that have been dispatched by the Court of ARTICLE V. The prefent Convention fhall be approved and ratified by his Britannick Majefty and by his Catholick Majefty; and the Ratifi. cations thereof shall be delivered and exchanged at London within the Space of fix Weeks, or fooner, if it can be done, to be reckoned from the Day of the signing. B the Chamber of Accounts who shall be im mediately infracted to begin the Confer ences: And whereas it has been agreed by the 3d Article of the Convention figned this Day, that the Sum of Ninety five thousand Pounds Sterling, is duc, on the Part of Spain, as a Balance to the Crown and Subjects of Great Britain, after Deduction made of the Demands of the Crown and Subjects of Spain; his Catholick Majefty shall cause to be paid at London, within the Term of four Months, to be reckoned from the Day of the Exchange of the Ra Money, the abovementioned Sum of Ninety tifications, or fooner if it be poffible, in five thousand Pounds Sterling, to fuch Per Jons as shall be authorized, on the Part of his Britannick Majefty, to receive it. in Witness whereof, We the underwrit-W ten Minifters Plenipotentiaries of his Britannick Majefly and of his Catholick Ma July, by Virtue of our Fill Powers have figned the prefent Convention, and caused the Seal of our Arms to be affixed thereto. Done at the Pardo the 14th Day of January 1739. B. Keene. S. de la Quadra. Firft feparate Article. Whereas it has been agreed by the first Article of the Convention, figned this Day, between the Minifters Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain and Spain, that there jhall be named on the Part of their Britannick and Catholick Majesties refpectively, immediately after the Signing the abovefaid Convention, two Minifters Plenipotentiaries, who shall meet at Madrid within the Space of fix Weeks, to be reckoned from the Day of the Exchange of the Ratifications; their faid Majefties, to the End that no Time may be lost in removing, by a folemn Treaty, which is to be concluded for that Purpoje, all Caufe of Complaint for the Future, and in establishing thereby, a perfect good Understanding, and a lafting Friendship, between the two Crowns, have named, and do by these Prefents name, viz. bis Britannick Majesty, Benjamin Keene, Efq, his faid Majefi's Minifler Plenipoten riary to his Catholick Majefty, and Abraham Cattres, Efq; his faid Britannick Majefty's Conful General at the Court of his Catholick Majefty, his Plenipotentiaries for that Purpose; and his Catholick Majelly, Don Jofeph de la Quintana, his Counsellor in the fupreme Council of the Indies, and Don Stephen Jofeph de Abaria, Knight of the Order of Calatrava, Counsellor in The fame Council, and Superintendant of D F Second feparate Article. Hereas the underwritten Minifters Plenipotentiaries of their Britannick and Catholick Majefties have this Day figned, by Virtue of full Powers from the Convention for fettling and adjusting all "Kings their Mafters for that Purpose, a of Great Britain and Spain, on Account of the Demands, on each Side, of the Crowns Seizures made, Ships taken, &c. ard for the Payment of a Balance that is thereby due to the Crown of Great Britain, it is declared, that the ship called the Succefs, which was taken on the 14th Day of April 1738, as he was coming out from the Ifland of Antigua, by a Spanifli Garda Čofta, and carried to Porto Rico, is not comprebended in the aforesaid Convention; and his Catholick Majefty promises, that the faid Ship and its Cargo fhall be forthwith reftored, or the just Value thereof, to the lawful Owners; provided that, previous to the Reftitution of the said Ship the Succels, the Perfon or Perfons interested therein do give Security at London to the Satisfaction of Don Thomas Geraldino, his ČatkoLick Majefty's Minifter Plenipotentiary, to abide by what shall be decided thereupon by the Ministers Plenipotentiaries of their faid Majeflies, that have been named for finally fettling, according to the Treaties, the Dif putes which remain to be adjusted between the two Crowns; and his Catholick Ma jelly agrees, as far as fhall depend upon him, that the abovementioned Ship the Succels shall be referred to the Examination and Decifion of the Plenipotentiaries; his Britannick Majefty promises likewife to refer, as far as fhall depend upon him, to the DH cifion of the Plenipotentiaries, the Brigantine Sta. Therefa, feized in the Port of Dublin in Ireland, in the Year 1735. And the faid underwritten Minifters Plenipotentiaries declare by these Presents, that the G A d'Article of the Convention figned this Catholick Majefty, and his first PlenipoDay, does not extend, nor fhall be conftrued tentiary for the Convention which is to extend to any Ships or Effects that may treating with the King of England, by have been taken or feized fince the 10th Order of his Sovereign, and inConfequence Day of December 1737, or may be here- of his repeated Memorials and Conferafter taken or feized, in which Cafes Ju- ences that have pafs'd with Don Benjamin ffice fhall be done according to the Treaties, Keene, Minifter Plenipotentiary of his as if the aforefaid Convention had not been Britannick Majefty, and having agreed made; it being however understood, that therein, with reciprocal Accord, that the this relates only to the Indemnification and prefent Declaration fhall be made as ef Satisfaction to be made for the Effects feiz- fential and precife Means to overcome ed, or Prizes taken, but that the Decifion the fo much debated Difputes, and, in of the Cafes, which may happen, in order order that the faid Convention may be to remove all Pretext for Difpute, is to be figned, does declare, in due Form, that referred to the Plenipotentiaries, to be de- B his Catholiek Majefty referves to himself, termined by them according to the Treaties. in its full Force, the Right of being able Thefe feparate Articles fhall have the to fufpend the Affiento of Negroes, and fame Force as if inferted Word for Word in for difpatching the neceffary Orders for the Convention figned this Day: And fhall the Execution thereof, in cafe the Combe ratified in the fame Manner. pany does not fubject herfelf to pay, within a fhort Term, the 68000l. Sterling, which fhe has confefs'd is owing on the Duty of Negroes, according to the Regulation of 52 d. per Dollar, or on the Profits of the Ship Caroline; and likewife declare, that under the Validity and Force of this Proteft, the figning of the faid Convention may be proceeded on, and in no other Manner. Wherefore, upon this firm Suppofition, and that it may, not be eluded on any Motive or Pretext whatsoever, his Catholic Majefty has been induced thereto. In Witness whereof, We the underwritten Minifters Plenipotentiaries of his Bri- C tannick Majefty, and of his Catholick Majefty, by Virtue of our full Powers, have figned the Prefent Separate Articles, and have caufed the Seals of our Arms to be affixed thereto. At the Pardo, Jan. 14, 1739. B. Keene, Sebaftian de la Quadra. The Convention and feparate Article, D were ratify'd under the Hand of his Britannick Majefty, Jan. 24; and of his Catholick Majefty January 15. N. S. 1729, and were concluded pursuant to full Powers dated at St James's Nov. 9, 1738, at the Pardo, January, 10, 1739. F The foregoing, Convention and Separate E Articles, with the full Powers for ligning them, and the Ratifications, have been laid before both Houfes of Parliament, for their, Confideration, and are fince publifhed by Authority, in French, Spanish and English, and part in Latin. It being vehemently fufpected by the Patriots that all the Papers relating to this Convention were not brought upon the Tap's, we hear that a certain Perfon of great Rank did acknowledge, being clofely prefs'd to it, that his Catholic Majefty had signed another Paper, which only concerning the South Sea Company, it was not thought neceflary to be exhibited; this Circum. ftance raifed the Curiofity of all People, and as the late Ld Bke is faid to have obtained a Copy of the Convention, or at least all the Articles, before it was figned in Form; fo the following has been handed about as a Copy of the Declaration made on the Part of the King of Spain, before he ratify'd the Convention. DON Sebaftian de la Quadra, Counfeland firft Secretary of State of his lor G H Pardo, 10th of Jan. 1739. Dan Sebaftian de la Quadra. The State of the Cafe of the South Sea Company as difcourfed without Doors, with regard to the Convention and De claration, before cited, and to the Arti cle which is to be fettled by a particular Negotiation. the Year 1737, Sir Thomas FitzGerald, the Spanish Minister at London, having fettled Accompts with that Company there, he claimed a Balance of 60,000l. Sterling due to the Catholick King; but the Company refufed to pay that Sum, on Account of the Difficulties ftarted concerning the Dispatching of the Schedules. By the Convention fign'd at London the 9th of September laft, it was ftipulated his Catholick Majefty fhould give the two Schedules that were not granted in 1717 and 1727. As the Company infift that they have fuffered great Damage on thefe Occafions, they demanded that, befides two Schedules, they might keep the 60,000l. Balance due to Spain as an Equivalent for their Loflès; and moreover, that his Catholick Majefty fhould Indemnify the Owners of the Ships taken by his Guarda Coftas. This Arti cle H HAAVE, from p. 37. AVING now exhaufted his Fortune in the Purfuit of his Studies, he found the Neceflity of applying to fome Profeffion, that, without engroffing all his Time, might enable him to fupport himself, and having obtained a very c uncommon Knowledge of the Mathemarick, he read Lectures in thofe Sciences to a felect Number of young Gentlemen in the University. At length, his Propenfion to the Study of Phyfick grew too violent to be refifted, and, though he still intended to make Divinity the great Employment of his D Life, he could not deny himself the Satisfaction of spending fome Time upon the Medical Writers, for the Perufal of which he was fo well qualified by his Acquaintance with the Mathematicks and Philofophy. But this Science correfponded fo much E with his natural Genius, that he could not forbear making that his Bufinefs which he intended only as his Diversion, and still growing more eager, as he advanced further, he at length determined wholly to mafter that Profeffion, and to take his Degree in Phyfick, before he engaged in the Duties of the Ministry. It is, I believe, a very just Observation, that Men's Ambition is generally propor tioned to their Capacity. Providence feldom fends any into the World with an Inclination to attempt great Things, who have not Abilities likewife to per form them. To have formed the Defign of gaining a compleat Knowledge of Me. dicine by way of digreffion from Theological Studies, would have been little lefs than Madness in moft Men, and would have only expofed them to Ridicule ard Contempt.But Beerhaave was one of those mighty Geniuses, to whom fcarce any thing appears impoffible, and who think nothing worthy of their Efforts but what appears infurmountable to common Understandings. He begun this new Courfe of Study by F G H a diligent Perufal of Vefalius, Bartholine and Fallopius; and to acquaint himself more fully with the Structure of Bodies, was a conftant Attendant upon Nuck's publick Diflections in the Theatre, and himself very accurately infpected the Bodies of different Animals. Having furnish'd himself with this preparatory Knowledge, he began to read the ancient Phylicians in the order of Time, purfuing his Enquiries downwards from Hippocrates thro' all the Greek and Latin Writers. Finding, as he tells us himself, that Hippocrates was the original Source of all Medical Knowledge, and that all the later Writers were little more thanTranscribers from him, he returned to him with more Attention,and spent muchTime in making Extracts from him, digefting his Treatifes into Method, and fixing them in his Mc mory. He then defcended to the Moderns, among whom none engaged him longer, or improved him more, than Sydenham, to whofe Merit he has left this Attestation, that he frequently perused him, and always with greater Eagernels. His infatiableCuriofity after Knowledge engaged him now in the Practice of Chymistry, which he profecuted with all the Ardour of a Philofopher, whose Industry was not to be wearied, and whofe Love of Truth was too strong to fuffer him to acquiefce in the Reports of others. Yet did he not fuffer one Branch of Science to withraw his Attention from others: Anatomy did not withhold him from Chymistry, nor Chymistry, enchan ting as it is, from the Study of Botany, in which he was no lefs skilled than in other Parts of Phyfick. He was not only a careful Examiner of all the Plants in the Garden of the University, but made Excurfions for his further Improvement, to the Woods and Fields, and left mo Place unvifited where any Increase of Bo tanical Knowledge could be reasonably hoped for. In conjunction all thefe Enquiries he ftill purfued his Theological Studies, and fill, as we are informed by himself, propofed, when he had made himself Mafter of the whole Art of Phyfick, and obtained the Honour of a Degree in that Science, to petition regularly for a Licence to preach, and to engage in the Cure of Souls, and intended in his Theclogical Exercife to difcufs this Question, Why so many were formerly converted to Chriftianity by illiterate Perfons, and so few at prefent by Men of Learning. The LIFE of Dr BOERHAAVE. In purfuance of this Plan, he went to Hardewich, in order to take the Degree of Doctor in Phyfick, which he obtained in July 1693, having performed a publick Difputation, de utilitate explorandorum excrementorum in ægris, ut fignorum. A Then returning to Leiden, full of his pious Defign of undertaking the Miniftry, he found to his furprise unexpected Ob. ftacles thrown in his Way, and an Infinuation difperfed through the University, that made him fufpected, not of any flight Deviation from received Opinions, not of any pertinacious Adherence to his own Notions in doubtful and difputable B Matters, but of no less than Spinoffm, or in plainer Terms of Atheism itself. How fo injurious a Report came to be raifed, circulated and credited will be doubtless very eagerly inquired: We shall therefore give the Relation, not only to fatisfy the Curiofity of Mankind, but to Thew that no Merit, however exalted, is exempt from being not only attacked but wounded by the most contemptible WhifThose who cannot ftrike with pers. Force, can however poyson their Weapon, and, weak as they are, give mortal Wounds, and bring a Hero to the Grave: So true is thatObservation, that many are able to do hurt, but few to do good. This deteftable Calumny owed its Rife to an Incident from which no Confequence of Importance could be poffibly apprehended. As Boerhaave was fitting in a common Boat, there arofe a Converfation among the Paffengers upon the impious and pernicions Doctrine of Spinofa, which, as they all agreed, tends to the utterOverthrow of allReligion. Boerhaave fat, and attended filently to this Difcourfe for fome time, till one of the Company, willing to diftinguish himself by his Zeal, inftead of confuting & Pofitions of Spinofa by Argument, begun to give a loose to contumelious Language, and virulent Invectives, which Boerhaave was fo little pleased with, that at last he could not forbear asking him, whether he had ever read the Author he declaimed against. 73 Days, it was the common Conversation It was in vain that his Advocates and Friends pleaded his learned and unanfwerable Confutation of all atheistical Opinions, and particularly of the Syftem of Spinofa, in his Difcourfe of the Diftinction between Soul and Body. Such Calumnies are not easily fupprefs'd, when they are once become general. They are kept alive and fupported by the Malice of bad and fometimes by the Zeal of good Men, who, though they do not abfolutely be lieve them, think it yet the fecurelt Method to keep not only guilty but fufpected Men out of publick Employments, upon this Principle, That the Safety of Many is to be preferred before the Advantage of Few. Boerhaave finding this formidable OpCpolition railed against his Pretentions to Ecclefiaftical Honours or Preferments, and even against his Delign of afluming the Character of a Divine, thought it neither neceffary nor prudent to itruggle with the Torrent of popular Prejudice, as he was equally qualified for a Profeffion, not indeed of equal Dignity or Importance, but which muft undoubtedly claim the fecond Place among thofe which are of the greatest Benefit to Mankind. D E He therefore applied himself to his Medical Studies with new Ardour and Alacrity, reviewed all his former Obfervations and Enquiries, and was continually employed in making new Aequisitions. (To be continued.) 114. The APOTHEOSIS of MILTON, WHILE I was intent in obferving The Orator, not being able to make much Anfwer, was checked in the midit G of his Invectives, but not without feeling a fecret Refentment against the Perfon who had at once interrupted his Harangue, and expofed his Ignorance. This was obferved by a Stranger who. was in the Boat with them; he enquired of his Neighbour the Name of the young Man, whofe Question had put an End to the Discourse, and having learned it, fet it down in his Pocket-book, as it appears, with a malicious Delign, for in a few H manly Look, diftinguifh'd more by his modeft Behaviour than by his Drefs, leaning over the Back of Dryden's Seat, but ftanding without the Rail which inclus'd the Aflembly. As there was fomewhat ftriking in his Afpect, I examined his Features more narrowly, and found them variously affected according as he threw his Eyes upon the different Members, fo that he feem'd feverally to affume their molt diftinguishing Characters. Dryden at this Time accidentally rofe from his Seat, and turning round discover'd this extraordinary Perfon. He then took him by the Hand with great Affection, and tho' the other feemed much to decline it, led him about to the Bar of the Rails, where the other Members enter'd. Lobferv'd K B Regard which those I have already men tioned expreffed for their Perfons. When they were all feated, a profound Silence enfued, which was broken by the Prefi dent, who declared the Occafion of their meeting, and enlarged, with great Eloquence, upon the fine Qualifications, the He Learning and the Genius of Milton. obferved that the Works of that great Man had equalled the Reputation of Eng land for Poetry, to the Acme of that of Greece and Italy in the most flourishing Periods of their Glory; that even in the higheft Species of that divine Art, he excelled their most admir'd Writers, as much as the Difficulty of doing Juftice to the Nature of Angels, is greater than that of celebrating the Courage, the Wisdom, or the Piety of Mortals. He then gently touch'd upon the Ingratitude of his Coun try, which had fuffer'd the Memory of a Man to whom Greece in her most enlight ned State would have decreed public Honours, to pafs fo long without a Mo nument; that had it not been for the generous Concern of one Person now among Living, Milton might perhaps never have had any other Monument than $ of his own immortal Writings. Thefe were, indeed, fufficient to recommend his Merit, but infufficient to vindicate the Gratitude of his Country; till of late the Perfon he had already mention'd, had in fome meafure wiped away that Imputation by one Act of private Munificence, which, for the Honour of Britain, he could with had been the Effect of Public Spirit. He then obferv'd that Milton had now a Right to a Seat in that Affembly, and that however illuftrious it already was, they could not but be fenfible, that it must receive an additional Degree of Dignity by the Admiffion of fo eminent a Member, and that therefore he hoped it would meet with no Obitacle. ferv'd Dennis, who had now reaffum'd He F The few Seats that now remained, were filled 'by Members, who feemed to be remarkable for nothing fo much as the H When the President had finished his Speech, Mr Cowley stood up. At first his Air was modeft, if not bashful; but as he proceeded he gathered Affurance, till at laft he rofe into a great Dignity both of Action and Language. He faid that he was extremely fenfible of the Truths which the venerable President had advanced in Favour of Miltor, and that if he were to be regarded only as a Poet, no Member should be more ready to give his Voice for the Admiffion of that great Man than himself; but that he humbly conceived the moral, as well as the intellectual Qualifications, were neceffary in a Member of that Aflembly. That Loyalty and Duty to one's Prince may be justly tank'd amongst the most eminent of all Virtues, |