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assemblies that has all the joy, ajid we nothing
but compassion. Study removes these inconve-
niences, and the pleasure it communicates, never
lets us know that we are growing Old.
We should seek a happiness that would follow us
through every stage of life.. Life itself is so short,
that,we should think nothing of a. felicity which,
would not last as' long as ourselves. An idle old
age is the only one that is a burthen: in itself it is
none; .for if it degrades us in.one company, it ex-
alts us in another. It is not old, men that are insup-
portable, it is•the man himself; it is he who must.
'die of ennui, or fly from.one Society to another,' in
quest of some enjoyment.
Another motive which should encourage us in
our application to StUdy,- is the utility it may bt to
'the society we make, a part of. We may add to
these' remedies we possess, a number of others
of :which we are -yet destitute. Commerce, Navi-
gation, Astronomy, Geography, Medicine, Phy-
sic, have drawn innumerable advantages froth the
labours of predeeessors -:' would is not then, be a
noble design tb.'6ndeavour to leave behind, men
more fortunate than we have been ourselves ?

We will not, like
.a Courtier •of NERo, com-
plain of the injustice of all ages to those who caused
the Arts and ciences ro flOurish—" Myron qui
fen" kominum animas ferarumfue are deprehenderat,
non'invenit haredem :" One age may, perhaps,' be
to the full as ungrateful as another ; but posterity
will do us justice, /and discharge the debts of the
present generation.

After having spoken,of the Sciences, we shall
say a word of the Belles Lewes: Books of -sheer'
wit, like those- of Poetry and Elciquence, are at
least of 'general utility, which is 'frequently more
advantageous than that of a particular nature.
From Books of pure wit we' earn the;Art of
Writing the art of delivering our ideas, of ex-
pressingthem nobly, with Vivacity, with for 4,
with-grace, with order, and with that variety
which refreshes-and enchants the mind.

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There is no one Who, in the course of his life,
has not met with persons who, by application -to
their art, would' have been able to have pushed it
much further but, for want of education, equally.
incapable of expressing and pursuing an idea, lost
all the advantages of their labours and their talents.
The Sciences touch one Upon the other. Those 4
that are most 'abstraCt, border upon those' that are ,
theleast so,, and the body of the Sciences entirely
hangs' on the Belles Lettre:. The Sciences 'gain
much by bei\ig treated with ingenuity and delicacy;.
it is that which takes off their dryness,• which pre,
vents weariness, and makes them acceptable to-
minds of every description. Had P. MALEBRANCHI
been a less 'enchanting Writer,- his philosophy
would have remained in the recesses of a College,
buried as it were, in a subterrancous world.
There are some Carthusians who have never read
any more than the Worlds Of FONTiNELLE : it pro-:
duces more area. than a work of .a stronger cast,.
because it is quite as serious as the generality of
persons is disposed to read..
The utility of a work should not be jUdged- of
by the stile which the author has chosen to make
use of. Puerile subjeets are often gravely treated
of, and the most serious truths are often jocularly in-
culcated.
BUt, independently of these considerativr.s, t-liz
books which afford recreation to the minds of.
persons of condition are not without their use. Such
readings are the most innocent amusements of men
of the world, as theY often supply the place of
gaming, debauchery, scandal, and. projects of am-
bition. •

YORK AUGUST ASSIZES, i Boz.

GIBSON, A PPATEF.R, V.'WEBSTER.

This, was an AEtion to recover eight guineas, as
the value of a horse belonging to the Plaintiff,
which the Defendant (an opulent farmer; owner of
the lands adjoining the spot of ground rented by
the Plaintiff for the pasture of thiS animal) had dis.
trained and impounded for such a length of time
without food, that it died.
The Plaintiff in' his declaration averred, that his
horse had strayed out of: his close into the Defend-
ant's fields, by reason of the negligence of the De-
fendant in not keeping his fences in proper repair :
the Defendant denied this; insisted that his fences
were in good repair, and that it was not through
any gap in the fence that the horse had strayed, but
that it had been purposely turned info 'his field in
the night : the truth of this plea was the issue to be
tried in the present Altion.
Mr. PARK, on the part of the Plaintiff stated,
that this cause was of the utmost importance to his
client; like the poor mars's only lamb, this animal
was to the Plaintiff the only property he had pos-
sessed on the face of the earth, and-he had lost it'
through the aft of the Defendant ; it only remained
to be seen, whether the Defendant could maintain
the plea he had set up, or whether the poor man's
story was not the truth.
A farmer, of the name of Webster, cousin to the
Defendant, and landlord to the Plaintiff; proved,
that the Defendant's fences were not in good repair,
and that there were many gaps through which this
animal might have strayed
,into the Defendant's
fields, without any intention on the part of the
Plaintiff.

Other witnesses proved the feeble and emaciated
state of the horse when it returned from the place in
which the Plaintiff' had impounded it, and that it
died a few days afteiwards.
Serjeant COCKELL made a very humorous speech
on the part of the Defendant ; he said, he pitied, as
every man must, the misfortunes of the Plaintiff,
who, he understood, was afilkled not only with po-
verty, but with blindness ; but he was instructed to
state, that although the Plaintiff might be blind,
yet that he had, a daughter who was not blind, but
had a pair of as sparkling, rogish -eyes as any in the
parish; this girl, he was instructed to say, usea
out of compassion every night to open the gate of
this little barren spot rented by the; Plaintiff, and
upon which the animal could hardly pick .a blade of
grass all the day time : this hint was never misun-
detstood, by the animal, although it was a horse noi.

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