1797-1 
the Patriot, ardently occupied in the 
emergent duty of faving his country— 
and the Moral ~Piilofopher, ftudioutly en- 
gaged in the developement and publica- 
tion of truths, which promife happinefs 
to mankind—ARE ALL HAPPY. ‘They 
are equally free from eznmes and painful 
motives to.exertion. 
Even if man had more intelleétual 
pleafures than the child, that would not 
determine the queition of relative hap- 
pinefs. To know which of two veffels, 
of unequal buik, is mott nearly filled, 
we do not meafure the liquor contained, 
but the vacant {pace at the top. 
If we anticipate Mr. Gadwin’s Mz/- 
fenium, the fuperior happinefs of chil- 
dren would ceafe. As the capacity of 
man would be greater, fo mutt be his 
enjoyments. Yet'Hume’s fimile thould 
not be forgotten—‘‘ the decanter holds 
more than the wine glafs—but neither 
ean be more than full.” 
May, 4797. 
ee 
Zo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
see 
LS read feveral obfervations in 
your Magazine, on a fubject, that to 
me appears interefting—I mean coins ; 
more particularly on the flate of provincial 
6010S» 
The fubjeét, I think, may be fill far- 
ther amplified :—1f, therefore, you have 
no objection, I will fubmit to your con- 
fideration, a few additional reflections, 
and will follow them up with a propo- 
fal: though I profefs myfelf no great 
adept in the numifmatic art; and fhall 
implicitly leave the fue of my propofal 
SINBORON. 
to your judgment, and to that of your - 
readers. 
The firft peint of view in which I 
fhall propofe to confider coins, will ‘be 
in reference to ancient literature :— 
though I expeét to offer no obfervations, 
that have efcaped others ; more particu-. 
Jarly when I recolleét, how ingenioufly 
the USEFULNESS of ANCIENT MEDALS 
has been handled by AppIsON. 
. ‘The fecond point of view, in which I 
would wifh to contemplate coins, is, in 
reference to any important tranfactions 
‘In owr own time ; and the propofal which 
~ I would fubmit to your confideration, is, 
when medals are ftruck, illuftrative of 
any recent occurrence, of public noto- 
riety, or of acknowledged utility, that a 
hort hiftory of the event, and a plate 
defcriptive of the coin, fhould be infert- 
ed in your Magazine. How far the oc- 
éusyence may be of fufficient importance 
Provincial Coins....Cuftoms in the Ufraine. 
or mafter), 
44X 
to infure celebrity, or how far the 
coin may difplay workmanthip, fo as to 
invite attention, muft always be left to 
your decifion. 
My mind was led into this train, by 
the return of the 3d of June. | This 
day was diftinguifhed in Hereford thire, 
by the independent manner in which 
Mr. RoperT BIDDULPH was chofen 
reprefentative for tnat county, in 1796. 
The 3d day of june, therefore, is cele- 
brated by the yeomanry of Hereford- 
fhirg, and an appropriate medial ts ftruck. 
I have fent you one of them; and, as I 
think fome ufeful hints may be fug- 
- gefted on this fubjeét, 1 fhall be happy 
to purfue them in a future paper. But 
fo much having already been faid on 
coins, I hazard. no obfervaions, till I 
know how far, in your judgment, they 
may prove acceptable to your readers. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, f | 
\! AVING had occafion, in the year 
+1790, to pafsalong the frontiers of 
that part of Tartary which borders on 
Poland, T have it in my power to fend 
you the following authentic and unpub- 
lifhed anecdotes relative tothe Cossacns 
OF THE UKRAINE. [| am not without 
hopes that they will intereft many of 
your readers. 
When a young-woman, in the 
Ukraine, feels a tender paifion for a 
young man, fhe goes to his parents, and 
fays to him ‘ Pomagai-bog **”’ (be you 
bleffed of God). She then fits down, 
and addreffing herfelf to the object of 
her affeétion, makes her declaration of 
love in the following terms: ‘“ Ivan, 
Theodore (or whatever elfe may be his 
name) the goodnefs I fee written in 
your countenance, is a fufficient affur- 
ance to me, that you are capable of rul- 
ing and loving a wife; and your excel- 
lent qualitics encourage me to hope, that 
you will make a good go/psdar (nufband 
It is in this belief, that L 
have taken the refolution to come and 
beg you, with all due humility, to ac- 
cept me for your fpoufe.”” She after. 
wards addrefies the father and mother in 
words to the fame. effeét; and folicits 
them earneftly to confent to the mar- 
riage. If the~meets with a refulal, or 
apology, fhe anfwers, ‘* that fhe will not 

* The cuftomary falutation, on entering a 
houfe, 
quae 
