over the heath:-you might as well stay away!-The objects of true interest in those Highlands, are such as can have their interest heightened to the utmost, only by the rains and storms of declining Autumn and opening Winter. We go not there to contemplate softened beauty. It is the wild, the desolate, the sublime, that we go out to see. We go to enjoy such scenery, and to have such sentiments excited in our minds, as those of the poems of Ossian! When the Scots treated you, as you relate, they did the honours of their country, as handsomely as possible, in your favour. However you may, now, take pains to persuade yourself, that you were unfortunate in the excursion; I cannot but think, that when it took place, you must have been unable to resist that expansion and elevation of mind which it was natural for such scenery, in such a season, to produce!

Tes. Why, Sir, a man may not be sorry to have for once witnessed an execution, recovered out of a fever, or to have been, by the methods of the Humane

Society, restored from the suspension of his animation by drowning. Yet, it is not, therefore, to be supposed, that he found a delight in the drowning, the fever, or the execution.

(C. 6.)

Sen. But, if one should walk to see those bogs and mountains,-with but a single shirt beside that on his back, and it forgot at a distant inn, his smallclothes galled before and behind, - his shoes torn till they would scarce stick on his feet, the stockings chafed to tatters, -and the feet bruised, inflamed, and excoriated as if they had been worse than parboiled alive;-should you find a Comfort in this? I can scarce think it. And yet, this is what, in fact, ensues to those multitudes of pedestrian tourists who swarm out over the land, in holiday times.

Chear. Nay; even in this there is a pride. It is a triumph to the Connoisseur, thus to make himself the martyr of taste, liberal curiosity, and elegant enthusiasm. At every new rent in his garments, he con

siders himself to gain a new claim to honour. Every blister on his toes, seems to give him new consequence, as an admirer of heath and gravel. Every time he turns his eye on his shirt, he feels so much the more elated,-the blacker he discovers it to be. And, these Comforts of dirtiness and fatigue, are the greater, in proportion as the persons undergoing them, have been previously the less accustomed to any thing but finical cleanliness and luxurious ease.To tell the tale of enterprizes so disastrous and heroic, proves, afterwards, the most irresistible recommendation to the favour of one Desdemona after another.-Besides, any thing-any thing-rather than nurse spleen, and languish in ennui! Any walking or other exercise is Comfort, in comparison with the pain of finding the stream of life to stagnate, and existence to become an intolerable burthen!

Tes. True! true! Hence, I will frankly own to you, it does me good to complain. And, should you, CHEARFUL and MERRYFELLOW, succeed, as I am half afraid you may, to argue and banter me out of all

my complaints;-I shall, certainly, have reason to say, with the Drama-mad citizen of Argos-Pol! me occidistis, amici!

Merry. A truce with complaints. Let us rather join Mrs. Testy at the Cardtable.

Tes. Willingly;-on condition that you consent, all three, to pass the night, here; and that we have a walk by moonlight, to try-what Comforts, Cynthia's influence can exalt our heads to think of?

Chear. I guess, that I may assent to your proposition, as well in the names of our two friends, as for myself,

Sen. Certainly. A walk by moonlight, will be agreeable and quite romantic. It will be most pleasing, then, to speak of more of the Comforts of Life, and to muster them, till we shall learn wholly to forget its Miseries.

DIALOGUE THE SIXTH.

PERSONAL COMFORTS.

Testy, Sensitive, Chearful, and Merryfellow.

Scene-TESTY'S GARDEN.

Chearful.

How pleasing this unclouded serenity of the sky! this tranquil diffusion of softened light! the depth, the contrast, and the strongly marked outlines of the shadows! the tremulous dancing of the moon's lustre on those fields towards Pentonville! The branches waving as the western breeze rises or subsides; the movements of a few cattle here and there; the shadows of some scattered wanderers of the human species; the barkings of so many dogs; the