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disgrace one Mr. Turner, a very eminent fencing-mafter, in his profeffion, but in the attempt had one of his eyes thrust out. This young nobleman going afterwards to France, the king asked upon his appearance at court, how he had lost his eye; Sanquir answered, With a fword; upon which the king further demanded-Does the man live? This queftion funk fo deep into the mind of this hot-headed lord, that upon his return to England, the first thing he did was to piftol the unhappy Mr. Turner. The nation was in an abfolute fury, and James thought proper to deliver him up to juftice, upon which he was tried in the king's bench, and executed before Westminster-Hall Gate, the 29th of

May, 1613.-The king however abandoned Sanquir, rather out of refentment to that nobleman himfelf, than out of any regard to juftice, or compliment to the Englih: for while he was in France, fomebody faying in the presence of the French monarch, that James was a perfect Solomon, that prince feverely replied, I hope he is not David the Fidler's Son, alluding to the received opinion, that David Rizzio, the musician, was his father: Sanquir being present where this was faid, and making no answer, James took a pique against him, and that induced him to let the laws take their proper course upon his murdering Mr. Turner.

The Character of a SORDID MISER, paraphrafically tranflated from the celebrated THEOPHRASTUS.

THIS fort of avarice is a paffion

for faving money, without any regard to common decency. A man of this temper, though his tenants pay him their rent duly every month, will teaze them for the odd farthing that remained at their laft reckon ing. If he makes an entertainment, he knows to a fingle glafs how much wine has been called for. When all the guests lay their refpe&tive offerings on Diana's altar, the god defs may easily discover which is his by the quantity. Whatever you buy for him, though you gave but half the value, he thakes his head at the fight of it; and is afraid you have betrayed your truft, and been too hard upon him. Every pot and pipkin, that is broken in the family, is deducted out of his fervants wages. If his wife has loft but a little piece of brafs money, the beds

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are pulled down, the blankets fhaken,

the coffers removed, the whole furniture examined, and the house turned infide out. If he fells any thing, he takes particular care that the purchafer may be a lofer by him. He indites the man that defrauds his garden of a fingle fig, wears out any part of his fields by croffing over them, or prefumes to rob his orchard, even of a wind-fall, tho' it be but a pear or a plumb. He vifits his grounds every day to fee if the fences are good; if the hedges ftand in the fame place they did; or a ftrayed hen has laid an egg, or hatched a chicken underneath them. He exacts forbearance-money from his debtors for every minute beyond the payment, and heaps interest upon intereft. When he entertains his friends, he multiplies into a dozen difhes what another would

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serve up in one. When he is hun-
gry, he goes to the cook's-shop; but
finding every thing too dear for him,
returns to his houfe with as good an
appetite as he left it; he is conti-
nually inculcating to his wife one
precept, never to lend any thing;
an end of a candle, fays he, an handful
of falt or oatmeal, a fprig of rosemary,
and the like, amount to a great deal of
money at the year's end. His pockets
are mouldy; his keys eaten up with

ruft; and his coat too short for him; a small phial of oil anoints him for life. He makes the barber shave him to the quick, that it may be the longer before he has occafion for him again; he takes off his shoes in the middle of the day, that they may not wear out too foon, and is very importunate with the Fuller, to put earth enough upon his coat, that it may never be spotted any more,

CASE of a GIRL born without a TONGUE, in 1718. From Southwell's Medical Effays, &c.

M. De Juffieu informed the aca

demy that he had feen at Lisbon a girl of about 15, who had been born without a tongue. He examined her very attentively. In the place of the tongue was a fleshy fubftance, which he found was able to contract and dilate itself, of course it had all the muscles of the tongue. The places where the tongue should be, remained plump and full, as if the tongue had been in being. He examined afterwards how the performed the feveral functions of the tongue. First as to fpeech: fhe pronounced several words fo diftinâly, that had he not known he wanted the tongue, he could not difcover by her fpeech that he wanted it. Sne, however, pronounced the letters C, F, G, L, N, K, S, T, X, Z, with more difficulty than the other confonants. When the pronounces them, fhe inclines her head forward, drawing back the chin as it were to the larinx, in order to raise it in a line with her teeth.

The fecond function of the tongue, the taste, the bad as exquifite as any body. She told M. de Jutheu, that the found an agreeable taile in thofe

dry fweet-meats he had given her. 3dly. Maftication fhe performed with difficulty. The above fleshy fubftance was not long enough to gather and keep the food under the teeth. She was here obliged to use the maxilla inferior, which through habit fhe could either approach or remove from under the fuperior, as she wanted to bring the morsel she would grind under the upper jaw. She fometimes ufes her finger for the fame purpose. 4thly. Deglutition must needs be difficult to her. The tongue naturally forms itself into a kind of a hollow, fomewhat like a spoon, by which means it gathers every atom in the mouth, and protrudes them into the pharinx; but here nature and ufe from her infancy have in fome measure supplied this want of a tongue. The mufcles attached to the above fleshy fubftance raise themselves up, forming at the fame time a kind of rima, which in fome fort acting the part of a tongue, protrude the aliments, into the pharinx, the observing to incline her head forward, which facilitates their defcent. Thofe, together with the labial mufcles, help

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her by their contraction to spit out' what is in her mouth."

M. Roland, furgeon at Saumur, has a cafe pretty nearly the fame. A boy, nine years old, loft his tongue by a mortification that enfued an ulcer he had after the fmall pox.

There was this difference, the root of the boy's tongue was bifurcated, and pretty apparent, whereas the root of the above girl's was roundand small. This boy alfo could fpeak, and perform the other functions of the tongue, like this girl.

DESCRIPTION of TURKS ISLAND, lately seized by the French.

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TUrks Urks Inland, otherwife called Salt Tortuga, (fo named, fays Dampier, to diftinguish it from the Dry Tortugas near Cape Florida,. and likewife from another Isle of the fame name near Hifpaniola) is pretty large, but uninhabited, and abounds It lies in latitude 10 deg. 55 min. north, being about 14 leagues diftant from the north west of Margarita, and 17 or 18 from Cape Blanco on the Spanish main.' It is reckoned among the Antilles Inlands. The east end of Tortuga is rugged, and full of naked, broken rocks, which ftretch out to fome diftance into the fea. But at the fouth-east part is a pretty good road for fhipping, which is much frequented in peaceable times, particularly about the months of May, June, July, and Auguft, by veffels that go thither to lade with falt. For the better accommodation of thefe veffels, at the east-end is a large falt pond, within two hundred

paces of the fea; and near the west end of the Ifland, on the fouth fide, is a fmall harbour with a little ftream of fresh water. This end of the Island is alfo full of low thrubbey trees, but the east-end is deftitute of any production of that kind, be ing quite rocky and barren, and yielding nothing but a coarfe fort of grafs. There are fome goats on the land, though not in great numbers.

The turtle, or tortoile, of which there is fuch plenty here that they have given name to the Ifle, come up the fandy bays, where they bury their eggs on the fhore, leaving them to be hatched afterwards by the heat of the fun. Thefe likewife employ fome veffels yearly in the catching, which come thither from the Bermudas and other places. Dampier fays, that there is no good riding for shipping any where round the Inland, excepting in the road near the Salt-Pond, or in the fmall harbour above mentioned.

ANECDOTE of PHILIP II of Spain.

Philip the Second, walking one day alone in the cloifters of the convent of the Efcurial, an honeft tradefman, feeing the door open, went in. Tranfported with admiration at the fine paintings with which that house is adorned, he ad

dreffed himself to the king, whom he took for one of the fervants of the convent, and defired him to fhew him the paintings, and explain the fubjects of them. Philip, with all the humility and condefcenfiod of a lay brother, conduded Lim

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through the apartments, and gave him all the fatisfaction he could defire. At parting, the ftranger took him by the hand, and fqueezing it affectionately, faid, "I am much "I am much obliged to you, friend: I live at St. Martin's, and my name is Michael Bombis: If you fhould chance to

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come my way, and call upon me, you will find a glafs of good wine at your service." "And my name, faid the pretended fervant, is Philip the Second, and if you will call upon me at Madrid, I will give you a glass of as good."

DESCRIPTION of TRAJAN's PILLAR at ROME. Greeable to our promife in a former number, we have prefented our readers with another view taken from the city of Rome, exhibiting the magnificent pillar erected by the emperor Trajan.. The defcription of this noble monument, of antiquity is as follows:

The Columna Trajanais, an hundred and twenty foot high, befides the pedestal, which is twelve: It is compofed of twenty-four entire pieces of white marble, hollow within, and fet one upon another, with little windows to let in the light, and is afcended up an hundred and twenty-three steps. It is adorned with bas-reliefs, afcending in a fpiral line from the bafe to the chapiter, reprefenting the wars and memorable actions of this prince; and ferved alfo as a maufoleum for his

afhes, which were placed in a golden urn on the top of it, for Trajan never lived to fee this pillar, dying of the flux as he returned from his Parthian expedition. The ftatue of St. Peter of brafs gilt, was afterwards placed on the top of this pillar in the room of the urn by pope Sixtus V. The pedestal, which was buried in the ground, was laid open again by pope Paul III. on which is the following infcription; IMP.. CAESARI DIVI NERVAE F. NERVAE TRAIANO AVGVSTO GERMANICO DACICO PONT. MAXIMO TRIB. POT. XVII. IMP. VI. COS. VI. P. P. AD DECLARANDVM QVANTAE ALTITVDINIS MONS ET LOCVS TANTIS OPERIBVS SIT EGESTVS.

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ANECDOTE of CASIMIR II. King of Poland.
Hile Cafimir was prince of
Sandomir, he won at play all
the money of one of his nobility,
who, incenfed at his ill fortune,
ftruck the prince a blow on the ear,
in the heat of paffion. He fled im-
mediately from juftice; but being
purfed and overtaken, he was con-
demned to lose his head; but the
generous Cafimir determined other-
wife. I am not furprifed, faid he,
August, 1764.

at the gentleman's conduct; for not
having it in his power to revenge
himself on fortune, no wonder he
fhould attack her favourite." After
which he revoked the fentence, re-
turned the nobleman his money, and
declared that he alone was faulty,
as he encouraged by his example a
pernicious practice, that might ter-
minate in the ruin of hundreds of
the people.
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I believe there is no fubject more pleafing to the female part of your readers, than that of love, they being generally more fufceptible of that paffion than the men; and as I apprehend your Magazine is calculated for the entertainment of the fair, as well as for the inftruction of the men, I flatter my felf the following little hiftory will meet with your approbation, and not prove difagreeable to them. Tho' it may carry the appearance of a novel, I will venture to affure you there is no incident through the whole, but what is truth. By inferting it you will greatly oblige, Gentlemen, Your's, &c.

Lincoln, August 19, 1764.

ΤΗ HE first impreffions that love makes on us are the strongest, nor can they be removed by the commands of parents, intereft, or prudence how unhappy then are thofe ladies, who, for the alliance of families, titles, or private views, are torn from the arms of thofe they Jove, to be married by mercenary fathers to thofe they can scarce endure. Clerimont, a gentleman of fortune, loved a lady, beautiful, young, and rich. The lady had an equal paffion for Clerimont; their loves feemed fo much the more happy, because it was approved of by their parents, who defigned to marry them. Arabella, for fuch was the lady's name, looked on Clerimont as her husband, and gave herself therefore a liberty to indulge a paffion which fhe thought it her duty to increase: Clerimont was as fond of his Arabella, and flattered himself with the greatest happiness, in living with a woman whofe love was mutual. While the writings for the marriage were drawing, the young lady went to one of the theaires to fee a favourite play; in the middle of the first act, Cleanthes, a

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young nobleman of the first rank, came into the fame box where Arabella fat; her mien, her charms, and her wit, raised in him a sudden paffion he knew not how to account for: he gaz'd, he figh'd, he lov'd. When the play was over, he conducted her through the crowd to her chair, and was agreeably furprized when he saw her fervant, to find it the livery of a gentleman he was very well acquainted with. The next morning he waited on Arabella's father, and enquired after his new charmer; and as foon as he heard it was his daughter, he made propofals of marrying of her. The old gentleman, when he had recovered from his furprize, and found the young nobleman serious in his demand, thought the match too advantageous not to be made up as foon as poffible. They agreed to have her jointure fettled that afternoon, the writings figned, and the marriage confummated the next morning.

Cleanthes would fain have feen the lady; but her father faid it was not so proper, 'till he had acquainted her with his intentions. Cleanthes hurried to his lawyer to

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