Hence! has a giant bard-(you all know who) [true! In lines most bitter !-and, of course, molt Remark'd onWoodward's tricks-bis ftarts and whims, His twifled features, and his tortur'd limbs ! And make fage Critics LAUGH AGAINST The cafe is hard, I own; the cenfure true; [me do? But what wou'd thefe wife mortals have When, all around, fuch partial fmiles I fee, And each kind afpect feems to beam on me; "Twere want of grace to check a grateful heart, I can't but feel the pleafure you impart : Oh!-if your fmiles fhou'd, haply, be mifplac'd, Like my imputed errors let them last, "And inclination kindly take for tafte! Yet, under Bobadil's grave mask, to-- I'll hide the antic bauble from your fight; Ges. For grave threefcore to: fculk with ..trembling knees, And envy each young lover that he fees! Think you it fitting thus abroad to roam ? [at home. Fath. Wou'd I had ftaid to caft accounts - Ges. Ay!, there's another viceFath. Sirrah, give o'er. Geo. You brood for ever o'er your much-lov'd ftore, And fcraping cent. per cent. still pine for more; done, At Jonathan's, where millions are un[your fon. Now cheat a nation, and now cheat Fatb. Rafcal, enough! Geo. I could add, but am loathFath. Enough!this jury to the Audience.] will convict us both. Geo. Then to the court we'd better make [trition, fubmiffion. Ladies and gentlemen," with true con- I hate long fpeeches-But I'll do the can boaft Geo. Then let us in Fath. • I... And this fhall be our toast, May Britain's thunder on her foes be hurl'd, Geo. And London prove the market of the world. March 1763: An Account of New Books, Pamphlets, &c. Anfaver to Lord Bolingbroke's Letters on the Study of Hiftory. By the late Lord Walpole of Woolterton. In a Series of Letters. Pr. 35. 6d. Whiston. IN the course of this performance, we frequently find the noble author advancing very exceptionable propofitions, and strangely misrepresenting facts.-His language is in general correct; but the work is over-feafoned with recrimination and invective. The School for Wives. In a Series of Letters. Pr. 3. Dodney. A very indifferent imitation of the stile and manner of the admired author of Sir Charles Grandifon. Arden of Feverfham. A Tragedy. By Mr. Lillo. Pr. Is. Davies. Natural, affecting, animated, and dramatic. Beneath all criticism. The Art of Rifing in the Church. A Satire. By Mr. Scott, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Pr. 1s. 6d. Sandby. Discovers a sprightly imagination; and abounds with poignant fatire and harmonious numbers. Serious Confiderations on the Measures of the prefent Adminiftration. Pr. 15. Kearny. A harmless fquib, levelled against the earl of B-` A Letter from a Member of the Opposition to Lord B Pr. Is. A tame encomium mr. Burnet. on the prefent The Fall of Mortimer. An biftorical Tragedy. Pr. 1. 6d. Kearsly. An old play re-published with a fecond Condamine's Journal of a Tour to Italy. band dedication, extracted from Monitors Pr. 35. Lewis. The original is entertaining, and the tranflation tolerably executed. Grey's Debates of the House of Commons. From the Year 1667, to the Year 1694. Pr. 2/. 123. 6d. Cave. Curious, important, inftru&tive, and entertaining. Temora: An ancient Epic Poem. TranBated from the Galic Language. By J. Macpherson. Pr. 10s. 6d. Becket. Bears all the genuine marks of the former productions of Offian; loftiness of and North Britons. The Triumph of Brutes, A.Satire on this Ca- Eleutheria: &c. Pr. 15. Nicoll. Sermon preached Jan. 23. 1763, by William Sellon, Curate of St. James's Clerkenwell, &c. Pr. Is. Flexney. Contains nothing new or striking. FOREIGN FR FOREIGN TRANSACTIONS. ROM Berlin a confirmation is received of the peace being finally fettled between the Empress queen, the king of Pruffia, and the king of Poland. The ratifications of the definitive treaties arrived at Hubertsberg the 1ft of March, and were immediately exchanged; and peace was proclaimed at Berlin with the ufual folemnities on the 5th. The following are the articles of the treaty, as communicated to the Diet of Ratisbon. Article II. There shall be on both fides an eternal oblivion, and a general amnefty of all hottilities, loffes, damages, and wrongs, committed during the late troubles, by either party. The refpective subjects of each power shall never be molested upon that account, but shall fully enjoy this amnesty, and all its confequences, not withstanding the avocatory letters which have been issued and published. All confifcations fhall be entirely taken off; and fuch goods as have been confiscated or fequeftred, shall be restored to the original proprietors. Art. IV. All hoftilities fhall entirely ceale on both fides, from the day of the ɓgnature of the prefent treaty of peace. Neceffary orders fhall be immediately difpatched to the armies and troops of the two high contracting parties, wherefoever they may be; and in cafe, through ignorance of what has been ftipulated in this respect, any hostilities shall have been committed after the day of the fignature of the prefent treaty, they fhall not be deemed to affect this treaty in any manner; and in this cafe, the men and effects, which may have been taken and carried away, shall be faithfully restored. Art. V. Her apoftolick majesty the emprefs queen of Hungary and Bohemia, fhall withdraw her troops from all the countries and ftates of Germany, which are not under her dominion, within the [pace of twenty-one days after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty; and within the fame term the fhall caufe to be entirely evacuated, and restored to his majesty the king of Pruffia, the county of Glatz, and, in general, all the ftates, countries, towns, places, and fortreffes, which his Pruffian majesty poffeffed before the present war in Silefia, or elfewhere, and which have been occupied by the troops of her apoftolick majesty the emprefs queen of Hungary and Bohemia, or by thofe of her friends and allies, during the courfe of the prefent war. The fortreffes of Glatz, Wefel, and Gueldres, fhall be restored to his Prussian majesty in the fame ftate, with regard to the fortifi cations, in which they were, and with the artillery that was found therein when they were taken. His majesty the king of Pruffia fhall withdraw, within the fame fpace of twenty-one days after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty, his troops from all the countries and states of Germany, which are not under his dominion; and he shall evacuate and restore, on his fide, all the states, and countries, towns, places, and fortreffes of his majesty the king of Poland, elector of Saxony, agreeably to the treaty of peace, which has been concluded this fame day, between their majesties the kings of Prussia and Poland; fo that the reftitution and evacuation of the provinces, towns, and fortreffes refpectively occupied, fall be made at one and the fame time. Art. VI. The contributions and deliveries, of what nature soever they be, as well as all demands of rectuits, pioneers, waggons, horfes, and, in general, the things furnished upon account of wat, fhall ceafe from the day of the fignature of the prefent treaty, and every thing that fhall be exacted, taken or received, after this epoch, fhall be restored punctually and without delay. Each party fhall renounce all arrears whatfoever of contributions and deliveries. The bills of exchange, or other written promifes, which have been given on either fide refpecting thefe matters, fhall be declared void, and of none effect, and shall be restored gratis to thofe who gave them. X 2 The The hostages alfo, which have been taken or given, with regard to the fame, shall be rele afed without, ranfom: every thing above-mentioned fhall take place immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty.. Art. VII. All prifoners of war shall be reciprocally and faithfully restored, without ranfom, and without regard to their number, or military rank, on their paying, however, previously, the debts: which they shall have contracted during their captivity. Each party fhall mutually renounce what has been furnished or advanced to them for their affittance and maintenance; and the fame proceeding, in all refpects, fhall be observed with regard to the fick and wounded, immediate ly after their recovery to this purpose, each party fhall name generals or com miffaries, who thall, immediately after the exchange of the ratifications, proceed, in the places that fhall be agreed upon, to the exchange of all the prifoners of war. Every thing that is ftipulated in this article fhall equally take place, with respect to the states of the empire, in confequence of text te the general ftipulation contained in the XIXth article. But as his majesty the king of Pruffia, and the ftates of the Empire, have themselves fubfifted and maintained their respective prifoners of war, and as, upon this account, fome individuals may have made advances, the high contracting parties do not mean to derogate, by the above ftipulations, from the pretenfions of the faid individuals in this respect. Art. XIX. The whole empire is comprized in the ftipulations of the IId, IVth, Vth, VIth, and VIIth articles. And by virtue thereof all the princes and fates fhall fully enjoy the effects of the faid ftipulations. And whatfoever is therein tipulated and agreed on between her majefty the empress queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and his majesty the king of Pruffia, shall take place equally, and reciprocally, between their said majesties, and all the princes and states of the empire. The peace of Weftphalia, and all the other conftitutions of the empire, are likewise confirmed by the prefent treaty of peace... DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. TUESDAY, March 1. ROM Poitiers in France we have F the following extraordinary account The Sieur de Bernay, a gentleman of Poitou, knight of the order of St. Louis, and formerly an officer in the French guards, and never had any illnefs which required him to take advice or medicine; at the age of three ore, his beard, eyebrows, and eyelashes full off; after which all the hair of his head and body, without being fenfible of any alteration in his health. Three or four months after this his beard began to grow, but not altogether fo thick as before. Six months after that he had a flow fever, during which his eyebrows and eyelashes were perceived to grow again. The eyebrows are as thick as they were before, but the eyelashes much more thin; but none of the hair upon his body. THURSDAY, March 3. mours and noifes were heard from every part of the house, which continued inceffantly till the actors were obliged to retire. The audience then called for Mr. Beard, who, addreffing himself to the house, acquainted them, that he had complied with their request (as mentioned in our laft number) in public, and came there to confirm it. This was received with approbation; but it was further infifted on, that he should stop all profecutions; to which he replied, that he was willing to comply with that alfo, fo far as it regarded himfelf. He then withdrew. This not being thought fatisfactory, Mr. Beard was again called for, and appeared; he then, with the greatest temper, affured the audience, that, for the fake of public tranquillity, he wiflingly gave up every point in difpute, as well on his own behalf as on that of the other parties concerned. This acquiefcence was immediately fucceeded by fhouts of applaufe, and the play then be This evening a very numerous audience was affembled at Covent-Garden theatre. When the curtain drew up, great cla-gan, it being near eight o'clock, SATUR SATURDAY, March 5. At Oxford affizes three perfons received fentence of death, viz. William Fry for stealing a mare, John Coxhill, one of the Bicefter gang, for fheep-ftealing, and John Whitton for a calf. This day five waggon loads of money, escorted by a party of foldiers, came to the bank from Portsmouth, brought by the Rippon man of war from the Havannah. The Hermione, a ship taken from the Spaniards, fold at Lloyd's coffee-house for 3010 1. It is agreed between our court and that of France, that the latter are to fetch away their prifoners from Great-Britain,, Ireland, &c. at their own expence. The ballance due to our government from France, on account of the French prifoners, amounts to upwards of one million two hundred thousand pounds. The ceffation of arms was published at New-York on the 17th of January last. TUESDAY, March 8. Mrs. Spall, a widow, aged 73, who lived alone, at Hempnall, about nine miles from Norwich, was found murdered in her bed,' wrapt up in a fheet, with her skull and jawbone broke, her eyes beat out, and fcarce a feature left whole. The murderer or murderers got in at a window. They are not yet difcovered. Nothing was taken away. A woman at Harrow, going to fee a neighbour, left a fine boy, about four years old by itself, when the child fell in the fire, and the mother on her return, found it almost burnt to death; fo that there is no hopes of his recovery. FRIDAY, March 11. It is computed that the amount of gold, filver, and jewels, exclufive of all merchandize, brought to England from the Eaft-Indies fince the year 1759, is not less than fix millions fterling. Twenty cutters are ordered to be taken up, with 30 men each, commanded by a Lieutenant of the navy, in order to cruize on the coasts, to prevent smugglers from running goods from France. The quantity of coals brought to the port of London, from March 1, 1762, to March 1, 1763, is lefs by 60,000 chaldrons than were imported the preceding year; which accounts, in fome measure, for the high price they bear at prefent. SATURDAY, March 12. of Wick-Rifington, for the murder of his wife, was the only perfon capitally con victed. The trial of this man lasted sevenhours, and during the course of it there appeared fuch a combination of concurrent circumstances as fully evidenced 'his' guilt, yet he perfifted in his innocence. His ' mother, charged as being acceffory to the murder, was acquitted. By a perfon lately come from Scotland, we hear, that in the parish of Dalkeith, within four miles of Edinburgh, there lives a man who is 132 years of age; and is fo hearty and well as to be able to do the business that he has followed for upwards of 80 years, which is, fupplying the inhabitants with coals from the pit, by two jack-affes he keeps for that purpose. He was always remarkably temperate, and was never ten miles from the place where he was born. MONDAY, March 14. At a numerous meeting of the fociety of arts, a gold medal was unanimously voted to Mr. Blake, for the great pains he has already taken' in carrying into execution the plan for supplying London with fish by land-carriage. Letters from Algiers relate, that the Chriftian flaves in that city, to the number of more than 4000, rofe on the 15th of January laft, and killed their guards. The streets ran with blood; all the houses, all the gates of the city were shut; a general destruction was dreaded: but, after feveral hours carnage, the infurrection was quelled, and tranquillity entirely reestablished. TUESDAY, March 15. Whitehall. One of the king's meffengers, difpatched by his grace the duke of Bedford, arrived here this morning with the ratifications of their moft Chriftian and Catholic majefties of the definitive treaty of peace, figned the roth of last month; and alfo thofe of the acceffion of his most Faithful majefty to the said treaty; which ratifications were exchanged with his grace, on the 10th inftant, by the ambas fadors and minifters plenipotentiary of the princes abovementioned, against thofe of his majefty; upon which occafion the Tower and Park guns were fired. This day the right hon. the lord Wark-.. worth, eldest. fon to the earl of Northumberland, was chofen one of the reprefentatives for the city and liberty of Weit At Gloucefter affiges, Thomas Hanks, minster, without oppofition. The pru ceifion |