obliterated from our Annals, and forgotten in Europe. He is of Opinion, that it would have been much better for Mr D'Aner's Purpole to have given the following Relation, had it occurr'd to him.

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and Armies, that Mr Kennet escaped their
intended Fury, and continued for feveral
Years to officiate as a Minister of the
Church of England, in a large Room, fet
apart for
with publick Prayers, and a Course of
a Chapel, in the Conful's Houfe,
Sermons, fince publifhed to the World.'
See the Life of Mr Kennet, in the
General Dictionary. Vol. VI.

From The meckip Milcellany, N° 317.
Narrative of the Death of the Hon. Fr.
Nt, Son to the late-

While the Rev. Bafil Kennet was A Chaplain to the English Factory at Leghorn, tho they exercifed their Religion with the utmost Caution and Privacy, he met with great Oppofition from the Papifts, and was in great Danger of the Inquintiun: They had given fecret Orders to ap prehend him, and hurry him away to Pifa, and to difpofe of him in the fevereft Ma Menon, pon Notice of this Degn, A Dr Newton, the English Envoy at Florence, interpofed his Offices at that Court; but could obtain no other Anfwer, than that he might fend for the English Preacher, and keep him in his own family as his domeftic Chaplain; otherwife, he must take the Confequence; for in religious Matters the Court of Inquifition was fuperior to all Civil Powers. The Envoy communicated this Anfwer to the Earl of Sunderland, then principal Secretary of State to our ever to be remember'd Queen, ANNE the GREAT. In her Ma

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"SIR, yours of the 16th and 24th I "received: In answer to which, I have "laid the whole Affair before her Maje. "fty, who has commanded me to order

you to tell the Great Duke and his Minifters, in her Majefty's Name, That if there be any Moleftation given to her Chaplain refiding at Leghorn, fhe fhall "look upon it as an Affront done to herself "and the Nation, a Breach of Peace, and

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a Violation of the Law of Nations; and fball, by her Fleets and Armies, which "will be all the Year in the Mediterranean Sea, not only demand, but take Satisfac- F tion for any fuch Injury offer'd. And that "the Priest of the Great Duke's Minifter "here, and all Frequenters of his Chapel,

muft expect the jame Treatment. And "if they talk any more of the Pope, or "Court of Rome, you must cut the Matter fbart, by telling them, Her Majefty has nothing to do with that Court, but "fhall treat with the Great Duke as with "other independent Princes and States. "And this you must do in the most forcible Manner poffible."

SUNDERLAND."

As foon as this Letter was communicated, by the Envoy, to the Great Duke, the Contents were immediately imparted to the Pope and his Cardinals, who fo well understood the Argument of Fleers

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T 16 he was fent to the University of perfect in Latin and Greek, where he continued 5 Years, and behaved fo agreeably to his religious Education, that he was looked upon a Blefling and Ornament to his Family. At 21 he came to Town, and enter'd himself at to study the Law.

His new Acquaintance began to rally him for his Religion : To whom he would fay, Gentlemen, you, who pre

tend to reafon, can't think Laughter a conclufive Argument. If Religion 'be fo abfurd as you would have me be lieve, why don't you give fome fair Reasons against it?' This fome of them would attempt, and tho' their Argument at first was as unfuccefsful as their Raillery, yet the Poifon funk by Degrees, and at last tainted him as deeply as themfelves. He was adopted into their Society, which met to lay down Rules, for being fo Critically Wicked, that the Law fhould not be able to take hold of them.

He had too much Prudence to lay himfelf open; he ftill kept a fair Correfpondence with his Friends, and in ftrange Places was fober and referved. But in

fecret, and among his Acquaintance, as wicked, as Good-Parts, Abundance of Temptations, and a fair Estate enabled him to be.

On Nov. 30, 1692, he was taken ill, and found, notwithitanding all his Precautions, he had not yet hook off the Expectation of another Life. This made him throw himself upon his Bed, and break into thefe Expreffions: Whence

this War in my Breaft? What Argu'ment is there now to affift me against

Matter of Fact? Do I affert that there ⚫ is no Hell, while I feel one in my Bofom? • Am I certain there is no After-Retribution, when I feel a prefent Judgment s Do I affirm my Soul to be as moral as my Body, when this languishes, and that is vigorous as ever? O that any · one could restore to me my antient Guard of Pieru 20d Lase

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The fick Gentleman answered only with a Groan, whilft his Friend made hafte out of the Room. I was furpriz'd at fuch an Effect, and defired to know the Reafon of his Difcontent, whom he deft with me. Alas, Sir, faid he, you have undeceived me now 'tis too late; 'I was afraid of nothing fo much as the Immortality of the Soul. Now you have affured me of that, you have afcertained me of a Hell, and of a Portion among those who have apoftatiz'd from their Religion. You have now feal'd my Damnation, by giving me an Earnest of it; I mean, an awaken'd Confcience, G that brings my Sins into my Remem. brance, by reckoning up the nume rous Catalogue, for which I must go and give Account. O Apoftate Wretch from what Hopes art thou fallen!O

' that I had never known what Religion
' was. Then I had never denied my
'Saviour, nor been fo black an Heir of
Perdition.' I ftood fpeechless some time
at these strange Expreffions, but fo foon
as I could recollect myself, faid, Sir, I.
wou'd defire you would take care how
you violate the Mercy of God, and think
fo flight of the Sufferings of Chrift, as if
they were not fufficient for the Redemp-
tion of the greatest Sinner. This may
be a Delusion of the Devil's. If you are
convinc'd the Soul is immortal, I hope
'tis to a good End. If you had died ig-
norant of it, you had been miferably un-
deceived in another World. Now you
have fome Time to prepare for your
Welfare. To which he replied.

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anto Damnation, hearing the Prayers of the Righteous, to which God's Ears are always open: This increases my Torment, to think how I am excluded from fuch a Privilege, and have no other Portion left me, than Blafpheming, Weeping, and Wailing, and Gnafhing of * Teeth for ever.' Pray, Sir, faid I, confider there's a vaft Difference between you and them that are in Hell. They are loft irrecoverably for evermore, without any Opportunity of Reprieve, or Hope of Pardon : You are yet alive, and have Promises belonging to you in common with other Sinners; Chrift died for Sinners, and God has fworn by himself,

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that no one in the Room could forbear weeping; which he perceiving, faid, And can ye weep at the Image and bare 'Relation of the Effects of God's Wrath? 'What then do I fuffer, who actually lie Afrain your Tears for me, 'tis in vain, ' under the very Weight of his Fury? RePity is no Debt to me. Nothing is fo proper for me as fome Curfe to compleat my Mifery, and free me from the Torment of Expectation.' Here he paufed a little, then looking toward the Fire, he faid, Q that I was to lie and 'broil upon that Fire a hundred thou 'fand Years, to purchafe the Favour of God, and be reconciled to him again. But 'tis a fruitless Wifh! Millions of 'Millions of Years will bring me no nearer to the End of my Tortures than one poor Hour! O Eternity! Eternity! Who can properly paraphrafe on those "Who can discover the Abyss of Eternity! Words for Ever and Ever.

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delight not in the Death of a Sinner, • but wou'd rather that he turn from his * Wickedness and live.' He reply'd with bis ufual Earneftness, I'll grant you as ⚫ much Difference between me and those that are in Hell, as between a common C Devil, and a Devil incarnate. thele are irrecoverably loft, without Opportunity of Reprieve, or Hopes of Pardon, and I am yet alive, O, what then? what's the Confequence? Not that the Promises belong in common to me with other Sinners; nor to any Sinners but fuch as believe, and repent. If Chrift died for Sinners, 'twas for fuch as repent and believe. But tho' I wou'd, I can do neither; I have outstood my Day of Grace, and am harden'd, and reprobate. If God delights not in the Death of Sinners, 'tis of fuch Sinners, as repent and turn unto him. But his Jatice will vindicate itself on fuch obitinate Sinners as me, who have denied his Power and Providence, both in my Words and A&ions. Now he has met with me for it, and O! 'tis a fearful Thing to fall into the Hands of the F Living God. If God was not against me, Ifhould not value, tho' all the Power and Malice of Men joined to engage me; tho' all the Legions of Hell contriv'd to torture me with the most confuming Pains; but when an irreconcileable God looks down upon his Creature in Wrath, and configns him over to eternal Vengeance; this is intolerable inexpreffible! Ah! who can dwell with everlasting Burnings! O ye 'that have any Hope, that have not yet pafs'd your Day of Grace, cry mightily to God Day and Night, think no La'bour too much to fecure you from the 'Wrath of God. O! who can stand 'before him, when he is angry! What Stubble can refift that confuming Fire! This, and more to the fame Purpofe, he fpoke with fo deep a Concern, the Tears all the while trickling de

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It began to grow late, fo I took my Leave of for him that Night, promifing to come again the next Day, when I found his Mind in the fame Condition still, but his Body much weakened. There were with him 3 or 4 Divines, who had been at Prayer, which they told me had the fame uneafy Effect upon him as before. One of them reminded him, that St Peter denied his Master with Oaths and Curfes, and was yet received again into his Fadid deny his Mafter as I have done, but vour. He replied, 'Tis true, St Peter 'what then? His Mafter pray'd for him, 'that his Faith fhould not fail, and accordingly he look'd him into Repentance, and affifted him by his Spirit to per fect it. Now if he would affift me has juftly withdrawn his Interceffions to repent, I fhould do fo too; but he 'from me. I have fo often grieved the 'Holy Spirit, that God has taken it away 'from me, and in the room thereof has left me the Spirit of Impenitence and Reprobation, and given me a certain Earneft of a fearful Inheritance in ano'ther Life.'

He spoke little more that Day, much
Company preffing in: Towards Night
Orders were given to prevent it.
o'Clock we all look'd upon one another
At lix
being offered in his Favour, but which he
to know what Courfe to take; no Text
were thus mufing, he cried out with the
readily turned another Way. While we
utmost Vehemence; "How long, O Lord,
'fhall thy Wrath burn for ever against
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hould't pour out full Vials of Wrath upon me! O thou would't let go thine Hand, for ever forget me, and let me fall into my first Nothing! As my Righte oufnefs could have profited thee Nothing, fo my Impieties can have done thee no Hurt! therefore annihilate me, and let A me perifh! Be not angry with me that I thus expoftulate thee; 'twill be but a little Time, before thy Wrath fhall force the dreafulleft Blafphemies from <me. O! that thou would't take away my Being, or Mifery; neither of them can encrease or diminish thy Happiness, ⚫ and therefore let them both cease, and let my Name be known no more: Or if I must be, and be immortal, and thou wilt punish me because I have defpis'd thee, let a Privation of Thought fuffice, and let me pafs my Eternity in a Dream, without_ever being waken'd by the Pangs of Torment, or by the gnawing ⚫ of the Worm that never dies! But Ổ fruitless Defires! I am expoftulating with a God that has for ever fhut out my Prayers, and only protracts my Breath a little longer, to make me an Example ' unto others. O ye Kocks and Mountains, that ye would hide me from the D Wrath of an incens'd God! But I cannot flee from his Prefence; what he hath begun he will finish! He will extend his Wrath against me for ever and ever.' Here fome one knock'd at the Door, and it proved the Poftman with a Letter for him, which being told him, How, faid he, a Letter for me? A little longer, and I expect another fort of Meffenger: I am very quickly to give up my Accounts of every fecret Action I have done, and I have a Mind to make an Experiment to fee how I can bear it: Pray, Sir, added he to me, do me the Favour to read this Letter. The Contents I know not, but I fufpe&t it comes from fome of my old Acquaintance.' I defired to be excufed, alledging that there might be fomething in it, improper to be divulg'd. Nothing, reply'd he, can af feat me now; I have no Honour, no Reputation, and what's yet worse, no G Heaven to lofe, by this, or any other Act. Upon this I broke it open and read it.

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to gain Admiration: But from what other Caufe can it be that my Lord Jehu wears a Plush Frock, a little narrow-edg'd Lac'd Hat, a colour'd Handkerchief, and in this Habit drives a motley Sett of Horfes, and a Coach of his own, built by his own Directions, in humble Imitation of thofe which carry Paflengers on the Road; it is the Knowledge of his own Abilities which dictates this Conduct: How pleafing is the Reflection to him, that when he goes thro' a Country Town, fitting with becoming Grace in his Box, he hears the People ay, There goes my Lord Jebu. His great Abilities in Driving, his Exactnefs of Similitude in Drefs, and his Affability to his Brethren of the Whip, muft give his Lordship a fenfible Satisfaction, that this Particularity makes him as well known in moft Roads throughout Eng. land, as the honeft Fellows themselves C who drive the Stages. I will not undertake to fay, whether it is in Imitation of his Lordship, or whether the Product of their own fertile Genius's, but I have lately obferv'd a great Number of fmart young Fellows, drefs'd in the Manner of my Lord; a narrow-edg'd Hat flapp'd down, a plain Shirt, Buckskin Breeches, and an India Handkerchief round the Neck, feem to conftitute the Character of a pretty Fellow. There are another Sett of Sparks who chufe rather to appear as Jockeys, and it is feldom or never they are to be feen without Boots, Whips in their Hands, and Black Caps instead of Hats. Another Clafs of thefe Gentry difguife themselves in Rug and Duffel Coats, which it feems are politely term'd Wrap-Rafcals; and in fhort, dark Wigs, and dirty Linnen, chufe rather to appear like Pickpockets than Gentlemen My Country Readers may wonder that I fhould inftance thefe Perfons as Examples of Ambition; but they will allow them to be Candidates for publick Notice, when Finform them that in thefe Habits they ap pear with a Kind of Pride in all the publick Places about Town: They have at laft carry'd it fo far, that in thofe Dreffes they come into the Boxes at the Theatres; and where one would expect to fec a genteel polite Circle, we view Ladies of the first Quality and Diftinction, furrounded by a Parcel of Men who look like StageCoachmen, Jockeys and Pick-pockets.

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Universal Spectatoz, Jan. 13. N° 536. HERE is at prefent a reigning Ambition among our young GentleH men, of degrading themselves in their Apparel to the Clafs of the Servants they keep. It may at firit seem very extraor dinary that thefe Spa.ks thouid act thus

As this Manner of Drefs is accompany'd with as rude a Manner of Behaviour, I advife these young Sparks not to have fo great a Defire of being diftinguished for the Oddity of their Appearance; but inftead of that ardent Emulation they fhew to imitate the inferior Clafs of Mankind,

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they would exert their rational Faculties,
and endeavour to feem, as well by their
Habit as Converfation, Men of Common
Senic and Common Good Manners.

OBSERVATIONS on the Foregoing;
common Obfervation, that

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Spirit to exert it. The Spectatorial Prerogative feems, in the Hands of this Writer, to be like the wooden Sword of Harlequin, neither able to raife Terror, nor give Wounds, nor of any other Ufe than to make its Mafter ridiculous. Why fhould he ftop fhort without telling those contemptible Reptiles the Opinion every Beholder entertains of them? The Writer, to whom he imprudently makes himfeir related, would have apply'd the Ridicalum with the Acri. He would have expofed the true Reafons of their appear- C ing fo drefs'd; one oblig'd to it by an ill Run, and ill Judgment in Gaming, another by his Debaucheries and Excefs; the warmly mutiled up young Knight, at that Time, had renewed his Acquaintance with a Fellow Collegian, who practised Phyfic; a third intending an intrigue with one of the Orange Wenches, and D others, as meer stupid Imitators, who, tho' incapable, unless by dreffing to their Fortunes, of making any tolerable Appearance, are fo fenfelefs as to neglect it. would have advised the thin-fac'd GentleHe man, with the Cape-Coat, Whip and Boots, to have acquired a little ruddy E Complexion, to hide the Impofture: With the like Strokes, which the Reader may better conceive than I defcribe. Thus it would appear that every one of thefe Offenders ought to be remark'd, not for Negligence only, but either for Want of common Understanding, or Wart of Oe. p conomy; Want of Credit, or Want of a healthy Conftitution; befides the Want of good Breeding, in thus introducing Pickpockets and Scoundrels into Boxes, and in contemning the Law of the Land, which forbids going disguised.

Common Sense Jan. 20, No. 103. Mr COMMON SENSE,

I Have belong'd to the Sea Service above five and thirty Years, have been in feven Engagements, five Times wounded, and once taken Prifoner. The Suf ferings I mention I think of with Picasure, and am willing to ferve my Country with the last Drop of my Blood. But, fome Hardfhips of another Nature, which we Seamen have of late Years been fubjed to, I cannot but exprefs with fome

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Refentment and Indignation; and that is, our being fo frequently taken into Service, and every now and then di charg'd, with fo little Regard and Docenmon Humanity. Thele Hardships which cy, that we are not uted even with camI have too often feen and fuffered, and the Inconveniencies of which I at this Time labour under, have led me to reflect on the little Encouragement given to the Navy, compar'd with the Advantages attending the Land Service.

Detence, the Strength of Great Britain, That our Fleets are the Honour, the the Support of our Trade, the Dependance of our Friends, and the Terror of our Enemies, nobody will difpute: And yet the Perfons to whom thefe great Advantages are owing, are confidered in the a Man has spent all the best of his Time in moft mean and defpicable Light. When the Dangers and Hardships a Sea Life is always exp fed to, and has all the Succefs as to Preferment which that Service allows, the greatest Reward he can hope for as a Recompence for his Labours is (as a Commiflioner or a Flag) an Appointment of five or fix hundred Pounds a Year; and that only for ten or a Dozen Perfons out of fo great a Number, who every one are worthy of better Pieferment. But what is all this to the Nummber and Salaries of Colonels (to defcend no lower) Brigadiers, Major-Generais, burgh, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Hall, GibLieutenant-Generals, Governors of Edinraltar, Port-Mahon, and all the Islands, Cattles, Forts, &c. of lefs Confideration? Add to all this the Court Preferments enjoy'd by the Ge tlemen of the Array; as Secretary of State, Gentlemen of the nour, and fo on. Bed-Chamber, Equerrics, Pages of HoWhereas there are not three People belonging to the Sea Survice, who have any other Piciorrent in the whole Adminiftration than their P. fts in the Navy, or relating to it. I will be bold to fay, that one Man now in Employment, by multiplying forments, has an Income double to what the SaGlaries of all the Admirals i'd t ge

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ther at this Time am unt to. A Stranger
that thould obferve this, would b.live
that it is the Army that is the Shength
and Honour of the Nation, that it is They
who defend our Trade, and awe cur Ene-
mies, and not the Fleet.

It puts my Blood into a Ferment to
toll'd by the yenal Tenguks of Court
hear the Ule of a Standing Army ex-
Favourites. I know no ciber Ufe there
Land-Locuts are of to the volck, but
to opprefs their

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