FOREIGN AFFAIRS, 1751. 47 ROM Holland we hear, that the peo Fple there are very uncaly about two projects now on foot, one upon the north, and the other upon the fouth fide of that republick. The first is the Eaft-India company proposed by the king of Pruffia to be fet up in Embden, which may draw many Dutch merchants to fettle there, and very much diminish their exports of Eaft-India goods to the Baltick and Germany; and the other is a canal which is propofed to he made from Oftend, by the way of Bruges, to Ghent, deep and wide enough for three mat fhips; and as from Ghent there is a communication by the river Schelde down to Antwerp, and up the Schelde and the Lys through a great part of Flanders, and fome part of Hainault, they think it will diminish their trade with the Auftrian Netherlands, for which reafon they have found out, that this laft project is contrary to the (pirit of the treaty of Weftphalia, and are making ftrong remonstrances against it at the court of Vienna. The king of Portugal has given orders, that for the future no perfon condemned to death by the inquifition, shall be executed, until the fentence has been feen and approved by his council, and figned by his majefty; and at the fame time he has given great fatisfaction to the people at Lisbon, by obtaining of the court of Spain, an explanation of the treaty concluded by his father, by which it is ftipulated, that the limits of the two empires in America fhall be marked out and fully fettled, before the town of Sacrament be given up: And that the term of five years shall be allowed for that purpose; in which time the merchants hope, that fome new incident may happen for preventing the ceffion of that town, which they look on as the bulwark of the mines in Brazil, and their chief mart in that part of the world. The Genoefe have at laft agreed on a regulation of their bank of St. George, which bears date the 12th ult. N. S. and was published the 6th inft. In the preamble they emphatically fet forth the mif. fortunes brought upon the republick in the year 1746, which forced them, for the first time, to lay hands on the facred depofit, to draw out of it 15,000,000 of livers, and confequently to stop payment of its notes. Now to refore the credit of this bank, they have determined, that in a very fhort time all the old bills and notes of this bank fhall be united, and conftitute a new fund, to be called Confecrazione, and to be divided into fo many actions or shares, of 200 livers each, bank money, which actions thall every year in certain portions be publickly drawn by lot, and paid by the trea furer according to their juft value of 200 effective livers, bank money. As a finking fund for this purpose, the republick has made over to the houfe of St. George, as they call the bank, feveral new duties; and to make this fund the more confiderable, the house is to pay out of its old income, half the intereft fettled upon the actions of the new stock, till its entire extination. The archbishop of Florence has published a mandate, by order of the emperor, and with the permiffion of the pope, enjoining all the clergy, and all religious communities of both sexes in Tufcany to bring in exact accounts of their refpective revenues, penfions, &c. to the end that the govern ment may settle the share they are to bear in the publick charge of the ftate. The infanta, duchefs of Parma, was on the 2d. init. N. S. brought to bed of a prince. From Berlin we hear, that by the plan for the administration of justice, established by his Pruffian majesty in his dominions, the court of judicature in that city determined 560 law-fuits during the year 1750, not fo much as one being left undecided; for which dispatch his majesty wrote a very handsome letter of thanks to baron Cocceji, his chancellor. From Peterburgh we have a long manifefto, containing the reasons for their minifter's leaving the court of Pruffia fo abruptly as mentioned in our Magazine for December laft. They complain, 1. That the court of Pruffia affected at a certain period to treat their minifters refiding there with as much contempt as indifference. 2. That his Pruffian majefty refused to give leave to the Ruffians in his army to return home, tho' they had been permitted to enter into his fervice only for the fake improvement. 3. That the empress having caufed Capt. 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POETRY: Prologue and Epilogue ; an Invitation to Gil Blas; to Mifs to Dinner; to Ardelia; the Sun and Cloud, a Fable; Opinion of the Council at George's concerning Cil Blas ; on the and Thirtieth of January; to Mr. R the Fortaken Maid's Comhis Followers; plaint, a New Song, fet to Musick; Reus's, Epigrams, &c. XXIII. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER : XXV. Prices of Stecks for each Day. the Caufes of the late Increase of Robbers. XI. Of the Height to which Rockets afcend. XII. How a Man of Wit and Learning may make himself a difagreeable Companion. XIII, Mathematical Questions anfwe ed. XIV. Declaration of the Emprefs-Queen. With a New and Beautiful MAP o HAMPSHIRE; and the Effigies of Mr. BRIGHT, the furprizingly fat MAN, on a curious Copper Plate. XXVIII. A Catalogue of Books. 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 Stitch'd, or any fingle Month to compleat Sets. CONTENT S. A account of the play of Gil Blas gr Perions of the drama, and their characters ubftance of the feveral acts A defeription of Hampire New-forest ibid The boroughs and market towns ibid. &c. 56 A defcription of the Ifle of Wight ibid. A on 59 prince 80 Constitution and procedings of the fociety ibid. Gin drinking deftructive of the human fpecies' POETRY. The for faken maid's complaint, a new fong, fet to mufick A country dance Prologue and epilogue to Gil Blas 83 84 85 ibid. An invitation to dinner, from a discharg'd furgeon to a lieutenant of a man of war 86 87 ibid. 88 The opinion of the council at George's concerning the comedy of Gil Blas, with that of other members, not of the ibid. Epitaph on a gin-drinker, with other verfes againft gin-drinking committee 62 To Ardelia A rebus Solution of a rebus in Dec. last Extracts from Mr. Fielding's Enquiry into the causes of the late increafe of robbers, &c. 64 Two fhocking inftances of vagabonds 65 Of the apprehenfion, profecution, conviction and execution of felons Remarks on a bull of pope Clement VI. 67-74 ibid. 89 ibid. ibid. On the frequent repetition of devil and devilish in Gil Blas ibid. 66 To Mr. Rand his followers ibid. ibid. 90 ibid. Earthquake at Fiume ibid. What the heathens, &c. thought of an oath Gamblers and gamefters apprehended ibid. General courts and ballot at the South-Sea house 68 An excellent paffage from the abbé de 69 Character of K. John of France 71 73 mon council ibid. D Pleasant ftory of a poet Of the height to which rockets afcend 74 The polarity of the compafs destroyed by lightning 91,92 Important refolutions of the court of cem. Malefactors executed Fate of the Westminster petition 91 ibid. ibid. Riot of failors ibid. 75 Refolution of a general court of the Bank 76 92 77 ibid. Ecclefiaftical Preferments 93 Promotions civil and military ibid. 78 Perfons declar'd bankrupts ibid. Tradefcant's garden at Lambeth Rules for a man of wit and learning to make himself a difagreeble companion ibid. G. Farther remarks on chanting 80 Infernal rites at the death of an Indian Prices of ftocks and grain; wind, weather Monthly bill of mortality 94 ibid. 95 95 The Latin infcription is too · The furveying and arithmetical questions shall be in our next. obfcene to be inferted, but shall be returned, of defired. We bave received the poems figned Y, which shall bave a place; as likewife foveral other pieces our correfpondents have favoured us A THE LONDON MAGAZINE. FEBRUARY, new Comedy, intitled, GIL BLAS, wrote by Mr. MoORE, baving been lately brought upon the Stage at Drury-Lane, we fall, as ufual, give our Readers fome Account of it. (See p. 85, 88.) A The Scene is laid at Salamanca in Spain, and the Perfons of the Drama are: MEN. Don Lewis Pacheco, a young Spanish nobleman, of great courage, and B rakish, but of natural good qualities; acted by Mr. Woodward. Don Felix de Mendoza, a young Spanish nobleman, of fierce courage and ftrict honour, brother to Aurora; acted by Mr. Palmer. Don Gabriel de Pedros, a reduced nobleman, fupported by Don Lewis, but falfe and treacherous to him; acted by Mr. Sowdon. Gil Blas, fervant to Aurora, a fellow of fome humour, and fo vain as to fancy every woman in love with him; acted by Mr. Garrick Melchior, fervant to Don Lewis; by Mr. Yates. Pedro, fervant to Don Felix; by Mr. Shuter. WOMEN. Aurora, a young lady of great fpirit and ftrict virtue, but deeply in love with Don Lewis; acted by Mrs. Pritchard. Ifabella, an abandoned young lady, miftrefs to Don Lewis, and intriguing with Don Grabriel; acted by Mrs. Bennet. February, 1751. C 1751. Laura, woman to Aurora, a pert, witty chamber-maid, by Mifs Mi nors. Beatrice, woman to Ifabella, a treacherous chamber-maid; by Mrs. Crofs. Bernarda, one who lets lodgings at Salamanca, a goflipping, parafitical landlady; by Miss Pitt. CT I. opens the plot of the play, and a little of the feveral characters that are to appear in it, as follows: Aurora having feen Don Lewis at Madrid, and fallen deeply in love with him, refolves to try what effect her beauty may have upon him at a perfonal interview. For this purpofe fhe fets out privately for Salamanca, attended by her two fervants; for which place Don Lewis had but juft fet out, in order to profecute his ftudies at that univerfity. At Salamanca fhe hires two lodgings, in one of which the appears in her own drefs and D character, and in the other fhe affumed the dress and character of her brother Don Felix. At this last, which was Bernarda's, fhe is informed by her landlady, of Don Lewis's being a great rake, and having an intrigue with Ifabella; and likewife receives a hint of Ifabella's being falfe to him, by intriguing with his friend Don Gabriel. As Don Lewis had his lodgings in the fame house, and arrived foon after, their two fervants meet and know one another, which E G 2 |