goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a steril promontory. This most excellent canopy, the air,-this brave overhanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fires,-Why? it appears to me only a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours!" But the mind, however warped, cannot, if naturally good, fail to be restored by a creation so similar: and I have long since been convinced, that if integrity is not happiness, it is the only thing that can supply its place.

I wander here in search of health; and feel the blefsed sun warm at my bosom; or turning to the breeze, fancy I once more inhale strength and happiness. Yet it is not instantaneously the exhausted, heart can resume its capacity for happiness: fears have been so long its predominant expression, that joy, even sometimes involuntary, borrows that language.

The cause remov'd, habitual griefs remain,

And the soul saddens with the use of pain..

Love, invigorating power! thou who canst alone revive the heart, withered by worldly cares and mental struggles! through every tie do I look up to thee with gratitude! whether tremulating from the soft lispings of infancy, the tender cautions of age, or the more dangerous and tumultuous accents breathed from lefs matured feelings. Still in a well governed mind art thou the source of good!-humbling its vanities, correcting its selfishness, bidding

it taste the blessing of bestowing happiness; and, finally, the sweet reward of receiving it.

Happy that child to whom esteem descends as an inheritance! who comes into the world the beloved of many hearts! Whose virtues are supported by example, encouraged by emulation, and who receives, in the name of those from whom the sprung, the pledge of their being respected! Allow me to take more than a nominal interest in an offspring so precious; and teach her early to think he has found a second mother in the sincere and affectionate aunt.

However desirable the various advantages or pleasures of life may at different periods of it be, it is from its rational and social duties alone we must derive our truest felicity; nor are we ever so infortunate as in being deprefsed beneath, or so guilty, as in supposing ourselves elevated above them.

The human mind, created for, and accustomed to action, only languishes in a gloomy inertity without it.

Man, though born with the vigorous and marking virtues which distinguish his career through lf, frequently suffers the humbler ones that most constitute its happiness, to be crushed by education and custom. These, it is the part of woman to preserve; and while from his example fhe acquires candour, stability, and fortitude, fhe must inculcate by her own, the no lefs useful qualifications of gentleness, and self denial.

PARTICULARS RESPECTING SARDINIA.

SIR,

To the Editor of the Bee.

Kites.

CETTI, in his natural history of Sardinia, informs us, that a peasant of that country cannot easily be persuaded to shoot a kite, as he firmly believes that gun will be useless ever after, or that his wife will die within a year.

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Locusts.

That, in 1769, the locusts had so multiplied upon the island, as to darken the air in their flight, and desolate whole fields. They even infested people in their houses, and spread a general alarm. The crows, at last, were observed to fly against them in troops, and made such a havock among the winged clouds, that they soon disappeared.

Afses.

The same author observes, the Sardinian afses do not in general exceed two feet ten inches in height. Perhaps they may have dwindled from not being sufficiently crossed, or from the constant drudgery to which they are subjected. The water in the towns and villages, owing to some cause that has never been properly ascertained, is seldom drinkable. A great many of these dwarfish afses are therefore constantly employed in bringing that necefsary article of life from the neighbouring fields.-The grinding machines are almost all driven by this small breed, in so much, that in the Sardinian dialect, macinatore, and asinello are synonymous terms. I am, Sir, your humble servant, and constant reader,

R. W.