furnish'd with the strongest Materials from the Writings of that choleric old Beldame Mrs Osborne, who, in one of her fcolding Fits, unluckily exprefs'd herself, as you will fee p. 90 C. As to the Projector Himfelf, 'tis hop'd this Rebuff will inftruct him to be cautious for the future, how He provokes the Patience of the People. This will be the Way for him to fleep in quiet, without being haunted with continual Dreams of Murder and Affaffination. At prefent, he may comfort himself, that as he has B discovered no Part of the Spirit or Abili ties of JULIUS CAESAR, he need not be afraid of falling in the fame Manner. If he is refolved to perfift in his former Meafures, and verify Madam Osborne's Prophecies, it is out of my Power to prevent it with all my Endeavours. London Journal, April 21. No 721. The publick Advantages of the late Schemes about Tobacco and Wine. VERY Method of Wickedness having odious, and to roufe up a Spirit of Difaffection in the Nation, I think it the Duty of every Englifman, fays Osborne, to do Juftice to the honourable Gentleman who defigned it, and to undeceive the People, who have been notorioufly abused. ferve the Thanks and Approbation of all difinterested Men? Hath not his Ear been open to all other Methods? And is it not clear, that no other Method can be found to prevent Frauds in Duties on Home ConA fumption. Muit the publick Revenue (of which his prudent Care has been one of the greatest Securities) be fuffer'd Knowingly to diminish, to the apparent Detriment of the People, who must make good by other Taxes, the Deficiency of those already laid? He took Care to provide a Remedy; and what has been the Confcquence? The Rage of Men, who have private Interefts to carry on against the Good of the Publick, and Paffions to gratify against Gentlemen in Power, hath alarmed the People, and fright'ned them out of their Sentes. The high Dignity of the Houfe of Commons hath been bafely trampled on, the House it self befet; the Members infulted; his Majesty's, and their Country's best Servants burnt in Effigy, and publick Rejoycings made by way of Infult upon the Court Can Government fubfift on this Foot? ----But I forbear at present. C D The Defign was to take off a Tax unequal, burthenfome, and partial, only by preventing Frauds in Duties already laid; E to raise feveral hundred thousand Pounds a Year to the Publick, not the King; and to apply the Money to the Taking off the Land Tax. "Twas likewife intended to take off the Duties on Soap and Candles, only by a new Regulation of an other Tax. F The Advantages of this Scheme, as they relate to the Excife Laws, the fair Traders in Tobacco and Wine, and the Nation, are as follows. Here he repeats what himfelf and others have before said on the fame Subject. (See p. 66,67,133,141) The Inconveniences in the Commodities G already excifed, would have been remedied, particularly the Enquiry upon Oath in the Tea A, the prefent Appeal in all the Excifes, abrogated; and a new Appeal inttituted of three Judges, without any Expence. Does this fo truly laudable a Scheme, fays Osborne, defervé the Treatment it has met with? Or rather, doth not the Minifter, who laid thefe Methods of preventing Frauds before the Publick, "de H Universal Spectato?, April 21. N° 220. A Few Days fince, I happen'd, fays Mr Stonecaftle, to light upon a Manufcript entitled, The Art of murdering Be nefits, or an Effay upon contemplative Favours. It fhews in general that not one Gift in 5 we receive of our FellowCreatures, even that of Life itself, is worthy of being called a Benefit; and that few or none pafs undifguifed be tween us, or uncorrupted with base Alloy. I am not of that fufpicious Temper, and if I think more favourably of them than they fometimes deferve, it gains me more in Satisfaction than it lofes me in Safety; 'tis embellishing the little Gold we find in the Oar of Converfation, not to defpife the whole Mafs, because it has a great deal of Drofs. I appeal to any Author, whether the Kifs given by the Carpenter's Wife of Oxford thro' her Window at Midnight, to the fpruce Clerk of Ofney-Abbey (as related by Chaucer in his Miller's Tale) would have been fuch a difagreeable Courtefy as he inftances, to a Lover fenfible of the Tokens of good Houfwifry that were about her Lips, as if the had been all Day at her SpinningWheel. Another Apology for Benefits is, we often mistake thofe Things for Injuries And crown'd him with it who had none before: ANSWER. She grac'd him much, on whom her Wreath the plac'd, [more grac'd: But him whofe Wreath fhe wore the much For where he gives, the there a Servant makes, But makes berfelf a Servant where the takes. Then where he takes, jhe honours most, and where She moft does Honour, he must Love most dear. Laftly, The Nature of Benefits themfelves is not depreciated by being confer'd on inferior Objects. They rather give Encouragement to expect they would operate more generously were they more nobly center'd. This is illuftrated in the following Song.· STREPHON verfus Tray. Or, the AMOROUS CONTEST. H what Pain it is to fee, OH Can I bear it, can I bear it, Oh what Pain it is to fee, Can Flesh and Blood c'er bear it? A Kifs, which wou'd give Ecftacy; Can Flesh and Blood e'er bear it? Hopes in Complaifance I place, They deceive me, they deceive me; Hopes in Complaifance I place, But all thefe Hopes deceive me; I bow, I cringe, but fpite alas Of courtly Airs and artful Face, Tray fawns with fuch fuperior Grace, That all thefe Hopes deceive me. When I Skill in Mufick show, "Twill not please her, 'twill not please her; When I Skill in Mufick show, Yet ftill it will not please her ; D E My Tune, tho' foft, my Voice tho' low, 'Tis vain; my chiefeft Notes must bow To (weet enchanting Ba---wa---waw ż That Air alone will please her. Grant, I cry'd, to cure my Woes, Balmy Kifles, balmy Kiffes, Grant, I cry'd, to cure my Woes, In vain my Sighs to move her role; Yet my Heart is fix'd to try If once she'd change and love me: Fog's Journal, April 21. No. 253. MEzeray, in his Hiltory of Harry III. of France, takes Notice, that when weak and corrupt Minifters embarrass the publick Affairs, their Examples debauch the Morals of others, fo that the Teint defcends to infect Pofterity. This he proves in the Example of Francis D'o, Superintendant of the Finances, whofe whole Merit confifted in finding out Funds to opprefs the People. He was remarkable for a certain little low Cunning, of no Ufe, but to qualify a Man to be a thorough Rogue, and indeed he used to perplex and embarrass the publick Accounts fo as it was not caly to fix his Frauds. The Eftates of Burgundy, finding the Burthens laid upon them were inconfif tent with thofe Privileges they ought to F enjoy by Virtue of their Union with the Monarchy of France, fent a Deputation to reprefent against the prodigious and unneceffary Expence of new Offices, Em ployments, and Penfions, the Multitude of Taxes, and the arbitrary Method of collecting them, requesting they might be reduced, and put upon the antient Foot. G Francis D'o employ'd all his Addrefs to abate this Refolution, and had Recourfe to Reason, Threats, and Promises, telling them among other plaufible Arguments, they ought to confine themselves to their own Province, without troubling themfelves or the King with that of the reit H of the Kingdom. The Deputies generously answer'd, That the Intereft of one Province, or one Man, ought to be infeparable from that of the whole Kingdom.-As to the reft, every Man I would take only fuch Steps, as might render that State comfortable and happy. With this View I did not feek an Overgrown Fortune, nor could think of giving Amy Hand to a Woman, from whom my. Heart was likely to be at Liberty. A beautiful Face and fine shape, were not enough to engage me, if the Soul was not fitted to my own too. With fuch Sentiments as thefe, I addressed the lovely Prudentia, who at last confented to be my Bride. B Man was obliged to take Care of his Pof- The Audito?, April 24. No. 31. HE AUDITOR having (See p. 119. TH) promifed his fair Readers a WHEN I first refolved upon a married F G We have now been married about 7 Years, and I have enjoyed all the Happiness I could defire, or expect from fo agreeable a Lady; the Bonds of Affection are strengthened by all the foft Expreffions of her Love. Prudentia is the fame agreeable Creature, and appears ftill more entertaining: In her I enjoy a Wife and a Friend, who shares more than half of every Care, and more than doubles every Joy, and by her mild and gentle Influence, diffufes Regularity, and Goodnature thro' the whole Family. Hence it is, I love Home better than any other Place; and hence, I hope, is laid a folid Foundation for future Happiness, as long as Heaven and Nature will measure out our Existence here. Learn hence, my Friend, the Way to maintain focial Happiness, when all the Effects of wandering Lufts, and lawless Flames expire, or only remain to the Shame and Infamy of the guilty Wretch. Yours MARITUS. This State feems better calculated for compleat Happiness, than that mention'd from the Cenfures of the World, which by Fidelio; however, there is less to fear Conftantia must be liable to, tho' her Reafon may fatisfy her, they are unjuft. Suppofe the Confequence of Fidelio and Conftantia's Union has been an only Daughter now grown up, Will Fidelio confent the fhould live with another profelling Fidelio, as he had done with Conftantia? Yes, he will fay, if another could be found. But as this is difficult, he will hardly truft his Daughter to make the Trial. If fo, may we not judge, his Love for Conftantia was not fo great as his Love for his Daughter? And that his dot Wanderne ought to have done, to loving Conftantia at firft, in that ten have made her his Wite, was the true What is here faid, the AUDITOR does ROC not intend as a Reproach to Conftantia Gzubfreet Journal, April 25. No. 174. THE Mafter of the C-t Garden Theatre, at the Beginning of this Seafon, was offer'd a Tragedy, which he al- B low'd was written in a good Stile; and that the Paffions avere well mov'd, yet without Alterations he would not play it, nor with, unlefs he dictated them. A Comedy was likewife offer'd, the Dialogue of which, Mr K--- own'd, was eafy and genteel, the Characters new and drawn from Life; yet not fuited to His Tatte, and therefore abfolutely rejected, M. Voltaire's Zaira, tranflated, met with the fame Fate. Let us now examine, what he has brought on the Stage. Achilles fucceeded beyond Expectation, I think, beyond its Defert. King LoG's Fatal Secret, met with the Reception it merited. I now come to his favourite Piece of the MockLawyer, for which Zaira made room. The Author of the Tragedy first mention'd, had a little humorous Piece fur D tively fpeaking, I fhould be Superlatively happy, might I Engender with you in all Moods and Tenfes. I kope you will not think me fo Singular, as not to defire to have the Plural Number in my Family; or that I am too Mafculine, to be Neuter in Regard to the Foeminine: Wherefore, Dear Madam, let us have our Affections in Common of Two. Far be it from me to decline this Conjugation, tho' I am not the First Perfon, nor the Second, nor the Third, that have folicited you to be Subjunctive to his Love. I prefume you will not be in the Imperative, whilst I pass from the Optative to the Potential; and that you will permit me to make a Conjunction Copulative of my Propria quæ Maribus, with your As in Præfenti; this will make Participle of Happiness, if you pleafe Actively to give your Voice to be Paffive berein: be you but Supine, and I'll be Deponent: Thus you will find it the Opta, tive Part of my Soul, to be a lawful Concord with the Genitive, my whole Income fall be a Dative to you for the Prefent; nothing fhall be Accufative against you for the Future; and your Dear Name ball ever be my Vocative, till Death, the great Ablative of all Things, part us. I am, Dear Madam, &c. a Free ziton, April 26. No. 176. HE reptitiously taken from him. From this ET Craftsman has (fee Occurrence Mr R got a whole Opera work'd up by a young Gentleman of Cambridge, which Opera is now contracted into this Farce. Let the Town judge if this Man deferves their Encouragement: Let Authors confider, if this is the Man to be apply'd F to, or even trusted with their Perfor mances. The Managers of the Old House have behav'd ill; the Mafter of the New worfe: If the first have brought bad Pieces upon the Stage, it was because they had no better; yet they rejected not a Zaira, nor pirated a Copy. Yours No-BODY. The following humorous LovE LETTER, lays Bavius, is copied from the Norwich Gazette. Dear Madam, April 13.) taken that Liberty with MAJESTY, which I, fays Walfingham, fhould have thought ill-becoming of me, or of any private Man. He hath fet forth an ample Account of the Rife and Fortunes, Abilities, and Merits of a noble Lord, with heavy Lamentations, that the King fhould thus difmifs him; concluding that the World feems aflonised at fo unexpected an Event, &c. What Infolence is this to the Throne! How injurious to the Noble Lord! How unfair to all Mankind! It is upbraiding the King with his former Favours to this noG ble Perfon. It is reproaching the King with the Abilities and Services of this noble Perfon, as if thofe Abilities and Services were fuch, that no Reasons could juftify the King in removing him from his Attendance. It's PRESCRIBING to the Royal Perfon, in a Manner which relates wholly to the King. It is telling him openly, that his Majefty removes Perfons from his Service in a manner that aftonishes bis People; and at a Time as requires him to retain thofe Perfons in bis Service. As if his Majefty held the Allegiance IF connector with out, be pleased to F there be yet no Propofition towards a H accept of this Interjection of my Pretences: For I do Pronouns Ad-verbum, that I defire to be Adjective to you in all Cafes; for Pofitively I declare, that Compara Allegiance of his Subjects, by the Tenure Suppofing I was as much byaffed in The Authority of the House of Lords, and the Action of Scandalum Magnatum, would deter the boldest Man from speaking Truth of a Peer, if to his Difadvantage. Is it fair then to reflect on the KING for having removed a Lord, who is alledged to deferve more Favour by his Merit and Services? When the most faithful Subject dare not, in Defence even of his KING difpute thofe Merits! What I have here faid, concludes Walfingham, has been with all Respect to this Noble Lord, who, I truft, will always deferve well of the King, notwithstanding the Craftsman's invidious Suggestions. As it can be no Wrong to his Lordship, that he is removed, I fhall not be aftonifhed to fee him re-inftated in Em Cployment. However the Author of this Paragraph may pretend to be acquainted with the manner of his Lordship's Difmiffion, as well as his Lordip's PRIVATE Letter TO THE KING, I take it as proceeding from Perfons who would be dif tinguish'd by making themselves too free with PRIVATE and SACRED CORRES Can it be treating the noble Lord with any real Friendship, to make this illjudged Ufe of his Name and Character, in Oppofition to the Perfon and Procedure of the KING himself, who chofe him to attend his Perfon on his first Arrival in this Kingdom; retained him when dif mifs'd the Court by his Royal Father; who begun his Reign by loading him with Favours, and hath diftinguished almoft every Tear by fome new Office or Honour conferred on his Lordship; who never D fuffer'd his Abilities to languish in Obfcurity; who never fuffe'd any Service to go unrewarded? Can then this Great Lord be well treated by any Man, who mal treats the King? Hath not his Majefty an undoubted Right to difmifs his Servants at his own E Pleasure: Doth any Man hold an Employment of this Nature by Right, or by Royal Favour? Will any Man fuggeft, that the King made the Noble Perfon L-D ST-D, to make him independant of bis Royal Self? Is this Removal then to be cenfur'd as ASTONISHING to the People, and GRIEVOUS to the King's most zealous Friends? Should not I be highly cenfur'd, were I to INSULT the Noble Lord,because theKing hath dismissed him? Is it allowable to infult the King, because he hath removed one of his domeftick Ser vants? Will they allow me to say what they themselves most unworthily faid of this noble Lord, when he was made L---D ST-D? Would it not appear that all as Court Favour, exclufive of themselves is the Subject of their Cenfure, fo a Removal from Court is the Subje& of their Adulation. How unfair is it to bring fuch a Point into Debate? Suppofe we did not allow thofe Abilities and Services, to the praise of this noble Lord; fuppofe there was more than meerly Royal Will and Pleafre operating in this Affair, fome Mis-behaviour or Miftake neceffitating his Majefty to remove him; dare any Man explain it ? F G PONDENCIES. Description of a Vulcano in Ireland, communicated by Letter to the Bp of Kilmore. O n the Kerry Coast of the Shannon, between the old Caftles of Dune and Lick (which are half a Mile afunder) and opposite to 10 Carrick a Hoit, the antient Seat of the Earls of Clare, the Cliffs rife to a great Height above the Sea, to 1, 2, or 300 Feet perpendicular, from which Height, by the undermining of the Waves, they fometimes tall with mighty Violence into the Ocean. Near two Years ago a Piece of one of these high Cliffs fell off; whereupon there broke out a Smoak attended with a strong Sulphureous Smell. I will not take on me to determine whether the fabterraneous hidden Fire was the Occafion of the Cliffs falling, or the Colision of the Rocks on that Accident, the Cause of the Fire; whichfoever of thefe it was, it has continued burning ever fince, and has wafted away fo much of the Cliff, that there was falling from time to time a space of it about 60 Feet in Breadth, and reo in Length. Thefe frequent Breaches have made an eafy Defcent to the Sea from the Top of the Cliff, which at first was perpendicular. By this means I got down, and about midHay came where I obferved the Smoak breaking out: Here I took notice that the Heap of Earth which lately fell from the top, was turned into a kind of Craft, which had leveral Cracks from whence the Smok iffued out. The mixture of burnt Clay, and Ashes, and calcined Stones, was worth obferving; but the Heat was fo ftrong, that (though Pliny's Fate had not come |