Engine for raifing Ballaft Since the palling of the act, the pro prietors have compleated an engine in its proper magnitude, which in various experiments has fully anfwer'd its defign. Description of the Engine, as it appears fixed to the fide of a small ship in the Thames, a Little below Westminster Bridge. The axis which goes into the fhip, and on which the great wheel revolves. The frame that fupports the axis, one end of which frame is strongly faftened to the fide of the fhip by a kind of rail and brace, that projects about three feet, as is feen un der bb on the left, juft below the trough. The great wheel that works the buckets, &c. The buckets, or rather fcoops, that raife the B 'ballaft, &c. thro' which a number of holes are bored to drain off the water from the foil or ballaft. Thefe buckets are food with iron, and held by forked fwivels fixed to the ends of long levers, and are capable of raifing 600 weight at a time... The fwivel joints, which give the buckets room to play, for the convenience of emp- C tying themselves. f A fpring that regulates the buckets, by which they are made capable of giving way in cafe of refiftance from any folid body too cumbersome to be raised, or too heavy to be -removed by their natural powers. Sliding joints, by means whereof and of pullies, communicating with the fpring, the D levers of the buckets are shortened or ex-; tended as neceflity requires. A fpout faftened to the outer frame, in order to carry the ballaft or foil into a barge that, is brought under it. i The trundle head, or lanthorn wheel, which Further Defcription of the Plate." defcribed.-Golden Horn. 25 The horn weighs 99 ounces and two drams, and confilts of two plates of gold, the inner one folid, and polished on both fides, the outer compofed of a number of rings. It measures two feet and inches Roman measure on the convex, and but two feet one inch on the concave, fo that a right line drawn from one extremity to the other, as from A to B, measures one foot 9 inches. The great mouth of the horn by which you drink, is a foot in compafs, and 4 inches in diameter; the little mouth is but 4 inches round, and Quere, How much it holds ? near an inch and half in diameter. This horn is furrounded, or, more properly, ornamented with 7 different circles, beautified with emblems and hieroglyphics. Wormias will have them fignify the miferies of human life, to and the means to avoid them. The little naked infant between_two cle, fhews that the beginning of human ferpents, which appears on the first cirlife differs but little from that of beafts. On the fecond circle you fee reprefented the exercifes becoming youth, as vaulting on horseback, and drawing the bow. The third circle reprefents the miseries of war, in which men tear one another in pieces like wild beafts. The fourth lets us fee the happiness of peace, by fhepherds taking care of their flocks, without fear of moleftation. By the fifth we learn that prudence, of which the ferpents are a fymbol, is neceffàry in human life. The fixth circle, by the eyelefs head with large ears, would perhaps let us know that it is fafer, in order to a quiet FIG gold, found in the road to Ripenlife, to be deftitute of feeing than of Fhearing. We fee alfo a flower de luce with points, and the figure of two crof fes; whence a curious perfon infers that this horn was made in the time of king Harold, under whom Denmark embraced Chriftianity, in the year 826; -but Wormius believes it more antient, G and extant at the time of the great in North Jutland, one of the Danish bi- which is faften'd by a fcrew, to pre- Frothon. Lattly, the feventh, by the fcattered bones, puts us in mind that death is the common lot of human kind. FIG. II. An awtient coin fent by a Correfpondent, desiring an explanation. Literary News for January 1752. Med in the Champant, theving fail trist, and the Tacobite Journal, his thi month made another attempt to e tabliti 26 COVENT-GARDEN JOURNAL, a new Paper. a news-paper, by prefixing an effay, and interfperfing occafional pieces of humour. ̓Αιεὶ νέον ἐρχομενάων. Some of them again fly abroad only every other day; fome fend forth their works once a week; others once a fortnight; and others more fparingly indulge us only at the end of every month with their labours. When I furvey all thefe wonderous works in my mind, I am struck with no lefs astonishment, than was the foreigner when he saw Leadenhall market; nor can I more conceive what becomes of all this quantity of paper, than he could find confumers for fo much meat. The same solution will indeed ferve us both ; for there are certainly as many b-ins in the world as there are mouths. Secondly, I believe it is ufual in all fuch crowds, to find fome few persons, at leaft, who have fufficient decency to quit their places, and give way to their betters. I do not therefore in the leaft queftion, but that fome of my cotempo. rary authors will immediately, on my A appearance, have the modefty to retire, and leave me fufficient elbow-room in the world. Or, if they fhould not, the public will, I make no doubt, so well understand themfelves, as to give me proper marks of their diftinction, and will make room for me by turning others out. B C E F Here, perhaps, I may feem to have advanced an argument against my own G appearance, and it will poffibly be faid, fince we have fo many, (perhaps too many) of thefe writers already, what need have we of adding a new one to the number? To this I fhall first give, the fame anfwer which is often made by thofe who force themselves into crowded affemblies, when they are told the place is too full already. Pray, gentlemen, make room for me; I am but one, Certainly you may make room for one More." 66 But, in fact, had the great numbers of cotemporary writers been any argument against affuming the pen, the world would never have enjoyed the works of that excellent poet Juvenal, who tells us, that they warmed in' a most prodigious manner in his time but, fo far from declining the poetical function on that account, he affigns this as the very reafon of taking it upon him -Stulta eft clementia, cum tot ubique Vatibus occurras, periure parcere charte. As to my brother authors, who, like mere mechanics, are envious and jealous of a rival in their trade, to filence their jealoufies and fears, I declare, that it is not my intention to encroach on the bufinefs now carried on by them, nor to deal in any of those wares which they at present vend to the public. Firft then I difclaim any dealings in politics. By politics be means only a certain great caufe between WOODALL OUT and TAKEALL IN, Efgrs; in which the nation is as much intereffed, as in the late contest between Kouly Kan and the Sophy of Perfia. Secondly, I renounce all pretenfions to deal in perfonal flander and fcurrility; a very extenfive article, and of which many of my brethren have been fo long in poffeflion, that it would be in vain for me to difpute their title with them. Thirdly, I do promile, as far as in. me lies, to avoid with the utmost care all kind of encroachment on that ipa-, cious field, in which my faid cotemporaries have fuch large and undoubted poffeffions; and which, from time immemorial, hath been called the land of HDULNESS. But there is another very good argument to quiet their apprchenfions; the, price of my paper being by half, or at leaft a third part, higher than any other., To affect, therefore, any fear of lofing their DRAWCANSIR at War with GRUBSTREET. 27 But the principal character by which he is diftinguished in this his paper is that of a juftice of peace; and probably his chief encouragement to this undertaking was, the opportunity which his office afforded him of amusing his readers with an account of examinations and commitments; the exploits which conftables and thief-takerst fhould at chieve by his influence and direction, and the fecrets of prostitution which fhould be difcovered by his penetration and fagacity. their customers by my means, is as abfurd, as it would be in the owners of ftalls, or wheel-barrows, to affect any jealoufy in trade of THE GREAT Mr DEARD. He then gives bis bookjeller's reafon for fixing the price of three-pence upon bis Journal, which are, that the paper and A print are more beautiful, and the matter is not only better, but at least double the quantity of any other; For to imagine, fays he, that it is any concern of mine, would be an abfurdity fo great, that I fhall not fufpect any of my readers to be capable of it. In an age when all B men are fo ready to ferve their country for nothing, I hope I fhall not be thought an exception. For my own part, I cannot be fuppofed, by an intelligent perfon, to have any other view, than to correct and reform the public; and fhould have taken fome pains to Co have prevailed with my bookfeller to diftribute thefe papers gratis, had he not affured me, that fuch an example would be of great detriment to trade.' In another part of this paper is An in-. troduction to a journal of the prefent paper war between the forces under Sir Alex. Drawcanfir, and the army of Grubstreet; in which he gives his reafons for taking the field, and enumerates his forces. There is alfo what the author calls modern hiftory, with notes variorum; in which General Alexander appears as a commentator on articles of news, and cloles the relation of almost every occurrence with an illuftration or remark, to which, in imitation of the Grubtrect journal, he has given the form of a conundrum or a pun.* D Last week was performed, with great applaufe, the tragedy of Cato, by the boys of F the free grammar fchool in Nottingham, and for their encouragement, a collection was made at the theatre, amounting to the fum of 90%.. 65. 6d. L.D.A. — I do not fee what encouragement this can give to boys to profecute their fludies; I would propose therefore to read the paffage thus: for their encouragement to become aftors, a collection was made, &c. A comedy, written in French by a lady, called Cenie, and tranflated by the Rev. Mr Francis, author of the tranflation of the works of Horace, is now in rebearfal at Drury-lane theatre, and will foon be acted. This comedy, which is of the genteel fpecies, without any intermixture of low characters, met with great fuccefs at Paris; ahd by its fate on our ftage will be feen, whether the English tafte can be pleafed with that kind of comedy, which, as it has no drollery, can never excite laughter.D.G. -That kind of comedy which has no drollery, is in truth no comedy at all. And fo is the caseat prefent; for this comedy (as I have beard) Laj pint to be a tragedy. G H IN his fecond paper there is a comparifon of the vices of the prefent times with thofe of antiquity; but the author has drawn fo immodeft a picture of fome enormities committed in Rome, On Monday morn, as Mr Holwell, one of Gravefend, his box was cut from behind the Eaft-India company's council, was going the coach, between Peckham and New-crofs. As this box contained many papers of conie-, quence, Mr Holwell difpatched a meflenger back to Governor Davis, who immediately. applied to JUSTICE FIELDING for advice. The JUSTICE fent for an old and experienced vernor's fervants to Peckham, and imagining Thief-taker, who fet out with two of the go-, the trunk was concealed near the place in which it was ftolen, as it cou'd not conveniently be carried off till night, he searched the adjacent ditches and fields, in one uf which it was found. He and his companions thencarried the trunk to an inn at Peckham, where, they were charged with having ftolen it, and delivered into the cuftody of a constable. The Thief-taker however at latt obtained his liberty, by means of a theriff's officer of Surry to whom he was known, and returned back to JUSTICE FIELDING, where he met Mr Holwell. The JUSTICE then wrote a letter to Mr Copeland, one of the magiftrates Suriy, acquainting him of the whole matter: with this letter Mr Hollwell fet out in a poft Chaife, and on his arrival at Pecklain, the two fufpected men were fet at liberty, and the trunk re-delivered to him. On the night of the thinft. Mr Carni, the high conftable of Walfer, with a warrant from juftice Fielding, formed a moit notorious bawdy-houfe at the back of St Clement's, and brought the mafter, with four young women, before the faid juftice. The youngest of thele girls was fixed on to give c vidence against the others, but could not be prevailed upon that evening; upon which the was confined feparately from the reft; and the next morning, being allured of never becoming again fubject to her late fevere tak mafter, the revealed all the fecrets of her late prifon-houfe, acts of prostitution, &c. The matter of the house was committed to goal; three of the women fent to bridewell, and the young girl was recommended by the justice to the parish of St Clements to be palled to her fettlement in Decorfpire." 28 Dr HILL'S Defence against DRAWCANSIR. that to veil it is moft for his credit and for the benefit of the public. A The Journal of the war is continued, and the neceffary difpofitions having been made, "We marched, fays the general, into Covent-Garden, and presently ordered a part of our army to file off to the right, and to fit down before the Bedford coffee-houfe. We doubt not but we have many good friends in the garrifon, and who are very defirous to admit our forces, but, as yet they dare not declare themfelves, being kept in awe by a ftrange mixed monfter, not B much unlike the famous Chimera of old: for while fome of our reconnoiterers tell us that this monfter has the appearance of a lion, others affure us, that his ears are much longer than thofe of that generous beaft. Be this as it will, as we are not yet prepared for an attack, yesterday, about fix in the evening, we blockheaded up the said coffee-houfe." This attack having been made upon Dr Hill, he publifhed the following in his Inspector of the next Thursday. "The author of Amelia, whom I have only once feen, told me, at that accidental meeting, he held the present fet of writers in the utmost contempt, and that in his character of Draweanfir he fhould treat them in a most unmerciful manner, He aflured me, with great civility, that he had always excepted me from the general cenfure; and after honouring me with fome encomiums which, as I neither defired nor deferved, I fhall not repeat, told me he hoped we should always be upon good terms. He proceeded to mention a conduct which would be, he faid, ufeful to both: This was the amufing our readers with a mock-fight; giving blows that would not hurt, and sharing the advantage in filence." "I hold the public in too great refpect to trifle with it in fo disingenuous a mann, and hope I fhall always retain a better fenfe of the obligations I have to it, than to return them with fuch an infolent deceit. I told him, that had he published his paper ever fo Jong without mentioning mine,it would never have appeared from me that any fuch thing had an exiftence; but, as he has now made fo formidable an attack upon me, it may be undcitood as a concellion, it I am filent." "Whom I flighted as an affociate, I cannot fear as an advertary. As Ï3 can entertain no dread of him in the capacity of a rival, I fhall give him E praife where he appears to me to deferve it; and as I must hold very cheap his power to hurt me by his refentments, hall as frankly declare my fenfe of his imperfections. The animadverfions on † paragraphs of news in his firft paper, had, in my opinion, their merit; there was humour in most of them, and in fome afmartnefs that approached toward wit: -and-if he will continue his attacks, and recover the fpirit with which he made the firft onfet, he will be the means of a general reform in these conveyances of intelligence. But tho' I think him equal, however, to this part of his undertaking, I can by no means allow him qualified for a writer of effays. He has convinced us that he is unmeaning, inelegant, confused, and contradictory. Harfher terms would be more expreffive of what might be faid on this occafion, but fuch reflect on those who use them." I own, that if we are to allow this Caefar the writing his own commentaries, the progrefs of Hannibal thro' Dthe Roman towns was not fo fwift as his thro' the yielding, the applauding ftreets of this metropolis.His conquefts are indeed as rapid, and have been performed with as much ease, as thofe of Bobadill in the play.-Challenge twenty of the enemy-kill them.-Twenty more-kill them.-Twenty more-kill them too. Such have been the victories of the Draweanfirian arms; fuch the prowess of the redoubted hero at their head: But, alas as like things will have a like fate, the glories of the one have as foon ended in a fmile of contempt, as thofe of the other in a cudgelling. and as to my head quarters at the Bedford, fince it is his own legions that have invefted the place, I cannot quarrel with his particular orthography of the word blockade." F Iain not infenfible of the advantage a continuance of a war with me would be to this general; but tho' it may be his bufinels to keep it alive, it is not mine. I have trefpaffed for once upon the patience of my readers, but have begun and ended my part of it at one blow, nor fhall any more trouble them. upon a fubject that has fo little claim to their attention: I have given my opiH nion of this author's writings, and his opinion, which as a man of honour he cannot recant, of mine; and I will have no more to do with him. An antagonist may be neceflary to him, but See the preceding notes, p. 27, col, 1. - A modern Gloffaryng Drawcanfir attacks Hill. him, and fo to betray the commadles, and it is not to me: abuse may be his talent, upon which his excellency fail and rebut however pressed for one day into the fmile, If the betrayer of a prive all fuffervice, it is not mine. He has procould ever deferve the leaft credit all find voked the lion, who has walked out of Lownefs bere muft proclaim him treets, his den, and paid him the civility that ther a liar, or a fool. None camwithin his brother favage did to the knight of La Mancha. He is retired back, after A but that he is the former, if benable this teftimony of the refpect in which feigned this treaty; and I think few of the he held him; and as he will not be ea- fcruple to call him the latter, if ben as fily prevailed with to match himself in rejected it. The general then deckuch that the fact ftood thus: His Low.unt fuch a manner again, the hero may, if faid he, came to my tent on an affair he pleafes, like his brother knight erbis own. I treated him, though a cota. rant, conftrue this difregard of his fumander in the enemy's camp, with civilif ture affaults into a victory." and even kindness. "I told him, with the utmost good bumour, I should attack his lion; and that he might, if he pleajed in the fame manner, defend him: from which, faid I, no great lofs can happen on either fide. This, the general declared, was all that paft; and added, with a little more bitterness than is ufual to him, that his Lowness was not only a mong the meaneft of those who ever drew a pen, but was abfolutely the vileft fellow that ever wore a head." SIR Alexander, in his third paper, confiders the qualifications neceflary in a critic. "It is the sentiment of Quintihan, lays he, that no man is capable of becoming a good critic on a great poet. B But, with refpect to fo grear a name C as that of Quintilian, this rule appears .to me much too rigid. It feems, indeed, to be little lefs fevere than an injunction that no man fhould criticize cookery but he who is himself a cook. To require what is generally called learning in a critic, is altogether as abfurd as to require genius. Why thould D a man in this cafe, any more than in all others, be bound by any opinions but his own? Or why fhould he read by rule, any more than eat by it? If I delight in a flice of bullock's liver, or of Oldmixon, why fhall I be confined to turtle, or to Swift? E The only learning, therefore, that I infift upon, is, that my critic BE ABLE TO READ; this is furely very realonable: for I do not fee how he can otherwife be called a reader; and if I include every reader in the name of critic, it is furely very jult to con- F fine every critic within the number of readers." In the journal of the war is the following paragraph, occafioned by the Inspector already quoted. IT being reported to the general, that G a hill mult be levelled, before the Bedford coffee-houle could be taken, orders were given accordingly; but this was afterwards found to be a mistake, a fecond exprefs affuring us, that this HILL was only a little paultry DUNGHILL, and had long before been levell'd with the dirt. The general was then informed of a report which had been fpread by his Lowness the prince of Billing gate, in the Grub-freet army, that his excellency had propofed, by a fecret treaty with that prince, to carry on the war only in appearance, againit H Since this fkirmish the Inspector has totally neglected his adverfary, who has been oppofed in the Drury Lane journal, faid to be written by Mrs Midnight; in an occafional journal, faid to be by Dr. HILL; in a narrative concerning Habakkuk Hilding, fuppofed to be written by the author of Peregrine Pickle, and fome other pieces, in which he is treated with the utmost wantonnefs of contempt; and as fome of these productions have had a quick fale, it may be inferred that the laugh of the public is turned against him. The fourth paper contains the following gloffary: A MODERN GLOSSARY. * "ANGEL. The name of a woman, commonly of a very bad one. AUTHOR. A laughing ftock. It means likewife a poor fellow, and in general an object of contempt. BEAR. A country gentleman; or, indeed, any animal upon two legs that doth not make a handfome bow. BEAUTY. The qualification with which BEAU. With the article A before it, means Any stick of wood with a head CAPTAIN. to it. and a piece of black rib COLONEL band upon that head. CREATURE. A quality expreffion, of low, contempt, properly confined only to the mouths of ladies" who are right honourable. CRITIC. Like bama, a name common to all human race, |