country. But, pray, Sir, hab you not try to get de Affembly of dis province to pafs de law for deftroying dofe monfters ?"" No, Sir, I have not," replied the Governor, "and, indeed; I am fo peculiarly circumftanced, that I could not do it with propriety; for, fhould they comply with my request, I might be inftrumental in killing my own father, who is, at this very inftant, travelling through the fettlements in Canada, in the guise of a patriot, endeavouring by his incendiary tales to do at least as much mischief, as Samfon did with his 300 foxes' tails in the land of the Philiftines."

ANECDOTE

OF THE EARL OF BEAULIEU.

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HEN his Lordship was only Mr. Huffey, he was introduced to the acquaintance of the Dutchefs Dowager of Manchester, one of the two daughters and coheireffes of the late Duke of Montague. A certain Welsh Baronet, who delighted much more in the fhades of Parnaffus, than the exercises of the Campus Martius, was pleafed to give Mr. Huffey, a very confpicuous place, in a very biting fatire, expreffed in very well turned verfes. Mr. Huffey, though at that time poffeffed

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of a very old paternal eftate in Ireland, worth above 8000l. a year, was reprefented in this fatire as a needy adventurer, who paid his addreffes to the Dutchefs, merely with a view of obtaining a livelihood in the poffeffion of her fortune. The fatire was published, and was in every one's hands; confequently both the Dutchefs and Mr. Huffey faw it. The latter flew immediately to the Baronet's house, and left a meffage for him, to meet him upon ferious bufinefs at a certain tavern in two hours. In the mean time he went to pay a vifit to her Grace; and to his great furprize, found the fatirist in converfation with her. Mr. Huffey, without any ceremony walked up to him, took him by the nose, pulled him to the door, and abfolutely kicked him out, the Baronet, who was of a very peaceable difpofition, not making the leaft refiftance, or feeming to feel an atom of refentment, which probably was abforbed by his fear. Mr. Huffey then turned to the Dutchefs, and begged her pardon for the liberty he had taken in her house, and in her prefence: he said the indignation he felt at feeing fo fcurrilous a rafcal in a company of which he was fo unworthy, had been too ftrcng for his reason; and he begged she would be affured that it was respect for her grace that had hurried him to do what might be thought a violation of it. The Duchefs was far from being offended; on the contrary

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contrary she was charmed with the proof fhe had juft feen, that the gentleman upon whom fhe had already refolved to bestow her hand was a man of fpirit, under whofe protection the might reft fecure from infult. She affured him of a full pardon; and as a proof of her fincerity, fhe then did what fhe had long declined to do before-fhe named the day on which she would make him the mafter of her person and her fortune: they were accordingly married; and had two children, a daughter, who died foon after her birth, and a fon (Lord Montagu) who died last month, in the South of France, unmarried. Mr. Huffey, foon after his marriage was made a Knight of the Bath, and a Baron; and afterwards was raised to the dignity of an Earl by the title of Beaulieu; but all his honours will die with him, as his Lordfhip is now, by the death of his only fon, left without any iffue. As for the Welfa Baronet, he pofted away to his feat in Wales, where he buried himself for three years, and ever after kept his nofe out of the reach of Mr. Huffey's hand.

冬枣

DAPHNE

DAPHNE AND AMINTOR:

Or Rural Simplicity.

HE fingular happiness of Daphne and Amin

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tor has often excited the enquiries of curio-. fity, and given food to the afps of envy. They who are acquainted with them, wifh to be like. them; they who envy them, are concerned to find them fo bleffed with each other. Daphne might have been the ornament of a court, if fhe had not preferred the obfcurity of a village. Her ftature is fomewhat of the talleft, yet formed with the greatest delicacy: the fmiles of innocence irradiate her countenance, and the fymmetry of her features are only an index to the harmony in her. foul; fhe always captivated without defign: fhe always reaped happiness from communicating it to others. Grateful to that Being which has lavifhed its favours upon her, fhe made ufe of those favours only to turn the thoughts of others towards him.

Amintor was early the choice of her heart. Their friendship commenced in the lifping days of infancy; and when age had matured the bloffoms of beauty, and the bud of difcretion, their friendfhip was exalted into love. The firft dawning of the paffion alarmed both their hearts; they looked

upon it as a kind of facrilege to difpofe of their hearts without parental sanction and they determined to ask that, before they would permit the fire to rise into a blaze. An affection, which is thus founded, will inevitably fecure happiness. Heaven, which inculcates obedience to parents, cannot fail to reward it.

The two friends, with all the reluctance of anxiety, applied to the awful tribunal, determined to abide by the decifion. They both received that anfwer which they wished to receive. Confidence in a parent is never misplaced.

Though fond of each other, they avoided every approach to what might be incompatible with the moft fcrupulous modefty. Their love was like that of our first parents in paradife: it had all the fervour of affection, without the leaft mixture of vice.

No liberties were fuffered; no liberties were offered. They deferred their tranfport to the connubial day, from a perfuafion that the facred ceremony only could authorize them.

Yet fuch endearments as ruftic fimplicity would allow, they frequently tafted: their employments were congenial with their fouls; their fleecy care was an emblem of their own innocence.

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