fact is certain, and the reason will be evident to those who know that confessors hold the keys of heaven and of hell.

When Charles IV. succeeded to the throne, in the very commencement of his reign, by the advice of his favourite, he issued a decree separating for ever the employments of inquisitor and confessor to the crown: and he took for his confessor an ecclesiastick, named Camacho, a person universally esteemed for his moderation and his prudence. This was a good beginning, and had the times been favourable, I have no doubt that he would have proceeded to restrain the power of that tribunal, or would have abolished it. As long as the inquisition shall remain, neither arts, manufactures, commerce, religion, nor morality, can prosper. The Moors in Spain were the principal agriculturalists, and the only manufacturers. The Jews were merchants. These were all expelled or burnt by that persecuting court. The good bishop of Oviedo, when he was lamenting the immorality which universally prevailed in Spain, comforted himself in the reflection, that his countrymen were wholly free from the charge of infidelity. I did not think it expedient to remind him that, whilst the French ran riotously after philosophick infidelity, other nations might quietly remain with all their faculties benumbed by the torpid infidelity of ignorance, and that both species were. equally productive of immorality.

In Spain, the inquisition requires that all, who are come to years of discretion, shall receive the sacrament at Easter, and every person is obliged to deliver in a certificate of the place where the confession was taken, and the sacrament administered to him.

What is the consequence? Common prostitutes, at Easter, hasten from church to church, to confess, and to receive the sacrament, and

then proceed to sell these certificates to such persons, as, although immoral in their conduct, are not sufficiently impious to attend this sacred ordinance. Is it possible to conceive a more horrid profanation than such a sacramental test?

Should the present struggle between France and Spain, terminate in the restoration of the constitution to its original integrity, there can be no doubt that the Cortes will find it expedient to abolish the inquisition, and to invite foreigners, of all religious persuasions, to settle in the country.

As a friend to Spain, and a warm wisher for her prosperity, I please myself in the anticipation of her future felicity, when good government shall give security to person and to property; and, by establishing publick credit, promote agricultural improvements through every part of the peninsula. Happy will it be for her, if, in the wisdom of her councils, she shall close her eyes against the false glitter of distant conquest and dominion, cultivate the arts of peace, finish her canals, give vent to her commodities, and find true wealth in the industry of her inhabitants, instead of seeking imaginary wealth in the gold and silver of Peru.

With the extensive territory, varied climates, and highly productive soil, which she commands at home, should she abandon her foreign possessions, by which she has been, is, and ever will be, enfeebled and impoverished; should she 'carefully avoid offensive war, and confine all her views and efforts to internal improvement, she will rapidly double and quadruple her inhabitants, she will increase in wealth, she will become invulnerable, and will enjoy uninterrupted peace.

In these circumstances, she will be resorted to, for traffick, by all the nations of the earth, and will be, in Europe, what China has been from remote antiquity in Asia.

THE late John Barlow, esq. of Rhodes, near Middleton, Lancashire, had a fine Newfoundland dog in his keeping, which, for many years, was a domestick in the family; the guardian of their property, and the constant companion of his master. The general hour of Mr. B's return in the evening, was known to Toss, who, on some occasions, was not permitted to accompany his master; yet as soon as the clock had struck nine, the anxious animal would no longer be confined, nor indulge himself on a warm hearth, but go in search of his master, and seldom failed to find, and to conduct his charge back one or two miles on the road. On week days, nothing was so gratifying to this sensible brute, as a walk with some of the family; particularly with Mr. Barlow. But, on Sundays, Toss knew his place, as well as the day. No artifice or temptation could then induce him to leave the house. His business was to guard the premises in the absence of the family; whether at home or abroad, by night or by day, the protection of Toss was considered as equal to a guard of armed men. Once, when Mrs. Barlow's maid was sent on an important errand, late in the evening, she was attacked by two brutal wretches, who might have accomplished their horrid purposes, had not Toss immediately seized one of the ruffians, and held him in extreme torture, till the other offered to desist from rifling the young woman, provided she would rescue his accomplice, by

calling off the dog; which she did, and so, through the courage and fidelity of her canine friend, she escaped whatever wickedness the villains had concerted.

The fondness and affection of this animal for his master, was almost unparalleled. If, in Mr. B's absence, any of the family would say: " Toss, your master is coming," he would immediately abandon even a delicate bone, in hopes to meet him; and if, at the time, he found himself cheated or deceived, he would growl, and show by his looks, that he was affronted. During Mr. Barlow's last sickness, the faithful creature could not be prevailed on to quit the bedside; and when he saw the coffin, which contained the remains of his beloved master, taken out of the house to be put into the hearse, his grief was inconsolable. This he manifested by howling, and by every sign of real grief. After this, Toss could never be so far deceived, as to be prevailed on to go and seek his master; and when told that he was coming, or desired to go and meet him, he would gently move his head, and, with a melancholy, significant look, silently reprove his deceivers. Toss never overcame this shock. The rest of his short and disconsolate life was spent in going the same rounds, in the neighbourhood, he had, in happier days, so frequently trod with his master; when, as it is supposed, (and as I firmly believe) grief put an end to his existence.

THE ORIGINAL BALLAD, "GENTLE HERDSMAN, TELL TO ME." From which, it is presumed, Dr. Goldsmith derived the Idea of his

"Edwin and Angelina."
GENTLE herdsman, tell to me,
Of courtesy I thee pray-
Unto the towne of Wallsingham
Which is the right and ready way.

"Unto the towne of Walsingham,
The way is hard for to be gone,
And very crooked are those pathes
For you to find out all alone."

Were the miles doubled thrise,
And the way never so ill,

It were not enough for mine offence;
It is so grevous, and so ill.

"Thy yeares are young, thy face is faire, Thy wits are weake, thy thoughts are greene;

Time hath not given thee leave as yet
For to commit so great a sinne!”

Yes herdsman, yes, soe wou'dst thou say,
If thou knewest so much as I;
My wits, and thoughtes, and all the rest,
Have well deserved for to dye.

I am not what I seeme to bee,

My clothes and sexe doe differ faire; I am a woman, woe is mee!

Born to greeffe, and irksome care.

For my beloved, and well beloved,

My wayward cruelty could kill; And though my teares will nought avail, Most dearely I bewail him still.

He was the flower of noble wights,

None ever more sincere colde bee Of comelye mien and shape he was,

And tenderlye he loved mee.

When thus I sawe he loved me well,

I grew so proude his paine to see, That I, who did not know myselfe, Thought scorne of such a youth as hee.

And grew so coy, and nice to please,
As women's lookes are often soe,
He might not kisse, nor hand forsooth,
Unlesse I willd him soe to doe.

Thus being wearyed with delayes,
To see I pityed not his greeffe,
He goes him to a secrett place,

And there he dyed without releeffe.

And, for his sake these weedes I weare,
And sacrifice my tender
age;
And every day I'll beg my bread,

To undergoe this pilgrimage.

Thus every day I'll fast and praye,
And ever will do till I dye:
And get me to some secrett place,
For so did hee, and soe will I.*

Now, gentle herdsman, ask no more, But keep my secretts I thee pray; Unto the towne of Walsingham

Show me the right and readye waye.

"Now goe thy wayes, and God before,
For he must ever guide thee still;
Turn down the dale the right hand pathe,
And so, fair pilgrim, fare thee well."

RESIGNATION.

[By T. Chatterton.]

1.

O GOD! whose thunder shakes the sky,
Whose eye this atom globe surveys;
To Thee, my only rock, I fly,
Thy mercy in this justice praise.
The mystick mazes of thy will,

The shadows of celestial light,
Are past the power of human skill,
But what th' eternal acts in right.

2.

O teach me, in the trying hour,

When anguish swells the dewy tear, To still my sorrows, own thy power,

Thy goodness love, thy justice fear. If in this bosom aught but Thee Encroaching sought a boundless sway, Omniscience could the danger see, And mercy take the cause away.

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