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-
ror and King.--The author commences
his work with a preliminary discussion,
in the course of which he presents the
reader with a general view of the prin-
ciples of life and motion. He divides
then proceeds to an historical account
the powers of life into two kinds and
of the opinions of philosophers, both an-
cient and modern, respecting its nature.
He, at the same time, traces a gradual
scale of motions, beginning with the
complex.
most simple, and ending with the most

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.”

Is not discovered in the courtier's | And there came the Gnat, and the

cringe, The coquette's smile, the lover's sup

Obeys not, puppet-like, the master wire
Of sordid GAIN; but to commisserate
The woes of others and redress their

To hold the cup of pleasure to mankind:
This is her aim, her being, her delight,
Spoken by beauty, virtue's precepts

Borrow from you, their lustre and their A mushroom the table, and on it was

And wonder I'm single--I'm not a hurry;
I will never be wed until I can find,
In ev'ry respect, the man to my mind.
Believe me, of offers I've had not a few
From the witty, rich, handsome, and
affable too;