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models; and, amid the diffipation of pleasure, and the hurry of affected vivacity, I never confidered the gracefulness of virtue, and the beauty of an open, fincere and manly character.

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OF THE ELEPHANT.

THE Elephant is not only the moft tractable,

but the most intelligent of animals; fenfible of benefits, refentful of injuries, and endued even with a sense of glory.

2. In India, they were once employed in the launching of fhips. One was directed to force a very large fhip into the water; the work proved fuperior to his ftrength; his mafter, with a farcaftic tone, bid the keeper take away this lazy beaft and bring another; the poor animal inftantly repeated his efforts, fractured his skull, and died on the spot.

3. In Delhi, an elephant paffing along the streets put his trunk into a taylor's fhop, where feveral people were at work; one of them pricked the end of it with a needle; the beaft paffed on; but, in the next dirty puddle, filled his trunk with water, returned to the fhop, and fpurting eve ery drop among the people who had offended him, fpoiled

their work.

4. An elephant in Adfmeer, which often paffed through the market, as he went by a certain herb-woman, always received from her a mouthful of greens. At length he was feized with one of his periodical fits of rage, broke his fet ters, and running through the market, put the crowd to flight; among others, this woman, who, in her hafte, forgot a little child fhe had brought with her..

5. The animal recollecting the fpot where his benefac tress was wont to fit, took up the infant gently in his trunk, and placed it in fafety on a stall before a neighboring houfe.. Another, in his madness, killed his governor; the wife feeing the misfortune,, took her two children and flung them before the elephant, faying, " Now you have deftroyed their father, you may as well put an end to their lives and mine."

6. He inftantly stopped, relented, took the greatest of the children, placed it on his neck, adopted it for his cor

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nac or governor, and never afterwards would permit any body else to mount him..

7. A foldier at Pondicherry, who was accuftomed,. whenever he received the portion that came to his fhare, to carry a certain quantity of it to one of thefe animals, having, one day drank rather too freely, and finding himself purfued by the guards, who were going to take him to prison, took refuge under the elephant's body, and feel afleep...

8. In vain did the guard try to force him from this afylum, as the elephant protected him with his trunk. The next morning the foldier recovering from his drunken fit, fhuddered with horror to find himself stretched under the belly of this huge animal..

9. The elephant, which without doubt perceived the man's embarrafiment, careffed him with his trunk, in order to infpire him with courage, and make him understand that he might now depart in fafety.

10. A painter was defirous of drawing the elephant which was kept in the menagerie at Verfailles in an uncommon attitude, which was that of holding his trunk raised up in the air with his mouth open. The painte boy, in order to keep the animal in this pofture, threw fruit into his mouth.

II. But, as the lad frequently deceived him, and made an offer only of throwing him the fruit, he grew angry; and, as if he had known that the painter's intention of drawing him was the caufe of the affront that was offered him, inftead of revenging himself on the lad, he returned his refentment on the mafter, and taking up a quantity of water in his trunk, threw it on the paper on which the painter was drawing, and spoiled it.

SPEECH OF MR. WALPOLE IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT IN OPPOSITION TO MR. PITT, LATE EARL OF CHATHAM.

SIR,,

I WAS unwilling to interrupt the course of this debate while it was carried on with calmnefs and decency, by men who do not fuffer the ardor of oppofition to cloud their

their reafon, or tranfport them to fuch expreffions as the dignity of this affembly does not admit.

2. I have hitherto deferred to answer the gentleman who declaimed against the bill with fuch fluency of rhetoric, and fuch vehemence of gefture; who charged the advocates for the expedients now propofed, with having no regard to any intereft but their own, and with making laws only to confume paper; and threatened them with the defection of their adherents, and the lofs of their influence, upon this new difcovery of their folly and ignorance.

3. Nor, Sir, do I now anfwer him for any other purpofe than to remind him how little the clamors of rage, and petulancy of invective, contribute to the purposes for which this affembly is called together; how little the difcovery of truth is promoted, and the fecurity of the nation established by pompous diction and theatrical emotions.

4. Formidable founds and furious declamations, confi. dent affertions, and lofty periods, may affect the young and unexperienced; and perhaps the gentleman may have contracted his habits of oratory by converfing more with those of his own age, than with fuch as have had more opportu nities of acquiring knowledge, and more fucceísful methods of communicating their fentiments.

5. If the heat of his temper, Sir, would fuffer him to attend to thofe whofe age and long acquaintance with bufinefs give them an indifputable right to deference and fu periority, he would learn, in time, to reafon rather than declaim, and to prefer juftness of argument, and an accurate knowledge of facts, to founding epithets and fplendid fuperlatives, which may disturb the imagination for a moment, but leave no lafting impreffion on the mind..

6. He will learn, Sir, that to accufe and prove are very different, and that reproaches, unfupported by evidence, affect only the character of him who utters them. Excurfions of fancy and flights of oratory are indeed pardonable in young men, but in no other; and it would furely contribute more, even to the purpose for which fome gentlemen appear to fpeak; that of depreciating the conduct of the adminiftration, to prove the inconveniences and injustice of this bill, than barely to affert them, with whatever magnificence of language or appearance of zeal, honefty, or compaffion.

MR.

MR. PITT'S ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING.

SIR,

THE atrocious crime of being a young

man, which the honorable gentleman has, with fuch fpirit and decency, charged upon me, I fhall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myfelf with wifhing, that I may be one of those whofe follies may ceafe with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.

2. Whether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach, I will not, Sir, affume the province of determining; but furely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have paffed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail, when the paffions have fubfided.

3. The wretch, who, after having feen the confequences of a thousand errors, continues ftill to blunder, and whofe age has only added obftinacy to ftupidity, is furely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deferves not that his grey head fhould fecure him from infults.

4. Much more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with lefs temptation; who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.

5. But youth, Sir, is not my only crime; I have been accused of acting a theatrical part. A theatrical part may either imply fome peculiarities of gefture, or a diffimula tion of my real fentiments, and an adoption of the opinions and language of another man.

6. In the first fenfe, Sir, the charge is too trifling to be confuted, and deferves only to be mentioned that it may be defpifed. I am at liberty, like every other man, to use my own language; and though I may perhaps have fome ambition to please this gentleman, I fhall not lay myself under any restraint, not very folicitoufly copy his diction or his mien, however matured by age, ondelled by experience.

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7. If any man fhall, by charging me with theatrical be havior, imply, that I utter any fentiments but my own, I fhall treat him as a calumniator and a villain; nor thall any protection shelter him from the treatment which he deferves.

8. I fhall, on fuch an occafion, without fcruple, trample upon all thofe forms with which wealth and dignity entrench themselves; nor fhall any thing but age reftrain my refentment. Age, which always brings one privilege, that of being infolent and fupercilious without punishment.

9. But with regard, Sir, to thofe whom I have offended, I am of opinion, that if I had acted a borrowed part, I fhould have avoided their cenfure. The heat which offended them is the ardor of conviction, and that zeal for the fervice of my country, which neither hope nor fear fhall influence me to fupprefs.

10. I will not fit unconcerned while my liberty is invaded, nor look in filenee upon public robbery. I will exert my endeavors, at whatever hazard, to repel the aggreffor, and drag the thief to justice, whoever may protect them in their villany, and whoever may partake of their plunder.

STORY OF A SECOND JOSEPH.

THE following relation proves, that incidents

fomewhat fimilar to thofe in the times of Jacob are still renewed in Egypt. In 1776, the plains of Syria were rav aged by clouds of locufts, which devoured the corn to the very root.

2. A famine followed, and a farmer near Damafcus felt the effects of the general distress. To fupply the wants of a numerous family, he fold his cattle; which refource being foon exhausted, the unhappy father, wretched at present, but forefeeing greater wretchednefs to come, preffed by hunger, fold his inftruments of hufbandry at Damafcus.

3. Led by the invifible hand of Providence, as formerly Tobias was by the angel, while he bargained for corn, lately arrived from Damietta, he heard fpeak of the fuccefs of Mourad Bey, who had entered Grand Cairo victorious, and in triumph.

4. The

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