The fimilar appearances in inferior animals can be no objection to this fuppofition. That they have their dreams, is highly probable; that they have fomething in them which is diftinct from, and will furvive, their bodies, feems to me as much fo. Mere matter wills no more account for their operations, than ours; nor is there, in my apprehenfion, any fufficient reafon against allowing them a future ftate, but many strong: ones for it. This, however, is one of thofe things which are not neceffary for us to know, and which we are therefore, not qualified to know.

Y.

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AVING obferved indolence to be a concomitant of mental abilities, I fend you a juvenile trifle that whenever your friends prefer reft to celebrity, they may fill up a page with it. Remarks on the equality of the diftributions of Providence gave rife to this little playful tale; the more experience I gain, and the oftner. I. reflect on this fubject, the more fully conviction poffeffes me. We are none of us fo depreffed as the defpondency of impatience supposes, nor is there any fituation however elevated or apparently happy, without its alloy of mifery.

I do not know a scheme more worthy the pen of the learned and benevolent, as many pious perfons are thrown into defpair by every little misfortune, as if it were the immediate punishinent of fupreme juftice, and the flagitious arraign the equity of Providence; both I think from not taking an accurate furvey of the degree of their enjoyments (which are proportionable to the capacity of the poffeffor rather than to the richness of the gifi) and extent of their duration; and comparing the defires of temperance and inordinacy, which are in general the effects of fituation; while the ingenuous mind would foar to infinity, and the benign heart pant for omnipotence, without perceiving the blafphemous tendency. Upon the whole I believe no one of obfervarion will contend, that the abundance of affluence, either, material or intellectual, creates fewer wants than the indigence of penury. We have all fome peculiar felicity, which habit and pride render molt precious, and which any other ftate might feclude, or deftroy; therefore an humble acquiefcence is as much our intereft, as it is our duty.

For my part I never lament with impatience the imbecility of my mind, but when I would vindicate the difpenfations of the Almighty. Yet though I am incapable of proving to conviction perhaps the molt obvious truth, I may, by turning the thoughts of others on this momentous fubject, be the remote caufe of confiderable advantage to my fellow-creatures; and whatever Providence has in his wifdom withheld, I blefs his goodnefs for having beflowed on me a heart that can delight in beneficence.

I am, Sir, &c.

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The Fire Robed God hath three thousand times beheld each varying season, that with grateful viciffitude circling decks the checkered year, fince there reigned in Caffimere, favoured with his earliest beams, Indus, who claimed the fource of day for his fire. His mo

ther the crystal footed Naiad, Fechena, gave love to the Golden haired God. Her fair purity ftill captivates him; and hence it is that he drives with fuch speed from us, looks in the morning with fo vivacious a gaiety, and in the evening wears fo ineffable a fmile. His fon by the potency of wisdom-and energy of valcur fubdued all the nations that environed him, from the great fea that imbofoms ten thousand finaller worlds, to the icy mountains of the North; from Euphrates crowned with the wonders of Babylon, to the fertilizing Ganges, adored by the natives of the Eaft as the difpenfer of good.

Many years did Indus reign diffufing beneficence around him, till at the intreaty of Phœbus, Jupiter reňdered him immortal, placing him among the river Gods. His people grateful to his benignity called their country India; which is fo highly favoured by Apollo that there alone he feems to exert his whole influence, covering its furface with bloomy fragrance, and enriching its bowels with gems fparkling as the beauty of Fechena.

When the day came on which his refplendent fire had promised to give him a potion of immortality out of the nectared cup of Jupiter, he called his two fons, Adversity and Profperity, to him, and divided his dominions between them; giving to the first all that lay north of Caffimere, its rocky hills, and woody vallies; and to Profperity the efflorescent fields of Godah, and the diamond mines of Golconda. This diftribution

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my children, faid he, may, at prefent, appear unequal, but experience will convince you of its juftnefs. You, Adverfity, will receive from the laborious hand of Induftry not only the riches and delicacies of your brother's kingdom, but every production of omniferous nature; while, you Profperity, from the fpontaneous produce of the fruitful earth, will become enervated by fullness, and emafculated by reft, languid as the occidental winds that bring contagion, and drooping as the fair almond tree, whofe flowery redundance they have blighted exempt from want, but incapable of felicity. Whilt thy finews, Adverfity, braced by exercife, health glowing on thy cheek and fparkling in thine eye, fhalt be vigorous as the beams of Apollo, and vivid as the verdure that laughs along the banks of Fechena.

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His fons feemed already to experience thofe prophetic truths, Adverfity was animated by Hope, and Profperity fatiated by repletion. Indus was borne in a golden cloud, which his mother had given, and his father made effulgent, to the manfions of the gods, where he was invefted with immortality. Bacchus crowned him with vines Cybele threw over him a verdant inantle, enriched by Ceres; Thetis embroidered his veft with pearls; and each bright celeftial of the heavenly fynod beftowed profufe fome ethereal boon. Apollo endowed his waters with falubrity, and Fechena gave him a cryftal vafe from which to pour his tranf lucent waves.

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No.43. Thursday, August 23, 1770.

Tot premit ordinibus, tot adhuc compagibus, altum
Edificat caput: Anchomachen fronte videbis,
Poft minor eft: aliam credas.

JUVEN.

STATE OF THE FASHIONS.
The HEAD.

Extract of a letter, dated London, July 26.
THE GENTLEMEN wear, in undress,

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one curl at each fide, very high and very forward; in full drefs, three curls principally,; but others a great many, which meet at the top of the head. Some, who are in the height of the fashion, wear a long curl, which beginning where the eyebrow ends, defcends gradually till it meets the upper part of the bag. Powder for one dreffing, 11b. 6 oz. pomatum 3 rolls. '

The LADIES in general wear toupees of many different forms; but the upright faufage curl on the temple is quite out. The collop toupee is reckoned very elegant, and is chiefly worn by Ladies who don't chufe to be in the extreme of the mode. The highest in fashion is the heart toupee, that is one in the shape of a heart; and in these there is a great difference; in fome the fides project so much as to resemble horns, and that is chiefly worn at Court; in others, it is variously decorated with curious ftars ftuck here and

there.