Amfterdam, homeward bound from Surinam, HH,, weftern world, begin thy better fate,

laden with French fugars, cocoa and coffee. Happier than when Columbus reach'd thy climes Allo a veffel from Fiall bound to Bremen: And gave thee Europe's arts with Europe's fhe failed from Rio de Janeiro in January last, crimes, was there in October, when Gen. Lally arrived with 5 men of war and 2 frigates for the Eaft Indies: his fleet fuffered greatly by ficknefs, fo much that he was heard to fay, he would not be able to undertake any thing against the English. On his departure he left an officer with difpatches for Europe, but he died on the way; and in fearching the ship, they were found and forwarded to the govern

And liberty there lends thy fons her aid
Where lately mourn'd the long imprifon'd

maid.

Thus dire inchanters of romantick name
In caftle dark immure fome royal dame,
Secur'd with magic bolts and circling mounds,
Where watchful wizards take their midnight
rounds,

'Till the predeftin'd hero fent by fate,
With fword high charm'd affails the iron gate,
The bolts recoil, the grating hinges roar,
The bars fly fhatter'd from the burfling door,
Obftructing mounds in crumbled ruins lie,
And the fair captive meets her champion's eye.
Thus liberty releas'd by heroes hands,
From Breton's cape furveys Hefperian lands,
Then fprings aloft, divides the paffive air,
And spreads her pinions o'er the western fphere;
Her form divine revives the fainting earth,
And gives the late-known worlds a fecond birth,
So chang'd, fo temper'd by her powerful name,
That he who found them lofes half his fame:
For when the fated ages fhall have run,
And fhewn new empires to the fetting fun,
The rifing Æras fhall their date refrain,
To Pitt, and Liberty, and George's reign.

DEATHS.

AUG. 2.
Efq;-5. Edward Belton, Efq; M. P. for the
borough of Swords.-6. Mrs. Catherine Nixon
fifter of the late David Nixon, Elq;-Capt.
North Quin of the Norfolk Indiaman.-14.
John Hawkins, Efq; Ulfter king of arms.-
16. Anthony Dillon jun. of Belgard, Elqi-
Right Hon. Lady Darcy, relick of the late
Lord Darcy.-John Leigh of Rofgarland,
co. of Wexford, Efq; M P. for the borough
of New rofs.-18. Mr. Henry Maplereft, fur-
geon to his majesty's Tenders, and fick and
hurt femen.-John Bolton of Island co. of
Wexford, Efq;-19. Capt. John Bateman of
Lord Forbes's regiment.-Mafter Hinton, only
child of the late Thomas Hinton, Efq;-
21. Dr. Thomas Knox, phyfician to the Dub-
lin work houfe.-At Limerick, Edmund Brad-
bar, Efq; major to general Pole's reg. of
foot.-23. At Cork, Aribur Northcote of Wa-
terboufe, Efq-At Scabby, co. of Cavan, Mr.
John Stoane, aged 101, he was at the fiege
of Derry, and ferved as lieut. of horse un-
der K. William; during his life, he enjoyed
an uncommon fhare of good health, as he
never had been bled, or underwent any phyfi
cal operation, and to the laft could read with-
out the help of fpectacles.-At Clonmell, the
wife of Samuel Gordon, Eiq,-27. At Gal-
way, Hugh Fergus, M. D. Enfign George
Gill, of Yorke's regiment.-At Charleville, the
Revd, Jonathan Bruce, dean of Kilfenor a.

HE wife of Paul Crosbie of

Trebic-park co. of Wicklow,

SAT. 26. Came on to be determined in the court of Admiralty, the caufe in regard to the Spanifb fhips La Fortuna and Baftavella from St. Sebaftians, taken by the Securge privateer of Bristol, and brought into London. derry, the former fhip and cargo were adjudged lawful prizes, but the proof against the latter not appearing fufficiently fatisfactory, the parties are to have another hearing. Was executed near Cork, Jobanna Keogbane, for the murder of James O Hea, Efq; (See p. 608, 1756, deaths) fhe behaved with decency and acknowledged herself only, to be concerned, and that the shot the fired was intended for ano- Aug. 1 Dward Shields, Efq; elected ther; and Catherine Sheebane, for the murder of her Hunt.

JULY 29. A

MARRIAGES.

T Windfor, Charles Shipton of the co, of Cork, Efq; to Mifs Sufan Whitehead of that place.-AUGUST 4 At Cork, Matthew Erberry, Efq; to Mils Crofton.-At Galway, Lieut. William Bury of Ld. Forbes's reg. to Mifs Ann Simcocks.-John Higginbotham of Bolton co. of Kildare, Elq; to Mary one of the daughters and co-heireffes of Richard Toler of Bellatore faid co. Efq;. Kelly Prendergast of Rathmore co. of Galway, Efq; to Mifs French of Tyrone in faid co.-21. John Pagett of London, Efq; to the eldest daug. of James Dunn, Efq; one of the reprefenta tives in parliament for the city of Dublin

PROMOTIONS.

and George Lewis, fheriff's; John Staunton, Efq; recorder, and ald. James O Hara, townclerk of Galway.-4. Right hon, lord vifc. Jocelyn, and the Right hon. lord baron Carysfort, were fworn of his majesty's privy council.-5. John Dalton, Efq; app. collector of Atblone. (John Guftavns Handcock, Elq; ref.)

14. Revd. Oliver Cary, A. M. prelented to the Union of Enniscorthy, dioc. of Ferns, (John Heydon, dec.)-Right hon. John vifc. Caftlecomér, created Earl of Wandesford.-Rt. hon. Sir Arthur Gore, bart, created visc. Sudley of Cafle-Gore.-Rt. hon. John Bowes, Efq; Lord Chancellor of Ireland, created baron Bowes of Clonlyon.-John Tunnadine, Efq; app, one of the masters in Chancery (Dr. Wall refigned).-25. The Revd. Theodore Martin collated to the rectory of Dyfertlin in the dioc. of Armagh, (Revd. William Martin, his father, dec.)

THE

GENTLEMAN's

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LONDON

MAGAZINE,

For SEPTEMBER, 1758.

To be continued. (Price a British Six-pence each Month.)

CONTAINING,

1. Anecdotes of the Life of Sir Hans Sloane. II. Further Account of Cherburg, by an Offieer in the late Expedition.

XVI. Letters fent by the K. of Pruffia to his
Minifters abroad, with a detail, of the late
Battle fought between him and the Ruffians.

III. Hiftory of laft Seffion of Parliament.-XVII. The Vienna Account of the fame.
Proceedings on opening the Seflion.-Care
of the People, in preventing the exporta-
tion of Corn, &c.-Supplies granted, with
Remarks on fome particular Grants.
IV. History of our own Language concluded.
V. An Enquiry into the Nature and Effect of
the Writ of Habeas Corpus.

XVIII. Obfervations on the Battle of Zorn-
dorff, published by Authority, at Berlin;
the wing for whofe Side Victory declared,
and the falfity of other Accounts.
XIX. General Fermor's Letter to Count Dobna,

VI. Remarks on the Fate of the late Bill for
the better Security of the Privileges of the

with the Count's Answer.

XX. Lord Howe, and Gen. Bligh's Letters in regard to the late Expedition to the Coaft of France.

People.-Advice to the Commons and Peo-XXI. Account of the unfortunate Attack at

ple on the Occafion.

VII. On the Choice of Religion.-Effects of

Methodifm.-Criterion of true Religion.

VIII. A circumstantial Relation of the Expe

dition against St. Malo's illuftrated with
Notes from other Accounts, by a Person of
Diftinction.

IX. Remarks on the Life and Reign of Philp,
King of Macedon, the Father of Alexander.
X. Political Anecdotes and Reflections with
Remarks on some eminent Characters,
XI. The Travels of a Guinea.
XII. Debates on the Seamen's Bill continued.-
Obfervations on the particular Clauses, fhew-
ing how highly Advantageous they must be.
XIII. POETRY. The Bachelor's Soliloquy
A Paftoral Elegy by Mr. Boyce.-A true
Character of the King of Pruffia.
XIV. Mr. Mitchel's Account of the Battle of
Zorndorff.

XV. General Fermor's Account of the fame.

Ticonderoga.

HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.

XXII. Great Fire at Deptford.-Proceffion of the Colours taken at Louisbourg, and in France.-Devaftations by the Plague at Smyrna, Gen. Forbes proceeds on his ExXXIII. Lift of Ships taken on both Sides. pedition in America.

IRISH AFFAIRS.

XXIV. A Donation by the late Viscountess Allen, to Arklow Charter School.-The Amfterdam Galley burnt at Limerick.-Succefs of the Privateers against the Enemy.The City of Dublin's Address, on the late Success of his Majefty's Arms.-Proceedings of the Hibernian Society.-The firft Stone of the new Church of St. Thomas laid.-Jobn Hewey tried and found Guilty of Forgery. XXV. Lifts of Births, Marriages, Deaths and Promotions, for both Kingdoms.

With the PLANS of St. Malo's and Cherburg, and a View of the Coast; shewing their Situation and St. Cas Bay.

Printed for JOHN EXSHA W, at the Bible in Dame-Street.

Necdotes of the Life of Sir Hans Sloane, A paftoral elegy by Mr. Boyce,

Ste

The diftinguished merit of young Sloane, foon introduced him to the acquaintance of the two greatest naturalifts of the age, Mr. Raye and Mr. Boyle; and he was very careful to improve their friendship, by communicating to them every ftriking object of curiofity or ufe that fell under his obfervation. His intimacy with these two great men continued till their death, and his obfervations often excited their wonder, and obtained their applause,

IR Hans Sloane, Baronet, Prefi- fea. He likewife affiduoufly attended dent of the Royal Society, and the public lectures of anatomy and of the College of Phyficians in Lon- phyfic in London; and, in fhort, nedon, was born at Killileab in Ireland, glected nothing which had the leaft April 16, 1660. His father Alexander relation to his profeffion. Sloane, was at the head of the colony of Scots, which James the First fettled in the North of Ireland. Sir Hans, in his infancy, difcovered a ftrong inclination for the ftudy of Natural Hiftory, which his father encouraged by a fuitable education; and till he was fixteen years of age, he applied all thofe hours which youth are apt to fquander in trifling amusements, to the study of nature, and the admiration of her works. At the age of fixteen he was feized with a fpitting of blood, which interrupted the regular courfe of his fludies, and confined him to his chamber for three years. He had already learned enough of phyfic to know, that such a malady was not to be fuddenly cured, and his prudence directed him to abstain from wine and other liquors that were like ly to increase the diforder. By this fevere regimen he was enabled to prolong his life beyond the ordinary bounds prefcribed for the age of man, being himself an example of the truth of his favourite doctrine, that fobriety, temperance and moderation, are the best remedies, and the moft powerful, that nature has vouchfafed to mankind.'

He had hardly recovered this first attack, when his defire of perfecting himself in the feveral branches of phyfick, the profeffion he had chofen, led him to London, where he might receive thofe helps which he could not hope to obtain in his own country. With this view he entered himself as a pupil to the great Stafforth, an excellent chemift, bred under the illuftrious Stahl; and by his inftructions, he gained a perfect knowledge of the compofition and preparation of the different medicines he was in the courfe of his future practice to prescribe; and at the fame time ftudied Botany at the famous garden at Chel

After fix years fevere ftudy in London, Mr. Shane refolved to improve the knowledge he had acquired, by travelling into Foreign countries. With this view, in 1683, he, with two other students, fet out for France. One of his companions in this tour, was Sir Tancred Robinson, afterwards physician in ordinary to K. George the First.

In their way from Dieppe to Paris they were elegantly entertained by the famous M. Lemery, the father; and in return, Mr. Sloane obliged that eminent chemift with a specimen of the four different kinds of phosphorus, of which, upon the credit of other writers, he had treated in his book, but had never before feen either of them.

Mr. Sloane lived at Paris as he bad done at London. He attended the Hofpitals, heard the lectures of Meffrs, Tournefort, Verney, and other eminent mafters, vifited the learned of every faculty, who received him with particular marks of esteem; and employed himself wholly in improving his ftudies.

From Paris he went to Montpelier, and having letters of recommendation from M. Tournefort, to M. Chirac, then Chancellor and Profeffor of that University, he found an easy access, thro' his means, to all the learned men of the province, and particular, ly to M. Magnol, whom he always PPP 2

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