: him to avail himself of that power, that his rank gave him over his dependents, and to take by force the object of his wishes from the cottage of her father fuch a method, he doubted not, would enfure his victory over her ftubborn virtue, which probably might be affect ed only to enhance her confequence; or which would certainly yield, when fears for the fafety of her father fhould be roufed, on her feparation from him. This point fettled, Du Val obtained the thanks of the baron for his friendly counfels, and the promife of a large is gratuity to recompence his fervices, when by his affiftance Emma fhould be inclofed once more within the caftle 抵 Z walls. neighbours; although he knew himself to be beloved by them fufficiently to fecure their fecrecy, yet he was unwilling to expofe them to the baron's refentment, by entrusting them with the fecret of his journey. Bernard took with him his little ftore, the honeft earnings of induftrious years: Emma made up a fmall parcel of linen; and neither of them being inclined to repofe, they fat down to a fimple meal, of which, for the fake of each other, although devoid of appetite, they mutually forced themfelves to partake, that they might the better be enabled to encounter the fatigues which they had to undergo. The village clock ftruck eleven, the hour when they had agreed to begin When Bernard had received from their journey. Emma took a mournful his daughter a minute detail of her late furvey of the beloved cottage, where wifit, although he rejoiced at her pre- fhe had paffed her life of innocence; fent escape, he forefaw her future dan- the call her eyes upon her fpinning. ger, and trembled at the fatal confe- wheel and fighed; then turning to a quence which might yet enfue. He wicker armed chair which was the conknew Morenzi to be devoid of every ftant feat of her father, she funk into principle of honour and humanity: he it, and burst into tears. Alas, faid dreaded the influence of his power, and fhe, I had hoped for many years to felt his own defenceless fituation, which come, to watch here the calm repofe of he feared would not enable him to pro- him, who gave me being; to tend with tect his devoted child from arbitrary duteous affection his declining age, who force and lawless violence. After re reared my infancy with anxious love: volving in his mind every circumftance, I, who would with to be his deareft he bad worked up his apprehenfions to companion, am doomed to bring for fuch a height, as to decide fuddenly row on his filver head - Rather,' rethat an immediate flight could afford plied Bernard, extending his hand to the only means of fecurity from an ene lead her from a fpot where fond remy fo formidable. The caftle of Bri- membrance feemed to arreft her lingernon was the fole afylum which he could ing fteps, fay that my Emma was born fix on as eligible; there a fitter of his to bleis her father by her exemplary late wife had lived for many years fu- virtues. I triumph in my child, who perintendant of the family; and here nobly prefers honourable indigence to he hoped he might be permitted to con- fplendid infamy! Let us hatten from ceal his daughter without danger of dif- impending perfecution;-let us quit a covery; it was difiant from Bernard's place, where every moment endangers village about twenty miles, and he hop- her liberty and innocence.' Edima ed that they should be able to reach it ftarted up, caft a fearful look around in a couple of days. He propofed the and encircling her arm in that of Bercheme to Emma, who readily under- nard, they quitted the cottage, paffed took a journey, which would remove through the fleeping hamlet, and reachher beyond the power of the dreaded ed the road, which led to their defined Morenzi. They had no time to lofe, afylum. The moon thone in penave and, therefore, without further delibe- majelty, all was ftill, the gentle ration, began the preparations neceffary breeze of night wafted refreling for an expedition fo important to their odours, and folemn filence reignet, fecurity. Bernard prudently determin- fave the foft notes of the warbling ed to repofe no confidence in any of his nightingales, chanting their tuneful fong, fong, among the fragrant hedges, or perchance, the diftant bleating of fome wakeful lamb. Emma's delicate frame felt fometimes rather exhaufted, and obliged her to reft for a few moments; but her fears did not permit her to indulge long in a repofe, which endangered her fafety. Bernard con.forted her by the affurance, that they approached a village, where there was a public inn; in which they might venture to take fome refreshment, and where he hoped they might procure a chaife, to convey them about twelve miles further, which would place them at an eafy diftance from the cattle of Brinon, and confequently diminish the danger of purfuit. Thus encouraged, the timid Emma moved onward with renewed courage; and the fugitives reached the inn juft as a travelling carriage drove into the courtyard: while the landlord and his wite were bufily engaged in attending to the newly arrived gufts, Bernard applied to one of the fervants to accommodate him and his daughter with a room, until a chaife could be got ready for their ule; his requeft was granted, and they were fhewn into a fmall apartment that looked into a garden, where they waited with fome impatience the arrival of the carriage, in which they were to purfue their little journey. Having urged their requeft to be ferved with expedition, the landlord entered, and informed them that by funrife they might depend on a chaife, but that he would not fuffer his horfes to leave the ftables, until they had been fufficiently refreshed to do their duty: obferving Emma to caft a difconfolate look upon her father, he faid, your young companion may be weary, I recommend her to take fome reft in a quiet chamber, whither my wife fhall conduct her.' Emma, oppreffed by the fatigue, which he had undergone, and finding they had no chance of purfuing their journey for the next two hours, accepted the proposal, and confented to retire into an upper chamber; where, reclining upon a bed, juft as the was; notwithstanding the agitations of her mind, the funk into a profound repole. Let us now quit awhile the virtuous fugitives, to follow Albert into Swiffer land. He quitted the village where Emma dwelt, with a heart deeply im preffed by the perfections of a woman, whofe noble rejection of his hand, from the most delicate motives, had raised her in bis efteem. The count de Bournonville, his father, was a man truly respectable in rank and character; he lived but to promote the happiness of his friends; and had been fo uniformly indulgent to the wishes of Albert, that he had every thing to expect from his generofity and kindnefs. The educa tion of this only furviving fon had been cultivated with the utmost attention; he poffeffed a brilliant genius, a folid underftanding, and a heart replete with honour, fer.fibility and virtue. The count welcomed his fon with thofe marks of tenderness, which promifed every thing to the ardent hopes of Albert. On the evening of his return, impatient to urge a fuit, upon the fuccefs of which his happiness depended, he requefted a private audience of his father, who appointed an interview in his clofet, before they fhould retire to their feparate apartments for the night. They met at the ftated hour, each bearing teftimony in his expreffive countenance of the important fecret, which oppreffed his heart. The youthful impetuofity of Albert arrefted the count's attention, by an inftant confeffion of his paffion, and by his reliance on parental indulgence to crown his withes: the count de Bournonville liftened, without interruption, to the character of Emma, painted with all the ardent enthusiasm of love in the glowing colours of perfection. Albert ceafed-the paufe of a moment fucceeded;-when his father, looking ftedfaftly upon him, thus replied, Ever happy to promote your felicity, I shall not attempt to reafon you out of an attachment, which you defcribe fo worthy of your choice, in every thing but birth and fortune. You are undoubtedly the safest judge in a point of fuch confequence as an union for life: but a subject of ftill more prefent im portance now demands your attention. (To be continued.) Thi The Epitaph on Mr. Hward's Monu ment in St. Paul's Cathedral. THIS extraordinary man had the fortune to be honoured whilft living, in the manner which his virtues deferved. He received the thanks of both Houfes of the British and Irish Parliaments, for his eminent fervices rendered to his country and to mankind. Our National Prifons and Hofpitals,, improved upon the fuggeftions of his wifdom, bear teftimony to the folidity of his judgment, and to the eftimation in which he was held. In every part of the civilized world,. which he traverfed to reduce the fum of human mifery, from the Throne to the Dungeon his name was mentioned with refpect, gratitude, and admiration. His modefty alone defeated various efforts which were made, during his life, to erect this Statue, which the public has now confecrated to his memory. He was born at Hackney, in the county of Middlefex, Sept. 11, MDCCXXVI. The early part of his life he fpent in retirement, refiding principally upon his paternal eftate at Cardington, in Bedfordfire; for which county he ferved the office of fheriff in the year MDDCCLXXIII. MDCCXC, a victim to the perilous and benevolent attempt to afcertain the cause of, and find an efficacious remedy for, the Plague. He trod an open, but unfrequented path to immortality, in the ardent and unremitted exercise of Chriftian charity : may this tribute to his fame excite an emulation of his truly glorious atchievements!" Hib. Mag. May, 1796. The Epitaph on Dr. Johnfen's Monument in St. Paul's Cathedral. SAMUELI JOHNSON, GRAMMATICO ET CRITICO Scriptorvm. Anglicorvm. Litterate. Perito. Poeta. Luminibus. Sententiarvm. Et. Ponderibvs. Verborvm. Admirabili. Magiftro. Virtytis. Graviffimo. Homini. optimo. et fingvtaris. Exempli. Qvi. vixit. Ann. LXXV. Mens. II. Dieb. XIIII. Ceceffit. idib. Decembr. Ann. Chrift. CɔɔCCLXXXV. Amici. et Sodales. Litterarii. Pecunia. Conlata. H. M. Faciund. curaver. The Benevolent Judge. THE celebrated Charles Anthony Domat, author of a voluminous treatife on the civil laws, was promoted to the office of a judge of the provincial court of Clermont, in the territory of Auvergne, in the fouth of France. In this court he prefided, with the public applaufe, for twenty-four years. One day, a poor widow brought an action against the baron de Nairac, her landlord, for turning her out of a mill, which was her fole dependence. Mr. Domat heard the caufe; and finding, by the cleareft evidence, that the had ignorantly broken a covenant in the leafe, which gave a power of re-entry, he recommended mercy to the baron for a poor honeft tenant, who had not wilfully tranfgreffed, or done him any material injury. Nairac, however, being inexorable, the judge was obliged to pronounce a decree of eject ment, with the damages mentioned in the leafe, and cofts of fuit; but he could not pronounce this juft, but cruel decree, without tears. When an order of feizure, both of perfon and effects was added, the poor widow exclaimed: O juft and righteous God! be thou a father to the widow and her helpless orphans and immediately fainted away. The compaffionate judge af fifted in raifing the unfortunate woman, and; after inquiring into her character, Ddd number number of children, and other circumftances, generoufly prefented her with 100 louis d'ors, the amount of the damages and cofts, which he prevailed upon the baron to accept as a full compenfation, and to let the widow again enter upon her mill. O my lord,' faid the poor woman, when will you demand payment, that I may lay up for that purpofe? When my confcience, replied Mr. Domat,fhall tell me that I have done an improper act.' A Friend in Need: An Affecting Hiftory. GE fea. EORGE CORNISH, a native of London was brought up to the After making feveral voyages to the Eaft Indies in the capacity of mate, he obtained the command of a fhip in the country trade there, and paffed many years of his life in failing from one port to another of the company's different fettlements, and refiding at intervals on fhore with the fuperintendant of their commercial concerns. Having by thefe means raised a moderate fortune, and being now beyond the meridian of life, he felt a firong defire of returning to his native country, and feeing his family and friends, concerning whom he had received no tidings for a long time. He realized his property, fettled his affairs, and taking his paffage for England, arrived in the Downs after an abfence of fixteen years. He immediately repaired to London, and went to the houfe of an only brother whom he had left poffeffed of a genteel place in a public office. He found that his brother was dead and the family broken up; and he was directed to the houfe of one of his nieces, who was married and fettled at a small diftance from town. On making himfelf known, he was received with the greateft refpe&t and affection by the married niece, and a fingle fifter who refided with her to which good reception, the idea of his bringing back Iwith him a large fortune, did not a little contribute. They preffed him in the most urgent manner to take up his abode there, and omitted nothing that could teftify their dutiful regard to fo near a relation. On his part he was fincerely glad to fee them, and prefented them with fome valuable Indian commodities which he had brought with him. They foon fell into converfation concerning the family events that bad taken place during his long abfence. Mutual condolences paffed on the death of the father; the mother had been dead long before. The captain, in the warmth of his heart, declared his intention of befriending the furvivors of the family, and his wishes of feeing the fecond fifler as comfortably fettled in the world as the firft feemed to be. But (faid he) are you two the only ones left? What is become of my liule fmiling playfellow Amelia? I remember her as if it were yesterday, coming behind my chair, and giving me a fly pull, and then running away that I might follow her for a kifs. I fhould be forry if any thing had happened to her. Alas, fir, (faid the eldeft niece) he has been the caufe of an infinite deal of trouble to her friends! She was always a giddy girl, and her mifconduct has proved her ruin. It would be happy if we could all forget her!" What then (faid the uncle) "has the difhonoured herfelf? Poor creature!' I cannot fay (replied the niece) that fhe has done fo in the worft fenfe of the word; but he has difgraced herself and her family by a hafty foolish match with one beneath her, and it has ended, as might have been expected, in poverty and wretchednefs.' I am glad (returned the captain) that it is no worfe; for though I much difapprove of improper matches, yet young girls may fall into ftill greater evils, and where there is no crime, there can be no irreparable difgrace. But who was the man, and what did my brother fay to it? Why, fir, I cannot fay, but it was partly my father's own fault: for he took a fort of liking to the young man, who was a drawing-mafter employed in the family and would not forbid him the houfe after we had informed him of the danger of an attachment between Amelia and him. So when it was too late he fell into a violent paf · great perplexity; but while he was confidering what he fhould do next, the woman of the houfe recollected that Mr. Bland (that was the drawing mafter's name) had been employed at a certain fchool, where information about him might poffibly be obtained. Captain Cornifh haftened away to the place, and was informed by the mafter of the fchool that fuch a man had, indeed, been engaged there, but had ceased to attend for fome time paft. He was a very well-behaved induftrious young man (added the mafter) but in diftreffed circumftances, which prevented him from making that genteel appearance which we expect in all who attend our school; fo I was obliged to difmifs. him. It was any a great force upon my feelings, I affure you, fir, to do so, but you know the thing could not be helped.' The captain eyed him with indignant contempt, and faid, I fuppofe then, fir, your feelings never fuffered you to enquire where this poor creature lodged, or what became of him afterward!'As to that (replied the mafter) every man knows his own business beft, and my time is fully taken up with my own concerns; but I believe I have a note of the lodgings he then occupied fion about it, which had no other effect than to drive the girl directly into her lover's arms. They married, and foon fell into difficulties. My father, of courfe, would do nothing for them; and when he died, he not only difinherited her, but made us promife no longer to look upon her as a fifter.' And you did make that promife?' faid the captain in a tone of furprife and difpleasure. We could not difobey our parent (replied the other fifter) but we have feveral times fent her relief in her neceffities, though it was improper for us to fee her.' And pray what is become of her at laft-where is the now? Really she and her husband have shifted their lodging fo often, that it is fome time fince we have heard thing about them. Some time? how long? Perhaps half a year, or more.' Poor outcaft! (cried the captain, in a fort of muttered half voice) I have made no promife, however, to renounce thee. Be pleafed madam, (he continued, addreffing himself gravely to the married niece) to favour me with the laft direction you had to this unfortunate fifter.' She blushed, and looked confufed; and at length, after a good deal of fearching, prefented it to her uncle. But, my dear fir, (said she) you will not think of leaving us to-day. My fervant fhall make all the enquiries you choofe, and fave you the trouble; and to-morrow you can ride to town, and do as you think proper. My good niece, (faid the captain) I am but an indifferent fleeper, and I am afraid things would run in my head and keep me awake. Befides, I am naturally impatient, and love to do my bufinefs myfelf. You will excufe me. So laying, he took up his hat, and without much ceremony went out of the houfe, and took the road to town on foot, leaving his two nicces fomewhat difconcerted. ་ When he arrived, he went without delay to the place mentioned, which was a bye ftreet near Soho. The people who kept the lodgings informed him, that the perfon he enquired after had left them feveral months, and they did not know what was become of them. This threw the captain into here it is.' The captain took it, and turning on his heel, withdrew in filence. He pofted away to the place, but there too had the mortification of learning that he was too late. The people however, told him that they believed he might find the family he was feeking in a neighbouring alley, at a lodging up three pair of ftairs, The captain's heart funk within him; however, taking a boy as a guide, he proceeded immediately to the spot. On going up the narrow creaking ftaircafe, he met a man coming down with a bed on his fhoulders. At the top of the landing ftood another with a bundle of blankets and fheets. woman with a child in her arms was expoftulating with him, and he heard her exclaim, cruel! not to leave me one bed for myfelf and my poor children! Stop, (faid the captain to the man) fet down thofe things. The man hefitated. The captain renewed Ddd 2 A. his |