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For the OXFORD MAGAZINE.

A Catalogue of New BOOKS and PLAYS, juft going to be Published, and of the Names of their respective Authors.

THE Hypocrite, a farce—by his Majesty.

The Art of Breeding rabbets-by her Majesty.

A new ard expeditious method of learning to speak Greek with fluency -by the Prince of Wales.

A Differtation on the Church Catechifm, and on the mystery of playing at taw-by the Bishop of Ofnaburg. The Art of Drawing Corks-by Lord Weymouth.

A New Way to pay Old Debtsby Jolin Wilkes, Efq.

The Life of God in the Soul of Man by the Rev. John Horne. Maidenhood well loft-by Mifs Vanfittart.

The Vituous Wife-by Mrs. Bailey.

The Veftal Nun, a true hiftoryby Lady Harrington.

Laugh and Lie Down-by Lady Grofvenor.

The Devil to Pay-by Junius.
Wives Excufe, or Cuckolds make
themfelves-by Lord Grosvenor.
The Rival Millinersby Mrs.
Rheda and Mifs S-, in Bow-ftreet.
Wife to lett by Mr. Bailey.
Adventures of Half an Hourby
the Duke of Cumberland.

All for Love-by Mi's Hunter.
Wife's Revenge-by Lady Percy.
Platonick Love-by Mrs. Corne-

wall and Mr. Bradshaw.

The Petticoat Plotter-by the Princess Dowager of Wales.,

Fathionable Lady-by Mrs. Lef fingham.

The Clandeline Marriageby Lady Waldegrave and the Duke of Gloucefter.

The Forfaken Shepherdefs-by Lady Waldegrave.

Kiss my A—se is no Treason----by Lord Northington.

Tis an ill wind that blows nobody good-by Ceorge Bellas:

Vol. VII.

The Wolves guarding the Sheep-fold -by the Houfe of Commons. The Man after God's own Heartby Lord Sandwich.

The Fool of Quality-by the Duke of Cumberland.

The Court of Comus-by Mr. Rigby.

The Arcanum Magnum, or the three angles of a triangle proved e. ual to three right angles-by Dr. Goldfinith.

The Virtues of a Penfion explained and exemplified-by Dr. Johnfon. King and no King-by his M--y. Wit without Money-by Edmund Burke.

Money without Witby Sir Robert Ladbroke.

The Banquet of the feven wife men -by the protesting Aldermen. The wife Men of Gotha.n-by ditto. Neck or Nothing-by Lord North. The State Jugglers-by the Ministry. The Informer, or the way to grow Rich-by Sir James Lowther.

A Penny faved is a Penny Won— by Lord North.

The tame Hufband, or the Cuckold putting his Horns in his pocketsby the Duke of Gratton.

The Diftreft Lover-by Mr. Harris: The Art of Twifting--by Sher. Baker. The Art of Cringing-by Lord Barrington.

The Court Spy, or Tell-Talc—by Lord Burgherth.

The Complete Linguift-by Lord Suffolk.

The French Rake-by Ld. Rochford. The Lame Duck-by Lauchlin Macleane.

Ditto by George Dempster. Mifs in her Teens-by Sir George Colebroke.

The Muckworm---by Peregrine Cuft: Every Man his own Broker---by Judge Aton.

The Bediamite-by Mr. Morris.

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The Copy of a Letter from à Gentleman on Board the Endeavour-giving an Arcount of Captain Cook's Difcoveries in the South Seas, with fome particular Circumflances of the Manners and Customs of the Natives of Utahitée, Hou a Hanie, Bolobolo, and Unatecha, dated Woolwich, July 18, 1771.

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DARE fay that our long abfence ple are attended with many fervants, has greatly alarmed you for our who feed their mafters, dipping their fafety, as the viciffitudes must be ma- fingers every two mouthfuls into vefny in a voyage of three years, through fels with clean water. This is an idle feas where navigators have never had luxury, peculiar to this place. They any experience to be of the leaft guide have alfo plenty of yams here, and a to each other. After taking in our fruit of moft exquifite tafte, like the wines at the isle of Madeira, we fteered European apple, with a stone within it for Rio de Janeiro, upon the coaft of like a peach. The people are active Brazil, where we naturally looked for fishermen, and make all their lines of proper refreshments from our allies and grafs. There is a white hearn that friends the Portuguefe; but, to our un- frequents thefe ifles, which the inhabiexpected furprize, they even denied us tants call the bird of God; they pay thofe neceflary refreshments, the fhore, great refpect to it, nor could we fo fresh meat, and vegetables, treating us, much offend them as by fhooting it.--the time of our stay, with a crude jea- They have one particular belief in loufy, only fit to be fhewn the moft their religion, which would be a most daring and inveterate enemy. Eng- humiliating thought with us; they are land receives more insolence from these convinced that gentlemen in a future beggarly wretches fhe has repeatedly state will retain their rank---but that faved, than from any foe the ever yet fervants will ever be fervants. Moncontended with: I hope there will fieur Bougainville had been here become a day when they may have a mot fore us with two fail of fhips, and fevere chaftilement at our hands. brought the French disease among the We doubled the Cape with facility, poor people. He failed from this place but had nearly loft Mr. Banks and Dr. to Batavia, but made a fruitless voyage Solander at Terra del Fuego; who, as well as Capt. Wallace. We failed attempting to climb the mountains, from Utahitee to Hou a Hanie, which met with fuch severe cold, though the is the ifle of handsome women, and is middle of fummer, that two negro at- 45 leagues weft of Utahitee. Here we tendants died upon the expedition. continued a week; but our crew being From hence we fteered for Utahitee, in injured by the villainy of Bougain the latitude of 17 deg. 10 min. fouth, ville's people, the Captain would not and longitude of 150 deg. 32 min. weft fuffer them to go on thore. This ifle from the meridian of Greenwich, from is efteemed more fertile and more whence Mr. Green made all his calcu- whole fome than the reft; and I vow, lations. We continued here three with the greatest fincerity, that it juftmonths, and became as easy and family deferves the name; for I never beliar in the time as the natives of the climate, who are a kind of hofpitable, active, fenfible people. We married with their women, and enjoyed a felicity amongst them peculiar to the falubrity of fo fweet a clime. As for my part, I never relinquished a fituation with fo much grief and diffatisfaction. The ifle is well stocked with hogs, dogs, poultry, fish, and fruits; particularly the bread fruit, which, when baked is fuperior to any made with wheat. At meals the great peo

held fuch a beautiful race of women, fo elegantly limbed, and to divinely featured. About the fame distance from this ifle as Utahitee is, lies Unatecha and Bolobolo; the latter is diftinguished and dreaded by the inhabitants of all the other ifles, being near 80 in all. The natives of Bolobolo are a banditti who have been drove from other places for capital crimes; their punishments are only throwing then into the sea, and leaving them to gain fome fhore; and Bolobolo has

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Reflections on Goxcombs and Pedants.

been the place they have always escaped to. This island being more mountainous than the reft, they always escape to the hills whenever they are purfued, and without licence or fear invade the other islands, and carry off whatever they please. The name of a Bolobolo man is their greatest dread, and they repeatedly folicited us to destroy them with our guns. Whenever thefe villains take any prifoners, they always cut off their lower jaws, and leave the wretches to linger and die; and from fuch acts of fingular barbarity, they are a terror to the other iflanders. We coafted along the fhore of New Holland, which is rocky and dangerous, from 40 deg. of fouth latitude to 10 deg. running more than twice the fhip on fhore: The last time was very near being fatal to us---the ship making fo much water from the damage the received, that we were obliged to lay her on fhore, where the was neaped almost three weeks by the tides, and then we only looked at one fide; for when we arrived at Batavia, we found in the oppofite fide a large piece of coral ticking, which, if it had dropped out at fea, the fhip muft have foundered in an inftant. The favages were very troublelome upon New Hol. land, attacking us very often; and by fetting all the fea-grafs on fire round the hip at low water, they were very near burning the veffel, and blowing up all our powder. Upon this barbarous fhore we took an uncommon curious animal, which weighed upwards of 80 pounds; it was formed like a rat in the

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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of inite jeft, of most excellent fancy; he hath berne me on his back a thousand times: And now, how abhorred in my imagination it is; my gorge rifes at it. Here hung thofe lips that I have kiffed I know not how oft. ---Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your jongs, your flashes of merriment, that were wont to jet the table en a rear? Not one now to mock your own grinning! quite chap-fallen! Now get ye to my Lady's chamber,

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face, and run erect upon its hinder legs. The favages, by way of ornament, run fifh-bones through the lower part of their nofes, and are a warlike stout people, ever jealous of our encroachments; nor would they fuffer us to land without various attacks. Upon this inhofpitable fhore I shot a large dog, which, when we were at short allowance of provifions, we eat with great greedinefs, notwithstanding it had a moft fishy tafte---but hunger will bring the human ftomach to any repaft when deeply neceffitated, touched upon a fmall island called Suaba, about 14 days fail from Batavia, where we met with every fpecies of provisions in abundance, and where we met with the first miracle of this world---a country well inhabited, whereon fornication was never known. This chastity not entirely agreeing with our defires, we foon abdicated the virtuous Indians, for the fumptuous city of Batavia, which at this time was fo very fickly, that a thousand people have died in twenty-four hours. Great refpect was paid here to Mr. Green, by the principal people of Batavia, but no particular notice was taken of the rest of us by the Dutch. Could we have proceeded to the Cape of Good Hope without touching here, I don't believe that we should have buried above twelve people in this long voyage, wherein our fufferings have been beyond all belief; but I am determined not to flagger your credulity with any farther recitals or fufferings. of your affectionate.

MAGAZINE.

and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour the must come at last. SHAKESPEARE.

T is a thought which occurs very

fhould have been very happy to have lived in a different time from that which the Deity has affigned them; and that the company of Anacreon, Ovid, Shakespear, or Milton, would have been the only pleasure that they fhould have coveted; but as it is their N 2 misfortune

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Reflections on Coxcombs and Pedants.

misfortune to be born in fuch a barren ign. rant age as that in which they live, they must content themselves with the converfe of blockheads, and stoop to enjoy the lucubrations of thofe great men in print. This is an affectation amongst the most egregious dunces of my time, who treat every thing with contempt, to perfuade you of their fub imity of talte, and that their reading and fentiments are fo refined and pure, that it is an honour they confer on their fellow-citizens even to exist in this unequal and degenerate age. I own I have been highly diverted with various coxcombs of this turn, who, with out one real ability, have impudence enough to cenfure every thing that is prefented to their view, though perfectly divetted of taste, judgment, genins, or education. The TEMPLE at this hour abounds with fwarms of tuch Jiterary piginies I defpife fuch pedants, and thall continue to fcarify their follies, until I bring them back to reafon and decorum.

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meet with quick conception in the town, and perhaps circulate half the kingdom over before it is known to be a cheat, or, in the phrafe of the times, a humbug. I never knew a man who excelled fo largely in this fort of wit as Jack Gibe. He was indeed a fellow of infinite humour; and when death beck ned him to the Styx, we could better have fpared a better man. He was whimsical in his drefs, but not to please fo much any vanity of finguiarity, as to try how far he could feduce and allure the prigs of dress to adopt his whimes; by which means he weighed the external foibles of mankind. His hats he would change alternately from large to finall; his coat from a fhort wait to a long one; his fword from a ftiff perpendicular pofition to the horizontal; his buckles from metal to filver; and his hair from a queue to a large club. Thus JACK laughed away many of his days by discovering his power and fuccefs in fashions, and proving to a nicety how the coxcombs of the world may be led, like fimple fheep, by a bell-wcather of drefs.

His experiments were equally fuccefsful upon the credulity of mankind; nor was he out of the confpiracy of the bottle-conjurer, and the Cock-lane ghoft.

Every fenfible man knows, that this great Town is guided by whim and caprice; and that one man in twenty never dares to give his opinion of things of tafte, till he has heard it from a tenth hand, that Mr. Such-aone told Mr. Such-a-one, that Mr. Such-a-one faid,---" That JUNIUS was a capital writer." There are very few I have known this wag stand with his men who even dare to think, and lefs eyes fixed upon a chimney, and by dare broach their fentiments to the ear dropping broken expreffions--it blaz of the world; hence fenfible wags tooed, it finoaked, &c. gather round him often throw out an ignis fatuus to lead in a few minutes a crowd of people, the giddy and ignorant atray. I have whofe fancies would fo wonderfully known a fenfible fellow harangue in the operate, as even to confirm what he Bedford Coffee-houfe upon the capital had only fuggefted in humour and idea. performance of a player who had no Bot alas! he is dead, and light lie the theatrical qualification; and a fecond, turf that covers his corfe! with great fuccels, praife the productions of an author who had no merit at all; by which means he would glofs over a flabberer's oratory and a dunce's bad language; and the giddy blockhead, who comes to filh at the weft end of the town for literary gudgeons, gulps down the bait, and throws it up again with no fmall fuccefs in the City, ftamping the orthodoxy of his argu ment and intelligence, by faying, with a dab of an ipfe dixit, that Foote or Garrick faid it. Thus will a fallacy

There was one happy bleffing which Jack Gibe fuperlatively noffelled above his neighbours, and the happiest blef fing to adorn a man, and render fociety agreeable. He ever was ftudious to entertain, nor was he ever known, thro' the chequered viciffitudes of this fhifting life, to fay a thing to hurt, or even give offence: His delight and pleasure was to pleafe, and to keep foul and body in the most perfect harmony with each other. He was the firft to make up a quarrel, and always expreffed

A comparative View of Education, Ancient and Modern.

expreffed a moft fair and candid fatisfaction upon the felicity of his neigh bour. He was ever ready to affitt the weak and diftreffed, and had more heart-felt joy upon the relief of his fellow-creature. than the bitterett virago upon the completion of her rioft envious revenge. Jack had no guile in his nature, but was fenfible without art, and hone without pride. If mankind were in general as afiduous to give cach other joy, as they are defirous of creating torment, we thould enjoy the fummer days of the Halcyon, nor fgh for any other Eden but our own. But alas! there is fuch a diabolical propensity to envy and contradiction, that fome are rendered capitally miferable, by knowing the felicity of their neighbour.

But alas! poor Jack Gibe is dead, and all his wit and merriment are gone. He who used to let the table in a roar, is turned to earth; nor are his virtues fufficiently remembered make them practifed Could I by any

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rhetoric, or any pleafing recital, bring
my fellow-creatures to study the peace
and goodness of this life, and make
them return even good for evil, how
pleafed, how enraptured, would they
be with virtue, and how charmed with
a review of their own conduct. Would
our fenfual fons of Sloth and Folly look
into a church-yard, and obferve the
bones and fkulls promifcuously tum-
bled about therein, they would throw
their fopperies afide, upon a firm con-
viction, that they should return to this
diitreffing and unfavourable colour.
Ah! DELIA, DELIA, vain are your
arts of impofition! Behold that dreary
place of burial! where all your fop-
peries and falfe complexions must de-
cay.
cay. There the old, the young, the
rich, the poor, the weak, the strong,
the active, the lame, the wife, the
du, the plain, the beautiful, must
lie; and Lindamira, though the paint
an inch thick, to this favour must
come at last.

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A Comparative Views of EDUCATION, ANCIENT and MODERN.

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DUCATION creates the difference between one man and another. Plants are improved by culture, men hy education. We are born weak, we have need of help. Nature and habit are not to diftinct as is commonly ima gined. Part of our education we receive from Nature, part from circumflances. We are born capable of fenfibility, from our birth we are varioufly affected by the feveral objects which fucceflively furround us. Learn ing and Morality are closely connected. The improvement of the head infenfibly mends the heart.-Ignorance is the mother of Depravity. Young men ought to be instructed at the fame time, and by the fame means that they are diverted.

The wifeft ftates have been the most remarkable for making it part of their policy to take due care of their children, particularly felicitous about in filling early notions of religion and government. They well knew that on the first impreffions depended the fute course of life,

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They taught them to defpife danger, to love liberty, to fcorn lives preferved with infamy, to fupport the fhocks of fortune, to be happy in def pite of climate, either in Lapland or Japan.

The Perfian Magi were fo folicitous about their children, that they took precautions even previous to their birth. By mufic and amufements foft and innocent they entertained their pregnant women in perpetual ferenity and compofure, that the fruit of their affections might receive no impreffions, fave fuch as were agreeable, calm, and ferene.

By the laws of the Lacedæmonians the diet of children was plain and fimple, because their offspring were confidered as the property of the public. Nurfes durft not indulge them in their palates, or comply with their little humours. Their tender limbs were

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