as hold livings, for as to their assistants, the curates, they are most enviably eir cumstanced: they have but little weight of responsibility to endure, but little duty to perform, (particularly in City Parishes,) and are munificently recompensed, and treated by all with the respect due to men politely educated, and engaged in a sanctified, honourable and useful employment,iro17. moit Lusaquaië

The Language spoken by the British people may very fairly be estimated amongst the advantages they possess over all the other countries of the world. Instead of being an intricate miscellany of divers tongues, it is simple and unadulterated; and totally without obligation (both as to as to single words, and the construction corn! of sentences,) either to the Celtic, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman or modern

French. It has likewise remained unaltered, from time immemorial; and is, besides, pronounced precisely in the same manner, by every person throughout the whole of Great-Britain, where nothing like a variety of dialects can be discerned; nor is there the smallest perceivable difference between the language of a Fisherman from the Hebrides, a Shepherd from Merionethshire, a Somersetshire Farmer, a Cornish Miner, a London Pot-boy, a fine Lady from Grosvenor-Square, or an Orator of the Westminster Forum.

This uniformity of language,

written and oral, is a source of convenience to the natives, and of great pleasure to foreigners travelling through England, who find it the easiest matter imaginable, to understand and converse with the inhabitants.

A similar uniformity prevails

in the appearance of the British people: in person, they are every where nearly the same; that is to say, tall, muscular, graceful and agile; and their countenances full of expression, and indicative of temperance, urbanity, good humour, and a certain cast of comic archness and wit, which is universal. This prepossessing sameness of exterior is no where more striking than in the Metropolis; the clean and spacious streets of which you may perambulate for many months successively, and never meet with such strange varieties of the human species, as are to be seen on the Continent of Europe, or in the New World. What extraordinary and anomalous personages have I not encountered in the Capitals of other Nations! In Owy-hee, for instance, where I have often amused myself, by watching the passengers, as I stood at a jeweller's door, or sat near

the window of a coffee-house: and it really was entertaining enough to notice the succession of gaits, shapes, and complexions. In London we see no such figures as are quite common elsewhere; no short fellows, with backs and bellies of prodigious breadth and density; with chocolate-coloured wigs and snuffcoloured clothes, carrying canes or umbrellas in their fists, and dulness and defiance in their bloated faces. No little old women, with puckered physiognomies, crimson noses and pink eyes; no long, meagre, pock-frecken, limping, squinting, or red-haired persons of either sex nor ever by any accident a female of our species, exhibiting a triple chin, a neck of brawn, elbows like Sir John Falstaff's knees, and legs and arms like the supporters of an Elephant.