79 Morals and Manners,—Obituary.[Jan.

he,“ré at preſent, men, both in voice, in geſture, in tone, and in manners; they deſcant, they provoke you, ſwear, drink, romp. The zurcarets of the day are the moſt important men of ſociety; the elegants, of the day are only jockeys; filthy, groſs, impudent and ridiculous. Every thing is fallen into degradation; the modes are no longer invented Dy taſte; they are the produ of indecency and immodeſty. They would ſhew what ſelf-love has hitherto always enjoined to conceal, and they diſguſt in lieu of ſeducing. In Greece, which they áâre ſo deſirous to imitate, a law forbade the women to appear in public, in a manner that was not decent. Travellers laugh, with reaſon, at the bizarrerie of our coſtumes, which, whilſt our Alcibiades's s’affublent de trois gilets, (muffflMe themſelvés up in three flannel waiſtcoats) collar their neck with ten handkerchiefs, and keep their legs preſſed in colantes and point- ed boots; our women 2 la mode, or who wiſh to be ſo, brave the

; cold‘and catarrhs, in ſhewing forms which are any thing but

models,’&c;&c. The muſical feſtival at Shrewſbury, January 1, for the benefit of the Sünday ſchools, was very reſpeétably attended, notwithſtanding the

uncommon ſeverity of the weather. The concert and ball were honoured

Wath‘almoſt all the beauty and faſhion of the town and county. The

band, conſiſting of a numerous‘collection of excellent performers, was

brought together from a great diſtance, at a conſiderable expence; and the. concert was, without exaggeration, AR ever performed in Shrewſbury. The colle&Æion at the doors, ïor the purpoſes of the charity, ‘amounted,to 281, 178. 6d;

.- The farmers of Copmanthorpe, near York, have agreed to ſupply

the poor and labouring inhabitants of that townſhip with the beſt wheat, ät 7s. 6d. the buſhel, during the preſent very high price of that neceſſary

"article.

Mr. T. BarFvyex of Mancheſter, has lately publiſhed, in that town, 2

‘pamphlet, intitled“ A conciſe Expoſition of the Tricks and Arts uſed

in the Collection of Eaſter Dues, with a. Liſt of the Items Which compoſe LEH EAI/

“A socIeETYy has been, for ſome time paſt, eſtabliſhed at Warminſter, under the name of UNITARIAN CHRISTIANS, for the avowed purpoſe of“ promoting Chriſtian Knowledge, and the practice of virtue, by the diſtribution of books, in the weſt of England.”

The biſhop of Bereford has lately addreſſed a letter to Mr. WALKER, printer of the Hereford Journal, ſoliciting the attention of the nobility, gentry, and clergy of the Dioceſe, to exert an ative intereſt, in pros moting the cauſe of benevolence, by ſupplying the wants of their poor and diftreflſed neighbours,&c. His lordſhip?s letter, which commences thus:‘Iam directed by an Apoſtle of Jeſus Chriſt to provoke to love and good works,’&c. does not ſuggeſt or preſcribe any means of applying the charity; but, in general, exhorts and encourages to give cheer- fully.

It is highly gratifying to obſerve that in almoſt every town of any note throughout the kingdom, the more opulent inhabitants have éſta- bliſhed public Kitchens for the ſale of meat ſoups, as a means of alle, Viating the diſtreſſes of the poor.

Obituary. 8 “MEMOIR or THtf LIFE of THE LATE DR. BLACK.

HE woridhas recently loſt, in DR. BLack of EDINBURCH, one of the moſt amiable men and the greateſt philoſophers, who have ever adorned ſociety. It is not ſo much in the hope of doing honour to bis Inemory, as from an earne(ì deſire to preſent an iMuſtcious example in an