"Pray, Miss," said the son, "how do you like the Tower of London?"

"I have never been to it, Sir."

"Goodness!" exclaimed he, "not seen the Tower!-why, maybe, you ha'n't been o' top of the Monument, neither?"

"No, indeed, I have not."

“Why, then, you might as well not have come to London for aught I see, for you've been no where."

"Pray, Miss," said Polly, "have you been all over Paul's Church yet?"

"No, Ma'am."

"Well, but, Ma'am," said Mr. Smith, "how do you like Vauxhall and Marybone?"

"I never saw either, Sir."

"No-God bless me !—you really surprise me,-why Vauxhall is the first pleasure in life!-I know nothing like it.-Well, Ma'am, you must have been with strange people, indeed, not to have taken you to Vauxhall. Why you have seen nothing of London yet. However, we must try if we can't make you amends."

In the course of this catechism, many other places were mentioned, of which I have forgotten the names; but the looks of surprise and contempt that my repeated negatives incurred were very diverting.

Come," said Mr. Smith after tea, as this lady has been with such a queer set of people, let's show her the difference; suppose we go somewhere to-night!—I love to do things with spirit !-Come, ladies, where shall we go? For my part I should like Foote's-but the ladies must choose; I never speak myself."

"Well, Mr. Smith is always in such spirits!" said Miss Branghton.

"Why, yes, Ma'am, yes, thank God, pretty good spirits ;-I have not yet the cares of the world upon me;-I am not married,-ha, ha, ha !-you'll excuse me, ladies, but I can't help laughing!"

No objection being made, to my great relief we all proceeded to the little theatre in the Haymarket, where I was

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extremely entertained by the performance of the Minor and the Commissary.

They all returned hither to supper.

Evelina.

P. 255, 1. 1. Such. Evelina has been dining in company with the Branghtons, vulgar relations of hers. Mr. Smith is the Miss Branghtons' beau.

P. 256, l. 17. George's, a tea garden. Don Saltero's, a museum of odds and ends. Sadler's Wells, not then a theatre, but a public garden, as were Vauxhall and Marybone. Foote's Theatre, afterwards, as appears below, the “ Haymarket,” and sometimes called "the Little Theatre" only. The Minor and The Commissary were among the favourite parts and pieces of Foote, who, it must be remembered, was both actor and author.

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WILLIAM GODWIN.

William Godwin was born at Wisbeach in 1756; for a time he was a dissenting minister, but soon took to miscellaneous writing of various kinds. Godwin is extremely unequal both as thinker and writer, both as politician and novelist, but his thought and his expression are frequently original and almost always more or less distinguished. He died in 1836.

OF JUSTICE.

USTICE is a rule of conduct originating in the connection of one percipient being with another. A comprehensive maxim which has been laid down upon the subject is, "that we should love our neighbour as ourselves." But this maxim, though possessing considerable merit as a popular principle, is not modelled with the strictness of philosophical accuracy.

In a loose and general view I and my neighbour are both of us men; and of consequence entitled to equal attention. But in reality it is probable that one of us is a being of more worth and importance than the other. A man is of more worth than a beast; because, being possessed of higher faculties, he is capable of a more refined and genuine happiness. In the same manner the illustrious archbishop of Cambray was of more worth than his valet, and there are few of us who would hesitate to pronounce, if his palace were in flames, and the life of only one of them could be preserved, which of the two ought to be preferred.

But there is another ground of preference, besides the private consideration of one of them being farther removed from the state