We take the advice of Ebor in very good part; but he will be pleafed to confider, that though by the alterations which he propofes, we might please him; yet there are other Correfpondents who write with the fame profeffions of regard to us, that advife to the con trary. We must endeavour to fieer a middle courfe, and accommodate our publication to all. We have yielded to his folicitation for this month, in regard to the article of Mufic; and as it correfponded with the wishes of many others of our friends, have introduced a Map of the Ifland of St. Chriftophers, which we are forry that the recent misfortune makes so feajonable. The pieces tranfmitted by Clio, came too late for the prefent month; we shall attend to the request which he makes in his card. We with Sophia Eliza R. had made her defcription of Contentment lefs abftrufe. Poetry is not the worfe for being intelligible. The Cenfurer has defired us to do that as ftrangers which only can come with respect and benefit from the mouth of a friend, or of a tutor, to advise him on the propriety of publishing a volume of Effays. His acquaintance Horace, will give him a very fage counsel in his Effay on the Art of Poetry, and a very prudent one. We fincerely thank him for the Letters which he has fubmitted to our infpection, but they are too unfinished for the European Magazine, though not perhaps for the mifcellaneous prefs. The fong intitled Lord Sackville's Promotion, is too political for our ufe. The Lines of Eumenes, "written in the diffidence of modefty," will be inferted in our next. The Reflections of King Hezekiah in his Sickness, verfified by Mr. H. More, in our next. Our valuable Correfpondent Mater of Forty-Hill, demands our warmest thanks. The various pieces which he has fent us will be published as fast as poffible; but he will fee that for the purpose of variety, we must deprive ourselves of a part of the pleasure which we feel in obliging him. The Anecdote from Bath, refpecting the Highwayman, is not original. L's poetical pieces came to hand, and we shall infert thofe fugitive trifles which have not previously made their appearance elsewhere. The Letter of J. D. S. is more petulant than juft. The Hive was originally declared to be intended as a receptacle for the flowing wit and humour of the month. We by no means profelfed that the Bon Mots, jeu d'Esprit, and Epigrams, inferted in that part of our publication, fhould be original. We fhall be very much indebted to our Correfpondent W. for fending us the pieces of which he speaks. B. R. muft excufe us for not publishing his Letter. If we were to publish all the Letters of advice with which we have been honoured, we should have no room left for any other matter. His request however will be fo far accomplished, as we mean occafionally to give beautiful Views, Landscapes, and Nhips, inflead of the Mufic. Several other Letters and Effays are under confideration. Erratum in our lift. For Mifs Eliza Blown, author of George Bateman, read Mifs Eliza Blower. This Day is published, Price only Three-pence, or Twenty Shillings per Hundred. The HISTORY and the MYSTERY of GOOD-FRIDAY, LONDON: Printed for J. FIELDING, N° 23, Pater-nofler-Row, and THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, AND LONDON REVIEW; FOR MARCH, 1782. ANECDOTES of the Life and Public Services of the Right Honourable HENRY SEYMOUR CONWAY, General of His Majefty's Forces, Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Horfe Guards, and Governor of the Ifland of Jerfey. Embellified with a beautiful Portrait, taken from a whole length Picture, by Gainsborough, in the Poffeffion of his Grace the Duke of Argyle. H E is the fecond fon of the late Lord Conway, and brother to the prefent Earl of Hertford. In 1741 he was elected a member of the Irish parliament, for the county of Antrim; and in the fame year was elected a member alfo in the British parliament for Higham Ferrers. He has been chofen member of the Houfe of Commons in both kingdoms, in feveral Parliaments, though he is not an old man. In 1741 he was a captain-lieutenant in the guards, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1746 he was aid-de-camp to the Duke of Cumberland. In 1749 he was appointed colonel of the 48th. In 1751, he was made colonel of the thirteenth regiment of dragoons, and refigned the 48th. And in 1759 colonel of the firft regiment of dragoons. In 1756 he was made a majorgeneral; in 1759 a lieutenant-general; and in 1773 a general. He was fecond in command under the Marquis of Granby in Germany, laft war, and was in feveral actions, in which his acknowledged fkill and bravery were the fubjects of neral encomium. ge His civil appointments have been, one of the grooms of the bed-chamber to the late King, and to the prefent until April 1764, when he was removed both from his regiment and the bed-chamber, for his conduct in Parliament, of which hereafter. The late Duke of Devonshire, as a mark of his esteem and veneration for his virtue and integrity, and as a fmall recom penfe for the lofs which his virtue had occafioned, bequeathed him by his will five thoufand pounds. In July 1765, he was appointed fecretary of flate in the adminiftration of the Marquis of Rockingham, and in February 1766, brought in the bill for the repeal of the American ftamp act; which healed all the diflurbances at that time fomenting in America, and reftored a perfect union between Great Britain and the Colonies. Upon political grounds, and to fupport party views, this act of repeal has been reprobated; but experience has fince fhewn that the repeal was a right measure. The author of a late excellent pamphlet, entitled "A Letter to the Right Hon. "Charles Jenkinfon," thus fpeaks of it in page 46. "If a tax of three-pence per pound upon tea, was a matter "worth refifting, and America could be brought to unite against that paltry "fum, is it not more probable that the greater fum intended to have been le "vied by the ftamp-act, would have cre ated the like refiftance? There was "wildom Y 2 "wisdom in forefeeing the danger, and "there was wifdom in preventing it. If "the policy which dictated the repeal of "the flamp-act, had been continued, "Great-Britain and America would at this day have been a most happy, united, and flourishing people. By adhering to that policy in one cafe, and "rejecting it in another, which was ex"actly fimilar, we have given it a fair "trial; and may pronounce, what woeful experience will not now fuffer to “be called adulation, that the fupporters "of that policy were the trucft friends 66 to Great-Britain; to that union and reciprocity of interefts, which gave dig nity to our fovereign in the eyes of all "the princes of Europe; and magnanimity to our councils by a thorough "knowledge of the commercial foun"tains, from which our ftrength and refources flowed." 66 A little time after the appointment of Lord Townfhend, lord-lieutenant of Ireland (1767) he fucceeded his lordship as lieutenant-general of the ordnance, and refigned his poft of fecretary of flate. In February 1768, he was appointed colonel of the fourth regiment of dragoons. In October 1774, he was appointed colonel of the Royal regiment of horfe guards, which had been commanded by the late Marquis of Granby; and in 1772 he was made governor of Jerfey, upon the death of the late Lord Albemarle. In December 1747, he married the Countefs of Aylefbury, widow of the late Lord Aylesbury, and fifter to the prefent Duke of Argyle. In conformity to thefe principles, he has uniformly oppofed the hoftile meafures against America. And whenever he has thought it advifeable to propose a healing measure, he has never neglected to feize the opportunity. His bill for this purpofe, which he offered to Parliament in the year 1780, which, with the debate upon it, are to be feen in the Parliamentary Regifter, vol. 17, page 650 to 675, would, if it had paffed, it was univerfally thought, had the happy effect of restoring peace between Great-Britain and America. His late effort for the fame great and good purpose, it is earnefly hoped by every friend to the profperity of the British empire, as it hath net with a better fate in Parliament, will meet with fimilar and deferved fuccefs elfewhere. His endeavours for this laudable end, have ever been the ebulition of the pureft and moft honourable motives, a fincere paflion to ferve his coun try, and a real forrow for her misfor tupes. Upon his difmiffion from his civil and military employments in 1764, which was for his having voted against the then minifters, upon the great queftion on general warrants, the Hon. Mr. Horace Walpole wrote a very able tract in fupport of his character and conduct, which was publifhed by Mr. Almon, in the year 1764. The tract is not now to be met with, except in the libraries of the curious; therefore we fhall take the liberty of making a few extracts from it. It was an answer to a fcurrilous pamphlet written by one of the miniferial hirelings of the day which was called an Addrefs to the Public, Mr. Walpole therefore entitled his tract, "A Counter Address." "General Conway has gone through a regular courfe in his profeffion for feven and twenty years (this was in 1764) has been formed under thofe heroes, the Duke of Cumberland and Prince Ferdinand, has been engaged in fix regular battles, befides many fmaller actions. Though eminently diftinguifhed for his gallant and indefatigable behaviour by thofe illustrious princes, he has never had the happiness of atchieving any actions of remarkable eclat, alone. The author of these sheets has feen his folicitude for employment in the field, his thirst for fervice, but never knew him prefer himfelf to the meaneft officer in the army." Pages 6, and 7. "The voice of the nation went along with the conduct of Mr. Conway. They were and are fill of opinion, that general warrants are radically and alarmingly dangerous to liberty. They love the man who was ready to facrifice to the liberties of his country thofe emoluments, which he had obtained by defending it against its domeftic and foreign enemies: they regard him as a martyr to their freedom, and his confcience." Page 15. The minifterial writer having faid, "The army will not think themselves "aggrieved in this particular difmiffion; "the caufe in which this general was en"gaged related no way to their profef"fion." Mr. Walpole answered this paffage as follows: "Since the beginning of time, I believe no court cause was ever worfe defended. Whatever the minifters are, the officers I am fure must be men of very perplexed underflandings if they can for a moment be the dupes of fuch puerilities. For what is his argument? Officers cannot think themfelves aggriev ed, if one of their corps lofes his em ployment |