the Conformity of Signs, as well as Words Such an eafy Conversation may be foon Argument fooner by walking, than by The Whiteness of thy Cheeks But Priam found the Fire e'er be hisTongue, D E Behaviour would be as ridiculous as non- 'Tis hoped, as the English are remark- From the Ton Cutter's Journal, No. 9. On Lying. Comb, (the nominal Author of this * My Friend Pain, on telling him the But to leave Holy Writ-Would the fo they spare no Calumny or Scandal, when their Aim is to trip up a virtuous Enemy. They cry Whore firft, like the Roman Gracchi, while they are com plaining that others are pulling down the Commonwealth, are fapping the Foun dations of it themselves. So the Foxes in Norway, when the Cold drives them out of their Holes, fteal into Farmers Yards, and bark like Dogs, for the easier These were the Men that fowed the Seeds of the fatal Divifions in Greece, and deftroy'd thofe illuftrious Heroes Miltia des and Phocion; that banished Ariftides, Cimon, and Themiftocles; that drove Han- nibal from Carthage, and Scipio from Rome; that flatter'd the Ambition of the victorious Paufanias to a Block; ufed by him, and thereby to work him- felf into their Confidence, and the Com- mand) of their Armies; which according- ly took Effect, and put the City into the Hands of Darius? Was it not a Com- A mendable Cheat in Codrus, when he bit his Enemies into an Opinion, that he was a common Porter, and fo got himself cun- ningly knock'd on the Head, because the Oracle had told him the Profperity of the Athenians depended upon it? Was not Mutius Scævola's Action of the fame Kind, when he enter'd Porfena's Tent in Difguife; and having milled his Stroke, ran his Hand into the Flames, and told the Tuscan King, to intimidate him, that he was one of 300, who had all confpired his Death? I have one Lie more pro- ceeding from a publick and heroic Spirit. Atilius Regulus, a Roman Conful, made a Defcent upon the African Coaft, by Or- der of the Senate. His Men unused to that hot Country, dropt away like rotten Sheep He was at a lofs for Recruits, his Honour, and Rome's Glory lay at Stake: He forefaw, that if he told the true Caufe of the Mortality, aVote might be paffed for clapping up a fcandalous Peace: Upon this he wrote them Word, that his Army had been encounter'd by a Dragon, that cover'd I know not how many Acres of Ground, that they had engaged, and at last overcome him, tho' with great Lofs on their Side, which he begg'd might be immediately made up, because the Fame of his aftonishing Vic- tory had ftruck fuch a Terror into Car- thage, that the Moment he could fhew himself before the Walls, he did not doubt but they would deliver him the Keys. The Cafe appeared fo extraordinary, that new Levies were voted; and the Defire F hear it.. of feelng the Skin of this Monster, in- flamed all the young Fellows in Italy; and the politick General got double the Forces he fet out with at first. There is another Set of Liars, who ought to be encouraged, provided they feafon their Fictions with Humour; thefe are Liars, merely for Lying fake, with- Your Tale-hearers, or mifchief-making Liars, are variously distinguish'd. Among thefe is the fam Patriot, or Public Fabu lift. This Species never ftuck at any thing that could promote its deftru&ive H Schemes. As Proflitution and Flattery Perhaps another Time I may fhew, Mr Pain was running on, when, who Vy, dare is Monf. Tricot, -Vat do you tink he do fay? N. B. We should oftner give Extracts from this Author, but most of his Papers are it is confefs'd the Aneid was written, was not finish'd till the Year of Rome 735, and the Author had engaged, in the third Book, to fing, afterwards, the Exploits of Auguftus. Now Virgil died, either in 740, according to Pliny, or 735, accord- ing to Servius and Donatus. According to the first Suppofition, is it poffible he could have finished the neid in five Years? and can we think, that, in com- pofing it, he would have broke his Pro- Secondly, Because Virgil, in the Geor- gicks, fuppofes, that the Trojans were con- ducted into Italy by Tithonus, whereas, in the Eneid, they are Fugitives, under the Conduct of Eneas. And the true Virgil rejects the Metempsychofis, but the Author of the Eneid teaches it in the A Third Proof is the Silence of Pliny; He, who fo often cites the Eclogues and Georgicks, but never the Eneid, whence it fellows, that it was not in Being in his Time, and, confequently not Virgil's. Fourthly, The Eneid is not Virgil's, because the fame Pliny tells us, that Au- guftus forbid executing the Order Virgil had given to burn his Terfes, ejus Carmi- na. The Word Carmina cannot be ap- But, as a stronger Proof, that Virgil was not its Author, Father Hardourn Father Hardouin, then, gives us a De- Thefe with many others, are the Rea- The Craftsman, Jan. 5. No. 392. HE laft Court entitled If it be objected to Father Hardouin, GT the Rife and Fall of the late pro- that Ovid, Juvenal, Statius, Martial, jetted Excife, &c. having been dispers'd It's certain, fays the Reviewer, that following the Trader into his Vaults and Cellars, or other private Repofitories of publick of Holland and Venice never allow it (See Vol. III. p. 115) neither have the Officers in France any Power to enter and fearch Houfes; fo that our Excifes ap- A pear of a worfe Kind than those under arbitrary Governments, yet we are told by Mother Osborne that we enjoy all the Liberty human Nature is capable of. We are affured that thefe Regulations were defigned only against Smuglers and Wine-Brewers. But are all the Dealers in Tobacco and Wine to pass under that De- B nomination? It is farther argued that these injurious Dealers might properly enough be Jubject to the fame Law, which the boneft Brewer of true English Beer is continually under. -This is only quoting one Grievance in Juftification of another, and is another Proof that the Scheme had a more generai Drift than the Projector would own. Another Argument equally fallacious is, that Places of Sale only were to be vifited, and that no Houfe was to be enter'd. But the Words of the Bill are, all Wareboufes, Store houses, Kooms, Shops, Cellars and other Places, made use of for the keeping, cutting, stripping, or otherwise manufacturing any Tobacco. III p. 310 D) (See Vol. C D "Tis further faid, that the Bill would bave eas'd the whole Excife Law, particularly in preventing Perjury, by lefening the Number of Oaths, and relieving the E Trader from wearing to his Books. But this is likewife contradicted by the words of the Bill. (See Vol. III. p. 310 A) The Confiderer expatiates on the Arts ufed to affright the Nation with the ftrange, groundless Terror of a GENERAL EXCISE. But what is a General Excife but an Accumulation of particular Excifes? And if he will add what were defigned by this Bill to thofe already fubfifting, he will find a large Catalogue,(fce Vol. III. p. 638) the Dealers in which would have been cut off from the Privileges of their Fellow Subjects, by this Method of Taxation. F G There are two Kinds of Excifes; one ftops at the Maker, or firft Owner, fuch as that upon Beer and Ale, Malt, Hops, Soap, Candles, &c. the other follows the Commodity wherever it goes, which is feizable without a Permit, fuch as that upon Brandy, Rum, Arrack, Coffee, Tea H and Chocolate, &c. And all our modern Excifes, except that on Salt, as well as thofe intended by the late Scheme, are of the latter Kind, more expensive than the ether, both to the Government and People But it would have been Time enough, fays the Confiderer, to raise Alarms, when they found the leaft Tendency towards a Design to excife any Part of our Food, or to enter any private Houfe.-That is, it is Time enough to struggle, when the Knife is at our Throat. The Counfel of the Bird in the Fable is much better, i. e. to pick up the Hempfeed immediately after it was fown. Liberty is not in half fo much Danger from a Scalade, as by Un dermining. But is no Part of our Food already excifed? Is not Wine, by long Habit, become Part of our Food; even fuch a Part of it as, in many Cafes, is neceffary to Life? The meaner fort of People will tell you, that even Tobacco is a Part of, or at least as ufeful as their Food, Don't the fair Sex look upon Coffee, Tea and Chocolate, as Part of their Food? - Will the minifterial Writers say that Beer and Ale, Cyder and Perry are no Part of our Food? is not Salt necellary to Life? Is not this under an Excife Not a Piece of Bacon, Salted Beef, or Pork can be eaten, not a Pound of "Butter, Cheefe, or Bit of Bread can be made, but contributes to it. Are not all our Ships victualled with Salted Provisions? As for entering private Houfes, not to infift on the Infpectors of the Window Lights, by the Act of the 6th of the late King, no Gentleman can fend a little Prefent of Brandy, Rum, or Arrack, to a Friend, even after he hath paid the Duty, without a Permit, which will not be granted unlets he enters his houfe, and thereby fubjects it to the Vifitation of Excifemen. By the fame Act no Gentleman can keep above 63 Gallons of any of thefe Liquors in his Houfe without entering it.--By the Act of the 10th of the fame King, no Gentleman can have a little Chocolate made in his Houfe without Permiffion from an Officer, after three Days Notice, as well as wearing to the Quantity made, and carrying it to the Office, wrapt up in Paper to be fampt. In short, when the Projector and his Advocates difown any defign of a Geneval Excife, they must mean an Universal Excife, of which there is fcarce an Inftance in the whole World, even under the most tyrannicalGovernments, and if an Excife was actually laid on Fiß and Flefmeat, they might as well pretend that it had not the left Tendency to a General Excife, becaule Apples, Eggs, Milk, &c. might still remain free. Fog'e Fog's Journal, Jan. 5. No. 270. Dr Burgefs's Advice to his old Friends. FINDING other Papers, too warmly and partially engaged, Ichufe yours to convey a few Hints to your old Friends my new Converts, and to my old faithful Brethren and Children, to prevent their being impos'd upon by either of the Contenders. You are all Proteftants, your religiou Differences trifling; have Charity one for another-Jure Divino, Paffivc Obedience A and Hereditary Right, thofe mutu al Sup ports of Tyranny in Church and State are juftly exploded, you have been con defcending in religious Matters to each other for feveral Years, keep fteady in this Path, and be not trick'd out of it by Men who will affume any Name or Shap to delude and divide you;-a fincere Pa pilt is better than a Proteftant Hypocrit or a Free-thinker, he that knows an does not practice Religion, must be falfe to God and a Knave to Mankind. C Let my Brethren, and the new Converts, love and cherish each other, and be zealous for Liberty, Property, and the Proteftant Succeffion. Confider from whence, and from whom do your Evils proceed, whether from Court or independent Whigs, Diffenters, Tories, or Papifts, or a Mixture of all, or fome of them; remember that Mammon was always the real God of Courtiers; a Court always was for more power; even Nero was not fatisfied with his abfolute Tyranny but wanted a Contrivance to bundle the People's Necks together by ten Thousands, that he might deftroy them faster for his D Diversion. Have you not heard of the moft inveterate Republicans changing their Notes as foon as they got within the Sphere of a Court, and bawling out for Paffive Obedience, alias Prerogative and Penfions; for Courtiers never lofe Sight of their darling Point, Power; that once E gained, it procured them all other Things Religious or Civil, and then they become most infolent Tyrants. Therefore judge Mankind by their A&tions. Hearth-Money was a great Grievance, and you had it doubled under the Name of Capitation, and that was trebled by Window Lights. Customs are burthenfome, but Excifes, under the fpecious Name of Inland Duties, would be ten times worse. Paffive Obedience is a ridiculous Doctrine, but a Riot-Act, it seems, is a good Thing, it was abfurd for a Servant of the People to accept of a Place, but a Re-election is a papal Difpenfation. Accidents, Policy G and Intereit made it neceffary to prolong a 3 Years Parliament into 7, Ergo, Shall every Parliament be for 7 Years? If an Army has been neceifary from Year to Year, fhall a Man affert roundly, that it is part of the Conftitution? If Events made it neceffary for the Nation to spend 100 Millions, and to run as much in Debt, fhall the Number of Officers be increafed and their Salaries augmented? If you find thefe Things fo, enquire from whom they came. F H You are now courted by the conten} ing Parties for your Interest in the next Elections, as you can't eafily unriddi their fpecious Pretences, you ought to infift upon Pledges for their future Be haviour. This Winter they may reduce Parliaments to their antient Standard o 3 Years. HENRY VIII. first introduc long Parliaments. When the Pope fail' him in his Divorce from his Queen, h got a corrupt House of Commons, which he continued 6 Years, and they in Return were fo pliant, that they enacted what ever he pleas'd, by which he became ab folute in Church, and State, and Play'd the Devil for God's Sake;--his Proclamation had the Force of Acts of Parliament, and he might fettle the Succeffion as he pleas'd yet he took Care that the Odium of al his Acts of Tyranny should fall upon hi Parliament who made Laws for his Pur pofe; fo that tho' he was defpotick, he always acted according to Law. The contending Parties have it likewif in their Power to annul or explain tha Non-refiftance Riot Act. This feems the more neceffary, fince a Court Whig in great Power urged Juries to find treafon able Bills against their Fellow-Citizen for humbly appearing at Westminster to implore Protection againit that devouring Devil Excifes; (See Vol. III. p. 266.) bu L― J— can do any thing, and thi was audacioufly feconded by a diving High-Church Trumpeter from the Pulpi of your Cathedral. The Army, 'tis true, has hitherto be haved like Gentlemen and Englishmen and if a Reduction is improper, model ling may be fatal, their Lives and Bread has depended upon the abfolute Pleafur of the Crown, altho' their Subfiftence was paid by the People; the Mutiny-Acts and fome late and great Examples prove this undeniably. Why then fhould no the |