frus difcovered a more pleafing object. of the bride and bridegroom: The The next moment he found himself near a houfe of a very good appearance, and faw an old man, whofe figure touched him with involuntary reverence: He had a long white beard, which covered his breaft, and reached almoft as low as his girdle: He had a ruddy countenance, a piercing eye, and his afpect expreffed the utmost fatisfaction and tranquility. Irus falute (Gent. Mag. JULY 1765.) ed him with the most profound refpect, and asked, with an air of timid modefty, who he was? "I am, faid the old inan, the matter of this house; I improve my own grounds, I live in great harmony with my wife and children; I practile hofpitality, both as a pleafure and a duty; and, if you are willing, you may be witness to the truth of what I tell you."-In fuch a fituation, faid Irus, and with fuch fentiments, you muit certainly be well fatished with your condition.-"I do not complain, faid the old man: I have a competency, and I hope I fhall be able to fettle my fun and my two daughters in the world to advantage. I thould, however, have been glad to do more for them than will come to their hare. My neighbour, who is in no refpect my fuperior, is about to marry his daughter to a lord. This unexpected good fortune has been fome days uppermoft in my mind, and I am determined to leave no stone unturned to make my daughter equal to his."-" I find, faid Irus, that I am come too late, and I am glad I was not deceived by coming fooner: You are not my man, and to good b'ye to you." As he turned from the old man he faw a ftout young fellow faft afleep, at a little diftance, upon the ground; upon going up to him he found him ruddy, and in good cafe, but his external appearance was that of a beggar. Irus awaked him, and the firanger looking up, and fcratching his head, afked what he wanted. • Can I be of any fervice to you, honest friend, faid Irus ?" To me! faid the fellow : Thank God I want nothing. I wif you had gone about your butinefs without waking me. This is pleasant enough, faid Irus, he that fecins to have most reafon to complain, is the molt content with his condition.' Yes, faid the other, I am content; I beg for what I have; I am troubled with no business, and have found out the fecret of diverting myfelf at the expence of other people. I do nothing, I care for nothing, and I have nothing to with."-Waile he fixed Irus's attention by this harangue, he was lily picking his pocket of a leathern bag, the string of which hang a little way out of it; but at that moment a man with a thort painted taff came foftly behind them, and laying H hold of the thief, whom he detected in the very fast, carried him away to prifou. So, Mr beggar, faid Irus, are you a happy man now ?" 46 While While he was mufing upon this event, his attention was drawn to a very different object, and very different pallions took place in his bofom. A He faw a woman, who, though past the bloom of life, was ftili lovely; but her cheeks were pale, her eyes almoft extinguished, and her breath fhort and interrupted. She grasped the hand of a man fomewhat older than herfelf, who, perceived her to be dying, and by an effort of the most painful fortitude, restrained his tears, and endeavoured to give the comfort B that he could not take. 'My deareft and most tender friend, faid he, though the felicity of twenty years which commenced, when our hands were united, has vanished like a dream of the night, and feems to have been fcarcely of a moment's duration, it thall be renewed in a frate that is beyond the influence of change and time; a state that fhall commence when my foul fhall be once more united to thine, when we fhall meet to part no more; a few years perhaps I may be fuffered to continue here for the fake of the charge you leave with me, our children, the dear pledges of a pure and ardent affection, and the images of a mother whom I fhali ftill cherish, and admire in them; but I D ll not be long divided from you, and we part only that you may enjoy before me, that happiness in heaven E of which your virtue gave you an earnest upon earth." "You now give me, faid the, fixing her eyes tenderly upon him, a token of your affection that I could never receive before, and I am more fen. fible than ever, that I am dear to you; it is from what I feel, that what you have faid derives its force: Fulfil the kind the important task for which you are detained from me, and let my children fometimes learn from you how tenderly they were beloved by their mother-but I feel my ftrength fail me. Let your remembrance" at leaft go with me; but leave me now; let me confecrate my last moments to God; this request is my last effort; let it induce you to make yet this one facrifice to me; we mult part, but it will be but for a moment; this is my confolation." The husband overwhelmed at once with a fenfe of her tenderness and piety, quitted her hand which was already cold, and which he now, for the last time, preffed first to his bofom, and then to his lips, in an agony of F G fpeechlefs forrow-he retired with a flow and interrupted pace, and his eyes at last quitted their favorite object, with a reluctance which his fortitude could fcarce furmount. The moment he was alone, the tears which he had ftruggled to suppress burst out in copious torrents, and in a very fhort time he was told that his wife was dead his anguifh was too great for words; he only looked up to heaven, and, ftriking his hands together, continued fome minutes in that atti : tude; then recollecting himself, he tenderly embraced his children, but without uttering one word, or breathing one figh; the fral apparatus immediately filled the hamber of the dead; the furvivor taking his children by the hand, approached the coffin, and having first knelt down by the fide of it, and indulged those fentiments, which words have no power to exprefs, they stooped over the body and imprinted a laft kifs upon the lifelefs lips; they then retired, and the remains of the tendereft wife, and moft affe&tionate mother were carried to the grave. • O! most amiable couple, faid Irus, his eyes overflowing with tears, how great, yet how cruel is fuch a parting, bow much anguish would have been fpared you, if you had died toge ther!' The next object that prefented it. felf to Irus, was a kind of hermitage, the door of which stood open; he entered it, and croffed a little chamber, which led him to the entrance of a vista, through which, he difcovered the adjacent country; the prospect was delightful; and while he was admiring it, he faw a man of a short flature, about fifty years old, walking among the trees at fone diftance, and to all appearance abforbed in profound meditation. After fome time he looked up and faw Irus, who immediately apologized for the liberty he had taken in coming fo far, and expreffed fome furprise at the eafy acce's he had found. I dont wonder, faid the hermit, that you think it ftrange; but I neither fay nor do any thing that all the world may not hear and fee; and I have always confider. Hed the Roman, who wished that his houfe was built fo that every body might fee all that paffed in it, as one of the moft refpectable characters in the world. Irus was equally pleafed and furprised at what he heard, and was the more ftruct with the hermit, the A juftice. He liftened fome time to a celebrated pleader, who fpoke with great eloquence against feveral enormities which are confecrated by fashion, and the artifices of those who induce ignorant and querulous people, to spend immenfe fums in litigating a trifle. While Irus was admiring the talents and the integrity of the orator, a new scene fuddenly prefented itself before him; he thought himself tran.. fported to the house of this oracle of the law, where he found his wife ftilk in bed, and perceived with indigna tion that the was not alone. Is it then, faid he to himself, for the gratification of this faithlefs woman, in her caprices and extravagance, that the pleader exhaufts his lungs, after hav. ing grown pale by the ftudies of midnight. Soon after, the orator came home, and madam, being then up, ran to meet him with a well affected joy, and received him with blandithments, which he thought fincere. How happy is this man, faid Irus; he is. deceived, indeed, but he derives from falfhood the fame enjoyments as he D would receive from truth. Indeed, honest man, you are very much obliged to your wife for her cunning. the more he confidered his appear- The next moment, Irus, was involved in a thick cloud, and when it diffipated, he found himself in a court of E G The next object that Irus faw was a reclte, emaciated by fasting and mortification; he appeared, however, very well contented with his condition. "Father, fays Irus, don't you find this kind of life very unpleasant? Sometimes, my fon, faid the reclufe; but if life is long with respect to pain, it is fhort with respect to pleasure. I fuffer pain, without doubt, but I hope that thefe tranfient evils will procure for me endless and unchangeable felicity. "I do not blame the feverity of your difcipline, faid Irus, but are alms and good works less pleasing to God than penance and mortification, mifery and idleness?" The devotee vanished without reply, and Irus once more faw himself in the city of the Good Prince. As he looked up, he beheld a winged figure flying about in the air, and hovering firft over one building, and then over another: It was of an human shape, but appeared neither to be man nor woman. Irus was much furprized, and continued to obferve its motions with great curiofity; he perceived that it remained a very little while over the roofs of the great, fomewhat longer over those of the poor, and longer ftill over the dwellings of mediocrity. "Thou feeft, faid the phantom, that I am fixed to no fpot; take care of A Method of defroying WASPS and Mr URBAN, AS, in all probability, this dry fea fon will produce a large breed of wafps, it may not be disagreeable to fuch of your readers as are in poffeffion of fruit walls, to be put in a way of leffening the numbers of thofe deltructive infects. C Hornets must be fearched for on decayed posts, rails, &c. for they make their combs with touch-wood, and the fame kind of natural cement. In the very dry, hot fummer, 1761, wafps were fo numerous and alert, that it looked as if no fruit could have hung till it was fit for the table. They began on the grapes before they were half ripe; and getting into the melonframes, fcooped out all the pulp of the fruit, leaving only the eripty fhells. I tried phials, as ufual, filled with fugared beer, &c. This destroyed B fome, but did not at all feem to lessen the fwarms. At lait I bethought mvfelf to buy fome bird lime, with which I tipp'd feveral taper bazle rods of different lengths, and fo began catching them by hand, applying the top of the rod as they fettled on the fruit. This appeared at firit to be a tedious method; but after a little practice it foon had the defired effet, for an handy perfon or two would, in a few hours, entangle four or five hundred; and it toon appeared that they were not fo numbeilels as we imagined; and the taking the workers itarved the grubs, which are fupported by them, and prevented a fucceffion. By this fimple method (ineffectual as it may appear) I faved my fruit entire, which hung till it was ripened to great perfection. Hornets, as they are a larger mark, and more fluggish, are eafly taken. This method of touching them is a fort of angling, and not a bad amufement for half an hour. As fast as they are caught, they muft be fqueezed to death with a flat piece of a lath, and the tip of the rod re. freshed with bird-lime now and then. The reafon of providing rods of different lengths is to fuit the different heights of the wall. D Thole that are not unacquainted with natural hiftory know, that all the working wafps die every autumn,when the cold weather comes on; and that quly a few females furvive the winter, and keep up the breed. Thefe (which are turgid with eggs, and much larger E than the workers) come forth about April from their lurking holes, and begin tingly each its net, which in a moderate time becomes very populous. It is therefore of great confequence to kill as many of thefe as poffible, fince a whole fwarm is destroyed in every fingle female early in the year. The places to find them at are new posts, pales, melon-frames, or any folid timber; for, as they make their combs with the fhavings of found wood, which they rasp off with their fangs, and moisten up with a certain mucus' that nature has provided in their own G bodies, they will readily be found near fuch materiais. I had made use of fome new boards this fpring, to shelter my wall-trees, while blowing, from the fevere winds; but a milder feafon coming, they were fet by against the wall all in an heap. The cold weather returning, when I H went to re place the boards, I found half a dozen female wafps between them, quite torpid and motionles: Thus I deftroyed as many netts. While I am fpeaking of fruit, it may not be amifs to add, that this fummer I recovered a peach tree that was quite rivelled up on one fide, only by a partial watering, two or three times a week, of the affected part; the rest of the tree being too vigorous, I did not dare water it all over. By this means, the ailing fide threw out wood by degrees, and is now furnished with fuitable thoots, that will be fit to lay-in at the winter tacking, and in appearance will be fruitful. Had this remedy been omitted, it would have been an imperfect one-fided tree, and an eve fore on the wall as long as it had lafted. The Letter from Cambridge Univ. to Ld Hardwick, and Answer. 329 Letter from the Univerfity of Cambridge Illufiriffimo Dno. Dno. Philippo Comiti Rfidem, A fidem, in Judiciis Arbitrum S1futamus; beati, qui et moram studio noftro rependere poffumus; et quo ferius, eo deftinatius Tibi gratulári. Neque veremur, ne aut noftri Te pu. B deat obfequii; aut ipfi incurrere” in dignitatem tuam videamur, tenue quiddam et exile munus aliaturi. Multa funt, unde quod honorificum nobis, idem Tibi non ingratum esse poffit. Ecquod enim nobis aliud a gendum, quam ut Academiæ noftræ fiat ille Patronus, qui clariffimis in eadem ftudijs adolefcentiam fuam exercuit, maturitatem ornavit? qui famam hujus loci folitos fit in primorum hominum cœtibus, in confeffu philofophantium propagere? qui præfidio fuo, quos et jacentes recreare potuerit, eofdem nos florentes illuftravit ? perere. Difciplinam noftram privatus adeo coluifti jure publico eandem et lege neceflitudinis tueare. Ad omnia, nus officia peragenda paratos habe, que dignitati tuæ inferviant, noftrum in Te profiteantur obfequium. Sumus, His Lordship's Anfwer. To the Rev. and Right Worfeipful the ViceChancellor, and Senate of the Univer fity of Cambridge. Mr Vice-Chancellor, and Gentlemen of the Senate, Cledgements for the diftinguishing Return you my fincere acknowmark of your good opinion in electing me High Steward of your univer fity; you may be assured I shall always retain a proper fenfe of the honour that has been done me, by this teftimony of efteem from fo learned and illuftrious a body; which ought not to be remembered by me with lefs thankfulness, whatever accidents may have contributed to retard the effect of your favourable intentions towards Reputabis infuper, quod moleftiam D Tibi in hoc munere, chicuimodi fue. rit, obeundo poffit adimere, maximorum Te fedem atque optimorum hominum capeffere. Dignitatem hanc cum titulis et honoribus fuis componi paffus eft Nobiliffimus Ille Academiæ noftræ Cancellarius: ad hanc demifit E fe in fummo totius Reipublicæ loco Pater tuus, Nolumus, hoc præfertim loco, ut præclarus Ille Vir et defideratiffimus aut inani nobis luctu defleatur, aut commendetur præconio: ne vel in pietatem tuam peccare videamur; vel Ipfus famæ Magnitudinem non fatis perfpicere. Id modo dixerimus, qui in Regis fui, in Patriæ falutem atque honorem omnia femper integerrimą vitæ confilia contulerit, eundem noftris artibus et difciplinæ amore pari, fide, fapientia provideffe. F G Deftitui autem nos nullo unquam tempore voluit et orbari; quod ex fe fufceptos, fummæ fpei Juvenes, ex his edibus in lucem hominum emiferit, et ad maxima Reipublicæ negotia. Quæ vero utilitates non exinde nobis vindicatæ quæ jura non rectiffima unius Hominis voluntate, ore, confilio H fancita et graviffimis munita fententiis? ita infuper tractata, ut literis noftris et lumini Idem effet et præfidio. In illud ergo munus ingredere, quod et Tue Tibi et Tuorum virtutes pe me. This office is the more agreeable to me, as it will afford me an opportunity of co-operating with that noble perion, who ftands in the highest and nearest relation to you; who has given you, on many occafions, the molt fubRantial marks of his friendship andpatronage; and in a long courfe of power and honours, paid an invariable atcerned your reputation or interefts. tention to every thing which con I am, indeed, truely fenfible of the difficulties I am laid under by fucceeding one in this fituation, to whofe eminent qualities you have born so just and honourable a teltimony. Howe, ver unable I may be to reach the more fhining parts of his character, it will, I truft, be in my power to imitate him in that fincere regard which he always expreffed for you, and that unaltera ble attachment which he always had to your fervice. And I have a pleafure in reflecting that the proper fenfe and remembrance which you entertained of his merit and fervices, had the principal fhare in recommending me on this occafion to your notice. One circumftance, however, you |