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bishop Atticus. But the monks giving no heed to what he faid, one of them, called Ammonius, threw a tone at Oreftes, which truck him on the head; and being all covered with blood from his wounds, his guards, a few excepted, fled, fome one way, and fome another, hiding themfelves in the croud, left they fhould be ftoned to death. In the mean while, the people of Alexandria ran to defend their governor against the monks, and putting the reft to fight, brought Ammonius, whom they apprehended, to Oreftes; who, as the law profcribed, put hirm publickly to the torture, and racked him till he expired."

the leaft cenfure of her manners, Socrates fays that, on account of the confidence and authority, which fie had acquired by her learning, the fometimes came to the judges with fingular modefty. Nor was the any thing abashed-to appear thus among a crowd of men; for all perfons, by reafon of her extfaordinary difcretion, did at the fame time both revercace and admire her. The fame is confirmed by Nicephorus, and other authors, whom I have alredy cited. Pamalcius and Suidas relate, that the governors and magistrates of Alexandria regularly visited her, and paid their court to her; and, to fay all in a word, when Nice phorus intended to pass the highest compliment on the princess Eudocia, he thought he could not do it better than by calling her another Hy-lady, as we have obferved, was pro

patia."

But though Oreites had the luck to efcape with his life, Hypatia afterwards fell a facrifice.

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foundly respected by. Oreftes, who While Hypatia thus reigned the much frequented and confulted her, brightest ornament of Alexandria, for which reafon, fays, Socrates, fhe Oreftes was governor of the fame was not a little traduced among the place for the emperor Theodofius, Chriftian multitude, as if fhe oband Cyril, bihop or patriarch. ftructed a reconciliation between Oreftes having had a liberal educa- Cyril and Oreftes This occafioned tion, could not but admire Hypatia, certain hot-brained men, headed by. and, as a wife governor, frequently one Peter, a lecturer, to enter into confulted her. This created an inti-a confpiracy against her; who macy between them, that was high-watching an opportunity, when the ly difplcaling to Cyril, who had a great averion to Orestes: which intimacy, as it is fuppofed, had like to have proved fatal to Areites, as we may collect from the following account of Socrates.;

Certain of the Monks," fays he, living in the Nitrian mountains, leaving their monafteries, to the number of about five hundred, flocked to the city, and fpied the governor going abroad in his chariot: whereupon approaching, they called him by the names of facrificer, and heathen, uling many other fcandalous exprefions. The gover nor fufpecting that this was a trick played him by Cyril, cried out that he was a Chriflian, and that he had been baptized at Conftantinople, by

was returning from fome place, first. dragged her out of her chair; then hurried her to the church called Cæfar's and then, fripping her naked, killed her with tiles. After this, they tore her to pieces; and carrying her limbs to a place called Çinaron, there burnt them to afhes.

Cave endeavours to, remove the imputation of this horrid murder from Cyril, thinking him too honeft a man to have any hand in it: and lays it upon the Alexandrian,mob in general, whom he calls a very trifling inconftant people. But though Cyril fhould be allowed to have been neither the perpetrator. nor even the contriver of it, yet it is much to be fufpected, that he did not discountenance it in the manner.

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father, whith he confiders as paz ment for his daughter. The youn warrior then gives a feaft, to whic he invites all the family-when th feaft is done, they dance and fin their war fongs.-The merrimen being over, and mutual presents ex changed between the lover and he relations, the father covers then with a beaver robe, and gives then likewife a new gun and a birch canoe, with which the ceremony ends.

When the French became masters of Canada, the ceremony of mar riage between the Savages was very fantaflical.

When a lover wifhed his mif trefs to be informed of his affection. he procured an interview with ber, which was always at night, and in the prefence of fome of her friends; this was conducted in the following manner:

He enters the wigwam, the door

and went up to the hearth on which fome hot coals were burning; he then lighted a fick of wood, and approaching his mistress, pulled her three times by the nofe, to awaken her; this was done with decency, and being the custom, the fquaw did not feel alarmed at the liberty. This ceremony, ridiculous as it may appear, was continued occafionally for two months, both parties be having during the time, in all other refpects, with the greatest circumfpection.

"Father, I love your daughter, will you give her to me, that the furall roots of her heart may entangle with mine, fo that the ftrougeft wind that blows thall never separate them." The moment fhe becomes a wife, If the father approves, an inter-he lofes her liberty, and is an obview is appointed, for which the fequious flave to her hufband, who lover prepares by a perfpiration; never lofes fight of his prerogative. he then comes into her prefence, Wherever he goes the must follow, ats down on the ground, and smokes and durft not venture to incense him his pipe during the time of fmok- by a refufal, knowing that if the ing, he keeps throwing finall pieces neglects him, extreme punishment, of wood, of about an inch in length, if not death, enfures. The chief at her, one by one, to the number of liberty he allows her is to dance one hundred. As many as he can and fing in his company, and is catch in a bark bowl, fo many pre-feldom known to take any more fenis her lover muft make to her notice of her than of the most in

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Defcription of Castle Howard, in Yorkshire.

different perfon: while the is obliged to perform the drudgery of life, which cuftom or infenfibility enables her to do with the utmost cheerfulness.

A SINGULAR SERMON. [From the ECCENTRICITIES of EDWIN.]

N the fifth chapter of Job, verse the feventh, you will find thefe words:

"Man is born to trouble as the fparks fly upward."

I fhall divide this difcourfe (faid Edwin) and confider it under the three following heads:

1. Man's ingrefs into the world,
2. A man's progrefs thro' the world,
3. His egrefs out of the world.

And 1. A man's ingrefs into the world,

is naked and bare, 2. His progrefs through the world, is trouble and care; 3. And lafly, his egrefs out of the world, is nobody knows where.

To conclude.

If we do well here, we fhall do well there, I can tell you no more, if I preach a whole year.

O2 REPUTATION.
EPUTATION is, in fact, the

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of regard from those about us, in
order to be of more eminent advan
This confideration
tage to them.
pleads, with peculiar force, for a
degree of tenderness, and even
jealoufy of reputation in those who
are the falt of the earth. Much re-
gard must be paid by them to the
Sentiments, fome even to the preju-
dices, of thofe that they have to do
with. Fothergill.

DESCRIPTION OF
CASTLE HOWARD, in
Yorkshire.

The Seat of the Right Hon. the Eart
of Carlife.

(With an elegant Engraving.)

CA

Howard is fituated about

fix miles from New Malton, and was built by fir John Vanbrugh in the fame ftile as Blenheim Houle, in Oxfordshire.

The hall is thirty-three feet square by fixty high, terminating in a dome at the top. It is ornamented stone. columns, but thefe are rather too large, and the height of the room fo much out of proportion, as to give the area a diminutive appearance. The walls are painted by Pellegrino, with the hiftory of Phaeton, and also adorned with feveral antique ftatues and bufts; among thefe are Sabina,

the attitude and drapery are fine; Diodumenus, fucceffor of Caracalla, whofe drapery is admirable; Vitellius, Lucius Verus; Marcus Aurelius and many others.,

a man is capable of receiving any good from the world, or doing any. good in it. His moft generous, tendereft defigns will be cenfured, his best actions fufpected, his most friendly advices and gentleft re- The faloon is thirty-four feet by proofs mifconftrued and flighted, twenty-four, and contains the buffs unleft his perfon be efteemed, and of Didius Julianus: Apollo, the head his character reverenced. So valu- modern: Cupid, admirably fine, but ablea property then as a good name, the modern parts unequal to the an. may well deferve to be guarded tique; Marcus Aurelius, Adrian; with care; nay, we may farely be Jupiter Serapis, Andreas, and Adri allowed to feek far eminent degreesan. The paintings are, fome pieces

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