The BEAUTIES of all the MAGAZINES felected. them in exchange for Martinique and Guadaloupe, I fuppofe-Well, as long as they are but iflands, why they may be as good. Bro. For nothing boy.-Why this lad feems to palliate politics, as well as if he was paid for it,the Grenadas are very unwholfome. Fath. So are fome of our Leeward inlands. Bro. O Lord, O Lord, what are you quite turned Mr. Peaceable? Excuse every thing; allow every thing; give up every thing;-now, I fuppofe you think it was the nicest wisdom, the moft confummate piece of policy, the greatest safeguard to this nation, and the best thing in the world, for promoting our navigation and commerce; to let the French go fhare in our fishery -I'll tell you what brother, I love my King and country, and don't like to make mischief, but if every gentleman, every English gentleman I men, knew as much concerning Newfoundland as I do, they would no more have confented, than I would fuffer hunting over my fields, in the middle of harvest. Son. But uncle, we are to have three neutral islands, and the French are only to have one, so we have three to their one, and that's pure again Bro. Yes; just three to one the worst on't-St. Lucia is as much before the other three as the Isle of Wight is to Hounflow-Heath. Son. Well, but Uncle, can't we make that land better, as my papa, you know, did the old close in Yorkhire. Bro. Oh! yes: we can make any thing, every thing; we can make a noife, and make peace, and make juftices of the peace, and make - oh we are fuch excellent manufacturers,its pity that ever we should be out of business. Son. I wish, papa, that you and my uncle were made lords. Fath. God bless the boy, how innocently be talks. Your uncle and I my dear, have no other ambition than to be honest men. Son. Ay, but Sir, if you was a Lord, then my fifters would be ladies, 45 and I fhould be called your honour, and I do love to hear the word honour. dearly. Bro. I fhould imagine you had bred your fon up at a court boarding-school, he is fo fond of the found of honour -its all found. diffent from you,--no kingdom was ever Fath. Nay, brother, there I must bleffed with more men of real honour,: than we can now boast of in England, and under English command. Bro. So we have many pieces of money made of the finest gold, but we have several counterfeits, which are only bafe metal- I tell you, I am as much a friend to my king and country, as you can be, and revere every one. who acts for the good of both; for like man and wife, both their interests are one, but I can't think every person I fee with a laced coat on, that is let into a levee, is a man of honour - Did not I but yesterday hear a man talk of his honour, fwear upon his honour, and insist on it, as he was a man of honour, and, yet to my knowledge, he pimp'd for his own sister. Did not you and I at Tunbridge, hear Bareface the Adventurer say, that he wou'd lofe his life, fooner than his honour, and had he not then, as it dice in his pocket. was proved afterwards, two pair of false Do we not know people who have been the ruin of several tradesmen, becaufe thofe dealers depended upon their cuftomers honour,—I tell you, that honour is but a phantom. Fath. Such fort of honour, or at leaft fuch fort of men, whom you have been mentioning,-they are not people of honour I grant you, but is religion to be denied, because fome of the clergy may not be the best livers. Bro. I never heard fo foolish an inference, your fon has more fenfe than you have. Fath. We never fhall the articles at this rate, let my fon read get through them out, brother. Bro. And mean while, I'll go out, brother, I cannot keep my temper, and and it is not worth while to be in a paffion about it. Son. Indeed Uncle, they made me cry just now. Bra. Ay, boy, and we fhall all have reason enough to weep, to wail, to wring our hands before feven years are elapfed, take my word for it. I know there are fome rafcally news-writers mean enough to ridicule patriotifm. But this, I hope, will be my last prayer, in fpite of any or all the hirelings exifting. GOOD GOD PRESERVE LAND. OLD ENG[Exit. My fon obferved to me, that my uncle feemed to be a little out of humour about the times, but he is a good meaning man, and most good-natured men are hafty, are they not, Sir? but then, it's foon over? juft fo I fuppofe as it will be about this peace, we fhall all be quiet by and by, ay, and all good tempered too,-for her Majefty, God biefs her, they fay, is going to defire the new tax upon porter, may be taken off, and that will valtly please the poor people. Fath It is faid, my dear, that one of our Statesmen, a very great man, intends to do it, and that the praise will be all his. : Son. Nay, papa, you must excuse me there, though I am but a child, I can fee better than that; for if you'll give me leave, I'll tell you, Sir, you know ladies characters are to be compaffionate, and how pretty it will look, fuch a requeit coming from her Majefty, who must be you know, papa, quite of no party; now if any nob eman does it, why it will feem fome how, as if he wanted to curry favour, as they call it, with the populace-it would be demeaning I think. Fath. Well, well, read on, my dear; I am glad your uncle is not by, to hear this. Son. Reads again Article IXth. We are to reflore the Inland of Goree, in the condition it was in, when conquered. Now, papa, I don't underftand that. Some folks fay, we are to repair all the damage our hot have done to the walls, and houses, and guns, and fo forth, when we give thefe places up.-But when we give up this island, (Heigho) my heart finks, when I think about our giving up any of the islands. The words in both French and English are, in the fame condition they are to be given up, as they were WHEN conquered. Now if we repair them, only to give them up, we shall be more out of pocket still? Fath. My dear, we fhall not be fo very unpolite as to turn rufticks, and after all the conceflions we have fo generoufly made them, break with them again, only for a little masons work and fcaffolding. Sen. Yes, papa, if it is not our right? Fath. You don't know, my dear, what is our right? Son. But then, I know my papa will tell me; now I beg it as a favour, do pray papa, tell me what are our rights? Fath. My dear, we have fo many rights, I can't number them all. In the first place, we have a right to give up what we pleafe, and nobody has a right to gainfay it. Sen. But pray, papa, now, don't you remember last summer, when I played with Sir William's fon; and I won his top, and his marbles, and he cried like a baby to have them again, and I told him, I would fet him up, and would have given him some marbles, but he would have ALL he had loft, and went crying to his papa ; and then fome of the vifitors came out, very complaifant people indeed, and defired me to give mafter his playthings again, and threatened me if I didn't; but I told them, if they were fo much for speak. ing against what they knew to be right; because Sir William gave them fome fweetmcats-I would not part with my right, for all the fine tempting things in England; and did not you and my uncle fay, I was right, and that I should not be bullied by any knight's fon in the world. Why then, papa, after we had won thefe places, as fairly as L did the top, why were we to be bullied out of them? Fath Fath. We were not bullied out of them, my dear; we had conquered too much; our writers plainly proved, that we were ruining ourselves by our fucceffes. We could not, every body faid, carry on the war a year longer. Son. Every body said lo? pray who are thofe every body? Futh. Every body, my dear, is the fenfe of the nation; what the majority, who are all independants, fay for the good of their country; as they are known to be actuated only by the integrity of public fpirit; what they fay paffes into a law, for the honour and profit of the kingdom. [Enter a fervat. Servent. Sir, here is monfheer, mafter's French teacher come. Fath. Let him come in. [Enter French tuter. Men. Monfieur Jefuis. Fath. I beg, Sir, no ceremony, nor French phrases. If you will dine with me to day, you shall be very welcome. Mon. De tout Mon Cour-vid all mi art Sir. [To be continued.] XXXXXXX{* From the THEATRICAL REVIEW. CHA P. II. On the Origin of that Odum affixed by many on the Drama and it's Professors. THE reproach which tradition has continued against this profeffion, had, for its original, the ill grounded intemperate zeal of thofe called the Primitive Fathers, who in the infancy of the Chriftian religion attacked all the heathen ceremonies, with the whole artillery of the church; no wonder then, thofe of the stage did not efcape fhot-free. They thundered out anathemas against idolatry, and they pronounced the theatres to be full of the moft pagan abominations; because the players not only wickedly invoked the gods and goddeffes, but even moft idolatrously, brought down in machines their Jupiters and their Junos, their Apollos and their Bacchus's, Even unto this day we obferve the defcent of the olympical lords and ladies in our playhoutes; where, by the help of well greased pullies and twisted wires, fwing iwang, between stage and founding-board, in their celeftial fplit-deal chariots, trimmed and furbelowed with canvas cloudings. To fee, to hear, to be prefent at fuch fhews, is declared by St. Auftin to be a most crying fin. That very St. Austin, who, at the time he was inveterate againit plays, was fo fcrupulously consci entious, as to ask forgivenefs of his Maker for having, in the days of his youth, been fo profanely guilty, as to have read Virgil. St. Chryfoftom and St. Bafil condemn all who frequent the playhoufes. St. Auflin fays, Nullo modo potuiffe fcriptiones auctiones rec pi comœdiarum, nifi mores recipientium confonarent. Tertullian declares, if we pretend to renounce the devil and all his works, and then go to plays, we are apoftates. "But what fhall we fay for these fathers, who were fo loud in their clamour against an art, which, we dare venture to affirm (becaufe in the courfe of this work we thall indifputably prove it) if properly conducted, is the nobleft lecture for the human heart, and the most luxurious feaft for the understanding. Belides, thefe very fathers were, in fact, little less than players themfelves; they were guilty of many devices, exclufive of the tricks of the Sybils, to endeavour to prove the truth of a religion, which, like the fun, wanted only to be 'een, to be reverenced for its brightness. Let the reader, if he pleafes, confult Caufabon's Exercitations upon Baronius, Blondel on the Sybils, and the de. crees of Pope Gelafius, who prohibits counterfeit prophets, counterfeit gofpels, and counterfeit acts of apoftles ; all of which fcenes, and many more, thefe reverend reformers, the fathers, played upon the minds of the ignorant ; and acted religious chicaneries, as grofs as the greatest errors of the most unenlightened paganism. An actor, in fome parts of the world, is is not to be interred in confecrated ground, and therefore he must be, or the muft be, a caft-out from the flock of the Lord; for the primitive fathers have faid it; yet I dare pronounce (with reverence to religion be it spoken) that these very fathers were nothing more than intemperate bigots, and that being utter enemies to the arts and fciences, it is not at all wonderful, nor does it reflect the least difgrace upon the ftage, that they approved not of thea trical entertainments. Tertullian called a physician a wick. ed butcher, for no other reason, than that the artist, for the study of anato my, had diffected an executed malefactor; and pope Boniface VIII. thundered out a moft terrible excommunication against all those who should practice diffections upon human bodies. The great Corneille, in defence of the theatre, boldly published his opini. on, that the fentiments which the players made ufe of upon the ftage, were more delicate than those of many authors who wrote for the pulpit. "I rejoice to fee the purity of our ftage; (he mentions this on account of the ill fuccefs of his Theodore) A hiftory, the fairest ornament of the virgins of St. Ambrose, appears too licentious to pass on our stage? What would the audience then have faid, if I, like that great doctor of the church, had shewn the virgin in that infamous place, and if I had drawn the agitations the felt (as the father did) when the faw her lover, Didimus, come into that place to her, &c. &c." For what was this outcry of the councils and fathers against players? Nothing more, than that these heated zealots, in the rage of their religious furor, madly imagined them to be heathentradition-holders, to be relique-keepers of paganism, and that their works were appropriated and utterly devoted to the worship of false gods. Tacitus relates fome fevere laws made against players; but that was against the profeffors, not the profeffion; and in an age fo much addicted to libertinim, as Rome then was, where is the wonder that they, who, like physicians, were conftantly visiting the fick, should become infected with a disease to pleafingly contagious, fo bewitchingly epidemick? Corporь:ÕËËËËËËË REGISTER OF ARTISTS. To SYLVIA. C OME my Sylvia! haste away, Hail the blufhing new-born day, From yon mountain's craggy brow View the beauteous fcenes below; Woods and lawns and filver streams, Meadows gay, as poets dreams, Cloud-crown'd hills of azure hue, Low-clouds white with pearly dew, Lambkins bleating o'er the plains, Herds that low in deeper strains. Hear the woodland choir rejoice! Hear the fhepherd's artless voice! Love and mufic fill the fhades, Balmy zephyrs fan the glades, While the echoing caverns round, Pleas'd return the chearful found; But if Damon woos in vain, Joylefs is the shepherd's strain, Difcord murmurs thro' the grove, Herds and flocks unheeded rove, Dewy glades, nor azure hills, Painted meads, nor filver rills, Lawn, nor wood, my mind can ease, Nor this group of beauties please, Breezy morn no pleasure brings, Day departs on fable wings. While I mourn my absent fair, 'Tis winter all and dark difpair. From Mr. Woty's Blooms of Helicon, an Author, whom we not only can juftly praise for merit as an Author; but allo for worth as a FRIEND. The BEAUTIES of all the MAGAZINES For SELECTED, FEBRUARY, 1763. A Continuation of the HISTORY of EXCHANGE ALLEY. M CHAP. I. R. Mortimer, in a very fenfible plain and well wrote treatise, has laid down the method by which every man may become his own broker with fafety.-This publication is intended as an appendix or fupplement to his volume; and therefore to thofe who have read his perform ance, or those who have not, we hope to render our volume acceptable, by inferting an hiftorical account of the Eaft India, the Bank, and the South Sea com. pany, with the rationale of the public Funds. In order to give a clear idea of the money tranfactions of the feveral companies, it is proper we fhould fay fomething of money in general, and particularly of paper money, and the difference between that and the current fpecie. Money is the standard of the value of all the neceifaries and accom. modations of life, and paper money is the reprefentative of that standard to fuch a degree, as to fupply its place, and to answer all the purposes of gold and filver coin Nothing is neceffary to make this reprefentative of money fupply the place of fpecie, but the credit of that office, or company, who delivers it; which credit, confits in its always being ready to turn into fpecie VOL. II. whenever required. This is exactly the cafe of the Bank of England; the notes of this company are of the fame value as the current coin, as they may be turned into it, whenever the poffeffor pleafes. From hence, as notes are a kind of money, the counterfeiting them is punished with death as well as coining. The method of depofiting money in the Bank, and exchanging it for notes (tho' they bear no intereft) is attended with many conveniencies; as they are not only fafer than in the hands of the owner himself; but as the notes are more portable and capable of a more eafy conveyance; fince a Bank note of a very large fum, may be. fent by the poit, and to prevent the defigns of robe, bers, may, without damago, be cut in two and fent at two feveral times. Or, bills, called Bank Poft Biils, may be had by application at the Bank, which are particularly calculated to prevent loffes by robberies, they being made payable to the order of the person who takes them out at a certain number of days after fight, which gives an opportunity to stop fuch bills at the Bank, if they should be loft, and prevents their, being fo eafily negotiated by strangers as common Bank notes are; and whoever confiders the hazard, the expence and trouble there would be in fending large fums of gold and filver to and from H . diltant |