To Mr URBAN, on compleating the XXXVth YOUR It Play, Bufinefs, Devotion, Contention, and Mirth, 7 As we now fing a Song, and now hold a Debate Now talk of old Stories, now fettle the State; Now vifit the Hoards where the Learn'd have laid by Wisdom and Strength, from its Birth-day, a MAN. e the Sun, with frefh Vigour, he tarts for the Race, nd, renew'd as he runs, with Old Time he keeps pace! Thus ftill, Hand in Hand, thro' the Year may They pafs, 'Till Time fhall grow weary, and lay down his Glafs! UR Magazine for the Year 1765, is crowded with Articles of general Concern and Curiofity. There is, perhaps, fcarce any Period of Time in which the Prerogative of the Crown, the Privileges of Parliament, and the Liberties of the People, have been more fully difcuffed, or more impartially determined: To this Difcuffion and Determination we have attended with particular Diligence, as they may be traced in every Number of cur Mifcellany; yet we have not neglected other Articles of Information or Amufement, as will appear from the following brief Sketch, in which many interefting Particulars must neceffarily be omitted. སྣ་ ༢ ། In JANUARY, we communicated to the Public an Account of a very extraordinary Female Genius in Germany, with a Specimen of her Works; some Particulars of the Life of the celebrated Leibnitz; a Defence of the Bishops, for oppofing Alterations in the Liturgy; many ufeful Particulars relating to Hufbandry, to the Discovery of the Longitude, and to the American Colonies with a moft circumftantial and authentic Narrative of the very extraordinary Robbery of Lord Harrington, In FEBRUARY, we gave an Account of Dr B's Treatife on Civil Liberty, with Remarks; of the falutary Effects of a new Remedy for the Stone; of the second Volume of the celebrated Linnæus's Syftema Nature; of the Maid of the Mill, a Ballad Opera; alfo a most curious Table, exhibiting the ftandard Weight, Value, and a comparitive View of English Gold Money, from K. William I. Anno 1066, to K. George III. 1764. MARCH contains an impartial State of the Conteft concerning Eaf India. Directors; a View of the State of the Nation; Confiderations upon the Policy of Entails; Jeannet and Colin, a moral Tale; an Account of the Life of Churchill; humorous Story of an amorous Friar; Anecdotes from Huetius; and a remarkable American Expedient to prevent Poverty, and retrieve a Man's Affairs. In APRIL are fome judicious Remarks on the Plan of a Bill for amending the Highways; an Account of the Life of Wicliffe; the Hiftory of Uriel Acafin, an apoftate Jew; remarkable Particulars of the Life of the celebrated John Banyan; an entertaining Tale from Voltaire; and many Articles relating to Husbandry, Aftronomy, Mechanics, and other Sciences. MAY contains a new Life of the celebrated Moliere, from Voltaire; à paricular and authentic Narrative of the Duel between a noble Lord and Mr Chatearth; an Account of the Life and Writings of Dr Stukeley, who called himfelf the British Druid; plain Directions for preferving and recovering Health. by the celebrated Dr Tyffot of Geneva; an Enquiry into the Nature, Caufe, and Care of a new and fatal Disease, called the Croup; Obfervations on the Namber and Mifery of the Poor; Memoirs of the Life of Guflavus Ado'phus Characters of Lord Oxford and Lord Bolingbroke; with many other Articles of Use and Eetertainment. In JUNE, befides other Articles of Entertainment, is the Trial of Friendfhip, a Tale, from Marmontel; the Story of Foote's Commiffary; an Account of new Discoveries in Agriculture; a remarkable Letter of Chriftina, Queen of Sweden, on Tolleration; curious Particulars of the Field or Mole Cricket; Defcription of the new Chapel at Market Harborough; and new Dialogues of the Dead: There is also a curious Differtation on the Force of Imagination in pregnant Women; an Abstract of the Regency Act; of the Act for preferving Fish; and an interesting Article concerning the cutting of Logwood. JULY, among other Articles of Entertainment, contains the Dream of ras; and a Letter from a celebrated German Collection: Alfo a Letter to Lord B on the Change in the Miniftry; and the hoeft Man's Reasons for taking no Part in the Administration, Pieces fuppofed to have been written 20644 taking by Perfons of Distinction; with a Comparison of Balfour and Spotfwood's Ac AUGUST contains an Account of the Life and Writings of Dr Bradley In SEPTEMBER, there is an Epitome of a new Treatife on Tythes: an Ac- In OCTOBER, Reafons are alledged for refpiting Captain Ogilvy, con. NOVEMBER is remarkable for the Letters of the prefent Dutchefs de Bouf- In DECEMBER, the Right of the British Parliament to tax America is ex- In the SUPPLEMENT, the Continuation of the Abbe Winckleman's Disco- To the Articles above recited, are added, a complete and regular XV. An entertaining narrative of the rob-01ng, Ode or the New Year; -Extracts By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent.. |