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VAUXHALL.

[From Moritz's Travels into England.]

AUXHALL is, properly speaking, the name of a little village, in which the garden, now almost exclufively bearing the fame name, is fituated. You pay two fhillings on entrance.

On entering it, I really found, or fancied I found, some resemblance to our Berlin Vauxhall; if, according to Virgil, I may be permitted to compare small things with great ones. The walks at leaft, with the paintings at the end, and the high trees, which, here and there, form a beautiful grove of wood, on either fide, were fo fimilar to thofe of Berlin, that often, as I walked along them, I feemed to transport myself, in imagination, once more to Berlin, and forgot for a moment, that immenfe feas, and mountains, and kingdoms, now lay between us. I was the more tempted to indulge in this reverie, as I actually met with feveral gentlemen, inhabitants of Berlin; in particular Mr. S***r, and fome others, with whom I spent the evening in the moft agreeable manner. Here and there you are pleafingly furprised by the fudden appearance of the ftatues of the most renowned English poets and philofophers; fuch as Milton, Thomson, and others. But what gave me most pleasure, was the ftatue of the German compofer, Handel, which, on entering the garden, is not far diftant from the orchestra.

This orchestra is among a number of trees, fituated as in a little wood, and is an exceedingly handfome one. As you enter the garden, you immediately hear the found of vocal and inftrumental mufic. There are feveral female fingers conftantly hired to fing here.

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On each fide of the orchestra are fmall boxes, with tables and benches, in which you fup. The walks before the fe, as well as in every other part of the garden, are crowded with people of all ranks. I fupped here with Mr. S***r, and the fecretary of the Pruflian ambaffador; befides a few other gentlemen from Berlin; but what most aftonithed me, was the boldness of the women of the town, who often rushed in upon us by half dozens, and in the moft fhameless manner importuned.us for wine. Our gentlemen thought it either unwife, unkind, or unfafe, to refufe them fo fmall a boon.

When the evening was pretty far advanced, we were entertained with a fight, that is indeed fingularly curious and interefting. In a particular part of the garden, a curtain was drawn up, and by means of fome mechanifm, of extraordinary ingenuity, the eye and the ear are fo completely deceived, that it is not eafy to perfuade one's-felf it is a deception; and that one does not actually fee and hear a natural waterfall from a high rock. As every one was flocking to this fcene in crowds, there arofe all at once a loud cry of, "Take care of your pockets.' This informed us, but too clearly, that there were fome pick-pockets among the crowd, who had already made fome fortunate ftrokes.

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The rotunda, a magnificent circular building, in the garden, particularly engaged my attention.

By means of beautiful chandeliers and large mirrors, it was illuminated in the moft fuperb manner; and every where decorated with delightful paintings and statues, in the contemplation of which you may spend feveral hours very agreeably, when you are tired of the crowd and the bustle, in the walks of the garden.

Among the paintings one reprefents the furrender of a befieged city. If you look at this painting with attention, for any length of time, it affects you so much, that you even shed tears. The expreffion of the greatest diftrefs, even bordering on defpair, on the part of the befieged, the fearful expectation of the uncertain iffue, VOL. VII. Y

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and what the victor will determine, concerning those unfortunate people, may all be read fo plainly, and so naturally in the countenances of the inhabitants who are imploring for mercy, from the hoary head, to the fuckling, whom his mother holds up, that you quite forget yourfelf, and in the end fcarcely believe it to be a painting before you.

You alfo here find the bufts of the beft English authors, placed all around on the fides. Thus a Briton again meets with his Shakespeare, Locke, Milton, and Dryden, in the public places of his amufements; and there alfo reveres their memory. Even the common people thus become familiar with the names of those, who have done honour to their nation; and are taught to mention them with veneration. For this rotunda is also an orchestra, in which the mufic is performed in rainy weather.

SCHOOL FOR PARENTS.

RESUMED.

BY A K. ISLEWORTH.

(Continued from page 163.)

The lily fcreen'd from every ruder gale,
Courts not the cultur'd fpot where rofes fpring,
But blows neglected in the peaceful vale,
And fcents the zephyr's balmy breathing wing!

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OGILIVIE.

OTHING could be more diftant and difagreeable than the behaviour of Lady Hubert and Mifs Pedigree to our amiable invalid. They conftantly introduced fashionable fubjects, with which Catharine was almoft unacquainted; they fpoke of perfons the had never feen, and of places the had never vifited ; by thefe means they excluded her from any fhare in their converfations, which were, in general, a mixed jargon

jargon of fcandal, ancestry, and diffipation. Sir James, obferving that Catharine was no favourite with the ladies, infenfibly adopted a more diftant manner of nehaviour, than he had before practifed towards her. Catharine had too much penetration not to difcover that fhe was an unwelcome vifitor among perfons who va lued themfelves for the antiquity of their family and the dignity of their alliance, which Lady Hubert frequently dwelt on, even in the prefence of Ormfby. On fuch occafions the beautiful Selima would look with a fmile of derifion on the manly figure of her intended husband, and repeat, with no small share of complacency, fome of the many pretty nothings which the had learnt by rote, that had been addreffed to her during the laft winter, by the foft-hearted fons of fafhion; and relate how vaitly mortified her dear friend, the Countefs of Nightshade was when he heard that Lord Hubert had prepofterously accepted any offer for her less than a ducal coronet.

Such ridiculous vanity no ways raifed them in the good opinion of Ormfby-he feldom noticed their intended farcaims, indeed they were not keen enough to affect him, fince nobody would have feen Mifs Pedigree's elevation to the peerage with more pleasure than himfelf. Several days paffed in nearly the fame manner. Lady Hubert and Miss Pedigree spent much of their time in their own dreffing rooms, or in excurfions round the park in a fashionable carriage, which had followed them from their own refidence. It was drawn by two beautiful ponies, which the fair Selima managed with great dexterity. Lord Hubert, we have before obferved, devoted his evenings to the bottle, and of courfe was not in a condition to appear till a late hour the following day.

Sir James was abfent, embarraffed, and referved, and it was plainly to be feen that fomething of an unpleafant nature occupied his thoughts. In this fituation of things at the manor, Mr. Selby determined on returning to Clayfield, fearing that the prefence of himself

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and fifter was a reftraint upon the parties. This, however was vehemently oppofed both by the Baronet and his fon. At length, at their repeated requests, he agreed to continue with them another week; during that pe riod he paffed much of his time with the Barcnet, while George was left to contemplate all the attractions of the interefting Catharine, whofe virtues flowly unfolded themselves as the became better known to him. Her mind was highly cultivated and her fenfibility extreme; but it was not of that irritable kind which leads many a fair daughter of Eve to deplore, in pathetic ftrains, the death of a monkey, or weep themfelves into fits for the lofs of a fquirrel. No! Catharine Selby was humane to every thing into which her great Creator had infufed the breath of life, but the was, in particular, the friend of the human race; to fuccour the afflicted, to comfort the diftreffed, to relieve the weak, and to redrefs the injured, were to her never-failing fources of mental gratification!

The morning preceding the one fixed on for their departure, while Ormby, Mr. Selby, and Catharine, were chatting on indifferent fubjects, the former was requested to attend Lord Hubert in his chamber-he obeyed. Mr. Selby retired to the library, and Catharine, as was her practice, when left to herself, wandered into the pleafure grounds, from thence the entered a wood which terminated in an acclivity, on whofe fummit stood a ruftic tempic, dedicated to the fylvan deities, from whence the eye roved without fatiety or fatigue, over a rich, paftoral, and highly cultivated country. Catharine feated herfelf to enjoy a fcene, of all others, moft in unifon with her feelings; the lowing herds, the fleecy flocks, the meandering ftreams, the bufy mill, the whitened cottage, and the village fpire, were to her more beautiful, infinitely more interesting, than all the glitter of wealth or the pageantry of pride; To her more dear, congenial to her heart One native charm, than all the glofs of art.

GOLDSMITH.

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