The LONDON MAGAZINE: T.Davies Or GENTLEMAN's Monthly Intelligencer. For OCTOBER, 1751. To be Continued. (Price Six-Pence each Month.) Containing, (Greater Variety, and more in Quantity, than any Monthly Book of the fame Price.) I. A particular Account and Description of STONEHENGE upon Salisbury Plain. II. Several curious Remarks in Mr. More's Travels thro' Italy. III. Duke of Dorfet's SPEECH at the Opening of the Irish Parliament. IV. Letter from a Lady to a young Gentleman, her Relation, on Marriage. V. Human Weakness, and knavish Flattery. VI. The JOURNAL of a Learned and Political CLUB, &c. continued: Containing the SPEECHES of T. Sempronius Gracchus, Julius Florus, and M. Fabius Ambuftus, on the Motion for an Address. VII. A Defcription of GLOUCESTERSHIRE, VIII. Hiftory of a Garret. IX. Letter of Diogenes the Cynick to Alexander the Great. X. Account of an Horse bit by a mad Dog. XI. Of the Royal Touch for the Evil. XII. A SUMMARY of the laft Seffion of Parliament, concluded. XIII. A Letter to a young Lady, on the Obfervance of the Lord's Day. XIV. A TYPE and Calculation of the Moon's Eclipfe on Nov. 21. XV. Remarks on Government. XVI. Death and Character of the Prince of Orange. XVII. Account of the Tobacco A&t. XX. POETRY: A Soliloquy, by a Gentleman on his Birth Day; Care and Generofity, a Fable; on the Death of a favou rite Linnet; Mally, a Paftoral; Liberty regain'd, an Ode; a Farewel to Chloe ; the Farmer and the Hare, a Tale the Highland Laffie, a new Song, fet to Mufick, &c. XXI. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER : Seffions at the Old Bailey: Malefactors executed; Affair of the Journeymen Taylors; Society of Antiquaries incorporated, &c. &c. &c. XXII. Promotions; Marriages and Births; XXIII. Prices of Stocks for each Day.. XXVI. A Catalogue of Books. With a New MAP of GLOUCESTERSHIRE, and a curi us VIEW of STONEHENGE, on SALISBURY-PLAIN, neatly ener ved on Copper. MULTUM IN PARVO. LONDON: Printed for R. BALDWIN, jun. at the Rofe in Pater-Nofter-Row. Of whom may be had, compleat Sets from the Beginning to this Time, neatly Bound, or Stach'd, or any fingle Month to compleat Sets. The controverfy about marriages is in no shape fit for our purpose. Crite was mistaken when ADVERTISEMENT. All Sorts of ALMANACKS for the Year 1752, will be published ТНЕ LONDON MAGAZINE. For OCTOBER, His Grace the Duke of DORSET, SHALL ever ef- A fincere zeal for his majesty's fervice, and for your profperity, fhall ever be the governing principle of my administration; and my perfect knowledge of your temper and D unanimity affures me, that we all meet with equal inclination to promote the publick welfare. The zealous concern that his majefty's faithful fubjects of Ireland have fo eminently fhewn for the prefervation of the crown, in his illuf- E trious houfe, leaves me no room to doubt, that you were deeply affected by the late publick lofs which these nations have fuftained: And you must be filled with the warmeft fentiments October, 1751. 1751. of reverence and gratitude, when you confider the greatnefs and the goodness of his majefty's mind, who immediately propofed thofe falutary provifions, which have fince paffed into a law, for guarding againft every remote danger, and for fecuring the people, as far as human wifdom could reach, against the coníequences of any fatal event. Gentlemen of the House of Commons, I have ordered the proper officers to prepare the feveral accounts and eftimates to be laid before you, as also a particular account of the money expended in repairing, rebuilding, or building barracks, purfuant to your addrefs in a former feilion of parliament. It gives me great fatisfaction to obferve the extraordinary produce of the funds which you have formerly granted, and I have nothing to afk but the ufual fupplies. I am commanded by the king to acquaint you, that his majefty, ever attentive to the eafe and happiness of his fubjects, will gracioufly confent, and recommends it to you, that fuch a part of the money now remaining in his treafury, as fhall be thought confiflent with the publick fervice, be applied towards the further reduction of the national debt. My Lords and Gentlemen, The two great objects which demand your constant and most serious attention are, the fecurity of the proIiiz teftant 436 ALETTER concerning MARRIAGE. testant intereft, and the advancement From the INSPECTOR, No. 197. A LETTER from a LADY to a young MARRIAGE. doubt but it was defigned by Providence to be the most agreeable state in nature: But we must remember, that fin has flained the beauty of the creation, and that the corruptions of the best things are the worst. No real happiness in this state can be expected without piety and great prudence on both fides. Tho' it may begin with the tranfports of the tender and pleafing affections, yet (without thefe qualifications) it will certainly end with all the fury of the B difcontented paffions. What a train of disappointments and vexations are to be expected in this ftate, in fpite of all our forefight and care! Befides, few men or women have fuch a fund of worth and goodness, as to ftand the test of a strict examination, when they are thoroughly known to one another, without leffening their mutual efleem; and when that is once loft, it will foon be difcovered by fome unguarded word or look; and then for ever C SAW your letter and Mr. ** anfwer to it; the purport of which was (as I remember) that he thought it would be most for your own advantage, and that of your D relations, to lay afide the thoughts of marrying, and apply yourfelf closely to your fludies for fome years longer. I know not how far this may agree with your own fentiments, but hope you will always remember, that God teaches and governs his rational E creatures by his Providence, as well as by his Word; and one of the ways of his Providence is the concurrent advice of thofe, who, being unbiaffed by paffion or intereft, fpeak the native dictates of reafon founded on experience; and he is neither wife F nor pious, who will flight fuch advice, or mifconftrue it. I myself was not married very early in life; but I affure you, I never repented my not engaging fooner in that difficult ftate. I am apt to think, that few men make fo good hufbands before as after thirty. There are fo many things neceffary to make a married ftate happy, that I am amazed to fee fo few perfons remarkably unealy in it. I make no G Farewel the tranquil mind, farewel content! The truce is broken, war open or understood enfues; and, after that, there is no remedy but death! for no reconciliation can be made that will last long. If two perfons, poffeffed of an unblemished goodness, are to be found, it is odds but that they are unknown to each other, or unfuitable in age or circumstances, or are prevented by relations from uniting fo that, in fhort, I look upon a happy match as a miracle of God's goodness. When married perfons might, per haps, live well together alone, officious friends on both fides make them often fick of each other: And then the opinion of the world must be confulted; for it is not fufficient to their fatisfaction, that they feel themselves easy in their own minds, unless others think they have made a happy choice. Judge therefore, Sir, if the thoughts of marrying are not enough to ftrike 1751 Human Weakness, and Knavish Flattery. a damp on the gayeft heart. I con- B 437 life was not to be devoted wholly to accumulation, and therefore refigned his employments, retired to his estate, and applied himself to the education of his children, and the cultivation of domeftick happiness. He paffed feveral years in this pleafing amufement, and faw his care recompenfed by its effects; his daughters were celebrated for modefty and elegance, and his fons for learning, prudence and fpirit. In time the eagerness, with which all the neighbouring gentlemen courted his alli. ance, obliged him to refign his daughters to other families; the vivacity and curiofity of his fons hurried them out of rural privacy into the open world, from whence they had not very foon an inclination to reCturn. This, however, was no more than he had always hoped; he therefore pleafed himself with the fuccefs of his fchemes, and felt none of the inconveniences of folitude till an apoplexy deprived him of his wife. I hope my advice will have fome weight with you; because God has been pleased to make me happy hitherto in the married ftate beyond my expectation, and, to the utmost of my rational wishes, I only give you the reflections of my mind on the condition of others, and not from what I myself have found. I likewife affure you, that I had the fame thoughts before I married as I have D now; and yet they had no worse effect on me than to temper my natural chearfulness with fuch gravity, as fome indeed, not all, difliked ; and fince I have avoided those rocks on which fo many have been fhipwrecked, I am the more difpofed to E be thankful and eafy at all times, and on all occafions. 1 am, SIR, &c. A. B. A true Picture of Human Weakness in the Story of THRASYBULUS, F and of Knavish Flattery in that of VAFER. T From the RAMBLER, O&. 5. HRASYBULUS inherited a large fortune from his ancestors, and augmented it by a mar- G riage with an heirefs, and the revenues of feveral lucrative employments, which he discharged with honour and dexterity. He was at laft wife enough to confider, that Thrafybulus had now no companion, and the maladies of encreating years took from him much of the power of procuring amufement for himself; he therefore thought it neceffary to procure fome inferior friend, who might eafe him of his œconomical folicitudes, and divert him by chearful converfation. He foon recollected all these qualities in Vafer, a clerk in one of the offices, over which he had formerly prefided. Vafer was therefore invited to vifit his old patron, and being by his station neceffarily acquainted with the prefent modes of life, and by conftant practice dextrous in bufinefs, entertained him with fo many novelties, and fo readily difentangled his affairs, that his prefence was thought the principal constituent of happiness, and he was defired to refign his clerkfhip, and accept a liberal falary in the houfe of Thrafybulus. Vafer had always lived in a ftate of dependence, and was therefore well verfed in all the arts by which favour |