glafs hive, which is to be placed over the hole, and to ftand fo clofe, as not to admit of any paffage to the bees; we would advife the edges to be fecured by a cement to keep out vermin, and prevent the bees having a paffage any other way than at the door. The glafs hive is to be covered with a straw one, to exclude the light, otherwife the bees will not work; when the glafs is filled you must feparate it from the other by a tin plate, which is to remain fo for half an hour, and when removed, be careful of the top of that left ftanding. This apparatus must be confidered as a matter of curiofity more than ufe, as the colonies kept in boxes are attended with lefs trouble, and can with eafe be fupplied with empty boxes, as often as there is occafion. The Author's Directions for making Mead. To three pounds of the pureft honey, put one gallon of water; with two lemon peels to each gallon, to be boiled half an hour, and carefully skimmed, and while boiling put in the lemon peel, this to be worked with yealt, which is afterward to be put into a veffel with the lemon peel, to be kept five or fix months, when it may be bottled.-N. B. If intended to be kept a long time, put four pounds of honey to one gallon of water. The inconveniency which fometimes happens from the ftings of bees, wafps, &c. may render it neceflary for fome directions; therefore we shall give for this purpose, what has been prefcribed by Mr. his Farriery now firfl published by John Exfbaw, Bookseller. Thefe, He fays, are fometimes very troublefome, and attended with more pain, fwelling, and inflammation in fome habits than could be expected from fuch little enemies; the common cure, in fuch accidents, is immediately fucking out with the mouth the infilled poifon, bathing the part well with warm oil, applying to the wound a poultice of bread and milk well foftened. Difcutient or difperfing ointments or fomentations are in fome conftitutions neceffary, to bathe the part for reducing the fwelling: nor thould cooling phyfic and breeding be omitted. And in order to point out the value of thefe directions, we fhall prefent our rea ders with an inftance of a very afflicting cafe, which happened by swallowing a wafp concealed in a pot of porter, which freely paffed, till it reached the gullet, where it shed its poifon; this was not immediately perceived, till a fudden and vio lent ftrangulation feized the perfon, who became fpeechlefs and black in the face, kicking and flinging his limbs about for want of breath, and in fuch agony, as his death could not but be defired. However, in the midst of this defpair and diftreis, a gentleman of the faculty advised. á preparation of honey, sweet oil, with a little vinegar, to be beat up in a bason with a fpoon; of this a spoonful was taken every minute; the first three spoonfuls, by the agitation of the mufcles of his face, were obferved to pafs with great difficulty and pain, but afterwards with more freedom; fo that he came much to himfelf, and was advised to take the preparation a while longer, but at more diftant intervals, and to lie down, keeping himself quiet, left the choaking fymptoms should return. Next day the patient was able to return to his labour. This was made known on reading an account in the public papers of a perfon, who lost his life by an accident of this fort. A Parallel; drawn between the Adminifration in the last four Years of Queen Anne, and the first four of George the third. Entire, Price xs. HE prefent critical fituation of our affistance of every true lover of his country, as far as his knowledge and abilities extend. The author of this little work folemnly declares, before he begins to draw his parallel, that he belongs to none of thofe parties and factions that at prefent diftract, he had almost faid, ruin the kingdom. The Cause of these contentions is obvious enough to every man of common unde tanding. Self-Intereft, and a defign to thrust themselves into places of power and profit, without the least regard to the welfare of the kingdom, has frequently been the unhappy cause of thefe calamities. The author from his heart abhors and detefts fuch principles, fuch a total lofs of true honour and patriotifm, which must end, if not speedily check'd, in the utter fubverfion of all government. He He loves his king and country, and therefore thinks he has an equal right with others, to throw in his mite for the fervice of both. Pro rege fæpe, pro repub lica femper. The author is humbly of opinion, that he fees the molt ftriking parallel, that ever exifted in any period of the English history, between the last four years of the reign of Q. Anne, and the first four of George the third. And he hopes the candid part of mankind will be of the fame opinion, when they fee it fairly drawn out. There is such a striking coincidence of circumstances, that, he thinks, cannot fail to strike every impartial reader. His obfervations are drawn from facts and biftory, and are not designed to court the favour, or gratify the relentment of any party whatever. He doubts not, but our minifterial directors, who enjoyed the fovereign's confidence, immediately after the death of the late king, before the great commoner's refignation, will be very fevere in their reflections upon him. If he offends them, he cannot help it; they should have been more careful of their conduct, and not have fo rafhly expofed themselves to the juft cenfure of every honeft man, and true lover of his country. The principal perfons in the great political drama, that was acted in the four laft years of Q. Anne, were the lords Oxford and Bolingbroke, and that great general the duke of Marlborough. To thefe we may add Mrs. Mafbam, who was the fecret manager in the closet, and the artful contriver of all thofe fatal changes that were brought about in the year 1709. From the first moment this tory adminiAiration fat at the helm, they determined to make peace with France at all events, and to run into measures directly oppofite to thofe of their predeceffors. In the great fcene that has been fo lately exhibited, we may reckon the principal actors were the earl of Bute, the duke of Bedford, and that great commoner, Mr. Pitt. In this fcene, a fimilar female character must be introduced, which directly correfponds with that of Mrs. Mafbam. She was the fecret spring that directed all the late political operations, and served lord Bute in the fame capacity, as Mrs. Masham did lord Oxford, by poffeffing the royal ear, and whispering every thing they could hatch pp to the difcredit of the great commoner; in the fame manner as lord Oxford and Mrs. Masham had done to the discredit of the great general. They procured their vile lycophants, the tools of any men in power, to proclaim it aloud in all companies, that we had conquered too much, and that more victories and conquests, like thofe of Pyrrhus, would quite undo us. This the author has himself heard eccho'd from one court-tool to another, and from all the fcandalous retailers of political lyes, who have inftructions from their matters to impofe upon mankind. From the very moment of his late majefty's death, we may date the defign of lord Bute, the duke of Bedford, &c. to make peace with France at all events, in the fame manner as the tory miniftry of Q. Anne did, from the first moment they held the reins of government. And this indeed must be faid in their favour, that, as they pretended to believe we had conquered too much, fo they acted accordingly, and gave up liberally, There was likewife inconteftably the fame intentions in this latter period, to introduce another tory adminiftration, and this scheme was concerted, even before the death of the late king, as appears from the letters that paffed concerning the Southampton Election. Mr. Legge could not be brought to fubmit to the favourite in this point, and therefore fell the first facrifice to his refentment. Thus far the candid reader muft furely fall in with the author's opinion, and think the Parallel justly and impartially drawn. The principles of both adminifrations were the fame, the measures they both purfued were the fame. A bloody and expenfive war with France attended both thefe periods. The war on our part was fortunate, and France reduced to the fame difirefs in both. The only difference was, that in the former period we conquered towus and provinces for our allies, but the great commoner conquered for ourfelves. The Gallic power may with great truth be faid to be more reduced, during Mr. Pitt's adminiftration, than ever it was by the great duke of Marlborough. France was funk down to the lowest ebb of fortune in both thefe periods, and yet found means to extricate herself out of all her dangers and difficulties, by the introduction of a tory miniftry to the helm. The author does not mean to stop here, but, in the fequel, to enquire into the cause of this exceffive complaisance in a Kk z tery A Parallel, c. tory adminiftration for the French monarch. In the year 1709 lord Oxford and lord Bolingbroke mounted the political Pegasus. Their adminiftration was a ftrange compolition of weakness or wickedness, or both. Mrs. Majham had gained them the entire confidence of the queen, and the had imbibed the ftrongest prejudice in their favour. Such likewife was the corrupt fate of the nation, the fame as it was in the latter period, that the new miniftry foon found an houfe of commons to ferve their purpose, and fupport their iniquitous measures. The influence of ftatefmen will always be very great, when armed and fortified with places and penfions to gratify selfish minds. ters : The house of lords were thought not to be complaitant enough for their new mafin order therefore to fecure a certain majority there, they ventured upon doing an act, without any precedent in the English history (viz.) of creating twelve new lords at once. Thefe were fach faunch hounds, and entered fo greedily into the meatures of the miniftry, that my lord Wharton very jocofely afked them,-whether they voted by their fore man. This new miniftry began the exercife of their power with a violence, peculiar to themselves, and that exactly correfponded with the malignity of their principles. They dared not directly and openly attack the great general himself, whole fame and character were fo far fuperior to their malice, but they fell unmercifully upon all his Friends, Lords Godolphin and Sunderland became The the victims of their rage, and even the great General's Wife was difimiffed from all her Employments. Every affront and indignity was offered to this great man, in order to oblige him to reign thofe employments they could not fafely venture to take from him. This was a point, even too hardy for them, with all their affurance, to attempt, till they were fecure of a majority in both houses. The great general must be in a strange dilemma how to act,-whether to follow the dictates of nature and just refentment, in refigning all his employments, which was the very thing they expected and wished for, or continue to ferve his country in the midst of such May, undeferved mortifications. To his im chofe the latter, and gloriously refolved mortal honour be it fpoken, that he -not to defert his country. mined the odium should fall entirely upwould turn him out, he was fully deterIf they on themselves. Vincet amor Patria, laudumque immen fa Cupido. VIRG. ently strong, and had poifoned the foveWhen they thought themselves fufficireign's ear with fecret lyes and whispers, they put the Queen upon doing the most unpopular act (viz.) to fend the great general a discharge from all further fervice, in a letter under her own hand. lucky time, when the general's military They chose to do this at the most uncharacter had arrived at the highest pitch of glory; when his grace in the former campaign had taken poffeffion of all the French lines without bloodshed, and fairly outwitted marshal Villars, the best general of the enemy, who had boasted, that these lines would prove a ne plus ultra to the Duke's conquefts. At a time when he was admired, nay almost adored abroad, the envy and malice of his enemies could not bear the luftre of his fame any longer, and overturned him at home. Thus feil this great man by fuch a base and infamous adminiftration, as this or any other nation had seldom feen. He period, and fee how the great commoner Let us now shift the fcene to the late (as great in one fenfe, as ever the duke of Marlborough was in another) acted ceffion of his present majefty, it is natuupon a fimilar occafion. Upon the acral to fuppofe, that new favourites, and another fet of men, would be introduced into the cabinet. One in particular was foon found to enjoy an uncommon share of the young fovereign's favour, which he abused to the worst purposes. court-mariners were to fteer their veffels was the polar flar, by which all the to the harbour of preferment. duke of Bedford had the clofeft connecThe tion with the new favourite. His reafons for fo doing he beft knows himself; and the confequences that enfued, they but if we may judge from their actions, appear to be very bad ones. noblemen exactly correfponded in this period, to the lords Oxford and Boling, Thefe tavo brake It can scarce be doubted, but the miniftry in the first period had formed the defign of introducing the P-r, and fetting afide the proteftant fucceffion in the houfe of Hanover. That the Queen herfelf had retoived upon fuch a meature is not abfolutely fo certain. How was the nation faved from civil war and bloodshed, and from the deftruction that threatened it at that period?--By the quar rel of the two leaders in this fcene of iniquity, Oxford and Bolingbroke. They were jealous of each other in the bewitching article of power; like Cæfar and Pompey, one could bear no equal, and the other no fuperior. By the contention of the two latter, Rome was enslaved; and by the contention of the two former, England was preferved. Their mutual jealousy created a mutual distrust, and prevented the execution of their grand project. Their refentment was fo great, and their paffions fo violent, that they are faid to have drawn their swords upon each other in her majesty's prefence. broke in the former. The doctrine of Oeconomy, and the detriment of our numerous conquefts were taught in the school of the new favourite, and preached in every part of the nation, where they could find fools to propagate it, in order to bring difcredit upon Mr. Pitt's adminiftration. He had acquired as deferved a fame in his civil capacity, as ever the great general had in the military. The favourite and his friends dared not directly to attack him, but they took all poffible pains to undermine him, to vilify his measures and flight his counfels. Had he waited but a fhort time, they would as furely have difmiffed him, as Oxford and Bolingbroke did the great general, and for the fame iniquitous reafons, because they could not bear the fuperior luftre of his fame, and because he would have opposed their fecret design of making peace with France upon inadequate terms. With humbleft fubmiflion to the opinion of the great commoner, the author thinks he ought to have imi. tated the conduct of the great general in this particular. He fhould have ftood his ground as long as he was able, and not deferted his country, till the commands of his fovereign obliged him. By this conduct he would have removed the odium, attending his refignation, entirely from himself, and thrown it, where it ought to have lain,upon his adverfaries. Thus much however must be faid in his favour, that there was a manifeft difference, not so much in the conduct, as the fituation of thefe two great men. One went to command the army abroad, and by this means was delivered from his enemies at home. The other in the cabinet was every day exposed to their infults, and conftantly liable to be disappointed in his meafures for the fervice of his country. Our two political heroes of recent memory, B-te and B--d, are not of fo fiery a temper, but in every thing else they refemble the other two to the greatest exactness. When they had overturned the great commoner by their fecret intrigues, in the fame manner, as the other two had done the great general, a private fquabble of their own procured the difimiflion of both, and faved the nation from the pernicious tendency of their blundering counfels. From the fatal fpecimen we had already feen, we had but too much reafon to dread what was to come after. In this bafe mint was the American ftamp act coined, which has thrown the mother-country and her colonies into the moit unhappy confufion. The author will not pretend to enter, in this fhort work, into the merits of the queftion. It is The fovereign has now, with great now before an augutt aflembly, whole prudence and judgment, difffed the counfels he wishes a spirit of wifdom and averfi miniftry that ever dilhonoured their moderation may direct. But can any hocountry in modern times, except that in neft Englithman hefitate for a moment, the laf four years of queen Anne. What whether the Ad ought to be repealed, reafon therefore can the great commoner when he confiders the Shop it came out now give, why he should not refume the of? It is a juft obfervation made upon direction of affairs, at a time too, when the Miniftry in the former period, that his country wants and demands his affift- they were the most wretched blunderers ance, and the prefent boneft, administration that ever pretended to manage the affairs of would gladly embrace every opportunity a nation. The fame may juttly be faid to oblige him? of thefe. But whether both of them had A Parallel, &c. K The late Adminiftration was certainly a Tory One, of which lord Bute was at the head, and the only one, that could properly be called fo, fince the acceffion of the prefent family to the Throne. A Tory Miniftry never forebodes any good to England. The fame Miniftry had, in the last four years of Q. Anne, brought the Nation to the brink of destruction. The fame evil spirit was in thefe, the fame exceffive complaifance for France in her diftrefs, the fame determined refolution to make peace with that nation at all events. The author would conceal no truth that he firmly believes himfeif. France is the only nation, from whence that party of men can entertain the least fhadow of hope. This feems to be the the true reafon of their ill-judged indulgence to that perfidious nation. They have always fhewn more regard for that Kingdom than they have for their own; and thus they acted in the last four years of Q. Anne, and the first four of George the third. Can any conduct be more impolitic, than to truft a Peer of Scotland with the direction of our national affairs? It would be full as wife to truft a fharper, in the article of gaming. He may play you fair indeed, but 'tis ten to one that he cheats you. It is a notorious fact, that in Scotland they every Sunday fill pray for the Reftoration of the exild Family, and that too many of them fill are of the fame perfuafion. Can or ought fuch men as thefe to be trufted, who are ready to embrace every oportunity to overturn the confitution in Church and State? The principles of evey honeft Englishman are fteady in the fupport of both, and of the prefent family upon the throne, as infeparably united with the other. Had every whig adminiftration fince the Revolution, taken as much care of the conflitution in the church, as they have done of the conftitution in the ftate, no mortal would have any reafon to find fault with them. The author would venture to affert, that no Tory adminiftration could ever fupport their power for a Jingle twelvemonth in this Kingdom. It was this circumftance that greatly contributed to overturn the wbig admixisiration in the year 1709. Q. Anne was a true May, friend to the church, and the only one the has met with fince the revolution. It glect of the interefts of the church, that was either an injudicious or defigned neand difgufted the Queen. Neither the first fhook the power of that ministry, preaching or popularity of that impudent fellow Sacheverel had any great influ ence, but it was the general opinion of was in danger, and that the whig minithe nation, that the church of England Airy had neglected her interefts. This opinion aggravated, no doubt, by the enemies of the miniftry and the Tory-faction, operated very strongly upon the Queen, was the grand cause of the unhappy changes that followed, and proved detrimental to the nation. miniftry, by the act of Union, established The whig prefbyterianifm by law in Scotland, and took no care to provide a toleration for the epifcopal clergy and people, at the fame time that the prefbyterian religion was tolerated in England. Was not this deny a favour to the church of England a most partial and unfair proceeding, to in one kingdom, which had been already other? This is the rock upon which our granted to the church of Scotland in the whig adminiftrations have always split ; they have taken very good care of the conflitution in the fate, but very little of the church. blished by law, it ought to be uppermost, While the church of England is estaand properly fupported, and not upon every occafion be forced to give way to the perverse humours and caprice of those who diffent from it. And no true friend to the laws and conftitution of his country, will ever fuffer it. Such a conduct every family-fquable fubmit to her unduis as unnatural, as to make the mother in tiful Children. be naturally led to confider the advanThe mind, from thefe premises, must tages of whig administration, and how favourable their conduct has been, in regard to liberty; this diftinction has always been the criterion that has ever feparated thefe denominations of whig and tory; and the advantages that are now given to our political fyftem, thew under this Era we see the Leviathan fettered, what influence we are guided. It is in that bane to our political fyftem, which * General Warrants, would |