Obfervations on the Death of Mr. William Allen, junior. confequently the common right of every subject of the realm is invaded by it. Profeffing therefore to treat of the conftitution of the Houfe of Commons, and of the laws and customs relative to that conftitution, you certainly were guilty of a moft unpardonable omiffion, in taking no notice of a right and privilege of the Houfe, more extraordinary and more arbitrary than all the others they poffefs put together. If the expulfion of a Member, not under any other legal difability, of itfelf creates in him an incapacity to be re-elected, I fee a ready way marked out, by which the majority may at any time remove the honefteft and ableit men who happen to be in oppofition to them. To fay that they will not make this extravagant ufe of their power, would be a language unfit for a man fo learned in the laws as you are. By your doctrine, Sir, they have the power, and laws you know are intended to 53 guard against what men may do, no to truft to what they will do. Upon the whole, Sir, the charge against you is of a plain, fimple nature: it appears even upon the face of your own Pamphlet. On the contrary, your juftification of yourself is full of fubtlety and refinement, and in fome places not very intelligible. If I were perfonally your enemy, I fhould dwell, with a malignant pleasure, upon those great and useful qualifications, which you certainly poffefs, and by which you once acquired, though they could not preferve to you the respect and esteem of your country, I fhould enumerate the honours you have lost, and the virtues you have difgraced: but having no private refentments to gratify, I think it fufficient to have given my opinion of your public conduct, leaving the punishment it deferves to your clofet and to yourself. JUNIUS. Obfervations on the Death of Mr. William Allen, junior, MURTHER may pass unpunish'd for a Time, The Hue and Cry of Heaven pursues him at the Heels. W DRYDEN. fence fet up was, that young Allen was not killed by Maclane, but by another Scottish foldier of the fame regiment, one MacLaughlin, who confeffed it at the time to the juftice, as the justice fays, though he owns he took no one step againft a perfon, who declared himself a murderer in the most exprefs terms to this magiftrate, fworn to adminifter the laws. The perfect innocence of the young man, as to the charge of being concerned in any riot or tumult, is univerfally acknowledged, and a more general good character is no where to be found. This Mac Langhiin foon made his escape, therefore was a deferter as well as a murtherer; yet he has had a discharge sent him, with an allowance of one thilling a day. [For the infcriptions on Mr. William Allen's tomb, fee page 39 of our lat.] Artful Artful Revenge of an American Tribe on a French Trader. HE Miffouris, a people of Loui- to make themfelves amends on the firit Frenchman who should come among them. A little while after, the allurement of gain prompted the powdermonger to fend a factor thither, with fuch goods as he knew would go off well amongst the Miffouris. They, by fome means or other, came to underftand that this Frenchman was fent by the man who had impofed on them; but instead of taking notice of that tranf action, received him very courteously, and even lent him their common hut, as a warehoufe. No fooner were his goods fpread abroad, and notice givenof the fale, than the Missouris rushed in, and all who had been fo credulous as to fow their powder, carried off a portion. The Frenchman inveighed. against fuch a procedure, with all the geftures of rage, and even made his complaint to the chief of the nation, who, with a folemn accent, answered, that fatisfaction fhould be made; but that nothing could be done till the harveft of the powder; and that on the word of a fovereign, he would then order a general hunt, and every skin of beaver, deer, or other beaft, fhould be delivered to him, as the first fruits of the important fecret, for which they were indebted to his ingenious countryman. Rebus in a Sermon. A Celebrated monk of the fixteenth joined, you are to offer them to God century, by name Raulin, in a fermon on converfion, relates the following story: A hermit was once engaged in fervent effufions to God, that he would give him to know the way of falvation, when lo! the evil spirit appeared to him, in the form of an angel of light, and addreffed him in thefe words: Holy man, thy prayer is heard. God, whom I ferve, has fent me to inform you, that the way of falvation lies in offering him three things, a new moon, a folar difc, and the fourth part of a rofe. These three things being and you will be furely faved." He The The Small-Pox firft brought into America by a Negro. Its origin and first Appearance in thofe Parts of the Globe. I admiral Narvaez, N 1520, a fleet was fitted out in nological epocha. Lopez de Gomaza orders to feize the famous Cortez. origin of this ravaging difeafe, the Narvaez landed his men at Zampola in learned Friend places it in Egypt, and New Spain, and with them was a ne- fays pofitively, that this diftemper first gro, who, having the fmall-pox there, appeared in Egypt in the feventh cencommunicated that distemper to the tury. Salmafius fays, in his climacteAmericans. This contagion being new rical years, that it is as certain the to them, they kept to their ufual prac- fmall-pox came from Egypt, as that tice in all other diforders, going into which we, by way of diftinction, call cold water after coming out of a warm the great, came from the Weft-Indies. bath, that scarce one recovered; and In the year 636, the Arabians, better they who furvived this horrible diftem- known by the name of Saracens, per, had fo fcarified themselves with marched out of their country, in order fcratching, that they were a fright to to fubject foreign nations to the Mahoeach other. This calamity foon brought metan law, then in its infancy; and in on a famine. There was neither bread 639 one of their chiefs entered Egypt, nor flour; and having no mills of any and made a fpeedy conqueft of the kind, and the women who made their whole country. In this irruption of bread being dead, they were obliged the Saracens it was, that the fmall-pox.themselves to grind their grain between declared itself in a very striking mantwo ftones. Such were the heaps of ner, which has occafioned writers to corpfes that no body durft venture on fay, that it then made its first appearburying them; and by way of pre- ance in the world. It was not till the venting the stench from fpreading in feventeenth century that the fmall-pox the air, the magistrates ordered the got footing in North America, being houfes to be pulled down over the car- imported by an English fhip into Marycafes. To this difeafe the Indians land, from whence it foon pervaded gave the name of Buy-Caval, i. e. the Virginia, Carolina, New-England, &c. Univerfal Leprofy, and it is their chro- Paylet. Hiftoire de la Petite Verole. On the past and prefent Manners of the English Nation. I Rife Commerce, Anno we are informed that Queen Elizabeth, in the year 1561, wore the first pair of filk ftockings, ever seen in these kingdoms; and another author, whofe name has efcaped my memory, gives us a letter from her fucceffor James, when he was only King of Scotland, to one of his Nobility, requesting the use of his fcarlet hofe with the goud clocks, on a particular day, in which he was defirous of giving the French Ambaffador an extraordinary idea of his magnificence. Thefe little anecdotes, when contrafted with the luxury of the present times, make a very whimfical appearance, and one cannot help laughing to find Princes themfelves exulting in nay our Livery Servants, are allowed to purchafe without any imputation of vanity; things however ceafe to be important, the moment they become general; and though it was urged against the elder Buckingham of the Villars family, as a crime of fome magnitude, that he introduced the fedan into this country, and degraded his fpecies by employing them in the capacity of horfes; nevertheless, a Bailiff's follower may now occupy unobferved the beft vehicle of this kind, at any stand in the metropolis; and, if his dress is not remarkably fhabby, it is more than probable, he is accofted by the ambling gentry, gentry, with "Will your honour take your chair? 'Tis a juft remark, that politenefs, next to money, is the coin of moft univerfal currency; in every fituation we are fond of being treated with refpect, and 'tis easily feen that the elegance of our dress has generally a material influence over our manners. The fuburb apprentice in his Sunday fuit thinks it neceflary, indifpenfably neceffary, to make an extraordinary difplay of his good breeding, and pays a compliment to his coat, which he feldom pays to himself; with the garb of decency he affumes the language, and keeps his brutality totally for a leather apron. On this account I confider the deviations which we have made from the fimplicity of our ancestors, as fo many capital improvements in our character; and estimate our civilization, by the ftandard of our luxury. In the unpolifhed times of our forefathers, the daughters of the firft nobility were frequently called by the rude appellations of Fane, Bridget, Sufan and Kate; and if a quarrel occationally arofe between two men of condition, they were ungenteel enough to vent the feelings of their fury in the accents of refentment. As we have rifen in dress, however, we have rifen in urbanity. If the retailer of a few ribbonds, now a days, wants a girl in her shop, the advertises for a young lady of reputable parents; and if a couple of fharpers fall out about the divifion of a booty, the one requests with all the foftness of the moft perfect civility, that the other will give him leave to cut his throat. I am led into this comparison of the paft and prefent manners of the British nation, from a letter which a friend put into my hands a few days ago for publication: affuring me he had great reason to believe it written by the unfortunate Anne Boleyn, to a young lady of her acquaintance, previous to any expectation of her marriage with Henry VIII. Whether my friend is, or is not right in his conjecture, as there is fomething curious in the production, I fhall readily give it a place, without any alteration, but modernizing the ftyle for the convenience of my readers. "Dear Mary, "I have been in town almost a month, I can't fay I have found any thing in London extremely agreeable, we rife fo late in the morning, feldom before fix o'clock, and fit up fo late at night, being fcarcely ever in bed before ten, that I am quite fick of it, and was it not for the abundance of fine things I am every day getting, I fhould be impatient for returning into the country. My mother, my indulgent mother, bought me yesterday, at a Merchant's in Cheapfide, three new fhifts that coft fourteen-pence an ell, and I am to have a pair of stuff shoes, for my Lord of Norfolk's ball, which will actually come to three fhillings. The irregular life I have led fince my coming to this place, has quite deftroyed my appetite; you know I could manage almost a pound of bacon and a tankard of good ale for my breakfast, in the country; but here I find it difficult to get through half the quantity; though I mnft own, that I am generally eager enough for the dinner-hour, which is here unconscionably delayed till twelve in your polite families. I played at Hotcockles last night at the Lord of Leicester's; the Lord of Surrey was there, a very elegant young fellow, who fung us a fong of his own com pofition on the Lord of Kildaire's daughter; it was very much approved,→→ and my brother whispered me, that the fair Geraldine, fo the Lord of Surrey ftiles his miftrefs, is the finest woman of the age. -I fhould be glad to fee her; for I hear the is as good as the is beautiful. Pray, my dear Mary, take care of the poultry, during my abfence; poor things I always fed them myfelf: and if Margery has knitted me the crimfon werited mittings, I fhould be glad they were fent up the first opportunity.Adieu, my dear Mary, I am just going to mass, and you fhall fpeedily have the prayers, as you now have the kindeft love of your own ANNE BOLEYN." How different from this would be the language of a modern beauty, upon her first appearance in the metropolis! For the fake of continuing my contraft, I will myfelf endeavour to prefent the reader with the letter which fhe Progress and Recess of the Sea in fome Parts of Italy. the would probably fend to her confidant on fuch an occafion, preferving as much as poffible the fpirit of the foregoing, to heighten the poignancy of the ridicule. "My dear Almeria, "This London is of all places the most enchanting-the night is conftantly devoted to a round of ravishing amufements; and the day, which the vulgar are permitted to share in common with people of diftinction, is charmingly wafted away in fleep, fo that we never see any of the horrid creatures, but when we just get up in the evening, and when we want them to minister to our fatisfaction.-O Almeria, fuch a profufion of fine things as I have got fince my arrival in this terreftrial paradife! A pair of diamond ear-rings, that are at least worth three hundred pounds, and an efclavagebut there my old, ill-natured hag of a mother played the Mifer to a fhameful degree of parfimony-I fhall eternally hate her for it-fifty guineas more would have bought the fweetest thing! -but fhe would not advance that fum, truly because she wanted to relieve a diftreffed family. "I have been in fuch fpirits fince I came to this ravishing spot, that I am quite another creature, and then the preparations for an infinity of affemblies! Lord, my dear, I was last night IN 57 to a party at Lady Sarah Squander's, and who fhould be there but the Marquis of Mildew-an ignorant coxcomb he howl'da miferable ditty of his own writing to us, on fome fright with whom he is in love, and impudently afferted fhe was the most charming creature in the creation. I fhould be glad to fee her-a dowdy, I dare fay, and to the full as accomplished in her mind, as amiable in her perfon. Pray, my dear Almeria, give orders to have the parrot, the fquirrel, and that fweet fellow the monkey, particularly attended to during my abfence-fend that foolish old woman the Clergyman's widow word, to whom I ridiculously promised five shillings a week, that the muft look out for another benefactress. I have too many laudable calls for my money now: I must subscribe to the Opera, and make up a purfe for the principal performers at their benefits.- Good bye, my lovely, lovely girl; I am running in the greatest hurry to the Chapel Royal-there is to be a world of the firft company there, and I have only time to tell you, that I am, with everlasting attachment, SOPHIA SHAMELESS." Need I pursue this fubject fartherno-it is unneceflary, and would be rather an infult to the understanding, than a gratification to the curiofity of my readers. Progrefs and Recefs of the Sea in fome Parts of Italy. N the year 1722, St. Mark's-Square, at Venice, was paved with flat ftones. This pavement was about a foot and a half or two feet above the water's edge. The paviors, in digging fome parts of the fquare, came to another pavement at the depth of five feet, confequently full three feet lower than the water. In feveral parts of Dalmatia remains of mofaic works are frequently discovered, all, more or lefs, over-run by the fea. On the other hand, in or about the year 1700, the fea above the Po washed the mountains of St. Bafil, and at prefent is eleven miles from them. Aquileia and Ravenna, in the Roman times, were fea VOL. III. ports. The ground has rifen ten feet in the Paduan, between fix and seven in the Veronefe, between feven and eight in the duchy of Modena, and even to fifteen or fixteen in the Parmefan or Placentin; and not lefs in Romania and Tufcany. These alterations M. Donati, indeed, attributes to the fragments of mountains which the many rivers and torrents in Italy are continually carrying down, and which muft excite curiofity. I have obferved, adds he, that the gravel and heaps of ftones increase both in quantity and bignefs in an inverfe proportion to the diftance of them from the mountains. Iftoria del Adriatica. |