Days EACH Bank 3 perC 3 per Ct. Ditto 4 per Ct5 per Ct Stock. reduc. confols. 1726 Confol. Anu. 1777. DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN Long Short | Ditto | India | India | India | S. Sea | Old 1778. Stock. Ann. Bonds. Stock. Ann. MAY, 1788. Sunday 1724 74 75 75 " ત 2 2 22 333 85 Sunday 1731 74 75 94 73 74 752 94年 113 1731 74 75 94 113 173 74 75 a 94 1131 224 1734 74% 75% 948 113 222 74 75a 942/2 224 173 87 1734 86 【N.B. In the 3 per Cent. Confols, the highest and lowest Price of each Day is given; in the other Stock the highest Prise only. 888 83 82 The Gentleman's Magazine; LOND.GAZETTE London Evening. Public Ledger The Times The World Bath 2 Birmingham 2 Bury St Edmund's CAMBRIDGE Canterbury 2 ST. JOHN's Gate. Derby Leicester Lewes Liverpool 3 Maidstone Manchefter 2 Newcastle 3 Northampton Norwich 2 Nottingham OXFORD Reading Salibury SCOTLAND Sheffield 2 Sherborne 2 Shrewtbury Stamford Winchester Worcefler For YORK 3 JUNE, 1788. CONTAINING 66 ib. Meteor. Diaries for June 1788, and July 1787 474 Authenticity of Parian Marble,why queftioned 502 By SYLVANUS URBAN. 521-5391 Gent. LONDON, Frinted by JOHN NICHOLS, for D. HENRY, late of SAINT JOHN'S GATE. 539 568 METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for June, 1788. " 62 68 58 ,66 fhowery 26 61 63 58 ,64 how. with thu, OBSERVATIONS. warm night, fleecy clouds, very hot louring, fun, rain. heavy clouds, rain. b bright morn', cloudy, rainy even clouds, thunder, dark evening.c cloudy morning, fhowers, thund. thady, bright fun, ftill evening. cloudy morning, fun, fhowers.d fhow.brifk w.heavyfhow.cold even rain at night, bright, fhowers. dark morning, fun. cloudy morn. fm. rain, dark even.e louring morning, rain, ftorms. clouds, brifk wind, rain, thund.f heavy clouds and rain.g bright morning, clouds.i [faft. a Solftitial chafers (melolontha folftitialis) abound; in their grub-state they have destroyed much turf. Rooks fhould have great merit with the farmer, as they prevent these pernicious infects becoming numerous.-6 Wheat much beaten down in fome places.- Cherries and wood-ftrawberries very fine; rafps and whi e corinths ripe.- Firft broods of fwallows come out. Bloom of lime-trees hang in beautiful taffels, and are highly fragrant.-f Tremella noftoc in great abundance.-g Young red-breafts (motacilla rubecula), a fecond brood. --b Some young partridges begin to fly.; Rooks retire in vaft flocks to the deep woods about BEING THE SIXTH NUMBER OF VOL. LVIII. PART 1. P. 12. Sele&ion from Mr. GIBBON's learned and entertaining Notes to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Volumes of the DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. Vol. IV. HE wife or concubine of Theodemir was infpired with the fpirit THE WeGo Comutions, who eftcemed their fons do our the their fafety and it is reported, that in a desperate adion, where Theodoric himfelf was hurried along by the torrent of a flying crowd, the boldly met them at the entrance of the camp, and, by her generous reproaches, drove them back on the fwords of the enemy. ]20 20 This anecdote is related on the modern, but refpectable, authority of Sigonius (Opp. tom. I. p. 580. De Occident. Imp. 1. xv.): his words are curious-" Would you return?" &c. She prefented, and almost displayed, the original recess. 53. The fatirical hiftorian has not blufhed 23 to defcribe the naked fcenes which Theodora was not afhamed to exhibit in the theatre 24. After exhaufting the arts of fenfual pleasure 25, the most ungratefully murmured against the parfimony of nature 26; but her murmurs, her pleatures, and her arts, must be veiled in the obfcurity of a learned language.} 23 A fragment of the Anecdotes (c. 9.) fomewhat too naked, was fuppreffed by Alemannus, though extant in the Vatican MS.; nor has the defect been fupplied in the Paris or Venice editions. La Mothe de Vayer (tom. VIII. p. 155.) gave the firit hint of this curious and genuine paffage (Jortin's Remarks, vol. IV. p. 366), which he had received from Rome, and it has been fince published in the Menagiana (tom. III. p. 254–259), with a Latin verfion. 24 After the mention of a very narrow girdle (as none could appear ftark-naked in the theatre), Procopius tiuis proceeds: αναπεπίρκεια σε εν τω εδαψει όπτια έκειτο. Θητες δε τίνες . . . . κριθας αυτη ὑπερθεν των αιδοίων έρριπτον ὡς δὲ δι χήνες, δι ες τό το παρεσκευασμένοι εντυγχανον τοις ζόμασιν ενθένδε κατα μιαν ανελόμενοι είσθιον. I have heard that a learned Prelate, now deceared, was fond of quoting this paffage in converfation. 25 Theodora furpaffed the Crifpa of Aufonius (Epigram Ixi.), who imitated the capitalis luxus of the females of Nola. See Quintilian Inftitut. viii. 6, and Torrentius ad Horat. Sermon. 1. 1. fat. 2. v. 101. At a memorable fupper, thirty flaves waited round the table; ten young men feafted with Theodora. Her charity was univerjal. Et laffata viris, necdum fatiata, receffit. 26 Ηδε κακ' τριων τρυπημάτων εργαζόμενη ενεκάλει, τη φύσει δυσφορημένη ότι δε μη και τίτες αυτή ερύτερον η νυν εισι τρυπών, όπως δυνατή είη και εκείνη εργάζεσθαι. She wilhed for a fourth altar, on which the might pour libations to the god of love. 57. it was rumoured, that the torture of the rack, or fcourge, had been inflicted in the prefence of a female tyrant, infenfible to the voice of prayer, or of pity.] 32 about eight in the evening.-k Earwigs have abounded beyond example, owing to the very dry fpring. The name of this infect hath nothing to do with an ear; eorth-wiga, in Saxon, is an infect of the earth. 32 A more jocular whipping was inflicted on Saturninus, for prefuming to fay that his wife, a favourite of the earpreis, had not been found arg.ro; (Anecdot. c. 17.). 407. I touch with reluctance, and dispatch with impatience, a more odious vice, of which modefty rejects the name, and nature abominates the idea. The primitive Romans were infected by the example of the Etrufcans 191 and Greeks 192; in the mad abufe of profperity and power, every pleasure 'that is innocent was deemed infipid; and the Scatinian law 193, which had been extorted by an act of violence, was infenfibly abolithed by the lapfe of time and the multitude of cri minals. 191 Timon (1. 1.) and Theopompus (1. xliii. apud Athenæum, 1. xii. p. 517), describe the luxury and luft of the Etrufcans : πολυ μεν τοι γε χαίρεσι συνόντες τοις παισι και τοις μείρας το sus. About the fame period (A.U.C. 445), the Roman youth ftudied in Etruria (Liv. ix. 36). 192 The Perfians had been corruptel in the fame fchool: απ' Ελλήνων μαθόντες πάσι μισο gorra (Herodot. 1. 1. c. 135). A curious differtation might be formed on the introduction of poderafty after the time of Homer, its progrefs among the Greeks of Afia and Europe, the vehemence of their pailions, and the thin device of virtue and friendship which amused the philofophers of Athens. But, fcelera oftendi oportet dum puniuntur, abfcondi flagitia. 193 The name, the date, and the provifions of this law, are equally doubtful (Gravina, Opp. p. 432, 433. Hemeccius, Hift. Jur. Rom. No. 108. Ernefti Clav. Ciceron. in Indice Legum). But I will obferve that the nefanda Venus of the honeft German is styled averfa by the more polite Italian. 568. the fates heard with abhorrence, that the alms of the church were lavished on the female dancers; that his palace, and even his bath, was open to the proffitutes of Alexandria; and that the infamous Panfophia, or Irene, was publicly entertained as the concubine of the patriarch.] 63 63 Μάλιςα ή περί βοητο, Πανσοφία ή καλεμένη Oρειν (perhaps Ειρήνη), πιςικής καὶ ὁ πολυαιθρο mog ang Adičavi gown Enjo apnice favor dying to wai tu egaço peljem, (Concil. tom. IV. p. 1276). A specimen of the wit and malice of the people is preferved in the Greek AntroJogy (1. ii. c. 5. p. 183, edit. Wechel.), although the application was unknown to the editor Brodeus. The ramclefs epigrammatift raifes a tolerable pun, by confounding the epifcopal falutation of Peace be to all !" with the genuine or corrupted name of the bishop's concu Ειρήνη πάντεσσιν επίσκοπος ειπεν επελθων, Πως δύναται πασιν ἐν μόνος ε bine: I am ignorant whether the patriarch, who feems to have been a jealous lover, is the Cimon of a preceding epigram, whofe os os was viewed with envy and wonder by Priapus himfelf. Vol. V. p. 140, note. 104 M. Gaillard (tom. III. p. 372.) fixes the true ftature of Charlemagne (fee a differtation of Marquard Freher ad Calcem Eginhart, p. 220, &c.) at five feet nine inches of French, about fix feet one inch and a fourth, English menfure. The romance writers have increafed it to eight feet, and the giant was endowed with matchless ftrength and appetite: at a single ftroke of his good fword Joyeuf, he cut afunder a horfeman and his horfe; at a fingle repaft he devoured a goofe, two fowls, a quarter of mutton, &c. 254. Perhaps the incontinence of Mahomet may be palliated by the tradition of his natural or preternatural gifts 163: he united the manly virtue of thirty of the children of Adam; and the apofile might rival the thirteenth labour 163 of the Grecian Hercules.] 164 162 Sibi robur ad generationem, quantum triginta viri habent, ineffe jactaret : ita ut unică horâ poflet undecim fœminis fatisfacere, ut ex Arabum libris refert Sextus Petrus Pafchafius, c. 2. (Maracci, Prodromus Alcoran, p. iv. p. 55. Sce likewife Obfervations de Belon, 1. iii. c. 10, fol. 179, recto). Al Jamabi (Gagnier, tom. III. p. 287.) records his own teitimony, that he furpaffed all men in conjugal vigour; and Abulfeda mentions the exclamation of Ali, who wathed his body after his death, O Propheta, certe penis tuus cœlum verfus erectus eft" (i Vit. Mohammed. p. 140). 163 I borrow the ftyle of a father of the church, avav Haxhng abhor reionaidexaT:V (Greg. Nazianzen, Orat. iii. p. 1:5). 164. The common and moft glorious legend includes, in a fingle night, the fifty victories of Hercules over the virgin daughters of Theflius (Diodor. Sicul. tom. I. 1. iv. p. 274. Pautanias, 1. ix. p. 263. Statius Sylv. 1. 1. eleg. iii. v. 42). But Athenæus allows feven nights (Deipnofophift. I. xii. p. 566), and Apollodorus fifty, for this arduous atchievement of Hercules, who was then no more than eighteen years of age (Bibliot. 1. ii. c. 4. p. 111, cum notis Heyne, part 1. p. 332). 277, &c. A female prophetefs was attracted by his reputation: the decencies of words and actions were purned by thefe favourites of Heaven 2; and they em ed feveral days in myftic and amorous converfe.] A Thain |