tifications may be denied, and a thoufand hardships imposed, without any violation of national laws. Life may be embittered with hourly vexation; and weeks, months and years be lingered out in misery, without any legal cause of separation, or possibility of judicial redress. Perhaps no sharper anguish is selt, than that which can not be complained of, nor any greater cruelties inflicted, than some which no human authority can relieve. Rose, private secretary to Louis XIV, had a fine eftate, and a house near Chantilly, and often refided there. The prince of Condé wanted to buy it, and on the fecretary's resusal, refolved to put him out of humour with it. For this purpose he ordered some hundred foxes, old and young, to be slung over his park walls; the havoc made by this midnight colony may be easily imagined. Rofe enraged, went to the king in his cabinet, and resolutely demanded leave to ask him a downright question. What is it? faid the king. What is it? answered Rose, with an inflamed face, what is it? I beg you will tell me, if we have two kings in France? What do you mean? fays the king, reddening, and surprised-What do I mean? answers Rose, what I mean is, that if the prince of Condé is king like you, we must cry and bend our necks - if he be only a prince of the blood, In the history of the Bourbons and Montmorencies, and the wars with the Huguenots, we meet with the following instance of remarkable courage and prefence of mind. An adventurer, who had been in the Spanish service, and called himself captain Michan, came to Nerac to follicit employment of the king of Navarre. The king was cautioned to beware of this deferter, arriving from a country which could not but be suspected by every I demand justice of you-and then proteftant. The mind of a Bourbon was too full of honour to be capable of entertaining suspicion upon flight grounds, and he therefore paid no regard to this advice. A few days after, as he was hunting in the forest of Aillas, being alone is a retired place, he perceived Michan advancing to him, well mounted, with a brace of pistols at his faddle-bow. Immediately refolving how to act, he stops and waits his coming up. On his approach, Captain Michan, said he to him, with a firm tone of voice, alight; I have a mind to try if your horse be as good as you pretend." Michan instantly obeys, and the king of Navarre mounts. Taking out the two pistols; Have you a design to kill any one, captain?" said he, I am assured that you design me for your victim: now your life is in my power, if I please to take it.' He then discharged the two pistols in the air, and commanded Michan to follow him. At first he attempted to justify himself: but thinking it the safest way to make his escape, he fet off two days after, and never again made his ap pearance. relates the fact. The king obliged the prince to remove the whole neft of foxes from firit to laft, at his own expence, and to repair all the damage they had done, and to remain on good terms with Rose. Rose had married his daughter to M. Portail, counsellor, and afterward first president of parliament. The husband continually complaining to the father, of his daughter's bad humcur. • You are in the right,' answers Rose, she is impertinent, and if I hear any more of her, I shall difinbcrit her. After this the husband held his tongue. VIVACITY of thought is vulgarly called wit. It is but too frequently judged that men of dull, and rather heavy sense, and who have not a brilliant and eafy flow of words, are fools; this is certainly a mistaken notion. To be a man of wit, is to have just ideas, and, fooner or later, to apply them rationally. To be a fool is to be incapable of judging; the inconfiderate judge precipitately, and are deceived for want of reflection, and attention. Setting out from these definitions, the perception of a man of great sense is equally quick and just. A man of genius has fomething more; he rifes above that which is fubmitted to the ordinary judgment of men; he is full of imagination, has great fore fight, is inventive without exceeding probability, because he never departs from a certain basis, which basis is sentiment and reason. None but fools foar imprudently, and at the risk of every thing. A man of genius seizes immediately an idea, and carries it as far as possible. A man of good sense takes his resolution after ferious reflection; but nothing is worse than to be inceffantly undetermined. To what height of luxury the inhabitants of Rome had attained, we may form some judgment from the following notices concerning the wealth and expenditure of particular perfons, which, with many other instances of the fame kind, have been thrown together by a learned antiquarian. Craffus had a landed estate valued at 1,666,6661. 135. 4d. C. Cæcilius Ridorus, after having loft much in the civil war, left by will effects to the value of 1,347,160l. Lentulus the Augur, is faid to have possessed no less than 3,333,3331.6s. 8d. Apicius was worth more than 916,6:71. 138. 4d. who after having spent in his kitchen 833,3331.63. 8d. and finding that he had no more than 83,3331. 6s. 8d. left, he confidered it as so little for his support, thas he judged it best to put an end to his life by poison. The superfluous furniture belonging to M. Scaurus, that was burned at Tusculum, was valued at no less than 833,3321. 135. 4d. Cæfar, before he had been in any public office, was in debt one hundred and thirty talents, or 251,8751. Milo contracted debts to the amount of 583,3331. 135. 44. Antony owed at the Ides of March, the fum of 333,3331. 6s. 8d. which he paid before the Kalends of April. Yet none of these were men in trade. An Account of RICHING PARK, in Buckinghamshire, the Seat of John Sullivan, Esq. With a Perspective View of that elegant Structure, drawn and engraved by Eastgate. R who was the subject of Thomson's fine invocation in his 'Spring." ICHING PARK is an elegant feat, near the town of Colnbrook, in the county of Buckingham. It is situate between the seventeenth and eighteenth mile one, on the right his Lives of the English Poets, to hand of the road from London to Bath. It has been very lately erected by John Sullivan, efq. the present proprietor; and the elevation contufts of a centre and two wings, connected by fuitable colonnades. The fine park and plantations display the most pleating style of rural decoration. • It was the practice of this lady,' says the late Dr. Samuel Johnfon, in invite, every summer, some poct into the country, to hear her verfes, and assist her studies. This honour was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with lord Hertford and his friends than in affifting her ladyship's poetical operations, and therefore never received another fummons.' But whatever were the merit of this excellent lady's poetical effufions, fome of her letters The prefent manfion is erected on the site of a teat, called Percy Lodge, which was the residence of that accom lished lady Frances countess of which have been published (befide Hertford, afterward duch ss of So- those mentioned above) evince, in the me fet, lome of whose cha ming let-opinion of Shenstone, who was a very Iers appear, under the fignature of competent judge,' a perfect restitude Cleora, among the 'Letters, Moral of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and a and Entertaining,' of Mrs. Rowe, and truly classic ease and elegance of style. Bb |