contefted caufe depending before the Court of Seffion, between Mr Heron of Heron, and Dr Heron of London, concerning the eftate of Bargaly in Galloway, was finally determined in favour of the latter.

Monday fe'nnight as two London riders were going from Lancaster to Manchester they were attacked by two footpads armed with piftols, who demanded their money: the riders replied, they would not be robbed; upon which the villians fired, and killed them both on the fpot; then dragged one of them amongst the whins, and the other into a marlepit. The bodies were found on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the perpetrators of this horrid deed were taken up and committed to Lancafter gaol. The villians rod off with the gentlemen's horfes and bags, which were challenged by a perfon who knew the deceafed. We hear that one of them has confeffed the fact.

Last week an alarming fire broke out in the night time at Berwick upon Tweed, which confumed three dwelling houses, and a granary with a large quantity of wheat; and if a centinel had not, as foon as he difcovered it, fired his piece which immediately a larmed the garrifon, it is thought all Church-street would have been burnt, and many lives loft The corporation met next morning and generously rewarded the centinel for his diligence. The 19th regiment of foot, in garrifon there, was very alert, and contributed greatly to extinguish the flames.

As the appointment for the enfuing Spring Circuits mentioned in our laft Number is not authentic, we have inlerted them again, which account may be depended upon as genuine.

The Vifir. You dog of a Chriftian, for whom I had once the profound eft regard, what right have you to reproach me with having four wives, confiftent as it is with our holy laws; while you empty a dozen casks a-year, and I do not touch a glafs of wine? What fervice do you to fociety by fpending more hours at the table than I do in bed? I get four children a-year for the fervice of my royal mafter; you, perhaps, fcarcely one. And what is the child of a fot worth? His head will be clouded with the vapours of that wine which his father was fo fond of. What, moreover, would you have me to do, when two of my wives are lying-in? Would you not allow me to avail myfelf of the other two, as our holy laws have directed us? And pray what do you do how do you avail yourself in the laft months of your wife's pregnancy, and during her lyingin, and her indifpofitions? You muft either continue in a fhameful state of inaction, or have recourfe to illicit love. You are confequently in the dilemma VOL. III.

of two mortal fins, which muft in the end fend you to the devil.

I fuppofe that in our wars with you dogs of Chriftians we loft an hundred thoufand foldiers. Of course a hundred thousand girls were to be provided for. Who fhould take them under their protection but men of wealth? He muft be a miferable toad of a Muffulman, indeed, who has not fpirit enough to marry four fine girls, and do them juftice according to their merit.

What unchriftian rogues the cocks and bulls of your country must be ! Has not each of them his feraglio? It is furely with an ill-grace you reproach me for having four wives, when our great Prophet had eighteen, David the Jew as many, and Solomon the Jew feven hundred, exclufive of his three hundred concubines. You fee I am quite moderate. You might as juftly charge the most abftemious philofopher with gluttony, as upbraid me with entertaining four wives. You have your bottle, let me have my girl. You change your wine, let me change my wife. Let every man live agreeable to the custom of his country. Your hat is not to give law to my turban; nor your short cloak and ruff to direct my dolman. Come, take your coffee, and kifs your German spouse, as the is the only one you have to kifs.

The German. You dog of a Muffulman-for whom I have the profoundet veneration, before I drink my coffee, I will confute your argument. He who has four wives, has four harpies, always ready to beat and abufe him. Your houfe must be the cave of difcord. Impoffible that any of these women fhould love you! Each of them has but a fourth fhare in your perfon, and can give you at most but a fourth fhare in her heart. Impoffible for any of them to render your life agreeable! They are prifoners who fee nothing, and how then should they be entertaining? They know no body but you, and of course muft grow weary of you. You are their abfolute master, therefore they will hate you. You are under the neceffity of having them guarded by a eunuch, who gives them a whipping when they make too much noife. You put yourself on the footing with a cock; but does the cock ever caufe his hens to be whipped by a capon? But do you follow the example of animals, and imitate them as much as you pleafe -I fhall love like a man. I will give my whole heart to the woman who gives me her's: and as to the bottle with which you reproach me, though it may be a fault to drink in Arabia, in Germany it is a laudable cuftom. Adieu !

OF GEOGRAPHY.

By the Same.

T is with geographical, as with moral knowledge; it is a difficult matter to become acquainted with the world without going into it.

The most popular book of geography in Europe is that of Hubner. It is in the hands of all young people from Moscow to the fource of the Rhine; and all the youth of Germany derive their information from it.

In this book you find that Jupiter became enamoured of Europa, precifely 1300 years before the Christian

æra.

In this too you are told, that there

is no fuch thing as either exceffive heat or cold in Europe. Yet there have been certain fummers, when perfons have actually died through exceflive heat; and in the north of Sweden and of Ruffia, the cold is frequently fo intenfe that the thermometer finks to the lowest pitch.

Hubner reckons about thirty milli. ons of inhabitants in Europe: by which he makes a mistake only of about 70 millions. He fays, that, except in Ruffia, there is not above a league of uninhabited ground in Europe; whereas I have now before my eyes forty leagues of mountains, covered with eternal fnow, over which neither man nor bird ever past.

One of the greateft advantages of geography is, in my opinion, this. Your neighbouring goffips are continually reproaching you for not thinking as they think in St. James's-ftreet. Confider, fay they, what multitudes of respectable people have been of our opinion, from Peter Lombard, to the Abbe Petit-Pied. The whole universe has embraced the truths that we profefs. They prevail quite through the suburb of St. Honorius, at Chaillot, and the Lord knows where.Now is your time to take your map of the world. Shew them all Africa, the empires of China and Japan, the Indies, Turkey and Perfia, and the Ruffian empire, larger than the Ronian. Let them run with the end of their finger over all Scandinavia, the whole north of Germany, the three kingdoms: of Great Britain, the best part of the Low Countries and of Switzerland; then make them observe in the four quarters of the globe, and that other part, immenfe as it is, unknown, what millions of human beings there muft be, who never fo much as heard of their opinions, and what prodigious numbers having heard of them, have held them in contempt or deteftation. What! my good friends, would you fay, is St. James's-ftreet to be pitted against the whole univerfe?

Julius

We learn from the chronicle *, that One Ingemunde was ient by Magnus to take poffeffion of the Hebudes, in quality of King. But the chiefs of the ifles, finding that this man abandoned himfelf wholly to the most scandalous exceffes, to luft, avarice, and cruelty, confpired against him, and, without regarding either his perfonal dignity or the authority of his conftituents, fet fire to the house where he was lodged, and deftroyed him, together with his whole retinue. It was probably with a defign of revenging this infult, that Magnus undertook the expedition already related. But whatever may be in this conjecture, it is plain, from the commiflion with which Ingemunde was invefted, that the Kings of Man had af ferted their independence, or had refufed to pay the ancient tribute.

After the death of Lagman, the fon of Godred,who had taken the cross and died in the holy land, Murchard O Brien, King of Ireland, fent, at the defire of the nobility of Man, one of his friends who was a perfon of royal extraction, to act as Regent in that ifland, during the minority of Olave, the brother of their late fovereign +. Here we have another clear proof that the Princes and great men of the Western Ifles had withdrawn their allegiance from their old mafters, the Kings of Norway.

Magnus the barefooted, only recovered the territories which one of his remote forefathers had acquired, and which one of his more immediate anceftors had loft. He fubdued all the Scottish ifles from Shetland to Man, and according to fome hiftorians, added the fruitful peninfula of Kintire to thefe conquefts: he carried his victorious arms into South Britain, and made himself master of Anglefey, in spite of the united efforts of the two brave Earls who led a numerous army against him. He was unqueftionably one of the most powerful Princes of his time,

and prefcribed what laws he pleafed t all thofe whofe fituation made them obnoxious to his intemperate rage, or to the luft of his boundless ambition. The Welsh felt the dreadful effects of his barbarous power, and therefore courted his friendship with a multitude of prefents. He obliged the Scots of Galloway to furnish him with timber, at their own expence, for the ufe of his bulwarks. He fent his fhoes to Murcard, King of Ireland, and commanded him in the most peremptory manner, under the pain of his difpleafure,to carry them on his fhoulders, in the prefence of his ambaffadors, on the anniverfary of Chrift's nativity. The Irish nobility received this infolent meffage with becoming fentiments of disdain and indignation; but Murcard was too wife to provoke the refentment of a conqueror whofe power was equal to his pride, and told his friends that he would eat the fhoes of the Norwegian monarch, rather than fee any one province in Ireland deftroyed. According. ly he paid homage in the dishonourable way prefcribed by the haughty Magnus, entertained his ambaffadors with a royal magnificence, and difmiffed them with the higheft expreffions of refpect for

their master.

It does not appear from any authentic record, that Magnus came near the Eaftern coaft of Britain in either of its divifions. His troops could not therefore have been of great use to Donald Bane, had any one of his nephews difputed the crown of Scotland with him: and indeed it appears to me more probable that Donald, upon the demife of his brother, poffeffed himself of the throne by virtue of the old Tanistry right, or that, according to fome Enplish hiftorians, he was elected king, than that he owed his crown to the aid of a foreign ally.

Donald's immediate predeceffor in the throne, though a great Prince, had difobliged the nation by many unpopular