We have feveral pieces by us from our correspondents, fome of zobich will be in our Appendix, and others in January.

About the Middle of January will be Publijuca,

N APPENDIX to the LONDON MAGAZINE for 1753. with a A Beautiful FRONTISPIECE, a General TITLE curiously engraved, compleat INDEXES, and feveral other Things, neceffary to be bound up with the Volume.

THE

LONDON MAGAZINE. DECEM BE R, 1753.

the 30th; and after the yellow bile mingles with the black, they are of a greenish caft; till at last they become tawny, and under the tropicks entirely black.

The inhabitants of the most northern regions are extremely pale and lean, redhaired, a clear fkin, of a middle stature, broad-shoulder'd, eyes of a fea-green, a weak voice, but far from delicate. The Germans and English are generally fair.

The northern differ greatly in their eyes from the fouthern people, these being black eyed, whereas the eyes of the former are either of a fea-green, or a skyblue; thofe of the middle region again are not unlike goats eyes, of a dull brown yellow. The colour of the true German eye is deeper than a fky blue, without any green or whitish tinge; it has alfo fomething of mildnefs in it. The blue of the Scythians eye has a mixture of white in it.

The fea green colour in the eye indicates a hot conftitution; the brown yellow Care the keenest of all; a goat is never known to be blear-eyed.

gion there is an amazing A variety produced by a general mixture; as it has been a custom founded on nature, for men to leave the extremities of heat and cold for the middle region. Accordingly, it is in thefe countries that the Scythians, Goths, Turks, Tartars, Arabs, Saracens and B Carthaginians feated themfelves. The Vandals alone paffed over into Africa, and from thence were foon expelled. Neither the Saracens nor Romans penetrated into Scandinavia nor Ethiopia; accordingly, in this laft country the inhabitants are all like each other, their teeth exceeding white, and a kind of fimofity in their features. The externals of men in the eastern countries are not fo eafily determined; for there, China and Japan excepted, the perpetual circulation, the tealth of the fine women and young faves by the Tartars, Arabs and pirates, the marriages of the Turks and Perfians with the Circaffian and Georgian women, the recruits of the fovereign's officers for war and the feraglio, produce continual changes in the principles of the natural blood; fo that the jufteft reprefentation which can be given of the figure of thefe people, must be drawn from the commonalty, whofe low circumstances would not permit an intermixture with foreign

women.

The northern people are generally tall of ftature, with a white complexion, lank fandy hair, fky blue eyes, and very fanguine; the fouthern, on the contrary, are of a middle ftature, a brown complexion, black and curling hair, black eyes, weak legs, and deficient in blood. DThe blood of the Scythians is grofs, like that of bulls and wild boars, whereas the fouthern blood is as thin as that of hares or flags.

Under the tropicks men are quite black, E and by a contrary reafon under the arctick pole they are brown; from the arctick pole to the 60th degree, they contract a rednefs; from the 60th to the 45th they are pale; from thence they alter to fair till December, 1753.

Beyond 75 the cold may be faid to fcorch the bodies, not by the inward heat, but by the very activity of the cold penetrating into the most interior parts, and destroying the humidity in bodies as it does in plants.

The principle of this height of stature is the heat and moisture with which thefe A people abpund, as do the enormous feamonsters; and to allay this heat it is, that they are fonder of liquors than of folid foods.

To recapitulate these feveral particulars, the fouthern people are cold in the inward parts; they are dry, hard, weak, with very little hair on their bodies, of a low ftature, curling hair, a dark brown fkin, B black eyes, a clear mellow voice; the northern are hot and moist, hairy, robuft, fair, tall, their flesh foft, their hair lank, their eyes blue, their voice deep and inclined to a bafe.

A two-fold objection lies against this defeription. You make the inhabitants of the north robuft, and thofe of the fouth weakly; yet, according to hiftorians, philofophers are in an error, and it is thefe who are hardy, and the former are weak and tender.

Nature had bleft him with a chearful,

Flively difpofition; and an open, charita

ble and generous turn of mind.
former of which was much strengthened
and improved by the returns of a good
confcience; and the latter by an acquain-
tance with the best authors ancient and
modern, which he read with judgment.
He was a bigot to no party but that of
truth and goodness; and had contracted
no prejudices but against vice and im-
morality. Whether employed in ex-
amining the wonderful frame and ftruc-
ture of the human body, in contemplating
the furprizing grandeur and periodical

1753.

An EXCELLENT CHARACTER.

revolutions of the bodies which compofe
the folar fyftem, or carrying his re-
fearches into other works of nature; he
at no time was unmindful to make pro-
per reflections on the adorable wisdom,
power and goodness, which must be the
peculiar attributes of that Being, the
work of whofe hands all those things
were; who formed their feveral parts
in fuch astonishing beauty and proportion,
and adapted them to fuch a variety of
wife and ufeful purpofes.-He was a fin-
cere well-wither to all mankind; a faithful
friend, and a true chriftian. And tho'
all, who had any the leaft knowledge
of him, bore teftimony to the good cha-
racter he fo highly deferved; yet his va- B
rious and extraordinary merit thone forth
in its brightest colours to thofe alone who
were most intimately acquainted with
him: For he was one of the few who are
poffeffed of much intrinfick worth, with-
out the leaft degree of oftentation; and
who are more follicitous to deferve well
of the world, than to appear to do fo.
To a conftant and careful perufal of the
facred fcriptures having joined much fe-
rious reflection, and a diligent and im-
partial examination of the learned la-
bours of feveral good divines, in order
to fatisfy himself in the most important
points of religion, and that he might be
able to give a reafon of the hope he en-
tertained, he at laft made choice of the
ufeful tracts of the good archbishop Synge
for the fubjects of his daily meditation:
These he used to extol for that spirit of
piety which runs thro' them, and the
great perfpicuity and familiarity with
which they are written; and by which
they are fo well adapted to common use
and general edification.

Upon the whole, we cannot without
hedding a tear reflect that, notwithstand-
ing all his excellencies, fo feldom united
in one man, he fo early in life underwent
the common lot of humanity, in that he
came up, and was cut down like a flower,
without continuing in one ftay-he had
put forth all the tender leaves of hope,
and was just blooming into perfection,
when an inflammatory colick deftroyed in
a few days fo promising a plant, and put
a fudden and melancholy end to the
growing expectations of all that knew
him. By this fad ftroke his relations and
acquaintance are deprived of a very va-
luable friend and companion, and the
world of a bright example of true un-
atteded goodness, and every focial virtue.

From the few inftances of men of fo much genuine merit in the prefent age, the reader may perhaps be led to fufpect part at least of the truth of the prefent

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relation; but to remove all fufpicion of this kind, let him remember, we are not with felfish views painting the fancied qualifications of any great and powerful perfon, fill in being; but only paying a debt justly due to the memory of a late truly deferving friend, who is now no more. A As the commonwealth is unfortunately deprived of his ufeful prefence and living example, we are willing to repair, as well as we can, that lofs, by giving a true though faint delineation of his many excellent virtues and good qualities. The memory and the characters of great good men should ever be preferved and tranfmitted down to pofterity with the utmost care. This is a duty which they who have been acquainted with them, owe both to the deceased, and to thofe that furvive them. Upon reading the ftories of wife and worthy predeceffors (though they have been long laid low in their graves,) the heart, if it be not altogether vitiated and depraved, naturally grows warm; we contract a reverence for their characters, and grow enamoured of their virtues. Actuated by the useful hints their written examples fuggeft, how often have men of bad lives been induced seriously to confider their own follies and miftaken pursuits, and to turn their feet from the dark and dangerous ways of vice and error, to the far more fafe and pleafant paths of true wifD dom? whilft the languid and lifeless refolutions of the well-meaning but flothful fons of virtue have from the fame quarter received fresh fupplies of ftrength, and they have been excited to purfue with vigour the road that leads at once to their own felicity, and the good of their fellow citizens. This indeed has ever been justly esteemed one effectual method of inftruction, and comes recommended to us by the practice of our wifeft forefathers. If the fubject of the prefent fhort and plain, but faithful narrative fhould in any measure answer this great end, it will give much real fatisfaction to thofe, who had once the happiness of being the friends of our good departed brother, and remain hearty well-wishers to the community he has left behind him.

E

F

The Epilogue (poken on Wednesday night,
Dec. 12, after Terence's Eunuch, per
formed at the King's Sholars Dormitory
at Weftminster. By a young Gentle.
man in the Character of PYTHIAS.

G
Enters reading the MARRIAGE BILL.
UT clandefiini pofthac ceflent hymenai!—
Quidnam hoc eft nionftri ?-Jam mea
res agitur.
For-

What then? fuppofe a lafs approve a

HE better to prevent" — (what's this I fee?) For me. E *Clandefine marriages"! They've done And this perhaps, when you're inclined to wed, [read.

May you concern: Be pleas'd to hear it Firft 'tis decreed, the banns on Sundays three,

youth,

And hearts united are by love and truth;
Can it be right our wifeacres thould lay
Such dilatory statutes in their way ?
Amid thefe hazards then what can be done?
The time is fhort; the threatn'ning day

comes on.

'Tis now or never (cries my am'rous mate) E'er yet the gentle Hymen fhuts the gate. My rogue has play'd the pimp-yet loves but me;

Amid the fervice loud proclaimed be.
Each a full month must in the parith live,,
And both their names unto the parfon give, F
And what, and whence they are, theif
parents who ;

And if they thefe, their nuptial rites, allow,
But fhould the marry under twenty one,
A whore the wife, a battard ev'ry fon !"
Is this just liberty for girls mature?
The Spanish padlock's easier to endure.
When fuch the laws, maids ever maids will
[me.

be.

From which dread curfe, good lord, deliver For why thould these old puts take on 'em thus ?

As tho' no privilege belong'd to us.

I

F the bishop had taken a view of Christendom before the reformation, he might have found fcenes of confufion and enormities equal at leaft to the picture he has drawn of the state of England fince that nation broke communion with the fovereign pontiff, He might have known, that, while Popery flourished in England, Henry I. ufurped the crown from his elder brother Robert, put out his eyes, and let him rot in prison. King John paved his way to the throne by the murder of his nephew, and reigned like a tyrant. During the fame happy times, the bishop might have feen the houses of Lancaster and Yok butchering one another without any forms of law; but as they were all good cathohcks, the pious prelate overlocked the horrid fcene. If we look at home, what can we fay of the firit race of our kings, but that they were more barbarous than Turks; however we muit account them good Chriftians in the lump, because they were outirul fons to mother-church. The Carlovingian race was not much better; nevertheless we must not bear hard upon them, because they were very humble fervants to the pope. Of the third race, feveral were hot fo complaifant to the court of Rome as they should have been; and Henry III. the laft of the house of Valois, was mur dered by a monk, for reafons of church more than reafons of ftate: And Henry IV, tho' he turned catholick, was affaffinated by a villain properly tutor'd by the Jefuits, because he was not ungrateful and bare barous enough to extupate his faithful Proteftant fubjects, and because he fent information of the powder plot to king James. His fuccefors having been zealous perfecutors of hereticks, all things have profpered in their hands; and indeed t