вбо 860 A Mathematical Solution and three new Questions. July Solution to Queftion the Second. Igreatest when the sum of the fides is given, is in this question they are 25 each for 25 cubed is 15625 QUESTION I. QUESTION II. F A Young man am I, my age I fain I 19 feconds of time between would know, But the register of my age I cannot fhew, Yet all this I remember very well, Which makes me think my age you'll quickly tell; If to the double of my age you place the fquare root, Of my age doubled with five years more to boot; dropping a ftone, nine ftone weight, into a pit, and hearing it Arike the bottom, how deep is the pit? and with what weight doth the ftone fall at the bottom, allowing found at the rate of 1142 feet per fecond, and the descent of heavy bodies 16.14 feet in the first fecond of time. QUESTION III. Square the laft fum and add it to the A Ship failed from latitude 54° 16' other : [gether, The fum of all these fums do make toTwenty-fix hundred and forty lefs by eight, [right. My age to me pray quickly tell me M north, between fouth and weft, until fhe came to latitude 49° 9′, and afterwards the fails 945 miles more on the fame courfe, and then her depar ture 654 miles. Quere her courfe and diftance, difference of lat. and long. THE BRITISH THEATRE. R. Foote's Maid of Bath coming out at the end of the last month, when our Magazine was almost entirely at the prefs, we had no opportunity of entering into a regular criticifm on its merits, and could give only a flight sketch of the general defign, together with a trifling mention of the performers. We have fince repeatedly attended the exhibition of the piece, and have been very much entertained, notwithstand ing every rule of criticism was violated. We have been interefted without plot, furprized without incident, inftructed without moral, and diverted without character. But we have more than once obferved, with refpect to the productions of Mr. Foote, that it is not fair to try him at the regular bar of 5 a critical examination. His pieces are approved for their humour, not for their correctnefs; their very violation of the dramatic laws, generally conftitutes their principal merit with the town, and fo the rifibility of the audience is heartily provoked, they never once enquire into the probability of the provocation. The fable of the prefent piece (if we may be indulged in the contradiction of giving it a fable, where we have declared it to be without a plot) is faid to turn upon a circumftance much talked of at Bath, between Sir WL--, an elderly baronet of large fortune, and Mifs L, a very accom plifhed young lady, the daughter of an eminent mufician in that city. The baronet 1771. Beneath the fanction of an angry In the midst of all the preparations, If it is afked, how, from articles fo trifling, Mr. Foote could poffibly furwith a dramatic entertainment fufficient for the principal dish of a whole evening; we antwer, by the introduction of digreffive fcenes, and popular perfonalities. We have already observed, that the Maid of Bath is utterly without character, that is, without an appearance of new character; yet the eccentric author has fo varnished the old portraits, that they feem almost a fresh collection to the common clafs of connoiffeurs, and require a tolerable eye to diftinguish, whether they are copies or originals. To drop the metaphor, though amorous old fools are to be found in fifty different comedies; though mercenary parents abound upon our stage; and though Foote himfelf has given a pretended Scotch woman in his Commiffary, that deftroys the originality of Lady Catharine Coldstream in the prefent production; till he has contrived to make their language fo applicable to the times, that they pafs very well for the fpontaneous progeny of the current hour, and do no little credit to the care of their step-father. THEATRE. 36г Mr. Foote has been much cenfured by many people for the perfonalities of the performance on which we are now animadverting; and even the Lord Chamberlain has been reprehended in the public prints, by more than one licence; we are very far from encouwriter, for giving it the fanction of his raging licentioufnefs; very far from withing that private characters (hould ftage, and expofed to the ridicule or be indifcriminately dragged upon the if follies or crimes, compofe the chief deteftation of the public. But, furely, ingredients in any particular character; if any man is either remarkably the immediate province of the fatyrift abfurd, or remarkably worthlefs, it is fligacy in a poetical court of justice. to correct his error, or punish his Dramatic Satire furely, is as juftifiable as any other fatire; and as the theatre is exprefsly inftituted for the purpose of catching pro the dramatic poet is certainly warrant"The manners living as they rife;" ed in fhaming thofe from vice, who are not to be charmed into virtue. fure, dramatic cenfure is by much the We readily grant, that of all cenlikely to excite the contempt of the most severe, and by much the most community; yet, on this very account, we contend for its fuperior efficacy, and infift, that it is more likely which it ftrikes at. than any other, to remove the evils ing the ftage occafionally perfonal, that So far, therefore, are we from feeling any offence at fee we are forry it is not frequently fo; for picture must be a very strong likeness, when we confider, that the theatrical cefs; and when we confider the judito enfure the poet any degree of fuccial danger he runs, where a worthy character is unjustly exhibited; cannot fuppofe he will ever injure himhis intereft is only to be advanced by a felf by an attack upon virtue, where chastisement of folly or vice. In short, as the objects of his refentment muft cuoufly profligate, they naturally bebe confpicuously ridiculous, or confpiit is urged, that the growth of abiurcome lawful game for the mufe, unless dities or crimes, inftead of being checked, is to receive the encouragement of fociety. we thus freely on the Maid of Bath, we now now turn to the Tobacconist, a farce of two acts, altered from Ben Johnfon's Alchymift by Mr. Gentleman, a very fenfible, and we are told, a very worthy man, in Mr. Foote's company of Comedians. It has been long a fashion to celebrate Ben Johnson as an admirable comic Writer, though if we examine his pieces with the fmalleft degree of critical attention, we fhall find their merit to confift wholly in the frength and variety of his characters. His fables are moit lamentably uninterefting, his incidents heavy and unnatural, and his catastrophes wretchedly uninftructive. The comedy of the Alchymift, derived its entire fupport on the ftage from the character of Abel Drugger, which Mr. Garrick worked into a miracle of fimplicity, and in which he inftructed Mr. Wefton with a fuccefs that anfwered his warmeft expectations. To give Mr. Wefton a more frequent opportunity of appearing in this part, Mr. Gentleman tells us, was the chief end he propofed to himself in the prefent alteration; and he alfo tells us, that he has retained but little of the original, befides the general idea of alchymy, and Abel Drugger; even to Abel Drugger he has made fome additions, and introduced two new characters, Mifs Rantipole and Headlong, which appear happily enough fketched, and gave us fo much fatisfaction, that we have extracted Headlong's whole character for the entertainment of our readers. Enter Headlong. How now, my buxom widow here? that's more than I thought for-tip us thy hand-I came to tell this here doctor, what a rare fcholar I am; I can almott quarrel with any body nowwhen he has made me perfect in the croís buttock, and brain blow, I fhould not fear the beft he, that fands in fhoe of leather. Tric. Excellent, I love a man of Spirit. Head. Spirit to the back-bone I never die dunghill-always game-I had a damned fine tuffle in the Park juft now. Tric. Was it high fun ? Headl. Rare rig, it would have made you burft your fides with laughing; you fhall hear the whole affair. Tric. Pray do; I love a bit of mifchief vaftly. Headl. Why you must know my girl of fire, as I was coming at a good panking rate, from St James's cockpit, what fhould I meet in the flagged paffage, of Spring Garden, but a queer fort of a half gentleman, arm under arm, with a damned rum waddling wife, as I afterwards found the was. Tric. Going I fuppofe to take a matrimonial walk in the park---vulgar creatures, antediluvian wretches ! Headl. You have hit it---as I brushed by with my arms a kimbo, this elbow went plump into madain's bread basket; the Itaggered, the husband put on a fighting face, and cries what's that for? what's that to you faid I, it is to me fays he---you lie fays Iyou are an impudent blockhead fays he---you are a ragamuffen fays I, and take that--giving him a tip a-cros the check---into the Park we went--a ring was made, and as pretty a let to we had for about five minutes as any one would wish to fee, till giving him a plump of the jaw, which broke two of his grinders, he fickned, fo gave up: then we thook hands and made friends. Tric. Droll and pleasant to the laft degree, ha! ha! ha! Headl. Oh! but I fhould have told you a merry affair that happened yel terday; after knocking off fix bottles of madeira, hand to fift---Lord Gracelefs --a damned honeft fellow, and myfelf, matched our nags from Windfor to London, the peer laying fixty guineas to forty: well, off we fei, and maintained a devilish deep rate till we came to Turnham Green, where the fport began; as we were tugging for the lead, whip and fpur ; I bolted a blind beggar into the ditch; in lefs than ten feconds, his lordinip flew over an old woman riding upon an afs between two milk pails; fuch a fcene, ha! ha! ha! would have made Mr. What d'ye Callum, the crying philofopher, himfeif laugh; here lay the peer's horte with his neck broke, there the old woman groaning, yonder the afs kicking, and his lordhip fprawling through the milky way, like a wounded frog in a duck-pond. Tric. Inimitable, ha ha! ha! why this is higher life than your battle... besides you won the wager. Headl. Yes, yes, widow, I touched the spankers, the yellow boys, and intend to lay 'em out in a prefent for you; when we are married, if any man does but fquint at you, I'll plump and rib him. Enter Subtle, Face, and A. Drugger. Mr. Doctor, I have been telling my widow here of the prettieft bruifing match. Face. Mind that Nab---speak to him ...I'll fecond you. A. Drug. Will you? then I'll do't--your widow---may hap not. Headl. May hap ay---and if I hear any more of your haps, look ye, d'ye fee, I'll give you douce o'the chaps, mind that. A. Drug. And if you do, you may get as good as you bring for all your fighting face. Tric. Nay, good gentlemen, don't fight on my account---I'll please you both if I can. Headl. You---no, no, little buxom, only a few knocks for love, to fee who's the best man, that's all---will you ftrip? A. Drug. As foon as yourself. Headl. Now then come on, little tickle-pitcher. A. Drug. I am at thee, bully-bluff. [Fight. Face. Bravely done, my Hector of Troy, thou art victorious as Alexander, and fhall be crowned with tobacco inftead of laurel: take thy fair widow, retire and compofe thyself. A. Drug. Mafter Captain, I can feeze tightly, when I fee occafion. [Exit with Trickfy [To be continued.] Sir Jofeph Ayloffe, Bart. F. R.S. V. P. Mr. Jofiah Colebrooke, F.R. S. Treasurer. And. Coltee Ducarel, Efq; LL. D. F. R. S. Brownlow Cecil E. of Exeter, F. R. S. Richard Gough, Efq; director. Philip Earl of Hardwicke, F. R. S. Muf Brit. Cur. Thomas Jones, Efq; George Henry Lee Earl of Litchfield. Thomas Morell, S. T. P. F. R. S. Sec, James Weft, Efq; Pr. R. S. V. P. Muf. Brit. Cur. Daniel Wray, Efq; F. R. S. Muf. Brit. Cur. This council is to be continued till Saint George's Day, 1772. HOME MEMBERS. Sir Henry Bankes, Knt. Levett Blackborne, Efq; Sir William Blackstone, Knt. one of the William Bogdani, Efq; F. R. S. Walter Bowman, Efq; F. R. S. Thomas Brand, Efq; F. R. S. 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