THE LONDON MAGAZINE. For AUGUST, The following is taken from the London The INSPECTOR, N°. 143. SIR, To the INSPECTOR. 1751. I am not backward to confefs, that I fee many unhappy marriages, nay, that moft of thofe which I have lately been witness to among my acquaintance are fuch; but while I fee the caufes of this, while I can refolve the origin of these miffortunes into principles that no way affect A my particular circumftance, why should I terrify myself with apprehenfions, that the events may be alike? I fee women miferable, who have married fools; undone, who have married beggars: I fee diftrefs between people who could not but avow their fouls were ill paired together, before they joined their bodies in fo lafting a who have ventured on it without knowing ; and diffatisfaction between people whether they were paired or no. furely, Sir, it is always in the power of a rational creature to obviate mifchiefs, the fources of which are fo evident; nor can any one have a right even to complain of the event, who has in wantonnefs, or in obftinacy, difregarded the means. A mutual friendship, an uninterrupted harmony of minds, is the great end to be regarded in a prospect of marriage; where other motives are admitted but as concomitant, they never fail to fhake the throne of this content ; where they are made the principals, they cannot but destroy it. THANK you in the name of my fex for your character of a married Cleopatra. Coquetry is always contemptible; but in a wife it is equally abfurd and detertable. I have always thought an open, B an unreferved generofity of difpofition the only turn of mind that does true honour to the perfon who poffeffes it, and that can rationally recommend us to the good opinion of one another; and I cannot perfuade myself, but that the diffimulation which wou'd difguife and conceal a woman's affection from the man who has it, and who deferves it, is as mean as that which deludes him into a belief that he is poffeffed of it, when the perfon who employs it, is confcious that in her heart the defpifes him. You will be furprized, Mr. Inspector, at this freedom of fentiment in a female correfpor.dent; but I am to tell you, that I am part that troublefome period of a D woman's life, in which a hardly justifiable referve checks many an innocent, nay, many a laudable declaration. I am married, Sir, and it is in the fulness of the joy which an ingenious mind feels on its being freed from a neceffity of acting a part which it disdains, that I open my heart to you. I must expect your raillery, E and that of the world, when I tell you that I, who am fo fenfible of the advantages and fo full of the tranfports of matri mony, have enjoyed it but a week; but as I know my happiness built on a rational foundation, I am fenfible it will be per manent. Auguft, 1751. union But Can the woman who fees her lover in purfuit of her fortune, fuppofe he will ever regard her perfon more than as an incumbrance on it? Or can fhe, who fees a man willing to enter into the most folemn engagements with her, he knows not why, wonder that he afterwards grows fick of them without any better knowing the reason? Equality of fortune is the only rational foundation on which a life of happiness is to be expected under a union of this kind: In tereft on either fide must abate the tendernefs, and but a fufpicion of it, which will be fure to appear at one time or other, where there is fo rational a foundation, will be fufficient to break in upon that mutual confidence of affection, on which only a life like that which I am glorying in Uu2 can 340 Requifites to a happy MARRIAGE. can be established. Even love, in is warmest height, is but an ill foundation on which to build the hopes of a lafting amity; it is in its nature a fhort-lived, a tranfient paffion; and unless there be merit to fupport it, connected with the form that first excited it, grows cold and tasteless as foon as that form has loft its charm of novelty. Aug. would not thank me for it fo long as the The love of admiration is too natural in If I may be permitted, Sir, to give my private opinion as to the virtues and qualifications, on which the continuation of that delight I at prefent enjoy is to depend, I should declare integrity of heart the first principle, and the fecond good fenfe. I do not know that either of these would fucceed without the other, or that both in combination in B one of the perfons would promife any better; they must be mutual, in order to their taking effect; but when mutual, what is there that can difturb the tranquil. lity of the joys they inspire ? It may feem hard, perhaps, to expect that reafon should be allowed a right to dictate in a cafe, where paffion feems to lay in its utmost and its faireft pretenfions; but unless the effects of paffion were as equal and as permanent as thofe of reafon, it is evident that we abuse ourfelves, if we fuffer it to determine for us in an affair of fo high importance, and which is to be of fuch long continuance. I argue from my heart, Mr. Inspector, not from the imagination, in all this; and I take pride in telling you, that the fource of that happiness my heart is at this time fo full of, has been my marrying a man whom I esteemed rather than loved, in preference to one whom I loved, but could not esteem. It is with infinite pleafure, Sir, that I I was not without my terrors in this hazardous ftep; but they were groundless. E Qualities that commanded my refpect foon endeared the man to me who poffeffed them, and who feemed to know no value in them, but as they might be made fubfervient to my happiness; and I at once trembled at what might have been the effects of my former infatuation, and defpifed my heart for yielding to it. I found myfelf happier than my very ideas had reached even in expectation, when I had indulged them to their utmost scope in their former profpe&t; and I am convinced I fhall continue fo, because I owe it to one, whofe fole pleasure is the feeing me pleased. If it were poffible for me, Sir, to do juftice to my own fenfations on this occafion, I fhould be the means of equal happinels to thoufands. I should be the most eloquent of all pleaders in the cause of matrimony; and I should have the infinite advantage of not making one convert who F I know this is an enviable ftate; but I would have all who envy it poffefs it. It is in every woman's power, almost at any time, to marry with prudence; and the who rightly diftinguishes between being prudent and being interested; who is as cautious of receiving, as of conferring an obligation in point of fortune; and who makes a choice, in which, when the honey-moon of fondness is over, neither will have occafion to be ashamed of the other, will not fail to find, in marriage, all the Ghappiness that at prefent overflows in the heart of Your bumble Servant, 1751. Abstract of the English and French Navies, &c. 341 A Compleat Abstract of the ENGLISH and ENGLISH. Proportion of men for the number of fhips of each rate, with the total number neceffary for the equipment of the whole navy, as it now ftands, July 1751. Frigates, &c. 190 Line of battle 89. Rates. Guns. Men in each. No. 5 800-8800 80 700- 4200 700-6300 66 Total 279 fhips and veffels. 600- 6000 A 400-10400 B 350-11200 100- 4200 E have had feveral skirmishes with the Indians, by which feveral of our people have been killed and scalped ; fome days ago about 60 of them attacked the town of Dartmouth, whose fence is only a fmall brush, and killed about 8 of the inhabitants, and after that, exercised their cruelties, by pulling down fome houses and destroying all they found, not fparing men, women, and children; a ferjeant, who was in his bed, came to the inhabitants affistance, whom they pursued 45-1125 and killed; and not being content with his life, cut his left arm off, and afterwards Scalped him. In returning from the town they carried off about 14 priforers in triumph. During this engagement, we had no affiftance from the company of rangers, for which a ferjeant has been tried by a court-martial, but acquitted; and notwithstanding these troublesome D times with the Indians, which the French fend us, and the devil fends the French, we have ftill fhips continually arriving, with families on board, to people this colony; but our great expectation and hopes are on the arrival of commodore Pye, with 5 Britifh fhips of war, whom we daily expect, with all military implements. Our E forces have got poffeffion of a large tract of land, near Chinectego, which is of great fervice; and our governor, to encourage all perfons about 4 months ago, to extirpate the Indians, promifed a reward of 50l, for every Indian scalp, fince which there has only one been brought in, they having always outfcouts to carry off their dead. Total 87675 The reafon of placing the 66 gun fhips, before the 70, is, they are of the French eftablishment, and alfo fuch of our own as have been cut down from three deckers, and are much fuperior in the weight of metal, tonnage, and number of men, to the feventy gun fhips. FRENCH. Proportion of men for the number of fhips, being the ufual complement they /carry, with the total number of fhips, &c. as it stood in June, 1751. Frigates,&c.27 Line of battle: 47. ୮ No. of Ships. Guns. Men in each. Total 74 hips and veffels. 600-4200 500- 2500 Total 42350 LOTTERIES, &c. Blooms Nanny, &c, Old Time arrefts his rapid flight, And keeps his motion still, Refolv'd to fpare a face fo fair, As Nanny's of the hill. As Nanny's, &c. To form my charmer nature has Exerted all its fall; Wit, beauty, truth, and rofy youth Deck Nanny, dear Nanny, &c., The jovial bumpers fill; Each take his glafs to my dear lafs, Sweet Nanny, &c.: To the AUTHOR, &c. SIR, THE Aug. vantage of the fimplicity of the lower people, is borrowing of fuch as can leaft fpare money to lend; it is deluding them out of their industry, and taking them off from their labour by vain hopes; it is diverting a vast fum of money out of the courfe of trade and bufinefs; it is giving A an itch of gaming to thousands who had it not before; it is expofing the weak and the poorer fort, to be devoured by the dealers in tickets. If only the rich were to be drawn in by the filly atheistical argument, of being in fortune's way, and that other of be that bas no ticket cannot poffibly get a prize, I fhould have been filent; but I could with the honest lower fort of people would B confider, that they are all under the providence of God, as well as the rich, and much happier; and that he will undoubt edly give them, at all times, what is best for them, be it poverty or riches, without their expofing themselves to ruin, by foolishly venturing that little they are already bleft with, in covetous hopes to be their own carvers. It is for the fake of fuch honeft people, that I have made the following true computations, which I hope you will print along with this letter. C HERE feem to be many weighty objections against the method of raifing money by way of lottery. To name a few of the most obvious; it is taking adIn the LOTTERY 1751, it is against a 10000 Prize. 69994 to 6 or 11665 to 1 against a 5000 or upwards 69989 to 11 or 6363 to 1 against a 3000 3683 to 1 against a 2000 69961 to 69920 to 80 or 874 to against a 249 to against a 100 99 to 1 50 6 to 1 60000 to 10000 or I fear that this computation will neither be read nor understood by thofe for whom it was principally made, and therefore I would beg the favour of all gentlemen, tradesmen, and others, to take the pains to explain it to fuch as any way depend upon their judgment, by obferving: That one must buy no less than 7 tickets D to have an even chance for any prize at all; that with only 1 ticket, it is 6 to 1, and with half a ticket, 12 to 1 against any prize; and 99 or a 100 to 1 that the prize, if it comes, will not be above 501. and no less than 35,000 to 1 that the owner of a fingle ticket will not obtain one of the greatest prizes. That the lottery, like all other go- E vernment lotteries, is as fair as any lottery can be, while the tickets are fold for rol. each; but no lottery is proper for perfons of very fmall fortunes, to whom the lofs of 5 or 61. is of great confequence, befides the difturbance of their minds; much lefs is it advifeable, or de against a giving us an Idea of the State of Slavery Extract of a Letter from an Officer at St. On the firft of May we failed on board of commodore Keppel's fhip for Algiers, where we ftaid near five weeks, and Mr. 1751. A Description of LEICESTERSHIRE. Mr. Keppel had the happiness of finishing A DESCRIPTION of LEICESTER- L 343 part is moftly barren, and in some places rocky and ftony, tho' in other places, near Charnwood-forest, they have store of limefione, with which they manure their ground. The fouth-west and north-eaft parts are again of a good foil both for tillage and pasturage. It is but sparingly furnished with wood, efpecially in the fouth and east parts, which defect is well fupplied by the great plenty of pit-coal, digged up in the northern parts, which being hilly is called the Would, and breeds plenty of cattle. The market towns are, 1. Leicester, on the river Soar, the county town, and the only borough here that fends members to parliament, 80 computed and 99 meafured miles N. W. from London. It is pleafantly fituated in a rich foil and healthful air, was anciently a large and populous city, and is now the largeft, beft built, and most populous town in the county. It was formerly encompaffed with a wall, which was in a great measure demolished in the civil wars, but feveral gates are yet ftanding. The cattle is fo far difmantled as to be unfit for military defence, and is used now for holding the affizes. Here are 5 parish churches, of which St. Margaret's is a noble and elegant ftructure. In the Grey Friers here, the body of Richard III. after he was flain at Bosworth, was meanly interred, which being afterwards deftroyed, the fepulchre wherein he lay, which was a ftone cheft, ferved in an inn for a drinking trough for horfes. Here is an hofpital built by Henry Plantagenet earl of Leicester, and fupported by fome revenues of the dutchy of Lancafter; but the most stately structure is the new hofpital for poor Lazars, with a chapel, and a library for the ministers and fcholars belonging to the town, and a charity fchool for boys and girls. The town is endowed with great privileges, and the freemen are exempt from tolls in all the markets of England. It is governed by a mayor, recorder, 24 aldermen, 48 common-council men, 2 chamberlains, &c. Its chief business, and that of the neighbouring towns, is stocking-weaving; and EICESTERSHIRE is an inland county, bounded on the north with Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire; on the eaft, with Lincolnshire and Rutlandthire ; D on the fouth, with Northamptonshire; and on the weft, with Warwickshire. It is divided into 6 hundreds, extends from east to west about 27 miles, and from north to fouth 23, making about 100 miles in circumference; contains about 560,000 acres, has 12 market-towns, 192 parishes, and upwards of 18,700 houfes; and fends 4 members to parliament, 2 for the county, and 2 for the borough of Leicester ward Smith and Wrightfon Mundy, Efqrs. being members for the former in the prefent parliament, and George Wrighte and James Wigley, Efqrs. for the latter. The Welland washes the fouth borders, and parts it from Northamptonshire; the Soar runs thro' the middle of the county, and Fit has 3 markets weekly, viz, on Wed Ed. falls into the Trent; and there gently flows a small river, called the Wreke, which at last joins the Soar; and it is alfo well water'd with other itreams. It is generally a champain country, pleasant and healthful, the air mild and temperate, and the foil different in different places; the fouth-east part being exceeding fruitful in all forts of grain, efpecially peafe and beans, and having rich paftures, which feed abundance of fheep, whose wool is very fine and good; but the north-west 3 G nefdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, the last one of the best in England for corn and cattle. It was antiently a bishop's fee, but is now, as is the whole county, in the diocefe of Lincoln. It formerly gave title of earl to the family of Sidney, but now to that of Coke. A great many curious pieces of Roman antiquity, medals, coins, &c. have been found here. In the time of the civil war, an. 1645, Leicester was by the king's forces taken by form, and fuffered much; but afterwards was furrendered to general |