ing some time to examine it. It is a good plain gentleman's seat, the grounds were abundantly stocked with black cattle, and I could perceive a horse or two on the steps of the principal entrance. After the proper enquiries, I was carried by a servant to a little grove to the right of the avenue, which being entered at a small swing gate, a building, with a glass covering, dipping obliquely to the south-west, presented itself, which, at first sight, appeared to be a green house. The man who accompanied me opened a little wicket, and, on looking in, I perceived a bath immediately under the glass, with a current of water supplied from a pond behind. On approaching a door two handsome spaniels, with long ears, and apparently of King Charles's breed, advanced, and, like faithful guardians, denied us access, until soothed into security by the well-known accents of the domestic. We then proceeded, and gently passing along a wooden floor, saw his lordship stretched on his face, at the farther end! He had just come out of the water, and was dressed in an old blue woollen coat, and pantaloons of the same colour. The upper part of his head was bald. but the hair on his chin,, which could not be concealed even by the posture he had assumed, made its appearance between his arms on each side! i immediately retired, and waited at a little distance until he awoke, when rising, he opened the doo, darted through the thicket, accompanied by his dogs, and made directly for the house." This characteristic anecdote accords exactly with other accounts that have been communicated respecting this extraordinary nobleman, who took a pride in deviating from the usual practices of mankind. 3. The manner after which he conducted his paternal estate, forms another singular trait in the character of his lordship. We say conducted, be cause we cannot use the term cultivated in the present connection with propriety. It was his mode to suffer every thing on his lands to run out in all directions. The woods and parks with which his mansiou was encircled, were left to vegetate with a wild luxuriancy. Nature was not in any respect checked by art—she supported herself in ten thousand charms, and exhibited the countless forms of variety. The animals also, of every class, were left in the same state of perfect freedom, and were seen bounding through his pastures with uncommon spirit and energy. In some respects this general licence which he gave to the animate and inanimate objects around him, may challenge our admiration. Nature, in such a case, must undoubtedly be more unrestrained in her operations, and would, of course, stinted by no foreign causes, expand with a greater grandeur and sublimity! But, nevertheless, it must be confessed that this idea was carried by his lordship to an excess. The God of Nature has left much to be performed by the care and industry of man. We are expected to reduce many things to juster proportions-and we are to render this lower world, by improvements, subservient in a still higher degree, both to our pleasure and utility. Such then, is our portrait of LORD ROKEBYwe have endeavoured faithfully to copy the original -and happy shall we deem ourselves, should it be found that we have sketched the features with fidelity. His was no common character. Pecu liar in his talents, in his habits of life, and in his general views of mankind, we must expect his history to have been marked by a singular train of actions. Such was really the case-and few individuals had a more indisputable claim to originality. With all these eccentricities, however, he possess ed virtues by which his defects were abundantly overbalanced. We shall close this narrative by specifying one trait of excellence for which his whole life was distinguished-HIS ardent and unabated love of freedom! Inimical to measures, which, in his opinion, encroached on the liberties of mankind, he ceased not to lift up his voice against every species of oppression. Independent in his own views and manners, he spoke his mind freely on all occasions, which drew even from his enemies expressions of admiration. Intent on the diffusion of happiness, he uniformly studied, (though in his own peculiar manner) the welfare and prosperity of his country. T METHOD OF MAKING BREAD IN CHINA. HE Chinese method of making their bread is very curious they neither make use of yeast, or bake it in an oven. The shape and size of the loaves are not unlike the small bread made in this country. They are composed of nothing more than flour and water, and ranged on bars, which are laid across on an iron hollow pan, containing a certain quantity of water, which is then placed on an earthen stove. When the water boils, the vessel or pan is covered over with something like a shallow tub, and the steam of the water, for a few minutes, is all the baking, if it may be so called, which the bread receives. We understand, however, that it is by no means unpalatable;—in this state the Chinese consider it most nutritious. THE REFLECTOR. [No. XLVIII.] THE TIME-PIECE. BY WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ. There is a pleasure in poetic pains, COOPER. N this second book of the TASK, the author re points out with the honest, but wholesome hand of severity. Few were more thoroughly attached to their country, but he loved her too well not to notice and condemn her faults. Like a skilful surgeon, he probed the wounds deeply-and thus indulged the hope of producing a rapid and permanent recovery. Slavery is the first topic on which the poet expatiates-with a beautiful exclamation on this melancholy subject, does the book open, and thus the paragraph closes in his own peculiar style : I would not have a SLAVE to till my ground, I had much rather be myself the slave, And let it circulate thro' ev'ry vein Of all your empire, that where Britain's power A few pages afterwards the poet breaks out in these patriotic strains: ENGLAND, with all thy faults, I love thee still, Where English minds and manners may be found, Mr. C. then alludes to the church, and though a churchman himself, satirises with a noble freenom what appears deserving of reprobation. For able and faithful ministers he expresses his highest estcem, but mere hirelings rouse his indignation. Indeed our poet uniformly seems to have written under the influence of virtue and piety. Take the following specimen :— I venerate the MAN whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine, and whose life Coincident-exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause. To such-I render more than mere respect, |