Of the Portuguese music can I give no account. I heard the Siege of Gibraltar lately, and amused myself by reading what the harpsichord expressed. ?The French and Spaniards prepare for the attack - The English prepare - Now the batteries begin. - Now Elliot fires his red hot balls. - Now the batteries blow up. - Cries of the wounded and dying. - Now the Spaniards try to save themselves by swimming.

 Mr. Curtis goes to assist them. -The prisioners are brought into the fortress. -The English express their joy by the following country dance. - They invite the prisoners to join in the dance. - Prisoners and English embrace and dance together. - Every one departs to his home.

The Italian Opera, whose absurdity requires such wicckedness to support it, is in general but thinly attended here. The present Queen suffers no women to appear on the stage, and this measure, in reality the effect of her jealousy, was said to proceed from her regard to the morals of the public. Permission has been granted since I arrived for a female dancer to exhibit herself, and the theatre has been crowded in consequence. Where was her Majesty's regard to the public morals when she permitted this? No amusement should be tolerated which cannot benefit the spectator, and must vitiate the performer. Such Spartan-like prohibitions would be deemed despotic in our modern free states, where sumptuary laws are thought encroachments upon freedom: the hale constitution can