The LONDON MAGAZINE. T.Davies Or, GENTLEMAN's Monthly Intelligencer; For FEBRUARY, 176). IN KENT; Dilcovery, Preparation, &c. of Sper maceti Periwafives to inforce the Act against Addrefs of the Convocation 86 With an elegant View of that Fine Seat, AND An accurate PLAN of the Roads from YORK to WHITEY and SCARBOROUGH, both elegantly engraved. LONDON: Printed for R. BALDWIN, at No. 47, in Pater nofter Row; Of whom may be had, compleat Sets, from the Year 1732, to this time, neatly bound or ftitched, or any fingle Month to complete Sets. PRICES OF STOCKS, &c. in FEBRUARY, 1769. ank India Sou. Sea. Old S. S New S. S. 3 per C. | 3 per C.13 Stock Stock Stock Ann. Ann. reduced confol. per C.13 1756. per C. 4 per C. 4. per. C. 4 per C. In. Bond. Long. Lottery 1758. confol. 1763. Navy. Præm. Ann. Tickets Wind at Deal Weathe -London 162 103 86 급 883 884 101 38 0 ·26 콜 S. rain Sunday S. frost S. W. froft 2 2 6.9 W. frost 27 77 Sunday W. rain 163 275 884 163 cloudy 1632 I:I 49 0 27 N. W. nne 1632 275 884 87 1 88 976 92 € 88 101 39 0 W. b. N. cold 16 1 275 87 89 88 101 380 27 N. W. rain Sunday CHARLES CORBETT, at No. 30, facing St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-Street, STOCK-BROKER, who buys and fells in the Stocks by Commiflion, and tranfacts the Lottery Business as ufual. York. 325 to 44 qu 55 06d bushel 5s 6d bur 9 g 5s bufh.10gal Hay per load 279 19s to 22 038 od to 3s 3d os od to 45 od 45 2d to 48 4d Straw from 145. to 198. 128 to 16 o 35 4d to 35 6d2s 6d to os od 28 4dto28o5d Coals 445. per cha. 35 8d/os cd to os od os od to os od Hops 21. to 21. 6d.' 38 THE LONDON MAGAZINE, For FEBRUARY, 1769.1 THE BRITISH THEATRE. INCE the publication of our laft number, no lefs than three new pieces have made their appearance, of which we shall fpeak in the order of their exhibition; The School for Rakes, written by Mrs. Griffiths, who has given the world fome other dramatic perfor mances, fuch as the Platonic Wife, The Double Miftake, and Amana, was first brought out, and fhall therefore pafs firft under our confideration: Mr. Cautherly Mr. Holland Mr. Palmer Mr. Reddish Mr. King Mr. Dodd Mr. Baddely Mrs. Clive Mrs. Baddely Mrs. Smith. FABLE. THE acquainted ORD Euftace, the fon of Lord L Harriet, daughter to Sir William Evans, and paffing fome months at her father's in Wales, during the principal part of which the old gentleman is obliged to be at another eftate, falls violently in love, and is happy enough to receive the warmeft returns of reciprocal affection; yet being afraid on the one hand that his father will not confent to his marriage with Mifs Evans, and knowing on the other, that the young lady would reject an illiberal folicitation with the utmost contempt, he gets one of his fervants to perfonate a clergyman, and then propofing a private union to her, at Feb. 1769. laft prevails upon her to accept him, which the does at the earnest advice of Mrs. Winifred her aunt, who, exceedingly fond of pomp and title, confiders this meafure as a mighty fortunate circumftance for her family. The fictitious clergyman having performed the ceremony, Lord Euftace, in fome time after, is under a neceffity of quitting his wife, and the affair of the marriage is to remain a profound fecret from Sir William Evans, and from all the world, till fuch time as Lord Euftace can find a happy opportunity of difcovering it to his father. Sir William returning home after Euftace's departure, and having occafion to go to London takes his fitter and daughter with him to town, where the former had accepted the ufe of Lord Euftace's house, much against the inclination of her brother; here however they are fituated at the commencement of the piece; and in the fame house alfo Mr. Frampton, a reformed libertine of Lord Euftace's acquaintance, with Willis the young nobleman's valet, and fome of his lordship's fervants, are refident. One ceive at the beginning of the play, is, that Lord Eultace has deceived Mifs Evans, and in the course of the first act we learn, but too plainly, that he intends to act a most villainous part by her; being then on the eve of a marriage with lady Anne Montfort, agreeable to the defire of his father; this he avows himself, and laughs at the objections which his friend Frampton makes to fo inhuman a conduct. Frampton, however, though formerly extremely loofe in his principles with regard to women, is now perfectly fenible of his faults, and though chiefly dependent on Lord Euftace for a H 2 fupport |