374 
an impious fiGtion of flattery, refembling 
that by which Virgil allots to Auguftus 
a place in the zodiac, between Virgo and 
Scorpio : 
From the preceding account of thie - 
origin of idolatry, it feems to follow, 
that idolatry, confidered in a moral light, 
is, in ordinary fituations, more an error 
of the head than of the heart: but the 
moral nature of idolatry ts a queftion of 
confiderable difficulty, which the En- 
quirer refers, for the prefent, to the 
confideration of his readers. 
Se 
MM, 
To the Editor of ibe Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
O the interefting account in your laft 
number of the Houfe of Savoy, &c. 
permit me to add the following. Your’s, 
&c. M. 
PRINCESS OF CARIGNAN. 
This Lady, who is now in her forty- 
fixth year, and widow to the late Prince 
ef Carignan, is of the Houfe of Lor- 
raine. Her wit, her beauty, and her 
amiable character have long rendered her 
one of the brighteft ornaments of the 
Court of Turin, while her unaffected 
and engaging manners have endeared her 
to allranks of people. Though fome- 
what paffed her prime, the natura! grace 
of her deportment, and the fine expref- 
fion of her countenance, ftill continue to 
captivate. Her late hufband, the Prince, 
died in the year 17803 and, as it is faid, 
his death was owing to the following 
circumftance: An Englifh gentleman 
who was then upon his travels, having 
become enaimoured of a certain. Mar- 
chionefs, much famed for her gallantry, 
determined to exprefs his attachment, 
by a midnight ferenade, under the ba!- 
cony of the beloved objeé&, a cuftomary 
compliment from every lover to his 
miftrefs. As all the firft performers 
were employed on this cccafion, it ex- 
cited the curiofity of the Princefs, wh 
attended in the ftreet, witha few ladies 
of her houfheld, and forme noblemen of 
diftinétion. After the performance was 
at end, the princefs propofed te the 
Englith gentleman to take the band into 
the great fquare, that all the company 
prefent might enjoy a dance al frelo. 
This having been complied with, the 
princefs fent for her hufband’s regiment, 
3 
Memsirs of the Houfe of Savzy 
[ June 
and having ordered a wax-eandle to be 
fixed in every foldier’s fuzee, a circle 
was formed to keep off the populace, and 
the princefs, with her companions, con- 
tinued to dance till a late hour in the 
morning. When this was known at 
Court, the King and Queen were highly 
offended ; and when the Prince of Ca-= 
righan next appeared at the levee, he 
received a moft fevere rebuke, for hay- 
ing permitted the Princefs to degrade 
herfelf in fuch a manner. 
was fo much hurt by the circumftance, 
that he immediately fell ill of chagrin 
and vexation, and died in the courfe of a 
few days. 
———— SS 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
On THE CoaL Mines, at WORK< 
INGTON. 
[From Mr. Fars. See Mag. for May, 
p- 282.] 
Ww? KINGTON is eight miles dif- 
tance from Whitehaven. Many 
mines of coals are wrought in its neigh- 
beurhood ; that which is neareft the town 
belongs to an individual, who has lately 
purchafed the eftate with the royalty, 
When. he came into poffeffion, only one 
feam of coal had been wrought : but he 
hes chofen to make farther fearch, and 
has met with fix workable feams, about 
nine or ten fathoms diftant from each 
other. The upper feam is only two feet 
three inches thick ; the leaf thicknefs 
which will pay for working in this coun- 
try. The reft are all thicker ; one is as 
much as feven feet; but it contains no 
more than four feet of coal; being fepa-_ 
rated by two beds of black earth, called 
metal, cof which I have f{poken above. 
This earth is extremely vitriolic. I have 
feen a heap of it which had efflorefced, 
and heated till it took fire : it emitted2 
vapour which condenfed into fulphur ia 
the openings from which it proceeded, 
The loweft feam, which is fixty fathoms 
perpendicular at the engine pit, is four 
feet thick of pure coal, and of an excel- 
lent quality. : 
The mines of Whitehaven and Work- 
ington have always been fubjeét to foul 
air, which has coft the lives of a great 
number of workmen. Six weeks before 
my arrival at Whitehaven, there had 
been fix workmen dangeroufty wounded; 
and during my ftay, there were twokilled 
and many burnt in the mine at Working- 
fo. 
dhis 
The ‘prince. 
La 
