promise is no longer valid. Farewell, my dear Mr Harley: I believe, I dare venture to affirm, that you will be satisfied with my conduct. It is past twelve o'clock, allow my servant to accom pany you home, and leave me to enjoy a few hours rest, which I am greatly in need of."

|| old friend's son. I have now given you an explanation of my conduct; decide upon it, and tell me what you mean to do.”

"To entreat your forgiveness, Sir," answered young Harley, to supplicate you, before these gentlemen, to make my inexperience plead my excuse: love and youth had bewildered my imagination. Your noble conduct makes me blush for my errors. Accept my most sincere apologies, Sir Edward; and if my repentance, and the advantage you possess over me, is not sufficient to make you forget my offence, pronounce yourself the reparation you require, and I will cheerfully submit to it.”

At four o'clock he arose, and taking his pistols repaired to the house of the friend who had promised to be his second, and before five arrived in Hyde-Park Henry Harley was already there.The seconds measured the ground; and young Harley, who understood nothing of the rules of duelling, consented, at the desire of our hero, to fire the first shot. It passed through Sir Edward's hat, and threw it off his head at some distance. Our hero coolly took it up, and replacing it took aim at a young tree which stood at some distance from his antagonist, and pulling the trigger of his pistol, split asunder its feeble stem. σε γου may now repeat your fire," said he to the astonished Henry.

"I do not understand you, Sir," answered the youth, explain yourself Why do you re fuse returning my fire? Be assured that I deem your generosity an affront; treat me in the manner I have acted by you, or explain your strange behaviour."-" I prefer the latter to the former," replied Sir Edward, approaching him. "You are the son of my friend, Mr. Harley, for whom I have long entertained the liveliest esteem; far from wishing to attempt your life, I would willingly expose my own to defend it. You came to provoke me, to insult me, to prevent my marrying a young lady, whom I had previously, be. for her aunt, formally refused Honour compelled me not to refuse your challenge; honour required that I should expose my life; but it does not command me to attack yours. 1 am not angry with you; I have no cause to dislike you. But the prejudices of my country forced me to secrifice my cool judgment to your folly, to your passion. If your brea t still harbours resentment, we will begin again; then, if you miss me a second time. I will ag in repeat to you, that I have no greater desire of wedding Miss Jones than I have of terminating the days of my

Our hero now turned to the seconds, who had already put the pistols into their pockets. "Gen

so, was the reply. "Well, then, I make you the guarantees of the promise I have just received from Mr. Harley; he has entreated me to name the reparation I require. This is it. The newspapers have doubtless informed you of the particulars of Mr. Clements' will, and of my per. plexity with respect to Miss Jones. The young lady's aunt has refused the offer I made, of dividing the fortune left me with her niece, alledging that Miss Jones could not receive a gift from any one but a husband. I ask Mr. Henry Herley to become that husband; and the reparation-I require for the insult I have received is, that he will receive from me five thousand a year, which I vainly offered to his Frances."

Young Harley, overcome by our hero's generosity, could only answer him by affectionately pressing his offered hand. The seconds warmly applauded Sir Edward's conduct, and they all hastened to his house, where they found Mr. Harley, senior, who anxiously expected them. Henry told him all that had passed; and the worthy old man shed tears of joy. His mind was so softened by what he had endured, that for the first time in his life he contradicted no one; and willingly consented to Sir Edward's offer.

Our hero left them to fly to Grosvenor-street. He found Mrs. Harley at home, who had heard nothing of the duel, but was greatly affected at the relation of it. As nothing now remained to prevent the union of our lovers, their weddingday was fixed; and in a week Sir Edward be. came the happy husband of his Eliza. Old Mr. Harley departed for Oxford, to employ his oratorial powers to persuade Mrs. Jones to consent to the marriage of his son with Frances; and for once his eloquence was crowned with success. On his informing her that Sir Edward's hand was no longer free, she willingly consented, and soon Henry and Frances were

which produces white by the tension of the skin, and red by the fullness of the blood vessels Colours artificially applied, and paints of all sorts, are but wretched imitations of what ought to be; and De Senac discovered a method of obtaining in reality that effect which paints produce only in appearance. "It is necessary," said he, "to prevent the perspiration of the face; by these means a happy obstruction of lymph and blood will take place in the small vessels, and the skin will be kept more stretched. There will be white, red, and no wrinkles; and who can wish for any thing more? Now,” continued he, "oil prevents perspiration; nothing more is necessary than to rub it upon the face, or to apply to the Jatter only such drugs of which oil forms the basis, and not plasters, which by drying it, render it still more wrinkled than before."

Breton primitive ven, which signifies white, as we are informed by La Tour d'Auvergne Carret, in his work entitled Des Origines Gauloises.

I have observed that many causes may injure the whiteness of the skin, and that the air in particular is the natural enemy of the lilies of a beautiful complexion; but unfortunately for our handsome women, it is not the only enemy. A laborious life, or excess in pleasure; too much sleep, or too frequent watchings; too intense application, or the languor of a life of indolence and apathy; melancholy and violent passions, grief, fear, anxiety or hatred, are all prejudicial to the beauty of the skin, tarnish its lustre, and efface or alter its colours. On the contrary, a life of prudence and regularity; easy and varied occupations; benevolent, exalted and generous affections; the exercise of virtue, and that inward satisfaction which is its most valuable reward; such are the causes that preserve the flexibility of the organs, the free circulation of the

whence result both health and beauty.

It is true, that by the application of unctuous cosmetics, we counteract as much as possible the effect of the exterior causes that destroy the beauty of the complexion and the delicacy of the skin. But there are, as I have already observed, other causes, and it is unnecessary to remark, that this medium would be absolutely nugatory when interior causes impair beauty. What benefit can be derived from topical applications, for instance, when the defects of the skin depend on a derangement of the stomach, or a diseased liver, or an affection of the lungs, or the interruption of some secretion? It is not to exterior applications but to a skilful physician that recourse ought to be had, and when all the functions have returned to their natural course, the skin will resume its original freshness and Justre. It is therefore to internal causes that we ought first to direct our attention; and the first step towards recalling beauty, is to restore health.

Whiteness is one of the qualities which it is requisite for the skin to possess, before it can be called beautiful. In this point, the taste of the ancients correspond with ours; they held whiteness of the skin in such estimation, that they regarded this quality as the distinguishing characteristic beauty. The name of Venus, the

The diet also has a very great influence upon the colour of the skin. Buffon has observed that the delicate complexion and happy physiognomy of the nobility and most persons of the higher classes, are partly owing to the aliments they use. It has been remarked, for instance, that the use of barley-bread renders the skin more pale, and that persons who are in the habit of eating salt and dried provisions, seldom have a fine complexion. I have found in the works of physicians various observations which confirm the opinion of Buffon, but it is not my intention to swell out this chapter with them.

Water has not a less influence on the beauty of the carnation, and an accurate judgment of the quality of the water of a district may be formed by merely consulting the complexion of the inhabitants. It is therefore of considerable importance with respect also to beauty, to make use only of wholesome water.

The liver, according to physicians, has the most direct relations with the skin, as is demonstrated likewise by facts. Hypochondriac affections give the cutaneous surface a dull, brownish colour: in consequence of the bite of a viper an unctuous bile flows toward the skin. The complexion of the bilious is always distinguished by a yellowish colour; in persons of that constitution acrid, cutanous diseases are more frequent; sometimes the St. Anthony's fire is seen to accompany fevers of a bilious nature, and general and critical erup tions to succeed obstinate quartan fevers.

All these facts, to which might be added many more, clearly demonstrate not only that the acrid and chronical maladies of the skin proceed from

diseases of the bile and liver, but that the complexion itself depends in a great measure on the action of that viscus.

It must therefore be obvious that it would be unavailing to endeavour to counteract certain defects of the complexion, and especially its yellow or brown colour, by means of cosmetics, for these recourse must be had to internal remedies.

In my opinion the frequent use of martials would be found highly efficacious in producing a fine complexion; but this I give merely as a conjecure. I have not yet made any experiment on the subject, but I intend to do so on some female of a brown complexion who may happen to be tired of her colour. Let us now proceed to the methods that have been long known, practised, and recommended.

The iafusion of hyssop has been highly extolled, and it is likewise said that onions, when eaten, give very beautiful tints to the complexion. Le Camus recommends an hepatic salt, which he says, is highly efficacious either for preserving a fine complexion or acquiring beautiful colours. Its composition is as follows:

"Take roots of agrimony, two pounds; roots of chicory and scorzonera of each one pound; bitter costus, eryngium, Indian saffron, of each half a pound; calamus aromaticus, rapontic, southern-wood, hemp-grimony, scolopendra, veronica, common hepatica, fumitory, cuscuta, of each three ounces. Calcine the whole in a reverberatory furnace; then add ashes of rhubarb and of cassia lignea, of each an ounce and a half; lixiviate the whole with a decoction of the flowers of hepatica, and extract the salt by the usual process. This salt causes the bile to flow away, cures the jaundice, and gives the skin a pleasing carnation tint. The proper dose of this salt is from twenty-four to thirty-six grains in any suitable vehicle."

With respect to the means that counteract with success the external causes destructive of the beauty of the skin, they form a numerous class, composed of the cosmetics, properly so called. In the next chapter we shall give the most efficacious of these. At present I shall add but a few words on a method advised by some persons. It is said that nothing tends to whiten the skin so much as walking abroad in the cool of the evening, especially near water. This may be possible; but is not the humidity of evening productive of ill consequences, which would make those pay very dear who would purchase a fine skin at that rate, especially since it is an advantage that may be procured in so many other ways? For my part 1 think the practice

dangerous in our climate, and with the light costume of our ladies. All the physicians will not be of my opinion; we have doctors who enter into accommodations with the ladies as the Tartuffe did with heaven, but those who possess any integrity will give me their support. This reminds me of a discussion which took place on this subject when the ladies began to frequent in the evening the Pont des Arts at Paris. A physician inserted in the Journal de Paris some observations on the insalubrity of the practice of walking in the evening immediately over the bed of the river. In the present age, as in that of La Fontaine, we have physicians tant-pis, as well as physicians tant-mieux. These gendemen never did and never will agree; discord is the essence, I will not say of their art, but of their profession. Now the physician of whom I am speaking, was the physician tant pis. He would have alarmed the fair sex if any thing can alarm them when intent on the gratification of any new whim. A few days afterwards, however, a more complaisant doctor, the physician lant-mieux, undertook to pacify the fears of our handsome women. He therefore inserted in the same journal a letter, proving the salubri y of walking in the evening on the Pont des Arts And which of them was in the right? Neither the one nor the other; they were both wrong. You may perhaps ask: How can that be possible? Nothing is more easily expl ined: the ladies continued to frequent the promenad in spite of the denunciations of the physician tan'-pis, and caught cold notwithstanding the assurances of the physician tant-mieux. Our two doctors, therefore, were both wrong; such is the difficulty of hitting the mark with respect to women.

Let us, however, decide this question which is so important to the health of the ladies. I shall then assert with the physicians who enjoy the most deserved reputation, that the cool of the evening air checks perspiration, and is liable to produce various diseases, and that this effect is inevitable, if you sit still exposed to the evening air according to the practice of our ladies on the Pont des Arts. The cool of the evening is still more injurious to convalescents, as it may occasion relapses. Women, on going abroad after the periods of their accouchement, would do well not to expose themselves to it, if they are desirous of avoiding many painful disorders which are frequently the consequence of this imprudence, such as obstructions of the milk and various others. Such are some of the ill effects of the evening air, notwithstanding all that may be advanced by the doctors tant-mieux.

MR. EDITOR,

In the year 1791, in the month of November, Inkie and Yarico was acted at Drury-lane, and afterwards The Punnel; Oscar and Malvina. The day after, the following je ne sais quoi appeared in a newspaper which is now forgotten; as it is a chef d'œuvre in its kind, it may be not unpleasant to some of your readers to peruse such a curious specimen of matiere embrouillée, and apt quotations:

Ut nec pes, nec caput uni

Reddatur formt -HOR. ARTE POET.
Aut insanit homo, &c.

HOR. SAT. VII. LIB. 2.

INKLE AND YARICO, THE PANNEL, OSCAR AND

MALVINA.

It is an observation of Longinus that if two men ride on horseback, &c.-Dr. Franklin borrowed this-so might Johnson, so might Boswell-and so do we:-For as Dean Swift says"To speak of every particular person impeached by the commons of Athens within the compass designed, would introduce the history of almost every great man they had among them."

Kelly and Johnstone-who does not think of Colman-or farther back, the Spectator? But it is with the drama as in common life-" dot, and carry one," throughout the chapter-" as it was in the beginning, is now, &c." In the historical plays of Shakspeare there is much to admire-a redundancy of humour-from which to the serious his recuperancy wonderful. He had Horace in his eye,

Qui sit Mæcenas, ut nemo, quam sibi sortem, &c. To aim at perfection-to be at it, near it, over it, about it-it is the "wicked man turning from his wickedness"-and so let the Inkle of the night have his due praise.-We cannot say, "Spero meliora"-where shall the meliora be found?

"Optat ephippia bos piger."

Smollet asserts that Henry the First was "cool, cautious, politic, and penetrating; his courage was unquestioned, and his fortitude invincible." It may be so-we war not with the dead.

"Whom we,

to gain our place, have sent to peace." What music can do-it is but needful to name Billington and Crouch-and in all the fine varieties of passion, look, manner, tone-Wilberforce the slave trade-the price of sugarSt. Domingo-it was cause and consequenceso let the Yaricos of last night have what we can give. "Praises not loud, but deep."The Trudges of the night-Virgil shall take the pen

"Dic mihi Damæta, cujum pecus?”

The confounding contradictions of collateral cotemporaries are such, "I tell you nothing new, Sir" but to this print the public will look

you are sure to be defeated. Acquire discipline enough for concert, and the uniformity of combined attack, and your country will prove the best of the engineers." So true was this maxim of the American General, that the English soldiers had to contend with