288 GREAT HARRY. Romish Superftition. pleasure will diffuse itself thro' all his difcourfe, and will be seen in any of his actions that are connected with fub June Of the annexed PLATE. ject of this honeft pride, and as he will U or fovereign of England, in the wat be convinced, that he is above the reproof B Such a deportment, fo founded, is what we ought properly to understand by the term affurance; and fuch an assurance is at leaft an allowable, if not a defirable quality: He who prefumes fo far upon the ignorance of those with whom he converfes, as to affume this behaviour where he has not that inward conscioufnefs to support it, places impudence in the feat of affurance. Few people are able to judge, in many cafes, whether this eafy boldnefs has a juft or falfe foun- C dation; and as fuperiority, in any respect, is a thing one man is very ill fatisfied with allowing to another, it is not a wonder, that the two qualities, tho' fuch perfect and direct oppofites in themselves, are unavoidably confounded by the generality of the world, and purposely, tho' very difingenuously, by too many of those who are able to judge of them. We find Cicero and Demofthenes very frequently declaring, in very exprefs terms, a confcioufnefs of their own abilities, which the ingenuous candor of the times they lived in, never accused of impudence; and Ovid and Horace talk in the easiest manner in the world, of their having procur. ed themselves immortality by their poems. E I reverence the age in which a wellgrounded affurance was thus in fact, tho' perhaps not exactly in name, diftinguished from impudence; and am apt to believe, that a great deal of the spirit of thefe inimitable writers would have been loft, if they had not been conscious of living among a people of judgment, who allowed them a reputation which it was their duty to fupport. I am well affured, that impudence would never have produced one good line or one juft fentiment from any of thefe authors, in confequence of a falfe applaufe given by an injudicious rabble; but it is most certain, that the fpirit fuch a deferved fame kept up in these authors, has given birth to many of the paffages which have been admired in them for fo many ages, and will be fo as long as good fenfe and judgment live in the world. with France, which being grappled with Dieu Romish Superftition and Credulity difplayed, An Account of the Reliques which are manifefly to be feen in the Cathedral Church of the City of Oviedo, and also the Indulgencies received by those who affift and vifit this Sanctuary. Tranflated from the Spanish. Y virtue of this bull be it known, to BY all and every faithful chriftian that fee these present letters, That God Almighty, by his great power, ordered a certain cheft of incorruptible wood, made Dby the difciples of the holy apoftles, full of their reliques, to be removed from the city of Jerufalem (in the time it was judged by king Cofdroos of Perfia) to Africa, from Africa to Carthagena in Spain, from Carthagena to Seville, from Seville to Toledo, from Toledo to Afturias, to a place called the Holy Mount, where it lay buried from the time of the apoftles to the year 1075, from thence it was brought to the church of St. Salvadore, cathedral of the city of Oviedo, where, by the request of king Alphonfo the Great, it was opened, with the affiftance of the prelates of Spain (who by reafon of the general deftruction of their country had taken refuge in the faid city) wherein was found feveral little coffers of gold, filver, ivory, and coral, which were opened with due veneration, billets being tied to each relique, plainly shewing what they were. They found a great part of the fheet that our Saviour was wrapped in, in the fepulchre; the napkin that covered his face, all stained with his G blood, which, with all the reverence pof. fible, is fhewn three times a year; a great part of the holy crofs, eight thorns of his crown, fome of his coat, and of his fepulchre; fome of the cloaths he was wrapped F 1756. CALCULATION of Men for the NAVY. A wrapped in, when in the manger; fome of the bread of the laft fupper, and of the manna that was rained on the Ifrae lites; an image of Christ crucified, in ivory, made by Nicodemus; a large piece of St. Bartholomew the apostle's skin; the fcapula that the Virgin Mary gave to St. Ildephonfo, archbi hop of Toledo; fome of the Virgin's milk, and of her hair and garments; one of the pieces of filver for which Chrift was betrayed; the blood and water that came out of the right fide of an image that the Chriftians had made, which the Jews, to shew their hatred, had pierced with a lance; fome of the earth which our Saviour flood upon when he afcended into heaven, and B when he raised Lazarus; fome of Lazarus's fepulchre ; fome of the garment of Elias the prophet; of the forehead and hair of St. John Baptift; of the hair of Mary Magdalen, wherewith the wiped Chrift's feet; of the bones of the Holy Innocents; and of the three children, Ananias, Azarias, and Mifael; of the ftone that hut up the door of our Saviour's fepulchre; fome of the olive branch he had in his hand when he entered into Jerufalem; of the ftone on which Mofes fat on Mount Sinai; a piece of the rod which Mofes divided the Red Sea with; a piece of the boiled fish and honeycomb that our Saviour eat with his difciples after his refurrection. D E The cloathing of St, Thyrfe, martyr ; a hand of St. Stephen, the fole of St. Peter's fandal, and part of his chain; a fpoke of the wheel that St. Catherine fuffered martyrdom upon; the boxes wherein St. Peter and St. Andrew carried their writings and reliques; and the bones of above fixty prophets, apostles, and martyrs. There is alfo a cross of most fine gold and precious ftones, made by the hands of two angels, in that fame holy chamber; and also that celebrated crofs which king Pelajo carried when he overcame the proud Pucola, and the army of the Moors, in the general perdition of Spain, and from that time gave a happy beginning to the reitoration of the catho- F lick faith; one of the water-pots in which Chrift turned the water into wine at the marriage of Cana; the bodies of the holy martyrs St. Eulogio, Lucretia, and of St. Eulalia; of Merida, patron of Afturias, of St. Pelajo and St. Vincent, of St. Julian. archbishop of Toledo, and St. Serrano, bishop. Likewife there is in G this holy church, the body of Dun Aionfo the Chafte, who was the founder of it; and feveral other kings of Spain. Be it known to all perfons, called by God to vifit these most holy and most glo. June, 1756. 289 rious reliques by the apoftolical authority, granted to the bishop of the faia holy church, he fhall pardon them a third part of the punishments deferved by their fins; and they shall gain a thousand and four years and fix quarentains of indulgencies, and fhall become partners and partakers of the facrifices of this holy church. And alfo pope Eugenius IV. and other popes, by their bulls and apoftolick letters, have granted a most full indulgency to all the faithful that shall vifit this holy church, truly repenting of their crimes, and with an intent to confefs at the time appointed here, which is the exaltation of the holy cross in September, and when it thall happen on Friday thirty days before, and thirty days after, and every year whatsoever time the feaft fhall be, eight days before, and eight days after, which apoftolick grant is to laft for ever. Thefe are the gifts with which Divine Providence has enriched this holy church, to the ftrengthening of the chriftian religion. By order of the dean and council of this holy church of Oviedo, these prefent letters are given, 1752. A Calculation of the Number of Men neceffary fur manning the whole Royal Navy of England, fuppofing them all to be in Commiffion, and manned at their bigheft Complement. 290 MEDITATION on the SCRIPTURES. June it of all its feamen; or we must be un"able, for at least two or three years, to make a proper ufe of our royal navy. By putting a stop to every channel of our trade, many of them may in that time 'become irrecoverable: By not making a proper ufe of our royal navy, we may in that time be undone. Why then should not every marching regiment we keep up in time of peace, be compofed of fuch as have been bred to the fea, and kept in practice, by being, in their turn, fent on board our men of war? Is there any thing fo myfterious in the military land fervice, that it may not be learned and practifed by a thorough bred feaman ? Thy word difpels, And all the way before me clears. When fatan flings his darts at me (e), Then, Lord, thy word (f), Is fhield and sword, To fave me, and to make him flee. The world prefents its objects rare (g), Doth that afford, Which feems to me far coftlier ware. A Yet tho' fins have defil'd my soul (0), * .1 Thy word, Lord, hath T Have I an hard and ftony heart (s)? Juft breaks, then heals; The proudest foe (y), And lays him level with the beast. D The following Lines feeming to relate to fome really mifapplied Charity, we fhall oblige our Correfpondents A. B. C. &c. with giving it a Place in our Magazine, hoping thofe it concerns will take the Premifes into Confideration. To the LIVING; more especially to the Truftees of charitable Donations in London. A BOUT two hundred years ago I was in this city in propria perfona, and had acquired, by induftry, an estate in houses, to the value of 40l. a year. I E had out-lived all my relations, that I knew any thing of, and therefore began to confider how I fhould fecure this eftate for a good defign, I then had in my head. It was to divide its income annually, amongst neceffitous houfekeepers, in my parish, who were obferved to be induftrious; but thro' the largenefs of their families were kept bare of money and clothing, and were often totally in want of both, thro' infirmities and age: I then thought to divide 51. a year to fix fuch families would do confiderable good, referving 10l. a year thereof for repairs ; F from (c) Matt (e) Pfalm xviii. 30. (a) Pfalm xviii. 30. cxix. 89, 140, 160, and 103. (b) Mic. ii. 7. iv. 3. 4, &c. (d) Pfalm cxix. 92. and xviii. 32, &c. (f) Epb. vi. 7. (g) Pjelm cxix 14. Ixxii. 96. (b) Plil. ii. 7, 8. (i) Pfalm cxix. 47. xx. 16-11. and xxxvi. 8. (k) Hebrews xi. 25. (1) 2 Peter iii. 18. (m) Palm cxix. 30, 102, 104, 118, 128. (n), Pfalm. cxix. 11. and xix. 11. (0) Pfalm cxix. 9. (P) John X 3. (q) Ephef. v. 26. (s) Ezekiel xxxvi. 26. (1) Exchiel xvi. 30, 66, 63, and 37, 26, (x) Rom. xii. 3, 16. (y) Phil. iii, 4, &c. XXIV. 25. *3, 14 and xxxix. 9. (aa) James V. 10, 11. (r) Rom. X. 17. 31. (4) AL (x) Pfalm xxxviii 1756. CHARACTER of a good LAWYER. from these confiderations, I therefore refolved to leave my eftate in truft, for thofe pious purposes, and nominated the rector of my parish, and the churchwardens, for the time being, trustees; and to each I left an annual falary. When I was alive, the rector and his affiftants bore good-will towards their A neceffitous neighbours, and I thought myfelf happy in my devife; at my decease the estate was in good repair, and, to do justice to the memory of my truftees, it was their care for a number of years to keep the premises in good repair, for the purposes of my will, and to fettle annual accounts, even down to the dreadful conflagration in 1666; after B that calamity my then trustees mortgaged my eftate to a builder, for a term of years which are long fince determined. After my eftate became clear of this incumbrance, the income of it would both have repaired it, and have distributed to the neceffitous families of the parish; but the managers of my donation have neglected both; not one apprentice has been bound out, not one needy family helped, nor one fhilling laid out to preferve the estate, all the income has been applied in abatement of parish rates, and becaufe the parifioners will not refund fome of the profits they have received to repair with, truly the eftate must go out again upon a mortgage to a perfon to repair. 291 in the municipal laws of his own country, as well as the univerfal principles of natural jeftice, who makes the practice of the law, a noble, a liberal profeffion, not a groveling, mercenary trade, who exerts all the generous powers and faculties of his foul in the ever honoured caufe of truth; but when he difcovers the leaft intended impofition, the leaft fraud, falfehood, or chicanery, detefts the notion; that it is his duty to employ his skill and his eloquence in defence of wickedness, and to ferve his client, be he right or wrong. In peints of nicety and doubts he will advance, with modefty and candour, every argument that his learning and knowledge fuggeft to him in favour of his client, but he will not affert what he knows to be falfe, he will not miftate facts--he will not (according to the law phrafe) cook up his pleadings with feurrility, fcandal, prolixity, and impertinence; he will not for his own lucrative purposes, or to gratify his own malice, or to force the adverfary party into an unreasonable compofition, be a propaga tor of underhand defamation, and infidious calumny, or a promoter of difcord, hatred, and animofity between neighbours, friends, and the nearest relations; and he will in all his practice keep clear of the fhameful crimes of bar retry, champerty, and maintenance. He D will not for the fake of appearing with a large bundle of papers, and making an oftentatious parade of great business, or to feed his own avarice, multiply his pleadings with ufelefs charges and invectives, which he knows muft in the end be hurtful to his client. He will endeayour rather to cool than inflame the paffions of the parties, and he will never be averfe to the recommending peace upon reafonable and equitable terms, as his experience and obfervation will convince him of the fallibility of the ablest men's opinions in matters of doubt and difficulty. In short, to be a good lawyer, he must be, not only a man of extenfive knowledge and deep learning, but what F is far more effential, he must be a man of honour, of truth, and of the ftriaeft virtue; or rather, he must be born with a beneficent and humane bofom. Such there is the greatest reafon to believe, moft of the gentlemen now in the profeffion really are, and fuch who are not fo, will, it is to be hoped, not have it in their power to do much mischief, as they certainly will be treated, not only by their brethren, but likewife by the judges, with the contempt and ablierience that they My devife is fo defeated by thefe means, that I am arifen, and intend let no one be affrighted) to apply in a white sheet at the door of your houfe of commons, with an humble petition to the house, that they would be pleafed to take this imprudent perverfion into confideration, and the estate into their poffeffion, and E reconvey it to trustees, for the benefit of the I am uneafy to fee that income divided amongft rich inhabitants, which I intended for the neceffitous, but induftrious houfekeepers. And I must take it out of the hands its in, before I can be laid. The GHOST of The Infcription in our last, p. 234. which feveral learned Antiquaries bave in vain endeavoured to decypher, without having regard to the Stops, capital Letters, er Divifion of the Words, eafily reads as follorus. ENEATH this stone repofeth Claud. Cofter, tripe-feller, of Impington, as doth his confort Jane. BE CHARACTER of a good LAWYER. SUCH and the ftricteft probity, with an equitable heart as well as a reafoning head, that thinks nothing profitable that is not honest, who is perfectly converfant G deferve. |