Monday evening. This was refift- The prologue was an appeal to the candour of the audience. The epilogue would have won, if any thing could, the grace and favour of the auditory. It was exquifitely delivered by Mrs. Jordan, but without fuccefs! DESCRIPTION of the CITY (With a View elegantly engraved.) PR a ftrong tower at each end, and ftatues on each fide. The old town is fituated near the Muldaw, and is very populous; the houses are high, and the ftreets narrow. Here is the old palace, where the ancient kings refided. The fineft ornament of this part is the univerfity. The jefuits have a magnificent college here, and here the Jews refide, and have nine fynagogues. Their number amounted to go,000 perfons, till they of fended the late king of Pruffia, who of drove them all from the town. The new town is the best built part of Prague it has fpacious streets, with gardens and vineyards, and is feparated from the old town, by a ditch, into which they can let water. The little town is on the weft fide of the Muldaw, and joined to the old one by a bridge of twenty four arches, 1700 feet long, and about thirty-five in breadth. This town was built on the fpot where there was a foreft, and there is a poplar tree yet flanding, which they affirm has, grown there about 1000 years. RAGUE is a handfome, large, and celebrated town or city, in Germany; the capital of the kingdom of Bohemia. It comprehends three towns, viz. the old, the new, and the little town. It is one of the largest cities in Europe, being al- moft fifteen miles in circumference, and, next to London, Paris, and Conftantinople, the most populous. It contains 100 churches, befides 9 Jewish fynagogues, and a celebrated univerfity, which ftands in. On a rising ground, called Rad the old town, and was founded - fchin-hill, is Upper Prague, where in 13:8, by the emperor Charles IV. Prague is built upon feven mountains the river Moldaw, or Muldaw, runs through the town, and feparates the old from the new. There is a handsome bridge over it, built with free ftong, and supported with 18 arches. It is 1770 feet in length, and 35 in breadth, having is a manificent palace of the emperor, from which the Bohemian flates flung three Auftrian deputies out of the window, three ftories high, in 1618, without their receiving much hurt. Here alfo is the cathedral of St. Veit, and in it are the bodies of St. Wenceslaus, and St. John de Nepomuc, the latter being in very high veneration among the Bohe mians, and his fhrine much reforted, inhabitants, as king of Bohemia, in 1741. It contains a hall 100 paces long, and 40 broad, without any pillar to fupport the roof. The palace called Radfchin is the place where the prince of Drahomire was fwallowed up alive in 921. In the Strawhoufe they fhow the place where the Swedes entered the city in 1648. Prague was taken by ftorm in November 1741, for the elector of Bavaria, then emperor; but marfhal Belieifle was obliged to leave it in December 1742. In 1744 the city was bombarded and taken by the king of Pruffia, who made the garrifon, confifting of 16,000 men, prifoners of war; but he was obliged to abandon it the fame year. It was befieged again by the king of Pruffa in 1758, but without fuccefs. This city is the fee of an archbi-ing into two ranks. He purfued his fhop, whole fuffragans are the prelates of Leitomeritz, Konigratz, and Olmutz. It stands 150 miles N. W. of Vienna, 75 S. E of Drefden, and 160 S. E. of Berlin. Lat. 50°. 5. N. Lon. 14° 50 ́, E. are but a small part of the whole population of the city; and poffibly thefe are all in a state of convalefcence from a much lower condition." As he proceeded, he inquired for the moft eminent practitioner, and was directed to a very long irregu lar ftreet, which, he was told, was inhabited entirely by phyficians. On entering the ftreet, he was ftruck with its gloomy appearance, as it was fhaded with yew-trees from top to bottom, and fo infested with owls and bats, that it was with difficulty he could make his way. His alarms were prodigioufly increafed, when, upon advancing towards the door of the largeft, houfe to announce himself, he found himself in a throng of ghofts, who inftantly made a paffage for him, by feparat way, as if he was running the gauntlet, till he came to the door, where, having given a modeft rap, his bufinefs was inquired by a damfel who feemed far gone in a de. cline. My dear," faid he, "before I declare my errand, have the kindness to tell me the meaning of all this unfubftantial gentry, whoprefs round your door like beggars the day after a feaft."-" Stranger,' (From the Looker-on.) the replied, "it is nothing more than N opulent merchant of Bag- a crowd of impudent ghofts, who An ARABIAN GHOST STORY. Adad, being afficted with a la tent diforder which had baffled all the medical abilities of his native town, refolyed to fet out for a place at the distance of a day's journey, which had long been famous for the number and the skill of its phyficians. As he had wrought up his mind to the highest pitch of con fidence in the art and experience of thefe profeffors, he entered the town in great gaiety of heart, notwithftanding the number of fresh graves which he obferved in the buryingplaces, and the many pallid countehances he met in the ftreets: for, faid he to himself, "it needs no calculation to convince me that thefe are continually upbraiding my mafter with the failure of his prefcriptions." Now as there were pretty near five hundred of this order, our young merchant, without troubling himfelf with any calculations, or ftaying to confider that, this number was fmall or great in proportion to the extent of the physician's practice, or that his fuperior fkill might have drawn to him all the moft defperate cafes, yielded to his first im preffions, and marched away in great good humour with his own penetration. Before the next houfe there were not more than three hundred ghofts, which, however, was a formidable number number in our traveller's eftimation, and fixed his opinion refpecting the merit of the doctor. A circumftance that puzzled him not a little, was, that the magnitude and refpectability of the houses decreased in the fame ratio with the number of the ghofts which were ranged before them; for it feemed reasonable to conclude, that the beft phyficians would be belt lodged, on account of their fuperior gains. But this was entering too much into calculation; fo on he went, till he came to the end of the street, where was a small houfe of one ftory, and with only one ghost before it. "Here," faid be, without doubt, lives the man whom the prophet has destined to be my reftorer; with only one ghoft in all his practice, it is odds indeed against my being the fecond." So faying, he knocked boldly at the, door, and was introduced to the doctor by a very plump and rofy maid fervant. Having made his cafe known, he was promifed a speedy deliverance; and according. 66 more eminent physician; and hav ing fatisfied the one-ghoft doctor with the pretence of changing the air, removed the patient with great care, in a litter, to the house where he had first applied, and had been frightened away by the five hundred ghofts. On entering the house, the merchant was aftonished to fee the poor confumptive maiden, who had opened the door to him a little time ago, converted into a very florid and healthy perfon. This railed in him great hopes, which were amply juftified by the event; for in the courfe of two weeks he returned to Bagdad completely restored, whither he carried with him the notary's daughter, whom he married from motives of love towards herfelf, and gratitude to her father. He made alfo a resolution never to decide at first view, but always to bestow fome pains on calculation before he fixed his adop, tion. NOIRE. ly was put to bed, and operated ANECDOTE of AIMERIGOT TETEupon fo many ways, that in a fhort time he was reduced to a most deplorable condition. HIS celebrated warrior and TH plunderer of his country lived in the reign of Charles the feventh of France. His will is very fingular, and marks very diftinctly his charac ter. He did fuch honour to the doctor's medicines, that at the end of the fourth day he found it advifable to make his will. The notary could could not help expreffing his furprife that a perfon of fuch large pro- "I leave," fays he, " to the chaperty fhould put himfelf into fuch pel of St. George, for reparations, hands; and asked him if any fe one thousand five hundred livres. vere calamities had reduced him to Item, à ma bonne amie, qui m'a loyaulthis act of defperation? This ment fervi, two thousand five hunbrought on a converfation, in dred livres; and the overplus," adds which it transpired, that our young he, addreffing himself to his officers, traveller was only the fecond pa- "I leave to you that have been my tient that had fallen under the doc- companions, and ought to be bretor's care fince he had entered into thren one to another: divide it amongft the profeffion about three years ago. yourfelves hand fomely; and if yecanThe notary, who happened to be not agree, and the devil fhould come an honeft man, was touched within amongst you, you see there an axe, compaffion at the melancholy fitu- good, ftrong, and cutting yery well; ation of the dying merchant. Havbreak open my ftrong box with it, ing finished the bufinefs of the will, and let him take the contents of it he proposed to him a trial of fome who is able to do fo.", The |