a defpicable, felfish vice in men, but in your fex it is beyond expreffion indelicate and difgufting. Every one, who remembers a few years back, is fenfible of every ftriking change in the attention and refpect formerly paid by the Gentlemen to the Ladies. Their drawing-rooms are deferted: And, after dinner and fupper, the Gentlemen are impatient till they retire. How they came to lose this refpect, which nature and politenefs fo well intitle them to, we fhall not here particularly enquire. The revolutions of manners in any country depend on caufes very various and complicated. We fhall only obferve that the behaviour of the Ladies in the laft age was very reserved and itately. It would now be reckoned ridiculously stiff and formal. Whatever it was, it had certainly the effect of making them more refpected. A fine woman, like other fine things in nature, has her proper point of view, from which she may be seen to moft advantage. To fix this point requires great judgment, and an intimate knowledge of the human heart. By the prefent mode of female manners, the ladies feem to expect that they fhall regain their afcendancy over us, by the fulleft difplay of their perfonal charms, by being always in our eye at public places, by converfing with us with the fame unrefet ved freedom as we do with one another; in fhort, by resembling us as nearly as they poffibly can. But a little time and experience will fhew the folly of this expectation and conduct. The power of a fine woman over the hearts of men, men of the fineft parts, is even beyond what the conceives. They are fenfible of the pleafing illufion, but they. cannot, nor do they wish to diffolve it. But, if he is determined to expel the charm, it certainly is in her power; fhe may foon reduce the angel to a very or dinary girl. There is a native dignity in ingenuous modefty to be expected in your fex, which is your natural protection from the familiarities of the men, and which you fhould feel, previous to the reflection that it is your interest to keep yourselves facred from all perfonal freedoms. The many nameless charms and endearments of beauty fhould be referved to blefs the arms of the happy man to whom you give your heart, but who, if he has the leaft delicacy, will defpife them, if he knows y have been proftituted to fifty men before him. The fentiment that a woman may allow all innocent freedoms, provided her virtue is fecure, is both grofsly indelicate and dangerous, and has proved fatal to many of your fex. Let us now recommend to your attention that elegance, which is not fo much a quality itself, as the high polish of every other. It is what diffuses an ineffable grace over every look, every motion, every fentence you utter. It gives that charm to beauty without which it generally fails to pleafe. It is partly a perfonal quality, in which refpect it is the gift of nature; but we speak of it principally as a quality of the mind. In a word, it is the perfection of taste in life and manners; every virtue and every excellency, in their most graceful and amiable forms. You may perhaps think that we want to throw every fpark of nature out of your compofition, and to make you entirely artificial. Far from it. We wish you to poffefs the utmost fimplicity of heart and manners: You may poffefs dignity without pride, affability without meannefs, and fimple elegance without affectation. Milton had the very idea, when he fays of Eve, Grace was in all her steps, Heav'n in het eye, In every gefture dignity and love. On Convulfions in Children. By Dr. Cock. Tt O take away childrens convulfions, teftaceous powders certainly have their proper ufe, especially if a little caftor be added thereto, yet will not always anfwer that end. Several vulgar fpecificks (as they are generally accounted) have been highly cried up for this purpose, such as milletoe, cup-mofs, cat's-blood, powder of human fkull, and many other fuch myfterial medicines, and that even by some of the greatest authors, and the most famous phyficians; nevertheless, to great difappointment, their imagined virfues, upon trial, feldom, or never, anfwer our earnest expectations. our As convulfive fits of babes, and infants, proceed from a tharp humour lodged in their firft paffages, irritating, by their accute points, the moft fenfible nerves of the ftomach and inteftines, thofe bodies which can obtund or blunt acidities, bred there from their fo conftantly living on afcefcent food, which $774. Enigmatical Representation of a real Entertainment. can temper or restrain fuch penetrating Now among all the many articles of 615 unworthy of being placed in fuch a re- Cork, Sep. 6, 1774. Fita voluptatis caufa fint proxima veris. Entertainment. at laft, about a ninth part of annifeed, An Enigmatical Reprefentation of a real The dofe is twenty grains, i, e. a fcru- What can cure can alfo prevent, and which may be done by only exhibiting this faid powder foon enough, that is, upon the first appearance of those symptoms that precede convulfive fits, fuch as the acid fmell, and green colour of their ordure, attended with☺☺ gripes, fhrieks, startings in their fleep, gnashing of teeth, &cí ad 1. Melancholy foup, with crooked Sarah. 2. Soldiers ftaff. 5. Pride reverfed in a pie. 6. The leg of a corn-cutter, boiled with diamond weights. 9. Venus's gu 7. The divine part of a man, boiled. 8. A blockhead, hashed. Second Course. guides. 10. A Dutch Prince, in a pudding. 11. An unruly member, garnithed with perpetual motion, 12. Move Jack. 13. The Grand Seignor's dominions, larded. 14. Part of the zodiac, buttered. 15. The firft temptation, in a small blaft of wind. 'Defert. 16. The lofs of a wife, and the gain of a husband, in jelly. 17: Cows provender, with half goofberries. 18. Some hundred thousands, 19. Sorrowful apples, with bad wives To the Editor of the Hibernian Magazine, round them. Sir, Our faudable emulation, to render your Magazine the compleatett, most interefting and entertaining of any yet published in Ireland, and confequently more deferving of the notice and approbation of the public, induces me to fend you the annexed enigmatical reprefentati on of real entertainment, to be inferted in 20. Bufy bodies. 21. Couplet. 22. The reward of a foldier, in cream. 23. The joke of a puppet fhow made with torture. 24. A bottle of Torbay. 26. A fide grace cup of lamentable cloathing. 27. A bottle of hill top 29. A foldiers habitation, with a pretty girl in it. Account of the new Prelude, called The for this feafon, with Mr. Addison's co- The Prompter, Carpenter, Mr. King. Mr. Ackman. Mr. Wright. And Patent, the Manager, Mr. Aickin. Mr. Wefton, Mr. Parfons, Mr. Hurft, Mr. Branfby, Mifs Platt, and others, appeared in their own characters. The scene discovers carpenters, scenemen, painters, &c. at work upon the ftage, musicians and dancers practising, and players rehearsing. The mafter carpenter enters, and infifts on their retiring, (as they hinder him from making the neceffary preparations for opening the houfe) which they accordingly do. The prompter then enquires of Parfons the fuccefs of his country expedition; who tells him, their bufinefs has been very well, their houses fome bad, many good; that they have had an intrigue or two, with indifpofitions as ufual, Wefton next arrives, whom Parfons congratulates upon the healthinefs of his looks, and the clearness of his fkin, and obferves, that his nofe is of the fame colour with the rest of his face. Oh, I have turned over a new leaf, replies Welton-" Ay, in a tavern-keeper's book, I fuppofe." No, no, rejoins the little comedian, the leaves are all full there, but I am determined to live fober, and grow better, though I cannot help confeffing there is a pleasure in being ill, which none but actors know. The Manager then joins the party, and the difcourfe turns on the animadverfions contained in the News-papers upon the Players; wherein Patent july remarks, That if the Actors fhewed more fenfibility in their bufinefs, and lefs out of it, they need not mind what was faid of them. "It is true, fays he, newspapers are a kind of police, and fometimes go too far in endeavouring to correct the follies or defects of others; and may Juftices and Constables; but that reafon we should not have any. After a fhort conteft between Weston and Hurft, with refpect to their theatri as perfons engaged to play in his Piece, and affures them he has got a plan, in which he proves, that there is nothing in acting either Tragedy or Comedy, and that he can make Comedians, Tragedians, and vice verfa. He then produces his plan, which he calls his Grand Specific, and directs his patients to arrange themfelves on the stage, which they do in a femi-circle. He then defires the man who is the leaft fit to play the Hero in Tragedy, or the Fine Gentleman in Comedy, to fiep forth. At this not one of them ftirs; but on Weston whispering Bayes to take it the other way, and to direct the one who is moft fit to reprefent the above characters to step forth, they all run forwards; proving every one fuppofes himself fit for a Hero or a Fine Gentleman. Bayes proceeds in his inftructions, and, in oppofition to Shakespear, advifes them continually to o'er-step the modefty of Nature, as modefly will never do upon the Stage., Wefton defires the Ladies particularly to attend to that circumtance. "My art of acting," continues Bayes," is comprifed, like the Iliad, in a nut-fhell." ("Grack it then, says Wefton, and give us the kernel.") Bayes proceeds: Stick clofe to Art, turn, Nature out za of door, [no more." "Rant, rant away, till you can rant Oh, fays Weflon we can all do that. Bayes Textort applause, distort yourfelyes, bounce, bawl, And to compleat confufion, take a fall." · [Throwing himself down, Bayes then places his Pupils in a ludicrous ftaring attitude, and tells them, "To add to the diftrefs, "What your face cannot, let your wig exprefs." port of which is, that they fhould never tand ftill, but frifk about, take fnuff, laugh, tune, fing, caper, &c. "Life's a poft chaife, oil it with pleafure, boy! Smooth fly the wheels when they are greafed with joy." He capers out (his pupils following him), and immediately returns, perfectly pleafed with the progrefs his fcholars have made; but is not a little difappointed at hearing Wefton declare that he will caper no more, and that the Players refufe to proceed in practifing any more of his letfons. He threatens Wefton with complaining to the Town of his treatment; and they mutually addrefs the Pit in a very ludicrous manner, which concludes with little Tom's declaring, that if Bayes proceeds upon his ranting, roaring, capering, face-making plan, the Audience will go to fleep, he mutt go to goal, and then there will be an end of poor little Johnny Pringle and his Pig.. Bayes being left alone, vents his paffion in a foliloquy, in which he execrates the actors, wilhes the house may always be as empty as it was at that time; that the Ladies may difturb the Performers by their tittle-tattle; that the Gentlemen may admire themselves, fat Citizens fnore in the Boxes, the pit be filled with crabbed Critics, the Galleries leave their horfe-laughs and good-hurnour at home, and he, if he ever forgives the infult he has received, be condemned not only to perform there all the winter, but to continue through the fummer the Director of Fiddlers, Tumblers, Rope-dancers, and Pantomimes. The following Letter from a Nobleman to the Mayor of a Country Town, with the Mayor's Anfwer to it, are copied verbatim from the Originals. DEAR SIR, welfare of your town, which has ever been the ardent wish of Your affured friend, To Mr. Mayor of The Anfwer. MY LORD, YOUR lordship's feptennial profeffions of attention to the welfare of this corporation, and of friendship for the mayor of it, came by virtue of my office this year into my hands. The anfwers you have received from my predeceffors on a fimilar occafion have, I imagine, differed much in ftile from what I now fend. They thought your lordship's letter an honour, I think it an infult. When your lordfhip's friends, the prefent members, were offered to us as proper objects of our choice, I joined with my brother burgeffes, heart and hand in their support. I knew not what they were till they were tried; but I have made it my business to be informed what part they have taken in the great political queftions which have come before the House of Commons and as I find they have, in every one of thofe queftions, given their votes contrary to every principle of honesty, morality, and conftitutional freedom, I must tell your lordship, that I fhall do every thing in my power towards repairing the breach they have made in the conftitution, by throwing them from their feats, to make room for thofe who will repeal thofe acts, which are fubverfive of British juftice, liberty, and the proteftant religion. 1 I will now produce my vouchers for the truth of my allertions. Your friends voted Col. Luttrell the legal reprefentative for Middlefex, in oppofition to Mr. Wilkes, who had fo great a majority of good voters on the poll: therefore I fhall not give myself the trouble of attempting to give them a majority of votes; becaufe, if they make the minifter their friend, (which he has all the reafon in the world to be) a minority, aided by the favour of the Houfe, will anfwer the purpofe juft as well. Your friends voted (if I am not much misinformed) for the royal marriage-bill; difcountenancing thereby, as much as in them lay, the ordinances of religion, and encouraging the younger branches of the royal fam to perfevere in the ways of whoredo and adultery. I found the names of thefe our reprefentatives alfo in the majority lift on the Quebec bill; and I have no doubt, but that thofe gentlemen, who were fo ftrenuous in voting the king abfolute over fo many of his American fubjects, and in eftablishing popery in that quarter of the globe, would do just the fame here, when the plan, which is in fuch readiness, is ripe for execution. I have troubled your lordship with more reafons for rejecting your application in favour of your friends, than you perhaps expected, and more than you will, I fuppofe, read with patience. You, my lord, hold a very lucrative poft, by carrying, as it is called, two members for this borough, as well as greatly influencing the nomination of the county members; that is, in other words, you bring into the parliament houfe two men at least, who are ready to fupport any measure of any minifter. But till I am as well paid for vo fhip is for nominating them to us, I must beg leave to keep my confcience clear, and my vote difengaged; declaring in my own name, and in the name of a very refpectable body of my brother freemen, that we will never vote for any man who has declared that one is more than three, as in the cafe of the Middlefex election; who has voted fornication to be more meritorious than marriage, as in the cafe of the royal marriage act, to gratify the pride and malice of the ** *; and laftly, who has voted flavery to be preferable to freedom, and popery a better fyftem of religion than proteftantifm, as in the cafe of the Quebec bill. Clear your friends, my lord, from thefe charges, and then may they boldly ftand forth candidates for the favour of honeft men; and then shall your lordship's recommendation weigh with Your molt obedient humble fervant, ting for men of this ftamp, as your lord- To the right hon. the Earl of―. It would be needlefs, as well as difficult to enumerate the many fignal proofs this great man has given, of his zealous atachment to the proteftant in Nor, while thy patriot's virtue bright tereft, and his indefatigable endeavours did blaze, Unbiafs'd in the cause, Ere from Hibernia's isle, to defend and promote christianity in general was there no other, that magnificent and brilliant church, which he be a fufficient teftimony; and which will has lately erected at Hillsborough, would be an everlasting monument to his name. Quod nec Jovis ira, neo Ignis, Nec poterit Ferrum, nec edax abolere Vetuftas. The |