1768. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. of the 13th regiment of foot, in his room St. James's, Jan. 20. The earl of Hillsbo- From the Reft of the Papers. Richard Rochford Mervin, Efq; is appointed lieut. çol, of the 39th regiment and William Fleming, Efq; major of the 64thAnthony Todd, Efq; fecretary to the postoffice-Rt. hon. Richard Rigby, a vicetreasurer of Ireland-Mr. Richard Jupp, is chofen furveyor of the Eaft-India company. Alteration in the Lift of Parliament. 55 hot iron, and whipped; that they fhall afterward be confined, for the reft of their days, in a house of correction, in order to be kept there to hard labour ; and laftly, that every year, on the day of their crime, they shall be whipped a new in public. Warfaw, Dec. 8. In the fittings of the 21st of last month, the Prince Primate laid before the national confederacy the following points, aft, That the law, Rex Catbolicus efto, fhould be confirmed. 2d, That the right of electing a king should be maintained, without ever fhewing any regard to hereditary right. 3d. That the Roman Catholic religion should be maintained at all times as predominant. 4th, That the king fhall never have a right to alienate any eftates belonging to the republic. 5th, That no perfon whatsoever shall be liable to be confined without having been first TWEEDALE. Dept. A der Hay, in the condemned. 6th, That the Librum Victo in room of John Dickfon, Efq; maker. B-NK-PTS. JAMES Pearfon- of Horton Mills, Berks, paper. Toifon Banting, of Wooldale, Yorkshire, dealer. Edmund Madey. of London, mariner ând dealer. John Waud, of St. George Hanover-square, butcher. matters of state, shall be preferved in its full 8th, William Cooke, of Romiey, Hants, grocer, baker, be registered three months after they are and maiter. N OTHING can more plainly fhew the effects of enthusiasm than the following account from Denmark, Dec. 29. Within these few years a fet of people have been discovered here, feized with a divorder of mind that is extremely dangerous to fociety. This is an imagination, that, by committing premeditated murther, and being afterwards condemned to die for it, they are the better able, by public marks of repentance and conver fion as they go to the scaffold, to prepare themselves for death, and work out their own falvation. A little while ago, one of thefe wretches murthered a child out of the fame principle. In order, however, to take from these wretches all hope of obtaining their end, and to extirpate the evil, the king iffued, on the 11th of this month, an ordinance, by which his majefty forbids the puaithing them with death; and enacts, that they shall be branded in the forehead with a granted. 11th, That no affair of ftate, that has been once rejected, fhall be brought on the carpet again. 12th, That it fhall be lawful to fell, or make over by way of inheritance, any lands, to the burghers and husbandmen, and that the ftate vaffalage fhall be fuppreffed. 13th, That all foreigners, who shall have lived ten years in the country, fhall be reputed citizens. 14th, That the Jus caducum thall bd granted to the king. 15th, That provifion thall be made that the great cities, fuch as Cracow and others, fhall enjoy again a feat and vote in the diets. And 16th, That perfons of plebeian extraction shall be invefted as hereto fore with places in the affefforial courts of juftice. But we fhall foon be able to give a more authentic account of these points; for by the laft mail we are told, that they are now drawn up into the form of a treaty between Ruffia and the republick of Poland, which the Prince de Repnin, the Ruffian ambaffador, has fent to Mofcow, in order to have it ratified by her imperial majefty. Vienna, Dec. 30. Our court hath received from that of Madrid fome difpatches relative to the choice which the Catholic king was defired to make of one of the archducheffes to be queen of Naples; this choice hath fallen on the Archduchess Caroline, who is a year and fome months younger than the late Archduchefs Jofepha was. The formality of demanding her royal highnefs in marriage for 56 FOREIGN AFFAIRS. for his Sicilian majefty has just been made, and the portrait of that monarch hath been prefented to the princefs. The departure of the princess for Italy will take place towards the fpring, as foon as the public roads fhall be paffable. Madrid, Dec. 1. The council has fent to all the archbishops, bishops, and other preJates of this kingdom, a circular letter, written the 15th of April, 1766, by the bishop of Cuenca, to the King's Confeffor, which letter was full of complaints against his majefty's government and his ministry, and againft the Confeffor himself. This circular letter, which is printed, begins with the copy of a schedule addreffed by the king to the bishop of Cuenca, on occafion of that prelate's letter. His majefty's schedule is as follows: The KING. "Reverend Father in Jefus Chrift, Bishop of Cuenca, Member of my council. My confeffor, in order to acquit his confcience and mine, has communicated to me the letter that you wrote him in a tranfport of your zeal. You fay in that letter, that this kingdom is ruined by the perfecution of the church; that you have foretold this ruin, but that the truth had not made its way to my ears, although my Confeffor was not the only perfon you made ufe of "to convey it to me. I affure you, that all the misfortunes that might befall me in this world, would affect my heart less than the unhappiness of the people which God has entrusted to me; I love them as my own children, and I defire nothing more ardently than their advantage, their eafe, and their profperity. But what aff &ts me moft is, that you should fay to my Confeffor, that the church is perfecuted in my cacholic dominions; that it's wealth is plundered, it's minifters abufed, and it's immunities trodden under foot. I glory in being the eldeft fon of fo holy and good a mother; no title does me more honour than that of Catholic: I am ready to shed my blood to main zain it. But fince you fay that the light has not reached my eyes, nor the truth my ears, I with you would let me know in what confifte this perfecution of the church, of which I am not informed, on what oceations her goods have been pillaged, her minifters affronted, and her facred immunities trodden under foot. What other canal befides that of my Confeffor have you made ufe of to enlighten me, and what are the motives which oblige you to write? You may explain yourself freely, by following the uprightness of your intentions, and your pious franknefs upon every thing that this important matter requires, in order that I may examine and dive into it, and fafatify, as I ought, the obligation that God has impofed upon me. I expect from your attachment to me, and from the zeal that ani mates you, that you will let me know, in a particular manner, your grievances against my government, it's want of piety and religion, and the wrongs they may have caused to the church; for I have nothing fo much at heart, as the taking of wife and prudent measures, and of rendering to the church and her minifters, the refpect and the veneration that is due to them. At Aranjuez, the 19th of May, 1767.. (Signed) I THE KING. Florence, Dee. 14. On the ft inftant at night, a fire broke out at the houfe of a druggift, which in a few hours confumed fix other houses. Among them was one be longing to a fhewman, who had feveral animals there intended for the combats of wild beafts. The fire having confumed a stable, in which were two lions, one tiger, and three bears, thofe voracious animals became furious, and efcaping out of the place of their confinement, fell upon the multitude, and traverfed the whole city, overturning every thing in their way. In an inftant, the air refounded with the cries of the unhappy wretches who became their prey. A hundred men were commanded to give chace to them, who happily killed two bears, one lion, and the tiger, but the other lion elcaped. As foon as day appeared, we faw with terror the dreadful ravage made by the fire, but ftill more that by the wild beasts. It is reckoned, that a hundred people are killed, and a much greater number hurt. The "ode on the ftarry beavens, must be more polifhed, the expletives be expurged, and the measure more attended to, and it will then be inferted. The author feems very capable of the task. The epithalamium on the nuptials of Dr-, -is too grofs. We are always pleased with the correspondence of a freebolder of Norfolk: but his late letter bas nothing new in it. Covetousness burfts the bag, is too puerile for infertion. The elegiac verfes on Mr. L-, tho' “affectió. nate, are not poetical-The verfes from Bridgnorth, are liable to the fame objection.-The Speech recommended by Effex, in our next. P. P. P. put us to the expence of 4 d. for his wit; but it was not worth the money, as be will now perceive, and might have known by turning to p. 556. but the itch of writing was upon him and be could not help fetting pen to paper. Dyche's or Entick's fpelling dictionaries, are rècommended as guides for bim in future. The Theatrical Intelligencer in our next without fail. We were obliged to poftpone it as the Review of Books required fo much room; · Mr. J. B. the curate, writer of a letter in our Mag. for December, p. 601. relating to his diftreffes, is defired to call upon R. Baldwin, in Pater-nofter Row, of whom, if he afcertains the falls therein fiated, he may bear of fomething to his advantage. Stocks, Grain, Wind and Weather 50 On Eph. ii. 3. Theological Queries 92, 93 With an accurate PLAN of BROADSTREET and CORNHILL WARDS; VIEWs of Three Churches; and a Reprefentation of the SIREN of LINNUS, or MuD-İNGUANA, of SOUTH-CAROLINA; all finely engravel. LONDON: Printed for R. BALDWIN, at No. 47, in Pater-nofter Row; Of whom may be had, compleat Sets, from the Years 1732, to this Time, neatly bound or Atitched, or any fingle Month to complete Sets. CHARLES CORBETT, at No. 30, facing St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-Street, STOCK-BROKER, who buys and fells in the Stocks by Commiiffion, and tranfacts the Lottery Business as usual. Mark Lane Exchange | Bafingitoke Evesham. Farnham. Henley, Worcester. Barley 225. od. to 278. 268. to 275. 38. 5dto 38.6d 278 to 28s. od 288 to 30 q 428 to 24 Devizes. Gloucefter. Hereford. Monmouth. 1 421 to 47 qr 569 to 64 qu78 06d bufhel 7s 68 bu.91878 bush.10 gal Hay per load 278t0 57. 348 to 35 030d to 39 300s od to 48 od 48 2d to 48 4d Straw from 145. to 19 158 od to 18,158 to 17 221 to 24 3 4d to 33 6d 28 6d to os od 284d to 23 05d Coals. 441, per chald, 28s to 32 orloos to do 1320 to 54 Tas 6d to 31 8dlos od to os ad los od to oa od Hops al. to 21. 68 London. Price of cora THE LONDON MAGAZINE, For FEBRUARY, 1768. THE BRITISH THEATRE. can fcarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue." This being the cafe, it is greatly to be lamented, that a production upon fuch a plan is fo imperfectly executed, as to afford but little hope of correcting the madnefs of good-nature, by maintaining a rank in the lift of our acting, or ftock, plays at the theatre. It must however be confeffed, for the honour of Dr. Goldfinith, that he seems to have erred much less thro a want of real genius for the stage, than through an accountable partiality for the humour of Moliere, and other celebrated writers of the last century. HOUGH the diffenfions between the new patentees of Co. vent Garden Theatre have been carried to fuch a vehement length, as to produce appeals on both fides to the awful tribunal of the public, Mr. Colman, the acting manager, has nevertheless been indefatigable in promoting the entertainment of the town, and a new comedy called the Good-natured Man, written by Dr. Goldfmith, the celebrated author of the Traveller, has been brought out fince our laft; but we are forry to fay the fuccefs of In his preface he fays, "When I this piece no way anfwered the very undertook to write a comedy, I conwarm expectations which were enter- fefs I was ftrongly prepoffelfed in fatained of its merit by the world; eve- vour of the poets of the last age, and ry body naturally looked for an ex- ftrove to imitate them.-The term traordinary production from the maf- genteel comedy was then unknown terly hand which enriched the repub- among us, and little more was defirlic of letters with the Profpect of Socied by an audience than nature and huety; yet it is too melancholy a truth, mour, in whatever walks of life they that every body who cherished this were moft confpicuous. The author fanguine opinion, was unhappily dif- of the following fcenes never imagined appointed when it made its appearance that more would be expected of him, upon the ftage. and therefore to delineate character has been his principal aim.-Thofe. who know any thing of compofition, are fenfible, that in purfuing humour it will fometimes lead us into the receffes of the mean; I was even tempted to look for it in the mafter of a fpunging-houfe: But in deference to the public tafte, grown of late, perhaps, too delicate, the fcene of the bailiffs (a fcene which gave great offence the firft night) was retrenched in the reprefentation-In deference alfo to the judgment of a few friends who think in a particular way the fcene is here restored. The author fub. mits it to the reader in his clofet; H 2 and The defign of the Good-natured Man is truly laudable; it is intended to inculcate the principles of univerfal benvolence, yet at the fame time it is calculated to fhew the dangerous confequences of that benevolence, which is indifcriminately fhowered upon the worthy and the undeferving; which is frequently unjuft in order to be frequently generous, and which moft commonly disobliges every body, from too earnest a folicitude to engage the efteem of all-But as Sir William Honeywood, one of the characters, fays, "There are fome faults fo nearly allied to excellence, that we Feb. 1768. |