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THE

LONDON MAGAZINE.

For AUGUST,

The following is taken from the London
Daily Advertiser, and Literary Gazette,
from which we made an Extract in our
Magazine for June loft, p. 273.

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.

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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

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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
union lafted.

The love of admiration is too natural in
every woman, who has any tolerable claim
to it; and I fancy my heart spoke the lan-
guage of the whole fex, when it long dif-
fuaded me from matrimony, under the opi-
Anion of its robbing me of that homage;
but, fpecious as this pretence may have ap-
peared to a thousand, it has deceived them
all. The bride is fet in a more confpicu-
ous point of view than the unmarried beau-
ty; the receives the adoration that has been
ufed to be paid at her fhrine with more
than equal pleasure, because the now knows
it is difinterested; ard the will continue to
receive it as long as her title to it remains
with her She may be affured she would
have received it no longer than this in a fin-
gle ftate; but the period would, in that
cafe, have been infinitely more diftressful =
The autumn of beauty is, in a wife, an a-
miable season; but, in her who has refuf-
ed the charms that are now fading to all
Cthat follicited her, it is ever a time of con-
tempt and infolent triumph in those who
would have once adored them.

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
find the thousand fchemes, that always
crowd at once upon the mind of unmarri-
ed women whom the world calls agreeable,
at an end: I have conviction now, of what
I should before scarce have conceived, that
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there is no pleasure but in tranquillity: I
find myself happy to-day, and I enjoy it
with double fatisfaction, as I am fenfible
that to-morrow will bring the fame claim
to my fatisfaction. If I am abroad, I re-
ceive the praises of the men with a plea-
fure I never knew from them before, as the
affurances of my being pleafing in the eyes
of the only perfon in the world to whom I
wish to appear fo. If I am at home, I feel
a joy in his approbation that makes me
laugh at myself for being pleased with the
others.

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

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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,
AMANDA.

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1751. Abstract of the English and French Navies, &c. 341

A Compleat Abstract of the ENGLISH and
FRENCH Navies.

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.

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80

700- 4200

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66

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Total 279 fhips and veffels.

600- 6000
500-11000

A

400-10400 B

350-11200
300-12600
150- 7350

100- 4200

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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.

No. of Ships. Guns. Men in each.

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Total 74 hips and veffels.

600-4200

500- 2500

Total 42350
Ships of 50 guns are, according to the
French establishment, of the line of battle

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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 of the bill.

Deck Nanny, dear Nanny, &c.,
And now around the feftive board

The jovial bumpers fill;

Each take his glafs to my dear lafs,
Sweet Nanny of the hill.

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.

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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
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against a 10000 Prize.

69994 to

6 or 11665 to 1

against a

5000 or upwards

69989 to

11 or

6363 to 1

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2000

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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
against a
20 or any prize.
firable for either poor or rich, to contribute
to the exorbitant tax of more than 200,ocol.
which the first engroffers of lottery tickets,
and the brokers and dealers ftrive to raise,
out of the pockets of, the poor chiefly, and
the filly rich partly, by artfully enhancing
the price of tickets above the original cost.
As thefe engroffers have had their tickets
cheap enough, let them keep them; it
is a fair lottery, and they cannot be hurt,
taking them all together. For if any one
perfon were to purchase all the tickets, he
would by the scheme have just all his money
again.

giving us an Idea of the State of Slavery
The following is fomerbot curious, hefides its
in Algiers.

Extract of a Letter from an Officer at St.
Philip's, July 14, 1751.

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
the affairs he went upon to his fatisfaction,
and gave the king's prefents. You may
be fure every thing was quite new to me,
and therefore entertaining. At the two
publick audiences at arriving and taking
leave, we all attended his excellency the
commodore, and drank coffee with the A
dey: The other days the commodore went
only attended by his druggermen, and
while he was employed for the publick
good we made excursions into the country:
The Turks behaved with great civility to
us, and notwithstanding the number of
failors, not one riot or complaint happened
during our stay. There were 15 Spanish
officers flaves there, and upon the Spanish B
monarch's refufing to let a Turkish officer
be redeemed, and giving themselves little
trouble about redeeming their own officers,
thefe poor gentlemen, who had at first
been very well treated, were put to work,
and the day we went on board were yoked
like beafts to ftone carts, feveral of them
old captains, and one colonel past seventy.

A DESCRIPTION of LEICESTER-
SHIRE: With a new MAP of the
Jame.

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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

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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

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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

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