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unhappily the rifing generation is brought up in the fame principles and love for pleasure. Mafter and mifs accompany their parents in all their excurfions, in order to be initiated in the paths of folly, and affift in augmenting the expence. It is true indeed we may be called a forward age; but how much more would it redound to our honour to deferve the epithet of wife! Without meriting the name of Cynic, we may venture to pronounce, that the prefent method of fpending our

day of the fayd monyth of Aprille ffor the qwhych qwehdyr it holde longe tyme or fchortt or gwhedye it fortune to been Progott the fayd John Strawnge grauntyth no more to takyn for his wagys then a Cade of full Heryng tho' to been dylivid be Xitenmaffe next comyng In Wetneffe heroff eyther partt to_others Indentur inter Chawnxubilly her fetys hun fett day and yer above fayd.

EXTRACT from a late French Pub, lication.

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time is not only unchriftian-like, but H 2 Frenchman and a Spaniard.

foolish and inconfiderate. Man without reflection (and thofe places were not made to indulge thought) can only be compared to the brutes, nor can be faid to be fuperior to them, but that his figure is erect: how happy for us, if we would but now and then look inward, and examine by an impartial fcale our rule of conduct! We should then be told," how vain, trifling, and empty are all the pleasures of life. We should then fee how fond we are of being deceived, what pains we take to furmount ten thousand difficulties which lie in the way of vice; how foon the appetite is palled, and how long the fting remains upon the confcience; that the balm which sweetens our paffage through life, flows from a fpring more unfullied than all the empty follies of human invention, and that reafon has charms to fatiate us, if we employ it in furvying the works of the

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-A Frenchman wears a little black hat, with a large white feather in ita Spaniard wears a large white hat,with a little black feather in it. A Frenchman wears his hair long-a Spaniard wears his fhort.- A Frenchman eats faft, and a great deal-a Spaniard eats flow, and very little. A Frenchman is ferved with the boiled meat first-a Spaniard with the roaft. A Frenchman usually puts wine into his watera Spaniard puts water into his wine. A Frenchman, talks a great deal at table— a Spaniard fays not a word. A Frenchman takes a walk after eating-a Spaniard takes a nap or fits ftill. A Frenchman walks faft-a Spaniard walks flow. A French fervant walks behind his master-a Spanish fervant walks before him. A Frenchman, when he makes a fign for any one to come to him, raifes his hand, and waves it towards his face. a Spaniard for the fame purpose, lowers his hand towards his feet. A Frenchman, by way of compliment, gives the upper part of the pavement a Spaniard gives the lower. A Frenchman enters and goes out of his own house the laft-a Spaniard always the firft. A Frenchman afks charity with humility -a Spaniard afks with a kind of grav ity which has a great appearance of ig. norance. A Frenchman reduced to poverty fells every thing but his shirtbis fhirt is the first thing of which a Spaniard rids himself, retaining his ruff, his fword, and hiding all his wants un

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der his cloak even to extremity. A Frenchman, in a morning, puts on his coat the lafta Spaniard begins to dress himself with it. A Frenchman, in buttoning himself, begins at the cape, and ends at the waift-a Spaniard be-, gins at the waift, and ends at the cape.

A method to mark linen, fo as not to wash out again; recommended by the late Dr. Smellie.

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AKE vermillion, as much as will ly on a half-crown piece, of the falt of fteel,a piece about the fize of a fmall nutmeg, grind or levigate them well together with lintfeed oil; you may make it thick or thin, at your difcretion.

N. B. This is equal, if not fuperior to any of the numerous compofitions fo long puffed on the town at exhorbitant prices.

Original Anecdotes of the celebrated Duchefs of Portsmouth.

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HIS fingular woman owed her fortune and fame to the ambition of Lewis XIV. When that intriguing prince, who became more powerful by ftratagem than by arms, projected the ruin of England by the folly of its monarch, as the fitteft inftrument to his purpose, he turned his eyes upon Louife du Querouaile, the fubject of thefe anecdotes. He well knew the propenfity which Charles II. had to pleasure, and wifely perceived that this woman had the talents to acquire a total afcendency over him. He fent her therefore to England, in the train of the Duchefs of Orleans; and it happened exactly as he had forefeen. For, foon after her arrival in England, the amorous Charles created her duchefs of Portfmouth.

About this time, after her having effected a complete conqueft over the heart of Charles, she began to look around her, and was ftruck in a particular manner, with the youth, the figure, the gaiety, and the genteel qualities of the most profligate nobleman then living, the earl of Rochefter. His lordship

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was too converfant in the fervice of intrigue to let a fine woman's glance escape him; the duchess therefore did not ogle long in vain. They foon came to an explanation, and the first night, when the monarch fhould be abfent from her bed, was appointed for a clofer interview. This night arrives; and the earl was to afcend the back-ftairs of the royal palace at a certain hour of the night. But, unluckily for him, a fudden inclination had determined the king to go upon the fame errand too, and at the fame hour: and the earl had but juft gained the paffage to her apartment, when he encountered the monarch. This interview was fhort: for Charles only faid to him, "Goodnight, Wilmot! I'll talk with you to-morrow," and entered the room. The earl returned from whence he came, with the utmoft agility. In the morning the king kept his word, and fent for Rochefter, who behaved, on this occafion, like a man of gallantry and honour. He entirely exculpated the duchefs from any knowledge of his intended vifit, and took the whole charge home to himself, saying that he knew the was alone, and that he was willing to risk any thing in an attempt to obtain the favour of fo fine a woman. Charles believed every word he faid, but banifhed him the court for three months. for his boldnefs: a punishment which he frequently inflicted on this nobleman, for he could forgive any thing but a rival in his amours. As banishment from the court, the center of beauty and pleafure, was in the highest degree irkfome to the licentious Rochefter, he generally revenged himself on his mafter by writing lampoons againft him, replete with wit, fatyr, and abufe. The lampoon, which he wrote on this occafion, we have in fome editions of his works; and it feems to have been dictated by a fpirit of par-. ticular feverity.

It was not fashionable, in thofe times,. to meddle much in ftate affairs, fo that the duchefs had the fewer of fles to

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furmount in that department; and we may learn, from the following inftance of her power, with how much eafe fhe carried points of importance: a young gentleman of family and fortune, but of abandoned principles, had long diftinguished himself in high-way robberies, and other defperate acts against fociety. He had been often apprehended, and fometimes convicted, but thro' the intereft of his friends had been always pardoned. He was at length tried for murder and condemned. He had now become fo notorious, that it was abfolutely neceffary to facrifice him to the public fafety. The influence of many of the nobility was in vain exerted in his favour; the king was immoveable. He was juft proceeding to give the order for his execution, when fome of the nobility artfully threw a copy of a pardon on the table before him. He had a pen in his hand, and the duchefs of Portsmouth stood at his fhoulder. She took his hand gently within her own, and conducting it to the paper which had the pardon written on it, led his hand while he fubfcribed his name, the king not making the least resistance. Shaking his head, and fmiling, he threw the pardon to the noblemen who had interpofed in the young man's behalf, telling them "to keep the rafcal out of his reach for the future." When this pardon was fhewn to the lord chancellor Hyde, obferving how badly the letters of the king's name were formed, as if his hand had trembled, he said, that, when the king wrote, juftice had been fighting againft mercy.'

St. Evremont, the French wit, during his refidence at the English court, was beloved and protected by the duchefs. The friendship was reciprocal; but the foundation of it was fuppofed to be fomething more than the mere affociation and affent of polite minds: and those who pretend to unlock myfteries afferted, that they could trace up the original motives to a political fource. This, however, is certain, that

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many little jeux de' efprit, which were circulated at court as thofe of the duchefs, were actually the productions of St. Evremont's pen.

As we cannot fpeak farther with certainty, we fhall clofe our accounts of this celebrated woman, who ruled the moft inconftant monarch in the world till the day of his death. She furvived her royal lover many years, having not died till November 1734, aged 89. She preferved her beauty till 70, and her wit till her death.

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al body; the caufes of the evils fubT is in the political as in the natufting being inveftigated and known, proper and fufficient remedies may be applyed. The dearnefs, not to fay fearcity, of provifions is felt and acknow. ledged by all; the caufes productive of it are various, which to exhibit collectively may be of ufe to those whose duty and bufinefs it is to remove it. Inclofures, which deprive the cottagers of turf for firing, and food for their poultry. The confolidated farms, which, by annihilating little farms, have checked the breed of pigs and poultry, that not being an object with the wealthy farm

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The turnpike roads, which have brought many refpectable families to town, to the ruin of the ancient hofpitality in the country, and raising the price of provifions in the metropolis. The augmentation of eftates, owing to the luxury and prodigality of the times, which muft unavoidably enhance the value of the different produce. The contagion amongst the large cattle, and the bad feafons of lamb falling for years, past, which occafioned farmers to break up theirpafture, and fell off the remainder of their ftock. The fcarcity of beans and barley about fix years ago which carried off the poultry and pigs of the poor villagers. The continual tranfportation of sheep from different parts of England to France, the French being refolved, at any rate, to procure a breed from us. Luxury in trades-peo

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ple, whose tables are now frequently, which thirty years ago were upon days of feftivity only, covered with the best of fish, flesh, and fowl. The breeding of borfes for tranfportation, which, by increafing the value of oats and pafture, hath leffened the cultivation of wheat, and the breed of other cattle. The amazing enlargement of the fuburbs of the metropolis, to the irrecoverable lofs of a number of farms, which fupplied the town with large quantities of eggs, butter, calves, pigs and fowl: Ordinances and chop-houses, where the little gentlemen and petty tradefmen luxuriously indulge themselves in the choiceft delicacies of the season. The run ning of wheat to foreign markets, the gain of which, being fo confiderable, is á ftrong temptation to the farmer to withhold his corn. Country houfes, which occafion the keeping of two ta

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bles, when the provifion of one would be fufficient for the family. The general practice of tea-drinking, of benefit only to the luxurious and high-liver, which, from an unneceffary confumption of butter, milk, bread, coal, and wood; hath within fifteen years raised the price of thefe neceffaries double, and made cheese not only worse, but fifty per cent. dearer. The fcarcity of good apples fince the laft general blight, which, with bread and milk are the principal food of the children of the poor. The prodigious number of livery fervants,who cannot content themselves with plain food, but must have their tit-bits as well as their mafters. Laftly,the daily and almoft incredible flaughter of pigs, lambs, calves, and all kind's of poultry, to gratify the appetite of the glutton, and to please the tafte of the epicure.

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ET A B C be the right an

gled triangle, DE F the circle infcribed; then, if the hypothenufe AC is fubtracted from the fum of the fides A B, B C the remainder is equal to the diameter of the circle DEF.

For Bifect the two acute angles by the lines A G, and G C, and from the centre G, let fall perpendiculars upon all the fides,viz. GD; G F, and G E.

Now because the angles G C F, and G C E, are equal per con. the angles G E C, and G F C, both right, and the fide G C, common. Then by Euc: XXVI. B. 1. the two triangles are equal in all refpects; therefore the respective fides E C, and FC, are equal. In the fame manner, the fide A D, of the triangle A D G, may be proven equal to AE, of A GE; but E C, and AE, make the whole hypothenufe which is therefore equal to ADF C,that is A B+B C-B D B F. But G D, and G F, being the Radii of the fame circle are equal, and fall perpendicularly on the lines A B, BC; therefore D F, is a fquare and D BB, FD GG F, two radii, equal to the diameter of the circle. And fo the fum of the legs A B; B C; exceed the hypothenufe A C, by a quantity D B; B F, equal to the diameter of the infcribed circle D F E Q.E. D.

We have likewife received other two Answers to this Question. VOL. II.

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Th' un table fantom vanishes away.
So vap'ry fires mislead unwary fwains,
Who rove benighted o'er the dewy
plains.

Drawn by the faithless meteor's glim

'ring ray,

Through devious paths, and lonely

wilds they ftray;

Too late convinc'd, their fad mistake deplore,

And find their home more distant than before.

Could mortals learn to limit their defires,

Little fupplies what nature's want re

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Ambition's charms Philotimus infpire,

A treas'rer's ftaff the pitch of his defire: The ftaff he gains, yet murmurs at his fate,

And longs to fhine first minister of state, A coach and four employ'd Cofmelia's cares.

For this the hourly worried heav'n with pray'rs.

Did this, when gain'd, her restless temper fix?

No, the ftill prays.-For what?-A

coach and fix.

Thus when through fortune's airy rounds we stray,

Our foot-steps rove from nature's certain way;

Through endless labyrinths of error

run,

And by the fond delufion are undone; Still vainly reaching at a tranfient bliss, Purfue the shadow, and the substance mifs:

'Till after all our wand'ring fchemes, we find

That true content dwells only in the mind.

Those joys on no external aid depend, But in ourselves begin, and there must end.

From virtue only thofe delights must flow,

Which neither wealth nor titles can. bestow.

A foul, which uncorrupted reason fways,

With calm indiff'rence fortune's gifts furveys,

If Providence an affluent store denies, Its own intrinfic worth that wants fupplies.

Difdains by vicious actions to acquire That glitt'ring trifle vulgar minds admire.

With eafe to heav'n's fuperior will refigns,

Nor

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