In 1731 there was dug up in the gardens of C. Child, Efq; of Waverlay in Surrey, a leaden pot, in which was the heart of a man preserved in fpirits, not în the least decayed, fuppofed from an infcription on a tomb in the cathedral church of Winchester, to be the heart of William Giffard, bishop of Winchester, as an abbey was founded in that place about 600 years ago by the faid Giffard, then bishop of Winchester, and abbot of Waverlay; as appears from Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. I. p. 703.

We have often been entertained with ftrange relations of dogs, monkeys, &c. give me leave to record one no less ftrange, yet certainly true, related to Mr. de Blainville, fecretary to the embaffy of the States General at the court of Spain, concerning the ingenuity of rats, by baron Newland, a nobleman of Guelderland, and a captain of a man of war in the States General's fervice. This officer being sent to Spain in time of war, to convoy fome merchant-men, the furgeon of his fhip, finding it was to no purpose he every morning counted the eggs which he kept for his patients, and carefully locked up in the hold, and that many of them were daily miffing, he at last fufpected his fervants of having a falfe key, and stealing them accordingly he ftruck one of them, who had given him a faucy anfwer on this occafion. He not being ufed to fuch corrections, resolved to find out the thief, and actually brought it about. Having told the discovery to his mafter, he would not believe him, and was going to ftrike him again. The poor fellow, almoft diftracted, applied to the captain, namely, the baron himfelf, who proved as incredulous as the furgeon. However, his obftinacy, in affirming what he had seen at last, pre

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vailed upon the baron. He accordingly ordered the closet, where the eggs were deposited, to be bored through in feveral places with a large gimblet, and he, with feveral others, went down about midnight, and posted themselves each at his peep hole. A few minutes after they faw three large rats coming to a barrel wherein the eggs lay, and which was half empty, and had the fatisfac tion of feeing their whole contrivance in conveying them away. One of the rats went down into the barrel, a fecond got up and posted himself upon the edge, and the third stayed without at the foot of it. It was impoffible for the spectators, tho' there was a lamp burning in the closet, to fee what the rat in the barrel was doing, but he that ftood upon the edge feemed to stoop into it, and draw up fomething to him, raising himself up gradually; the other, that was without, got upon the hoops, and raifing his head as high as he could, received into his mouth fomething from that of the other upon the edge; upon which the last plunged once more, and drew again something, which he also gave over to the rat on the hoops, and this proved to be the tail of the rat in the barrel, whom they were drawing up out of the barrel. His whole body appeared at last, with his head downward, and holding an egg in his four paws. Then his companions having him in equilibre, and upon his back upon the edge of the barrel, ftill holding faft the egg, the one took him by the tail, and the other by one of his ears, and thus gently from hoop to hoop brought him down to the ground. This done, and he being still upon his back, and having his prey between his paws, they dragged him along by his tail towards a private place, where the fpectators loft fight of them; but they foon after came back, and in lefs than a quarter of an hour played over the fame felonious trick, at least three times and thus carried off as many eggs.

Ye are hafty, ye are headstrong ye will find fault, nay, wou'd quarrelbut be not halty about that.

Soon enough will your neighbours give you cause of complaint; lose not your time in finding fault with one another.

Already have the Indians been stirred up to arms, 'ere the ink is yet dry with which the Negotiations were witneffed. Colonel Clapham, at Pittsburg, is fallen a facrifice to their fury; for the multitude of your tranfgreffions will ye be defpoiled, and Commerce may be car, ried among the Traders of the Enemy.

Ye are devoted to be the perpetual dupes of Politics; into the net of Self. fufficiency do ye always tumble.

Oppofition holdeth you in trammels, and Faction cuts afunder the Sinews of your Conftitution.

Ye are more capable of acting than Treating. Like fire, air and water, VOL. II.

the noble elements by which we exist, are Englishmen the Wonder-workers when properly commanded.

What is there ye cannot perform ? What have ye not, a genius to go through?

Say you not to Humanity, thou art our Twin-brother? and doth not Magnanimity call Englishmen her First-born?

Is not probity the Englishman's characteristic; and plain-fpeaking the pri vilege of his Birth-right?

Bleffed are you with understandings with vigour and induftry; Commerce enriches ye, Plenty is your Husbandman, and Liberty the reward of your Labours.

Every thing ye can ask for ye haveyet you seem to want more than is poffi ,ble to obtain.

Depend upon yourfelves, hire not Scribblers nor Bruifers for your Safe guards.

Sure none of my Countrymen, faith Britannia, could do this? If lo, Cor ruption marthals his forces, and Arbi trary Power stands at Freedom's gates to demand entrance.

Yet verily, verily, I fay unto you, ye Englishmen, difcontented have ye been from the beginning; and as it was in the beginning, is now, and, I am afraid, will be for evermore.

Have ye not long, very long, wished for an English King; a Monarch who should be your Countryman. You are

I hated him, he was fo fulfome — I defpifed him for the indelicacy of his manners, or, as he called it, of his tafte; and his jealoufy was almost infupportable.

I lived in luxury, but did not enjoy one hour's fatisfaction. My affections were unfixed; I had ftrong defires; they were not satisfied, I had no object I could indulge them with; as to my Keeper! but indeed all Keepers are to us the fame; we never can relish the man who gives us money; we love the treafon, but hate the traitor.

Such are the fentiments of every one of our profeffion, who is a real Woman of the Town; we have more pleasure in one hour in the company of the man whom we treat, than in feven years in company with him who maintains us. We are forced to be fond of them who pay us for it, therefore their careffes to us are fo many torments, and every one of their kiffes teizing. 1

Never was man more liberal to his mistress, than this my elderly lover was to me; yet never did woman do lefs to deferve his bounty than I did-but my indifference I fancy kept his affection alive; for men are odd creatures in their appetites.

His jealousy diftracted me; I was obliged to be continually at home, as his coming was uncertain; therefore I was no more than a fine dressed prifoner; unless I went out any where with him, or to meet him, I had not the liberty to ftir, except to the mercer's, and then an old fervant he had ufed to attend me there and back again.

I fighed for freedom, I wanted to be lefs glaring and more happy. Every woman, even in a check'd apron, I envy'd ; comparing my coop'd up condition with hers; that I was no more than a slave, like mifers gold, lock'd up from every body but one man to feast himself with.

'Tis true, my wishes were prevented by the profufeness of his presents; but yet, thofe prefents could never tempt me to make him any affectionate, any grateful return; because every fum I received, every jewel he gave me, I used to recollect how dearly I earned them.

But the time at laft was at hand, when I fhould repent this my behaviour. For it happen'd, that going to the mercer's to look at some Spring patterns; as I ftepp'd out of my chariot, my foot flipp'd, and in spite of my footman's ready affiftance, I must have fallen, had not a gentleman, that inftant paffing by, caught me in his arms, and carry'd me into the shop.

After I had fat down, he addressed me very agreeably on my escape, made fome whimsical remarks upon the accident, and congratulated himself for the lucky part he bore in my deliverance, with fo much humour and spirit, that his converfation charmed me.

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I dwelt more and more on every fyllable he faid.-Unperceived by him, now and then I looked at his figure, was amiable, his look fenfible, and his address delicately tender. I loved him, really lov'd; he was the first who ever poffeffed my inclinations.

Many had been made to believe they had; they believed it, because they used to ask me to tell them fo.

Do you love me, my dear Girl? What a question is that? Thus fome guests, when they enter a tavern, will

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afk the mafter, if he has any good wine in the houfe? What answer can

fuch perfons expect, either from lady or vintner, but,-To be fure, Sir, you need not doubt it,-upon my honour, Sir. I ftay'd at the mercer's as long as I conveniently cou'd; and in the courfe of converfation, I found my favourite was but that day arrived inLondon; that he only came to town from curiofity; and that he put up in Holborn, at the York stage inn.

All that night, with my Keeper by me, I lay awake, thinking on this young fellow-it was impoffible for me to fleep; for, as it is faid in the play, He had murdered fleep. I appeal to any lady, who has been in my fituation, who has loved one man, and has had another whom the detefted, lollopping along fide of her, what a comfortable time a woman must have before breakfast time? A penny-poft letter told the ftranger to expect me at his inn in the after. noon; and in lefs than ten days from that vifit we landed together at Calais, I having converted all my rings, furniture, &c. into cafh, which in three years was all expended—but then it was gloriously laid out.

So much pleasure for fo much money I pleased myself, and it is all that the greatest can pretend to. I had long been a flave for others pleasure, for once I refolved to be free for my own-it is true, the refolution I paid dear for, I ruined myself by it. What then? throughout my whole life, I never once thought it worth my while, to reflect on the confequence of what I intended to do; it was fufficient for me, that I liked the scheme, and that determined me to pursue it.

They who only know the human heart by hearsay, pretend to argue, that no Woman of the Town can be fond of any particular perfon, fo unfatisfy'd are we in our defires. But it is a rank falfehood. We are indeed tolerable judges of mankind; and it is that which makes us fo indifferent to the fondness and dalliance of the gene rality of men.

We treat money'd men complaifantly, in the fame manner that other trades

people do their ready-money customers. Every man is alike to us who pays us ;' figure, understanding, accomplishments, all are abforbed in that one article: but with him who hits our fancy, we neither confider his figure, accomplishments or understanding; if he does but win our inclinations, let him be ugly, poor, and a fool, it's all the fame; let him even behave as he pleafes; when once we are fixed, it pleases us; fo wretched is the depravity of the taste, which must attend upon Prostitution.

Returning with my favourite man from our tour, the laft guinea which we had in the world, changed the day we landed in England, and yet both of us as full of fpirits, as if we were then going to take poffeffion of 10,000 l. a year-while Satisfaction stays at home, it always faves the heart from aching. Thus it was with us, we poffeffed a great deal, we were rich in one another's arms; as to any thing else, it was not worth fighing for.

But as we were at dinner the next

day, my lover fell down fpeechlefs, choaked, paft recovery. Then I became inconfoleable. After his death, misfortunes hundred-fold stared me in the face; I fell violently ill the next day, kept my room above a month, and on my recovery found the woman, who was hired for my nurse, had reb bed me of every thing I had.

With much difficulty I arrived in London. I had not then any other dependance but my perfon for my maintenance, and in the miferable circumftances I was then, could not fet that off in any faleable light.

In a moft forlorn condition I took a back garret, in one of the streets near the Seven Dials.

Vice is not only callous to remorse, but also to fhame; for notwithstanding the mifery to which I was reduced, I never really repented, not with true contrition. My fighs were like thofe of a ftript gamefter; I was mad at my

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