of Property, of fubordinate orderlinefs, and of orderly fubordination. Nor need you be afraid of death, for I can affure you (in verbo facerdotis, i. e. on the word of a Prieft) that whoever dies in this contest, fhall inftantly depart to Paradife, if ever thief from the gallows went thither; and for that we have fo often had the word of a Prieft, that it would now be blafphemy to doubt it. And now for a few hints touching your general behaviour. 1. Be fluent in your oaths and curfes upon all occafions. It will fhew a confidence in the goodness of your caufe, and make people believe that you must be hand and glove with the perfon for whom you fight, when you ufe his name fo familiarly, and appeal to him as an old acquaintance upon the most trivial occafions. 2. The Defenders of Religion must shew that it never has any influence upon their practice. It is your duty therefore to be, what the canting methodiftical people call, a profligate. profligate. What made the Chriftians victorious when they went to wreft the fepulchre of our bleffed Saviour from the idolatrous Turks, but a proper allowance of oaths and fornication? It is no fin in a holy warfare; or if it were, it is the leaft of the feven deadly. 3. Keep up your fpirits now and then with a cordial fup of liquor. You cannot imagine how this prefcription will clear up your thoughts, and diffolve all fcruples, if ever you had any, concerning the juftice of the war. The liberal allowance that you receive and the exactnefs with which it is paid, will amply furnish you with the means of procuring these cordials, and they will produce another good effect, they will recall your courage when it begins to ebb, and ouze, as it were, through the palms of your hands. For For valour the stronger grows, And how can we feel our woes When we've loft the trouble of thinking? 4 As you are men of nice honour, and it is a proverb, that nothing is more delicate than a foldier's honour, I propofe it as a cafe of confcience, whether you fhould not tilt, as well as your officers, when an affront is offered you. For inftance, if another foldier fhould call you a jail-bird, and the truth of the fact be notorious, it appears to me that you ought to convince him of his mistake, by running him through the body, or lodging a ball in his carcafe. But perhaps your worthy fuperiors may deem this an infringement of their perogatives. I fpeak therefore under cor rection. 5. Notwithstanding what I have faid concerning the lawfulness, nay the duty, of drinking a drop of liquor now and then, I do not mean you should guzzle away all that large stock of money which is granted you by the bounty of the King and his Parliament. I would wish you to lay by a fhilling or fo of each day's pay; you who have wives and children, for the fupport of your wives and children; you who have poor relations, for the maintenance of your relations; and you who have neither, that, in your old age, if you fhould out-live the war, and return to your native country, you may purchase a fnug annuity, and live in comfort upon the property you have acquired by valour. Chronicle. I am, Soldiers, Gentlemen, and Heroes, A JOHNIAN PRIEST. THE The SHEPHERDS of the PYRENEES. BY MAD. DE GENLIS. Extracted from the little volume he has lately published, containing Anecdotes of her own life, and of Mademoiselle Orleans, fince the commencement of the Revolution. I Travelled about twelve years ago: after having traversed part of our Southern Provinces, I arrived at that great chain of mountains which feparates us from Spain. I ftopped there in a delightful folitude, and hired a pretty little houfe, determined on paffing the fummer. My houfe was fituated on the declivity of a mountain covered with trces, plants, and verdure, it was furrounded with rocks and fources of pure and tranfparent water; I coramanded a vaft plain, interfected by canals, formed by the torrents which rushed from the fummit of the mountains; I had no neighbours but labourers and fhepherds, there my reveries were not disturbed by the tumultuous buftle of cities, the troublefome noife of horfes, carriages, public criers, which only call up vain agitations produced by intereft and pride, and the turbulent activity of frivolity, or of vice and paffion; in my peaceful cottage I heard only the majestic voice of nature; the ftriking and rapid fall of the cafcades and torrents; the lowings of the difperfed flocks in the meadow, the ruftic found of the flageolet, the pipe, and the rural airs the young fhepherd repeats fitting on the edge of the rock, in thefe places where the country is fo charming. I devoted the greatest part of the day to walking-I explored first all the mountains that environed me, I often met the flocks, the fhepherds that guarded them were all children, or young perfons, the oldeft of whom was not above fifteen. I remarked that these Occupied the highest mountains, whilst the children. not yet venturing to climb the steep and flippery rocks, remained in the paftures of eafier accefs. So that in defcending the mountains you fee the fhepherds di minished minished in fize and age, and you only find on the little hills that border the plains, young thepherds of eight or nine years old. This obfefvation made me imagine, that the flocks of the valleys had ftill younger guardians, or at least of the fame age as thofe of the little hills: I queftioned one of the children; "do you ever conduct your goats down there, I asked him?” "I fhall go there fome day," faid he, fmiling, "but before that, a confiderable time will pafs, and I must make many a long journey"-"How then?---" Why, I must go firft quite to the top, and after that, I fhall work with my father, and when I am fixty I fhall go down into the valley." "What, the thepherds of the valley are old men, then?"--"Yes, our eldest brothers are on the mountains, and our grandfathers in the plains." As he finifhed thefe words, I left him, and defcended into the delicious and fertile valley of Campan; at first I only perceived numerous herds of oxen and flocks of fheep, which occupied almost all the space; but foon after I diftinguished the venerable fhepherds fitting or lying on little banks of the meadows; I experienced a painful fenfation on feeing these old men infulated, left to themselves in folitude; I was going to contemplate the more charming picture, thefe mountains peopled with inhabitants fo young, fo active, and busy, this happy refidence of innocence and gaiety, where the echoes repeat nothing but fongs of joy, of innocent fmiles and the fweet notes of the pipe! I quitted all that is most amiable upon earth, infancy and earlieft youth, and it was with a kind of melancholy that I found myfelf with this multititude of old men, this meeting of the two extremes of life, offered me a contraft fo much the more ftriking, as thefe good fires carelessly ftretched upon the grafs, feemed plunged in a profound and melancholy reverie; their penfive tranquillity feemed dejection of fpirits, and their meditation, fadnefs caufed by a cruel defertion; I faw them alone, far from their children, I pitied them, and advanced flowly towards them with a mingled fentiment of compaffion and refpect. Walking thus, I found myfelf oppofite to one of the old men who engaged all my attention; he had the moit noble and moft engaging figure, his hair, of a most dazzling whitenefs, fell in filver ringlets on his venerable fhoulders; candour and goodnefs were painted on his features, and the ferenity of his brow and of his locks fhewed the unalterable tranquillity of his mind; he was feated at the foot of a mountain, cut to a point in this place, and covered with mofs and herbage; an enormous mafs of rocks placed perpendicularly over him, projected from the top of the mountain, and formed, at an elevation of more than two hundred feet, a fort of ruftic canopy which covered his venerable head from the heat of the fun. Thefe rocks were covered with natural garlands of ivy, of perrywinkle and of bind-weed; the colour of the rofe, which fell back from all fides in tufted. bunches and unequal feftoons, diftributed in groups with as much elegance as profufion; at fome paces from the old man, you perceived two willows inclining one to the other, mixing their flexible branches together in fhadowing a fountain, which defcended from the mountains; the water, foaming at its fource, paffed from the height of the mountains, breaking impetuously over every thing which feemed to oppofe its paffage, but grown peaceable in its courfe, it proceeded in gentle windings through the grafs and flowers, paffed by the feet of the old man, and loft itfelf in foft murmers at the bottom of the valley. After having obtained permiffion of the old man to feat myself by his fide, I repeated to him what the little fhepherd of the mountain had juft told me, and I asked him for the explanation of it. "Time out of mind," replied the old man," the men of this country have devoted to the paftoral life the two ages that seem beft fitted for it, thefe two extremes of life, in |