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appearances? Our zealous patriots, politicians and bold commanders, would foon, very foon, be fpiritlefs and chopfallen, without all-powerful money's faTutary aid. Our dignified clergy would Toon relinquish preaching and praying were they deprived of its alliftance! Our gentlemen of the faculty would foon relax their purfuits and would not hurry themfelves night and day in attending their patients, where they not in hopes of obtaining this precious drofs! Our honeft farmers would never endure the toilfome labours of the plough. Our mechanics would never labour and fuffer fuch clofe confinement unless they expected money for their trouble. Our highwaymen would never run the risk of temporal and eternal punishment but for the love of money. In fhort, money is the only fpur to human actions. Our hangmen, common proftitutes and vagrants would no longer purfue their infamous callings witoout the reward of money! If fome fair one is fpoken of,

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it is generally inquired, is the poffeffed of money? then it immediately adds luftre to her charms! fymmetry in every part! O money! money! thou art the life and foul of all human exertions! from Majefty on the throne to indigence on the dnnghill; therefore it is by money that "We live, move, and have our being." It is money that makes the gentleman and not education, but money only! Such are our notions of the real worth and eftimation of money; therefore let us embrace it with the greatest avidity, as it is pregnant with every good. Such are my ferious thoughts on this fubject; but the reader whoever he is may make what application of them he pleafes, whether in an affirmative, or negative fenfe, but there is an old fashioned book which fome poor fearful, fools of read for their amufement, where it is faid "that money is the root of all evil.” ən (I fuppole it means if a wrong applicatio tion be made of it) Mr. Pope hath fung

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in his celebrated "Effay on Man," that

Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow." And I fay,

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want of cash we ne'er can make a show,o^? Its Money only makes the mare to go.

STAINDROP.

S. P. vou

WRONG-HEADED ZEAL confuted. An ANECDOTE. REVEREND doctor, extremely fe vere against all fectaries, in the reign of King Charles II. found, notwithstanding all his perfecution, that the diffenters increased upon him in his parish.But being perfuaded by fome gentleman, (or rather obliged after an Act of toleration to make ufe of gentler means, many. of them were brought over to the Church: the doctor, who was warm for perfecution before, and now as warm against it, went to pay a visit to a parishioner, a farmer, who was extremely hot, and in

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the flame of his zeal wifhed all the diffenters were to be banished the kingdom. The parfon (without correcting him for his uncharitable heat) first coolly afked him, What is the price of wool? So low, faid the farmer, that I shall not be able to hold my farm. He then faid, what number do you imagine there may be of thele fame diffenters, whom you would have banished out of the nation? I have heard replied the farmer, (and 'tis a burning fhame,) that there are at leaft 400,000: And thefe, faid the doctor, are generally the middling people; pray, did you never obferve how they are cloathed? Yes, yes, faid the farmer, they generally wear cloth of eight or ten fhillings a yard--Why then is it your opinion, faid the doctor, that the banishing 3 or 400,000 of these people would raise the price of wool? The zealot faw the force of the argument and was dumb, his interest cocled his warmth.

DARLINGTON.

D.

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N the year 1764. a curious repeating watch in a ring was made for his Majefty, by Mr. Arnold of Devereux-court, Temple-bar, London. This curious piece of mechanifm is lefs in circumference than a silver two-penny piece; it repeats the hours, `quarters, and half-quarters, and runs upon diamonds; the horizontal wheel and pinions are equal in weight only to the fixteenth part of a grain of gold, and the pendulum and fpring equal in weight only to the two hundredth part of a grain.

A Gentleman who arrived at Manchefter in 1772 had in his poffeffion a piece of writing, which for its minuteness, is not to be equalled in England, nor perhaps in the world befides:-'Tis in circumference the fize of a filver penny, and wrote with a pen, on one fide only, on which is contained at full length, without the least abbreviation, the Creed, the Lord's prayer, and ten Commandments, with the Grace of our Lord, &c. with about fifteen words more. The whole is wrote on fifty two parallel lines, contains 507 words, and about 2100 letters.

The following curious Articles were about thirty years fince exhibited at Stockton-upon-Tees, by a Mr. Boverick, a watch maker, the whole being Tolely invented by him. (viz.) a chain with three hundred Links in it, and yet not more than an inch in length, and fo light, that being faftened to a flea, the flea pulled it away:-A chaife having four wheels, with all the proper apparatus belonging to them, turning readily on their axles, together with a man

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