: 
mn-tly powdered, wet the paper a little, 
aed put a small quantity of the powder 
upon the place, rubbing it gently with 
your finger, and the spots will disap- 
ear. Your’s, &c. 
May 6, 1809. BPLLD. 
——EE— 
To ike Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SFR, 
PyNHE celebrity of your justly-estee m- 
ed Magazine induces me to correct 
an errar of a Correspondent of your's, 
signed W. J.; and as it may be of some 
consequence to the lovers of Natural 
History, I lose no time in giving you 
information that your readers may rely 
upon. * 
Allseeds and roots of foreign plants, 
sea-sheils, and other objects of natural 
history, may be zmporfed, if regularly en- 
tered and landed at the Custom-house, 
and the duties puid thereon, no profibi- 
tion by Jaw existing on the above articles. - 
Lang Room, 
Cusiom-house. 
Your’s, &c. 
‘THomas Cope. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
ExTRacTS fram the JouRNAL of 4 
' REFLECTOR. 
Delicacy and Rejinement. 
CELEBRATED modern author 
has observed, that though henour, 
worth, and genius, are to be found in 
persons of the lower order,-delicacy and 
refinement belong exclusively to rank, 
birth, and education, 
Yet these-are nojless the gift of mature, 
than genius and honour; and as many 
instances could be adduced to prove 
their existence, where fortune has not 
smiled. Some minds are so gentle from 
humility, so delicate from feeling, that a 
court could add nothing ornamental to 
them but its forms. og 
Manners, it must be allowed, bespeak 
associations: an ebserver, who has seen 
much of the world, will easily discover 
in what Iine of society a person has 
moved; but he will not confound the 
condition of life with the mode of think- 
ing, or be lung in discriminating between’ 
the vulgar mind, and the lowly station. ~ 
It has been remarked, that arrogance’ 
commonly distinguishéd those who have 
raised themselves from obseure origins, 
“and indigent states, to wealth and splen- 
dour ; but let it be considered, these are 
not the persons who ever were endowed 
with delicacy and sentiment; yet en- 
dowed with keen sensations of injuries 
eustained before their elevation, are 
likely enough to repay, = = ~" 
** the proud mav’s contumely,”* 
‘will appear. 
~ 
- 
2 Extracts from the Journal of a Reftecior. [Oct. 1, 
when they are raised ahove it, and to res 
venge individual affront on their fellows 
creatures in general. 
It is devoutly to be wished, that are 
rogance were confined to these fortue~ 
nate favourites of Plutus; but admirals, 
generals, and peers, alford instances of 
the same characteristic: the fact is, any. 
situation to which power is annexed, has 
a tendency to swell the human heart ; 
and when success is added to ambition, 
few have evinced superiority of soul, 
suficient to bear their faculties with 
meekness. 
Where delicacy and refinement, pre« 
donvinate, it is very rarely that riches are 
attained; whatever enlarges ideas, pos 
lishes taste, and inspires sentiment, will 
check the means of acquiring them ; such 
minds will not submit to the drudgery 
and toil, to the mortifications and rebuffs, 
which ‘are inevitable in a close pursuit, 
where there ave so many competitors, 
The possessor of these qualities, 
«¢ Not obvious, not obtrusive,” 
prefers rather to live and die in obs 
scurity— 
Nec vixit male 
Qui aatus moriensque fefellit. 
Her, 
Such a commerce with the world as is - 
necessary to procure wealth, naturally 
hardens; and, out of a court, the effect 
There, it does not ; for the 
people who attend it, may be equally ills 
natured, envious, and revengeful, every 
body must be polite; ner let it be su 
posed, a court 1s without its benefit in 
society, which confines so many bad pas- 
siens within the precincts of the best 
thing in the world after religion—Gaod- 
Breeding. 
Good-Nature. _ 
Of all the dispositions which engage 
-love, andensure contentinent, the dis- 
position to be pleased stands foremost ; 
without it, no person was ever long ac- 
ceptable as a companion, or dear asa 
friend. The semblance of this amiable 
qvality renders pubtic places so agree- 
able; for though it be only worm as 4 
mask, and the assembly may indulge 
themselves in remarks very opposite to 
benevolence afterwards, the appearance 
of gaiety and good humour must be pre- 
served In such societies, to render them 
desirable. ae 
The fastidious, however excellent; the 
suspicious, however penetrating; the 
‘sauric, however entertaining; cannot be 
loved: those who indulge in harsh cone 
jectures, and triumph im seeing them — 
well-founded, are ill qualified for the pil- 
» grimage 
