he Conftruction of the GEOMETRICAL QUESTION, in the Magazine for October laft, p. 485. - ЕТЬ ET6 24,244 the Line biffecting the Right Angle, and 25 that biffects the Hypotenuse; on I H 2 c, describe a Semicircle, and on PH another; draw HK IH nd IL (= 2c) ♣ IK; make KO=KH, and KM KI; on LO defcribe the Semicircle, hofe Semi-Ordinate is KN; make PQ=KN: Then will MN be the Sum, and HQ the Difference of the Legs required.

The Bafe on.The Cathetus

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nd b3 + 8c2 4/xb+b2 _—_600= the Area of the Triangle.

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JAMES HEMINGWAY.

The Base

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The SURVEYING QUESTION in the fame Month, p. 468, anfwer'd by the

Propofer.

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has not as yet been communicated to the nation by authority; and as it is therefore matter of doubt, whether it deserves thanks or not, it is proper the nation fhould be inform'd, That they were not even called upon A to affift in complimenting away the understanding and spirit of that great body they have the honour to reprefent. 1 am, Mr. Fool, Mourning-Bush, Your Half-Brother, Jan. 8. Tom. Touchstone.

F you were the court fool, or even my lord mayor's fool, I B fhould not wonder either at any thing you did, or any thing you left undone: But affecting, as you do, to be the fool of your country, and to fet the old maxim, That every body's business is no body's bufinefs, at defiance, how came you not only C not to apprize the publick, that an addrefs from my lord mayor and court of aldermen is not an address from the city of London, but even to countenance the craft which has been fed to make the former pafs for the latter, by a paragraph in your own paper, of Dec. 27, fignifying, That Stracey, the late recorder, had the honour of knighthood conferred on him by bis majesty, on bis receiving the city of London's addrefs? You ought to know, that all addreffes from the city of London, run in the name E of the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons in common-council affembled: And you might have known, that the common-council had no fhare in the honour of that congratulation.

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They were as fenfible of his ma. F jefty's abfence, and as pleafed with his return to his royal dominions, as those who fit above them; and I make no doubt they would as gladly have join'd in any addrefs on that joyful account: But, as there was no visible connection between his G majesty's return and that tranfaction, which has been called a definitive treaty (tho' it was thought fit to jumble them together;) as that treaty

There is much truth and rectitude (Jays Mr. Fool) in my half-brother Touchstone's remarks, that is to say, in fome of them, because the fact is here and there mistaken, or not rightly conceived. The first charge upon myself, in relation to a paragraph in the Gazetteer, is what I am no more concerned in, than a secretary of state is with the conduct of the Cuftom-Houfe, or Excife-Office; and, indeed, it is a matter below the dignity of a fool of confequence, to intermeddle with. As to Mr Touchftone's laying a ftrefs upon the word addrefs, tho' it was really call'd fo in the Gazetteer, there has not been any fuch thing presented to his majefty, but only a compliment paid him by my lord mayor and fome aldermen, fuch as were in the way on a fudden, and chose to act in a manner that appears very new to the city of London. In fhort, it was only a complimental fpeech to the king, which, when inferted in the Gazette, has the following introductory title :

"This day the right hon. the lord mayor and court of aldermen of the city of London, waited on his majesty, to congratulate him on his fafe return; when John Stracey, Efq; made their compliments in the following fpeech." (See Magazine for Nov. loft, p. 523.)

In this introduction the printer of the Gazette feems to be mistaken in point of expreffion, it being certain, that there was not a court of

aldermen

aldermen concern'd in the matter, nor does
Mr. Stracey, in his compliment, say that
there was, but ftiles them The lord mayor
and aldermen, not mentioning the word
court, and leaving the publick to discover,
as well as they can, how many aldermen
attended on the occafion; according to the
example, and, perhaps, by the direction of A
his betters, not attempting to ascertain what
was best left indefinite.

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Thus we fee, this was not an addrefs from the city of London, neither was a court of aldermen concerned in the compliment paid the king, which fome people conceive to have been an affront to his majesty, as well as to the city. To his majesty, because it ought to be prefumed, that his royal intereft in the hearts of the citizens was too deeply engraved to want the concurrence of a court of aldermen, and of common council, to congratulate him on his arrival.To the city, because such concurrence was not afk'd; which seem'd an invidious intimation, that they would not have complied; tho' it is a fact well known to be C falfe, and of which his majesty ought to be apprifed, left it should create a misunderftanding in disfavour of those who heartily love and honour him.

Who were the authors and conductors of this affair, and why they fo acted, is next to be confider'd. This, indeed, is a delicate point, and, therefore, must be tenderly touched. We fee it was tranfacted in a hurry; was a mere compliment, instead of being dignified with the title of an addrefs; and was, in the phrafe of the law, an extrajudicial act; there is mingled with it, what had nothing to do with the occafion, where the peace is faid to be, a bleffing that cannot fail of producing the most beneficial effects. Now, throw all these circumstances together, and the authors and their views must appear as clear as light, without farther explanation; I fhall, therefore, only remark, that the whole kingdom is, by this management, led into a mistaken notion, that the body of the city of London approve a peace, tho' they know nothing of the terms by authority, are, therefore, not fuppofed to know them at all, and have thus feemed to accufe themselves of rashnefs in a transaction they were utterly ftrangers to.

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This is an affair I should not have thought of meddling with, but that I look upon the fools of this metropolis as under my particular care; and, therefore, did not chufe they should, by approving what they knew G nothing about, be efteemed fo much wifer than their neighbours; befides, as my kinfman's hints have rous'd me up, I should have been esteemed inexcufably indolent, if I had not, on the alarm's being thus January, 1749.

given me, endeavour'd to awake my fel low-citizens to a fenfe of their own honour, and to refent a publick injury done their reputation.

The following were the aldermen who waited on his majesty with the above mention'd addrefs, viz. The Right Hon Sir William Calvert, lord mayor, Sir John Tompfon, Sir John Barnard, Sir Henry Marfhall, Sir Robert Ladbroke, William Baker, Elq; Thomas Winterbottom, Efq; Sir William Smith, Grifpe Gafcoyne, Efq; William Whitaker, Efq;-Edward Ironfide, Elq; Thomas Razulinfon, Efq; Sheriffs.

His Excellency the Earl of SANDWICH's
Memorial to their High Mightinesses.
High and Mighty Lords,

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N the space of two years, during which the underwritten minifter has been charged with the affairs of the king his mafter to your high mightineffes, he has had the fatisfaction to be convinced, by the proofs the moft ftriking, that not only the intereft, but even the existence of the maritime powers depends upon their union.

The enemies of liberty vainly flattered themselves with having found an opportunity to excute the old project they had formed, of giving law to Europe. They conceived that by their feducing difcourfes, which were not always unwelcome to the ears of their auditors, they might be able to divert the publick attention from those calamities, which threatened the nation and its natural allies.

This method having not entirely fucceeded, they laboured to divide the allies, whofe fecurity confifted in their union. This artifice having alfo failed, they addreffed themselves to the maritime powers, who answered the advances that were made to them in the only manner in which it was fit for them to answer, that is to fay, in concert between themselves, a method which has had all the fuccefs that could be expected from it; fince by that, peace was procured, at a time when the enemy was already at the gates of the republick.

The great work of pacification had been laboured at, in vain, for four years together. As foon as England and the republick fpoke the fame language, and were re-united in the fame views, they appeared infinitely more formidable than at the time when their forces were yet entire, and the enemy at a distance from their frontiers.

This example, and many others of the fame kind, that have struck my mind during the courfe of my miniftry to your high mightineffes, have appeared to me fo many demonstrations of the excellence of the old fyllem,

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, which fuppofes a strict alliance and an infeparable union between great Britain and this republick. It is on the stronger or weaker influence of these maxims, which I look upon as facred, and which have been always the rule of my conduct, that the fecurity and profperity of two powerful nations must depend, who have defended so often, and with fo much fuccefs, their own liberty and that of Europe.

It is with the most fenfible pleasure, high and mighty lords, that in taking leave of your high mightineffes, I declare to you in the most folemn manner, by the exprefs order of the king my master, his firm refolution to cultivate with the

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utmost care poffible, the good intelligence B
which actually fubfifts between his majesty
and your republick.

I cannot prevail upon myfelf to put an
end to this difcourfe, without taking notice
of that great event, which happened in
the courfe of my miniftry to your high
mightineffes; and which, by ftrengthning
the conflitution of your government, for C
ever re-establishes the views of thofe
who intereft themselves for the union be-
tween the two nations, as well as for
the liberty of the empire and that of all
Europe.

There is not now the least room to fear, the dangerous prejudices, or the deftru&tive fuggeftions of private intereft, fo fatal to publick welfare, fhould gain an afcendancy in this republick, fo long as a prince endowed with fo many virtues, and defcended from a race of heroes, whofe diftinguished character it has been to combat always for liberty, remains cloathed with all the honours and all the authority of his ancestors, and fees thofe dignities happily fecured to his posterity.

This change is the pledge of future profperity. Leaving therefore the past, and without entering into comparifons which might be odious, let me be permitted, high and mighty lords, to felicitate from the bottom of my heart, your high mighti-' neffes on the fubject of an ever-memorable event, which has preferved this republick from apparent ruin, and has put it in a condition of becoming once more confidered on the foot of one of the most powerful nations of Europe.

There now remains no more for me, high and mighty lords, after remitting into your hands the letter of the king, which contains the fame fentiments I have the honour to expreís to your high mighti

neffes, than to render you my most humble

thanks, for all the marks of kindness and favour, that I have received on your part during the time of my refidence in thefe provinces, and to beseech you to accept the strongest affurances of my warm and lafting acknowledgment,

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As a proof of this, high and mighty lords, I propose to perfevere, during my whole life, in the principles which appear to me the most proper to demonftrate my attachment to the interefts of this republick. For by that means I fhall have the double nefes the fentiments of my foul, and to fatisfaction of teftifying to your high mightithink in the manner that corresponds best with the inclinations of the king my master, and with the intereft of his kingdoms, which are infeparable from thofe of the united provinces. Done at the Hague, Jan. 14, 1749.

SANDWICH.

The following Bite upon the Publick is of fo new and fo extraordinary a Nature, that it deferves to be recorded, as it fheres, that a foolish Credulity and ridiculous Curiofity feem to have banish'd common Senfe from the Quality and Gentry of this great Metropolis. Towards the Middle of this Montb the following Advertisement appeared in our News Papers:

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T the New Theatre in the Hay-Market, on Monday next, the 16th inft. to be feen a person who performs the feveral moft furprizing things following, viz. First, he takes a common walking-cane from anyTM of the fpectators, and thereon plays the mufick of every inftrument now in ufe, and condly, he prefents you with a common likewife fings to furprizing perfection. Se

wine-bottle, which any of the spectators may first examine; this bottle is placed on a table in the middle of the stage, and he (without any equivocation) goes into it in fight of all the fpectators, and fings in it; during his ftay in the bottle, any perfon may handle it, and fee plainly that it E does not exceed a common tavern bottle.

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Thofe on the ftage or in the boxes may come in masked habits, (if agreeable to them) and the performer (if defired) will inform them who they are.

Stage 75. 6d. Boxes s. Pit 3s. Gallery 25.
To begin at half an hour after fix o'clock.
Tickets to be had at the theatre.
The performance continues about
two hours and a half.

N. B. If any gentlemen or ladies, after the
above performances (either fingly or in com-
pany, in or out of mask) are detirous of fee-
ing a reprefentation of any deceased person,
fuch as husband or wife, fifter or brother,
or any intimate friend of either fex, (upon
be gratified by feeing and converfing with
making a gratuity to the performer) shall

them for fome minutes as if alive: Like-
wife (if defired) he will tell you your most
fecret thoughts in your paft life; and give
you a full view of perfons who have inju-
red you, whether dead or alive.

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