In God's Revenge against Adultery, fol. by John Reynold's, History the Eighth, there is an argument of his, which is as follows: "She marries Othello, an old German soldier." In this history also, which is professed to be an Italian one, the name of Iago occurs. It may be urged by some, that those names were adopted from the tragedy before us; but every reader who is conversant with the peculiar style and method in which the work of honest John Reynolds is conposed, will acquit him of even the slightest familiarity with the scenes of Shakspeare. The date of the occurrence of the story, from which this play is founded, may be ascertained from the following circumstances: Selymus the Second formed his design against Cyprus in 1569, and took it in 1571. This was the only attempt the Turks ever made upon that island after it came into the hands of the Venetians, (which was in 1473), wherefore the time must fall in with some part of that interval. We learn from the play, that there was a junction of the Turkish fleet at Rhodes, in order for the invasion of Cyprus; that it first came sailing towards Cyprus, then went to Rhodes, there met another squadron, and then resumed its way to Cyprus. These are real historical facts, which happened when Mustapha, Selymus's general, attacked Cyprus, in May 1570.-Vide Knolle's History of the Turks, p. 838, 846, 867. Consequently, 1570 is the time of the play. Malone has ascribed, but on no very sure ground, this tragedy to the year 1611. It was entered on the Stationers' books, Oct. 6, 1621, by Thos. Walkely; and first printed in 4to. in 1622, by N. O. for Thomas Walkely. ed their descriptions of the passage of souls to hell; that the manner of the burial in the delightful meadows around the lake near Memphis, which was the pattern of Acheron, (the infernal river), gave rise to the peopling of the Elysian fields.* T. W. K. LONDON IN 1707. Execution-dock is the usual place for the execution of pirates, and thence has its name. Fleet-bridge is even with the street; it leads from Fleet-street over the Fleet-ditch to Ludgate-hill; is accommodated with strong battlements, which are adorned with six piers, and enriched with the arms of London, and supporters,pine-apples, &c. all of stone; and between the piers are iron rails and banisters. On the north and south sides of the bridge, other bridges leading over this brook, are Bridewell, &c. Fountains.-The principal ones are found in Privy-gardens, Somersethouse Middle Temple, Lincon's Inn, King's-square; but there are several others in the gardens of the nobility, gentry, and merchants. Fountain-court, in the Middle Temple, is adorned with an excellent fountain of water, which is kept in so good order as always to force its stream to a vast and almost incredible altitude. It is fenced with timber pallisadoes, constituting a quadrangle, wherein grow several lofty trees; and without are walks, extending on every side of the quadrangle, all paved with Purbeck, very pleasant and delightful. Hermitage-bridge, a timber bridge, extending over a small ditch between Wapping and St. Catharine's; it is no farther remarkable only that here are the bounds of Aldgate and St. John of Wapping parishes. Hide-park water is fine clear water being, in their language, the old Egyptian, is also a conduit, that serveth the court at St. James's and Whitehall; and another conduit there, which serveth the college of Westminster. Holbourn-bridge is built of stone; it leads from Holbourn to Snow-hill; over the north-end of the Fleet-brook, where a little rivulet, called the Wells, falls by Hockley-hole, running a little east of Saffron-hill, crossing near the west-end of Chick-lane, and so into this brook. It was built in the year 1674, Sir William Hooker, mayor. Horse-ferry (Westminster) is a ferry over from Westminster to Lambeth, and the contrary, for passengers, horses, coaches, &c. daily. The rates are, For a man and horse For a horse and chaise For a coach and two horses For a coach and four . 2 For a coach and six For a cart loaden For a cart or waggon, each 20 The proprietors are, Mr. Cole, and two or three others. 0 2 6 2 6 The Hummums is a bagnio, or place for Sweating, kept in Covent-garden by one Mr. Small. The rates are, 58. for a single person; and 4s. each, if two or more come together. The Insurance Offices by Fire are, 1. The Phoenix Office, at the Rainbow Coffee-house, Fleet-street. They employ several men (with liveries and badges) to extinguish fires on occasion. The first undertaken was by Dr. Nicholas Barbone, in the year 1682, and now there are several gentlemen concerned. 2. The Friendly Society Office, in Palsgrave-court, without Temple-bar. 3. Amicable Contributors.-This office is chiefly carried on by workmen, and those concerned in buildings, who sign the policies. Offices to Insure Ships, or their Cargoes, are many about the Royal Exchange, as Mr. Hall's, Mr. Bavis's, &c. who for a premium paid down procure those that will subscribe policies for insuring ships bound to or from any part of the world. But in these offices it is customary, upon paying the money on a loss, to discount 16 per cent. For Lives, the first public one was that of the Mercer's Company. The next is that kept in Racquetcourt, in Fleet-street; it was formerly near St. Austin's church, erected in the year 1699, called "The Society of Assurance for Widows and Orphans." MAGNANIMOUS CONDUCT OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH. Sir Walter Raleigh, a man of known courage and honour, being very injuriously treated by a hot-headed rash youth, who next proceeded to challenge him, and on his refusal spit upon him, and that too in public, the knight, taking out his handkerchief, with great calmness made him only this reply:"Young man, if I could as easily wipe your blood from my conscience as I can this injury from my face, I would this moment take away your life."The consequence was, that the youth was struck with a sudden and strong sense of his misbehaviour, fell upon his knees, and begged forgiveness. RETORT. Whilst Napoleon was a subaltern in much self-sufficiency remarked, “That the French army, a Russian officer with French for gain."-" You are perfectly his country fought for glory, and the in the right," answered Napoleon," for every one fights for that which he does not possess." ROYAL AMUSEMENT. During the residence of Peter I. at Berlin, when on his visit to the different states of Europe, he expressed a wish to be present at some execution, and begged of Frederic I. to procure him that diversion. Inquiries were made in all the prisons, and no culprit being found under sentence of death, to afford the Czar the wished-for amusement, and gratify his curiosity, he said to the Prussian monarch, "Well, if you have no criminals, take one of my servants." THE TWOPENNY BAG. Whereat the gentleman began to stare "My friends," he cried, "p-x take you for your care.”—Pope. Agad, our friend X. bids fair to dispute the bays with some of the most harmonious minstrels of the day; his modest "wee bit" shall have an early insertion. We can't afford to pay 66 A Subscriber" twelve-pence for his morsels, when we sell so much for two-pence. Post-paid, we shall be happy to receive his communications. As to the "Rig-ma-role" from St. Giles'-what with bad English and blundering Irish, our "Poet Laureat" to All-max in the East (we suspect) has produced a dialect beyond our comprehension "Such spelling, writing, and inditing, "And O! the sense that fill it." "Cockneyisms" shall appear next week--and if W. M. B. will favour us with his Royal Answer, we will insert his communication; but can't begin by halves. We wish "Tuzzi-Muzzi" had received a more Christian-like name, but we attribute it to the bad taste of his Mamma, and shall be happy to continue his chers amis. Alas! alas! that so much time, paper, and ink, should have been wasted by our dear Mr. "Sing-song"-we would advise him, if he cannot waste his time more to the purpose, to do as he advises the lady 66 Stray where the daisies are growing, for he might perchance gather health, which he now wastes over the midnight oil to so little purpose. Contributions (post paid) to be sent to the Editor, at the Publishers, "We ought not, like the spider, to spin a flimsy web wholly from our own magazine; but, like the bee, visit every store, and call the most useful and the best."-GREGORY. THE IDLE AND INDUSTRIOUS APPRENTICES. THE INDUSTRIOUS APPREN- to business, that one may fairly con- Proverbs, chap. iv. verse 78. "With all thy gettings get understanding. Exalt her and she shall promote thee; she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her." From industry become opulent, from integrity and punctuality respectable, our young merchant is now Sheriff of London, and dining with the different companies in Guildhall. A group on the left side, are admirably charateristic; their whole souls seem absorbed in the pleasures of the table. A divine swallows his soup with the greatest goût. Not less gratified is the gentleman palating a glass of wine. The man in a black wig is a positive representation of famine; and the portly and silly citizen, with a napkin tucked in his button-hole, has evidently burnt his mouth by extreme eagerness. Every person present is so attentive But though this must be admitted to be the case with this party here exhibited, the following instance of city temperance proves that there are now some exceptions: When the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen, Chamberlain, &c. of the City of London were seated round the table at a public and splendid dinner at Guildhall, Mr. Chamberlain Wilkes lisped out, "Mr. Alderman Boydell, shall I help you to a plate of turtle, or a slice of the haunch-I am within reach of both, sir?" "Neither the one nor the other, I thank you, sir," replied the Alderman, "I think I shall dine on the beans and bacon which are at this end of the table." "Mr. Alderman A-n," continued the Chamberlain, "which would you choose, sir?" "Sir, I will not trouble you with either, for I believe I shall follow the example E of my brother Boydell, and dine on beans and bacon," was the reply. On this second refusal, the old Chamberlain rose from his seat, and with every mark of astonishment in his countenance, curled up the corners of his mouth, cast his eyes round the table, and in a voice as loud and articulate as he was able, called SILENCE! which being obtained, he thus addressed the prætorian magistrate, who sat in the chair, "My Lord Mayor, the wicked have accused us of intemperance, and branded us with the imputation of gluttony; that they may be put to open shame, and their profane tongues be from this day utterly silenced, I humbly move, that your lordship command the proper officer to record in our annals, that two Aldermen of the City of London prefer beans and bacon to either turtle soup or venison." Notwithstanding all this, there are men, who, looking on the dark side, and perhaps rendered splenetic, and soured by not being invited to these sumptuous entertainments, have affect ed to fear, that their frequent repetition would have a tendency to produce a famine, or at least to check the increase, if not extirpate the species, of those birds, beasts, and fish, with which the tables of the rich are now so plentifully supplied. But these half reasoners do not take into their calculation the number of gentlemen so laudably associated for encouraging cattle being fed so fat that there is no lean left, or, that most ancient association, sanctioned and supported by severe acts of Parliament, for the preservation of game. From the exertions of these and similar societies, we may reasonably hope that there is no occasion to dread any such calamity taking place; though the Guildhall tables, after groaning under such hecatombs as are recorded in the following accounts, may make a man of weak nerves and strong digestion, shake his head and shudder a little. "On the 29th October 1727, when George II. and Queen Caroline honoured the city with their presence at Guildhall, there were 19 tables covered with 1075 dishes. The whole expense of entertainment to the city was 48891. 4s. But to return to the print; a selfsufficient and consequential beadle, reading the direction of a letter to Francis Goodchild, Esq. Sheriff of London, has all the insolence of office. The important and over-bearing air of the dignified personage is well con MICROGRAPHY. Writing small, so that it is not to be deciphered by the naked eye, seems to have been very early understood; for Pliny, the Roman historian, says, that Cicero once saw Homer's Iliad written so small it might be contained in a nut-shell: and Elian mentions an artist who wrote a distich in letters of gold, which he enclosed in the rind of a grain of corn. In fact, there are the names of men on record, both ancient and modern, whose glory consisted even in micrography, or small writing. Menage says, he saw whole sentences which were not perceptible to the eye without the aid of the microscope; and pictures and portraits which appeared at first to be lines and scratches drawn at random; one of them, says he, formed the face of the Dauphiness with the most pleasing delicacy and correct resemblance. He further says, that he read an Italian poem, in praise of this same princess, written in the space of a foot and a half, by an officer, which consisted of some thousand verses. Nor have our own countrymen been behindhand in minute writing; but have equalled any thing of the kind on record. Peter Bales, who lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, astonished the eyes of beholders by shewing them what they could not see. In the Herleian MSS. 530, there is a relation of "a rare piece of work brought to pass by Peter Bales, an Englishman, and a clerk of the chancery. It appears to have been an English Bible, written so small, that it might be contained in an English walnut, no bigger than a hen's egg. The nut holdeth the book; there are as many leaves in this little book as the great Bible, and he hath written |