ny, to be avacuated: as well as Wefel and Gueldres, and the places in general belonging to the king of Pruflia, to be restored, The other arrangements in Europe are equally advantageous to England. Minorca, a moit valuable itland, as it fecures the fovereignty of the Mediterranean, we are to restore; receiving in exchange their miferable conquest, Belleifle: Which has coft them at least twenty millions, and never was, or can be, worth the expence of a garrifon either to us or them. From Europe let us turn to Africa, the profpect is equally difcouraging. Gorce, indeed, is to be reftored to us; but while we have not a foot of land on the continent, and yield to them Schegal, we leave them mafters of a river, on which they have fettlements, near 1000 miles up the country to carry on a valuable trade, which will pay them in ivory and gold, and enrich them, with the monopoly of gum. Ignominy follows us to every part of the world. Can a Frenchman read without indignation the 10th article, that fettles the affairs of the East Indies? Our fettlements on the coaft of Malabar and Coromandel are indeed to be reftore ed. But how? Where is Pondicherry Pondicherry 1 deftroyed; and should we attempt to rebuild and refortify it, we shall perhaps be excluded by force from exercifing a right given us by treaty, as the Nabobs, and natives in general, are all in the intereft of England. In the important kingdom of Bengal, we are left entirely at the mercy of the English, as it is exprefsly ftipulated, that France" thall not erect any fortificati ons, or keep any troops in Bengal." Lait year Monf. de Bully prevailed on Mont. L'Orateur Pitt to leave the differences relating to the Eaft Indies to commitiaries. Why was not this methed taken now? Former minifters have gained as much for their country by appointing commiffaries, as it the treaty had given us the points in dispute. Thus while the English Lad their Mellis. Mildmay ang shiney at Paris, prefent ing memorials, we, in the mean time, took poffeflion of the territories in queftion: But, alas! in the prefent treaty we do not find one point referred to the decifion of commiffiaries! On the whole then it is evident, that the intended peace is worte in moft initances than that which we rejected, when offered by the then English minifler, Monf. Pitt, laft year, and better in no one inftance. It has been a received maxim in European politicks, that though the English have often baftied us in the field, we have always been more than a match for them in the cabinet. Where are now our Jeannins, our D Avanx, our Torcys, and our Po lignacs? What! are they all dwindled into a poor Duc de Choifeal, a foreigner to this country, an alien to our interests, governing only by a weak female inuence ; a female who, in the wane of her youth and beauty, has now no fhadow of pretence to retain that power the has to long and fo iniquitously uurped. it muft add to our indignation to reflect, that we have fubmitted to fuch infamous terms, at a time, when our minifters know, or at least ought to know, that the continuance of the war for another year might, perhaps, have secured us a peace on our own conditions. The war has been carried on by England, for fome years paft, at the annual expence of four hundred millions, near two thirds of which they have been borrowing. Funds for trefh taxes, nay fresh taxes themielves, are fcarcely to be deviled. Even the bonne biere d'Angleterre itielf is taxed to the uttermoft, taxed till the populace groans under the impofition. Their debt already amounts to one hundred and forty millions of louisdores, a fum which cannot even be reckoned, if we split it into French livres. Their ableft financiers would not answer for above another year's expencts expecially as the Spanish war muit rob them of the fiver from Spain, and the gold from Portugal; fo that we might hope, in our turn, to fee an English The BEAUTIES of all the MAGAZINES felected. 21 English bankruptcy by a total ftop to It is alfo well known by the Duc To conclude, let us hope that these execrable preliminaries may ftill be broke through. Let us unanimously recommend it to the king to recal his old friends now in difgrace, to reinftate them in their employments, and to reftore his confidence to the Duc de Richlieu, and others his adherents; to reconcile himself to the princes of the blood, and particularly to fend count Clermont to reap fresh laurels at the head of the army. But what is principally wifhed is, that he would remove his foreign Favourite, that Alien, that Lorrainer, from the court; left open rebellion fhould enfue, left the citizens of Paris thould renew their barricades, and left the parliament fhould once more erect themselves into fovereigns, as in the minority of Louis quatorze, From the LONDON MAGAZINE. An original Letter from the Duke of Buckingham to king James I difplaying the fervile flattering Sentiments of that great Favourite, and the Weakness of bis Mafter. Dear Dad and Goffip, A S neceflity inforces me, instead to your command, and my promife, to of repairing to you, according go many miles from you another way, perfect joys and pleasures chiefly, nay and consequently from myfelf, all my folely, confifting in attending your perfon; fo, methinks, duty and good part, to give you an account under my manners command me, on the other own hand, though it be yet something unsteady and weak. 7 change of my former resolution, therë But before I give the reasons of the is a thing not much in exercise now in the world, called thankfulness, that calls fo faft and earnestly upon me, that I muft first, though I have already done it by the affistance of a young gentleman, called Babie Charles, whom you my friend, who, without doubt, hath likewife, by your good offices, made already perfectlier made my thanks, pen in my hand, I muit needs tell you than I shall myfelf, yet, having the what I observe in your late ablent and public favour, but antient manner of whereby I find you till one and the obliging your poor unworthy fervant, fame dear and indulgent mafter, you ed to overvalue and love me yourself, were ever to me, never being contentbut to labour, all manner of ways, to make the whole world do fo too. fides, this affures me, you trust me as abfolutely as ever, iately exprefled in this, that you have no conceit of my popularity, otherwife why should you and lower houfe of parliament, and thus ftudy to endear me with the upper fo confequently with your whole kingdom; all and the leaft I can say, Be 18 is this, that I naturally fo love your perfon, and upon fo good experience and knowledge, adore all your other parts, which are more than ever one man had, that were not only all your people, but all the world besides fet together on one fide. and you alone on the other, I fhould, to obey and please you, difpleafe; nay defpife all then; and this fhall ever be my popularity. Give me leave here to use your own proverb; "For this the devil con me thanks." The reafon of my going to Newhall are thefe; first, I find bufinefs, and the light of bufy folks does me much harm and though your extraordinary care and watchful eye over me, would keep them from fpeaking with me, yet, in a court, I must needs look many of them in the face; then Theobald's houfe is now very hot, and hath but few change of rooms, both inconvenient to a fick body; then my lord of Warwick tells me, that, by experience, he hath found Newhall air as good a one to ride away an ague, as any in England, and that lately he loft one by the benefit of that air; I mean near hand, which I think will be all one. By this time, I fear I have troubled you, and were it not that I write to you, I am fure I fhould have wearied myself. I have now only one request to you, as you first placed me in your Babie Charle's good opinion, if you think fit, for your fervice, in my abfence continue me in it; and fo give me your bleffing. Your Majesty's W Moft humble flave and dog, STINIE. Modern From the COURT MAGAZINE. A Lefon for a Lover; or, a Picture of Matrimonial Happiness. EDNESDAY, nine o'clockGot up, found my wife fitting by the parlour fire - Wonders how I can lie in bed fo long, when I do nothing but fleep the whole night Angry at my beard, and enquired who mended the hole in my last pair of stockings-Read the Royal Chronicle for the preceding evening Mem, my wife hates that paper, and vows it engroffes my whole attention. Ten. Eat one bit of toast and butter-My wife, offended at the smallnefs of my appetite, faid I could eat heartily, the dare fay, in other places -Turned her chair about, and scarcely put a bit of fugar in my cup. Eleven. Told my wife I should dine at Sir John Belfield's - Wonders what I can do fo often at that house-Surprifed I don't entirely live there. - Does not like Sir John's fifter-Called for her Scolded the maid, muff and cloak. and went to prayers. Twelve. Altered my mind-Staid at home to dinner-Ordered a shoulder of mutton and potatoes for one dishStaying at home My wife returned one of my old fetches But she can find me out Don't love her -- Once thought I would have never used her fo. One. Called for a pair of white filk ftockings-black fent me down-As I don't go abroad, black may do well No weather for white stockenough ings--Linnen changed, hair dressed, cloaths put on by Two. Dinner-The shoulder of mutton quite raw, and the potatoes all rotten- The fowl boiled to rags, and the bacon mufty-Out of humour-Reprehended by my wife Said I can never like any thing dreft at home-Asked if Sir John Belfield's table was to my liking-Believed Mifs Belfield was an excellent manager- Some cold roast beef brought up for my dinner-Eat a little, and retired from table--Wife offended that I did not stay for grace. Three. Looked over Mr. Cæfar Wilkes's Political Magazine - Sensible, fpirited, and impartial-Wife out of temper that I always read in her company-Said I never pulled out a book in the prefence of Mifs Belfield-Wonder'd that I can't wear a fhirt without laced ruffles-Certain it is not for her I take fuch pains in dres. Four. Four. Going out-My wife in tears --Staid out till one Wife fcoldedDid not make an answer-Fell asleep, and rofe at nine on Thursday morning. From the COURT MAGAZINE. Exports and Imports to and from France. IMPORTED 10,000 hats, cocked in the newest taste at Paris, 100 pieces of filk, of the very pattern which Madame Pompadoure wore the laft court day at Versailles, 36 figure dancers from the opera houfe, 25 cooks, 38 valet de chambres, 17 milliners, and 67 journeymen taylors. Exported 14 country fquires, 10 baronets, 12 viscounts, 3 earls, one marquis, and 30 bear-leaders. Imported 500 hogfheads of claret, 300 ditto Champaigne, 400 ditto Burgundy, 27 mountebanks, and 18 lapdogs, Exported 2 hogfheads of English porter, 10 firkins of ftinking butter, one firloin of beef for Mr. Grandfire, at the Silver Lion at Calais; a fmall Chefhire cheese, 3 fheeps heads, and two pair of marrow bones. Three ftars and garters, a fuperannuated countefs, and 13 girls from the boarding school. XXXXXXXIXXXXXX From the COURT MAGAZINE. Reflections on Friendship in Sovereigns. From Villaret's Hiftory of France. T is not one of the leaft difagree able circumstances annexed to the poffeffion of the diadem, that kings (in this more unhappy than the meanest of their fubjects) cannot indulge themfelves in the sweets of friendship, however ftrong their propenfity; and that, retrained by their very grandeur, the luttre of their rank renders them accountable to the public for their private affections. Sovereigns have fometimes been reproached for having no friends; and if they raise any of their fubjects to this endearing honour, immediately that petulance, which blamed their infenfibility, exclaims against their choice; the cry is, that all favours are engroffed by those about the throne. Those grants, however, which appear irregular and exorbitant, fhould be lefs imputed to the profufenefs or ductility of princes, than to the infatiable ambition of those who obfede them. Charles furnamed de la Cerda, a young Spaniard of illustrious birth, enjoyed the confidence and affection of John II. king of France, but his avidity betrayed him into many culpable steps. Having attained to the fummit of honours, and fhining in the highest sphere of royal favour, every greedy courtier was his enemy; the nobility, and esoffended; yet, blinded by profperity, pecially the princes of the blood, were he did not fee, or he defpifed, the general hatred which his elevation was drawing on him, he pushed his good fortune too far. This giddy favourite was murdered by affaflins hired by Charles the Bad, king of Navarre, of whom Mr. Villaret fays, "That he never contradicted his furname by one fingle act of virtue ;" and Mezerai, "That he had all the accomplishments and good qualities which a depraved heart renders pernicious; wit, elocution, addrefs, bravery and liberality." himself the last hope of a most noble family, was mortally wounded at the head of his regiment, which he brought up with the most heroic courage. He had been educated with all the care an excellent father could beftow on a fon of uncommon genius, who was alone able to support the reputation of his family. To the pureft morals he had united the politeit manners; he had made a great proficiency in learning; he knew many branches of it, and loved all; he had feen every part of Europe, and read courts and nations with a difcerning eye; and wanting nothing 10 fulfill all hope, and to make him a perfect and lafting ornament and fupport to his country, but a knowledge in the military art, he entered that courfe of glory and danger, and fell in his first campaigne. The unhappy father and minifter faw his private misfortunes keep pace with the public calamities, and the tears of his family mingled with thofe of his country. Marshal Keith (killed at the battle of Hochkirchen) was a Scotchman born.. He engaged with his brother, the Lord Marthal, in the rebellion of 1715. Being obliged to relinquish his country on this occafion, he entered into the troops of Spain, and afterwards paf. fing into Ruffia, he obtained a confide rable command, and performed many fignal fervices in their wars with Turkey and Sweden; and ferved them alfo in peace by feveral embaffies. But finding the honours of that country no better than a fplendid fervitude, and not meeting with thofe rewards which his long and faithful fervices deferved, he left that court for one where merit is better known, and better rewarded; and having been employed, fince the heginning of the war, in a distinguished command in the king of Pruffia's armies, he fell at laft in a fervice that was worthy of him. The duke of Marlborough died at Munfter, Oct. 20, 1760, of a fever, contracted by the fatigues of the campaign. Never did the nation lofe in one man, a temper more candid and benevolent, manners more amiable and open, a more primitive integrity, a more warm and feeling heart. He left all the enjoyments which an ample fortune, and a high rank could bestow in the public eye; and which every milder virtue, every difpofition to make, and to be made happy, could give in a domeftic like; he left these for the fervice of his country, and died for its defence, as he had lived for its ornament and happiness. Lord Howe was killed in a skirmish near Ticonderago. This gallant man, from the moment he landed in Ame rica, had wifely conformed, and made his regiment conform, to the kind of fervice which the country required. He did not fuffer any under him to incum-' ber themselves with fuperfluous baggage; he himself fet the example, and fared like a common foldier. The' first to encounter danger, to endure hunger, to fupport fatigue; rigid in his difcipline, but eafy in his manners; his officers and foldiers readily obeyed' the commander, because they loved the man; and now, at the moment when fuch abilities and fuch an example were the moft wanting, was fatally loft a life, which was long enough for his honour, but not for his country. It adds indeed to the glory of fuch a death, and to the confolation of his country, that we fill poffefs the heir of his titles, his fortunes, and virtues, whilst we tremble to see the fame virtues expofing. themfeives to the fame dangers. The king of Pruffia, and prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, are certainly in reputation the first generals in Europe, which probably never produced two greater men; tho' they differ as much in their characters, and in the kind of talents they poffels, as they agree in the greatness of their abilities for war. The king of Pruffia, rapid, vehement, impatient, often gives decifive blows; but he often mifles his ftroke, and wounds himself. Prince Ferdinand is cool, deliberate, exact, and guarded. he fees every poffible advantage, he takes it at the moment, purfues it as- far |