To Gentiles, and the joy of Ifrael, The world's redeemer blefsed Emanuel! Let this fight close mine eyes, 'tis lofs to fee, After this vifion, any fight but thee. Thus he used to fing on the former Christmas-days, but now he was to be admitted to bear his part in the new fongs above; fo that day, which he had spent in fo much fpiritual joy, proved indeed to be the day of his jubilee and deliverance, for, between two and three in the afternoon, he breathed out his pious foul. His end was peace; he had no ftruggling, nor feemed to be in any pangs in his laft moments. He was buried on the fourth of January. Mr. Griffith preached the funeral fermon; his text was Ifa. lvii. verf. 1. The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none confidering, that the righteous are taken away from the evil to come.' How applicable this portion of Scripture was to this occafion, all that confider the courfe of his life will easily conclude. He was interred in the church-yard of Alderley, among his ancestors; as he did not much approve of burying in churches, and ufed to fay, the churches were for the living, and the church-yards for the dead.' His monument was, like himfelf, decent and plain. His tomb was black, and the fides black and white marbel; upon which he himself had ordered this bare and humble infcription to be placed : Hic inhumatur Corpus 1 MATTHEI HALE Militis, ROBERTI HALE et JOANNÆ Uxoris ejus Filii Unici Nati in hac Parochia de Alderley, Primo Die Novembris Anno Dom. 1609; denati vero ibidem Vicefimo Quinto Die Decembris Anno Dom. 1675. Æta tis fuæ 67. He was twice married; his firft wife was Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Moore, of Farley in Berkshire; by her he had ten children. His fecond wife was Anne, the daughter of Mr. Jofeph Bishop, of Farley in Berkshire, by whom he had no children. Mr. Baxter gives him the character of an unwearied ftudent, a prudent man, a folid philofopher, a famous lawyer; the pillar and basis of justice; who would not have done an unjuft act for any wordly price or motive; the ornament of his Majefty's Government, and honour of England, and particularly of Weftminster-hall; a pattern to all the reverend and honourable Judges; a godly, ferious, and practical Chriftian; a lover of goodnefs and all good men; who lamented greatly the selfishness and unfaithfulnefs of the clergy, and that difcord and divifion, which abounded too much, was the confequence of it. He was an earnest defirer of the church's reformation, concord and peace, and of a reformed act of uniformity, as the best and neceffary means thereto; a great contemner of the riches, pomp, and vanity of the world; a pattern of honeft plainnefs and humility. Thus lived and died Sir Matthew Hale, the renowned Lord Chief Justice of England: He enjoyed one of the bleffings of virtue, though in an age that did not follow it, namely, the being univerfally esteemed and admired by men of all fides, ranks, and perfuafions. For, as none could hate him, but for his juftice and virtues, fo the great eftimation, he had acquired, deterred any from endeavouring to lessen his character by falfhood and defamation. So that he experienced that great truth, Mr. Pope fo beautifully delivers in the following lines: Know then this truth (enough for man to know) Virtue alone is happiness below: The only point where human blifs ftands still, And tastes the good, without the fall to ill; Where only merit conftant pay receives, The joy unequall'd, if its end it gain, Is bleft in what it takes, and what it gives; Aud, if it lofe, attended with no pain. The Extra from the Monitor, or British Freeholder. their names fhall be clean put out, faith DARIUS the King. 5. Have they not broken my peo Number LXXI. December the 4th, ple with a rod of iron? ufurping a 1756. men of Britannia! dominion, to which they had no right, From the fole of the feet even unto the head there is no foundness in them. Every one loveth gifts and followeth afterwards. 6. They who rob my people exalt themselves to establish their own power: the raisers of taxes are become the glory kingdom, and H give car ye inhabitants of Hi- places flow from them. By fraud, bernia! ye Plantationites! and fuch as dwell on the continent of America, and in the ifles of the fea! hearken to the words of my mouth! for they are truth, and will be a comfort to the righteous, to whom they are fweeter than honey; though to the wicked they are full of bitterness and gall. 2. Through all your countries, far and near, terror fhall go forth; judgment and juftice fhall be executed, because, because of the trefpafs, the trespass against my people, faith DARIUS the King; 3. Againft the Pelemites, the Stonites, the Hardikites, the Foxites, the Anfonites, the Penfionites, the Lawbites, and the Levites, whofe hands have been chief in thofe iniquities, which are the caufe of your being delivered to the fword, to captivity and to a spoil; and to confufion of face, as it is this day. 4. They digged pits for you which were not according to my commandments; but they fhall fall into them themfelves and judgment fhall be executed upon them, upon their children and upon all thofe, who have joined in affinity with their abominations; fo that there fhall be no remnant nor efcaping of them because they have denied my law and done every one according to his own will, abufing my power and wafting my treafure in rioting, chambering, wantonnefs and gaming; therefore will I caft them out of my prefence, and VOL. XII. : flattery, and deceit they have gained poffeffion of all my pofts of honour and truft: the wicked rule by their means: the faithful and deferving are rejected with fhame, and I am dishonoured and abused, faith DARIUS the King. 7. They work deceitfully: GoD is not in all their thoughts: they boast of their own ftrength, and fay, we fhall not be moved, for we will unite to maintain our power: we will not fcruple to make wrong charges and we will enter upon the fatteft livings, and reduce those to a morfel of bread, that repine at oppreffion. Thus they are become ftrong: from a fmall people they are grown mighty. 8. By these means the wicked in my kingdoms and in my provinces bear rule and fway, and boafting of their own heart's defire, have done those things, which their fathers dared not and their fathers, fathers held in abomination. 9. They obey not the law of my GOD, and take a bribe to betray the councils of their King. They have fold my ftrong holds, and my caftles, fquandered among themselves the spoil, the prey and the riches: my people are flain upon the point of the fword, and their habitations made defolate, and these ufurpers of my power take no care; yea they force-caft delays, when I would help them; and by mock armaments prevent the juftce I would execute on the enemy, faith DARIUS the King. 4 A 10, 10. I have heard the cries of my people, that vows and addreffes are come up as a memorial before me: their forrows have reached my ears. I am moved with compaflion at the voice of their complaints against thofe, who prostitute my name to establish their own power, and join with the enemy to en lave my people. 11. Why have ye deceieved my people with empty words and vain promises; while you continue, yea, increase the burden of their taxes. Your mouth is full of deciet and fraud under your tongue is mifchief and vanity. In your hearts ye are liars your hands are swift to fhed blood. 12. Lo! I and my people are become a reproach to our neighbours: to all that are about us. Their wife men deride and mock us: they fhake their heads at us, faying, they faved other nations, themselves they cannot Lave. 13. Thus are the mighty fallen, and we are defpifed: we are become a fcorn and derision, and there is none to help us, faith DARIUS the King. 14. Arife O LORD! O GOD! lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. Break thou the arm of the wicked and evil man. Thou that abhorret covetoufnefs, deliver me from the men who deal in bribery and Corruption thou that hateft lying and punisheft falfe-fwearing, vindicate thy name and thy honour against the men, who in their most folemn affemblies encourage perjury and falfe hood. 15. Shall not they, who fet truth afide, and by their example establifh vice and immorality, and render them fathionable: who have laid a fnare for confcience: laid fnares to catch the unwary and unftable, and laughed virtue out of countenance, hall they not be called unto judgment for their iniquities? fhall they not feel the rod of iron biffing hot? or fhall they they ef cape the pit where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched? 16. As troops of robbers wait for a man in the way, fo they are a company who by confent and defign work all iniquity with greedinels. They are given up to a reprobate fenfe: they meet to devife horrible plots: they are polluted with the 2bominations of Ahab; Sodom and Gomorrah reign in their hearts: they are defiled with their fin, and are not ashamed. 17. The wickedness of their schemes are no longer concealed; within doors, they devile ways and means to plunder and enflave; and without, my people are dumb like sheep in the hands of the fhearers: they mourn like doves without hope of escaping, and like the hind and the hare they remain without heart: while the wicked that compass me about, like a pack of hounds in full cry, pursue them even unto death : but judgment fpringeth up like hemlock out of the furrows, faith DARIus the King. 18. My people have been men of renown, they have multiplied exceedingly their riches and their children were acquired and nourished with great care and industry: but the men who have fet them up as a mark of their ambition, have gone about in fecret places to prevent their increase and multiplying, by abridging the first command of the Almighty; and to confume the remains of their blood and treasure in expeditions they forefaw would fail, and in preparations never to be carried into action. Lo! thus my people have been fhamefully betrayed, and the people who boast of their liberty are ready to be carried into bondage. 19. But I will no longer be deceived with vain words, nor divided from my people by falfehood. I will difappoint them and caft them down, who fet their eyes to the earth, and grow fat with the prey of mine inheritance. I will work the falvation of the op prefed, preffed, I will break the yoke from off their necks, and make them free, faith DARIUS the King. 20. For they, who have filled their bellies with hid treasure, and threaten fudden deftruction to my people who bid them follow after the eaft wind, and have made leagues to their ruin: who have oppreffed the manufacturers and the merchants, and loaded every foul with taxes and penal laws, too heavy to be borne; with burdens as have not been felt in any kingdoms, provinces, or dominions before: who are a moth and a ruft, that confumes the ftaple of the nation, and eats out - the fubftance of commerce: whofe hearts are as hardened as Pharaoh's; and the time of my mercy is expired, through their obftinacy and ingratitude; fhall now find no mercy; my justice and vengeance muft now take place and I will humble them in the PITT, faith DARIUS the King. 21. In that day the people will rejoice and make merry, that my indignation has laid hold on you and my vengeance is accomplished; for that which is determined fhall be done, becaufe it is yet for a time appointed, and it fhall not pafs over faith DARIUS the King. For that ye have purloined, and have been robbers of my people, ye shall pay the debt: your eftates, your palaces, your honours, your gold, your filver, precious ftones and pleasant things, nay your lives fhall pay the forfeit; all these things fhall be taken from you in that hour, and ye shall be exalted like Haman, when my will is known, faith DARIUS the King. 22. Bad tidings fhall reach you from all parts, I will give fanction to your accufers their accufation fhall be heard from the mouth of many witneffes, and they fhall be countenanced in the truth against you. I will turn my back upon you, and be deaf to your cries, the people lay ftrong hold upon you in their fury, to A RTICLE XXXIII. An extract of a letter of the magistrates of the city of Mafcali in Sicily, dated March 12, 1755, and fent to Naples, concerning a late eruption of Mount Ætna. On Sunday about noon, the 9th of March, 1755, Ætna began to caft forth flame and fmoke, with a moft horrible noife. At 4 in the afternoon the air became totally dark and covered with black clouds; and at 6 a fhower of stones, each about 3 ounces weight, began to fall all over Malcali and its whole neighbourhood, and lafted till a quarter after feven. These were fucceeded by a fhower of black fand, which continued all night. Next morning at 8, there fprung from the bottom of the mountain, as it were, a river of water, which in half a quarter of an hour overflowed the rugged lands near the foot of the hill, to a confiderable diftance, and upon its going off levelled all the inequalities, and made the whole a large plain of fand. A country fellow by touching the water, fcalded his fingers. The ftones and fand which remain have the faltnefs of thofe of the fea. After the flux of the water there iffued from the fame aperture Imall stream of fire for 24 hours. On the third day, about a mile below this, there arose another ftream of fire, 400 feet broad, like a river, overflowing the adjacent fields, and a Fill ftill continues the fame course, having extended two miles, and feems to threaten the neighbourhood. XXXIV. Some account of the charr-fish, as found in North Wales. This fpecies is called Torgotch, or Red-belly, which diftinguishes the female; for the male has it not, but is marbled upon the back and fides with black ftreaks upon a kind of pellucid, light, fky-coloured ground. They appear only about the winter folftice, and their stay is but short. Three lakes, or large pools, at the foot of Snowden affording them fubfiftence; 'tis a common thing to take 20 or 30 dozen of them in a night in this place with one net, and scarce ten any where elfe. After Christmas they are feen no more till the following feafon. The fhortnefs of their stay in the abovementioned waters is made fome amends in a pool called Quellyn; for here the Charts appear prefently after Christmas, and fome, tho' very few, at Midfummer. The whole number taken in the two pools of Llanberries does not amount to 100 dozen. XXXV. A method propofed to reftore the hearing, when injured from an obftruction of the Tuba Euftachiana. By Mr. Jonathan Wathen, furgeon in Devonshire Square. This method was fome time ago propofed to the Royal Academy of Sciences by Monf. Guyot, but was rejected. Mr. Wathen firft introduced a probe, a little bent at the end, thro' the nofe into the tubes of feveral dead fubjects, and having thus acquired a facility, did the fame on a perfon that was very deaf, and on whom all other means had proved ineffectua!. No fooner was the probe withdrawn, than he said he could hear much better. This excited his further endeavours, fo that he had pipes of different fizes adapted to a fyringe, with which he has fince injected the meatus internus with fuccefs. XXXVI. Tentamen chemicum de calcis vive actione in falem volatilem alcalinum, a Johanne Alberto Schloffer, Ultrojectino, M. D. This is a very long paper, full of experiments, which require a very nice and exact encheirefis, and therefore muft needs fuffer greatly by any abridgment that can be comprized within our bounds. XXXVII. An account of a very remarkable cafe of a boy, who notwithstanding that a confiderable part of his inteftines were forced out, and cut off, recovered, and continues well. By Mr. John Needham, of North Waltham, Norfolk, Jan. 3, 1755, Mr. Needham was called to John Watts, a boy aged 13 years, who was overturned in a cart; and thrown flat upon his face, with the edge of one fide of the cart, (bottom upwards) whelmed across his loins. Thus he continued a good while and was found with a very large portion of the inteftines forced out at the anus, with part of the mesentery, and fome loose pices of fat (which Mr Needham took to be part of the cawl) hanging down below the hams double like the reins of a bridle, very much diftended and inflamed. He had a continual naufea, violent reachings, and threw up every thing he took. His pains exquifite, attended with convulfions, his pulfe low and quick, and he had frequently cold fweats. The parts were reduced, but to no purpofe, the vomiting forcing them out again. Next day the fymptoms were worle. and the parts livid and black, with ftrong figns of a mortification. On the third day Mr. Heath cut off the intestine and mefentery clofe to the anus, He had no ftool fince the accident, but soon after the operation there was a very large discharge of blackish and extremely offenfive faces, which continued for feveral days, leffening by degrees. He foon grew eafy, and the naufea and vomitting abated. He took tincture of the bark twice a day, and now and then vinous tincture of rhubarb, when he |