better figure in my political debates from having
nost popular speakers in the House.

o, to recruit my wife's spirits after a tedious con-
ve passed a season at Bath. In this manner, there-
s went on very well in the main, till of late my
e discovered that we lead a very dull kind of life,
is impossible to exist with comfort, or, indeed, to en-
ible share of health, without spending good part of
ner at a watering-place. I held out as long as I
ne may be allowed to resist the plans of dissipation,
a of health cannot decently be withstood.
soon discovered that my eldest daughter wanted
nd my wife had a bilious complaint, against which
physician declared that sea-bathing would be par-
erviceable. Therefore, though it was my own pri-
on, that my daughter's nerves might have been as
ed by morning rides upon the Northamptonshire
evening dances in the public rooms, and that my
would have been greatly lessened by compliance
usband, I acquiesced; and preparations were made
■rney.

indeed, were but slight; for the chief gratification
n this scheme was, an entire freedom from care and
e should find every thing requisite in our lodgings;
no consequence whether the rooms we should oc-
few months in the summer, were elegant or not;
city of a country life would be the more enjoyed by
shifts we should be put to; and all necessaries would
ed in our lodgings. It was not, therefore, till after
aken them, that we discovered how far ready-fur-
gings were from affording every article in the cata-
ecessaries. We did not, indeed, give them a very
s examination; for the place was so full, that, when
d, late at night, and tired with our journey, all the
e inn were taken up, and an easy-chair and a carpet
the accommodations we could obtain for our repose.
ext morning, therefore, we eagerly engaged the first
we found vacant, and have ever since been disputing
terms, which, from the hurry, were not sufficiently
ed; and it is not even yet settled whether the little

blue garret, which serves us as a powdering room, is ours of right or by favor. The want of all sorts of conveniences is a constant excuse for the want of all order and neatness, which is so visible in our apartment; and we are continually lamenting that we are obliged to buy things of which we have such plenty at home.

It is my misfortune that I can do nothing without all my little conveniences about me; and, in order to write a common letter, I must have my study-table to lean my elbows on in sedentary luxury: you will judge, therefore, how little I am able to employ my leisure, when I tell you, that the only room they have been able to allot for my use is so filled and crowded with my daughters' hat-boxes, band-boxes, and wig-boxes, that I can scarcely move about in it, and am at this moment writing upon a spare trunk for want of a table.

I am, therefore, driven to saunter about with the rest of the party; but, instead of the fine clumps of trees and waving fields of corn I have been accustomed to have before my eyes, I see nothing but a naked beach, almost without a tree, exposed by turns to the cutting eastern blast and the glare of a July sun, and covered with a sand equally painful to the eyes and to the feet. The ocean is, indeed, an object of unspeakable grandeur; but when it has been contemplated in a storm and in a calm,-when we have seen the sun rise out of its bosom, and the moon silver its extended surface,—its variety is exhausted, and the eye begins to require the softer and more interesting scenes of cultivated nature.

My family have, indeed, been persuaded several times to enjoy the sea still more, by engaging in a little sailing-party ; but as, unfortunately, Northamptonshire has not afforded them any opportunity of becoming seasoned sailors, these parties of pleasure are always attended with the most dreadful sickness. This, likewise, I am told, is very good for the constitution it may be so, for aught I know; but I confess I am apt to imagine that taking an emetic at home would be equally salutary, and I am sure it would be more decent.

LESSON LIII.

The same,-concluded.

endeavored to amuse myself with the company, t much success. It consists of a very few great o make a set by themselves, and think they are enhe freedom of a watering-place, to indulge themIl manner of airs; and the rest is a motley group 3, merchants' clerks, idle men, and nervous women. en accustomed to be nice in my choice of acquaintthe greater part of our connexions here are such uld be ashamed to acknowledge any where else. e settled inhabitants of the place, all who do not emselves by us, view us with dislike, because we ›rice of provisions; and those who do,—which, in r other, comprehends all the lower class,-have lost of rural simplicity, and are versed in all arts of low nd chicane. The spirit of greediness and rapacity e so conspicuous as in lodging-houses.

seat in the country, our domestic concerns went on k-work; a quarter of an hour in a week settled the few tradesmen wished, and none dared, to practise ition where all were known; and the consequence different behavior must have been their being For life, for encouragement or for distrust. But here ual fluctuation of company takes away all regard to ; the most respectable and ancient families have no any further than as they scatter their ready cash; and atitude nor respect is felt where there is no bond of tachment besides the necessities of the present day. d be happy if we had only to contend with this ing our present excursion; but the effect it has upts is most pernicious. Our family used to be refor having its domestics grow gray in its service; xpedition has already corrupted them: two we have ng parted with, and the rest have learned so much cks of their station, that we shall be obliged to disem as soon as we return home.

In the country, I had been accustomed to do good to the poor: there are charities here too;—we have joined in a subscription for a crazy poetess, and a raffle for the support of a sharper, who passes under the title of a German count. Unfortunately, to balance these various expenses, this place, which happens to be a great resort of smugglers, affords daily opportunities of making bargains. We drink spoiled teas, under the idea of their being cheap; and the little room we have is made less by the reception of cargoes of India taffetas, shawl-muslins, and real chintzes. All my authority here would be exerted in vain; for the buying of a bargain is a temptation which it is not in the nature of any woman to resist.

I am in hopes, however, the business may receive some check from an incident which happened a little time since: an acquaintance of ours had his carriage seized by the custom-house officers, on account of a piece of silk which one of his female cousins, without his knowledge, had stowed in it; and it was only released by its being proved, that what she had bought with so much satisfaction as contraband, was in reality the home-bred manufacture of Spitalfields.

In this manner has the season passed away. I spend a great deal of money, and make no figure; I am in the country, and see nothing of country simplicity or country occupations; I am in an obscure village, and yet cannot stir out without more observers than if I were walking in St. James's Park; I am cooped up in less room than my own dog-kennel, while my spacious halls are injured by standing empty; and I am paying for tasteless, unripe fruit, while my own choice wall-fruit is rotting by bushels under the trees.

In recompense for all this, we have the satisfaction of knowing that we occupy the very rooms which my lord had just quitted; of picking up anecdotes, true or false, of people in high life; and of seizing the ridicule of every character that passes by us in the moving show-glass of the place, a pastime which often affords us a good deal of mirth; but which, I confess, I can never join in without reflecting that what is our amusement is theirs likewise.

As to the great ostensible object of our excursion,-health, —I am afraid we cannot boast of much improvement. We have had a wet and cold summer; and these houses, which

old tenements vamped up, or new ones slightly run accommodation of bathers during the season, have rivances for letting in the cooling breezes than for hem out,- -a circumstance which I should presume physicians do not always attend to, when they order rom their own warm, compact, substantial houses, e air in country lodgings; of which the best apartiring the winter, have only been inhabited by the where the poverty of the landlord prevents him from t more in repairs, than will serve to give them a d attractive appearance.

as it may ;—the rooms we at present inhabit are so o the breeze, that, in spite of all the ingenious exof listing doors, pasting paper on the inside of cupying sand-bags, puttying crevices, and condemning rs, it has given me a severe touch of my old rheuand all my family are in one way or other affected ny eldest daughter, too, has got cold with her bathgh the sea-water never gives any body cold! wer to these complaints, I am told by the good come, that I have staid too long in the same air, and I ought to take a trip to the continent, and spend er at Nice, which would complete the business. I ely of their opinion, that it would complete the

LESSON LIV.

ar of Penitence; an Extract from "Paradise and the Peri."-T. MOORE.

v, upon Syria's land of roses,
Ely the light of eve reposes,
, like a glory, the broad sun
gs over sainted Lebanon ;
ose head in wintry grandeur towers,
And whitens with eternal sleet,
ile summer, in a vale of flowers,
s sleeping rosy at his feet.