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MO'REILY in the Character of FATHER LUKE

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GENTLEMAN's and LONDON

MAGAZINE,

For JUNE,

1788.

We present our Readers with a firiking Likeness of that favourite of the Stage, Mr. O'Reilly, in the Character of Father Luke.

Advice to Hufbands. By Mrs. Piozzi.
NOULD that kind of love be kept alive

the charm of a fingle one, the fovereign good would no longer be fought for; in the union of two faithful lovers it would be found: but reason fhews us that this is impoffible, and experience informs us that it never was fo; we must preferve it as long, and fupply it as happily as we can.

When your prefent violence of paffion fubfides, however, and a more cool and tranquil affection takes its place, be not hafty to cenfure yourself as indifferent, or to lament yourfelf as unhappy; you have loft that only which it was impoffible to retain, and it were graceless amid the pleafures of a profperous fummer to regret the bloffoms of a tranfient spring. Neither unwarily condemn your bride's infipidity, till you have recollected that no object, however fublime, no found, however charming, can continue to transport us with delight when they no longer frike us with novelty. The skill to renovate the powers of pleafing, are faid, indeed, to be poffeffed by fome women in an eminent degree, but the artifices of maturity are feldom feen to adorn the innocence of youth; you have made your choice, and ought to approve it.

Satiety follows quick upon the heels of poffeffion and to be happy, we must always have fomething in view. The person of your lady is already all your own, and will not grow more pleafing in your eyes I doubt, though the reft of your fex will think her handfomer for thefe dozen years. Turn, therefore, all your attention to her mind, which will daily grow brighter by polishing. Gent. Mag. June, 1788.

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be freed from the neceffity of feparating to find amufement; nothing is fo dangerous to wedded love as the poffibility of either being happy out of the company of the other; endeavour, therefore, to cement the prefent intimacy on every fide; let your wife never be kept ignorant of your income, your expences, your friendships, or averfions; let her know your very faults, but make them amiable by your virtues; confider all concealment as a breach of fidelity; let her never have any thing to find out in your character, and remember, that from the moment one of the partners turn spy upon the other, they have commenced a fate of hoftility.

Seek not for happinefs in fingularity, and dread a refinement of wisdom as a deviation into folly. Liften not to those fages who advise you always to fcorn the counfel of a woman, and if you comply with her requests pronounce you to be wife-ridden. Think not any privation, except of pofitive evil, an excellence, and do not congratulate yourself that your wife is not a learned lady, that she never touches a card, or is wholly ignorant how to make a pudding. Cards, cookery, and learning, are all good in their places, and may all be used with advantage.

With regard to expence, I can only obferve that the money laid out in the purchase of diftinction is feldom or ever profitably employed. We live in an age when fplendid furniture and glittering equipage are grown too common to catch the notice of the meanest spectator, and for the greaNn

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ter ones they only regard our wafteful folly colonel are finer gentlemen than her husband. with filent contempt, or open indignation. The bane of married happiness among the This may perhaps be a displeasing reflection, city men in general has been, that finding but the following confideration ought to themselves unfit for polite life, they transfermake amends. The age we live in, pays, red their vanity to their ladies, dreffed them up I think, peculiar attention to the higher dif- gaily, and sent them out a gallanting, while tinctions of wit, knowledge, and virtue; the good man was to regale with port wine to which we may more fafely, more cheaply, or rum punch, perhaps among mean comand more honourably afpire. The giddy panions, after the compting-houfe was fhut; flirt of quality frets at the refpect the fees paid this practice produced the ridicule thrown to Lady Edgecumbe, and the gay dunce fits on them in all our comedies and novels fince pining for a partner, while Jones the Ori- commerce began to profper. But now that entalift leads up the ball. I am fo near the fubjeét, a word or two on jealousy may not be amifs, for though not a failing of the prefent age's growth, yet the. feeds of it are too certainly fown in every warm bofom for us to neglect it as a fault of no confequence. If you are ever tempted to be jealous, watch your wife narrowly, but never teize her; tell her your jealousy, but conceal your fufpicion; let her, in fhort, be fatisfied that it is only your odd temper, and even troublefome attachment, that makes you follow her; but let her not dream that you ever doubted seriously of her virtue even for a moment. If he is difpofed towards jealoufy of you, let me befeech you to be always explicit with her and never myfterious; be above delighting in her pain of all things; nor do your bufinefs, nor pay your vifits with an air of concealment, when all you are doing might as well be proclaims ed, perhaps in the parith veftry.

I faid that the perfon of your lady would not grow more pleafing to you, but pray let her never fufpect that it grows lefs fo: that a woman will pardon an affront to her underflanding much fooner than one to her person is well known; nor will any of us contradict the affertion. All our attainments, allour arts, are employed to gain and keep the heart of man; and what mortification can exceed the disappointment, if the end be not obtained? There is no reproof, however pointed, no punishment however fevere, that a woman of fpirit will not prefer to neglect; and if he can endure it without complaint, it only proves that the means to make herself amends by the attention of others for the flights of her husband. For this, and for every reason, it behoves a married man not to let his politenefs Fail, though his ardour may abate, but to retain, at leaft, that general civility towards his own lady, which he is fo willing to pay to every other, and not fhew a wife of 18 or 20 years old, that every man in company can treat her with more complaifance than he who fo of ten vowed to her eternal fondnefs.

It is not my opinion that a young woman fhould be indulged in every wild with of her gay heart or giddy head, but contradiction may be foftened by domeftic kindness, and quiet pleasures fubftituted in the place of noify ones. Public amusements are not indeed fo expenfive as is fometimes imagined, but they tend to alienate the minds of married people from each other. A well-chosen fotiety of friends and acquaintance, more eminent for virtue and good fenfe than for gaiety and splendour, where the converfation of the day may afford coroment for the evening, feems the most rational pleasure this great town can afford; and to this, a game at cards now and then gives an additional re

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That your own fuperiority fhould always be feen, but never felt, fcems an excelkent general rule. A wife fhould outfhine her husband in nothing, not even in her drets. If the happens to have a tafte for the trifling diftinctions that finery can confer, fuffer her not for a moment to fancy, when e appears in public, that fir Edward or the

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Oeconomy. An Authentic Story.

Can make a pudding -and Charles can eat it," faid Florella, to an intimate friend who called to fee them in their distant retirement. Charles and Florella married for love, their tempers, inclinations, and ages, were the fame; an unreflecting enjoyment of the prefent, and a total inattention to the future, were the characteristics of them both. They rufhed at once into the most expensive career of luxurious life: inclination never remained ungratified, nor any pleasure unenjoyed; fo that at the end of a`very few winters their affairs became too embarraffed to admit of their proceeding any further. A feat in parliament preferved him from a goal, and the eafy turn of their difpofitions made diftrefs fit light upon them. They continued happy in each other, nor did want of credit at the butcher's ftall, or the baker's fhop, draw a fingle reproach from either of them. In this flate of their affairs friends interpofed; for they had mingled a certain grace in all their levities which had made them beloved. Creditors were dif pofed to be lénient; and on a minute examination of their situation, it was found to be retrievable by a few years of rigid œconomy. To that economy they were ready to fubmit; and when they had left the gay feenes of dif

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fipation in which they had figured with fo much brilliancy, they carried along with them the confolation of having intended no injury, and practifed no crime. They were now going to engage in a fcheme of pru dence, which they had never yet understood, and had the happy art of giving lively, pleaf ing turns of thought to that change of life, circumftance, and fituation, which their folly had brought upon them. "Well," faid Charles, as they entered their remote habitation, "My dear Florella, we have had our follies, and no one has fo good a right to laugh at them as ourselves;" fo they laughed moft heartily, and made humour ous remarks upon the objects round them. As they fat at fupper they found an old fashioned leather cushion, as eafy as a fattin fofa, and thought home-brewed ale as nectare ous as burnt champagne. Florella learnt to make puddings, and Charles eat them with all the relifh of the most refined confectionary: he went to the brook and brought home trout; he cheered his dogs through the brake, or whistled them over the stub ble, and brought home game; and Florella was as pleafed with thefe prefents, as the had formerly been with those of pearls or diamonds. Charles fat down to his meal with an appetite that made every morfel delicious; and Florella found her table covered with dainties, as her Charles had been the caterer of them. Their eafy manners, and unreserved difpofitions made them the idols of their neighbourhood, and they were furprifed to find themselves elevated into a confequence in the fhade of a retirement, and under the flrictures of economy, which they had never felt in the gay world: the gay and high wrought fcenes of their paft extravagance appeared but as fo many gaudy dreams, which gave them fubject of ridicule. They were become more vain of their prefent prudence than they were of their former folly; and, on finding at the end of their first year, that no debt was unpaid, and their allowance was not exhaufted, they embraced each other with a fatisfaction they had never before experienced, gave a little fete champetre to their neighbours, and found a pleasure in the treat which the balls, operas, and masquerades of the capital had never afforded them. They mutually received and communicated happinefs; and oft' in the height of his felicity, would Charles exclaim, as the exiled Greek had done before him. "I fhould have been ruined, had I not been undone."

Thus the time paffed on, fortunate cir

had an aunt, and by her death Florella came into the poffeffion of 5000l. and an elegant houfe in the neighbourhood of Bath.

No fooner had the letter with the black feal announced this intelligence, than it at once checked the career of their satisfaction, and gave a new turn to their ideas. Charles faintly propofed, that the whole of this unexpected acceffion of fortune fhould be applied to the general fund for reftoring their affairs. Florella did not abfolutely oppose the propofition, but rather thought, as the was now become the mistress of a handsome manfion, in one of the moft defirable parts of the kingdom, that it would be acting with ingratitude to fortune if they turned their backs upon it; and that as a family eftate was in a fair way of clearing itself, it would be counteracting the kind intention of her deceafed aunt to apply the legacy in any other manner than the increase of their immediate comforts. Charles thought the fpoke like an angel: their favourite retirement was foon deferted, and the fond economists were delighted beyond measure at taking poffeffion of their new habitation. "We can practise our fyftem of œconomy here, faid Florella, "as well as in the county of ecknock, and though the fituation may not be quite fo cheap, the bounty of my aunt will enable us to pay the difference.'

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They were now within a very few miles of the centre of pleasure and amufement: "And where will be the harm," said Charles, " if we now and then go to a ball at Bath?" Florella faw none in the world; fo they went every week. There they met feveral of their former friends, and a vifit to town came irrefiftible. Their paffion for pleasure was revived; œconomy was again forgot and neglected; the good aunt's legacy was foon exhaufted; the eftate felt a partial relapfe; and these giddy but amiable couple are obliged once more to breathe the retrieving air of a remote village-where Florella again makes puddings, and Charles eats them. Mifcellaneous Thoughts

ICKNESS is the mother of modesty, it

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putteth us in mind of our mortality, and when we are in full career of worldly pomp and jollity, fhe pulleth us by the ear, and maketh us know ourselves; Pliny calls it the fum of philofophy, if we could but perforin that in our health, which we promise in our fickness.

SIR,

To the Editor.

cumftances attended the conduct of their A Bihop Preston's request to be tranflat

affairs; the truftees of the eftate made confiderable advances towards eafing it of its embarraffments, and the period could now be afcertained when it would return unincumbered to the mafter of it. But Florella

ed from Leighlin and Ferns to St. David's has not been complied with by the Miniftry, who were, it seems, unwilling to make, or rather to revive, fuch a precedent; Nn 2

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it may be an amufement to fome of your readers to be informed how many prelates have been removed from Ireland to England, and who was the laft to whom this indulgence was granted. I have therefore tranfmitted the underwritten lift, which, I am apt to believe, may be accurate as far as it goes, though poffibly not complete, from my not having an opportunity of confulting Ware, De Præfulibus Hiberniæ.

I. 1323 John de Eglefcliff, a Dominican friar, from Connor to Landaff, by Papal bull. He was ejected from his bishoprick in Ireland during a civil war. (Godwin, edit. Richardfon, p. 606. not.)

II. 1362. Roger Cradock, a friar minor, from Waterford to Landaff, by Papal bull. (Ibid. p 607.)

III. 1376. John Swaffam, a white friar, from Cloyne to Bangor, by Papal bull. He obtained this favour in confequence of his having diftinguished himself by his writ ings against the followers of Wickliffe. (Ibid. p. 623.)

IV. 1395. Robert Wardby, from Dublin to Chichefter. He attended the Black Prince into foreign parts, and was promoted to the fee of Aire in Gafcony, but was tranflated by Papal bull to the Archbishoprick of Dublin. It was defcending, to become a Suffragan Prelate in England; but he foon reafcended to a primacy, being raised to the fee of York in 1396*. (Godwin, p. 508.) V. 1396. Robert Read, a Dominican friar, from Waterford to Carlisle, by Papal bull. (Ibid. p. 766.)

VI. 1398. Thomas Peverell, white friar, from Offory to Landaff. (Ib. 6c9.)

VII. 1452 James Blakedon, from Achad, alias Achonry, to Bangor, by Papal bull. (Ibid. p. 624.)

Vill. 1521. John Kite, from Armagh to Carlisle, or rather from Armagh to the archbishoprick of Thebes, with which he held Carlisle, by a perpetual commendam. (Ibid. p. 770, not. 1.) And it is obfervable, that in the infcription on his monument in the chancel of Stepney church (Weever, p. 539.), his archbishoprick in Greece is only mentioned :

In Greece Arch Byfhop elected worthely,
And late of Carliel rulying paftorally.

To accept the diminutive fee of Carlifte in lieu of the primacy of all Ireland, fhewed a firong predilection for England. He probably took the other titular archbishoprick, that he might not lofe the titles ufually annexed T E.

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Thomas Rufhook, a predeceffor in Chichefter, was removed in 1388, and obliged to accept the mall bishoprick of Tribum, now Kilmore, in Ireland, but foon afterwards died of grief in England.

to that fupèrior dignity.In the epitaph, which is in a language very uncouth, he is denominated, "John Kitte, Londoner natyffe."

IX. 1567. It appears from Ware (Hibernia Sacra, p. 120), that Hugh Curwin, Archbishop of Dublin, was in this year tranflated to the bishoprick of Oxford, which had been vacant ten years. He was, according to Strype (Ecclef. Mem. vol. III. p. 228.), confecrated Archbishop Sept. 4; and, according to Ware, on the 8th of that month, 1555; and the latter adds, that Queen Mary appointed him Chancellor of Ireland the next day. This office he is faid to have discharged many years with reputation, but that, being grown old, he defired to return and die in his own country, as he did, in 1568, at Swinbrooke, in Bedfordfhire. Strype's Life of Archbishop Parker, p. 225; in which there is a further account of this prelate.

X. 1582. Marmaduke Middleton, from Waterford to St. David's. In Strype's Life of Archbishop Grindal, p. 270, there is a letter from Bishop Middleton to Secretary Walfingham, reprefenting the fad and neceffitous ftate of his new diocefe; and Strype remarks, that the prelate feemed by this letter to have been a grave good fort of man. He was, however, eight years after, not only deprived of his bishoprick, but formally degraded, by the High Commiffioners at Lambeth-house, of his epifcopal robes and priefly veftments. Br. Willis, in his Survey of St David's, p. 123, fays, that, by the beft information he could learn, the occafion of this cenfure was fome fimoniacal practices he had been guilty of, together with a notorious abuse of a charity, and that he was alfo charged as if he had a defign to alienate fome lands of the Bishoprick, and to fettle them on his fon Richard, whom he made Archdeacon of Cardigan. But in a letter dated July 5, 1748, an extract from which I have read, Willis fays, "that he was deprived for forging a will, and that it is faid, he was convicted of having two wives." He died Nov. 1, 1593, and was buried in the collegiate church of Windfor.

XI. 1603. John Thornborough, from Limerick to Briftol, which had been vacant ten years. He held the deanry of York in commendam with both fees.

XII. 1627. William Murray, from Fernabore, ufually called Kilfenore (united foon after the Reftoration to the archbishoprick of Tuam), to Landaff. As this was the fmalleft bishoprick in Ireland, and eftimated among the pooreft, Murray had good reasons for giving a preference even to Landaff; and Richard Betts, D. D. who was appointed his fucceffor, took a voyage of discovery to

Ireland,

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