TUE S SDA Y.

My pupil had been kept out of bed fo much beyond his ufual hour, that he did not make his appearance 'till after breakfast.

Chear up, my boy," cried Mrs. Flint, " you look as if you had been dreaming all night of your partner, Mifs Punaise; come, let us take an airing, and refresh ourfelves after the fatigues of the ball. These late fittings don't answer with my old bones. You fee, Mr. -, that I have been as good as my word, and that Jemmy, poor man, has caught no cold. You fhall go along with us on our airing; there is room for you in Mr, Flint's carriage and fix, and you may talk over your leffons by the way; for you will find the carriage quite eafy." Nothing, indeed, could be more admirably calculated to elude every jolt; and there wanted only folitude and independence to make it refemble a down-bed. "We muft, firft of all, shut out the common enemy, the east wind," faid Mrs. Flint, pulling up the glaffes. The weather was warm, and Mrs. Flint grew eloquent on the fund of knowledge the had acquired the night before. She gave me the catalogue and character of the company fhe dwelt moft on her fon's looks and dancing. "A gentleman at the countefs's, who faid he was lately come from Paris, told me, Jemmy was vaftly like the Count de Provence, the King of France's brother, particularly in the minuet : but remember, Jemmy, that, to be a great scholar, is a much finer thing than to be a great dancer. I am fure, Mr. -, that my boy will profit by your inftructions: he has a charming memory, and he will take his learning as faft as you can give it him and I am fure that is faying a great deal; for, from all that I can difcover, Mr. Flint could not have bestowed his money better." She was going on; but, alas! flattery vibrated faintly on my car: we had got above pine-apple heat, and I be came fick and oppreffed. I asked leave to get out, and walk home, as I felt myfelf not well.” "Oh, to be fure," said she: "I have known people fick in carriages for want of practice; don't be alarmed, Mr. : but here, Jemmy, do you wrap this handkerchief about your neck, before the coach-door is opened."

I walked home in great fpirits, animated by every gale around me; and I forgot, for a while, that I was not my own mafter. In the evening my pupil came to me, dreffed out and powdered.

Mamma (faid he, theepishly,) has made me engage to drink tea with Mifs Punaife, my last night's partner: I don't much like her neither; for fhe is pitted with the fmall-pox, has a yellowish skin, and a bleared eye; and, befides, the dances out

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of tune. There was a Mifs with black hair."-Not inclining to become his confident, I faid, " Master Flint, all engagements, that can be kept with honour, must be kept; and, therefore, you must go." Nay," faid he, "there is not any muft in the matter; for, I believe, the Mifs with the black hair lives with their Mifs Punaife. However, I can do a double tafk to-morrow; and my aunt is wont to fay, that a young man ought not to be always at his books." He seemed to have treasured up this precious apophthegm in his memory.

WEDNESDAY.

My pupil was punctual to his hour. But we had hardly feated ourselves, when captain Winterbottom arrived. "No leffons to-day," roared he: " This is my lady's wedding-day, and therefore we keep holiday, and come for to be merry. Why, you young dog, if it had not been for this day, you would have either not been at all, or have been a bastard."—It was indeed ą day of feftivity and riot.

THURSDAY.

All the fervants having dutifully got drunk over night, my pupil was not called, and fo he overslept himself. He came down to the parlour about eleven, and we refumed the fatal first fine of the tenth fatire of Juvenal, "The French mafter is here," said a fervant. I begged that he might return in about an hour; but I foon learned that that was impoffible, without deranging the fyftem of education in all parts of the city. "It is no great matter for an hour," faid Mifs Juliana, " you have always my nephew at your command; but poor Signor Bergamefco is much hurried, and his time is not his own."

Signor Bergamefco !" cried I, " Is your French mafter an Italian?" "Yes," faid fhe, " of a noble family in the dominion of the doge of Venice; but a younger brother, with a fmall patrimony, which he unfortunately confumed en travailtant par l'Europe. It was a fancy of my own. I thought that after the fignor had taught my nephew French, he might teach him Italian alfo; for you know that it is a great lofs to change preceptors; and that young men, who have not feen much of the world, are fhy with ftrangers.

The talk impofed on my pupil by Signor Bergamefco occupied all his leifure 'till dinner-time; but I thought that I fhould have the abfolute command of the evening. I was beginning to read Omnibus in terris, when a fervant faid, "Here is the French master." "What (cried I) can Signor Bergamefco, who is fo much hurried, afford to give two leffons in one day to the fame fcholar?"

scholar?" It is another French mafter, whom I have got for me," faid my pupil. I applied to Mifs Juliana for the explanation of this phænomenon. "It was none of my advifing, (faid fhe,) but my brother knew Mr. O'Callachan when linguist to commodore Firebrace, and he wished to throw a good job in the poor fellow's way these were his very words; and to Mr. O'Callachan came to be employed: but, indeed, after some recollection, I thought it would anfwer well enough, as both masters taught by the fame grammar, and both of them read Telemac."

The linguist of commodore Firebrace had just taken his leave, when a fmart young fellow burst into the room, with an air of much hurry and importance. "What," cried I, "more French masters !" "Don't be alarmed," faid Mrs. Flint, who accompanied him; "it is only the frifeur, who comes to put up my boy's hair in papers. Pray don't ask why, for it is a great fecret; but you shall know it all to morrow.

FRIDAY.

"You must know (faid Mrs. Flint, at breakfast,) that I am affured that Jemmy is very like the Count de Provence, the king of France's own brother. Now Jemmy is fitting for his picture to Martin; and I thought it would be right to get the frifeur, whom you faw last night, (he is juft arrived from Paris,) to drefs his hair like the Count de Provence's, that Mr. Martin might make the refemblance more complete. Jemmy has been under his hands fince feven o'clock.- -Oh, here he comes.' Is it not charmang ?" exclaimed Mifs Juliana. "I with Mifs Punaife faw you," added the happy mother. My pupil, loft in the labyrinth of crofs curls, feemed to look about for himfelf. "What a powdered fheep's-head have we got here?" cried captain Winterbottom.-We all went to Mr. Martin's, to affift him in drawing Jemmy's picture. On our return, Mrs. Flint difcovered that her fon had got an inflammation in his right eye, by looking ftedfaftly at the painter. She ordered a poultice of bread and milk, and put him to bed; fo there was no more talk of Omnibus in terris for that evening.

SATURDAY,

My pupil came down to breakfast in a complete fuit of black, with weepers, and a long mourning cravat. The Count de Provence's curls were all demolished, and there remained not a veftige of powder on his hair. "Blefs me," cried I," what is the matter?" "Oh, nothing," said Mrs. Flint; "a relation of

mine is to be interred at twelve, and Jemmey has got a burialletter, We ought to acknowledge our friends on fuch melan choly occafions. I mean to fend Jemmy with the coach and fix. It will teach him how to behave himself in public places."

At dinner, my pupil expreffed a vehement defire to go to the play. There is to be Harlequin Highlander, and the battle between Rodney and De Graffe," faid he; "it will be vastly comical and curious." "Why, Jemmy," faid Mrs. Flint, "fince this is Saturday, I fuppofe your tutor will have no objection; but be fure to put on your great coat, and to take a chair in coming home." "I thought," faid I, " that we might have made fome progrefs at our books this evening.'" Books on Saturday afternoon," cried the whole company," it was never heard of." I yielded to conviction; for, indeed, it would have been very unreasonable to expect, that he who had spent the whole week in idlenefs, fhould begin to apply himself to his studies on the evening of Saturday.

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ANECDOTE of WILLIAM III.

HE Prince of Orange has a kind of hereditary averfion to the French; with the eftates of William III. he seems to have inherited the hatred of that prince to France. William III. conceived that averfion at a very early period of life, in confequence of a public affront put upon him by a French ambaffador, when he was a child. At the death of this prince's father, the purely republican party finding a favourable opportunity, in the minority of his fon, to humble the houfe of Orange, effected after many ftruggles the abolition of the stadtholdership; and thus reduced the young prince to the rank of a private fubject. In this ftate of things, the little prince was one day taking an airing in his coach with his mother the Princefs Mary, eldest daughter to the unfortunate Charles I. The coach at length entered a gateway that led into a court, through which the coachman was to drive, to come to another gate facing the one through which he had just paffed; but here he was ftopped by the French ambaffador's carriage, which happened to be driving the oppofite way: The prince's fervants called out to the ambaffador's coachman to put back, and make way for the Prince of Orange; the man was going to comply, when his mafter defired he would not give way an inch: Upon this a parley took place between fome gentlemen attendants on both fides: The negociators for the prince reminded the ambaffador of the

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rank and splendor of the house of Orange, the founders of the government to which his excellency had been fent ambassador: The Frenchman replied, that he refpected the house of Orange as much as any man; but he refpected ftill more the dignity of his own character of ambaffador from his Moft Chriftian Majefty; and therefore he had a just right, as fuch, to claim precedency, even at the Hague, over a Prince of Orange, who, divested of the stadtholdership, was no more in Holland than a private fubject.-His excellency was next reminded of the rank and dignity of the prince's mother, who was Princess Royal of Great Britain: The ambaffador aufwered, that he had the most profound refpect for her royal highness; and if he himself was in a private character, he would think himself honoured to be in the fuite of fo great and fo amiable a princefs, not half so refpectable for being defcended from the illuftrious Henry IV. as for her many virtues and accomplishments; but he hoped her royal highnefs would excufe him for not giving way to her, as he was fupporting the rights and privileges of his royal mafter, whofe reprefentative he was.-The treaty lafted for fome hours, but the ambaffador remained inflexible; he would not fuffer his carriage to be put back; and the princess could not bring herself to give way to an ambaffador; At laft an expedient was thought of to fave her own and her fon's honour; the wall adjoining to the gateway was broke down, and a clear paffage made through it; the prince's carriage inclining then a little to one fide drove on, and left the Frenchman in poffeffion of the field: This preferved the prince and his mother from the mortification of turning back; but still the ambaffador carried his point. William never forgave this affront of France to the day of his death; he had a perfonal dislike to Lewis XIV. because that monarch approved of his minifter's conduct; and the prefent fladtholder, it is faid, has treasured up the refentment of his predeceffor.

ANECDOTE of an ADVOCATE of STRASBOURG, lately deceafed.

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HE advocate being taken fuddenly ill, he fent for a brother lawyer to make his will, by which he bequeathed feventy-two thousand florins to the hospital of idiots at Strasbourg. ---His brother advocate expreffing his furprize at his bequest, "Why not beltow that fum upon them (faid the dying man)? You know I got my money by fools, and therefore to fools it ought to return."

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