Hiftory of the laft feffions of parliament 9- 16.-Proceedings on the militia bill, with Petitions for further regulations 9.-Alte rations made in it by the lords 11.- Further improvements intended, but then fufpended 12. Defects of the bill 13.-The bill for quartering of foreign troops 14.-Ditto for regulating the marine forces while on fhore 20 27 The political hiftory of our own times 16- 21.-Account of the Ruffian empire 17.- Refcued from barbarity by Peter the first ib. -His great genius and pains to civilize his people ib-His defign about the German fyftem 17.-The Ruffian connections with other courts of Europe 18.-Of Sweden and their Government 19.-Their Connections with France ib.-The inclination and views Narrative of the adventurers who furvived the lofs of the Doddington Indiaman 21-27. -Leave the ifland in the Happy Deliver- Mr. Sheridan's oration on education, with re- marks 27-44.-Inducement to his defign 27.-Abfentees particularly diftreflive to Ireland 28.-An education in England, why fuppofed more elegible 29-Caufe of the declenfion of the schools in Ireland, with the Character of the generality of their con- ductors 30--Bishop Berkeley's opinion in regard to education 31.-Remedies propofed for our education here 32.-Difficulty in executing new defigns 33-Mr. Sheridan's particular opportunities for executing the plan propofed 53.-Converfation with Dr. Swift on the modern method 36.-A new fcheme defigned 39.-Manner of executing it 40.-Neceffity for fuch a reformation 44. -Remarkable motion of the D. of Bucking- bam 42.-Perfuafive arguments for execut- The tryal of Sir John Mordaunt, for his fail- ure, in the expedition against Rochefort 44 -48.-When first projected 45.-Sir John receives his commiffion and proceeds 46.- Reports made by the officers who went on Arrival of the French fleet from Louisbourg 55-Brave action of Capt. Bray ib.-Some of the Namur's people ordered into cuftody 56.-Prefent made to Capt. Lockhart ib.- A letter from Capt, Lockhart in regard to the fleet in the W. Indies ib.-King's mef- fage to his H. of Commons 57.-Peculiar care of the L. L. of Ireland ib.--Capt. Elliot's fuccefs ib.-Maffacre of the pil- grims from Mecca 58,-Mr. Foot's impofi. A fcheme for the improvement of navigation, far ib.-Commendable behaviour of the gentlemen on the coaft of Wicklow ib.— The K. of Pruffia's birth day celebrated 64. Proceedings of the Hibernian fociety 64 e e of HE fermon before us is afcri Tbed in the daily papers (though bed in the daily papers (though his name is not in the title-page) to one 6 It is plain, and it is happy mostly for the family where it falls out, that where that apple of gold, in a picture of filver, beauty and virtue meet, they bear an irrefiftable fway over the hearts of men; and where the heart is inflaved, the will is too fast chained to be free; for the fame link will always draw both: how many impetuous and daring fpirits, who have awed even their fovereigns, and made whole fenates tremble, have been seen fervilely crouching to draw the smiles of a wife; and the conquerors of the world, for thefe and other little en rity of the fubject, and the very extra-dearments fain to lay all their tro phies and laurels at their feet, fatisfied as with a full reward, as if this had been the end and aim of their toil.' He then fteps out of his way to refute lord Bacon's, affertion, ⚫ that In wives and children are hindrances to great atchievements,' and alledges, in oppofition to it, that moft of the great heroes in the world have been married men; this naturally leads him to the praife of wedlock what he fays upon this is the best part of his difcourfe. ordinary manner in which it is treated, The doctor fets out very gravely and folemnly, to inform us that the bafinefs of this difcourfe is, 1ft. To affert the honour and dignity of the married state, zdly, To hew in what way both the honour and happiness of it may be beft fecured: and to this end, after fome common obfervations on the celibacy of monks, and the aufterities of a cloister, he proceeds to take to task the other enemies to matrimony, call'd libertines, who endeavour, by banter and ridicule, to bring this ftate into contempt. In this part of his discourse we meet with a digreflive encomium on the fair fex. Without this partnership, hardly any condition or fortune yields much content: a four and peevith inquietude, which in the long run turns ever into melancholy, grows upon the best tempers in a folitary and A.2. at 1910 mod fingle * fingle state, which the sweetness and chearfulness peculiar to the sex either banishes or prevents. Between man and man, the closest and dearest ⚫ friendship rarely continues long, because they never can bring their obligations and interefts to be the fame. Here the ties of both lead < one way; and as the knot is indiffoluble, fo, for that reason, may the friendship.' A little after this, which is all very true, and not ill exprefs'd, the doctor begins to be jocular, and raises our fmiles by the following facecious paragraph. Men may not brook to be told this; but as I am here luckily out of the reach of contradiction, I will tell them, that for the little virtue many of them have, they are indebted folely to the advice and example of their wives, agreeably infinuated at seasons when none other ⚫ can reach them, and operating in a variety of ways that no words can • describe; nor any judgment but theirs, who are ever with them, and about them, could dictate; as may ⚫ be seen from the many inftances of of fuch as turn idle contemptible fots, to the ruin of their affairs and families, who used to be tolerably ⚫ fober and decent, whilst they had the awe and advantage of a curtain •lecture.' This is furely language a little too jocofe and familiar for the pulpit, befides that it conveys in one part ideas much too loofe for the fubject and occasion. The doctor then proceeds to lay down fome hints to explain how the honour of matrimony may be kept up; here again he grows grave and fenfible. Let love (Jays he) tie the knot; ⚫let hearts be joined as well as hands, and all the little incidents which are the common occafions of flrife and vexation, will rarely happen, or if they do, find an easy remedy; where there is mutual love, there will be mutual defire to please, and defire will both beget and quicken endea vour: it will either prevent or extinguish every fufpicious jealousy, difpofe the party in the wrong to make suitable acknowledgments, and the other grateful requitals. When afunder, it will inflame them with a defire to fhorten abfence; when together, it will be a fpring of lasting fatisfaction; they will part with regret, and they will meet with joy. But ftill love must have esteem for its foundation, and virtue for its fupport, otherwife brutal luft will as well deferve the name; and every trifling incident will give it fome allay they who are cautious and difcreet in their choice feldom find reafon to repent: and wisdom in men, and chastity in women should weigh moft in that balance, which is to determine their mutual choices; for the strongest bond of chastity and obedience in the wife, is the opinion fhe hath of her husband's wisdom; and the strongest bond of ⚫ the husband's love, is the opinion he hath of her modefty and fidelity.' The doctor then defcends again into the familiar, and talks about wives clamors, and husbands going to taverns, and very warmly recommends careffing and endearments, as the best way to foften wives, and make them obfequious. The difcourfe then con. cludes very gravely and very properly with thefe words: 6 After all that can be faid, it is religion alone which can fecure the joys and comforts of this and of every other ftate. Religion indeed will not raise love where there was none before, but it will always preferve it where it is: it will calm the mind, it will purify the heart, it ⚫ will regulate the defires, it will correct any perverfity of will, it will give good difpofitions and confirm them, check evil ones and subdue them: it will make us mild and tractable, and fober and chaste ; commence a kind of heaven upon earth, and lead to everlasting blifs in the heaven of heavens hereafter. Such Such is doctor Brett's fermon, will and direct. In proof of this he which, as he informs us himself, in quotes Elian, Diodorus Siculus, Arifioan advertisement prefix'd to it, was phanes, and Valerius Maximus, &c. greatly admir'd; many interceding to + who, each of them, tell us fome read or take copies of it: infomuch story or other about the fuperiority of that he was oblig'd to print it, for the women, and their power over their fatisfaction of his friends; to which husbands: from all which the doctor be was the easier induced, as it gave thinks he has a right to conclude, him the opportunity of paying no unac- that from madam Eve to madam ceptable compliment to lady Caroline Pampadour' (ftrange language this Ruffel, to whom it is faid to have been for a divine) the fceptre hath ever dedicated. ⚫ been in the hands of the fair." This dedication is indeed a most un- The dedication begins thus. There is an Italian proverb, He then defires her ladyship to look eat for a husband; and after a little See (fays our learned doctor) Henry, firnamed the Great: In the cabinet, how politic and wife: in the field, how perfevering, valiant and intrepid! was even he the fovereign of his own will? no: but the fervant of Madam Gabrielle d'Etrees: fee him attending her in her accouchment, feasoning her gruels, and warming her flannels, doing all the offices of a valet or a chambriere: his foul, we must say, "was undoubtedly in her hands, the • could turn it whitherfoever the willed.' ་ The following is perhaps the most extraordinary part of this extraordinary dedication. In the fifteenth century it happened, there lived a man in France, + Alex. ab Alex. tells you, fays the doctor) that his father, who by being a father had undoubtedly the advantage of good experience, never had this faying of Thales out of his mouth, and was ever twitting with it all who came in his way; thence proving, that whoever had a mind to be free, had this only way, to live fingle. Nor is this, Madam, by the way, any prejudice against mar flourish about the powers of fenfe, beau-riage, for the fame is true of a religious • We refer our readers to his curious dedication, beginning at, The learned have diflinguifhed, &c. fate; it alfo is a ftate of fervitude: but both are fufficiently recommended by this, That the yoke is eafy and the burden light. The doctor's application of feripture in this place, as well as in many other parts of this dedication, is fhamefully loofe, and borders very nearly, in our opinion, on prophaneness. • Alain Whether the good man at that ⚫ time was in any such reverie as might give him a fenfe of his felicity, as • the history is filent in this point, I know not. But this I that ⚫ had I been Alain, and your ladyfhip the Dauphinefs, though I had been ⚫ master of the sentences, I was going to fay, even author of the book of - proverbs, I would have accepted this honour, in compensation and full payment for the whole, as of more value than the annual prizes diftributed by the academy of infcrip. ⚫tions and belles lettres, or even those ⚫ more renowned of old at the Ifthmian games.' The doctor then tells her ladyfhip, that merit may as often be found ⚫ under a band and a cassock, as under · a fword-knot or feather;' and defires, that whenever fhe enters into holy wedlock, fome worthy nobleman of Ireland may be the happy man, and that he may be admitted the priest of Hymen bably imagine (as we do) that the author, however fenfible he appears in fome parts of the fermon, is a little touched; and will therefore, with the noble lady to whom it is addreffed, and her illuftrious family, pardon the wildness and indecency of it, and attribute it to their real causes, dotage, and delirium. Copy of the WILL of Her late Royal Highness Princess CAROLINE. Leave my fifter Amelia all I have in I poffeffion, and make her my fole executrix, excepting thefe few legacies: To my dear fifter Anne an enamelled cafe and two bottles of the fame fort. To my dear fifter Mary my emerald fet with diamonds, and the brilliant drops hanging to it, and my ruby hung with the queen's hair. To my dear fifter Louisa my diamond earrings, and all my rings. To my brother William my enamelled watch. This is my last will writ with my own hand. CAROLINA. St. James's, Apr. 18, 1741. Plan of a new military Establishment. Mr. URBAN, YOU know we are all Politicians good pretenfions as any of the reft to utter my reveries on that topic, and as I am neither foldier nor failor, but an honest citizen and an impartial byftander, I fhall deliver my crudities, which yet are founded upon fomething like obfervation and experience, with all the freedom of an Englishman, or, if you will, of a coffee-house patriot. The French, fir, live upon the continent, and as they are a wife people, know how to follow nature, and to comply with the circumstances of their fituation; the commonalty become foldiers, and the Nobleffe are chiefly bred |