which Emily had the curiofity to open, that the might look at the Chinese figures, which had been lately prefented to Mr. Delifle. She took one of them up, in order to confider it more clofely, and Edward, who delights in playing tricks, fuddenly called out purpofely to frighten her-" Here's your mamma coming!" Emily, fearing to be caught and reproved, was in great hafte to put the figure in its place: but, as fhe drew back her arm, the threw down a tea cup, and broke it to pieces. The accident frightened her exceffively. She knew the China was very dear, and that her mamma preferved it with great care; for the broken cup belonged to a breakfast fet, which had been given her by one of her best friends. Edward left the harpsichord when he heard Emily cry out, and they had the following converfation:

Edward. You have made a pretty piece of work of it, truly! I fhould not like to be in your place.

Emily. How can you, brother, endeavour to frighten me more? you ought rather to tell me what to do.

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Edward. You may try all the fhops in town, but you will never match that cup. I fee nothing that you can do, except fhip yourself for China, that you may get another.

Emily. Is it a pleasure to you to torment me?,

Edward. What bufinefs had you to rummage in the cup

board?

Emily. Have you never done the fame?

Edward. No matter what I do. Why did you meddle with the China?

Emily. It was wrong: but, if you had not frightened me, I fhould not have broken the cup.

Edward. So the favourite breakfaft fet of mamma is entirely fpoiled! It might as well have been all broken.

Emily. I would not for the world it had happened!

Edward. Ay, to be fure, complain! That will mend the

matter.

Emily. How can you be fo cruel, brother?

Edward. Well, do not cry: I will tell you what to do.
Emily. What? What, brother?

Edward. Nobody has heard what has happened. Let us pick up the bits, and put them on one fide in the cupboard: mamma will not look in it this morning, and at dinner you may fay you heard fomething fall in the cupboard. I will tell the fame ftory; mamma will go and examine, and fo fhe will fuppofe the cup fell of itself, Emily. No, brother, I will do no fuch thing.

Edward. Why not? You will not accufe any one.

Emily. No matter: it is a wicked thing. To tell a lie is worfe than to break the cup.

• Edward. Very well! If you will not do what I would have you, it is no affair of mine.

Emily. What will become of me?

• Edward. You will not eafily efcape: but why should I trouble myfelf about it? You wish to be punished.

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Emily.

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Emily. Yes: I would rather be punished than be guilty of lying. I will go to my mamma, tell her what I have done, beg her to forgive me, and promife never more to meddle with the key of the cupboard as long as I live.

Just as Emily was going, fhe met her mamma coming into the parlour. She flopped short, was confused, blushed, turned pale, could not speak a word, and at laft burst into tears. She expected to be feverly reproved: how great was her furprize when Madame Delisle, who had heard the whole converfation, preffed her tenderly to her bofom, kiffed her, and faid, My dear Emily, you are a good girl! I know what you have done: but, were the China ten times more valuable, I would immediately forgive you, because of your fincerity. At your age, children are apt to be thoughtless; the best way to avoid which is to obferve the advice of their parents, and frankly and openly to acknowlege their miltakes, but never to be guilty of deceit. As for you, Sir, faid she to Edward, go up to your chamber, and think on the leffon which ́ your young fifter has given you. If your father were present, he would punish you more feverely. Begone, and blush at your falfehood. Your word, hereafter, muft not be taken, while I fhall be certain that your fifter will always tell me truth.'

This is certainly a good leffon; and Mafter Tommy and Mifs Polly, as our old friend Mr. Newbery would have faid, will do well to attend to it.

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ART. XXII, Storia Cronologica de' Viceré, &c. i. e. A Chronological Hiftory of the Viceroys, Lieutenants, and Prefidents of the Kingdom of Sicily. By D. GIOVANNI EVANGELISTA DI BLASI. 4 Vols. 4to. Palermo. 1790. Imported by Molini, London. Price 11. 8s. fewed.

EVERY VERY good citizen, fays this writer, fhould employ his talents in rendering his country more illuftrious and better known he has therefore engaged in compiling this hiftory of the perfons who have been deputed to the government of Sicily. The writers, who have treated particularly on the history and government of Sicily, have been few; and there was fufficient room for Signor BLASI to difplay his diligence and accuracy. His chronological account begins with the year 1409, and is carried down to 1786. He is not, however, as he obferves, the only author who has given a chronological history of the viceroys of Sicily; he has been preceded by Pirri, and by the hiftoriographer Antonino d'Amico, in their chronologies; and more efpecially by Dr. Vincenzo Auria, who has treated on the fubject at length, till the end of the 17th century. Of the labours of Auria, our author confeffes that he has made great ufe;

he alfo owns himfelf under fome obligation to the manufcript notes of Antonino Mongitore, who appears to have had fome defign of publishing a fimilar work.-Signor BLASI's history, as far as we can judge of its merits from a hafty survey of its contents, appears to be well executed, and bears the marks of having had much pains beftowed on it. We have no doubt that it will be an agreeable acquifition to those who wish to inquire into the government of Sicily during the last three centuries.

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'HIS work is published in numbers, of which two are now before us: each contains five plates, well engraved, and handfomely coloured. The publication is faid to be conducted by fome amateurs, and to be intended for the inftruction of ladies who may be pleafed in fuperintending a green-house, and in cultivating the more beautiful and rare plants. The execution of the work appears to be fuch as to render it fullyanfwerable to the end propofed.

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ERRATA in Vol. IX.

P. 261. 1. 28. read, La fronte e'l tergo.

265. note Η for τιτο read τι το.

338. title of Art. 42. read Medical.

477. 1. 16. in the account of Dr. Thorp's fermon, the fentence

should have been printed thus: yet it does not hence follows

that it is neceffary to Support any fyftem of doctrine.

563. The nose, lo3. for her.we.

INDEX

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume.

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

magnetic needle, for the dif-
covery of minute quantities of
magnetic attraction, 131. On
other philofophical fubjects, ib.
Bieron, Count, his rife and fall,

in the court of Ruffia, 508.
Birch, M. his correct edition of
the Four Evangelifts, in the
original Greek, 557.
Blagden, Mr. his account of a
ipontaneous cure of an aneu-
rifm, 249.
Bligh, Lieut. particulars relative
to his famous voyage, 78.
Its unhappy iffue, 85.
Blizard, Mr. his obfervations on
fome epidemical effects, 249.
Boffuet, bishop, the celebrated Po-
pifh writer, faid to have been
privately married, 494.
Botany Bay. See South Wales.
Boulogne, the Portus Iccius of
Cæfar, 429.

Bourbon, Prince of, odd ftories of
the effects of his hypochon-
driacal disorder, 496.
Brotier, Father, his criticifm on
a paffage in Diodorus Siculus,
which afferts that Egpyt once
contained 18,000 cities, 490.
Brunswick, Leopold, Prince of,

his unfortunate death, in con-
fequence of his benevolence,

104.

Burns and Scalds, cured by vine-
gar, 252.

C

Cade, Mr.his farther obfervations

on Cataractonium, &c. 430.
Catherine, wife of the Czar Pe-
ter I. her alternate good and
ill treatment, from her arbi-
trary and capricious husband,
506.
Catholics, Roman, liberal ideas
respecting, 256.

Carter, Mr. his account of a com-
pound fracture of the leg, 248.

Cartwright, Major, his com-
plaint against the D. of New-
caftle, 295. His declaration of
his good opinion of the French
revolution, 296. His plans for
public improvements, &c. 297.
Charles II. negociations refpect-
ing his marriage with the In-
fanta of Portugal, 9. His ill-
treatment of that lady, 11.
Cheshire, the inhabitants of, not

fingular for temperance, 58.
Cleghorn, Mr. his method of cur-
ing burns and fealds, 252.
Cleopatra, account of an Egyp-
tian image of, 568.

Coals, the tax impofed on the
importation of, to London, re-
probated, as an act of injustice
to the inhabitants, 351.
Commons, Houfe of, inferenti-
ally fuppofed to confift, in a
great measure, of grateful de-
pendants, and humble expectants,

226.

Conftitution of Great Britain.

charged with being, in its
prefent ftate, a fyftem of
influence and bribery, 227.
Contention, political and religi-
ous, kept alive by the illiberal
afperfions of party mirepre-
fentation, 154.
Controverfy, theological, ftriking
obfervations on, 119.
CORRESPONDENCE with the

REVIEWERS, viz. from Scru-
tator et Vindex, on the chemical
production of charcoal, phof-
phorus, &c. 120. From B.
W. on the fame fubje&t, 240.
From Academicus,in vindication
of the French Jacobin club,
358. From Mr. John Fry, in
defence of the economy of
the United States of America,
in regard to their appoint-
ments to public offices, ib.
From Thomas of Didymus, re-
lative to the death of Chrift,