wound, hey?-Only look how dange- a great comfort!Ah! mio maifire! rous it is? Alexis at thefe words throws off the dreffing, rifes, and taking Sciocco by the hand, they both defcend into the garden, walk acrofs it, finds a little gate open from the field-fide, and run as faft as they can; the fky became infenfibly more cloudy, and a thick obfcurity which, covering the earth, feemed to indicate to our travellers a faft approaching and inevitable ftorm. After having frayed for a while through windings, bufhes, ditches, &c. the most vivid flashes of lightening rent the eastern fky, and which were fucceeded by the loudeft claps of thunder; already fome little drops of rain, preceded the torrents of hail and fhowers that were to follow.-Alexis and Sciocco continued their march with indefatigable hafte, yet the filence, the night, the aweful horrors of nature, congealed their frame with involuntary fhiverings; in vain did they attempt to advance farther in their courfe, an extreme weaknefs flackened their nerves, their knees tottered, they could neither breathe, nor fupport the weight of their bodies. Well, imprudente cavaliere, faid Sciocco, you fee now, to what we have expofed ourfelves. What can we do, anfwered Alexis, by way of confolation, was not it in the natural order of things? Certainly but we could have avoided it, had we remained in a houfe where we have been treated with fo much gentility.-Well, this brings you over to my opinion. Not it indeed; I fhall always adhere faithfully to my fyftem. There are events that cannot be avoided, in fpite of all our efforts to the contrary; but there are alfo fome that can be avoided, which we feem to feek by our imprudence, and which, in order that they may happen, are liable to certain conditions. For inftance the ftorm to which we must be expofed Might we not have heard it roar in bed at the house of the baronefs, hey!-Go on with your muttering, I think you have great reafon for it.-What can the danger be to you?-Don't I risk myself as well as you ? Veramente that's : N O T E. Truly. -What a clap of thunder!Ah! Dio! Dio!-- how unfortunate are we! Sciocco terrified at the ftorm, which was continually increafing; began to weep bitterly-in vain, Alexis tries to confole him, the Italian is always a fobbing; he protefts that this is the laft moment of their life, and that both are deftined to be confumed by the lightening.Alas! cried he, how have I deferved to perith by celeftial fire!-Santa Maria, afcolta la mio confeffione*. I ravifhed Signora Mazarelli from her father; but it was only to put her into the hands of a very honeft chevalier Non ho peccate contra la legge. Is it for having obliged the ungrateful at Paris with my property?—Non ho peccato contra la legge! Is it for having lived among the thieves don't we live among them in all great cities?-Non ho peccato !-Is it, in fine, for having given fo merciless a drubbing to mo caro, mis tenero, mio tropa dulce maestro ! -Oh! Si ho peccato, molto peccato contra la legge, la venerabile legge ! Whilft the Italian offered up the most fervent vows to all the faints in paradife, the violence of the flower forced Alexis to look for fhelter; and there feemed to be a light at no great diftance from him. Come, Sciocco, faid he, laying hold of his hand, I fee a place of fhelter, of propitious fuelter. He fays, and advancing towards the fpot whence the glaring of the light proceeded, they difcover an antique ftructure, with a little fleeple on its fummit. The door is open, and nobody appears. Our travellers enter that kind of a hermitage, and feeking every N O T E S. *St. Mary, hear my confeffion.-The tranflator, to render this expreflion more intelligible to the general reader, withes them to obferve, that all Roman' Catholics, fuch as the Italians, &c. are made to believe that they will go to everlafting damnation, if their confcience has not been purged by an auricular confcfion of the mortal fins. This idea defolates fo much the poor Italian in this ftory. I have not finned against the law. where Rrr2 where for fomeboby to fpeak to-they call out-Nobody anfwers the call However, the hermitage appears to be inhabited: a lamp is fufpended from the cieling, and feveral rough utenfils are fcattered about. Alexis feemed to perceive an infcription upon the wall; he approaches:-O furprize-his name ftrikes his ftill uncertain fight ;-Yes it is Alexis, graved every where upon ftone:-thefe words above all, ftrike him in a fingular manner; "Should the dear youth Alexis, alas, be no more, I never will ceafe his fate to deplore: Throughout this defolate manfion he Cambridge County. The ariftocratic intereft prevails here fo powerfully that no independent man dare try his fortune, and the Duke of Rutland and Earl of Hardwicke nominate each a friend, who are elected in general withoat oppofition. Cambridge Town, was incorporated by Henry I. the right of election is in the mayor, bailiffs, and freemen not receiving alms, whofe number is about 200; but being chiefly nonrefidents and placemen, miniftry has a powerful intereft, and the prefent members were elected under that influence. Cambridge University. Here the clerical intereft prevails too powerfully to let any but good fubjects to the court be elected: the right of election is in the doctors and mafters of arts. Chefer County. This county is not quite under the influence of ariftocracy: the Earl of Stamford and Lord Cholmondely poffefs the greateft intereft, and Mr. Crewe, the prefent member, has alfo great influence; it wants only to create that gentleman a peer, to maks it as completely ariftocratic as any county in England. Chester City. Earl Grofvenor, by fecuring the corporation, and obtaining a leafe from the crown of feveral tene ments has eftablished his intereft here. This city being in a county palatine, dii not fend men bers till 34 Henry VIII. The right of voting is in the freemes, who amount to about 1000. Cornwall. This county fends the greateft number of members to parliament of any in the kingdom, being 44, owing to the number of rotten boroughs fill exifting. The political influence of the county is in the Duke of Leeds, . The Prefent State of the Reprefentation of Lords Mount Edgecumbe, Falmouth, England and Sectland. Camelford, and Eliot, on ore fide, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Bedford, and Duke of Northumberland, on the other; fo that a fhew of liberty ftili exifts, and will exift, until fome coalition takes place, and then the popular intereft will moft certainly be annihilated. Of the boroughs, which each fend two members, arc Salta, which has only thirty-eight voters nominally, the whole being bur gage tenures, the property of Mir. Buller, who who has of course the fole controul of the is completely under the influence of Lord Mount Edgecumbe. borough. St. Michael has only forty-two voters; the election is in the houfe-keepers, and as Sir F. Baffet and Lord Falmouth have the property between them pretty well equipoited, they, to avoid difputes, put in one member each. Helfone has about four hundred houfes, but the number of voters, who are freemen, and are about 36, have been until laft election, under the controul of the late Lord Godolphin, and his fucceffor the Duke of Leeds; however, at the laft election, Sir S. Lufhington, and Sir G. Elliot were fortunate enough to defeat his interest. St. Ives has about 130 voters, fcot and lot men, but are fwayed in their fuffrages by the Duke of Leeds, the Earl of Bucks, and Mr. Praed. Tregony is an inconfiderable village, the elections of which were contefted between Lord Falmouth and Sir Francis Baffet, and they returned one member each; but the whole property has been fold to the celebrated nabob Barwell; he now rules omnipotent in the elections. Truro was alfo divided between Lord Falmouth and Sir F. Baffet; but the latter having difpofed of his property to the former, he has intereft enough with the voters, who are 25, to put in whom he pleafes. Penryn is a fcot and lot borough; the voters, about 140, are under the care of Sir Francis Baffet. Fowey is a feudal borough, belonging to the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall; the number of voters 63, being fuch as are the Prince's tenants; the patrons, however, are Lord Mount Edgecumbe and Mr. Raghleigh. Bainey, alias Tintagel, is a mere hamlet, of about twenty houfes; the number of voters are generally much lefs than the number of dwellings, and Lords Mount Edgecumbe and Bute are the patrons. Leftwithiel. The right of election is in the mayor, fix burgeffes, and feventeen afliftants; the firit feven are nominated by the lord of the manor, who chufe the other feventeen. This borough St. Mawes is a hamlet of feven houfes, inhabited chiefly by fishermen; but as the right of election is in the portrieve and burgeffes, the number of the latter is about twenty-two, who are completely under the controul of the Marquis of Buckingham, the patron. Camelford This borough is under the patronage of the Rev. Mr. Phillips, and has nineteen nominal voters. Callington is of rather more confequence than many of the former, but is as completely under influence; it was the laft Cornish borough which fent members to parliament, being chartered only in 1585. There are about fifty voters, but the majority are under the influence of the Duke of Bedford and Lord Say. Eaft Lose was chartered 13th Eliz. the number of voters are about fifty, wholly under the controul of John Buller, Efq. Weft Looc has about the fame number of voters, and is under the like controul of a Mr. Buller, coufin of the above. Launceflon is the county town, and pretty well peopled. The members of the corporation, who are about twenty, are all admitted at the will of the Duke of Northumberland, who confequently reigns fupreme patron of this borough. Grampound fcarcely deferves the name of a village; the inhabitants are about two hundred, of which about twenty, being foot and lot men, have the privilege of voting. The borough is the fole property of Lord Eliot, and confequently at his difpofal. St. Germains, a large parifh, but the borough is a mean place, confifting of about fixty fishermen's huts, of whom a part only have a right to vote; and thefe, as in the laft place, are entirely fubject to Lord Eliot. Lifkard, a large market town, and in which the right of voting is vefted in the mayor, recorder, twenty-three burgeffes, and about even freemen, over whom Lord Eliot bears fway. Newport has about forty or fifty foot and lot voters; but as the place is the property of the Duke of Northumber Landa land, his Grace's recommendation is fufficient to procure a feat. Bodmyn, faid to be the only borough in this county, not under the controul of a patron; the right of voting is in the corporation, confifting of 36 perfons. Cumberland County, the intereft in which is divided between the Duke of Portland and earl of Lonfdale; thefe two gentlemen are faid to have spent 100,000l. in a conteft in the year 1768, but now agree to fend one member each, by which means as they are of feparate parties, the county reprefentation is totally defeated. Carlisle City. The numbers of electors are 650, the chief of which are in the intereft of the Duke of Norfolk, who, to do him juftice, has worthily acquired popularity by oppofing the claims of the Earl of Lonfdale. Cockermouth, being the property of the Earl of Lonfdale, who, to fecure the borough to himfelf, purchased a great number of houfes at an enormous price, is wholly under his influence. Derby County. The parliamentary interefts which prevail are thofe of the Duke of Devonshire and Lord Scarfdale. Derby has between fix and feven hundred freemen, over whom the Duke of Devonshire has found means to gain a powerful afcendency, and generally procures the return of his friends. Devonshire, is one of thofe counties which, from its extent, renders it a very difficult matter to conteft, and it certainly fupports as great a degree of independency as any in the kingdom. Exeter City, the right of voting in which is in the magiftrates and freemen, which do not exceed 1200, and has the honour to keep itfelf free from the influence of any individual. Tiverton. The election intereft here is wholly poffeffed by Lord Harrowby and Sir John Dunze, who each nominate a member the choice is apparent ly in the corporation, confifting of twenty-four. : Dartmouth, is a borough where the freemen only have a right to vote, and over thefe the boards of Treafury and Oakhampton. The interefts which prevail here are thofe of the Duke of Bedford and Lord Spencer; the number of voters about 180. Bearalfion gives right of voting to those who have lands in the borough, of which the Earl of Beverly is chief proprietor, and by the proper ufe of his burgage-tenures, his Lordfhip fe cures the election for his friends. Flymouth is large and populous, confifting of 20,000 inhabitants, yet the right of electing members is in a felfelected corporation, confifting of about 160, over whom, by means of appoint ments properly beftowed, the admiralty fecures a complete influence. Totnefs. In this borough exifts an hereditary claim of burgefsfhip; the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe votes in right of his anceftor, who conveyed his manor of Totnefs to the corporation. Although this town is very populous, the right of election is in the corpora tion, confifting of 32 perfons, over whom the Duke of Bolton and F. Buller Yarde, Efq. have controul. Plympton, is a corporation that has about 104 voters, and is under the influence of the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe. Tavileck, is now poffeffed by the Duke of Bedford, he holds the freeholds and diftributes them prior to the election, to a certain number of well difpofed people. Barntable, was a borough before the conque, fent members to parliament, 23 Edw. I. and is a corporation confitting of 25 perfons, in whom and the common burgeffes, the right of election refides. This borough has no profested patron; the number of voters are about 250 Honiton, is a borough by prescription, Sir George Young having an eftate in the parifi, is returned, as has one of his anceltors for a century and a half half, the other feat is open, and generally cofts the candidate from 2000 to 3 col. The right of voting is in the fcot and lot houfekeepers, whofe number is about 350. Dorfet County. This county is much influenced in the elections by the family of Pitt Lord Rivers, but the Earl of Shaftesbury and Digby have alio intereft. Dorchefter, is a corporation, and the right of voting refides in the inhabitants. paying to church and poor, their number is about two hundred, and the ariftocratic intereft which prevails is in the Earls of Shaftesbury and Dorchef ter. Lyme Regis, is wholly under the influence of the Earl of Weftmoreland, the number of voters being only 34. Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, to fhew how much the reprefentation in parliament is in the hands of the people, we fhall give a flight hiftory of the fale of thefe two boroughs, which fend four members to parliament. They were once the property of the famous Bub Dodington, from him they paffed to a Mr. Tucker, and then defcended to the late Gabriel Steward, Efq. who juft before his death fold them to W. Pulteney, Efq. who poffeffing the freeholds which are confiderable in number, nominates whom he pleafes. Bridport was long under the influence of the late Humphrey Sturts, Efq. on his death they have partly fhook off the yoke the number of voters is about 160. Shaft fbury. The voters in this borough are foot and lot men, their number about 29, their prefent patron, Sir John Call. Some fcandalous inftances of bribery in this borough have been brought before the Houfe of Com mons. Warcham has not above 120 houfes, wholly the property of John Calcraft, Efq. who is therefore fupreme patron of the borough. Corfe Cale is the joint property of Henry Bankes, and John Bond; the right of voting is the leffors for years, who amount to about 44. Thefe two gentlemen are confequently the pa trons, Poole is a borough of great confequence, and the right of voting is at prefent contefted. Adminiftration, by help of fome leading men in the town, have generally found means to get their friends returned. Durham County. Here the intereft of the Earl of Darlington, and Bifhop of Durham prevails, and a union of thofe interefts is confidered as deci five in a conteft for the county. Durham City has hitherto preferved its independence. The citizens have fhewn a ftrong attachment to the two families of Tempeft and Lambton, although oppofed by the Bifhop. The perfons who vote are freemen, who have acquired their freedom by fervi tude, and election into companies; their number is about 1200. Efex. The two parties of Whig and Tory here form a coalition, and content themfelves with fending one member each, by which kind of coalition the county is deprived of any real reprefentation. Colchester Borough. No borough in England has been more difgraced by corrupt contefts than this. Fordyce, the banker, Mayne, the banker, and Chriftopher Potter, an adventurer, known by the name of the cheap baker, have all figured away as candidates for this town, and have foon after figured away likewife in the London Gazette. The corporation poffefs a power to make non-refidents free, by which means they can always fecure a majority for their favourite candidate. Colchester fent members ever fince the 23d Ed. I. It was incorporated by William III. and judgment of oufter pronounced in 1740, which occafioned a new charter to be granted in 1763. The right of election is in the fworn burgeffes not receiving alms, whofe number is about 1400. Malden. The influence at prefent prevailing here is that of J. H. Strutt, Efq. and Ch. Callis Weftern, Efq. the prefent member. This is a very ancient town, being mentioned by Cæfar under the name of Comelodunum. It fent members 25 Edw. II. is a corporation, made fuch by Philip and Mary. The custom of Borough Eng |