havé faved himself the trouble; for, by recollecting how they voted, I should immediately have known which of them were honeft and fincere, and which mean time-ferving fycophants. I fhall not trouble my readers with any reflections on Acafto's character. It is plain that the little peculiarities which, with all his natural good fenfe and benevolence, expofe him hourly to ridicule or to cenfure, have been occafioned by his retreat from the world, and by that folitude in which he has lived fo long. Seldom, indeed, have I known any one that did not, in fome degree, fuffer from it, that did not, more or less, become selfish and contracted, conceited and opinionative. I never fee a young heir fluttering about town in the circle of gaiety, without feeling an emotion of compaffion. In a few years, when he comes to be fupplanted in that circle by a younger fet, no refource remains for him but a retreat to the country, where he must pafs his days either in a state of liftless inactivity, or in purfuits unworthy of a rational being. I would, therefore, earnestly recommend it to every parent, to educate the heir of his fortune to fome profeffion; to fet before him fome object that may fill his mind, may roufe him to action, and may make him at once a happy and refpectable member of fociety. Mr. URBAN, June 3, 1780. IT is with much pleasure I send you a great curiofity: A paper written by the great Sir Ifaac Newton, containing minutes of his opinion against a propofal which had been made to the Royal Society, to accommodate the members of the Society for promoting Chriftian Knowledge, then newly inftituted, with the ufe of their house for the meetings of their fociety. The following are its contents. "We have a reputation abroad, and the society for promoting Chriftian knowledge are fcarce known at home. I never heard of them before; and to admit them into our bofom would be, in a little time, to fhare our reputation with them. "We are incorporated by the crown; and to herd ourselves with a club not yet incorporated, would be ingratitude to our founder. "Our houfe was built by benefactions, and to divert it to other uses than our benefactors intended, would be ingratitude to their memory, and a difcouragement to future benefactions. "If we once lend our house, time will make cuftom, and custom will give right. It is easier to deny in the beginning than afterward. "It is a fundamental rule of the fociety not to meddle with religion; and the reason is, that we give no occafion to religious bodies to meddle with us. "The fociety for promoting Chriftian Knowledge have a fpiendid title -but we are to regard not names but things if all their members are not men of exemplary lives and converfation, fome of them, by mifdemeanors, may bring reflection upon us: and why should we run the hazard? If we comply, we may diffatisfy fome who are against it-efpecically thofe that are of other religions, and make them leave our meetings, which are already too thin. "There are many veftries in London, and it is more proper for a religious fociety to meet in a veftry or than in the house of a fociety, which is mixed of men of all religions, and meddles with none. "Thofe of the Chriftian Society have dining-rooms of their own, and may lend them by turns to their meetings; and the tenth commandment is, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's houfe." "This proposal can be of no advantage to us, but may prove difadvanta geous; and we have all of us, at our admiflion, promifed under our hands to confult the good of the fociety, and ought not to break the fundamental covenant upon which we were admitted. Mr. URBAN, IN your Magazine for November last, P. 567, on noticing the death of Mr. Mackenzie, you obferved, that Admiral Keppel and Mr. Miller* were the only furvivors amongst the perfons who went round the world with the late Lord Anfon. In the Magazine for December, p. 583, a correfpondent, under the fignature of Crito, obferves, that Admiral Byron fhould have been named as one of the furvivors. From a motive of respect to thefe veteran circumnavigators, I obferved to you, p. 643 of your Supplement, that Admiral Campbell, the Rev. Mr. Walter, and Mr. Keating, yet furvived of the companions of the late Lord Anfon, at the fame time hinting at the impropriety of Crito in reckoning Admiral *Quere, who, or what was Mr. Miller ? Byron Byron amongst the furviving companions of his Lordship. Another correfpondent, in your Magazine for April laft, p. 171, fays that I am mistaken in making Walter a circumnavigator with Lord Anfon." If I, like this gentleman, were minded to cavil, I might fay that I made ufe of no fuch expreffion. A man must have read but little of the great deal that was written concerning this voyage, (and I believe I have read all,) who does not know that Mr. Walter left the Commodore at China. But, with fubmiffion, I do not fee how this proves me guilty of a mistake. Admiral Byron neither was in the hip with Lord An fon, nor, which is much more to the purpose, went round the world, at that time. Mr. Walter was the one, and did the other; and therefore, I think, may with propriety be admitted a compa nion of Lord Anfon's in that circumnavigation, while Admiral Byron cannot. But I have done with this. To thefe few furvivors of thofe celebrated navigators, let me now add Mr. Gale, a capital butcher on the Point at Portfmouth, who was butcher to the Commodore in that voyage; and a Mr. Steward, who was promoted from being Jack in the bread room to be boatswain of one of the hulks at Portfmouth, but is now fuperannuated. I am credibly informed that he has the honour of calling the prefent Lord Kinfale Nephew. Perhaps you may not deem a catalogue of the original writers on the fubject of this voyage altogether incurious. They are as follows; and the dates are thofe of the first editions. 1. A voyage to the South Seas, by Bulkley and Cummins, gunner and carpenter of the Wager. 1743. 2. An authentic journal, by John Philips, midshipman of the Centurion. 1744. 3. A voyage to the South Seas, by an officer of the fquadron. 1744. * 4. A true and particular journal by Pafcoe Thomas, fchoolinafter of the Centurion. 1745 5. A voyage round the world, by Richard Walter, M. A. chaplain of the Centurion. 1748. † I never could find out who this officer was. This, though faid to be written by Mr. Walter, was actually written by the late Benjamin Robins, Efq. See a particular account of Mr. Robins in the fupplement to the Biographica Britannica. 6. An affecting narrative of the unfortunate voyage, and catastrophe of his Majefty's fhip, Wager. Anonymous; but it was written by John Young, cooper of the Wager. 1751. 7. A fequel to Bulkley and Cum. mins's voyage to the South Seas, by Alexander Campbell, midshipman of the Wager. 1747. 8. A narrative of the dangers and diftreffes that befell the eight men who were left on fhore in Fresh Water Bay, by the people in the Wager's longboat, by Ifaac Morris, late midshipman of the Wager. No date. This is a very curious, and a very fcarce performance. 9 Narrative of the diftreffes fuffered on the coaft of Patagonia, by John (now Admiral) Byron. 1768. || NINE LOVE at Cards or other Games explained. I HAVE often been asked the occafion or original, when at cards, of Six Love, or Nine Love, which is as much as to fay, as to the fenfe and meaning of the expreffion, Six to none, or Nine to none; and indeed there is, I apprehend, fome difficulty in it, fince our Dictionaries and Gloffaries, so far as I am acquainted with them, do not attempt to illußrate it: thus, in the English part of Boyer's French Dictionary, the phrafe is put down and explained, but we are not told bow, or by what means, Six love comes to fignify Six to nothing. Now, Sir, I conceive the expreffion may have come to us either from Scatland or Holland. Luff in old Scotch is the hand *; fo that Six luff will mean Six in band, or more than the adverfary, when he has nothing upon his fcore. So again, Loaf in Dutch †, whence we have our word Loof, and to loof is the weather-gage, and in this cafe Six loof will imply fix upon the weather Extraordinary Cure of a Dropfy.-Cambridge Anecdotes, &c. 324 Mr. URBAN, THE HE following extraordinary cure of a dropty, if you think worth publishing, you may lately give to the public as a well-attelted fact. A foreign Correspondent. A few years ago there was at Konigsberg a poor woman, between 50 and 60 years of age, who was a afflicted with the dropfy to the highest degree, and being totally unfit for any kind of work, was obliged to beg for her bread. In this condition fhe for a confiderable time daily attended the Exchange, where the received a small pittance from the merchants, to whom The was by this means well known, and confequently her furpriting cure was confpicuous to all. Her diftemper feemed daily to increafe, and at laft, on her difappearing from her ufual ftation upon the Exchange, nobody doubted but he was dead. However, in a few weeks afterwards, fome of her old benefactors were fu prifed at feeing her bufily employed fweeping the fteps before a gentleman's door, and feemingly in perfe& health. On their enquiring of her by what means the had got the better of fuch a dreadful difeale, fhe related, that, by the advice of another woman, the had confined her felf to a diet of broa beans (called in England Windfor beans), boiled in water, without falt, butter, or fat of any kind; the beans were her only food, and the water they were boiled in (which was only fufficient to cover them) her only drink, for 18 days, at the end of which time the began to make water in great quantity, which continued with fhort intervals for feveral days, and by degrees the found herself perfectly well, without any weakness or other ill fymptoms rema.ning. OUR Mr. URBAN, Cambridge, July 5. learned Divinity Profeffor yefterday, in an elegant oration, before the Doctors were created to their degrees, made feveral very juft remarks upon the want of difcipline in this university. Among other things, he obferved, that the number of hairdreffers were amafiingly increased fince he was under-graduate, and that, infead of finding the young men in their rooms in a morning, if you wish to fpeak with them, you must go to the hills, and find them running races, riding their own horses for very great wagers. The diffipation of the young men was fo much encreased of late, he faid, that he had had ferious confultations upon the matter with the Vice-Chancellor, to put a stop to its farther progrefs, if not to bring back a feverer difcipline. Every perfon of fenfe and underftanding applauds this oration of the Profeffor, except the young men of fortune, who are the objects of it, and the young tutors, who find their advantage in a relaxation of difcipline. But really, Mr. Urban, the manners of the univerfity are now fo very diffipated, that, unlefs fome very speedy and effectual reformation fhould take place, I would advife no parent to fend his fon there for education. with the Profeffor would publish his oration, as I think it might have a great effect in producing the defired reformation. If no perfon elfé takes up the fubject, you thall have more. confiderations on it from your very humble fervant, &c. S. N. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Hay-Market. I June 17 Beggar's Opera-Piety in Pattens 19 Grecian Daughter-Son-in-Law. 20 Summer Amusement-Apprentice. 21 Separate Maintenance-Son-in-Law. 22 Douglas-Piety in Pattens. 23 Suicide-Son-in-Law. 24 Span:h Barber-Comus, 26 Phædra and Hippolitus-Ditto. 27 Spanish Barber-Ditto. 28 Separate Maintenance-Flitch of Bac. 29 Summer Amufement-Mayor of Garr. 31 Phædra and Hipppolitus-Son-in-law July K. Richard III.-Comus. 3 Summer Amusement-Mayor of Garr. 4 Separate Maintenance-Son-in-Law. 5 Spanish Barber-Flitch of Bacon. 6 Percy-Comus. 7 Separate Maintenance-Son-in-Law. 8 Suicide Fire and Water! 10 Bonduca-Fire and Water! 11 Spanish Barber-Flitch of Bacon. 12 Percy-Fire and Water! 13 Separate Maintenance-Son-in-Law. 14 Douglas-Flitch of Bacon. 15 Widow and no Widow-Fire and Wat. 17 Spanish Barber-Flitch of Bacon. 18 Separate Maintenance-Son-in-Law. 19 Widow and no Widow-Fire and Wat. 20 Summer Amufement-Son-in Law. 21 The Suicide-Fire and Water! 22 Bonduca-Ditto. 24 Othello-The Irish Widow. 25 Spanish Barber-Fire and Water! 26 Separate Maintenance-Son-in Law. 27 Love in a Village-Mayor of Gar 28 Widow and no Widow-Fire and 29 Summer Amusement-Taylors "Your letter of the 14th current, which did not come to hand till the 18th, cannot indeed require any sort of apology. I know not how to refuse my judgment, fuch as it is, in a cafe of confcience, to any person who asks it; but I think myfelf ftrictly bound to give it to good perfons of my own diocefe. For I mention only this demand you have upon me; becaufe, upon fuch an occasion as the prefent, I do not choose to speak of your rank, Madam, nor of the great civilities I have received from you. "The corruption and diforder in human affairs is fuch, as has perplexed the rule of right, and made it hard in fome cafes to fay, how one ought to act. But, I apprehend, there is no fuch difficulty in the cafe you put. Property in general is and must be regulated by the laws of the community. This, in general, I fay, is allowed on all hands. If therefore there be any fort of property exempt from thefe regulations, or any exception to this general method of regulating it, fuch exception must appear either from the light of nature, or from revelation. But neither of thefe do, I think, fhew any fuch exception and therefore we may with a good confcience retain any poffeffions, church-lands, or tithes, which the laws of the state we live under give us a property in. And there feems less ground for fcruple here in England, than in fome other countries; because our ecclefiaftical laws agree with our civil ones in this matter. "Under the Mofaic difpenfation indeed, God himself affigned to the priests and levites tithes and other poffeffions; and in thofe poffeffions they had a drvine right; a property quite fuperior to all human laws, ecclefiaftical as well as civil. But every donation to the Chriftian Church is a buman donation and no more; and therefore cannot give a divine right, but such a right only, as must be fubject in common with all other property, to the regu lation of human laws. "I would not carry you, Madam, into abftrufe fpeculations; but think it might be clearly thewn, that no one can have a right of perpetuity in any lands, except it be given by God; as the land of Canaan was to Abraham. There is no other means, by which such a kind of property or right can be acquired: and plain ab furdities would follow from the fuppo fition of it. The perfons then, who gave thefe lands to the Church, had themfelves no right of perpetuity in them; confequently could convey no fuch right to the church. But all fcruples concerning the lawfulness of laymen's poffeffing thefe lands go upon fuppofition, that the Church has fuch a right of perpetuity in them and therefore all thofe fcruples must be groundless, as going upon a falfe fuppofition. As you do not mention, Madam, in what particular light you confider this matter, I choofe to put it in different enes. And having faid thus much concerning the ftri juftice of the cafe, I think myself obliged to add, that great diforders having been committed at the Reformation, and a multitude of parochial cures left fcandaloufly poor, and become yet poorer by accidental circumftances, I think a man's poffefling of one of those impoverished cures is, not indeed an obligation in justice, but a providential admonition to do fomewhat, according to his abilities, towards fettling fome competent maintenance upon it in one way or other. In like manner as a perfon in diftrefs, being my neighbour, dependent, or even acquaintance, is a providential admonition to me in particular to aflift him, over and above the generat obligation to charity, which would call upon me to affift fuch a perfon, in common with all others who were informed of his cafe. But I think I ought to say, fince I can fay it with great truth, that mention this, not, Madam, as thinking that you want to be reminded of it, but as the fubject itfelf I write upon requires it fhould be mentioned. "You need not, Madam, have given yourself the trouble of defiring fecrecy, ince the thing itself fo plainly demands it. I am with the truest esteem, Madam, your most obedient, most faithful, and moft humble fervant, "Jo. BRISTOL." "I have confidered tithes and church lands as the fame, because I fee no fort of proof, that tithes under the gospel are of divine right; and if they are not, they must come under the fame confide ration with lands." Memoirs of a famous Comedian. THOMAS TARLETON was a farmer's fon of Condover in Shropshire; and, being brought up to London by a fervant of Robert Earl of Leicester, who was taken with the fmartness of his anfwers, kept first an ordinary § in Pater-nofter- Row, and then the fign of the Tabor, a tavern in Gracechurchftreet, where he was chosen scavenger," but often complained of by the ward' for neglect he laid it on the raker, and he on his horfe, who being blooded and drenched yesterday could not yet be worked. Then the horse must fuffer, faid he; fo he fent him to the Compter; and, when the raker had done his work, fent him there to pay the prison-fees and redeem his horfe. Having run up a large fcore at an alehoufe at Sandwich, he made his boy accuse him for a feminary prieft. The officers came and feized him in his chamber on his knees, croffing himfelf; fo paid his reckoning, with the charges of his journey, and got clear to London. When they brought him before the Recorder Fleetwood, he knew him, and not only discharged him, but entertained him very courteously. Stow, 1588, fays, when the Queen, at the fuit of Walfingham, conftituted twelve players at Barn Elms, allowing them wages and liveries as grooms of the chamber, Tarleton was one. Baker fays, for the Clown's part he never had his match, nor ever will. Heywood fays, he was gracious in his time with the Queen, and in the people's great applaufe. B. Jonfon, who li bels the fraternity, mentions him with fome respect for fupporting the character of the Stage-keeper in the Induction to Bartholomew-Fair *. "Ariftoteles fuum Theodoretum "laudavit quendam peritum tragædi arum actorem, Cicero fuum Rof"cium, nos Angli Tarletonum ́ ́in § It might be worth while to trace the antiquity of London Eating-houses, and particularly of Dolly's Chophouse in Pater-nofter-Row, which perhaps has fucceeded to Tarlton's. This refembles the device used by a wit in France of "Poifon for the King, the Dauphin," &c. which occafioned his being apprehended and franked to Paris, where he was well known. You hold interlocutions with the Player. That is a way, my Lord, has been allowed of Kempe, [ter. On elder frages to make mirth and laughLe foy. Yes, in the days of Tarleton and [rifm, Before the stage was purged from barbaAnd brought to that perfection it now fhines with, [because Then fools and jefters fpent their wits, Poets were wife enough to fave their own For profitable uses. "cujus voce & vultu omnes jocofi "affectus, in cujus cerebrofo capite "lepidæ facetiæ habitant." (Cave de Politica. Ox. 1588. 4to.) He was fo beloved that his picture › was used for a fign. There is an alehouse fign of a Tabor-and-Pipe Man, with the name of Tarleton under it, in the Borough, taken from the print before the old quarto edition of Tarleton's Jefts, which were reprinted with those of Somers, Archy, &c. about 1640, 8vo. Lord Oxford had a portrait of him with a tabor and pipe, probably taken from the pamphlet called "Tarleton's Jefts, drawn into these three Parts, His Court witty Jefts, His found Cittie Jefts, His Country prettie Jefts, full of Delight, Wit, and honeft Mirth. 1611." 4to, with a wooden print of him in his clown's drefs, playing on his tabor and pipe, fo well cut that the flatness of his nofe appears, which he got by parting fome dogs and bears; yet it did not, he faid, fo affect him but he could fmell an honeft man from a knave. Henry Peacham, in his "Worth of a Penny," defcribing the laconic way of fpeaking used by fome covetous and cautious people, compares it to the fhort phrases which Tarleton employed to the perfons who would have interrupted him when he was eating a dinner for a wager. The Queen difcarded him for fome fcurrilous reflections on Leicester and Raleigh. ler's affertion against his fcurrility agrees with what Richard Brome, in his comedy called Antipodes, 1638, has obferved of him. He was buried in Shoreditch church. Ful |