Every Body has his Bottle. When they have a Mind to drink they fay, Give fome Powder, viz. fill the Glafs. The GrandMafter fays, Lay your Hands to your Firelocks; then they drink & Brother's Health, A and the Glass is carried in three different Motions to the Mouth; before they fet it down on the Table they lay it to their Left Pap, then to the Right, and then forwards, and in three other Pauses they lay the Glafs perpendicular upon theTable, clap their Hands three times, and cry three B times Vivat. They obferve to have three Wax-Candles difpofed in a Triangle on the Table. If they perceive, or fufpect that fome fufpicious Perfon has introduced himself amongst them, they declare ir by faying, it rains, which fignifies that they must fay nothing. As fome People might have difcovered the Signs which C denote the Terms Jabkin and Boiaes; a Free Mafon may be known by taking him by the Hand as above-mentioned, and pronouncing I, to which the other anfwers A; the first fays K, the fecond replies H; the firft ends with I, and the other with N, which makes Jakhin: It is D the fame in regard to Boiaes. Naples. On New Year's Day, King Dọn Carlos declar'd his Marriage with the Princess Royal of Poland. Vienna. The Yearly Bill of Mortality for this City amounts to 5,504 Baptisms, and 6,735 Burials. E Petersburg. The British and Dutch Refidents have, at the Czarina's Request, fent Letters to the Ambaffadors of their Mafters at the Port, advifing them that the Czarina has accepted of the Mediation of Great-Britain and the StatesGeneral, jointly with that of France, for an Accommodation between Ruffia, the Emperor and the Porte. Madrid. The King has fent Orders to relcafe the 3 English Ships taken fome time ago in the Mediterranean, on pretence of having Turks on board with their Effects; and alfo fent Orders to the Havana to release another English Ship, on Security given to pay the Value in cafe it appears that he was taken in carrying on a Contraband Trade. The Governor of Porto-Rico has been condemn'd to pay a Fine of 200 Pieces of Eight, for delaying to acquaint the Court that a Guarda-Cofta had brought in an English Prize thither; and Orders are fent to the West Indies to recommend to the Governors to conform puncthaly to the Treaties between Spain, England, and Holland. Paris. M Dubois, the famous Surgeon F G and Oculift, fome time ago went down into the fubterraneous Places at Montmartre, and fays, thofe Cells are very well arch'd, and lead by feveral Paffages to the Church in the Street of St Dennis; that he faw feveral Figures of Brafs, an Altar which he fuppofed to be erected to the God Mars, and feveral Iron Chefts, which he thinks are full of Treasure. He alfo found a great Number of dead Bodies, and Hers of Goods, which, upon the very Teach, crumbled to Duft. He adds, that at the Bottom of thofe Caves he faw feveral frightful Animals, which however did him no Harm. He was 7 Hours in rambling about the Place, and fuffer'd very much by the Damps. He faw Iron Gates at fome of the Caves, and others had no, Way into them but a Hole at the Top of a Foot Square. He has made a 2d Search, and found 3 Copper Metals, one of which being about the Size of a Crown Piece, reprefents Auguftus Cæfar on one Side, and the Goddefs Iris on the other, for which he was offer'd 100 Louis d'Ors. Search is now fufpended by the Officers of the Mint, and a Guard fet on the Place. His From Philadelphia, That from Fali to Spring, during which Time the Smsil Pox was very rife, and prov'd as mortal in the commor. Way of Infection, as ever was known in that City, There were Inoculated, 129. 32 Whites {Under 12 Years of Age 6+ Negroes young and old 32 In the fecond Number one died, wh ch is the only one which did otherwise than well. 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Of Corfica, Ruffia, the Turks, and Count Seckendorff. 89 Register of Books 87 88 ADVERTISE MEN T. 112 THE HE Decifion of the GOLD MEDAL Prize, for the Poems on the Subject of the CHRISTIAN HERO, being retarded on Account of the three Gentlemen, who were confulted, giving in each a different Opinion; and as it is not practicable for them to meet and confer on this Occafion; the Authors of the three Poems, which are No. I. No. IV. and No. VI. (inferted June, July and Auguft, Vol. VI.) are defired to propofs themfelves fome Method of determining this Affair, either by Lot, or otherwife. THE Gentleman's Magazine: FEBRUARY, 1738. Such as fee into the Artifices and Interested Views of Writers, need not be to'd that there has been a very strong Combination of Bookfellers, and their Dependants, the Authors and Printers of feveral News-Papers, in order, by Ridiculous ragraphs of Buffoonery, and fallacious Advertisements, to fet the Publick against this MAGAZINE, which is entirely independant of them: But as a great Number of our Country Readers are unacquainted with fuch Arts, we hope to be excufed inferting the following Remarks in our Fustification. A HEAVY Charge against this MAGAZINE (as fome fuppofe) having been made by the Common Sense Journal of White-Friers, January 28. it may feem to deferve a great deal more Regard, than any thing alledged by Perfons apparently and highly Interefted to fink the fuperior Credit and Sale of our Book. But, when it is confider'd, that this Charge from this Author (called Common Senfe) is not supported by one Inftance; when it is evident, that Refentment; 1ft, for our not quoting any Thing from his Paper, but from the other Common Senfe, in the foregoing Month; 2d, for our faying the other bids fair for the Attention of the Public, becaule the Printer of it had the Fortune to be taken into Cuftody; and 3dly, for our inferting the Epigram in p. 747; I fay, when Refentment on thefe Accounts may be reafonably taken for the fole Ground of his Charge, (if really meant against this Mag.) his venting the fine Names, Stealer, Mangler, Defacer, Butcher and Murderer of Common Senfe, can be Proof only ss Did Paffion, as the comparing his obfcene Eflays to the Spectators and Tatlers is of his extreme Vanity. As to the Share of Credit this Journalist deferves, it is easily discoverable from his Gasconade Saying, that "his Papers have "met with a general kind Reception in less time than any thing that has gone before "them;" tho 3 lines after, in order to ftigmatize the Magazine, (which was eftablifh'd before any of his Papers appear'd,and which takes very little from them) he contradicts himself, and makes the kind Reception dwindle to nothing; even to a Kindness without Benefit. Such is the Confistency, and Veracity of Mr Common Sense! And tho' the Proprietors of the London Magazine have catch'd up this angry Gentleman's polite Expreffions, omitting what he fays of their Monthly Robberies, and have allo trumpeted forth, (in their own most accurate Phrafe,) their having more perfect Extracts, fewer Faults and more Perfections, it may be found by those who will make the Comparison, that their Extracts are not fo perfect, (if thereby they mean comprehenfive and faithful) as those in the GENTLEMAN's MAGAZINE. To bring one Inftance out of many, let us fee how perfectly they extract a Paffage from an Elfay, which they tell us is moft to the Purpose of any Answer to the Criticifin in the Coun try Journal upon these Lines of Virgil, Cadit & Ripheus, juftiffimus unus Qui fuit in Teucris, & fervantiffimus æqui. With relation to this, the London Magazine for January p. 13, makes his Author fay "Suppofe, for the fake of the Comment, the Expreffion were strictly and literally preferved in the reading; fomething after this Manner;" Next *See their late Preface hung up as a Curiofity in Gresham College; where a Committee of Com mon Senfemen are to meet on the first of April, to enquire into the meaning of a perfect Extra& (er Fragment,) and of PERFECTION with a few FAULTS. |