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Corrections and Memorandums 498 Strictures relative to the Writings of Michael Bruce 499 Origin of the Word Cab, differently deduced 16. ib. 505 Anecdotes of Dr. Furneaux and Sir Michael 511 Account of the Orchefton Grafs 513 Anecdotes of Mifs Harrop, now Mrs. Bates 514 Parable against Perfecution, Remarks upon it, ib. Ca Mr. Harris's Letter to Dr. Young-Jonathan and John Dryden different Perfons 515 Dr. Johnfon's Affault on Gray and others reprehended 516 Ep Hall, not Mr. Boyle, the firft Spiritualifer ib. The Story of JudgeGafcoigne,with his Portrait ib. Memoirs of Sir Piercy Brett and Ld Hawke 5 e 517 On the Black Caterpillar or Turnip Fly 518 IMPARTIAL AND CRITICAL REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS; viz. Gibbon's Hiftory concluded-Curious Colle&tions from the Notes-Jones's Philological Difquifitions -Epitome of Phil. Tranf. vol. LXXXIKeate's Poems, &c. &c. 519-529 POETRY: The Capitade-Prologue by Mr Warton, fpoken at Winchefter-The Univerfity Maces, &c. &c. Advices from America, King's Speech, &c. 533) HISTORICAL CHRONICLE 9361 Lifts of Births, Marriages, Deaths, &c. &c. 544) 530-532 Enlarged with Four Pages of Letter-Prefs extraordinary; and embellished with a friking Portra t of Sir WILLIAM GASCOIGNE, Chief Juftice in the Reign of Henry IV. By SYLVANUS. URBAN, Gent. LONDON, Printed by J. NICHOLS, for D. HENRY, late of ST. JOHN'S GATE He spoke to other matters not fa immediately connected with the argu ment; faid, our having no allies was incidental, depending on times and circumstances, and a variety of events that human policy could neither fore fee nor direct. He took fome pains to convince the House, that the fystem was the fame now as directed the coun cils of the preceding reigns, and the views the fame, the fame ardent zeal for the glory and interefts of G. Bri K. Willian, K. Geo. I. and II. would have been afraid to have exerted the rights of their country over America ? He infitted, that the Dutch had cause noble Lord who spoke laft had afcribed the increife of that taction to French gold. He willed, he faid, that French gold had not had its influence nearer home. The noble Lord in the blue ribbon had charged the Dutch A with breach of taith in not complying with former ftipulations. Was the noble Lord to learn, that their compliance would have brought ruin on themicives, and entailed upon us an infupportable charge? The moment the Stnes had furnished their quota totain. He asked, if the minifters of G. B. their country would have been invaded; and what power on earth could they have called to their defence, but that very power which itfelf wanted their affittance? He muftletsly provoked the war. be a fhallow politician indeed, who Mr. Ayre was convinced, that the could not difcover the justice of this Dutch was the fole caufe of the war, policy. For his part, he declared, he and that government would have fhewn Could no otherwife account for this the most daftardly pufillanimity had new war, than by fuppofing miniftry they not refented their infolence. actuated by the common notion that They had openly countenanced the Amfterdam' would instantly take the D American revolt, and had with uniealarm, and that all who abetted the mitting industry endeavoured to fupply fuppofed treaty would be maffacred. both them and the French with all He knew, he faid, how vain it was to kinds of military ftores. He menoppole minifters; but he thought it tioned one fact in proof of many, that his duty to adhere to his friends, who at St. Euftatia the Dutch admiral orwere fill willing to ftand forward in dered all the American prizes made by behalt of the people. He lamented English privateers then in harbour tq our want of alliances, and predicted, come under his ftern, and without any that this new war would ftill be pro- formal trial releafed them all. He apductive of more new enemies. He pealed to the Houle, whether fuch an remarked on the thvle of the noble unexampled inftance of injustice should Lord, that the cords he had moved, be patiently borne ? were the fitteft for the House to adopt; F a ftyle fo new and dictatorial to a Britih H. of C. that he could scarce credit his ears when he heard it. I N—th role to explain. If any thing, he laid, had dropt from him improper, he begged to be indulged with leave to correct himfelf. It was foreign to his incaning to prescribe forms or words to that Houfe; he meant no more than to exprefs his wifhes that no afperity might be ufed against the Durch, as his wishes were not to aggravate, but if pofible to healH the breach between the two countries. He juftified the language of the memorial of 1777, admitted it was strong, But not too strong for the occafion. Mr. Wrx faid little of the war, but fpoke chiefly in favour of an alliance with the H, of Auftria. He recommended alliances with all the powers of elocution. Impediments, he acknowledged, there were in the way, but they were not infuperable. Great minds conquered obstacles-they were made for them. The defraction of France was incontestable, if the Emperor joined us, and marched 50,000 men over the Rhine, which Pruffia was incapable of preventing; Eugiand would be faved, reitored to her ancient glories, and able to destroy the marine both of France and Spain, and of all the world. He complimeated, in terms of the highest pane gyric, the abilities of the King's fer- whom you rely; who, instead of revants; urged in what estimation they fpecting you as a free ftate, treat you were held in foreign courts; and con- with the haughtinefs of mere depencluded with recommending to them vi- dents. He entered into a wide field gour, firmness, celerity, and dispatch, of argument on the evils that have on all which our fafety depended. A originated from the change of political Mr.S-nel-r expreffed the ftrongeft opinion; and in his progrefs remarkindignation at the late conduct of the ed, that the Emprefs of Ruffia and his Dutch; while fo many powers were prefent Majefty mounted the throne leagued against us, that Holland fhould of their refpective empires much about join the general confederacy was truly the fame time. But how different aftonishing! He declared from his B their reigns! G. Britain has declined foul his hearty refolution to refift, to with a fuddennels equal to the rapithe last drop of his blood, all the ene- dity with which Ruffia has risen to mies of his country. her prefent eminence. He glanced as Mr. Swbe was for lenient if Ruffia was not in the very best humeans; he faw no impropriety in en- mour; and asked, if miniftry was fure deavouring to reclaim an old and na C the war with Holland might not draw tural ally, now become an unnatural other more formidable powers to league enemy. He laid the blame on the against us? The noble Lord in the haughtinels of minifters, who in the blue ribbon tells us, indeed, that we wantonnels of power had combined have nothing to fear, because we have the whole world against us. given no provocation. We gave no provocation to France nor Spain, yet both these powers became our enemies. And what certainty is there, that Ruffia and Portugal may be lefs hoftily inclined? The Sec. at War boailed, that we had loft nothing last year (fee p. .). Are fo many lives Efacrificed, and to many millions spent, nothing? And if we have gained no advantages, how is the point for which we are contending to be obtained? How are the fleets of France and Spain to be annihilated, and America to be reduced to unconditional F fubmiflion? Ld F. C―nd- did not relish the D war with Holland; wished that if French gold had had fo powerful an effect as to fow difcord among friends, a little English gold had been used to counteract its operation. He moved an amendment to the address, that, inftead of the words, “unavoidable neceffity of carrying on hoftilities," "rupture "with Holland" might be inferted. This was moved as leading to another amendment, the purport of which was, That the Houfe would take the papers before them into confideration, and if it should appear that the war with Holland was unavoidably neceffary, then the Houfe would fupport it." Sir E. A-tly held forth the increafing burdens of the people as a cogent realon against the war. He afked courtiers and placemen, if they would contribute to its fupport out of their lucrative emoluments? Mr. F-x followed Mr. T-nfh-d in afcribing the origin of the Dutch war to Lord Suffolk's memorial of 1777. It alarmned the pride of the Durch, he said, and furnished the French faction with a pretest to treat the English with line cecmony, Thefe are the friends, faid they, on LdG.G―rm-ne made a short reply, He anfwered what the former speaker had thrown out, as if Ruffia and Portugal were adverfe to this country. On the contrary, miniftry had every Greafon in the world to believe them friendly. He declined faying a word on the origin of the American, war, and charged thofe with ignorance and folly who could entertain an idea that Great Britain could make peace with America when the pleated. As to the H war with Holland, if the gentemen in oppofition are of opinion that it migh have been avoided with honour, why not impeach miniftry br embroiling the nation with our od and and natural ally? For his part, he could not help thinking it not only necellary but unavoidable. Mr. B-ke lamented the fituation into which the nation had been plunged by the arrogance of minifters, who neither knew how to advance with dignity, nor to retract with honour. In the natural course of things, that which carries the semblance of evil is A C or en productive of much good. The to demand the heads of the officers who confined him, by way of reparation. He could not, he faid, approve of a war with our old ally, till more amply informed of the motives that led to it. The question being put on the amendment, the Houfe divided, 101 for it, 1So against it. Ld M-n moved another amendment, which was negatived without a divition. Upon which the main queftion was put, and agreed to. (To be continued.) N the lift of extin?? peers, in p. 208, many are inferted that were fo before 1770. The following are alto omitted, who are become fo fince that period. Among the ENGLISH DUKES, Cleveland and Southampton. Ligonier. Botetourt*. Ligonier Caulichaven. BARONS, Hatley. Has your correfpondent in p. 270 confulted the "Marmora Oxonientia," published in 1763 by Chandler? I only throw out this hint, as I know not whether the Arabic in fcription, defenbed as being in the Athmowork.-P. 285, col. 2, 1. 20, r. lean Mufeum, is printed in that magnificent Rambary Ein Wilts." In Fazolborne, Let. XXVI. the "wiik "nel's of blood," enquired after in p. 309, col. I, is to be found in Dryden's "Cleomenes." Ia Let. LXXI Eubes was always fuppofed to reprefent Dr. Stephen Hates; a beautiful charater of whom is printed in p. 266 of your last volume. in May not the word " actwal," objected to P: 331, 332, mean "real" And is it not frequently fo ufed? In p. 342, col. 2, "with his mitre on his head," fhould furely be erated. MR. URBAN, SCRUTATOR. Mr. Dng infifted, that the cause of the war originated with our felves; that it was affuming an unjuftifiable right to call upon the States to punish a member of their Republic for forming and forwarding a project which he thought for the good of the community. With as much propriety might their High Mightineffes call upon his Britannic Majefty to punish the member who firft propoled in council that haughty maniletto byG which they thought their dignity infulted, as the Court of London demand the exemplary punishment of the penfionary of Amfterdam for devifing a treaty which his Britannic Majefty judged an infult to his crown. He knew of but one inftance of such a demand, and that was from Peter the Grear, just emerging from Gothic rudeness, who, on hearing of his am baffador's being arrested for debr, fent * Lord Ligonier was an English Earl and Irith Viscount; and Botetourt is not extinct, the *efent Dutchels Dowager of Beaufort (the late Lord's fifter) fucceeding to that tile, Epvr. H Na MS. of Mr. apothecary, in Sir fl. Sloane's library is the British Muteum, is this printed flip paft ed; with the King's arms and C. R. 1682. "At the fign of the Woolfack in Newgate market is to be feen a ftrange and wonderful thing, which is an elm board, which being touched with a hot iron doth exprefs itself as if it was a man dying with groans and trembling, to the great admiration of all the hearers. It hath been prefented before the King and his nobles, and hath given them great fatisfaction. Vivat Rex!" MR. MR. URBAN, Nov. 12. N your Magazine for Feb. pp. 83, 4. a new announced to your readers as a valuable addition to the stock of fenfible and entertaining effays already in the poffeffion of the public. To justify the commendation bestowed, fome well-written extracts are given, and in particular fome Anecdotes of Michael Bruce, an ingenious but little known author, as a fpecimen peculiarly interefting to curiofity and to learning. Of fentiments coinciding with thofe of your Reviewer is a candid and judicious critic in another literary journal, who, more lately, I obferve, has noticed The Mirror in the fame refpectful manner, and diftinguished the Anecdotes of Michael Brute with equal marks of attention. To a coincidence of felection, so remarkable in the extracts of thefe journalists, befides the attraction between good writing and competent judges, it is natural to fappole the gratification of a fenfibility and a curiofity common to the liberal and inquifitive, arifing from a benevolent attempt to refcue from oblivion the name and writings of an amiable young poet, contributed in no inconfiderable degree. I had the pleafure, Mr. Urban, fome years ago, of perufing the little poetical volume which it appears gave occafion to those affecting and well-written anecdotes, communicated in The Mirar. As its contents and character are but little known, at least on this fide the Tweed, the following particulars, from memory, may ferve to gratify curiofity, and affift enquiry. It is a thin duodecimo, painted, I think, at Edmburgh in 1769, probably by fubfcription, as the copies, I was told, are only to be met with in private hands. The pieces of which it is compofed are chiefly rural and defcriptive; one in particular, intituled, "Lochlevin," of confiderable length, and a few of a moral and elegiac kind. As I write from memory, I cannot specify the titles of the pieces, nor point out the particular expreffions of a tender fancy, and a benevolent mind, which ftruck me on a tranfient reading. My recol lection is still lefs equal to an analyfis of the fentiments and imagery of any particular poem. All I retain is, the general imprefhion of an am able fimplicity and elegance, free from levity, and the affectation of an inflated diction, fo common in juvenile prodections, which feemed to characterife the contents of the agreeable little Mifcellany. Of Michael Brucs 1 could obtain no particulars, but that he was of Kinrof hire, that he received an academical education at St. Andrew's, and was intended for the church. Ele the Rev. John Legan, minifier of Leith Cerrefponding with this inforination I fee, in a volume of Poems by Mr. Logan, publithed a few months ago, an "Ode to a Cuckoo," reprinted, I think, from the Mifcellany in question. Of the poetical merit of Mr. Logan, thus prefented to obfervation, I will not here anticipate your judgement. How well he is qualified to rank with the more elegant and pathetic of our poets you will have an opportunity to judge when his Poems (which have hitherto escaped your notice +) fall under your impartial review. It is with pleasure I feize the opportunity of acquainting your readers, that a fpecimen of his talents in the hiftorical department of writing will, in a few weeks, proceed from the prefs. The work is intituled ments of the Philofophy of Hiftory;" and is expected to display the deep penetration, comprehenfive views, and animated compoftion, which diftinguished his public lectures on Ancient and Modern Hiftory, delivered laft winter at Edinburgb. Thele hints, for the fake of curiofity, I could wifh, Mr. Urban, had been more ample and lefs imperfect. To atone in fome measure for intruding them, I will prefent your readers with fome biographical and literary anecdotes of an ill-known author of the fame country, refembling Michael Bruce in the fortune of his life and the fate of his writings, and equally amiable and ingenious. Frevious to which let me obferve, his fhort life, paft in obfcurity and in the filent acquifition of knowledge, is marked with no vicifhtudes or occurrences interefting to the hiftorical reader. The memoirs of a young man of genius, depreffed by fituation, yet afpiring to literature and to poetry under the preffure of indigence, can have no higher pretenfions than to awaken the feelings of benevolence, and engage the attention of the lovers of literary biography. As in this number, I include the greateft. part of your readers. I flatter myself the following particulars of his life, and fpecimen of his writings, may furnish no unacceptable article in your entertaining department of anecdotes of the learned and ingenious. Examples of cultivated talents fuccessfully applied to compofition, as they tend to excite emulation, and to ftimulate industry, deferve the prefervation they receive in your ufeful collection; and they cannot find a more suitable repository. Yours, &c. Отно. [The Memoirs of Mr. Græme, and thofe received from O. R. in our next.] MR. URBAN, I am a very admirer of va With regard to that pars of the volume of Aluable Collection, I love to you it as |