which he may have already difpofed by exchanges, with the principality of Liege. The Count de Mercy, not being fufficiently inftructed, was pleafed at the request and prayer of the mediator, to take this propofal, ud referendum.

XI. His Majefty renounces the pretenfions he had formed on the Ban and Villages of Blandel and Reuffel.

XII. The Count de Mercy demands, that the Village of Poftel, which, he fays, is already fubject to the dominion of the Emperor, be ceded to his Imperial Majefty by the States General, who, to that effect, fhall renounce all pretenfions; be it underfood, that the effects of the Abbey of Poftel, fecularized by the States General, fhall not be claimed. The ambafiadors of Holland have been pleafed, on the prayer of the Mediator, to take this article, ad referendum.

XIII. It is agreed, that the pecuniary pretenfions from fovereign to fovereign, are compenfated and abolished; and, as to those which individuals may claim on one part and the other, commiffioners fhall be appointed to liquidate them.

XIV. Commiffioners fhall alfo be nominated to reconnoitre the limits of Brabant, and to agree in a friendly manner about fuch exchanges as night be of mutual conveni

ency.

XV. The Treaty of Munfter of the 30th of January 1648, fhall be the basis of the future definitive treaty, which is to be concluded in the space of fix weeks; and all the fipulations of the faid treaty of Munfter fhall be retained, fo far as nothing has derogated from them. The ambaladors of the States General demand the repeal of the treaty of 1731, and namely of the article V. the Count de Mercy has not thought pro per to yield thereto,

"The above articles have been digefted in the prefence of the Count de Vergennes, norinated by his Moft Chriflian Majefly to fill the function of mediator, and have been fubfcribed by the ambafladors, under the approbation of the Emperor and of the States General."

Lone at Paris, the 20th of Sept, 1785. Life of Lord Chancellor Jeffreys*. By Mr. Pranant. With fome Notes and Addi

nated from an ancient flock †, had the difgrace of producing, in the laft century, George Jeffreys, Chancellor of England, a man of firft-rate abilities in his profeffion, but of a heart fubfervient to the worst of actions. His portrait is a fine full-length, in his "baron's" robes, painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller.....He was fixth fon of John Jeffreys, and Margaret daughter to Sir Thomas Ireland, of Beaufey, near Warrington. Here is preferved a good portrait of the old gentleman, in black, fitting. It was drawn in the 82d year of his age, in 1690 1. George had his firft education at the free-school at Shrew foury §, from which he was removed to that of Weftminfter. He never had an academic education, but was placed immediately in the Inner Temple, where he was chiefly fupported by his grandmother.

"He was never regularly called to the bar. The accident of the plague in the neighbourhood of London firft introduced him into his profeffion; for, in 1666, he put on a law-gown, and pleading at the Kingston affizes, where few counsel chose to attend, he from that time acted without any notice being taken of his obtrufion. About this time he made clandeftine addreffes to the daughter of a wealthy merchant, in which he was affifted by a young lady, the daughter of a clergyman. The affair was difcovered, and the confidante turned out of doors. Jeffreys, with a generosity unknown to him in his profperous days, took pity and married her. She proved an excellent wife, and lived to fee him Lord Chief Juftice of England. On her death he married the widow of Mr. Jones, of Montgomery shire, and daughter to Sir Thomas Bloodworth.

"His firfl preferment from the Court was that of a Welch judge. In 1680 he was made Chief Juftice of Chefter; and a baronet in 1681. After this he rofe with great rapidity, and, as is well known, fell as fuddealy. His conduct as Chancellor was upright and able; as a politician, unreftrained by any principle; devoted to the worst meafures of an infatuated court. He was extremely given to the bottle, and paid fo little respect to his character, that one day, having drank to excefs with the Lord Treasurer and others, they were going to strip, and get upon a fign-poft to drink the king's health, had they not been prevented ¶.He died in the Tower on the 18th of April, 1689, either from hard drinking or a broken heart, and fo was preferved from the infamy N O T E S. "From Kynric ap Rhiwallon, great"grandion of Tudor Trevor.”

T Confequently, he furvived the death and difgrace of his fon the Chancellor. "Hift. Shre afbury, 128." "Rerefby's Memoirs, 231."

of

of public execution. He was buried privately in the Tower, by an order from the king to his relations.

There is another fine full length of one of his brothers, Sir Thomas Jeffreys, a knight of Alcantara; andy for the honour of the defcendants of Tudor Trevor, from whom the Jeffreys are fprung, the proofs of his defcent were admitted even by the proud Spaniards, among whom he had long refided as conful at Alicant and Madrid: he had rendered himself so acceptable to the Spanish ministry, as to be recommended to our court to fucceed Lord Lanfdown as British envoy; but the Revolution put a ftop to the promotion. He has over his coat a long white cloak, with the crofs of the order on it. Another brother was dean of Rochefter ; and died on his road to vifit his brother the Chancellor when under confinement in the Tower."―Thus Mr. Pen

nant.

It may be added, that his Lordship left an only fon, who inherited his title as Lord Jeffreys (which in him was extinct) and alfo his love to the bottle. A drunken frolic of that nobleman at Dryden's funeral was long believed, though on suspicious authority; and even Dr. Johnfon at firft feem. ed to think it credible in the Life of that poet, but afterwards difproved it in his Preface. The only daughter of this Lord Jeffreys, Henrietta, was married to Thomaз Earl of Pomfret, and after his death was a munificent benefactrefs to the univerfity of Oxford, by prefenting to it the noble collection of Pomfret ftatues.

It fhould alfo be remembered, as an extraordinary circumftance, that a print (very fcarce) with the titles of "George (Jeffries) Earl of Flint, Vifcount Weikham, Baron of Weim, &c. G. Kneller p. E. Cooper exc. 4° mezz." is mentioned by Granger, iv. 472, which he was once

Having difguifed himself to make his efcape, but being difcovered and treated with great fcorn and rudenefs by the mob, when he was brought before the Lord Mayor, that pufillanimous magiftrate was fo ftruck with the terror of this rude populace, and with the difgrace of a man who had made all people tremble before him, that he fell into fits upon it, of which he died foon after. Burnet.- -Jeffreys was obliged to direct him how to act, to draw up his own commitment to the Tower, to order him a ftrong guard to fcreen him from the people, &c.- The pufillanimity of the Lord Mayor of 1780, was not un precedented.

tQuery, a prebendary of Canterbury, where he was buried in that cathedral?

inclined to think that the title of Flint might be a ridiculous fareafm, occafioned by Jefferies's extreme hardness of heart,' till he found the dedication of a Latin differtation (which he entitles, at large) by John Groenevelt, M. D. Lond. 8vo, 1687, addressed to that nobleman, with the abovementioned titles at large. Yet certain it is, that they never have occurred in any of our hiftories; that Burnet, in particular, only mentions Jeffreys being created 66 a Baron and Peer of England," that his fon was only ftyled "Lord Jeffreys," and, which feems decifive, the picture (above defcribed by Mr. Pennant at Acton) drawn by Sir Godfrey Kneller, is in his "Baron's," robes, as above. Would the painter have drawn him twice; and if fo, would the "robes" have been different?' Add, that the title of Flint is fuppofed an appendage to the Prince of Wales, as Earl of Chefter.

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Aphorifms for the Mind.

On Politics.

(Continued from page 527.)

O write on politics and be of no party, is at prefent impoffible. I firmly believe that if a book was to be written, which expofed the faults and virtues of both parties with ftrict impartiality, it would be read by neither.

18. To talk of the King, and cenfure his Minifters, to damn the Patriots and laugh at their Petitions, are privileges which an Englishman never will part with.

19. Politicians may be divided into three forts-the Minifterialifts, who never is a Patriot; the Patriot, who never is a Ministerialist, and a fet of worthy characters who can take either fide as it ferves their purpofe. A fnug place or penfion has been the death of much modern patriotifm.

20. There is no fubject so much canvaffed at prefent as the war, and there was perhaps never a fubject of fuch a perplexing nature. Every drayman that can decypher the morning paper at an ale-house, muft lafh the Miniftry, though he scarcely knows what he would be at; and there has not been a battle fought fince the year 1763, but what has been fought over and over again in every coffee-house in London.

21. As there are a fet of Politicians remarkable for fighting our engagements, so there are others no lefs famous for anticipat, ing both our loffes and our conquefts. Lord Cornwallis was taken in Fleet-ftreet, long before he dreamt of a furrender; and we have difabled the whole French fleet, when at the very height of its profperity.

22. The Miniftry, fay the Patriots, are the cause of the war. The Patriots re

tur

• turn the compliment.- -Cui bono? For betwixt the two, the war is like to have no

end.

23. Patriotifm is certainly below par.No man can make his fortune now a-days by warm profeffions in his country's caufe. The Patriots have few good writers-their pens are often dipt in gall, which irritates the wounds and prevents its healing up. Miniftry affect to defpife the people-that's unwife. The affections of the people are valuable, and it is incredible how little will procure them-they are the fources of wealth. It is their induftry that fills the Treasury, and if that induftry is interrupted, taxes will be grievous, from inability to discharge them. The poet fings fweetly, "Ill fares the land, to haft'ning ills a prey, "Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ;

fade;

"Princes and Lords may flourish or may (made: "A breath can make them, as a breath hath "But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, "When once deftroyed, can never be fupplied."

24. Were the prefent conduct both of the Minifter and the Patriot, and the manner of carrying on this war from its beginning, furveyed with the eye of philofophy, many reflections would occur, that might make a thinking man tremble for the future ftate of this country.

25. Without cenfuring either party, it is obvious that a ftrange fatality has attended all our expeditions and meafures fince the year 1775. Not an officer in the army or navy who has not been either unfortunate or blameable. This finks the fpirits of the reflecting few in this ifland, and leffens our general character of a happy people.

26. There is perhaps no greater caufe of uneafinefs among the people, than lying paragraphs in the newspapers. Both parties are highly blameable in this refpect. The people of England are poffeffed of much fenfibility-it makes part of their national character-their feelings are thus kept in anxious fufpence, for ninety-nine out of one hundred can feel where they will not give themfelves the trouble to think.

27. The impatience with which they look for news is aftonifhing. Were the falvation of mankind revealed to-morrow for the first time in thefe kingdoms, I cannot help be

and modern hiftory, an unbiaffed judgment, and unclouded imagination. In how many porter drinking clubs are these qualities to be found?

29. The principal national complaintsheavy taxes, national ruin, and want of men for our fleets and armies. Contrafted to these may be our three grand national abfurdities, every place of public amutement crouded beyond meajure; univerfal luxury; and that ten minutes is fufficient to collect together, on any unlawful caufe, a mob of many thousands who commit mischief for want of employment.

30.

"But you muft obferve," faid one, "that the people of England cannot by any means live without war and public amule ments.". fond of war is no mark of the progress of "I am forry to hear it: to be Chriftianity-I beg pardon, I forgot that that can never meet. Christianity and Politics are two firait lines

of an empire, are to the people, what drink 31. Public amufements, on the decline is to a melancholy man. It diverts the pre- | fent moment, but rivets the disorder.

32. Unanimity in Parliament is a symptom of perfection, and therefore not to be looked for; a great majority is the only confummation reasonably to be fought after.

33. The country is miferable, her trade is ruined, and diffatisfaction gains more and more ground, and-a-propos! Have you feen the Gentle Shepherd-So say the sober Cits.

34. Upon my foul, my Lord, I know not what to do. Our fhips are in a moft damnable condition, and the Opposition are fo very importunate for an enquiry, that curfe me if I know-what the Opera is tonight.- -So fays the nought-fearing Great Man.

35. Conquefts ought not to be puffed before they appear, like wretched plays. We have gained a complete victory--says the Poft-Its a great bore !-fays the General Advertiser.Waiter, bring us a bottle of wine, we must get drunk on this good news. Next day-We are forry to inform our readers, that the report of a victory was premature-O! what a curfed head-ach have we got!

Present Times are better than the past. To the Editor of Exfbaw's Magazine. SIR,

T is my opinion, that the present age

would put it out of head.

28. From the manner of living, employments, education, and temper of the Englith, no nation can be more unfit to judge of political affairs than they are. It requires an intimate acquaintance with ancient

the manners of our cotemporaries are, at leaft, not "altered for the worfe."

Reafon has certainly gained ground, though deep learning may be upon the decline; many prejudices are worn off, and

many

many abfurd cuftoms laid afide; our manners are evidently more polished, and I think not more corrupt than in the days of our youth. If we have fewer foxhunters, we have fewer hard drinkers; if our country gentlemen live more in public places, they drink lefs in private parties, than heretofore. As to our statesmen, orators, and poets-if we must descend to particulars, without regard to party-though we have no Walpoles, Pulteneys, or Bolingbrokes, we have men not lefs honeft, not lefs able: we have a Th-low, a C- md−n, a N-th, a Charles Fox, and a fecond William P-tt.

If we have not a Swift, an Addison, or a Pope, we have an H-rd, the Wrtons, and an H-yley, with many others not inferior to them; not to mention many female writers, fuperior to thofe of any age, ancient or modern.

In point of taste and skill in the polite arts, you will hardly dispute our fuperiority to the laft age; nor put even Pope's hero, Jervas, in competition with Reynolds or Gainsborough; or Hogarth himself with Harry B-bury.

Even our fair ladies, though some few, with a noble contempt of the laws of decency as well as chaflity, have diftinguished themselves in the annals of gallantry; and though they have too generally adopted the high ton of a bold mafculine air and ambiguous drefs; yet I queftion whether we have not in high life as many, or more examples of conjugal fidelity, maternal tendernefs, and domeftic econoiny, as in the former part of this, or in the latter part of the last century.

Now amongst thefe people of diftinction, who exhibit themfelves on the theatre of

the polite world, we hear of two or three ladies, in two or three years, perhaps, who from mere wantonnefs and love of variety, or from being unfuitably matched by their parents and fometimes, I fear, from the ill ufage of their tyrannical masters-violate their conjugal engagements, separate from their husbands, become the fubject of public fpeculation, and fill every newspaper with licentious anecdotes, criminal adventures, and trials for incontinency.

But we hear nothing all this while, of the hundreds and thoufands of virtuous wives, tender mothers, or dutiful daughters, who, in the fequeftered paths of life, difcharge their duty in their feveral relations and departments without noife or oftentation.

Neither are the trials of thefe few fair culprits, in this age, ftained with the guilt of poifoning or affaffinations; crimes fhocking to humanity, with which history abounds; and which have furnished the

fubjects of tragedy, in earlier periods, in our own country, as well as in other parts of Europe, and amongst the ancient celebrated commonwealths of Greece and Rome. Difcoveries and Improvements. (Continued from p. 524.)

S canine madnefs is frequent at this time of the year, and too many fatal inftances of that kind happen, the following is a fpecifick, which has never been known to fail when early and properly adopted. When the patient has been bitten, let a furgeon be immediately fent for, whofe firft operation must be with a biftoury, or diffecting knife, to pare off the top of the wound immediately (the greater the haemorrhage, the fpilling of blood, even to fainting, the better;) upon the effufion of blood abating, let a plaifter of common tar be placed over the fore, which must be dressed every day with the fame till the wound is healed. The internal medicine immediately neceffary is Peruvian bark to the quantity of two ounces per day for a week, and diminished afterwards by degrees. Red port wine is to be freely allowed: the diet to be vegetable entirely; no meat allowed, nor even broth. Air, exercife, and pleasant companions are particularly recommended. In cafe of lownefs of fpirits, which is the forerunner of worfe fymptoms if not timely prevented, lay blifters to the size of a crown piece above, below, and on each fide the wound; and let the internal medicine be fix grains of mufk in liquid every four hours. The above has never been known to fail, and was first invented by Dierot, physician to the prefent King of Pruffia.

Letter from Dr. John Mudge of Plymouth, September 10.

On the fatal Effects of Mushrooms. "On Sunday the 28th of last month, I was defired to vifit a family near St. Germain's in Cornwall; three of whom, two children and a young man of 20, were faid to have been poifoned by eating mushrooms on the Wednesday before; the meffenger added, that one child was already dead, and it was feared that neither the other nor the young man could recover. On my arrival at the place, I was witnefs to one of the moft diftreffing fcenes I ever beheld; the houfe was furrounded, and the room filled with the aftonifhed neighbourhood, and the remains of the diftreffed family. One child I found dead; the young man expired about half an hour before I came; and on a bed in a corner of the fame room, I was shewn the remaining child, who was in a very low ftate; and actually died a few hours after; and what fill added to the horror of

the

the fcene, the mother of the children, at that time a nurse, from grief and the confequent fudden retroceffion of her fenfes, had totally loft her fenfes.

"As the young fan was dead who gathered those mushrooms, I could not with any certainty difcover what fort of fungus it was which produced this dreadful accident; but a farmer in the neighbourhood faid he knew they were gathered in an adjoining wood, and that they were of the fort with long flender ftalks; and white flat tops: if fo, they were of a species that Gerrard in his Herbal has defcribed by a figure, as one of the fungi lethales. However, though it is not abfolutely certain what fort of mushrooms they were, yet in order to give a practical caution, it is not neceffary to defcribe all the different kinds of the poifonous ones, for the difcriminating circumftances attending the wholefome are too evident to admit of mistake; especially if those of the younger fort only are used. The table mushroom then, befides that it has a very thin skin, and a fweet pleafing tafte, is particularly diftinguished from all the others, by a reddifh fresh coloured gill; and by this criterion it may be certainly known. However, mushrooms at best are but a dangerous kind of food; for it ought not to be concealed, that those which are efteemed wholefome do not equally agree with the fame perfon at all times, and under different circumstances; for there have been undoubted inftances where they have fometimes produced the worft effects, and in per fons of rank too, where no difcernment or fkill could be fuppofed wanting in their choice or preparation.

Anecdote of Hyder Ali.

N the year 1767, Hyder Ali being at

I Coumoutour, and going out with his

retinue about five in the evening to take the air, an old woman proftrated herself, and cried out, Juftice! Hyder immediately caufed his carriage to flop, and made a sign to her to come forward, and demanded ker requeft. She anfwered, My Lord, I had but one daughter, and Aggi Mahmout has ravished her from me.' Hyder replied, Aggi Mahmout has been gone hence more than a month; how does it happen that you have waited till this time without complaining? My Lord, I have given many requests into the hands of Hyder Sha, and have received no answer.'-This Hyder Sha, who was the Chief Ufher, preceded the Nabob, bearing a large collar of gold, as a mark of his dignity. He advanced, and faid,This woman, as well as her daughter, are of infamous repute, and live in a difgraceful manner.' The Nabob gave

orders to return inftantly to the palace, and commanded the woman to follow him. All the Court were in great apprehenfion for the officer, who was much beloved; and no perfon daring to intercede for him, the fon of Hyder begged the Commandant of Europeans to endeavour to procure his pardon. He accordingly requested it of Hyder, who, refused it with much feverity. I cannot grant your requeft,' faid he; there is no greater crime than that of interrupting the communication between a Sovereign and his fubjects. It is the duty of the Powerful to fee that the weak have juftice. The Sovereign is the only protector God has given them; and the Prince who fuffers oppreflion to pass unpunished among his fubjects, is defervedly deprived of their affection and confidence, and at laft compels them to revolt against him.' He then gave orders to punish Hyder Sha with two hundred ftripes on the parade; and at the fame time commanded an Officer of his Abyffinian horfe-guard to repair immediately with the woman to the country feat at which Aggi Mahmout then was. If he found the girl, his orders were, to deliver her to her mother, and return with the head of Aggi Mahmout; but if fhe was not found, he was charged to con. duct Aggi to Coulmoutour. The girl was found, and the head of the criminal was brought to Hyder. Aggi Mahmout was then fixty years of age, had been Chief Uther to Hyder Ali twenty-five years, and was fucceeded in his office by Hyder Sha; at which time the Nabob had given him a Zoghir, or confiderable district of land, as a reward for his fervice. This man was enimoured of the girl, and had carried her off, upon her mother's refufing to fell her to him. The Alcoran condemns the ravisher of a girl or woman to death.

Anecdote.

HE Marquis de St. André applied to TLouvois, minifter of the War Depart ment under Lewis XIV. for a finall government then vacant. The Minifter, who had received fome complaints against this officer, refufed to comply. The Marquis, fomewhat nettled, rather haftily faid, "If I were to enter again into the fervice, I know very well what I would do" "And pray what would you do?" retorted the Minier, in a furious tone. "I would take care," replied St. André, who had now recollected himself, " to behave in fuch a manner, that your Excellency Lould have nothing to reproach me with.." vois, agreeably surprised at this reply, immediately granted him his request.

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