PRICES OF STOCKS, &c. in JANUAR Y, 1768. 1034 103 2 265 91 92 92 10 W. S. W. froft W. N.W froft ༑། Sunday E. fro&t E. froft 103 10 O E. froft 103 10 0 E. Inow 100 10 0 E. froft 104 7.0 W,N.W. front 92 / 103 CHARLES CORBETT, at No. 30, facing St, Dunfan's Church, Fleet-Street, STOCK-BROKER, who buys and fells in the Stocks by Commiiffion, and tranfacts :he Lottery Business as ufual, W. 1 Sunday 100 $ Price of cora Mark Lane Exchange | Babngitoke Monmouth. London. Evelham. Farnham. Henley, Worcenter. Devizes. Gloucefter, Hereford, 55. 8dto6s.2d 141. os. to 151141 os load 428 to 47 gr 568 to 64 qu❘78 068 bushel 75 6d bu.91g7s bush. 10 gal Hay per load 279t0 528 S. W. rain 103 급 101 803 103 ΙΟΙ 27 80 cloud THE.. LONDON MAGAZINE, For JANUARY, 1768. To the AUTHOR of the LONDON MAGAZINE. SIR, Τὰς μεθοδείας του διαβόλου, Epher. vi. 11. Late refolution taken in order to afcertain the ftrength of the Roman catholic intereft in this kingdom, appears to be very generally approved; as being likely to produce fuch an exertion of legiflative authority, as may be found expedient to check its growth amongst us: and effectually to fecure the peace of the proteftant establishment against future annoyance from that quarter. Every well-wisher to this country must indeed rejoice to fee the day on which measures fo falutary are enacted, who has ever taken a view of the dreadful calamities formerly brought upon its inhabitants, when in a comfortable and innocent enjoyment of their invaluable and dear bought religion and laws, have had cruel deftruction levelled at both, and their perfons either treacher. oufly afaffinated, or barbarously maslacred, and all this by the baneful influence of bigotry, and fuperftition, a mifguided and intemperate zeal; founded on erroneous principles; impreffed by early inculcation; and rooted by obftinate profeflion. But can plaufible pretenfions to fanctityfavourite and amufing notions taken up at pleasure, and occafionally quitted be allowed by unprejudiced reafon, fufficient to warrant, or excufe the commiffion of grofs abfurdities, and ir. regularities, and manifeft violations of the most facred laws of God and nature?-The dangerous confequences of fuch tenets, and the fallacy of thofe arguments used in defence of them, being to obvious, they at once ftand Jan. 1768, To expofed and felf condemned. Neverthelefs I fee with the utmost concern many of my well meaning country men eagerly fwallow down thefe, and other strange concelts if poffible more inconfiftent and romantic and though golpel light thines with a meridian brightnels on this happy land, they fuffer themfelves to be deluded by the ignis fatuus of enthufiafm, and wantonly neglect thofe peculiar bleffings which the beft formed conftitution, and most reasonable and fcriptural fcheme of faith this day in the world, do afford them; adopt and encourage opinions and practifes that have a direct tendency to the fubverfion of both, and have already involved both in the most imminent danger, and diftrefs. prove this affertion we need only refer to the dark annals of the grand rebellion, which contain glaring inftances of the most abominable ani pernicious confequences of fanaticilm: in that fhocking fcene, the blackelt characters were performed by men of this ftamp. The like has operated very alarm ingly in later and different periods. And in the prefent age has proved fatal to many individuals. We not only lee it often afford to men of the most corrupt principles an opportunity of facrificing the property, friends, innocence, and every dear poffeffion of thofe who are unhappily betrayed by this fatànical artifice, to their luft and avarice; but have recent inftances of notorious vices being openly practifed, and impioufly vindicated, by thefe wolves in theep's cloathing; nay to fo flagrant a height have they carried their outrage agamit all virtue, decency, and common enfe, as to recommend the fame extravagancies to their followers: Some of whom I believe indeed unchargable with purfuits fo baie and abandoned; but being once feduced by artful infinuations, favour, A 2 ing 4 Addrefs to the Liverymen Where this contagious evil will end is uncertain, it is in its nature evidently deftructive to law, reason, and religion. I would therefore earnestly recommend to those who are yet untainted with the poifonous infection of romance and enthusiasm, and to others not totally involved in this beguiling mift of the old ferpent's, ferio fly to confider, how we make way for him, by creating divifions in a communion that imparts every means of falvation, that either reafon or revelation can difcover. And if any one fancies himfelf actuated by a degree of faith and grace fuperior to what he imagines in the rest of mankind, let him manifeft it by fuitable good works. The unity of the church of Chrift is its fureft fupport, and a fincerely pious endeavour to promote that important end, by an uniform and confiftent faith and practife, the peculiar characteristic of the friend of God and man: This is the criterion that diftinguishes the good man from the bad, and the true chriftian from the hypocrite. I am, fir, HAVING had a former taste of your impartiality, I am thereby encouraged to hope you will publifh thefe lines, the defign of which is to refcue a part of God's holy word from an interpretation, the moft foreign that could poffibly be given it. In attempting this, I hall make ufe of no human authority, but go according to the good old rule, The fcripture is the beft interpreter of itself. In p. 638 of your laft Mag. A. N. has produced Dr, Lardner's opinion of thofe words in Eph. ii. 3. We were by nature the children of wrath even as others where by nature he understands our former fate, before we were en Jan. lightened by the gofpel; that then we committed actual fins as well as others. But defire your correfpondent to turn to Gal. ii. 15. where the infallible penman of fcripture uses the fame word, we are Jews by nature, piss by birth, from tw which fignifies to beget. Seeing this is the evident unforced meaning of the word in one place, why not in the other? Befides, by this conftruction of Eph. ii. 3. that we were children of wrath by birth (not by cuftom,) a needlefs tautology is prevented, and the climax is preserved. In the first part of the verse the apoftle laments a course of actual tranfgreffions in times past, and then traces these polluted ftreams to the corrupt fountain, juft as David had done before him in pfal. LI. 5. Behold I was fhapen in iniquity, and in fin did my mother conceive me. I am, fir, your humble fervant, Jan. 18. 1768. London. R. W. To the Worthy Liverymen of the City of Gentlemen, AT 2 meeting called at the king's arms tavern for that purpose, I fee it has been recommended to us, to chufe for a reprefentative for the city of London, a gentleman from Boston. What the particular obligations are, the city of London owes to the town of Bofton, thofe gentlemen will be pleased to inform us, who direct us to look thither for a city member. But it unfortunately happens, that at the very time while thefe gentlemen are withing us to think fo highly of a Bofton education, and recommending to us a gentleman trained up in all the principles of that loyal and obedient town, the people of Boston are so very little defirous of our good opinion, that they are openly avowing the most unfriendly difpofitions towards us; and endeavouring, as far as is in their power, to ruin almost every branch of the trade of this city. At a meeting of the freeholders, and other inhabitants of the town of Bofton, affembled at their town-hall for that purpose on Wednesday the 28th of September 1767, an affociation was entered into by which they promise and engage, that they will not, from and after the 31ft of December, purchafe any of the following articles: Loaf 1768. Loaf fugar and paste ware Snuff Muftard Clocks and watches Silversmiths and jewellers ware Broad cloths that coft above ten fhillings peryard Muffs, furrs and tippets all forts Horfe furniture Men and womens hats Men and womens apparel ready made Houshold furniture Gloves Men and womens Stays, women and fhoes All forts of millinery ware Starch childrens Fire engines Sole leather Gold and filver velvets F 5 all forts Gold and filver buttons Wrought plate of all forts Diamond,ftone, of Virginia, &c. by witholding their orders,enable the men of Bofton to pay their debts? This extraordinary endeavour, therefore, to perfwade all the other colonies to refufe to trade with us, proves, that it was malice, and not parfimony, which prompted them to this combination; and that the real intention of it was not to relieve themselves, but to diftrefs us. Whatever may be the evil difpofition which these people bear to their parent country, I have remarked, that they fcarce ever have ventured upon any particular measures of exprefling their ill-will, which have not been first advifed or fuggefted to them from their correfpondents here. And accordingly, upon looking over fome of the Bolton Gazettes, in that of the 28th of September laft, I find the following article, Pewterers hollow viz. ware Silks of all kinds for garments Malt liquors and cheese. Though none of the other provinces will be weak enough probably to be led by thefe Bofton incendiaries, yet it will not be their fault if all our American colonies do not combine together against our trade in the fame manner; for not content with having entered into this affociation for themselves, they have also unanimously refolved, "That the foregoing vote, and form of a subscription relative to the enumerated articles, be immediately pub. lifhed; and that the felect men be directed to diftribute a proper number of them among the freeholders of this town; and to forward a copy of the fame to the select men of every town in the province; as alfo to the principal city or town officers of the chief towns of the feveral colonies on the continent, as they may think proper." Their countrymen and abettors here very affectedly give out that the people of Boston have done this only to enable themfelves to pay their debts. But although that might be a reafon for their buying nothing of us themfelves, yet it could be none for their thus exciting all the other colonies not to deal with us. Should the gentlemen of Virginia, for inftance, take the advice of thefe Boftonmen, (which they moft certainly will not) will the people The following Extract of a Letter from a "Yesterday the bill for fufpending the legislation of New York, until the faid colony fhall comply with the mutiny act, and for establishing a board of cuftoms, were read a fecond time in the houfe of lords; and the bill of commercial taxation paffed in the fame houfe to be ingroffed. With respect to providing for the troops, no oppofition is fo reasonable because none can be fo effectual, as that which procured the repeal of the ftamp-act, viz. the general engagement to import no goods from England, till fuch a taxation be removed or difclaimed by a repeal of the act. And the efficacy of this mode of oppofition could never be more affuredly depended upon, then at prefent; because that the manufacturers can but barely fupport themselves under the prefent fcarcity of provifions and flackness of trade; which is fo· great a discouragement, that although wool never was dearer in England than now, yet cloths are twenty per cent. cheaper than ever was known, so that fhould your demand ceafe for a year or two, the utmost you can defire would be effected here, without any unconftitutional oppofition on your parts, &c." What merchant it was who could write fuch a letter as this, I am not in the leaft degree qualified to guess: He could |