are easily touched by contingencies; and these, in my own peculiar idiosyncrasy exult, in redundant vitality, beneath this gay, bright atmosphere. The inanimate parts of creation seem to pay homage to the holiness of the day; and, like the unlettered peasant, to put on their gayest garb in its honour. I retain my boyish dislike to a cloudy sky, on this the Sabbath of the Most High.

For the first time, I am about to enter "the habitation of his holiness," in the society of Camilla. We shall pray together; our hearts and our lips will unitein the same aspirations. Precisely at the same moment will our thoughts be resting on similar objects, and we shall be affected by similar emotions. Happy and holy, if but illusive, is the hope of an eternal union in the everlasting country! I am satisfied that no humbler hope can satisfy an ardent spirit that loves tenderly. There alone feelings will be fully understood and participated;

for mind shall reflect mind, and intellect shall incline with the same bias for ever!

If the superiority of the ancients to the moderns be admitted in any one science, the palm is conceded to them, almost without controversy, in that of eloquence.

The different degrees of proficiency made by the Greeks and Romans, and the most polished nations of modern times, originate in the control of those opposite circumstances which form the character of remote ages,

Far different from the people of Athens, the British nation distrust every thing which delights their ears, and strip the argument offered to them, of every ornament; they try it by the stern test of reason; and they will rarely, if ever, suffer their understandings to be bribed by delicacies offered to their imagina

tions. That argumentative and didactic style which was so distasteful to the lively genius of the Athenians, is precisely what a British audience requires from all who aspire to eminence in public speaking. It is true, that the ornaments of style and the graces of manner, are not rejected as auxiliaries, but they must be carefully kept in the background, never thrust forward, but shown carelessly through natural openings. Nay, it is remarkable, that ge nerally the most popular orators in the British senate, forum, and church, have been entirely devoid of the embellishments of a captivating manner. Of all qualifications the absence of this last is the least regretted by the English. In maný instances the want of it has been a positive advantage. The flowing smoothness and amplification of Ciceronic periods, has sunk beneath the power of that rugged energy of style, which seems the out-pouring of the real sentiments;

and which, as being, in the popular opinion, almost always identified with sincerity, cannot fail of obtaining the decided applause of a people, who dread nothing so much, as to be the dupes of mere sound, and of the coxcombery of eloquence.

Nothing so much prepossesses an audience with an opinion of the justice of any cause, as to hear it defended by a person whose simple eloquence seems to place him in the character rather of an irreproachable witness of the truth, than an advocate eager to gain a certain point, and employing all the graces of oratory in the attainment of it. That eloquence is always the most imposing, which appears to be the result of a man's own firm conviction of the truth of the cause he is defending, rather than of his desire of persuading others of its truth. Observers are always able to discriminate between the vehemence originating in the natural wish of communicating to

his hearers in all their force, the ideas by which the speaker is really occupied, and the pretended earnestness assumed, for the purpose of rendering their minds susceptible of the false impressions it is for his interest to produce. It was well said of Marcus Emilius Scaurus," La simplicité du ton ajoutait encore à la confiance: on croyait sentir plus intimement que cequ'il disait etait la vérité, par le peu de soin qu'il prenait de l'orner."

As nearly as 1 can recollect, this is an accurate abstract of the opinions elicited from Camilla to-day, by the sermon which we heard. Even in matters of taste, the truth which forms the leading principle of her character may be detected. Every thing is in keeping; this is the centre from which every ray in the circle diverges.

In the walls of that humble village church, I heard the word of truth declared with a sanctity, a zeal, and an