Foreign and Domestic Intelligence. to avail themselves of the fame artifice, but no other fish-cart was to be got,. otherwife the wager would have been determined by a race between two fish carts. Friday June 12. There was a meeting on Wednefday night at the Spanish Ambaffador's of all the foreign Minifters, when a paper was figned by them to be tranfmitted to the Secretaries of State, in which they engage, on their faith and honour, to fuffer no goods of whatever kind to be brought from abroad, under their fanction, but what is for their own immediate ufe. This meeting, to the great honour of Prince Matlerano, was at the inftance of his Excellency. Monday June 15. On Saturday the red ribbon given to Sir George Macartney, was fent to Ireland for him. At the enfuing Midfummer the civil lift will be THREE QUARTERS in arrear! Such is the boafted oeconomy of George the Third ! The Exeter, Savory, is cut off on the coaft of Africa by the negroes, who murdered all the crew except one little boy, who begged hard of the favages for his life, which they granted him, and afterwards fold the ship. Tuesday, June 16. We hear from Copenhagen, that the Queen Carolina Matilda has an annual revenue allowed her of 30,000 rixdollars. Laft week John and Sufan Gilder, of the parish of Tarling, in the county of Effex, made their public entry at Dunmow, (escorted by a prodigious concourfe of people whom curiofity had eagerly felected, to fee a prodigy of conjugal felicity, in an abandoned age) and made a demand of the gammon of bacon, agreeable to notice formerly given, declaring themfelves ready, and truly qualified, to be admitted by the Court Baron, to receive the ancient and accustomed oath, and which entitles the candidates to the bacon of Dunmow, according to the cuftom of the Manor: but to the great difappointment of this happy couple, and their numerous attendants, the priory gates were faft nailed, and all admittance refufed, agreeable to the exprefs orders of the Lord of the Manor. 239 Extract of a letter from Paris, June 5"A few days fince the parliament pronounced a feparation of effects between the Countefs of Barry and her hufband. The affembly of the clergy opens the 10th inftant, and it is faid their loan exceeds their most fanguine expectations, their Receiver General having already upwards of eight millions fubfcribed." a Thursday, June 18. Tuefday night melancholy accident happened at the houfe of a nobleman near Grosvenorfquare; a footman met the man-cook coming out of the larder, with a knife in his hand, and inadvertently running against it, it pierced his bowels, and he inftantly died. Friday June 19. The aims of the Pruflian Monarch have been fufpected, but they now appear beyond doubt, of his intending a compleat reftitution of Polish Pruflia, with its dependencies, to his dominions. Vienna, June 1. Laft month died at Dlauhy, a village in Moravia, a woman, who was 118 years of age. She had been. fix times married, and by each husband had four children, who are all living. Saturday June 20. A letter from Zell fays, that when Sir Robert Murray Keith went to take his leave of Queen Carolina Matilda, fhe expreffed in the ftrongest terms the great obligations fhe lay under to him; for fhe believed that by his fteady and fpirited behaviour he faved her from fuffering a cruel and ignominious death, and begged that be would ftay with her a few days longer, till fhe could write fome letters to her royal brother and fifter. She also expreffed to Sir Robert her great defire to come to England. Monday June 22. On Friday night Sir Robert Murray Keith, his Majesty's Minifter at the court of Copenhagen, arrived in town from that kingdom, laft from Stade; and on Saturday he waited on his Majefty at Kew, with whom he had a long conference. We are told, that in the will of ----Perram, Efq; he has beqeathed a 601. plate to be run for at Newmarket; 100 guineas to be paid as a marriage portion to the first woman who can prove the was married nearest to the minute the forgoing plate is won; 50l. per ann. to his hoult Foreign and Domeftic Intelligence. 240 houfe-keeper, and sool. more on her marriage, provided the marries a man under forty years of age; and many other like fingularities. Tuesday June 23. Monfieur Ernft, Secretary to the British Ambally at Copenhagen, has the management of affairs there during the abfence of Sir Robert Murray Keith. Wednesday June 24. Yesterday at noon a meeting of the merchants, &c. was held at the King's Arms tavern, Cornhill, to confult on measures to fupport the Scotch bank, of Doughlas and Co. (Mr. Long, in the chair) when a fubfcription was immediately agreed to and opened, in order to raife a fum of money to indemnify the Bank of England for discounting the bills on that houfe. Thurfday June 25. Yefterday came on at Guildhall the election of Sheriff's for the city and county of Middlesex, for the year enfuing. All the Aldermen who had not ferved the office, and who were below the chair, were put in order after which, Watkin Lewes, Efq; was put up; and the fhew of hands appearing for Mr. Alderman Oliver and Watkin Lewes, Efq; they were returned; but a poll was demanded for Alderman Plumbe. Saturday June 27. On Wednesday morning was opened to public view at Guildhall, a monument erected to the memory of the late William Beckford, Efq; in the attitude he replied to his Majefty's anfwer to the humble Addrefs, Remonftrance, and Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, particularly during the laft part thereof. A figure in an antique ftile is placed on each fide; the one reprefents the City of London in mourning diftinguifhed by the City arms, the fword the mace, and the cap of maintenance; the other reprefenting trade and navigation in a drooping itate, marked by a mariner's compafs, upon which the refts her right elbow, while her left hand holds an anchor, and her head is adorned with a mural crown; the decline of commerce is marked by a fmall and empty cornucopia. Under the cornice which fupports the figures upon a black marble table, is his reply in letters of gold, inclofed with two architectonic truffes, joined at the bottom by an impoft mould ing of veined marble; the principal fi gure is fubfcribed WILLIAM BECKFORD, Efq. Twice Lord Mayor; his fpecch to his Majesty King George the Third, on the 23d of May, 1770. 1 The terms on which Lord Harcourt goes as Viceroy of Ireland are not as yet finally afcertained. His Lordship wants a little more elbow room than his predeceffor; but the voice of the cabinet is, "You must do as Lord Townsend did; and for particulars we refer you to Sir G. Macartney, who is perfectly well acquainted with that kingdom". This morning between two and three o'clock a dreadful fire broke out at the houfe of Mr. Watfon, Coach-Painter, in Long-Acre, which entirely confumed the fame, together with the house of Mr. Bluck, Silver Lace Weaver, and greatly damaged that of Mr. Nuttall, Engine-maker, and the Pawnbroker adjoining, all in front. The flames then fpread to Broad court, where they def troyed fix houfes, among which was the celebrated Lucy Cooper's, and fe veral more were greatly damaged. No water could be procured for full three hours, fo that the fire raged all that time with uncontrolled fury. Monday, June 29. A Correfpondent remarks, that the Governors of the Bank are in a very critical Situation; they have long experienced to their great hazard what has been publickly complained of in every news-paper, as well as every court of justice, the univerfal Practice of coining notes, and circulating a fictitious paper Credit; and now the fatal effects of this Practice have fhewn themselves openly; the merchants and traders confulting only their private intereft, cenfure the governours of the bank for their caution in parting with good Guineas for watte-paper; and even the Ministry, who have long fince preferred the intereft of their friends and dependants to the public welfare, have already forced the Bank to discount doubtful bills, and fupport fictitious credit at the hazard of the national, though it is well known there are thou fands in this kingdom who would rejoice to fee the Bank ftop, and the pub. lick credit of England totally ruined. THE OXFORD MAGAZINE: O R, UNIVERSAL MUSEUM. CALCULATED FOR General Inftruction and Amusement, O N A PLAN ENTIRELY NEW. Embellished with COPPER-PLATES, Satirical, Political, and Scientifical, from ORIGINAL DESIGNS. BY. A SOCIETY OF GENTLEMEN, Members of the Univerfity of OXFORD. VOLUME IX. LONDON: Printed for the AUTHORS, and fold by S. BLADON, at No. 28, and J. COOTE, at No. 16, in Paternofter-Row, London; Meffrs. FLETCHER and HODSON, at Cambridge; Mr. SMITH, at Dublin; and Mr. ETHERINGTON, at York. M DCC LXXII. The Oxford Magazine; For J 1 For the OXFORD MAGAZINE. Of Errors in EDUCATION. PHILEMON, after a tedious court. how wonderfully must he improve in fhip, obtained Ifmena: The match was no fooner concluded upon, than a fon to raise their family was the wifh of them both; but Ifmena prudently concealed her defire, whilft Philemon was dinning every body's ears with his. Parents, relations, and neighbours, crouded upon the new couple on the wedding-day, to teftify their wishes for a fon; and the mamma's and aunts could hardly ftay till the next day to have the nativity calculated. Pleasure promotes the defires of Philemon and Ifmena, and at length improves them into hope; and fymptoms, however uncertain, which feem to confirm it, are enquired into with inconceivable joy; nine months are an intolerable time to stay for this dear fon, defigned for fuch exalted views; hitherto all is well, and the fond pair reconcile reafon with their duties, and religion with their pleafure. This fon, the fupreme with of his parents, at length comes into the world, and after all this withing, is no fooner born, than unnaturally banished from his father's houfe; however, being weaned, he returns again; and now, what fort of a governels may little matter have got why Sufan, a fervant born upon the 'fquire's eitate, a creature of madam's, who, by her addrefs in amours, has made fhift to turn her jacket into a gown; a Sylvia taken upon the, recommendation of a falfe friend, who, it is not improbable, might fwear for her abilities as to children. fuch hands! Having entered his eighth year, he is taken from her, with his poor mind prepoffeffed by trafh, bugbears, and fpectres, and his memory ftuffed with idle ftories; the best of it is, he has been taught to lifp his prayers: And it must be owned, he is not much to feek in knowing his right hand from his left; kiffes it too, fmartly, by way of thanks, and bows molt refpectfully to the ground. A notable beginning in the education of a child, who, in his parents ideas, is to fill the chief employments of the ftate I But the fequel is to rectify all the errors of the beginning. His age now requires a tutor; among the multitude of indigent fcholars, four candidates offer themfelves, and according to the laudable cuftom, he is the man, who hates his talents the lowest: A worthless creature, the whole of whofe merit is in his band; who, fo far from being verfed in reflexion and reafoning, can perhaps fcarcely read at all. Well, but fuch an one will be no great expence, and fuits with the difpofition of Philemon and Ifmena; to him they commit their fon, and whilst the blockhead makes learning a trade to himself, his injudicious management makes it a torture to his pupil. With out taste of their beauties, or skill to vary the fcene, he fets the youth's mind against the fciences; he darkens his reafon, fhackles his understanding, and aukwardly labours to transfufe into him his own And ignorance, itupidity and prejudices. Thus A 2 the |