petuating some one palpable and prominent proof
of wealth and power.

(3) It is as follows:

'The Will of a Virtuoso.

I, Nicholas Gimcrack, being in sound Health of Mind, but in great
Weakness of Body, do by this my Last Will and Testament bequeath my
worldly Goods and Chattels in Manner following:--

Imprimis, To my dear Wife, One Box of Butterflies, One Drawer of Shells,
A Female Skeleton, A Dried Cockatrice.

Item, To my Daughter Elizabeth, My Receipt for preserving dead
Caterpillars, As also my Preparations of Winter May-Dew, and Embrio
Pickle.

Item, to my little Daughter Fanny, Three Crocodiles' Eggs.

And upon the Birth of her first Child, if she marries with her Mother's
Consent, The Nest of a Humming Bird.

Item, To my eldest Brother, as an acknowledgment for the Lands he
has vested in my Son Charles, I bequeath My last Year's Collection of
Grasshoppers.

Item, To his Daughter Susanna, being his only Child, I bequeath my
English Weeds pasted on Royal Paper, With my large Folio of Indian
Cabbage.

Having fully provided for my Nephew Isaac, by making over to him some
years since A horned Searaboeus, The Skin of a Rattle-Snake, and The
Mummy of an Egyptian King, I make no further Provision for him in this
my Will.

I My eldest Son John having spoken disrespectfully of his little Sister,
whom I keep by me in Spirits of Wine, and in many other Instances
behaved himself undutifully towards me, I do disinherit, and wholly cut
off from any Part of this my Personal Estate, by giving him a single
Cockle-Shell.

To my Second Son Charles, I give and bequeath all my Flowers, Plants,
Minerals, Mosses, Shells, Pebbles, Fossils, Beetles, Butterflies,
Caterpillars, Grasshoppers, and Vermin, not above specified: As also
my Monsters, both wet and dry, making the said Charles whole and sole
Executor of this my Last Will and Testament, he paying or causing to
be paid the aforesaid Legacies within the Space of Six Months after
my Decease. And I do hereby revoke all other Wills whatsoever by me
formerly made.'--_Tatler,_ vol. iv. No. 216.

(4) Kellerman lately left his heart to be buried in the field of Valmy,
where the first great battle was fought in the year 1792, in which the
Allies were repulsed. Oh! might that heart prove the root from which the
tree of Liberty may spring up and flourish once more, as the basil tree
grew and grew from the cherished head of Isabella's lover!

ESSAY XIII. ON CERTAIN INC