St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. ture; for if he mounts fuch a horfe, and fails to whipping him, he may foon wear him our, bring down his fpiri s, and difcourage him fo that he will not go at all, urlefs he is beat. The preju ice of education, and the influence of tradition, has a furprizing effect upon children, and eve upon grown perfons; for the latter generally (hough not always) rerain the principles hey imbibe in their infancy, to their dying day. Hence, if you tech a child that the heavens and earth were create by Mahomet, it will retain that beli f. unle the voice of reafon fha i teah it better. It is therefore nec iary, a childr n fhould have good principles nuiled into them when they are yo ng; for in a child is brought up in the way it fhould o, when it is old, it will not depart therefrom. There are feveral varieties which have prevailed in many places. As firt, fome parents, who were able, would not help their children when they h e come of a e. Hence, they have been provoked to anger, and brought into a fate or difcouragement Second, fome parents have given near all of their estates to one of the r children only, and have turned the reft out naked into the world. This has o'teg nerated a fpirit of envy amongit brethren, and been the cause of much contention and difcord. Third, fome have given all their eftate to their children, who have become fpendthrifts, and thus turned themfelves with their fathers and mothers out of hole and home. But all thefe extremes fhould be carefully guarded against. Pa rents ought to help their children when it isn their power, and confider that all uft bovided for, and fupported through life, and that one child is an heir to an estate as well as another. VOL. XXIL 645 Again, prents ought to keep enough of their e ates in their own a ds, to fupport themiclves with as long as life continues. Where children are obedient to their parents, and fervants to their mafters, a fpirit of union and of harmony gen rally exhifts in tamilies, providing their parents and matters are exemplary in their lives and converfations; but where a dilobedience prevails contention and difcord, poverty and diftrefs, frequently enfue. Chilaren ought to be kind to their parents in their old age, as well as t all other times, and efpecially if they have become poor: for they that provide not for their own, and especially for thofe of their own houfhold, have denied the faith, and are worse than infidels. St. MICHAEL'S MOUNT, CORNWALL. [With an elegant Engraving.] ST T. Michael's Mount, in the corner of Mount's Bay, is a very bigh rock, only divided by the ride from the main land, to that it is land and ifland twice a day. The town here was burnt by the French in the reign of ki g Henry VIII. At the bottom of this mount, in digging for tin, there have been found fpear-heads, battle-axes, and fwords, ot brafs, all wrapt up in linen. On the rocks along this coaft is bred the Cornish chough, a bird which will not only teal money and hide it, but fire too, with which it fometimes privately burns houses. The county is contracted here into a fort of isthmus; fo that it is fcarce four miles between the channel and the Severn fea. There have been large trees driven in by the fea botween this mount and Penzance. By me the most fately domes and palaces are raifed; and whatever may be confidered as magnificent and great, owes its existence to my influence alone. I feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and make the forrowful heart foon to rejoice. I procure youthful hufbands for old maids, and fo effectually draw the veil over homely features, as to make them pafs for beautiful and lovely; and, without my influence, even beauty itself holds but a tranfient and momentary power, Even the firft affemblies of the nation own my influence; I prefide in all their councils, and direct all their decitions. But, notwithstanding all the power I maintain, it is frequently found from experience, that the poffetlion of me does not always procure happiness to my poffeffor; and fuch is the ingratitude of mankind, that I am frequently employ ed in the bafest purposes. To obtain me, men fometimes rob the orphan and the widow; and, having me in their poffeffion, ufe me as a field to protect them from the juft punishment of their crimes. The indolent and lazy purfue me through plunder and rapine; but, with thefe I make but a short stay, and prefently flip away from them. Some even purfue me through channels of human blood, and butcher beevery one that stands in the way To me the proudest man will tween me and them. Every art bow his head, bend his knee, and and cunning is made ufe of to fe carefs me, while he frowns with duce me to their poffeffions; and ineffable contempt on every one elfe fuch is the folly of mankind, that that furround him. I am admitted many of them having effectually fe into the most fecret cabinets of cured me in their intereft, lock me princes, whofe minifters fawn, up under bolts and bars, without cringe, aud proftrate themselves at making me in the leaft inftrumental my feet; and not a fingle court to their peace and happiness. Some beauty will ftir from her houfe, un- fhamefully employ me in the feduc less I attend her, as her guardian tion of innocence and virtue, and and protector, in cafe of neceflity. in the gratification of their unboundI am the patron of the arts and ed paffions, for which they are genefciences, the author of the most ufe-rally punished by difeafe and mifery. ui difco eries and the finest improve- Some think fo little of me, that no ments; fince to me the mechanic fooner are they poffessed of me, than one Enigmatical Lifts. one would think them apparently unhappy til! they got rid of me; but fuch people generally bewail their folly all the rest of their lives. In short, I am a bleffing or a curfe, according to the hands I fall into. 547 hunting, and four fevenths of a wild goat. 4. Half a fea nymph, and a mineral, omitting a letter. 5. A hard place in wood, the ini tial to a river in hell, and the shallow part of a river. The prudent man I fupply with all the comforts of this life; but to the libertine and the debauchee I generally prove a real evil. Thofe who have been fo fortunate as to make me their conftant companion should treat me cautioufly and gratefully, by employing my intereft in the promotion only of honour and virtue, and in the happinefs of man-elevenths of a platform. kind at large. May fuch a man never know the want of 6. Three eighths of a fea-fifh, the initial to the ferryman at hell, three fourths of not fo much, and five ninths of a bird. MONEY. Answer to the Enigmatical Lift of 1. St. Auftle. 2. Bodmin. 3. Bofscaille. 4. Boffingney. 5. Callington. 6. Camelford. 7. St. Columb. 8. 7. Three elevenths of a curfe, and three fevenths of a lampoon. 8. Four fixths of noon-day, three fourths of wicked, and thice 9. Three fifths of a turkish prayer, the initial to the god of fhepherds, three fourths of a fmall branch, and two fevenths of a thousand. 10. Two fifths of a fimpleton, the initial to one of the infernal judges, two fevenths of the rod of Bacchus, half a fmall door, and the initial to the god of marriage. 11. Five ninths of a wood-pigeon, and four fevenths of a piazza. J. W. Eafilooe. 9. Falmouth. 10. Fowey. Enigmatical Lift of HEATHEN 11. St. Germains. 12. Grampound. Enigmatical Lift of the MARKET- 1. Two ninths of a crocodile, a market town in Hertfordshire, and a leg of pork cured. 2. Three ninths of a goddefs, three fourths of merriment, and twenty hundred weight. 3. Three fourths of a fmall animal, the initial to the goddefs of DEITIES. 1. Half a term for upright, a hole, and two thirds of an epoch. month, and an interjection. 3. Two fifths of a common fruit, two thirds of not new, and an interjection. 4. Half a feller, and the oblique cafe of we. 5. A drinking veffel, a perfonal pronoun, and a numerical letter. 6. One thousand, and three fevenths of a poifonous mineral. 7. Half a term for a poet, a confonant, and a ferpentine letter. 8. Two fifths of the emperor of India, a verb imperfect, (implying obligations) leaving out a letter. 9. Half a relation, four hogsheads, and a vowel. 4 A 2 PO. 4 |