Their

at St Thomas's, to officiate.
language is a broken fort of Portuguese.
Money they have none, nor do they
know the use of it; fo that the only
method of trading with them is by
barter, in which they fhew a great
deal of judgment, preferring a scrap
of cloth that they can convert into
a cap, or any little ufe, to the
gaudieft baubles you can offer them:
Though if they were at half the pains
in railing cotton and manufacturing
it, the art of which they feem to un-
derstand very well, as they are at in
Fearing stock, &c. which they give in
exchange for old cloaths, they might
be fupplied with more than fufficient
for their own confumption, without
depending on fuch an uncertain me.
thod of being fupplied, as from the
few ships that call there.

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If by avarice is underfood the bare luft of hoarding up money, they must be free from it, as they have none; but in the more general fense of the word they may juftly be accused of it, difcovering the greedieft difpofition in all their dealings. Nor have they any principle of honesty, but boast in D being able to over-reach one another as well as foreigners. Jealousy they are intire ftrangers to, and will chearfully lend their wives and daughters to the highest bidder.

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The town before which we anchored (which, to the best of my information, is the largeft in the inland) E was compofed of an immense number of fmall huts, with a pretty large one that they honoured with the name of church, and one fomething lefs, in which the governor lives, who, knowing us to be English, for whom they have the greatest veneration, and imagining us to be a man of war, from our fize and guns, as foon as ever we anchored, came on board in his barge (which, by the bye was nothing but a hollowed tree) to pay his refpects to the captain, who treated him very courteously, and, in return for a few trifling things he had brought by way of prefent, gave him a compleat English fuit, and equipped his attendants; but infifted upon the fame privilege as a man of war, of paying no duties for the liberty of trading.

During the time we ftaid here, H which was very short, we were plentifully fupplied with every thing the ifland produces, at the cheapest rates imaginable, intirely owing to their ignorance of the real value of their commodities.

THE LECTURE UPON HEADS, that

has been lately read near Iflington, has been jufi publifbed; it is not without humour, as the reader will fee by the fol lowing Extracts, the whole being too much for our purpose.

HIS, Gentlemen (exhibiting a Thead on which is placed an enor

mous tye wig) is a compendium of law-Special pleadings in the fore-top, pleas, rejoinders, replications, and demurs in each turn of the head, -the knotty points of practice in the trift of the tail,-the depth of the full bottom denotes the length of a chancery fuit ; while the black coif at the top, like a blifier plaifter, feems to tell us that the law is a great irritater, and ought never to be used but in very defperate cafes.

In law there are four parts ;-the quidlibate; the quodlibate ;-the quidproco -and the finequanon.

Imprimis: The quidlibate;-or, who began firft? becaufe, in all actions of affault, the law is clear,that primis jokis is abfolutis malis, fine jokis: which, being elegantly and claffically rendered into English, is, that, whofoever he be that gave the firft ftroke, it was abfolute ill, and without a joke.

Secondly, the quodlibate, or the damages: but that the law has nothing to do with, only to ftate them; for whatever damages enfue, they are all the client's perquifites, according to that ancient Norman motto,

If he is caft, or caftandum; He is femper idem, ruinandum. Thirdly; the quidproco; feeing council.-Giving words for money, or hav.ing money for words: according to that ancient Norman motto, "Si curat lex."-We live to perplex.

Fourthly, the finequanon; or, with out fomething, what would any thing be good for?-without this wig, what would be the outlines of the law!

I fhall illustrate this by a cafe in point (Peere Williams, p. 96.) Danielagainst Dishclout.-Plaintif Daniel was rcm in the fame family where defen

dant Dishclout was cook :-Plaintiff Daniel had been drinking, or, as Dr Bibbibus fays in his differtation on bumpers, he was duplicans, that is, he was a double man; he was not as he should be "ipfe be," but as he fhould not be, "tipfe be."-Plantiff Daniel made forcible entry on the cook's premiffes the kitchen. Now, the kitchen, according to Serjeant Ploding, as he has it in his 149 folio vol. of the abridgment of the ftatutes, page 1796, there he fays, that the kitchen is, camero ma

ceffaro, in ufu cookeraro, where she has
the overlooking, the condut, the ma-
nagement, the fuper-vifing, the feeing to,
the fuperintendance, and the speculation,
of all the faufpannis, Rewpannis, frien
pannis, et fiovis, smoke jacko, and where A
our cook was at this time employed
in all the duties of her office; where
fhe was roaftandum, boilandum fryandum,
frigafeyandum, et plumb pudding andum,
mixandum: at this time, plantit Da-
niel made a forcible entry, &c. and de-
manded a fop in the pan;-defendant
Dishclout infilted on a right of refufal:
(a fop in the pan, gemmen, is a very fe
ious thing!) and without perquilites,
what are all honours and places good
for? nothing more than an embroid-
ered button hole; and if we confider
a minister of state as the nation's cook,
then the perquifites are the fop in the
pan to the minifter of ftate, with which C
omnium gatherum, choofe to grease their
fingers. Well, Plantiff Daniel de-
manded a fop in the pan; defendant
Dibelout infisted on a right of refufal :
Daniel feized Dishclout by the left hand,
there was the quidlibate, or the afault
Difbclout took Daniel by the right hand
and pulled him into the dripping pan :
-there was the damages the dripping
pan-Now, if the dripping pan had
not been there, he could not have
fallen into the dripping-pan; and if
he had not been there, the dripping
pan could not have received him.-
And this is law; and the loquaciouf E
nefs of the law, is multi loquacious :-
forafmuch, nevertheless, moreover,—
Likewife-and alfo.

The liberty of the law, is the happinefs of the English: And it is very happy for us Englishmen, that we have the liberty to go to law.

Another Head exhibited.

teous (as he called it) and he would be for fetting the world to rights in an hurry. Ay! Ay! neighbour Cof tive; all for their own ends nowa days; all for their own ends; nobody do you fee now-a-days, loves their own country fince queen Semaramus, and fhe invented jolomon xundy, and that's the best eating in all the werfal world. If I was at the head of affairs, things fhould not be. as they are now; that's all; they should' not, indeed. I would thew them another way of a manner of going to work; now I'll fhew you my plan of operations; do you mind me now, mark what I fay; fuppole then these two or three bits of tobacco afhes, to be the main land continent. Very well! Very well! And fuppofe now neighbour Spriggins, this little drop of milk punch (well come, here's the king; Goblets him) fuppofe this little drop of milk punch, to be the main fea ocean; very well! very well! And luppole thefe three or four bits of cork to be all our great men of war, very well! But what fhall, I do now for your fortified places! Oh! here I D have it here I have it! Here's your Havannah's, and your Pondicher ries, and your Tilbury Ports, and your Tower Ditches; and all your damn'd strong places! there's a plan of ope. rations for ye now: A-h? Well, and then our army all fhould wear a new uniform; all our horse infantry, fhould wear air jackets; and all our fost cavalry, fhould wear cork waistcoats; and then ye know, why they'd be all over the fea before you could fay Jack Robinson! Well, and where do

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This is, Sir Full Fed Domine Double Chin, citizen, turtle, and venizon eater. He was one of the common council of Farringdon within: he was a very good fort of a man; he was half brother to an alderman, and had been deputy of his own ward; his time was G taken up in the affairs of the fate, and the affairs of the kitchen. He loved politics, and he loved venison. He thought a cook was the greatest genus in all the world, except a news writer; he constantly read every po litical pampb.et that was published, on both fides of the question, and H always framed his opinion accor ding to the writer he read laft; and according to the humour he happened to be in; he would take his cap, and his pipe, and a glase of the righ.

you think I'd land them now? you don't know; nor you can't know; how the devil fhould you know. You don't understand geometry. Why I'l tell you where I'd land them; I wou'd land them under the line, close by the South Pole; th-re, I'd land them; and then I'd ambuftade all the Spaniards back fettlements; and take from them all their (Phaw-You know what I mean well enough; all their all them damn'd hard names mentioned in the news papers) all their Mexicos, and their Perus, and their Dimont Ilands! and then I'd come with a cir cumvendibus on the Dutch, in flat-bottood boats; (becaufe ye know that is a flat-bottom'd country) open the Juices-let in the water-drown all the poor Dutch, and then we should have the turtles, and the Spice Islands, for nothing; and there'd be living in Old England.

Mr SANDIMAN's Doctrine of Faith fur

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ther confidered.

Prefume you will, from a principle of impartiality, indulge me a few lines in reply to what à correfpondent A of yours has offered to the public, in your Magazines of May and June last, on the doctrines advanced by Mr R. Sandeman; an author whofe writings have made a very confiderable noise of late in the religious world. 'Tis certain they have made a strong impreffion upon the minds of very many; and it must be confeffed, that his works prove him to be a man of sense, well acquainted with his Bible, and one who can write in a very eloquent and pungent ftrain: But had he been ever fo contemptible an author, yet he ought to have been treated with equity and justice.

Your correfpondent's principal aim In his first letter, is, to point out a co-incidence between the writings of Mr Sandeman and those of the author of Chriftianity not founded on Argument. I have been looking diligently to learn in what particulars there is a coincidence between thefe two authors; and, upon a narrow fcrutiny, can find none, but fuch as equally tally with the Articles of the Church of England, and with the Affemblies Catechism. The manifeft aim of your correspondent was to render Mr Sn odious. But the reflection falls as heavy upon all fuch as fubfcribe thofe Articles. What must we think then of a writer, who, rather than fail of bringing Mr S―― under public difgrace, will involve the compilers of the Thirtynine Articles, and of the Affemblies Catechifm, with all the faithful adherents thereto, in the very same odium.

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the belief of the truth comes immediately without perfwafion, or the use of any endeavours of the perfon himfelf, or of others with him: That he rejects all exhortations to faith and holiness, and cenfures all praying for the conver fion of finners, as contrary to the spirit of the antient Gofpel; and denies that finners Should be called upon to repent and be converted. Thele manifeit falfities, befides feveral inaccuracies, your correfpondent is chargeable with.

But when, in his fecond letter, he fo often avers that Mr S-- afferts, that there is forgiveness with God for impenitent finners, remaining fuch; and reasons upon it accordingly i there is throughout a moft artful perverfion of his words and meaning. Mr S---n's exprefs words are thefe: (fpeaking of the atonement) All its true friends will readily join in affirming, that Chrift came to render impenitent finners accepted unto everlafting life, by the works which he himself wrought. Here we may afk, Can any fay, that they were penitent when he came to redeem them? Did not Chrift in due time die for the

Dungodly, while yet impenitent finners? Yea, are not all thofe for whom Chrift died, impenitent, until the time that the Gospel comes to their hearts and confciences by the power of the fpirit of God?-Further, your correfpondent has difhoneftly fuppreffed the latter part of this very fentence, upon which he founds the chief of his cavils. For S- -n immediately fubjoins, and thus by the difcovery of pres venting goodness, to lead them to repentance.) Hence it appears, that his subfequent declamation is all impertinent, and that his chief defign was to defame an obnoxious author.

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'Tis true, Mr S--n does once ufe F the expreffion, that Christianity is not founded on Argument, by which he evidently means, not upon Platonic ratiocinations, or metaphyfical fubtilties: for he immediately adds, Not on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God; not on any reafonings a priori, but on a plain matter of fact, established by impregnable EviDENCE (the very strongest kind of argument, preferable to any antient or modern fpeculations about religion).

Your correfpondent has likewise imputed to Mr Sn feveral expreffions and fentiments which are not to be found in his writings, nor included in his principles. Such as thefe: That (Gent. Mag, SEPT. 1765.)

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It cannot be amifs to remark here, that your correspondent has taken, almoft verbatim, a great part of what he fays on this fubject out of the writings of one Mr Bellamy, an author who has written with as much vehemence against Mr Hervey's Theron and Ajpafio as Mr S--n himfeif bas done; and whofe leading defign is to establith a doctrine apparently as abfurd as any thing Mr Sn has advanced *. Perhaps your correfpondent judged it a neceffary piece of prudence to conceal both the name and defign of this

* Viz. That 'tis abfolutely neceffary to Pardon and Salvation, that we should repent of our fins, and love God as a damning God, without and previous to the confideration of his Grace in Cbrift.