REMARKS UPON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. . By W. HUTTON. My Mafe, like a weather-cock, turns round its joint, F hopeless in love, you should torments You may fret at all evils which shall you betide, Except what you can, and you cannot avoid. Though fashions fhould vary as oft as they If to old age you would be blefs'd, If you no enemy would make, Reeds bead their long back, a rush flands Thus tall men the fooneft bend under old age. "Trade makes the man," fome have de. 'Tis when he has that trade created. [life. To fear no man should be a stranger; A rofe, a bright guinea, and beautiful lass, A confcience and a cabbage-net Are by one rule attended, If he who speaks has intereft in the cafe, He who of honour boasts away, And be who boasts her virtue, Give reafon to fufpect that they Tell neither him nor her true. ~ What cant he married state excel, or nod, But never, never, treat him with the rod; mend. He, whofe theme is divine, and whose actions are wrong, Proves religion is folely confin'd to his tongue. Defpite no bodily defect, Favour'd or not, with pelf, Woman, loves leat before she's wed, But, after wed, the man. Some diff'rence the loving wife foon can The tulip rifes from a filthy bed. Like empty bubbles floating on the wing; I, at fourfcore, to view a broken wall, A mode most compleatly despis'd in old age Men have reafon to vary, as much as in faces. The man inur'd to court foft ease Except you'll be contented when 'tis gone. doubt-ye, Attempt to make happy the people about-yes (3) THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For JANUARY, Original Letter from the late Earl of ORFORD to a FRIEND. T Strawbery-hill, Oct. 12, 1794. DEAR SIR, ****HERE has been publifhed, this year, a book with fo uncaptivating a title, that it may not have attracted your notice; yet, in fome parts, I think it would pleafe and amufe you; and from one chapter, I can confidently fay, it deferves to be highly commended and recommended, for the effect it, may have on others; though not perhaps on those readers for whom it was principally calculated, and on whom good fenfe is not apt to make much impreffion-I mean Antiquaries-Lord help them! The book is called, "The Hiftory and Antiquities of the Abbey and Borough of Evesham," a quarto, printed there; the author, W. Tindal, M. A. late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxon. I know nothing at all of the gentleman, nor whether he is a clergyman or a laic. I am fond of English local hiftory; a ftudy, if it may be called fo, that requires little but patience, and a memory for trifles; and which, to be fure, from the general manner in which it is executed, produces as little fatisfaction as any kind of reading can do. Thus, you fee, I prove I am one of thofe infipid beings, at whom I hinted, who demand nothing but to be told facts and circumstances of no importance, that commonly are obfolete, and little worth reviving. To my great furprize (for I never fet out in fuch talks with fanguine hopes of entertainment) I found the work in queftion written with the utmost impartiality and liberality; as you will judge, if you will 1803. please to turn to a few lines at the clofe of the fourth chapter,.p. 125; and ftill better, if you look at the conclufion of the fifth chapter, beginning in p. 144, with thefe words, "But these poor abbots, &c." I think, Sir, you will difcern excellent and rational reflections, and an admirable contraft between just ferioufnefs and fuperftition, with an amiable picture of melancholy contemplation on the viciffitude of human affairs. But what I chiefly mean to recommend to your obfervation, and wish to fee specified with proper encomium (the real object of this letter), are the fevere but merited ftrictures on the French revolution; on their infolent philofophers, and on all those monsters that have been, and are fill, their difciples. Thofe ftrictures extend to the end of the fifth chapter; and, in my humble opinion, no reprobation of the conduct of the French, for the last five years, has been fo well expreffed, in the compafs of fix pages. How concifely has the author, towards the bottom of p. 146, painted the apilh and pedantic affectation of their writers, in imitation of the clafficks! I beg your pardon, good Sir, for giving you this trouble, though, I truft, I have introduced to you an author worthy of your acquaintance. I beg too not to have this letter fhewn, as I write to you fidentially, and fhould be very forry to offend thofe very inoffenfive per fonages, our Antiquaries, for a few of whom I have great efteem. moft con I am, with fincere refpect, Sir,' Your moft obedient hunible fervant, ORFORD. P. S. Pray read the account of the battle of Evetham; it is a fine piece of history. Mr. Mr. URBAN, Stapleton, Jan. 6. H be to my feelings to anfwer TOWEVER unpleafant it may an anonymous writer, yet I conceive it is a duty-incumbent upon me to notice a letter, figned G. H. C. vol, LXXII. p. 111. The author, after ftating that it is afferted in p. 1066, of the fame voJume, that Mr. Jofeph Harford "was bred up a Quaker, but, from a thorough conviction of the fuperior excellency of the doctrines of the Church of England, he became a member of it many years before his death," thus proceeds: "From an accurate account of facts well known to near relations, from their intimate knowledge of Mr. Harford, I can affure you, that he left the Society only on account of his affuming the magifterial character; which, he avowed to the Society, he entered into from a conviction that he might become more useful to his fellow-citizens, than in his private rank. Permit me to affure you, that the information of G. H. C. refpecting my father's fentiments, and the other circumstances of the family, are very inaccurate your biographical account (p. 1066) is strictly True; and I can venture to affert, that, as my father, whilft a Quaker, was not one merely to avoid the duties of public life, fo, when he quitted the Society, he did not do it becaufe he was defirous of being a magiftrate, but purely and confcientiously for the reafon af figned by your biographical correfpondent. CH, os. HARFORD. tance to the religious and political establishments of the kingdom, Sir, in the first place, I do firmly believe that more injury has been done to the cause of our holy religion by the many delufive publications on the hiftory of our globe, than the excellent and not fufficiently to be extolled publications for the defence of it.. |