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When the great Newton, from the fimple circumftance of the fall of an apple from a tree, deduced the doctrine of gravitation as a chief law of our fyftem, the conclufion was very ingenious, because it united ideas very remote and abftrufe in their fimilitude. As judgment is flow, fo genius is rapid, and often almoft inftantaneous in its conclufions, and is therefore more frequently connected with a vivid and ardent imagination; and hence it is that the most ingenious men have been very deficient in judgment; and men of wit are rarely remarkable for what is called cold prudence. Genius is of different kinds, but in what manner foever it may be exerted, it may be diftinguished by the term invention. The poet, who draws witty allufions from new combinations of ideas, is as much an inventor, as the mechanic who contrives a machine, in which he combines certain powers which were never before united in the fame manner.

Ingenuity, like all other faculties of the mind, is in fome refpects connected with, or influenced by, certain conditions of the body.

ft. With an irritable nervous fyftem and therefore perfons of great corporeal

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fenfibility have generally lively imaginations.

2dly. With a delicate ftate of health; Virgil, Pafchal, Pope, and Baratter, were invalids.

3dly. It is fuppofed that climate has fome fhare, and that the middle climates, viz. between the latitudes of 30 and 45, are most favourable to the production of genius; and that as the Athenians were formerly, fo they are, even at this period, remarkable for ingenuity; but were not the Baotians, inhabitants of the fame climate, proverbially ftupid, infomuch, that the celebrity of Epaminondas and Plutarch, their countrymen, could not wipe off the opprobrium?

4thly. Wine, and other fermented drinks, fons, when moderately elevated by them, are faid to fharpen the wit; and many perévince a degree of sprightliness and ingenuity, which they do not manifeft without it; and there is reafon to believe that Horace wrote fome of his best odes under the cheering influence of Falernian wine.

5thly. Even fome morbid affections of the body feem to whet the ingenuity. Baron Haller, who was a poet, tells us, that ing under a fever; Pope Paul II. found he wrote verfes more readily when labourhis powers of eloquence increased by fever; and we are told, that a blow on the head rendered a man remarkably ingenious, who before the accident was not fo. Maniacal, melancholic, hypochondriacal, and hyfterical patients, have often more vivacity of imagination than in health, owing to a greater degree of irritability of the nervous fyftem but in all thefe inftances, the effects ceafe with the caufe. Old age weakens the invention as it does the memory.

TRUTH is a due conformity of our ideas with their objects: Error is the reverfe; that is, when our ideas, notions, or opinions, are different from thofe things from which they are derived.

Our external fenfes fometimes deceive or lead us into error; but thefe errors are Gg

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rarely of any great importance, and one fenfe may correct another.

But our greatest and most effential errors are those which arife from the judgment we form of the objects of reflection.

With refpect to fimple ideas, we can rarely err; because the circumftances which are the objects of comparifon are so few, that it is fcarcely poffible for us to draw a falfe conclufion: no perfon of a found mind would conclude that two and two are equal to five.

But it is in the contemplation of complex ideas that we are liable to error, becaufe we do not perceive all the parts of complex notions, and nevertheless argue from a few that we know, to the whole, many of which may be totally unknown.

From this imperfect analogy, proceed manifold errors in philofophy, natural and moral, religion, politics, &c. Hence the fallacy of hypothefts; when having difcovered fame circumftances which are conformable to truth, we take it for granted, without examination, that all the others are fo likewife.

Our errors are often voluntary, and may proceed

1. From indolence, and an averfion to examine things with accuracy, owing to our not having been in the habit of thinking clofely; and hence the epithet of thoughtless has been juftly applied to thofe, who, from not being accustomed to enquire and examine with care, form their conclufions from a fuperficial view of things and opinions, and thereby conftantly de-, ceive themfelves. Hence the manifold, and often very important errors people of all ranks and degrees fall into, with respect to conducting the ordinary concerns of life; for practical errors muft generally be the confequence of imperfect knowledge and falfe inferences.

2dly. Our errors may proceed from vanity and pride; for having once adopted a falle opinion, we are often fo deficient in candour and good fenfe, as to deem it detracting and difgraceful to confefs our er

rors. From this fource we may trace many of the fects in religion and philosophy, and the parties in politics.

3lly. Our errors are often the refult of fome predominant paffion, which either prevents us from examining into the truth of things with impartialityor, knowing the truth, hurries us on to act contrary to the cleareft conviction.

4thly. We are often led into error by prepoffeffion or prejudice. We are very apt to adopt the opinions of our relations and friends implicitly, and without examination, from the good opinion we in general entertain of their judgment and candour; and it is often fufficient reafon for us to reject an opinion, because it is advanced by a person whom we diflike.

in opinions relating to fcience we are very apt to fupport, moft ftrenuously, thofe doctrines which have been inculcated by our preceptors and profeffors; and hence it is that errors have been perpetuated, and the progress of true knowledge exceedingly retarded.

is any other fpecies of colic but the flatu-
lent; in which her infallible remedy may
not do much mischief: but as there are fe-
veral other fpecies of colic of an oppofite
nature, the means fhe prescribes muft in
them be very injurious, and even fatal,
This remark is applicable to almost every
disease, in the management of which egre-
gious blunders must be committed, as often
as we are guided by a flight conformity,
instead of an accurate difcrimination of all
the circumstances.

Ignorant practitioners, nurfes, and
quacks, are very frequently led into fuch
errors; many of them because they have
never been in the habit of thinking at all;
and even fuch of them as enjoy a moderate
portion of common fenfe, are yet utterly
difqualified to form juft conclufions; be-
caufe they have neither ability nor patience
to collect, compare, or judge of, the ne-
ceffary premises.

With refpect to thofe whofe understandings have been even highly cultivated by a general, or even a fcientific education, and 5thly. The bulk of mankind are too lazy who come under the denomination of Gento think; efpecially concerning opinions tlemen or Lady-Doctors; howfoever the which from their complicated nature re-analogical and difcriminating powers of quire a confiderable exertion of the mental their minds may have been exercifed in parpowers; and which, from want of habit ticular branches of knowledge; yet when and method, becomes painful and difguft- they employ them on medical fubjects, ing; therefore they generally rely on the they are perpetually liable to error in the dictatorial authority of a few, who being application; for the fame reason that a very but men, are therefore fallible, or, by vari-learned lawyer, or a skilful phyfician, may ous unworthy motives, are induced to mif- not be a good polemical divine, a profound represent and mislead. mathematician, or a fkilful minifter of ftate; because it is neceffary that the human mind fhould be long and affiduoufly engaged in a train of scientific thinking, before it can judge accurately concerning the ideas fuggefted by its objects.

I have entered more fully into this fubject, on account of its great importance, and fhall conclude with a profeffional remark.

In no art or science have errors been fo frequently committed as in the theoretical and practical parts of medicine.

tice.

Delirium, in a more limited fenfe, implies a diforder of the understanding connected with fever; and when there is no apparent fever, the terms hypochondriacifm, melancholy, and madnefs, are used, according to the nature and degree of the affection.

All these affections are fuppofed to proceed from increafed rapidity of the circulation in the veficls of the brain; to which it is fuppofed to be determined from other parts of the body with too much force, and in too great a quantity. This opinion is partly grounded on the qualities of certain caufes which we know produce diforders of the mental faculties; as rage, wine, and other fermented drinks, opium, &c. all of which are ftimulants; and partly from diffections of those who have laboured under various kinds and degrees of delirium. In thofe cafes the blood-veffels of the brain have been found very much diftended with blood, and fometimes even burst; inflammation of the membranes, matter formed in the substance of the brain; a very confiderable quantity of watery fluid in the ventricles, &c. efpecially in those who have died of fever. In thofe who have died of melancholy, madness, &c. befides fome of the appearances juft mentioned, the fubftance of the brain has been found of a very hard and firm texture, fometimes of an unufually fmall fize, and fometimes fwellings in particular parts of it, of a schirrous, ftony, or bony nature, &c.

When we confider the intimate connexion between mind and body, especially the brain, which is the fource of fenfation and perception, and the state of the thinking faculty, it will not be difficult to conceive, how morbid changes made in the brain do, and must neceffarily derange the imaginaShould it be alledged that, with refpect tion, and impair, or totally unhinge, the to medicine, fome medical men have gene-faculty of judgment; infomuch, as that it fhall not be able to distinguish between truth and error, reality and fiction.

The fpeculative opinions have often in-rously fupplied the public with plain treadeed been inoffenfive, though erroneous; tifes on difeafes and their cures; I anfwer, because those who entertained them did not that such productions would no more quaalways permit them to influence their prac- lify a perfon to practife phyfic with fafety and fuccefs, than his reading the article on But the most fatal confequences have watch-making in the Encyclopedie would arifen from an imperfect analogy, by which enable him to rival Mudge or Arnold, or a fuppofed fact, not altogether inconfiftent even a very inferior workman in that with truth, has been adopted as a guide to branch; and it ought ever to be held in forme very important circumftance of prac-mind, that, in fo much as we fall fhort of tice, to which, from the very remote fimi- the highest poffible perfection in any art, larity between them, it is applicable only we can be but ignorant bunglers in various in a very limited degree. degrees.

Thus, from an imperfect knowledge of the different, and fometimes oppofite, natures of thofe fpecies of difeafe which is vulgarly diftinguifhed by the common name of colic, many moft egregious errors are daily committed.

It may be proper to take fome notice of the morbid changes made on the judgment, in confequence of certain bodily difeales.

DELIRIUM is a general term, which An ignorant nurfe has found relief per- implies an error of the judgment produced haps, in her own perfon, from a dram of by fome morbid change in the brain, which gin, probably warmed by pepper, or a full is probably the feat of the foul; and there

When we confider the deplorable perversion of the moft exalted genius, the moft refined understandings, and the moft amiable difpofitions, by corporeal caufes, it fhould not only imprefs us ftrongly with the deepeft humility, but warn us against thofe exceffes, especially of the paffions, by which the reafoning faculty, the nobleft privilege of man, may be totally and irremediably unhinged: a ftate worse than death itself.

The perverfions of reafon and the imagination are very furpriting. Befides thofe which occur in fevers, I fhall mention a few inftances, out of many, which occur in madnefs and melancholy.

Some of thofe patients, whilft in every other refpect the judgment feems to be found, err only with regard to one object or idea, excited generally by fome inordidofe of Turlington's drops; and the pre-fore it is reasonable to fuppofe that its facul-nate paffion, as anger, love, ambition, &c. feribes it on all occafions of colical uneafi-ties must be impaired by every change of and the correfponding ideas are almost nefs, because the does not know that there this kind. perpetually prefent.

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None are fo much objects of compaffion, but who seldom meet with it, as thofe who, from an irritable fyftem of nerves, and a delicate ftate of health, labour under the various degrees of hypochondriacifm, up to incurable melancholy.

With these unhappy people, the prevalent idea is a conftant and painful folicitude about health, excited chiefly by a fear of death, rather than by an anxiety about the comfortable enjoyment of life.

The whimfical ideas and apprehenfions of fuch perfons, though generally fubjects of ridicule to others, are, to the fufferers, real and grievous evils.

One man afferted that he was made of glafs, and therefore would not quit his house, left he should be broken: another, that his legs were ftraws, and could not fupport his body: a quondam patient of mine being, in his way to a ball-room, obliged to pass through a narrow lane, conceived himself to be fo enormously fwelled that he could not pass it, returned, went to bed, and fent for his phyfician. Some have conceived themfelves to be transformed into beafts, birds, and even infects; others, that they were dying, dead, or abfolutely buried.

In all thefe cafes the patients are feldom convinced by argument; though fome are not always proof against the thafts of ridicule, the arts of deception, or a powerful and feeling appeal to the fenfes.

For the COUNTY MAGAZINE. SONNET ON VALENTINE'S-DAY. Infcribed by a Young Gentleman to the beautiful Mifs F- G

in his early youth, dreamed one night that words of the will. Now it is plain what
he had made a compact with the devil, part they have chofen, by what they keep
who promised to be at his fervice on all to themfelves. My client, then, ftands
occafions; and during this vifion every upon the words of the will; let me have,
thing fucceeded according to his mind; fays he, the part they have chofen, and I
his wifhes were prevented, and his de-am fatisfied;" it was accordingly award-
fires always furpafled, by the affiftance of ed him without hefitation.
his new fervant. At laft he imagined
that he prefented the devil with his violin,
in order to discover what kind of a mufi-
cian he was; when, to his great aftonish-
ment, he heard him play a folo fo fingu-
larly beautiful, and which he executed
with fuch fuperior tafte and precifion,
that it furpaffed all the mufic which he
had ever heard or conceived in his life.
So great was his furprife, and fo exquifite
was his delight upon this occafion, that it
deprived him of the power of breathing.
He awoke with the violence of his fenfa-
tion, and inftantly feized his fiddle, in
hopes of expreffing what he had just heard,
but in vain: he, however, then compofed
a piece, which is perhaps the best of all
his works; he called it the Devil's Sonata,
but it was fo far inferior to what his fleep
had produced, that he declared he would
have broken his inftrument, and aban-
doned mufic for ever, if he could have
found any other means of subsistence.

T

HAT I you molt fondly love,

ΤΗ

Witness ev'ry pow'r above;
That I you next heaven prize,
Witness for me earth and skies.
Only fay you love again,
And you free my breast from pain.
Blithe then as the feather'd choir,
Joy fhall ev'ry note inspire;
Anfw'ring echoes sweet shall ring,
While, my love, your praise I fing.
Though thy beauties to rehearse,
Far exceeds the pow'r of verse;
Yet fcorn not the artless strain,
Long I've lov'd and figh'd in vain ;
Soft pity let thy heart incline-
To take me for your Valentine.
W--y, Feb. 18, 1787.

LINE S

For the COUNTY MAGAZINE, LAW ANECDOT E. HE glorious uncertainty of law extends itself over every date where state any regulated code exifts. Ingenuity of Council in the explanation of periods, and On Dr. JOHNSON's Publication of his interpretation of meanings, is exercifed with as much fuccefs in the Courts of our

Gallic neighbours, as in thofe of our own country. Some time before the abolition of the Jefuits, a gentleman of Paris died, and left all his eftates from an only fon, then abroad, to that body of religious A person who infifted that he had no men, on condition that, on his return, legs, and therefore could not move, was the worthy Fathers fhould give him whatconvinced by fome smart ftrokes on the ever they fhould chufe. When the fon fhins; another who believed that he had came home, he went to the convent, and no vital warmth, was cured by wetting received but a small share indeed, the wife fome of the cloaths he wore with fpirit fons of Loyola chufing to keep the greatest of wine, and fetting them on fire. What-part to themselves. The young gentlefoever excites a powerful impreffion of a man confulted his friends, and all agreed nature contrary to the predominant infane that he was without remedy. At last a idea, will often produce a falutary effect. Barrifter, to whom he happened to mention his cafe, advised him to fue the con(To be continued.) vent, and promised to gain him his caufe. The gentleman followed his advice, and the fuit terminated in his favour through the management of the advocate, who grounded his plea upon this reafoning;

REMARKABLE DREAM OF AN ITALIAN MUSICIAN.

TARTINI, a celebratno in Iftria, ARTINI, a celebrated musician, being much inclined to the ftudy of mufic

The teftator," fays the ingenious Barefface which the Fathers thould chufe, rifter," has left his fon that thare of the la partie qui leur plaireit, are the exprefs Ggz

WRITTEN BY MR. GARRICK,

ENGLISH DICTIONARY.

ALK of war with a Briton, he'll boldly ad-
vance,

T
That one English foldier will beat ten of France;
Would we alter the boaft from the sword to the

pen,

Our odds are still greater, ftill greater our men ;
In the deep mines of fcience, tho' Frenchmen may

toil,

Can their ftrength be compar'd to Locke, Newton, and Boyle?

Let them rally their heroes,, fend forth all their

pow'rs,

Their verse-men and prose-men; then match them
with ours:

Firft Shakespeare and Milton, like gods in the fight,
Have put their whole drama and epick to flight;
In fatires, epiftles, and odes, would they cope,
Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope;
And Johnfon well-arm'd, like a hero of yore,
Has beat forty * French, and will beat forty more."

* The number of the French Academy employed in fettling their language.

SIR,

IF you think the following deferving of a place in your entertaining Mifcellany, it is much at your fervice.

I am, Sir, yours, &c.

SOON reftoration Cha. II. after the of

dies.

VI.

What joys then delight like the pleafures of love
For love and its paftimes e'en gods do approve;
Whilft life's in her fpring let us fondly intwine
The girdle of Venus round Bacchus's vine.

FILIUS ANACREONTIS.

For the COUNTY MAGAZINE. TRANSLATION OF THE ODE Diffugere nives redeunt jam gramina campis. HOR. Lib. IV.

To the Editor of the COUNTY MAGAZINE. | opinion. However, every body would | The torrent now ebbing, faint languors arife, not believe his miraculous gift; and fe- She struggles, fhe fwoons, cries heigh-ho-and vere reflections were published againft. him; but he found zealous fticklers, even among the phyficians. He publifhed himfelf a book, intitled, A brief account of Mr. Valentine Greatracks, and divers of the ftrange cures by him performed: A. B. written by himself, in a letter addreffed to the honourable Robert Boyle, Efq. whereunto are annexed the teftimonials of feveral eminent and worthy perfons of the chief matters of fact therein related. Among thofe who fubfcribed the faid teftimonials were the Hon. Mr. Boyle, Dr. Whichcot, Dr. Cudworth, and Dr. Patrick, famous divines; but, nevertheless, his reputation fcarce lafted any longer than that of James Aymar;* for it appeared, at laft, that fo many miraculous cures as were afcribed to him were entirely owing to the credulity of the public. It was even obferved, that this impoftor ftroked the women more feelingly than the men; and people did afterwards make themselves merry with fome paffages relating to the great famili-Rough winter's blafts to spring give way; arity he took with the fair fex. Spring yields to fummer's fovereign ray; Then fummer finks in autumn's reign; And winter chills the world again; Her loffes foon the moon fupplies, But wretched man, when once he lies Where Priam and his fons are laid, Is nought but afhes and a fhade. Who knows if Jove, who counts our score,

James Aymar was an impoftor in France about the fame time, who deceived the people by wonderful performances of his divining rod.

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there was a great talk in England about an Irishman, Greatracks by name, who performed wonderful, and almoft miraculous things. He was of a good family-had been a lieutenant during the Irish war-had borne fome offices in the county of Cork-and the apparent fimplicity of his manners was attended with a great fhew of piety and religion. He has himfelf acquainted us, That in the year 1662, an inward infpiration made him. believe that he had the gift of curing the King's Evil; which perfuafion grew fo ftrong in him, that he touched feveral people, and cured most of them. Three years after, a feverish distemper being become epidemical, a new inward fuggeftion perfuaded him that he might cure it; whereupon he tried the experiment, and he affures us, that he cured as many as were prefented to him. In the last place, he had, in the month of April 1665, another fort of infpiration, which inclined him to think, that he had likewife the power to cure wounds and ulcers, which, he fays, was ftill confirmed by experience; and he even found that he cured convulfions, dropfies, and feveral other diftempers. People flocked to him from all WHA parts, and his reputation encreafed to that degree, that a lady of great quality in England, having been fick a long while, engaged him to come over to attend her. As he advanced towards that lady's country feat, the magiftrates of feveral cities. and towns invited him to pass through the fame, to cure their fick; and the King (Charles II.) being informed of it, commanded the Earl of Arlington, Secretary of State, to order his immediate repair to Whitehall. The court gave no great credit to his pretended power of working miracles: however, not being forbidden to go on with his fhew, he repaired daily to Lincoln's-inn-fields, where incredible numbers of perfons of all ranks and fexes flocked from all parts, expecting from him the restoration of their health. -All he did was only to ftroke the patients, and thereby all pains, gout, rheumatifm, convulfions, &c. were removed from one part to the laft extremities of the body, after which they entirely dif appeared, which made him be called the ftroker. He afcribed feveral distempers to evil fpirits; and he fancied he had made obfervations that confirmed him in that

A SON G.

charms,

I.

TH

By Dr. JOHNSON.
HE fnow, diffolv'd, no more is feen;
The fields and woods, behold, are green;
The changing year renews the plain ;
The rivers know their banks again;
The fprightly nymph and naked grace,
The mazy dance together trace:
The changing year's fucceffive plan
Proclaims mortality to man.

Will roufe us in a morning more?
What with your friend you nobly fhare,
At least you refcue from your heir.
Not you, Torquatus, boast of Rome,

pleafures can equal thofe rapturous When Minos once has fix'd your doom,
Or eloquence, or fplendid birth,
Or virtue fhall replace on earth:
Hippolitus unjustly flain,

That arife from a revel in Venus's arms;

Behold how the glows at the opening view,
Heigh-ho is the word, and our game we pursue.

II.

Her hills and her valleys what blifs they reveal,
Ye gods! how divine is their ecstatic feel!
The dew of her lips is the ambrofial sweets
Which gods fip in heaven to favour their meats.

III.

Her eyes how they flash with the lightning of

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Diana calls to life in vain :
Nor can the might of Thefeus rend
The chains of hell that hold his friend.

I

HORACE, Ode 26, Book 3d.

Once was able arms to bear,
And fight the battles of the fair
With ardour and fuccefs;
But filent now, my amorous lyre
Imparts no foft emphatic fire-

Ah me, what great diftrefs!
My whole infignia of wars,
Darts, levers, torches, bows, and bars,
Love's gay artillery,
Which gave me conqueft kind to prove,
In all the warm pursuits of love.

No longer may I try.

Fair Venus, goddefs great, that reigns
O'er Cyprus grove and Memphian plains,
Let haughty Chloe know
The venom'd force of Cupid's dart,
The rankling anguifh dire impart,
And fury of his brow.

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• The chaplet I fo vainly wove,

Ah, now no longer priz'd, reftore;
Yet dear the hour, when, wrapt in love,
That pledge for me my Ellen wore.

Then, brighten'd by thy beauty's ray,

That gift had power from death to steal
Thy bloom-its flow-confuming ray
'Amidst the groves of Marlivale."

"Take, take (fhe cried) thy gift-from death
"That ftole its flow confuining ray—
"But first, give back the Kifs, whofe breath
"That moment caught my foul away.”

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REMARKAELE INSTANCE OF

FEMALE INTREPIDITY.

2. Three-fourths of a place of defence, one-third of a scold, and a ferpentine letter.

3. What ftands for a hundred, and a well-known beaft.

4. Three-fourths of a planet, a femicircle, and the name of Judah's firft fon. 5. An ancient King of the Britons, and reverfe to high.

6 Four-fevenths of a water fowl, and a vowel.

7. Two-thirds of a colour, and a meafure.

8. An infect.

9. Half of an ancient Hebrew name, a part of a fowl, and twenty hundred.

10. Three-fourths of an animal, half of a pledge that is given to a bride, and a femi-vowel.

11. The female laurel, and half a colour reversed.

12. Three-fourths of a well-known fea port in Yorkshire, and half of the organ of fpeech.

Half of the daughter of Merari, and what itands for five hundred, will disclote the name of your humble fervant,

She declared herfelf refolved to run all hazards with them in so just a caufe; pointed out the refources that still remained in the alliance of England, earnestly befeeching them to make one vigorous effort against an ufurper, who, being forced upon them by the intrigues of France, would, as a mark of his gratitude, facrifice the liberties of Brittany to his protector. The people, moved by the affecting appearance, and animated by the noble conduct of the Princefs, vowed to live and die with her in defending the rights of her family; and their example was followed by almost all the Bretons. The Duchefs went from place to place, encouraging the garrifons of the feveral fortreffes, and providing them with every thing neceffary for their fubfiftence; after which the thut herself up with her fon in Hennebon, where fhe refolved to wait for the fuccours which Edward III. King of England, had promised to fend to her alliftance. Charles de Blois, accompanied by the Dukes of Burgundy and Bourbon, took the field with a numerous army, and having reduced Rennes, laid fiege to Hennebon. The heroic Princefs, with the most undaunted courage, repulfed the affailants in that the whole army had left the camp to all their attacks; and, obferving one day join a general ftorm, the rushed forth at a poftern gate, with 300 horfe, fet fire to their tents and baggage, killed their futlers and fervants, and fpread fuch confternation through all their quarters, that the enemy gave over the affault, and, getting between her and the walls, endeavoured to etween her retreat to the city. Thus intercepted, he put fpurs to her horfe, and without halting, galloped directly to Breft, which Hence we learn that deceit and guile,, lay at the diftance of 22 miles from the on whatever motives or pretences they fcene of action. There being fupplied by are founded, are in their confequences a body of 500 horfe, the immediately re-pernicious and destructive. However for-turned, and, fighting her way through viceable fuch practices may fee for a one part of the French camp, was received time,-however fuch schemes may for a into Hennebon amid the acclamations of fhort period appear to flourish; the authe people. Soon after this the English thors are always difappointed in the end, fuccours appeared, and obliged the enemy and the projects in the refult fail and mifto raife the fiege. carry. The Gibeonites humbled themfelves, and they obtained a treaty; their abject appearance wrought upon the Ifraelites to receive them into favour, and

HENRY

Extract from a genuine MS Sermon, con— cluded from our laft, pa. 219.

FROM: the preceding fhort view of the circumftances of the hiftory, many things worthy of attention may be de-duced.

JOHN III. Duke of Brittany, dying JOH without iffue, left his dominions to his niece Jane, married to Charict de Blois, nephew to the King of France; but John de Mountfort, brother to the late Duke, though by a fecond marriage, claimed the Duchy, and was received as fucceffor by the people of Nantes. The greatest part of the nobility fwore fealty to Charles de Blois, thinking him beit fupported. This difpute occafioned a civil war, in the courfe of which John was taken prifoner, and fent to Paris. This mi fortune would have entirely ruined his party, had not his intereft been fupported by the extraordinary abilities of his wife, Jane of Flanders, a lady who feems to have united in herfelf all the excellent qualities of both fexes. Bold and intrepid, the fought like a warrior in the field; fenfible and fagacious, the fpoke like a politician in the council; and, endowed with the moit amiable manners and captivating addrefs, the force of her eloquence was fuch, that she could mould the minds of her fubjects To the Editor of the County Magazine. they procured a league and covenant from

to her own pleasure. She happened to be at Rennes when the received the news of

SIR,

her husband's captivity; but that misfor-dover in your Magazine, I hope
S you gave a place to the Ladies of
tune, inftead of depreffing her fpirits,
ferved only to raife her native fortitude you will have no objection to the Gentle.
and courage.
She forthwith affembled her men,. and by inferting them, you will
citizens, and, holding in her arms her in- much oblige à conftant reader.
fant fon, recommended him in the most
pathetic terms to their protection, as the
male heir of their ancient dukes, who had
always governed them with lenity and in-
1. Three-fifths of a tree peculiar to
dulgence, and to whom they had ever Great Britain, and what ftands for five
profeffed the moft zealous attachment.hundred.

2

An Enigmatical Lift of YOUNG GENTLEMEN
of ANDOVER.

them. How infatuating their fcheme! they were forging chains and fetters for themfelves, whilft they folicited protection and fupport from others. The Gibeonites, by fraud and hypocrify, enemies as they were naturally to the name of an Ifraelites or Hebrew, could crouch and fawn upon the Ifraelites in a cafe of neceffity and ur-gency; and when they were queftioned concerning the motives of their guile, the reafon given was, "because it was certainly told them, that God had command-ed all the inhabitants of the land to be deftroyed, and that the fear of their lives"

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