unacquainted. On rifing from the fea, into which he had been precipitated by the negro, he found himself at a confiderable diftance from the fhip, and being convinced of the intent to deftroy him, turned towards the fhore, which he attempted to gain by every poffible exertion. Happily for him it was the tide of flood, fo that with the little fkill he was mafter of, and the affiftance of his jacket, which kept him floating, and by great efforts of ftrength be made the land. Celia had that morning rofe with the dawn. Her reft had been disturbed through the whole courfe of the night with frightful dreams; and knowing that Claudio was on a fea party with Albertus, fhe walked towards the fhore, as if infpired by the influence of fome guardian angel. After fitting fome time upon the beech, the approaching ftorm roufed her from a reverie into which the had fallen; and as she arose from the rock; where she had taken her feat, throwing her eyes with anxiety towards the fea, the perceived fomething floating on the water with motion, which fhewed it had life. This extraordinary object detained her on the rock. As it approached the perceived it was a human creature when it reached the ftrand, the perceived it was her Claudio! She fprung to his affiftance-he caught her in his arms, and the firft tranfports of joy having abated, both kneeled to their Creator, and with the warmeft zeal of devotion, returned thanks for his benign and merciful inter pofition. On their return to the houfe of Celia's father, Claudio related every circumftance that had happened on board the skiff of Albertus; and it was agreed that his escape fhould be kept a profound fecret, for the purpose of fecing in what manner Albertus would act on his return. The ftorm having increased to great violence, it was with the utmost difficulty, that Albertus efcaped with his life.. -The fkiff was dafhed to pieces on the rocks; the negro who intended the murder of Claudio perifhed, and Albertus having been beaten against the cliffs, was most shockingly wounded, and must have been deftroyed, if it had not been for the affiftance of his other two feamen. Lacerated as he was, and bruifed in every part, he attended the enfuing day at the houfe of Celia's father, to condole with him and his daughter on the death of Claudio. He bewailed the lofs of his friend with hypocritical tears, and was anfwered with a loud laugh by the old man: Claudio that inftant stepping from behind the screen.- The aftonishment and fright of Albertus was indefcribable; he fell in a ftrong fit Gent. Mag. Dec. 1788. upon the floor, and was removed in that ftate to his own house. The next day the lovers were married-and on the fame day Albertus died. Ten Precepts, which William Lord Burleigh, Lord High Treasurer of England, gave bis fecond Son, Robert Cecil, afterward Earl of Salisbury. SON ROBERT, HE virtuous inclinations of thy match godly care thy infancy was governed, together with thy education under fo zealous and excellent a tutor, put me in rather affurance than hope that thou art not ignorant of that fummum bonum, which is only able to make thee happy as well in thy death as life; I mean the true knowledge and worship of thy Creator and Redeemer, without which all other things are vain and miferable. So that thy youth being guided by fo fufficient a teacher, I make no doubt but he will furnish thy life with divine and moral documents. Yet, that I may not caft off the care befeeming a parent toward his child; or that thou shouldft have caufe to derive thy whole felicity and welfare rather from others than from whence thou receivedft thy breath and being; I think it fit and agreeable to the affection I bear thee to help thee with fuch rules and advertisements for the fquaring of thy life, as are rather gained by experience than by much reading; to the end that, entering into this exorbitant age, thou mayeft be the better prepared to fhun thofe fcandaloos courfes whereunto the world and the lack of experience may eafily draw thee. And, because I will not confound thy memory, have reduced them into ten Precepts, and, next unto Mofes' Tables, if thou imprint them into thy mind, thou fhalt reap the benefit and I the content. And they are these following: ཡ I. When it fhall pleafe God to bring thee to man's eftate, ufe great providence and circumfpection in chufing thy wife; for from thence will fpring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life, like unto a fratagem of war, wherein a man can err but once. If thy ftate be good, match near home and at leifure; if weak, far off and quickly. Inquire diligently of her difpofition, and how her parents have been inclined in her youth. Let her not be poor, how generous, well-born foever; for a man can buy nothing in the market with gentility, nor chufe a bafe and uncomely creature altogether for wealth; for it will caufe contempt in others, and loathing in thee. Neither make choice of a dwarf, or a fool; for by the one thou shalt beget a race of pigmies; the other will be thy continual difgrace, and it will irk thee to hear Mmm m her talk for thou shalt find it to thy grief that there is nothing more fulfome than a fhe fool. And, touching the guiding of thy house, let thy hofpitality be moderate; and, according to the means of thy eftate, rather plentiful than sparing, but not cofily: for I never knew any man grow poor, by keeping an orderly table. But fome confume themfelves through fecret vices, and their hofpitality bears the blame. But banith fwinith drunkards out of thine houfe, which is a vice impairing health, consuming much, and makes no fhow. I never heard praise afcribed to the drunkard, but for the wellbearing of his drink, which is a better commendation for a brewer's horfe or a drayman, than for either a gentleman or a ferv. ing man. Beware thou fpend not above three or four parts of thy revenues; above a third of that in thy houfe; for the other two parts will do more than defray thy extraordinaries, which always furmount the ordinary by much; otherwife thou fhalt live, like a rich beggar, in continual want. And the needy man can never live happily or contentedly. For every difafler makes him ready to mortgage or fell. And that gentleman that feils an acre of land fells an ounce of credit. For gentility is nothing elfe but ancient riches; fo that if the foundation fhall at any time fink, the building muft need follow. - nor II. Bring thy children up in learning and obedience, yet without outward aufterity.-Praise them openly, reprehend them fecretly; give them good countenance and convenient maintenance according to thy ability, otherwife thy life will feem their bondage, and what portion thou shalt leave them at thy death, they will thank death for it, and not thee. And I am perfuaded that the foolish cockering of fome parents, and the overstern carriage of others, caufeth more men and women to take to ill courfes, than their own vicious inclinations. Marry thy daughters in time, left they marry themfelves. And fuffer not thy fons to pafs the Alps; for they hall learn nothing there but pride, blafphemy, and atheism.-And if by travel they get a few broken languages, that fhall profit them nothing more than to have meat ferved in diverfe difhes. Neither, by my confent, fhalt thou train them up in wars; for he that fets up his reft to live by that profeffion, ean hardly be an honeft man or a good chriftian. Befides, it is a fcience no longer in request than ufe. For foldiers in peace are like chimnies in fummer. III. Live not in the country without corn and cattle about thee. For he that putteth his hand to the purfe for every expence of the household, is like him that keepeth wa ter in a sieve. And what provifion thou fhalt want want, learn to buy it at the beft hand. For there is one penny faved in four, between buying in thy need, and when the markets and feafons serve fitteft for it. Be not ferved with kinfmen or friends, or men intreated to flay; for they expect much and do little; nor with fuch as are amorous, for their heads are intoxicated. And keep rather too few than one too many. Feed them well, and pay them with the moft; and thou mayeft boldly require service at their hands. IV. Let thy kindred and allies be welcome to thy house and table; grace them with thy countenance, and father them is all honeft actions. For by this means thou fhalt fo double the band of nature, as thou fhalt find them fo many advocates to plead an apology for thee behind thy back. But fake off those glow-worms, I mean parafites and fycophants, who will feed and fawn upon thee in the fummer of profperity; but, in an adverfe ftorm, they will thelter thee no more than an arbour in winter. V Beware of furetyship for thy beft friends. He that payeth another man's debts, fecketh his own decay. But, if thou canst not otherwise choose, rather lend thy money upon good honds, although the borrow it. So fhalt thou fecure thyicif, and pleafure thy friends. Neither borrow money of a neighbour or a friend, but of a franger; where, paying for it, thou halt hear no more of it. Otherwife thou shalt eclipfe thy credit, lofe thy freedom, and yet pay as dear as to another. But in borrowing money be precious of thy word, for be that hath care of keeping days of paynient is lord of another man's purfe. VI. Undertake no fuit against a poor man without receiving much wrong. For, befide that thou make him thy compeer, it is a bafe conqueft to triumph where there is fmail refiftance. Neither attempt law against any man before thou be fully refolved that thou haft right on thy fide; and then fpare not for either money or pains. For a caufe or two fo followed or obtained will free thee from suits a great part of thy life. VII. Be fure to keep fome great man thy friend, but trouble him not for trifles. Compliment him often with many, but fmall gifts, and with little charge. And if thou haft caufe to beftow any great gratuity, let it be fomething which may be daily in fight. Otherwife, in this ambitious age, thou shalt remain like a hop without a pole, live in obfcunty, and be made a foot ball for every infulting companion to fpurn it. VIII. Toward thy fuperiors be humble, yet generous. With thine equals familiar, yet relpectful. Toward thy inferiors fhew much much humanity and fome familiarity; as to bow the body, ftretch forth the hand, and to uncover the head; with fuch like popular compliments. The first prepareth thy way to advancement. The fecond makes thee known for a man well bred. The third gains a good report; which, once got, is eafily kept. For right humanity takes fuch deep root in the minds of the multitude, as they are more easily gained by unprofitable courtefies than by churlith benefits. Yet I advise thee not to affect or neglect popularity too much. Seet to be Effex, thun to be Raleigh. IX. Truft not any man with thy life, credit, or eflate. For it is mere folly for a man to enthral himself to his friend, as though occafion, being offered, he fhould not dare to become thine enemy. X. Be not fcurrilous in converfation, nor fatirical in thy jefts. The one will make the unwelcome to all company; the other pull on quarrels, and get thee hated of thy beft friends. For fufpicious jefts (when any of them favour of truth) leave a bitterness in the minds of those who are touched.And albeit, I have already pointed at this inclufively, yet I think it neceffary to leave it to thee as a special caution; because I have seen so many prone to quip and gird, as they would rather lofe their friend than jeft. And if perchance their boiling brain yield a quaint fcoff, they will travail to be delivered of it as a woman with child. Thefe nimble fancies are but the froth of wit. a handfome fortune, and retired from bufinefs, had one only daughter Sylvia, of whom he was paffionately fond. She was a very agreeable and accomplished young lady and when she had attained her twentieth year, her father began to confider of a proper match for her. About that time Saville, a merchant and polite young man, returned from a tedious voyage; and being led by fomne business to Sylvia's father, was at firft fight truck with her beauties, and fhe was not lefs affected by his accomplishments. Thus mutually delighted with each other, he asked her in marriage of her father, who readily complied. The happy day was ap. pointed, and every thing ready for fo joyful an occafion, when Saville was obliged to hurry away to a fea-port town 150 miles off, by the bad news of a very rich veffel of his being wrecked there upon the fand. He took a paffionate farewel of his intended bride, and comforted her and himfelf with the hope of a speedy return, But in his abfence, hartley, an elderly gentleman, the richest and most powerful man in the province, making a visit to Sylvia's father, was fmitten with her beauty, and demanded her in marriage. The father, dazzled with the offer of fo great a match, cut off at once her correfpondence with Sa'ville, and commanded her to marry Mr. Hartley; which he was at length obliged to fubmit to, with the utmoft reluctance, and entered into forrow and matrimony together. Meanwhile. Saville wondered at Sylvia's filence, and impatient to be informed, returned with the utmost expedition : but how terrible was the fhock, when he was told" he could not fee him; for the was married." Hereupon, is deepest defpair, he fhipped himself for another voyage, and refolved never to return till he had forgot his own paffion and her perfidy. In the mean while, this marriage, from which Mr. Hartley expected to derive the greateft happiness, proved the bane of his peace and comfort. Sylvia only confidered him as the deftroyer of her repofe, and the ruin of the man fhe loved. His daughter, who had long been governess of his family, took it ill to fee herfelf without authority, when the had been miftrefs, looked upon her father as one that injured her, and treated Sylvia as an open enemy. At laft he refolved to facrifice the daughter to the wife, and accordingly placed her with a relation: but no behaviour could make him tolerable to Sylvia, or blot out the memory of her departed lover. He often heard her figh out his name, and faw her tears for his lofs, which he was fometimes unable to conceal. Enraged at this, he changed his conduct to company; and infulted her misfortunes. This tyranny from the man the hated, com. pleated her woes, and made her desperate. When feveral years had paffed in this manner, Saville, unable to conquer his paffion, returned home; and having learned the circumftanees of the marriage, forgave Sylvia, and thought of nothing but how to deliver her;-which he happily effected one evening, when he was going to throw her. felf into the lea;-crying out "I gave him to the feas, and it is but juftice I fhould follow him." After the tendereft mutual transports, be conducted her to an island of his own in the Bay, where they lived fecurely and pleafantly in mutual endearments, and began to forget they had ever been unfortunate. After feveral months, Mr. Hartley thinking Sylvia ha made away with herself, took another wife, and a few days after the mar riage, was difcovered by the lovers rowing in a pinnace towards their fhore. The landing-place from the Bay was common to SaMmmm 2 ville's ville's house, and the house of entertainment that the new married couple were going to and a quick fet hedge only parted the gardens, at the bottom of which there was a door of communication to both. Sylvia could fee them, without being feen herself, and Saville contrived to be revenged upon his rival, by dreffing Eleonora in the figure that Superftition has formed, as most agreeable to that of a ghost. At moonlight when they went down to take water, the planted herself at the bottom of the hedge, and appeared from behind it, crying out in a hol low tone, "You robbed me of my love; your cruelty cut short my days, and now I am for got--Adieu! when next we meet, 'twill be in other terms." Then the vanifhed behind the hedge again, and Mr. Hartley and his wife both fainted away; but coming to themfelves, their flaves rowed them back to town, where Hartley, not able to get over the idea, took a quantity of opium, and thought death more tolerable than defpair. The lovers were concerned at the feverity of their revenge; retained their love to the laft; but could not overcome Hartley's untimely end. One Way to Stop your Horse-with a humorous Print. (Taken from Geoff. ey Gambadoe's Academy for Grown Horfe. men. Hoberve in paffing a whiskey, a Phae E begs of us, on riding the road, to ton, or aftage coach; in fhort, any carriage where the driver fits on the right hand, to pass it on that fide, as he may not fee yon on the other; and though you may meet with a lafh in the eye, yet what is the lofs of an eyento a leg, or peradventure a'neck? Tho' we do know an eccentric genins, who has been often heard to declare," that he would much rather break his neck, than diflocate a joint of his little finger;" for by diflocating a joint of his little finger, he might feel: a momentary pain, but by breaking his. neck at once, he'd not only feel no fort of pain, but he'd get quit of all the troubles and anxieties incident to a flate of mortality.-But enough of the captain and his ftrange opinions; let us flick to honeft Gambado. Should a man, faid he, on horfeback be in the road, and leading another horfe, always dafh by the led one; you might other wife fet the man's horfe capering, and perhaps throw him off; and you can get but a kick or two by observing my inftructions. record of a gentleman's throwing his bre Take care (faid he in his inimitable lectures) never to throw your horfe down; it is an unlucky trick, and fit enly for boys. Many gentlemen of my acquaintance, and myfelf toc, have been thrown down by our horfes; yet I fearce know an inftance upon He (Gambado) intreats any friend of h to examine his tackling well at fetting out ca a journey, particularly from an inn, a me nage, or from livery ftables of any kind, and after dinner; fee (faid our cautions frien) that your girths are tight, many a good fall have I got by not attending to them. Hof lers, or rather oatftealers, are too apt to be careless, and ought never to be paid till we fee them the next time. And this, faid he, puts me in mind of a lenrned dancingmafter in the univerfity of Oxford, whe taught politenefs alfo, and published a book upon that fubject. This worthy teacher of the graces has fixed the fame period for paffing a flyle, in fome cafes, that is here, judiciously recommended for the payment of hoftler is but a corruption: his precept was, an oatftealer-ay, an oatftealer, of which that a well-bred man meeting another on the oppofite fide of a ftile, ought on no account to be perfuaded to go over firft, the name ei this very ingenious author was Towle. Had two zealous pupils of his met each other at a ftile, it is fuppofed they must have concluded their lives on the premises, unless the author had fubjoined to his work that useful calen der, in which, as the poet conjectures, fuck periods are ascertained. To-morrow It is a period no where to be found; In the course of these Magazines, we shall be able to give our readers a thorough knowledge of Gambadoe's Theory of Horfemanfhip; how to ride genteelly and agreeably down a hill;-how to lofe your way;-how to turn any horie, mare, or gelding;--how to be run away with, &c. &c. and for the prefent we fhall only request our readers to minutely examine the annexed plate, by which they'll learn one infallible method of flopping their horfes, and of fitting them gracefully, and courageously, when attacked by an angry coachman or poftillion. The |