April 18 The lady of Wm, Wright, efq. of Watford, of a fon.

The lady of Henry Peele, efq. of Dover, of a daughter.

26. The lady of Charles Cotton, efq. of New Burlington-fireet, of a daughter.

28. The hon. Mrs. Magens Dorrien, of Cavendish-fquare, of a daughter.

30. The lady of John Richardfon, efq. of Wimpole-ftreet, Cavendish-fquare, of a fon.

Mrs. Baillie, of Bedford-fquare, of a fon.

May 1. The lady Louvaine, of a fon.

The lady of William Bofcawen, efq. of Red Lion-fquare, of a daughter. The lady of the hon. lieutenant-col. Fane, of a fon.

12. The lady of William Baker, esq. of Hill-ftreet, of a daughter.

The lady of the hon. capt. Charles Napier, of Merchifton-hall, Scotland, of a fon.

The lady of Charles Stanley Monk, of Dublin, of a daughter.

MARRIAGE S.

April 17. Thomas Rice, efq. of the horfe guards, to mifs Lowe, of Hampton Wick, Middlesex.

Charles Fry, efq. of Lincoln's Inn, to mifs Elrington.

James Lucas, efq. of Honiton, to mifs Smith.

William Elliott, efq. of Stobbs, North Britain, to mifs Ruffell.

Gilbert Jackson, A. M. of Magdalen College, Oxford, to mifs Maria Pilford, of Effingham, Surrey.

Henry Grimes, efq. of Saffron Walden, to mifs Knight.

Charles Doyle, efq. of Briftol, to mifs Peltier.

Charles Nafh, efq. of the Surreyroad, to mifs Beal.

Mr. Whinfield, rector of Battlefden, Bedfordshire, to mifs Wrey.

Robert Prefton, efq. of Woodford, member for Dover, to mifs Brown, of Stockton.

Thomas Riddell, efq. of Swinburn Caftle, Northumberland, to miss Salvin, of Croxdale, Durham.

24. The rev. archdeacon Verfchoyle, to mifs Walsh.

The rev. Arthur Lord, of Clonhelly, Ireland, to mifs Wolfe."

Robert Beatson, efq. of Kilrie, to mifs Jean Campbell, of Roffend, Fifefhire. Thomas Harris, efq. of Maidenhead, to mifs Townley.

William Bridges, efq. of Southampton, to mifs Hopkins.

May 4. The rev. Ruffell Scott, of Portsmouth, to mifs Hawes of Bury. ftreet, St. Mary Axe.

The rev. R., Huntley, of Boxwell, Gloucestershire, to mifs Webfter.

George M. Macaulay, efq. of this city, to mifs Thud, of Blackheath.

5. Henry Harding Parker, efq. of Corke, to mifs Skottowe.

The hon. Henry Dillon, to miss Trant.

William Peters, chaplain to the Pr. of Wales, to mifs Knowfley, of Thirsk, Yorkshire.

John Saufe, efq. of Liverpool, ta mifs Alice Willock.

. Mr. Hitch, rector of Wefterfield, Suffolk, to mifs Baker, of Brooke's Hall, near Ipswich.

William Pritchard, efq. of Piccadilly, to mifs Wells.

Captain Fortefcue, of the Scotch Greys, to miss Mounley.

The rev. Rich. Codrington, of Batheafton-court, Somerfetfhire, to mifs J. Webber.

Thomas Major, esq. of Halifax, to mifs Stone.

Andrew Corbett, efq. of High Hatton, Chefhire, to mifs Taylor, of Lymme. Deane, efq. of Southampton, to Miss Deane, of Reading.

George Thacker, efq. of Taunton, to mifs Proyle.

Henry Bofanquet, efq. of Lincoln'sAlexander Adams, efq. of Belton, So-inn, to mifs Caroline Andley, of Trumpmerfetshire, to mifs Franks, of Clapham.ington, Cambridgeshire.

Capt. A. Brice, of the Coldiream regiment of guards, to mifs Dupre, of Portland Place.

14. Francis M'Kenny, efq. in the Eat India company's fervice, to miss Hill, of Suffolk-fireet.

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No XV.

"OF MAKING MANY BOOKS THERE IS NO END." Ecclef. xii. 12.

THAT

books of his time, indeed, have been loft in the wreck of ages. Meritorious as they may have been, they were trod under foot during that long night of intellectual darknefs that overfpread his nation and kingdom.

Of making many books there is no end." How fit a motto for the. present state of literature, when the prefs groans with voluminous labours, and bookfellers are adding warehouse to warehouse to contain them! At no time, and in no country, do we find fo great a torrent of writings overflowing a nation as at prefent. Literary fame fills the breast with irresistible ardour, and we may fafely fay, that negligence is only in fault if any flower now be born to blufh unfeen, or wafte its sweetness in the defert air.” In every species of literature our books are increafing fo greatly, as to produce a degree of confufion from

HAT there is nothing new under the fun, is an opinion which will, perhaps, be readily taken up by all who are deeply converfant with angient hiftory: and by fuch, a conclufion will be drawn, that the prefent age has but few pretences to originality; that every virtue and every vice now exifting, may be traced in the earliest records of human manners, and that where we think ourselves moft juftified in the claim of original merit, we are but licking into fhape that which exified from the beginning of the world, or polifhing the diamond that has lain in the earth "fince the mountains were brought forth." But without examining too narrow-which a young pupil knows not ly into these opinions, which it was my prefent defign only to advert to, it feems at leaft fair to conclude, that if Selomon, who flourished in the thirtieth century of the world, were now alive in the eighteenth of the Chriftian æra, he would have the fame occafion to offer the obfervation which I have prefixed to this paper, as he bad then. The “many

how to extricate himself, or how to make a proper choice. For amidst fuch a number of books as are publifhed, can it be wondered if there are fome bad? Nay I am afraid that the number of good ones bears but a fmall proportion to those which are either intrinfically bad, or useless, or trifling.

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