You fee this letter is all in verfe, and I can affure you, there is as much fancy fhewn in the choice of them, as in the moft ftudied expreffions of our letters; there being, I believe, a million of verfes deigned for this ufe. There is no colour, no flower, no weed, no fruit, herb, pebble, or feather, that has not a verfe belonging to it; and you may quarrel, reproach, or fend letters of paffion, friendfhip, or civility, or eyen of news, without ever inking your fingers. I fancy you are now wondering at my profound learning; but alas, dear madam, I am almost fallen into the misfortune fo common to the ambitious; while they are employed on diftant infignificant conquefts abroad, a rebellion ftarts up at home: -I am in great danger of lofing my English. I find 'tis not half fo cafy to me to write in it, as it was a twelvemonth ago. 1 am forced to study for expreffions, and mut leave off all other languages, and try to learn my mother tongue. Human underftancing is as much limited as human power, or human ftrength. The memory can retain but a certain number of images; and 'tis as impoffible for one human creature to be perfect mafter of ten dif ferent languages, as to have, in perfect fubjection, ten different kingdoms, or to fight against ten men at a time. I am afraid I fhall at laft know none as I fhould do. I live in a place, that very well reprefents the Tower of Babel; in Pera they speak Turkish, Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Arabic, Perfian, Ruffian, Sclavonian, Walachian, German, Dutch, French, English, Italian, Hungarian; and what is worfe, there are ten of thefe languages spoken in my own family. My grooms are Árabs, my footmen French, English, and Germans; my nurfe an Armenian; my houfe maids Ruffians; half a dozen other fervants Greeks; my fteward an Italian; my Janizaries Turks; fo that I live in the perpetual hearing of this medley of founds, which produces a very extraordinary effect upon the people that are born here; for they learn all these languages at the fame time, and without knowing any of them well enough to write or read in it. There are very few men, women, or even children here, that have not the fame compafs of words in in five or fix of them. I know, myself, several infants of three or four years old, that speak Italian, French, Greek, Turkish, and Ruffian, which laft they learn of their nurses, who are generally of that country. This feems almost incredible to you, and is, in my mind, one of the most curious things in this country, and takes off very much from the merit of our ladies, who fet up for fuch extraordinary geniufes upon the credit of fome fuperficial knowledge of French and Italian. As I prefer English to all the reft, I am extremely mortified at the daily decay of it in my head, where, I'll affure you (with grief of heart) it is reduced to fuch a fmall number of words, I cannot recollect any tolerable phrafe to conclude with, and am forced to tell your ladyfhip very bluntly, that I am, Your faithful humble fervant." A luxuriant fancy difplays itself throughout thefe letters, in a variety of defcriptions, and the laft letter ends with fome lines, which, had they been wrote by the lady M— WM would probably have been well known in the world before this publication. If thefe lines want that fober cant which is neceffary to an epitaph, they have that eafe and elegance, that livelinefs in the turn which juftifies us in giving them to the reader as an excellent epigram. "Here lies John Hughes and Sarah Drew; FOR POPE HAS WROTE UPON THEIR TOMB. CHAP. I. PLAN of the year's hiftory. Invafion of the Philippines defigned. Defcrip- Part of the quad on fent before the reft. The fleet unites at Malacca. Condition of Manila The forces landed. A fally of the enemy. They are repulfed. Ships brought against the town. A violent form. Spaniards and indians make two attempts on the English camp. Repuljed in both. Character of theje Indians. A breach made in the fortifications. Two frigates fent after the Acapulco galleon. Disappointed. Fall in with that from Manila. She is taken. Advantages from the conqueft of the Private expedition against Buenos Ayres. Squadron arrives in the Rio de la Plata. Change their plan. They attack Nova Colonia. The fhip Clive takes fire. The greatest part of the crew perift. The fquadron returns. [15] State of our conquefts in North America. Three governments. Reasons for this arrangement. Indians commence hoftilities. Caufes of the war. dians neglected. Strength of the English in North America dreaded. State of the favage nations. Revolution amongst themselves. The Indians grow powerful. Iroquois generally quiet. Plan of the Indian war. Frontiers of the middle fettlements wafted. Forts taken. Indians repulfe our troops at Detroit. They attack Fort Pitt. March of colonel Bouquet. Battle of Buby Run. Indians defeated. Fort Domeftic affairs. Scheme of the Jupplies. Oppofition to them. Arguments against the lotteries, excije, &c. City of London addrefs. Proteft of the Lords. Arguments in favour of the excife. Various proceedings. Lord B. refigns. Right hon. G. G. Jucceeds. Situation of the minority. [32] State of affairs on the continent. Death of Auguftus king of Poland. State of Poland. Eleation of a king of the Romans. Defigns of Auftria, Saxony, Pruffia, aud Muscovy. King of Sardinia fettles the difpute concerning Pla- The reprefentation of the lord mayor, &c. of London, to their reprefenta- tives, in relation to the original bill for laying an excife on cyder,&c. [151] Petitions of the lord mayor, &c of London, to the different branches of the Proceedings relating to the fame bill in the house of lords. Proceedings of the house of commons, relating to private mad-houses. ibid. Account of the fale, charges, and nett proceeds of the fhip La Hermione. [163] Remarks on Jome cautions in our last volume to perfons going to Scotland to be Tranflation of an address to the English nation, by the celebrated Monfieur La Condamine, during his late refidence in London. Some account of the murder of John Bedding field,by his wife and servant. [168] An account of the annual Supplies that have been granted by parliament to Support the feveral wars fince the revolution. Supplies granted by parliament, for the fervice of the year 1763. [175] His majesty's most gracious Speech to both houses of parliament, April 19, [191] The humble addrefs of the right hon. the house of lords, Nov. 15,1763. [193] The humble address of the honourable house of commons to the king. [194] The Speech of his excellency Hugh earl of Northumberland, lord lieutenant of Ireland, to both houses of parliament, Oct. 11, 1763. The humble addrefs of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and the kinghts, citizens, and burges, of Ireland, in parliament affembled. [198] The humble address of the archbishop, bishops, and clergy, of the province Addrefs of the court of lord mayor (Sir Charles Afgill, bart. locum tenens) Addrefs to the proteftant diffenting minifters in and about the cities of London ibid. Addrefs of the merchants and traders of the city of London, on the peace.[204] The humble addrefs of his proteftant fubjects, the people called quakers. [205] Aadress of the corporation of Bath on the peace. Letters which paffed between the right honourable Mr. Pitt and Mr. Allen, ibid. Some account of the modern Athenians. From Stuart's antiquities of Athens. 1 Memoirs of the late Dr. Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne. Character of monfieur Rouffeau. By himself. Lives of eminent perfonages, by Dr. Watkinson. of Dr. Thomas Herring, late lord bishop of Canterbury. of Sir William Daws, bart. archbishop of York. of the right reverend Dr. Gibson, lord bishop of London. of the right reverend Dr. Hough, lord bishop of Worcester. Life of M. Languet, the famous vicar of St. Sulpice, in Paris. Some account of the life of Torquato Taffo. of the life of monfieur de Reaumur. Letter written by Alfred the Great, to Wulf fig bishop of London. Some particulars of the life of Chriftina, queen of Swenden. Tranflation of a letter from the empress of Ruffia to M. d'Alembert. Tranflation of the dey of Tunis's letter to king George III. Trial of Neale Molloy, efq; and his wife, for cruelty to their daughter. 51 Letter relating to the foregoing intricate affair. Philofophical remarks on the face of the earth throughout Italy. Experiments to prove that water is not incompreffible. Account of a boy furviving the loss of a confiderable portion of the brain. of an animal furviving the lofs of all the fmall guts. Account of a marine production of a very ambiguous nature. An account of the death of the countess Cornelia Baudi of Cesena, Supposed to |