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 or immured in a cloiter by a hard-hearted father, the lover has a traight road before him: he may either follow her to the grave, purue the robber and recue the prize, or break through the bars and bolts of the cloiter-doors—but when he flits away out of a window, who but your Pariian aëronauts can pretend to purue her? Unluckily the noble art of ailing through the fields of æther could tand poor Friedbert in little tead, the dicovery being reerved for an happier and wier age. The dim-ighted or envious wieacres of the Royal Society may judge as lightingly as they pleae of the aërotatical projects of their neighbours, yet it is obvious, that a marechauée in the air, which hould rain down melted brimtone and pitch, would more effectually check muggling on the British coats, than all their