The Gentleman's Magazine 1732-08: Vol 2 Iss 8

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“™ " - ? THE Gentleman’s Magazine : AUGUST, 1732. Desates in laf Seffion of Parliament, continu’d from p. 867. ope he © HE Accounts for the epeene Year 1731, (See the Ta- : Me ble, p. 919) and Etti- fo mates of Charges on yp of mention’d for the pre- b) fent Year being laid before the Houfe on the 2ift of fanuary, the Grants in the Column for the Year 1732 were refolved on feverally upon that and following Days. N the 26th, in a Committee of the whole Houfe, there happen’d a great De- bate about the Number of Land Forces, Sir Wm St---kl---d, Sec----y at W--r, duétion of the Army hitherto has been the Occafion of fome Plot or Machination againft us. Did not the {mall Number ot Furces in the Beginning of his late the Articles therein A Majefty’s Reign encourage a wicked and unnatural Rebellion? After that the Ar- my was no fooner reduced, but we were threatned with an Infurreétion at Home, and an Invafion from Spain, When that was fruftrated, the entuing Reduétion of the Army revived the Hopes of our Ene- mies, and they began to plot againft us under the Management of Bp Atterbury, We muft not imagine our Enemies to have loft their former Watchfulnefs. The many Scribblers employ’d to vilify his moved, That the Number of Effective Men c Majefty and his Adminif{tration, and fow as tobe provided for Guards and Garrifons in Great Britain, and for Guernfey and Jerfey, {7 the Tear 1732, foculd be (inclu- ding 1,515 Invalids, and 555 Men which the Sindependent Companies confi ft of for the Service of the Highlands) 17,709 Men, Commiffion and Non-commilfion Officers included. We fupported this Motion by wing, that tho’ the Peace was fully blifh'd, it was neceflary to keep up the Number of ‘Troops mention’d till we fhould fee how the Meafures would be approved by fome Powers who had not yet declared themfelves. E Mr W—ns W—ms W— mn fhew’d how dangerous a Standing Army in Time Peace was to the Libertics of the Nation, and moved that the Number be only 12,000 Effective Men. Ld H—vy faid, Tho’ in all Probability Peace and Tranquillity is now cftablih’d, yet we ought to be upon our Guard, and F keep a good Army of regular Forces, to prevent ourEnemies making any Attempt to difturb us; the Number moved for is the leaft that can be thought of by any Man who has a true Regard for the Quict of the Nation, and the Prefervation of the Proteftant Succeflion, &c. Every Re- Difaffection among the People, is an evie dent Sign we have Enemics even within our Bofom, who would probably think of ufing other Weapons than the Pen if any Hopes of Succefs were given by a greater Reduétion of the Army; therefore I am for continuing it this Year as propos’d. Mr P——r anfwer'd, That he could not fee that becaufe there was a great Num- ber of Scribblers againft the Government, therefore we fhould kcep a Standing Ar- my of Soldiers; the beft Way would be to employ an Army of ‘Scribblers to de- fend them, Numbers fufficient would be found to lift on the Side where they might expe& the moft Advantage. Sir WmT—ge. Sir, This Queftion does not any way affeét our Libertics. We have had fufficient Experience of his Ma- jefty’s Wifdom and Goodnefs not to en- tertain a Su{picion of his employing the Forces to be kept up in an illegal Way. His Majefty defires no more than are neceflary to fecure the Enjoyment of our Liberties and Privileges, by enabling him to repel any Attacks that may be made on our Country or Conftitution. And for this, the Number propofed is not at all too large. If any other Ute were to

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4 882 to be made of them, I thould be as ready as any Man to oppofe it. But I think it is impracticable, and there is not. the leaft Danger of fuch Meafures, fince the DesaTes in laft Seffion of Parliament. N? XX, As his Majefty has been moft graciout ly pleas’d to aflure us, that the Expeéta- tions he had given us of feeing the Ge- neral Tranquillity of Esrope c{tablithed, Continuance of the Army depends on the A are now fully anfwer’d; ¢ither now is 4 Refolutions of Parliament trom Year to Year. It is ofly propofed to continue the prefent Forces one Year longer, till we fee how the. Treaties lately made are relifh’d by Foreign Powers; and to prevent their giving any Difturbance to proper Time to reduce Part of our Army, or fuch a Time will never happen, for there will ever fome Jealoufies and Ani- mofities fubfift; and fo we muft always be at the Expence of a numerous Army, and in Danger of having our Liberties the prefent General Tranquillity, if they g trampled upon by Means thereof, when- fhould happen to difapprove the Meafures taken for eftablifhing it. If at the Year's End the Powers of Europe appear willing to reft fatisfied with thefe Meafures, our Forces may thenbe leffen’d. The Diffe rence is but 5 or 6,000 Men, and the Ex- pence of keeping them one Year, isa Trifle in Comparifon with the Lo{s_ the Nation may fultain by expofing itfelt and Europe to the Danger ot a War. This was the Cafe upon disbanding the Army after the Peace of Ryfwick, K. William being, notwithftanding all his excellent Reafons to the contrary, deprived of his brave Army, was not in a Condition toD prevent the French King feizing the whole Kingdom of Spain, on the Death of the then declining King, and was therefore under a Neceffity of entering into the Partition Treaty, atterwards fo much cenfur'd in this Houfe.—The good Effects cf agrecing with his Majeity’s E fur'd in Parliament. ci Meafures we have feen in continuing the He ffian Troops in our Pay, which I am perfuaded very much contributed to the Succefs of his Majefty’s Negotiations. I was tor that as a Meature abfolutely ne- ceflary, and am of Opinion the prefent ever we fhall have a King or a. Miniftry wicked enough. A much lefs Number than we have at prefent has been found fufficient to guard us both againft Invafions from Abroad, and Infurretions at Home. Even in the Time of open War, in the Reigns of K. William and Q. Anne, 6 or 7,000 Men, together with the Affeétions of the Peo- ple, were fo fufficient a Guard for us, that France and Spain never attempted but once to make an Invafion upon us, and that in fo faint a Manner, as fhew'd they were afraid of Succefs, Immediately after the Peace of Ry/- wick, the Parliament, jealous of their Liberties, very wifely got the Arm disbanded, and no ill Colbeuiensy ented. This could not occafion the Partition Treaty, fo ftrenuoufly oppos’d by fome of our own Miniftry, and fo juftly cen- Spain then would have heartily joined with us, to prevent the French King’s taking Poffeffion of any Part of their Territories: But were forced afterwards to accept of the Pro- tection of France, in order to prevent their Monarchy from being torn to pieces, Forces are no lefs fo: For were there Fin purfuance of that ridiculous Scheme. no Danger of Foreign Powers attempt- ing to dilturb the Tranquillity of Europe, the Prefervation of our own Liberties eught to be provided for. The Affeéti- ons of the People, it is true, are only to be meafured te the A ffections of their Reprefentatives in Parliament. But there is a Spirit of Facobitifm remain- ing, as appears by the Treatment of a Petition for erecting a Statuc to K. Wn; which Spirit, unlefs depriv‘d of all Hopes of Succets, by keeping on Foot a good Number of regular Forces, will always be aiming to difturb the Publick Peace: For which Reafons I fhall vote for the Number of Forces propofed. Sir Wim W———— 7m argued thus: A Standing Army has always been looked gn as contrary to our Conftitution, and inconfiftent with our Libertics, Yet, notwithitanding this falfe Step, we loft nothing by disbanding our Army , for upor the Wars breaking out afreth, we, in Conjunétion with our Allies, rai- fed fuch an Army, as was found to be an Over-match for the joint Powers of France and Spain, affifted by the Duke of Bavaria, whom we had difobliged by the fecond PartitionTreaty; from whence we may moft certainly conclude, that there never can be any Neceffity for keeping up iuch a numerous Standing Army in Time of Peace, as we have at prefent in Great Britain alone. We ought principally todepend on the natural Courage of the Britz/h Subjects, which has hitherto proteéted us; if we truft in any Thing elfe, our Happinefs and our Liberty will be at an End. As to the Difaficction that is pretend: ¢ Sees PEM OS SEQGPELOSOPA = eee ee ee Ln eee aoe et OO iat ea -*- oh = f 8A OD

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»* Vou. If. Dexsares in loft Seffion of Parliament. td to be in the Country; I hope it is fo inconfiderable that our ordinary Civil Officers are futficient to feize, andour . Matter, were thought to be of Weight €ommon Goals capable fo hold, all the A enough tomake’em give their Negative, Difaffeted in the Kingdom: But f muft fay, that the Continuing of a Standing Army will make the Difaffection in- create; tor the People never can be ealy under a Load of Taxes and Oppreffions, which are the Confequences of it. The Continuing of an Army from Year top Year may make our People defpair of preferving their Liberties by any peace- able Method, and caufe them to engage in a cruel Civil War for its Prefervation, But wo to thofe that advife Meafures productive of fuch fatal Effeéts! May neither God nor Man ever pardon them ! 883 wete many Reafons to be affigned which, by thofe who were concern’d tn that tho’ he with’d it had been agreed to, _ Mr Att— G—l faid, That the greater Opinion our Neighbours have of our Strength and Power, the leis apt they will be to undertake any Expeditions a+ gainft us, and the more eafy for us to obtain from them any Advantages for improving the Trade, and increating the Kiches of the Kingdom, That the only thing that can make this Nation confi+ derable in the Eyes of Foreigners is, a hearty Union between his Majeity and the Parliament, which has produced the happy Tranquillity we now enjoy ; which As to the Diftinétion between a Stands C has been, by our Influence, communica- ing and a Parliamentary Army, I can {ee no Difference, fince both muft be main- tain'd by the People ; whofe Affections, Lown, ought to be meafured by the AE feétions of their Reprefentatives; but if we trom Year to Year agree to the Con- ted'to the reft dt Europe, tho’ forced, in a Manner, upon fome of the Princes thereof, who were inclined to difturb the Peace of their Neighbours, but durft not venture, when they found the ,K. of Great Britain and his Parliament would tinuance of a Standing Army, 1am afraid D join againft them. That the leaft Dif- this will be no longer-a ftanding Rule. They will look upon us not as their Re- efentatives, but as the infignificant ‘ools of a Court and Miniftry. Mr P--—y faid, That as long as the Army was regularly paid, and ftriét Difci- pline kept up, the People could meet with no Injuftice from it ; and that, as it was fubjeé&t to be disbanded by the Par- liament, when-ever thought convenient, it never could be employ’d againtt the Liberties of the Subjeét, nor raife any Difcontent in the Minds of the People. However, he heartily joined with the Hon.Member, in withing that neither God hor Man might ever forgive thofe who fhould be the Occafion of our being obli- ged to fight for our Liberties! tho’ the Cafe had happen’d, and yet many of them who were the principal Occafion there- of, had been forgiven, at leaft, by Man. Mr B—rn—d faid, That he could not agree to the Continuing of the Army on the Footing propofed, becaufe his Maje- fty had affured, that there was a profound Tranquillity Abroad: and if there was any Party at Home againft the Prote eftant Succeflion, it was fo infignificant, that it was not worth Notice. ‘The Sctting agreement between his Majefty and his Parliament would afford them what they long tor; therefore was of Opinion, that it was neceflary to continue the Means by which we accomplifh’d {0 good a Defign, Mr P——r) It I thought there was an > ablolute Neceflity of continuing a Stand- ing Army, I would heartily agree to the Motion; but during the whole Reign of Q.-Anne, and in time of War, there were but ‘7000 Regular Forces kept -in this Kingdom, and thefe were found fuf- ficient; though the Pretender was then openly entertain’d at the French Court 5 therefore a greater Number, is now unne- ceflary and iuperfiuous on that account, When that War was at an end, the Army was reduced to under 7000 Men, a little more than one third of the pre- fent Forces; yet the general Tranquillity _of Europe was preferved, and upon the Queen’s Demife, the Proteftant Succefli- on took place without the leaft Oppofiti- on; and tho’ a Rebellion broke out fome time after, the {mall Number of . Forces we had, were fufficient to fupprefs it. Neither did any Foreign Power offer to difturb us then or their Neighbours, Attempts of Invafions, or Infurreéti- up, Or not Setting up K. William's Sta- Hons, always arife from a Government’s tue, could not prove there was a Spirit of ‘Facobitifm in the Country, as the Op- Pofition made to it did not proceed from any Difaffe€tion to the Government, or Diflike of the Kevolution ; but there purfuing Meafures by which Difcontent is fowed among the People. Our Neigh- bours will be ready to Invade us, at fuch times when they are fure of meeting with a powerful Support from them; Tt and

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884 and there is no-one Meafure more apt to fpread a general Difaffeétion among the People, than that of keeping up a nu- merous Standing Army. ‘This was one of the principal things that ruin’d the late K. Fames. He had to truft to a more nu- merous Army: than that at prefent de- manded, but what was the Confequence ? That Army was {© far from fecuring him againft the general Difcontent of the People, that it even contributed to his Overthrow. Therefore, from the fincere Affection I have for the prefent Efta- blithment, I muft be againft continuing fuch a number of regular Forces in the Kingdom. Mr W-.---le] 1 am forry to fee a Pa- rallel drawn between Kk. Fames’s Ar- my, and the Army intended to be kept up at prefent. His Army was raif- ed againft Law, maintain'd againft the Confent of the People, and employ’d in overturning their Liberties. The pre- fent Queftion is about an Army which is to be kept according to Law, and with the Confent of the People ; there- fore no Paralle] can be drawn between’em. Desares in Jaft Seffion of Parliament. N°? XX, Confequence fhewed what thofe new Troops were; for almoft every Man of them appear’d in Arms in the late Re bellion againft the Government. This ATreaty has been applauded by fome, whether defervedly or no, I wont fay, but am fure, that we have been oblig' to enter into feparate Treaties with al moft every Power in Exrope, tor cx plain. ing and amending the Blunders of it. People may fay what they will about the Treatment the Petition for cre@. ing K. William's Statue met with; I look upon it as an Affront defignedly put upon the Revolution, and am {ure it C never coud have met with fo much Con- tempt trom any thing bat a Spirit of Jacobitifm {till fubfifting in the Country, Spirit which can never be deftroy'd but by keeping an Army fufficient to defend us again{t their utmoft Efforts, D MrN.----/ faid, He was glad to hear his Majefty declare his Affeétion for his People in fuch ftrong Terms as he did, but that from. the Motion made for fuch a Number of Troops, he thought his Speech ought to conclude with thefe I hope there is but very little Difla-E Words, “That his Majefty, to thew his tisfaétion in the Nation, and that the Jacobite Party is now inconfiderable ; yet Gentlemen may fay what they will of the little Confequence of any Endeavours that have been, or may be ufed by ’em. But the late Rebellion was a certain Te- ftimony that they are not to be too Affection for his People, would quarter upon them, for the next Year, but 18,000 Men ”. Sir R---t W---le,] Sir, I find the Gentle. Fmen who oppofe the Motion made by my Honourable Friend, have all along argued as if the Number of Forces now much defpifed , tor if our Liberticshad propos'd, were to be kept up againtt been overthrown by ’em, it would have Law, whereas the very Defign of the been entirely owing to our having f0 Motion, is, to have Law for keeping few regular Forces on Foot; and fince we Gthem up. The Gafe then is, whether it have 'efcap'd that Danger, we fhould not expote our felves to the like for the future, yet it muft be the neceflary Con- fequence of reducing any part of the :fmall Army now on Foot. I have been aflur’d by a Minifter of the French H Court, that the Reducing of our Army after the Peace of Ry/wick, encourag’d them to defpife us, and to take fuch bold Steps, as they aftcrwards did. The Re- duétion of the Army after the Treaty will be more proper to keep that Num- ber, or to reduce fome part of them, and thereby expofe the Nation to be contemu’d by its Neighbours. There is not a Sovereign State in Ewrope but keeps a Body of regular Troops in its Pay, and our Neighbours keep a much greater Number than we do, which makes it abfolutely neceflary for us to kcep fome to oppofe thefe, that, on 4 fudden Emergency, may be brought a of Utrecht had not all the ill Confequences K gainftus. A Standing Army is reprefent- that were defign’d, for tho’ the Queen ‘herfelf might have no iil Intentions, her Minifters had laid a Scheme for over- turning the Proteftant Succeflion, by get- ting free of all the brave Officers and Sol- diers who had fo faithfully ferved in the Jate Wars, and fupplying their Place bya Body of above 6000 Men, who were pri- vately kept in Pay,and maintain‘d under the Colour of Che//ea Hofpital , and the ed, as not to be depended on; even by the King, whofe Service they are in. I grant that an Army of Britis Subjects, whatever way kept up and modell’d, ‘is not to be trufted to by a King, who [, makes any Attempts upon the Liber- ties of the People: And therefore an Army rais‘’d and maintain’d, and that may be difmiffed by Parliament, when convenient, aifo commanded by “—_ { — Te - =. hc, Uh Oe "aes ke SO os mf OC@toce wreomwe oe = ‘Ee sz in

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ar his r his did, * fuch t his thefe w his arter _ but ntle- le by along ; now raintk f the oping ier it Num- ‘hem, 70 be ‘re is e but n its much which us to on 4 ht a efent: ‘en by in. I jects, I'd, ‘18 _ who Liber- re an | that when entle- mcr Vou. H. men of the beft Families and Eftates a- mong us, who never can be fuppofed ca- patle of joining in any Meafure for en- fiaving a Country where they have fo great an Intercft, and where their An- ceitors fo often fignaliz’d themfelves in the Cauie of Liberty; fuch a one, I fay, can’ be of mo dangerous Confequence , were it much more numerous than it is. Every State in Europe meafures the Strength of their Neighbours by the number of regular Troops they can bring into the bicld; and therefore the Credit, and Influence every State has in the Publick Negotiations, depends on them: Whence we mutt conclude, that if we reduce our Number of Forces, our Influence Abroad wiil decreafe, and our Enemics may catch great Advantages of us, or at leaft of our Allies, before we can be in a Condition to afford them any duction of our Army, till the Treaties Europe are abloiutcly fecured. and not withftanding the great Army we have now (as is pretended ) we could not in feveral Weeks time bring 5000 Men of regular Forces together in any without {tripping our Capital, and leaving it expofed to its Enemies, During the courfe of Q. Anne's Wars,we had, betides the 7,000 in England, 4 or 5 thoufand Troops in Scotland, and upon the firlt fure Accounts we had, that the Frenob defign’d an Invafion, we brought 10,000 Men from Flanders which made the Number then in the Ifland above 20,000, which fhews we were far from\relying on the 7o0o Men urged tu be at that time our fole Defence in cafe of Danger. taken up in fettling his Son on the Spa- nip Monarchy, and had not Troops to fpare, or Time to think of the Pretender. Shou’d any Nation have a Quarrel with usnow, they would endeavour to fteal Body of Troops, which they will be the More ready to make, the tewer Forces we have to oppofe them; and though Our Allics fhould have more than was abfolutely neceflary for their own De- fence, we know what a tedious Affair it is, before they can be brought to our Af- litance. We therefore can put our truft @ None, but thofe within the Ifland. Dezates in loft Seffion of Parliament. made for eftablifhing the Tranquillity of We do not know what unexpected At- . tempts may be made upon us at Home, p T on; tor which reaion, I fhail glory in be- 885 There is not an Enemy to the Prote- ftant Succeffion, nor a Jacobite in the Land, but what ftrenuoufly appear as gainft the keeping up a Standing Army. Among fome Iriff Bills lately fent o- ver, for his Majefty’s Approbation, there was one againft the Papiits of that King- dom, Counfel wete heard tor and againtt this Bill, and the Counfel for the Papifts had occafion to refer to the Articles of Limerick, but there. being no Copy of them then at the Council-Board, their Solicitor who was a Papift, pulled a lit- tle Book out of his Pocket, and from thence read the Articles. I fuppofed that this little Book was his Vade Me cum, therefore I defired to look upon. it, and found that it contained thofe Ar- ticles, the French King’s Declaration a- gainft the States of Holland in 1701, and three Arguments againft a Standing Ar- confider.ble Affiftance. ‘Therefore Ithink _ My; whence I concluded that this Soli- itnot prudent to make any great Re- D citor, was a notable Holder-forth in Coffee-houfes againft the pernicious Con- fequences of regular Forces; and don't doubt, if he were a Member of this Houfe, but he wou’d be one of the Keen- eft among us againft the prefent Qucfti- ing one of: thofe that are for it. Mr P—y faid, I have always been, and always fhall be againft a Standing Army, part of the Ifland to oppoie an Invafion, F tho’ a Parliamentary One: ‘To me it is a terrible Thing. The Nations around us have loft their Liberties by Means of their Standing Armies: Shall we then take any of our Meafures from their unfortunate Examples ? Ihave a very good Opinion of many Gentlemen now in the Army, and believe they would not joyn in any Meafures to enflave their Country ; but they may be difmifs’d, and proper Tools put in their' Room, Fulius Cefar's Army was com- manded by brave Roman Citizens of the Befides the French King was then wholly yy beft Fortunes and Figure, yet at laft that Army enflaved their Country. By the Military Law, the Adminiftration of Juttice is fo quick, and the Punithment io fevere, that if an Officer were comes manded to pull his own Father out of in the Pretender upon us with a good K this Houfc, immediate Death would be the fure Confequence of his difobeying. And if an Officer were fent with a Body of Mufguctecrs, and with Orders to tell us how we were to Vote, it would be our Duty to order the Officer to be hang’d at the Lobby-Door: But [ doubt if fuch a Spirit would be found in this or any future Houfe of Commons. i talk not of imaginary Things, but in i

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$86 of what has happen’d to an Englis Houfe of Gommons trom an Army that was rais’d, paid, and commanded by Generals appointed by it: Therefore let us not 4 ine, that an Army fais’d and main- tain’d by Authority of Parliament, will be always fubmiflive to it. Nor does the Legality or Ilegality of that Parlia- ment or Army alter the Cafe; for, ac- cording to their Way of Thinking, the Parliament difmifs’d by them was legal, and they were an Army rais'd and main- tain'’d by Law, for the Prefervation of thofe Liberties they afterwards deftroy’d. It has been urged, that whoever is for the Proteftant Succeflion, muft be for continuing the Army; for that very Reafon Iam againft it. Iknow that the Prote ftant Succeflion in his —— ‘smoft CG Iiluftrious Houfe can never be fate, as long as there is a Standing Army in the Country. The firft two Ce/ars at Rome did pretty well, becaufe the Generals and and Officers were all their own Creatures, but how did it fare with their Succeflors? Was not every one of them named by the Army according to the Whim and Frenzy of the Soldiers, without any Re- gard to Hereditary Right ? We are told, this Army is defired to be continued but for one Year longer; is there any Army in the World continued for any Term of Years? How long have _ we already continued it from Year to Year? And if it thus continues, where- 4n wil] it differ from the Standing Armies of thofe Countries, which have already fubmitted their Necks to the Yoke ? His Majefty has affur’d us of a profound Tran- quillity Abroad; we know there is one at Home: If this is not a proper Time F for reducing Part of our Forces, we ne- ver can expect to fee any Reduction, and this Nation muft remain expofed to the Danger of having its Liberties trampled upon, by any future King or Miniftry who fhall take it in their Heads fo to do, Then the Queftion was put — Agree ¢ ‘their Wages (hall not go on during thtit with the Motion (firft mention’d) or zo— and was agreed to, without an fy Amend- ment, on a Divifion 241 againft 171, and was next Day reported to the Houfe, and agreed to, without any further Debate. N.B The farther PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES will be continu'’d in this Hown Account, they muft have at leaft 5 manner in our future Numbers. We don't pretend to give the ver Words of every Speech, but hope we have done Juice to the Arguments on each fide, Desates in taf Seffion of Parliament. N° XX, Proposats by Mr Perer Purry,, of Newfchatel, for Encouragement of fuch Swi/s Proteftants as fhould agree to accompany him to Carolina, to f{et- ba a New Colony. See p. 894, 8p5, HERE are only two Methods, viz; one for Perfons to go as Servants, the other to fettle on their own Account, 1. Thofe who ave defivous to go as Ser: wants muft be Carpenters, Vite-planters; Husbandmen, or good Labourers. 2. They muft be fuch as are not v Poor, but in 2 Condition to carry wit them what ignum to fupport their —_ Nece ay, ; j 3. Loey muft have at lea or 4 £00 Shirts, pe phen of Cloatbes Sate : 4. They are to have each for their Wa- ges 100 Livres yearly, which make 50 Crowns of the Money of Newfchatel in Swiflerland, but their Wages ave not to commence till the Day of their arvival in Carolina. 5. Expert Carpenters hall have fuita. ble Encou-ragement. 6. The time of their Contraé frall le 3 Tears, reckoning from the Day of their — in — op E Ms 7. They foall be fupply'din part of their Wages wih poked Pe ctene f i Swit land, till they imbark for Carolina. 8. Their Wages fhall be paid them re. gularly at the end of every Tear, for Security whereof they ball haive the Fruits of their Labour, and generally all that can be procured for them, whether Mou- ables or Imoveables. 9. Vittuals and Lodging from the Day of their Imbarkation foall not be put io their Account, nor their Paffage by Sea, 10. They foall have what Money they want advanced during the Term of then Service in part of their Wages to buy Linnen, Clothes and all other Neceffaries, 11. If they happen to fall Sick they forall be lodg’d and nourifp’d Gratis, bit Ilnefs, or that they ave not able to Work. 12, They foall ferve after wee the time they had loft during their Sicknefs. 13. What goes to pay Phyficians or Su- geons, foall be put to their Accompt. As to thofe who go to fettle on their Crowns each, becaufe their Paffage by Sea, and Vifuals, will coft from 20 t 2 Crowns, and the reft of the Money foall £0 to procure divers things which wt abfolutely neceffary for the Voyage. folwtely neceffary f ae a a Ae oe ———

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KX, RRYy, nt of agree 0 tet. é] 8954 > Viz. vants, unt, ‘Ss Ser. inbers, 4 vite wit their 4 wood y Wa. ke 50 tel in not to yrival fuita all be ° their ° theit viffer- mM ¥e- 5 for Fruits | that Move- ? Day ut to Sea. \ the “she 0 bu vie th 3 bit their Work, , the felt y Sut- their aft 59 y Sea, to if | (0a Si be fret VouolL Free Welton» Aug. 3. No. 140 Weekly Essays yin AUGUST, 1732. 887 ALLEY-JoBBER ;-one who rioting in an. hath made himfelf : ‘Fhonfands per A: Ageia? she lef Crafttinam, See $. G67. Act Trader, ss in Time palt'a Debater' 1On the natural Probability of a lafing Peace in Europe; a Pamphlet. ¢Fter a’ filly Iptroduétion ; about Minifters and mj- A j@@ nifterial Writers, with a wife Obfervation that’ he had not heard one Perfon {peak of the Pam- phlet above-mention’d, the Craft/man proceeds to ask the following Queftions: Uf Great Britain is at Peace, and on the moaft amicable Terms with all her Neigh- bours, and they frrongly difpofed to live ewell with each other what obliged us to fit out a Fleet in fo. much Hurry? Will any Man, replies Wadingham, imagine that the Dutch are in a State of War, or in an uncertain Situation of D Peace, becaufe all their Frontier Towns are garrifon’d, .a ftrong Batrier,.and’a mighty Force provided for the publick ‘Tranquillity ? Will any. Man fufpeét the Peace of Britain, or of Europe, among Brokets. But for’ a Minifter to give Alarms merely to fihk publick Credit, without which himfelf, as well as the Nation, muft be utterly undone, is a weak as well as vile Suggeftion. | | Next is a curious’Remark, “ That it would haye been more to the publick Satisfaction, if under the Briti/b’Gua- ranty of the pragmatick Santtion the Marriages of the Archdutcheffes had been - {pecifically fettled and, ‘made known.” ] Poffibly this could not be ftipulated. Was it not fufficientt for the Emperour to ftipulate' whom they fhould not marry? But if it were /pe- -Appeally fettled, it does not.follow that this is immediately. to be made known, or even before it be fafe or prudent. ‘¢ But (fays the Craft/man) if France or, Spain fhould be difpoted rorefeat this Succeffion at the Demile, of the pre- fen¢ Emperour, how can te’ Peace of Europe be fecured without a yaft Ex- pence of Blood and Treafure?”] "This becaufe the Britifh Nation keeps up apis but a Suprosirion, and whether Number of Guard-Ships as her natural Force? Or that any State can enjoy Peace or Security, without that Power and Force which commands the Terms, and fecures the Enjoyment.of it? May Spain will make War for the Benefit of of France,or France (lays W.} dothe like to aggtandize Ssain; Whether Spain will violate the molt explicit Guarantec, made in the ‘firft Treaty of Vienna, that not the national Dignity, and good Po- poffibly could be form’d in favour of licy, require it of the Britifh Nation, that when other Great Powers fend out their Fleets,. to fhew ourfelves Ma- fers of a maritime Force ? Will not our Ships amake as good a Figure at this very pragmatick Sanétion; or will rifque the Dominions of their Son in Italy to oblige Frances are Queftions fit to be ask’d and aniwer’d, before we admi: of it. But if France and Spain the Nore, equipp’d, as unmann’d and gon the Emperou:’s Demife will invade unrigg’d at Chatham? ‘This Appear- ance of a naval Power, is the belt Ar- gument, even with the greateft Princes and wifeft States, to be the Friends and Allies of a People, whofe Power is ufe- ful to their Confederates, and terrible to their Invaders. The feandalous Infinuation, that Mi- nifters may fit our Fleets to vary the Price of Stocks, could only come from the: groveling Mind of a Jittle mean the Auffrian Countries, will that be our Fault? No; but if we fuffer fuch an Invafion unoppos’d, it will be a great Fault inus. Can it thenbe wrong or ill-judg’d, openly to declare thofe Refolutions in Time, which we mutt at Inft declare in all Events? Has it given any Power Umbrage ? And hath it not made, and muft it not keep the Emperour our Friend, by making our Affittance always neceffary to him, the Uu Suc-

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888 Weekly Essavsin AUGUST, 1732. Ne XX, Succeffion in his Family depending imputed it to the too early Introduétion altogether on our Support? of our Youth into the World, before Craft/m. “ May not the Italian Do- they were able to accommodate their minions furnifh a Bone of Contention , Behaviour to the different Parts of Life. between Germany and Spain hereafter," Hence fuch Numbefs of raw Boys of as Flanders hath done between France 25 .or 30 Years; that infeft all Com- andthe States General?”’] Asto Here- panies, uncapable of Converfation or after (fays W.) no Man can forefee what Improvement. As to the Female Sex, may happen; but asto Don Car/os,when their too early Converfation with ours, his Father is dead, and the Power of, makes them too foon acquainted with his Mother expir'd, Spain will nolonger their own Beauty, which being repre- have any Relation tohim, and the Spa- fented as their moft diftinguifhing Cha- niards can then have no Contentions racteriftick, they apply their chief Care with Germany on his Account. to cultivate that, to the entire Negle& But if Spain had any Demands upon of their intelleétual Qualifications. the Empevour in Jta/y, would this u-,, A Gentleman fomewhat fplenetick nite the French and Spaniards ? Did © was of the fame Opinion; yet (fince France fhow any Eagernefs for this In- Empires, as well as Arts and Sciences, troduétion of Don Carlos into Italy? had their Rife and Declenfion) he ra- Are not the French and Spaniards na- ther thought our Period was come, and turally as jealous of each other aseither that henceforward little was to be ex- of them can be of the Houfe of duffria? pected but a gradual Decreafe of every thing that was good. HE Hyp-Docror of this | My Opinion, fays Theatricus, was, Week ufes the like Arguments, That, as in former Times, the Stage and affirms we fhall have a lafting Peace was look’donas the School from whence onthe Principles of Probability: Which riper Youth copied their Manners, and is all the ingenious Author of the Pam- gather’d Knowledge: Nowonder there- phlet contends for. We cannot be ab- E fore, when ridiculous, ftupid, obfcene, folutely fure of the Succefs of Treaties. and infamous Pieces are reprefented that easier oie ae — ae oes = ner Let Fuftice only awe, an age $ mous raéters are form’ ot Kings eg Con te "ny, Danaus, Sexes, and feen fo often on the The- * atre of the World. No Tory, Calebite, or Fogpate, Cy The Notion feem'd fo juft, that the drive a Bargain for himfelf clear of all” Company immediately turn’d their pofible Hazard. After making metry Thoughts ‘upon forming Schemes to with the Cra/t/man’s 1F’s and MAY’S,\ remedy this Diforder of the Stage. At éfc. the Hyp-Dofor adds, That the Jaft one of the Company, after expref- Fault of the,Partition-Treaty was not fing his Deteftation of fome Pieces ated difpofing of Dominions not belonging to laft Winter, proceeded thus: ---I con- us, but giving too much Advantage to ~ ceive no Method fo likely as providing a France. Way, that the receiving or rejecting of Plays fhould not lye in the Breaft of GyubAftrect Journal, May 3. No. 135. > managing Adtors. A — of 3 or 5 Gentlemen of Rank and Fi- On Degeneracy of Tas. F gure fhould be appointed to fit week- Heatricus, a Correfpondent, gives H} » and receive all Plays, without re- the Subftance of a Converiation, rea of Perfons, Favour or Affeétion; in which was lamented the preient if, to have a Salary of 300/. per Aum Want of Tafte, and the Occafion of it. if 5» but of 200/. The Majority to Various Reafons were affigned, Some determine which Plays be received : ona whic

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XX, i¢tion De fore their ‘Life, ys of Com- mM or Sez, ours, With cpre- Cha- Care glect tick fince ifa- oth he- he eir Vou. I. Weekly Essays i# AUGUST, 1732: 889 which rejected ; and the Houfe obliged dation of all mathematical Learning. to a€t thofe that are approved. This The Tutor fhould then give him a would prevent the Increafe of bad Poets, A latte of Algebra, Fluxions, and the and excite Gentlemen to write, as they“ Doétrine af Curves, yct fo.as not to would not be obliged to pay a fervile perplex him with quaint Speculations. Court to Perfons beneath them. eing thus initiated, he muft be taught Two Difficulties were raifed againft to apply. all to the Knowledge of Na- this Scheme ; the firft was, The find- ture, and its Operations: That the ing out a Fund for the Payment of this firft Laws of Motion are the voluntary theatrical Commiffion ; and the fecond, B Eftablifhment of an intelligent Caufe, That as the Managers were to ftandthe and not the neceflary Effects of a blind Expence, it feem’d hard not to letthem Force... He may proceed to a general have the Choice of what Plays they Survey of the principal Secrets and were to aét.T'o this the fame Gen- beautiful Difcoveries of Natural and tleman replied, ‘That the Managers Experimental Philofophy, wander over would run much lefs Rifque than they ¢ our Globe with Pleafure, and difcover do now: And as to the finding out the Caufes of the great Phenomena a Fund, the raifing the Boxes'a Shil- that appear on the Earth, in the Air, ling, and the Pit Sixpence, would pro- and ameng the celeftial Bodies. duce fafficient to pay the Salaries, and To prevent the Mind from being an Officer or two more to fupervife the abforb’d in thefe Speculations, and an Collection. See p. 595-6, 566, 570, p Opinion of its own Abilities, the follow- 613. ing Principles fhould be taught, That the Creation is but an Image or Picture of the Divine Perfections, and therefore bears a Charatter of his Infinity and By the Immenfity ; that the Part we inhabit is but a Point in Comparifon of the folar Syftem ; that the folar Sytem is Fog’s Journal, July 29, end Aug. 5- No. 1952 1966 On Paincety EpvucaTion. 4uthor of, The Travels of Cyrus. 5£ Rue Education is the Art of cu- ring thofe Difeafes of the Mind, to which the prefent State of human Nature has render’d it liable, fo as to reftore in fome Degree our decay’d Fa- culties to their primitive Vigour. Thus F the Bofom of Immenfity. we reinftall in their different Funétions the Philofopher, the Painter, and the Lover ; of which our Spiritual Nature feems to be compofed. ‘The principal End of publick and private Inftruétion but a Point in Comparifon of the vait Spaces difcover'd in the Regions of the fixt Stars; that thefe fuperior Regions themfelves are but a Point in refpeét of the innumerable Worlds perhaps hid in hat in this Point which we inhabit, we only know fome fuperficial Qualities and Properties of Nature as is neceflary for our prefent State, Conduét and Ufes. That we can never be true Philofophers thould be to ftrengthen the Judgment, gtill we can fee the Author of Nature to wing the Fancy, and to purify the Faceto Face, compare the Pictures with Heart. A Prince then, who may one Day govern a Nation, fhould, after a. tole- rable Knowledge of Greek and Latin, begin with the Mathematicks, which will habituate the Underftanding to Penetration, Depth and Attention ; and enable ig at length to reafon clofely, clearly and ftrongly. The firft 5 Books af Euclid’s Elements are the beft Foun- their Original, and know by dire& In- tuition their mutual Relations and Re- femblances. That the Caufe of Attra- - ction, and all the wonderful Phenome- na of Nature, depend upon the Aétion Hof an etherial Fluid, that pervades all Things. By thefe Ideas the Mind wi!l be elevated and dilated, yet preferved from that Vanity which puffs up vul- gar Souls; will look down on the Ball ; of

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890 Weekly Essavs in AUGUST, | 1732: Indifference’ for Life ; be infpired with ftudied. Thefe or modern Prints of them Thoughts‘of Immortality ; and chéat- fyould fometimes malic the Amufemient fully fiibmiit'to the Decrees of Héaver,A of 4 young Prince. Here he will fee when Death comes’ to difintangle’ ts fine ‘Imagination, beautiful Symmet from Mattér'and Senfe. gi and Compofitidn, the genuine Expreb _ While the Reafon is thus cultivated flor of Nature;: and-the wonderful Ef. and improved, the Sciences that depend feéts of! Lightandd Shaile. upon the Imagination ought not to Be < ‘A Relifly of. Mufick elevates and re negletted. "Pie pleafing Images of # fihes the Soul, and ferves asa pretty A. Poetry, thology and Eloqténcé, mufemenc to the Intervals of Bufinefs: amufe youthful "Minds, enliven “theif Bur ’tis rather &’Tafte than thorough Fancy, and polifh their Tafte. In reid: Skill in thé(e Atmufements that become ing the Clafficks they Mould be taught a Prince aida’ Man of Quality. the mafculine Strokes, and the finer The Mind thus fortified and improv'd Shades of the Grécian and Roman Paint: @ with rational Sciences, flrould be like. ing; the differcht, Genius and Orha/ wife taught to Confule tlie Idea of Infis ment of Profe and Verfe; the Narre; nity in iefelf whieh feems even conger Rules, and ‘various Charatters of Epit; rial’ to our’ {pirituak Natures. By this Dramatic, and Lyric Compofition$.* In he will {oon fee, that all that we can reading the Poets and claficdl Authors, conéeive of the. firft Bemg may be re- a Prince muft be fhewn the great Ptin- 1; duéed to thrée; Attributes, of Power, ciples of Theology and Morality, that ~ Wifdom and Goodnefs ; that he is the are oft hidtinder the Allegories’ atid Light and Love of all intelligent Ber Fitions of the Ancients, popes be ings: that they redeive from him at the Pythagorean ot Platonic Philofophy, every Momett their Being, their Rea- While the Underftifding ahd Imagitia- fon, ‘and their Felicity ;. that he could tion arc thas firenzthned and po ifhéd . create them, for no other End but to by a due, Mixturé of philofophical‘and £ make them cternally happy in the Con- claflical Learnin , the, Morals are to ftémplation and Love Hf his infinitd be perfected, ‘arid fuch’ Sciences taught Periections. ‘By this we foon find in as give us a true, Kiiowledge of ‘God, urfelves, atid in all Beings round us, of ourfelves, and ourFellow-Creatnrés. manifeft Characters df moral and phy- To the Study of Poetry ‘fhoyld ‘be fical Evil, of ‘Paffions that contradi& joined the- three Aéts of ‘Iniitation. f Reafon, and ‘inevitable Sufferings that he Antients reprefehted the Paflions hinder our compleat Happinets; and by Gets, Colours and Sounds.. Pfétice thus have we an invincible Demonftra- came Dancing, Painting and Mufi¢k. tion that we are fallen from our origi- All that is neceffary of Dancing, is-fo nal Purity. Therefore we ought to lay much as will give a handfome ‘Aftion ‘open our fuperior Faculties to his pure and Air, becaufe upon extetna) Figure, and intellectual Influences, that fo he and Appearance depend often the Re-~ may reftore our lapfed Powers to their gard we have tq the internal Qualities primitive Health and Strength, make of the Mind. A graceful Behaviour us imitate his divine Perfections, and in the Houle of Lords and Commons, transform us into his Likenefs. commands the Attention of the whole From thefe fame Principles derive Affembly. all the moral‘and focial Duties both of A Tafte of Painting is not to .be™ private and publick’Life, We become N® XX) of Clay a8 a’ Prifon; conceive a noble’ that Raphael, and.all the great Painters is. ee es ee ee neglected, We have fcarce any Re- mains of the ancient Painting; but the Grecian Statues,Cameos and Entagleos, preferved to this Day, were the Models

trite, juft and good, from a Defire of imitating the Sovereign Truth, Juilice and Goodnefs. We will {peak Truth when neceffary, tho’ ce to our nterells,

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any Aut You: HM. Weekly Essays in AUGUST, 1732. Sor Interefts, ahd injurious to Sclf-Love, Rule, is to ufurp the Rights of the this inward Principle of Juftice we Divinity, and invade the Privileges of do Right, tho’ not conftrain’d to ic by human Fraternity. Tho’ the heredi- hority.. By Imitation of his Atary Right of Crowns and Dominions, Goodriefs we not only acquire an u- feems to be founded upon Civil Law, niverfal inward Beneficence, Genero- tho’ the Sa/ick Law is perhaps one of fity, and difinterefted Good-Nature ; the wifeft Inftitutions of a Nation, yet but alfo that outward Politenefs and thefe Maxims ought to be concealed Delicacy of Manners, which expreiles from a young Prince, efpecially an Exp- itfelf by a noble Freedom and Eafinefs life one, He should be taught on the far remov’d from the everlafting Cere- ~ contrary, that the uinverfal, free, un- mohies of importunate Civility. From the fame Source flow all the t Maxims of Politicks and Go- vernment. We will look upon Man- bribed Confent of the States of a King- dom is what gives in cach Generation the true Right to Crowns; and that hereditary Right was never exaétly ob- kind as one great Republick, of which {erved in England for many Generations God is the common Father and Prince, C together. and every Kingdom as a Family of that Republick. Hence arifes the e- éernal, immutable Law of Nature and Nations, antecedent to all fictitious, original Contragts betwixt King and People. of the Many is to be preferr’d to that of the Few, .and publick to private In- tereft, becaufe our Capacity of loving Good is boundlefs. Tt will follow alfo from hence, that the Love of Order is very compatible with the Love\of Liberty, and that we ought to have an equal Horror for all levelling anarchical Principles, as well-as for'defpotick arbitrary Maxims. It is therefore more confiftent with Humanity, the publick Good, and the true Love of our Country, to fuffer final! Grievances from a lawful Govern- ment than to unhinge it alrogether, deliver up the Multitude to their own Furies, and embroil a Nation in Civil Wars. This Law is, that the Good yp The Oonftitution of England feems the beft adapted to prevent the Diftem- pers occafioned by the two Extreams of Anarchical and Monarchical Phrea- zy. ‘The true Method of preventing fuch Corruption is by the Education of young Princes. The laft and great Study of a Prince is that of Hiftory. °Tis there he wil] learn not only the Caufes of the Rife and Fall of Monarchies, the Defeéts and Advantages of all the different Forms of Government, but alfo the Characters of Men, the Sport of hu- man Paflions, the Contrafte of their Virtues and Vices, the periodical Re- turns of their Errors and Follies, and, fo to {peak, the true Anatomy of Man. F This Plan of Education however can hardly be executed in any determinate Number of Years, ncither can it fuc- ceed with every Genius ; fet Hours of Application are not always the mott ufeful. A skilful Tutor can inftruét, On the other Hand, Kings and Prin- Gcorreét and improve, by a Look,aWord, ees may pais the Bounds of their Au- thority, reverfe the End of all Govern- ments, and bring a Nation to Ruin by their Tyranny and Oppreffion: To fay, no Bounds are to be fet to fuch Licentioufnefs, is to ftake Men’s Minds to the vileft Slavery, and lofe all Tafte of Liberty. Here Princes fhould be taught, that to give their Will for a a Tale ingenioufly told’; at a ‘Table, at a Play, in walking, he may infpire the Love and Taite of great ‘Thoughts, noble Sentiments, and a true Delicacy \ of Manners. And in this Way a Prince’s Education may be carried on till Twenty, without the formal Leffons and Speeches of a pedantic Monitor. Cratl-

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892 Craftfman, Aug. 5. No, 318. On Justices of the Peace. ; A Correfpondent thus addreffes Mr D’anvers—You took Notice fome ‘Time ago of the late Aéct of Parliament Sor the better Qualification of Fuftices of the Peace, (See p. 836 G) 1 with Weekly Essaysin AUGUST, 1732: Bargain. If he grants a Warrant a gainft a Felon, you muft put 25. in his Pocket as his Clerk’s Fee, We have A pafs’d five Bills, of Swearing, going to Church, Ale, Drunkenne/i, and—~ This is as good as if you had given "em a Subfidy and two Fifteenths. ” Being call’d upon to explain himéelf on this fevere Reprehenfion, which gave you had made further Obfervations on B Offence to the Court Members’ “I that important Subject. For A Fuftice of the Peace is an Office of a high Nature, capable of doing the greateft Service or Differvice to the Na- tion, being a Sort of inferior Fudge. This Truft was formerly difcharged by Con- fervators of the Peace at Common Law, eleéted by the Body Of the People, as Members of Parliament and Coroners are now; but that Privilege is long firice loft, thefe Magiftrates acting now under a Commiffion from the Crown, {peak only, fays he, of the inferior Sort of Fuftices, who are like the wife Men of Cha/dee, that could never give Judg- ment till they faw the Jntrails of the Beajts. Our Statutes penal be like the c Beaft born in the Morning, at his full Growth at Noon, and dead at Night: Thus thefe Statutes, fo quick in Execu- tion, are regarded a While, but at the End of the Year are carried dead inva Basket to the ¥w/fice’s Houtle. ” If the Number of penal Laws, and revocable at pleafure: By which means Dthe Power of thefe Magiffrates were ey, whl have an Opportunity of filling the Commiffion with Men of bad Prin- ciples, and of ftriking out the more Worthy. There were Complaints of this Na- thought fuch Grievances in the Reign of that excellent Princefs, what fhall we fay now, when the former are mul- tiplied, and the /atter extended almoft ad infinitum, occafion’d by our Debts ture in the beft Reigns, even in that of E and Taxes? How would the H. of Com- Q. Elizabeth; for a Bill again common Swearing being under Confideration in the H. of Commons, Mr Glafock, a aMember obferv’d, “* We make fo much Levity in our Laws,that we had as good have no Laws. a living Creatare ; and for half a Dozen mons in Q. Elizabeth's Reign have thunder’d againft giving every Jitth Fuficea Power to prevent afew Friends from diverting themfelves together at any Sport, or even continuing for an A Fuftice of Peace is p Hour upon lawful Bufinefs, under no lefs a Penalty than the Gallows ? There- N® XX; of Chickens wil! difpenfe witha whole fore I was glad to hear an Act pats'd Dozen of penal Statutes: Thefe are aft Seflion, for preventing thefe Evils; Basket Fnftices. — A poor Neighbour for Basket Fuffices have only changed applied to one of ’em for Relief, com- © their Style, and are now diftinguith’d laining he was too highly rated in the _ by the ‘Title of Trading Fu/tices. Subfidy-Book : To whom he anfwer'd, However, 100/. a Year, the Quali- T know you not. Not me? quoththe fcationnow fet, is but a {mall Eftate to Countryman ; Why your Worfhip had live upon in Town, as fuch a Magi- my Teem and my Oxen fuch a Day; ftrate ought to do, and may be evaded and I have ever been at your Worfhip’s before the Act takes place; for it feems, Service. Have you fo, quoth the fu- _ Eftates may be bought in this City for ftice ; I remember nothing of the Mat-H 4 or 5 Years Purchafe, which ferve all ter.—If a Warrant comes to him from the Purpofes of a Qualification. One the Council to levy 100, Men, he will Argument for reducing it fo low gives levy 200; and what with choppingin me fome Uneafinefs, viz, That Gew and chufing out, will get too /. by the tlemen of any Fizure or Fortune, will not - ao. in ceemPF oo so Of Oe, SP ss wet em eS eo to ~~

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Xe nt a 5. in have ng to riven hs. ” If on gave “1 Sort Men ” the > the ght : ecu- ina vere cign fhall nul- noft ebts om: ave ttle nds + at an “Te- {s'd Is 5 got take fuch a Drudgery upon them, nor condefcend to a&t in Concert with fome Perfons i into thefe Commiffions. that a Magiftrate ought to ferve ‘his Country for nothing, nor is it fcanda- lous or unjuft to take iegal Fees and Perquifites. Yet he ough: not to be one who has nothing to depend upon but his Commifiion, or to keep open a profefs'd Shop of Litigation, where the poor People are encouraged to harrafs one another to encreafe his Worthip’s Income. I wonder none of our mo- dern Farce-Writers have diverted the Town with a Scene of this Nature. When Men in Offices can thus make a Trade of their Duty, they will be oblig’d in Return to become the Tools of a Minifter: On the other Hand, agood Magiftrate is a glorious Bene- factor-to his Country, and deferves the utmoft Veneration. Dntoerfal Hypectator, Aug. 5. No. 209. Hen the two great Bleflings of Vou. II. Weekly Essays in AUGUST, 1732. i 893 The Trader and Mechanick find ‘their Accounts in the Cheapnefs of their Not 4 Confumables ; the: Farmer’s increafed Stock is a Ballance to the diminifh’d Price; the Phyfician is pleas’d with the Increafe of Plants, Herbs, .€s’c. inthe Materia Medica, and his Fees and Bills are more eafy of Digeftion. The Na- tural Philofopher, Botanift, Chymift, Florift and Virtuofo, are all bufy in tracing the Wonders of the Year. The Divine, befides the Increafe of his Re- venue and Offerings, has a noble Sub- ject on which to difplay the two great Attributes of our Maker, his Wifdom and Goodnefs; and from which to give Proofs of his Being and Exiftence ; For as Cuawley finely obferves, Oftendit fummum qualibet Herba Denm Hence Solomon condefcended to write pof the Hy/op as well as of the Lilly, And hence the Scriptures fo minutely trace the vegetable Growth thro’ all its Stages and Periods from the Seed to the Peace and Plenty are poured full Corn in the Ear. Notwithftanding down in Conjunction upon a People, the general Felicity is firmly eftablifh’d. Peace indeed, as the Produce of human Councils, may be liable to many Ob- je€tions; but Plenty brings with it the concurrent Teftimony of all our Senfes. We who are confin’d to the great Me- the various Arts of Inoculation, and the Attempts made to quarter Flowers and Fruits of the fame Tribe upon each other, nothing has yet been produced but vegetable Mu/es, incapable of Pro- pagation. After all our Difcoveries into. the minute and abftrufe Secrets of tropolis, have not fo near and full a_ Vegetation by the Help of borrow’d Profpeét of the plentiful Harveft and F Eyes, there remain many unfathomable fruitful Autumn : But we fhall foon Myfteries in Nature: And yet all thele feel and tafte the Abundance that is a- round us, ‘The Fertility of the pre- fent Year is fo furprizing, that it can- not but excite our. Wonder, and im- fine Creatures, infinite in Number, fo curious in their Rife and Growth, fo various in Make and Colour, fo beau- tiful, ufeful and entertaining, are but proveourGratitude, Providence feemsG the fallen Offspring of their great Ori- to have concurr’d with the Legiflature in making us happy, by loading our Lands with Plenty, jult as we were eas'd in the Tax upon them. All Orders of Men find the Increafe of the Year in the Increafe of their Happi- 55 nefs; when their Rents and Revenues are readily and regularly pay’d; and have frefh Opportunities of excelling in the God-like Virtues of Magnificence, ginal in Eden. And can we doubt who was their firft Planter! If there were no Preacher or Writer upon this. Sub- je&, every Grove would be vocal; e- very Oak, as of old, oracular. London FYournal, Aug. 5. No. 684. Ox the Colony of Georctia. HE Romans eficemed the fending forth Colonies among the nobleft q Generofity, Hofpitality and Charity: of their Works. When they found them-

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894 of People from all Parts, they leffen'd their Multiqude by planting them in Co- lonies on the Frontiers of their Empire, which gave a new Strength to the Whole, the Expence being defray’d out of the piblick Treafary. From the CHARTER. PIS Majefty havine taken into Confi- deration the miferable a 4, many of bis own,poor Subjects, as tkeutfe the Diftreffes of many koreigners, awho ufould take Refuge from Perfecution; and having a princely Regard to the great Danger the Southern Frontiers of South Carolina ave expos'd to, by Reafon of the gmall Number of white Inhabitants there, bath granted a Charter for incorporating a Number of Gentlemen by the Name of, The Truftees for eftablifhing the Colony , E of Georgia in America. They are im- ower'd to collet Benefattions, and lay zhem out in cloathing, arming, fending over , and fupporting Colonies of the Poor, whether Subjects or Foreigners, till they can build Houfes and clear Lands, And E bis Majefty farther grants all bis Lands between the Rivers Savanah and Alata- mahah, which be erects into a Province by the Name of Georgia. At the Defire g, the Gentlemen there are Claufes inthe ter vefivainine them and their Suc- ceffors from receiving any Salary, Fee, uifite, or Profit whatfoever, by or from this Undertaking , and alfo from veceiving any Grants of thefe Lands, &c. See p. 58. -886. G A "The 'Truftees expe& to raife a confi- derable Fund from the compaffionate Dif- pofition:of our.Gentry and Nobility; and in order to. prevent the Benefactions from being mifapplied,will depofite the Money in the Bank of England, and enter in a Book each Sum given with the Benefac- tors Names. Annual Accounts of all Moncy received and difpofed of, will be laid betore the Ld Ch. Juftice of the King’s Bench, Maiter of the Rolls, Ld Ch. J. of . the Common Pleas, and Ld Ch. Baron of the Exchequer, or Two of them, and — Copies of the faid Accounts will tranimitted to every confiderabic Benefactor. The Colony of Georgia lying about the fame Latitude with Part ot China, Perfia, Paleftine, and the Maderas, its highly probable, when peopled, may fupply us with raw Silk, Wine, Oyl, Dies, Drugs, Weekly Essays in themfelves overburthen'd with a Conflux AUGUST, 1732.. N°XY, and many other Materials for Manufae tures, which we are obliged to purchaf from Southern Countries. As'Towns are A eftablifhed, they will make fuch a Barrie as will render the Southern Frontier of the Britif/ Colonies on the Continent of America, fafe from Indian and othe Enemies. inftruétions will be given concerning Bethe Method of cultivating the Soil. Ther are but few Indian Families within 4o Miles. Port Royal, the Station of His Majefty’s Ships, is within 30 ; and Charls Town, a great Mart, within 120. Ifthe Colony is attack’d, it may be reliev'd by C Sea from Port Royal, or the Babamas; and the Militia of South Carolina is rea to fupport it by Land. See a Lift of t Tru ftees, p.$25G; leaving out Tho. Tew, Efq for John Lacocke, and Wm Bentz, Sa s; read John Laroche, Wm Belitha, Efds, and add the following, viz. The Rev. Richard Bundy, Arthur Bedford, Samuel Smith, Adam Anderfon, Gent, Thomas Coram, Gent, Weare the fhorterin the Defcriptionof Carolina, as given in this and other Jour- nals, having had Mr Pwxrry’s original TYeatife in French communicated tous; Fa Tranflation of which follows : A Description of the Pro- vince of SoutH CAROLINA, drawn up at Charles-Town iz Sept. 1731, HE King of Great Britain having about 3 Years ago purchafed this Province of the Lords Proprietors there- of, has fince {tudied to make Agriculture, Commerce and Navigation, flourith in it. His Majefty immediately nominated Col. Jobhnfon, a worthy Gentleman, to be Go- vernour thereof; who, at his Departure tor Carolina, receiv’d divers Orders and Inftruétions, but in particular was dircét- ed inftantly to mark out Places ina pro- , per Situation for building Eleven Towns, viz. Two on the River 4latamaba, Two on the River Savanna, One at the Headof the RiverPoupon, Two at the River Santee, One at the River of Watery, One at the Black River, Onc at the River Wacomau, and One at the River Pedee. j The Difivitt. of each of thefe Towns 1. to contain the Extent of 20000 ey an eewhten oO Most aasanrte Swe

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wufac IS are er of nt of yther 1of ur- iS § Un 1g iS c, eo Vr ee ve tr Won. it. Weekly Essays in AUGUST, 173: ‘Land, formed into a i . ve, Sars of on the River, and divided into Shares of }50 Acres for each Man, Woman, or Child, of _ with excellent¥ifh :It isa one Fantily , which m the Planters Ss m a@ Condition to 894 ‘The River Savanna is one of ttie fineft it-all: Carolina, the Water postin’ ftored t the Large- be augmented as Ane of the Rhyne, atid there are 2 Forts already built upon it, one of which call’d cultivate a larcer ey of Ground, Pallacholaas,is tuo Miles from the Mouth and every one’ of them fall Shave of the better and-worfe Lands, and alfo the fame Right on the Rivey. Each Town Pall be formed intoa Parif, the Extent whereof fal] be about 6 Miles vound the Town on the fame Side of the River, and as foon as a Parifh fhall con- tain 100 Mafters- of Families, they m fend Two Mémbers to the Affembly of t anequal thereof, - an the other call'd Savanna Town, about 300 Miles; and altho’ there is not ufally above 20 Men to garrifon Pthe firtt Fort, and about 40 in the other, yet the Indtans have never dared to at~ tack them, The Town of Purrysburg will be fitu- ated 30 Miles from the Sea, and about 7 Miles from the higheft Tide;. The Land Province, and enjoy the fame Privilege as C about it is a moft delightful Main, ani the other Parifbes of the Province. the Ground of each Town fall be {peedt- ly mavked ont, and fall belong in common b all the Inhabitants, till it hall be dif- tributed in particular Shares to each of them. There ave to be 300 Acres of Land near the Town, which alt common for ever, withont being charged with Rent, and no Perfon foall, by Virtue of any for- the greateft Part very good Soil, efpeci- rily for Pafturage, and the reft proper enough for fome Productions. It was for- merly call’d the great Mwaffee Port, and is cfteem’d by the Inhabitants of the Pro- vince the bett Place in all Carolina, altho’ never yet poffeifed but by the Indians, who were driven from thence by the Englifh {everal Years. ago, and have ne- mer Grant, take Po efor of any Land verdaredtoreturn thither. All Sorts of Town within 6 Miles of eac . The Rent foall be 4s, per Ann. for every 100 Acres, except that for the firft 10 Tears the Lands foall be entirely frée, and all thofe that all fettle in the.faid Towns enjoy the fame Advantages. His Majefty further grants to every Servant, whether Man or Wo- man, 50 Acres of Land free of all Rents for 10 Tears, which Pall be diftributed to them after having ferved their Mafter for the Time agreed on. E: Trees and Plants will grow there, as well ascan be wifh'd,particularly Vines, Wheat, Barley, Oats, Peafe, Beans, Hemp, Flax, Cotton, Tobacco, Indico, Olives, Orange Trees and Citron Trees, a8 alfo white Mulberry Trees for feeding of Silkworms, ‘The Lands will not be difficult to clear. becaufe there is neither Stones nor Bram- bles, but only great Trees, which do not grow very thick; fo that more Land may beclear’d there in one Weck, than could be done in Swifferland ina Month, The In confequence of thefe Inftruétions M. G Cuftom of the Country is, that after ha~ Purry was permitted to go and chufe on the Borders of the River Savanna Land proper to build the Town of Purrysburg upon; and having found it fuch as he Wwith'd,the Government made him a Grant thereof under the Great Seal of the Pro- H general an excellent Country. Vince, dated the 1ft of Sept. 1731. and at the fame Time publifh’d throughout the whole Country a Prohibition to all Sorts of Perfons to'go and fettle on the faid Land, which is already called the Swi/s Quarter. In order to facilitate the Execution of this Undertaking in the. beft Man- het, the Affembly granted to the faid M. Purry 400 1, Sterling, and Provifions fufficient for the Maintenance of 300 Per- ving cut down thefe great Trees, they leave the Stumps for 4 or 5 ¥cars to rot, and afterwards eafily root them up, in order to manure the Land. "Tis very certain, that Carolina is in "Tis true the Ground isfandy ; but then 'tisa sand impregnated with Salt and Nitre, fo that it brings forth in great Abundance, as the like Soil does in divers Parts of Ewrope = But what is more particular to Carolina, K there are a great Number of Plantations that have been continually cultivated for near 60 Years, which yet {till produce great Plenty without ever being manured by the leaft Dung, for they never lay any on their Grounds: The Planter only fons for one Year, provided they be all turns up the Superficies of the Earth, and Perfons of good Repute, and Swifs Pro- teftants, and that they come to Carelina Within the Space of 2 ¥¢ars. all that he plants and fows therein quick- ly grows and matures : Thofe who under- thand ever fo little of Agriculture will be x x obliged

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896 obliged to own, that if the Lands in Ex- vope were not conftantly manured, their Strength would be fo exhaufted, that at length the Crops would not pay for the Seed. But a Man who fhall have a little Land in Carolina, and who is not willing to work above 2 or 3 Hours a Day, may very cafily live there. Another Confideration deferving our Notice is the Progrefs of the firft Colo- Weekly Essays in AUGUST, 1732: N@ XX: had above 100. Men on Board. It appears by the Cuftomhoufe Entries from March 1730, to March 1731, that there failed within that Time from Charles Town 205 Ships moft of them for England, which carried among other Goods 41957 Barrels of Rice about 500 Pound Weight per Bar. rel, 10754 Barrels of Pitch, 2063 of Tar, and 11590f Turpentine; of Deer Skins 300 Casks, containing 8 er goo each 5 befides . nies, their fuddenAdvancement,the Riches B a vaft Quantity of Indian Corn, Peafe, of the prefent Inhabitants, the great Number of publick Expences for which they provide,the great Trade which they carry on at prefent, and laftly their Mif- fortunes and Loffes; which are entirely repair’d, The better to comprehend thete Matters,we thal! only make thefollowing Obfervations. 1, That there were no People in Carolina till about 60 Years ago, for the Engi did not begin to fend any thither till the Year 170, 2. That they had at firft very fatal Beginnings, being afflicted with Sicknefles, and.even the Plague, which daily diminifh'd the Num- ber of the People. 3. That cruel, deftruc- tive Divifions {prung up among thefh. 4. That they had a very bad Government under the Lords Proprictors, being almoft without Order, Juftice or Difcipline. 5. "That ata certain Time the Pyrates inter- fupted their Trade and Navigation, 6. T Beans, €%c. Beef, Pork, and other falted -Flefh, Beams, Planks, and ‘Timber for Building, moft part of Cedar, Cypref, Saf fafras, Oak, Walnut and Pine. They carry. on a great Trade with the Indians, from whom they get thefe great uantities of Deer Skins, and thofe of other wild Beafts, in Exchange for which they give them only Lead, Powder, coarfe Cloth, Vermillion, Iron Ware, and fome other Goods, by which they have a very confiderable Profit. The great Number of Slaves makes another Part of the Riches of this Pro- vince, there being above 40,000 Negroes, which are worth one with another 100 Crowns each. There are between 5 and 600 Houfes in Charles Town, the moft of which are very coftly, befides 5 handfome Churches, viz. one tor thofe of the Church of Eng- t they have often had great Droughts. E /and, one for the Presbyterians, one for %. That a terrible Fire confumed almoft all CharlesTown. 8.'That they have been at great Expence in Fortifications,publick Edifices,Churches,c%c, 9. That they have often fuftain’d long Wars with the French, y panty and particularly with the In- fi the Anabaptifts, one for the Quakers, and ‘one for the French. If you travel into the Country, you will {ee ftately Build- ings, noble Caftles, and an infinite Number of all Sortsof Cattle. If it be ask’d what has produced all this? the Anfwer is, 'Tis ans, who once united altogether to Pp only the rich Land of Carolina. deftroy the whole Province. 10. That notwithftanding all thefe Misfortunes, the People of Carolina,except thofe who give them{elves up to Debauchery, are all rich, either in Slaves, Furniture, Cloaths, Plate, Jewels, or other Merchandizes, but efpe cially jn Cattle, which fhews the Good- ¢ nefs ot the Country they inhabit. The moft Part of thofe who came firft thither were very poor and miferable , feveral of thofe who are moft confidera- ble went but as Servants. The Trade of Carolina is now fo confi- derable, that of late Years there has fail’d (To be continued.) ( 9497 It may not be difagreeable in this Place to inform our Keaders, that Mr Purry,on his Return to Swifferland, with this Account of CAROLINA, foon pre- vail’d on many induftrious Perfons and their Families to the Number of about 400, to go with him. On the 11th of this Month they embarked at Calais in France on Board two Englifh Ships, which arrived off Dover the next Day, and are from thence annually above 200 Ships, H now failed on their Voyage. Mr Bignion laden with Merchandizes of the Growth of the Country, befides 3 Ships of War, which they commonly have for the Secu- rity of the Commerce, and laft Winter they had conitantly 5, the leaft of which their Minifter came to London, and re- ceived Epiftopal Ordination: So that the Refletions which fome have caft on the Religion of thefe People, are unjuitly founded rT! Yo:

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-- ewe e-em FF = OF ff = ee, oF OS ew ao OC ow TF @ Cnet ET Oe “ ot Vou. Il. Weekly Essays in The Daflp Courant, Aug. 4. ‘A Propofal for a Royal Britith Fithery. 7 is propofed, that a Society of the ] Creditors, or their Affigns, be vefted with ample Privileges, and to have the Sole aang for Exportation.on all Coafts of Great Britaiw and Ireland, and New- foundland, exclufive of all others, for 60 Yearstocome. That this Company whofe Capital to be one or two Millions, make two or three Settlements on Newfound- land, where they have the earlicft Op- the be/t Markets in Europe. Mr Wood, in his Survey of Trade, fays, the Fithery of Newfoundland is ot more Value than Mines of Gold, and that 100 Years ago we employ’d above 200 Ships, aod furnith’d all Ewrope; and of late Years it has been computed, that 6 or 700 Seafon, which, one with another, have freighted 3000 7, worth of Cod each. Admitting this Computation, this noble Trade produces a grofs Sum of about 2 Millions Sterling, befides the employing §0r 6ooo Secamen, and thoufands of Fa- &, and in this Trade our tranfporta Felons would be of great Ufe, who might be fent to Newfoundland to ferve » ¥ears, and then have Liberty to fettle there, but not return. The Salmon, Pilchard, and Herring Fiferies on the Coat of Great Britain and Iveland, will afford vaft Opportuni- tits to this Society, who, eine at home, may eafily work out the Dutch and Hamburghers. All Natives to be licenfed by the Society, and the Dutch tobe under the fame Reftrictions. K. Ch.1. fent out a Fleet in 1635. to dlige the Dutch to defift ,; who there- upoa paid the King 39,000 /. for his Per- mifion that Summer ; and the States were willing to pay a yearly Tribute. After this a Home Fifhery was at- tempted on the Weftern Coatts of Scot- land, byt mifcarried by the Civil Wars. ares II. encouraged feveral Merchants © renew the Attempt; but afterwards Withdrawing his Money out of the Stock, it failed, Hardy Seamen abound in all the Weft- ern Ilands, Orkney, and the Shet-lands, Who live as cheap and know the Coaft tter than the Dutch, whorefort there Wary with many hundred Velicls, ities to cure and load, and fend to p Vellels have been employ’d here in a, milies in the Neceflaries for Shipping, ble | AUGUST, 1932: 89 7 take and cure the Fith on our. Coaft, and fell them at foreign Markets. King. Ch, I, forbid all Foreigners ‘to fifh-upon the Coafts of Great Britain and Ireland,- and K..Ch, II. demanded. 10,000 1, per Ann. of the Dutch for this Privilege. In the 4th Volume of Pitt's Atlas we are told of the Seafons and Rules obfer- A ved by the Dutch in this profitable Trade, Sir John Burrows, in a Tra publith’d’ 1633, affirm’d that Herring, Pilchard, Cod, Ling, may be taken in our Seas at all times of the Year; that above tooo. foreign Veffels, 800 of them Dutch, were employ’d in this Trade; whereby 15090 Sailors were maintain’d, ‘and thrice the Number of People by Lafid, that’ the Dutch made 5 Millioms a Year fo long ago. In the Declaration of War which K. William made againft France we are in- formed, that the French took Licences from the Englifh Governor of Newfound- land to fith upon that Coaft, and paid a Tvibute as an Ackrowledement for fuch: Licence, After which their Encroach- ments are mention’d, which are, now be- come fettled Rights, by the Treaty of. Utrecht, and’ the Jfle of Bretcnis entirely quitted to France. Tho’ by an AG 2 ) Of K. Wm Ill. no Aliew was to fifh or trade on the Coaft of Newfoundland, or the adjacent Iflands, The Hpp-Boctor, Avg. 8.. No, 88. T3 anfwer to the Craft/man about Fuftices of Peace (Sce p. 892. C), the Doétor withes Caleb, who refents be- E ing put out of Commiffion, had pointed out one Law Book that affurcs us the Fuftices were chofen by the Body of the People, or that ever any fubordinate Ma- giftrate was fo eleéted. The Body of the People is all the People, whereas only a Part of them, particularly qualified, were p ever Eleétors of Magiitrates, as only Frecholders of a certain Value and Bur- gefles are Eletors of Parliament-Men. The King’s Writ was direéted to the Sheriff, and not the Body, but fome Pco- ple, on that Writ, chofe the Juftices. The Eleéion of Juftices was not a Privilege inherent in the People, they g ate Fuffitiorit Regis, not Populi, in all our Law Books ; 1t wasaGrant from the Crown, and Seditions, Infurreétions, Riots, Tumults, Diiorders, Fozpetes , and Calebites made it neceflary for the King to re-inveft it in the more imme- diate Appointment of the Crown. Gmbh

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OGwbftreet Journal, Mag. 10. No, 136. Mr Bavivs, oe 1 Find by:the dbfrad of the DifputeA on Liberty and Prefcience (See p. 863.) you give Place fometimes to Sub. Lines : jects of the niceft Importance. J de- Sia, fire you to infert fome Remarks on it y OU undertake for Mr Fencourt, Mr Fancovurt has always allow’d, that he fhall venture the whole that what was ever certain, vas ever p Controverfy on this fingle Point, Wi:- Soreknown : He denies that owr Free- ther whatever is certain, was ever cer Aftions were ever certain, or that Ac- tain, ‘The Affirmative is what the tions, ever certain, can be frees becaufe Abfrafier aflerts and argues for, (See Free Adtions may, or may not be: p. $63.) ‘but fince what he has faid is But when one Side is certain, the o- not fatisfaétory, I will try to add, only by ther is impollibleandcannotbe. There- _ Way of Elucidation, what perhaps may fore, with him, Fore-Knowledge implies'© fet the Matter in a convincing Light. Certainty, and Certainty implies Necef- Let us fappofe a future poffible Ac- Jfity, which deftroys Free-Agency. As tion, for Initance, Mr Fancourt's gp: to what ‘the Ab/frafer contends for, fwering thefe Reflettions; which we viz. ‘ that Fore-Knowledge implies no ‘will conceive ‘as free and contingent, Gubftreet Journal, Ang, 87. No. 137. true, and not true, that it happen, will be no Argument that it will be. Idurft undertake Mr Fancourt F was neceflary it fhould happen: So, will venture the whole Controverfy on neither ought the Certainty of its be- this fingle Point, Whether whatever is ing to happen, before it thall happen, now certain, was ever certain? Ifthe to be looked upon as, at all, implying Affirmative can be demoniftrated, "twill any Neceffity, or deftroying Free Agen- follow that what we call Free-Aétions cy. Whatever therefore will be, will were ever certain, and certainly fore- certainly be, tho’ not neceflarily 5 and, known from Eternity; tho’ how to prove that they were ever free, or might have been prevented, will be the Queftion. ‘Fo conclude, what God infallibly fore- knows, will be; the Aétions of Free- Agents, whilft contingent, only may be ; and therefore are no more the Objects of fuch a Forekwowledge, than a {quare Circle is an Object of Power, He that can foreknow the one, may, I prefume, do the other.

confequently, Whatever is now certain, was ever certain, 9. E. D, Yours, Sc. wry HE ¥pp-Dodor, Aug. 5. By% « The Spring-Head of the Argu- ment lies as high as the old Doéttine of H Fate, Neceffity and Deftiny. Nothing's uncertain, nothing contingent,in refpett to the Divine Prefcience, but only i relation to us, andto deny that, 1s t0 deny the Omnifcience of Gop. ” Free

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7 it nd, the ent Wor. 11. Weekly Essays in AUGUST, 1732; Free Griton, ‘Aug. 10, No. 141. On BENEVOLENCE. Enevolence is the nobleft Quality of human Nature, and great Min moft excell in this generous Virtue. The moft attractive Objeét of a bene- volent Mind is his Country ; to make that happy and profperous, is the Pride and Pleafure of his Soul. A natural Sweetnefs of Temper is 899 the Subjects of France bemoan .them- felves and. their Country, when the a Trattice of Dragooning was firft intro-~ duced ? i We Britons have dearly boughd;the Liberties we now pofilets ; and we fhould adore the Freedoms we enjoy, honour the Prince who preferves them, and oppofe all Attempts that may be made to hurt them. It is a Duty which # Man owes to himfelf, to affert the publick Rights and Privileges: Ler the an carly Indication of focial Virtues; Parties concerned be ever foexalted, or put jult Refle4tion alone can influence courted, any one may fay, with alf the noble Paffions. ‘The more Men_ Truth, as Phocion of old {aid te King seafon on ‘Truth and Jultice, the more are they afhamed of Vice and Error ; hence a Man of Senfe defpifes a felfifh Aion, and delights in the moft diffu- five Beneficence, as he finds it the moft lafting, valuable, and exquifite Pleafure. *Twas well obferved, He that would be generous, muft firft be juft. How often are Men undone by a generous Extravagance ? And how happy would it be for Mankind, did every one ftudy fair Dealing and Equity, more than o-E flentatious Aétions ? Benevolence flourifhes moft in Re- publican Governments; where the Peo- ple are equal and free, there’s a gene- tal Emulation who fhall love and ferve the Publick moft; but where it is de-F nied them to aét for their Country, they quickly forget the Care of it. What can more affect the Paffions of anoble Mind, than national Hazards and Dangers? Who, that has Honour or Worth, would not facrifice a rivate ¢ Advantage, give up the deareft Friend, Antipater, ** I cannot be your Fuar- TERER and Frienp.” ”*T'was a memorable Saying ef Monf- Mezeray, the famous Hiftorian, to Gentleman of our Country in the Clof of the laft Century, ** We had ance in France the fame Happinefs and the fame Privileges which you have; our Laws were made by Reprefentatives of our own chufing; our Moncey was not taken from us, but by our own Confent ; our Kings were fybje& to the Rules of Law and Reason; yet now, alas! we are miferable, and all is loft. Think nothing, Sir, too dear to maintain thefe precious Advantages $ if ever there be Occafion, venture your Life and Eftate, and all you have, ra~ ther than fubmit to the Conditions you fee us reduced to, ” Alg. Sidney. Fog'g Journal, Avg. 12. No. 197- A Multiplicity of Laws a Grievante. “HE Decay of Trade, and the Taxes, are Burdens the Nation and moft valuable Intereft in Life, to has long borne as dependent on foreign fupport the Liberties and Bleffings of Caufes and Powers; but there is a third his Country, if invaded? How muft Grievance, which is abfolutely in our a generous Roman refent and deplore own Power to redrefs, and that is, our thofe devouring Plagues which befel the Laws and Courts of Juftice. Let any People, when the Lex Majeftatis, the H one reflect on the almoft infinite Num- Law made to guard the facred Rights and Honour of the Commonwealth, was extended by a forced Conftruction, to punith and reftrain the Liberty of Spegking and Writing ? Or, how mui ber of Laws, Rules, and Orders of Courts, Forms, Precedents, 9c. all as ftrong as Aéts of Parliament in the Decifions of our Courts. It is compu- ted, that in Britain there are at leat 50,000

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god Weekly Essays in AUGUST, 1732: 50,000 belonging to the Law, each of for the Poor: A Complaint may go wliom, one with another, make yearly thro’ the three Courts for Iefs ‘than of his Bufinefs 100 /. To which, if 12/. Sterling, unlefs the Sum be very the Client’s Charges and Lofs of Time 4 great, or more than ordinary Evidences im attentling be added, (which may be to be written on fealed Paper. © The computed at a Million a Year) here's a Writer concludes with thac Maxim of ‘Charge on the Nation of Six Millions Tacitus, Corruptijfima Refoublica pla- a Year. ‘The making an A& for Relief rime Lezes. *Tis a certain Sign of of Infolvent Debtors, a Jury-Act, &c. an ill Government where there are a- will not give the requifite Relief: In my » bundance of Laws, but not a certain Opinion, -fays Fog, "tis Time to alter Sign of agood, where there are few, the Nolumas into Volumus leges Anglie as is the Cafe in Denmark. ™ mutare. (See p. 19, 98,"100.) How happy had we been, adds Frg,, Therefore ‘tis propofed, that out of if at the Year 1720 our Lawsand Courts’ the confufed Chaos of Laws, &f-. now had been {0 well regulated! ft wou'd in Force, a new Syftem of Law fhould _ have prevented theever infamous Screen be made conformable to the eternal and ~ the Bank C——~, andthe innumerable unchangeable Law of Juftice and Equi- fatal Confequences which neceffirily ty, which is known toevery reafonable follow’d in the Executions of the Aéts Man. That this is practicable appears then made; which, he fays, were in from the Account given us of the Laws favour of the Sellers of Stock and Sub- and Courts of Juitice in Denmark in {criptions, who were almoft all of them 1692, which runs thus; “ Fhe Da-D Great Men, or their Dependants. nifb Laws are grounded apon Equity, and are all contained in one Quarto Vo- lume, written in the Language of the Country, fo plain, that any Man may underftand his own Cafe, and plead it HEN T look back into our too, without Council or Attorney. Ag Hiftory, fays Mr Birch, and very few Advoeates do the Bufinefs of fee what the Exg/ifh were under a Hea), all the litigious Perfons in that King- and E/izabeth, I can fcarce perfuade dom: ‘Their Fees are not arbitrary myfelf the prefent Inhabitants of this nor exorbitant. NoSuit, of whatIm- Ifland are their Defcendants. Our An- tance foever, ‘hangs in Sufpence ceftors gave Laws to all Ezrope, but we jonger than 13 Months; in that Time F are govern’d by every foreign Taylor Weeklp Tiegifter, Avg. 12» No. 122. On the Humours of Dress. N@ xx? a Man may go thro’ all the Courts. — Here are three Courts, each has Power to. acquit er condemn ; yet there’s Ap- peal from lower to higher: And if the inferior Judge has wilfully varied from and Milliner, (See p. 56) ‘To be ex- tremely fine now, is to be extremely ridiculous; ’tis to wear a French Bag- Wig and Clock-Stockings, or a Dutch Head with a plain Scarf. I’m out of the pofitive Law, the Party wronged g all Patience, when I meet with an over- has Damages both from the Judge and grown Wretch ftalking along with all his Adverfary. Here is no Removal the Heavinefs of thedulleft Exg/ifbman, of A&tions from ene Court to another in his Drefs imitating the pert Gaiety fo as to begin all anew; but by ordina- of a Frenchman. View him no higher ry Procedure from the Lower to the than his Shoulders, you would take him’ Higher. The Judges in the two firft ,, fora Mealman, who has juft done his Courts are punifhable; in thefe the’ Work, and has not had Time to bruh Judge inferts the Law, and adds the the Flour off his Coat. The hind Part Reafons of his Judgment. In the of his Head refembles a wr hie with Higheft no Reafon is given, or but a Pair of Wings faften’d to his Cap, A feldom. Magiftrates provide Advocates waggifh Lady would not allow "— @

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bs ™>' nH @es & OC eal oo 6 , “FF - = oe ae ee a Youll. Weekly Essays in AUGUST, 1732: the Name of Wings, but call’d them long Afe's Ears. To ftop her Railing, I led her to the Glafs, and pointed out the Horns fhe had made in her Hair; A Deficiency by a Multitude o but fhe told me, when Men were grown fuch Ideots, as to take a Pride in ftick- ing on Affes Ears behind, no wonder the Ladies made them before. But of all the Fops in Nature, there are none fo ridiculoufly contemptible as the Would-bee’s; who, in imitating a a Great Man’s Charaéter, ape nothing but his Foibles. Under the merry Reign of K. Charles II. a young rich Beau bought a Country Seat. In the Neighbourhood lived a Squire, who had not feen the fafhionable World, but upon this Gentleman’s coming down began to ftudy his Airs and Manner, and fet up for a Beau and Gailant; but his forced Gaiety made him appear ten times more a Clown thanever. The r gc¥ Englifh Genius is naturally lefs' fuited to this agreeable Trifling than to the feverer Studies, but we have or 5m the Tranfla- tions, efpecially from the Jta/ian and French Tongues. About the middle of the laft Age fome Writers happily join’d the Depth of Englifo Wifdom with that Elegancy, which has been the peculiar Recom- mendation of foreign Authors. Mgr Dryden had read moft modern as well as ancient Authors, and from hence acquir’d a peculiar Eafinefs in Profe, and inimitable Sweetnefs’ in his Num- bers: Hence his Manner and Stile are Cmore engaging and polite than mof of his Cotemporaries. Sr Wy Tegal, who had {pent his Life“in Courts and Negotiations, form’d his Writings on this Principle, That Inftruétion muft be render’d pleafant ; and accordingly Gentleman obferved hint, and was wil- Dinter{pers’d his moft ferious E/ays with ling to cure his Folly. «In order to this he took him to the next Market Town, where a Mcuntebank had ere¢ted a Stage. Obferve thofe People, Sir, faid the Beau to his Companion ; that Tumbler you witty Tales and familiar Narrations. Montaign, and the moft admir’d foreign Wits, owe moft of their Reputation to this Secret: The Bu/k of Mankind are incapable of attending long to grave fee isa clever Fellow, and Mafter of and ferious Differtations; a fhort Sto- E his Bufine/s, whilft that heavy Looby in the Party-colour’d Jacket, by pre- tending to imitate him, makes a Fool ry, or fmart Saying, has a greater Ef- fect on them. Thus the Roman Peo- ple, by a Fable, were perfuaded to re- of himielf, and is the ftanding Jeft of turn, after they had feditioufly left the the Company. Dutherfal Spectator, Aug. 12. No. 201. ~~ utile dulce. The Ufeful and Pleafant, the beft Me- thod of WRITING. A Mors the many Rules. delivered for Writing well, none is fo eafy or jaft, as that which bids us mingle the City; and the Senate at Capua wasfav’d from Burning by an arch Contrivance, A juft Senfe- of this Difpofition in hu- man Nature put the greateft Men in the laft Century upon bringing Ridicule to the Agiftance of Rea/on. Cer- vantes in Spain overthrew the ridicu- lous Humour of Knight-Errantry by his Romance of Don Quixote. ‘The Freach made fome Attempts, tho’ not Ufeful with the Pleafant.. Hardly a fo fuccefstuily as the Spanifo and Ro- Nation in Europe but pays this Com- _ man Writers; they therefore by fhort pliment to the Eng/ifoWriters, that they and fmart Tales happily applied, ren- are the moft folid Authors, andthat their _der'd their Performances no lefs enter- ks when tranflated are better recei- *taining, and far more ufeful, as no ved Abroad, than the Originals were at Nation in Ezrope can vie with them Home. But as Politenefs is the regnant for Sprightlinefs of Humour, fo none Fathion, light Performances are come took fo much Pains to colleét fine Say- more into Efteem than ever. The ings out of all Languages, which they hap-

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902 happily diftinguifh by Boxs Mots. In Pleafantry of Wit, and a natural Keen- nefs in Satyr, La Fontaine exccll'd all AThe Summum Bonum, or chief G “ld Aonden Journal, Aug. 12. No. 685, who went before him ; Boccace receives new Beauties from his Manner, and has not only preferv’d, but improv’d Fter Thoufands of Years fpent in _ thé Delicacy of his Turn. If Prior, Search after Happinefs, we are our beft Poet in this Way, falls fhort not yet arrived at any fettled Ideas con, of him, Sir Wm Temple is as elegapt cerning it, or the Means of obtaining and far lefetamguid than St Evremont;Bit. ‘The antient Philofophers form’d and_the Tale of a Tub is a tharper themfelves in feveral Sets about the more graceful Satyr than that of Summum Bonum; and Varro reckons up ar written by their famous no lefs than 288 different Opinions, Rabelais. of MAN. Weekly Essays in AUGUST, 1732. NO xi wherein it confilted. *Twas faid by a Bookjeller, that all Writings have their Turns; and. thar Books, as other Commodities, depend in Succefs upon the Fafhion. Mr Rymer tell us, that Bur/e/gue was the Mode of the French Wits in the Reign of K. Henry 1V. when the moft ferious Sub- The three great Divifions about Hap. pinefs were the Epicureans, the Stoicks, and the P/ateni/?s, from whence came the Peripateticks. The Epicureans pla ced Happinefs in Pleafure ; the Stoicks in Virtue; the P/atonifts, in both, They diftinguifh’d Pleafures into thofe jeéts were not exempted from vy ae . of Senfe, Imagination and Reafon. But ame (See p. 58.) Romance about the forgetting all their Contentions we will Time prevail’d here ; and Sir Philip trace out the plain Path of Happinefs, Sidney, compos’d a large Work of that By Happine/i, or Good, all Men mean Kind ; the of the E. of Orrery, wrote Parthaniffa a little before the Reftoration, and juft d Broghill, an Anceftor Pleafure. But the Queftion is, How to come at it? We will not contend, whether the after, Cafandra and fome other fuch E Chief Good confifts in Pleafure, or Vir- Tranflations from the French were re- ceived with Applaufe. Altho’ the Bur/e/que did not take here fo foon as in France, yct Punning was the darling Wit of K. Fames’s Reign, tue, or both; for P/ea/ure alone is good, and the on/y Way to obtain it is Virtue, or reafonable Action. Pleafure is the End, and Virtue the Means. He mul live by Reafon, which is eafer than to and corrupted the greateft Genius’s our plive againf it: For he thall be allow’d Nation ever produced. The Loftinefs to gratify all his watwra/ Paffions and of Shakefpeare, the Judgment of Ben. Appetites within the Bounds of his Con- Fobnfon, and the humorous Talent of /fitution, Fortunes and Circumflancty Beaumont and Fletcher, have all fuf- and conGftent with the Rights of all o- fer'd from this Infeétion; and the ther Men. This he muft do, or be Strength of their Sentiments can hard- _ miferable. Every Man who will en- ly atone for their Affeftation of Quid- G joy To-day, fo as fo enjqy To-morrow, bling. ‘This low Species of Dro/lery, mutt keep this immortal Line of Lucan and Itch of Conundrums, gradually in- always in View, vaded the Bar, Bench and Pulpit; and as it was Royally favour'd, it encreas'’d by the Royal Example, and fpread it- By Nature is here underitood, what felf thro’ the whole Nation; which Hali the great Antients, and all Men of ridiculous Humour is merrily expofed Senfe now (not {poiled by Divinity) in a Tale on King James the Firft, underftand, the Nature and Rea/on of (See p. 920.) Things, Mee Servare medum, Natnram fequi, Finemqae tneri. 8S SEB SSR © 2m RPHS Ok mB SeS feta Ee oS Se SSS eee! Ss but

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Vou. I. Weekly Esskvs iz’ AUGUST; 1792% 903 Men are fational’Beings; they carry Effects .as the Pedantry. of Politichs + within them a Principle which enables which in former :Reigns jhas_ been car- them to diftinguifh Good and Evil, ried to extravagant Heighi, and. feems both natural and moral. This tells 4 to have loft no Ground amengit ug of them they are to enjoy the prefent as /gte.., One Inftance to what a Pitch of may confif? with all their future Enjoy- Abfurdity, it..can lead even, fober an arc § ments, and lets them know that Jem- experienc’d Perfons in private Life may om — perance is the Bafis or. Root of all Vir- be {een in the following Letter: ing | gue and Happinefs: But all the Tem- +... md B gerance in the World will not recom- B SiR, the mend us to tlie Good Will of others, Eing inform'd, that ome Mufick UP Bf becaule it has no Relation to others, B of Bononcini was to be'perform’Wat ms any farther than as it leaves usa Capa- the Opera Hiufe, went to fee tt; but city and at Liberty to do Good. The being’ difappointed, retir'd toa Friends lap. Pleafures, therefore,which. Reafon fends Houfe, where happen'd to'bé 4 mix'd chs ws to, are the Pleafures of Hone/ty, So-c Company,’ whofe ‘Converfation turn’d une § vial Virtwde,Gratitude, Humanity, Friend- upon, that Subjeét. One of the Com- ple F pip, Generofity : ‘This is that conitant pany ask’d what might have’ been the ichs & ‘and. unvariable Good, which will give Qccafion that the Serenaf@ was not con* oth, fF Satisfaétion and Contentment always tinu'd? Anotliet an{wer'd, that Straida’s nole F alike; all other Pleafures grow weary Husband would not firffe? her to Sing of us, or we of them: But’tis always in it; arid took out of his Pocket a will | wishin our Power to aét according to Courant of ‘fune 9, and teadan\Advers ntfs 1 Reafons and "tis shat alone which con- ti/emeqt which that Gentleman had in scab F flitutes the Chief Good or Happinefs. fered in the following remarkable Style: low § If we have no ingate Ideas, we have, uy reer ji with Mr Locke’s Leave, natural Ideas, Fs sind ge oa de ingen aie . ; ; éreDa ila‘de or Ideas of Right and Wrong, which | ioe figs be pate oe of big paty aaturally grow up with us: In this™ amy Hoth defit’s Signoza Suada to fing i 00d, B Senfe we are all taught of God; and that Gnicctatuments..Aurelia. Del Po, Bugs . thefe Ideas, all Men of all Countries, pees ai ts fae 449 Strads, chinhg itt ins the | and of all Ages, agree in, or would, eis we ihe ak , muk 7 if not /ed wrong by Men whole Inte- fei Hendhig oye Sh. ad alll nO F wf it is to deceive them. . fartisn., eet respect £0. this iequett, t ow'd / ¢ 1 be persititced to belie com oe . The Reafon, therefore, why Men err F ed Be, GEE Lainvwk bnied ; rf . in their Conduét, is not becauie they © the fam) Aurelio Del Po and {4 D2ife. Con- § don’t know what is fit for them to do, mts butbecaufe they will have fome prefent A fat, elderly Gentleman flarted up ll o- Pleafures, tho’ at the Hazard or Ex- with fome En-otion, How is this, Sir, tbe F jene of future greater Pleafures, and {ays he? Pray read it once more. The eB FD again the Infirudtions of their faithful; other did {03 and while he was reading 10+ © inward Guide. ( @) 01 fm it, the fat Gentleman, at every Word, heats would cry, Objerve, ay, pray obferves Craftfman, Aug. 12. No. 319. Gentlemen ! Good God! When. fhall I fee this poor Country free from Prac- tices ? What Dignity, what. Authority what PEdantry, as the Speéfator formerly _ difcovers: itfelf in every Line ? Does mn of | 4. obferved, is not confined to Learn-# this found like the Style of ‘a poor Ita- nity) 4 ings the affeéted Fop, who ridicules */iany who lets out his: Wife ‘to fing ‘for mw Of |} the Collegiate, is himielf a proper Ob- Hire? I fuppofe you would make me jet of Satyr: But of all Sorts of Pe- believe this is Strada’s Husband, aod Met | “axtry, none produces fuch pernicious No Libel, I warrant yous no Attempe Yy againft tuer. Political PenpantTry. ’

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904. Wekly Essavs in AUGUST, 1732.. N° XX, againft the Government! Ay,‘to be Man, fo 'tis the Life and Happinefs of fure! (reply’d an old-Lady) Every Bo- every Conftitution, that thefe be jutt dy knows whofe Name begins with a and-equal, clear and intelligible. ‘It una- P. and that it is pronounc’d in the Be- 4 voidably happens, that ina Succeffion ginning like thofe two Letters P.O. of Ages, that Laws themfelves ‘will fuppofe we thal} hear by andby that change; fome* grow obfolete and ‘un Mr P. is no Erietny to his Coutitry.—- regarded; others. differently under. I interrupted the old Lady, and défir'd ftood. Hence it follows’ that all Tra. to know from whom fhe had this Infor- dftionary Laws tautt ever be attended mation, which I apprehended ‘was the , with great Uncertainties. It will how- Reverfe of that Gentleman’s Charatter.” ever deferve the higheft'Confideration Lord, Sir, reply’d the Lady, nothing how to guard the Laws’ from the In- can be plainer ; far if he oppefes a fluence of corruptiarbitrary Men, and Whig Minifiry, mutt he not of Courfe what Meafures have ‘been ufed in Evil be for every Thing that is contrary to ‘Times to’ corrupt or pervert the Laws Whig Principles? The fat Gentleman © of a Country, feem'd to frown at this; Madam, faidC - Inall free Countries, the Legiflative he, Mr P.. muft, no doubt, have fome Concern in this Affair, becaufe: it is a vile Thing, ‘and againft the Gavern- ment; but I will undertake to prove, that no Body could pen this Advertife- ment but the PretenvdeR himéfelfi p Why did ydu never hear of Marcus Aurelius, the famous. Statue on Horfe- back ? And what is a Man on Horfe- back but'a CizVatier? Now we all know who the Chegalier is, and-— Ay, *tis plain (cry’d a fober Fellow, who fat mufing in a Corner) ’tis very plain, Avrevio ftands for the Prsrenper, Po for the Porg, and Det for the Devit. Who could aflame, fuch Dig- nity and Majefty, but one who calls himfelf a Monarch? For Reafons bef known .to the Maid- Aurelio Del Po, and his Wife! Is not this the Style of a King and'his Minifters? And would an Jtalian Singing-Woman’s Husband prefume to offer Terms in this Man- ner, to the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain? No, no, it mult beG the Prétedder, who hath endeavour’d to impofe upon the Nation, under this Difguife, andto open a Correfpondence with the Royal Academy of Mufich, See P- 785 B, 783 E. The Free Briton, Avg. 17. No. 142. Steps to Tyranny. § the Laws of a Country are the facred Rules of Right to every F H and Executive Powers are diftinét Au- thorities, vefted in different Bodies of Perfons. To the Legiflatwre belong the Original of Laws; to the Magi- ftrates the Exécution of thofe Laws. But fuch is the Paffion for Power inall Mankind, that very few Nations can be thewn where the Legiflative -and Executive Powers’ are not at Strife. Hence it is thatas by keeping thofe two great Powers diftin&, a State is free and happy + foin all Defpotick Govern- ments the Legiflative and Executive Powers are blended together, the Ad- miniftrator hath made himfelf Legiflator. Hence likewife as by fee how terrible k is, to fuffer fuch Ufarpations by the Executive Power, fince thercby the Legiflative Right in the People is loft, and Princes grow Almighty over "em, only by learting to make Laws with- out them. Toeompals fuchDefigns, ancient Pre- feription, and the Expounders ‘of the Law have always been the great Engines of Tyranny. The Ufurpations of the Executive Power, ‘and the encroaching Spirit of all byafs’d sfudicatories, are leaft dangerous, (See p. 796. H) when moft daring; for that which ‘moft a- vowedly infults the Rights, moft pro- vokes the Vengeance of Mankind. This is not the Way to enflave'a Nation. But Power, tho’ ufurped*and unlawful, if ufd with Moderation, ~if advanced wit Righ tor © on Och deed and ¢ the Wifd P. 81

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7) of ift on iM re ed We on ne vil ws ive \u- Dg gi- we. all can ind ife. ft Hive Ad- tor. je Kt the the oft, em, ith- Pre- the ines ‘the ling are hen , ae pro- ‘his But J, if nced vith Vou... Weekly Essays ih AUGUST 1932)" 903 with fpecious Claims, and modeft Ap- : $0 rances, will we obtain’ and = - Grubfiveet Goutal, Aag. v7. No. 137. ’ well refpected; for moft Men little, 4...) logk Si oi «ye confider whence Authority arifes, but» 4éimadverfions ar bs sl f Edi- how it is adminifter’d. Nay, it free, ton, of Eaagule, ok quently happens, that when the righ- Ros I. Ver.:147.° Strongly to teous Spirit of Vengeance ‘rifes in a fuffer and fupport our Pains. People, and brings to Juftice the In- | Dr B. fays pofitively it-thould’be frong- ftruments of fuch Oppreflion; yet B4er.} As the foriier Part of it now when fome few Viétims have been of- rans, What if be have lef? us this our fer'd, and a different Set of Men vefted Strength entire, the latter is more pro- with Authority, the People are foon per in the pofitive Degree, frongly te fitisfied, little attending to the Caule _ /uffer.—Befides, there is no fach Word of their Oppreflions; the fame /awle/s as ftronglier. Power to opprefs, remaining after the© | Ver. 204. —Night-founder'd Skiff. Men who advanced it are taken off, Foundering, {ays the Dr, is finking bib This dangerous and deftructive Me- 2 Leak: So that Night alone can‘never thod, of perverting the Traditionary fownder. The Poét therefore gave’ it Laws of any Kingdom, has always sigh-founder’d.) YE foundering is fink- been moft fuccefsful under the Dif- ping, it would be of little Ulfe to fix an guife.of —s and Learning. Where Anchor any where. Night-founder'd Antiquity {poke againft the Defign therefore means ‘overtaken’ by Night, carrying on, the Oracle of the Law ‘and at a°Lof which Way to fait: toldthe World, that they could not al- Milton makes ule of the‘ fame Word, low of the Authorities of their Prede-_ in his Poem call’d the Matk:* ~ ceflors againft their own Conviétions.“ Ver. 329. Transfix us to the Bottom When antient Precedents favour'd mo- of this Gulf; ‘Tlie Dr believes the dern Defigns, then the Inftruments of — Poet gave it Fast fix, becaule to trans- Power have chang’d their Dialeét, and fix is to piérce quite thro’ the Body; fo they could not vary from what had that to wen: 3 to, or on a Thing, is been eftablifhed in former Ages. improperly faid.] Mi/tox has faid both, In a Conftitution where every Man Hand where's the Impropriety ? Nothing istruly free, the'Law canbe an Engine is more beautiful in Poetry than fach toopprefsno Man. There may indeed bold and comprehenfive Expreffions 3 bean Appearance of ‘Liberty, and yet for which Virgi/is particularly admir’d. 4 Man exerting that Liberty, and be- If thefe Jinked Thunderbolts had pierced coming obnoxious to an oppofite Par-_ quite thro’ Satan’s Subftance, and fixed ty, will fometimes have a dreadful Khim to the Bottom of this Gulf, they Chance, where the Laws are vague might very properly be faid to have aad uncertain. $o perifhed the great em him to it. This Reading is and virtuous Algernon Sidney, a Man confirm’d by ii. 180. Shall be hurl'd who lived, and acted, and wrote for the Each on bis Rock ttansfix’d. Which Rights and Liberties of Mankind; hard gthe Dr would conftrue Hirl’d on bis was his Cafe, when fo great an Affer- Rock, not Transfix'd on bis Rock; or elfe tor of the People’s Freedom, was de- would fubftitate izfix’/’; but this Word Prived of all thofe Benefits which he’ relating to ‘om the Rock juttities the com- @ught to receive from it. Then in- mon Reading transfix'7. deed our Conftitution was not free; Ver. 347. "Till as a Signal given, and that we are now free, is owing to N h* uplifted Spear, &¢.| The uplifted the Revolution of 1688, and to the Spear was not as 4 Signal, but the Sig- Wifden of Succeeding Parliaments. See nal itlelf: The Author gave it at] P 814. C, The Reviewer of Milton's Text has obferv’d,

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906 obferv’d, that if Milton had defigned Ar, he would-have faid, at Tie Sig- nal; therefore he includes Part of the , bably well grounded. 4° Lines in a Parenthefis, Til! (48 a Signal given, th’ uplifted Spear Of their great Sultan waving to diret ir Corfe) inevenBallanie down they light. Ver. gar. \Migypt Ground, J believe he liGiated bound, fays the Doétor.].. ‘This, fays the Re- viewer, is wrong, for the Brook was it- Self the Bound, becayfe it parted them. t. Ver. 465. | Dr here thrufts out o/d to. make room for old. His Reafon is, becaufe we had alittle before Heroes ofd.] ‘The Re- viewer, anfwers, it was 13 Verfes be- fore; but it feems ufed in a different p enfe, and.to. mean long-experienc’d Warriors. Ver. 636. Jf Counfels different, The Dr altets this.to Counfels EXER DIFFER’D; by which he means DE- § never defcribed as) vaulted. FERR'D from the Explication which follows, If Cien/els, publickly refolv’d gn, were ever delay’d by my Sloth. He rejects the common, Reading, becaufe Weekly Essays in AUGUST, 1732) N° XX We now pafs to fome Inftances of the Dr’s Conjeétures, which are pro- Ver. 52. —Rolling in the fiery Gulf. 324—Rolling in the Flood.] In both thefe Places the Dr fays the Poet gave it rolling on. But both Readings may i Syridn y be juitthed by the Poet’s Ufe of the it Words in different Places. Ver. 167. And difturb His inmoft Counfels from their deftin'd Aim. Qf Warriors old... The c The Dr objetts, that it does not reach up to our Poet’s ulual Exaétnefs; there- fore changes it to diffurn, a Word ufed by Chaucer, and has the fame Signifi-. cation, and to juftifiable either Way. Ver. 363.—From the Books of Life.} The Dr rightly reads it Book ot Lite. Ver. 669. Hurling Defiance tow'rds the Vault of Heav'n.} Heaven, the Habitation of Gop and Angels, was Milton njuft therefore have given it Walls. of Heaven; and the Author of the Re- view is of the fame.Opinion. Ver. 703. With wondrous Art found there's pq Hint in all the Poem, that rout the mafy Ore.] The Ore was found $atan differs - from “all the Council, § ee without their Confent.] ‘The r's Reafon is equally ftrong againf his own Emendation, there being like- wile no Hiht of Satan’s having ever ‘ Ver.647. That he no lefs.| The Dr reads That Leffon he.] This new Senfe the Reviewer proves to be none. Satan could not pretend tq talk fo abfurdly as to teach they were not a Match for th’ Almizb- ty; therefore, continyes he, we muft out before at Ver. 688. therefore re- flores the true Reading, i. ¢. fvanded, or melted, from fundere. ; Dnfoerfal Apectator, Aug. 19. No. 202. édeferr'd Counfe]s publickly refolv'd on. Ss “ ¥ of HE Statuary in the Fable repre- fentiag an Encounter between 4 Man and a Lyon, gave the Victory to his Fellow-Creature: A Paffenger mect- Gop aLeffon. He owns #{ ing another Sovereign of the Savages at this Statue, pointed out the Supe- rjority of the human Species; Ay, 4s work by Fraud, that be no Jefs from us {aid the Lion, dut had an Artift of my may fra, than we have found from Species been the Carver of it, he would him. The Dr is no Jefs erroneous ing have brought yours undermof. But fubftituting /arn inftead of find, upon fome of this Age seem to be rvnning no other Foundation than ‘* Per- haps for find it was given /earn, There let them:\earn as likes them, to defpife.” upon Models the Reverfe of that Sta- tuary’s. By voluntary Parallels they fet themfelves not only on a Level with, Perhaps, after all, Mi/tan gave it take, a4 but below the Brutes. This Behaviour. Word not lefs Miltonic, pi pro- of Particulars provokes the Witty to per here than‘ /arn, as being more. fhew their Refentment on the whole pedagogical and poetical... . Species in general; depreciating 3 we ete

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ds 1e as on of nd nd re- ed, 20 reé- na to ect- ges pe- ays my ald But ning Sta- they vith, jour Vor. Il. Weekly Essays in AUGUST, 1732. jor the moft difadvantageous Compari- ate Perfons‘in a great Station who have. fons, and gave Occafion to the fol- abufed their Truft, they miuft ‘expect Jowing Pieces, which Mr Stomecaftle to fall a Sacrifice to the publick’ Refent- has obtained Leave to embe/lifh, he Ament; and’tis for this Reafon that ig- fays, a Spefator with. norant and corrupt Minifters find them- felves under a Neceflity of governing The Female- Microcosm. by a Faétion. He obferves, that the ; (ae Perfon, who in a great Station has in- 7 Lane Wai Ghe tae Bel Ww, cacesials publick Hatred, will be By as OXONTIAN, p obliged to indulge his Dependants in EN cre the Worxp in {mall, you fay; Irregularities, that he may havea Num- And why not WomEN too, I pray? ber, who, for their own Safety, muft All Species they as well comprife, — run his Lengths, and who expect to asec East, Wotern cr tha Shes. ftand or fa]! with him; and he muft The Lams their Childhood well explains; fupport that Faétion that fupports him. Faget — WiLLies in —_ Teens: Nothing can be of more pernicious’ Often the Name of Carts prevails, C , Creatures that play much with their Tails. Confequence to the Publick, or thew se a more deprav’d and abandon’d Mind Yet are believ’d from Seas to fpring, th fooufe the Caut’ of When the ciffembiing SYRews fing. an openly to efpoufe the Cau Someare call’d THORNBACKs—for theitYears; thofe who have been unfaithful in a Some CRocopILes—wher they’re in Tears, publick Truft; nor no greater Symptom! Bot they are PARROTS, when they. talb; of a diftrafted State, than to fee Per- They’rePEACOcKs proud when-e’erthey walk; D fons, known to be guilty, able to de-’ Yet TURTLES, meeting Face to Face : They’re RatLs, who at Tva-Tables {way ; fend themfelves by the Strength of They’re Bats, who chafe their Twilight Prey ; their Numbers. ‘And WAGTAILS—in a proper Place. The Cafe of Manlius Capitolinas, fhews us the general Senfe of the old The Lavvy’s Anfwer. Romans in Circumftances of this Na+: Eture: This Man, fays-Machiavel, ha- Abie Wont, I fy agen, ving delivered his Country from a moft Meets in that metly Creature, MAN : Ris fingle Species all explains, fignal Peril, began to form a Faétion, Earl, Ocean, or the Air contains. in order to raife Tumults againft the The Arr. much in his Youth appears ; Senate and Laws: He was one of the = GoaT, the Swine, or WoLF im Years; Nobles; and tho’ ‘the’ Nobility were um the Name of Cyns prevails, F fierce Defenders of each other's In-) Tor fawning at thei ile. i fawning at their Patrons Tail terefts, yet promoted an Accufation’’a- Yet thought fome Marine Monfter, when raj im; We fee a. State LEVIATHAN: (Brains; gainft him ; however he hoped to find: tome ate call’d C0 D's Fi EADS— wanting Favour with the People for his Valour ; SomeSHARKS,—where-ever Gaming reigns, but when the ‘Tribunes had confidered? Bit BL ACKBIRDS,when in Pulpits zealous ; his Behaviour, they joined in the Ac- They're horned Owls, when Husbands jealous; _, Cufation, not a Man, not even his Re- And Jays, at Conr it: : oie Here Guz a Godt arh ae - ‘aii lations, seme in his Behalf, and he ANARY BIRDS at Change are feen, was condemned to Death, notwithftand- And Capons—in Hay- Market. ing his Profecution was fpirited up by tae Nobility ; which fhews that the H0g'$ journal, Aug. 19. No. 158. Love of their Country had a ftronger . : Influence over them, than all other A Certain political Writer tells us, Ties whatfoever. y to hole with t ote ; that no Governmeut can be fo Thofe who were innocent fhewed fly and fafe, but may ftand in need an Humility and Deference, when un- the Purfee and Hands of the com- der the-Sutpicion of Male-Praétice in People, If at fuch a Time there Regard to the Publick. Pudb/ius Scipio ; Africanus,

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908. Weekly Fissaiys im AUGUST; 1732. Ne XX) Africanti:, being accufed, quitted.the. to.a.publick Office; but the Meciam Place-of Judgment, and afcended.the. Tribe he excufed, becaufe they had Capito) to retarn. Thanks: to, the, Gods, , refufed_ him their, Voices both for Conr for the profpcrous Condirion of the“ ful and. Cenfor. Commonwealth, into. which it. was , brought: by jhis Bravery 5, he was fol- Jowed by the Senate, Magjfirates, and. the whole Body of the Reaple; yet fo far from zrowing bold or, infolent, with thefe Marks of popular, Avfeétion, tha.B ME he withdrew to Laternum, refolving ~ not: to, ftand his T'rial, He might be the Good of Bad Minifters, we thall aonfcious that fome. fmal! Negligences here fhew. the Good of J// Writers. had.efeaped;him, and his \/ind was too noble to defcend either to. deny or, ex- eufe'thems or the Honour of the Com- monwealth and the Prefervation of Ju- mora] and rational, fubfifts by Oppofi- Mice were. fo.fax uppermoftin hisMind, tion; and where there is no Oppofiti- that-he banifhed himéelf,. to give more ©, there is a Death of Liberty and ‘Strength tothe Laws, which he knew ‘muit-be weakned by. his: Acquittal. - In ewr own Government it has {el- / slom happen’d-that Men, haye counte- Dunfortified; Gibraltar from being deli- tanetd the: Guilty,;; nay, the Guilty; vered-up.; and has difentangled all our themfelves have been ufually fo far from braving Juftice, that they &ldomafter- ¢d the Heian Troops: He hindred the wards offer’d to meddle with any thing French from raifing Irifh Recruits : If relating to the Publick. It would be a monftrous Thing in--Eshe has prevented their Increafe: He deed. to fee: Men, upon whom foie ig-- hath made Ads againft Bribery and nominiousCenfure had pafs’d, prefent- ing themfelves againito their Country, of Plunderers and national Robbers to and thrufting themfelvesintothe Scene Juftice. Befides all this Good, he has of publick, Affairseven while the Marks exceedingly rejoyced the Hearts of the of Infamy were frefh upon them ; but _,defponding Facobite Party: For tho’ it wouldbe-ftil) more monfirous, if they ~ D'anvers is no Facobite, yet his fierce Should fucceed, Concludes, with this Story out of and Miniftry, naturally abates the Zeal the Roman Uiltory: Marcus Livins Safinator had been cenfared for Male- Adminiftration in a publick Office; in the Procefs of fome Years he found Gare greatly comforted by Mr D’anvers: Means of obtaining the Confulthip, and was. afterwards chofen Cenjor: In this: Office he laid a Fine upon all the "Fribes. in, Rome, except one, for chu- fing a Perfan into an Office who had London Fournal, Aug. 19. No. 686. ‘ The Ufe.of Faction; or, the Gad |} of Ill Writers, D'anvers, having pleafed the Town with a Differtation on fF y It. is the unalterable Nature of J Things, that. Good and. Ill. fhould: be ever blended. ‘The World, natural; , it T ew : th ublick Virtue. The Craft/man him- by elf has been of ineftimable Advantage | 6 to this Nation. He has kept Dunkirk § vig Mi mil embarrafs'd Negotiations: He disband- J igoj trivi d and he has not leflen’d the Debts and Taxes, J fnte vider nd § Bear Corruption, and brought Companies § thro" fame nan, prefer Su TCE tehoy unreafonable Oppofition to the King § ing}; the K and Affection of the Subjeéts towards Kings his Majefty. _ Pdeirs All the Tories and malecontent Whigs They rejoyce when Saturday is # hand; that happy Day is theix politica Sabbath, on which they gratify thelr Spleen and Refentment againft Gredt fig Men. They are taught to roar OUb i been cenfured of Male-Prattice, giving py Standing Armies! Dependency of Par- thie Reafon, ‘That they mufthave cen- fured an innocent Man, or injured the Honour and Majefty of the Common- frers !, &c: wealth, by chufing a guilty Perfon in- liament | Bribery and Corruption | Places! Penfions! Blundering Mini And when they have tt peated thefé Weekly Sounds, laugh heartily

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Vor. Ii. Weekly Essays in heartily and {neer’fignificantly- at the Court and Miniftry, He pays 10,000 /. 2 Yeat forStamps; he maintains himfelf' and Printer, and AUGUST, 1733; OR Virtue. Some have ftruck atthe’ Root, by denying’ the Freedim of baman Aj- tins. "The Dottrine of 2bplure'Pre~ defination may be confider’d in‘the Thoulands of Pamphieteers, Hawkers , fame*Light; for what is the eternal if- and Pedlars: Befides fwpporting his” reverfible Decree of ‘Fie#iin ‘and ‘R?- 1 Friends, ‘he maintains his ‘Enemies, probation, but the old Hyporbef? of the gets Places or Penfions for fome, and Furalijfs reviv'd? Preaching, Writing, keeps others from Statving. and “Infrubfion, ave all Vain, “if this 1¢ Generous indeed! He hath: fed the Pritcipie’ be trie. © Some intleed {ee n, Hungry, cloathed' the Naked, but not 6 ‘derly the Effence ‘and “Merit of Ib yer font the Rich empty away. B Pirvic, by deducing it from Pride, Vas Another Ufe of the Oppofition is nity, and otherbad Pa/fons'of the Mini. of § tothe Miniftry themflves: The Op- Others detive Wirtue from a ‘nobler be fers ‘make Providente always of the Source, and récommend it as‘an‘Ema~ al, Minifter’s Side ; they prophanely call ’ nation of* the’ divine Perfeétion, or the fi: f itChance, but there is no fuch Thing: Origin’| Lawof Nature, which prothpts iti- J ‘Tis Providence, ever Wife and Good, us to do uate others as ce could be dome nd § that hath brought about all thofehap-C ”to. ~ As ‘this Opinion is’ mot forthe im- Events fo favourable to Europe, and Honour ‘of the Deity’ amd the Service age | fo beneficial to Axzlan?. ‘Jult'fo Pro- of Mankind,‘ fo ‘it feems ‘very rational irk | vidence has done for blundering“honeft ‘in itfelf. Bat even flippofing 74% Opi- elie § Minifters fince the prefent Royal Fa- ion not trae, it is a glotidus Error, and out § milycame to the Crown. - Providence ought'to be cultivated, asthe’ ftrongelt ind- I wok Lewis XIV. when he wascon- Cethent of Society, and the Bond of the | ttiving to fend the Pretender hither ; D il}’Religibn. #331 ' » If § and raifed up the D: of Or/eans, whofe Tho” Men ‘contend ‘furiotfly abotit xes, 9 Intereft it was to be our Friend. ‘Pro- their Opizions, yet they make a Diffe- He } vidence kniock’d on the Héad'that Royal retité Between Evrur in \Fudpment, and and | Beir of Sweden, juft ashe was digging Accufations of Difboné/fly ; the former anies ¥ thro" Norway to land in Scotlawd. ‘The ate commonly forgiven, but’ ‘ho’ Man x8 t0 } fame good Providence, fays the Craft/- of Spirit Gan beat che latter without Re= ¢ has | man, deitroy’d all the Enemies to the F fentment.~ ’ : ge f the F prefent Miniftry: Thus fell at once “Mr Osbirne lately oblerved, shar there tho FS— S— C—, and thus fell another are no Degrees of. Honetty and Since- fierce tnowned Chief, by Providence fuffer- rity, @s there are of Knowlédye ‘and King inghim to write a mad Book againft Power; but’ that all honett’ Men are e Zeal t King. Providerice not only kills éqtially ‘hone. ~ Uniefs he “can prove wards Kitigs whio could hurt us, but fends in _that human Nature is pe+/2Z, ’ thé Con- _ Bi beir Stead Princes who can neither hurt S fequence ‘is, that there hath ‘not been Whigs 4%, nordo themfelves' arly Good. ’Tis an boneft Man fince the World ‘began. vers: Bie, Mr Danvers calls all thefe Things But I any willing, fays D°aivers, to a- is it te, with a malicious Defign'to gréé with Mr Osborne, that all bone aliticd With the Miniftry of the juft Honour Men are equally bone; or that Virtue y thell Bite’ their good Intentions, but ittends and Vice are juft the fame, whetlicr Grett Bitly to thew his own Impiecty, indény- pywrapt in Rags, ‘or diftinguifh'd’ with + Par Mg the kind Interpofitions of Heaven. — Robes and Ribbands; and excepting Ad only that as a rich Man hath more In- uption : The rofetman, Avg 15. No. 320. duidcineltts to Virtue, therefore his Vi- g Mint ‘ Ups Evuice. ces are thie léfs excufable. ave TRV Atious have been the Opinions As plain as this Propofition, is, yet ‘eal concerning the Origin of moral the Generality of the World are apt to form

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910 Weekly Essays in AUGUST; 1732: form their Judgment of Men more from defraud a poor Countryman that pick¢ ‘their, perfonal Circumffances.than the it up, A Man who cheats the Credis Nature. of their Actions ; one Man is , tors of the publick by /bam Bargains condemn'd for doing the fame Things” &c, ftands on the fame foot with 4 which, are pafs'd over as mecr Pecca- Bankrupt who defrauds his Creditors dillos in another. with falfe Accounts, &c. Where ig —=little Villains muff fubmit to Fate, the difference between Ove. who lately That great ones may enjoy the Worldin State. loft his Ears, for endeavouring to make The higheft Offences againft Society his Fortune by falfe Deeds, and fome are Robbery and Murther, which are® other Perfons who wou'd have poftets'd feldom pardon’d; whereas, when an themfelves of a much larger Eitate by ambitious Tyrant takes a Fancy to his the fame Prattices, if the Parliament Neighbour’s Dominions, and puts his had not interpofed ? Defignin Execution byFireand Sword, Concludes with a Paflage from the he is flatter’d with the Charafter of an Charafter of an independent Whigg: Hero. Some antient Writers indeed C+ Moft Men, fays that Writer, are afirm, that ¢his kind of Robbery with Power on its fide was honourable. We have been told that there is no fuch thing as Political Honefty, and the Praétice. of moft Courts is too confo- willing to allow a great Officer, if he would but carefully cook the Nation’s Money, to lick his Fingers; but He who exhautfts the Nation for hisown Ufe, is a publick Highwayman, and the whole nant to this-Doétrine : But if Nations p Nation fhou'd be his Profecutors ”, may be allow’d to trick as trick can, yet fure thefe State Ethicks do not ex- tend to,a Prince or his Miniffer, with regard to the People. Yet one of the Minifterial Writers firms, tbat a Mi- nifter who does no Hurt, is a very good p ME D'anvers fays, That a Fuffice Minifter, [See.p. 851. H] I think, fays of the Peace is a Sort of inferior D’anvers, a Man who is trufted with Fudge, on whofe Determination the the Affairs of a whole Kingdom, and Liberty and Property of his Fellow- fo amply rewarded for his Pains, ought Subjeéts, in a great Mcafure depend, not to content himfelf with faying, he [See p. 896.] Whoever knows any hath been a meer Chip in Porridge, gnd thing of the Laws. of the Land, can- done them neither Good or Hurt. F not be infenfible, that by far the great Applebee's Journal, Sat. Avg. 19 Againft the Craftiman on Jusrices of the Peace. . We have likewife heard Diftin&tions between a private and a publick Con- Seience 5, which is juft, if meant, that a Man in Power ought fometimes to fa- crifice his private Opinions and Intereff, to the publick Good, but when he dif- G Magifrrates, éovers Symptoms of a bad pudlick Con- Seience, *tis.a threwd Sign his private Confcienze is not found at Bottom, a Miniffer fhould attempt to corrupt the Parliament, wou'd he not be guil- ty of a worfe kind of Subornation than a Newgate Soliciter, who bribes a Jury H in a private Cafe? A Minifer who takes off one unpopular Tax to make way for greater Impofitions, iz like a gommon Szvectner, who drops Money to If er Part of thofe Strifes and Diffentions which come before Fu/ffices of Peatty are fuch as are determinable by them no otherwife than “as Mediators and Reconcilers of Differences, and not a in which they can att by any Authority of Law. In Cafes where they act judicially, or, as Mr D’anvers fays, as a Sort of inferior Judge, cannot be {aid with any Propriety, that our Liberty and Property, in any grett Meafure, depend upon their Determl- nation; fince amongft thofe there are few in which their Decifions are final’ becaufe the Party, apprehending him- felf aggrieved, may appeal to juperier Magifirates for Redre!s. Where thet . > Ne XX; : Figure

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CES fice rior the lowe endy any can- reat¢ tions atl them and ot a8 & by vhere wuers e, it e, * that Bret Hh ermi- e are final; Vou. II.” Weekly! Es'sa ds’ in “AUGUST, 17325 Qt Determinations are final, if they-mif Drudgery upon’ thems and’ if Magi- ule their Power, by aéting arbitrarily, | rates do not 'refide amongft them, or without fufficient Evidence, or the ato whom they may have immediate Ace: Authority of the Law to fupport them, — cefs, the Poor and Calamitous would the Party fo injured may legally bring be over-run with a ‘Tribe of ravenous hisAétioa, anda Jury will give fuch Solicitors, Pettifoggers, and Bailiffs,°» Damages as fhall appear juit and rea-, who will at once engrofs the Manage- fonable. ment of their Difputes*to themfelves, Many great Inconveniences would ,,and engage them in everlafting Laws inevitibly flow from the People’s e/ef- ~ Suits; all which might be prevented » ing Subordinate Magiffrates, as D'an- by a“fuffice refiding in the’ Neighbour- veri fays they did formerly. If they hood, at the Expence of a Warrant were to chufe their Fufices of the Peace ahd Difcharge. As then it is fo necef- av every Eleétion, there would be’ fary’ for a Magi/frate to refide amongtit Cimpetitors for~that Office; and the) thefe Sort of People, the Qualification Vir would naturally, in’ the Dif-C of ‘100/. per Ann. is fufficiently high + charge of his Office, a&t partially in for if it were higher, proper Perfons Favour of his’ Friends who brought: would not be found in‘fuch Places for him in, as well in Return for paft Fa-: the Commiffion: wours, as to fecure’ his Intereft at the next Election, Thus it appears, that a Magiffrate fo circumftanced, efpeci- aly if I wicked One, would perpetus > | Of Divine Juvcmenrs, ally hold the Chair by a partial Admi- Mr Baviws, nitration of Juftice in Behalf of his ‘Bae is not any Reflection which own Friends, the Majority ; and ‘his fo often occurs'in RaPin’s Hiffo- Oppo'ers, the Minority, would be e- ry of England, as that-concerning di- temally harrafs’d’ and perplex’d, and ,, vineJudgments infliéted on wicked Men, lve in-an irretrievable State of Oppref- “ which induced me to examine into the fon. We may, therefore, prefume,» Truth of it. A Judgment I take to that the Power of -chufing their Magi- be a Punithment inflifted by Gop in rates was never wrefted from the Peo=. this World on Account of fuch Aé&i- ple by the Violence of the Crown, but ons as render the Agent a proper Ob- finely given up by the People, to avoid’ jeét of that Treatment. One Argument thofe Inconveniencies and Confufions, F againft this is, That fince all Delin- which long Experience had found to: quents are alike faitable Marks for bethe Conlequence of that Privilege Gop'’s Refentment, they mutt all have Mr D'envers. complains we ‘have lot. felt the Effeéts of that Refentment : [we p. 897] Whence it appears, that as Punifhments t D’anvers is very forry to hear have’ not over-taken all Offenders in that this Argument fhould be made ufe G this World, fo they cannot have over- of, viz. That Gentlemen of any tolera- takenany. Anfwer. Xt is prefumed Figure or Fortune will not take fuch in the Argument, that Gop in his De- 4Drudgery upon themfelve:, nor conde- terminations concerning the Punifh- fiend to a in Concert with fome Per- ment of Sinners in this World, only Gyub-fercet Journal, Aug: 24. No. 138. mt, who have the Hynour to be put examines whether they be guilty or nots tito thefe Commiffions. and as he finds it to be true, punifhes, All we have to obferve is, that in H or does not punith, Which is taking es inhabited by the Scwm and Dregs a Point for granted, and not proving it, wo w the People, and the mott profligate confequently the Argument about the yee i fs of Life, Gentlemen of any great Impunity of fome bad Men, does not De: b!re or Fortune, will not take fuch a conclude againft Judgments poured Zz down

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prt down upon others, There may be main firm and unfhaken. So Reafons for doing it in.one Cafe, and nothing as yet appears Tiradiye not in another. —~—Argwment z. "Tis g the Doétrine of Judgments. lain, That wicked Men could never ave been punifhed in this World for their Mifdeeds, hecaufe the Good have been plunged in Calamities as grievous FFICERS of State are Ser. asthe Bad. It-can never be thought vants of the People, and account. that Good Men have fuffer’d for their g able to popular Enquiries : Men of Crimes ; whence ’tis evident, that the “ Senfe, who mean to make a Kingdom Misfortunes of the Wicked ought not Happy, will never be. afraid to ftand to be imputed to their wrong Conduct. the Judgments of their Country : Yet Anfwer. *Tis allowed, that the excellent Minifters have frequently dif Good participate of the Anxieties and trufted the Multitude. The immortal Vexations of human Life; but it does, Bur/cigh, that great and faithful Coun- not follow, that the Burdens under ~ fellor of Q. Elizabeth, manag'd. Af which the Wicked Jabour are not.put faigs in fuch a Manner, that Parligs upon thei for the Sake of their De- ments were feldom affembled but t merits ; for as right Ations-renderthe raife the Supplies. They were never Agent a proper Object of Reward, fo fuffer’d to enquire about the Condud oppofite Actions produce an oppofite }, of the Adminiltration 5 whilft the Roy- Effe&. Argument 3. It muft necefla-~ al Prerogative was carried high be- rily be falfe, that the Wicked ever ¢all yond Example in the Privy-Council down the Anger of their Creatorupon and Star Chamber. . Neverthelefs the them’ inthis: World, becaufe the con- greateft Care was taken of the People, —_ Suppofition would infallibly ex- their Interefts; and: Commerce ; their clude his future Indignation; for it. Treafures moft frugally applied, and wotild ‘be highly: ‘unjuft in Gon. toE moft faithfully accounted for. punith in both thefe Ways; the Scrip- However, thofe Adis of Power he- Free Griton: Aug. 24. No. 143, State PRINCIPLES. ture exprelsly declaring that he will do t in the latter.’ Since therefore the ti Opinions’in Debaté are | inconfitt- ent, furely it’s much preferable to. re- came: fatal Examples in the Hands of a Miniftry, whofe Genius and Politicks were vattly inferior to Bur/eigh. Hence arofe the deftruftive Meafures of one eede from that which is not deliver’d F Reign, and the difattrous Affairs of a- in Scripture, than from that which is. ——— Anfwer. Juftice is the Diftribu- nother, till the whole Conftitution was at length overturn’d. tion of Rewards and Punifhments, Jin From this we learn, that eyery Power exaét Proportion to the Degree of M¢-' to do Good may alfo. be applied to tit or Demerit; Injuftice, is failing in Evil; fo that the lefs Time Power s- fach a Diftribution: What has the Sup-G mains in the Hands of a Minifter, the fition of Punifhment in this. World;;’ Jefs. Harm it can. procure to the Pubs and ‘the Stite fucceeding this, to do. lick. The Di@atoria/ Office in Rom, with Injuftice ? The fame Degree of was a common Advantage, whillt on- Punifhment may be as well inflifted at ly made ufe of onprefling Occafions, an different Times, as at the fame Time: inftantly laid down again; nor did it Suppofe the Degree of Punithment: e-,, ever prejudice the People till affumed in yo to $3 it is no. more than 8, tho’. Perpetuity, againft the Judgment of ivided into two equal feparate’Pay- the Commonwealth, and without J ments. “The Inference, therefore, Occafion. a in the foregoing Argument, founded —§ So many Benefits accrue f on fo miftaken a Principle, cannot re- lick Enquiries, and the People rom Pub- have, {uch, Weekly Essays in AUGUST, 1732; N° XXpE¥

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have, {uch You. U. Weekly Essays in AUGUST; 1732. fach an evident Right to them, that is ftrange it ever could be queftion’d in a free Country. Yet amidét this 933, and Mofcovy, with Spain and the Wef- Indies 5 France with half the Realms of Europe, are influenced to believe the nquiry, Errors in Judgment will , indifpenfible Duties of Now-ReGibance Enquiry A indijpe fometimes accrue. The Populace are fond of their own Interefts, as they ought to be, and ad- here to them beyond any other. They and Pafive Obedience. Aftonifhing Profpeét ! How few are the Countries in Comparifon, whofe good For tune has preferved them a Pit?ance of Liberty! Great Britain, and her fro- imagine they have little to do with the Defetice of their Governours, though g zen [lands; Holland; Switzerland; their moft important Concerns may be and fome decay’d dependent Coynmon- greatly affetted'thereby ; thus they en- wealths in the Norther Parts of Italy : courage thofe who can teach them to Thefe are all the poor Remains that acaje, but never think how they fhalb Liberty has left; where Man dare wor- deduely enabled for Fudgment. How- hip or acknowledge the Ged of his ever, there are Fits of good’ Humour, . Confcience.. And may We not fup. which prevail on the Multitude equal- ~ pofe. that Force or Fraud would foot ly exceflive, -and fometimes more de- prevail againft us, if we wefe not in- five. Thusa Victory, or a Peace, {pir'd with a gencrous Love of Happi- but above all Things, a Change in nefs,arid.a juft Abhorrence of Tyranny ? Government, be it for better or worle, — There’sa fenfible Difference betwéeh hall operate ftrongly on thé Populace. regular Struggles for Freedom,and wild The Reforation of K. Charles II. D jjcentious Riots. The Efforts of the wis a Period to fo many Calamities, Byiti/h Parliament, Petition of Rigbp, and open'd a Profpect of fuch eftablih- and Bill of Rights, will do us fo. fd Happinefg, that there was nothing nour in all Ages ; whilft the diforder- which that Prince could have asked, or Jy Routs of Fack-Straw and Wat-Tylep his Subjeéts have granted, but was in are held in all poffible Infamy. us his Power at that famous Conjunéture, p it happened with Adafaniello of Naples He had the moft glaring Pretence to in his rafh Attempts for Civil Li- give him Standing Armies, and the berty; being unequal to the vaft Ma- Power of raifing Money by the Royal chine he inahag’d, it crufh'd him, and Prerogative. All this was propofed, his Country was more confirm’d in but the upright E.of C/arendon (who Sjavery and Mifery. ‘The Affaifinati- Was. never forgiven for it) made a 7 Fon of De Witte had ended in the Rain be Stand, and defeated thofe black De- of the United Provinces, if the Bra- figns. Our Liberties, whichhad caufed very of the young Prince of ‘Orange the Civil Wars, and been deliver’d firft had not faved them. , fom the Hands of a Court, and next —_—_Patriotifin is the nobleft Principle oF fom 4 more peftilent Army, had like humam Natures nor’ can ay deny tohave been loft in one fingle Honey- G that Applaufe which is a jufti Reward fun; and all Pofterity enflaved by a of publick {pirited Labours. Since meer Fit of popular good Humour. Liberty is loft fo many Ways, let the Yet there are other Caufes which Patriot thew his Wifdom and Integrity fometimes make a People aét againft by his Temper and Moderation; And their. Liberties ; Religion in particular whilft he endeavours to aét for Man- Mas influenced Men to renounce all,, kind, let him not forget he is a Man Claims of natural Freedom, with the~” himself, Alg. Sidney, Fundamentals of earthly Felicity. Thus —~ oe the mhole Bxtent of the Ottoman Em- Brat Yas B48, fv May 9, rad Aaa bre, the Perfian Kingdom, and the 7 lines lower, for than to {quare a Circle, read Morifh Countries ; the wide Domini- than a fquare Cirgle, Ws of the Great Mogul, of Tartary The cetera SS - a

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git “The Craftfinan, Aug. 26. No. j21- On the Power 6 and R Danvers, after a fhort Reca- pitulation of his former Argu- ment (See p. 477) proceéds. _ It has always been Matter of Difpute among the greateft Lawyers, Whether a Secretary of State, as fuch, hath any Power to commit ? His Bufinels is pro- tly to write Letters, and tranfact Matters of Government ; but hath no- thing to do with the Adminiftration of FJufices and for that Reafon is never mention’d in our axtient Law- Baoks. *Tisfaid a PrivyCounfellor can commit, confequently a Secretary of State, who is always one of that Board; but, this has been ftrongly difputed, even tho" he is in the Commiffion of the Peace, Secretaries of State eflengers. A Weekly Essays in AUGUST; 1732. N@ xx! of you, upon Sight bereof, to be aiding and affijting unto Robert Stephens, Meffenger of the Prefs, in the seizing on all {uch Books and Pamphlets as aforefaid, as he {ball be informed of, in any Bookfellcr’s or Printer’s Shops, E%c.: Alfoif you fhall be informed of the Authors, Printers, or Pubiiflcrs - of fuch Books or Pamphlets, you ave to papprehend them, and have them before one, of bis Majefty’'s Fuftices of the Peace, to be proceeded againft accord-ng to Law. : Dated Nov. 29, 1679. To Robert Stepiens, AZeffenger of the Prefs, and to all Mayors, She- ‘wiffs, Bailiffs, Confables, &c. Upon fuch Warrants Mr D’aavers inakes the following Remarks. 1. 'If the Power of Secretaries was warrant. ed by Law, it feems extraordinary that the Minifters in that Reign fhould have efpecially it he have not taken the 0 recoutfe to the Lord Chief Fuftice. 2 t Oath of that Office upon a Dedimus. I obferv'd, fays D’anvers, in a‘ for- mer Paper, that Mefengers were au- thoriz’d by a Claufe in the Licenfing Aa of Charles Wl. to fearch Houfes and Shops far, probibited Books and Papers, by Virtue of a Sign Manval, or War- rant from a Secretary of States, from whence it feem'd they had no fuch Au- thority before by the Cammon Law. ‘Tu the fame Reign the Minilters fre- quently dent. for the Ld Ch. J. Serages yo Court, and employ’d him to grant Warrants, examine and commit. His Warrants ran-in the following Strain : ‘~WHEREAS there ave diverfe ill-c difpofed Perfons, who daily print and publifo many {ed itious and treafonable Books-and Pamphlets, alfo infamous Libcls, reflecting upon particular Per- Sons, to the preat Scandal of bis Maje- y's Government ; for the fuppreffing whereof his Majefty hath lately iffued his Proclamation; and {ov the more Speedy fupprefine the faid {editiov- Books, €%c. Thefe are to will ana require you, and in his Majefty's Name to charge and command you, and every Thefe Warrants did not give ‘the Mef- fenger any Power to break open Houjet, &c. yet the Cammons not only voted theth arbitrary and illegal, but order'd , an Impeachment againit Sr Wm Scroggs. This Power of Secretaries hath fince receiv’d fome Countenance from the Authority of Ld Ch. J. Holt.. It is in, the Cafe of Kendal and Roe, who had been committed to Newgate by a Wat- rant from Sir Wm Trumbal, Secretary of State, on a Charge of High-Trea- fon, for having affifted the Efcape of Sir James Montgomery from the Cuftody of a Meflenger. Sir Barth. Shower and Mr Serj. Le- vinz excepted againft the Return, and infifted on their Client’s being bailed, becaufe a Secretary of State had no Power to commit, and a Meffenger not a legal Officer to receive into Cuftody; that no Man can be legally committed by an extrajudicial Warrant, unlels upon Oath, which a Secretary cannot adminifter, nor can he take Bai/, not a Recognizance to profecute 5 for it would argue an Abfurdity in our Con- ftitution, to fuppofe any Man quali to commit without thefe Re ~ ufti¢ —— ee i owt AO PEQOOB Sern PF see Ss re

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vers Tf hat ave fef- ies, ad r’d oS. ince the sin, had J at- tary rea- » of ‘ody Le- and led ’ no ‘not dy 5 itted alefs inot nor r it Yone ified A uftice of Peace is fineable if he mif- have himfelf, but a Secretary of State is in different Circumftances. In an- tient Times the Privy Council iffued Citations and Summons by their Mef- Vou. 11. Weekly Essays in AUGUST, 1742, 918 panion, I found the Bounty of her Hand had made much lefs Impreffion than that of her Tongue. He {aid his Royal Vifitant had enquir’d into his Age; that he had refolv’d her that he fengers; the makirig whofe,Houfes Pri- 4 was within a few Days of go Years fons,was of late Date, without Authority of Law. The Reafon of the Law fhews Commitments ought to be tothe Coun- ty Goal, that the Prifoner being call’d over in the Calendar may take his Trial old: And yet I fancy, reply’d the Lady, you could be willing to live 90 Years longer ! Not 19 Days; Madam, anfwer'd the old Gardiner, if it were in my Choice. And art thou willing and fit next Seflion of Oyer and Terminer; p to die, faid the Lady? More willing, whereas ’tis impoflible to know who are in Cuftody of Meflengers. To thefe Arguments the King’s Counfel had but little to reply. The Id Ch. Juftice indeed was of Opinion, Secretaries had a Power to commit, tho’ he was not clear in the Point; but © as to Meffengers, he was evidently of Opinion, that they were not legal Madam, and much fitter than to live. Upon which Words the gracious Vifia tanc took him by the Hand, declaring him a happy Man, and one that fhe could almoft afford to envy. Her Words carried the full Energy of a fi- nifh’d Sermon 3 and her Humility was fuch a glorious Comment upon her Words, that the Reflection fetch’d Goalers, tho’ they might keepaMan ‘Tears into his Eyes; yet it feem’d to inCuftody about 24 Hours for Exami- have infpir’d a Vivacity into the good nation: But that Commitments ought _ old Man, who now feem’d prepar'd to tobe, regularly, to the common Goal, ? fing his Nuse dimittis with Chear- that the Party may the better take out an Habeas Corpus. —T he Court thought fit to bail the Prifoners. Weekly Tiegifter, Avg. 26+ No. t24. Royal ExamPve, AS the minuteft Aétions of Princes are rendet’d material and confi- derable by the Obfervations of all a- bout em, it were Pity thofe of a fu- perior Nature,where Piety and Religion * ue confpicuoufly recommended, fhauld want a Pen to record them. Not ma- ny Weeks fince, fays the Writer, I was diverting myfelf in the Phyfck Garden at Chelfea. 2 when an Alarm was given, that the firft in Rank of the Fair Sex was ma- king her Entrance for a Morning Walk mthe Garden. I flipp’d from my ve- nerable Guide, and withdrew into a I had not been long there, g fulnefs. How different is the Charaéter of a certain M. D. not much fhort in Years who has reduc’d his cogitative Facul- ties to the poor Shift of flattering him- felf with Annihilation after Death. Under which vain Expeétation he fid- dles away his precious Moments, and expeéts to die, as he liv’d, out of the Knowledge or Notice of his Creator. But I would appeal to any Man of com- mon Senfe, whether atts moft confif- tently on the Rules of right Reafon, this Man of pretended Lierature, or my honeft illiterate Gatdener. Dntberfal Dpectatoz, Aug. 26. No. 203- On Suicipve. Yio it be from the change- able Nature of the Soil, the Variety in Diet, or in the animal Temperament confequent thereupon, Private Walk, leaving him to receiveH but we have more Inftances of Lunacy his Royal Vifitant in the Province For- tune had plac’d him. After no very long Interval the Lady left the Garden, aud I rejoin'd my Silver-headed Com- than any other Country ; and to this Epidemical Diftemper, the Goodnefs of our Genius, and Greatnefs of our Wit, Maa- (which, Dryden fays, is near ally'd to } Aaa nr eer SERS a

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916 Weekly Essays in AUGUST, 1732. Madnefs, very much contribute, Love and Jealouly, the old Caufes of Swicide, have almoft loft theirForce; the Temp- Executioner. Cato was of this Sc@, and tations to this Crime now are of a when in his laft Hours, reading Plato, he much coarfer Nature that: formerly. 4 cry’d out, Thou reafone/t Well, ‘twas om Some have executed themfelves private- ly relating to the Immortality of the ly to prevent a publick Execution, as Soul, for he might have found in Plato's Cheesborough, Norton, and Major Oneby ; Works the following Argument againt this is, indeed, defeating Juftice, but in- Se/f-murder,— We are all Slaves of th curring a greater Infamy. Many of the Gods: And no Slave can dt/{pofe of bis Antients, as Arria and Patus, who had B own Life, without notorious Injuflic., Orders to difpatch themfelves privately, anda palpable Wrong done to his Mafter, were guilty of a more excufable Suicide Others, who by their Follics or Vices have been reduc'd, have fled to Death as a Refuge; never comparing their Suf- ferings with their Demerits, nor confi- dering the Glorics and the Reward of Patience. Another fort, who are to be pity’d, without any Malice prepenfe a- gainft themfelves, in a fudden Guft of Paffion or Difcontent, ftrike the Blow, and perhaps repent the Aétion the Mo- ment it is over, but too late. The moft extraordinary Cafe is, where the Self- ployment in the Republick, as it kept murderer reafons himfelt into the Faét,™ him difgualify’d for the Senate, the only which he undertakes to juftify by Maxim Station (not being bred to the Camp or and Principle. It hath been faid that Bar) whercin his Abilities could be ule: every Man is Proprietor of his own Life; ful to his Country. and may take it away; fohe may ano- _— Love of Country is the Root from thers, if that be all that is meant. But whence all political Virtues fpring, per- furely Gur Maker, our Monarch, and our haps moft moral ones: It is the Founda- Country have a Share in this Property, Etion of every flourifhing Empire, and of which they are unjuftly depriv’d, when whoever endeavours to ridicule-or de- N° XX, of Fatality, by which he —— himfelf authoriz’d by the Gods, to be-his own Fog's Yournal, Aug. 26. No. 199, Duty of a good SUBJECT. ~ HE great Friendfhip which Cicer always maintain’d for Atticus, and c the Regard which he paid to his Advice, have rais’d fo high as Opinion of his Fricnd’s Judgment and Wifdom, that they have been celebrated by all Ages fince. But however wife and circum{pe& Atticus was, it was certainly a Fault fo obftinately to decline any Office or Em- we difpofe of it without their Leave. Others have given different Reafons for fhortening their Mifery by their own Hands; but all their Reafons are falla- cious, and prove nothing but the Folly thofe who make Ufe of them. Our Di- vines and Moralifts have juftly imputed the late Increafe of Se/f-murders to the Growth of Athei{m, Deifm, Sceptici{m, and other ill Principles and Errors. Among the firft and wifeft Romans, even down to the Auguftan Age, Self- murder was held in the utmoft Abhor- rence, till brought over from Greece a- mong other Errors and Fopperies, The = Doétrines of Socrates were crumb- ed into Seéts and Parties, the beft of whofe Principles was that of Sé/f-murder, Their pretended Contempt of Life might have made Monks and Ancovites; but grade that noble Paffion, debafes himfelf, undermines his own Security, paves the Way to Tyranny, and lays a Train to blow up his own Houfe and Family. Had of Atticus been one of thefe Scoffers, he F never had been honour'd with the Friend- fhip of fo eminent a Patriot as -Cicers, On the other Side, his declining all Offi- ces in the Service of his Country, whe- ther it proceeded from an exceflive Cau- tion and Regard to his Perfon, or an Ex- cefs of Humility, which is no better than MeannefS or Cowardice, fhews he was not much affected by his Regard to it, Such Declenfion from publick Affairs is the more criminal, becaufe it encoura- ges evil and weak Minifters, in their a bominable Enterprizes to betray, im- poverifh, and enflave their Country. Poets can't avoid flirting out fometimes when it became a Plea for Suicide, it 4 their own private Opinions. Mr Addifon funk below even brutal Inftiné, and the Animal Principle of Self-pretervation. The rigid Stoick could not juftity this Crime from any temporary Evils; he was inftructed to bear and rejoice under em; but was forced to refort to the Dottrine has put a pufillanimous Sentiment into the Mouth of Cato, ——When impious Men bear Sway, The Poft of Honour is a private Station. For Cato to recommend a private Station , G)

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Vou. Il. Weekly Essays in AUGUST, 1732. 917 dorned that little rural Temple, facred to Learning and Virtue; they were the XG afelf fo contrary to his Praétice, was moft ri- diculous. How much nobler a Soul does own # Shakefpear give to Caffius, when it was Glory of their Country, and ftamp'd a and & old him Cafar would be declared King ‘* Dignity on human Nature. whe next Day 5 he cried out, ae sag rest and sae tone } Ofte ‘ : Knowledge, was the Knowledge of hu- the ; 7 ras port aes en an Dagger then. an aoien or the Powers ai Opera- gc, Caffiue deliver. *. : te ge ; - ato's That Part of Tyranny that I do bear, tions of the Mind, in which he went fur- iinft Ican fhake off at Pleafure. ther, and {poke clearer than all other the Again, The Fau!t, dear Brutus, is not in ourStars, Writers who preceded him ; and his Ef- bis But in ourfelves, that we ave Underlings, fay on Human Under ftanding is the beit tice, And why Should Calar be a Tyrant then? Book of Logic in the World. fer, Poor Man: [know he soonld not be a Wolf, Newton was eminently diftinguifh'd by Bat chat he fees the Romans are but Sheeps his deep Searches into Nature herfelf : He were no Lyon, were not Romans Hinds. ty (eem'd fent on purpofe to /ead Man- Such may be the Circumftances of Af- ind into the higheft Notions of the Wif- ce & fairs, that one mifchicvous Refolution, dom, Goodnefs, and Power of the Great and | and therefore the Abfence of one Senator; _ 4thor of Nature: He thew'd,the World ‘ice, may be more fatal to the Liberty and C was philofophically and mathematically his Prefervation of his Country, than the made ; and that it could be-framed and hat |} Lol of an Hundred Battles. Not the In- eld together by none but.an infinitely Wife ges | valion of the Gauls, &c. prov’d half fo and Almighty Architect... His indefati+ c& § minoustothe Roman Glory, as that one gable Labour in Natura] or Experimental t fo ] infamous fatal Vote, to make Syl/a per- Philofophy, join’d to his thorough Know- Em- | petual Di€tator, and repeated to Fulius \¢dge ot the Mathematicks, has placed cept Cefar. A fingle Vote might have pre- D him at the Head of all Philofophy, nly § vented that and preferved Cicero from the Dr Clarke was skill’d in the Languages, >or | Perfecution of the abandon’d Clodius, and Mafter of the Greek and Latin Wri- ue: | And as Atticus loft the glorious Oppor- térs, and had made gréat Proficiency in tunity of redeeming hisCountry and pro- Natural Philofophy and Mathematicks 5 om § teding his Friend; his Example inftead but his chict Excellency-was, his com- cr of being imitated ought to be avoided, pleat Knowledge of Metaphyficks and ida. Divinity ; no Man ever reajon'd fo clear- and London Journal, Aug. 26. No. 687, ~~ @: or i er'd fo civilly : His Controver- de- Roval Y with Mr,Collins about the Immateri- elf, ae BONO ER, ality of the Soul is the moft perfeé Piece the tbe the greatcl Security of Liberty of ab/tratt Reafoning now in the World 5 to . is the Conflitutionitfelf, yet the and fo evident, that we always under- fad Principles and Views of our Princes are to fland him, whether we afent or not. he be regarded: For ‘tis very much intheir ‘In a Word, he made Metaphyficks intel- nd- Power to firengthen or weaken our Li- FP ligible, and Divinit abel : For, to his v0, berties, But now we are happy in aFa- Honour, tho’ a Clergyman, he refcu'd ffi. wily onthe Throne, who efteem it their Divinity out of.the Hands of Church he. Hs eft Glory, and Security, tofecure to. men,, and reftored it to its primitive au- tiePcople their maturalandlegal Rights. Truth and original Simplicity. xX: All private and publick Virtues {eem here- Mr Woolafton hath carried to Demon- ter iad in the Family , with whom it’sa ftration thé feveral Branches of the Law he Fi To do fuftice to all Men, love G of Nature, and particularly moral Duties ; to the Friends, and not fear their Enemies: but whether he hath been fo fortunate irs hey have been Patterns and Examples in his general Definitions, and the grand ra- _ all the Social and Family Virtues, Pa- Foundation of his Sy{tem, is a Matter a ronsot Arts and Sciences, and highly fa- yet undetermined: However, his 7vea- m- Your'd and diftinguith’d Men of Learning tife is one of the moft rational and Uje- and publick Virtue when living, and hon- ful Books of Morality ever publith’d. es our'd their Memories when dead. H Thefe great and worthy Men the Queen on ait Aétion of her Majefty’s led Mr“ bath delighted to honour, and is the firft ve is © yon this Train of Thinking,that crown’d Head in the World, who had Wied re or Hermitage which her sncommonVirtue cnough to immortalize dee ap made at Richmond, or ra- Men fo abfolutely in the Intercfts of mn. ad Wi " sefto s of Locke, Newton, Clarke Mankind, that all their political Princi- on, ‘Hoolafion; with which fhe hath a- ples were calculated for their Good. They

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918 Weekly Essays in AUGUST, 1732. N° XX, They fhew’d that Kings have no Right That the prefent Proprietors, a mixt to Power, but by the Confent of the Peo- Body, do not fo, fhews the Miniftry have ple, and that the Sceptre is put into @ Majority in the Mafé of the People, their Hands purely to promote the Hap- who are well aflur’d of their Honour and cen of their Subjects: This is acknow- , Integrity. Wherefore we muft conclude, edged in the Motto on the Coronation “* that our Liberties aye in no Danger from Medals, THE NOBLES AND Pzopie_ thefe Companies, CONSENTING. . When her Majefty confecrated thefe Extracts of feveral Daily € ourants, dead Heroes, the built herfelf a Temple ; : in the Hearts ot the People of England, O Champion fur ‘the Publick (fays who will, by this Inftance of her Love a Writer in the COURANT, Aug, to Liberty andpublick Virtue, think their ® 26.) was ever fo zealous for a War as Interefts as fate in the Hands of the Go- Mr D'anvers has been; but in his laft Gernment as in their own. Craft{man he condemns his former Doc- trine as eral gy oe and abfurd, by lebee’é Journal, Avent 26. filing Alexander, Cafar, and all Warn, Sippleber's J irre ga tg ors, Imperial Cut-Throats. Upon Exclufive COMPANIES, CouRANT, Aug. 24. fays, Mr Budgell’s : ‘ - ¢ Book on Liberty and Property is chiefly O peg giant spud ~ crap if concerning himfelf, reckons up about too treating of which he has sloth us difmal Storics relating to his ‘own Affairs, and and difcouraging Ideas of ‘Traffick in ge- fays the mone fyilable ‘J is not repeated neral, and reprefented our Exclufive Com- — above “eo ~~ love. K. tasiis panies not only dangerous to dur Liber- entree teres, ab pe 6 Se f ties, but deftruétive to our Trade complain’d, that the D. of Zell prefented Wile Men’ do not expeé PerfeGtion D him only with Stags, but fent = Pr. of any where. Irregularities are daily dif- cranae ron se ope Mn Ww re cover'd amotig private Men: Why then atierts of that Duke's giving no Allllt. fhould we éxpe& great Com sakes ex Stee tothe Prince; I'E. William did empt trom them ? Yet if they are faith- Lemp © Preds rfian ol - eo = . : is bei iti Hero, Cafar at- fully managed, ‘and rationally conduéted, M8, being @ Chrifitan or Hero. they mutt be allow'd to be no inconfide- oe y~ “ gooe ee Se rable Benefit to our Nation, when we are Ei a Sh. ow we . 7 vA Ba environ'd with fo many Rivals in our is not his Fault, but. the Legiflature’s, Foreign Trade, who are daily advaning 1 may as well en M66 os K. Harry's in thofe Branches which we have with (Sec A de i 8 in ht AL infinite Pains brought to great Perfce@i- bream Mg jlains of infuperabl on. And as other Kingdoms are efta- fairs every Man comp ming Os in upera c blithing tormidable Monopolies,we ,to pre- 0 eter oe eae ch baad sg ferve our Trade, which can't be kept up. 2PS that Man thall arraign Phe © anag by {mall Bodies, muft fupport and main- F M¢Mt of the ae rp Bong js i horiz'd C : ten times multiplied there. The Au- ain our a ‘ . a 4 ¢ The Support th Pray, meng jes are to thors of the Craft{/man aé& in this Man- publick Credit, ought to be a Confidera- M<T_ not only exaggerate, but invent tion of fome "Weight. The vatt Sums Caufesot Difcontent, yet boaft that pase lodg’d in thefe Funds by Foreigners, heip Writings contain a true State of " . us tocarry ona much greater Trade with and Charaéters, and will be confulted as them on that very Account. By this we G “uch by Pofterity. - This Writer ae may judge of the Authority, Dignity, they wow f ee bo Pe owine and Honour of a Britis Parliament; and ech 3 $ a 2 ma fa -s he he how confilent Foreigners are of their Example: An arc re y te Oueta Properties under fuch a Sanétion. ting a Dialogue between the late Que« As to Mr D'anvers's Affertion, That 2d the Archbp of Canterbury et Oaths ? | Soa » thefe Companies ave of mo Ufe, but to 1y inte rted a round Quantity of hich augment the Power of the Miniftry, the H and Execrations on each Side: At W ‘a Reverfe of this may as well ‘ urg’d 5 ob pe opteae teag beg fo fince their Enemies may at any time be- e wo a = siehieltd te “that’s only come Proprietors; and, as far as in them frecly . Se ae ee the Story ? dies, crofs the Meafures of the Miniftry: 77 way of S GC RANTS

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Bo You. Il. Grants of Money for 1731 and 1732. GRANTS, 1731. For the Navy 16,034 4 4 viz. O ViGtuals, Wages, » Les and Tear of the Na- vy» for 10000 Men for 13 Months, at 4/. per an per Month For the Ordinary of the Navy, for Half-pay to Officers Towards the Support of Greenwich Hofpital For the ORDNANCE, £ 112,923 10 10. ike For Ordnance for Sea Services — - For Ordnance for Land Services, ~ oe Ditto, Excraor. Expences not provided for by Parliament For the Forces, £ 1,214,809 10 9. viz. For defraying the Charge of 17709 Men for Guards and Garrifons, and Land Forces, Anne 1731 For maintaining his Majefty’s Forces and Garrifons in the Plancationss and in Minorca and Gibraltar, An. 1731 for defraying the Expence of 12000 Heffians, An- 1731 AYear’s Subfidy to the D. of Brun. Lanenb. Wolfenbuttel N.B, All the other Sums are paid; of thisonly 62500 0 Remains to be paid —_—- 1875000 Upon Account of Out-Penfioners of Chelfea Hofpical Upon Aceount of Half-pay to reduced Officers of his Ma- jefty’s Land Forces and Mariness Anno 1731. For defraying feveral extraordinary Expences and Ser- vices, not provided for by Parliament Forces and Marines as died on Half-pay» married before For Penfions to Widows of reduced Officers of Land t Chrifimas 1716, for the Year 1731. For Dericiences, £ 338.5 6 64. viz. 5 To make good the Deficiency of the Malt-Dutys Anno _ 1729, on the 25th of March 1731. of the Land-Tax, 4.1729, on the 29th of Sept. 1731 To make good the Deficiencies of the General Fund — —f the rants, viz. , &me To the Navy * 60000 4 To the Ordn. 29702 7 113 ToGreenw. Hofp. 10000 I. To theForces 34610 6 7 INCIDENTS 20,66 5. wiz. Towards the ns neh a the Bray Forts and Set- dements in Africa To difcharge the Sum ftanding out of 550000 / in Ex- chequer Bills made forth for the Supply, 4nn0 1730. To the Bank of Engi. for circulating faid Exchequer Bills For Neceflaries for the Exchequer- Bill Office _ Ways and Means for fatiyfying the GRANTS for 1731. 100¢,000 °o.U°8 750,000 © o 429,000 9 o 80,000 ° Oo 95516 12 11% Arrears of former Land Taxes, 669 9 1c} Arrears of fundry Malt Duties. 9528 3 1 1j,101 12 s+ Arrears of Malt Duty, An. 1729. : Anno _— 307,815 18 4% Toralof Ways and Means Arrears of the Malt? ; 8. : 15,t0¥ 12 5 #902985 1 11 Toral of the Grants. Duty, 1739 $_— ie et a 123,580 2 5 230 2 5 3 Overplus of Ways and Means. Pn J 24 Fan. 1731. M. Precker. I __ 18,750 osc 123,580 _Remains to be paid. 2 5Z|N.B. This Table takes np 7 Pages im the Political States exclufive of the Colugin Total Grants Total paid Total ro be paid 919 Grants, 1732. i s. aj For 8000 Men, Ordnance included, 494,000 0 Off 416,000 © © 212:034 4 4 212,885 7 § 10,000 9 © 10.000 0 @ 26,000 9 © 81,408 8 4] 82,715 1 6 H5ly 2 6 39376 Is g 653:216 10 & 651548417 1h 55 ° 1692835 rH 160,214 41% 32.483 2 6 612158 15 10 30.926 § 11 23662 0 0 93:874 3 oF 71,013 3 4 399353 4 11 1345312 14 6 +\- 16,000 © 0 f04.200 O 0 6,443 7 4 2116 1 2,902,985 IF 114 2,884,235 15 mid = iw}. 18.750 0 © By the Land Tax, Anno 1731- By the Malt Duty, Anno 1731- 255348 2 © 58688 2 o 11,258 10 8% 2,962 o oO 41346 3 ah “60,000 Navy. 10,000 @ @ Agiotothe K.of Denmark 222694 7 6 To Sir Tho. Lombe To S. S, Company 14:000 OQ © 1,000,000 90 Oo By Annuities at 3 4 per Cent. By Way of Loctery. Duties on Compound Liquors. Refidue of Ways and Means undifpofed. On the Land Tax, An 1731, in Exch. Bills In Money raifed by Contributions for An- Nuities at 33 per ent, 3 89,728 10 © 18,750 0 0 for the Year 1732.

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920 The Merry Monarch ; or, Knighthood ajet. ATALE. HEN good King emmy wore the Briti{h Crown, A pleafant Fef for brightett Wit went down : A fan, 2 Quidbble, a Conundrum quaint, Oft made a Bifhep of a Man, ho Saine. Smart Reparsees pals’d all for Sterling Coins And Wie was then as unrefin’d as Wine, ° The King himlelf, fo reft his merry Soul, Could crack his Foke—nor would his Mirth con- troul ; Io But laugh’d full hearty, if the Fef were keen, WNor’could the Care ot Kingdoms give Hi Spleen, Thus Scory tells——— As he rode out one Day, ‘Tochace che Stag, he loft, by Chance, his Way: ‘The Courtiers eager, {cour the {pacious Field, While Duty there did unto Pleafure yeild. Alone King Femmy, with his ufual Grace, Kept ftepping onwards in a common Pace. Till near two Clowns he came, who workt full Hedging a Clofe, behind a Farmer’s Yard. (hard, They {py’d the King,and from hisawkward Mien, Thought hefome needy Northern Laird had been. Geed Men, (quoth he) —and then he made his Bow, Ken ye which Way the Nobles rode juft now ? My Bufinels leads me nto our King James 1 know him not, in Troth (q#oth one)—itfeems Hie only minds his Comntrymen, while we Labour thus hard to furnifh out their Giee, Reon (quoth ¢’other) Man, you"l find him our, Surrounded by a gaudy Scotrifh Rome : 30 Fear not thy Fortune, Femmy loves a Loon, And thou’rt fome ftarving Knight that wants a Boon. Weill fare ye, (qnoth the King) and 0” my Weard, Gend Chavatter ye to year Prince affenrd ; And Ife wat wel, it angangs to his Ear, (hear. Why then, (quoth Dick) for once the Truth he’ll So faying, to aGrove that layin Sight, = 40 On rode the King, and there thought fit ¢’ alight Qut ftretch’d his Roya/ Limbs upon the Place, And flepr full fweetly on the verdant Grafs ; No Policies of State difturb’d his Mind, But the good Prince {noar’d loudas any Hind, Until the Chace was o’er, a Stag was dead, When Duty found a Place in Courtiers Head : Nor had the noble Train long fought their Lord, E’re faft they found him on che gay Green{word. Hafty they ail from reeking Courfers pring, 50 While with a Smile up rofe the jocund King, My Lords atin he) as ye rid yonder by, Did ye not, bedging, twa anld Carls efpy, An Leather Doublets clad ?— My Liege, we did, (Quoth one) — See then, (faid he) them hither lead, Straic they obey’d,andas they dragg’d each Clown, Ads me, (quoth Dick to Ralph) we're both undone, Tim Man we took for {ome poor begging Knight, Is she King’s Grace. — Ods Filh (quoth Ra/ph) you’re right. 6c We thall be hang’d.— What will become of Sie / She'll pine to Death !— And fo will Marg’ ry too. Them at a Diftance when the Monarch {py’d, He took the Whynyard from his martial Side : Behind hiton the Ground its Point he ftay’d, A$ not much caring to furvey the Blade, Poetical Essays for AUGUST, 1732. N® XX, Low on their Knees the trembling Wretche’ crawl, And {wear with Fear theirHeads fhould lower fall, Tear Names (quoth Femmy) in an. angry Tone; Mine is Dick Mine Ralph, a forry Clown! Weel, or the King) and gave their Necks 4 traps Sir Ralph, be Richard, ye may baith get wp : y Now Knights ye ares and o’my Sonl } I ween, Twa peurer Kuights in Scotland ne’ er were feen, A loud Appiaule the tawaing Crowd expreft, To fee two Tites go to make one Fef. From the Grubftreet. Journal. OLLwus, tir’d with conning o’er Dull Lndexes, a precious Store, For eafe.to Chapel took his way, Refolv’d.to take a. knap,——or pray ; Proceeding flow in folemn ftate f Forward he marches to his feat : But oh | the:lock, long fince difus’d, T’admit the holy Man refus’d. The Visger tugs with fruitlefs pains; The ruft anvincible remains. 10 Who can,defcribe bis woful plight, Plac’d thus to view in fulleth light, A {peétacle of mirth, expos’d To ineering friends and gigling foes ? Then firft,, as ’tis from a receiv’d, (But fame can’t always be believ’d,) A bluth, the fign of new-born grace, Gleam’d. through the horrors of his face. He held it fhametul to retreat, And worfe co take a lower feat. 2 The Virger foon with nimble bound At once vaults o’er the wooden mound, And gives the door a furious knock, Which fore’d the difobedient lock. Then ZoiLus ent’ring in confufion, His elbows placing on the cufhion, Devoutly loll*d, in mufing deep, Unable now to pray, orfleep ; Some words imperfe& mumbled o’er ; The wicked Sophis declar’d he {wore, 30 That none thould e’er for fev’n years {pace Again behold hirt in that place. What then ? —~’ Tis plain with ftriGteft troth, Religioufly he kept his oath. EPITAPH on MrTuo. Evrincronx, Chief of bis Majefty’s Comepians in Dublin; who dy’d July 22, 1732. UBLIN; thy own dear Joy, and Grief, lies A general PLAYER; not particular: (here; EATH thews how far NaTuRE furpafles ART, For once he rLay’p, but now be 1s, his Part, Life is a Stace, the different Cugs are caft, The Grave’s the GREEN-Room, where all meet at laft. Hyr-Dr, An Extempore Epigram, wpon a young Lady’s refufing to foew ber Hand. O Arguments could Celia move, With a Reluctance ftill fhe ftrove Her lovely Hand to hide: The Cafe is plain, fhe was afraid, That plac’d in view, it might be faid, *Twas by Her Hand they dy’d,

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you. If. To Reedham bound, a dirty Roads A $cmach fick, with Hyppith Load, A jumbling Coach, the Horfes bad, And every ae to make me fad; Had not a cheerful Friend or two fe Engag’d the Journey to purfue, Aclength, arriv’d at Reedham-Green, No Church-bell heard, no Mortal feen 3 AChurch-yard bleak, near wa’try Swamp, Adirty Church, a Surplice damp, A Reading Desk, extremely cold, A Pulpit dufty, weak, and old, A Prayer-book in Old-princ Letter, A Bible, rather worfe than better; A Congregation, Great and Small, Made up but few poor Souls in all; Three ancient Dames, with wither’d Faces, Sat fat alleep in lower Places ; Sat jut above, in nodding State; One Maiden fair, with yellow Knot, The only Primrofe of the Spot. The reft were chiefly Farmers Men; Who ftar’d and liften’d now and then. A Bearded Clerk that fings or fays, But poorly vers’d in Mufick’s Lays, A Pfalm up-rear’d in jingling Notes, Contriv’d for Sol-fa growling Throats; In broken Tunes, now in, now out, Twas ail confus’d, like Rebels Rout. Then came the Sermon, long and dull, Adapted right to Clodpate’s Skull. Some gap’d, fome flept, one fober Lad Beneath his Arm a Bible had : This learned Youth had Wit enough To fearch the Doétor’s Scripture-proof : He fat demure, with awkward Face, And doubled down the quoted Place. The Service done, no Dinner near, 3 Bf AMile, at leaft, to Cup and Chear ; Churchwarden Hog, not feen at Church, Left hungry Parfon in the Lurch. hy bir Crape look’d blue, the reft look’d pale, For Want of fomething to regale. A WinTeER’s-Journgy to Preach. HE Clock ftruck Eight, thie Morningclear’d, The Coffee drank, the Coach appear’d ; Two Grey-head Dons, with Gloves on Pate, Poetical Essays for AUGUST, 1732. Verfes by a Gentlewoman in a weak State 10 20 3° 40 ron, §§ Afurther Drive, from marfhy Down, 13 if To reach the Swan at Norton Town. There (glorious Sight!) with great good Luck, . Before the Stomach-hour had ftruck, go f, lies A Loin of Veal, in lordly Diih, (here; {And Eggs and Bacon, Tiaveller’s With, Art, @Allay’d the Grumblers of the Day, art, And rais’d our Spirits up fo gay, ft, We there fat down content and fnug, re all § "th Wine, and Ale, and Cyder Mug. DR, = Sagem in chearful Way, € drank, and pledg’d, and call’d to pay. UDg BH The Coachman ay bo the Hadfcoe oedads . And brought us Home all fafe and found, 60 Reedham, farewe)l! thou ftarving Soil, ove Now Worth a Preacher’s Charge or Toil, by Gift but Shillings ten,—hifteen I {pent ; & ever Prieft on fach an Errand fent? each fad Boors on Ignoramus Green. I Gdleling Bristol to’ Dirtand Wet, thro’ Cold and Hunger keen, g2% of Health, on reading the Works of Madam de Mottevil, 4 French Lady. O more let Men fuperior Wifdom boaft, They can but equal Moztevil at moft ; Let chofe who pride them in their better Senfe, Read, hear, and learn Humility from hence, Ye heedlefs Fair! who pafs the live-long Day, In Drefs and Scandal, Gallantry and Play ; Who thro” new Scenes of Pleafurehoutly run! Whilft Life’s imporcant Bus’nefé is undone ; Look here, and fee when Conquefts you obtairt, How fad Repentance clofes up the Scene, lo If future Bliis or Mifery- muft flow, From what the Heart delights in here below ; Think how thefe Habits rooted in the Breafty Will fit you for a Commerce with the Bleft. Not fo this pious penetrating Dame Who to the facred Fountain traced the Stream. Far Excellence! whom I fo juftly prize Who in a Court found Leifure tu be Wile : Thou Honour to thy Sex, may I purfue, The Paths of Wifdom pointed out by you. 29 Since I am deitin’d to a low Eftate, Free from the Vanities chat vex the Great, Blett with an Happinefs to Courts unknown, For I, thank Heav’n, may call my Hours My OW» O! may I fpend thofe Hours in juch a Way, As may prepare me for the Laf? great Day. That I may unappall’d lift up my Head, Whenthe Arch-angel calls —. Arile ye Dead! When all the haughty pompous Sons of Luft; Who in Tereftrial Things haveplac’d theirTrufts Who here to their Contufion largely quaft, Profperity’sintoxicating Draught. *Tilldrunk with Bleffings they de(pis’d their Gon, Arraign’d his Wifdom and defy’d his Rod: Too late hall find, that Arm they durft oppofe, Can pour eternal Vengance on his Foes, Reflect, my Soul, that Day is drawing near, And timely think, what was your Bufinefs here. O Thou! whofe Arm reach’d down fromHeav’a to fave, So lately {natch’d me from the open Grave ; Who bow’d thine Far, nor let met fue in vaing Reliev’d my Sicknefs, and remov’d my Pain. In hallow’d Strains, O teach my Sou! to foars To celebrate the Mercy I adore: To thee alone to dedicate my Lays, . Who heard my Prayers, and added to my Days: Watch o’er my Heart, fixevery Dury theres And make Eternity my only Care. EPIGRAM. : “NHarg’d with writing of Bawdy, this was A F. g's Reply : *Tis what DRYDEN and CoNGREVE have done as well as I. Tis srue—but they did it with this goodPretence, With an ounce of rank Bawdy wenta pound of good Senfe : But thou ha/t proportion’d, in thy judgment pro- found Of good Senfe fcarce an ounce, and of Bawdy 2 poutd, re ri / § 4 4

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922 A new Simits for the LADIES. Suppos'd. to be written by an Irih Dn. To make a Writer mifs hit End, Ton’ ve nothing elfe to do but mend. Often try’d in vain to find { A Simile tor Woman-kind; Simile | mean to fit ’em, In ev’ry Circumftance io hit ’em Th 3 ranfack’d ev’ry Element, And after peeping through all Nature, ‘To find fo whimfical a Creatures A Clond prefented to my View And ftreight this Parallel I drew ; 10 Clouds turn with ev’ry Wind about, They keep usin Sufpenfe and Doubr, Yer oft perverfe, like Woman-kind 5 Are feen to feud againft the Wind. And are not Women juft the fame ? For, who can tell ac what they aim? Clouds keep the ftouteft Mortals under, When bell’ wing they difcharge their Thunder ; So when the Alarm-~Bell is rung, Of Xante’s everlafting Tongue, 20 ‘The Husband dreads its Loudnefs more, Than Light’ning’s Flafh, or Thunder’s Roars Clouds weep as they do without Pain, And what are Tears but Women’s Rain ? The Clouds about the Welkin roam, And Ladies never ftay at home. The Clonds build Caftles in the Air, A Thing peculiar to the Fair 5 For all the Schemes of their Fore~cafting, Are not more folid, nor more lafting. 30 A Clomd is light by Turns, and dark, Such is a Lady with her Spark ; Now, witha fudden pouting Gloom, She feems to darken all the Room; Again, fhe’s pleas’d, his Fear’s beguil’d, And al! is clear, when fhe has {mil’d. In this they’re wondroufly alike; (I hope the Simile will ftrike) Tho’ im the darkeft Dumps you view ’em, Stay but a Moment you'll fee through em. 40 The Clouds are apt to make Reflection, And frequently produce Infection, So Calia, with {mall Provocation, Blafts ev’ry ao Reputation, The Clouds delightin gawdy Shew, For they like Ladies have their Buw ; The graveft Matron will confefs, That fhe herfe!f is fond of Drefs. Obferve the Clouds in Pomp array’d, What various Colours are difplay’d, 50 The Pink, the Rofe, the Vi’let’s Dye, Tn that great Drawing-Room the Sky» How do thefe differ from our Graces, In Garden filks, Brocades, and Laces? Are they not fuch another Sighr, When met upon a Birth-Day Night? The Clouds delight to change their Fafhion, Dear Ladies, be nut in a Pafiion) or let this Whim to you feem ftranges Who ev’ry Hour de‘ightin Change, 6c h ev’ry Beaft and Bird I went, i Poetical Essays for AUG UST, 1732. N® XX, . In them and you alike are feen The fullen Symptoms of the Spleen; The Moment that your Vapours rife, We fee them dropping from your Eyes. In Ev’ning Fair you may behold The Clouds are fring’d with borrow’d Gold; And this is many a Lady’s Cafe, Who flaunts about in borrow’d Lace. Grave Matrons are like Clouds of Snow, Their Words fall thick, and foft, and flow. 7 While brisk Coquets, like rattling Hail, Our Ears on ev'ry Side affail. Clouds when they intercept your Sight, Deprive us of Celeftial Light : So when my Chloe I purfue, No Heav’n befides I have in View. Thus on Comparifon you fee, In every Initance they agree. So like, fo very much the fame, That one may go by t’other’s Name ft] Let me proclaim it then aloud, That ev’ry Woman is a Closd. S£t Vol-3.P 602, The Acme of CaTuLtiws imitated. IFE of my Life (gently his Head reclin’d 1 [See p. 907} On Acme’s Breait, that Emblem of her te of my Life, faid Thyrfis, may I be, [mind.) Thus ever bieft, and ever thus with thee, Till envious Death finifh our hafty Doom, And gently lay us in one filent Tomb, Satiety the kgnorant may preach, I to frail Man wiil beter Doérine teach. By fair Example to his Senfes thows A Bilis that will not tire may be below +10 In one chafte Woman, the ambitions Mind; A typal Joy of that above may find. Sooth ali his Sorrows, all his Joys enlarge, The wife Creator’s firft Defign and Charge. Thou beft-lov’d Man, the lovely Fair reply’d, If e’er fo bleft I am to be thy Brides (And — that knows the Heart, can witnels this On Earth { have no With of greater Blifs,) To recompenfe the Pain endur’d for me, —20 The Aim and Burden of my Soul thall be; If e’er thy Will think fic to warp from mine, Mine I’!] correétin hope to ftrairen thine. Thus foft and pliant our Defires fhall meet, And Life’s moft bitter Cups be thus made{weet, My parting Soul fhall thine await to fly To Manfions Love prepar’d beyond the Sky. On her MAJESTY’s fetting up the Buftoes of Mr Locke, Sir Isaac Newton Mr WoLLASTON, and Dr CLARKE, inthe HERMITAGE a: RICHMOND. Sic Siti letantur Dotti. 1TH Honour, thus by Carolina plac’d, How are thefe venerable Buftoes grac’d! O Queen! with more than regal Titlecrown’d, For Love of Arts and Piety renown’d! How do the Friends of Virtue joy to fee Her Darling Sons exalcedthus by Thee? Nought to their Famecan now be added more, Rever’d by Her whom all Mankind adore, eo «=e be a i eh fan ee a ae a att ne i a tt i an —_—~~ fe eee wee

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XRG you. 1 Weekly old; wW, low. 76 $e 997] jtated. -eclin’d of her [mind.) {weet Sky. p the WTON in the lac’d, prac’d! n’d, ores On the Same. Sui memores. alios fecere merendo. Ehold, O Stranger, new from a b Lands, mands ; he re Slaves obey what lawlefs Will com- Where Statues co the proud Oppreflar rife, And hood-wink’d Faith has put out Reafon’s Eyes: ' Behold the Honours CAROLINE ordaing, To thefe great Souls) who wrote to break your Chains! Unerring Nature’s equal Laws to fhow ; Prefcrib'd co all above, and. all below ; Example rare! O BRITAIN, bleft to fee Thy Queen declaretor TRuTH andLIBERTY. Free Geton, Aug. 31- No. 140, Of Liberty. Iberty is the invaluable Poffeffion of this nuch envied People, and is aPower to att without Reftraint, as far es confifts with the Good of the whole; The Bounds to this Reftraine are Religion and Government. Re- ligion feems to be the Property of each Indi- vidual, being thé Regulation of his Mind, the Law of Thinking rather than of AGing, and entirely within hiafelf, ic muft be free; there- forey co aflert this Fgetdom is effencial to us, afd co punifh it is abfurd. Whether Freedom opght not to be punifhed when abufed, is often a Queftion in religious Debates ; but how fhall.we difcern this Abufe ? The Man accufed may reafon according to his own Convidtion; and if Truth prevails, by abiding its Teft, Error can do no harm, as it will fy that Ttial ; and it fhou’d not be penal to broach Miftakés but to impofe them. Next is to be confider’d the ape we claim under Government, which is not on y to think and {peak of Religion as we are incli to enjoy afecurity of Civil Property; as alfo, no Reftraint upon reafonable Enquiries into the Inreréfts of the Community. Some may obje&, in a Conftitution like ours, all Counfel and Enquiry are delegated to a Few, exclufive of the People. But this is ment, Immunities unalienable from Englifh- men, What Reftraint may be reafonably laid upon Liberty deferves our Enquiry. Falfhood is what no Man fhou’d be allow’ds or aknown Contra- Gus £4 Society. As Truth ought ever to be told without re- fpe& of Perfons or Parties, it wou’dconduce to.the Good of Mankind, if the [fue co be tried on a Libel was made to be, Whether the Al egations are true or falfe? Foundation of Civil Liberty. ‘The Right of Primogeniture to Inheritance fu deftruétive of th, is what Narure never intended, becaufe then fhe wou’d have given diftinguifhing and fuperiour Qualities.

Essays t# AUGUST 1732. ned, but H 923 Another great Point to fecufe popular Liber- ty> is, to. bring all Nacional Power inro the Hands of our chofen Reprefencatives :_ Nor A. does that faying weigh much, that one Tyrant is more tolerable than 5005 becaufe there is a Chance of s09 to one againt Tyranny, whilft each Man is aCheck on his Collegue, Thelaft effential Point to the prefervation of Liberty, is, to reftrain the Clergy from aflum-- ing Power, on pretence of their Ecclefiaftical Fun@ions, Inquifitions, Spiritual Courts and Pricitly Cenfures were become fo formidable and deftructive of Liberty thar the Legiflature Were induced to také all power from the Church ; infomuch, that our. Bilhops incur a Premunire, if more than Twelve aflemble without the King’s Writ. Cc Grubfireet Journal, Aug. 31. No. 1396 The Art of anfwering a Book. Mr Bavins, Lmoft every Thin being now controvert- ed, Ubave been thinking, chat @ Differ- tation upon anfwering Books, @c. may not be unfeafonable. Here is 2 Book, fuppofe, an- D anfwerable, which’ makes a deep Impreffion on a certain Perfon. He mentions it to his Friend, on Which they fall to wrangling asin the following Dialogue. Dia. L.] A. That book’s anfwered; thofe papers and pamphlets are anfwer’d, There Ewe fix or feven anfwers to them. «. Ay, but all thofe anfwers are fully an- Swered. A. By whom, pray? B. Why by Mr W.. by Dr 8. by F. T. Ely; by my Ld W. and bythree or four without names. Diau.II.} A. That book was never an- fered. : B. True; becaufeit is not worth anfwering. A. That’seafily faid; but the real reafon is, becaufe ’tis snanjwerable: the man would an- {wer it if he could,. but he can’c. B. I tell thee, ’tis nor becaufe he can’t, but becaufe he won’t. *Tis not-worth his while ; it does not deferve an anfwer, and ought to be inconfiftent with, and denying their Privilege K anfwered only with fileace andcontempt. to addrefs the Throne, or petition theParlia- C. Gentlemen youare both miftaken, That book is anfwered: Ihaye feen and read an an- Swer to ir. A. That’simpoffible, I amfure. The an~ Swer is no anfwer at all.. The book may be written againft, if you pleafe; but ic can’t be diftion of Truthin Fad ; becaufe this is danger- G anfwered. Thus fhall they go on for an hour together, and upon the fame foot might go on for ever, contradi&ting one another, begging the queffl- on on both fides, and faying pie Anfwers as they are call’d have been. writ- ten to various Books, demonstrating from the Equality of Fortune feems to be the beft yy plaineft Faés the Truth of che Chriflian Reli- gion. Soan an{wer may be writcen to Eac‘ia’s Elements. Werethat Book a Defence of Chri- ftianity, it wou’d have been an{wer’d before thisTime. As thus; <4 point is that which has no parts, That? What? dsit a Body, or a Bbb Spirit?

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924 Spirit? a Subftance, or an Accident? If ithas no parts, tis nothings As for Spirit, that’s Nonfenfe. This is Myfery with a Witnefs ; i. €. aContradifion, as all Myfteries are. We cannot comprehend it, and therefore it cannot be true. The Word Point in Euclid is as ridi- culous as the Word Peron, which the Parfons make fuch a Clutrer about in their contradiéti-* ous DoGrine of the Trinity. ‘This is to fhew that Men may argue againit the Mathematichs, in the fame Language, and upon the fame Prin- ee, as they argue againft Chriftiani’y. The riter then proceeds to thew what Books de- ferve anfwering and what Anfwers {ome delet ve. The Hpp-Dortor, Avg. 29. No.gt- This the Doétor calls a Dro. : or, Hu- mMouRS of BARTHOLOMEW-FAIR; in the Manner of a BALBAD-OreRA. The A&ors.in it are, Dr CRocks ‘ALL, BupG- ILL, Foo, Lord DAwLey, Squire D'an- VeAs, CONUNDRUM, SALLY SEDITION, Mifs Riot; MoLLY TuMULT and PuNcH. Enter Dr, CROCKS-ALL, finging. ALR I. Way with the Wicked before the King, Ard away with the Guod behind him, His Throne it will biefs With Rigbwoulnels, And we fhall know where to find him, To him enter BuDG-1ILn, who complains ofthe Degeneracy of the Age, im that No- hody will buy his Bouk about Liberty and Property. Enter to them Foo crying Gingerbread ; ‘who falutes the Doétor, and asks him, if, ‘as bis Preterment has led him into Salop, he has brought up any Shrewshuey-Cakes ? The Do&or waves the Queftion, and fings. AIR IL. My Brethren, all attend, And lift to my Relation, Thisis the Day, mark what I fay, Tends to your Renovation : Stay not among the WICKED, Left that with them you perith, Bur Jet us to the CRAFTSMAN go, ‘nd the: Pagan People cherith, Then for the Truth’s Sake, come along, come along, f am a Politician Were it not for we, that Foc-rares be You would fink into Perditivn. CHORUS. Away with the Wicked before the King, And away with the Good behind him, His Throne ic will blefs Eke with CRAFYINESS, And we thall know where to find him. AIR III. Dr Crocks, For Company I fear nor, There goes my Coufin Hannah, Fohu Trot allo perxfuades co gu Fyre; Margery, and Sufannsh, Weekly Essays.in AUGUST 1732. N® XX, Cc G H Much like untoa Mule, K bur, my Lord, I hope we thali not caf off L king Mils Riot a CRAFTSMAN: =~ MOLLY With Abigail and Faith, And Prudence, JAcon’s Daughter, And Ruth, and Truth, and Sarah the Profeffeth to come after. E€HORUS, Away with the Wicked before, dc. Lord DawLey. I wonder you can be fe brisk in thefe difmal Times. *Squire D’aANVeRs. Such corrupt Times, vile Times, hard Times, abominable plaguy bad confumed Times, that for my Part, I be- gin to think it Time to be packing. Now earth- ly People believes one Word that I, my Lord, BupGE, Foc, or the Doétor can fay ; we have been bawling our Throats ouc againit the Miniftry all over Bartholomew-Fair, we have courted thefe high-mettied Beauties to {cold about it, we have given half a Crown ta the Fellow that’s half as Mad as Friend Bupo- ILL to cry King James for King GeorGe, and they mind him no more than it he cry’d Sheeps Trotters : BAT PLAT has put us all into his Song of Mad Tom—fuch Times; foch aMiniftry ; well, the Times are ungrateful, an', fplic my Pen! I’ll Write no longer. After fome farther Dialogue, PuncH fings. ALB, Bs No Pedigrees, nor Projects Of antien: Times I cells » | Nor what ftrange Things the BririsnLand In farmer Days befel, Nor how an Emperor got a King, Nor how a Kirg a Prince, But you shall hear what Prodigies Have been begotten fince. TheD mal be a Craftsman got That was both ftrong and ftour, This many-headed Montfter, Did ftraight neget a out. This Rout begat a Faction As Foo he well remembers, The Faétion they got Monfters more, The which got Fourfcore Members. The Fourfcore Members they begot Nineteen protefting Peers ; The Peers Mifunderftandings got With Jealoufies and Fears, The Tory-Whigs begota Beaft B The Mule begota GruB-Street Afs, And he begot a Fool. While Dr Crocks is addrefling SALLY Sepirion, Lord Daw Ley is for taking 2 Dance with Mifs Riot, who anfwers. Mifs Riot. Ac your Lordhhip’s Service ; at the End of the Dance, as you did with Madamoifelle V-———=tte; —'To the Tune of a Damfel lay deploring. t Lord DAwLEY. No, no» my dear Mifs Rior, I’ll never forfake thee. BupG-1Lu. Hold, my Lord, you are ma- TUMULT, I muft beg leave to t-ke a hitle Liberty with your Ladythip’s Property : It will be hard for us to be flung ont, when all the World's in Play. THE

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XX. ‘imes, laguy oe- arth- Lord, 1 we (t the have {cold o the 1DG- (GE, ty s all fuch etul, gs. 3 Monthly Intelligencer. AUGUST, 1732. Tucldap, Aug. 1. HE Lords of the Admi- ralty order’dall the Guard- Ships to be reduced: :to one , Third Complement, and to beat theirMooring:. it has been recommended to all therfine Genii of the two Univerlities, and the Schools of Eaton and Winchefer, and all the Learned whatfoever, to compofe a proper Latin Infcription. Came into Dover Harbour, from An Order paffed:the Board of Works A Amflerdam, the Experiment of London, for rebuilding the Treafury-Office at the Cockpit, Whitehall. The Infcription on the Foundation- Stone of one of the chief Pedeftals in Front of the Building carrying on in Threadneedle-ftreet. The Foundation of this Building of the Bank of England was /aid Aug. 1. 1732. in the 6th Year of King GEORGE the Second. with 180 Padatines: for, New-York. The Affizes ended at Maidftone ‘for Kent ; when. Robert Sgaire for Horle, ftealing, and Richard Mercer a Highs wayman, received Sentence of Death; B Richard Groves, Fobn, Wooding; and Wm Deering, Smugglers, were tried.for the Murder of Richard Hill,.a Cufom- houfe. Boatman, on the 27th of March laft, at.St Margaret’s-Bay near Deal, ‘They were acquitted of the Murder, To which is added the Names of the cbut found guilty of Smuggling, . and Goyernours and Direétors,. (See them p- 719.) and of the Architeét. Whurloay, 3. The Affizes ended at Newcafle, when Two receiv’d Sentence of Death, ordered. to be tranfported for 7 Years. One Woolet, an Alehoufekecper, wha kept the Arms for the Smugglers, was fined 20 Marks, to fufler 2 Years Im- prifonment, and to find Security for viz. One for Houfebreaking, and one p his good Behaviour for 7 Years. Ste+ for Horfeftealing ; Three were caft for phen French, another of the Gang, was Tran{portation. Fridav, 4. James Vernon, Robert Hucks, and George Heathcote, Efgrs; paid 300 /. fined 5 Marks, aud,to fuffer 2 Years Imprifonment. Pattingden, who com. mitted the Murder, was ordered to be outlaw'd, and a Reward of 100/. for into the Bank for the Ule of the Co- x taking him. lony of Gesrgia. [See p. 894 H] Mr Crawford was {cizedat his Cham- bers in the Middle Temple by a File of Grenadiers, and put into the Cuftody of a Meffenger, being fufpeéted to be the Author of Fog’s Journal about K. r William; but was bailed the next Day. Her Majefty having built a fine Grotto or Hermitage at Richmond, and adorned it with Buttoes of Mr Locke, Sr Vfaac Newton, Ms Woolafton, and Dx Clarke ; Saturday, 5. The Affizes ended at Launcefton for Cornwal, and two Perfons reccived Sen- tence of Death, viz. George Alcock, for coining counterfeit Half-Crownsand Shillings, and Thomas Pierce for Horfe- ftealing. ednesday, 9. Was: held a General Court of the Eaft India Company, when Sr Matthew Decker acquainted them with the State B bb 2 of

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926 of theit ‘Trade, and of the bad Return for their European Goods: An Enquiry was made into the Conduét of their Servants at Bengal, when it was agreed that a Court of Direétors be impower'd to proceed thertifi, and report the fame at the next General Court. Daniel Tipping, capitally conviéted the laft Seffions at the O/d Bail¢y for the Highway, ‘was executed at Tydurn. é; Sipretey, 10. A Court of Direétors of the Eaf- India Company was held, when they refolved to fend ‘no Ships to China this Year. At a Court of Common Council the Bill relating to thé Difpofal of the Place of Keeper of Newgate was read twice; and the Queftidn' being put, Whether it fhould be read the 3d ‘Time the next Court-Day ? it ‘paft in the Negative; Yeas 76, Nos 85: [See p. 875 A] Domeftick Occurrences in AUGUST, 1732. N°XX. eldeft Princeffes, were elegantly enteé?. tained at Dinner by Sr Robert Walpok in his Greenhoufe ; which on this Oc. cafion was adorned with the fineft Pic. tiites in Evrop& . ’ f At a‘ Genéral Court of the Yr} Buildings Comparty ‘it was -refoltved, That all Stock on which the Call of 1 and ahalf per Cent? has not been paid fhalfnot be transferd*till the Call is paid; that all Monies received and to’ be received upon ‘this and all future Calls, be paid into the Governour and Court of Affiftants, and five of the Proprietors. Friday, 18. A Copper Gridiron of 1 C. Weight was put on the Top of St Lawrence's Steeple for a Vane. } The Affizes ended at Bridgwater fot Somerfet/bire; when 4 Perfons received Sentence of Death for Horfe-flealing attirdap, 12. D and the Highway. The Agee énded at King/ton, when the4 followingPerfons received Sen- tétice of Death, diz: ‘Philip ‘Parker, for ftealing a Mate s Sohn Eddins and Aaturdayp, 19. In the Belly of a Cow kill'd in the Parith of Afsury in Chefkire were found 74 hard Stones, feveral of which weigh- Wilfiam Welip; for Houlebreaking ; and g ed two Ounces. $he was obferved to Edzvard Lunt; for the Highway. Six wete caf for Tranfportation. The Afizes ended at Exeter, when Perfons were ¢apitally convicted for Orfeftealing, one of them is fince re- ftand ‘much in a Brook where are fuch like Stones. : 70 Pieces of large Cannon were proved at Woolwich. The Univerfity of Oxford, in full prieved ; 3 were ordered for TYanfpor- ; Convocation, conferr'd the Degree of tation; 2 Women were burnt in the Hand, one for Manflaughter for killing her’ Nephew a Child of 7 Years old, and the other for robbing her Matter of Goods to the Value of 18. Ponvap, 14. At the Affizesat Derby, Fohn Wain- G wright and John Blafdale were try’d for the Muordér of Samuel Dod of Alfreton, ‘but acquitted. Daniel Mrachlin, indiéted for ftealing a Gold Watch, and fonie Gold and Silver, the Goods of Capt. Woolley, pleaded Guil- ty, and is to be tranfported. [See the Tryal of Mrs Beare, p. 932.) Bhursdayp, 17. Her Majefty, his R. H. the Prince, # his Highnefs the Duke, and the three Doétor of Laws on the E. of Litchfield, Ld’ Gower, Sir Thomas Sebright, Bar. and Watkin Williams Wynn, E‘g; ondayp, 21. His R. H. the Prince entertained her Majefty, his R. H. the Duke, and the five Princeffes, and feveral of the No- bility, at a fumptuous Dinner at Kev. At the Affizes at Coventry, Benjamin Mayo was condemn’d for ravifhing a Girl of 6 Years old, and two order’d for ‘Tranfportation. Cucsdap, 22. Several Lords of the Admiralty went to Deptford Yard, and viewed the Dept- ford, a 4th Rate of 60 Guns, rebuilt after ‘a Model defigned by Sr Facob Ac- worth. She is quite flufh fore and aft on

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xX. iter. pole Oc. Pic. ork ved, | of yaid | is to’ ure he ht e"8 i f fou. IL Domeftick Occurrences oo both Decks, with feveral curious ffivarices in hér Powder-Rooip, and wo Half-Decks’ that’ will’ keép the Watch dry in the worft of Weather. thennesday, 23- Philip Parker and” Edw: Lunt, cone demned at King fox Affizes, were exe- cated, there. Lupt ‘confeffed above {od Robberies on the Highway. Her Majefty has fent'as a Prefent to B the Queen of eri ¥2Pair of Shoes and 12 Pair of Slippers of the moft exquilite Workmanthp. | hursdap, 24- Ata General Court of York Buildings C Company,’ they agreed to put in’Exe- tition a’Scheine for paying the Com- ny’s Debts, computed at 160,060 /. which was by making out new Bonds, flling fome Part of their Eftates in $etland, making Calls at divers’Times to the Amount of 5 per Cent. and dif poling ‘fome'of the Stock vefted in the Company, to fuch of the Proprietors F is fhall comply with the faid Calls. Friday, 25. At a General Court of the: S, Sea Coinpany, the 15 following Gentlemen ¢ were thofen a Committee to imipect (See p24 A B] the Companits “Ac- gompts. w/z. MrJofeph Beachcroft Charles Colbotne EF 9; Mr Wm Colebrooke Mr Jonathan Collyer Mr Richard Cooper Jeretiah Dummer E/g; Mr Michael Garnault | Samue! Wright Eja; MrRobere Henley Mr'W om Wilkins. Tuespay, 20. The Royal Afritan Company recei- ved a Prefent by the Guinea Packet of a young Lyon, a Wolf,'a Murmot, an Oftritch 17 Foot high, and two Crown-Birds. Dhursdap, 31. Lord Vifcount Yorrincton went on board the William and Mary Yacht for Hilland to bring Home His Majefty. Our Letters this Month’ inform us of the great Crops of Grain in moft 7, Parts of the Kingdom, In the Parifh of Glatton in Huntingtonfeire one Acre of Ground produced 11 Load of Barley. The s. Sea Company's Ships em- Philip Hollingworth Mr Benj .Jamesjun. G MrSamueiLefingham Mr Patrick Macky MrNat.Newnham jan. A Wh m AUGUST, 1732, gag ployed this in.the Whale Fithe are vl “amit conf ee 24 Sail, 14 fash Gilet and 7 from Davis's Streights, bringing among them 24 hales and an-dialf. 1 pet Eajt-IndiaShips arrived this Month, viz. The Drake; Capt.’ Hoaghion’s the George, Capt.’ Pitt, Hin Ctaff ang Bays the Qckbag, Capt. Fobfon, from Bombay, pear which Place the was ats tack’d by dagria the Pyrate, with whom “fhe ‘maintained a Fight: for having 30 Guns mounted, ai o Men, when Aagria, haying lof 7 Men; made off ; but he af he 7 the Rofe Galley, Capt. Sporp,’ one of the Trading Ships: of that’ Countty : The London, Capt. Rover?-Bodtle and the Dawfon, Capt. Franti? Stemware from Bengal and-Madras; the-Middle- Jex, Capt. Fohm Pettey sin which came ) Governor Dean. co” “Supplement to Occurrences in uur. At ChelnsfordAsizes, July 28,thrce Men receiv’d Sentence of Death, viz: TF ofeph Rafen for Houlebreaking, O/iver Thimpfon for Burglary, and Fokn Nunp for Horfeftealing’; the firit was repriev'd. Anthony Simpson, the Clergyman’s Son, and Tho, Ajion, capitally comvitted the laft Aflizes, were order'd tobe tranfa ported during Life, % woe At the Aflizes at Durham (Fuly 29.) the 3 following Perfons receteh esi? tence of Death, viz. James Grabag, for the Highway, Fobn Grabam for Horle and; Sheepftealing, and John Rempe, for the Murder of a’ Womait near Sunderland. 4, At Wincheficr Affizes one Man was condemned for ftealing 50/. Out of 4 Dwelling-Heufe; 4 to be tranfported. At the Affizes at Dorchefer {Fuly 29:) r K Was tried a’ Caufe of great Expeétation, between George Pitt of sbroton in that County, Efq; Owner of Cranborne Chace, Plaintiff, and Thomas. Fownes and Henry Bower, Efgs; Defendants, concerning the Plaintiff’s Right of Chace in the Defendant's Lands in Stypleton and Iwera in that County, After a Tryal of 14 Hours, the Jury. -* gave Verdict for the Plainaiff. 4

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BIRTHS. 8 HE Wife of Thomas Geers Winford, Eq; Reprefentative for Hereford, wasdcliver'’d The Lady of Sir Thomas Shelley, one of the Commiffioners of the Stamp Du- ties, deliver’d of a Son, 22, The Dutchefs of Kent, deliver'd of a Son and Heir. The Lady, Relié& of the late Lord rfolk’s Houfe in St fames’s Square. 23. The Wife of Wm Archer, Eq; Sifter to. Sir Michael Newton, Kt of the Bath, deliver'd of a Son. 24. The Wife of Fobn Ivie, Efq, and Grand-Daughter to Mr Juftice Price, was deliver'd of a Son. to the late Lord Bingley, deliver'd of a Sonjand Heir. MARRIAGES, R .Delawney, married to Mrs Ten- The Reverend Mr Oricquit, Minifter of the German Church in the Savoy, —to Mrs Hammond, worth 600 1. per Ann. Col. Eaton,—to a Daughter of the late - Mr Hodges, Steward to the Duke of Marlborou Efq; Barrifter at Law,—to Milfs Wilkin- of the fame Place, with 6000 /. Fobn Sheldon, Ef4,—to Mifs Douelafs, of Pinner in Hertfordpire, an Heirefs of 12,000 /, bn Evelyn, Ey, Equerry to the Pr. Wales,—to the Daughter of the Lord Vifc. Falmonth. Henry Bellafyffe, F.{g; a Relation to the Lord Fauconbridee,-to a Daughter of the late Capt. Billingley, a Sea Com- mander; and Nicce to Sir Charles Dalton, Genti¢man Ubher of the Black Rod. Thomas Caldecott, of Cathorp, in Nor- _, thamptonpire, F.{q;—to Mifs Fit, a Lady G of 10,000 /. Fortune. Richard Fletcher, E{g, eldeft Son of John Fletcher, F{q, High-Sheriff for the County of Derby—to Mifs Sufan Fosbrook, The Revd Mr Cantrell ot Derby,— to Mits Fenny Cracock. Cul. Cornwallis,—to Mifs Pierfon. Thomas Window, ¥.{q;, of Eaft Barnet, —to Mrs Maine, Widow of St Albans, with a Fortune of 4009/. Mr Jofwa inter, an Eminent Linnen Draper in Corubill,—to Mis Brondfdon, Clifford, deliver'd of her 3d Son, at the D. pr B The Lady of Geo. Fox, E{4, Daughter C 928 Births, Marriages, &c. in AUGUST, 1732. N°XX, Daughter of Capt. Bronfdon, an Eminent Ship-Builder at Deptford, with 5000 |, Litt Cholmandeley Ch, the Second and.'Third Sons of Col. Meyri¢ of the Foot Guards. A Young Lady in Wilts of 4000 I. For. tune—married to a Footman. PROMOTIONS. | ey Manley, Ey, appointed 4 Capt. of a Company of ‘Foot in a Reg. on the Jrifo Eftablifhment. Tho, Towers, Gent. made an Enfign ina nother Reg. on the fame Eftablifhment. Mr George Foreft, Matter of the Britif Coffee-houfe at ‘Charing-Crofs, made a Captain in the E, of Tankerville’s Reg, of the Middlefex Militia. Mr Thomas Hall, appointed Surveyor of the Duties on Houlcs, for the County of Huntingdon. Mr Fofeph Askew, appointed Waiter ] nifon, Widow, of 1500 /. per Ann. D and Searcher in the Port of Lancafter, The Hon. Wm Finch, E{y; next Bro- ther to the E. of Winchelfea and Notting- ham, appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Spain. Humphry Maynwaring Howarth, EX Son to Sir Humphry Howarth, Repre- -—- He well, of Bloomsbury -Square , {entative for the Shire of Radnor, appoint: ed one of the Clerks of the Treafury. Mr Ferrett, Gentleman to the E. of Burlington, appointed one of the Gentle- men Penfioners to his Majefty, in the Room of Thomas Lane, E{q, deceafed. Fames Fulleffer Loyd, Efy, appointed Captain of a Company in Col. Clayton's Reg. of Foot. Marmadyke Ramfey, Eq; appointed Captain of a Company in Col. Harrifon's Reg. of Foot now at Edinburgh. Mr Bambridge, appointed Capt. Lieut. of a Company in the faid Regiment. Sir Roger Butler, firft Licut. of the Namur, appointed Captain of a new Sloop, called the Bonetta. : Lieut. Smith of the Namur, appoint- ed Capt. Lieut. of the Bonetta. Mr Pocock and Mr Hobourn, appointed Lieutenants of the Namur. Lieut. Charles Smith, appointed Cap- tain of one of the new Sloops now build- ing at Chatham, to be named the Spy. Lieut. Fowkes, appointed Licut. ot the Sloop Terrible. : Mr Wilcox, elected Clerk of the Vint- ner’s Company. Thomas ey, Daughter of Charles a Daughter. A Cholmondeley, ¥{j, of Vale-Royal in Chefoire, and Mifs Pitt, two talies of great Fortanes,thatiaae

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Youll. Promotions, 6%. in AUGUST, 1732. ; 929 thomas Norton, ¥4y; Reprefentative A Difpenfation to fobm U/gate, M.A. fr St Edmundsbury, ele&ted Head- Chaplain to the E. of Loudon, to hold Officer of that Corporation, by the Ti- the Reétory of Thurrock Parva in Effex,

in tle of Alderman. together with the Vicarage of We oung @ Brig. Gen. Dalziel, appointed Com- A Thurrock in the faid County. d to Hf sander in chief of the Forces in Scotland, Mr Humphries, of Trinity Coll. Cant. ey @ in the abfence of General Wade, inthe bridge, to hold the Vicarage of Ware, room of Major-General Dubourgay,dec. with that of Thundridge, both in Hert- For. Dr Guy Roffignac, chofen Lecturer of fordfbire. Anatomy at Surgeon's Hall, inthe room Mr Giles, prefented to the Living of —~ § of Dr a se deceafed, Carnford in Cambridgfhire, Edward Stephens, Efq; appointed by B Dr Bundy, Rector of Eaft-Barnet, 44 @ the Royal African Company, Governor now abroad with his Majefty, appointed and Chief of Cape-Coa/? and allthe Eng- one of the Prebendaries of Weftminfter, lip Settlements on thé Coaft of Africa, in the room of Dr Apiegenes dec, ina Mr George Grierfon, fucceeds Mr An- William Webfter, D. D. appointed to nt. dnw Crook, deceafed, as his Majefty’s the Curacy of St Clements Eaftcheap. iti § Pinter General in Ireland. Mr Carleton, appointed Sub-Dean. of Thomas Killback, Efy; made an En-¢ the Chapel Royal at St fames’s, in the eg, ff fign in the Firft Reg. of Foot Guards, room of Dr A/pinwall, deceafed. Mr John Brown, cleéted one of the Dr Croxall, made Archdeacon of Salop. yor & Sheri sof Norawich, for the Year enfuing. Mr Mudge, cle&ted Vicar of St An- George Purvis; Efg, Reprefentative drews, Plimouth, worth upwards of fr Alborough, cleéted an Elder Brother 300 /. per Ann, ter | the Trinity-Houfe at Deptford-Strond, in the nom of Bis Thomas Hardy. D DEATHS. r0- Mr Robert Finlay, A Merchant of great. ’ : F ng- | “apacity and caine is appointed to' med ‘Pp = p of mann Fs fase Avery, ‘to gto Carolina, as Agent tothe Truftees 4x Blackavell, formerly @ Merchant tor the Colony ot Georgia. col of this City ’ y 14 Mr Bofcawen, Son of the Lord Vifc. Mr Yobn{on. formerly Comm re- | Falmouth, appointed Licutenant of the ad me maya the Guinea and. Weft

nt. Helfor. E India Trade. The Lady Harriot Hervey, youngetft of : Daughter of the E. of Briftal le. Ecclefiaftical PREFERMENTS. Mrs folliff at Eaft-Sheen, Surry. he h R ‘fohn Rufpworth, prefented to 2. The Reli& of Mr Carpenter, Gar- : the Vicarage of Tillingley, War- <dener to K. William. ed | wickbire. 3. The Rev. Dr Afpinwal, Sub-Dean we Mr Thomas Baker, to the Reétory of F of his Majefty’s Chapel, and one of the od Patton, Salop. Prebendarics of Weftminfter. Mr Thomas Hudfon, to the Vicarage 4. The Hon. Gen. Rofs, Reprefentative SE of Benendon, in Kent. for the Shire of Rofs in North Britain. Mr Peter Chamber, to the Living of He was Colonel General of the Dragoon te Lairn Marney in Effex. Forces in the Reign of Q. Anne; but loft ' Robert Chernock, A. M. to the Reéto- his Employ at the Acceition of his late | of Elmly in the Dioc. of Canterbury. G Majefty. In 1720, being one of the Se- w Mr Themfon, A. M. to the Re&tory of cret Committee, a Member making cor- ‘ Braigtolft, Lincolnfbire. rupt Application to him in Behalf of Mr r Mr Hall, to the Living of Nokencar Ajflabie on the S. Sea Affair, he com- 4 Oxford. plain’d of it to the Houfe; for which he | Thomas Etty, M. A. prefented tothe receiv'’d their Thanks, and the Member ReGory of Leglesborouch in Lincolnfzire. was immediately expell’d. His prefent ‘l A Difpenfation is granted to John yy Majefty foon attcr his Acceflion made , Webb, NL. A. Chaplain to the E. of Ker,to him General of the Horie, and on the hold the Re@tory of Great Riffington in . Death of Col. Sidney reftor'dhim to his . Gloucefter ire, together with the Vica- Kegiment of Innesksllinz Dragoons. Be- . nge of Atlingham in the fame County. ing unmarried, he left a great Eftate to Dr Thomas Inett, appointed a Pre- the 2d Son of Ld Rofs of Ireland. bendary of the Cathedral at Winchefter, in Mr Sheaff, an eminent Stationer in te toom of Dr Croffe, deceafed. Breadfivect, 6. James

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930 mh the Pedte, near Guilford in i Heb EMG; in Picchdhlty. The Rey. Mr Rigdea Minilte? of Ry. gate in Shr 8. ‘The weet of Liha Osbdrne, Eft; Pritticr Serjéant at Law K.Wiliag i. Mr Biller's, a near Relation of Sr Wm Billers, Knt.and‘Ald. * MY Harvifon, Attgrncy in Clements-Inn. Mr Lage, one of His’ Majefty’s Géntle- mien Penifioners. .. fob Sintevland, EXqs at Charing. _ Mr Béacher> Dty-Salter, a Reldtion’df S¥ Edward Beacher, Mdc ¥ Goodin, formerly 4 Wep-India Merchant,’ at’ Co!nbyook: j ee oily Daughter of the ¥. of Ap- bin sm; at’ Tunbridde. Mr Daniel’ Hays, ah eminent Merchant of this City. The L Yr F L the Shire for the Courtty of ‘Effex. The. Wite of Benjamin Foxley, Ef; a Hamburgh Merchat. 7 10; Grorge Turfield, of Petersfield in Hampfoire, nT anes Field) of Odydm, Hants, EQ: Boyrne,, Chaiferhan to the Queen. 11. Mrs White, Widow, poflefs'd' of E 260 |, a. Year ;:wttich the has left to her Grandfon at Eato# School. 12. .Mr Cot/worth, tormérly Watch- maker, the oldeft Inhabitant in St Dun- fean’s Parith in the Weft, aged néar’ 100, Mt! Mattin, a French Merchiant; at his Houfé at Richmond Green. 14. Mr Cafilemain, an’ Attorney ig Southampton Buildiaas. Col: Hammetton, Naval Officer’in South Carolina: Mifs Fletcher, of Gloucefterfrire, at the Bath, leaving a Fortune of 3,000 /. 15. Sr Darcy Dawes, Bar. only Son of G Sr'Wm Dawes, late Id Archbp of Tork, mich ‘lamented in that County. Henry Bartlett, Efy; Nephew to Ald. Pat fons, died lately at Paris. i6..S¥ Tho; Hardy Bar. He commanded the Pembroke, a.4th Rate, with Sr Geo. Rooke, when they took the Spaxi/> Gal- leoris. He brought the News of their being 1732. Nex!

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ne da, ler, he alf- of Vot. II. The TRYAL of Ereanor Beare of Derby, om Tuefday, Aug. 15, 1732. LEANOR MERRIMAN; now the Wife BE of Ebenexer Beare, indi&ted for a Maf- Nib. Wilfon co poifon his Wife, and for gi- ving him Poifon for that End : - Indiéted a fecond time by the Name of E- leaner Beare, for a Mifdemeanor, in deftroy- ing the Foetus in the Womb of Grace Belfort, by putting an iron Inftrumenct up inro her Body, and thereby caufing her to mifcarry. Indifted 2 third time, for deftroying the Fetus in the Womb of a certain Woman, to the Jury unknown, by putting an iron In- frument up her Body, or by giving her fomething to make her mifcarry. Pleaded Net Guilty. CoUNSEL FOR THE Kino. Gentlemen of the Jurys you have heard che Indiérment tad, and I muft obferve ro you, that the Crime for which the Prifoner ftands indicted, isan Offence of the higheft Nature, next to Murder itfelf ; it is the Inftigation of a Man 0 kill his Wife, in the moft fecret Manner, in order to keep it from the Eyes of the World, and thereby to efcape the Punifhment due to fuch a Crime, by giving her Poifon in Drink, of fuch a Natures as fhould not work fuddeniy but by degrees, and chereby to kill her without any Sufpicion of Murder ; and itisowing to the good Providence of Gon, that the Man did noc give his Wife the Poi- fon, for if he had, and the had died, the Pri- foner would have been tryed for the Murder. Call Nicholas Wilfen. Court. Do you know the Prifoner? ‘Witson. Yes. Court. How long— WiLson. It is about 3 Yeers fince I un- fortunately met with the Prifoner at a Publick Houfe at Wirk{worth ; after fome Converfa- tion, fhe told me 1 was young, and could nor take my Liberty for fear of having Uneafinels with my Wife, but if I would be ruled by het, fhe wouid put me in a way co be rid of its Task’d her how? She faid fhe would give me fomething to give my Wife in her Dink Which wou'd do her Job. I wold her that we fhould hoth be hang’d. She faid I need not that, for it would noe kill her fuddenly bat by degrees, and that it would never be pected, In a few Lays I mer with the Prifoner again, and (he gave me fomethin ma Paper to give my Wife in her Drink, wal told me it would quickly do her Job. I took the Paper and buried it, and went Home and told my Wife what had pafs’d becween me ind the Prifoner ; and the defired me to keep out of her Company ; and I have never feen her fince, rill I now fee her at the Bar. Prisoner. Did not you hire one Mary mans to poifon y ur Wife; and did not jy receive fume Poifon (if it was Poifon) fom her, and afterwards fend for me, and demeanor, in endeavouriug to perfuade_ Tryacs in AUGUST. 1732. 931° [See p. 722] tell me the Scuff you had from Mary Yeomans would do no Good? Evipence. No, I had the Stuff from you and no other, and I buried it as above, Call ‘Fobn Wi/fon. Court. What have you to fay to the Pri- foner ? J. Wixson, Since the was in Prifon the fence for me, and cold me the had fomething againft my Brother which would. touch his Life, and defired he would keep out of the Way ar the Affizes, Counsex. Your Lordthip will. obferve, that the Prifoner fearing N. Wilfon might be an Evidence againft her, had chat.Contrivance to fend him out of the Way. Call Hannah Wilfon. H. Wiuson. My Husband told me he had received fomething from the Prifoner, which fhe bid him give mein fome Drink, and it would fhuc me quickly. . To the Second Indi&ment. Counsen. Gentlemen, You have -heard the Indiétment read, and may obferve, that the Mifdemeanor for which the Prifoner ttands indicted, ‘is of a moft fhocking Nature; to deftroy the Fruit in the Womb carries fome- thing tn it {0 contrary to the natural Tender- nefs of the Female Sex, that. I am amazed how ever any Woman fhould arrive at fuch a degree of Impiezy and Cruelty, as.to attempe it in fuch a manner as che Prifoner has done, it has really fomething fo fhocking in it, that I cannot well difplay the Nature of the Crime to you, but mutt leave ic ro the Evidence: It is cruel and barbarous to ‘the laft degree, Call Grace Belfort. Grace Bezrorp. I lived with the Pri- foner as a Servant about ten Day but was not hired, and I wasoff and on with her a- bout fourteen Weeks:: When I had been with her a few Days theré came Company into the Houfe, and made me drink Ale and Brandy (which I was not ufed to drink) and it Overgéame me; my Miftrefs fenc me. into the Stable to give Hay to fome Horfes, but | I was not capable of doing it, fo laid me, down in the Stable; and there came to me one Ch-——r, 2 young Man that was. drink- ; ing in the Houfe, and after fome Time I feared I was’ with Child by Ch -——r;. upen that, my Miftrefs asked me if I was with Child, I cold her I thought I was; Then the faid if I could get 30 Shilling from Cho——~, fhe would clear me from the Child, withouc giving me Phyfick. , A little Time after. fome Company gave me Cyder‘and Brandy, my Miftrefs and I were both fu'l of Liquor, and when the Company was gone, we could fcarce get up Stairs, but we did get up; then I laid me onthe Bed, and my Miftrefs brought a kind of an Inft:ument, I cook it to be like iis iia wee an

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932° an Iron Skewer, and the put it up into my Body a great'Way, and hurt me. Court. What followed upon thar? EvipeNnce. Some Blood came from me, Court. Did you mifcarry after that ? Evipence. Te next Day after f went to sAllefiree, where I had a Mifcarriage. Court. What did the Prifoner do after this? Evipencg. She told me the Job was done. [I then lodged two or three Nights with one Ann Mi\eley (now Ann Oldknowles) and comipg one Morning to fee the Prifoner, I called fur a'Mug of Ale and drank it, and told her I was going Home; then came in vhn Clark, and on the Prifoner’s faying I was going home, he faid he would give mea Glafs of Wine w help me forward, which accordingly he did, out of a Bottle he had jn his Pocket, then I took my Leave of him; and when I was a little Way out of Town, I fel! down at a Style, and was nor well, I Jay a little while, then got ug, and went to Metsing ham thac Night. Call Ann O/dknowles, Coprt, Do you know any Thing of Grace Belford having a Mifcarriage ? EVIDENCE. I know nothing, but that when fhe lay wichme, I faw ai! the Symptoms of Mifcarriage on the Bed where the lay, Cal} Fobn Clark. Court. Do you krow the Prifoner ? CLARK. Yes, 1 have frequented her Houfe. Cor. Did you ever hear her fay any thing that fhe had ufed Means to make a Woman with Child mifcarry, by putting any kind of Inftrument up their Bodies, or by giving them ahy Thing co take inwardly ? ‘CLARK. Yes, ‘I have. —— Count, Have you feen her Inftrument for that Purpofe, or have you feen her ufe any Means to make any Woman with Child thifcarry ? CLARK. No, but! have heard her fay fhe had done ic, and that fhe then had under her ohe Hinnah ———, whoie other Name I know not. CourT. Have you heard her fay the had been fene for for thefe wicked Pradices, or had any Reward for caufing arly one to mif- carry ? CLARK. I heard her fay thehad been once fent tor to Nottingh:m, and, as 1 remember, fite faid fie had five Pounds for the Journey, Prisoner. Did not you fay yo never heard me fay any thing of ufing any Means ro caufe Mifcarriage in any Perfon, or faw me ufe any Means for that End ? CLARK. No, I faid I never faw you do any thing chat Way, but had heard you fay ou had done it, Would you have me for- wear myfelf ? PRisgNeR. No, but I would have you {peak the Truth. Ciark. I do. Then the Prifoner called feveral Perfons to fpeak in her Behalf but only two appeared, and they only gave her Frierds a reputable Character, and faid the Prifoner had had a good Fducation, bor they knew nothing of the lat- tér Parc of her Life. Trra.s in AUGUST, 1732. N° XX; MR Mayor. The Prifoner at the Bar has a very bad Charaéter, and I have had frequeng Complaints againft her for keeping a diforder- ly Houfe, Many Evidences were ready in Court tg have proved the Faéts the ftood charg’d with in the third Indi€tment ; but his Lordthip obferving that the fecond Indi&ment wa proved ra plainly, he rhought there was ng Neceffity for going upon the third. His Lordfhip fummed up the Evidence ing very moving Speech to the Jurys wherein he faid, he never met with a Cafe fo barbaroug and unnatural. The Jury, after a fhort Con- fulration, brought the Prifoner in Guilty of both Indi€tments, and fhe received Sentencg to ftand on the Pillory, the Two next Market- Days, and co fuffer clofe Imprifonment for Three Years. Derby, Auguft 18, 1732. This Day Eleaner Beare, purfuant w her Sentence, ftood for the fir Time in the Pillory in the Markets place; to which Place fhe was attended by feyeral of the Sherift’s Officers ; notwithftand- ing which, the Populace, to fhew their Re- fentment of the horrible Crimes wherewith fhe had been charged, and the little Remorfe fhe has fhewn fince her Commitment, gave her no Quarter, but threw fuch quantities of Eggs, Turnips, Ge. that it was thought fhe would hardly have efcap’d with her Life: She dif engaged herfelf from the Pillory before the Time of het ftanding was expired, and jump’d among the Crowd, whence the was with Difficulty carried back to Prifon. AT the Affizesat GLOUCESTER, cAmg.26. Exy Hatton was indicted for the moft bar- barous and inhuman Murder of THo. Tur- BERVILE> late of Mitchel- Dean, Carpenter, on Friday the 28th of April left, who was found in his Shop the next Day with his Brains defh’d out, and his Skull chop’d to pieces with a broad Axe that was lying by him all over blocdy. There were feveral reputable Witneffes call’d to prove the Faé, who de- pofed, that when che Prifoner was apprehend- ed, he had ona Shirt and a Pair of Scockings of the Deceafed’s, and his Coat was blovdy 9 feveral Places ; with maiy other Circumftances whi-h imply’d his Guilt almoft as ftrong a o.ular Demonft:ation.— He acknowledg’d that he was with the Deceafed thar Evening; and had only to fay in his Defence, tbat the Deceafed and he went to a Hill near the Town to view fome Deer, where he left him; but cali’d Nobody to prove that they were there: He cali’d in his Behalf one Man only, '0 prove that he faw him about g 0’ Clock that Night the Murder was committed; who faid, he verily believ’d he was the Perfon who committed the faid Murder. On his Tryal he faid, the Shirt he had on when he was ap- prehended, was his Brother’s; and on his Ex- amination before the Coroner, faid, it be- long’d to his Peer cor: 00. Hey browse him in Guilty; and he received Sentence 0 Death accordingly,

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r has ueng der- 19 wich thip $00 ina roug /ON= y of ence for rains ieces n all table » de- end- kin dy e ances ng as mings tC Z “own ; but here: , 0 ¢ that faid, who val he § ap- 5s Ex- t be- ought wl You.!1. Forzrcn Arrairs for AUGUST, 1732. de Ripperda, who is turn’d Ma- hometan, had got into the Em- perour of Morocco’s Favour; and that to give him Authority, they talk’d of a Match between him and the Mo- ther Queen. From Spain, Portugal and Italy, That their Harvefts this Year have poved very bad. Ee Africa, That the Duke 933 From Paris, That the Difference between the French King and his Par- liament, which was thought to be near accommodated, ftill fubfifts; his Ma- jefty ordering them to regifter his new Declaration, prefcribing their future Be- haviour, and infifting on-it, and they perfifting humbly to intreat him to withdraw the faid Declaration. From Seville, That the Count de From Rome, That Mr Thomfon was B Montemar, who commanded the Spanifh difcharged out of Prifon, and order’'d Forces employ’d in the Conqueft of tp depart that Capital in 24 Hours, Oran, was returned thither, and was and the Ecclefiaftical Eftate in1o Days; gracioufly received by his Catholick gathat Card. A/beroni was going, with the Pope’s Permiffion, to be Prime Mi- titer to Don Carbs. From Turie, That that Court had © fiz'd.on five Fiefs of the Holy See in Piedmont, and that the T'wo Courts were more embroil’d than ever. From Perfia, That the Sophy had Majefty. A ftrong Garrifon was left in the Place, and the reft of the Troops fent home: But what by Skirmifhes with the Moors, and Sicknefs, came fhort 7 or 8000 Men. The Moors were preparing for the Siege of Ceuta, as projected by the D. Ripperda, whole Servant was taken there as a Spy, and broke the Peace with the Turks, and put to the Rack. ad taken feveral Towns from them. D~ From Venice, That the Plague rages From Gibraltar, That the Earl of Albemarle was arrived there in good Health ; and that the K. of Spain had given Leave to the Garrifon to fetch Provifions for their Ufe, with proper fo on the Yurki/h Frontiers, that the ‘Towns are almoft become defolate. From Berlin, That above 12,000 Proteftant Sa/tzburghers were come to fettle in Pruffia, and 5,000 more were Pafles from the Englifb Conful, from E expected. ‘Their Ufage has been very ay Ports where Cuftom-houfes are ehablifhed. From Bermuda, May25. That afew Days before, theAflembly had paffled an AG for laying a Duty of 10/. per Head on-every old Whale killed and brought info the Ifland, in order to raife the Sum of 140/. current Money, to be oa yearly to his Excellency John Pit, fq; their Governour, in lieu of the Benefit of granting Licenfes for the Whale-Fithery ; which his Majefty in his Inftruétions had limitted not to ex- © ceed 100/. Sterling per Ann. But the overnour refufed to pa{s the Bill un- kfs the Aflembly made it 150/. tho’ the ufual Exchange is but 140 /. From Montpelier, ‘That the late D. barbarous, being not only obliged to leave their Country, and moft of their Effeéts, but one Child of every Family was forcibly taken from them:7749- P-318,B. From Warjaw, That his Polifb Ma- jefty had refolved to fend away three Saxon Regiments, to prevent the Un- Cafinefs of the Po/es, who murmured at his increafing thofe beyond the firlt Number of 12,000. From Corfica, That Four of their Chiefs being detained in Prifon at Ge- nua, the Male-contents have threatned to rife again. P. S. Aug. 31. Letters this Day from Paris advite, ‘That the King of France has held his Bed of Juftice, and obliged the Parliament to regifter in his of Ormond arrived there on the 14th 4 Pretence the Declaration they fo much Inftant from Perpignan, with a great ‘tinue, in his Way to Avignon, oppoted, and another for continuing 4 Sols per Livre on Eftates and Goods, Prices

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na nt ma eCourfe of Exchange. Amfterdam— 35 2 DittoatSight 354411 Hamburgh—+ 34°) 3 Rotterdam —.'3.5 3 Antwerp —~ 35 4 8 Madrid 2% Venice Bourdeaurx— Oporto Lisbon Doblin 5 . 5 Paris ———— 3 3 5 6 104 STOCKS. S. “Seabro4, + — Annu. ri 3 Bank 152 4 ~ Ind. Bonds 51. 165. --Circalation 4/. 55. India 157.4 —Mil. Bank 1124 African 38 1 §. §. Bonds 3/. 15s. .Royal Aff. 103 Lon. ditto 13 % York: Build. 5 44 6 3 ‘per Cent.ann. 99 3 Eng. Copp. 2/. 3s: Welfh ditto 1 /..1 5. ‘| Equivalent = 105 Prices of Grain at Bear-Key. per Qr. Wheat 205.t0235.'6d.| P. Malt cos. to 241. 0d. Barley 1 (5.6 03s,04.! B. Male 14s. torgs. od. Oates 1c5.to 125.0d.| Tares 205.00 245.045 Rys . 145. to. 155.104, | H« Peale 124.0 164+ ode ” Peale 195. t0 22s. 0% ;H Beans20s.t0 235,04, Prices of Goods, &%c. in London. Coals per Chaldrom 22.0 25 5. New Hops perHan. §1.105.t06 1. Dicta fecond fort 49 5. per 0. ahogt-to2rt.19%+ Loaf Sugar dowble refine 8d.EHalf- penny aod H. penny per /b. O!d Hops Rape Seca 124 40121104. f )Ma Chriftned {Females 761 Males- 106 Buried Females 980 Wheat 934 =. Prices of Goods; 8¢c.in AUGUST, 1732, N? XX Towards the End of the Month. Monthly BILL of Mortality Srom July ~s to Aug. es $99 ¢ al 31s 5b 2045 Died under z Years old »---- 934 etween 2 and == 5 ---- p28 Between! s:and 10 =----* 69 Between 10 and’: 20 :--- 49 ‘ Between 20 and © 30 -+-=:\pat Between 30: and 40 «+ 191 Between 40 and ° 50 =--- 181 Between 50 and 60 ---- 147 Between 60 and 70 ---- 112 Between: 70 and 80 ----'! 6g Between 80 and go ---- 43 Between go.and 100 ----) 1 Betweentoo and 110 ---- 3 Gloucefter 3s. to 38. 4d. per Bothel, Reading 61. to 6l. 158. per Load, Bofing floke 51. to 61. per Loads Dablin 145. to 175. per Barrel. Belfaf 10s to 14,5, per Barrel. Opium 115. 00 d. wicksilver 4s. 3 d. Led the Fodder 19 Hun, t half Disto fingle fis. 56 s- 60° 605. Sarfaparille 35.6 d. on board, 161. 0046 1.105. Tin in’ Block, H1..00 8 per C. Ciyamon 7 3. 94. _ Dittoin Bars 41s ons. extinfive Cloves gs. 1d. of 35 per Han., Daty. Copper Eng: bet” 1.05 sper C. Nuemtegs 84.6. per lb, Mace 15.6 d. per lb. Saffron Eng. 26s. 00 ds Wormfetds 3s. 4d. » Rhubarb 25 5. 4 3056 y. Hay 2/, 25. to 2/, 125. a Load. Sugar Powd. bef? 548. a59%.perC- Maffick white 45.6 d. Balfam Capaiva 25. 104. Balfam of Gillead 18 s. Hipocacuana 6 s. 7 d. ood, Dittoord. ght6s. tosh. per C. Sugar Candy white 12d. to 17d. Ambergreece per ox. 14 $+ 004, Diztotrown.6 d.Halfpenny per lb. Ditto Barbary 34. 04 /. Tron of Bilboa 14.1.104.per Tun Pepper far Home confump. 16 4. Wine,, Brandy, and Rum. Dit. of Sweden 151.1058, per Tina Ditto for exportation 11 d-3 Far. Oporto red, per T. 321. @ 34h Tallow 40 si per Ci or's de p. tb. Tea Bohra fine to s.to vas. per lb. ditts white 461, Country ‘Tallow, 11. 185. 6d. Ditto ordinary 105. per ib. Ditto Conge vos. to 14.5.per (b. ditto Pekoe 145. 4.165. per lb, Cochineal 17 5+ 3.4. ‘peril. Grocery, Wares. Raifins of the Sun igs.od.perC. ditto Tmperial 9 s.to 12 s. per lb. Ditte Malaga Fraiies none Dicto Smiraa new none Ditto Ahaénis hone Ditto Lipra new 205. od, Ditto Belvrarra none Currants old none Ditto new 38 s. 00445. Prunes French 215.20225. Fizs none Lisbon ved 36 ditto white, 26 1. Sherry 27 1. ditto Green fine 10s. to 135.per lb. Canary new 26 /. ditio Hyfon 305. to 55% Drugs by the lb. Balfam Perm 16 s. Cardamoms 35.3 4. Camphire refin'd 16 $. Crabs Eyes 23.3d. Falloep 38.24. Manna 15.6d. a &5. od. ditto old 32'1. Florence 3!. per Chef? French red 361. a'50 |. ditto white 201, Momntain malaga old28/, to 30! ditto new 20 to 241. Br, Friper Gat. 65.34, 1064-9 de Rum of jam. Ose 7 5.104 he ditto Lew. I lands 68+ 6d. to 7% N. B. The New BOOKS publifh’d this Month, we leave to our next, t0 make Room for feveral Matters more Entertaining, which are not.to be met with in the News-Parers, and could not fo properly be deferr’d. 2 POS | oe eee. CUCshCO o'otme ww oOo woo net we or6,Rra a Se wWMorwenrpeodt «Ss af SS