cate sensibility. They afterwards perceived distinctly a small light bubble, which being resolved into smoke, was dispersed in the air.

It is essential, ladies, that I should inform you, that this heart floated habitually in a limpid and cold liquid, containing a soft substance. This liquid was carefully collected by the professor in a glass tube.

of a new ribband, an elegant cap, fashionable ear-rigs, or the most trifling gew-gaw were sufficient to throw it into incessant agitation.

I wished to obtain possession of this wonderful instrument and I one day requested my friend, the physician to purchase it for me, let the price be what it would. He laughed heartily at my sin. plicity, and assured me that all young women are so many thermometers, or rather frivolimeters of that kind.

I cannot persuade myself, besides, that my

You must certainly have observed the effects of the atmospheric air on the obedient liquid contained in the thermometer. That in which the heart of our young female had floated, exhi-physician told me the truth; but so much I know bited nearly the same effects; but it was not precisely the air which exercised an influence over it; to agitate it in different ways it was necessary to vary the objects which were brought near it. If a man possessing good sense, sound judgment, wisdom or modesty, approached this liquid, it suddenly fell to the bottom of the tube, and seemed to shun him; but on the appearance of a young fop, it rose with velocity towards the orifice of the vessel, which was no longer capable of containing it.

This experiment having been afterwards repeated in an assembly of young people of both sexes, where pleasure presided, the liquid was in such constant and violent agitation, that it had the appearance of boiling water. It was so sensible to impressions of every kind, that the approach

that we meet with many malicious and unjust people, who in every circumstance strive to make your sex responsible for the faults of two or three of you. They have, for example, the presumption to assert, that all the happiness of your lives consists in imitating the new-blown flowers which suffer themselves to be caressed by every fluttering butterfly which passes that way.

If, however, what I think impossible, actually existed, if it were true that the hearts of women Aoat incessantly in a liquid so extraordinary, what praises ought we not to bestow on those, of whom I could mention a great number, who, rising superior to vulgar sentiments, unite to every charm for which they are indebted to nature, the practice of every virtue.

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EMBELLISHMENTS.

1. A Portrait of Her Royal Highness Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal of England, and Queen of Wurtemburg, finely engraved by Scriven, from an Original Picture painted by Sir William Beechey, a few days before the Departure of her Royal Highness from England.

2. Plate containing whole length Figures of the Fashionable Spring Dresses, drawn by Mr. Devis, from the elegant Designs of Madame Lanchester.

3. Sketches of Two whole length Figures in the Kensington Garden Promenade Dresses. 4. An Original Song set to Music, expressly and exclusively for this Work, by Mr. Kelly. 5. Original Design for Tambour Needle Work.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ILLUS.

FAMILIAR LECTURES ON USEFUL

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POETRY AND MUSIC.

An Account of the most wonderful Poet Beronicius......

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London: Printed by and for J. BELL, Southampton Street, Strand. June 1, 1806.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

WE have received many favours from Correspondents in the course of the last month; many were sent too late for insertion, and some were wholly unworthy of a place in our Magazine. We think it incumbent, however, to answer all; that those whose favours are rejected, may cease to hope, and those whose favours are deferred, may rest in expectation until our next Number.

The

essay on

"Universal Language and Grammar," though extremely well written, is of a kind infinitely too dry and serious for a work that chiefly aspires to light instruction and elegant amusement. Our Correspondent at Hammersmith will find one of her facours inserted in this Number: another is deferred. The Cabinet of Pictures will appear in our next, and likewise the Golden Mirror, which came too late for insertion this month. The Allegory, entitled "Genius Triumphant," The Village Maid," "The Rural Tale," "The Italian Bandid," and "The History of Marcos and Clemina," are rejected.

"A Pastoral Tale," "Alcidor and Fatima," and a Continuation of the Tale of Alzadin, will appear, if possible, in our next. Alany favours are still under consideration, viz. The Description of Berkeley Castle; The History of Timandra; The Moral Tale, in imitation of Marmontel, and Anecdotes of various descriptions.

Thus far with respect to our Correspondents in Prose; but when we adcert to those who importune for admission into our Poetical Department, we scarcely know where to begin, or where to leave off, so numerous are the Songs, Odes, Monodies, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Acrostics, &c. &c. which we have received this month. We shall select, however, the most prominent.

The song on the Death of Lord Nelson; Lines addressed to a Mercantile Character; the Cowslip Boy; Cupid's Bath; the Mayflower; the Chaplet; the Odes to Phillis; to Spring; to Daphne, &c. the Acrostic on Youth; the Lines to the Young Roscius; the Ode to Britannia; the Address to the Moon; the Northern Huntress, &c. &c. &c. are all irrevocably rejected.

The Toast; the Indian Slave; Walk in the Country; The Origin of the Morn◄ ing Blush; the Cricket; Verses written in Sickness, &c. &c. will appear in our future Numbers.