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The miracle will then ceafe; and you will be convinced, that, with the fame application and attention to the fame objects, you may most certainly equal, and perhaps furpafs, this prodigy. Sir W- Y, with not a quarter of your parts, and not a thoufandth part of your knowledge, has, by a glibnefs of tongue fingly, raised himself fucceffively to the best employments of the kingdom: he has been Lord of the Admiralty, Lord of the Treasury, Secretary at War, and is now Vice-Treasurer of Ireland; and all this with a moft fullied, not to lay a blasted, character. Reprefent the thing to yourself, as it really is, eafily attainable, and you will find it fo. Have but ambition enough paffionately to defire the object, and spirit enough to ufe the means, and I will be answerable for your fuccefs. When I was younger than you are, I refolved within myself, that I would in all events be a fpeaker in parlia anent, and a good one too, if I could. I confequently never loft fight of that object, and never neglected any of the means that I thought led to it. I fucceeded to a certain degree; and, I affure you, with great eafe, and without fuperior talents. Young people are very apt to over-rate both men and things, from not being enough acquainted with them. In proportion as you come to know them better, you will value them lefs. You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that paffions and weakneffes commonly

that can, in the mean time, bring you fo well acquainted with them, as le Duc de la Rochefaucalt; his little book of maxims, which I would advife you to look into, for fome moments at least, every day of your life, is, I fear, too like, and too exact a picture of, human nature. I own, it feems to degrade it; but yet my experience does not convince me, that it degrades it unjustly.

"Now, to bring all this home to my first point, all these confiderations fhould not only invite you to attempt to make a figure in parliament, but encourage you to hope that you shall fucceed. To govern mankind, one must not over rate them; and to please an audience, as a fpeaker, one must not over-value it. When I first came into the Houfe of Commons, I refpected that affembly as a venerable one, and I felt a certain awe upon me; but, upon better acquaintance, that awe foon vanished; and I difcovered, that, of the five hundred and fixty, not above thirty could underftand reason, and that all the rest were peuple; that thofe thirty only required plain common fenfe, dreffed up in good language; and that all the others only required flowing and harmonious periods, whether they conveyed any meaning or not, having ears to hear, but not fenfe enough to judge. These confiderations made me fpeak with little concern for the first time, with lefs the fecond, and with none at all the third. I gave myself no farther trouble about any thing but my elocution and my ftile; prefuming, without much vanity, that I had common-Linfe fufficient not to talk nonfenfe. Fix these three truths ftrongly in your mind: firit, that it is abfolutely neceffary for you to fpeak in parliament; fecondly, that it only requires a little human attention, and no fupernatural gifts; and, thirdly, that you have all the reafon in the world to think, that you shall speak well. When we meet, this fhall be the principal fubject of our conversation; and, if you will follow my advice, I will answer for your fuccefs."

furp its feat, and rule in its ftead. You will find, that the ablest have their weak fides too, and are only comparatively able, with regard to the ftill weaker herd; having fewer weakneffes themselves, they are able to avail themielves of the innumerable ones of the generality of mankind: being now malters of themselves, they become more easily masters of others. They addrefs themselves to their weaknesses, their fenfes, their paffions; never to their reafon; and, confequently, feldom fail of fucce's. But then analyse thofe great, thofe governing, and, as the vulgar imagine, thofe perfect characters, and you will find the great Brutus a thief in Macedonia, the great Cardinal de Richlieu a jealous poetaf ter, and the great Duke of Marlbo-lords, in the abbey church of St. Peter,

rough a mifer. Till you come to know mankind by your own experience, I know no thing, nor no man,

Catalogue of NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SERMONS.

Sermon preached before the house of

Weftmipfter, on Monday, Jan. 31. 1774.
By the Right Rev. father in God Willam
Lord Bishop of Chefter. 4to. is. Payne,

Catalogue of New Publications.

Bishop Shipley's fermon before the fociety for the propagation of the gospel. 12mo. 2d. Whifton,

RELIGIOUS and ECCLESIASTICAL.

An attempt to ftate, in a fhort, plain, and impartial manner, the principal arguments which have been used in the controverfy betwixt the church of England and proteftant diffenters. 4to. Is. Dilly.

Queries relating to the Book of Common Prayer, &c. with propofed amendments. Addreffed to thofe in authority, and fubmitted to their confideration. 8vo. Wilkie.

IS.

The works of the late Rev. Mr. Robert Riccaltoun, minifter of the gospel at Hobkirk. Never before printed. 3 vols. 8vo. 18s. bound. Dilly.

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Miftakes in religion expofed in an effay on the prophecy of Zacharias. By H. Venn, M. A. chaplain to the Earl of Buchan, and rector of Yiling, Huntingdonshire. 8vo. 35. boards. Keith.

Solitary walks to which are added, confolations on religion, in the views of death and lofs of friends: a funeral addrefs on the late Rev. Edward Hitchin, B. D. with poerical meditations, written among the tombs. 2s. 6d. bound. Otridge.

Some account of the state of religion in London: in four letters to a friend in the Country, &c. 8vo. Mathews. Is. 6d

Chriftiani Cultus: or the ornaments of a Chriftian; being a collection of christian virtues and graces: alfo their oppofite vices, &c. By Hugh Stopley. 12mo. Is. Lane.

A reply to a late publication of S. Newton, of Norwich, intituled, An appendix, &c. In anfwer to which, it is plainly fhewn that the quakers are not calvinists, &c. By Jofeph Phipps. 8vo. 6d. Rich. ardfon and Urquhart.

A letter to a layman, on the fubje&t of Mr. Lindley's propofal for a reformed English church, upon the plan of the late Dr. Samuel Clarke. 8vo. 6d. Wilkie.

POLITICAL.

The right of the British legislature to tax the Colonies confidered 6d. Henderfon.-The author compares the Colonies to children who have gone out of their father's family, and procured an estate.

The right of the Colonies, and the extent of the legislative authority of GreatBritain, briefly stated and confidered. 8vo. 6d. Nourfe.

Colonising, or a plain investigation of that fubje, with a legislative, political, and commercial view of our colonies. 4to, 15. Brotherton.

Additional preface to a pamphlet, entitled, An appeal to the public on the fubject of the national debt; containing obfervations on the prefent ftate of the kingdom, with refpe&t to its trade, debts, taxes, and paper credit, 8vo. Cadell.

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MEDICAL and CHIRURGICAL. An account of the tefticles, their common coverings and coats, and difeafes to which they are liable, with the method of treating them. By Jofeph Warner, F.R.S. and fenior furgeon to Guy's hofpital. 8vo. 2s. L. Davis.

All the prefcriptions contained in the new practice of phyfic of Thomas Maryat, M.D. tranflated into English by J.S.Dodd, furgeon and man-midwife, &c. &c. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d. Kearly.

A defcription of the four fituations of a gouty perfon: evincing the danger of trufting the gouty matter to the care of nature. By P. de Vivigois, M. D. 1s. Wilkie.

An enquiry into the moving powers employed in the circulation of the blood; in a lecture delivered at Newcastle, the 28th of December, 1773, to a large company of the gentlemen of the faculty and others.. By Andrew Wilfon, M. D. 8vo. is. 6d. Dilly.

The medical mifcellany; or a collection of cafes, tracts, and commentaries; exhibiting a view of the prefent ftate of me. dical and chirurgical practice, and literature, in England. The fecond edition, with an appendix. By T. Tomiinfun. 8vo. 4s. 6d. boards. Baldwin.

DRAMATIC and POETICAL.

The fentimental fpouter: or young actor's companioa, &c. Scc. The whole comprifing the effence of theatrical delivery and the beauties of dramatic poetry. 12mo. Is. 6d. Wheble.

The South Briton, a comedy of five a&s, as it is performed at the theatre-royal in Smock alley, with great applaufe. Written by a lady. 8vo. Is. 6d. Williams.

Codrus: a tragedy. 8vo. 1s. 6d. John

fon.

Sethona: a tragedy, as it is performed at the theatre royal, in Drury lane. 8vo. Is. 6d. Becket.

Poems. 12mo. 25. fewed. Snagg. The inflexible cap ive: a tragedy. By Mifs Hannah More. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Cadell.

A familiar epittle to the author of the heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers, and of the heroic poftfcript to the public. 4:0. 1s. 6d. Wilkie.

Richard Plantagenet, a legendary tale, now firft published by Mr. Hull. 4to. 2s. 6d. fine paper, 2s. com. paper. J.Bell.

Poems, by Dr. Roberts, of Eton college. Royal 8vo. 4s. bound. Wilkie.

The patron: a fatire. 4to. Is. Flexney. Comedies of Plautus, tranflated into familiar blank verfe. By a gentleman who tranflated the captives. Vol. V. and last. 8vo. 6s. bound. Becket.

The eftate orators; a town eclogue. 4to. Is. Evans.

Faith. A poem. 40.

Poems, by Mr. Fenton of Barnard's-iun. 4to. 6d. Keafly. (See page 184.) The

182. Some Account of St. Catharine's Chapel, near Guildford.

The choice: a poem. By Sam. Rogers. Small 4to. 6d. Richardfon and Urquhart, The mufe in a fright, &c. A rhapsody, &c. &c. 4to. IS. Bew.

Louifa: a tale. By Charles Jenner, M. A. To which is added, an elegy to the memory of Lord Lyttelton. 4to. 2s. Cadell.

The progrefs of gallantry; a poetical effay, in three cantos. 4to. rs. 6d. Dodfley. HISTORICAL.

The history of English poetry, from the clofe of the eleventh century. To which are prefixed, two differtations, 1. On the origin of romantic fiction in Europe, On the introduction of learning into England. By Thomas Warton, B. D. FelJow of Trinity-college, Oxford, and of the focicty of antiquaries. Vol. I. 4to. 11. 1s. boards. Dodfley.

2.

A general view of the Eaft India company's fituation, fubmitted to the impartial Confideration of the public. By an old proprietor. 4to. 18. Wilkie.

The Roman hiftory, in a series of letters, from a nobleman to his fon. 2 vols. 12mo. 6s, bound. Snagg.

NOVELS.

The history of Agathon, by Mr. C. M. Weiland. Tranflated from the German original, with a preface by the tranflator. 4 vols. 13mo. 125. bound. Cadell.

The fchool for husbands. Written by a lady 2 vols. 12mo. 6s, bound. Bew.

The hiftory of Lord Stanton. A novel. By a gentleman of the Middle Temple, author of the trial or hiftory of Charles Horton. 4 vols. 12mo. 12s, bound. Vernor.

The trinket: a novel. By a lady. 2 vols. 12mo. 6s. bound. Lowndes.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Proofs of the reality and truth of lottery calculations, with obfervations on the Mufeum and Adelphi lotteries: likewife a plan, by purfuing which, two out of three adventurers will be fuccefsful, &c. By John Molefworth, Efq: late of Peterhouse co lege, Cambridge, and of the Inner Temple, London, Small 4to. 5s. Williams.

An historical account of coffee, with an engraving and botanical description of the thee. To which are added, fundry papers, relative to its culture and ufe, as an article of diet and of commerce. Published by John Ellis, F. R.3. agent for the island of Dominica. Royal 40. 3s. 6d. or 4s. 6d. with the cut coloured. Dilly.

Two letters on the late application to parliament by the diffenting minifters: one an addrefs to the diffenting laity, on the fubject of thefe applications; the other an enquiry into the lawfulness of the declaration propofed to be fubftituted in the room of fubfcription to the articles of the church of Eng and. By Jofhea Toulmin, A. M. 8vo. 25. fewed. Johnson,

A letter to the Right Rer. Father in Go William Lord Bishop of Chefter, on ocea fion of his fermon preached before the Houfe of Lords, Jan. 31, 1774. By Andrew Henderson, author of the Hiftory of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746. 6d.-In this letter his Lordship's affertion, that Scotland begun the war in the time of King Charles I. from mercenary views, and that the people were feduced into a rebellion by their nobility, is confidered, and refuted.

A candid state of affairs relative to EaftIndia Shipping, for the year 1773. Addreffed to the proprietors. By Sir Richard Hotham. 4to. 2s. Walter.

A difcuffion of fome important and uncertain points in chronology. In a feriesof letters, addreffed to the Rev. Dr. Blair, prebendary of Westminster. By John Kennedy, re&tor of Bradley, in Derbyshire. 8vo. 1s. L. Davis.

Mifcellanies of the late ingenious and celebrated M. Abauzil, on historical, theological, and critical fubjects. Tranflated from the French. By E. Harwood, D. D. Svo. 5s. boards. Becket.

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Mr. URBAN,

HAVE tent you a drawing of St. Catharine's Chapel, which I fhould be glad to fee an engraving of in your entertaining Magazine.

It is about a mile from Guildford, in Surry, delightfully fituated on a hill, in the road to Portfmouth, and has always been admired by travellers as a curious piece of ruin.

Mr. Hanway, in his Journal from Southampton to London, mentions it: "The ruins of St. Catharine's Chapel (fays he), on an eminence, are a very ftriking object. Of what antiquity this Chapel is, I could never difcover; but the materials of which it is built are faid to be hard as iron; and, to all appearance, it has stood the ftorm of ages."

This and St. Martha's Chapel, partly in ruins, at fome little distance, are fuppofed to have been built at the fame time; but there is no certainty. However, in the other divine fervice is conftantly performed.

Almost all hiftorians have, in their accounts of Guildford, made a miftake, in faying that from the shop. doors they could fee the executions of criminals on St. Catharine's Hill; whereas the hill on which the criminals are executed is diretly Weftward of the town, and St. Catharine's hill is South. I am

Your humble fervant,

Jan. 22, 1774.

ANTIQUARIUS.

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