an officer of great experience and knowledge in his profeffion, and whofe character ftood very high indeed on the Continent, for bravery and all the virtues that adorn the man and the foldier. In our fervice he was found to be a ftrict disciplinarian, without the noife and nonfenfe of a mere Martinet: sobriety and cleanlinefs were his two objects; and wherever he difcovered a deviation from either, he punished the offender in a manner more likely to prevent a relapfe, than to irritate the man: he foothed or punished more like a parent, than a commanding officer. He confidered himself as the father of the regiment, and as if to his care and cultivation the morals and temporal happiness of his men, as well as the mere machinery of the foldier, were committed. The confequence was, that he was revered and cherished by all his men; and a gefture of difapprobation from colonel Elliot was to his own men more mortifying, than a fevere military punish ment. Before he had been long in the British fervice, he fuggefted to the fecretary at war the neceflity of railing fome light horfe, to be employed in Germany; the heavy armed cavalry from England and Ireland having been found unable to perform their evolutions in the fwampy grounds of that country; or prevent the depredations of the buffars and light horfe of the French and Auftrians, whofe fleetnefs foon carried them out of the reach of our cavalry. The ministry entered into all his views, and immediately gave or ders for the railing of feveral regiments of light horfe in England and Ireland. Lieutenant-colonel Elliot was commiffioned to raife one, and appointed to command it, when raifed, and obtained the rank of full colonel in the army. He foon repaired to London to recruit; and from the character which he had established for humanity and tenderness for his men, the regiment was foon compleated. It is remarkable that a very confiderable part of the men were Taylors; and here we cannot pafs over, though it has been often mentioned, a bon mot attributed to queen Elizabeth. That princefs had caufed a regiment of light horfe to be raised, to ferve in the Low Countries, in fupport of the Dutch. Her general, who was commiffioned to raise it, thought proper, for what reafon we do not pretend to fly, to mount the regiment upon mares; the men were moftly all taylors. The whole corps was, in an action with the Spaniards, cut off from the main army, and taken prifoners. Who the account of this difatter reached queen, that princefs, whofe policy would not fuffer her to appear dejected at any reverfe of her arms, turned to the earl of Leicester, and wittily Laid, 'The Spaniards have no caufe to triumph on this occafion; for though they may vain. ly boaft that they have cut off an English regiment, I can with truth fay to them, that they have not, on this occafion, loft either man or horfe!' To give an account of the atchievements of colonel Elliot's light horse, while they served in Germany, which was till the conclufion of the latt war, would be an epitome of the war itself; as there was fcarcely any action for five years, in which they did not bear a part; and upon almost every occafion proved fuccefstu!. The colonel rofe regularly to the rank of lieutenant-general, and, as a reward for his fignal fervices, was appointed, during the lieutenancy of lord Harcourt, com mander in chief of the army in Ireland, the urlt who had been honoured with that commiffion from the death of the earl of Rothes. In Ireland he rendered himself the idol of the army, nor was he lefs endeared to the inhabitants of the towns where any part of the troops used to be quartered; they never complained to him of the men and officers for not paying their debts, without finding a speedy redrefs. He was riding out one morning near Dublin, taking the air; on his returs he met two regiments on their march from town, into quarters; he ordered them to halt, and asked the nearest divifion to him, if they had difcharged their debts in town? They aufwered in the negative; and excused themselves by faying, that they had not touched the fum which it was ufual to advance to the troops on a march. Having heard this, he ordered the regiments back to the barracks, and having fent for their agents, gave them a fevere reprimand, and made them advance the ufuil fupply in the mean time the creditors of the troops were affembled; every demand was discharged, and the poor foldiers had still some money left, to cheer them on the march; they fet for ward, praying for their honeft general; while the croud of spectators gave him three hearty cheers. 1782. British Theatre. tary preferments without the advice of general Elliot but this fpirited officer would not fubmit to this; and finding that he could not recover the patronage of the army, which he deemed his official right, he nobly refigned his command, and was fucceeded by Sir John Irwin. The government of Gibraltar became vacant foon after by the death of general Cornwallis, and the brave old Elliot was appointed to fill it; the nation with one voice approved the appointment; and the courage, refolution, perfeverance, zeal, and kill of the gallant veteran during a three years fiege, have convinced all Europe, that a more judicious choice could not have been made by the British minif. try. --- It is the wifh of every man that this hero may be preferved from the mortification of furrendering a fortrefs which he has fo long, and fo nobly defended; but even the fall of Gibraltar, under its prefent circumftances, could not eclipfe the glory of its brave defender-for all Europe will apply the application to him of Hector's words to Æneas Si Pergama dextrà Defendi poffent, etiam lac defenfa fuiffent. A British Theatre. New Farce, called The Candidate, was performed at the theatre in the Hay market, the 5th of this month. We find it is the offspring of Mr. Dent's pen. This gentleman has also written a farce called the Statefman, announced for reprefenta tion laft feafon at Drury lane theatre, but has not yet made its appearance. The idea on which the Candidate is founded, is a kind of counterpart of She Stoops to Conquer; but the equivoque is reverfed, and in lieu of a gentleman's villa being mistaken for an inn, as in the comedy juft mentioned, an inn is miftaken for a gentleman's country-houfe, in the farce now under confideration. Perfons of the Drama. Sir Gregory Gander, Mr. Parfons. Serjeant Glib, Lawyer Shrivel, Mayor, Alderman, Mr. Baddeley. Waiters, Twilight, Mr. Willon. Negus, Mrs. Lloyd. Maria, Mifs Kirby. Sally The Candidate is founded on the following ftory. Sir Gregory Gander, guardian of Mr. Hillary, a young gentleman poffeffed of a fortune of 20,000l. is an avari. cious old fellow. Notwithstanding he artfully keeps his ward out of his money after it is due, he refufes paying an annuity of 300l. granted by Mr. Hillary to Maria, daughter of Negus, an inn keeper, whom the young gentleman had feduced. Maria being a girl of fpirit, determines to recover her due, for which the effentially had facriâced, and refolves to punish Old Squaretoes for his fraudulent defign. To this end the vifits in the vicinity of Golling-hall, and being unknown to Sir Gregory, finds means to throw herself in his way at a ball given in the affize week, when affuming the character of an heiress to 20,000l. the old man is, by his avarice, led into the fnare, and learning that her father, Mr. Negus, was a member of parliament, but formerly having been a water at a tavern in Pall Mall, his manners and converfation are tinctured with the notions of a tavern-keeper; Sir Gregory fets off on a vitit to Mr. Negus, in order to obtain his confent for marrying his daughter. At this period the farce commences, when Sir Gregory is upon the point of reaching Negus's inn. Maria informs her father that the knight is upon the road to be a candidate for member at the ensuing election for the borough of Swallow'em, where the inn is fituated; Sir Henry is made heartily welcome, from Negus's affuring himself, that his gueft will not be faving or fparing upon fuch an occafion. The remainder of the piece turns chiefly on the whimsical mistakes that arife from Sir Gregory and Negus's ignorance; the firft of Negus's real character, and the latter of Sir Gregory's real errand. Twilight, the old gentleman's fervant, contributes not a little to the humour of the farce, by aukward furprife, and ruftic fimplicity. We may from this sketch conclude, that a general system of equivoque pervades the whole piece, and after many laughable errors on all fides, Sir Gregory is artfully induced to fign a bond for fecuring the payment of Maria's annuity, whilft he' fuppofes he is figning his marriage articles with her. Negua now thinks it time to make out bis bill which he prefents to the knight: this produces a denouement of the whole myftery; and the farce terminates with the knight's generously confenting to dif charge it, from motives of neceflity, as well as to avoid being made a public laughing flock, on being fo grofly duped L412 The knight, however, has the fatisfac tion and honour of being made free of the corporation, upon which occafion he invites the mayor and aldermen to fup with him, ordering a moft elegant repaft, imagining he shall be at no expence; but that, Mr. Negus, at whofe villa he fancies he is, will defray all charges. Such a banquet very much enhances the bill, and greatly increafes his mortification when he difcovers his error. There are fome other ftrokes that have a very powerful effect upon the rifible muscles. Upon the whole it may, with frict impartiality, be faid, that though this farce cannot be pronounced a capital dramatic production, it is, agreeable to its title, truly farcical, and abounds with many effufions of humour and pleasantry, the ef. fects of which the audience teftified by their inceffant roars of laughter. The improbability of the fable may, doubtlefs, be urged against it; but confidering this piece in its proper line, when the propriety of regular comedy is not required, there is an ample field for apology, especially where the improbability is not fo great as to difguft the audience, which was the prefent cafe. A prologue, aforibed to Mr. Colman, was spoken by Mr. Palmer, for which fee the poetry. A new Pantomime, called Harlequin Teague, or the Giant's Causeway, which was prefented at the fame theatre, on the 17th inft. having made much noife, and excited the curiofity of the town, we think our readers will not be displeased with fome acconnt of it. By the title it will neceffarily be conceived that harle quin is an Hibernian, and that the fcene of the Giant's Causeway is introduced. The pantomime opens with it, and a change in the fcenery prefents us with a beautiful view of London from Highgate ponds. This is fucceeded by a variety of other changes, among which are the reprefentations of an Italian warehouse, a hog-ftye; Drury lane play-house, a pufffhop; and a finith's forge at Ranelagh.The business, if it may be fo called, confilts, à l'ordinaire, of hair-breadth efcapes, and of courfe purfuite, tricks, and laughable fituations, to mortify the clown and his mafter, and excite the rifible mufcles of the gods. Several of the incidents are founded on old jets, indeed; but fuch as were never before introduced on the boards; particularly the flory of a fet of maimed travellers, on their arrival at an inn, alarming and terrifying the waiter, by one of them requesting him to help him off with a leg, another to unbinge his arm, another to extract his teeth, a fourth to deliver him of an eye, and the laft to unfcrew his head. This is performed by harlequin, who almoft petrifies Pierrot with astonishment, by difmembering him. felf, A man with two heads is introduced, one the head of an accomplished macaroni, the other of a New Market jockey. This is one of the most pleasant, as well as fatirical feenes in the piece. Dr. Katterfelto is not overlooked, nor his reply in the papers, with regard to the ridi culous point of view he was placed in, in the character of Dr. Catterpillar, and the German Efculapius affords no fmall degree of merriment upon this occafion. It concludes with a marquerade fcene at Ranelagh, and is a juft and pleasant fatire upon the dulinefs of modern masquerades. All the characters are out of character: Marlequin appears with one leg. A butcher faints away, whilft Death is relieving him with a smelling bottle. Two quakers are boxing. A lawyer is making up a li tigious difpute, refufing to accept his fee. A child in leading-ftrings twenty feet tall. A running footman fo overwhelmed with fat that he can fcarcely move. A bishop, a judge, and a friar playing at leap-frog, &c. The scenery is executed in a masterly The Irish giant you fhall find, With a fee, faw, fum! Tho' not a friend to mean intrigue, With a fee, faw, fum! Then wave your fword, tow'rds Highgate fteer, And let the English nothing fear, With a fee, faw, fum! With a fee, faw, fum! With a fee, faw, fum! T: It has frequently been caufe of admira T bas frequently been cause of admiramany refolutions were entering into, fo many affociations forming, by the friends of this long neglected country, for national good, the faving a vast sum of money yearly, by educating our children at home, has not once been propofed. I have long wished some able writer had given us a paper in your much admired Magazine on this fubject; but as that has not happened, I hereby offer a few reafons, why I think an education in our own country, much more conducive to public good, as well as domeftic happiness, than one in a foreign kingdom. Not to fay any thing of an education in France, I fhall only give my reafons for objecting to an education in England, which every one will allow to be the leffer evil. The great fums of money annually paid for cloathing and educating children in England, is fo much entirely loft to this country; yet this, tho' no inconfiderable difadvantage to Ireland, I look upon as one of the leaft inconveniencies attending it. We well know, that among ignorant people in England, our country is univerfally defpifed, and among thofe of higher rank, if not a real, an affected hatred of Ireland is very common: our children, by converfing early with these people, imbibe prejudices againft their native country, which last as long as their lives. First, they learn to be ashamed of Ireland, then to defpife it, and at left come horie with a thorough hatred of it. Early taught to look upon Ireland with contempt, when they become their own mafters, they have English fervants, Englifh artizans, and English cloths, by which means many of our country people want employment, and are often obliged to turn beggars and thieves for a livelihood, and then we find fault with them for not being as industrious and as honeft as the Englith. Where children are educated, they form the earliest connections, which often latt as long as life; how much better would it be to form them at home than abroad. Many gentlemen fay, they would much rather have their children educated at home than in England; but there are few proper places of education in Ireland. What is the caufe of it, but want of encouragement? Have not we feen many able mafters, men of learning, men of virtue and good fenfe, men every way qualified for the arduous task of forming aright the minds of youth, obliged to quit their employment for want of encourage. ment, while gentlemen of opulence in their neighbourhood have fent their chil dren to England for education? In private life, what can be more pleafing than that affection we see in children educated at or near home, to their parents; but how can we expect much of it from a child fent from his parents in his infant years, after fix or feven years abfence? What a pleasure they lofe who thus banish their children! Thefe are fome of the many reasons may be given against fending our boys to England for education; but I think much more may be faid against fending away our daughters. This however ought not to be treated in a serious manner. So ridiculous are the reasons given for Englifying the girls (if I may be allowed to coin a word) that I think to talk of it seriously would be as ludicrous as to endeavour to translate Hudibras into heroic verfe. I have frequently been in company with englified ladies in different parts of this kingdom. The firft time I had the misfortune of getting into the company of any of them, was in this metropolis, about five or fix years ago, when I was fo much difgufted with their intolerable affectation, and fupercilious contempt of the rest of the company, that in a ferious manner, I asked their father (who is my intimate friend) what were his reafons for fending them fo far at fo great expence, to render them fo difagreeable. One of his reafons was, that they might learn good English-They had not quite loft their native brogue, but endeavoured to meliorate it by a mixture of the Lancafire dialect learned from the polite burghers of Liverpool: by this, and their leaving out of the pronunciation several letters, fecundum artem, I could make little fenfe of their inceffant gabble, which was a great difappointment to me, as I was very delirous to find, whether their minds were as much improved as their tongues. The idea of fending people from Dublin to Lancashire to learn English, was quite new to me; as before I was taught to believe that, except in Philadelphia, there is not any part of the world where Englifh is fpoken in fuch purity, as in Dublin. Another reafon was, that they might learn a good carriage (whence I conclude, no woman in Ireland can walk ftraight) and in this, I must own they were much improved; they were so very ftraight and ftiff, that an ignorant perfon might imagine an iron rod was run through their bodies to keep them from bending, and baving having loft all ufe of the joints of the them, accompanied with artless innocence neck, when any perfon at either fide (poke and unaffected grace, for an aukward imito them, they turned round the whole tation, and unnatural affectation of the body fo genteelly, that i could not but leaft amiable qualities of our lefs agreeable notice the fuperiority they had over my neighbours? And whether it would not plain country women, who make the ufe be expedient for every man, who has paid of their limbs as nature intended. 5col. for englifying a family of daughters, to give 1000l. to uneducate them? Merrion-Square, An Irishman. But I think the beft caufe alleged for fending our daughters abroad, is to give them an opportunity of getting into good company, and to learn le ton (as Chefter. field calls it.) I mult own there is no fuch thing as good company, or polite behaviour to be feen in Ireland, not even in our metropolis, whatever there may be in the country towns in England. As the Irifh are still an uncivilized people, the gentry and those who can afford it, do well to fend their daughters to different towns in Cheshire, Lancashire, &c. to learn politeness and le ton from the wife and daughter of his worfhip the mayor, Mr. Bacon, the great pig-feeder, who muft have learned politenefs by his frequent intercourfe with that polite animal. Tho' I could not make fente of the language thefe ladies fpoke, and called Englib, by hearing them gabble French, which they thought I did not understand, I found out that their reading at fchool lay chiefly among novels and romances, of which the governefs was very fond, as he was at the time carrying on a private courtship with the butler of a neighbouring gentleman, I found their fentiments quite heroic, and I could not but exprefs a fear, that one of the ladies thought too favourable of a powdered French valet, who waited on the tea ta ble; I fince heard the run away with him, as the never could bear the thought of marrying an Irishman. I fince found it a general practice amongst thofe englified ladies, to speak French in company with those who do not understand it, to fhew their fuperiority. This I once thought fomewhat rude, before I was acquainted with good breeding, of which we are to look upon thefe ladies as the ftandard. I find, likewife, they fhew much more civility to each other, than to us, poor Irish; I fuppofe they look upon us as outlaws in good-breeding to whom no regard is to be paid; but I hope, by their example, in a few years, the nation will be quite civilized, as in dif ferent parts I have found many of our home-bred girls, endeavouring to ape thofe apers of the English burghers. I fhall conclude with querying, whether it be for public or private good, that fuch vaft fums be yearly expended to oblige our daughters to exchange that agreeable affability, and charming vivacity natural to July 19, 1782. Character of Conftantine. THE whole empire lamented this great THE whole empire lament, his Brwa, the fuperb edifices with which he had adorned all the provinces, Conftantinople itself, the whole of which was one magni. ficent monument erected to his glory, had gained him the general admiration; his liberality and love for his people had acquired him their affection. He was fond of the city of Rheims, and it is undoubtedly to him, and not to his fon, that we ought to attribute the building of hot baths there, at his own expence; the pompous eulogium, which the infcription of thefe baths bears, can only be applicable to the father; he had difcharged Tripoli in Africa, and Nice in Bithynia, from certain troublesome contributions, to which the preceding emperors had subjected thefe cities for more than a century. He had accepted the title of ftrategus, or prætor of Athens, a dignity which, fince Gallicanus, was become fuperior to that of archon he caufed a large quantity of corn to be diftributed there annually; and this donation was established for ever.Rome fignalized herself beyond the other cities by the excefs of her grief. She reproached herfelf with having occafioned this prince many bitter afflictions, and with having forced him to prefer Byzantium: penetrated with regret, the accufed herself as the guilty caufe. of the elevation of her modern rival. The baths and markets were fhut up; the fpectacles, and all other public amufements were forbidden : the general converfation was upon the lofs which they had fuftained. The people declared aloud that they would have no other, emperors than the Children of Conftantine. They demanded, with im portunity, that the corpfe of their empe ror thould be fent to them; their grief increafed when they heard that it remained at Conftantinople. They paid honours to the picture of him, in which he was re presented as feated in Heaven. Idolatry, ever extravagant, placed him among the number of thofe gods which he had overthrown, and by a ridiculous confufion, feveral of his medals bear the title of God, with the monogram of Chrift. In the ca |