T.Davies Or, GENTLEMAN's Monthly Intelligencer; For NOVEMBER, Hiftory of Gallantry: The Amours of 529 Mathematical Correfpondence 533 Defcription of Lime-ftreet Ward; 1771. 552 Converfation and political Difctif- Controverfy occafioned thereby ibid.. 564 on the Celebration of Lord 547 ibid. ibid. POETICAL ESSAYS 546 Impartial Review of new Pub. 568 ibid. Study 569 of the ibid. ibid. 570 Newton's leading Sentiments History of Lady Barton Works of William Browne 558 Song fet to Mufic with a new Cotil lon ibid. Account of the reigning Topics of Kalm's Travels in North-America ib. Foreign Affairs WITH 571 576 Stocks, Grain, Wind, and Weather 528 A curious Engraving of THREE PATRIOTIC METEORS, a correct Plan of LIME-STREET WARD, a Print of MILBROOK CHURCH, And No, II. of New Music. 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 present Time; ready bound or ftitched, or any fingle Volume to complete Sets. 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Hence, before a libel could be come the object of a profecution, or at leaft of punishment, the law required that it should be proved falfe, fcanda. lous, malicious, or treafonable. Whence elfe is it that thefe epithets are till retained in every indictment? The thing fpeaks for itfelf. Were they unnecellary, were not the proof of them indifpenfably requifite, they would long ago have been dropt. Obvious as this doctrine appears, there are fome people of more good nature perhaps than wifdom, who dif countenance memoirs of living cha racters as libellous, and dangerous to fociety. They do not perceive that in thefe inftances the prefs acts as an auxiliary to law, and punishes crimi, nals who cannot otherwise be reached. In a well-regulated ftate no vice ought to be without a check; and what check fo proper as the prefs? No delinquent is to exalted as to be fecure from its attacks. Nor is there much injustice done to the parties who become the objects of its vengeance. On the contrary, if their confcience is not callous, (a cafe in which they deferve to be marked out as the pefts of fociety) a little wholesome severity must reclaim them; and an apprehenfion of the like treatment mult deter others from treading in their steps. It is allowed, I think, on all hands, that were not the prefs to difcuts with the utmost freedom the conduct of ministers, our conftitution would be foon loft. Why should not the fame reafoning be applicable to our morals?? That this is the general opinion, nothing can prove more clearly than the practice of the clergy, and the acquiefcence of the people in all countries. For what are many fermons but fatires on the manners of the times? and where is the great difference be tween oral and written advice? The advantage is furely in favour of the latter. Nor is there any juft ground for infinuating that the publication of a perfon's follies and vices will have any injurious influence upon his for tune. They were previously known to his friends and relations, and fuch others as are likely to haften or retard his advancement. His own reformation therefore, and fervice to the ftate, are the fole confequences of publication; and were it to be attend ed with no advantage to the indivi dual, yet ought the public to take place of the private good. Single men have often been facrificed to the interests of a nation. What is the Old-Bailey but the theatre of their condemnation, and Tyburn, the altar on which the victims are offered ? Such at least are the motives by which we are fwayed in publishing the following genuine history of The AMOURS of Lord SKINFLINT, a Scotch Peer, not a Mile from Wimple Street, Cavendish-Square. Newfoundland dog at his heels, fo Lord Skinflint became remarkable by following low wenches, and making nocturnal expeditions into the bed chambers of his maid-fervants. Often has he stole into their room, and lurked unfeen under their bed, till their candles were extinguished. Often have they discovered this reprefentative of the Scotch peerage, and overturned a chamber pot upon his head. Yet still he perfifted, first feducing and then turning. away thofe upon whom his pitiful prefents would operate. His perfon being tall, meagre, and fcraggy, was by no means irrefiftibly charming. Money therefore was the only refource, upon which he could depend in his amours but, as he had justly the character of being very fparing of that commodity, he proved generally unfortunate. Few menial fervants, worth poffeffing, would listen to his addreffes. Indeed none of any reputation would live for a month in his house. Hence he continued a rover through neceflity, till custom made that character his fecond nature. : Marriage is fuppofed to be the point, in which every rake is at laft tationary. This effect, however, it had not on the prefent object of our contemplation He ftill continues the fame changeable and capricious being, and is feen as often as ever fneak ing into a bagnio, with his cookmaid or cinder-wench. Let us inquire into the nature of his matrimonial connexion, and into the manner in which it was contracted. We shall find it interefting and pregnant with inftruction. The dut-fs dowager of Gor, his fifter, had in the quality of upper fervant one Mary Hann, a handfome young girl, defcended from poor but honeft parents, that lived at Wakef-d in Yorke. Now her father prefixes Sir to his name; but whether the family had, or indeed has, any just title to this diltinction, we will peither affirm or deny, but leave undecided as a thing, which we have not had fuficient time or opportunity to afcertain. Could we venture to hazard a conjecture, we would fay, that the title either has been lately procured by his lordship, or affumed without any authority from the herald's office. Be this as it will, his lordship faw this girl, and being always on the watch for the red-armed gentry, inveigled her into his fervice, where, under the name of houfe-keeper the acted as his bed-fellow. Notwithstanding this clofe union, it does not appear that any fruit fprung from their dalliance. While Mary acted in this double capacity, her filter Kitty paid her a vifit; and his lordship, feeing her young and blooming, declared, that it was a pity fuch a fine girl fhould be loft. What an air! what a fhape the has ! Thefe fhining jetty treffes, which flow down her fnowy neck, remind me of Mahomet's houris, or virgins of paradife. That black fparkling eye, that bloom, which would adorn the cheek of Hebe, realife the imaginary and luscious defcription given me of the beauties of the feraglio by Lord Baltimore and Lady Mary Wortley Montague. Their Fatimas, and Selfmas, and Sultanas, are nothing to this ftandard of perfection." I wish, my dear Polly, you would take her under your care; with a little inftruction we thall be able to make fomething of her. She is abfolutely fit for a dutchels." Kitty was accordingly taken into the houfe as an affiftant to her fifter. My Lord was not long before he dif covered his partiality; and the young pupil was by no means a backward fcholar. Neither nods, nor winks, nor fmiles, nor endearing expreffions, were loft upon her. Envious of her fifter's imagined happiness, and esteem. ing herfelf no lefs worthy of attention, the no fooner faw her fweet perfon arrayed in an elegant and coftly habit, the gift of his lordship, than vanity began to fwell her youthful breast. The near approach of pleasure too enflamed her heart. Having frequent opportunities to fee the paftimes, with which her filter was occafionally amufed, the found herself powerfully ftimulated to imitate the example. The air of the houfe was contagious. Every thing, but the plan of oeconomy which prevailed, breathed the spirit of diffolution. How then was a young girl to refift fuch temptation ? Nothing could have faved her in this crifis but fight, which he had neither the prudence nor refolution to attempt as on the one hand imagination painted to her poverty, meannefs, and labour, and on the other wealth, grandeur, and pleasure. While the mufed on thefe points, my |