which was for the most part deftroyed by the dreadful fire, anno 1666. Afterwards, anno 1667, I married Elizabeth, the relict of Sir Maurice Fenton, Bart. I fet up iron-works, and prichard-fifhing in Kerry, and opened the lead mines and timber trade in Kerry; by all which, and feme advantageous bargains; and with living under my income, I have at the making this my will the real and perfonal eftate following, viz. a large houfe and four tenements in Rumfey, with four acres of meadow upon the caufeway, and about four acres of arable in the fields, called Marks and Woollfworth, in all about gol. per annum. Houfes in Token-houfe-yard, near Lothbury, London, with a leafe in Piccadilly, and the Seven Stars and the Blazing Star in Birching-lane, London, worth about 500l. per ann. besides mortgages upon certain houfes in Hog-lane, near Shoreditch in London, and in Erith in Kent, worth about 20l. per ann. have three fourth parts of the fhip Charles, whereof Derych Pain is mnafter, which I value at 801. per ann. As alfo the copper-plates for the maps of Ireland with the King's privilege, which I rate at 100l. per ann. in all 730l. per ann. Ireland, without the county of Kerry, in I have in lands, remainders, and reverfions, about 3100l. per ann. I have of neat profits out of the lands and woods of Kerry, 1100l. per ann. befides iron-works, fifh ing, and lead mines, and marble quarries, worth 6ool. per ann. have as my wife's jointure, during her life, in all 4800l. 1 about 850l. per ann. and for fourteen years after her death about 200l. per ann. I have, by 3300l. money at intereft, 3201. per ann. in all about 6700l. per annum. I The perfonal eftate is as follows, viz. 109 the hiftory of the furvey, all together at other forms of fhips in failing, carriage, and fecurity: but at length, in its return Craem, Craem, and goool. more with lefs cersainty; my eldeft fon would have 3800l. per ann. and half the expected improvement, with goool. in hopeful effects, over and above his wife's portion; and my youngest fon would have the fame within 1900l. per ann. I would advife my wife, in this cafe, to spend her whole 15871. per ann. that is to fay, on her own entertainment, charity, and munificence, with out care of increafing her children's fortunes; and I would the fhould give away one third of the abovementioned goool. at her death, even from her children, upon any worthy object, and difpofe of the other two thirds to fuch of her children and grandchildren as pleased her beft, without regard to any other rule or proportion. In cafe of either of my three children's death under age, I advife as follows, viz. if my eldeft, Charles, die without iffue, I would that Henry fhould have three fourths of what he leaves, and my daughter Anne the reft. If Henry die, I would that what he leaves may be equally divided between Charles and Anne; and if Anne die, that her fhare be equally divided between Charles and Henry. Memorandum, That I think fit to rate the 30,000l. defperate debts at 1000l. only, and to give it my daughter, to make her abovementioned 10,000l. and goool. to be full 20,000l. which is much fhort of what I have given her younger brother; and the elder brother may have 3800l. per ann. goool. in money, worth gool. more, 2000l. by improvements, and 1300l. by marriage, to make up the whole to 8000l. per ann. which is very well for the eldest fon, as 20,000l. for the daugh. ter.He then leaves his wife executrix and guardian during her widowhood, and in cafe of her marriage, her brother James Waller and Thomas Dance; recommending to them and his children to ufe the fame fervants and inftruments for manage ment of the eftate, as were in his lifetime, at certain falaries to continue during their lives, or until his youngest child fhould be twenty-one years, which would be the 22d of October 1696, after which his children might put the management of their refpective concerns into what hand they pleafed. And then proceeds--I would not have my funeral charges to exceed 3ool. over and above what fum I allow, and give 150l. to fet up a monument in the church of Rumfey, near where my grandfather, father and mother were buried, in memory of them, and of all my brothers and fifters. I also give 51. for a ftone to be fet up in Lothbury church, London, in memory of my brother Anthony, there buried about the 18th of October 1649. I also give gol. for a small monument, to be fet up in St. Bride's church, Dublin, in memory of my fon John, and my near kinfman John Petty; fuppofing my wife will add thereunto for her excellent fon Sir William Fenton, Bart. who was buried there 18th March 1670-1; and if I myself be buried in any of the faid three places, I would have 100l. only added to the abovenamed fums, or that the faid 100l. fhall be beflowed on a monument for me in any other place, where I fhall die. As for legacies, for the poor, I am at a stand; as for beggars by trade and election I give them nothing; as for impotents by the hand of God, the public ought to maintain them; as for those who have been bred to no calling nor eftate, they should be put upon their kindred; as for thofe who can get no work, the magistrate fhould cause them to be employed, which may be well done in Ireland, where is fifteen acres of improveable land for every head; prifoners for crimes, by the king; for debt, by their profecutors; as for thole who compaffionate the fufferings of any object, let them relieve themselves by relieving fuch fufferers, that is, give them aims pro re nata, and for God's fake re, lieve thofe feveral fpecies abovementioned, where the abovementioned obligers fail in their duties; wherefore I am contented that I have affifted all my poor relations, and put many into a way of getting their own bread, and have laboured in public works, and by inventions have fought out real objects of charity; and do hereby conjure all, who partake of my eflate, from time to time to do the fame at their peril. Nevertheless, to anfwer cuftom, and to take the furer fide, I give 201. to the moft wanting of the parish wherein. I die. As for the education of my children, I would that my daughter might marry in Ireland, defiring that fuch a fun as I bave left her, might not be carried out of Ire land. I wifh that my eldeft fon may get a gentleman's eflate in England, which, by what I have gotten already, intend to purchase, and by what I prefume he may have with a wife, may amount to between 2 and 3000l. per ann. and by fome office he may get there, together with an ordi nary fuperlurcation, may reafonably be expected; fo as I defign my youngefl fon's trade and, employment to be the prudent management of our Irish cftate for himfelf and his elder brother, which I fuppofe his faid brother must confider him for. As As for myself, I being now about threefcore and two years old, I intend to attend the improvement of my lands in Ireland, and to get in the many debts owing unto me; and to promote the trade of iron, lead, marble, fifh, and timber, whereof my ellate is capable: and as for ftudies and experiments, I think now to confine the fame to the anatomy of the people and political arithmetick; as alfo to the improvement of fhips, land carriages, guns, and pumps, as of most use to mankind, not blaming the ftudies of other men. As for religion, I die in the profeffion of that faith, and in the practice of fuch worship, as I find established by the law of my country, not being able to believe what I myself pleafe, nor to worship God better than by doing as I would be done unto, and obferving the laws of my country, and expreffing my love and honour to Almighty God, by fuch figns and tokens, as are underflood to be fuch by the people with whom I live, God know ing my heart, even without any at all; and thus begging the Divine Majesty to make me what he would have me to be, both as to faith and good works, I wil lingly refign my foul into his hands, relying only on his infinite mercy and the merits of my Saviour, for my happiness after this life; where I expect to know. and fee God more clearly, than, by the ftudy of the fcriptures and of his works, I O Lord, an eafy paffage to thyself, and as have been hitherto able to do. Grant me, to die in thy favour. Amen. I have lived in thy fear, I may be known [In 1667 he married Elizabeth, daughtown, in the county of Limerick, and ter to Sir Hardrefs Waller, of Callewidow of Sir Maurice Fenton: and dying minfter, of a gangrene in his foot, occaat his houfe in Piccadilly-ftreet, Westfioned by the fwelling of the gout, 16th December, 1687, was buried in the church of Rumfey, near the bodies of his father and mother.] ORIGINAL LETTERS from the late ingenious Mifs TALBOT*, her Friends. [From a Manufcript in the British Museum.] To the Hon. Mifs CAMPBELL. Dec. 6, 1735. to within the deteftable walls of Bath, fhe has fent me whole fheets, filled with no thing but balls and plays and puppet fhews." You fay too true; but fear not; as foon as ever you come to town, you shall be met by the right fincere obliged CATHERINE TALBOT. July 15, 1735. HOWEVER it be, I do not at all regret leaving Bath; though when one is there, it is agreeable enough. "Pernicious pleasure! cries Mifs Campbell; infinuating poifon! May I never come within the power of thy fatal enchantments! 'Tis you have have robbed To the Right Hon. Lady MARY GRAY. me of my plain Kitty, I fhewed so much goodness to, and in her place you prefent to me a Mademoiselle Catherina, giddy, gay, and mad with the purfuit of pleasure. The girl I was acquainted with could bear to talk of reafon for an hour or two, could pafs an whole evening without nam ing quadrille, and pity the inferior world for the eager purfuit of what they call pleafure, and what is to thinking minds the work of flavery, wearing the filken chains of gaiety. Alas! the fcene is now changed, and ever fince the came ticular that you, Lady Mary, (for till you I AM going to excel Hector in a parare reconciled to me, I fuppofe I mult add no other epithet) in a particular that you have commended him for. I am going to own myfelf in the wrong, and flays without the Scean gate that fatal day, it is inerely to avoid doing fo, that Hector that has made me hate Achilles and Minerva. Had he not rejected with difdain the wife advice of Polydemas; This lady, who died January 9, 1770, aged 48, was the only daughter of Mr. Edward Talbot, Archdeacon of Berks, and younger fon of Dr. Talbot, Bishop of Durham. There having been the moft intimate friendship between him and the late Archbishop Secker, his widow and daughter lived in his grace's family till his death, when he left the intereft of 13,000l. to them, and the furvivor of them, and after wards the whole fum to charitable ufes. This correfpondence began when Mifs Talbot was only thirteen years of age. "What "What numbers had been fav'd by Agamemnon, Ulyffes, Neftor; and I am Hector's flight!" When firft I wrote a fcandalous libel against him, I was very angry at this; and befides I have a penchant for thofe Grecians, that Hector himself could not conquer. But now the mifts of prejudice, to fpeak poetically, are difpelled by the beams of reafon, I can fee and own a thoufand virtues in him, and I am really concerned for his death. I agree with Mifs Campbell in her opinion of Achilles, forry poor Ajax is beat in all the games. I am glad fhe likes the Odyffey, but beg fhe will not name that, or any other book, in the fame line with the Iliad.--Pray how do you like Virgil ? and how far have you got in Rapin? Baker goes on but Bowly here. Pray tell Mifs Campbell that it is not for the Counteffe de Dammartin I cried. She began fo foon fhe will be a fountain before fhe has finished. (To be continued.) SHORT ESSAYS on THINKING, JUDGING, FRIENDSHIP, PRIDE, ABILITIES, USE OF TIME, &c. I are beft; it were better, perhaps, to T is often faid, that fecond thoughts fay, that thinking was beft; as the generality of thofe to whom the proverb is applicable, are fuch as feldom or never think, before they proceed to action. : It is not an caly talk to reflect judicioufly it requires both genius and experience; for which reafon natural inftin& inclines moft men to ask advice. The true caufe why we are willing to be counfelled, is our felf-love; which prompts us to fecure ourselves against croffes and difappointments. The caufe of our neglecting advice is pride; which by pretending to more wifdom than falls to our fhare, defeats the good purpofes infpired by felf-love. We judge in common very juftly of the conduct of others; and they, in return, pafs as right a verdict on ourselves. The reafon is, that we are not afraid of feeing the whole of our neighbours frame; but are confcious we have many things that we could not bear the fight of; and therefore willingly connive at them. The review of good or bad qualities in others, is, perhaps, equally pleafing: the bad ones adminifter fome comfort to our vanity; and malice enjoys the moft agreeable paflime in fcrutinizing the good ones, in order, if poffible, to deny them that title. Our friends are those whom we moft rigorously judge. We do this on the principle of felf defence; for what can more offend that fpirit of selfishness born with our nature, than to remain unguarded against the attacks of thofe who are nearest to us? We always endeavour to place our friends on our own level, in cafe their natural endowments have fet them above us; and as induftriously maintain the fuperiority, if it happens to be of our fide. This is eafily accounted for, when we confider that fuperiority in this particular cafe is more grievous than in any other; and at the fame time more foothing and valuable to the vanity of the poffeffor. Inferiority is feldom a bar to the fincereft friendship; but fuperiority proves often an infurmountable obftacle. Nature delights in cafe. Now condefcendence is a relief to that ftiffness and formality we are obliged to put on, when we affert our felf-eftimation: but when we defcend to our inferiors, it is like throwing off our armour, and refuming the more convenient drefs. Inferiors, if they would be at the pains of governing themfelves, would often vern their fuperiors. go Equality of rank makes people reftive and jealous of each other; but where we are divefed of that mutual diffidence, we hearken to what is faid, more than to the fayers themselves. Hence it happens, that a man whofe eloquence has been employed in thwarting what has been propofed in the company of his equals, fhall, when retired to domeftic confultation with the perfon, whofe under-ftation and refpectful affiduity have won his affection, liften with more willinguefs, because with lefs fufpicion. A man of flender abilities is commonly more useful than a man of fplendid ones. The former is like an adventurer, who fetting out with a fmall capital, hufbands and improves it to the utmoft: the latter is like a rich heir dazzled with the im menfity of his wealth, and careless how he fquanders and walles it. THE The Works of the Right Reverend Thomas Newton, D. D. late Lord Bishop of Bristol, and Dean of St. Paul's, London, with fome Account of his Life and Anecdotes of feveral of his Friends, written by himself. 3 Vols. 4to. Rivington. 31. 15 s. in Boards. (Continued from page 38.) 'HIS TIS heart was also fet upon promoting and carrying as far as lay in his power thofe popular laws, for which he contended when he was at the head of the oppofition, and which the nation in a manner demanded and expected. One of thefe popular laws was the Place Bill, by which were excluded from the Houfe of Commons the feven commiffioners of the revenue in Ireland, the feven commiffioners of the navy and victualling offices, the clerks of the treafury, exchequer, admiralty, &c. &c. in all above two hundred officers and placemen of different kinds. If more had been attempted, the whole would have mifcarried: but this was more than the people had ever gained before at any one time, or by any one law of the fame nature. Another of his popular laws was leveled against bribery in elections, and fubjects every offender in this kind to a penalty of 500 l. and this law he himself enforced in the firft infance by a profecution for bribery at the Heddon election, and there have been other inftances fince of the like exemplary punishment. Amongst other popular laws one was much infifted upon for the better regulation of elections, as feveral notonous abufes had been committed by return ing officers and others at the late general elections. A bill for this purpofe was brought into the House of Commons, and be fupported it with all his eloquence; but it was found to be of too complicated a nature, and the rights of election were fo various, that they could not all be comEUROP. MAG. prifed and adjusted in one bill, and therefore it was laid afide for that time. The next feffion it was thought proper to be divided into three bills, one for Scotland, another for the cities and boroughs in England, and a third for the counties. That for Scotland was paffed into a law. The other for the cities and boroughs in England paffed the Houfe of Commons, but was thrown out by the House of Lords. He fupported it in the Houfe of Lords, as he had done before in the House of Commons; but he could not command a majority, and he complained upon this, as he had done upon other occafions, that the government would not do popular things, and then wondered that they were unpopular. No man was ever a truer friend to the British conftitution, or wished more ardently than he, that thofe deficiencies, which were left in it at the Revolution, were fupplied, and that it was car ried to the utmost perfection, which any human fyftem is capable of receiving. And it was extremely unjuft, that he fhould be cenfured by one fide as if he had power to do every thing, and at the fame time not be fuffered by the other to do even those popular things, which had been particularly ftipulated and agreed between them. If he had bargained for himself, it would have been another thing; but his bargains were all for the public, for the honor of the King, and for the benefit of the kingdom. He took nothing for himfelf, but what was preffed upon him again and again, and he certainly obliged them P much |