guards. A greater reform is expected in the other foreign regiments; and it is even faid that the Irish are threatened with a total fuppreffion. Hague, Sept. 1. We were informed a fort night ago, that the Abbe Terrai, Comptrol ler general of the finances in France, was removed from his employments; but forbore to mention it. We are now affured from various places that he retired the 234 of Auguft to his eftate near Nogent, where he expects a lettre de cachet to inform him where he is to be banished to foon. No body is yet appointed to fucceed him, and it is even reported that the most of Comptroller general is to be fuppreffed; and that this department will in future be given to five fuperintendants of the finances, who are to form a council for the management of the finances, over which the chancellor and the Duke d'Aiguillon are to prefide. ITALY. Rome, Auguft 10. We are affured that the laft courier extraordinary, which arrived here from France, brought to the Pope the entire conclufion of a treaty, that will foon be made publick, whereby the Territories of Benevento, Avignon, &c. are restored to the Holy See. Florence, Aug. 17. The Great Duke, to enrich the gallery in this City, has depofited in it a large collection of Etrufcan Vafes, Urns, and many other valuable antiquities, which he last year purchased of M. Galluzzi, of Volterra; he has also ordered to be removed from his palace and Wardrobe, both in the cities and the countries, to the said gallery, many gold and filver medals, antique and modern intaglios, cameos, bronzes, &c. to render that collection complete. RUSSI A. Continuation of the war between the Rus SIANS and the TURKS. Extract of a Letter from Prince Dolgorucki, Commander in Chief of the Ruffian Army in the Crimea, dated Cafa, July 29. "All the Crimea is happily conquered, Kerixi and Janicola have fubmitted to the arms of our Sovereign. We are mafters alfo of the ifle of Taman; fo that nothing further remains for me at prefent to do, but maintain them. Having thus completed what I propofed, I am now employed only in providing a twelvemonth's provifions for my army. I have already established a Magazine of fubfiftence for five months, in a fort at a place called Szaytyre, feventy wertes from Precop.” Venice, Aug. 24. Letters from Corfu advife, that the Ottoman fleet confisting of 56 fail, having ventured out of the Dardanelles whilft Rear Admiral Arif was cruifing in the ftreights of Tenedos, the Ruffians had attacked and purfued it into the port of Modron, where they entirely burnt or destroyed it, except four caravelles which remain in their possession. This engagement happened on the 5th of laft month. Conftantinople, July 27. The 6th inft. the brother of the Grand Vizir fet out from hence for the army. He is faid to be charged by the Grand Signior to repair to Field Marshal Count Romanzow with articles of peace. What has given rife to this report is, that the day of his departure, just before he fet out, a grand council was held in prefence of the Sultan, to cons fider of a propofition of that Monarch, whe ther it would not be more expedient to conclude a peace with the Ruffians without the mediation of any power, as many inconveniences might arife from fuch mediation to this empire? Our advices from Smyrna are very alarm ing, the plague continuing to make the most terrible ravages. Many hundreds die daily, and it is communicated to fome foreign yeffels in our harbour. The want of provifions is likewife feverely felt by the furvivors. NOTE to CORRESPONDENTS. THE Thoughts on various fubjects from our Guildford correfpendent came too late for infertion this month. One of our ancient purchafers bould re collect that we have readers in town as well · as the country, and that therefore the plates of the London Wards are occafionally neceffary for their fatisfaction: but as our correfpondent kindly acknowledges, that we bave kept up our plan fuccessfully for a course almoft of forty years, we flatter ourselves we shall fill be found to merit the continuation of bis good opinion, notwithstanding the cafual infringe times make unavoidable, on the limits generally ments, which temporary circumstances fome fet apart for bis favourite articles. Two letters, one figned Crito, and the other Honoria addressed to the Author of the British Theatre, are come to band, and should tainly bave had a place this month, but that an accident wholly unforeseen, obliged us to poftpone that paper to our next number. Publius must know, that we never admit any attacks upon the Chriftian religion. A variety of correspondents are come to band, who shall be attended to in the course of the prefent month. The tranflation of Barreaus fonnet is mel fufficiently correct for publications An humourous, Print of a LATE SCENE, AT BARNET; Continuation of the LONDON: Printed for R.BALDWIN, at No. 47. in Pater-nofter Row; Of whom may be had complete Sets, from the Year 1738, to the prelent Time; ready boun or flitched, or any fingle Volutne to complete Sets. PRICES OF STOCKS, &t. in OCTOBER, 1771. Stock 15 218 Ann. 86 Ann. reduced Sou. Sea. Olds S. New S. S. 3 per C., 3 per C.131 per C. 13 1756. confol. 87 / 90 Ann. 95 Wind Ann. Tickets at Deal 53 13 13 6 29 Sunday Weather 151 214 85號 45 S. W. Fair 13 10 6 S. Fair 148 207 즐 85/ 89 96 1/1 85 42 26 S. W. Fair 13 13 6 Cold 150 217 85 89 243 26 THE T For OCTOBER, 1771. TO THE PUBLICK. HE great extent and opulence of the British empire have enabled thofe who are poffeffed of addrefs and diftinguifhed employments, to acquire fudden and immenfe fortunes. The confequence is, that upftarts ape, and even exceed, the ancient nobility in luxury and extravagance; no wonder then if the fpirit of emulation thus raised by the leaders of the people, spreads through every rank, and creates a general luft of diffipation. In fact, what with the enormous fums rapaciously accumulated in the Eaft-Indies, what with the difproportioned gains of commiffaries and contractors, the peculation of minif ters, and the frauds of stockjobbers, riches univerfally engrofs the minds of men. Enflamed by the profpect of the enjoyments, in which thefe fons of fortune are feen to wallow, the nation burns with the fame general paflion; and what in Young's days was Fame is now Money. viduals? The exploits of Plutarch's heroes, though interefting, are too: diftant in time and place to be brought› home and applied to our present bufinefs and purfuits without an effort of the imagination and a facility at comparifon, of which few but thofe, who have by ftudy and practice acquired the habit of reafoning, are capable; but the application of domestick and living examples of virtue and vice is an operation within the reach of the most vulgar and untutored mind. All eyes being thus directed to the fame object, what is more natural than for every man to talk of thofe, who are in poffeffion of every man's With? Hence the avidity, with which memoirs of our own times are read. Nor is this wonderful. The love of knowledge, particularly the knowledge of his own fpecies, is natural to man. What elfe is the fource of the delight, with which we perufe the hiftory of paft ages? But, if we are amufed and inftructed by a view of the life of men long fince dead, how much more amufement and inftruction muft we receive from the hiftory of living characters, that influence our fortunes and manners both as citizens and as indi THE HISTORY under which Title will naturally fall the intrigues of all the eminent perfons not only in the British empire, Oct. 1771. i This feems to be the cause of the welcome reception, which anecdotes of modern characters meet with? In most of these performances, indeedy' the grand paffion of Love, a string to which all have an accord, is touched and the world being now furfeited with romances, or fictitious loveftories, begins to recover its appetite for truth. We fhould be wanting in duty to the publick, to whom we have fo many obligations, if, among our other attempts to pleafe, we did not alfo ftrike into this path, which has been hitherto fo little trod, and occa. fionally pluck a flower for its entertainment. Having, as we apprehend,' been always fuperiour to our rivals in the folidity and utility of our articles, we are refolved not to fall short of them in amufement. By a due mix-" ture of the useful and the agreeable we`, fhall convince the publick that works of this nature do not, like men, lofè their vigour through age, but renew their youth, like the eagle. As the LONDON MAGAZINE is the oldeft, we have no doubt of making it the best even in that light fort of reading, which feems to be fo much the prefent taste. For this purpose a part of it fhall for the future be dedicated to OF GALLANTRY: but in the neighbouring kingdoms. ; efpecially in thofe with which we are moft clofely connected either by an 0 9 9 2 union union or oppofition of interests. The utmost care, however, fhall be taken to prevent the admiffion of any thing, that is not authentick, or that will fhock the ears of the delicate. For, however fashionable the practice may be, it is not our intention to excite publick curiofity by vending fcandal. Confcious of our own talents we scorn fuch low arts; liberal purfuits being in our opinion the only means, by which an honeft mind would with to enfure fuccefs. Let not then the moft rigid matron, nor the most prudith old maid dread to perufe this deThe NORTHERN ELOPEMENT or the partment of our Magazine. We shall never put either to the blufh. The former may fafely read it aloud to her virgin daughters, and the latter may filently caft her eye over it without any fever of the blood, and for a moment forget her dogs and monkeys. As it is our view to prefent to all young perfons a repository of useful examples, which may, like beacons, deter them from splitting on the fame fatal rocks, we fhall guard against the fault of thofe who inculcate the morality of Addison by the obfcenity of Rochester. We shall begin with had nothing to engrofs his attention which ought to furprise us, if indeed any effect of her beauty could surprise, is that the could captivate a man of Gener-1 Sc-t's character fo far as to make him conclude in the ardour of his paffion a match of love. Yet this is actually fact. Except her perfon, nothing worth mentioning came by the marriage into his family. The Kilmark eftate having been forfeited by the imprudence of the late earl, her father had only the wrecks of the fortune,and could therefore makeno settlement on his daughter fuitable to her birth. For, though he had according to the common policy of the Scotch nobility adhered to the opposite side, and kept his captaincy in the guards, his intereft was not fufficient to fecure any thing but what defcended to him in right of his mother, who was not only countefs of Kilmar-k, but fole heiress of the earldoms of Callan—r, Linlith--w and E----l. But the ruins of thefe eftates were but ill qualified for filling up the breaches made in the family fortune by the father's adherence to the caufe of the pretender, Amours of the Scotch Worthies, LADY MARY SC-T and CAPTAIN SUTH-ND, ADY Mary Sc-t, the heroine of fent earl of E-1 by his first wife, who was daughter to Alexander Lock-t, the Norton of the Scotch bar. Being defcended from fuch parents, where, is the wonder, if the be a fine woman?. Every fpectator may remember that, when her father walked in proceffion at the coronation as hereditary High Con-ble of Scotland, he eclipfed the reft of his peers in the beauty of his perfon; and we can affure our readers that her mother was not inferiour. in perfonal accomplishments. It is not yet forgot how many white handkerchiefs wiped the ftreaming eyes of the fair, when her grand-father, Kilm-k, felt the edge of the fatal axe on Tower-hill. Their tender hearts relented at the fight, and forgave his ingratitude and treason to his fovereign. Lady Mary is worthy of her progenitors. Tall, elegant and admirably wellproportioned in all her limbs, the has fair treffes that might excite the envy of the Paphian Queen. Her complexion may be more easily conceived than described; it is pure as the driven fnow. The features of her face are regular and expreffive; and there is in her eye a melting foftnefs which nothing can withstand. Whoever has, feen her at the London affembly, (for fhe has honoured that place with her prefence,) move like one of the Graces, will find his own heart the most powerful advocate for the treachery of Captain S-d. To all thefe circumftances add that fhe is but eighteen years of age, the feafon of love; and you will not wonder that the nrade an indelible impreffion on the heart of a young man, who In fpite of thefe difadvantages Lady Mary made an entire conquest of general Sc -t, who was by his acquain tances deemed rather a bold man to venture on fuch a young and buxom bride. With Pope's Juftin they would fay, What! at thefe years to venture on the fair! Regard |