to a fwoon under the window of lady Reftlefs, when a gentleman catches her in his arms, recovers. and waits upon her home. This tranfaction is feen by lady Reftlefs, and he finds the gentleman who is fo complaifant, to be really the indentical Sir John. She comes into the Park in order to confront him, but is too late; and only finds the picture of Beverly, which Belinda had dropped in her diforder. This picture he is admiring, and blaming the infidelity of her husband, where he is found by Sir John, who fnatches the picture out of her hands: a warm difpute arifes, the upbraids him with his miftrefs, he recriminates the lover, and both part in a paffion; he to find cut the perfon the picture might resemble, and the to enquire whether any anfwer had been fent to the letter he had difpatched to lady Conqueft, in relation to Marinalade. In going out, Sir John meets Robert, and tempts him to a difcovery of what he knows concerning the lady's intrigue with the gentleman, from whom the received the picture: during this, lord Conquef's footinan comes with an answer to lady Restless, Sir John bribes the fellow to give him the letter, and on opening it, finds it to be one from lord Conqueft, intimating his lady's being out of town, and vindicating the character of Marmalade. This letter is drawn up in fuch a manner, as to give an additional force to the jealoufy of Sir John, who difpatches Robert to lord Conqueft's, to make an appointment between Marmalade and him, whom he looks upon as a go-between to lord Conqueft and his wife; and for fear of a difcovery, infifts on her being masked. In this interval Belmont comes in, and the uneafinefs of Sir John to compare him to the picture, is happy enough. They are joined by Beverly, and Sir John's follicitude of effecting his design is increased; and after an aukward excufe, though very natural, he begs Beverly would indulge him in making an examination : when the latter accidentally cafting his eye on the fetting, difcovers it to be the picture he had given to Belinda, and earnefty begs a view of it, which is peremptorily refused by Sir John, who immediately goes off, not a little pleafed to have found the owner of a picture, which he thinks will be no immateTial evidence in his obtaining a divorce, he intends to fuc out against his wife. Naturally jealous without a caufe, and ente ring into explanations without reafon, Beverly appears greatly dejected, when his friend and he join their mistreffes, and infifts upon feeing the picture: when missing it, Belinda rallies him about his uneafinefs; he upbraids her with inconftancy, and both part in an open rupture: he flies to Sir John's to recover the picture, and the to difclofe her concern to Clariffa. Sir John happening not to be at home, he is introduced to lady Reflefs, by whom his fufpicions are fo greatly increased, that he joins with her in accufing Sir John and his mistress, and takes his leave with a refolution of never seeing Belinda more. Going out, he is met by Sir John, and a warm altercation enfues. Beverly goes home with an intention of fetting out for the country, and orders his chaife, when Brush brings him a letter from Belinda, which he at laft reads and tears: Clariffa and Belmont come in, and his fifter clears up the matter fo much to his fatisfaction, that he flies to Belinda to beg a reconciliation. Beverly goes to Sir John's for the now unaccountable picture. Sir John, after being with Belinda, and giving her the strongest reasons to suspect her lover's fidelity, repairs to his affignation with Marmalade, and finds a perfon muffled up, whom he imagines to be her, and the prevails upon him to bring her to his own houfe; when making ufe of expreffions that admit of a double fignification, and what he defires as an indulgence to his curicfity, fhe understands as a gratification to his paffion; unable any longer to conceal her refentment, the throws off the difguife, and openly ubraids him in the form of lady Reftlefs; for Tattle, in order to remove her lady's ill opinion of Marmalade, had been with her after she had been applied to by Robert, and Marmalade difcovered the whole circumftance of Robert's embaffy to her; which Tattle difelofes to her lady, and the difguifes herfelf as Marmalade, to give Sir John no poffibility of efcaping. Beverly, finding Sir John not at home, is determined to wait till he comes; the moment he hears him coming, he is prevailed upon to be thrust into a clofet, where Tattle locks him up, left his being feen by Sir John fhould occafion more uneafinefs in the family. This clofet, lady Reflefs wanting to go into, is furprifed to find locked, and calling Tattle, infifts upon her opening it; when the appearance of Beverly, though ridiculous ridiculous enough, is extremely laughable. Sir John Restless gives up the picture; and Beverly, marching off to his mistress, leaves the comfortable couple to the difquiet of their own imaginations, Belinda, believing every thing Sir John had told her, gives Beverly a reception he very little expected; and telling him her refolution of obeying her father, and giving her hand to Belmont, he relapfes into his former jealoufy. They agree to return each other's letters, and in going home to fend his, he calls at Sir John Restlefs's. Clariffa, hearing of Belinda's accepting Belmont as a husband, is natural enough in her refentment; which Belinda begs the may fufpend, till he has put her intention of going to Sir John Reftlefs's in execution, and bringing every thing to an eclarciffement. The old baronets, hearing of Belinda's going to Sir John's, poft immediately after her, and are followed by Belmont and Clariffa: here the father of Belmont, who had received an intimation from his fon of the fuppofed levity of Belinda's conduct, comes in, at the very time Beverly and lady Restless are accufing Belinda and Sir John; and the old gentleman, frightened at the thoughts of fuch an alifance, immediately joins the hands of Clariffa and Belmont; and then follows a general explanation. The circumstance of leaving Beverly and Belinda together, by drawing off the rest of the company to be prefent at Robert's relation, is happy enough. A reconciliation is effected between the lovers, a double wedding is the confequence; Sir John and my lady, mutually concerned at their own behaviour, promife an unlimited confidence in each other for the future; and the two fathers declare they are both in the wrong, from the oppofition they fhewed to the inclinations of their children. Tho' our judgment may err; yet our juftice PROLOGUE To All in the Wrong. Written and spoken by Mr. F OOTE. is fhown, [own; For we promise to mangle no works but our No blood, no blank verfe; in fhort, we're ftill; Vauxhall; If blind to the beauties, or fick of the fquall, If the fume of the pipes fhould prove pow'r- tune; We hope you will call at our warehouse in We've a curious affortment of goods, I af[wares, fure ye; Domestic and foreign, indeed, all kinds of If for want of good cuftom, or loffes in If from dealings too large we plunge deep- zette; We'll on you our affigns for certificates call, Tho' infolvents, we're honeft, and give up our all. EPILOGUE. Written by Mr. GARRICK. Spoken by BLESS me, this fummer work is fo fa- To night be it known to box, gall'ries, Such miffing, fighing, fcolding, all-to and pit, [wit; [Rowe: gether--- [the To Shakespear, and Southern, to Otway and Adapt their various goods to every feafon- For the hot months, the fanciful and flight-For mind and body, fomething cool and light: [rule, Authors themfelves, indeed, neglect this Drefs warm in Summer, and at Chriftmas cool, I told our author, that these five act plays Their very smoke would pall a city glut- At Ranelagh--fine rolls and butter fee! Vauxhall more folidly regales your palates, wit- What hall we do your different taftes to hit? Said, with a flirt--I might enjoy my with! And tear a fan with flirting every night. 1 Ye poets who mount on the fam'd winged Of prancing, and wincing, and kicking, You are thrown in the dirt---and are all in I'll hold ten to one----You are all in the Ye knaves who make news for the foolish to read, Who print daily flanders, the hungry to feed; The road that you travel is tedious and Let never fufpicions embitter your lives; h Ye unmarried folks be not bought, or be And then my wife old ones--You're all in Ye foldiers and failors, who bravely have Who honour and glory, and laurels have Ye judges of tafte to our labours be kind, To the Authors of the BRITISH MAGAZINE. The Treatment of Scorbutic Men, on an Eaft-India Voyage. GENTLEMEN, A S the following judicious treatment of the fcorbutic men in their voyage to India, on board his majesty's ship America, does the party no little credit, and may greatly tend to the benefit of mankind, I fhould think it a kind of injury to the community to conceal it, and therefore take the liberty to tranfmit a copy for publication in your magazine. "The fcurvy appeared among us about the end of May, (1759) near two months after our departure from Spithead, altho' we ftaid at Madeira ten days, but without the benefit of fresh provisions, The diftemper continuing daily to encrease, we had on the 8th of July out of our complement of 420 men, fifty with various appearances of the fymptoms, fome having fore mouths, putrid and spungy gums, and ftiff hams with fpots; others, fwellings in the joints of the knee and ancle, with excruciating pains in the fhins; others again scorbutic ulcers, without any other Symptom. I luckily kept fome lemon juice at Madeira, and with the affistance of captain H. who gave me any quantity I wanted, we palliated the symptoms confiderably; for I ordered the scorbutics two fpoonfuls of this juice three times a day, with a proper diet, in which I followed the directions given me by Dr. Lind. I likewife found great advantages from the portable broth made strong, and which I gave them for dinner, in which were fhalots and garlick with plenty of barley. For breakfast I ordered them water gruel with fhalots; for fupper barley and currants, which latter generally kept them open. When a difficulty of breathing and pains in the breaft occurred, I found bleeding neceffary in small quantities, and when coftive half an ounce of cathatric falt diffolved in fea-water, in which tamarinds had been infufed. To the rigid hams and stiff ancles, I found poultices of oatmeal, moistened with oil and vinegar of great advantage, alfo applied above the dreffings of the fcorbutic ulcers. "On the 8th of July, we put into Madagafcar, a very pleafant and fruitful inland, 24 degrees fouthward of the equinoctial, where we ftaid fixteen days to water the ships, and refresh the fick, whom we fent afhore, and with plenty of oranges, milk, and fresh provisions, made a cure almost of the whole; and with the addition of the rob of lemons, which I made there, and the live stock taken aboard that ferved the men ten days at fea, compleated their recovery and although feveral men of weak constitutions and old, had the most violent symptoms, yet we loft not a man in that distemper, which I flatter myfelf was fomething owing to their being early and well fupplied with that efficacious remedy in the fcurvy the juice of lemons and oranges. I might have premised that our voy. age to Madeira was pleafant and fhort, and let me fubjoin, that on our arrival here, fluxes prevail, which are rather of the putrid than inflammatory kind. This and whatever other diftempera may occur, fhall be recited by every opportunity when a little more practice enables me to form a fuccinct idea of them.” I am, &c. We cannot but remark, in justice to the above writer, that he is very commendable in thus particularifing his obfervations for the benefit of mankind, on the distempers in foreign climates, and the most falutary treatment of them, because it fo nearly concerns us in a public point of view as a maritime power. Sure Signs of knowing a COX COM B. A Mong the multitude of words that have an indifcriminate application, there are few more generally ufed than cox. comb. This is an epithet liberally beftowed upon every fpecies of the ridiculous, tho' it certainly is of a limited figni fication. Were we to give a defintion of the word coxcomb, we should say that it was a--a--a--fomething---that--a--that was--a--coxcomb; and fo gain a reputation, like the celebrated author of Triftram Shandy, by being wittily perplexed, and and politely unintelligible. However, as coxcombry is a caufe productive of a variety of effects, and is a foible to which every man has more or lefs a propensity, there is no great neceffity--- To trace the paffion upward to its fpring, or of entering into any tedious, dull, and infipid definition of it: Ishall therefore proceed to give fome fuch abfolute marks of a coxcomb, that an alderman might have no great trouble in finding him out at a city entertainment, or a parish clerk in a country congregation. Well then----- Whenever you fee a perfon finking beneath the load of a large gold button and loop, an enormous bag, and a long coat; he is---a coxcomb. Whenever you fee a fellow in company, with a face as fimple as a difh of turnips in A the abfence of a leg of mutton, take every opportunity of stealing a peep at the glass; he is a coxcomb. Whenever you hear a fellow with a tolerable voice, hum over a tune, and deny to fing when requested; he is---a coxcomb. Whenever you hear a man draw a character, blended with such particular Atrokes of his own, that there is no occasion of fubfcribing his name to it, and giving every virtue to himself he won't allow any body elfe; he is---a coxcomb. Whenever (as I think I have fomewhere read) you fee a reverend orator, with a diamond-ring and a white handkerchief, exclaiming against the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and desiring you to take head for neither food or raiment, he is---a coxcomb. ADVICE to the Ladies of Great-Britain. S I have always been an admirer of, and wellwifher to the fair fex, I would endeavour to perfuade them to lay afide the enormous customs which at prefent prevail amongst those who are called ladies of tafte. And, as it is allowed by all, that women are the most delicate part of the creation, and alfo remarked by foreigners, that this nation abounds with beauties more than any other, it is matter of great concern to me at feeing them so ambitious to difguife the finest faces in the univerfe, by the most horrid means imaginable; some befmeared with paint, others clouded with patches, and fome covered with both; by which deteftable practice, thofe inimitable features, coloured by the grand pencil of the great Creator, are destroyed by the former, and by the latter fecreted.----But what is more aftonishing, is to fee fo many of my fair countrymen, whofe lovely locks have been fhorn down on the fore-part of the head, and, perhaps, by the vile hands of fome filthy French Frifeur, in order to make it appear like the wool of an African, though truly not fo clean, as the deficiency of hair is generally fupplied by daubing the remainder with grease, and coveting that with duft.---I am out of all patience, when I think that any person of good fenfe fhould ever confent to destroy thofe beautiful treffes which the Divine Being bestowed as the greatest ornament to the human head. Neither can I help being provoked, when I fee the British ladies (who are as remarkable for their good understanding as delicacy of form and features) fo far give up their reafon and judgment, as to imitate the foolish foppery and fantastic fashions of the French; a nation notorious for its infincerity, inconftancy, levity, vanity, and pride, and of being always the fecret enemy of England. I fhall not meddle with the drefs, or drapery of our modern beauties, being rather too old to venture tumbling a lady's petticoats; but I am in hopes of living to fee the time, when the beau ties of Britain fhall reaffume their reafon, and act confiftent with it. HISTORY OF CANADA. [Continued.] [An. 1657] THE deputies of the Onondagas, who came to Montreal in order to conduct the Hu-, rons into their country according to I am, &c. agreement, began already to exhibit figns of alienation from the French. It was with great difficulty they fuffered a few natives of France to accompany the Hu rons, |