MRS. CHAPONE was one of Doctor Johnson’s disciples, who made her first attempts as an essayist in the Rambler and Adventurer. She also contributed to the Connoisseur and the Gentleman’s Magazine. She was born in Northamptonshire, October 27th, 1727. Her life was one of very considerable literary activity, as, besides her essays, she wrote an “Ode to Peace,” and other poems; “Fidelia,” a novel; and “Letters on the Improvement of the Mind,” which ran through numerous editions and only went out of favor when the didactic style fell into general disrepute. She died in 1801.