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Good-nature, where all find themselves at ease,
For, pleas'd itself, it never fails to please ;
Honour, plac'd centinel, to give th' alarm,
And warn the virtues of approaching harm;
Courage, that braves the danger of the field;
Juftice, that flies to fpread her guardian shield
Before Oppreffion's arm, high-rais'd to wound
Weak Innocence, laid proftrate on the ground;
Pity, alive to feel another's grief,

Alive to feel, and quick to bring relief;
Anxious, neglectod worth to feek, and chear,
To ftop Want's cry, and dry up Sorrow's tear:
With all thefe virtues ftill we ask one more,
We boldly ask, in asking for the poor ;
For England, poor and fall'n! Can the demand
Aid, and thou ftretch not forth thy filial hand?
Foe to her foes close-leagu'd her fame to blot,
Th'apoftate Whig, mean Tory, guileful Scot,
The State's difeafe! roufe, chafe them from the
throne ;

Affert thy country's honour, and thy own.

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To Mifs E. S.

Aireft Nymph of all the train, Which on Wycomb's lowing plain The finking Sun furveys, Rambling to the verdant grove, Scene of pleasure and of love,

Now burnifh'd with his rays. As in this fmiling landscape fair; (Woods and meads beyond compare,

The valley, hill, and ftream) Beauties fo in Thee combine, Only sweeter far are thine,

Thou lovely nymph fupreme!

See yon glorious golden Sun,

To the Earth his bright beams down
Delight and plenty bear!
He's the image of thy mind,
Glittering with thoughts refin'd,

While goodness too is there.

Pardon me, that I affay
To the public, in my lay,

W.

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A new Truce with BACCHUS and VENUS. Sung by Mr Lowe at Marybone-Gardens. Yfelf between Venus and Bacchus I'll poife, And 'twixt their two fcales fix my balance of joys;

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'Tis true, that they both have their charms, when apart,

But blended, they double the beat of my heart.
With rage on his brow, & contempt in his eye,
Bacchus throws down his clufter, and gives me
the lye;

No female, fays he, fhall partake of my throne,
A rival I hate, and I'll govern alone.
Dear Venus in turn her dominion maintains,
Afferts her controul o'er the nymphs and the
(waine,

Upbraids me for kneeling at Bacchus's fhrine,
And Arictly forbids me the juice of the vine.
One fcolds me, because I am fond of the bowl,
The other, 'cause woman shares half of my foul:
I boldly declare, for all projects I've try'd,
No mortal his paftime can better divide.
Why then let 'em wrangle, what is it to me?
I warrant my conduct fhall make 'em agree;
As one to prefer to the other I'm loth,
I'll love, and I'll drink, and be pleafing to both.

A CANTATA,
Sung by Mifs BRENT at Vauxhall.
RECITATIVE.

DAMON, ftill you ftrive in vain,
Clarinda's fix'd refolve to move,

My heart, alas, may feel the pain,
But justly scorns the guilt of love.

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Lift of Books published; with Extra&s. Nterefting,hiftorical events, &c.relative to the provinces of Bengal, and the empire of Indoftan; with a seasonable hint and perfuafive to the honourable the Court of Directors of the Eaft-India company, As alfo the mythology and cosmogony, fafts and festivals of the Gentoos, followers of the A Shaftab. And a differtation on the me tempfychofis, commonly, tho' erroneously called the Pythagorean doctrine. By J. 2. Holwell, Efq; Part I.-Becket and De Hondt.

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This part contains, 1. A short hiftory of the fucceffion to the empire of Indoftan, from Aarenzeb to Mahomet Shaw. 2diy. Transactions in the Sabahdaary of Bengal, from the government of Jaffier Kban, to the ufurpation of Alverdi Khan, with a re lation of many extraordinary particulars relating to Aliverdi, and his brother Hadjee Hamet. 3dly. A fummary account of the provinces of Bengal, its principal towns, their bearings and diftance from each other and from Calcutta, with an eftimate of C their revenues.

The next part is to contain, 4. A fum-. mary view of the fundamental religious te nets of the Gentoo's, followers of the Shafab. 5. A fhort account from the Sha-. Stab, of the creation of the worlds, or uni- D verfe, 6. The Gentoo manner of computing time, and their conceptions touching the age of the worlds, and the period of their diffolution. 7. An account and explanation of the Gentoo fafts and feftivals, with a representation of their grand feast of the Drugab, comprifing a view of their principal idols, and the genealogy of their fubor- E

dinate deities. 8. A differtation on the Gentoo doctrine of the metempsychosis.

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(Of the part of the work now published, we fball give an epitome in our next. t.)

2. Kimbolton-Park; a poem. Dodfley. Kimbolton-Park belongs to Kimbolton-Cafile, now a feat of the Duke of Manchester, in Huntingtonfbire. This place was the retreat of Katbarine of Spain after the had been divorced by Henry the VIIIth, and she died here, as it is fuppofed, of a broken heart. The author, has improved this incident into a polite complement to his Grace, to whom he confeffes great obligations, in the following verses:

When hapless England felt a tyrant's fway,
And that fierce tyrant fell to luft a prey,
Here fill'd with grief an injur'd princefs fled
From fhort-liv'd grandeur, ond divided bed:
Oppreflion fpread her horrors o'er the plain,
And all thy fweets, Kimbolton bloom'd in

vain.

For not the fragrant breath of rofy morn,
Nor tuneful lark on rifing piniens borne,
Nor all the verdure of the blooming spring,
Can to the broken heart loft pleasure bring.
In England then the fons of freedom flept,
And drooping virtue o'er their afhes wept :
Catherine of Spain.

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In vain for right the royal franger cry'd,
That right his flaves enjoy'd her lord deny'd;
Yon inmoft grove oft heard her mournful tale,
Her forrows fpread along this filent vale;
Till Fate in pity call'd her to the fhore,
Where luft and tyranny opprefs no more.
Thrice happy change! where royal virtue
The aged and the orphan are reliev'd ;
griev'd,
And thankful widows crowd the open'd door,
Where weeping majesty complain'd before.

By this extract the reader will fee that the verfification of this little piece is extremely harmonious, and that the fenti ments are poetical: The fentiments, however, in the following extract, are more than poetical, they are GOOD.

Here let the huntsman wind the echoing

horn,

Cheer his wift feed, & wake the rofy morn
Let dogs and men in noify concert join,
And sportsmen call the harmony divine:
The mufe delights not, fond of penfive ease,
In diffipation, or purfuits like these.

And thou, fweet thrush! prolong thy
am'rous tale,

Let thy love burthen'd fong delight the vale!
No leaden death I bring, no toils for thee,
Sing on, and footh thy feather'd progeny.
Come, peaceful precepts of the Samian fage,
Unbend the bow, and curb an iron age!
Whatever laws fhort-fighted man may make,
Who cannot give, can have no power to take;
He, and he only, who could life beftow,
May call his bleffing from the realms below.
Let fhaggy bears, that proul Mufcovia's

fhore,
[gore;
Stain their fierce claws, or dip their tongue in
What they for hunger, we for pleasure Hay.
This does not equal human beafts of prey,

Nor is this thirft of blood to man confin'd;
See S, a favage of the fairer kind!
Pardon me, you! whofe nobler tears can flow
For ought that fuffers mifery below;
Who fhrink to rob the infect of its hour,
Or bruife its offspring in the opening flower:
Your form, your fears were by great Heav'n
defign'd

At once to charm and humanize mankind.
When nature fair from her Creator fprung,
And wond'ring angels hallelujah's fung,
The fylvan fcene, bleft feat! to man was
giv'n,

The richest bounty of indulgent Heaven.
To Peace then facred be the fhady grove!
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Foreign Books, lately published.

1. An hiftorical and political account of the fuppreffion of the Jefuits in France; by M. d'Alembert.

D'Alembert gives an account of the Jefu. A

its from their first inftitution, and mentions feveral particulars by which they have fucceffively loft credit in France.

One of their scholars affaffinated Heary the IVth; and Guignard, a Jefuit, was convicted of writing a book in favour of Regicide, for which he was condemned to die, and the fociety was expelled the king B dom, by an arret of parliament, "as a deteftable and diabolical fociety, the corrupters of youth, and enemies to the king and ftate."

Of this arret, however, they obtained a repeal, and flourished under Richlieu, the minifter of Lewis the XIIIth. In the reign of Lewis the XIVth, they acquired ftill C greater influence; all the benefices paffing through the hands of La Chaize and Le Tillier, made the clergy dependant upon them. Le Tillier was hated even by his brethren, and his brethren were execrated for his fake; he drew great odium upon the fociety by deftroying the famous monaftery, called Port Royal; and the commotion raised by the bull Unigenitus, hurt the fociety fill more; the refufal of the facrament to the Janfenifits, was a principal cause of their ruin,

They loft interest at court when it was moft neceffary they should improve it, by refufing, out of refpect to the Queen, and the Dauphin, to undertake the fpiritual direction of Madamoiselle la Pompadour,and they raised the refentment of many men very able to turn them into ridicule, by abufing the Encyclopedia.

Such was the fituation of the Jesuits when the war broke out between France

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and England; which involved the fociety
in that famous law-fuit, which directly
brought on its deftruction. These fathers
carried on a confiderable commerce in the
island of Martinico; and, as they had fuf-
tained fome loffes by the war, they want-
ed to wipe off, or compound, their debts,
with their correfpondent in Lyons and
Marseilles. These correfpondents, looking
upon the fociety in general to be answer- G
able for their brethren in Martinico, ad-
dreffed themselves to a certain Jefuit in
France, demanding Juftice. This good
father, however, instead of remitting them
good bills, or getting their own accepted,
offered to celebrate a mass for them; that
as they would certainly lofe their money,
God Almighty might teach them to bear

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flitution, were answerable for each other, and that the Jesuits in France should pay the debts of their American misionaries. On the other hand, the Jefuits in France fufal, that they food tryal, before the were fo certain of the juftice of their re. grand chamber of the parliament of Paris where they were caft, by the unanimous voice of the judges, and amidst the univerfal acclamations of the people. What added to their misfortune, also, was, that, beside the immenfe fums they were con‣ the future all manner of commerce. demned to pay, they were interdi&ed for Yet

even this was but the beginning of their difafters. It had been difputed, during the trial, whether or not they were liable to each other debts, by virtue of their conftitution. This debare of courfe furnished the parliament with an opportunity of which it appears had before never been feeing what this famous conftitution was ;

examined into, nor was ever established according to the requifite forms of law, An examination, therefore, being made into their conftitution, and into fome of their books; it afforded very legal and fufficient proofs that their inftitution was contrary to the laws of the kingdom, the obedience due to the king, the fafety of his perfon, and the peace of the state.

The parliament of Paris having taken a whole year to enquire into the nature of their inftitution, it was very natural for the Jefaits to beftir themselves, and to make what friends they could at court. Indeed they fucceeded fo far, as to obtain an edict from the king in their favour; but on the unanimous refusal of the parliament to regifter it, and their earnest remonftrances to the king, it was withdrawn. Things were in this fituation, when the capture of Martinico, by the Engcaufe a diverfion to which, it is faid, the lifb, fet the nation again in a ferment: to miniftry thought on the expedient of proceeding farther against the Jefuits; as Alcibiades is reported to have cut of the tail of his dog, to afford the Athenians fomething to talk about, and divert their attention from matters of state. The principal of their college, therefore, was commandfhut up their schools on the first of April ed to obey the arrets of parliament and to 1762. On the fixth of Auguft following, their inftitution was unanimously condemned in parliament; to which, no oppofition was made by the crown. fociety was now of courfe diffolved, and their poffeffions alienated and fold; the other parliaments of the kingdom follow

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the lofs with Chriftian patience. Their Hing fooner or later the example of that of

creditors finding themselves cheated, fought their remedy at law; infifting, that thofe fathers, by virtue of their con

Paris.

2. A Complete and accurate defcription of Switzerland, with the adjacent

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countries and thofe of its allies. Part 1. Zurich. 1765.

Switzerland is one of the highest countries in Europe, being chiefly composed of long chains of mountains piled one upon another, and terminated by rocks that are

inacceffible, fo that the traveller thinks A

himself often at the fummit of a mountain, and is aftonished to find himself in a valley, at the foot of a new mountain still higher than thole he hath already alcended.

Nay, it happens frequently, that after having climbed up to the highest spot the traveller can reach, he fees himself furrounded on every fide with rocks of an immenfe height, and enormous prominences which no art nor labour can furmount. The elevation of most of these mountains is estimated at nine or ten thousand feet above the furface of the fea. The bottom of them is partly covered

by the hunters, renders them extremely timid and cautious. The bell-weather, or leader of the herd, is always their cen tinel, the hunters giving him the name of the geat, or the van-guard. This ani mal pofts himself on the most elevated and confpicuous places, erecting his ears, looking round him on every fide, and walking backwards and forwards with great folicitude and attention. On the leaft appearance of danger, he gives notice to the reft of the herd by a kind of wheezing or whistling; in confequence of which they betake themselves to flight. At the beB ginning of the winter, the fhamois of both fpecies defcend toward the valleys, and retire under the cliffs and prominencies of the rocks, to fecure themselves from the floods. Here they are nourished by the grafs, that remains green underneath the fnow, which they fcratch away with their

with fine woods of fir and beech trees, and C feet in the manner of rein-deer. They

is partly laid out in fertile meadows, that
affume their verdure at the latter end of A-
pril, or more commonly in May. The mid-
dling mountains produce also a short fine
tufted graís, very fweet and nutritive for
the cattle. The fnow is feldom melted

on them till the month of June; till when D
the valleys and lower mountains afford
fufficient pafturage. The herdsmen, in-
deed, drive the cattle in July and Auguft,
up to fome of the highest mountains; the
very fummits of which are, nevertheless,
totally barren, confifling only of rocks,
covered with fnow, or a perpetual crust of

e. Among thefe are the glacieres, or mountains compofed altogether of ice; the valleys between which are also nothing but extenfive plains of folid ice. It is From these enormous congelations that huge maffes of ice frequently break off, and defcending into the valleys below, occafion terrible inundations. Molt of the

fprings and rivers in Switzerland derive their fource alfo from the gradual diffolu. tion of these frozen mountains.

It is hardly to be conceived that fo cold and dreary a fituation fhould afford either fhelter or fuflenance for any kind of animals. Even the moft bleak and barren of thefe mountains, however, have their inhabitants, the moft remarkable of which is the fhamois or wild goat, of which there are two fpecies, the one fmall and of a reddish-brown colour, which is only feen on the highest and fharpest pointed rocks; the other of a larger fize, and of a darker brown colour. This latter frequently leaves the fummit of the rocks to brouze

on the herbage and in the woods of the inferior mountains. Both fpecies herd together, and feem to live amicably in different flocks, but the continual war which is carried on against thefe animals

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live also upon the roots and branches of the fir-tree. It is afferted of thefe animals that they will fometimes betake themselves at the full of the moon, to fome fandy rock, where they will lick up the fand with fuch avidity as to neglect their pasturage for feveral days together; after fatisfying which inordinate appetite, the more wild of them return with precipitation to their former haunts, while the others remain in the neighbourhood. The other animals that are found on the mountains of Switzerland are the marmotte, the hare, the fox, the wolf, and the bear. The marmotte is peculiar to this country and well known. The hares differ in nothing from those of other countries, except that in winter they are fo white that they are hardly distinguishable from the fnow. Foxes, bears and wolves, are now become extremely rare: As to the birds of this country, the most remarkable is the laemmergeyer, or gier-eagle, the largest and most formidable of its fpecies, many of them measuring thirteen or fourteen feet betwen the extremities of their wings when extended. These ty. rants of the air, build their nefts on the fummits of the highest rocks, and make cruel havock among the flocks of theep and tame goats, as well as among the fhaG mois, the hares and marmottes. This country abounds also in pheasants, heath cocks, wood cocks, and other birds, which are exportted in great plenty, and esteemed excellent food.

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and particularly of its action in the motien of the mufcles. To which are added, Obfervations on the fenfibility of the ligaments, tendons, and other parts, the infenfibility of the brain, the ftructure of the merves, and the Hallerian doctrine of irrita bility. By M. Le Cat of Rouan. Svo. Berlin, 1765.

About twelve yaars ago, the royal academy of Sciences at Berlin propofed, among its prize-questions, the following in anatomy:

Under the fecond head he endeavours to prove, that the communication between the brain and the muscles, by means of the nerves, is effected by a fluid. This communication, fays he, can be effected only in two methods; either by means of the folid A fubftance of the nerves, or by a fluid that is contained in their cavities. Several of the anatomists have maintained, that the nerves act only as elaftic chords; but our author opposes this opinion with great appearance of reason, concluding that their action should be imputed to the fluid contained in those capillary tubes, of which each nerve is a congeries. To confirm his opinion in this refpect, he cites the experiment of Bellini, in regard to the ligature of the diaphragmatic nerve.

Query 1. Whether the communication which is obferved between the brain and B the muscles, by means of the nerves, is effected by a fluid which fwells the muscle during its action.

2. What is the nature, and what are the properties of that fluid?

3. In what manner it can produce in the mufcles that furprifing mode of action, in which motion and rest instantaneously and reciprocally fucceed each other.

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This differtation was written in answer to these questions, and obtained the prize. It is divided into four parts. In the first, the author undertakes to demonftrate, that the motion of the mufcles and mufcular parts, depends principally on that connection which fubfifts between the brain and D the muscles, by means of the nerves. He obferves, notwithstanding, that this dependance is fubject to certain restrictions and limitations; it being notorious that the heart may be taken out of many kinds of animals, and of course all the nerves com. municating thence to the brain, be cut in two, and yet will continue to beat fome minutes, nay, in fome cafes, fome hours, after fuch feparation; although in the end it proves effectual in depriving the organs of all life and motion. It follows, that a connection between the heart and the brain is neceffary to fupport life and motion in general, but that fuch connection is not effentially neceffary to every fingle motion F of those organs. The nerves are not the only canals whofe affiftance is neceffary to enable the muscles to perform their functions; nor doth the arterial blood contribute to their motion only, by supplying the materials neceffary to their moving force.

In the third part of this differtation, the author admits, however, that, notwithfstanding the existence of this nervous fluid is indubitable, its properties are but little known. It bears fo little resemblance, he thinks, to the other fluids of the human body, that we can form no just conception of it, by comparing it with any other fluid or material fubftance. Hence he defines it io be the inftrument both of motion and thought; a kind of middle fubftance between the foul and body; an amphibious fpecies of being, that is material from its impenetrability and impulfive force, though of the higher order or first class of material fubftances. At the fame time, he conceives it is nearly allied to immaterial beings; by which it is capable of being affected in a manner totally differant from thofe means which are dependant on mechanical principles.

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M. Le Cat confirms the opinions of Vieuffens and Stenen, concerning a muscle's becoming paralytic, on tying up the nerves that lead to it. He concludes, therefore, that the connection between the mufcular parts and the brain is the first and principal circumftance that is effentially neceffary to the motion of the primary organs; that the connection of the heart with the fame muscles, by means of the arteries, is H the fecond; and that both are necessary to their motion only as the mediate and general caufe, but not as the immediate and fimultaneous causes of every single motion.

In the last part this writer explains the mechanism, or mode of affection, in which he conceives this fluid is capable of effecting muscular motion. This motion, he fuppofes not to depend folely on the particular action of the fluid, but also on the

ftructure of the mufcles. In treating of this structure, he fhews that the fibres of which the mufcles are compofed, are cylindrical tubes, filled with a kind of reticular, cellular, or medullary substance, fomewhat resembling what is included in the hair, or in quills. He conjectures, the nerves and fanguinary veffels are joined to these cavities, and supply them with their refpective Auids. Now thefe fluids, fays he, dilating the above-mentioned fibres, or their interftices, will neceffarily fhorten them, and, of course, contract the muscle. Thus there is discharged from the nerves into the muscles, a nervous animated lymph, a kind of vital fluid, to which M. le Cat conceives that the foul itself is immediately

united.

In treating of the fenfibility of the ligaments, tendons, and fome other parts of the body, M, le Car undertakes to prove, in

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