T.Davies Or, GENTLEMAN's Monthly Intelligencer; For SEPTEMBER 1771. Copies of Depofitions in the Grofve nor Caufe Lady's polite Secretary Debates of a Political Club 429 An authentick Account of General 453 435 Directions for the Conduct of Human Life Water Poetry ibid. Doctor diffected Opinion of the Ancients about the Effay on national Virtue 437 ibid. On the comparative Value of Trade in Effay on the Neceffity of annual Elec- 461 462 Letter from Signor Tartini to Signora Philofophical Transactions ibid. ibid. 463 ibid. De Vita & Moribus Johannis Burtoni Affecting History of Mr. Sidney and ibid. 439 442 Vindication of Mr. Farmer on Mi Paftoral Ballad ibid. 449 Mofs Rofe 465 Letters to the Benevolent Society 452 Defcription and View of Sampson's tions Courfe of Exchange Foreign Affairs WITH A MAP of WIGTOUNSHIRE and a VIEW of ST. SAMPSON's Caftle in Guernsey. ELEGANTLY ENGRAVED. LONDON Printed for R. BALDWIN, at No. 47. in Pater-nofter Row; Of whom may be had complete Sets, from the Year 1732, to the prefent Time; ready bound or ftitched, or any fingle Volume to complete Sets. PRICES of STOCKS, &c. in SEPTEMBER, 1771. Bank India Sou. Sea. Olds S. New S. S. 3 per C | 3 per C.13 per C. 13 per C 4 per C. Stock Ann. Ann. reduced confol. 1756. 1758. confol. India Navy. In. Bond. Long. Bills. Prem. Ann. 28 156 100 86 1/ 88 香 87 96 95 56 26 13 13 0 S. W. Rain S. W. Cloudy Fine S. W. Fine 31 155 W. Cloudy Sunday 85 N. E. Cloudy '2 34 N. E. Cloudy 87 S. W. Cloudy 13 13 0 S. W. Rain 156 S. W. Cloudy 8 Sunday 216 86 88 88 90 96 85 55 13 13 0W N. W. Cloudy S.W. Rain AVERAGE PRICES of GRAIN, by the Standard WINCHESTER Bushel. THE LONDON MAGAZINE: tion': For SEPTEMBER, 1771. DEBATES OF A POLITICAL CLUB. Mr. Prefident, Sir, I cannot difapprove the warmth difcovered by the laft fpeaker in the cause of his friends; if it is not laudable, it is at least excufable. If we cannot praise his difcretion, we must applaud his zeal. He does not defert his patrons in the hour of their diftrefs, but lends a helping hand to lift them out of the pit, into which they are falling. While I thus do juftice to the virtues of his heart, let me not be fuppofed to pay the fame compliment to his head. When the paf. fions are engaged, the understanding is feldom to be trufted. I am miftaken, if this is not the fate of the honourable gentleman on this occafion. His mental eye is jaundiced, and prevented him from feeing the motion in its true colours. If this was not the cafe, how could he charge the fupporters of it with finifter views, mere ly because the charges are not fpecified? had every article of complaint been made fpecific and applied to individuals, as he defires, there would have been room for accufing the promoters of the motion with a mean, a malicious perfonality. They might well be charged with aiming at the ruin of particular men, more than at the redress of grievances. Their behaviour might with fome plaufibility be attributed to private and felfish, not to public and difinterested, motives. Calumny would have fome grounds for making free with their characSept. 1771, ters, and hanging them out to public fcorn as defpicable pretenders to patriotifm. In order to avoid this imputation, and to be above all fufpi cion, the learned ferjeant fet out upon a large and liberal plan: a plan fo comprehenfive, that it will include every poffible crime and every poffible criminal, and yet so very delicate that it marks out no particular perfon: what would gentlemen have? Would they have the ferjeant come forward as an informer? He knows better how to confult his own honour, and will not, to gratify them, render himself defpicable. Would they have particular crimes charged upon particular judges? That scheme would not answer the end intended. The defign of the motion is to penetrate into every fecret recefs, and to punish hidden as well as revealed crimes, that the Augean ftable, being thoroughly cleanfed, the people may be fatisfied, and all the national ferment fubfide. Would this effect follow from a specific charge? No; perfonalities are always odious; and here, as in other cafes, they would be confidered as the dictates of pique, refentment, and envy. Instead, therefore, of diminishing they would augment the prefent animofities; whereas on its prefent foundation no reafonable perfon can make any exceptions against the motion; because no individual is marked out as a victim, or destined for the altar. The lots are to be caft, and those only wlfo deserve to fuffer, can be affected in order to appease the wrath of the people, and re-establish the conftitution. Let us. then hear no more of the improprie ty, irregularity, or abfurdity of the motion. The newly propofed 'mode of proceeding is more justly chargeKkkz able PRICES of STOCKS, &c. in SEPTEMBER, 1771 Sou. Sea, OldS. S. New S. S. 3 per C. 13 per C.131 per C. 13 per C 4 per C. Stock Stock Stock Ann. Ann. reduced confol. 1756. 1758. confol. Ann. India Navy. In. Bond. Long. Bills. Prem. Ann. 156 100 86 1/ 88 87 96 1/1/0 95 56 26 13 13 0 S. W. S. W. Weather Cloudy THE LONDON MAGAZINE: tion': For SEPTEMBER, 1771. DEBATES OF A POLITICAL CLUB. N the motion for enquiring into the adminiftration of criminal justice in Weftminsterhall, Lucius Lælius (Mr. C-1) fpoke in fupport of the quef Mr. Prefident, Sir, I cannot difapprove the warmth difcovered by the laft fpeaker in the caufe of his friends; if it is not laudable, it is at leaft excufable. If we cannot praise his difcretion, we must applaud his zeal. He does not defert his patrons in the hour of their diftrefs, but lends a helping hand to lift them out of the pit, into which they are falling. While I thus do juftice to the virtues of his heart, let me not be fuppofed to pay the fame compliment to his head. When the paf. fions are engaged, the understanding is feldom to be trufted. I am miftaken, if this is not the fate of the honourable gentleman on this occafion. His mental eye is jaundiced, and prevented him from feeing the motion in its true colours. If this was not the cafe, how could he charge the fupporters of it with finifter views, merely because the charges are not fpecified? had every article of complaint been made fpecific and applied to individuals, as he defires, there would have been room for accufing the promoters of the motion with a mean, a malicious perfonality. They might well be charged with aiming at the ruin of particular men, more than at the redrefs of grievances. Their behaviour might with fome plaufibility be attributed to private and felfish, not to public and difinterested, motives. Calumny would have fome grounds for making free with their charac. Sept. 1771, ters, and hanging them out to public fcorn as defpicable pretenders to patriotifm. In order to avoid this imputation, and to be above all suspi cion, the learned ferjeant set out upon a large and liberal plan: a plan fo comprehenfive, that it will include every poffible crime and every poffible criminal, and yet so very delicate that it marks out no particular perfon: what would gentlemen have? Would they have the ferjeant come forward as an informer? He knows better how to confult his own honour, and will not, to gratify them, render himself defpicable. Would they have particular crimes charged upon particular judges? That scheme would not anfwer the end intended. The defign of the motion is to penetrate into every secret recefs, and to punish hidden as well as revealed crimes, that the Augean ftable, being thoroughly, cleanfed, the people may be fatisfied, and all the national fer- . ment fubfide. Would this effect follow from a specific charge? No; perfonalities are always odious; and here, as in other cafes, they would be confidered as the dictates of pique, refentment, and envy. Instead, therefore, of diminishing they would augment the present animofities; whereas on its prefent foundation no reasonable perfon can make any exceptions against the motion; because no individual is marked out as a victim, or destined for the altar. The lots are to be caft, and thofe only wlfo deserve to fuffer, can be affected in order to appease the wrath of the people, and re-establish the conftitution. Let us then hear no more of the impropriety, irregularity, or abfurdity of the motion. The newly propofed 'mode of proceeding is more justly chargeKk k z able |