footh d with praises but during the comfe of the table.

Thus defirous of praife, without the qualities that deferve it, he became an eaty prey to the flattery of parafites, and miiery and deception alternately thared his life.

My young readers, for whole benefit this effay is chiefly defigned, will, in the charactor of Dupuram fee the folly of negligence and the varity of thofe expectations which y úth and inexperience fuggeft.

Those who in age may regret his imprudence, or languish in his dilcontent, ima. confider that it is in their power to purcnale fome degree of happinets by making the practical virtues the employment of trai lives.

-N. SHIELDS.

E. NENDANGLING,

The BARWICK FISHERMAN. HERE was formerly a fifhe man liv'd at Barwick-upon-Tees, whofe name was Gabriel Wilton; and he (like molt of our fishermen now-a-days made no fcruple at fifining On Sundays.The Rector of Eaglefciiff hearing of the fhameful practice, was determin'd to put a top to it; which he did by the following policy,

One Sunday afternoon, when he knew the tide would aufwer, he took a walk along the river fide, till he came to the place where Witon antis partner were hung: He accolted them with the usual phrate of, "What Luck" and the fat down upon the grats and talked chearfully to them; taking not taeleatt notice of their filling on the Lora's Day.

When they had done tithing, the ketor afted Gabriel to take a walk with him; and in the banks or the Tees w were very pealant, and that he had never teen to much of them before this was readily agreed to, and he amoted Gabriel with tubjects of various forts; and at lait fur, ea his discourle on the ingratitude of ervants to thei: Mailers. 1 have heard, continued he, of a good-natured Gentenan, who had once occafion to go a lung: Journey: his man who went with him, ne knew was very extravagant, and therefore thought he'd better let him know how much he intended to allow hun for his traveling expences You fee, fays the Mafter, this

PURSE OF GOLD mult support us both, "and we will divide it before we let out; you shall have SIX-SEVENTHS of the m›66 ney to fupport yourfelt with, and I will be

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content with the REMAINDER." They fet forward: the fervant became very extravagant; he drank, part of his money, part he At by gaming, and by these and other ditorderly

orderly ways, foon came to the bottom of his pocket; and (what was worse than a the reil; when he found his money was gone, he robbed his matter of the trifle he had taken to himteit. "Oh! that raical, crv'd "Gabrici, what did he deserve!-Hanging, "I'm ture, was too good for him.”—“Well, reply'd be Rector, (as Natèan cid to David) THOU ART THE MAN, Six days in too week hath God allowed thee to work, "and thou art not content with them; but 66 robbet him of the SABBATH, the day "which he hath taken to numelf.”

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Gabriel was convinced of his error; and it was commonly reported by his neighbnurs and thote who knew him, that it was not iu the power of man to perfuade him to fih on a Sunday after that time.

May 20th 1793.

STOCKTON ENSIS.

The Happiness of the golden Mean.

"Auream quifquis mediocritatem,

HOR. Carm. Lib. ii. Ode 10.

"6 Diligit." HE paffion for riches being at pretent fo TH prevalent in mankind, is the reason that

we frequently find them facrifice their morals, health, and happinets to it. Their ideas are bewildered in vifionary dreams of itture greatucís, when Fortune, with the e

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ceitfulness of a harlot, fuddenly overturns the fool of chimerical deluflon on which they were mounted, and the golden phantoms vawith. Then the fumes of their fancies are quickly evaporated, and they are loft, by retracing the objects, in the gloomy meditations of despair.

But to turn from a fubject that is a horror to my feelings. I fhall endeavour to place in comparative view Poverty and Ricles, the former labouring under the fneer of infult, and the rod of oppreffion; the latter frembling with the alternate, racking emo ions of hope and despair. Poor men, like thrubs, by their lowlinets may escape the feveret blants. while the great, like the lottieft trees on the mountain, are thook from their foundations, and fall; yet the meanness of the fhrubs, which proves their fafeguard agai : the mie mperance of the e'ements, renders them an eafy prey to the foot of the paffing traveller.

Again, as Riches is the mother of effeminate purtuits an unbridle! licentioufhefs, on the one hand, fo Poverty is the nurte of wickednets and calamity on the other.

The intermediate fate, or what Horace calls the GOLDEN MEAN, is certainly the moil eligible; as in it we are free from the pageant difplay of folly in the great, and the abje&t vall age expected from the poor.Mountains, from their proximity to the fun, are made baren by the too direct force of his

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rays; the deepest glades, from whence no heavy fogs are difpelled, by his fottering Les, are equally uniruitful; but the vales which lie under the temperate mean, we behold cloathed in verdure.

JUSTINUS as a man who truly enjoyed the golden mediocrity. In him the liberty and welfare of his country obtained a valuable acquifition: he was a man of ftrict honour; equally prout againt the bribes and threats of the intcreted great: he was true to thofe principles which he thought had the good of his country for their origin: content and tem perance ever fetened his meal-; unbroken flumbers were the refult or well-timed exercife: health enlivened his fpirits, and patience was an ever-healing balm to his mind. His lite glided down the fream of ferenity, and he met death like a friend whom he had long expected His memory was handed down, with unfaded laurels, to pofterity; and he whom onour attended when living, now he is dead, is an ever-flowing fpring of glory to his defcendents. In fine, may Juftinus, the 1ymbol of the golden mediocrity, be a clotely-followed example to every man who enjoye a competency.

SEDGEFIELD.

S. H.

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