1736. Dublin Cafte,, February 28, 1786. His Grace the Lord Lieutenant has been pleafed to appoint the following Gentlemen High Sheriffs for the prefent year. cutton-houses, must make up any deficiency, of foot, to the honourable Lady Elizabeth St. whie there would not be occafion for to many Lawrence, fecond daughter of the right honour-Christmas Moore, officers or even cutters to watch the Greyhounds able the Earl of Howth.they are termed, that make thofe trips to and Efq; of the county of Carlow, to Mifs Kilfrom the Conunent. Were the licenfe likewife bee, of Canny Court, county of Kildare,properly raised on the publicans, in fuch manner Sir John Blunden, Bart. to Mils Robbins, 1 to be the means of fuppreffing the greater part daughter and fole heirefs of the late John Robof those that abound every where at prefent. bins of Ballyduffe, county of Kilkenny, Efq;In Cork, William Creed, Efq; late of the 103d regiment of foot, to Mifs Sufanna Heard, daughter of Henry Heard, Eq. Thomas Holmes, Efq; to Mifs Kington, only daughter of James Kingston, of Oysterhaven, co. Cork, Efq;-At Ayle, in the county Tipperary, John Hammerfley Hogan, Elq; to Mifs Grace Bradfhaw, daughter of John Bradshaw, of the county Limerick, Elq-Samuel Adams, Efq; to Mifs -At Filgate, of Lifrenny, county of Louth.Ennis, in the county of Clare, the rev. Mr. Weldon, to Mifs Margaret Banks, daughter of Perceval Banks, Etq.-John Rielly, Eiq; an eminent furgeon, to Mils Catherine Rielly, daughter of the late James Rielly, of Thomasfreet, EfqAt Ballybeg, in the county of Wicklow, the rev. Richard Radcliffe, to Mifs Charlotta Symes, daughter to the rev. Jere miah Symes. County of Antrim, John Allen, of Spring NO T E. I' DEATHS for February, 1786. IN Dawion ftreet, Mrs. Jones, Lady of Edward Jones, of Grove, in the co. of Meath, Elq-In Queen-freet, Mrs. Anne Cole, Lady of Henry Arthur Cole, Efq-Ambrofe Jones, of Jonesborough, county of Meath, Efq.At Park, near Killarney, Daniel Cronin, Efq; he has devifed his large fortune to Daniel Duggan, of Mount Infant, Eiq. who now affumes the name of Cronin.-At Land-bridge, Captain John Webb.In North Cumberland-street, Richard Houghton, late of Staplestown, in the county of Carlow, Efq.-At Ballyman, county Dublin, Richard Burton, Efq.-Thomas Palmer, of Farrow, in the count of Mayo, Efq. In Wexford, the hon. Jofeph Stopford, late Lieutenant-Colonel of the 15th regiment or foot, and a Colonel in the army, and fecond brother to the Earl of Courtown.- In Aungier-ftreet, William Caulfield, Efq. Member of Parliament for the, borough of Tuifk.- By a fall from his Thofe marked thus + are Members of Par horfe, near Belfaft, Robert Blackwood, Efq. liament, BIRTHS for February, 1786. Member of Parliament for the borough of Kil- In North Great George's-ftreet, the Lady of Hampden Evans, Liq; of a daughter.-In Yorkfreet, the hoa. Lady Skeffington, daughter of the Earl of Roden, and Lady of the honourable Chichetter Sheffington, of a daughter.In Marlborough-street, the Lady of Dowel O'Rielly, Efq; of a fon-At St. Patrick's Library, the Lady of the rev. Thomas Craddock, of a fon. la Cloucefter-ftreet, the Lady of the rev. Benedict Arthur, of a fon. 1786. Louth, Efq. MARRIAGES for February, 1786. A correct Lift (in Numerical Order) of all the sol. Prizes and upwards, for the first twenty Days, drawn in the English State Lottery for the Year 1785. (Taken from Walker's Numerical Book, No 49, Dame-freet.) WALK ER's HIBERNIAN MAGAZINE: O R, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, For MARC H, 1786. IN The MODERN VENUS-A Companion to the Modern Hercules (With an elegant Engraving of that curious Being.) our Magazine for December laft, we gave a reprefentation of the Modern Hercales, and obferved, that the prefent age could boaft of producing beings fuperior to thofe who lived in any preceding times. To continue our proofs and make it apparent that that fuperiority is not confined to the male fex, we now present the publie with a view of a Modern Venus, as much excelling the Goddess of Antiquity, as the Modern Hercules did the Demi-god of Greece and Rome. The ancient Hercules killed Eryx, the fon of the ancient Venus; now the modern Venus, in revenge for that crime, subjugates the modern Hercules. For however the heroes of the present day may fee the modeft charms of a virtuous woman with apathy, they all bend. to the meretricious artificial beauties of a modern Venus. Indeed, the modern Venus is like the ancient Goddefs of Love in many circumfances, and fuperior to her in many others. The one is faid to have sprung from the froth of the fea, and pray is not the other of a very frothy nature? light, giddy, and unfubftantial. The one wore a zone or girdle, fo does the other, which the loofens more often than the former did. At the feftival of the ancient Venus doves were facrificed, her head was crowned with garlands, horfeappointed to her honour, and her votaries performed a remarkable dance, called the crane, wherein they reprefented, by their motions, the various windings of e Cretan labyrinth, out of which Thefeus Hib. Mag. March, 1786. races were (who was the inventor of the dance) made his efcape. In our days, the modern Venus frequently has pigeons facrificed to her, fhe is crowned with what is more fubftantial than a garland, an enormous parachute hat. She is escorted to races at the Curragh, and what is more to her honour, has always a front place at a review, and a front row in the lettices at the theatre. And certain it is, the leads many of her votaries a very perplexed dance, fo that they can scarce get out of the labyrinth of folly in which the entangles them. Hence, the fimilitude between the two genuses is very obvious. But the modern Venus excels the ancient, in drefs and manners. The one wore her hair waving in ringlets; the other has her locks frizzled, and creped, and rumpled, till they resemble the ftuffing of a faddle, or the curled horse-hair crammed into a chairbottom; which must be more beautiful, as less resembling nature. The firft Venus wore her own hair; the fecond gets what fhe wears from the tete-maker, who, perhaps, has bribed an executioner to cut it off from the head of fome hanged criminal, that they may have a tail twice the fize of a fox's brufh. The one (as faid before) furmounted her hair with a garland, the other with a hat which may ferve for an umbrella, and would totally eclipfe her face, if it were not wantonly cocked on one fide to invite the eye. The Venus of Antiquity had her hands bare, and fhewed her rofy fingers; that of modern times, thrufts her arms into a muff, which bears on its front fome pretty P pictura picture or device, not unfrequently the portrait of her Hercules in waiting. The ftatue of Venus, of Medicis, which has been long the model of perfect beauty, reprefents the Goddess with fome degree of modesty, averting her eyes, as if afhamed of being feen uncloathed; but in that point the modern Venus outstrips her prototype, fhe hath entirely got rid of that foolish and unfafhionable quality: fhe fcorns to blufh, or turn her eyes from any object; and if she does not appear in public, in a state of nature, it is only because then, fhe could not difplay her finery, or be well paid for difcovering her hidden charms. Yet, we may expect this referve will not long continue, for the modern Venus is making fuch great advances to the perfection of the Medicean fculpture, by lowering her ftays and fhortening her petticoats, that it cannot be long ere they meet in the center. Venus cornuted her husband Vulcan, and intrigued with the God of War-the prefent Venus does the fame, and finds work for the Proctors in favour of fome modern Mars. The old Venus indeed was defpifed by the Goddess of Wifdom; but her new namefake defpifes wisdom, and is often received by company whom wisdom would teach to fhun her, did not fashion and a diffolution of delicacy join contrarieties toge ther. To the Editor of the Hibernian Magazine. SIR, Should the following Fragment be deemed worthy of a place in your very entertaining and ingenious vehicle, the infertion of it will oblige an old correfpondent, T A Fragment. YORICK. = HE Atheift withdrew exulting in filence which he imagined arofe from conviction in me, but which in fact was no other than the effects of indignation and aftonishment, at the impious blafphemies which he poured from his lips; the moft trivial part of which would fhock even a barbarian had he heard him. As he left me too abruptly to receive a reply, I fat down, and fearing he might rank me in his lift of converts at his next interview with his deteftable fociety, committed my fentiments on the fubjects in queftion betwixt us to paper, in order to evince what power his doctrine had over my mind and understanding; and fuch as they then were, I now tranfcribe again for his perusal. How much do we prize the mechanism of a watch in miniature, or any other piece of minute conftruction capable of motion, tho' that motion is limited, and depends folely upon the movement and impulfe of fprings artificially contrived, and which have no will, no purpose of their own, but keep a methodical round till the means which impelled them have loft their force?-How much is the artift, who contrived the whole, admired and praifed for his workmanship?How jufly?-How defervedly too? --Thofe materials lay at first before him incapable of giving each other the moft trivial action, though they had lain together till they decayed and fell to nothing; but no fooner had they passed in mechanical procels through his ingenious hands, and felt the force and power of mechanifm, than they became vifibly actuated by principles deficient in nothing but immateriality. They perform the fame evolutions without the leaft diminution in their progrefs fo long as the power which actuates them is capable of impelling them to it; but when that power has performed its limited agency, and comes to a regulated period, the whole ftands ftill, and is incapable of further motion till fet going again by a repetition of the means which firft propelled it. This very confideration establishes in my foul fuch a belier of the exiftence of a Deity, as nothing can deftroy or leave a doubt of.— That fly which crawls before me, and employs all his numerous little faculties at will with fuch infinite fenfibility and eafe, conHow minute, and yet how perfect are all his vinces me more firongly that it must be jo.little organs! his eyes, though fcarcely per ceptible to the human eye, ferve him for the fame purpoles as thofe of an elephant do his fenfe of hearing much more perfect; for bim-his fmell is more acute than mine; and on the leaft motion of my hand he changes his pofition, and gets farther from my reach. I would fhun a dangerous animal with the fame caution 'tis true, but then from a different principle: tho' both tend to the fame end-jafety and prefervation--both of which be feeks from an instinctive property; I from that of reafon-but I mean to make no comparifons here. I obferve this infect capable of wandering from place to place; fecking his own food and fafety; gamboling with his fpecies and endowed with the power of encreasing them. All these, and a thoufand more admirable properties beyond my comprehenfion, from the minutenefs of his formation, he is poffeffed of; the leaft of which, all the powers of man can never give to the most perfect of his mechanical productions, in a voluntary degree-When, therefore, a watch or autometon, we ac knowledge, can never arrive at their state of prefent perfection, without the affiftance and labour of man, who has toiled and exerted all the powers of his invention and genius to give them merely a temporary and involun tary 1786. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Samuel Richardson. tary motion, which they are incapable of continuing beyond a limited time, and can never regain at will; how can any mortal, endowed with the leaft fpark of reafon, impofe upon himself the doctrine of Chance? when Chance will never combine two bodies, in the space of a thousand years, fo as to be capable of a regular motion, though laid within an inch of each other in a fecret place where they will be affected neither by touch or accident. How is it poffible for an infect, much lefs a rational creature, to be the production of it?--I will trace it further. Let a watch, in its full perfection, be taken to pieces, and all its parts laid separately, but within a small diftance of each other, in a box in fome vault or place where nothing can have access to it, and then try in twenty years what effect Chance has wrought on its union again-it will be found, I dare fay, in the very ftate it was left in, at least with regard to its feparation, nor has Chance brought one wheel of it into its proper fphere. When then Chance has not been capable of even reftoring bodies to heir proper ftation and purpose, though fitted exactly to each other by the hand of an artist, what might have been expected from it had the materials been left in their primitive flate, as they were dug from the earth, to its guidance?-When all the art and powers of man, though intimate with many of Nature's fecrets, and perfect in the moit refined and accurate bufinefs of mechaniẩm can never afford one voluntary motion to the moft finished of his productions; to say nothing of his being inadequate to produce the moft trivial infect that crawls the earth; here fhould we not acknowledge the exiftence of a fupreme Being who has created man with reaïon, and all thofe fenfible faculties of foul and body; who has endowed him with a will that his actions might be the mo e voluntary; who has given him mental and corporeal powers fitted for every purpose and pleasure, and inferior in nothing this fide of his glorious habitation; how muft we feel his fuperiority over all other confiderations! and how fhould we not adore and endeavour to ferve and obey him! Be dumb then, thou prefumptuous mortal, who art cold and wicked enough to attribute the labours of thy God to Chance, which is unable to give even limited and involuntary motion to materials fitted for the purpofe by the hands of mortality. Obferve an infect, the moft trivial of his works, and acknow ledge there is a powerful and all-merciful God. 'YORICK. 115 exhibited a new mode of writing; a feries of familiar letters, written, as it were, to the moment, while the heart was ftill agitated by hopes and fears.-Of Pamela, the firft in order of time, the two first volumes were written in three months, and published in 1740. The defign of the benevolent author is to represent the beauty and superiority of Virtue in an innocent and unpolished mind, with the reward which often, even in this life, a protecting Providence beftows on goodness. A young woman, of low degree, relating to her honeft parents the fevere trials she met with from a master, who ought to have been the protector, not the afiailer, of her honour, fhews the character of a libertine in its truly contemptible light. This' libertine, however, from the foundation of good principles laid in his early years by an excellent mother; by his paffion for a virtuous young woman; and by her amiable example, and unwearied patience, when the became his wife; is at laft perfectly reclaimed. This hiftory was founded upon a fact, which was communicated to Mr. Richardfon by a gentleman of his acquaintance. The mafter of Pamela was the father of the present Earl of Gainsborough, who rewarded the inflexible virtue of Elizabeth Chapman, his game-keeper's daughter, by exalting her to the rank of Countess; an elevation which the adorned not lefs by her accomplishments than her virtues. She brought his Lordship twelve children; and what a virtuous afcendency fhe ever maintained, may be imagined from the excellent character of his Lordship in Collins's Peerage of England *.-This celebrated work firft introduced Mr. Richardson to the literary world. It was univerfally read and admired, and was immediately tranflated into French and Dutch. The great fuccefs, which attended this publication, encouraged the author to add two more volumes to the former, in which the heroine of the piece is exhibited in the various scenes of high life. Thefe two volumes did not meet with the fame fuccefs, although it is thought that the author held them in much higher eftimation. It is certainly much to be lamented, that the new edition, in which much was altered, and the whole new-modelled, has never been given to the public. The two firft voluines of Clarissa appeared in 1748, and were tranflated into French, though very indifferently, by the celebrated Abbé Prevôt. Its profeffed defign is to warn the Inconfiderate and Thoughtlefs of the one NOT E. *Vol. IV, page 51. The Earl died in 1751. His Countess married, in 1756, Thomas Noel, Efq; of the fame family, Reprefentative in Parliament for Rutlandfhire. She died in 1771. P 2 fex |