eport of the tranquillity and cheerfulness
of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. The
minister of Crassy soon afterwards died; his stipend died with him: his
daughter retired to Geneva, where, by teaching young ladies, she
earned a hard subsistence for herself and her mother; but in her
lowest distress she maintained a spotless reputation, and a dignified
behaviour. A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva, had the
good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable
treasure; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted the
temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence.
The genius of her husband has exalted him to the most conspicuous
station in Europe. In every change of prosperity and disgrace he has
reclined on the bosom of a faithful friend; and Mademoiselle Curchod is
now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of
the French monarchy.

Whatsoever have been the fruits of my education, they must be ascribed
to the fortunate banishment which placed me at Lausanne. I have
sometimes applied to my own fate the verses of Pindar, which remind an
Olympic champion that his victory was the consequence of his exile;
and that at home, like a domestic fowl, his days might have rolled away
inactive or inglorious. [Greek omitted]

Thus, like the crested bird of Mars, at home
Engag'd in foul domestic jars,
And wasted with intestine wars,
Inglorious hadst thou spent thy vig'rous bloom;
Had not sedition's civil broils
Expell'd thee from thy native Crete,
And driv'n thee with more glorious toils
Th' Olympic crown in Pisa's plain to meet.
West's Pindar.

If my childish revolt against the religion of my country had not
stripped me in time of my academic gown, the five important years, so
liberally improved in the studies and conversation of Lausanne, would
have been steeped in port and prejudice among the monks of Oxford. Had
the fatigue of idleness compelled me to read, the path of learning would
not have been enlightened by a ray of philosophic freedom. I should have
grown to manhood ignorant of the life and language of Europe, and my
knowledge of the world would have been confined to an English cloister.
But my religious error fixed me at Lausanne, in a state of banishment
and disgrace. The rigid