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Copy of an Original Letter from Mr HEN

RY PARKER, at Hamburgh, dated Feb 23, 1648-9, to the Hon. Wм LENTHALL, Eq; Speaker of the House of Commons, fhewing in what manner. the Death of Charles I. was taken abroad at that time.

SIR,

THAT which I formerly wrote to you

letter, but is now within a dayes jour ny to Hollande, carryng a more incented minde against us then had formerly in regard of the greate yearly penfion which he has lot (as they report here) by the death of our king. 'Tis fayd A alfo that his inftructions from his new Mafter are most hottile, for exafperating the prince and the flares, and all the enemies of England, and doing all poffible acts of enmity to our nation; and no man doubts but that new K. is in the confederacye to accom

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Bmodate fhips, &c. Sir Jo. Cockrayn is gone for Hollande with Utefeldt, but in his pallage here terrined our deputy and Minifter, for that the Prince was not here prayd for as king of Englande, and that the parliament, whom hee calld the king's murdrers, were at all mentioned in our prayers. himselfe is litle valude by us, but diHee verse of our comp though they will not difowne the parliament of Englande (being not confident otherwife in the affections of this fenate) apprehend some mifcheite likly to be preparing for them, and stand in great need of fome publick countenance from our nation. How probable and important thefe things may bee, you may perhaps better guelle from other abler intelligences, but in the mean time I had rather be officious in the exceffe then in the defect, and therefore fhall never cease to advertise you of fuch paffages here as I conceave may be worth your know ledge: Howsoever this, I cannot but agayne infinuate that the world could fcarce fend you more dangerous enemies than the Savedes are like to bee. I could with fuch fwords rather purchaft for you then against you, if poffible; but we must refer all to God's watchful providence, which has never yet beene withheld from us; fo I reft Your mat oblervant and obliged to bonour you HEN, PARKER.

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about a defigne againit Englande (wherein there are many confederates, and the Swedish forces ready for dif banding here are to bee the mayne actors) growes now ev'ry day more and more apparent. For the pacification here is now unqueftioned by all, not only becaufe the ratifications on all fides are paft by the principalls, and folemly delivered by the plenipotetiarys but also beecaufe diverfe other things are obferved and done in order to a C reall confumation. For the French brigade under Torrein is marcht away into France; the Papists un Aufburg, after much contett, have refigned the church. es to the Proteftants upon the Emperor's inforcement, and the monyes in many places are gathered for disbanding of the armies, &c. No less than 1000 of the Saedifb fouldiers have wintered here in Holftein, and the stifft of Breme, and they themselfs now begin openly to threaten Englande this fummer; fo a meane officer at a court of guard told an English traveller the other day, merely because he declared himfelfe to bee English. Here is one Ouchart alfo, a Scotch lieutenant colonel in Stadt, that told one of our chiefe merchants this weeke, that hee was now ashamed to owne the name of Scot, because the king was folde by the Scots, or of English, because by them the king was murdered, but England should be fure to feele him and his regiment next fummer. The king's death is strangely taken here by all forts of people; we can fcarce walk fecure in the streetes, 'tis fcarce credible how bitterly the vulgar and the better fort of people doe refent it, though few of them holde G him lele than a tyrant. This makes the Swedes armye the more greedy to ingage against us, and the Germans the more haity to transport them from hence, and the emperor (though fome thinke hee intends not to hold his agreement) yet feemes the more zealously at prefent adhælive to it, that H the Swedes may bee the fooner discharged hence, and diverted into Englande. The Danifb embaffador Utefeldt, is likely to bee arrived in Englande before this (Gent, Mag, MARCH 1765.)

Confiderations upon the Policy of Entails
in Great Britain by John Dalrymple,
Efq; (See p. 100)

TH

HE reader cannot doubt the abi-
lity of the author of the hiftory
of Feudal property to difcufs the quel-
tion he has here confidered, and to
which he was led by a scheme to apply
for a ftatute to let the entails of Scot-
feffors and heirs now exifting.
land die out on the demife of the pof-

His intention is to fhew that the
destruction of entails is, in the pre-
fent situation of Britain not expedient.
But with his ufual accuracy, he

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ferves that an entail, and the restraint put upon heirs under it, by the perfon who creates the entail, though generally confounded, are very different things, and not effentially connected.

An entail, to endure while the heirs under it endure, is no more than a private family fettlement, by which the maker of the entail provides, that A

a certain income fhall iffue out of his. eftate for the fupport of the heirs whom he appoints to fucceed him, however remote in time they may arife, and as it is erroneous to confound this with any restraint laid on the heirs, fo it is alfo erroneous to fuppofe that the entail itself is a perpetuity, for it ends as foon as the heirs under it are at an end, &, in the perfon of the laft heir, the eftate returns to be fubject to the fame regulations of law, which take place with respect to other estates.

Thefe reftraints put upon the tenant in tail, which by taking the eftate he is bound to obey, may be reasonable or unreasonable; fuch as are unreafonable should certainly be prohibited by law, and by fuch prohibition many of the evils complained of, with respect to entails, and fupposed to be of their effence may be obviated, as when the tenant in tail is reftrained from giving a jointure to his wife, or from granting leafes, restraints hurtful alike both to private and to publick intereft.

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The pernicious reftraints in the entails of Scotland are many, but it would be as abfurd to make that a reafon to E destroy entails, as it would be to make a fcratch or a chilblain a reason for cutting off a finger.

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This bill has been approved, bu revolutions in the laws of land-p 1-pro perty are always attended with impor tant confequences, they fhould neve. be made but with the moft mature confideration, and " upon this occa"fion, fays Mr Dalrymple, I think it "both my right and my duty to give my fentiments to the publick.

A propofal, however, was lately made to the body of lawyers in Scotland, to apply to parliament to amend their law of entails, and they named a committee to draw up a bill, not however fuggefting what alterations fhould be made, only directing, that if the bill to be drawn fhould be for destroying entails, care fhould be taken to frame it fo as not to hurt the interefts of heirs, either in the direct or colateral line, exifting at the time of paffing the G bill into a law.

This committee prepared a bill, the general plan of which was, that the prefent entails fhould ceafe with the lives of the poffeffors and heirs exifting at the time of the act, and that for the future no entail should be made to bind any others than the per- H fons exifting at the time of making the entail.

But in pursuance of the diftinction made at fetting out, he has not only fhewn that the destruction of entails in Britain is not now elegible, but he has pointed out what are the improper conditions in entails, which, inftead of deftroying the entail itself, ought to be discharged by law.

The reader will find this production the work of a master, it abounds with curious and useful knowledge delivered with a strength and perfpicuity not often found in writings of this kind, nor indeed in any other.

Sequel to the Extracts from the Revifal of
SHAKESPEARE's Text. (See p. 67.)
MACBETH. A&t. I. Scene II.

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The old reading is right; quarry is a term in falconry, fignifying the game of the hawk after fhe has feized, and while fhe is feeding on it; metaphorically it fignifies havock of any kind: It is ufed again in this fenfe in this very play:

To relate the manner
Were on the
quarry of thefe murder'd deer
To add the death of you.

And in Coriolanus,

I'd make a quarry

With thousands of these quartered slaves, as high

As I could pitch my lance.

Ibid. Old Edition.
Ascannons overcharg'd with double cracks,
REVISAL.

Right; with double charges; a metonomy of the effect for the caufe.

SCENE VI. Old Editions. Macbeth to the king, after receiving particular marks of favour,

The fervice and the loyalty I owe
In doing it, pays itfelf. Your highness' part
Is to receive our duties; and our duties
Are to your throne & fate, children & fervants;

Which do but what they should, by doing e

very thing

Safe toward your love and honour.

WARBURTON.

Fiefd toward your love and honour.
HANMER.

Shap'd toward your love and honour.
Jobnfon in his Obfervations on Macbeth,
Which do but what they should in doing
netbing

Save towards your love and honour.
REVISAL.

Serves towards your love and honour. But perhaps this paffage may be fet right by applying an obfervation of Mr Upton's to it, which he himself has not applied.

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is an old word still used in many parts of England for a pimple, which is very likely to be made angry by rubbing. This paffage, therefore, the correction of which has given the critics so much trouble, probably wants no correction.

[This work being chiefly an hypercriticism on the criticisms of the prefent Bishop of Gloucefter, will afford neither fo much entertainment nor inftruction as if it had been written on a more general plan. And without the B bishop's edition of Shakespeare it cannot be read without perpetual vexation and disappointment; for the reader is not referred to the paffage by the act and scene of the play in which it occurs, but by the volume and page of the bishop's edition.]

Upton obferves that Shakespeare frequently makes verbs of adjectives; particularly to fafe, to make safe and fe- C cure, as in Anthony and Cleopatra.

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Might not the verfe in question then have been thus originally written: Which do but what they should, by doing ev'ry thing

To fafe your love and honour.

ADVENTURE Of a young English Officer among the Abenakee Savages.

URING the last war in America, a

D'and of Savages having furpri

fed and defeated a party of the En glish, fuch of thofe as were not actuDally killed on the spot had very little chance of getting away from enemies who were much more quick of foot than they, and who, pursuing them with unrelenting fury, ufed thofe whom they overtook with a barbarity almost without example, even in thofe countries.

ie. to fecure to ourselves the love and honour which you now fhew us; to make your prefent favour and good E opinion permanent.

Probably as the word fafe, in this fenfe, was not common even in Shakefpeare's time, it might need explanation, and fomebody might have written in the margin as a glofs, to ward; ward being then commonly used in the fame fenfe in which Shakespeare here ufes fafe. It is eafy to conceive how the two words to ward in the margin might creep into the text as one, towards, and how the word to might be removed to admit them.

OTHELLO. ACT V. SCENE I.
Lago of Rodrigo. Old Edition.
1 have rubb'd this young quar almoft to the
fenfe,

And he grows angry.

Common Reading.

I've rubb'd this young gnat.

Upton fuppofes it fhould be quail.
Theobald that it should be knot, a fmall

bird common in Lancashire.

Others read quab.

The author of the Revifal is satisfied with none of these, but offers no new conjecture.

Qual, however, the original reading,

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A young English officer, preffed by two Savages who were making at him with uplifted hatchets, had not the leaft hope of efcaping death, and thought of nothing now but to fell his life as dear as he could. Just then, an old Savage, armed with a bow, drew near him, in act to pierce him with an arrow; but after taking aim at him, all on a fudden he drops his point, and runs to throw himself between the young Englishman and the two Barbarians, who were going to G of refpect to the motions of the old maffacre him. These drew back out man, who, with figns of peace, took the officer by the hand, after removing his apprehenfions by friendly gef tures, and carried him home with him to his hut. There he treated him with great humanity and gentlenefs, less like his flave than his companion. He taught him the Abenakee language, and the coarfe arts in ufe among thofe people. They lived very well fatisfied with each other. One only point of the old man's dep›rtment could not but give the young officer fome uneafinefs; he would fome

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