t800.] | State of the Manners, Ec. of the Metropolis of Englana. 
tin&tion between the two chara&ters; and 
that love is not more ,oppofire even to 
hatred, than it is to a brutal fenfuality, 
in the fentence above alluded to, I evi- 
dently. {poke of that romantic extrava- 
gance of fentiment which, by a celebrated 
phyfician of the prefent day, has been 
elalled under the name of ‘* Erotomania,” 
as one of the various {pecies of infanity*. 
The juftnefs of the remark, when thus 
underfteod, might be illuftrated by fa&s 
that-occur to almoft daily obiervation. 
Romantic lovers fufhciently abound, but 
where is there to be feen fuch an animal 
as a romantic hufband ? 
In the fentence with which your cor- 
re{pondent concludes her paper, and in- 
deed in almoft every other fentence, fhe 
appears to confound the indulgence of a 
paffion with its eratification. This dif- 
tinétion may feem to be a nice one, but it 
is really very irmportant. A lover may 
properly be faid to izdulge his paffion, by 
mufing continually on the amiable qualities 
of his miftrefs; but it is not gratified, until 
he acquires the aétual poileffion of her 
perfon. 
The man who feels refentment, zzdulees 
that feeling, whil{t brooding over the inju- 
ries or infults he kas-ceceived, and con- 
triving {chemes of retaliation and revenge ; 
but until thefe (chemes of retaliation and 
revenge have been fuccefstully executed, 
no one would pretend to fay that his re- 
fentment was gratified. 
An Epicure, who employs kis morning 
in contemplating the delicacies of an ap- 
proaching feaft, zzdulzes his Epicurifm ; 
but he does not graiify it, until he begins 
to tafte thofe fuxurious viands which he 
had before looked ferward to with fuch 
rapturous expectation. 
It is the indulgence, without the grati- 
fication, of a feeling, that alone has a 
tendency to give to it a morbid degree of 
violence and tenacity. 
Hatton Garden. J. Reip. 

For the Monthly Magazine. 
PRESENT STATE of the MANNERS, SO- 
CLETY, Gc. Ge. of the METRO- 
’ POLIS of ENGLAND. 
the prevailing charaéteriftics of po- 
S 
A lifhed life take their impreffion from 

* See Dr. Darwin’s Zoonom. 
+ In my laf paper, on Infanity, vol. ix. 
page 428, col. 2. line 30. for ‘* qualifications of 
avarice and vanity,” read ¢ gratifications of ava~ 
rice and vanity,”»=—=/And in page 429.124. for 
eafed, read cured. 
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example held forth by perfons of exalted 
rank in fociety ; fo the cuftoms, opinions, 
amufements, and propentities, of the com- 
munity at large may be faid to derive’ 
features from the purfuits 
which are practifed and to- 
their leading 
and pleaftfres 
lerated in the metropolis of a kingdom. 
As London is the great emporium of 
commerce, it 18 alfo the centre of attrac- 
tion for the full exercife of talents, and 
the liberal difplay of all that can embeilifh 
the arts and {ciences. It is not, however, 
to be denied, that the very fineft powers 
of intelle&t, and the proudelt {pecimens of 
mental labour, have frequently appeared 
in the more contracted circles of provincial 
fociety. 
forth their fons and daughters of genius ; 
the univerfities have been the fchools of 
claffical refinement, the nurferies of 
the Mufes, the treafuries of Kterary 
lore, during, many centuries: Exeter has 
alfo its phalanx of enlightened {cholars, . 
its poets, its philofophers ; while the coun- 
ty of Devon may boatt the birth of Sir 
jofhua Reynolds ; Coleridge, the exqui- 
fite poet; Wolcot, the unequalled fa- 
tirift; Northcote, Cofway, Kendall, Taf- 
ker, Mrs. Cowley, and many others of 
deferved celebrity. ; 
Somerfetiire had its Chatterton: it ftill 
has its Southey. Indeed there is fcarcely 
a city, or even a town, of any confider- 
able population throughout the kingdom, 
which has not difplayed a conftellation of — 
fome importance on the broad hemifphere 
of intellectual fplendour. Yet, the luttre 
of thefe luminaries accumulates and col- 
leéts itfelf into a focus of dazzling light, 
which has for ages, and will, amidft all 
the glooms of prejudice or oppreflion, 
fhed its increafing glory round the metro- 
polis of Eneland. | 
The wide expanfion of literature has 
been an augmenting fountain of knowledge 
ever fince prieftcraft and bigotry became 
palfied by thofe’ energies of mind which 
have, of late years, burft forth with an 
invincible and gigantic dominion. Every 
man, nay, almoft every woman, now reads, 
thinks, projeéts, and accomplifhes. The 
force of human reflegtion has taken off 
the chain which once fhackled the mind ; 
and the pooreft peafant 1s now enabled to 
trace the language of truth, in pages cal- 
culated by the plaineft do&trines and the 
moft rational reafoning, to awaken, en- 
lighten, harmonize, regulate, and refine 
the human underftanding. 
“London is the bufy mart of literary 
‘trafiick. Its public. libraries, its multi- , 
F2 tudes 
Britto] and Bath haye each fent. 
