within the ports they would be immediately apprehended, and confined in the Houfe of Correction to hard labour.

We hear from the Hague, that Lieut. Colonel Johnstone is promoted to be Colonel commandant in Gen. Marjoribank's regiment, in place of Col. Bruce, retired.

Saturday, Sept. 26. Wheat fell from 14s. to 10s. 6d. and 10s. in the Newcaftle market.

We hear from Inverary, that a very large Bear was a few days ago caught in the woods near that place. This proves the affertion of Mr Pennant that the Bear is a native of this country. Vide Linnæus's article, Urfus major.

MARRIAGE S. On the 24th ult. was married at London, Andrew Hamilton, Efq; lately arrived from the Ifland of St. Chriftopher, to Mifs Hannah Vaughan, daughter of John Vaughan, Efq; of Laurence Pountuey-lane.

On the 27. Sept. was married Capt. Byne, of his Majefty's navy, to Mifs Read, of Bishopfgate Street London.

DEATH S.

The 14th of July died, at Antigua, Capt. Allen, of the Matroffes.

A letter from London informs, that on the 27th Sept. that original genius, and excellent engineer, Mr James Brindley, after a long illaefs which gradually wore him away, and w. ch was brought upon him by too intenfe an application of mind to accomplish the great works in which he was engaged, departed this life at Turnhurst in Stafford-fhire.

Wednesday Sept. 30th died at Stitchill, Mifs Margaret Pringle, daughter to Sir Robert Pringle, of Stitchill,

baronet.

On the 2d inft. Mrs. Ogilvy of Inchmartine died at Fountainbridge, and was interred on Wednesday the seventh

On the 26th of Sept.died at his house at New End, Hampstead, Major Forbes.

Letters from India mention the death of Capt. Woffington, a near relation of the late celebrated Mrs Woffington, by the late unhappy accident that happened there.,

The Glasgow Chronicle mentions the death of Collector M'Donald of the Excife, at Inverary, who was unfortunately fhot by his own piftol, in reaching it down from the place where it was hung up.

On the 3d Inft. Died, at his house iu North-Audley-street, Peter M'Cloud, Efqaged 105 years.

at the family burying-place of Inchmartine.

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his fon. My Dear Charles, OU have now attained that period when the toga virilis perfectly becomes you. The education you have received will, I doubt not, enable you to appear as a gentleman, and occafionally acquit yourfelf as a fcholar; but in the character of the one let me particularly recommend to you to avoid any thing that borders upon the fop: not that I would have you hold even dress in contempt; but remember all extremes are ridiculous, the happy medium is the line of the man of fenfe. In converfation, though I would have you avoid all barbarous expreffions, all vulgar phrases, take care alfo to avoid affectation in the choice of uncommon words; and if upon fome extraordinaryoccafion you should quote a Latin or Greek author, do it fo fparingly, that no one should think you did it to make a parade of your learning; for a profeffed pedant is the most obnoxious of all animals. In converfation be rather chearful than fententious; mirthful than witty; condefcending than argumentative; for notwithstanding argument has been called the foul of converfation, it frequently hurries a man into warm altercations, which fometimes are productive of difagreeable confequences: therefore whenever you find a man begin to heat in the debate, you may be convinced he is in the wrong,and you derive an unfelt victory by yielding to him. Besides, in the company of women there is fomething terrifying in the idea of argument; VOL. II.

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always to fubmit to the ladies. well-timed ftory, if happily related, can never fail to pleafe; but fhun a practice now too commonly purfued, of having a string of stories to furnish out the day, and which must be introduced, whether pertinent or not. The fame hint will serve with refpect to extraordinary characters; for though the portrait of man who makes a noise upon the theatre of life will always meet applaufe, if difplayed with judgment, fhould he, though ever fo great a caricature, be held up in a wrong light, the painter will probably be confidered as a dawber, and the original too infignificant to be traced upon canvass. your epiftolary correfpondence with your friends, aim at ease and familiarity: a quaintnefs, or even floridity of ftyle, upon thefe occafions, betrays a weakness to fhine, where you fhould only mean to please; but take care to be always correct in your language, and that your declarations may not afterwards, in case a rupture should arife between you, tell to your disadvantage; and it would be therefore neceffary always to keep the rough draughts of your letters by you, that they may be recurred to, if occafion fhould demand it.

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You will, doubtlefs, no fooner make your appearance in polite life, according to your ftation, than you will be young fellows, careffed by a number of who make gaiety and diffipation their only pursuits; they will confider you as a prize, if they divert you from your former regular life, and make N

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you as abandoned as themselves, they will allure you to participate of all the pernicious pleasures of the capital. Shun these infnarers as a peftilence; they carefs but to deftroy; their irregularities are but of a fhort duration; their conftitutions, unable to fuftain, foon yield to repeated vigils at the fhrine of Bacchus,or the alter of Venus. There is another fet of men who conftantly infeft the capital ftill more pernicious than thofe, as they have most of the fatal allurements in common with the others, united to their villainous defigns upon your pocket, nay, your fortune. Thefe are the gentlemen who live, at least in a great measure, by play, and who, having no other purfuit, are dexterous at moft games beyond the bounds of honefty. A young nobleman juft ftarted upon the town, unexperienced in the wiles of mankind, is their darling object. It is difficult to point out to you the immediate index of these vultures, as their external appearance impofes them upon you for gentlemen, and their addrefs is polite, even to a fault. Their fawning behaviour will indeed, in fome measure diftinguish them, and their converfation may, through their ignorance, ferve as another beacon. The only rule I can give you to avoid the fnares of thefe impoftors is, never to play for any fum, the lofs of which can give you a moent's uneafinefs.

Befides the danger you run of being cheated by gamefters, as they are profeffed foldiers of fortune, they think it incumbent on them, upon every occafion, to vindicate what they call their honour; and as it is a feather in their cap to have a quarrel with a real gentleman, they frequently go in fearch of difputes, to difplay their valour. Gaming indeed furnishes them with too many opportunities of fhewing their falfe courage, and unless you will let them defraud you with impunity, they infift upon cutting your throat for detecting them.

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relling, let me give you a few thoughts upon what is called the point of honour. Although you are an excellent fwordfman, let not your skill-betray you into a defire of exhibiting it. quarrelfome man is the bane of fociety; he is fhunned and dispited. If ever you are fo unfortunate as to be engaged in a quarrel by receiving an affront that you cannot, as a gentleman, put up with, acquit yourself like a man of honour. Courage in a man, like vir

tue in a woman, muft not even be fufpected.

This naturaily leads me to confider, that as you may probably appear in a military capacity, your honour will be placed in a more confpicuous point of view than in private life. I have not the leaft doubt of your performing your duty as an officer in the field, or as a gentleman in the camp; I would only caution you not to let the thirst of glo. ry, in the firft inftance, carry you beyond the bounds of your duty, but to obey, ftrictly obey, your fuperiors. With refpect to your brother officers, always treat them with that civility and refpect due to their rank; and though you may difcover many of them much inferior to yourself in understanding and literature, let not your fuperiority upon any occafion betray you into a contempt of their abilities, and carefully avoid farcastic raillery, carried beyond the point of politeness. I cannot dismiss this head, without recommending to you an attentive, perufal of the best books upon the art military, that you may not, as many are, be entirely ignorant of your profeffion.

If you fhould chance to be placed in civil life in any department of the state, make yourfelf perfectly acquainted with the nature of your office; let no difpatches of moment be sent, without having carefully perused them. Here you will probably have an opportunity of calling forth all your genius, all your moft useful learning; the hiftories of nations, the revolution of go

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vernments, the policy of courts, the interefts of princes, the intrigues, of cabinets. Your knowledge of the dead. and living languages, will be of infinite service to you, and the facility with which you write your own, and the other polite tongues, will enable you to correfpond with the minifters of all the courts in Europe. Hère you may at once difplay the ftatefman and the fcholar, the gentleman and the pa.triot *

I will not pretend to give you ar y advice how to act as a fenator, as I know your confcience and good fenfe will dictate your conduct in that capacity. Beware, however, of the violence of party; and let not your intereft or connections biafs your judgement.

I am now come to the last and most important object of my letter; this is matrimony. As I have reafon to believe you will be inclinable to hand down, in a direct line, your family and titles to pofterity, the choife of a wife is a fubject you fhould very feriously think upon. I fhall fay nothing about beauty, as that must be a partial confideration in your own eyes; but let it not dazzle them fo far as to blind you to her blemishes. Good fenfe and good humour are the two greatest virtues, after chastity, a wife can poffefs. As to age, I apprehend I need not caution you; fhe fhould not be older than yourfelf; and as to family, I would not have it inferior. Though you certainly will not object to a fortune let it be the leaft part of the confideration, as your eftate is fufficient to fupport the dignity of your family.

I fhall now, my dear Charles, take my leave of you, hoping that these few thoughts thrown together for your future happiness, will have their defired effect, being moft tenderly, &c. &c.

SIR,

The following is a conclufion of the E. of Cromarty's Speech on Wednes day July 30th, 1746 upon his being afked why judgment of death fhould not pafs against him, which I apprehend you will find worthy of a place in your Magazine. A. C.

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ating circumftances in his cafe his lordship concludes thus," Nothing my lords remains, but to throw myfelf, my life, my fortune upon your lordships compaffion; but of thefe my lords, as to myfelf it is the leaft part of my fuffering. I have involved an affectionate wife, with an unborn infant as parties of my guilt, to fhare its penalties, I have involved my eldest fon, whofe infancy and regard to his parents hurried him down the stream of rebellion: I have involved alfo eight innocent children, who must feel their parents punishment before they know his guilt. Let them my lords be pledges to his Majefty; let them be pledges to your lordships; let them be pledges to my country for mercy; let the filent eloquence of their grief and tears; let the powerful language of innocent nature fupply my want of eloquence and perfuafion; let me enjoy mercy but no longer than I deferve it; and let me no longer enjoy life than I fhall ufe it to deface the crimes I have been guilty of.

While I thus intercede with his majefty thro' the meditation of your lordfhips for mercy, let my remorse for my guilt as a fubject, let the forrow of my heart as a husband, let the anguish of my mind as a father speak the reft of my mifery. As your lordships are men feel as men, but may none of you ever feel the smallest part of my anguifh. N 2

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