entirely demolished. Thus did inhumanity, lazinefs, and paffion, meet with deserved punishment. Had the pedlar remembered the craving hunger of the afs, when he gratified his own; or had he purfued with diligence his journey, after finishing his repast, no part of these misfortunes would have befallen him: And his lofs might have been inconfiderable, if unjust severity and rash resentment had not compleated his ruin.

A

THE BEES.

DUTCH merchant, who was fettled at Batavia, procured a hive of young bees from Poland, that he might multiply the breed of this industrious infect, and regale himself with honey prepared under his own inspection. The bees were stationed in a delightful garden, of large extent, and furnished with the richest profufion of fragrant herbs and flowers. Plenty foon corrupted their difpofition to labour; and the stock of honey which they collected, T 2 during

during the first months of their fettlement, was of little value. The expected winter did not enfue; and as they continued to enjoy abundance in this happy climate, they became improvident of futurity, and were no longer at the pains to store their cells with that food, which bountiful nature at all seasons provided for them. Thus unfavourable was exceffive abundance to the admired virtues of the bee. And no lefs injurious to many a well-formed youth is that affluence, which hath been heaped together by parental toil, to gratify parental ambition; but which ferves either to nourish floth, by fuperfeding the neceffity of application; or to promote diffipation, riot, and profligacy, by giving falfe direction to activity.

AN

AND

SHE STEADILY MAINTAINED

PASSIVE OBEDIENCE AND NON-RESISTANCE,

WITHOUT BECOMING

A PARTIZAN IN POLITICS.

SPOTLESS AS A SAINT

SHE LIVED;

AND DIED A

MARTYR.

THIS MONUMENT

BLAZONS NO FEIGNED VIRTUES OF THE

DEAD,

TO FLATTER THE VANITY OF THE

LIVING;

FOR IT IS ERECTED, NOT TO

A WOMAN,

BUT

A SPANIEL. *

Art thou offended, gentle reader, at this tribute to the memory of a faithful dog? Vifit the gardens at Stowe; and peruse the lines infcribed by Cobham to Signior Fido, his Italian greyhound! Or if claffic authority influence thy taste, turn to the page of Plutarch, and read the following narration! "When the Atheni"ans, during the war in which they were

*See an account of this spaniel, Part 11. p. 154.

"engaged

engaged against the Perfians, were con"ftrained to abandon their city, and retire "to the island of Salamis, Xanthippus, "the father of Pericles, embarked with "the rest of his countrymen. His faith"ful dog, having been left behind, swam "after the fhip till he reached the fhore; "where the poor creature was no fooner “landed, than he threw himself down, ex"haufted with fatigue, and expired at his "master's feet. Xanthippus buried him "on the spot; and as a grateful memorial "of his fidelity, erected a monument over "his grave, which remains to this day, " and is known by the name of Cynoffema, "or the dog's fepulchre."

IM MODERATE

SOPHRON

STUDY.

OPHRON had paffed the day in very intenfe application to his favourite study. The shades of the evening infenfibly stole upon him. He called for his lamp, and fupplied it with an extraordinary quantity of oil, that it might burn till midnight. The flame was languid