BIRTHS. June 28. The Rt. Hon. Lady Viscountess Dillon, a Son.

29. The Lady of John St. Leger Douglafs, a Daughter.

July 14. The Rt. Hon. the Countess of Effex, a Daughter.

18. The Lady of Charles Dalrymple, Efq; a Daughter.

MARRIAGES.

June 24. The Lady of the late Lord Geo. Bentinck, to Capt. Griffith of the Navy. 26. St. John Charlton, Efq; at Afhford in Kent, to Mifs Tamfet.

Lomay Reder, Efq; to Mifs Norman. 30. Richard Starke, Efq; late Governor of Fort St. David's, to Mifs Hughs of Crutched Friars.

July 3. Phillip Broke of Nacton, Efq; to Lady Barker, Relict to the late Sir John Barker.

11. James Worfdale, Efq; to Mrs. Stephens, Relict of the late Mafter Intendant. Mathew Wilfon, Efq; Barrister at Law, to Mifs Fanny Clive, Sifter of Gen. Clive.

14. Sir William Twifden of Kent, Bart. to Mifs Jarvis of Snow-hill.

DEATHS.

July 1. William Bodwell, Efq; Member of Parliament for Montgomery in three Parliaments.

2. Mrs. Harris, Wife of John Harris, Efq; and Sifter to the Earl of Powis.

4. Sir Talbot Clarke of Leicester, Bart. Hugh Knoke, Gent. of Comb in Herefordshire, whofe Predeceffors of that Family and Name have enjoyed that Estate before the Conquest.

5. James More Molyneux, Efq; Member of Parliament for Haflemere.

June 23. Nicholas Butler, of High Holbon, upholsterer.

Daniel Bayley, late of Delahay-street, in the liberty of Westminster, fcrivener.

Norwich, carpenter. 26. Peter Chamberlayn, of the city of

July 3. William Steele, of Queen-street, London, merchant.

taylor, dealer and chapman. 7. Jofeph Law, of St. Andrew, Holborn,

10. Thomas Dawfon, late of St. Martin's in the Fields, woollendraper, copartner with Mark Goodflesh of the fame place, woollendraper.

Peter Botham, of Bucklersbury, London, haberdasher.

John Baines, of Bradford, Wiltshire, clothier.

14. Thomas Dawson, of Long Acre, Middlefex, cabinet-maker.

Richard Grifzel, of Watling. street, London, tobacconist.

17. James Hetherington, of the- parish of Stapleton, Cumberland, dealer and chap

man.

Walter Little, of Shalborn, in the county of Wilts, dealer and chapman.

Arthur Vender kifte, of Weft-Smithfield, London, vintner, dealer and chapman. Jofeph Howard, of the city of Bristol, chapman.

John Smith, of Hertford, in the county of Hertford, draper, dealer and chapman.

The Rev. Mr. John Thorley, a Diffenting Minifter, at Chipping Norton.

6. Lady Jane Edwards, at Wickham. The Rev. Henry Lucius Hibbins, L.L.D. Rector of Fobbing in Effex.

Thomas Tomlyn, Efq; in Bucklersbury.
Edward Wade, Efq; at Clapham.

11. The Mother of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Pollington.

The Lady of the Hon. Charles York, Efq; Solicitor General.

17. The Rt. Hon. the Countess of Effex, Wife of the present Earl.

Civil and military Preferments.

Capt. Leffie, who came Express with the News of the Surrender of Guadaloupe, ap

Christened

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30 and 40

133

40 and 50 50 and 60

129

104

60 and 70 70 and 80

80 and go 90 andico 100 and 109

78 28

July 3. 306

10. 340

17. 312

24. 342

1724

I.

RUINS of Athens, with Remains, and

other valuable Antiquities of Greece. London; printed for Robert Sayer, Price 11. 11s. 6d.

This Work is printed in Folio, on a Royal Paper, and confifts of 32 Pages, illuftra. ted with 26 Copper-plates, befides the Frontispiece. The first 12 Pages contain an hiftorical Account of Athens; the Reft is an Explanation of the Plates, &c. The Plates are as follow.

The Frontifpiece,- -A general Plan of Athens, with an Elevation of the Propylaa, in its original State.

Plate 14. Plan, Elevation, Profile, &c. of the Temple of Thefeus.

nerva.

15. Ditto of the Temple of Mi

16. The Parts of Ditto at large. 17. Plan, Elevation, Section, & of Demoftbenes's Lanthorn.

18. Ditto of the Temple of Jupiter Olympius.

19. Ditto of Hadrian's Pantheon; with Capitals found at Delos,

20. Elevations of the Temple of Auguftus, and Arch of Thefeus.

21. Ditto of Eriabeus.

22. Plan of Ditto, with the Veftibule fupported by Caryatides ; the Entablature and Cieling.

23. A Capital of Ditto; with Directions how to draw it.

24. Plan, Elevation, Section, &c. of the Tower of the Winds.

25. Plans of the Temple of Corinth, and Mount Laurium; with three Doric Columns, fhewing the Similitude between thefe of Corinth, Thoricien, and Delos.

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26, Plan and Section of the Propy

In the Preface to this Work, the Author gives us a general Account of it. The first Paragraph of which we fhall give as follows.

The great Ideas formed from confulting antient Authors, in their Descriptions of the famous Edifices of Greece, and the little Improvement, or Certainty to be obtained of their real Excellence, from confulting modern Travellers, was the Motive, and no Doubt a very proper one, which induced Monf. Le Roy, a Frenchman, to vifit the once fo famous City of Athens, who there affifted by Royal Munificence, and every other Requifite which could aid his own great Genius, has removed the Fable of Antiquity, and by Representation, not only given us the prefent Situation of the Remains of thofe valuable Monuments; but

VOLHI,

the various and juft Proportions, filled our Imagina

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Imaginations with their former Beauty and Magnificence: And at the fame Time, by his Rules and Obfervations, given us many Leffons for eafy and perfect Imitation. * * In this Le Roy has been very ample, and deferves our Thanks.✶ ✶ ✶

ral Index. There is no Preface or Introduction, but we shall give the Reader an Extract from N° 73. P. 573.

LXXIII. Of the beft Form of Geographical Maps. By the Rev. Patrick Murdoch, M. A.

F. R. S.

2 I. When any Portion of

an Idea of the Stile and Manner of this Speaking of the prefent

History.

State of Athens, he says,

Athens is fituated in 38° : 5': N. Lat. near the Middle of a large Plain, and what it wants in Fruitfulness is amply recompenfed with Health and Beauty. Their Olives are excellent, especially one Sort, which they call Callybades; becaufe they always pickle them. These are near as big as the Spanish Olives, yet not of quite fo oval a Figure; but rather of the Shape of a Jujuba. They are a Sort of Olives that will never come to be ripe there, therefore are pickled green; but fo well efteemed, that many of them are carried to the Grand Signior's Court as a great Rarity. Their Wine is very good here; but they put a little Pitch in it to preferve it, which makes it at first unpleasant.

The Trade of Athens is but small at prefent; but it would foon be greater, had they a Vent for their Commodities; and therefore, probably, if Merchants would trade thither, they might find great Profit by Returns of Oil, Annis, Cummin, and other Seeds, Wool, Cheefe, Honey, Wax, Turkey Leather, Soap, &c. in Exchange for Broad Cloth, Tin, Lead, Spice, &c.——

At Eafler, whatever Differences are, or have been depending betwixt Man and Man the Year before, they must now either reconcile, or be held in Contempt with the Reft of the Church.

There are 200 Churches in and about Athens, whereof 52 have their particular Priefts.

1758. jected on a Plane, or transferred to it by whatever Method of Defcription, the real Dimenfions, and very often the Figure and Pofitions of Counties, are much altered and mifreprefented. In the common Projection of the two Hemifpheres, the Meridians and Parallels of Latitude do indeed interfect at right Angles, as on the Globe; but the linear Distances are every where diminished, excepting only at the Extremity of the Projection: At the Center, they are but Half their just Quantity, and thence the fuperfi cial Dimenfions but one-fourth Part: And in lefs general Maps this Inconvenience will always, in fome Degree, attend the fiercographic Projection.

The Orthographic, by parallel Lines, would be still less exact, thofe Lines falling altogether oblique on the extreme Parts of the Hemifphere. It is ufeful, however, in defcribing the Circum-polar Regions: And the Rules of both Projections, for their Elegance, as well as for their Ufes in Aftronomy, ought to be retained and carefully ftudied. As to Wright's, or Mercator's Nautical Chart, it does not here fall under our Confideration: It is perfect in its kind; and will always be reckoned among the chief Inventions of the laft Age. If it has been misunderstood, or mifapplicd, by Geographers, they only are to blame.

II. The particular Methods of Description propofed or used by Geographers are fo various, that we might, on that very Account, fufpect them to be faulty; but in moft of their Works, we actually find thefe two Blemishes, the linear Diftances vifibly falfe, and the Interfection of the Circles oblique: So that a quadrilateral rectangular Space fhall often be reprefented by an ob. lique angled rhomboid Figure, whofe Diagonals are very far from equal; and yet, by a frange Contradiction, you shall fee a fixed Scale of Diftances inferted in fuch a Map.

III. The only Maps I remember to have feen, in which the laft of thefe Blemishes is removed, and the other leffened, are some of P. Cobenk's of Amfterdam, a Map of the Ruffian Empire, the Germania Critica of the famous Profeffor Meyer, and a few more *. In these the Meridians are ftraight Lines

*Senex drew feveral of that Form,

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Converging to a Point; from which, as a Center, the Parallels of Latitude are defcribed: And a Rule has been published for the Drawing of fuch Maps †. But as that Rule appears to be only an eafy and convenient Approximation, it remains ftill to be inquired, What is the Confiruction of a particular Map, that shall exhibit the fuperficial and linear Measures in the trueft Propor

tions ?.

We may perhaps give a farther Account of this curious Invention hereafter, as alfo a Map made on this Principle.

III.

Conjunct Expeditions, or Expeditions that bave been carried on, jointly, by the Fleet and Army; with a Commentary on a Littoral War, by Thomas More Molyneux, Efq;

London; printed for R. and J. Dodfley, Price 7s. 6d.

This Work is printed in 8vo. and tho' in one Volume, the Author has made two diftin&t Parts: The First contains 253 Pages; the Second 202: To which are prefixed, a Dedication to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and a Preface to the Reader; wherein we have the following Account of the Design and Manner in which this Work is executed, viz.

There can be no Neceffity for giving a long Thread of Reasoning for the publish. ing to the World thefe Sheets: The Times argue for them in a more convincing Manner than any Thing can be alledged in writing by Way of Excufe.***

To make the first Part, which is the Hiftory of the Expeditions the more entertaining, we have endeavoured, as much as the Nature of the Subject will admit, to carry on a Kind of Chain from one Expedition to another, notwithstanding the great Intervals of Time, which frequently, from the Course of Things, happened. To anfwer this Purpofe the better, the Words Conjunct Expedition are not fuppofed here to be fo strictly defined, as to fhut out any Operations that have been jointly transacted by the Fleet and Army, and confequently, are of a conjunct Nature. For the fame Reafon, here are not only given the Conjunt Expeditions that have been undertaken by Great Britain, from the Descent of Cæfar to the Affair of Rochfort inclufive; with the last three Descents on the Coaft of France; but Mention of those also, which have been attempted, as well as actually put in Exe

+ See the Preface to the small Berlin At

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cution, in the above Period of Time, by the Enemies of Great Britain against the Dominion of the British Crown.

The Author then proceeds to mention the Authority upon which fome Accounts were given, and then adds; As we have had no Motive but the public Service, that engaged us to undertake a Work of this Sort; so we have fuffered our Pen to be biaffed by no finifter End.*** He concludes his Preface as follows:

We wish it may be received in the fame good Mood it was wrote, which was with an humble Hope of leffening, in our future Conjunct Enterprises, the Effufion of British Blood, by fending our Armaments more prepared with Terror to the Enemy, Safety to those who compofe them, Satisfaction and a better Profpect, not only of their Return, but Success to their Friends they leave behind.

There is no Table of Contents, or Index to this Work, but each Book is divided into feven Chapters, with marginal References, &c.

As a Specimen of the Author's Stile, we fhall give an Extract from the 2d Part, Page 201, viz.

What we would infer from this Discourse, we will now apply to the Conclufion of this Work. Our Defeats and Difgraces in the Littoral War fpeak plainly: We have no right Understanding there: Nay, our Management in thefe Affairs is far from the Seat of Knowledge. It can scarce be called common Prudence, or common Sense, who will be surprised, when we are just told, Knowledge, or Wifdom, is the Prize of Industry, and not to be gained without it, It is the Offspring of watchful Obfervation. The Latter implies the Labour of the Mind; the Former rather of the Body. It is a palpable Demonstration, from the Number of conjunƐt Armaments thefe Kingdoms have fitted out, and the many fruitless Attempts that have been the Iffue of them, that there have been no right Industry, no Skill, or watchful Obfervation: That is, that we have never employed our Minds in the Study of this War, 'till we have been called upon to make Use of our Bodies also. Thus, when it is too late, by knowing Nothing beforehand, we doubly fatigue our mental Faculties with the vain Hopes of retrieving loft Opportunities: The Confequence of this is, we flounder and flounce about, and by going the wrong Way to work, we doubly harrass thofe of our Body with the fruitlefs Endeavours of repairing Time that is paft. There is nothing more evident than this: Otherwife we should make ourselves fimpler than we really are, by having never Z 2

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