London Gazette Lloyd's Evening North Briton Country News, Coventry 2 York 2 papers More in Quantity and greater Bariety than any Book of the Wind and Price. I. Tranflation of a letter from Lady M. W., XIV. A defcription of a most remarkable Montague, at Conftantinople, to a Venetian nobleman. In no other collection. II. The true caule of the decay of the Spanish trade in the ifland of Jamaica. III A receipt to prevent the deftruction of young turnips, by the black fly. IV. Receipts for curing the bite of gnats. V. A defcription of a new invented flove chimney, which effectually prevents fmoaking, and will warm feveral rooms with the fame fire. VI. An hiftorical account of the military ac tions of Lord Clive concluded. VII. Some material errors in the Biograpbia Britannica corrected, and omiffions in feveral of the lives supplied. VIII. A fingular phænomenon obferved in the fun's disk, IX. Dr Smollet's travels through France and Italy. X. Remarks on the addrefs to afréhomers, XI. An effay on the management of bees. XII: An addrefs to the author of the effay on Original Sin. XIII. An account of the act for the prefervation of trees, with remarks. chefnut tree at Tortfevortb in Glouc effer fbire XV. A fecond address to aftronomers on the fubject of M. Pingre's obfervations of the tranfit of Venus. XVI. Wonderful deliverance of the Marel chal de la Force, from the maffacre of St Bartbolomew, from a M.S. XVII. Gov. Bernard's fpeech to the court of the great and general affembly in NewEngland on receiving the news of the repeal of the flamp-act. XVIII. Dr Linden's account of the medical Waters of Llangyba in Carnarvonshire. XIX. POETRY. Imitation of a fragment of Simonides. The Angler and Philofopher, a fable. A modern fammer's evening. Song for an anniverfary, feaft. Enigma. Elegy on the death of the Earl and Countefs of Sutherland. XX. Lift of Books, with Remarks. K. Charles II's account of his escape from the battle of Worcester.-Dr Gerrard's differtations on the evidences of Christianity.-The Methodist, a poem.-The Interview, &c. XXI. Mifcellaneous Articles. Lift of Births, &c. as ufual. WITH an exact Reprefentation of the great Chefnut Tree at Tortftuortb; and three feveral Views of a newly invented Stove Chimney, which effectually prevents fmoaking, and warms feveral Rooms with the fame Fire. By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. LONDON: Printed by D. HENRY, at St JOHN'S GATE. T. W. Montague, at Conflantinople, Ranslation of a letter from Lady 299, 300 to a Venetian Nobleman The true cause of the decay of the Spanish trade in the island of Ja -Wonderful efcape of the Marefchal of that name from the massacre of St Bartholomew ib 325 ib -His father's inflexible fidelity -Is affaffinated with his children ib -Young La Force rescued -The beginning of his troubles in efcaping 326 Speech of Gov. Barnard to the Gen. Court of Affembly in New England, on the repeal of the ftamp-act 327 Dr Linden's account of the medical waters of Llangyba, Carmarthenfb. 328 POETRY. Imitation of a fragment of Simonides The Angler and Philofopher, a Fable-a modern fummer's evening -A Song for an anniversary fealt Ploughfare's defcription of Richmond Playhoufe -An Enigma-Elegy on the death of the late Earl and Countess of Sutherland 329 330 331 Lift of Books, with Remarks-K. Charles II's account of his efcape from the battle of Worcefler-Facts compared with thofe of Clarendon 332 333 -Earl of Perth to the Countess of Remarks occafioned by the Addrefs to Aftronomers ib Mills's Effay on the Management of Bees -Some commonly-received errors refuted ib Amazing fecundity of bees, and manner of production 318 -Inftructions for preserving and improving bees A method of incorporating weak fwarms An account of the late act for preferving timber trees 334 -The Methodist, a Poem 317 -The Interview; or, Jack Falftaff's 335 Ghoft 336 Mifcellaneous Articles 337 Hiflorical Chronicle. Dreadful fire at ib Barbadoes; Earthquake at Conflantinople; accident in America Damage done by lightning, &c. 339 Alterations in the miniftry 319 ib Lifts, &c. as ufual 338 341 342-3-4 THE Gentleman's Magazine; Mr URBAN, For JULY 1766. As I do not remember ever to have feen the inclofed in any Collection of Letters, you will perhaps oblige the Publick by faving it from oblivion. It was originally written in French, of which the following is a Tranflation. Gray's-Inn, I am, Sir, &c. July 4, 1766, R. J. A LETTER from an ENGLISH LADY* at Conftantinople to a VENETIAN NOBLEMAN. A Am charm'd, Sir, B with your obliging letter; and you may perceive, by the largenefs of my paper, that I intend to give punctual anfwers to all your queftions, at least if my French will permit me; for as it is a language I do not understand to perfection, fo I much fear, that, for want of expreffions, I fhall be quickly obliged to finish. Keep in mind, therefore, that I am writing in a foreign language; and be fure to attribute all the imper- D tinences and triflings dropping from my pen, to the want of proper words for declaring my thoughts, but by no means to dullness, or natural levity. Thefe conditions being thus agreed and fettled, I begin with telling you, that you have a true notion of the Alcoran, concerning which the Greek E Priefts (who are the greateft fcoundrels in the univerfe) have invented out of their own heads a thousand ridiculous ftories, in order to decry the law of Mabomet; to run it down, I fay, without any examination, or as much as letting the people read it: being afraid, that if once they begun to fift the defects of the Alcoran, they might not stop there, but proceed to Lady Mary Wortley Montague, F make ufe of their judgment, about their own legends and fictions. In effect, there is nothing fo like as the fables of the Greeks and of the Mahomelans; and the latt have multitudes of faints, at whofe tombs miracles are by them faid to be daily performed; nor are the accounts of the lives of thofe bleffed Muffelmans much less ftuffed with extravagancies, than the fpiritual romances of the Greek Papas. As to your next enquiry, I affure you 'tis certainly falfe, though commonly believed in our parts of the world, that Mahomet excludes women from any fhare in a future happy itate. He was too much a gentleman, and loved the fair fex too well, to ufe them fo barbarously. On the contrary, he promises a very fine Paradife to the Turkish women. He fays, indeed, that this Paradife will be a feparate place from that of their hufbands; but I fancy the moft part of them won't like it the worfe for that; and that the regret of this feparation will not render their Paradife the lefs agreeable. It remains to tell you, that the virtues which Mahomet requires of the women, to merit the enjoyment of future happiness, are, Not to live in fuch a manner as to become ufelefs to the world; but to employ themselves, as much as poffible, in making little Musulmans. The virgins who die virgins, and the widows who marry not again, dying in mortal fin, are excluded out of Paradife & For women, fays he, not being capable to manage affairs of ftate, nor to fupport the fatigues of war, God has not ordered them to govern or reform the world; but he has entrusted them with an office which is not lefs honourable, even that of multiplying the human race: And fuch as, out of malice or laziness, do not make it their bufinefs to bear or to breed children, fulfil not the duty of their vocation, and and rebel against the commands of God. Here are maxims for you, prodigiously contrary to those of your Convents. What will become of your Saint Catharines, your Saint Therefas, and I was furprized to hear him ask, among other things, How Mr To land did? My paper, large as it is, draws towards an end. That I may not go be your Saint Claras, and the whole bead-yond its limits, I must leap from reli roll of your boy virgin and widows? who, if they are to be judged by this fyftem of virtue, will be found to have been infamous creatures that paffed their whole lives in a most abominable libertinilm. I know not what your thoughts may be concerning a doctrine fo extraordinary with refpect to us; but I can truly inform you, Sir, that the Turks are not fo ignorant as we fancy them to be, in matters of politicks, or philofophy, or even of gallantry. 'Tis true, that military difcipline, fuch as now practifed in Christendom, does not mightily fuit them. A long peace has plunged them into an univerfal floth. Content with their condition, and accustomed to boundless Juxury, they are become great enemies to all manner of fatigues. But, to make amends, the fciences flourish among them. The Efendis (that is to fay, the Learned) do very well deferve this name: They have no more faith in the infpiration of Mahomet, than in the infallibility of the Pope. They make a frank profeffion of Deifm among themfelves, or to thofe they can truft; and never fpeak of their law but as of a politic institution, fit now to be obferved by wife men, however at first introduced by politicians and enthusiasts. If I remember right, I think I have told you in fome former letter, that at Belgrade we lodged with a great and rich Effendi, a man of wit and learning, and of a very agreeable humour. We were in his house about a month, and he did conftantly eat with us, drinking wine without any fcruple. As I rally'd him a little on this fubjed, he answered me, fmiling, that all the creatures in the world were made for the pleasure of man; and that God would not have let the vine grow, were it a fin to tafte of its juice: but that nevertheless the law, which forbids the use of it to the vulgar, was very wife, becaufe fuch fort of folks have not fenfe enough to take it with moderation. This Effendi appeared no franger to the parties that prevail among us Nav, he feemed to have fome knowledge of our religious difputes, and even of our writers ; gions to tulips, concerning which you allo ask me news. Their mixture produces furprizing effects. But what is to be obferved moft furprizing, is, the experiments of which you speak concerning animals, and which is B tried here every day. The suburbs of Pera, Jophana, and Galata, are collections of strangers from all countries of the universe. They have so often intermarry'd, that this forms feveral races of people, the oddest imaginable. There is not one fingle family of natives that can value itself on being unmix'd. You frequently fee a perfon, whofe father was born a Grecian, the mother an Italian, the grandfather a Frenchman, the grandmother an Armenian, and their ancestors English, Muscovites, Afiaticks, &c. C D G This mixture produces creatures more extraordinary than you can imagine: Nor. could I ever doubt but there were feveral different species of men; fince the Whites, the woolly and the long-hair'd Blacks, the fmall-eyed Tartars and Chinese, the beardiefs Brafilians, and (to name no more) the oily-fkinn'd yellow Nova-Zemblians, have as fpecific differences under the fame general kind, as grey-hounds, maftiffs, fpaniels, bull-dogs, or the race of my little Diana, if no body is offended at the comparifon. Now, as the various intermixing of thele lat ter animals caufes mungrels, fo mankind have their mungrels too, divided and fub-divided into endless forts. We have daily proofs of it here, as I told you before. In the fame animal is not feldom remarked the Greek perfidioufnefs, the Italian diffidence, the Spanish arrogance, the French loquacity, and all of a fudden he is feized with a fit of English thoughtfulness, bordering a little upon dulnefs, which many of us have inherited from the ftupidity of our Saxon progenitors. But the family which charms mẹ moft, is that which proceeds from the fantastical conjunction of a Dutch male with a Greek female. As thele. are natures oppofite in extremes, 'tis a pleasure to obferve how the differHing atoms are perpetually jarring to. gether in the children, even fo as to produce effects vifible in their exter nal nal form. They have the large black Mr URBAN, C the Island of Jamaica, being a Subject of late much agitated, the following authentic Papers will fhew the true D Caufe. Yours, &c. Y. D. King Alan, Jamaica, May 22, 1766. HE fociety of merchants of KingTon in Jamaica, intending to fup and aid the commerce of that iport fland; it is prefumed that the trans actions of that fociety relative to the E obftructions which the Spanish tradė has lately met with, will not be unacceptable to the public. The fociety therefore think it expedient to direct the publication of the following extracts from their minutes. Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1766. It was moved, that as there was a great decline of the trade and commerce of this illand, notoriously evident, a committee may be appointed to examine into the original caufes and reafons of this decay. Which motion being agreed to, a committee of eleven members was appointed for that purpose. Wednesday, Feb. 26, 1766. It was moved, that a letter from his Excellency the Governor, directed to Peter Furnell and Thomas Hibbert, Efqs, and defired by a fubfequent letter from his Excellency to thefe gentle. men to be laid before the society, might be read. Which was done accordingly, and of which the followang is a copy. F Gentlemen Spanish-Town, Feb. 10. Representations having been made to Mr Secretary Conway, that Mr Murray, the acting naval officer in this illand, has prefumed to extort high and unusual fees from foreign veffels importing bullion here: I defie you will be pleafed to enquire into the ground of this complaint, ued inform me whether you find it has any just foundation, particularly, whether any foreign vellel did at any time arrive in this ifland, having on board fourfcore thousand dollars, or other large fum of money, on which the faid Me Murray demanded what is filed a commission of five per Cent. as his perquiûte of office, in confequence of which the vessel failed from hence with the money on board to Hifpaniala, or fome other foreign port, where the commander expected more favourable treatment. I alfo beg the favour of you, if you know, or can learn that any other perfon employed by the Crown, has been guilty of fuch mal practices, to inform me thereof, and am with great Gentlemen. regard, Your most humble Servant, Το 1 It was then ordered, that the faid letter be referred to the committee already appointed, to take the fame make their report thereon to the fointo their confideration, and that they ciety on Furfday following. Tuesday, May 4, 1766. The committee this, day returned their report, which was unanimously agreed to by the fociety, and is as follows: THE Society of Merchants having this day affembled at Vaux-Hall, to take into confideration his Excellency's letter of the 10th ult. and having formed themselves intoa general committee for that purpose, agreed to the following report, viz. It appears to your committee, that the first, principal, and most fatal interruption to the commerce of foreign veffels importing bullion, was given by the feizing and condemning all fuch veffels, and their money, as were found here, when the first accounts arrived of hoftilities having commenced against Spain, upon the poor pretence, that they were the property of the fubjects of a foreign prince at war with the nation; a pre tence |