"in one inftance, O my God, how miferable! "That rapacious tyrant, the small-pox, fnatched "from me a girl who-parental tenderness apart, " or allowed for in its fullest extent was not only "the pride, the glory of our fond bofoms-(here "the bufband began to cough)-but the delight of "all who knew her full of goodness, of talents, "and of beauty, fhe was the very boast of our "whole city; yet we were bereaved of her in lefs "than a fortnight after we had celebrated, in an "affembly of all her little friends, the day on "which the gained her fifteenth year."

"Our only confolation," faid the husband, filling up a paufe which forrow made in the account of his wife-yet filling it up with a voice that faultered-" our only confolation is, that the last "moments of her unfullied life were employed "in acts of filial love. Her death, fir, which it "almost kills me to think on, her death happened "in the middle of the night. The chamber had "been darkened at her request fome time before; "but the now felt the faft approaches of her dif folution, and desired the light might be brought "into the room. When it came-pray bring it

nearer," said the poor thing" nearer ftill-my eyes grow more dim every inftant, and ere they "quite fail me, I would wish their last office

might be to fhew their ever-deareft objects, my

Here the husband loft his voice in foftness; and the wife took up the forrow-moving tale by exclaiming, "O dreadful, yet dear moment!

when my dying Anna found that she still wanted light to diftinguish us, fhe begged the candle might be put into her own trembling hand; << and after she had looked a little while moft ear"nestly in our faces, wiping away the tears that "were running along her poor father's cheeks, " and then kiffing us all feveral times, the re"turned the candle, saying-I am now fatisfied, " and am on the edge of the everlasting mansions "of my Father which is in heaven-the only &C parent whom I could go to with gain, after the " lofs of those I am now leaving."

"bim, are thronging to give me welcome, and

It was at this aweful crifis," faid the mother in great agitation, "that my departed Anna "conflicted with the powers of death, to raise " herself on her knees, in the attempt of which fhe "fell, and under our fupport, invoked a bleffing "on us both! In our very arms fhe expired, and "we thought the fpot where fhe yielded up her "innocent being, would have been the general "death-bed of the family!"

The hufband covered his face with his hands; the wife, after looking steadfastly at the fire, without, perhaps, seeing it-ejaculated at length "God's will be done!" and left the room.

When alone, I repeated aloud a verse which I had often felt in reading that part of our Night Thoughts which mourns Narciffa, but had never before seen occasion fo forcibly to apply it :—

"Ye, that e'er loft an angel, pity them!"

Never did hearts, in the warmest country, under the most unclouded fky, beat highernever did eyes more copiously stream in token of that grief which "paffeth fhew." Away

with diftinctions! with appropriations! and all the offspring of felf love!-Education, custom, example, may do much climate may have its power-the fun may animate—the ice may chillbut there are in all countries moments and events, which render all good beings the fame, and prove us through all the zones, allied closely to one another!

With respect however to the countenances of the Dutch, they are certainly not generally lively indexes of those affections which they frequently cover. Those affections are, in their still life, often extremely hid from observation, and you will fee fifty or a hundred men with pipes in their mouths, and as many women ftewing over their stoves, pass hours away in one another's company with fcarce the utterance of a fyllable, change of pofture, or variation of a feature; yet in a series of remarks I have followed several of these very perfons into their domeftick circles, and have there feen, as in the cafe above cited, the kindest and ftrongest emotions, of which the human heart is capable, fly out according to circumstances and occurrences, with an energy, a vivacity, an eloquence, of which, from general appearances and fpeculations, not even the pervading eye of a Lavater could have any prescience,

We will now advert to a few more of the neceffaries of life, amongst which must be reckoned the travelling expences, especially thofe of the table

d'hotes.

These have been very erroneously stated. The moft diligent infpection has enabled me to offer you the following table of charges, which, with a variation not worth noticing in a few houfes, may be depended upon as your general directory in the tour of the Provinces.

The bed is according to the goodness of the room from one florin to three.

The house-meffenger, two ftivers an errand. Surgeon-barber, three or four ftivers. Hair-dreffer the fame.

Except the fhoe-boy, who commonly includes the office of meffenger, nobody pays the fervants