IRELAND. Dublin. We hear from London, that the apparition in Cock-lane has never been seen by nobody. [Faulkner's Journal.] SCOTLAND. Glasgow. The feventh fon of the feventh fon is just set out on a walk to London, in order to visit the spirit in Cock-lane and as this gentleman is bleft with the faculty of fecond Sight, it is thought that he will be able to fee her. The fpirit's great propensity to Scratching makes it generally fuppofed here, that Mifs Fanny died of the itch rather than the small-pox, and that the ghoft is certainly mangy. LONDO N. Yesterday the committee of enquiry on the Ghoft in Cock-lane met at the Jerufalem-tavern in Clerkenwell; when Mifs P. was put to bed by one of the maids of honour, in the room where the Cockney's feast is generally held, in the prefence of the Right Hon. the Earls of and and ; the Right Revd. the Bishops of and and and above fifty more of the nobility. The knocking and scratching began about midnight, and the examination was in the following man ner. Q. Will you go into that pint bottle? [pointing to a pint bottle that ftood on the table.] One knock. From the time of this preliminary anfwer in the affirmative, all the fubfequent noifes iffued as from the bot.le. Q. (From the Right Rev. looking roguishly at Betty P. in bed.) Pray, Mifs Fanny, is not your real name Mifs Fanny?-Much fcratching, as if angry. Q. (From a lord of the treafury.) What is the amount of the national debt?-Above a hundred and thirty million knocks. Q. How may years fince the creation of the world?-Above five thousand knocks. What is the number of the prefent Anno Domini ?-One tho fand feven hundred and fixty-two knocks. Q. How many people are there in this room?-Fifty-eight knocks. Right. Q. How many women? - Twelve knocks. Wrong: there was another lady in man's cloaths. Q. How many maids?-One knock. Certainly wrong; for there were five unmarried ladies in the room, befides the girl in bed. Q. Will you have prayers red to you? One knock. Q. Shall they be read by any one of the Archbishops, Bishops, or other regular clergy?-Two knocks. Q. Shall they be read by Dr. Wh-d? One knock. Q. Or Dr. R-ne?-One knock. Or Mr. B-g-n ?—One knock. Can you fay the Lord's prayer backwards?-Much fcratching, as if angry; after which the bottle fuddenly cracked, and flew into ten thoufand pieces, and no more answers were given. We hear that the above committee propofe to fit out a privateer, to cruise in the Red Sea. We hear that the Rev. Mr. M. is preparing a new work for the use of families, especially children, to be publifhed in weekly numbers, called, The Ghoft's Catechifm. We have been fa voured "And in Elizabeth Canning, who "lived a whole month, without per" forming any of the ufual, offices of "nature, on fix crufts of dry bread, "and half a jug of water. "And in Ad B-r, who made "his escape from the Inq-n at "M-c-r-ta. "And in all the miracles of the "Holy Roman Catholick church. "I believe in fairies; I believe in "witches; I believe in hobgobblins; "I believe in the shrieking-woman; "I believe in the death-watch; I be"lieve in the death-howl; I believe in «raw-head-and-bloody-bones; I be"lieve in all stories, tales, legends, &c. " &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. " &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c." We are affured, that the ghoft will continue to hold her rout in Cock-lane, and her DRUM at the Theatres. ******{*}***** Mifs FANNY'S THEATRE in Cock On EDUCATION. which requires a more falutary, and, perhaps, even a parliamentary inspection, than the modern way of edu cating boys in or near this metropolis; where every village has its fchool, and fome can boaft three or four: not one of which ever takes the leaft pains to feek out, much lefs countenance or cultivate, a genius, thould fuch a one apear among them; but on the contrary, calculate their profit, as the world do their fame, by numbers; he being the clevereft man, who can' fhew most heads, or rather fkulls, at church every Sunday. Every boy is flighted, or valued, according as he eats, little or much; and he is the best boy, who has no appetite; or is so loaded with monthly cakes, by his mother, as not to trouble the schoolmaiter's table much; and who breaks his buckles, or lofes his buttons ofteneft, that the fchool-mistress (and hop-keepeer) may fell her Birmingham tra h at 75 per cent. profit. The day he is put to fchool, he of courfe is allowed to be a great genius, till the ftage coach takes back his pa rents to London. Mighty promises are made that he, the preceptor, will confult that genius, and open the very cunning draws, or arcana, of science to him. But no fooner does the one horfe phaeton wheel away from the iron-gate, with a weeping mother, and happy father, that his ton is on the road to a bishopric (in embrio) but, alas! the promiting youth is thrown into the mafs of citizens fons, and valued only for the prefents he brings at Christmas. Queen's College, Oxford, I think pours a fufficient quantity of these pronoun and participle mongers, in the environs of London; and, when a starving fellow of that college can creep in to be an ufher of fome eminent school, and afterwards marry a daughter or niece of his principal, his bufinefs is M half half done; his head and fhoulders are in; his body wil: foon follow; and, at laft, he opens a fhop with the new name, ftile, and title, of an academy, to the great lofs of every parent, who commits his fon and heir to his tuition. The boy is arrived; the mistress in a flounced gown, or trollopee, accepts the filver-ipcon and pair of fheets; talks much of the indefatigable merits, equally as learning of her dear husband; gives the parents to understand, that his plan is quite diftinct from all other preceptors; stiles them a fort of pettifoggers; chucks the boy under the chin; immediately fays, he fhall be her favourite; places him for once (that is, while the parents are there) between her knees, kitles him twice, and thrice picks his pockets. Jackey, before night, is counted among the number of other theep in this academical pinfold. Next day a new scholar comes; the fame dull chain of difcourfe ftrikes on the tympanum of the deluded parents. Like a fhopkeeper, he has her ftring of nonienfe (but political nonfenfe tho') while the is getting by you. When the hufband gives education in lumps, as the gives pudding; both fo hard of digeftion, that the boy has, luckily, an appetite for no more of either for fome time; by which means her lord and mafter gets licenfe to make an holiday, and The gets a good fupper from the relicts of a forty-headed table. At breaking up, the parents are hummed with a fair copy, furrounded with hieroglyphics; and the boy having a talk to get by heart, from a large book, immediately is concluded that he will be a great fcholar. Five, fix, and feven years pafs away! an age never to be recovered! The parent is let into the fecret, when too late, that his boy knows little or nothing; and, at laft, by looking over his books, finds, that the 2001. fpent there, might have been employed much better. The mistress (I can forgive her) and the master, instead of fhewing a boy of genius to their vifiters (and I may call them customers) lets you know that this boy's papa is a great Common Council-man; and that his Sunday's fummer coat is made of the fame filk as is the gown of his worshipful father. This mock title half ruins the boy, and he expects the fame rank within the walls of his prison-house, as the Common Council-man does going up the ftone-steps in Guildhall. If genius's, who happen but rarely, were to be taken under the care of the legiflature, or parliament; and educated, when found fo, at a public expence, we should stand fome chance of a republic of letters, fuperior to all that France or Italy can boast of. Instead of this, by mere drudging afterwards (and retarded, perhaps, by fretting that fo many years of his prime were loft) one in an hundred takes his books, even amidst the diffipations of London pleasures; gets into parliament, and is the means of faving an whole kingdom. But obferve though, that the 121 a year Guernsey, or Jerfey, or Scotch preceptor, has no hand in this; though he has the affurance to get the young patriot's picture drawn, because he happened to be ruined under his roof; and lays it up in his public room as a decoy to many unwary citizens, and, perhaps, that greatest of all dignitaries, a Common Council-man. P. S. I forgot to mention the circuits which every Cumberland usher makes twice a year to each parent's house, in order to found the praises of his immediate pupils of the lower fchool; and by which he extracts (according to the fituation of that parent) a good beaver, a dozen of fine hofe, half a dozen pair of gloves, or a piece of Irish-linnen, perhaps a pair of boots, Great promifes are alfo made from him too, that Jackey fhall be a phænomenon. this obligation does not hold so long as the hat, gloves, hofe, boots, or linen, wear. But and the gay chariot of luxury permitted XXXXXXXXXXXXXX to roll over the turf of voluptuousness The wisdom of the good people of England about the beginning of the year, 1762, recorded, for the benefit of poferity. By the Cobler of Cripple gate. A Girl scarce out of leading strings, fets fome of the wifeft heads in the kingdom at work for many weeks, to discover that which a bundle of rods would have found out in five minutes. Certain outlandish beats have taken poffeffion of a spot in the city, by fome called 'Change-alley, by others Knavesacre; and whilft they devour the fubjest, bid defiance to power. Taxes upon taxes, and beer fold at threepence halfpenny, not worth three farthings. Brewers pining at the hardhips they labour under, and rolling away in their coaches and fix to their feveral villas, to drown their grief in burgundy and champaign. Twelve pounds given for a recruit, and thousands of lazy and idle fellows, a difgrace to fociety, ftaring the officers in the face; fellows who never faw a guinea of their own, but what they got by thieving, or the fweat of a poor harlot's brow. Poor whores, who plied in the streets, now and then fent to Bridewell, to improve their morals; and public brothels permitted in every quarter of the town. Old houses tumbling down, and crufhing whole families to death, for which their furviving friends have the fweet confolation of hearing fome mau in power cry, 'tis a melancholy affair. Harmlets old gates pulled down, and the new one (fo called) left standing, to ftare honefty and good policy in the face. German connections right to-day and wrong to-morrow-Mem. Our opinions as changeable as the weather. French follies, and French wares, daily imported, and ftate watchmen faft afleep at their stands. Every spoke in the wheels of the waggon of industry clogged with taxes, without check or impediment. The state bark making to port in foul weather, and no volunteer pilot to take the helm. ************** HINTS by the fame Author. H E could wish to see butchers boys, who gallop through the streets of London, punished for fo doing; or at least their horfes forfeited for the ufe of the poor of the parith, in which they fo offend; for though a poor man's life may not be worth preferving, his limbs may be of use to him while he crawls upon earth. Brewers starting their butts in the day-time, he confiders as an intolerable nufance. Ruinous houses ought to be pulled down; because they may as well tumble upon the head of an alderman, as upon that of a cobler. A regulation in Smithfield market he thinks ought to take place, because a mad ox may as well gore the lady of a Knight Baronet, as a poor Oyster wench. Worn out hackney coaches fhould, in a particular manner, be looked into, becaufe none but those in easy circumftances can be affected by their breaking down in the streets.-This regulation in no shape regards my family, because I never fuffer my Moll to enter one, till I have first properly surveyed it. That cheesemongers fhould not fet out their butter and cheese, so near the edge of their fhop windows, nor put their firkins in the path-way, by which many a good coat and filk gown may be spoiled: as by advertising in the papers, his fhop will be fufficiently known, without carrying home the fhop-bill on their cloaths. Ladders, pieces of timber, &c. fhould by no means be fuffered to be carried upon men's fhoulders, within the polts of this city; because, by a sudden stop, they M 2 may 84 The BEAUTIES of all the MAGAZINES selected. may as well poke out the eye of a rich ma, as that of a poor one. Chairmen, as they are a kind of human dags, ought to amble without fide the polts, as well as other brutes. It is needlefs for ladies of a certain caft, to, patrole the streets at noon-day, with a bundle in one hand, as they carry an evident fign of their profession in their eyes. Long fwords are a nufance in the city, at change time, as the wearer may very well receive a bill, without that dangerous weapon: and as it is not often he comes into it to pay one. Churches are no places to fleep in; because, if a perfon fnores too loud, he not only disturbs the congregation, but is apt to ruffle the preacher's temper. Barbers and chimney-fweepers have no right, by charter, to rub against a perfon well dreffed, and then offer him fatisfaction by fingle combat. Splashing a gentleman with white filk ftockings, defignedly, is a breach of decency, and utterly unknown at Wapping, or Hockley in the Hole. That reading these hints, and not endeavouring to redress them, will be a fault fomewhere, but not in Your humble Servant, Method for Supplying London with fresh B Y this plan, it is intended, that the stalls for the fale of fish brought by land carriage, fhall be parted into feveral divifions, according to the different kinds and qualities of the fish ; where each fort will be fold at a stated moderate price (for ready money) either by weight or tale; and papers of the price of fuch fith, according to their different kinds, daily affixed over each ftall or divifion: fo that the confumer will be enabled to purchase at a certainty, without being fubject to exaction, or being asked a higher price, by the feller, than what will be taken : thefe ftalls not to be opened till nine in the morning. Moreover, at the conclufion of the war, when our Fisheries may be greatly increafed by the number of hands that will find employment therein, on being difcharged from the navy, confiderable quantities of Fifh will probably be taken, more than what there may be a demand for at the retail markets; it is propofed (with the aid of the Legislature) to erect a building for a place of lodgment of Fifh, brought by landcarriage, on a plot of ground fituate in Westminster, for the purpose of preferving it; and from whence the fame may be fent, not only to the feveral markets in the liberties of Westminster, but also into the neighbouring Fifh-markets, to be fold there, for the benefit of dealers, as well as private purchasers. To obviate any objection that may arife, on a fuppofition that the inhabitants of the towns or villages, lying near the fea-coaft, will fall short of the customary quantity of fifh, with which they were ufually fupplied from thence, or the prices enhanced, by the great demand from the London market, it is thought proper to remark, that the very reverfe, in all likelihood, will be the cafe; as, on account of the encouragement hereby given to the industrious Fishermen, the number of that useful fet of people will multiply, or they will follow their occupation with increased dilligence, and the additional quantity of Fith that will in confequence be caught, will furnish a supply more than fufficient for any demands that may arife: fo that the families refiding on and about the fea-coafts will be ferved, not only in the fame manner as ufual, but even in greater plenty, and as cheap. It is likewife neceffary to obferve, that no carriages are intended to be fent to any place but where Fith is plenty, and the price as reafonable as can be defired, confidering the labours and hardfhips the poor Fishermen must neceffarily undergo in the pursuit of their occupation, and to maintain themselves and families and as no meafures whatever will be propofed to reduce the customary prices of Fish on the fea-coaft, accord : ing |