ter this long and laborious defcent; but on the contrary, we fupped heartily, and I was able to conduct my obfervations without any inconvenience. I am of opinion, that the height at which this indifpofition commences is different in different individuals. I find myself very well at 1900 fathoms above the level of the fea; but I begin to feel uneafy as foon as I rife higher. On the next day we found the Glacier on the fide had undergone a change from the heat of the two preceding days, and was more difficult to pafs than it had been in our afcent. We were obliged to go down a declivity of fnow of 50 degrees of inclination, to avoid a chasm which had been opened during our expedition. We at length got down as low as the firft eminence on the fide, at half after nine, perfectly happy to find ourselves on a foundation which we had no apprehenfion of giving way from under us. "Of all these modes, I am clearly for the ftable door; becaufe, if entering full fpeed, you should be afraid of your head, fpread out your legs fufficiently, and your horfe will go in without you." "In riding the road, obferve in paffing a whifky, a phaeton, or a flage-coach, in thort, any carriage where the driver fits on the right hand, to pass it on that fide; he may not fee you on the other; and though you may meet with a lafh in the eye, what is the loss of an eye to a leg, or perhaps a neck ? "Should a man on horfeback be on the road, and leading another horfe, always dath by the led one; you might otherwise fet the man's horfe capering, and perhaps throw him off; and you can get but a kick or two by obferving my inftructions." "In paffing a waggon or any tremendous equipage, fhould it run pretty near a bank, and there be but a ditch and an open country on its other fide, if you are on business and in a hurry, dafh up the bank without helitation; for fhould you take the other fide, and your horfe fhy at the carriage, you may be carried many hundred yards out of your road; whereas by a little effort of courage, you need only graze the wheel, fly up the bank, and, by flipping or tumbling down into the road again, go little or nothing out of your way.' Here I met M. Bouritt, who wifhed to engage fome of my guides to re-afcend with him immediately, but their fatigue induced them to reft at Chamouni. We therefore defcended all together, in high spirits, to the priory, where we arrived by dinner time. I was very much pleased to bring back my whole party fafe and well, with their eyes and faces not in the leaft affected, The black crapes with which we had provided ourselves had perfectly preferved us from that injury which our predeceffors had experienced, who returned almoft blind, and with their faces burnt and chapped by the reverberation from the fnow. Scour the New Road, and dash thro' GrofAccount of an Academy for Grown Horfemen. Anxious and fearful to his fteed to fhew, venor gate; By Geoffrey Gambado, Efq. The proud Bucephalus of Rotten-Row; (Concluded from Page 638.) Carelefs he feems, yet vigilantly fly, BEFORE ever your hours into him pretty While his left heel, infidioufly afide EFORE ever your horfe gets into moti- Woo's the ftray glance of ladies paffing by: fharp; this will fet him going for the whole day, and fhew him you have fpurs on, which if he did not know, he might incline to be idle. Thus then you go off with eclat, provided nothing is in your horfe's way; and if there is, you have probably put him fo on his mettle, that he will leap over it and run away with you. If he should, however, you will make a moft fpirited and magnanimous appearance.' "When a man is once well run away with, the first thing that occurs to him, I imagine, is how to ftop his horfe; but men by no means agree in their modes of bringing this matter about, fome will run him at a ditch, which I allow to be a promifing experiment, if he leaps ill or not at all. Frenchmen (and the French are excellent horfemen) will ride against one another; no bad way either and I have feen riders make directly for a ftable (if a door happens to be open), and with good effect Having laid down these admirable rules, Mr. Geoffrey Gambado concludes poetically with a hope to fee his pupils yet on Sunday, -Fearful to be late, was a diftant relation, and my godfather. He had been a merchant, and poffeffed thofe cautious principles which generally are imbibed by men of trade. By patient induftry he had made his way from a fmall fortune to confiderable wealth, and had retired with unimpeached reputation a fhort time before he became the director of my affairs, and the guide of my youth. During the univerfity vacations I always was with him; and he appeared not only fond of my converfation, and pleafed with my attentions, but ufed to affure his intimate acquaintance that he intended to make me his heir. As he generally thought proper to confult me in all the immediate concerns of his life, it cannot be fufpected that in a matter of fo ferious a nature as a matrimonial engagement, he would manifeft a want of confidence in me. He afked my opinion, there fore, of a marriage he had fome thoughts of propofing to an elderly widow lady of fmall fortune, who, he faid, was qualified to make him fuch a companion, as would add greatly to the comfort of his few remaining years. At that time I could cafily have perfuaded him from his purpofe; and though it was hinted to me that fuch an event might prove injurious to my intereft, I thought it would not be acting like a gentleman, to fuffer any fordid confiderations to govern my opinion in a matter that related to the happiness of one who had been fo kind to me: I therefore advifed him to confult his own fatisfaction; and he immediately made fuch proposals to the lady, as the did not hesitate to accept. The wedding-day was foon appointed, and every thing being arranged to give eclat to the ceremonies of it, I thought it would become me to appear like a gentleman on the occafion, and I accordingly ordered a very expensive fuit to grace the folemnity. As my new relation behaved with great attention to me, I had no apparent reafon to be diffatisfied. I was, indeed, told that the was endeavouring to undermine my intereft with her husband, and that even the gentleman-like appearance I had made at her marriage, was continually held forth as a certain fymptom of that extravagant fpirit which would one day bring me to ruin. But as it was not like a gentleman to be fufpicious, I doubted the truth of the information, and took no methods to thwart the secret arts by which she finally converted my infatuated reJation to her purpose. When I came of age, I thought it would be acting like a gentleman to keep up the hofpitable character of the family manfion, by entertaining my friends, and regaling my ants. y late guardian, and his good lady, parin appearance of the general joy. But two hundred pounds; and though this expence was by no means incompatible with my fortune, or improper for fuch an occafion, it was eagerly feized as an additional cause for discontent in the old gentleman's bofom. The having expended forty pounds in ne fuit of cloaths, and two hundred pounds in one entertainment, were circumstances, when artfully separated from the occafion of them, which were fully fufficient to alarm the 20tious temper of my relation. On these grounds, therefore, his kind wife took every opportunity of haranguing against my tura for diffipation, and never failed to lament, that his fortune, which had been gained by a long feries of industry and toil, would be wafted in all the extravagance, which the did me the honour to connect with my character. My worthy godfather held out for a confiderable time; but at length yielded to the perfuafions of an artful woman, and made a new will, in which my intereft was not confidered. Hints were given me of these proceedings, and it was in my power to have turned the tide in my favour; but I thought it would have difgraced me, as a gentleman, if I purfued the fteps, or engaged in fach practice as would have been effectual to the purpose. I, therefore, left the whole to time and chance; and when, a few months after, time put an end to my relation's life, I found that chance had dealt feurv ly by me in his will, by which I was bequeathed a legacy of no more than 5000l. to be paid on my attaining the age of twenty-five; when, by z former will, which was ftill in being, ten times that fum had been left to my immediate disposal. That there was fome trifling irregularity in the laft of thefe wills I have no doubt; and I was affured, that if I applied to a court of equity, there was a very firong pro bability of fetting it afide, and establishing the former one, which was fo much in my favour; but how, as a gentleman, could I think of applying to the chicane of the law, te oppose what my confcience told me was the real defign of my deceased relation: and when it was fuggefted to me, that the very threat of a chancery fuit would terrify the widow into terms of great advantage to me, I replied, that I was a gentleman, and would ftarve, as fuch, rather than obtain the greateft fortune incompatible with that character. 1, therefore, put on my mourning, paid the vifit of condolence to the triumphant widow, kiffed her hand, when the prefented me with a mourning ring, and triumphing alfo in my turn, on the reflection, that no confideration whatever was capable of inducing me to any thing unwority of a gentleman. (To be continued.) то THE HIBERNIAN MAGAZINE, O R, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, For the YEAR 1787. A. CADEMY for grown Horsemen 637 A Account of Actors and Actreffes, viz. Mrs. Baddeley 454, 522 Addrefs of Mr. Harris Mr. Browne Mr. Didier 234, 338 Account of Nina, an Opera ib. 175 134 341 Mr. Palmer 340 67 the Lord Lieutenant 43, 387 283 Affairs, National, Review of 338 Alphonfo and Marina, a Tale 657 119 38, 86 480, 525 9 America, North, Plan for a new Conflitu- Prefent State of 294, 350, 423 624 420 642 By 246 486 156 184, 276,.499, 555 Bigamy, the Crime of, exposed Births 643 478 Chefterfield, Earl of, Circumstances of his Political Piety of the Military Difcipline of, Chinnery, Mr. Speech of 470 134 in Ireland 56, 112, 165, 2241 280 Chrift's Temptation, Obfervations on 351,405 336, 447, 504, 560, 616, 672 Birth-day of the King, celebrated 315 Cloyne, Bishop of, his Account of the 366 Church Service, the, dit. 77 Clouds, dit. 152 73 281 Botany Bay, Debates in its Affembly of 220 Boys, Trial of two Major, Duel of 44, 322 653 397 Eurgh of Oldtown, Mr. Speeches of 155,211 17 648 D Daughters, Thoughts on the Edu- Butler, Dr. his Juftification of the Romish 262, 313 cation of 463 313 dit. anfwered by Dr. Hales Death of the Marquis Monaldeschi dit. Remarks on C 316, 353 443, 556, 610, 666 CAGLIOSTRO, Count, Anecdotes of Debate in the Affembly of Botany Bay 498 Chambers's Dictionary, Account fthe new Diftreft Baronet, the, a Farce, Accoun 3 of 648 Domet 611, 667 629 INDE X. Domeftic Intelligence 54, 110, 161, 221, French Officer, efcaped from Slavery, Ac- 276, 387, 444. 499, 556, Drama's, old, Account of 25 count of Stage, Account of 563 Dramatic Probability, Effay on 416 Dream, Optimism, a 74, 130 Friendship, a Fragment 509 376 Pleafant, Art of procuring 233 Funeral of the Duke of Rutland 561 Dropfy, extraordinary Cafe of 543 Recipe for 55 ARDINER, Mr. Speech of Garrick, Mr. Letter of 267 520 Drunkennefs, Eflay on Dunkirk, Account of the Siege of Duel of Sir John MPherson and Major 687 Generous Fair, the, a Tale 4 Germans, Manners of the 225, 424 653 Ghent, defcribed 397 311 Girl in Stile, the, a Farce, Account of 25 266 Girtner, Mr. Letter of 464 E. Intelligence 219, 443, 497 Gloffary 120 127 E Education of Daughter, Thoughts Gloucelter, Memoirs of the Duke and Glafs of Lead, to make on 463 Duchefs of a modern Barrifter 373 Egyptian Women, private Life of the mo- Godfrey, Mr. Trial of dern 30 Elliot, Dr. Trial of 394 Eloifa, a Tragedy, Account of 25, 79 Elvira, Hiftory of 587 Good-natured Boy, the, a moral Drama 540 Enchanted Caftle, the, a Pantomime, Ac- Great Britain, Value of her Manufactures count of 80 128 Effay on the ancient Amazons Card-playing Horfes 9 Greek Minor Poets, Remarks on the ALES, Dr. his Answer to Dr. But- 247 267, 490 409 232 H. 316, 353 Wit and Humour 300 Hafez, Life of 692 F. FACTS, Meteorological Fashion, Women of, in the paft and pre- fent Ages Fashionable Patches Fashions Female Improvements, Method of Hafferack and Selima, a Tale Ferdinand King of Naples, Memoirs of 576 Filial Senfibility, a Tale 595 85 Finances of Great Britain and France, com- Fracture, Curious Cafe of, one 527 125 574 239 Fragments, viz. 70 Friendfbip 509 255 the Key to Love 85 Mifs Sydney 286, 345 the Palmyreans 226, 308, 360 Tarleton's, of the Campaign in the Rescue 352 America 282 France, Finances of Tea 117 Holland Influence of, on the Auairs of Hobart, Mr. Speech of Franklin, Dr. his magical Picture 550 582 Holland, Influence of France over 585 542 Prefent State of 549 French and Germans, Character of the 694 Horfer Yyyya |