IT is an ordinary criticism, that my Lord Shaftesbury, and Sir William Temple, are models of the geyle in writing. We should prefer saying -- of the lordly, and the gentlemanly. Nothing be more uhan the inflated finical rhapsodies of Shaftesbury, and the plain natural chit-chat of Temple. The man of rank is disible in both writers; but in the o is only insinuated gracefully, iher it stands out offensively. The peer seems to have written with his et on, and his Earls mantle before him; the oner in his elbow chair and undress. -- What be more pleasant than the way in which the retired statesman peeps out in the essays, penned by the latter in his delightful retreat at Shehey st of Nimeguen, and the Hague. Scar authority is quoted under an ambassador. Don Francisco de Melo, a "Pal Envoy in England," tells him it was frequent in his try for men, spent with age or other decays, so as they could not hope for above a year or two of life, to ship themselves away in a Brazil fleet, and after their arrival there to go on a great length, sometimes of twenty or thirty years, or more, by the force of that vigour they recovered with that remove. "Whether su effect (Temple beautifully adds) might grow from the air, or the fruits of that climate, or by approag he sun, which is the fountain of light a, when their natural heat was so far decayed: or whether the pieg out of an old mans life were worth the pains; I ot tell: perhaps the play is not worth the dle." -- Monsieur Pompone, "French Ambassador in his (Sir Williams) time at the Hague, "certifies him, that in his life he had never heard of any man in Frahat arrived at a hundred years of age; a limitation of life which the old gentleman imputes to the excellence of their climate, giving them such a liveliness of temper and humour, as disposes them to more pleasures of all kinds than in other tries; and moralises upoter very sensibly. The "late Robert Earl of Leicester" furnishes him with a story of a tess of Desmond, married out of England in Edward the Fourths time, and who lived far in King Jamess reign. The "same noble person" gives him an at, how such a year, in the same reign, there went about the try a set of morrice-dancers, posed of ten men who danced, a Maid Marian, and a tabor and pipe; and how these twelve, oh another, made up twelve hundred years. "It was not so much (says Temple) that so many in one small ty (Herefordshire) should live to that age, as that they should be in vigour and in humour to travel and to dance." Monsieur Zulichem, one of his "colleagues at the Hague," informs him of a cure for the gout; which is firmed by another "Envoy," Monsieur Serinchamps, in that town, who had tried it. -- Old Prince Maurice of Nassau reends to him the use of hammocks in that plaint; having been allured to sleep, while suffering u himself, by the "stant motion or swinging of those airy beds." t Egmont, and the Rhinegrave who "was killed last summer before Maestricht," impart to him their experiences.
But the rank of the writer is never more ily disclosed, than where he takes frahe pliments paid by fo his fruit-trees. For the taste and perfe of what we esteem the best, he truly say, that the French, who have eaten his peaches and grapes at Shene in no very ill year, have generally cluded that the last are as good as any they have eaten in Fran this side Fontainebleau; and the first as good as any they have eat in Gasy. Italians have agreed his white figs to be as good as any of th