LIST of SHIPS taken. 33 following particulars, viz. 3500 hogsheads of fugar, 1200 hogfheads of tobacco, 5000 quintals of fish, feveral puncheons of rum, and a great quantity of beef, &c. &c. A little privateer of this place, of 2 carriage guus and 50 men, has fent in, among others, a fhip of 18 guns, laden with beef, butter, &c. for Jamaica; and another large veffel laden with fish. The Hinchinbrook loop of war, 14 guns, feparated from adm. Townshend's squadron in a ftorm, and with a jury maft up, taken after 3 hours brave defence, against a much fuperior force, and carry'd into St Maloes. The Louifbourg fireship, Capt. Delamotte, car. into Granville, after a brave refiftance, in which the captain was dangerously wounded, the Lieut. loft a leg, and feveral of the crew kill'd. The Benjamin and Betty, Fleming, first taken, Nov. 7. by the Judea privateer of Bayonne, of 26 guns, and 210 men, who took out the master and all the crew except the mate, a passenger, and 2 boys, retaken the 15th by the Monmouth, who put a mafter and 3 men on board; taken again 20 leagues weft of the Lizard by the Mary Magdalen, a Fr. priv. of 22 guns, and 250 men. The Italian galley, Wannell, from Newfoundland for London, car. into St Maloes. The Thomas and Robert, Tavernor, from Newfoundland for Pool, carry'd into Breft, the mafter washed overboard and drown'd. The John and Thomas, Brownhill, from Liverpool to St Kitts, taken by the French. A brigantine from N. England for Annapolis Royal, tak. by 2 Fr. priv. of confiderable force. The William and Mary, Stilfon, from N. England to Antigua, car. into Guardaloupe. The Three Friends, Tovell, from Southampton to Jersey, taken by the French. The Martha and Elizabeth, Seager, from Newfoundland for Pool; and the Roscot privateer of Guernsey, both taken by the Spaniards. The Seahorse, Fowler, from Southampton for Guernsey, car. into Morlaix. The Betty and Jenny, Mac Clow, from Irwin for Barbadoes; the, Chace, from Boston, and feveral other veffels from the north American colonies, bound to Barbadoes and the Leeward Ilands, carry'd into Martinico. The Charming Molly, Whaley, from Newfoundland for Dartmouth; and the Sarah, Lyde, from Newfoundland for Topfham, both car. into Granville. The Robert and John, Paterson, from Virginia for Glasgow, tak. by D'Anville's squadron. The Betty, M'Elvanny, from Antigua for London, carry'd into Cherbourg. The " James, from Newfoundland for Topfham, taken by the French. An English ship loaden with logwood, fugar, rice. hides, &c. was takǝn by one of D'Anville's fquadron, who took out all the hands but 4, and put 7 Frenchmen on board. The four English took an opportunity to furprize the French, and put 4 of them in the long boat, with provifions, and run the ship afhore at Arifaig, in the Highlands of Scotland, where the inhabitants took out the rice, fugar and hides, and then burnt the fhip with the rest of her lading. The, Denrick, and the, Farington, from Boston to Jamaica, both tak. by a Fr. priv. The Italian Merchant, Watson; the Mary, Mackenzie; and the Tryton, Hornby, all 3 from London to the Leeward Iflands, carry'd into Martinico. The Rover, Neal, of Briftol, from Bonny; the Squirrel, Hervey; and the Grand Duke, Calwell, both from Cork, and Nicholas, all bound to the W. Indies, all car. to Martinico. The Loyal Catherine, White, from London to Carolina, car. into the Havanna. The Sea-horse brigantine, Handlin, of New York, bound for the island of St Thomas, taken The Tyger, of Port Mahon, capt. Byan, from Gibraltar for London, with wine and fruit, drove on fhore in Chale Bay, the fouth part of the isle of Wight, and beat to pieces, and 15 inva lids, and a Spanish woman paffenger drown'd. The D. of Cumberland, Lawfon, from Falmouth for Barbadoes and St Kitts, car. to St Maloes. The George and Polly, Meaton, from Carmarthen for London, with butter, cheese aod coals, tak. by a Fr. priv. and raníom'd for 180 1. The Two Brotherss Wadmore, from Southampton for Plymouth, taken the 23d instant by a French privateer off Portland. The Neptune, capt. Goddard, from Philadelphia for Jamaica, taken by the French and car. ry'd into Leogan. The Rofe, from Virginia for London, taken by the French, but afterwards loft. INSCRIPTION on ALKHAM Church-Wall, near Dover in Kent. #H:TACEO:BDT.SIMONIS:PROLES VIR APÉROVS. AD BONA:SPE CERTUS:FIDEI SERMONE:DISERTVS: There was a space between the 2d and 3d word, which laft feems imperfect. VARIATIONS in the First and Second TH I. HAT no ox, bull, cow, calf, iteer or heifer, whether fat or lean, be fuffered to pass the Humber and Trent northward, from the 19th of this Inft. Jan. to the 27th day of March next. And for that purpofe, his majefty's juftices of the peace of the feveral counties, &. thro' which the faid rivers run, are hereby required to cause trict watch to be conftantly kept to guard all the bridges, fords and ferries on the faid rivers, and to carry all offenders herein, before the next magiftrate, to be dealt with according to law. B II. That in all cafes where lean cattle fhall be put out to pafture (whether c the faid paffure do belong to the owner of fuch cattle, or be hired by him) and that fuch pasture fhall not be found fufficient to feed the cattle put therein, liberty be given to the owners of fuch cattle to remove them to fome other pafture in the neighbourhood, tho' it hould happen to lie in a different pa- D rifh; but that this liberty be granted only for fuch cattle as are in health, and free from any diftemper; and that a certificate of their being fo must be obtained before their removal, in like manner as is required by the order of the 17th, to be obtained upon the driving or removing and felling fatted cows and oxen; and that fuch certificate be delivered to one of the church-wardens, overfeers of the poor, or conftables of the town or parish to which fuch beafts shall be fo removed, or to fome inspector appointed by the juftices of the peace. III. That the prohibition laid by the order of the 17th of December last, upon the removal and fale of calves, be taken off from all fatted calves, provided they are found, and free from any diffemper, and that proof thereof be made and certified in the fame manner and form, as is required by the aforementioned order, with refpect to fatted G cows and oxen. IV. That in all cafes where the church-wardens, overfeers of the poor, conftables and infpectors, or fome or one of them, shall stop any cattle,which, by the order of Dr. 17 are prohibited to be removed, and hall carry the offenders before fome jultice of the peace; fuch church-wardens, and other officers, are hereby authorized, during the time E that fuch offenders fhall be under examination of fuch justice, to put the said cattle under the care of fome proper perfon. And in cafe it fhall appear to the faid juftice, that the faid cattle are fuch, as are prohibited to be removed by his majefty's aforementioned order, and not allowed of by this prefent order, and are not infected, that then he do caufe the faid cattle to be drove back the fame way to the place or grounds from whence they were brought, with fome proper officers to attend them, or take fuch order concerning the faid cattle, as fuch juftice fhall judge most proper, according to the cafe. V. That inftead of requiring the oaths of two conftables, church-wardens, overfeers or infpectors, to afcertain the numbers and values of the cattle fhot, or otherwife killed, flashed and buried, and the having conformed to all the rules laid down as directed by the order of March 12, to entitle the owner of any fuch cattle to the rewards thereby promifed, the oath of one of thofe officers thall, for the future, be fufficient, where two of them cannot be had; but in all fuch cafes, the owner of the cattle fhall call one other credible perfon to be a joint witness with fuch officer, who is hereby required to make the like oath.And his majesty doth hereby declare, that the recompence promiled by his majesty's aforementioned order, fhall be thereupon paid to the owners of the faid cattle, in the fame manner as if the oaths of two of the laid officers had been taken, provided the magiftrate (or in his abfence the minifter of the parifh) who thall take [adminifter] the faid oath, do certify as to the credibility of the faid person. VI. And his majesty doth hereby ftriétly charge and command all his juitices of the peace, conftables, churchwardens, overfeers, infpectors, and all farmers, cow-keepers, and others, to conform themselves to what is hereby required, any thing contained in his majefty's order of council aforementioned to the contrary notwithstanding. And for the better notifying this order, it is his majelty's pleasure, that the fame be forth with printed and published, and be alfo inferted in the next London Gazette, and be likewife read, together with the faid former orders of council, in all parish churches, chapels, and other places fet apart for divine worship, in the manner, and at the times prescribed by the act of parliament aforementioned. W'm Sharpe. From A REVIEW of the JOURNALS. From the Craftsman, Jan. 10. WHO On the DUTCH. HO would imagine, after all the inftances of friendship from us, that, if England and France fhould ftrug- A gle for the alliance of the Dutch, thefe once diftrefs'd, by us made High and Mighty, ftates fhould fuffer memorial after memorial for feveral years to be fent by the court of England without any regard paid to them? Who would imagine that they would refrain from join ing that power which always was ready to affift them, for fear they fhould disoblige another power that omits no opportunity to opprefs them? We have been told by our public news-papers that the negociations of a certain illuftrious perfon with the states have met with all the fuccefs defired; but is it in the leaft degree probable that the ftates of Holland intend to act against the French, while they continue a minifter at the court of France, who is himfelf actuated by French politics, and who is a more than ordinary favourite at Verfailles? On MASQUERADES. HEY are not only low and foolish extirpated here, we cannot be faid to have wrought a reformation in our manners. 35 chiefly been compofed of gamesters, commonly call'd gamblers, players, women of the town, and attorney's clerks: and is not this, as Shakejpeare says, woripful Society? As to Italian operas, I believe the loffes which the undertakers will this year fuftain will deter them from affronting the public again in the fame manner. From the Westminster Tournak, Jan. 17. Animadverfions on modern Education. BA Writer who figns Hermas, in a C D Would any parent with his child to frequent an entertainment which confifts g of a large number of perfons of both fexes in masks and antick dresses, where the principal converfation confifts in abufive raillery and obfcene difcourfe convey'd in whispers, with a continuance of mufick and dancing to affift the defigns of young fellows in their amours there, and where they have a variety of viand's to heat them? All which are favourable inftruments of debauchery. I am really aftonifh'd when I fee an entertainment of this fort countenanced by perfons civilized, and who would fo much as preferve the appearance only of modesty. The king has fhew'd a noble contempt of Italian operas by difcouraging them as much as he can; and I doubt not but masquerades will meet with the fame difapprobation from him, as his own welfare and fecurity depend upon the virtues of his fubjects. I with pleasure observe, that mafquerades are not fupported by perfons of high rank and large fortunes,as they formerly have been: they have of late G letter to Mr Touchit, juftly ob ferves, that the education of youth in high and low ftations, with refpect to moral attainments differs but little, both being promifcuously mingled together in public schools, where great care indeed is taken to make them learned, but none to render them wife and good, vice and impiety there receive no check, but the feeds of both are fuffered to fhoot up in young minds to fuch a fhameful exuberance, that the behaviour of this part of the rifing generation is become remarkably indecent, immoral, and prophane. -Who can obferve the **** fcholars at divine service, without astonishment, regret, and indignation? And who can reflect on the influence which many of them from their high ftation are likely to have on the national affairs, without feeling the moft alarming fears, and the tenderelt concern ?" HERMAS. [Mr Touchit properly fuljcins, as a fupplement to this Letter on Education Advice to Study GUNNERY. As the war is like to continue, and the circumstances of affairs require. to have it push'd with our utmost efforts, it greatly concerns all who bear arms for their country to inform themfelves, as much as poftible, in that art, (according to the feveral degrees of their fervice.) The art of gunnery, in particular, is too little known by our young gentlemen, and the complaint is general, that the French engineers are abundantly more numerous, and, for the most part, more fkilful than ours. And hence they gained many advantages, when Briti bravery had otherwife undoubtedly prevailed. Our enemies not only make a fcience of the management of their artillery, but teach it with as much meHthod as grammar and logic are taught in the fchools, and have feveral well-writ ten books on the fubject. A tranilation of one of thefe, Fam inform informed the belt, has lately appeared in England, under the title of A Treatise of Artillery; or, of the Arms and Machines ufed in War fince the Invention of Gunpowder, &c. The author feems to write with great knowledge of his matter, and in a clear ftile. All the principal doctrines are illuftrated with cuts, and the tranflator has added fome notes to fupply what he thought deficient. As I am no military man, I'll not pretend to fay more of the work: but, as an Englishman, I would advise my countrymen to learn what they can from our B hereditary enemies, and,as much as poffible, turn their own arts against them. For, this purpose, if I am not mistaken, M. le Blond's treatise will be very useful. A A book of this kind, in English, could not be fo properly dedicated as to the duke of Cumberland; nor could his royal highnefs be mentioned by a Briton with- C out encomium. As our dedicator has attempted here to display his eloquence I fhall quote two or three fhort paragraphs of his performance. D What other general could have animated fatigu'd troops, joyfully to bear ⚫ a rigorous feafon; to pals with ardour • bleak hills, unfound moors, craggy 'defiles, and rapid currents? What o⚫ther general could have given such refolution and firmness to every individual of an army, as to ftand, unmov'd, the impetuofity of a fierce defperate enemy, bold in imagined fafety from the target, and fuperiority of the E broadfword? What other generalBut (See p. 19 A.) To repeat queftions, which may infinuate defects in others would certainly offend your royal highness's wellknown delicacy; and to attempt a farther difplay of that military merit, which furnifhe matter of converfation and furprize to all Europe, and calls forth the fpontaneous thanks of every loyal fubject throughout the Britih dominions, would be a labour as needlefs as lighting up lamps to the fun. F For the whole world has now feen fully accomplish'd, what Coning feg, the • molt experienced general of his age, & predicted, when he obferved that your royal highness had, in two campaigns, learnt more of the fcience of war, than many princes do in ten. The conduct of that fignal day of Culloden, has difplay'd the great commander which this fagacious chief forefaw in your royal highnefs's early attention to every incident of the field, and every exigence of the camp.' H Mr URBAN, Ileaft difpute on the monkish monument; I thought myself and the worldobliged to Mr Gemjage, for reftoring the right word Noverca, and to T. B. for telling us the place where it was found, and its age. But the last gentleman imagines I have treated the monks very unchristianly. If he be a roman catholic, there is no queftion but it will appear so to him, in defiance of all arguments that can be started to the contrary; and the invincible prepoffeffion of this fect easily induces me to put up with the epithet, as amounting to no other damage than a word. He bids me remember that all the learning we then had was preserved by thefe very monks, whom I treat fo harthly. True, and I defire him not to forget that the loss of our literature and liberty was owing to the pontiñcal Mufti of Rome, and his inquifitors. If there appear'd but a glimmering of it, perfecution was the immediate confequence, and a Galileo was fentenced, at 90 years of age, to a dungeon for maintaining a fyftem which every prelate of Rome has long fince embrac'd. T was not my intention to raise the The horror that every true protestant muft feel, at the thought of our learning and liberties reverting into that old lethargy of ignorance, and the late attemps to effect it, at the inftigation of popish teachers, &c. deferve a worfe epithet than unchriflian; and I hope the gentleman will not take it amifs if I put him in mind, that a much greater, body of men, and whofe knowledge in divinity far excell'd Mr Smith's, did not hesitate to pronounce them antichriftian. The truth is, I could not, nor can I yet see any thing but a piece of drollery in the whole epitaph. The folemnity of the fubject may indeed, and ought to affect us all; and those who perceive nothing ridiculous in the manner of handling it, may weep over it if they pleafe, or indulge the ferious vein of a melancholy hour, unreprehended. To conclude, I bid this gentleman adieu, forgiving, and hoping to be forgiven by, him, wherever our difference in opinion has occafioned any difagreeable reflection. N.B. Mr Smith fent, with this letter, another verfion of the Infcription, which must be postpon'd. + Council of Gap, in 1603, pope Clement was made at the decifion. Poetical ESSAYS; JANUARY 1747. Have Jent you a Fable to begin your Poetry for 1747. If it shall induce any among the flothful, thoughtless, and voluptuous, to live the enfuing year to better purpofe than they did the laff, my pleasure will be equal to their advantage. SP The ANT'S PHILOSOPHY. PRING, hoary winter's lovely child, Approach'd, reviving nature fmil'd, With brighter gold the mornings glow'd, The fnows diffolv'd, the rivers flow'd, Warm western breezes fhook the reed, Prolific dews impearl'd the mead, On ev'ry spray new leaves appear'd, The birds from every bufh were heard, No more the folds the flock retain, Nor village fires the fhiv'ring fwain. Adorn'd with ev'ry gorgeous dye The gale receiv'd a butter-fly, Vig'rous, and as the feafon gay, He wanton'd in the beams of day. Two careful Pifmires, each a fage, By nature wife, and wife by age, (While each the gawdy triffe fees) Exprefs'd, by turns, fuch thoughts as thefe. Short is the date of thoughtless mirth, 'The lighteft vanity on earth! The pleasures Idleness beftows But fharpen Want's fucceeding woes; 'Yon flutterer, recent from the duft, Shall quickly prove the maxim juft; • What seasons change the world below, Should we, by long experience wife, 37 ⚫ Alas! can reafon conquer fate? • Can counsel make a Hy fedate? • Shall he new schemes of life perfue, Believe your words, and copy you? Know wisdom, the beft boon of heav'n, • Wisdom by none but Jove is giv'n, On us beftow'd, perhaps alone For man, our boafted lord, has none. · Proud wretch! beneath whofe heedless Tread "We count a thousand thousand dead, Whofe ftaff,huge mafs! with casual blow 'Our towns unfeen can overthrow, Ev'n he, whofe life an age endures, 'No good beyond the now fecuresFor toys he barters health, and ease, And leaps the precipice he fees; Not reafon's warning voice he hears, 'Or wife by hours, is mad by years, By folly ftill belies his birth, And lives a very fly on earth. [due, Thank heav'n, to heav'n our thanks are • We know our int'reft, and perfue. 'Let man rule earth, and claim the sky, The dread, yet fcorn, of you and I, "Our humbler lot with wildom bleft, Jove's partial bounty marks the best." Our ant's conclufion briefly to apply Let him who fcorns it by his life deny. The laft RIDDLE explain'd. WE Ingrate with coals of E find the facred books require, fire. COAL! the kind friend of rich and poor, Tho' fubterraneous flames and water, |