they have eaten to their full satisfaction, and the glass begins to circulate, what a rich repast for the mind is afforded by the conversation of such men! what a fund of anecdotes! what original remarks! what smart repartees! what elegant bonmois! what delicious jests! what fine strokes of wit and humour are often produced by the moderate use of wine! which, as Pomfret says, "--whets the wit, improves its nativ eforce, And gives a pleasant flavour to discourse." Or supposing a company assembled, who cannot go so high; yet good songs, toasts and sentiments, pleasant jokes, humour peculiar to the lower classes, stories that excite unbounded mirth, and many other advantages, are the result of mixing even with such a society.. In either case, how long the entertain cent will continue, if the grass is not circulated too fast, to what it will if "pushed about" without regard to any thing but the mere animal pleasure of drinking. For, after the spirits are wound up to a certain pitch, they become unmanageable; and, instead of the entertainment continuing to be and sometimes with blows. I have known a man in danger of losing his life from the riotous behaviour of gentlemen with whom he had spent tlie evening, who were all well known to him, and were of great respectability; but who, having dehak to excess, seemed no longer the same persons. The fact is, that unless people are allowed to fill their glasses as they please, they cannot avoid getting drank; for the glasses now used are much larger than they were in former days, particularly at coffee-houses and taverns, where most feasts are given, and where it is the interest of the party who furnishes them to make you drink as much wine as he can. The toasts and sentiments are usually so numerous, that if you stop to drink them all, you must inevitably get intoxicated, and you do not know where to leave off. If you decline drinking when any toast or sentiment is given, you are sure to give offence to some persons. They will say, you are not well affected towards the ladies, or towards the state, or the cause of liberty, or as the toast or sentiment may happen to be. The feast of reason and the flow of soul," it from thenceforch dwindles into mere I have heard of an ingenious device sensuality; reason is dethroned; and that an eminent Dissenting Minister nothing is visible but the emanations made use of, to get out of the clutches of the body, if I may be allowed that of one of these drinking parties. Hé expression; by which I mean, that the told them, if they would excuse him, mind or soul has no longer any thing he would come again when they next to do with what is said or done. It met, and would then, if they required it, becomes a mere chaos, and conse- drink like a beast. He kept his word in quently all is in confusion. They coming again; but, when they began to appear metamorphosed into brutes, ply him with the glass, he refused as beand after this there is no saying what fore; upon which one of the company their conduct may be; so that if any said, "Nay, Sir, but you promised not one of the company is sufficiently only to drink, but, if we required himself to see the state of the rest, it, even to drink like a beast," "So the wisest thing he can do, in my I did (replied the reverend Divine), opinion, is to retire with all speed. and I mean to keep my word; for a The last-mentioned inconvenience at- beast will not drink more than he tending the custom I have above re- likes, nor will 1." probated, one should think, would be sufficient of itself to shew the absurdity of it. It will be seen by the above remarks, that by attending a feast in the present day, you have not only to dread the being obliged to get drunk; but also the unpleasant behaviour of many, if not all of the company, who, in consequence, perhaps, of their having been forced to drink till they are completely inebriated, are liable to assail you with ill words, It is to be hoped, for the honour of human nature, the time will yet arrive, when the above-mentioned practice shall be totally abolished; and men will no louger take pleasure in seeing each other reduce themselves, not only to a level with, but far beneath the beasts. Let it be observed, I do not wish to hinder any man from drinking as much as he pleases, provided he will suffer others to drink as little as they please. Those who are fond of drink, drink, and can bear a great deal of it, may fill their glasses as full as they will hold; and, if they happen to be in the chair, push the bottle about as brisk as they please, so as they will but permit the rest of the company to fill their glasses as they please; but, if they are determined that every person present shall drink bumpers, then let them be content with drinking slowly, and not, by a too rapid motion of the bottle, hasten the period when sobriety and good fellowship must cease, and stupidity, quarreling, and all the evils incident to intoxication, must inevitably take place. For the benefit, however, of such as are determined to indulge themselves to excess in the article of drinking, and particularly of literary men, who are, perhaps, as much in the habit of attending convivial parties as any persons, I shall subjoin a few observations on the evil tendency of intemperance in general, which I have extracted from an excellent Author, who observes, that .. excess in sensual enjoyments indis poses and unfits our minds for intellectual ones; and that the passions of wrath, malice, and revenge, consequent upon excessive drinking, darken and distort the understanding, tincture the mind with false colours, and fill it with prejudice and undue apprehensions of things. There is no man that is intemperate, but, besides the inconveniences he brings upon himself, as to his health, peace of mind, &c. does likewise stain and obscure the brightness of his mind, and the clearness of his discerning faculty. Such persons have not that free use of their reason that they might have; their understandings are not bright enough, nor their spirits pure and fine enough, for the proper exercise of their reason. What clearness is to the eye, that purity is to our mind and understanding; and, as the clearness of the bodily eye doth dispose it for a quicker sight of material objects, so doth the purity of our minds dispose us for the clearest and most perfect acts of reason and understanding. "Now temperance doth purify our minds and refine our spirits, by dispelling the clouds and mists of pas sion: tire more any man's mind is cleansed from the filth and dregs of sensuality, the more nimble and expedite it will be in its operations: the more any man conquers his passions, the more calm and sedate his spirit is, and the greater equality he maintains in his temper; his apprehensions of things will be the more clear and unprejudiced, and his judgment more firm and steady. This is the meaning of that saying of Solomon, He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.' furor brevis est, Anger is a short fit of madness. He that is passionate and furious deprives himself of his reason, spoils his understanding, and helps to make himself a fool; whereas he that conquers his passions and keeps them under, doth thereby preserve his reason and improve his understanding." J. H. PRINCE. Yours, &c. Old North Street, Red Lion Square, Holborn, Oct. 13. Mr. URBAN, Ira Nov. 4. of Mogadore, a place hitherto think the annexed account very little known (but to those who have connexions there or have had occasion to visit it), worth inserting in your Miscellany, it is much at your service. The accuracy of the account may be depended on. Yours, &c. Z. MOGADORE is a sea-port town of West Barbary, situate on the Atlantic Ocean, in Lat. 31. 27. N. Long. 9. 20. West. It is so called from an Island of the same name, which lies about a third of a mile from the town, and which forms the bay. The town was built about 43 years ago, by the Emperor Cidi Mohamet; and the buildings being of a whitish grey stone, and interspersed with mosques and turrets, has a very handsome appearance as you approach it. It is entirely surrounded with a high wall and battlements, and has five batteries, on which are a number of cannon and mortars; most of them of brass. The Island is the state-prison of the kingdom, and there are always on it a number of persons of note in irons, many of whom end their lives there, or are brought on shore only to be put to death.” The The present population of Mogadore is about seven or eight thousand Moors, and 2000 to 2500 Jews. Last year, the Jews were, by an or der of the Emperor, turned out of the Inner Town; and so severely and instantaneously was this order executed, that women who had been brought to bed a few hours before, were not suffered to remain in their houses, even until the next day. The Jews, many of whom owned excellent houses, were compelled to part with them to Government at a very low valuation; and they were ordered to remove to a sandy spot to the Northward, which was allotted to them for their future residence. Here they were exposed to a scorching sun, strong winds, and occasional heavy rains, until they could provide for themselves a covering. They have now nearly completed their town; which is surrounded with a lofty wall, and at the gate are placed guards, to prevent any Moors going into the town, unless on some particular occasion. In 1799, the plague made great havoc in this place, carrying off more than two-thirds of the inhabitants. The principal article of export from Mogadore at present is goatskins. Twenty-two years ago, not a single goat-skin was shipped from thence, and now they export annually 10,000 bales, of 60 skins each. The other exports are, yellow bees-wax, bitter almonds, Barbary gum, gum Arabic or soudan, gum sandrake, gum euphorbium, copper, cow and ox hides, and calf skins; ostrich feathers, anniseeds, cummin seeds, worm seeds, pomegranate shells, carraway seeds, coriander seeds, red and yellow Morocco leather, and fine twine. All these can be procured in such quantities as may be required. There are also large quantities of mules, oxen, and sheep; olive oil, sheeps' wool, saltpetre, sweet almonds, dates, raisins, honey, wheat, barley, Indian corn, and callavances; but their export is prohibited, and little probability of any change, during the life of the present Emperor, Muley Soliman, who is now in his 38th year. The trade between Mogadore and London is carried on principally by Mogadore Jews on their own account; each Jew house at Mogadore having a branch of their family settled in London. Of these, the most cousiderable are the families of Messrs. Guedalla and M'Nien, who have been resident in London nine years. Mogadore, at times, carries on a considerable trade with the United States; and in time of peace, or when Neutrals can navigate safely, with Marscilles, Leghorn, Cadiz, Lisbon, Madeira, the Canary Islands, Amsterdam, and the West Indies, Mogadore imports from England, British bar iron, alum, copperas, refined sugar, a few coarse cloths and serges, and superfine cloth, Irish dowlas, and a little hard-ware; with a large quantity of East India piecegoods and drugs. Of British manufactures, the consumption is more trifling, in proportion to the value of the cargoes sent from London, than that of any trade which Great Britain carries on with any other part of the world. Specie always forms a considerable part of the value of an investment; but, as the articles imported into London from thence are mostly for our manufactories, it may on the whole be considered an advantageous trade to Great Britain. At Mogadore reside vice-consuls and agents of the different consulsgeneral, who live at Tangier. Most of them hold their appointments from the consuls, and have not any salaries attached to their office. The Europeans reside in what is termed the Chateau: and some of them have excellent houses; amongst which, there are who possess every accomodation and comfort which can be met with in houses in England. The country back of Mogadore presents nothing but a long ridge of sand-hills; the tops of which, after the rains, are cloathed with verdure. In the distance, on a clear morning, may be seen Mount Atlas; its summit covered with snow. The oldest British inhabitant is Mr. Gwyn, the British vice-consul, who has resided there upwards of 40 years; and the oldest European resident in the Empire is Webster Blount, Esq. the Dutch Consul-general' at Tangier. Formerly the port of St. Cruz, to the Southward of Mogadore, and the ports of Saffee, Mazagan, Dar-elBeida, and Larache, to the North ward, ward, were open for trade; but it is some years that the Emperor has shut them up. Sanctaque fide manens castaque larga manu; Nunc linquit mundum immundum, cœloque potitur, Heu fut heu vitam consuinpsit fiam'ula Et Christi spousi semper amore nitet. febris, Viva ast virtutis gloria morte caret. Mogadorė, Rèbat or Sallee, Tangier, and Tetuan, are now the only ports in the Empire where foreign commerce is allowed to be carried on. 'Morocco is distant three days and a half journey East from Mogadore; and Tablet, the Siberia of Barbary, is a handsome monument to the meeight days. 3... On the South wall of the Chancel a circular-arched niche are a male and The climate of Mogadore is recken-mory of Thomas Cornwall. Within ed very healthy. A streng Northerly female image kneeling on cushions, wiad prevails eight months in the year; the other four months, November, having a desk between them, on each side of which is a book open. The December, January, and February, the winds are generally from the mages have their hands uplifted as South and South-West, with heavy in prayer, and appear looking at the rain at intervals. It never freezes at books, over which is inscribed the Mogadore, nor does there ever fall following: any snow; which is remarkable, as at Morocco they have both frost and snow; and at Madeira, which is in nearly the same latitude, the ground is often covered with snow. Mr. URBAN, Oct. 8. Z. SEND you the following moen mental inscriptions to be found in Burford Church, a village in Shropshire about two miles distant from Tenbury in Worcestershire. On a marble mural monument by the side of the Chancel window : Near this place lie the remains of to the Right Honourable Lord Craven. Below the above, on a small circular marble tablet, in Roman letters, having a coat of arms at the top: In memoriam Elizabethæ Thomæ Cornewcl militis et Baronis de Burford, et Annæ uxoris ejus, filiæ natu quartæ, hic depositæ vicessimo sexto die Octobris, anno D'ni 1675. Si pietas & prisca fides, virgine digna, Et senis & juvenis, mira pudicitia ; Si charitas inopes pascens, medicansque cubantes, Consequitur laudes, justaque ferre rogi; Hanc meritò celebrent præsens & postera secla, Præbentem hæc oculis conspicienda suis. Sex nempe undenos & tres impleverat annos, “O Lord, our souls receivė, And eke our sins forgive; And hope with thee to live; "This monument was made by the appointment and charge of Sir Thomas Cornwall, knt. in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and thirty. Under the image is, TRIVNI DEO SIT HONOR ET CLORIA. Below the whole, in two compart large s life. Against the wall within the niche, and above the effigies, is this inscription: "Here lyeth the body of the most noble Elizabeth, daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, own sister to King Henry the Fourth, wife of John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, and Duke of Exeter; after married to Sir John Cornwall, Knight of the Garter, and Lord Fanhope. She died the fourth year of Henry the Sixth, anno Domini MCCCCXXVI," 6. wife of Sir Henry Sidney, Knight of the Garter, by whom he had issue Sir Philip Sidney, knight, and Sir Robert Sidney, created Earl of Leycester. Against the South wall of the mented with a pediment and pilasters s Chancel, is a wooden frame, ornas the lower part of which has folding doors, which protect a painting of the corpse of one of the entombed, The two following inscriptions are on the frieze of this frame: Here lyeth Richarde Cornewayll, ess was sonne and heire to Sir Thomas Corne wayll, of Burford, knt. which Jenet was doghter and heire vnto He'ry Woga' esq. and Katherin his wife, one of the heires of Dauid Matheu, of Rhaidre, by his wyf, which was heyr to Vcell, of Tort Very near to the above is a move-quier, and Jenet his wife; which Richarde able wooden tomb, or chest, the sides of which have been adorned with coats of arms; and there are marks of an inscription, which is now effaced. On the top is a male effigies in armour, as large as life, This tomb is between six and seven feet long, and nearly two wide; and may possibly contain the remains of Sir John Cornwall. Perhaps some of Mr. Urban's readers can give better information upon this subject. 7. Against the South wall near the Chancel door: "O Lord, my contrite heart and meek Do not refuse, I thee beseek. "Here lyeth the heart of Edmond Cornwall, Esq. son and heyre to Sir Richard Cornwall, Burford, knight, who travelling to know Foreign Countries, died at Colene, the 14th year of Henry the Sixth, and willed his servant to bury his body there, and to inclose his heart in lead, and carry it to Burford to be buried. The said Edmond married Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Thomas Barr, knt. of Herefordshire, by which Elizabeth the said Edmond had a son named Thomas, and a daughter named Elenor. This Thomas married Elizabeth, daughter and heyre to Sir Robert Lintall, of Hampton in Herefordshire, by his wife Dame Lucy, one of the cousins and heyres unto the last Lord Grey of Codner, and had issue by her Sir Edmond Cornwall. The daughter named Eleanor was married unto Sir Hugh Mortimer, of Cuyre Ward, by whom she had one daughter and heyre who was married to Sir Thomas Worst, knight, ancestor to the Lord Delaware now living, who had by her a daughter, married to Sir Edward Guildford, knt. who had issue by her Ann, that most beautifull lady, wife unto the valiant Duke of Northumberland, father and mother to the noble Ambrose arle of Warwick, and the right excellent Robert Earl of Leycester, and to the Lady Catheryne wife of Henry Lord Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, and to Lady Mary, GENT. MAG. November, 180s. worth; which He'ry was son and heyr to Sir John Wogan, of Wiston, knt. Rich. died a do. 1568, æt. 75. Jenet died a do. 1547, æt. 40. Here lyeth Edmonde Cornewayll, son and heyre to Richard Cornewaylle and Jenet his wyfe, who beinge neuer marryed, died wythowte issue, in the yere of his age 50, in the yere of our Lord 1585, leaui'g his lands and goods u'to his well beloued brother Thomas Cornewayle, nowe liuinge, who hath caused this monume't to be made for the memory of his worshipfull pare'ts and most loui'ge brother, in the yere of our Lord 1587. Yours, &c. *** The Ludlow article will be used. ILLUSTRATIONS OF HORACE. BOOK II. EPISTLE 1. [In continuation from our last.] The notions usually formed concerning the deification of the Roman Cæsars during their lifetime, seem to stand in need of some correction. The generality, even amongst the learned, make little scruple of acting unjustly by the blind heathens; at least we make too little account of the vast difference between their conceptions of such matters and ours, and how little that which they conceived under the name of a god had in common with the ideas we form of the Supreme Being. The people called heathens, besides the First cause of all things, who had no where either temples or priests, and of whom only the philosophers babbled or doated, knew of no other deities than tutelar spirits |