ali fects of religion, contracted marriages with each other and with Ruffians, without attracting the flightest remark. For his religious opinions, in short, however extraordinary, no man had any thing to apprehend from the government or his equals, if he did not attempt to force them upon others, or seek to make profelytes. A great part of the foreigners even lived without profeffing themselves of any ecclefiaftical connection; but no one ever set himself up as an inquifitor into the faith of thefe independents, and none troubled themselves about them. "The Empress, not satisfied with having appointed a Catholic archbishop, and established a feminary of Jefuits at Mohilef, and with having fupported Islamism in the Krimea, the gave to her people almost every year fome folemn inftance of the protection the granted to the liberty of worship. On the day of the benediction of the waters, her confeffor, by her orders, invited to his houfe the ecclefiaftics of all communions, and gave them a grand entertainment, which Catharine called the Dinner of Toleration. Accordingly this year, at the fame table were feated, the patriarch of Grufinia or Georgia, the archimandrite of St. Petersburg, the bishop of Polotsk, the bishop of Pfcove, a Catholic bishop, a prior of the fame religion, Francifcans, Jefuits, an Armenian prieft, Lutheran preachers, Calvinifts, and the English clergyman: in fhort, here were priests of no less than eight different forms of worhip. It has been calculated, that the offices of religion are performed in Petersburg in fourteen different languages."

We have reafon to believe that we are indebted to Mr. William Tooke for thefe entertaining volumes, who has fince favoured the public with another valuable work, entitled A View of the Russian Empire, which in our next number fhall be duly noticed.

The 6th of January. It was continued for several years,

The

he Margate New Guide, or Memoirs of Five Families out of Six; who, in Town, difcontent with a good Situation, make Margate the Place of their Summer Migration. With Notes and Occafional Anecdotes. Dutton. 2s. 6d.

SINCE the publication of Anftie's Bath Guide, we have been deluged with guides of various kinds, but all of them poffeffing inferior merit to the incomparable original which fuggefted thefe imitations.

The prefent production is not deftitute of wit, and the trifling diffipation of a watering place is happily difplayed. Those who frequent Margate will recognize many of the fcenes here brought forward, which cannot fail of exciting a fmile. Take the following specimen.

LETTER VI.

COUSIN FRED. TO COUSIN TOM.

A lift of the principal Affociates. Coffee-houfe chit chat. The Draper. Saphics. The Milliner. Dactylics.

"DEAR TOM.

August 8, 1798.

"Without preface I think it is best,

To give you the name of each principal guest
Her lady ship vifits, as then 'twill be plain,

If hereafter they're mentioned, to know them again.
Mifs Grig, Fanny Forté, and Lucy Larghetto,
Combine with fweet Ann a moft charming quartetto;
And fometimes (but then the ne'er let her mumma

know)

She fends for Mat. Minim, and Polly Piano.

If patience is woman's, her ladyship has it,
To vifit the formal Mifs Tabitha Tacit;

Who fcrews up her mouth as if talking would spoil it,
Tho' ftill a fheep's eye cafts at little Tim. Toilet.

"Little

"Little Tim's much improv'd, tho' his voice being

broke,

Is the medium exact of a roar and a croak;
But ftrictly obferving a hint of aunt Peg's,
Ev'ry morning to fwallow a couple of eggs,
I hope will foon fet little Tim on his legs.

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"In Daniel's acquaintance I alfo meet mine, Sir Nicholas Nectar, and Mat Muscadine, Who are both very eminent dealers in wine; Sir Tara Tantivy, young Pipe the diftiller, And the handsome young foap-boiler, Bobby Berilla. "Then my lady has all her acquaintance from Esher, Here's old Doctor Rhubarb and Lady Magnefia; His niece Sukey Senna, young Peftle his nephew, And two fuch maid fervants I'm fure you will fee few.

"From thefe, you may judge (as we seldom go
walking)

The coffee-room echoes inceffant with talking.
This morning the fubjects were merry and brifk,
Mifs Grig loved quadrille, and aunt Peg prefer'd whisk;
Mat talked a vaft deal about pantomine dancers,
The doctor's remarks were on dropfies and cancers;
Mifs Tacit juft utter'd "Cafino" and "Faro;"
Young Bobby faid much of D'Egville and Del Caro.
Allegranti,
And Banti,
Benelli,
Morelli,

But nothing could match the bravura of Kelly,
Tim Toilet agreed-and they each took a jelly;
While gracefully jingling the glafs and the fpoon,
They begg'd Fanny Forté would grant them a tune.
"The good-natur'd creature thought we should
prefer to

Their old fashion'd madrigals, Duffex's concerto;
And her mem'ry and tafte being much on a par,
She play'd us the whole without missing a bar.
"Bravo!" cried Sir Nic, "'tis uncommonly well!
What foftnefs! and then what a beautiful fwell!

Whofe

Whose Piano is that, Miss?" "I fancy from Kirckman,

You know we all count him an excellent workman." "Why true," exclaim'd Mat, "but the true cognofcenti

Prefer those made under the eye of Clementi;

Pray have you his Waltzes? Mifs, do me the favour, The first is delightful."-" Dear fir! I'll endeavour." (The first being over) "'Tis beautiful reckon'd.” "If 'tis not fatiguing, pray give us the fecond." ('Tis play'd.) Very charming," said Bob, "'po' my word."

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"'Tis pretty," faid Fan, "but don't equal the third."
And now, to please us, having play'd all the best,
She play'd for her own fole amufement the reft;
For Mat having faid that the best was the first,
No mortal dar'd hint when the came to the worst.
I fiez'd the first inflant I could to escape her,
For five minutes chat with my neighbour the draper;
And much better pleas'd was I there, I confefs,
As a lady came in of the quality mess,

And the following faphics adorn'd his address.

SAPPHICS.

"Boy, fweep the fhop; the chocolate prepare, wife;
Here comes the Countess rattling down the high street,
Hark! 'tis her chariot turning round the corner,
Boy, clear the counter.

Madam; permit me, (opening the coach door,
Placing the ftep, and holding out his elbow ;)
Sure the young lady will not like to wait long,
Better get out, mifs.

What will it please your ladyship to see first ?
Dimity, farfnet, lawn, or India muslin?
China filk hofe, what all the ladies wear now;
Clocks at the ancle.

This too deferves, my lady, your attention,
Where will you fee fo fweet a callimanco?
None can excel't in Margate, I affure you,
No, nor in London.

May

May I prefume your lady fhip to tempt now?
Ne'er did I fee fo elegant a luteftring!

Boy put her ladyfhip's things in the coach-" and
"Now for my bill, fir."

Three yards of cambric, eight and forty fhillings,
Hofe, callimanco, callico, and muflin,

Just twenty-two pounds, seventeen, and fixpence,
Right to a farthing.

Not far from the draper's a milliner dwelt,
For whom I a tendre had frequently felt;
She fits in the window inviting the eye,
And cofting each indifcreet gazer a figh;
And whether he's darning, or hemming, or ftitching,
Her glances and actions are truly bewitching.

"I went from the draper's to chat with my fair one, Whose smiles, e'en in filence, fo fully enfnare one; Her voice's foft mufic enraptures the fenfe, One adds to one's order, nor thinks of expence. (Like bucks eating paftry, who frequently stuff Hot puff after cheeefcake, and tart after puff, To dart forth a volley of amorous leerings,

At a pair of black eyes, and a pair of bob car-rings.)
But the Countefs's coach, which came driving amain,"
Put a stop to my purfe, and a stop to my pain;
The fequel the dactylics fully explain.

(I give them verbatim, I can't give them better,
And with them I likewife fhall finish my letter.)

DACTYLICS.

Jenny, and Caroline, Charlotte, and Isabel,
An't that the Countess of callico's livery?
That is her carriage, and in it her lady ship.

Bring out the chair with a cushion fo pliable;
Well I remember the countess's favourite;
I am the woman for pleafing my customers.

F

Say, will your ladyfhip walk in the drawing-room?
May I, while praifing this beautiful tiffany,
Just recommend you this elegant handkerchief?

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