No zeal tumultuous did his mind deform, Nor in his bofom rag`d the fiery storm; For truth he try'd, enquir'd, and careful fought; [thought. Yet own'd his brother, tho' he different Who right! he left to that decifive day, When truth's bright beams shall shine without allay. The Deity, he knew, the man approves, Whole contrite fpirit fears, obeys, and loves. Say, how his foul abhorr'd the cruel part, To drive his brother from his church, and; heart. [contin'd, Nor fway'd by notions, nor to schemes His breast was open to the honest mind. Who Chrift obey'd, he did the christian call; Chrift's laws, the rule, by which we stand, or fall, [grace Thus love, peace, joy, with a distinguish'd. Shone thro' the features of his friendly face. How near approaches to a life divine, The man, in whom the peaceful virtues fhine ? [throng Trace him to church! Say how th'awaken'd On his inftructive words attentive hung? He rous'd the finner, calm'd the mourner's breaft; The guilty taught their follies to deteft: The pious rais'd above terreftrial woe, Warm'd with the views, which from religion flow. [wife, Such the lov'd man! May we like him be Purfue his virtuous steps, and with him reach the prize. An ODE to SOLITUDE. HASTE, make hafte, Prepare for thy eternal good, No love torments thee with difdain, Thou ne'er canft be by fraud fubdu'd, Thou know't no loffes, feel' no pain In folitude. So pleafant is the shady vale [view'd, Where nought but thy own fhadow's Thy thoughts thou may'ft to groves reveal Saw o'er her head difplay'd the threatning fword, And young Octavius act the haughty lord,. While mercenary bards affift his sway, Swarm o'er the land, and on their country prey; Saw abject hands in government employ'd, Honours by them, and them alone, enjoy'd ; Cutcasts of either party clofely join'd, And power and places to themselves conon'd; [arts Virtue and worth fhut out by cringing And Roman spirit warm no Roman heartIndignant from this fcene, lo! Tully flies, Tully the learn'd, the eloquent, the wife!He flies-unable to affift the state, And finds at Tufculum a mild retreat. So Britain's Tully, long his country's pride, All other means to aid it now deny'd, Retires far diftant; and his only care Another Py, like himself, to rear. An Account of the Tin Mines in Cornwall *. have been difcovered, is uncertain OW long the tin-mines in this county but it appears from Diodorus Siculus, and Timæus, that the Britons wrought in them; the Romans likewife found their accoun in them, but the Saxons feem to have neglected them, nor was any great profit made of them till Richard, brother of king Henry III. being made earl of Cornwall, gave encouragement to the tinners by his countenance and contributions, whereby he not only raifed to himself vaft revenues, but gave the inhabitants a clearer infight into the profits which might be made of them. After his decease, the tinners were regulated in fuch a manner as much contributed to encourage the adventurers, the ftannary laws being ratified under the feal of his fon earl Edmund. Afterwards king Edward III. confirmed and even enlarged their privileges, dividing the body of tinners into 4 parts, denominated from the places where the tin is wrought. He conftituted one general warden, or overfeer, of all the reft, who is made both in caufes of law and equity their fupreme judge, from whom no appeal lies but to the king and council: He hath a power to appoint under him a fub warden over every company, who should, every 3 weeks, in their refpective jurifdiction, determine all controverfies between the tinners themselves, or foreigners, in matters relating to their trade and dealings; but from thefe, an appeal lies to the lord warden, before it can be removed to the king: Thefe are called ftannary courts and judgments; the manner of trial ordinarily confiiteth in a verdict of a jury of fix tinners, according to which the warden, or his deputy, pronounces judgment; but in matters of great impor tance, See a beautiful and cerred MAP of this county in our Magazine for October last, tance, the lord, or his deputy, ufes to impannel a jury of 24 men, principal tinners, fix out of every quarter, returned by the mayors of the 4 ftannary towns, and their verdict obliges the whole body. The jail for offenders, in ftannary causes, is kept at Leftwithiel, and the office is annexed to the comptrollership, and the pillory fometimes made their punishment, as a terror to others. The tin is made of little black stones, lying upon the furface of the earth, which they call shoad, because they imagine it to be thot from the main load or body of the mine: Where the tinners find these ftones, they go to work; if upon hilly ground, the miners fink fhafts, or pits, fometimes to a vaft depth, to come at the mine: If the fhoad is difcovered in low grounds, they carry on a stream work, or drift, till they meet with the bed: When the ore is brought above ground in the stone, it is broke with hammers, and then carried to the stamping mills, which makes it ready for the crazing mill, where it is bruis'd to powder. After it is washed, and cleared from earth, &c. it is melted at the blowing houfes into pigs of 3 and 400 weight, with the owner's name upon them. The white is of a finer nature than the black, and the value is fet upon it at the coining house, where it is tafted, or tried, to know what price it deferves. In Q. Elizabeth's reign, Sir Francis Godolphin employed 300 men in his own works, and paid 1oool. yearly, to the customs. Before the end of the faid reign, this trade was so much increafed, chiefly by the skill and unwearied application of Sir Francis, that the duty arifing from tin alone in this county, amounted to 10,000l. per annum. In the beds of tin is found another ore, called mundiok, which is thought to nourish tin, and for many ages was looked upon to be of no other ufe. However in Q Elizabeth's time, a laudable curiofity prompted fome private perfon to examine into the mature of it, but by fome accident or another, the defign mifcarried, and the mundick was thrown to fhull, that is, thrown into the old pits, with other rubbish, till about 50 years fince Sir Gilbert Clark began to work epon the mundick again; others following his example, have, by degrees, brought the work to bear, and the copper extracted from this ore, which was once thought ufelefs, now brings in 10,000l. and is equal in goodness to the best Swedish copper, yielding a proportionable quantity of Lapis Calaminaris for making brafs. It is computed, that this manufacture alone employs above 100,000 men ; and instead of importing yearly copper and brafs, to the amount of near 100,000l, we now export as much, if not more, Dec. 1. DEATHS in December. R EV. Dr. Rigby, minifter of a diffenting congregation at Andover. (See p. 610.) 2. Mrs. Sufannah Juett, at Greenwich, aged 112. 8. John Haffel, Efq; counsellor at law. Sir John Cope, of Hanwell in Oxfordfhire, Bart. fucceeded by his eldest fon, now Sir Monnoux Cope, Bart. Edvard Partherick, Efq; high-bailiff of the Inle of Ely. 10. Edward Willis, Efq; at the Charterhoufe, aged 101, who had been page of the back-ftairs to K. William and Q. Anne. 13. Rt. Hon. John Adainion, Elq; lord mayor of Dublin. 16. Rt. Hon. William Fortifcue, Efq; master of the rolls, and one of his majefty's most Hon. privy-council. Mr. Johnfon, fecretary to the Rt. Hon. the lord chief juftice Willes. The lady of John Wade, Efq; at Shelton-Hall, near Chefham in Bucks. 18. Andrew Percival, Efq; agent to feveral regiments on the English and Irish eftablishment. 19. Tobias Lloyd, Efq; one of the directors of the mines in Cornwall. Sir Thomas Lee, Bart. brother to Sir William Lee, Knt. chief juftice of England. 22. Richard Shuttleworth, Efq; knight of the thire for Lancashire, which he reprefented in 11 parliaments, and was one of the oldest members in the house. Rt. Rev. Dr. Richard Smallbroke, lord bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, in the 77th year of his age. 24. Rt. Hon. John Lindfey, earl of Crawford and Lindley, and viscount Kilberney in Scotland, lieutenant-general of his majefty's forces, and colonel of a regiment: He fignaliz'd himself in the feveral wars in Europe, from 1734 to the late peace; as, under prince Eugene on the Rhine, general Munich on the Neifter, against the Turks and Tartars, and with the grand duke of Tufcany, and general Wallis, in Turkey, where, at the battle of Krotika, in 1739, he received a wound, which, after opening 29 times, with exceffive pain, occafion'd his death. join'd the British army on the continent, and diftinguish'd himfelf in all the late campaigns in Germany and Flanders, as alfo in Scotland, where he conducted the Heffians in the late rebellion. He Sir Charles Nichols, Bart. at Brackley in Northamptonshire. Mr. Mark Catefby, F. R. S. aged 70, author of the Natural Hiftory of Carolina and the Bahama iflands. (See p. 516.) Ecclefiaflical PREFERMENTS. DWARD Townshend, M. A. made a canon or prebendary of Westminster. E Mr. -Mr. Mofs, thade archdeacon of Colchef- Mr. Thomas Chapman, to the rectory of Mr. Thomas Herring, to the rectory of J PROMOTIONS Civil and Military ry-ftreet St. James's, merchant, and dealer. A General Bill of all the Cbriftrings and B■- Buried 8504 2018 A hundred 1. A hundred and one 2. A huedred and two 1. A hundred and Cato, the eldeft, his character 5 Cromartie, late earl of, pardon'd upon con- 478 132 601 Cato, the hero of Addifon's celebrated tineers were overcome 134 382 Chriftnings. See Burials. D D. 515 4 2 notes. Achuna, Don Lewis, his character 412 |