fessor of agriculture, or a professor of cobing? Were his Grace the Duke of Bedford to renew his leafes, would he chufe fuch te nants as he hath at prefent, or Platts, Tulls, and des du Hameis? In what country of Europe, and, at what period, was corn husbandry better under- A ftood than it is now in Oid England? Would not a commutation of land or grain for tythes, be greatly beneficial to husbandry? Are not divers weights and measures difgraceful to a civilized nation? Is it not abfurd to barter corn by mea. fure of capacity? Is not our prefent marriage at adverse to population? Are the game laws confiftent with the liberty of the fubject ? Is not prohibiting the farmer from killing hares and patridges, of that fpecies of folly which defeats its own ends? B Who are most idle, boys at blind man's buff, or a pack of fquires difturbing the country, by purfuing a little vermine, which any man could destroy for three C half-pence? Difpeople Iceland, and plant it with negroes, when would they give over being black, with wool on their heads, thick lips, and pugg nofes, and when would they ceafe their chattering? Difpeople Great Britain, and plant it with American favages, in what æra of futurity would they ceafe being copper-coloured, beardless, taciturn, and defift from wearing coarse black hair, broad cheek bones, and fmall black gliftering eyes? Difpeople Great Britain, plant it with Cafres and Hottentots, leaving Wales and Berwick upon Tweed for American savages, what by prowefs and politique, how foon would Hottentots and Cafres be exterminated ? Could this inland in its prefent ftate of cultivation fubfift one million more men? D E Could not one able bodied man delve one acre of middling foil ten inches deep if needful with ease in twenty-four days? F Could not one able-bodied man turn over five inches deep one acre of delved ground made tender with eafe in fix days? Could not one able-bodied man, if he chofe this method, fow and rake two thirds of a prepared acre with eafe in one day? Could not one able-bodied man raise five acres of corn three and a half quarters each G communibus annis with eafe by the year? Deducting fifteen bushels for feed corn would not the remaining hundred and twenty five fuffice for ten perfons old and young? Add five acres more, deducting for houfes, gardens, fences, and there ofhigh roads half an acre, would there not remain four and a half acres for milk and ftefh fufticient for ten perfona ? Would not one middling person, face to manage the garden, threth the corn, and tend the beafts and the poultry? Allowing three fuperannuated and under age, with one to attend them, would not the remaining four, after fupplying do. mestic wants and conveniencies, contribute by their manufacture to the public commerce? Would not the labours of the little foci. ety be occafionally united when dispatch was requifite? Neither kneaded by quadrupedes, nor baked by plow-wheels, nor tortured by complicated machinery, would not land fo cultivated acquire a progreffive fertility? Does not Great Britain measure nearly fifty millions of acres, and contain about feven and a half millions of inhabitants ? Are there less than twenty millions of arable acres in England, or less than five millions in Scotland ? With a more equal agrarian, and our prefent skill in cultivation, might not the arable of this ifland subsist above double the prefent inhabitants? Exclufive of fishermen, might not the inarable fubfift with ease two millions of thepherds, goatherds, and cow-drivers, 11. An ode to the people of England. 6d. Langford. 12. The Chinese spy. 6 vols. 18s. Bladen. 13. Improvements in the doctrine of the fphere, aftronomy, geography, navigation, &c, By S. Dunn, 2s. 6d. Hares. 14. A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with thofe of the animal world. 35. Dadley. (See p. 417.) 15. A letter to Mr Phillips, containing fome obfervations on his hiftory of the life of Cardinal Pole. By Rich. Tillard, M. A. Is. Horsfield. 16. A letter to the common council of London, on their late very extraordinary Addrefs to his Majefty. 1. (See p. 424) 17. The celebrated lecture on heads. 6d. Pridden. 18. The merits of the new adminiftra. tion truly stated; in answer to the feveral pamphlets and papers published against them. IS. Williams. (See p. 428.) 19. A pair of spectacels for short-fighted politicians; or, a candid answer to a late extraordinary pamphlet, intitled, "An honeft man's reafons for declining to take any part in the new administration." as, Williams.. "One merit, fays this writer, the prefert miniAry have, undeniable, at their first fetting out, that the mischievous influence of that clan of minifters, who owed their H introduction to the error of the Favourite, has been fundamentally and radically rema ved. The nation, which entertains already a favourable opinion of them, from their former spirit and integrity, will estab◄ lith With a more perfect judgment of them from that all the arbitrary and futile measures, The removal of G. from his high ftation is apparently a fore that galls not a B little his new champion. I will not dif#pute with him in mathematical problems, to whom principally the merit belongs of G.'s removal; but it is obvious to common fenfe, that if G. fupports B. H, and S. who are prejudicial to K. and C. it behoves K, and C. if they are wife, to remove G. from the power of doing harm, no less than B. H. and S.--I cannot, in my confcience, join in the encomiums he bestows upon his well-grounded and fuccefstful minifter. By what means he had any ground at ail to stand upon, the late Favourite can best explain; fuccessful, it must be allowed, he has been in the defence of general warrants, and in the diminution of parl- -y privilege; fuccefful in an obftinate perfeverance, in an odious extenfion of the Exce; fuccefsful in maintaining ks and beggars in their offices, and keeping honest sufferers out of their rights. -How far he has been fuccessful in his measures relating to America, the numbertels remonftrances and complaints, arriving daily from that country, will in a fhort time inform us. C D E nanimous refolution, and the most confummate abilities, was the first of all the moderns who difcovered and pointed out the direct and fhort road to the art of po Man was calculated for the fervice and be litical writing; and as the Whole Duty of nefit of private families, fo Il Principe, that tranfcendant compofition, that master piece of the human genius, was defigned, by its immortal author, for the inftruction of royal families only, as the title of it implies, and confecrated to the ufe of kings and princes. It had no fooner made its appearance among them, than it was beheld with admiration, read with avidity, appled with fuccefs, and became the itanding rule of politics among all the potentates of Eurote, even among the kings of Great Britain, until the Revolu tion; at which time, by means of certain innovations, and the introduction of fome new-fangled opinions, it loft all credit with them, and has never recovered it to this day; nevertheless, as every man in this kingdom is intitled to fome thare in the government of it, it becomes his duty likewife to inform himself in what manner it may be beft governed; and in refearches of this kind, thefe golden rules, which the king had overlooked, or neglected, or defpifed, his fubjects happily difcovered, adopted, and practifed. That this difcovery has been made, is plain to every body who has read the Prince of Machiavel, and the writings of our mo-" den politicians. Many a man too may remember how much he was furprized at the novelty of a book, which, with the moft mortifying fcorn, contradicted every opinion and principle that he had imbibed from his mother, or had been taught by his father, or his fchool-mafter; the avowed defign of it being to prove, that diffimulation, hypocrify, fraud, lying, cruelty, treachery, affaflination, and maffacres, were not only commodious and expedient, on certain occafions, but that they were moral, political, and positive duties: that all men who did not believe in thefe unerring rules, were either fools, or mad-men; and that all nations who had not, or did not, put them in conftant pracdone. He did not, indeed, expressly intice, had been, or must be, infallibly unclude flander and defamation by name; conceiving, probably, that they were fully comprehended under the articles of lying and affaffination, and that it was a mere matter of indifference, to ninety-nine men in an hundred, whether you plundered them of the characters of honeft men, and H rood citizens, or knocked out their brains. Happily for this deluded nation, we have now among us many difciples of this renowned politician, of confiderable emi nence and proficiency: to their united and zealous But what is to be the gain to the public, it is afked, by this late minifterial revolution? Is it any thing more than a fquab- F ble about places ?-A queftion very easily to be answered.--That fquabble about places is important to the public.-It is important, that honest men should be put into them; and that power should be in the hands of honeft men, to the end that measures tending to the public good may be pursued. 20. Remarks on the importance of the Audy of political pamphlets, daily papers, weekly papers, periodical papers, political mufic, &c, 15. Nicoll This pamphlet is written in a strain of irony, copied from Swift, with fome portion of his fpirit: it cannot be abridged; but the following extract will ferve as a fpecimen of the performance. 'As Lord Bacon was the first who shew. ed the right way to the study of natura! philofophy, fo Machiavel, a man of the most abundant invention, the most mag(Gent, Mag, SEPT. 1765.) G zealous efforts for the common weal, we are indebted (perhaps before it is too late) for many ufetul and falutary difcoveries; fuch as that ********, under all the fair appearances of candour and humanity; the facred femblance of unblemished truth, juftice, and mercy; the fpecious difguife of the most unambitious and unaffected love of all his fellow-creatures, concealed the dark and dangerous defigns of a Tiberius; that *****, who had been called from retirement, and the Audy of philofophy, to the inftruction of his ****, and who had cajoled all that knew him into an obftinate belief that he was a nobleman of distinguished honour and virtue, an accomplished fcholar, a munificent patron of learning and the arts, an upright coun'ellor, an eloquent fenator, and an able statesman, was at the bottom a knave, a dunce, a traifor, a bathaw, a Gavelion, a Wolfey, a Buckingham, a Sejanus: that *****, who had paffed almost univerfally for a patri cian of a moft amiable, unreserved, and generous nature, beloved by his friends and his equals, for his noble and ingenuous manners; as courteous and affable to his inferiors, as if his high birth, and fortune had not given him a right of prefeription to infult them; of great humanity, kindness, and beneficence; a citizen warmly attached to the interests of his country; a statesman who had executed, during half a century, the highest employments of government with zeal and integrity; had fat in the councils, and joined in the fuffrages of our patriot minifters, in the moft illuftrious period of our annals, and had spent his whole life in the uniform fupport of liberty; that this very patrician could hardly prove a single claim either to the virtues of a focial life, the merit of public fervices, the authority of experience, or even to the common privileges of age, and deferved to be treat ed as a very drunkard, a glutton, and old woman that ****, the arch magician, who, by virtue of irresistible (pells and incantations, and by the powers of certain wonderful and ftupendous opers. tions, unknown to all but himfelf, and the great magicians of ancient times, had palmed himself upon the universal people, not only of Great Britain, but of almoft the whole globe, as the deliverer of his country, the Coloffus of the age, as a philofopher, ftatefman, and patriot of the fir magnitude; poffeffing the genius, expe rience, eloquence, and confummate abilities of Pericles, and the virtues of Epaminondas; the decus imperii, the pcs fupre ma fenatus; was, after all, an impudent babbler, a profligate villain, a fhameless turncoat, a pensioned bireling, a fawning minion, a common bully, a pernicious and treacherous councellor, a prodigal (quanderer of the blood and treasures of his fel low-fubjects; in short, a mad man, and the perdition of his country, Thefe, and many other difcoveries of the fame kind, equally new and important, are known and familiar to all men, who have studied the works of our modern politicians, and fufficiently evince the progress we have made in this art; yet it appears to be still far fhort of the perfection to which it was carried by the ancients, as I have already lamented; otherwife, with half the honeft pains they have taken to accomplish it, the **** would have been d---.d long ago; his friends and fervants torn in pieces one after another, like the De Witts and other betrayers of their country, and their names, like theirs, configned to per petual infamy." 22. A tranflation of the Pfalms of Da vid, attempted in the fpirit of Chriftianity, and adapted to the divine fervice. By Chriftopher Smart, A. M. fome time Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and scholar of the University. 4to. Bathurst, REMARKABLE EVENTS. A vemaica trader, off Hifpaniola, fell in with 12 fail of Spanish men of war, but whether bound, he could not discover, The Spaniards are more powerful in troops, and naval force in the Weft Indies, than they ever were, and a strong reinforcement has lately been ordered to join Admiral Tyrrel's fquadron on that account. The Rev. Mr Dingell, an eminent mathematician in Scotland, has lately invented a fet of astronomical tables, calculated for discovering the variation of the compass in any latitude, A discovery, next to that of the Jongitude, of the greatest confequence to nagatton. The French are faid to have catght more fish on the banks of Newfoundland this fee Yon, than has been known in any one fummed for many years, owing perhaps to the fine weather. The French king has, by an edit lately publifted in the fuperior court of Martinice, granted permiffion to the taptains of English ips, to navigate their fhips within a league of the ports of the Leeward Iflands, which before the laft peace was prohibited to all foreigners whatever. Two Corfican deputies have received inAtructions to repair to London; but the nature of their commiffion is only matter of conjecture. A rich copper mine has lately been difcovered Fresh letters patent have lately been granted by his Pruffian majefty, for eftablishing a new Eaft India company at Embden, the direction of which is to be placed in the hands of perfons of known probity, and well verfed in the Eaft India commerce. The capital is to confit of 1,250,000 crowns, and foreigners as well as natives are permitted to fubfcribe. The Matrifylva has been found in Germany a fpecific in the cure of the bite of a mad dog. It may be given either green or dry. The Jefuits have obtained leave to fettle in Corfica, to build colleges, and form feieties, in confequence of a large fum advanced to Pafcbal Pali, chief of the malcontents. A gentlemen of Paris has invented a machine, which, by means of fome engraven cylinders, and the help of three workmen, prints 200 ells of callicoe in an hour, which before employed 15 min. A machine of the like kind has long been invented in England, a mudel of which may be feen by the curlous at St John's Gate. A golden cup of an antique form, and curious workmanship, has lately been difcovered bader the ruins of King Joba's palace in Shoreditch, fuppofed to have been made use of by that monarch 560 years ago. An ifland has lately been difcovered at a little diftance from the continent of North Fartary, from whence it is fuppofed the great continent of North America, might have been peopled; but as the inhabitants of that continent are of various fhapes and complexions, it is not eafy to account for this variety on the fuppofition of being peopled from any one place. D F The cargo of the Vanfitiart Eaf India hip, just arrived from Bengal, confills of 3.00 lb. cotton yarn, 30 600 lb. raw filk, 65.500 lb. H red-wood, 675,000 lb. falt-petre, and a large quantity of white piece goods. In this hip is alfo brought over a curious little fallion, which is only thirty "inches high. M, Von Aken, an apothecary in Sweden, has made trials on thirty people for curing the tooth ach with the artificial load tone, and all but three found benefit. The Americans have d fcovered a method of making fugar from a liquor procured by boring the maple tree. They fay that more than 30 gallons have been procured from one tree, which being manufactured after the manner of the fyrup proceeding from the fugar cane, produces a fugar equal in goodness to that of Jamaica; and that the molaffes extracted from the preffare of the liquor, is very little inferior to our Weft India molaffes. A poor woman through a violent and fudden fright,having fome time ago, loft the ufe of her fpeech entirely, and remained in that unhappy fituation for more than fix mon hs. She was advifed to be electrified, which he readily confenting to, was, after a few trials, and, in a very short time, restored to the full and perfect use of her fpeech as before. A Letter from Kilkenny in Ireland, dated the 8th infant fays, "The White boys have commenced ag in their hofile infurrections: a party of 200 of them armed and array. ed in white uniforms, extremely well mounted and officered, feized four men near the Archbp of Cafhel's; and forced them to take two oaths;, the one was, never to take tythes from any farmers; and the other. 10 publ fa at their chapel, the Sunday following, their fufferings." A French family at Haeriem, confisting of the mafter, his wife, fon, a man and maid fervant, were poifoned the 16th inft. by eling champignons. A gentleman from Paris has brought over a miniature model of a new invented machine for grinding corn, by which, double, the flower is obtained that is produced by common mills. A Complimentary Order of the Mayor of a certain Town in the Weft to the Inbabitants, de livered by the Common Cryer, being a true Copy. "Oyez, Oyez, Oyez, this is to give notice, that the Right Worshipful the Mavor of this corporation prefents his comphments to the inhabitants of this town, defiring them, both married and unmarried of the female tribe, to bring out their fhovels and brushes, mps and pails, and clear and make ready the streets, in order to receive my Lord Judge, who is .expected here to-morrow, to try a criminal for the murder of an unhappy youth, and who is to be escorted into town by a large party of town men with javelins, marching on foot, -two and two, dreft in their beft bibs and tuckers; and that the faid Right Worshiptal the Mayor has ordered an innumerable quantity of carts to take away the dirt and filth fo fhovelled together, that my Lord Judge may not be incommoded by the duft thereof which otherwife would happen, if the precaution was not taken by the faid Right Wo: fhipful The ladies being expected to be the moft numerous, mof brilliant, and moft fplendid on this occafion ever known in the memory of the oldest man living-God fave the king.” FRIDAY August 23. HE remains of the late Emperor, which had lain in ftate for three days, were conveyed by the German and Hungarian life guards, and a fquadron of dragoons to Hall, where they were put on board a veffel, and fent down the Danube to Vienna. He is fucceeded in the Imperial dignity by his eldeft fon, who was elected King of the Romans at the conclufion of the late peace. The Emprefs Queen dowager, and the two Archdutcheffes, have retired to a nunnery, till the folemn ceremony of interment is performed. THURSDAY 29. The coroner's inqueft fat on the body of George Edmonds, a travelling hatter, who was found cruelly murdered near Streatham in Surry. It is thought this barbarous act was committed by Matthews and Regers, two of the villains who broke out of Maidstone goal, who have fince been taken and committed to C Winchester goal. At the affixes for Lancaßer, three criminals were capitally convicted; Sujan Holt and John Tracy for a robbery, and Richard Sutcliffe for horfe ftealing. In the night between the 24th and 25th of laft month, 153 houfes were confumed at Murbard in Germany. The church, the prefbytery, a magazine belonging to the Duke D of Wurtemberg, and the suburbs, are the only buildings left. Five children perished, and two men were wounded. SATURDAY, 31. At the charitable meeting of the three choirs held at Hereford the whole collection amounted to 3731. ys. bd.. New hops fold at Worcester from fix to seven E pounds a hundred. Since this date the price has tallen confiderably. SUNDAY September 1. James Welfon, an Irib travelling merchant, was found barbarously murdered near Bruton in Somerfetfire. He was obferved the day before to put money and other valuable things into his portmanteau, which was carried off, F but his horse was found grazing by the body. MONDAY 2. The demolition on the jettees of the harbour of Dunkirk was begun, without which the fortifications would ftill have been formidable. Lond, Gaz. About fix this morning, his R. H. the D, of York, and their Royal and Serene Highnetfes the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Brunswick, landed at Harwich from Holland, In the evening the Duke of York arrived at his houfe in Pall Mall. MONDAY 9. Their ferene Higonelles the Prince and Princefs of Brunswick arrived in pertect health, at the apartments fitted up for their reception, at St James's. TUESDAY 10. This morning her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, and the Princeffes Louifa and Caroline paid a vifit to the prefent Princefs of Brurfæick; at noon there was a very grand court at Leicester House, at which their ferene Highnetles were prefent, and received the compinents of the nobility. for reign minifters, &c, on their arrival in E giand. Their Highneffes afterwards cined with her Royal Highnels the Prince Dowager of Wales at Carleton bufe. A gentleman of a plentiful fortune near Cavendish square, who was to have been married in a few days to a very amiable young Jaly of 10,000l. fortune, thot his felf thro the head with a pistol. A fire broke out at Mr Bileys, a linnepdraper in Cheapfide, that raged with fuch violence as to endanger the oppofite fide of the Areet. It burnt down feveral confiderable koules, and did immenfe damage to the opu lent inhabitants. A fire broke out on board the Nancy, a fine Jamaica noop, lying at Limehoufe-bele, with 62 puncheons of rum on board, which, with the hip, made a mofl aftonishing and awiul conflagration. The boy who fet the fhip on fire by drawing fome rum with a lighted candle, perifhed in the flames. WEDNESDAY II. |