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A Capital Picture of Adam and Eve in Cross-ftitch.

Noah's Ark, in Tent-ftitch, it's Companion.

Fair Rofamond's Bower, in Nun's
Work, by the fame Hand.
A lively Representation of Chevy Chase,
in Lignum Vita, Rofe-wood, and:
Mother of Pearl, curiously inlaid,
Several leffer Pieces of Birds, Beafts,
Fruits, and Flowers, copied from
Nature, in coloured Silks, ftained
Feathers, and painted Straw.
Merlin's Cave, in Shell-work; com-
posed of above a thousand beautiful
Shells, with a Cascade of Looking-
glafs playing in the Middle.
A most curious Tea table of rare old
Japan; with the Edges broke off, and
one of the Legs wanting., 23
A most rare and inestimable Collection

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of right old China; confitting of Half -a Punch-bowl, Three Parts of a Dish, Half a Dozen Plates joined together with Wires drilled through theirs Middles, a Sugar-dish with a Piece 1broke off the Side, a Tea-pot without a Spout, another without an Handle, and five odd Cups and Saucers, the Cracks neatly joined with white Paint, 5. Some large and elegant Jars and Vales -in Papier Macbrè.in Several Figures of Dogs, Monkeys, i Cats, Parrots, Mandarins, and Bra

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CONSISTING OF TETOVA

POPE's Works, and all our beft Authors published in Ink-stands, Tea-chefts, and Quadrille-boxes for Filhes and Counters.

Mifs in her Teens The Fool in Fa Thion All for Love The Way to Win Him-She Would if the Could Much Ado about Nothing-boand together, for the Ufe of the Fair Sex, in a compleat Set of Dreffing-boxes. A new Form of Self Examination-in a Snuff-box with a Looking-glafs in the Lid of it.

The Spiritual Comfort, or Companion for the Clofetin a fmall Pocket Vo-' lume, contaming a Bottle of Cordial Water, or

The Pofthumous Works of the late Lord Vifcount Bolingbroke-In a Clofe-tool.

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N° XCII. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1755

NATA MECUM CONSULE MANLIO,

SEV TU QUERELAS, SIVE GERIS Jocos,
SEU RIXAM, ET INSANOS AMORES,

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• BRISK WINE SOME HEARTS INSPIRES WITH GLADNESS,
AND MAKES SOME DROOP IN SOBER SADNESS;
MAKES POLITICIANS BOUND TO BATTLE,
AND LOVERS OF THEIR MISTRESS PRATTLES
WHILE WITH POTATIONS POTTLE DEEP,'
IT LULLS THE SERIOUS SOT TO SLEEP.

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come Hard-drinkers, as well as the confequences which fuch exceffes produce, I am at a lofs to account for the received maxim, that

in good wine there is truth; and fhould no more expect happiness in a full bowl, than chastity in the bar of a tavern.

The incentives to this practice are fome of them very shocking, and some very ridiculous: as will perhaps appear, from the following characters.

Poor Harly was bleft with every noble qualification of the head and heart, and bade fair or the love and admiration of the whole world; but was unfortunately bound in a very large fum for à friend, who difappeared, and left him to the mercy of the law. The dif trelles, thus brought upon him by the treachery of another, threw him into the deepest despair; and he had at last recourfe to Drinking, to benumb, if poffible, the very fenfe of reflection. He is miferable, when foher; and when drunk, ftupified and muddled: his miffortunes have robbed him of all the joys of life; and he is now endeavouring wilfully to put an end to them by a flow poifon.

Tom Buck, from the first day that he was put into breeches, was always accounted a boy of fpirit, and before he reached the top of Westminster school, knew the names and faces of the most noted girls upon the town, toffed off his Claret with a fmack, and had a long tick at the tavern. When he went to Oxford, he efpoufed the Tory party, because they drank deepeft; and he has for fome years been accounted a fourbottle man. He drank for fame; and has fo well cftablished his chara&ter, that he was never known to fend a man from his chambers foher, but generally laid his whole company under the table. Since his leaving the University, nobody ever acquired more reputation by Electioneering; for he can fee rut the ftouteft freeholder in England. He has, indeed, wallowed many a tun in the fervice of his country; and is now a founder patriot by two bottles, than any man in the county.

Poor Wou'd-be became a debauchee through mere bathfulness, and a foolish fort of modefty, that has made many a man drunk in fpite of hi teeth. He contracted a acuaintance with a fet of Hard-drinkers: and though he would as foon chufe to swallow a dose of phy

fic, has not courage to refuse his buma per. He is drunk every night, and always fick to death the next morning, when he conftantly refolves to drink nothing Atronger than finall beer for the future; but at night the poor fellow gets drunk again through downright modefty.

Thus Would-be fuffers himself to be preffed into the service; and fince he has commenced a jolly fellow, is be come one of the moft miferable wretches upon earth.

Honett Ned Brimmer is at present the moft dimal object that ever fell a facrifice to liquor. It was unltickily his first ambition to promote what is called Good Fellowship. In this undertaking he has in a very few years entirely ruined his conftitution; and now ftalks up and down in fo piteous a condition, as might infpire his companions with more melancholy reflections than an empty bottle. He has quite loft all appetite; and he is now obliged to keep up a weak artificial heat in his body, by the fame means that destroyed the natural warmth of his conftitution. Rum, Brandy, and Ufquebaugh, are his diet-drinks: and he may perhaps linger a few months before he falls a martyr to Good Fellowhip.

Having thus taken a fhort view of the unhappy motives that induce men to become Hard-drinkers, few perhaps will think fuch reafons any recommendation to Drunkennefs. Nor can I imagine they will grow more fond of it, by obferving what strange creatures they are during their intoxication. Shakefpeare calls it putting a Devil into their mouths, to fleal away their

brains: and, indeed, a cup too much turns a man the wrong fide out: and wine, at the fame time it takes away the power of tanding from the legs, deprives the mind of all fenfe and reflection. It is whimsical enough to confider the different effects which wine produces on different tempers. Sometimes, like love, it makes a fool fenfible, and a wife man an ass; and seems to imbibe a new quality from every different body, as water takes a tincture from the ground it runs through.

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Horace has with great pleafantry recapitulated the various effects of wine in tanza, which I have placed at the head of this paper. One man grows m udlin and weeps; another becomes merry and facetious; a third quarrels,

throws

throws a bottle at his companion's head, and could run his dearest friend through the body; a fourth is mad for a gil,, and falls in love with a street-walker;' while to a fifth, the liquor ferves as an opiate, and lulls him to fleep. Shakefpeare has alfo fhewn this variety of characters with great humour. Caffio cries, Let's to bufinefs, and immediately begins to hiccup his prayers, and belches out his hopes of falvation: Juftice Silence, who does not speak a word while he is fober, has no fooner fwallowed the rouzing cup, than he roars out a catch, and grows the noifieft man in the company. It is reported to have been one of the most exquifite entertainments of the Choice Spirits in the beginning of this century, to get Addifon and Steele together in company for the evening. Steele entertained them, till he was tipfy; when the fame wine that ftu pified him, only ferved to elevate Addifon, who took up the ball just as Steele dropped it, and kept it up for the reft of the evening. They who have never been present at a scene of this kind, may fee the whole groupe of drunken characters, difplayed at one view with infinite humour, in Hogarth's Modern Midnight Converfation.

Thus excefs of Drinking verifies all the transformations recorded in the fable of Circe's Cap: and perhaps the true reason why Bacchus is always painted with horns, is to intimate, that wine turns men into beafts. Indeed, if none were to indulge themselves in Drinking, except those who (like Steele and Addifon) could be witty and agreeable in their cups, the number of Hard-drinkers would be very happily diminished. Molt men have fo little right to plead an excufe of this fort in vindication of their Drunkenness, that wine either makes them very rude, very stupid, or very mad. It is a vulgar error to fuppofe, that liquor only fhews ill qualities, fince it alfo frequently creates them; and engenders notions in the mind quite foreign to it's natural difpofition, which are the mere effects of wine, and break out like blotches and carbuncles on the

face. The difguftful appearance, which

most people make when they are drunk, was what induced the Spartans to intoxicate their flaves, and fhew them to their children, in order to deter them from fo odious a vice. In like manner let the Choice Spirit, who is often feen fnoring in an armed chair in a tavern, or hanging his head over the pot, reflect what a thocking figure he must have made, when he fees the drunken beggar fleeping on a bulk, or rolling in the kennel!

Whoever thus confiders the motives that generally induce men to give into thefe exceffes, and how ridiculous and unhappy they are often rendered by the effects, will hardly be tempted by the charms of a bottle: and, indeed, Harddrinking is frequently one, among the many evils, that arife from want of education. The dull country fquire, who has not tafte for literary amufements, has nothing, except his dogs and horses, but his bumper to divert him; and the town fquire fits foaking for the fame reason in a tavern. There are the common herd of Bacchus's fwine: but nothing is more flocking than to fee a man of fenfe thus deftroying his parts and conftitution. It not only makes a terrible innovation in his whole frame and intellects, but alfo robs him of the fociety of thofe like himself, with whom he fhould affociate, and reducc him to the level of a fet of wretches; fince all may be admitted to his company and converfation who are able to tofs off a bumper.

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Thefe confiderations are fufficient to convince us of the evils which refult from Hard-drinking: but it will shock us ftill more, if we reflect how much it will influence our life and conduct. Whoever is engaged in a profeffion, will never apply to it with fuccefs, while he fticks fo close to his bottle; and the tradefman who endeavours to make bufinefs and pleasure compatible, will never be able to make both ends meet. Thus, whether health, fame, or intereft, is regarded, Drunkennefs fhould be avoided: and we may fay with Caffio, 'Every inordinate cup is unbleft, and the ingredient is a devil.'

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N° XCIII. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1755;

HEU, FORTUNA, QUIS EST CRUDELIOR IN NOS
TE DEUS! UT SEMPER GAUDES ILLUDERE REBUS
HUMANIS!

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GIVE US BLANK, BLANK, BLANK!

WHY, FORTUNE, SERVE US SUCH A CRUEL PRANK, TO TURN THY WHEEL, AND Cannot but admire the ingenious device prefixed to the advertisement of Hazard's Lottery Office, in which Fortune is reprefented hovering over the beads of a great number of people, and fcattering down ali kinds of prizes among them. What Mr. Hazard has here delineated, every adventurer in the late Lottery had pictured to himself: the Ten Thousand constantly floated before This eyes, and each perfon had already poffeffed it in imagination. But alas! all our expectations are now at an end: the golden dream is at length vanished; and those whole heads were kept giddy all the while that the wheel of Fortune was turning round, have now leifure Toberly to reflect on their difappointment. How many unhappy tradefinen mult now trudge on foot all their lives, who deligned to loll in their chariots! How many poor maidens, of good fa. aily but no fortune, muft languif all their days without the comforts of an husband and a coach and fix! Every lofer thinks himself ill used by Fortune: and even Mrs. Betty, the poffeffor of a fingle Sixteenth, flies to the Office, pays her penny, and receives the tidings of her ill luck with furprize; goes to another Office, pays her penny, hears the fame difagreeable information; and can hardly, very hardly perfuade herself, that Fortune should have doomed her ftill to wash the dishes, and fcrub down the stairs.

Ten Thousand, as if he had it in his pocket; and his only concern is, how to difpofe of it. We may, therefore, confider every adventurer, as having been in actual possession of his treasure; and out of fifty thousand people, who have been blest within this fortnight with fuch ideal good fortune, I fhail felect the following inftances which fell within my own notice.

Thus the views of every adventurer are directed to the fame point, though their motives for engaging in the Lottery may be different. One man puts in, because he is willing to be in Fortune's way; another, because he had good luck in the laft; and another, becaufe he never got any thing before: this indulges in the profpect of making a fortune; and that comforts himself with the pleafing hopes of retrieving his defperate circumftances. Every one, however, thinks himself as fure of the

Jofeph Wilkins, of Thames Street, Efquire, Common - council - man and Cheefemonger, got the 10,000l. He could not bear the foggy air and dingy fituation of the city: he, therefore, refolved to take a houfe at the St. James's end of the town, and to fit up a snug Box at Hampstead, in the Chinese tafte, for his retirement on Sundays. A Chariot was abfolutely neceffary to carry him to and from 'Change every morning: but he intended to have it made according to the modern fashion, that it might occafionally be converted into a Poit chaife, to wheel him on a Saturday right to his country-feat, and back again on the Monday morning. He defigned to be chosen Alderman the first vacancy; after that to be made Sheriff, receive the honour of Knighthood, and perhaps get into Parliament: and whenever he paffed by the Manfion-house, he could not but look upon it with pleafure, as the future refidence of his Lordfhip. Nothing was now wanting but a careful plodding partner, who should take upon himfelf the whole drudgery of the hop; fo that the Squire might have no farther trouble than to receive his dividend of the profits. But while he was confidering on whom this important favour fhould be conferred, his ticket was drawn-BLANK; and Squire Wilkins is contented with his greafy employment of cutting out penny-worths of Cheshire cheese.

Jonathan Wikigoofe, of Cheapfide, Silk-mercer, had too much tafte to be confined to a dirty business, which he neglected

neglected for the more agreeable purfuits of pleafure. Having therefore met with great loffes in trade, he was obliged to embark the remains of his fhattered fortune in the Lottery, and by purchafing a number of tickets, fecured to himself the 10,000l. He had determined to keep his fuccefs fecret, bilk his creditors by becoming bankrupt, turn the whole into an annuity for his life, and live abroad like a gentleman upon the income. But unluckily his creditors came upon him too quickly; and before he could know that he had NOT got the Ten Thousand, hurried him to jail, where he now lies, lamenting that the Alt of Infolvency had not been postponed till after the Lottery.

John Jones of Ludlow, in the county of Salop, Esquire, Dealer and Chapman, got the 10,000l. This gentleman was forewarned of his fuccefs by feveral indifputable tokens. His lady had dreamed of a particular Number four nights together and while the bells were ringing on his being chofen Bailiff of the Corporation, they fpoke in as plain words, as ever Whittington heard

Mr. John Jones will get Ten Thou fand Pound-Mr. John Jones will get Ten Thousand Pound.' He and his lady, therefore, came up to London; and not being able to meet with the particular Number at Hazard's or Willon's, or any other Office always remarkable for felling the Ten Thoufands, they advertised it in the papers, and got the Great Prize, only paying a guinea more for their ticket than the market price. As Mrs. Jones knew a good deal of the world, having lived for fome years in quality of an upper fervant in a great houfe-fhe was determined that Mr. Jones fhould take the opportunity, now they were in town, of learning how to behave himself, as he should do, when he came to his fortune. She, therefore, introduced him to the best company in all the house keepers and ftewards rooms in the belt families, where the was acquainted: and as Mr. Jones was fo deficient in politeness, as not even to know how to make a how in coming into a room, he had private lessons from Mr. Aaron Hart, who undertakes to teach Grown Gentlemen to dance. Mrs. Jones herself was very busy in confultung with the milliner and mantua maker hout the newest fashions, when the long looked-for Ten Thousand came up;

and directly after the Hey-Ge-Ho carried them down again to Salop, with this only confolation, that their ticket was within one of the fortunate Number.

Sir Humphry Oldcastle having great. ly dipped his eftate hy being chofen into Parliament on the Tory intereft, mortgaged all he had left, to put hinself in the way of the 10,000l. for the good of his country. This feafonable recruit fixed him a ftaunch Patriot: and he de clared, he would stand another election against all oppofition. But, however it happened, the finishing of the Lottery has induced him to change his fentiments; and Sir Humphry, in lieu of the to oool. has accepted a Place.

Jemmy Lifter, an Attorney's Clerk, was carried into the Lottery by pure difinterested love. He had conceived a violent paffion for his master's daughter; but the prudent old gentleman could not be prevailed on to give her away to an handfome young fellow without a penny. This enraged him fo much, that he immediately fold the reverfion of a finall eftate after the death of his grandmother, and by laying out the purchafe money, as far as it would go, in Shares and Chances, got the 10,000l. He was for fome time in doubt, whether he should bestow his good fortune on the young lady, or employ it more fashionably in keeping a girl. However, his hopes foon junk to one of the goool. prizes, which he generously determined to fettle upon her, together with his perfon. But in this too he was unhappily disappointed; and at laft, like a true lover, contented himself with the thoughts of maintaining her very prettily (even though the father fhould give her nothing) on the income of one or other of the inferior prizes, which he was fure would fall to his lot. Fortune, alas! is no lefs blind a deity than Love: they both confpired to dilappont him; and the unfuccesful gallant, having received a pofitive refufal from his mi trefs, out of mere ipite directly maried the maid.

Captain MacMullen, a decayed Gameiter, made fhift to purchase the CHANCE of a Sixteenth, which (notwithstanding the eat Olds agint him) was fure to come up 10,cool. The firit thing to be done was to purchase a gentes fit of cloaths with mis dart of the prize, be an equipare, pats hime felf off for a man of quality, and in p

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