Crowns with true glory, and with deathle feek it with a Song. Do you figh for the frowns of the fair, I am the friend that's fincere, And I can relieve you from pain: You fhall dream that your mistress is kind, "Tis I make the artful fincere, The miser to part with his gold, And his heart feel courageous and bold: Impromptu. The frequent fighs of ev'ry hour And vain is mortal power Sadly ferene the ling❜rer views The placid ftroke of death come on, The thread is cut-the toil is done. CORNELIA MIRANDA. for traffice i abund harpon the State of Agriculture in France. a with Yieparallel to the account given in our last of the state Of if agricultural exertions in Britain,---I beg leave to give Wthe following article, which will give a view of its actual state in France, in a cafe fomewhat analogous to the former. Mr Lormoy, a public fpirited improver, has lately had a great difpute with Mr Daubenton, the celebrated academician, about the proper mode of breeding and managing fheep. Among other improvements, this gentleman recommends the culture of turnips, and talks of it nearly in the fame way we might have expected in England about an hundred years ago. The editor of a periodical work on agriculture, enforcing the remarks of Mr Lormoy, by fome additional obfervations of his own, mentions, feemingly as a wonder that he expects will searcely be believed, that fome of the largest turnip roots may be even three or four inches diameter. He alfo reprefents the cream of cows fed on turnips in December, as equally good with that of cows fed on grafs in May, and it has this additional excellence he fays, "that it has no taste of the fodder." Hence he recommends turnip-made milk as peculiarly excellent for children, and people of a confumptive habit; and proposes gravely a set of queries, refpecting its fuperior excellence, too eminent phyficians, who as gravely proceed to decide on fubject in the following manner, which I here produce as a literary curiofity, of a kind that few of my enlightened readers would expect to meet with in the end of the eighteenth century; yet it is fufficiently authenticated. this Omitting the introduction, they thus proceed: "Turnip, in general, is one of thofe vegetative fubftances which contain a copious and refined mucilage; its mild and lufcious flavour, and the place this plant holds 86 among the cruciferous, proves that it contains an alkaline "principle, fit to help digeftion, and even to divide the "blood, as well as the bumours. It is this principle "which makes all the cruciferous plants, and chiefly tur ' nip, a delicious food for cattle; they feek it with a confpicuous eagerness, and when found, eat it with a "kind of glutttony. 66 "The mucilage," they proceed, "actuated by that principle, is not clogged with earthy parts and filaments, like "other fodder: Its diffolubility demonftrates that it is lefs compact than it is in potatoes and many other roots; these qualities, natural to French turnips, (these are long like a carrot,) have still a greater energy in English ones. They are diftinguished from the former by a thorter and more "circular form, a more confiderable pulpous fubftance, more "delicious flavour, and greater diffolubility. All turnips, "but chiefly the English, are then the most nourishing “food, the easiest to digest, and the most wholesome for "cattle as well as for men: They, above all, agree with "cattle and fheep, because their flesh has more analogy with "the turnip's pulp, therefore it may be afferted, that they "are for them as wholefome, as they are eafily procured at all times. 66 They proceed: "But to come to the qualities which "the flesh or milk of cattle will acquire, from their being “for a length of time fed on turnips: Their flesh will "be of a better taste, more juicy, very wholesome, and more nourishing. It would, perhaps, be better to eat "lefs of it, though the difference be not material enough to deserve this confideration; their milk will be more plentiful, and of a better taste, cream will be lighter, and more delicious; its cheefy fubftance will be encreased in proportion to its ferous matter, as much on account o "the nature of turnips, as because the cattle feeding upon "them will need lefs drink." i 66 In adverting to this mode of ratiocination, one would almost think that they had gone back to the age of Quincy and the mechanical chemifts. But we will not tire our readers with longer extracts; we fhall only observe, that they proceed to fhow that turnip-milk, unless it were perhaps for its too great richness, is better for infants than any other cow milk, and greatly better than any other milk for people of a weakly and delicate conftitution, or thofe who are affected with confumptive complaints. This learned and elegant effufion is figned DESCEMET, profeffor in phyfic at Peris, VERDIER, privy phyfician to Hi Majefty the late king of Poland. The moral that may be drawn from this performance is, that when men are groping in the dark, they ought to proceed with caution; and when they are ignorant of facts, they may fave themselves the trouble of fearching for reafons to account for them. I acknowledge my obligations to Mr Arthur Young for the tranflation bere ufed, the extracts being tranfcribed from bis annals of agriculture. For the Bee. GLEANINGS OF BIOGRAPHY. Oliver Cromwell. The crafty protector beginning to grow old and decline in health, was feized on the 14th of April 1657 with fo fevere an illness, that he was unable to do bufinefs, and from day to day the committees of Parliament were acquainted by Whitlock, of his indifpofition. With a view to obviate the apprehenfions of the people, and even to infpire them with the idea of a complete renovation of his bodily ftrength, and youthful vigour, he caufed the following article to be inferted in the news-books, or newspapers, of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The following is tranfcribed from the news-book, entitled the Public Intelligencer, of April 27. 1657. London, printed by Thomas Newcomb, dwelling over against Bainard's Caftle in Thames' Street. Westminster, Monday, 20th April 1657. The Lord Whitlock acquainted the Houfe, that the committee on Friday laft, were at Whitehall to attend his Highness, who being then not in a condition of health, defired the meeting might be put off till this morning, ten of the clock, &c. O'c. Here followeth a confirmation of a most remarkable prodigy of nature, concerning the return of an extrême old man to a vigorous, youthful conftitution: as followeth, being extracted out of a letter: From Newcastle, 13th April. As touching that ftrange accident concerning the old man, fo far as is truth I fhall here relate. They call his name Mr John Macklain, a Scottish man, parfon of Lefbury in Northumberland, about twenty or twenty-five miles from this town, aged 116 years, who could not read without fpectacles for thefe forty years latt past, but hath his youth fo renewed, that now he can read the fmallest print without fpectacles. He had alfo loft most of his teeth, but now he hath new teeth come again. Moreover, he had loft his hair, and now again his hair is coming again like a child's hair: And whereas he was feeble and weak heretofore, he now begins to renew his ftrength likewife, and ftudieth much, and preacheth twice every Lord's day. This is all, and it is truth. Remark. -This Charlatanerie of management, with refpect to the public prints, has perhaps never been exceeded fince, except in the short period intervening from Christmas 1783 to the present time. ALBANICUS. Account of a fingular flrub, defcribed by Mr Thunberg, in his travels, just published at Stockholm in the Swedis language. Mr Thunberg, the celebrated Swedish naturalift, was informed when at the Cape of Good Hope, that there grew, in one of the diftant cantons of that country, a certain frub which produced feveral articles of wearing ap |