ACCOMPTS of the At the auditing of the city accounts for the year 1744 (fince which they have not been fettled) they stood thus: RECEIVE D. Market rents Freedoms and inrollments 890 12 S. d. Rents and quit rents 8390 3 281 8 5 294 8 1125 388 926 16 8 Sales and alienations of } offices Fines for leafes Total The city in debt at the end of the year 1744· 4907 15 0 B 23 City of LONDON. THE people of Hatfield and plan adjacent have a tradition, that on the middle of Hatfield waste there for merly liv'd an antient Hermit who was called William of Lindholme; he was by the common people taken for a cunA ning man or conjurer, but in order to be better inform'd, I,accompany'd with the Rev. Mr Sam. Wefley and others, went to view the place, and after pafling the morafs, found the hermitage or cell fituate in the middle of 60 acres of firm fandy ground full of pebbles, on which was growing barley, oats, and peale, There was likewife a well 4 or 5 yards deep,full of clear fpring water, which is very remarkable, because the water of the morals is of the colour of coffee. Here is great plenty of furze bushes, &c. and variety of game, fuch as hares, foxes, kites, eagles, curlews, ducks and C geefe; there is no houfe or cottage ncar 35669 5 2 it, and but a few old oaks, fallows, and birch; the house is a little ftud-bound one, and feems ready to fall. At the eaft end flood an altar made of hewn ftone, and at the wet is the Hermit's grave cover'd with a free ftone that measures in length 8 foot and a half, D in breadth 3, and in thickness 8, which with the confent of Richard Howlegate the prefent inhabitant, and the help of levers we rais'd up, and remov'd, and digging under found a tooth, a fcull, the thigh and fhin bones of a humanbody, all of a very large fize; we likefeed, and a beaten piece of copper likę E wife found in the grave a peck of hemp PAID, In debt at the end of the year 1743 Rents and quit rents Markets and charges Neceflary charges Foreign charges Affeflments, tythes, &c. REMEMBRANCER and SOLLICITOR'S BILLS Fees, PENSIONS, and liveries for fervants Bequests 26266 10 4 fuch vaft stones fhould be brought, No pomp, no pride, no cursed strife A B C An tEssay on MILTON's IMITA-D N ingenious gentleman having treatife intitled An Efay on Milton's i- As there is juft reafon to apprehend, that the following ESSAY will excite no little fpeculation, it will enable the English reader to judge of the cafe, if our learned poetical friends wld be pleafed to fend us a clofe ver fion of the lines which are faid therein to have furnished fentiment to Milton. We fhail, in our next, give fome account of this author and his work, which was printed in 1742 at Edinburgh. this Effay on Milton's Imitation of the moderns, I no way intend to derogate from the glory or merit of that noble poet, who certainly is intitled to the highest praife, for raifing fo beautiful a ftructure, even granting all the materials were borrowed; which is an affertion I will by no means take upon me abfolutely to affirm. His incomparable poem begins thus: OF man's firft difobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whole mortal tafte Paradife Left, Book I. ortum, Et quæ fera premunt miferandos fata nepotes, Tu captis, O diva! fave, noftroique labores On MILTON's Imitation of the Moderns. Afriferos orbes, & celfa mente Tonantem turum Defpicitur tardumque movent ventura timorem. amoris Navigat, & Cypriis Sirenas captat in undis, N.B. The above passage,inclosed within brac- Ta mihi tantarum interpres Sapientia rerum! Tam duros hominum cafus,tot in orbe laborum Principium memora, cauffafque evolve malorum. Umbrarum Princeps, et opaci Rector Averni Antitheus, quondam æternas damnatus adum bras, Α B 125 Hortorum decus hîc, & ameni gratia ruris Plaudentis levibus per aprica filentia pennis. In medio laxatur humus; fontemque perennis .C Flumine quadruplici manat fons, divite ripâ, Profcriptufque polo, cum cæco Marte Tonantem Ꭰ E F From thefe lines,to me, it feems highly probable,that Milton had this learned writer in his eye; what others will think I cannot pretend to determine, fince every one ought to judge for himself, G and what may seem convincing to one perion, may not appear fo to another. The fame author's defcription of Paradije is truly charming, and has been copied by Milton, if I am not greatly mifI defire taken, in more places than one. only the reader would carefully compare them with the following: Et locus Auroram propter, rofeumque cubile Tethyos, & nati clara incunabula Phabi ; Protopatri natale felum, quo primus in agre Lufic, & innocuæ bavit gaudia vitæ, turi. Heu! comperta nimis memoro, dudumque pro- What others may fancy I know not, but to me it appears vaftly probable that Milton has transferred the fenfe of the foregoing lines into his Paradife Loft. obliged to ftop fhort, not having it in And here, I am forry to lay it, I am my power at present to produce any further fpecimen from the performance of this learned Jefuit, having unfortunately loft his fine work: however, for the reader's further fatisfaction, fhall here fet down the marginal heads, Hof his work, viz. Propofitio. Invoca'tio divini numinis. Orbis & eorum, quæ in orbe univerfim geruntur, defcriptio. Paradifi defcriptio. Hominis primi creatio, ejufque defcriptio. Comparatio figuli cum creatore Deo. Com 26 Evil Cuftoms, the mischievous prevalence of. Comparatio floris cum nafcente homine. Rationis imperium. Formæ pulcrido. Virtutes homini adjunctæ. Forma rara. In pratis deliciari inter flores & fructus. Oratio Lucife• ri invidi & indignantis ob homines fi- A bi in felicitate prælatos. Concilium inferorum,five Pandæmonium. Mors. • Senectus. Curæ. Labor. Luctus. Paupertas. Fames. Dolus. Oratio Luciferi dæmones adverfus homines inflammantis. Inferno erumpentes Furia. Oratio Doli efum fructus vetiti fuadentis. Profanatio vetiti pomi B per Serpentem. Item per Sarcotheam. Orbis concuffio, atque elementorum mutatio poft pera&tum fatale flagiti ་ um. Dei hortum ingredientis, ac ferpentem & Sarcotheam increpantis oratio. Diræ in Serpentem. Item in Sarcotheam. Sarcothee ex Paradifo ex- C terminatio. Luciferi habitus & currus. Gigantomachia, &c. Now, if any one can imagine, after fuch ample quotations, that Milton could poffibly write as he had done, without ever feeing or hearing of this author's performance, he may with equal reason affert, at least in my judgment, that a D limner may draw a man's picture exactly like the original, without ever feeing him, which to me appears both abfurd and impoffible. Yrs, W.L. Mr URBAN, Ather day fhewn to me, confifting E of one fentence beautifully copied out Custom is hard to be conquered: kence it This fentence, as I faid, is often repeated in the fheet: I wifh it were as often confidered by thole whom our cnemies have not only withed, but have influenced to delight in Evil Customs. -A vehement preacher (Ithink Latimer) repeated fix times together a seasonable caution to an audience of high rank; what neceffity is there now for a court orator to found-in the ears of the great- -Delight not in Evil Cuftoms wifhed by your enemies: • Ufe not the effeminate French language, a prepa ration only for fubjection-drink not • French wine, and bring into disrepute · your better cyder-wear not French cambricks.- -I was carrying on this exhortation against Evil Cuftoms, when the poft brought me MrFaulkner's Dublin Journal of January 7, where I find a gentleman addreffes his countrymen to the fame effect, which I fhall copy, being better than any thing I can fay further: Mr FAULKNER, IT has been a general complaint, for many years, but efpecially fince the commencement of the prelent French war, that a great part of our wealth is fent abroad to purchase the produce of their vineyards: I have often heard gentlemen exclaim against it, and at the fame time act in contradiction to their fentiments, by promoting a plentiful confumption of it. Fashion or habit, when they confpire together, have certainly an almost irrefiftible influence on men's conduct, fo as to render the dictates of reason and patriotiin vain and ineffectual. It is to the force of thefe, viz. habit and fafhion, that the ufe of French wine owes its prefent firm establishment. However, I fhould not defpair of feeing it entirely laid afide, if I could prevail on my countrymen to act as zealously as they peak for the good of their country, and encourage a vinous domeftic liquor, which is pleasant,wholefome, and exhilarating. I think Cyder may be managed fo as to poffefs those qualities, and as the habitual drinkers of French wine are attached to it rather as it is vinous than upon any other account, Gthey would find no difficulty in substi tuting cyder properly prepared, or any other liquor, which would be neither prejudicial to their healths, nor difagreeable to their palates, and would communicate that chearfulnels which they attribute to claret. These thoughts have encouraged me to fend you an extract out of a little book, entitled, England's Intereft; or, the Farmer's Friend, containing directions to make what the author calls cyder-royal, which I would H recom To make CYDER better recommend to the confideration of the Dublin fociety, whether it ought to be encouraged by præmium. 1 am, &c. H. M. To make Cyder-Royal, or raife ordinary Cyder to be full as good, or better, than French Wine; or to make the best fim ple Cyder twice as ftrong as it is, is by putting the ftrength and goodness of two "bogfbeads into one, which is thus effected. First, Punt UT one hogfhead of cyder, and fome part of another, B into a copper ftill, and draw off all the fpirit: after which diftil it a fecond time, and then put it into your other hogfhead, and fill it up, itir it about well, and keep it clofe ftopped, except one day in 10 or zo let it fie open 5 or 6 hours. And within 3 months, if the C enfuing directions be obferved, this cyder will be full as ftrong, or stronger, than the best French wine, and altogether as pleafing, tho' it may be fomewhat different to taste. Upon trial I have obferved that brandy, ipirit of wine, and of grain, and other fpirits may be of good effect, in this D bufinefs, provided they are drawn fine; yet, by experience, I have found the fpirits of the fame kind, or at least of fome other fruits, to be the belt and most natural; and the spirits raised from ale or beer to be the molt improper, unlefs the ale and beer be mixed with cyder before the fpirits be drawn off. E This method of improving cyder, and other liquors, renders them more ftrong and delicious, and alfo makes them much more wholesome for the body than fimple cyder; the heavy, cold, and fickly parts being either wholly taken away, or fo corrected, that it becomes no way prejudicial to the stomach, nor any longer apt to generate wind. And I think none will deny that the juice of vegetables growing in our own foil, and under the fame inAuences with ourfelves, being thus honeftly improved with their own fpirits G only, or the addition of a little innocent fugar, are as agreeable to our bodies, and muft needs be as good and wholefome as thofe that are brought from regions remote, and climates vaitly different, and afterwards brewed again with variety of unknown, and per- H haps, dangerous ingredients. And much more is the former to be preferred than the latter, in another refpect, viz. Becaufe if ten times more of it be spent than there is of foreign wines, the na tion will be never the poorer for it, bu on the contrary much the richer. For there is in this invention not only ftrength to chear the heart of the weak and wearied; delicacy to please the palate of the curious; cheapness to render it familiar to the poor; private pro fit to gratify the rich, and wholefomeness to endear it to due obfervers of their health, but also public advantage to recommend it to the regard of the king and parliament. For by this expedient, England and the territories thereunto belonging, may fave at leaft fix, if not eight hundred thousand pounds fterl. per Ann. by faving fo much treafure as goes out every year to the enriching of other nations, and impove rifhing of our own. But perhaps our greatest wine-bibbers will by no means change their outlandifh liquors for domeftic cyder. Because, fay they, the quantity we are to drink will make us fick before it will make us merry, &c. To which I anfwer, this is undoubtedly true of our common fimple cyder, but if you pleafe to confider the caufe, you fhall find no room for this exception against our cyder-royal: for that which uleth to cause this fickness in the ftomach, is the chilly, cold, flegmatic part of the cyder, viz. That which hath leaft fpirit in it is most hurtful that this is fo, nothing can be more evident; for that the ftrongest cyder is most free from occafioning this diltemper. Now this we know, that the fpirit of cyder is no other but the purer part of it, viz. the ftrong, warm and lively part feparated from the weak, cold, and melancholy dead part; fo that reafon muft needs yield, that the fpirits of the cyder being mixt with cyder,cannot but make it both more ftrong and pleasant, and alfo more wholefome, for that, by this expedient, the fickly, cold, and windy part is cured. Moreover, for want of ftrength and life, common cyders are apt to decay and die; this we fee by experience; for that as the ftrongeft fimple cyder hath most spirit in it, and therefore lives longeft, fo the weakest cyder that hath leaft fpirit in it, will foon grow fickly and decay; therefore this expedient mult needs be fo far from rendering cyder more unwholesome and unkind, that 'tis rather to be eiteemed its molt infallible phyfician or remedy; for that it corrects all the ill humours that caule its ficknels, or ill effects on human bodies. And thus much I can honestly and " truly |