ring that was ftapled into a poft, purposely funk on a level with the pavement. They then brought a large and well-ftuffed feather-bed, and fixed it under the cord where it joined the ring.

In the mean time Volanti appeared on the top of the fteeple, and, bending cautioufly forward, and getting the cord within an iron grove that was braced to his bofom, he pushed himself onward, and, with a kindling rapidity, flew over the heads of the fhouting multitude, poifing himself with expanded legs and arms, as he paffed, till he was landed, without damage, on his yielding receiver. And, in the very next papers, Harry published the following advertisement, to wit:

"Before the first of April next Sig6.6 nor Dominico Jachimo Tonino Volanti, by the help of canvas wings "contrived for the purpose, purposes to "fly over-fea from Dover to Calais, and invites all his London friends to come "and fee him fet out."

Harry had now feen whatever London could exhibit of elegant, curious, or pleafing; and Mr Fenton judged it time to hold up to him the melancholy reverse of this picture; to fhew him the house of mourning, the end of all men; to thew him the dreary fhades and frightful pif S 3 lages

fages of mortality which humanity fhudders to think of, but through which human nature of neceffity must go..

For this purpose he took him to the GENERAL HOSPITAL, where death opened all his gates, and fhewed himself in all his forms. But the great poet, on this occafion, has anticipated all defcription:

-Immediately a place

Before his eyes appear'd-fad, noifome, dark..
A lazar-house it feem'd, wherein were laid
Numbers of all difeas'd, all maladies

Of ghaftly fpafin, of racking torture, qualms
Of heart-fick agony --all fev'rous kinds,
Convulfions, epilepfies, fierce catarrhs,
Intestine ftone and ulcer; colic pangs,
Dæmonaic phrenfy, moping melancholy,.
And moon-ftruck madnefs; pining atrophy,,
Dopfies, and afth.nas, and joint-racking rheums.
Dire was the tolfing,, deep the groan-Despair:
Tended the fick, bulieft from couch to couch,
And over them triumphant Death his dart
Shook, but delayed to trike, though oft invok'd
With vows, as their chief good.

MILTON.

While Mr Fenton led his pupil through groaning galleries, and the chambers. of death and disease, Harry let down the: leaf of his hat, and drew it over his eyes,.

to

to conceal his emotions.

All that day

he was filent, and his countenance downcaft; and, at night, he haftened to bed, where he wept a large tribute to the mournfully-inevitable condition of man's miferable ftate upon earth.

The next day Mr Fenton took him to the Bethlehem hofpital for idiots and lunatics. But when Harry beheld and contemplated objects fo fhocking to thought, fo terrible to fight; when he had con templated, I fay, the ruin above all ruins, human intelligence and human reason fo fearfully overthrown; where. the ideas of the foul, though diftorted and mifplaced, are quick and all alive to horror and agony; he grew fick and turned pale, and, fuddenly catching his uncle by the arin, Come, Sir, let us go, faid he, I can ftand this no longer..

When they had reached home, and that Harry was more compofed: Are all the inferies, Sir, faid he, that we have witnefled thefe two days, the confe quences o fin? Even to, indeed, my Harry, all thefe,' and thousands more, equally pitiape and duguiting, are the natural progeny of that wo-begetting parent. Nor are thofe miferes confined to notpitals alone; very hodie, nay every bolon, is acertam thouşă lecret lazar-houie, wiltre

tue

the fick-couch is preparing, with all the difmal apparatus, for tears and lamentations, for agonies and death.

Since that is the cafe, Sir, who would laugh any more? Is it not like feafting in the midst of famine, and dancing amidft the tombs ?

All things in their feafon, my dear, provided that thofe who laugh be as though they laughed not, remembering that they muft weep, and provided that those who weep be as though they wept not, having joy in their knowledge that the fashion of this world quickly paffeth away.

On the following day, Mr Fenton returned to Hampftead, leaving Harry and Mr Clement ability to indulge the benevolence of their hearts.

One evening, as our companions were drinking tea in the Temple-Exchange Coffeehouse, a man advanced in years, but of a very refpectable appearance, got up, and addreffed the affembly:

Gentlemen, faid he, among the feveral hofpitals and other charitable foundations that have done honour to the humanity of the inhabitants of this city, there is one fill wanting, which, as I conceive, above all others, would give diftinction to the beneficence of its found

ers;

ers; it is a houfe for repenting proftitutes, an afylum for unhappy wretches who have no other home, to whom all doors are fhut, to whom no haven is open, no habitation, or hole for reft, upon the face of the earth.

Most of them have been feduced from native innocence and modesty by the arts of cruel men. Many have been deceived under promife and vows of marriage; fome under the appearance of the actual ceremony, and afterwards abandoned, or turned forth to infamy by their barbarous and bafe undoers. Shall no place then be left for repentance, even to those who do repent? Forbid it charity, forbid it manhood. Man is born the natural protector of the weakness of woman; and, if he has not been able to guard her innocence from invafion, he ought at least to p'ovide a reception for her return to virtue.

I have the plan of this charitable foundation in my pocket; and, if any of you, Gentlemen, approve my proposal, and are willing to fubfcribe, or to folicit your friends to fo beneficent a purpose, I requeft your company to the tavern over the way.

Here the speaker walked toward the door, and was followed by Harry and Cle

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