The conduct of two fifiers when taking the veil--- Their lovers-Illuftration of fome paffages in Pope's Eloifa and Abelard--Some affecting cir- An excurfion into the beautiful country of Kuyk, and fome neighbouring principalities refemblance to certain parts of England--Re- Aections thereupon----Miscellaneous Subjects---- Slipfhod and barefoot fervants---Barber furgeons -English tradefmen refident abroad--Curious Dutch custom refpecting divorces--vifiting cere- monies, and funeral condolence--Caution against fome petty impofitions in making bargains abroad--- Price of timber in Weftphalia---Inftances of fimple curiofity---The popularity of English manufac- tures in every part of the Continent---The de- lighted cobler and the triumph of an English pair of fhoes---Anecdotes of the King of Pruffia--- Remarks on the German theatres---Confined ideas of foreigners on the extent of British territory--- Defeription of a Dutch drum or rout Fire ~ influence---The Author refreshes his friend and 3 reader with an inftance of Dutch loyalty and ans View of the country from Cleves to Cologne, as to its prefent political fituation---Comparative fur vey of the beauties of art and nature in times of trouble and of tranquillity--The Author's fenfa- tions in courfe of this afflicting furvey--The ef- fects of republican confraternity abroad. A fa- mily in ruins--Gratitude to the poems of Thom- fon and Goldfmith, the travelling companions of the author--Application of feveral paffages in each with a view of actual circumftances too powerful for the pencil of either---A Gleaning LETTER LXXII. Particulars The hiftory of the murder of the Princefs de Lamballe---and her character---The author's private opinion on the fubject of revolutions in general--France and Poland in particular---Reflections drawn from a furvey of the whole. of a prophecy in the year 543. CONCLUSION. Confiderations on the origin, progrefs and conduct of the French Revolution and of a reform in governments Anecdotes of a great foreign perfortage All is not gold that gliflers---State-jugglers---The author takes his leave. HUMANITY A POEM. p. 295. p. 319. TWO DIALOGUE LETTERS, Containing neceffary first questions and enquiries for the nfe of all travellers. LETTER I. Neceffary questions in English, Dutch, and German, for travellers who mean to pass only a VEW HOURS OR DAYS AT A PLACE. p. 415. LETTER II. For the fervice of those who wish to RESIDE abroad. p. 427. GLEAN GLEANINGS, &c. LETTER LVI. I HAVE, hitherto, purpofely put off one important but difaftrous fubject, to the laft moment; although I have now for the space of fome years, in my different traverfings of the continent, been placed, as it were, in the very eye and ear of it. You feel that I mean the dreadful public, and yet more fatal private, wars of this and many other countries on this unhappy fide of the English Channel. What, my loved friend, is the matter with them all! Sure 'tis the very error of the moon, "She comes more near the earth than fhe was wont, "And makes men mad." Does it proceed from the facred flame of liberty, which exalts the human, almost to the divine nature ?-or are the nations filled with clamours VOL. III. B |