a more extent.y plan, which would doubtless be adop of by perfons of both fexes upon the bon t General Rules for b.having in Mourala

A WIFE LOSING HER HUSBAND.

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kerchief. The fecond Sunday at church much affected with the fermon, the mandkerchief not omitted. May go to tragedy after the first month, and weep n character, either at the play, or the ofs of her husband. The fecond month The may affift at a comedy and fmile, but not languifhingly. The third month The may laugh at a play, or dance at he Rotunda with her intended brideroom. And the fourth month fhe may amp into his arms and finish her wiowhood.

A HUSBAND LOSING HIS WIFE.

MUST weep at the funeral. Should not appear at the coffee-house the firft week; fhould vent a proper figh whenver good wives, or even matrimony, is hentioned. May take a miftrefs into eping the fecond week provided he lad none before. May appear with her public at the end of the third week; nd as he probably may not chufe to arry again, he may at the clofe of the urth week be allowed a couple of iftreffes to folace him in his melanjoly.

AN HEIR LOSING HIS FATHER.

Ir would be more decent not to break t before the funeral. Horfts, dogs, d equipages may, however, be getting ty: plans of villas, difpofitions of rds, and the like, may be in the a time examined the additional vants may be hired, and even put to mourning the ladies may vifit (after the funeral) or he may vifit (before) provided fome little preon is ufed to prevent fcandal. He frequent the gaming-table, and get ited a member of Daly's as foon as he at the end of the mourning he may change his drefs, and purfue the plan as long as he can.

hofe, or fome fuch rules of decorum uld re obferved upon thefe folemi. fions: by which means foreip rs ro longer be able to charge us I all wart of decency; and we fl-all oach a little more towards rational

I am, Sir, your humble fervant.

The Struggle. A Dialogue.

[Illuftrated with an elegant Engraving.]

SLENDER.

BEG, fir, that you will refign that bauble. If you obftinately perfift in your refolution of keeping it, I must have recourfe to coercive means to reft it from you.

STOUT. Pull away, and be d-d.-I am not to be intimidated by a schoolboy! Thy efforts, urchin, to fupplant me, may provoke a fmile from me, but are not en titled to my refentment.

SLENDER. Let go your hold.STOUT. Not till I pleafe, mafter Slender.

SLENDER. To indulge you, you fhall have my permiflion to refign.-Turning cut are harth words, which fhall not be applied to you if you are wife enough to yield obedience to our wishes. Do you defire to be difmiffed with honour? STOUT. I choofe to continue as I

am.

SLENDER.

You must go, I tell you. STOUT. Is it fo decreed?

SLENDER. The members of our club have unanimoufly agreed to your expul fion, if that measure is not prevented by a voluntary refignation of your official feat. We admire your fuperlative talents, and are awed by your profundity of knowledge: wonder not, therefore, that we should with to be deprived of you, and be relieved, by the equality and mediocrity of our underftandings, from ferving as a foil to your enlightened genius.

STOUT. I am indeed afhamed to affociate with fome of you, and therefore am willing to withdraw myself-I'll wash my hands of you all!

SLENDER. Agreed.

Singular mode of Murder at Palermo.

[From Hill's Journey through Sicily and Calabria.]

N 1791, many people in this town

and neighbourhood died in a fudden and extraordinary manner; they were generally feized with vomiting, and ex

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