like a drunken man." Defpair is in every face, and death fits threatening on every furge. But when Omnipotence pleases to command, the ftorm is hushed to filence; the lightnings lay afide their fiery bolts, and the billows cease to roll.

DIALOGUE ON PHYSIOGNOMY.

Enter FRANK and HENRY.

Brank. T appears ftrange to me that people can be IT fo impofed upon. There is no difficulty in judging folks by their looks. I profefs to know as much of a man, at the firft view, as by half a dozen years acquaintance.

Henry. Pray how is that done? I fhould wish to learn fuch an art.

Fr. Did you never read Lavater on Phyfiognomy? Hen. No. What do you mean by fuch a hard word? Fr. Phyfiognomy means a knowledge of men's hearts, thoughts, and characters, by their looks. For inftance, if you fee a man, with a forehead jutting over his eyes, like a piazza, with a pair of eyebrows, heavy like the cornice of a houfe; with full eyes, and a Roman nofe, depend on it he is a great fcholar and an honeft man.

Hen. It seems to me I fhould rather go below his nofe to discover his scholarship.

Fr. By no means: if you look for beauty, you may defcend to the mouth and chin; otherwife never go below the region of the brain.

Enter GEORGE.

Geor. Well, I have been to fee the man hanged. And he is gone to the other world, with juft fuch a great forehead and Roman nofe, as you have always been praifing.

Fr. Remember, George, all figns fail in dry

weather.

Geor. Now, be honeft, Frank, and own that there

is nothing in all this trumpery of yours. The only way to know men is by their actions. If a man commit burglary, think you a Roman nofe ought to fave him from punishment?

Fr. I don't carry my notions fo far as that; but it is certain that all faces in the world are different; and equally true that each has fome marks about it, by which one can discover the temper and character of the perfon.

Enter PETER.

Peter. [To Frank.] Sir, I have heard of your fame from Dan to Beersheba; that you can know a man by his face, and can tell his thoughts by his looks. Hearing this, I have vifited you without the ceremony of an introduction.

Fr. Why, indeed, I do profefs fomething in that

way.

Pet. By that forehead, nofe, and thofe eyes of yours, one might be fure of an acute, penetrating mind.

Fr. I fee that you are not ignorant of phyfiogno

my.

Pet. I am not; but ftill I am fo far from being an adept in the art, that, unless the features are very remarkable, I cannot determine with certainty. But yours is the moft ftriking face I ever faw. There is at certain firmness in the lines, which lead from the outer verge to the centre of the apple of your eye, which denotes great forecast, deep thought, bright invention, and a genius for great purposes.

And to

Fr. You are a perfect mafter of the art. fhow you that I know fomething of it, permit me to obferve, that the form of your face denotes frankness, truth, and honesty. Your heart is a ftranger to guile, your lips, to deceit, and your hands, to fraud.

have hit

Pet. I must confefs that you upon my true character; though a different one, from what I have fustained in the view of the world.

Fr. [To Henry and George.] Now fee too ftrong examples of the truth of phyfiognomy. [While he is fpeaking this, Peter takes out his pocket-book, and makes off with himself.] Now, can you conceive, that without this knowledge, I could fathom the character of a total franger?

Hen. Pray tell us by what marks you difcovered that in his heart and lips was no guile, and in his hands, no fraud?

Fr. Ah, leave that to me; we are not to reveal our fecrets. But I will show you a face and a character, which exactly fuits him. [Feels for his pocket book in both pockets, locks wildly and concerned.]

Geor. [Tauntingly.] Aye, " in his heart is no guile, in his lips no deceit, and in his hands no fraud ! Now we fee a Itrong example of the power of phyfiognomy !"

Fr. He is a wretch! a traitor against every good fign! I'll purfue him to the ends of the earth. [Offers to go.]

Hen. Stop a moment. enough before this time. ed the worst injury he has Fr. What's that? I

him to steal.

His fine honeft face is far You have not yet discoverdone you.

had no watch or money for

Hen. By his deceitful lips, he has robbed you of any juft conception of yourself; he has betrayed you into a foolish belief that you are poffeffed of moft extraordinary genius and talents. Whereas, feparate from the idle whim about phyfiognomy, you have had no more pretence to genius or learning than à common fchool-boy. Learn henceforth to estimate men's hands by their deeds, their lips, by their words, and their hearts, by their lives.

ORATION DELIVERED AT PARIS BY CITIZEN CARNOT, PRESIDENT OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY, AT THE FESTIVAL OF GRATITUDE AND VICTORY, CELEBRATED AT THE CHAMP-DE-MARS, MAY 29, 1796.

T is at the moment when nature is renovated, when the earth, adorned with flowers and dreffed in green, promifes new harvefts; when all beings proclaim in their own language, the beneficent Intelligence which renovates the universe, that the French people affemble, on this great feftival, to render a diftinguished homage to thofe talents and virtues of the friends of the country and humanity. What day can better unite all hearts! What citizen, what man can be a ftranger to the influence of gratitude! We exist only through an uninterrupted course of beneficence, and our life is but a continual exchange of fervices.

As foon as born, our eyes, fixed on the heavens, appear already to acknowledge a primary Benefactor. Weak, without fupport, the love of our parents watches over our infancy, and provides for wants continually renewed. They direct our firft fteps; their patient folicitude affifts in developing our organs; we receive from them our first ideas of what we are ourselves, and of furrounding objects. Additional care models our hearts to affection, our minds to knowledge, and our bodies to useful labour. It is for our happiness, that the wife have reflected on the duties of man; that the learned have diven into the fecrets of nature; that the magiftrate watches, and that the legiflator prepares in deliberation protecting laws.

Be

Soon we are enabled to be useful. Good children, we ftrew flowers over the age of our parents, and their trembling voice bleffes us in their last moments. come parents in our turn, we prepare, in the education of our children, the felicity of our declining years;

and we thus continue in a new generation the chain of benevolence and gratitude. Senfibility is not restricted within the family circle; the indigent is fearched. for under the thatch; fuccors and confolation are lavifhed; and the donor, at first paid for the good action by the pleasure of having performed it, is doubly rewarded by the gratitude of the object. Benevolence! how happy are thy votaries, and how much to e pitied, the foul that knows thee not!

He who is a good fon and a good father is also a good citizen. He loves his country; renders with alacrity the tribute of services; he delights in returning to his brothers the protection he has received from them. Either magiftrate or warrior, manufacturer or farmer; in the temple of the arts; in the Senate; in the fields of glory, or the workshops of industry, he fhows himself ambitious of contributing towards the profperity of his country, and to deferve one day its gratitude. For there is a national gratitude for individuals. At this moment a people are all affembled to exprefs their gratitude to the virtuous citizens who have deferved it. How agreeable is the task! How we delight in paying you that homage; you to whom the country owes its fafety, its glory, and the foundation of its profperity!

You, to whom France owes its political regeneration; courageous philofophers, whofe writings have planted the feeds of the revolution, corroded the fetters of flavery, and blunted by degrees the ravings of fanaticifm. You, citizens, whofe dauntlefs courage effected this happy revolution; founded the republic and contended thefe feven years against crime and ambition, royalism and anarchy. You all, in a word, who labour to render France happy and flourishing; who render it illuftrious by your talents, and enrich it by your difcoveries; receive the folemn teftimony of national gratitude.

Receive that teftimony particularly, republican armies; you, whofe glory and fuccefs are frefa in the