feet failing him, he had an afs given him by another; on which animal he rode through Germany, Flanders, and part of France and Holland where, making a longer refidence, he fold him. At Paris, Hague, Amfterdam, Bruffels, and fome other great towns, his merit procured him many friends, who feeing his great poverty, took the means of fupporting him by leffons of botany, which he gave freely. He often declared that he had more and greater difficulties to ftruggle with at London, than any other place. Yet he was fo pleated with the country, as to with to fettle in it, and actually offered his new fyftem of botany to the Royal Society, to be demonftrated in England, if they would give him encouragement. But he was unfortunately refused; and having finished a journey of five years, returned Into Sweden, and foon blazed out the great laminary of the north. * REFLECTION S. OLID merit is a cure for ambition itself. A man of me rit cannot confine his ambition to fortune or favour : he finds nothing folid in thefe to fill his heart: his ambition would be, to acquire that fort of glory which arises from difinterested virtue. But this is not understood among men, and he gives it up. True glory is not acquired by grafping at power and opu lence, but by facrificing our own intereft to that of cur country. Inflead of looking down with contempt on the erooked in mind or body, we should thankfully look up to God, who hath made us better. The fordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to theit tranquility, nor to their modefty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub, and there he had the presumption to cominand Alexander, the haughtieft of all men. Rather fuffer yourfelf to be put in the wrong when you are right, than put yourfelf in the right when you are wrong. If the fpirit of the ruler rifes against thee, leave thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences. Never difpute for victory, but for inftruction; and yield to reafon from whatever quarter. Never fuffer your courge to be fierce, your refolution obftinate, your wifdom cunning, nor your patience fullen. An inflexible temper has much to fufer, and little to gain. To measure all reafon by our own, is a plain act of injustice: it is an encroachment on the common rights of mankind. EPITAPH EPITAPH'in ST. GILES's CHURCH, in the County of DORSET. This Monument Is erected by MARY, Countefs of SHAFTESBURY, Her most tender and indiffoluble Regard to Who, from a confiftency of virtuous Conduct, Had as many Friends, and as few Enemies, And of Hope grounded on the redeeming Mercy To whom he looked up with inceffant Gratitude; To whofe Creatures he was kind, Having received and diffufed Happiness, Amidst the Prayers of the Rich and Poor, TH The FALL of ROME. Written by Mr. HUME. HE grandeur of Rome was the work of many centuries; the effect of much wifdom, and the price of much blood. She maintained her grandeur whilft the preferved her virtue; bat when luxury grew up to favour corruption, and corruption to nourish luxury, then Rome grew venal: the election of her magiftrates, the fentences of her judges, the decrees of her fenate, all were fold: her liberties were fold, when these were fold; and her riches, her power, her glory, could not long furvive her liberty. She who had been the envy, as well as the mistress of nations, fell to be an object of their fcorn or their pity. They had feen and felt that the governed other people by will, and VOL. II. 49. 3 Z her her own by law. They beheld her govern herself by will, by the arbitrary will of the worst of her own citizens, of the worst of human kind, by Caligula and others, by women abandoned to ambition and luft, by minifters who were emancipated flaves, parafites and panders, infolent and rapacious. In this miferable ftate, the few who retained fome fparks of the old Roman fpirit, had double caufe to mourn in private; for it was not fafe to mourn in public. They mourned the lofs of the liberty and grandeur of Rome; and they mourned that both fhould be facrificed to wretches whofe crimes would have been punished, and whofe talents would fcarce have recommended them to the meaneft offices in the virtuous and profperous ftate of the common wealth. Into fuch a state, at least into a flate as miferable as this, will the people of Britain fall, and deferve to fall, if they fuffer, under any pretence, or by any hands, that conftitution to be de ftroyed, which cannot be ceftroyed unless they fuffer it, unless they co-operate with the enemics of it, by electing thofe to reprefent. them who are hired to betray them; or by fubmitting tamely, when the mask is taken off, or falls of, and the attempt to bring beggary or flavery is avowed, or can be no longer concealed. If ever this happens, the friends of liberty, fhould any fuch remain, will have one option ftill left; and they will rather choofe, no doubt, to die the laft of British freemen, than bear to live the first of British flaves. L A SINGULAR CHARACTER. ATELY died at Daventry, in Northamptonshire, the Rev. Mr. Truman, who was rector of feveral places, particu larly Bilton, where lived the celebrated Mr. Addifon, and where his daughter now lives. This mifer had livings to the value of near 400l. a year, and is faid to have died worth 50,000l. His manner of living was to go to the farm-houfes in his parishes, to freal turnips as he went, and then to beg a little bacon to be boiled with them; but if the good wife turned her back, and left the bacon near him, he would take up a knife, cut another nice, and put it in his pocket: this ferved the next day at another farm-houfe where he would beg potatoes or greens for his bacon. Sometimes he contrived, at the better fort of farmhoufes, to flay all night, and this he would do without invitation here he would feal the red and blue worfled cut of the corners of the blankets, to darn his ftockings with, for they were of all colours. He once in his life fell in love, but finding 9 nothing nothing would foften the heart of Dolly, the farmer's maid, but ribbons, &c. he recollected that his brother was a haberdasher in Daventry; he, therefore, made an errand to his brother (who was never glad to fee him), and ftole a piece of ribbon, which his faid brother detected fluttering about the farmer's maid, as he cheapened her butter. He was buried in his fummer-house a few weeks ago. To the PRINTER of the WEEKLY ENTERTAINER. B Y inferting the following explanation of an infcription which appeared in your agreeable Entertainer of Monday lait, you will oblige Your humble fervant, ELIZA. Taunton, November 10, 1783. An Infcription on a Monument erected to the Memory of one Lawrence Cole. READER you have His courteous fate And that to bed he must. So all was swept Up, to be kept The trump fhould blow The Cole but fleepingl y. Then do not doubt; Now in the dark, Will like the phoenix rife, 3 Z 2 * The 1 The fame explanation has been received from M. C.of Exeter; Sobrius, of Everhot; John Trift, of Newton-Abbot; Taffo, of Cerne; Stephen James, of South-Molton; J. Miller, of Yeovil; J. H. of Shaiton; J. Browning, of Bickington; J. Geft and R. Cuming, of Modbury; W. Bradridge of DeanPrior; J. Penny, junior, of Totnes; Timon, J. T. Clarke, and W. Gale, of Dorchester; and a Conftant Reader, of Penryn. Anfwer, by Arion, of Bath, to J. Drew's Anagram, inferted October 20. A MINUET tranfpofe, and you, A MINUTE in its place will view. Itt We have received the like anfwer from J. Reynolds, of Falmouth; and John Higgins, of Ashburton. Anfwer, by J. Browning, of Bickington, to J. Quant's Paradox, inferted October 27. TW WO women married each the other's fon; by whom they each had a fon. Hence all the scheme of kindred mentioned in the paradox is brought to pass. Answer, by J. S. of Shepton-Mallet, to Sobrius's Enigma, inferted October 13. HE TOOTH-ACH has oft times, alas! been the pet TH I more than appearance will ftudy my reft; For in fpite of my teeth, if they're ever the cause, } tt We have received the like anfwes from Taffo, of Briftol; and a Conftant Reader. Asfever, |