origin with that gregarious sensation, which is the bond of union among flocks and herds, and which arises from the identity of food, and the necessity of mutual protection. For though the attachments thus subsisting between these lower orders of the creation, be more crude, and even more versatile and transitory, than are the mass of ours; this is the result not of any difference in the cause, but of the inferiority of the nature subjected to its influence,

Friendship resulting from this intermediate coincidence of self-love, is very common among soldiers, sailors, sportsmen and debauchees, and is also to be found in striking colours, among such as belong to the same art, trade, or profession, where there is no competition of pecuniary interest. When this takes place, dislike and even hatred are apt to arise, as an opposition of self-love must ensue.

Hence I imagine that friendship will be found more frequently to exist between apprentices than journeymen; between the latter than their employers; also more among soldiers fighting for liberty, or glory, than those who fight for plunder, among sailors serving on board men of war, than those who serve in privateers; among sportsmen who hunt for amusement, than hunters who pursue their game for emolument, and that the friendship of the debauchee is rarely found among those, whose wealth does » not afford ample means of satiety. The poor sot is in general solitary, as the partition of his bottle, would more disappoint his selflove, than the power of association, or the interchange of ideas could possibly gratify it.

successful chief, which is never so strong as when we are in foreign countries, or times of national danger: for as under such circumstances we feel a strong opposition between our self-love, and that of foreigners; the coincidence of our feelings with those of our countrymen, is the more enforced.

That more universal species of conjugal affection, which being supported by community of interest, and offspring, strengthens as much after marriage, or more than before it, differs not in its origin from the attachments just described; but in the superiour sanctity, force, and tenderness of the ties, which draw the parties towards those common objects, wherein their self-love is coincident, being a more elevated species, of the same genus.

As among the more exalted consequences of this source of attachment, we must consider filial affection, and that arising between brothers and sisters.

The coincidence of our selflove, with that of our parents, is one of our earliest impressions. The tie thus originating, is soon strengthened by the discovery of our inferiority and dependence: and though the sense of this decays with education, and progression to maturity, impressions are still left more or less durable, according to the excellence of our heart, and the merit of our parent. And even where these early impressions, are wholly eradicated, vanity, pride, self estimation, and the opinion of the world, must still preserve a coincidence between the self-love of the child, and that of the authours of his existence.

it is the primary cause of affection between children of the same parents; in regard to whose welfare, they must often experience a coincidence of pleasing, and painful emotions. But in many other respects they must have a unity of self-interest, which must render many of their feelings, at the same time individually, and mutually interesting: and as they advance in years, a coincidence of self-love arises in a concurrent disposition, to exalt their common pretensions, to respectability of birth; and from the discovery that their vices, and virtues, are partially productive of mutual lustre, or mutual opprobrium.

When extraordinary affection arises between the child and the parent, or between brothers and sisters, it is to be attributed to the concurrent influence of those causes, which are productive of friendship, where there is no consanguinity.

The affection of the child to the parent and that of the parent to the child, obviously differ materially. In fact the latter has something peculiar in its origin, which will be found in a mixture of cau

ses.

On this account, we must afford it a separate analysis.

When under the influence of the principle here described, so little that is peculiar, or superiour, is necessary in the objects to which it causes our attachment, that we become fond of the scenery surrounding any dwelling where we have enjoyed any tolerable share of happiness, by associating the pleasing ideas excited by other causes, with the pleasurable sensations, inspired by the beauties of nature. By a species of personification, the trees and shrubs, and general verdure, appear to re

display of their shade or their beauties for our comfort or admiration, while we not only feel ourselves indebted to them for consequent accommodation, and pleasure; but find health and amusement, in the labour bestowed on their cultivation or defence. With the humblest domesticks, or animals officiating as ministers, or companions, to our wants, or comforts, we find a similar tie to arise. This however is the result of a coincidence of self-love, originating in reality, whereas the attachment excitedby inanimate objects originates in an imaginary coincidence of feeling: for though where these are concerned, there can be no reciprocity of impressions, at the same time tending individual and mutual gratification; such is our tendency to personify and to associate that we often act as if itwere imagined to exist.

The durability of the sources of friendship here enumerated, must in many cases be temporary; and in every instance dependent on chance. Fortunately, however, the attachments to which they give rise, are not always equally fortuitous or transient: for to the honour of human nature, whatever may be the sources of its impressions, they will continue, when their causes have ceased; though the period of continuance, will be widely various in, different beings, according to the various excellence of that refined portion of the system, which is termed the heart. This delicate recipient of every moral impulse, but slowly relinquishes those habitudes which have been the result of powerful emotions. Hence consequences will remain, when their causes are involved in obscurity. Indeed to such as discover by careful an

alysis, the paucity, feebleness and transitory nature of these sources of human attachments, their cessation will excite less surprise than their endurance: the explanation of which we must finally seek in the omnipotency of that mysterious first cause, who by the slightest means can produce the most beneficial effects: for however humble a coincidence of self-love arising from extraneous, and fortuitous causes, may appear as a source of friendship, by stimulating the better part of our nature, it becomes by far the most fertile, and universal source of human attachments: being at least the primary exciting cause, of consequences which are happy and noble. ANALYTICUS.

(To be continued.)

VARIETY.

In the rough blast heaves the billow, In the light air waves the willow; Every thing of moving kind VARIES with the veering wind: What have I to do with thee, Dull, unjoyous Constancy? Sombre tale, and satire witty, Sprightly glee, and doleful ditty, Measur'd sighs, and roundelay, Welcome Il! but do not stay. What have I to do with thee, Dull, unjoyous Constancy?

An early acquaintance with the Classicks is the only foundation of good learning, and it is incumbent on all who direct the studies of youth, to have this great object continually before them, as a matter of the most serious concern; for that a good taste in literature is friendly both to publick and to private virtue, and, of course, tends to promote in no inconsiderable degree the glory of a nation; and that as the ancients are more or less understood, the principles and the spirit of sound erudition will ever be found to flourish or decay.

SONG BY DIBDIN.

Up from a loblolly boy, none was so cute Of knowing things, most sorts I follard, Ben Binnacle learn'd me to read and dispute

For Ben was a bit of a scollard;

Of the whole crisscross row, I in time know'd the words,

But the dear letter N, for my fancy, For N stands for nature, and noble and North,

Neat, nimble, nine, nineteen and Nancy.

She soon was my wife, and I sail'd round the world,

To get prize money, where I could forage,

And for love wheresoever our Jack was unfurled,

I daunted them all with my courage; For I now read in books about heroes and fame,

And for all sorts of rows got a fancy; Sticking still to dear N, for N stands for

name

OWEN.

Vol. V.

For The Port Folio.

TRAVELS.

LETTERS FROM GENEVA AND FRANCE.

Written during a residence of between two and three years in different parts of those countries, and addressed to a lady in Virginia.

(Continued from page 327.)

LETTER XVIII.

My dear E-,

DR. MOORE'S travels and those of Mr. Coxe, will tell you of the little town of Versoix, of Nyon, and of the other towns on the road to Lausanne; they will give you some idea too of the Pays de Vaud, of its highly cultivated hills and vallies, and of the general appearance of the country, which is bounded by the Jura, not unlike the Blue Ridge in appearance, though considerably higher, on the one side, and by the lake on the other; the opposite, or Savoy side of the lake has not been so favoured by nature, or impro

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ved by art; and the appearance of cultivation gradually declines, until it ceases altogether with the black and gloomy precipices of Meillerie. As we travelled slowly, we stopped for the night at Morges, a very pretty, and well built town in the finest part of la Côte; it is a place of trade too, and has a harbour of almost an acre and a half in dimension, where the vessels of the lake take shelter in case of bad weather, and where the Genevois, who has ventured so far from home by water and for the first time, feels as I did when I entered the Gironde. A daughter of a person whom you have seen at Georgetown, resides here with her relations, and came to see us at our inn: she is a very pretty girl of about eleven, who lives with people whom she loves and who are tenderly attached to her, in a beautiful spot, and in one of the finest climates in the world, and had been all day in the vintage, and yet she did assure us,