the principal ingredient in beauty; and fimplicity is ellential to grandeur.

Offenfive objects at a proper diftance, acquire, even a degree of beauty: for intance, ftubble, fallow ground

From the LONDON MAGAZINE. WESTMINSTER RACES.

1762-OCTOBER MEETING. Lord Bute's Favourite (the noted Scotch Stallion) won the King's Plate; beating Mr. Pitt's famous horfe Guide (who had won feveral plates in different parts of England) and Lord Temple's bald-faced mare Moll-Gawky. Betts before starting-Favourite against the field.

1763 SPRING MEETING. Noblemen and Gentlemen's Great Subfcription.

Charles Townshend's horse, Trimmer, ran on the wrong fide of the post. Mr. Pitt's bay horie, Guide, was in training for this match, and expected to enter at the polt, but went off. General A'Court's horfe, Major, Col.

Barre's Governor, and General Conway's Dragoon, paid forfeit. Great expectations from Lord Shelburne's Colt, but he ran refty; and 'tis fuppofed he will not ftart any more. Some knowing ones, who had backed him for a confiderable fum, were taken in deep.

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Mr. Luther's colt four years old, weight 8ft. lb. beat Mr. Conyer's Freehold, aged, weight 9 ft.-'Twas obferved at ftar ing, that Freehold carried too much weight. However, it is thought he would have won the heat, had not a perion, belonging to one of the public offices, croffed the course whilft he was running.

Henry Bilfon Legge's Scuthampton paid forfeit. Mr. Wilkes's horfe, Liberty, rode by himfelf, took the lead at farting; but being pushed hard by Mr. Bithop's black gelding, Privilege, fell down at the Devil's Ditch, and was

no where. 1763 OCTOBER MEETING. KING'S PLATL.

was won hollow by Lord Albemarle's Havanna from a great many others. But difputes having arilen, whether or not Havanna was duly qualified, part of the money is detained in the hands of the clerk of the course. APRIL 11. The fecond great match was decided between the two famous Perfian horfes, Mr. Sullivan's Leader, and Lord Clive's Nabob.' Tho' Leader won at the former meeting, yet he barely faved his diftance this time.'Tis faid this remarkable difference in his running, was owing to his having changed his rider.

Odds at starting--Six to four on Leader. A true copy of the race lift. Witne's my hand,.

[Pub. Adv.]

HEBER, jun.

From the UNIVERSAL MUSEUM.

Pruffia, at his Death.

K

IN G Frederick William died with great firmnels and devotion,

after

making fo much as one new law. Their way of living at home was very plain, as we may fee by the defcription that Samuel gave of their manners, to put the people out of conceit with them; he allows them only women for the household affairs. Yet they had a great attendance when they appeared in public. Amongst the figns of Abfalom's rebellion, the fcripture reckons fifty men that ran before him, and the fame is faid of his brother Adonijah.

"The kings live fparingly as well as private people: the difference was, they had more land and herds. When David's riches are reckoned up indeed, his treasures of gold and filver are put into the account; but fo are his tillage, and vineyards, his ftores of wine and oil, his plantations of olive and fig-trees, his herds, and kine, camels, affes, and Sheep. Thus Homer defcribes the riches of Ulyffes; he fays he had twelve great herds of each fort of cattle upon the continent, befides what he had in his ifland. They took out of this great flock what was neceffary to maintain their household. There were, in Solomon's time, twelve overseers diftributed through the land of Ifrael, who, each in their turn, fent monthly provifions for the table, which for one day were "Thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, ten fat oxen, and twenty out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, befides harts and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fatted fowl," enough to feed at least five thoufand people. As this provifion was the product of the country itself, there was no need to buy any thing, nor any want of purveyors, treasurers, or comp trollers, nor that vast number of offi. cers, which eat up great Lords; fo that gold and filver continued laid up, or ferved for its molt natural ufe, to make plate and furniture of.

From thence came the vast rishes of David and Solomon. David prepared all that was neceffary for building the temple, the value of which came to 108,000 talents of gold, and 1,100,000 talents of filver; which is 11,669,668,000

livres, and fomething more; that is, about 534,859,784 1. fterling. Befides he caufed great treasures to be laid up in his fepulchre. Solomon built a great number of palaces, fortified several cities, and finished several public works. All the plate and furniture of his houfe at mount Libanus was of pure gold; befides 200 golden targets, each of which was worth 13,000 livres, that is, about 596 1. or 119,2001. fterling in all; and 300 bucklers, worth 6000 livres, or 2751. a piece: which amounts, to about 82,500l. sterling.

His revenue too was great. Commerce alone brought him in every year 666 talents of gold; which make above 43,000,000 of livres, or 1,970,834 1. sterling. He made the Ifraelites pay tribute, and all foreigners that were under his dominions, the Hivites, the Amorites, and all the other ancient inhabitants of the land of Ifrael, the Idumeans, great part of Arabia, and all Syria: for his empire extended from the borders of Egypt to the Euphrates : and all the countries that were fo rich, fent him every year veffels of gold and filver, cloth, arms, perfumes, horfes, and mules. These reflexions may ferve to make one understand how Crœfus came by his riches in a kingdom about the fame bigness as Solomon's. Silver and gold were not yet dispersed through the world. There was but little in Greece, none in Italy and the rest of Europe, except in Spain, where they had fome mines.

To this may be added, from the hif tory of the life of King David, that "Befides the perfonal ornaments worn by thofe who went to battle, in the Eastern nations, it was customary to adorn their weapons and utenfils of war with the richest metals. We learn from the hiftory of David, that the Syrians whom he fubdued and flew in vaft numbers, wore fhields of gold, and therefore we need not doubt, but that their quivers, the handles of their swords, &c. were of the fame metal. He was victorious in about twenty battles, over the richest enemies in the world; and

there

therefore their perfonal spoils, rich arms, military chefts, and gods of gold and filver (always carried to battle with them) could not but amount to an immense fum; and in all probability, the fpoils of their cities to a much greater."

From the UNIVERSAL MULEUM.

Memoirs of Madam de Pompadour; Late Miftrefs to the French King.

THE public having ranked among

its objects of curiofity, the history of a perfonage who has long acted fo diflinguished a part in the world, as Madam de Pompadour, it is prefumed the following account of her life will be agreeable to our readers.

This lady's father, or reputed father's name was Poiffon, butcher to the invalids. Some time after he was married, he fell under the cognizance of the law, and was hanged in effigy for a rape; having, by flying the kingdom, efcaped perfonal execution. There he stayed till he obtained his pardon, at the interceffion of Madam de Pompadour, or at least on her account.

Her mother, who was one of the most beautiful women in France, did not, in the abfence of her husband, deliver herfelf up to a vain affliction. That he might not want confolation, the pitched upon two declared gallants at once, publicly known to be her keepers, Monfieur Paris de Montmartel, and Monfieur le Normant de Tourneau, both in great employments in the revenue. A woman capable of having thus two men at her fervice at the fame time, is not fuppofed too fcrupulous to have more, tho' lefs openly. It is certain, however, that Madam Poiffon was fuppofed extremely free of her favours. Whilft her hufband was abfent, fhe was brought to bed of a daughter, the late famous Madam de Pompadour. Chronology could fcarce be tortured into affording the leaft reafon to imagine that this rare production was the work of her abfent husband. Meffieurs Paris and le Normant being the VOL. III,

moft apparent of her lovers, were competitors for the honour of a paternity, that perhaps, on a strict examination, would have come out to belong to neither.

Madam Poiffon, however had, it feems, her reasons for preferring Monf. le Normant to the other. She perfuaded him, that he was actually the father of the child. As a proof that he was perfuaded, he took a father's care of it. Being bred under his eye, and particular direction, there was no accomplishment omitted for her education. Nothing

could be more amiable than her perfon

or the sprightlinefs of her temper. Had not Monfieur le Normant been prepos feffed with the opinion of her being his own natural, daughter, her beauty, and even the pains he had taken to form her, and the fuccefs of those pains, could not have failed to endear her to him. His fondness for her grew to fuch a height, that he began to think of providing for marrying her, in a manner that should fhow he confidered her in not a less light than that of a legitimate daughter.

Amongst a number of conquests her growing beauty had made, was that of the young Monfieur le Normant d'Eftiolles, nephew to the perfon who had thus acted the father's part by her. His access to the houfe, his familiarity on the foot of fo near a relation, had procured him repeatedly the fight of the young Poifion. Nor could he fee her with impunity. After fome difficulties on the part of his father, the young pair were married, and Mademoiselle Poiffon was now Madam d'Eftioiles.

It does not however appear, that her heart had been greatly confulted in this match. Monfieur le Normant d'Eftiolles had not the most engaging perfon, being rather diminutive, ill-favoured, and up-on the whole, a very mean ordinary figure. Yet if any thing could atone for the want of perfonal merit to touch the heart of a lady, he muft have been mafter of her's. The lover did not fink with him into the husband. As he was very eafy in his fortune, there were no expences in drets or diverfions spared, that might prove his paflion for her. Tho' Nn

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