of Orange. The small couple had nine children, five of which lived to maturity, and were of a proper fize.. Richard the father died in the 75th year of his age, and was buried at Covent-Garden his little widow lived till 1709, when he was 89 years old. CAIUS GABRIEL CIBBER, or CIBBERT. Son of a cabinet-inaker to the king of Denmark, was born at Flensburg in the duchy of Holstein, and difcovering a ta. lent for sculpture was fent at the king's expence to Rome. More of his early history is not known. He came to England not long before the Revolution, and worked for John Stone, fon of Nicholas, who going to Holland and being feized with the palley, Cibber his foreman was fent to conduct him home. We are as much in the dark as to the rest of his life; that fingularly pleafing biographer his fon, who has dignified to many trifling anecdotes of players by the expreffive energy of his ftyle, has recorded nothing of a father's life who had fuch merit in his profeffion. I can only find that he was twice married, and that by his fecond wife, defcended from the antient family of Colley in Rutlandfhire, he had 6000l. and feveral children, among whom was the well known laureat, born in 1671 at his father's house in Southampton-street facing SouthamptonHouse. Gabriel Cibber the ftatuary was carver to the king's clofet, and died about 1700 at the age of 70. His fon had a portrait of him by old Laroon, with a medal in his hand. I have one in water-colours, with a pair of compaffes, by Chriftian Richter; probably a copy from the former, with a flight variation. What is wanting in circumftances, is more than compenfated by his works. The molt capital are the two figures of melancholy and raving madnefs before the front of Bedlam. The bafreliefs on two fides of the menument are by his hand too. So are the VOL. III. fountain in Soho-square, and one of the fine vafes at Hampton Court, faid to be done in competition with a foreigner who executed the other, but nobody has told us which is Cibber's. He carved most of the ftatues of king's round the Royal Exchange, as far as king Charles, and that of Sir Thomas Gresham in the piazza beneath. The firft duke of Devonshire employed him much at Chatfworth; where two sphinxes on large bafes, well executed, and with ornaments in good tafte, are of his work; and till very lately there was a statue of Neptune in a fountain, ftill better. He carved there feveral door-cafes of alabafter with rich foliage, and many ornaments in the chapel; and on each fide of the altar is a statue by him, Faith and Hope; the draperies have great merit, but the airs of the heads are not fo good as that of the Neptune. Cibber built the Danish church in London, and was buried there himself, with his fecond wife, for whom a monument was erected in 1696. The fon will be known as long as the Careles Hufband and the Memoirs of his own Life exift, and fo long the injustice of calling the figures at Bedlam -his brazen brainless brothers, and the peevish weakness of thrusting him into the Dunciad in the room of Theobald, the proper hero, will be notorious. JOHN BUSHNELL, An admired ftatuary in his own time, but only memorable to us by a capricious character. He was fcholar of Burman, who having debauched his fervant maid, obliged Bushnel to marry her. The latter in difguft left England, ftaid two years in France, and from thence went to Italy. He lived feme time at Rome and at Venice; in the luft city he made a magnificent monument fora Procuratore di Sam Marco, rep: efenting the fiege of Candia, and a naval engagement between the Venetians and Turks. He came home through Germany by the way of Hamburgh S From the regifter, Richard Gibfon died July 23, 1690. < Hamburgh. Some of his firft works after his return were the ftatues of Charles I, and II, at the Royal-Exchange, and Sir Thomas Gresham there above stairs. His beft were the kings at Temble-bar. He carved several marble monuments, particularly one for Ld.Afh burnham in Suffex; one for Dr. Grew's wife in Chrift-Church London, one for Lord Thomond in Northamptonshire; Cowley's and Sir Palmes Fairborn's in Westminster-Abbey, and cut a head of Mr. Talman. He had agreed to compleat the set of kings at the Royal-Exchange, but hearing that another perfon (I suppose Cibber) had made intereft to carve some of them, Bufhnel would not proceed, though he had begun fix or feven. Some of his profeffion afferting, that, though he was skilful in drapery, he could not execute a naked figure, he engaged in an Alexander the Great, which ferved to prove that his rivals, were in the right, at least in what he could not do. His next whim was to demonftrate the poffibility of the Trojan horfe, which he had heard treated as a lane leading from Piccadilly to Tyburn, which had been built by the father, but was unfinished, and had neither staircafe nor floors. Here they dwelt like hermits, reclufe from all mankind, fordid and impracticable, and saying the world had not been worthy of their father. Vertue, in one of his MSS. dated 1725, begins thus; " After long expectations 1 faw the inside of John Bushnell's house, the fons being abroad both." He defcribes it particularly, and what fragments he faw there, particularly a model in plailter of Charles II: on horseback, defigned to have been caft in brass, but almost in ruins: the Alexander and the unfinished kings. Against the wall a large piece of his painting, a triumph, almost obliterated too. He was defired to take particular notice of a bar of iron, thicker than a man's wrist, broken by an invention of Bushnell. From the UNIVERSAL MUSEUM. fable that could not have been put in Laws for the better regulating the Whift execution. He undertook fuch a wood- recommence, This project coft him 500l. Another, of velfels for bringing coals to London, miscarried too, with deeper coft. Thefe fchemes, with the loss of an estate that he had bought in Kent, by a law-fuit, quite overfet his difcorded brain. He died in 1701, and was buried at Paddington, leaving two fons and a daughter. The fons, of whom one had a 100l. a year, the other 60l. were as great huanourifts as the father; they lived in a large boute fronting Hyde-Park, in the Tables in Great Britain. HAT as a perpetual grum TH bling is a key in mufic that pleafes no ear; and as every man who plays, fubjects himself to lofe for a confiderable length of time; now if any one in that circumstance shall more than thrice at one fitting declare in a complaining tone, that he is the worst cardholder in the world ;- that no man ever played with fuch ill luck as he--that he will never play any more-or words to that effect fuch offender shall forfeit one fhilling for every fuch offence he fhall be convicted of, after the third time only; it being thought reasonable to allow fome indulgence to the ungovernable paffion created by bad cards. II. That as it is prefumed every man, both for his intereft and credit, plays to the best of his abilities, if his partner thall angrily or peevishly upbraid him with want of skill or memory, he shall for fuch offence forfeit one fhilling; but if he accompanies his rebuke with a redness III. That as every card player, when he is in good humour, totally difclaims the leaft degree of fuperftition, it fhall be allowed for a lofing player to gratify his distempered fancy, by fhuffling or fuzzing the cards, changing his chair, turning his wig round, playing without his breeches, or practising any conceit he fhall adopt to turn his luck; and if any one obftructs him in either of these particulars, he fhall for fuch offence forfeit one fhilling. ************ From the UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE. Some Hints of the principal means, by which the Rat-catchers are able, in three or four days time, or fometimes lefs, to clear a house, and even the outbuildings, of the greatest part of the Rats frequenting it. HE firft ftep taken is to allure The penalties to be determined by the The fat all together to one pro majority of the company and if the numbers be equal, the oldest man in the room to have the casting voice. per place, before they attempt to deftroy them; for there is fuch an instinctive caution in these animals, accompanied with a furprising fagacity in difco ********XXXXXX vering any caufe of danger, that, if any From the UNIVERSAL MUSEUM. An Abstract of the Numbers and Prices of English Law Books, or what one jhould have to pay for the Library of an English Lawyer, taken from the Bibliotheca Legum, lately published. of them be hurt, or purfued, in an unufual manner, the reft take the alarm, and become fo fhy and wary, that they elude all the devices and itratagems of their purfuers for some time after. This place, where the rats are to be assembled, fhould be fome closet, or fmall room, into which all the openings, but one or two, may be secured; and this place should be, as near as may be, in the middle of the house, or buildings. The means used to allure them to one place are various; one of thofe moft eafily and efficacioufly practifed is the trailing fome piece of their most favourite food, which fhould be of the kind that has the ftrongeft fcent, fuch as 6 toasted cheese, or broiled red-herring, from the holes or entrances to their receffes in every part of the house, or contiguous buildings, whence it is intended to allure them. At the extremities, and in different parts of the courfe of this trailed tract, small quantities of meal, or any other kind of their food, fhould be laid, to bring the greater number into the tracts, and to encourage them to pursue it to the center place, where they are intended to be taken; at that place, where time admits of it, a more plentiful repaft is laid for them, and the trailing repeated for two or three nights. Befides this trailing and way-baiting, fome of the most expert of the ratcatchers have a fhorter, and perhaps more effectual method of btinging them together; which is, by calling them, by making fuch a kind of whiftling noife as resembles their own call; and by this means, with the affiftance of the way baits, they call them out of their holes, and lead them to the repast prepared for them at the place defigned for taking them. But this I apprehend much more difficult to be practifed than the art of trailing; for the learning the exact notes, or cries of any kind of beafts, or birds, fo as to deceive them, is a peculiar talent, which I have feldom feen attained to in other cafes: though I have known fome few persons who could call together a great number of cats; and there is now one man in London, who can bring nightingales, when they are within hearing, about him, and even allure them to perch on his hand, fo as to be taken. In the practifing either of these methods, of trailing or calling, great caution must be used, by the operator, 'to fupprefs and prevent the fcent of his feet and body from being perceived; which is done by overpowering that fcent by others of a stronger nature. In order to this, the feet are to be covered with cloths rubbed over with affa fœtida, or other strong-fmelling fubftances; and even oil of Rhodium is fometimes used for this purpose, but fparingly on account of its dearness, though it has a very alluring, as well as difguifing effect, as will be obferved below. If this caution of avoiding the fcent of the operator's feet, near the track, and in It is ufual, likewife, for the operator to difguife his figure as well as scent; which is done by putting on a fort of gown or cloak of one colour, that hides the natural form, and makes him appear like a poft, or fuch inanimate thing; which habit muft likewise be scented as above, to overpower the smell of his Perfon; and, befides this, he is to avoid all motion, till he has fecured his point of having all the rats in his power. When the rats are thus enticed and collected, where time is afforded, and the whole in any house and out-buildings are intended to be cleared away, they are fuffered to regale on what they moft like, which is ready prepared for them, and then to go away quietly for two or three nights; by which means, those which are not allured the first night, are brought afterwards, either by their fellows, or the effects of the trail, &c. and will not fail to come duly again, if they they are not disturbed or molested. But who have strength and sense remaining many of the rat-catchers make shorter work, and content themselves with what can be brought together in one night, or two; but this is never effectual, unlefs where the building is fmall and enúre, and rats but few in number. The means of taking them, when they are brought together, are various. Some entice them into a very large bag, the mouth of which is fufficiently capacious to cover nearly the whole floor of the place where they are collected; which is done by smearing some veffel, placed in the middle of the bag, with oil of rhodium, and laying in the bag baits of food. This bag, which before lay flat on the ground with the mouth fpread open, is to be fuddenly closed when the rats are all in it. Others drive, or fright them, by flight noifes or motions, into a bag of a long form, the mouth of which, after all the rats are come in, is drawn up to the opening of the place by which they entered, all other ways of retreat being fecured. Others, again, intoxicate or poison them, by mixing with the repaft prepared for them, the coculus Indicus, or the nux vomica. I have feen a receipt for this purpofe, which directed four ounces of the coculus Indicus, with twelve ounces of oatmeal, and two ounces of treacle and honey, made into a moist paste, with strong beer; but, if the nux vomica be used, a much less proportion will ferve than is here given of the coculus. Any fimilar compofition of thefe drugs, with that kind of food the rats are most fond of, and which has a ftrong flavour, to hide that of the drugs, will equally well anfwer the end. If, indeed, the coculus Indicus be well powdered, and infufed in the ftrong beer for fome time, at leaft half the quantity here directed will ferve as well as the quantity beforementioned. When the rats appear to be thoroughly intoxicated with the coculus, or fick with the nux vomica, they may be taken with the hand, and put into a bag or cage, the door of the place being first drawn to, least thofe escape. XXXXXXXXHXXXXX From the COURT MAGAZINE.' An Account of the Reception Columbus received, when he returned from his firft Voyage. (Continued from p. 80.) EING come within fight of Por BE tugal, on Tuesday March 5th, the mafter of a great guardship came, with a boat full of armed men along-side of the admiral, whom he required to go and give an account of himself to the king's-officers, according to the practice of all fhips that entered that river. To this fummons Columbus replied, that as the king of Spain's admiral, he would not degrade himself so far as to comply with any fuch cuftom, nor would he fend the most inconfiderable person belonging to his fhip upon an errand of that nature. The Portuguese finding him refolute, defired he would shew him the king of Spain's letter, that he might fo far fatisfy his captain; and this requeft being complied with, he returned to his fhip, and made a suitable report to his commander Alvaro de Acunha, who forthwith came on board the caraval, attended with fifes, drums, and trumpets, and welcomed the admiral with many expreffions of friendship and good will. The nature of the voyage was no fooner known at Lisbon, than multitudes of people came to fee the Indians, and learn the particulars of this amazing difcovery, infomuch that the whole river was covered with boats crowded with people, fome of whom praised God for the fuccefs of Columbus, while others bitterly cursed the hard fate of their nation, which had lost fuch a prize thro' their king's avarice or incredulity. The prince having received the admiral's letter, ordered his officers to prefent him with all sorts of refreshment and neceffaries gratis ; at the fame time, he wrote to Columbus, congratulating him upon his happy return, and defir |