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privy council, where after a debate of three hours, faid bill was rejected. The council for it were the Recorder and counsellor Hart; against it, counsellors Kelly and Yelverton.

The late general Wolfe having bequeathed 5000l. to be difpofed of in fuch charitable ufes as his executors fhould think proper: They have acquainted the governors of the Hibernian School with their intention of appropriating 3000l. of faid fum for the use of that charity. The gentleman who informed them of this munificent donation, has added 20 guineas, at his private cost, thereto.

PROMOTIONS.

NOURTH regiment of horse, Cornet Hodder Roberts to be Lieut. vice Forbes. Guftavus Handcock, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Roberts.

12th Regiment of Dragoons, Lieut. Charles Hamilton to be Capt. vice Mitchell. - Cornet Arthur Cole to be Lieut. vice Hamilton.

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DWARD Stephens of Burris-inOffory, Queen's Co. Efq. to Mifs Grace Boudy of faid Place At Qmagh, Co. Tyrone, James Crawford, Efq. to Mifs Maxwell; and John Rogers, Efq to Mifs Jane Maxwell -Gilbert King of Charlestown, Co. Rofcommon, Elq. to Mifs Jane King Tobias Webb of Ball quirk, Co. Kilkenny, Efq. aged 102, to Miis Margaret Fitzpatrick, aged 28. Robert Roe of Camolin, Co. Wexford, Efq. to Mifs Plummer Gregory Shortal of Damaftown, Co. Kilkenny, Elq. to Mife Whitty

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Bradford, of the 12th Dragoons, to Mifs
Anne Cox of Carrick
John Bagwell of
Bellgrove, Co. Corke, Efq. to Mits Hare.
At St. George's Hanover-Square, London,
Arthur Acheson, Efq. eldest Son of Sir
Archibald Achefon, Bart. to Mifs Pole,
Daughter of the late Lieut. Gen. Pole
Sir Michael Cromie, Kat. to Lady Ger- *
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OBERT Irwin of Morce, Co. Tyrone, At Wardhoufe, James Soden, of Moneygold, Efq. At Lifford, Co. Donegall, William M'Clintock, Efq.- At Hollywell, Co. Rofcommon, Barnaby Gunning, Efq. At Coventry, Thomas Marryat, M. D. – At Carlow, the Wife of Benjamin Bunbury, Efq. At Drogheda, • Moore, Efq. At Kilbury, Co. Kildare, Fleetwood, Efq. The Wife of Mr. Ayres of Whitefryar-Street. Janefield, near Athy, Charles Fleetwood, Efq. In Moor-Street, John Kelly, Efq. M. D. On Lazar's-Hill, Mifs Jones. In Hoey's-Court. Mifs Lætitia Hamilton: In Dame-Street, Mrs, Cope, Wife of Mr. William Cope, Merchant —At Blackhall, Co. Kildare, John Barker, Efq. In Dominick-Street, John Knox, Esq. M. P. for Caftlebar George Stainer of Carnelly, Co. Clare, Efq.. At Limerick, Robert Crips, Efq. At Bath, John Lodge, Efq. At Bandon, John Harris, Efq. At Neville's-Court, Co. Wexford, William Jones, jun. Efq.In Drogheda, Francis Donagh, Efq. — Mrs. Anne St. George, eldest Daughter of the late Rev. Dean St. George- At New York, Mrs. Moncrieffe Wife of Major Moncrieffe At Pontoife, near Paris, Mary Magdalane du Reir, aged 147 years and 3 months: this extraordinary Perfon was wife to an Officer of Louis XIVth's Court, and had the Honour of nurfing the Dauphin, Grandfather of his prefent, and eldest Son of his late moft Chriftian Majefty; he was followed_to the Grave by 91 of her immediate Defcendants, the youngest of whom is 64 years-In Dame-Street, Mr. Govers, GunIn Chancery-Lane, Thomas DalEfq. an eminent Attorney. At Quanbury, Co. Galway, the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Kingland - Tobias Webb, of Ballyquirk, Elq. aged 102 At the Hot-Wells, Bristol, Peter M'Quinton, of this Kingdom, Eiq. - At Caille Connel, Limerick, Matthew M.Namara,

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THE

HIBERNIAN MAGAZINE:

OR,

Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge.

For APRIL, 1774

CELADON and FLORELLA; or, the Perils of a Tete-a-Tete.
Illuftrated with an elegant Engraving, from the Defign of a Great
Master.

LORELLA had a form which would, in the eyes of Sir Joshua Reynolds, have been deemed a model for a complete beauty. Unhappily for her, the poffeffed not only the excellencies, but likewife the foibles of one, who is the admiration of the males, and the envy of the females.

She indulged the homage of the men, and thought them no better than a fet of play-things, which the might divert herself with, and discard whenever the thought proper. The fighs of the enamoured were her moft agreeable mufic, and the groans of the difappointed afforded her diverfion. Liberties fhe granted without fcruple, and could frown even the most prefumptuous into fubmiffion. In a word fhe feemed born to be the torture of her own fex, and the tyrant over our's.

Celadon, however, the gay, the elegant, faw her in the circle of politeness. He was ftruck with her form-and he refolved to get the bet

ter of her virtue.

April, 1774

He refolved badly he thought weakly. He took the opportunity of pouring into her ears the poifon of adulation. To a female who thinks herfelf charming, adulation is more than poifon. Florella heard his flatteries not without attention, but as the pride which her felf-confcious beauty had infpired her with, induced her to think that they were nothing more than the tribute which fhe could claim, they had not that effect upon her which they might have had upon any one whofe exterior was lefs charming. She was, however, pleafed with a new conqueft; for her ambition was fimilar to that of Alexander: the thought the world too narrow a bound for her triumphs. Vanity is fometimes a preferver of the fex, when even a fenfe of honour is

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ed by them from the rest of his own, fhe gave him fome indulgencies, which were not compatible with the rigid laws of female delicacy; but her indulgencies were only with a view of monopolizing him to herself, whom all her fex feemed eager to monopolize.

The conceffions fhe made, like thofe of government only ferved to give an edge to audacity; and as the leaft deviation from delicacy generally enfures a greater, Celadon grew more bold in proportion as Florella appeared more kind.

Their intimacy did not escape the eye of obfervation; and the fex thought her too kind to refufe her hand to one that feemed already to partake of the liberties of a hufband. But they were mistaken; it was neither the intention of Florella or Celadon to make the hymeneal tie. Their intimacy had no other foundation than vanity. At first the was proud of having the handfomeft man for her fuitor, and he was no lefs proud in having one of the handfomeft of the fex for his mistress.

Yet thefe freedoms which are, perhaps improperly, termed innocent freedoms, too frequently introduce to these that are not innocent. This was Celadon's cafe-He was not fa

tisfied with thofe which were voluntarily granted, but was excited to fnatch thofe, which no virtuous woman would grant. This appeared in a tete-a-tete which he had with her one morning at her toilette. On his entrance the frifear was employed in adding to the graces of her face, by dretling one of the finest heads of hair that eyes ever beheld. Celadon traced every rifing grace with pleasure, but felt a greater pleature when the frifeur left him alone with his miftrefs. More animated than ever with her beauties, he gave a loose to his appetite, proftrated himself at her feet, breathed forth the ardour of his paffion in terms that difcovered all the rithos of an enamoured heart, and

urged her to infringe the inviolable laws of female honour.

Florella had, in the prime of life, imbibed the principles of religion from the inftructions of a maiden aunt.— Though the feeds had lain dormant for fome years, they began, on this occafion, to pullulate. The propofal fhocked her-and with a frown, which froze his very blood-fhe bid him begone-and never dare to enter under that roof again, which could not infpire him with a regard to the laws of hofpitality, nor behold a face any more, that he wanted to tarnish with the blushes of fhame, and to degrade to that of a fyren. Thus warned, he fled-Florella exulted in the confcioufnefs of approved virtue, and was cautious for the future of granting any indulgencies that might expofe her to the attacks of vice, or fubject her to the censure of malevolence.

The happy Confequences that would refult to Society in general, and to Individuals in particular, if every Perfon would regulate his own conduct by the precepts of virtue.

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well thy part, there all the bonour

lies.

POPE.

Ma profound admirer of the old English proverbs, which in general convey a great deal of meaning in very concife terms. That very common one, Let every one mend one,” if implicity complied with, would produce fo great a change in the manners of the world as to anticipate the Millenium. While we are eagerly gaping after the faults of others, it would be very wonderful if our own did not totally efcape our notice, and while we can feel a self-satisfaction that we are not quite fo blameable as fome of our neighbours, we shall hardly experience any emulation to equal the virtues we tranfiently admire in others.

It is a common vulgar faying, not of the proverbial kind,⚫ Such a one is

no

no one's enemy but his own.' This is, however, a fatal error, as it is impoffible to name one vice, one deviation from rectitude, that will not, in fome degree, although not equally, affect our neighbours as well as ourfelves; nor can I recollect one virtue which does not, in fome measure, tend towards the welfare of fociety. In the mechanism of a watch, or any piece of clockwork, if one wheel be out of order, it will inevitably affect the whole machine; fo likewife in that ftupendous piece of machinery, the terreftrial world, in which each individual is placed to perform a motion for the regular movement of the whole, every retrograde deviation not only renders that wheel itself ufelefs, but likewife impedes every other in its deftined action; and, as each wheel is fo conftructed as to perform different, but equally ufeful parts, it is evident that a fault in the very leaft, muft occafion evident confufion in the whole.

Let no one therefore, however low his ftation, perfuade himself that his actions are of no confequence to the community. Each individual has a particular duty annexed to the station in which he is placed. Experience tells us that, by acting well the part affigned, we infure the confidence and good will of the virtuous part of the world, and Religion affures us of a reward which will amply compenfate for any prefent evil, which the rectitude of our conduct may draw upon us from the envy or malice of the vicious.

The almighty and merciful author of our being, has fo regulated and difpofed the affairs of this world, as to make our duty not only coincide with, but promote our prefent and future happiness.

To do good, and to diftribute,' affords to the mind of the benevolent, a pleasure infinitely fuperior to that in his power to beftow: he may relieve or prevent neceflity, but he cannot transfer to the receiver that heart

felt pleasure which refults from the

power, joined to the will, of benefiting our fellow-creatures. Deftined as we are for focial life, how ought we to admire the wifdom of providence who, from feeming evil produces real good, and places among the comforts we enjoy the pleasing fenfations of compaffion on one part, and gratitude on the other, which ferve to bind us mutually to one another.

But we are not only furnished with every incentive to Virtue, we have likewife enough to deter us from Vice, the very nature of which is fuch as to appear hateful in the eyes of men, and to bring its punishment in the commiffion. We have a monitor placed within us to prevent committing any one fin with impunity. It is wifely ordained that intemperance fhould infure disease; that the temporary lofs of that which alone raises man above the brute creation, (his reafon) fhould be the confequence of drunkennefs; that gluttony fhould be punished by the inability of relifhing the temperate meal that dishonefty should be attended by an unremitting fear, and a fufpicion of all thofe with whom we have any dealings, left they fhould take an opportunity of making reprifals, and act by us as we have done by others, that a difregard for truth, and notoriety for falfhhood, fhould bring a man into the predicament of not being credited, even when he is telling truth; and that covetousness fhould be attended with a watching anxiety, left we should by any means be deprived of that which we have not the refolution to make use of ourselves, or fuffer others to be benefited by.

Virtue is certainly not deftitute of a prefent reward. Temperance, infures health, that chief of all blefsings, without which every other lofes its relish. A fixed character of honefty incourages the confidence of thofe with whom we have any dealings, and, if it does happen that fuch a man is defrauded by others, he

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feels the lofs but once, as he never fufpects it till it comes.

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That which becomes poifon to the drunkard, is to the fober man a cordial The temperate meal procured by labour is always beft relished. The word of a man who conftantly adheres to truth is never doubted; and the generous man has a conftant fatisfaction and pleasure in the fight of thofe chearful countenances which his bounty has lighted up by difperfing the gloomy clouds of adverfity.

I have fo good an opinion of the world in general as to fuppofe they will not fail to act right, when once their judgment is convinced; but to convince is more difficult than to conquer; and to conquer prejudice is, I fear, a task too hard to be atchieved by an humble periodical writer. Yet, the attempt being laudable, I fhall feel a felf-fatisfaction from it, let the fuccefs be what it will; and, if I fail in producing arguments futliciently conclufive to bring conviction with them, let me recommend every man, by a fcrutiny into wat paffes in his own heart, to affift me in the proof of what I have advanced. Let the paffionate man afk himself whether he has any meaning when he says

You know the natural warmth of my temper, and ought not to be hurt by it? Does he really exert all the power that violence will permit, in language the moft poignant his ideas can poffibly frame, with a hope that his eloquence fhould be loft on the hearer? He may, indeed, juftly affert, that the effects produced by paffion are fuch as bring the greatett evil upon himself.' This, in general, is true; but he cannot thereby prove that others do not fuffer from his heat and mifapplied ardor. Nay, if it fhould, as moft naturally it will, produce the fame effect on others, which every the leaft provocation produces in himself, it will become equally fatal to them.

As Love begets Love, fo Anger roduces Anger; and what right has

angry man to be offended at that

in another, which he declares it out of his own power to prevent in himself?

On a tranfient view it may appear that the indolent man in high life has on the public account, no call to mend one,' as he is not neceffitated by his labour, to provide for a family, and can afford to pay others for tranfacting his bufinefs for him. But let him reflect on the force of example. When a man of fuperior education appears to confider idleness as the chief good bestowed upon him by his poffeffions, can he wonder that his fervants, his tenants, his tradesmen, fhould become profelytes to his way of thinking? Can he wonder that they fhould look upon business and labour as calamities, and submit to them with regret and murmurs? Befides, no fituation in life can, or ought to exempt a man from using those powers which were beftowed on him for the purpofe of action, and the benefit of fociety; and we should make it appear to our dependents that we perform that by choice, which neceffity has made their duty. This will have the good effects of sweetening their labour, and will raife in them an emulation to excel in their destined offices of life.

It is a known fact that no one ever arrived at the extremes of Vice, but by imperceptible degrees.

The firft crime paft compels us into

more,

And that grows fate which was but choice before.

How comfortable is the reflection that the fame holds good in regard to Virtue, which gathers force, increafes and spreads its influence to all with whom we are any way connected, in proportion to its becoming a fettled habit in ourselves. There is perhaps no one thing which has tended fo much to the corruption of the lower clafs of people as the idle, I fear I might fay vicious converfations, which pafs at the tables of the great and middling people of thefe kingdoms; for there is hardly now a

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