when he is only the simple rech of the parish, I have been conside ing what can have entitled him t this public commemoration. E similar cases, as that of naming the the latter condition, when Macklin and he happened to meet. They were both at the Bedford coffee-house together, when Foote, perhaps to keep up the appearance of prosperity, was every now and then showing off a fine gold repeat ing watch, which he kept either dang-physician under whose auspices! ling in his hand, or up to his ear. At cure has been effected, the receri last he suddenly exclaimed, "Zounds! is intended as a compliment to the my watch is stopt !"-"Poh! Poh!" skill of the agent; but it is not, st said Macklin, 66 never mind that Sam, you may depend upon it, it will soon go." first sight, very obvious that y extraordinary praise can be due b the act of reading the marriag service. There is, indeed, a story of a clergyman's having founda child very hard to christen: but in that case it is suspected, that the difficulty arose from his own situ tion, and not from any peculiarity in the patient. Yet I cannot but think that it is no uncommon circumstance to find couples hard PREVIOUSLY to Foote's bringing out his Primitive Puppet-Shew at the Haymarket theatre, a lady of fashion asked him, "Pray Sir, are your puppets to be as large as life?"-"Oh dear Madam, no: not much above the size of Garrick!" FOOTE praising the hospitalities of the Irish, after one of his trips to the sister kingdom, a gentleman present asked him whether he had ever been to Cork. "No, Sir," said he, quickly, "but I have seen a great many drawings of it." Selected for the Emerald. [The following epistle contains many lively and pleasant remarks on a cus: tom, harmless enough, one would think, to have escaped the satire of wit and levity. As the custom is common in New-England it will apply to us as well as the people to whom it was addressed, though perhaps few of those in the situation alluded to tim marry, and that there is often a su ficient degree of effort in performing this feat, to apologize for the seaing vanity of making public the of the clerical practitioner. I don exactly know to what defect in the marriage rites the melancholy l ques alludes, when, dissuading the Clown from suffering Sir Olive Martexs to couple him and Audrey he tells him, "This fellow will b join you together as they join waitscot; then one of you will prove shrunk pannel, and like green ber, warp, warp," The law at pre sent, seems to have determined, thi if the union be but made, the ma ner of doing it is of no consequence YOUR readers, as well as myself, and even the workmanship of the must, doubtless have remarked the smith of Gretnagreen is reckoned growing custom of adding, in the to hold as well as that of his Grac announcement of marriages in the of Canterbury. But the task of newspapers, the name of the officia- bringing the parties together, ting clergyman to those of the par- be a serious labour indeed. A ties. When the performer is a bish-old batchelor has lived a score op, a dean or other dignified clergy-years with a kept madam, who man, it is easy to conceive that vana great desire at last to be made ity in the connubial pair, or their honest woman of. What a triald friends, may cause this addition: skill to a confidential divine to would be desirous of having it thought they were hard to be married! Messrs. Editors, Em. Edt'rs.] but as we frequently see it made upon the hardened buff of this man? conscience, and mollify it down to | to the letters of celebrated females. In tha matrimony which has so long been the object of his scorn and ridicule? A novel reading miss, whose heart has been softened by some neighbouring Celadon, looks with horror upon the honest Numps whom her careful father has chosen the course of the last nine months have appeared those of Mesdames and Mesdemoiselles de Villars, de Coulanges, de la Fayette, de Tencin, Ninon, Aïssé, du Maine, de Simiane, de Montpensier, de Motteuille, de Montmorency, Dupré and de Lambert. NEW Elements of the Science of Man, by P. J. Barthez, Physician to the Empe- for her; and, like Anne Page, would rather be set quick in the earth, and bowled to death with turnips," than meet him at the altar. What a profusion of rhetoric must be employed to bring such a damsel to the dutiful act of bestowing her hand contrary to the dictates of her heart! With the young spendthrift whose stomach rises at the sight of an amourous dame of three-score, panting to deliver him from a jail Instead of explaining the causes of by the gift of her purse and person, death, be refers that grand and universal fewer arguments for compliance law to the primordial rules which govern may be necessary; and yet he must, man; and he is of opinion, that it is in some measure, be fashioned to sensations. Nay, he goes still further, not in general accompanied by painful the joke by persuasion. In these and and taking into consideration the feeblesimilar cases, which are not very un-ness which usually precedes it, he is common, some mediator is evidentty wanted to take the part which Horace assigns to Venus: -cui placet impares Formas atque animos sub juga aënea Sævo mittere cum jocò ; and where the clergyman assumes this office, his labours certainly deserve commemoration. Under this idea, I shall for the future suppose that more is meant than meets the ear, when we are gravely told that the Rev. Mr. Such-a-one married such a couple; and that his task was somewhatmore arduous than merely reading some sentences out of a book, and afterwards, perhaps, dining with the happy party. I remain, Sir, Your's, &c. almost ready to believe that there may be somewhat pleasant in it, as in sleep! Mr. Allingham's "Weathercock holds a respectable place among our modern farces; though, it must be confessed, he has heightened it to an extravagant degree. "We Fly by Night," by Mr. Colman, is inferior to it. Mr.Cumberland's "Hint to Husband" is distinguished by good sense, good language, and just morality. ور Mrs. Priscilla Wakefield still continues to exercise her pen for the benefit of the rising generation. Her "Excurcursions in North America, described in Letters from a Gentleman and his young Companion to their Friends in England, lation; exhibiting the best parts of the is a very elegant and interesting compi most popular writers on the subject of North America, judiciously extracted and neatly put together. Errata. In last Wanderer, 5th line of the 1st paragraph, dela the word "sense," and in the 3d column, 4th line from the bottom, for "immortality" read "immorality.” Inglorious stray, and leave unstrung her lyre! What tongue refuse to join the choral joy? Or, to adorn her brow, what hand neglect To weave the chaplet of Pierean flowers? Waked by thy call, the willing Muse Young with experience, with reflexion gay, Cautious tho' wise, judicious tho'a wit; Uniting charity with inborn worth ; With conscious dignity, politeness free; That native, true politeness, which ex tends To even pride, civility, respect; How small the merit that the world allows To the fair product of the female mind! What are ye, what your end and aim, unless Soft gentleness and suavity of mein Temper your speech, and smooth your brow severe ? —A rose unblown-presenting to the grasp A thorny coat, and to the eye offence. Be candid then, and own the power prolific Of their smiles who give you grace t' expand, And shed your sweetness on the breeze of life. All hail! ye gentle courtesies and smiles That sport and wanton in thy pleasing train, O modesty! sole stimulus of love! The willing gifts of friendship, of es Is not discovered in the courtier's | And there came the Gnat, and the cringe, The coquette's smile, the lover's sup ple knee; Obeys not, puppet-like, the master wire wrongs; To hold the cup of pleasure to mankind: rise How many crouds of gay cameleon forms Dragon-fly too, With all their relations, green, orange, and blue. And there came the Moth, with her And the Hornet, with jacket of yellow plumage of down, and brown, Who with him the Wasp, his companion, did bring, But they promis'd, that ev'ning, to lay by their sting. Then the gly little Dormouse peep'd out of his hole, the Mole; And led to the feast his blind cousin, And the Snail, with her horns peepCame, fatigued with the distance, the ing out of her shell, length of an ell. Borrow from you, their lustre and their A mushroom the table, and on it was die. THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL, AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST. loмE, take up your hats, and away let us haste To the Butterfly's ball, and the Grasshopper's feast; The trumpeter Gadfly has summoned the crew, And the revels are now only waiting for. you. On the smooth shaven grass, by the side of a wood, Beneath a broad oak, which for ages had stood, bee the children of earth, and the tenants of air, To an evening's amusement together repair. And there came the Beetle, so blind and so black, Who carried the Emmet, his friend on his back: spread A water dock leaf, whcich their tablecloth made, The viands were various, to each of their taste, And the Bee brought the honey to sweeten the feast. With steps more majestic the Snail did advance, And he promised the gazer a minuet to dance; But they all laugh'd so loud, that he drew in his head, And went, in his own little chamber, to bed. Then, as ev'ning gave way to the shad. ows of night, Their watchman, the Glow-worm, came out with his light: So home let us hasten, while yet we can see, For no watchman is waiting for you, or for me! And wonder I'm single--I'm not a hurry; THE TRAVELLERS. See, see the awful sweeping blast, The distant hills are clad with snow, Benumb'd with cold. Each snug within an elbow-chair, And converse hold. But when the rustling blasts are by, They part full dearly. Then, then the travellers, blythe and gay With pleasure hail the winter's day, Along the road pursue their way CHARADE. Right cheerly. WHEN Some fond Youth is deep in love, He tells his sorrows to the grove, And thinks his case the very worst; But should the fair one deign to smile, Soon he will change his pensive style, Declaring that she is my first. Embolden'd by the smiles so bland, Should he solicit her fair hand, Or boldly steal a soft embrace: Sudden, a swift suffusing blush, Will through each burning feature rush, And like my second make her face. If wedlock binds the happy pair, They bid adieu to cank'ring care, And instantly become my whole; For father, mother, brother dear, Are not as man and wife so near, Closest relations of the soul. Veritas non in Puteo. Orr I had heard the sages say, Truth in a Well concealed lay: Eager to find the goddess out, In vain I search'd the wells about; At last, exerting all my wit, I found her in a Gravel-pit. Boston, Mass. Published BY BELCHER & ARMSTRONG, |