The LONDON MAGAZINE: Or, GENTLEMAN's Monthly Intelligencer. For JANUARY, 1753. To be Continued. (Price Six-Pence each Moatn.) Containing, (Greater Variety, and more in Quantity, than ary Monthly Book of the fame Price.) I. A remarkable Latin SPEECH of QELI ZARETH, with an English Tranflation. II. The LIFE of Sir Francis Bacon. III. The LIFE of Archbishop Tillotson. IV. A Defcription of WESTMORELAND. V. Copy of the Pruffian Memorial. VI. The Life and Character of the famous Chriftina, Queen of Sweden. VII. The JOURNAL of a Learned and Political CLUB, &c. continued: Containing the SPEECHES of Servilius Prifcus, Pomponius Atticus, and Quintus Mucius, in the DEBATE on the Subfidy Treaty with the King of Poland, Elector of Saxony. VIII. Obfervations on the Time for keeping Christmas. IX. Two Letters of the famous Madam de Maintenon. X. Account of a new Paper, called The WORLD. XI. Affecting Story of Conftantia. XIL Subftance of his Majefty's Speech. XIII. The Lords Addrets, with the King's Answer. XIV. The Commons Addrefs, with the King's Anfwer. XV. Curious Obfervations on Cold and Silver Lace. XVI. Modefty and Affurance, a Fable. XVII. Addrefs of the Merchants, Traders and Citizens of Dublin. XVIII. Solution of a Mathematical Question objected to. XIX. A Remark on Mr. Freke's Treatife. XX. Obfervations on Oaths, and the horrid Crime of Perjury. XXI. The Countryman's Complaint against the Game Laws. XXII. Alterations in the Lift of Parliament. XXIII. Account of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. XXIV. POETRY: The Spectres; Ode for New-Year's Day; a Paftoral Dialogue; Janthe and Iphis, a Song new fet to Mufick; Epitaph, &c. XXV. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER: Seffions at the Old Bailey; remarkable Accidents; General Court of the S. S. Company; Dublin Yearly Bill of Mortality, &c. &c. &c, XXVI. Promotions; Marriages and Births; XXVII. Prices of Stocks for each Day. With a new and correct Map of WESTMORELAND, and the HEADS of Sir FRANCIS BACON and Archbishop TILLOTSON, both beautifully engraved by eminent Hands. MULTUM IN PARVO. LONDON: Printed for R. BALDWIN, jun. at the Rofe in Pater-Notter-Row. Of whom may be had, compleat Sets from the Beginning to this Time, neatly Bound, or Stitch'd, or any fingle Month to compleat Sets. CONTENT A Latin pecc Elizabeth in anfwer to the Polish ambaffador's, with an English translation, and proper remarks 3, 4 Copy of the memorial prefented by the Pruffian minifter, concerning the Silefia loan -6 S. 33 made dean of St. Paul's, and archbishop of Canterbury his death and private charities 34 cal queftion Obfervations on the time for keeping Objections to a folution of a mathemati Christmas Some account of the late Sir Hans Sloane, ibid. A remark on Mr. Freke's Treatife on the Nature and Property of Fire ibid. D Obfervations on gold and filve lace 35 The feveral forts of filver ore ibid. E, and 36 Obfervations on oaths and the horrid crime of perjury 36 POETRY. Ianthe and Iphis, a fong new ibid. Addrefs of the merchants, traders and citizens of Dublin ibid. 42 Dublin yearly bill of mortality Opening of the prefent feffion of parlia ment 22 ibid. 23-26 Remarkable accidents' ibid. Account of a new paper, called The WORLD 26 Oath of the fcavengers, queftmen, &c. difpenfed with ibid. Modefty and Affurance, a fable Subftance of his majesty's fpeech at the opening of the feffion 27 Seffions at the Old Bailey ibid. Westminster election begun and finished 28 42, 43 The lords addrefs, with the king's answer 28, 29 General court of the S. S. company 43 Marriages and births ibid. Deaths, particularly of Sir Hans Sloane The commons addrefs, with his majesty's anfwer Affecting ftory of Conftantia ibid. F. &c. The countryman's complaint against the game laws The life of Dr. John Tillotfon, archbishop of Canterbury 31-34 bred up amongst the diffenters, but conforms to the church at the reftoration Ecclefiaftical preferments Alterations in the lift of parliament ibid. Perfons declared bankrupts ibid. 32 A catalogue of books chofen preacher at Lincoln's-Inn, 46 ibid 47 48 The Propofal for making an effectual Provifion for the Poor: By Henry Fielding Efq; fall be confidered in our next. Our Poetical and other Correfpendents are defired to fend their Pieces as early in the Month as poffible, in order to their being inferted in Time. In January was Publifhed, N APPENDIX to the LONDON MAGAZINE for 1752, with A a Beautiful FRONTISPIECE, a General TITLE curiously engraved, Compleat INDEXES, and feveral other Things, neceflary to be bound up with the Volume. THE LONDON MAGAZINE. JANUARY, 1753. being loaded with contraband goods for Spain, and probably fome exceffes had B then likewife been committed, as there always are upon fuch occafions. Upon this Sigifmund, King of Poland and Sweden, fent Paulus de Jaline, his ambaffador, to queen Elizabeth, to demand fatisfaction, which at his first audience he began to do in Latin, the only quam electionis, atque etiam novitèr ele&tus, non tam benè percipiat quid inter reges convenit, quam majores fui nobifcum obfervarunt, & alii fortaffe deinceps obfervabunt. Quod ad te attinet, videris multos libros perlegiffe, libres tamen principum non attigiffe, neque intelligere quid inter reges convenit. Cum vero jus nature, & gentium commemoras ; boc feito effe jus naturæ & gentium, ut cum bellum inter reges intercedat, liceat alteri alterius undique allata præfidia intercipere, et ne in damnum fuum convertantur, prævidere: Hoc feito effe jus naturæ & gentium; ubi itidem domum Auftria narras (quam jam tanti facis) non te lateat ex eadem domo non defuiffe qui reg num Polonia regi tuo intercipere voluiffent. De reliquis, qua cum multa funt & fingulatim deliberanda, non funt bujus loci ac ten pris, accipies quod a quibufdam confiliariis buic rei defignatis deliberandum fuerit. Interim vakas &quiefcas. This answer runs in English thus: language then ufed upon fuch occafions; Can envoy, but thou haft brought me a but he did it in fuch a high tone and haughty manner, that the queen cut him fhort with the following extempore anfwer in Latin. Heu quam decepta fui! Expe&tavi nuncium: tu verò querelam mihi adduxifti; per literas te accepi effe legatum, te verò heraldum invenio. Nunquam in vita talem orationem audivi. Miror, fanè miror, tantam et tam' infolitam in publico audaciam; neque puto, fi rex tuus adeffet, talia verba protuliffet: Sin aliquid tale tibi in mandatis commifit (quod quidem valde dubito) tribuendum, quòd cùm vez fit juvenis, & non tam jure fanguinis January, 1753. D challenge. By thy credential letters, I took thee to be an ambalador, but I find thou art a herald. In all my life I never heard fuch a fpeech. I am furprifed, I am really amazed at fo great and fo unufual impudence in publick; nor do I think that thy mafter, had he been here himfelf, would have made ufe of any fuch language. But, if there be any fuch thing in his inftructions to thee, as he is a young king, not by hereditary right, but by election, and even but lately clefted, I muft impute it to Lis being unacquainted with that language which is A 2 proper 4 A remarkable SPEECH of Queen ELIZABETH. Jan. legation of his majesty the king of Pruffia, is obliged to remind your excellency of the preffing follicitations employed by himfelf and predeceffor, at feveral times, for obtaining from the equity, and thro the juftice of the miniftry of this court, the fatisfaction which the Pruffian merchants have demanded, of being indemnied for the violences and depredations they have fuftained from fome of the English privateers, during the laft war. Your excellency will remember, that thefe merchants had fome their fhips taken from them, fome their effects forced away, others had them detained; and altho' it was evidently made appear, that B none of them dealt in contraband trade, they have not hitherto been able to obtain any redrefs, neither from the English tribunals to whom they applied, nor from the government, before which they laid their complaints: And that, by a fingularly ftrange contradiction, when even thofe tribunals found no fpecious pretext for confifcating their fhips and effects, and confequently difcovered the injustice of the prize, they nevertheless did not fail to condemn the proprietors in cofts, to the behoof of the privateers, and leviable upon the capture. proper among fovereigus, and which his Thus did that great princefs answer a powerful king, who only talked in a manner which the thought infolent, and D it is remarkable, that this fpirited anfwer was made by her when she was old; when the was involved in a war with Spain, then the most potent monarchy in Europe; when he had been deserted by her ally, Henry IV. of France, who had made a feparate peace with Spain; and when there was a dangerous rebellion in Ireland, headed by the famous Ter-Owen, and fupported by Spain. The laws of equity ought incontestably to be the fame for all nations; and an Englishman ought to expect the finding a fanctuary at Berlin, in the juftice of its tribunais, against the violence of their fubjects, the fame as a Pruffian ought to find it at London, against any illegal procedure of theirs. It is upon this principle, that good faith and mutual commerce ftand established between nation and nation: It is alfo upon this very E principle, that the merchants of Europe traffick with their neighbours, and that the English nation carries on fo advanAll countries look tageous a commerce. And speed, who gives us this anecdote, tells us, that having ended her oration, the lion like rifing. daunted the malapert orator no lefs with her fately port and majeftick departure, than with the tartnefs of her princely checks: And turning to the train of her attendants, faid, F "God's death, my lords, I have been forced this day to four up my old Latin that hath long lain rufty.' In our Magazine for laft Year, p. 603, rue gave the Subftance of what the King of Proffa calls an Expofition of his Motives for detaining Part of the Silefia Lean, by Way of Compenfation for the Da mage done to his Subjects in the last War by our Privateers. And now we fall give Copy of the Memorial prefented by Lis Miafter bere upon that Subject, as follows, viz. T is by order of the king his mafter, that the undersigned fecretary to the I a G on thefe ties of equity as facred and inviolable, and they respect them at home, that they may receive the benefit of them abroad, whenever the neceffity comes to exift of their having recourfe to them. His majefty believed, that, with a nation fo full of noble fentiments, fo gene1ous as the Englith, it would be no ditculty to obtain for his fubjects the fatiffaction that was due to them; and your excellency will remember, that, in cafe of a refufal, the intimation was not omitted, that his majesty, the king of Pruffia, would find himfelf obliged (tho' with regret) to feize the capital funds for which the dutchy of Silefia flood mortgaged to the English, especially as his majefty had no other means of indennifying his fubjects, The • The archduke Maximilian of Aufiria, braiber to the emperor Riedolph 11. bad diffited the crown with Sigifmund, 1753. MEMORIAL of the Pruffian MINISTER. The intentions of the king my mafter are pure: His majefty was determined to fulfil, with all integrity, the engagements he has contracted with the English nation, and acquit the debts incumbent on him; but he is determined at the fame time to make good to his fubjects the protection which he owes them. That his majesty might precipitate nothing in an affair of this nature, and in order to afford the English government tie enough for reflection, his majesty continued difcharging the Silefia loan until payment of the laft term; but when his majefty faw that neither the equity of his demands, that neither time, reafons, nor repeated importunities, produced any effect, in favour of the Pruffian merchants, the king thought himself obliged to have recourfe to the laft measure that remained in his power, that of deducting from the money due to the English the fum which his fubjects demanded for their indemnification. A 5 jects, upon that of each merchant feparately; whence it refults, that of 239,850 crowns, which thofe merchants reckoned due to them, the commiffion has adjudged to them no more than 159,486 crowns, 20 gr. principal, and 33,283 crowns intereft, at the rate of 6 per cent. Tho' his majesty has all the reason to be perfuaded, that the faid commiflion has proceeded according to the forms of the most impartial juftice, his majesty has, nevertheless, ordered the underfigner to declare, in the prefent memorial, that his majesty is difpofed to have any contefted facts examined afresh by the faid commiffion, if any officers, or B English privateers, who fhall believe themfelves wronged thereby, think proper to interfere therein, and to get the judgment altered, in cafe the allegations of the party, fo complaining, fhould be found valid. The fame law that obliges us to the fair C dealing of paying our debts, authorizes us to exact the fame measure of justice from our debtors. What a fingularly ftrange fort of law would that be, that should regulate all in favour of one fide, and nothing in favour of the other? In this affair, however, the point in agitation is not even what is owing from the English to the Pruffians, but what is forcibly with-held from them. If it is but just to pay one's debts, it is yet more fo to repair the damages one has occafioned by one's own fault, and with premeditated defign. The king fixes, for the exhibition of thefe allegations, the term of three months, reckoning from the day of this declaration. As the lift of the fever al captures annexed to this memorial contains the names of thofe who made them, his majefty refers it to the good pleasure of the British government, in what manner it shall be proper to inform the parties of the judgment pronounced, that they may enter their complaint against it acD cording to law. If, nevertheless, the faid term lapfes without any one's interpofing in his own vindication, his majesty will abide by the decree of his council, and in purfuance thereof, will order the deduction of the fum adjudged to his fubjects, including the intereft thereon at 6 per cent. until the roth of July of the current year; which faid deduction, so ordered from the money due to the English, amounts to 194,725 Brandenburg crowns, 4 gr. and 5 deniers, and is to be applied to the indemnification of the Pruffian merchants. His majesty at the fame time declares, that he is ready to order a remittance to be made to the commiffioners of the Silefia loan, of the refidue of what is owing upon that claim, both on account of the capital, and of the intereft growing thereon, at the rate of 7 per cent. to the tenth of July of this prefent year. Always provided, that the faid commiffioners fhall produce an authentick release for the faid principal and interest. After reafons fo ftrong, after having, in vain, demanded reparation from those who alone could make it, is there any colour whatever for pretending, that the E king fhould give up his own subjects? And could he do it, even if he would? He owes the laft term to the English; he ftops it, and, after having acquainted the British government upon all occafions, of the measures his majesty could not but indifpenfably take, he appointed a commiffion to judge, with impartiality, and with a rigid exactnefs, the pretenfions of the Pruffian merchants. At the head of this commiffion too his majefty placed a man, whom to name, fuffices to fanctify the whole procedure. The then high chancellor (Cocceii) three minifters of ftate, and feveral counfellors of juftice, have examined the claims of the merchants, and liquidated their juft amount. This commiffion having terminated this G affair, the under-figner has the honour to prefent, enclosed herewith, to your execilency, copies of the decrees given upon the different claims of the Pruffian fab. In cafe that, againft all expectation, they fhall in England refufe to come into this fo equitable a regulation, I am to declare to your excellency, that the king will order the faid fum to be judicially delivered to his chamber of juftice in Berlin, there to remain in depofite, til it fhall pleafe |