1769. LETTER FROM PAOL I. on the fituation of our affairs. My character has not been that of a hero of romance, a Quixote, or an Amadis. There is nothing more real than the object I purfue: But if, inftead of a real object, I purfue a chimera, I am deceived indeed; yet my error fhall never caufe me to defert the common caufe. What are for the most part the objects of our pursuits, but dazzling chimeras, which have no other exiftence than that which our lively and deceived imagination lends them? Upon this principle, I will pursue my first plan; and if that liberty which I feek, is not to be found any where, I till fhail account him my enemy, that will undertake to remove the delufion from my fight! Let me enjoy this dream, which, to me, feems fo much like truth. The offers that have been made me are both injurious to me, and repugnant to that spirit of liberty, which circulates with my blood in my veins, and which thall circulate with it to the last drop. You little know the courage of the Corficans, if you can believe they will ever fubmit to a foreign yoke. All the efforts of Genoa have proved ineffectual, against their valour and love of liberty; and fhall we then submit to another power that comes to offer us its chains? The rocks that furround me, fhall melt away, ere I will betray a caufe which I hold in common with the lowest Corfican. No; I never will betray my country, after having been the generous defender of it. If any man was capable of enslaving me, it would be the Comté de Marbeuf; and the king his mafter could not have chofen a more enchanting man: But you know, Sir, the price of liberty, like health, is only known when loft; they are the molt precious enjoyments of life. Let the mean flaves of their mafters wills fawn at their feet, and renounce the Batural rights of humanity; as for me, I have learnt to be free; I know how to live fo; and to die free, I would facrifice ten lives if I had them: I have but one, but that shall not furvive my liberty. Be affured, Sir, I hall ever he immoveable. Gold lofes its tplendor, when offered as the price of liberty. Honours are only able to dazzle fools, if they are not to be ob tained but by renouncing the privi 37 leges of human nature. What does it fignify to me, that I am able to command a multitude of flaves, who shall come and humiliate themfelves at my feet, if in a quarter of an hour afterwards, I am forced, in my turn, to humble myself at the feet of another, one degree higher than myfelf? If I fall the victim of liberty, I fhall fall nobly, and teach others to facrifice themselves to the common cause. Our love of liberty will fubfift, even among the ruins of our country; it will be enlivened by fire, be born again of the ashes, and will grow, though in irons. Of one flaughtered hero will be produced a thoufand; and as Tertullian faid of the primitive martyrs of the church, "Their blood will be fruitful, and heroes will never be wanting in Corfica." To the AUTHOR of the LONDON MAGAZINE. SIR, IT is a common obfervation, but a very just one, that children do not know the duty which is owing to their parents, till they come to have a progeny of their own; then indeed the numberle's hours of folicitude, which they experience for the happinefs of their little ones, wake them into the full fenfibility of a filial affection, if they are not wholly callous to the finest feelings of humanity; and they learn a juft knowledge of the obligations they lie under to the authors of their being, by the reverence and love which they expect from those on whom they have conferred the bleffing of existence themselves. I myself, Sir, am a melancholy proof of the foregoing obfervation. My father, Sir, is a man of family and fortune, who, though he had feveral other children, equally entitled to his attention, yet treated me with fuch an extraordinary fhare of affection, that I was generally diftinguish ed by the name of the favourite: This diftinction, however, instead of giving me a laudable ambition of deferving the parental partiality, filled me only with a fhameful inclination to abufe it; the continual indulgence which fhould excite my gratitude, ferved en. tirely to fwell my pride; and the favours which I ought to have received with the deepest respect, I looked up on 38 The affecting Hiftory of Maria Mortimer. on as fo many actual debts to my fuperior accomplishments.-Nay, Sir, I frequently thought my father much obliged to me, when I condefcended to accept a token of his tenderness, and refented as an abfolute indignity to my merit any neceffary document which he gave on the glaring improprieties of my behaviour. Volatile and vain, my regards were folely centered in myfelf, and I imagined him either unnatural or kind, as he confulted the gratification of my wifhes; yet though I expected he would upon all occafions comply with the particular turn of my temper, I never recollected that any thing was due to his peace; I never remembered that his happiness materially depended upon my prudence, nor confidered how cruelly an act of difobedience muft ftab him to the heart; on the contrary, Sir, to my everlafting difgrace be it mentioned, I always wanted his repofe facrificed to my own humour, and even found an exquifite pleasure in revenging on the good, the venerable man, every oppofition which he had made to the arrogance of my will; that is, in other words, every affectionate anxiety which he manifefted for the advancement of my felicity. The hand, the upright hand of heaven, however, has justly punished my ingratitude, and the very disobedience in which I triumphed, is now, by the wife difpenfation of providence, a rod of fcorpions to itfelf. If I can, Sir, I fhall purfue my unfortunate ftory: Yet the recollection of my guilt, almoft ftings me into madnefs; and I even blush to afk compaffion from the world, where I am conscious fo little pity is due to my tears. Indulged as I was by the goodness thus abufed, Sir, and poffeffed of a perfon, perhaps, paflable enough, it may be eafily fuppofed that when I approached to maturity, I received fome flattering addrefes from your fex, especially as I had pretenfions to a genteel fortune: My poor father, indeed, was extremely defirous of feeing me fettled in the world, and recommended a gentleman to my attention, who was every way qualified to make me happy, if I had entertained any rational ideas of happiness; but the very argument which should have Ja reconciled me to this offer, I mea the recommendation of a parent, ma terially determined me against it. could not bear the thought of bein governed; my lover was, befides, man wholly without fpirit, that i without either the fafhionable follie or the fashionable vices of the ag and there was no enduring the lifele morality of fuch a character; he was therefore, fpeedily difmiffed, and m father prefuming to be offended at m folly, I complied with the preffing fo licitations of a young captain of dra goons, who had newly enrolled him felf among the number of my admir ers, and fpiritedly accompanied hin on a matrimonial tour to Scotland without ever afking a fingle queftion relative to his circumftances or his fa mily. Oh! ye amiable, ye now fmiling daughters of profperity, who enjo the bleffings of a paternal protection learn from my wretched fate to fet juft eftimation on the tenderness of father; do not think difobedience proof of good fenfe, nor imagine it mark of heroism to be unnatural. Un acquainted with the ways of the world you require inftruction from the wife and none can be fo faithful a monitor as he who is most deeply interested in your happinefs. Had I prudently fol lowed the leffon, which fatal experi ence enables me to inculcate, how many days of anguish had I avoided But recollection now only ferves to harrow up my bofom, and the mifery which must mark the remnant of my life, is for ever to be aggravated with the confcioufnefs of its being juftly merited. For fome time after my marriage, Sir, I expected every day to receive an overture of reconciliation from my father, and my pride began to be fo verely mortified at the bare imagina tion that it was poffible for him to caft me wholly off from his affection. But this pride was still more mortified when my hufband informed me, that he had loft a large fum of money at play, and that, unless my family immediately did fome very handfome things for me, he must not only be under an indifpenfible neceffity of felling his commiffion, but muft eternally bid adieu to his country. Thunder-truck at this information, I felt all the guilt of 1769. The affecting History of Maria Mortimer. of my late misconduct with the keeneft fenfibility.Nay, my very vanity fupplied the place of virtue; and pointed out the meanness of applying only in the hour of diftrefs, and even then of applying merely for relief to the father, whom I had fo infamously deferted, for an acquaintance of a month. However, the application was unavoidable; my husband's difficulties, if removed, were to be removed inftantly. I therefore fat down blushing with fhame, yet trembling with apprehenfion, and wrote a penitential letter to my father, acknowledging my faults, fetting forth my diftreffes, and conjuring him, by all he held moft dear, to take pity on my wretched fituation. This letter I dispatched by a footman, who returned in a little time with the excruciating anfwer, that my father had folemnly determined never to hold the leaft intercourfe with an unnatural wretch who had deftroyed his everlasting peace of mind, and brought an indelible ftain upon his house, by marrying a defpicable gambler. Dreadful as this reply appeared to me, the information it contained, with regard to my husband's character, was the most infupportable part of it. I always looked upon him to be a gentleman at leaft; though imprudently married, I did not fancy myself married dishonourably. But my father's opinion of my choice was unhappily too justly founded, and when the contemptible fellow,in whose hands I had placed the whole happiness of my life, difcovered that my expectations of a fortune were entirely at an end, he quitted the kingdom, and the first intelligence I received of his fight, came from a man to whom he had fold not only the furniture of his house, but all the little ornaments I carried with me from home, even to the gown in which I was then dreft; leaving me but two guineas, to enter upon an inhofpitable world, and to fupport a helpless poor infant, who was as cruelly deferted as its unfortunate mother. To whom, or what, or how could I complain? In the first moments of my diftraction, nothing but the agonizing fondness which I felt for my unhappy little boy, prevented me from fome act of defperation on my own person. When I confidered the 39 miferable state to which I had reduced myself, my mind was hurried into madness; but when I faw my sweet innocent, and recollected his life immediately depended upon mine, my defpair was melted into anguish, and found relief in a plentiful flood of tears. With the two guineas already mentioned, and a few fmail fums which I have borrowed from the friends who ftill condescended to own me, I have made a fhift, Sir, to fubfift for a twelvemonth, which has now juft elapfed fince the flight of my barbarous hufband. But, alas! Sir, thefe refources now begin to fail me. People induftrioufly feek causes to avoid an intercourse with the wretched, and I who once thought it dif graceful even to make conceffions to a father, am now obliged to fupplicate the compaffion of ftrangers for a precarious bit of bread. What will become of me, heaven only knows! unless I am speedily affifted. My beautiful prattler lies at this moment dangerously ill of a fever, and muft inevitably perish for neceflaries, if the miniftring angel of providence does not quickly ftretch forth fome blessed hand to his relief. To my father I dare not look up for pity. Yet, venerable author of my being! if you could conceive but the fmalleft idea of what your abandoned Maria feels for her difobedi. ence, if you could but know the pangs which tear her bofom, while the thus relates her ingratitude to you, and weeps upon the melancholy cradle of her expiring infant, your generous heart would be ftruck at her afflictions, and your humanity would be interefted for the fellow-creature, though your juftice might prevent you from looking with tendernefs upon the daughter! O then, with mercy, hear her prayer-fhe does not prefume to addrefs your fondness as a father-but your charity as a man-fave her dy ing little one--and the afks no compaffion for herself---fnatch him from the grave, and give her to death without reluctance--he is called after yourself, and may yet live to make fome atonement for his mother's crime...No !---'tis too late--- he is now in his laft agonies--and all will be fpeedily over with MARIA MORTIMER. To 40 Jan SIR, the PRINTER of the LONDON MAGAZINE, S many of your numerous readers are defirous of feeing a correct list of all the A prizes above twenty pounds in the late State Lottery, I have herewith tranfmitted und to you, and am, Sir, Fleettreet, No. 30, London. Your readers humble fervant, No. 55020 was drawn a Prize of 201. but being fift drawn was intitled to 5001. befides as was 49567 a Prize of 1ocol. and as being laft drawn 10001. mare. Prizesof Prizes of Prizes of L. 20000 1000 £. 100 Prizes of Prizes of Prizesof [Prizesof Prizesof Prizesof Prizesoff Prizesof £.100 18287 32857 48395 1191 566 33207 5801 12430 17494 24745 6048 $14 272 £.500 61 Prizes of 964 19128 984 49065 652 982 881 594 079 757 701 18273 25003 85 849 970 813 740 3151 352 760 29802 1149 291 862 2186 36635 50291 42630 842 20033 37420 393 581 642 58169 2219 892 912 46 819 13069 679 Sc& 3192 954 Prizes of 3266 206 3829152391 726 8301 189 5036 624 L.5000 3646 825 $45 726 432 356 19109 475 39038 458 33442 6244 264 22089 127 44177 12979 556 274 163 472 45345 16153 321 825 706 183 58403 17867 6028 733 440 442 59473 20303 424 936 833 508 524 451 981 Prizes of 21936 938 612 $56 27147 756 663 525 454 14081 20146 £. 2000 25702 7138 151 625 535 211 667 40097 654 157 768 614 8127 405 350 27478 758 826 172 8€8 730 1520 32161 219 436 973 297 986 788 259 7139 32964 8324 23160 443 21116 498 11348 33851 367 462 138 501 30123 33919 568 561 141 30605 36622 41132 468 522 446 24339 699 56312 33199 38482 11246 628 42260 770 211 620 359 183 37129 38649 724 841 519 927 328 389 228 42319 38724 520 59317 38795 25407 43151 419 798 938 263 837 15125 621 503 3°1 475 39999 12111 26145 330 844 153 22072 Prizesof 467 543 443 1000 2249 43606 13040 9803 45288 655 11664 45383 14334 730 853 59081 236 528 57483 615 955 829 992 92 28003 359 350 121 39 620 198 96 402 4432 58872 4300 12731 46964 797 45007 699 16102 415 88+ 174 485 504 ז4717 | 16142 10439 228 177 690 538 472 18301 47906 15094 566 686 419 21487 50166 16231 563 687 Prizes of 497 28041 6.50 933 834 1119 26604 54817 5631 347 480 879 241 46173 64 918 33838 32954 55031 893 806 597 529 518 8 2 610 17218 29101 924 219 L. 100 316 47022 191 983 919 17058 83 29068 38740 346 30600 139 202 997 987 162 40182 1120 441 708 766 32108 202 12038 41490 816 857 364 374 42625 831 965 663 501431 905 182471 785 435 599 708 566 475 485 76 248 596 An IMPARTIAL REVIEW ARTICLE I. Letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bifbop of Oxford, from the Mafter of the Temple. Containing Remarks upon fome Strictures made by bis Grace the late Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Rev. Mr. Merrick's Annotatians on the Pfalms, 8vo. 18. Longman. The late archbishop of Canterbury baving made fome strictures in Mr. Merrick's annotations on the pfalms, on Dr. Sharpe's reading of the cxth, Dr. Sharpe in Eis letter to the very learned bishop of Oxford, defends himself with great modesty, as well as with great reafoning, against the force of the archbishop's criticifm; but as an extract from this ingenious pamphlet Would not give our readers a clear idea of the difpute, and as in controverfies of this nature people muft have the arguments on both fides before them, to make an accurate judgment, we are obliged from principles of candour to refer the public to the article itfelf for a proper information, II.Frederick and Pharamond, or the Confolations of Human Life. By John Langhorne, D. D. 1 vol. 12mo. 29. 66. Becket. In an advertisement prefixed to this little volume, the author informs us that the reJan. 1769. of NEW PUBLICATIONS. flections contained in it, were intended for the private use of friends under affliction; but that he had not proceeded far with them, before a fevere event of the fame kind, rendered it neceffary for him to call the precepts home to his own mind; and it would be happy, he fays, if he could recommend their efficacy on experience, though he acknowleges that the writing of them helped him to forget his forrows-Be this as it may, we think there is fomething well worth attending to in his performance, which is entirely colloquial and of which the following extract will give a tolerable conception to our readers. DISCO UR E I. FREDERIC and PHARAMOND. F. I have fuffered fo much, and enjoyed fo little, that I wanted the confolations you fpeak of; but for you, my Pharamond, I hape Providence has a better fate, and that the art of bearing eviis is the last thing you need learn. P. Whatever you may have the goodness to hope for me, you would not have me forget that I am a man. You are incapable of fuch kindness-It is from your experience in adverfity that I promise mytelt instruction F You |