markable, that the greatness of the occasion has raised the manner of expression above the usual simplicity and modesty of all other ancient inscriptions." He then repeated it with all the pomp of declamation, and signified his hope that the French would one day

he had not the smallest pretension, that he could not forget his misbehaviour all at once, though he would condescend to communicate with him as formerly, in hopes of seeing a reformation in his conduct. Pallet protested that there was no dissimulation in the case; for he was ignorant of his own weak-invade us with such an army as that which ness, until his resolution was put to the trial: he faithfully promised to demean himself, during the remaining part of the tour, with that conscious modesty and penitence which became a person in his condition; and, for the present, implored the assistance of Mr Pipes, in disembarrassing him from the disagreeable consequence of his fear.

CHAPTER LXIV.

The doctor exults in his victory-they set out for Rotterdam, where they are entertained by two Dutch gentlemen in a yacht, which is overturned in the Maese, to the manifest hazard of the painter's life-they spend the evening with their entertainers, and next day visit a cabinet of curiosities.

Tom was accordingly ordered to minister to his occasions; and the conqueror, elated with his success, which he in a great measure attributed to his manner of attack, and the hymn which he howled, told Peregrine, that he was now convinced of the truth of what Pindar sung in these words,-Ossa de me pephileke Zeus atuzontai Boan Pieridon aionta; for he had no sooner begun to repeat the mellifluent strains of that divine poet, than the wretch, his antagonist, was confounded, and his nerves unstrung.

Xerxes led into Greece, that it might be in his power to devote himself, like Leonidas, to the freedom of his country.

This memorable combat being thus determined, and every thing that was remarkable in Antwerp surveyed, they sent their baggage down the Scheldt to Rotterdam, and set out for the same place in a post-wagon, which that same evening brought them in safety to the banks of the Maese. They put up at an English house of entertainment, remarkable for the modesty and moderation of the landlord; and next morning the doctor went in person to deliver letters of recommendation to two Dutch gentlemen from one of his acquaintances at Paris. Neither of them happened to be at home when he called; so that he left a message at their lodgings, with his address; and in the afternoon they waited upon the company, and, after many hospitable professions, one of the two invited them to spend the evening at his house.

Meanwhile, they had provided a pleasure yacht, in which they proposed to treat them with an excursion upon the Maese. This being almost the only diversion that place affords, our young gentleman relished the proposal; and, notwithstanding the remonstrances of Mr Jolter, who declined the voyage on account of the roughness of the weather, they went on board without hesitation, and found a collation prepared in the cabin.

On their return to the inn, he expatiated While they tacked to and fro in the river, on the prudence and tranquillity of his own under the impulse of a mackerel breeze, the behaviour, and ascribed the consternation of physician expressed his satisfaction, and PalPallet to the remembrance of some crime that let was ravished with the entertainment. lay heavy upon his conscience; for, in his But the wind increasing, to the unspeakable opinion, a man of virtue and common sense joy of the Dutchmen, who had now an opcould not possibly be afraid of death, which portunity of showing their dexterity in the is not only the peaceful harbour that receives management of the vessel, the guests found him shattered on the tempestuous sea of life, it inconvient to stand upon deck, and imbut also the eternal seal of his fame and glory, possible sit below, on account of the clouds which it is no longer in his power to forfeit of tobacco smoke which rolled from the and forego. He lamented his fate, in being pipes of their entertainers, in such volumes, doomed to live in such degenerate days, as annoyed them even to the hazard of sufwhen war is become a mercenary trade; and focation. This fumigation, together with ardently wished that the day would come, the extraordinary motion of the ship, began when he should have such an opportunity of to affect the head and stomach of the painter, signalizing his courage in the cause of liberty, who begged earnestly to be set on shore: as that of Marathon, where an handful of but the Dutch gentlemen, who had no idea of Athenians, fighting for their freedom, defeat- his sufferings, insisted, with surprising obed the whole strength of the Persian empire. stinacy of regard, upon his staying until he "Would to heaven," said he, "my muse should see an instance of the skill of their were blessed with an occasion to emulate mariners; and, bringing him on deck, comthat glorious testimony on the trophy in Cy-manded the men to carry the vessel's lee prus, erected by Cimon, for two great victories gained on the same day over the Persians by sea and land; in which it is very re

gun-wale under water. This nicety of navigation they instantly performed, to the admiration of Pickel, the discomposure of the

doctor and terror of Pallet, who blessed him- | every circumstance of his treatment, cursed
self from the courtesy of a Dutchman, and the hour in which the doctor had saddled
prayed to Heaven for his deliverance. them with such troublesome companions.
While the Hollanders enjoyed the reputa- Next morning, by eight o'clock, these po-
tion of this feat, and the distress of the pain-lite Hollanders returned the visit, and, after
ter at the same time, the yacht was overta- breakfast, attended their English friends to
ken by a sudden squall, that overset her in a the house of a person that possessed a very
moment, and flung every man overboard into curious cabinet of curiosities, to which they
the Maese, before they could have the least had secured our company's admission. The
warning of their fate, much less time to pro- owner of this collection was a cheesemon-
vide against the accident. Peregrine, who ger, who received them in a woollen night-
was an expert swimmer, reached the shore cap, with straps buttoned under his chin. As
in safety; the physician, in the agonies of he understood no language but his own, he
despair, laid fast hold on the trunk-breeches told them, by the canal of one of their con-
of one of the men, who dragged him to the ductors, that he did not make a practice of
other side; the entertainers landed at the showing his curiosities; but understanding
bomb-keys, smoking their pipes all the way that they were Englishmen, and recommend-
with great deliberation; and the poor painter ed to his friends, was content to submit them
must have gone to the bottom, had not he to their perusal. So saying, he led them up
been encountered by the cable of a ship that a dark stair, into a small room, decorated
lay at anchor near the scene of their disaster. with a few paltry figures in plaster of Paris,
Though his senses had forsaken him, his two or three miserable landscapes, the skins
hands fastened by instinct on this providen- of an otter, seal, and some fishes stuffed;
tial occurrence, which he held with such a and in one corner stood a glass-case, fur-
convulsive grasp, that, when a boat was sent nished with newts, frogs, lizards, and ser-
out to bring him on shore, it was with the pents, preserved in spirits; a human fœtus,
utmost difficulty that his fingers were disen- a calf with two heads, and about two dozen
gaged. He was carried into a house, deprived of butterflies pinned upon paper.
of the use of speech, and bereft of all sensa-
tion; and, being suspended by the heels, a
vast quantity of water ran out of his mouth.
This evacuation being made, he began to ut-
ter dreadful groans, which gradually increas-
ed to a continued roar; and, after he had re-
gained the use of his senses, he underwent
a delirium that lasted several hours. As for
the treaters, they never dreamed of express-
ing the least concern to Pickle or the physi-
cian for what had happened, because it was
an accident so common as to pass without
notice.

Leaving the care of the vessel to the seamen, the company retired to their respective lodgings, in order to shift their clothes; and in the evening our travellers were conducted to the house of their new friend, who, with a view of making his invitation the more agreeable, had assembled to the number of twenty or thirty Englishmen, of all ranks and degrees, from the merchant to the periwigmaker's 'prentice.

The virtuoso having exhibited these particulars, eyed the strangers with a look soliciting admiration and applause; and as he could not perceive any symptom of either in their gestures or countenances, withdrew a curtain, and displayed a wainscot chest of drawers, in which he gave them to understand was something that would agreeably amuse the imagination. Our travellers, regaled with this notice, imagined that they would be entertained with the sight of some curious medals, or other productions of antiquity; but how were they disappointed, when they saw nothing but a variety of shells, disposed in whimsical figures, in each drawer! After he had detained them full two hours with a tedious commentary upon the shape, size and colour of each department, he, with a supercilious simper, desired that the English gentleman would frankly and candidly declare, whether his cabinet or that of Mynheer Sloane at London, was the most valuable. When this request was signified in English In the midst of this congregation stood a to the company, the painter instantly exchafing dish with live coals, for the conve- claimed, "By the Lard! they are not to be nience of lighting their pipes, and every in-named of a day: and as for that matter, I dividual was accommodated with a spitting- would not give one corner of Saltero's coffeebox. There was not a mouth in the apart-house at Chelsea for all the trash he hath ment unfurnished with a tube, so that they resembled a congregation of chimeras breathing fire and smoke; and our gentlemen were fain to imitate their example in their own defence. It is not to be supposed that the conversation was either very sprightly or polite: the whole entertainment was of the Dutch cast, frowsy and phlegmatic; and our adventurer as he returned to his lodging, tortured with the headach, and disgusted with

shown." Peregrine, unwilling to mortify any person who had done his endeavour to please him, observed, that what he had seen was very curious and entertaining; but that no private collection in Europe was equal to that of Sir Hans Sloane, which, exclusive of presents, had cost an hundred thousand pounds. The two conductors were confounded at this asseveration, which being communicated to the cheesemonger, he shook his

head with a significant grin; and, though he | famous company did not represent regular

did not chuse to express his incredulity in words, gave our hero to understand, that he did not much depend upon his veracity.

From the house of this Dutch naturalist, they were dragged all round the city by the painful civility of their attendants, who did not quit them till the evening was well advanced, and then not till after they had promised to be with them before ten o'clock next day, in order to conduct them to a country house, situated in a pleasant village on the other side of the river.

Pickle was already so much fatigued with their hospitality, that, for the first time of his life, he suffered a dejection of spirits; and resolved, at any rate, to avoid the threatened persecution of to-morrow. With this view, he ordered his servants to pack up some clothes and linen in a portmanteau; and in the morning embarked, with his governor, in the treckskuyt, for the Hague, whither he pretended to be called by some urgent occasion, leaving his fellow-travellers to make his apology to their friends; and assuring them that he would not proceed for Amsterdam without their society.

theatrical pieces, but only a sort of impromptus, in which this noted player always performed the greatest part of the enter tainment. Among other sallies of wit that escaped him, there was one circumstance so remarkably adapted to the disposition and genius of his audience, that it were pity to pass it over in silence. A windmill being exhibited on the scene, Harlequin, after having surveyed it with curiosity and admiration, asks one of the millers the use of that machine; and being told that it was a windmill, observed, with some concern, that as there was not the least breath of wind, he could not have the pleasure of seeing it turn round. Urged by this consideration, he puts himself into the attitude of a person wrapt in profound meditation; and having continued a few seconds in this posture, runs to the miller with great eagerness and joy, and telling him that he had found an expedient to make his mill work, very fairly unbuttons his breeches; then presenting his posteriors to the sails of the machine, certain explosions are immediately heard, and the arms of the mill begin to turn round, to the infinite satisfaction of the spectators, who approve the joke with loud peals of ap

He arrived at the Hague in the forenoon, and dined at an ordinary frequented by officers and people of fashion; where being in-plause. formed that the princess would see company in the evening, he dressed himself in a rich suit of the Parisian cut, and went to court, without any introduction. A person of his appearance could not fail to attract the notice of such a small circle. The prince himself, understanding he was an Englishman and a stranger, went up to him, without ceremony, and, having welcomed him to the place, conversed with him for some minutes on the common topics of discourse.

Our travellers staid a few days at the Hague, during which the young gentleman waited on the British ambassador, to whom he was recommended by his excellency at Paris, and lost about thirty guineas at billiards to a French adventurer, who decoyed him into the snare by keeping up his game. Then they departed in a post-wagon for Amsterdam, being provided with letters of introduction to an English merchant residing in that city, under whose auspices they visited every thing worth seeing, and, among other excursions, went to see a Dutch tragedy acted; an entertainment which, of all others, had the strangest effect upon the They proceed to the Hague, from whence organs of our hero: the dress of their chief they depart for Amsterdam, where they personages was so antic, their manner so see a Dutch tragedy-visit the music-awkwarldly absurd, and their language so house, in which Peregrine quarrels with the captain of a man of war-they pass through Haerlem, in their way to Leyden -return to Rotterdam, where the company separates, and our hero, with his attendants, arrive in safety at Harwich.

CHAPTER LXV.

ridiculously unfit for conveying the sentiments of love and honour, that Peregrine's nerves were diuretically affected with the complicated absurdity, and he was compelled to withdraw twenty times before the catastrophe of the piece.

The subject of this performance was the BEING joined by their fellow-travellers in famous story of Scipio's continence and the morning, they made a tour to all the re- virtue, in restoring the fair captive to her markable places in this celebrated village; lover. The young Roman hero was represaw the foundery, the stadthouse, the spin-sented by a broad-faced Batavian, in a burgohuys, Vauxhall, and Count Bentinck's gar- master's gown and a fur cap, sitting smoking dens, and in the evening went to the French his pipe at a table furnished with a cann of comedy, which was directed by a noted beer, a drinking glass, and a plate of tobacco: Harlequin, who had found means to flatter the lady was such a person as Scipio might the Dutch taste so effectually, that they ex-very well be supposed to give away, without tolled him as the greatest actor that ever ap-any great effort of generosity; and indeed peared in the province of Holland. This the Celtiberian prince seemed to be of that

opinion; for, upon receiving her from the hand of the victor, he discovered none of those transports of gratitude and joy which Livy describes in recounting this event. The Dutch Scipio, however, was complaisant enough in his way; for he desired her to sit at his right hand, by the appellation of ya frow, and, with his own fingers, filling a clean pipe, presented it to Mynheer Allucio, the lover. The rest of the economy of the piece was in the same taste; which was so agreeable to the audience, that they seemed to have shaken off their natural phlegm, in order to applaud the performance.

From the play our company adjourned to the house of their friend, where they spent the evening; and the conversation turning upon poetry, a Dutchman who was present, and understood the English language, having listened very attentively to the discourse, lifted up with both hands the greatest part of a Cheshire cheese that lay upon the table, saying, "I do know vat is boeter. Mine brotre be a great boet, and ave vrought a book as dick as all dat." Pickle, diverted with this method of estimating an author according to the quantity of his works, inquired about the subjects of this bard's writings; but of these his brother could give no account, or other information, but that there was little market for the commodity, which hung heavy upon his hands, and induced him to wish he had applied himself to another trade.

attend them in this expedition, made up to a sprightly French girl, who sat in seeming expectation of a customer, and, prevailing upon her to be his partner, led her into the circle, and, in his turn, took the opportunity of dancing a minuet, to the admiration of all present. He intended to have exhibited another specimen of his ability in this art, when a captain of a Dutch man of war chancing to come in, and seeing a stranger engaged with the lady whom, it seems, he had bespoke for his bedfellow, he advanced without any ceremony, and seizing her by the arm, pulled her to the other side of the room. Our adventurer, who was not a man to put up with such a brutal affront, followed the ravisher with indignation in his eyes, and, pushing him on one side, retook the subject of their contest, and led her back to the place from whence she had been dragged. The Dutchman, enraged at the youth's presumption, obeyed the first dictates of his choler, and lent his rival a hearty box on the ear, which was immediately repaid with interest, before our hero could recollect himself sufficiently to lay his hand upon his sword, and beckon the aggressor to the door.

Notwithstanding the confusion and disorder which this affair produced in the room, and the endeavours of Pickle's company, who interposed in order to prevent bloodshed, the antagonists reached the street; and Peregrine, drawing, was surprised to see the captain advance against him with a long knife, which he preferred to the sword that hung by his side. The youth, confounded at this preposterous behaviour, desired him in the French tongue, to lay aside that vulgar implement, and approach like a gentleman: but the Hollander, who neither understood the proposal, nor would have complied with his demand, had he been made acquainted with his meaning, rushed forward like a desperado, before his adversary could put himself on his guard; and if the young gentleman had not been endued with surprising agility, his nose would have fallen a sacrifice to the fury of the assailant. Finding himself in such imminent jeopardy, he leaped to one side, and the Dutchman passing him, in the force of his career, he, with one nimble kick, made such application to his enemy's heels, that he flew like lightning into the canal, where he had almost perished, by pitching upon one of the posts with which it is faced.

The only remarkable scene in Amsterdam which our company had not seen, was the Spuyl, or music-houses, which, by the connivance of the magistrates, are maintained for the recreation of those who might attempt the chastity of creditable women, if they were not provided with such conveniences. To one of these night-houses did our travellers repair, under the conduct of the English merchant, and were introduced into such another place as the ever-memorable coffeehouse of Moll King; with this difference, that the company here were not so riotous as the bucks of Covent-Garden, but formed themselves into a circle, within which some of the number danced to the music of a scurvy organ and a few other instruments, that uttered tunes very suitable to the disposition of the hearers, while the whole apartment was shrouded with clouds of smoke impervious to the view. When our gentlemen entered, the floor was occupied by two females and their gallants, who, in Peregrine having performed this exploit, the performance of their exercise, lifted their did not stay for the captain's coming on shore, legs like so many oxen at plough; and the but retreated with all dispatch, by the advice pipe of one of those hoppers happening to of his conductor; and next day embarked be exhausted in the midst of his saraband, with his companions, in the skuyt, for Haerhe very deliberately drew forth his tobacco-lem, where they dined, and, in the evening, box, filling and lighting it again, without any interruption to the dance. Peregrine, being unchecked by the presence of his governor, who was too tender of his own reputation to

arrived at the ancient city of Leyden, where they met with some English students, who treated them with great hospitality: not but that the harmony of the conversation was

Sorry I am, that the task I have undertaken, lays me under the necessity of divulg ing this degeneracy in the sentiments of our imperious youth, who was now in the heyday of his blood, flushed with the consciousness of his own qualifications, vain of his fortune, and elated on the wings of imaginary expectation. Though he was deeply ena moured of Miss Gauntlet, he was far from proposing her heart as the ultimate aim of his gallantry, which (he did not doubt) would triumph over the most illustrious females of the land, and at once regale his appetite and ambition.

that same night interrupted, by a dispute that | sence of eighteen months; and the image of arose between one of those young gentlemen his charming Emily, which other less worthy and the physician, about the cold and hot me- considerations had depressed, resumed the thods of prescription in the gout and rheuma- full possession of his breast. He rememtism; and proceeded to such a degree of mutu- bered, with shame, that he had neglected the al reviling, that Pickle, ashamed and incens- correspondence with her brother, which he ed at his fellow traveller's want of urbanity, himself had solicited, and in consequence of espoused the other's cause, and openly rebuk- which he had received a letter from that ed him for his unmannerly petulance, which young gentleman, while he lived at Paris. In (he said) rendered him unfit for the purposes, spite of these conscientious reflections, he and unworthy of the benefit, of society. This was too self-sufficient to think he should find unexpected declaration overwhelmed the doc- any difficulty in obtaining forgiveness for such tor with amazement and confusion; he was sins of omission; and began to imagine, that instantaneously deprived of his speech, and, his passion would be prejudicial to the digduring the remaining part of the night, sat in nity of his situation, if it could not be gratisilent mortification. In all probability, he fied upon terms which formerly his imaginadeliberated with himself, whether or not he tion durst not conceive. should expostulate with the young gentleman on the freedom he had taken with his character in a company of strangers; but as he knew he had not a Pallet to deal with, he very prudently suppressed that suggestion, and in secret chewed the cud of resentment. After they had visited the physic garden, the university, the anatomical hall, and every other thing that was recommended to their view, they returned to Rotterdam, and held a consultation upon the method of transporting themselves to England. The doctor, whose grudge against Peregrine was rather inflamed than allayed by our hero's indifference and neglect, had tampered with the Meanwhile, being willing to make his apsimplicity of the painter, who was proud of pearance at the garrison equally surprising his advances, towards a perfect reconcilia- and agreeable, he cautioned Mr Jolter against tion; and now took the opportunity of part-writing to the commodore, who had not heard ing with our adventurer, by declaring that he and his friend Mr Pallet were resolved to take their passage in a trading sloop, after he had heard Peregrine object against that tedious, disagreeable, and uncertain method of conveyance. Pickle immediately saw his intention; and, without using the least argument to dissuade them from their design, or expressing the smallest degree of concern at their separation, very coolly wished them a prosperous voyage, and ordered his baggage to be sent to Helvoetsluys. There he himself and his retinue went on board of the packet next day, and, by the favour of a fair wind, in eighteen hours arrived at Harwich.

CHAPTER LXIII.

Peregrine delivers his letters of recommendation at London, and returns to the garrison, to the unspeakable joy of the commodore and his whole family.

of them since their departure from Paris, and hired a post chaise and horses for London. The governor, going out to give orders about the carriage, inadvertently left a paper book open upon the table; and his pupil, casting his eye upon the page, chanced to read these words. "Sept. 15. Arrived in safety, by the blessing of God, in this unhappy kingdom of England. And thus concludes the journal of my last peregrination." Peregrine's curiosity being inflamed by this extraordinary conclusion, he turned to the beginning, and perused several sheets of a dairy, such as is commonly kept by that class of people known by the denomination of travelling governors, for the satisfaction of themselves and the parents or guardians of their pupils, and for the edification and entertainment of their friends.

That the reader may have a clear idea, of Mr Jolter's performance, we shall transcribe the transactions of one day, as he had recorded them; and that abstract will be a sufficient specimen of the whole plan and execution of the work.

Now that our hero found himself on English ground, his heart dilated with the proud re- "May 3. At eight o'clock set out from collection of his own improvement since he Boulougne in a post-chaise-the morning left his native soil. He began to recognize hazy and cold. Fortified my stomach with a the interesting ideas of his tender years; he cordial. Recommended ditto to Mr P. as an enjoyed, by anticipation the pleasure of see- antidote against the fog. Mem. He refused ing his friends in the garrison, after an ab-it. The hither horse greased in the off-pas