which the Indian women look upon as a very confiderable addition to beauty, one might well have been fhocked at their tafte. But this fashion, happily for the fex, has not yet entered the European lift. And I confider it as an important event in female affairs that the large earring, which was fo much the ten in Elizabeth's days, has crept off the ftage, and left few traces of its exiftence behind. But to fuch tenets what will the olddefpifed paramour, or the rigid moralist, return? Let them deny its advantages, and we will ask them what are its difadvantages? The trade, which furnishes the fex with their urnaments, has been found to increase within thefe few years very confiderably. It has brought in no defpicable revenue to the ftate; and, fince it cannot eafily do harm, why fhould it not do good? The traders are in general a fet of harmless women, who could never have injured manufactures of any kind, yet may, and have greatly improved it. Why then may not the tire-woman ftudy phykognomy; the milliner, gaiety; and the mantua-maker, fashion; as long as it conduces to a laud able end? But it may be proper, perhaps, to obferve how far this indulgence muft be extended. There is a vaft medium to be obferved between harmless gaiety and impertinent coquetry; between the of tentation of folly, and the elegance of difcretion. Beauty without virtue, and drefs without modefty, will not only lofe all their force, but, while they expect to gain applaufe, will endanger ridicule or infamy. The study of virtue and good. nature ought to be attended to before even dress itself: unless a woman has learnt the art of being amiable, not the jewels on her head, nor the diamonds on her neck, will render her fo; they may tempt a man to teal, but never to love her. A morofe and ill-natured temper, though recommended with the molt beautiful perfon, will in a fhort time wrinkle, or at leaft feem to wrinkle, the foftest skin; it will give a denial to every approach of love, and flatten every fentiment of friendship; it will render her unpleafing, and in a thort time defpicable, even among the circle of her familiar acquaintance; it will oblige thofe who had admired her beauty to deteft her heart; and he will be condemned to (what perhaps the had often railed againft) the miferable death of an GENT MAG. July, 1786. old maid. Thefe will be the certain confequences of peevish, and, worse than thefe, of fantaftical beauty. Female vivacity, if encouraged too far, may ter minate in thoughtlefs gallantry; and a too great fondness of drefs degenerate into diffipation and folly. The two extremes must be equally guarded against. If the married woman, whofe bufinefs it is to attend to cares of a more important kind, fhould indulge this gaiety too far, it may ruin her own happiness, as well as that of the whole family, for ever. She will be led on imperceptibly to neglect the domeftic fondness of a prudent husband, and fuffer her affections to be captivated by the eloquent nonsense of a fribbling petit-maitre; the may receive him in a hort time as her gallant, and bring up her children in her own thought lefs indifcretion. An inftance of this nature may be found in the character of Fauftina, wife of Marcus Aurelius, a moft prudent and politic Roman emperor; fhe had educated her fon Commo dus, according to her own notions of excellence, in fuch an infipid and volatile life, that, upon afcending his father's throne, instead of inheriting his pru dence, he degenerated into the moft licentious and tyrannic folly, that for some time he was nominated the royal coxcomb. Let me then recommend to the fair-fex, first of all arts, to ftudy the art of pleas ing; which, after they have once attained, will not readily be parted with. To fay that a woman is virtuous and good-natured, is what few deferve; it is a character, though not difficult, yet feldom attained; it is a character fo lovely and bewitching, that the most antiquated dame must be amiable who poffeffes it. The affected charms of a coquet, when compared with the real love linels of innocence, are faint and infipid. Virtue never brings evil along with it. Its collateral progeny, truth, fidelity, and modelty, are invaluable accomplishments to a woman during her deportment through a life of temptation and fully. They add grace and dignity to every movement and every action of the fex; they give an artificial kind of charm where natural ones are wanting; they give luftre to the moft bewitching fea tures, and beautify even beauty iteif. MR. URBAN, Hague, March 24. ΤΗ HE iufcription on the gold ring, mentioned in your Mag. for Feb. 1785, p. 89 (plate I. fig. 7) is very clear: 566 Conclufion of the Controverfy relative to Scots Bishops. clear: Ov. EST. NVL SI. LOJAVĻS. AMANS. QUI. SE. POET. GARDER. DES. MAVX. DISANS, i. e. Onc (or oncques, old Fr. never) eft nul fi loyal amant, qui fe peut garder des maldifans. It is impoffible to guefs at the infcrip. tion of the annexed feal, it being very differently ftated in the letter from what the plate diftinctly offers. However, I think it will probably come out to be a piece of gallantry, relative to the amours of fome princefs or queen with a famous monk, which the parties concerned wanted to pafs upon the public for merely Spiritual and platonic, but were not quite confidered in the fame light by the mauxdifans of that time: and, as fuch, the ring is curious enough. The figure, which your correfpondent took for a king, is evidently feminine. Indeed he obferves himfelf, that his king was remarkably fmootb-faced, and without a beard. Yours, &c. V. G. AFTER my letter inferted in your every laft Supplement, I had no intention to trouble you with any further apology for the Scotch bishops, or the confecration of Dr. Seabury. Poiite literature, and not thorny controversy, is that which most men with to find in a monthly mifcellany; and the manner in which the controverfy occafioned by that confecration has been conducted, is not, I am afraid, fuch as to give it any claim to uncommon indulgence, or indeed to prevent the length, to which it has been protracted, from being, by this time, tedioufly difgufting to your readers of denomination. I fhould not, therefore, prefume to trefpals again upon their patience, had my antagonist (p. 286, 288,) confined himself, as formerly, to abufive language, and to general accufations. To that fort of clamour the Epifcopal clergy in Scotland have been too long accuftomed to have their peace much diflurbed by a repetition of the rude noife; but the charge of having fabricated a pamphlet replete, as it is faid, with infolence and fedition, cannot but give pain to every honeft mind, and is, befides, to particular as to be easily denied, and likewife fo malicious as to make a denial neceffary, left filence fhould be confidered as an acknowledgement of its truth. Permit me, therefore, to affure you and your readers, that the addrels of the Epifcopal clergy in Connecticut to Bi op Seabury, together with that pre late's answer, were printed in your Ma gazine for January before they reached Scotland; that it was in the fame Magazine that I first saw them; and that of the means by which they came into your poffeffion, I and every perfon of my acquaintance, who could be fufpected to know, are at this moment abfolutely ignorant. From a letter which accompanied a very few copies of thofe papers, addreffed to particular perfons in this country, it appears, that there were not many fent to Great-Britain; those which were fent were intrufted to the care of a literary lay-gentleman in London; and as there are no penal laws hanging over his head, he may poffibly fatisfy the world, through the channel of fome future Magazine, that neither the addrefs, nor anfwer, nor fermon, nor charge, was either" manufactured," or could poffibly be interpolated on the North of the Tweed. Should that gentleman however dif dain, as well he may, to commit his name with a writer who figns L. L. and of whom, from that fignature, nothing can be known, I truk that the candid public will give at least as much credit to an anonymous defence, as to an anonymous and unfupported accufation. Forgery of every kind is a crime fo base, that no man, not even a Non-juror, can be fuppofed capable of committing it but from fome motive either of intereft or of fame; but neither fame nor intereft could poffibly be hoped for from an impofture of this kind, fo easy to be detected, and which, according to your correfpondent, contains falfe infinuations against a right reverend and most respectable order of men, whofe compaffion the epifcopal church in Scotland has more than once experienced. The pastors of that church may be weak, prejudiced, and bigoted; but they are not totally devoid either of gratitude or commonfenfe; they have not yet forgotten the debates in the Houfe of Peers on the paffing of the famous laws of 1746 and 1748, or the part which was then taken by a Sherlock and a Gibson, a Secker and a Maddox; and they must be worse than madmen wantonly to make enemies of the fucceffors of prelates, who, on thole trying occafions, had the courage to appear in the number of their friends. In proof of the addrefs and anfwer being genuine Bruifh manufacture, my accufer alleges the lift of Scotch bishops fince 1688, and fuppofes "that long mufter-roll of names, truly obfcure and undefying,. Exemplary Conduct of the Ladies of South Carolina. undefying, to originate from one who has not the honour to rank in the corps." But a very little reflection might have fuggefted to him another, and a much more probable, origin of a roll, which, through unedifying to him, is of import ance to others The Epifcopalians in Connecticut, not being enlightened by his commentaries on "the various epiftles of St. Paul, St. James, and St. Peter," have the misfortune to believe with the Scotch non-jurors, that the fpiritual authority of bithops is, by the impofition of hands, conveyed through a regular fucceffion from the apoftles. To fatisfy fuch fcrupulous men that the fucceffion has not failed in Scotland fince "the termination of all legal epifcopacy in that kingdom," it was abfolutely neceffary that Dr. Seabury fhould carry the lift of names with him acrofs the Atlantic; and is it not much more natural to fuppofe that that lift was appended to the Addrefs and Anfwer, &c. for the fatisfaction of thofe who were immediately concerned in it, than that the whole fhould be a fabrication of mine, calculated only to create enemies to the fuffering church of which I am a clergyman? Having thus, I hope, fufficiently cleared my fathers, my brethren, and myfelf, from the guilt of forgery, I have not far to feck for the worthy motive, which probably induced your correfpondent to advance a charge fo apparently ill-founded. He has feen, and I dare fay with much vexation, that the Scotch Epifcopalians have, during the prefent reign, been treated with a lenity, which, for many years before, they had Do: experienced; he knows, at the fame time, that the penal laws are ftill in force, and that if thofe laws were to be rigorously executed, the whole race of Non-jaring clergymen would be banished from their country. To effectuate fo good a work, he has repeatedly held up the confecration of Dr. Seabury as an enormous crime, and called loudly upon Government to watch more ftrictly over the guilty prelates by whom that gentle man was confecrated. Finding his clamours, however, hitherto infufficient to excite a religious perfecution, he has at laft changed his ground, and, by accufing a few innocent men of having forged or interpolated a pamphlet, in which he has laboured to discover injolence and fedition, hopes, no doubt, to bring upon them, as deteftable villains, that vengeance which, notwithstanding all his endeavours, has not yet overtaken them as 567 Epifcopalians and Non-jurors. If his conduct has arifen from this motive, I pray God to forgive him: it is a conduct which I would not purfue against my moft virulent enemy, were that enemy a propagator of Deifm or Atheism, or, what I fuppofe this writer thinks a much wolfe crime than either, even Popery itself. From all this no man, I hope, will fuppofe that I view the Addrefs and Anfwer in the very fame light with my adverfary. "The affertion of Jeremiah Leaming and his allociates, concerning what their imagination cannot frame," I do indeed think fenfelefs and impertinent, nor have I met among my brethren with one man of a different opinion: buc he, who difcovers in Bishop Seabury's Anfwer any thing tending to excite fedition among the fubjects of a foreign king, muft poffefs a keenness of perfpicacity to which I have no pretenfion. To me the offenfive paffage in that prelate's difcourfe appears to be nothing more than a check, perhaps indeed too gentle a check, to the rude remarks of his lefs liberal clergy; but, whatever it be, the Addrefs and the Anfwer are both of them publications with which I have not the fmalleft concern. The American epifcopacy meets iny highest approbation ; and I fee no reafon to think that, upon principles purely ecclefiaftic, it would be a very arduous task to vindicate it againft all oppofition; but I fhall never be fo fool-hardy as to attempt a vindication of the language of every American MR. URBAN, nay, ror of every Scotch Epifcopal clergyman; and I should think the man, of whatever communion, a bold champion, who would undertake to defend every unguarded expreffion of every individual paftor of the feet to which he adheres. An Epifcopal Prefbyter of the Scotch Church. The fecond part of this letter in our next. June 20. SEND you the underwritten, in hope it may receive infertion in your next Magazine, amid the diverfified entertainment and information that Repository fupplies. It will communicate fatisfaction of an higher name than entertainment, and information valuable to every friend of virtue. It exhibits a beautiful, affecting, fublime picture of female excellence in a wealthy country and a luxurious climate, where the fovereignty of beauty is felt in all its power, where the habits of eafe and indulgence had been cherished, and the temptations of plea fure 568 Extract from Ramfay's Hiftory of America. fure might be imagined irresistible: yet truth, honour, and patriotifm, triumphed over all thefe confiderations, and feminine delicacy preferred every diftrefs, and every fuffering, and relinquished all that could captivate the imagination, or was endeared to the heart, when the first of focial duties required the facrifice. But the fimple facts fpeak beyond defcription. I therefore give the extract from the "Hiftory of the Revolution in South Carolina," by D. Ramfay, M. D. a member of the American Congrefs; a work which conveys the knowledge of feveral important facts hitherto little understood on this fide of the Atlantic: and this communication may be the more acceptable to your readers, as the volume whence it is taken is at prefent, I believe, in very few hands in England. Even of those who do not entertain my fentiments of the caufe, furely every li beral mind will receive with pleasure and veneration the teftimony given to fuch a conduct as that which will be defcribed. Conduct of the Ladies of South Carolina, ladies in general difcovered more firmnefs than the men. Many of them, like guardian angels, preferved their hufbands from falling in the hour of temptation, when intereft and convenience had almoft got the better of honour and patriotifm. Among the numbers who were banished from their families, and whofe property was feized by the conquerors, many examples could be produced of ladies chearfully parting with their fons, husbands, and brothers, exhorting them to fortitude and perseverance; and repeatedly intreating them never to fuffer family-attachments to interfere with the duty they owed to their country. When, in the progress of the war, they were alfo comprehended under a general fentence of banishment, with equal refolution they parted with their native country, and the many endearments of home, followed their husbands into prifon-fhips, and diftant-lands, where, though they had long been in the habit of giving, they were reduced to the neceffity of receiving, charity. They wealth, and the future profpects of forrenounced the prefent gratifications of tune for their growing offspring-adopted every fcheme of economy; and, tho' born in affluence, and habituated to attendance, betook themselves to hard la bour." This incident will lofe nothing by comparifon with the moft fplendid, and be-entitled to virtuous fympathy in the Roman and Grecian annals. Let it teach the inconfiderate the efteem, honour, and rational, no less than paffionate, affection, to which Nature has entitled the fex; endowing them with qualities roble as well as attractive; the pureft Virtues with the moft engaging graces. Let it teach those who unnaturally with to hear ill-news of America, how unjuft their wifh, and how ill-founded their expectation. Where fuch are the manners of the women, permanent liberty and worth will delight to dwell. Independence and public happinets will flouith under the fofering care of domestic goodnefs; and all the charms of Virtue will fecure an attachment to her injunc tions, at once the bafis of individual and national welfare. C. L. Mr. Foord's Annual Lunar Table.-Impropriety of Speech cenfured. 569 yet be acceptable to fome of your readers, As I have for feveral years conftantly read your valuable Mifcellany, a thought ftruck me two or three years ago, that fuch a table might be a proper companion to your Meteorological Diary once a year, and ferve as a reference for the curious. I accordingly offered one for your acceptance. I had the pleafure the first year of feeing it placed with the Diary but the fecond year, either from the number of your correfpondents, or hurry, it was placed among heterogeneous fubjects, where it would hardly be found when wanted. If in future you may think it useful, you will please to acquaint your readers, that a copy of it will be annually fent, to be inferted either in the Supplement, or in January's Mag. as you shall think proper. In anfwer to your correfpondent's enquiry refpecting the dividing of a circle, it would take too much of your room to infert the method at full length: it is eafily performed by thofe who can use the fector; and a proper direction to do it is given in moft dictionaries of arts under the article Sector; but a more particular one is to be found in "Fergufon's Tracts," p. 203, of the 8vo edit. 1781. Yours, &c. JOHN E, FOORD. TABLE of the Times of the NEw and FULL MOON and ECLIPSES Moon eclipfed, invifible. Full Moon, Jan. 14 Day, 46 Minutes paft Sun eclipsed, invisible. Noon. paft 2 Morn. past 4 Morn. New Moon, Full Moon, Feb. 13, 42 paft 2 After. Full Moon, Mar. 14, 44 paft 9 Even. past Midn. 3 After. New Moon, Full Moon, May 13, 16 past 8 Morn. paft 7 Morn. 4 After. Even. 259 48 past 11 Night. Mooneclipfed, invifible. San eclipfed, invisible. Full Moon, July 11, 37 past 10 Morn. New Moon, paft 8 Morn. Full Moon, Aug. 9, 38 paft 9 Even. New Moon, paft 8 Even. Full Moon, Sept. 8, 26 paft 7 Morn. New Moon, past 10 Morn. paft 4 After. New Moon, part 3 Morn. Full Moon, Nov. 6, 24 paft 2 Morn. New Moon, paft 9 Even. Full Moon, Dec. 5, 47 paft Noon. past 4 After. Sun eclipsed, invifible. If to the time of New Moon you add 7 days, 9 hours, 11 minutes, it shews the first quarter, and the fame time added to Full Moon fhews the last quarter. Ex Tabulis Aftronom. HEN a fellow-creature has ufed means of acquiring his own death, the news-writers, and other peri⚫odical chroniclers, not unfrequently have announced the event by telling the public, that A. B. put an end to his exiftence. Of this mode of expreffion, when ever it has occurred to me, I have felt an abhorrence, being, if I conceive rightly, improper, indelicate, and offenfive, against the reasonable belief and hopes of mankind. For, if men generally believe that they will exift in a state Computavit E. FOORD. of being fubfequent to the prefent, the phrafe to which I point my cenfure is therefore offenfive: if it should be alleaged, that the meaning is restricted to exiftence in this world, it is indelicate nevertheless, becaufe it is unaccompanied with a fuitable qualification: and, if in the inftance of dying, agreeably to common prefumption, we do not relinquish actual but vifible entity, it is improper in the extreme. I do not apprehend that thefe conclufions will be invalidated were we to admit, as many do, of a celfation of thought in the intermediate state; for |