460 Hugh Peters' last Legacy to his Daughter. [Dec. I, 
%valks:—my object in so doing is to en¬ 
counter mendicants, and I take pleasure 
in relieving them. 
“ I have often lent, and ray money has 
been rarely returned, but I have never 
reclaimed it. My honesty of speech 
often degenerates into rudeness, I have 
never been able to dissemble the truth, 
even when it was calculated to offend. 
I have often fallen out with old friends, 
in consequence of refusing them my 
suffrage at academic elections. I never 
could bear the weight of hatred on my 
mind ; I have made many enemies by 
niy candour; but I never hated, and have 
always endeavoured to conciliate, them. 
I love whatever contributes to the per¬ 
fection of mankind, and care very little 
for what contributes to their amusement. 
“ Gratitude is so deeply implanted in 
my lieart, that I weep involuntarily 
whenever I recollect the proofs which I 
have either given qr received of this feel¬ 
ing. The numerous instances of ingrati¬ 
tude which I have experienced, have 
never diminished the warmth of ray ac¬ 
knowledgment for favors. 
“ Among the numerous men who have 
honored me with their friendship, I re¬ 
collect with pleasure, Montesquieu, Fon- 
tenelle, J. J. Rousseau, Daiembert, 
Clairaut, INIaupertuis, La Condarnine, 
Voltaire, Reaumur, Euler, Bartlielemi, 
Raynnl, blacquer, &c. 
“ The last wished me to marry his 
daughter : I refused her from a motive 
of friendship to the family; she deserved 
a better match. 
“I can acknowledge without pain the 
superiority of my colleagues in science. 
I declared, in my eulogium of Pingrd, 
that the academy had committed a mis¬ 
take, in deciding in my favour at an elec¬ 
tion. 
“ I am reproached with speaking too 
often of myself. 1 acknowledge this de¬ 
fect, and have no other excuse to offer 
but my natural sincerity, and my love of 
truth. I maintain that it is treason 
against the communitv to be silent in re- 
lation to the vices of others. It is sacri¬ 
ficing the good, from a mistaken-charity 
to the bad. I love my family. I have 
given up to them the enjoyment of my 
income, even during my lifetime. 1 have 
loved w'omen much ; I love them still. I 
have always endeavoured to contribute to 
their improvement; my passion for them 
has always been reasonable; they have ne¬ 
ver injured my fortune, nor interfered with 
my studies. They have never made me 
pay a morning visit. 1 liave sometimes 
said to iiandsome women; ‘ it only rests 
with you to make me happy, hut it is 
not in your power to make me miserable.’ 
They tell me that I have never truly 
loved—granted ; if to love truly, it be 
necessary to turn fool. 
“ 1 am rich ; but I have no caprices or 
wants. I have but few servants, and no 
horses ; I am temperate and simple in 
ray habits: I never ride; I can sleep 
any where : great opulence or high 
rank would be useless to me. 
“ I am w'ell prepared for death : w-hen 
I write a note or a memoir I say to 
myself—--this perhaps is the last; but 
it is a great gratification for me to render 
an additional service to astronomy, and 
to add another stone to the edifice of my 
reputation. 
“ I am satisfied not only with my physi¬ 
cal constitution but with my moral being; 
with my philosophy ; with my sensibility; 
will) my disposition to stigmatise vice, 
although it has made me many enemies; 
I enjoy therefore all the happiness of 
which humanity is capable: I am one of 
the most contented men on earth, and I 
can say, as Bayard did, that I feel my 
soul glide away from me satisfied with 
herseUV’ 
SCARCE TRACTS, WITH EXTRACTS AND ANALYSES OF 
SCARCE BOOKS. 
Jt is proposed in future to devote a few pages of the Monthly Mugazine to the 
Insertion of such Scarce ‘Tracts as are of an interesting Naturey with the Use 
of which we niay he favoured by our Correspondents; and under the same Head 
int roduce also the Analyses of Scarce and Curious Books, 
A Uyiug Father*s last Legacy to an nity: and therefore observe with dili- 
Onely Childy or Air. Hugh Peters* gence, that when a discovery is made of 
Advice to his'ilaughter. this love to the sinner, the Lord Jesus 
{Concluded ft om page 352.) makes a double approach to the soul: the 
26.^ And in the letting you in this light, first is by the lawq w here he takes three 
to give you the sum of true practical divi- steps: and first, by the law he stops the 
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