life to receive honours in his native country, and meets with mortification instead of refpect, was by him confidered as a masterpiece in the science of life and manners. The character of Profpero, in the fourth volume, Garrick took to be his; and I have heard the author say, that he never forgave the offence.

Sophron was likewise a picture drawn from reality; and by Gelidus, the philofopher, he meant to reprefent Mr. Coulson, a mathematician, formerly living at Rochefter.

The man immortalized for "purring like a cat," was one Bufby, a Proctor in the Commons He who barked fo ingenioufly, and then called the drawer to drive away the dog, was father to Dr. Salter of the Charter-houfe.He who fung a fong, and by correfpondent motions of his arm chalked out a giant on the wall, was one Richardson, an attorney.The letter figned Sunday was written by Miss Talbot; and he fancied the billets in the first volume of the Rambler were sent by Mifs Mulfo; now Mrs. Chapone.

The papers contributed by Mrs. Carter had much of his efteem, though he always blamed me for preferring the letter figned Charieffa to the allegory, where religion and fuperftition are indeed most masterly delineated.,

MISCELLANEOUS.

He did not take much delight in that fort of converfation which confifted in telling

ftories. He was, however, no enemy to that fort of talk from the famous Mr. Foote, "whofe happinefs of manner in relating was fuch as fubdued arrogance, and roufed ftupidity." His ftories were truly like thofe of Biron in Love's Labour Loft, so very attractive,

That aged years play'd truant at his tales, And younger hearings were quite ravifh'd, So fweet and voluble was his difcourfe.'

Of all converfers, however, added he, the late Hawkins Browne was the moft de lightful; his talk was at once to elegant, fo apparently artlefs, fo pure and fo pleafing, it feemed a perpetual stream of fentiment, enlivened by gaiety, and fparkling with images.

We talked of Lady Tavistock, who griev ed herself to death for the lofs of her hafband. "She was rich, and wanted employment: fo fhe cried, till the loft all power of reftraining her tears. Other women are forced to outlive their hufbands, who were just as much beloved; but they have no ime for grief. I doubt not if we had pot Lady Tavistock, into a chandler's fhop, nd given her a nurfe-child to tend, her life

would have been faved. The poor and the bufy have no leisure for fentimental forrow." Ón a Sermon in the City being commended, he asked the subject. On being told it was Friendship, he faid, "Why fhould little Evans preach on such a subject, where no one can be thinking of it ?"-What are they thinking on, Sir?" Why, the men are thinking of their money, the women of their mops."

Of Johnson, faid Hogarth, he is not contented with believing the bible; he refolves to believe nothing but the bible. He added, Johnfon, though fo wife a fellow, is more like David than Solomon, for he says in his hafte that all men are fiars.Johnfon's incredulity amounted almost to a difcafe.

When at Brighthelmstone he turned his back on Lord Bolingbroke, he made this ex cufe: I am not obliged to find reafons for refpecting the rank of him who will not condefcend to declare it by his dress, or some other vifiable mark; what are stars and other signs of fuperiority made for ?

Mrs. P1OZZI'S APOLOGY for the

DOCTOR'S ODD MANNERS.

relate anecdotes of Mr. Johnfon, am obliged What may I not apprehend, who, if I to repeat expreffions of feverity, and fentences of contempt? Let me at least foften them a little, by faying that he did not hate the, perfons he treated with roughness, or defpife thofe whom he drove from him with apparent fcorn. He really loved and respect love him. He was even ungentle with thofe ed many, whom he would not suffer to for whom he had the greatest regard. When I one day lamented the death of a coufin killed in America," Prithee, my dear (faid he) have done with canting: how would the world be worfe for it, I may ask if all your relations were at once spitted like larks and roafted for Profio's fupper? (Profto was the dog under the table.)When we went into Wales together to Sir Robert Cotton's at Lleweny, one day at dinner I meant to please Mr. Jofon parthey not charming? faid I to him. ticularly with a difh of young peas. Are haps, faid he, they would be fo to a pig." I inftance thefe to excufe my mentioning those

he made to others.

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Mrs. THRALE'S VERSES on Dr. JOHNSON

When Mr. Thrale built the new library at Stretham, and hung over the books the portraits of his favourite friends, that of Dr. Johnfon was at laft finished, and closed the number. It was almoft impoffible not to make verfes on fuch an accidental combination of circumflances, fo I made the follow

the Count, "followed my directions, and I remained on the other fide of the fcreen with the Cardinal who flood near the fire place, not wrapt in extacy, as Madame de la Motte thinks proper to exprefs it, but holding his hand to his mouth, for fear of interrupting the folemn fcene by an ill timed laugh.'

Having made fome myftic gefticulations, I defired the young lady to itamp on the floor with her innocent foot, and tell me whether the faw any thing.-She anfwered in the negative-Then, Mifs," faid I, ftriking the fcreen fmartly, " you are not innocent." This obfervation piqued the lady's pride" Hold," cried the, methinks I fee the Queen."-I was then convinced that this innocent niece had been properly inftructed by her artful aunt.

"Defirous to know how the would go through her part, I requested her to defcribe the apparition: fhe faid the lady was pregnant and dreffed in white: fhe then proceeded to defcribe her features, which exactly resembled the Queen's. I then defired her to ask the lady whether the would be brought-to-bed fafely. She replied, the thould, I then ordered her to kil's the the lady's hand refpectfully. The innocent creature kiffed her own hand; and came from behind the fcreen, perfectly fatified to think he had convinced us of her innocence.

The ladies eat fome fweetmeats, drank fome lemonade, and in about a quarter of an hour retired by the back ftairs.

Thus ended a farce, as harmless in itself as it was laudable in its motive.

The Cardinal, having thus brought me acquainted with the Countefs, asked me what I thought of her? I who have always pretended to fome skill in phyfiognomy fincerely declared that I believed her to be a deceitful intriguing woman. The Cardinal differed in opinion from me, and foon after fet out for Severne, where he remained a month or fix weeks. On his return, his vifits to me became more frequent, and I obferved him to be uneafy and thoughtful; and whenever the Countess was mentioned, I with my ufual franknefs told him, "that woman deceives you."

About a fortnight before he was arrefted, he one day faid to me, "I begin to think you are right in your conjectures, and that Madame de Valois is the woman you have defcribed." He then, for the firft time, related to me the tranfaction about the neck lace, and communicated his fufpicions and fears that it had not been delivered to the Queen. This corroborated my former opi

nion.

The next day the prince informed me that the Countefs and her husband had,

fearing the confequences of the above affair fled for shelter to his houfe, and that they requested letters of recommendation for England or Germany. The Cardinal asked my advice in the bufinefs. I told him there was but one way left, viz. To deliver her into the hands of the Police, and go directly to Court, and lay the whole matter open to the King and his Minifters. This he objected to as repugnant to his feelings and generosity. "In this cafe," said I, "God is your only refource." The Cardinal, however, having refufed giving them the letters of recommendation, they fet out for Burgundy, and I have heard nothing of them fince."

On the 15th of Auguft the Cardinal was arrefted. Several perfons obferved to the Count, that as he was among the Prelate's friends, he might poffibly fhare the same fate. But confcious of his innocence, he replied that he was perfectly refigned, and would wait with patience whatever God or the government should ordain.

Accordingly at half paft feven o'clock in the morning, on the 22d of August, a Commiffary, an exempt and eight myrmidons of Police entered his houfe, and after rummaging his fcrutoires, dragging him on foot in the moft opprobrious manner, till a hackney-coach happening to pais by, he was permitted to enter it, and was conducted to the Baftile; to which place his wife was likewife committed. On the 30th of January 1786, after five months confinement, he underwent an examination; in which he invariably perfifted in declaring his innocence. During this interrogatory the following queftion was put to him:

Q. "Your manner of living is expenfive; you give much away, and accept of nothing in return; you pay every body; how do you contrive to get money?"

A. "This queftion has no kind of relation to the cafe in point; however, I am willing to give you fome fatisfaction. Yet, of what importance is it to have it known, whether I am the son of a monarch, or the child of a beggar; why I travel without making myself known, or by what means I procure the money I want? As long as I pay a due respect to the religion and laws of the country, discharge every obligation, and am uniformly doing good to all around ine, the queftion you now put to me is improper and unbecoming. I have always taken a pleasure in refufing to gratify the curiofity of the public on this account, notwithstanding all the calumnies malice has invented against me. I will nevertheless condefcend to tell you what I never revealed to any one before. Know then, that the principal refourse I have to boaft of is, that as foon as I fet my foot into any country,

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War.

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[PON the death of Ghazi-o-din Khan, the emperor, Hamed Schah, conferred the office of captain general of the army upon Sche-abeddin, the ton of Ghazi-o-din Khan, although at the time a youth, not more than 16 years of age; but a diligent education and very uncommon natural talents, with the conftant advice of the preceptor of his infancy, enabled him to conduct himself in this great office, not only without folly, or indecifion, but with fo much artifice and boldness, as foon convinced all the omrahs of the court, that he was much more to be dreaded than despised; and indeed, he never rejected any crime which promoted the end he intended to accomplish. For fome time his uncle Sallabad-jing, remained in apprehenfions that he would march into the Decan, to revenge his father's death; but he had at that time taken fo great a part in the diftracted affairs of Delhi, that he had neither leifare not opportunity to interfere fo far from the capital. We fhall defer to give any account of these events, until the confequences of them come to affect or influence the English affairs in another part of Indoftan.

The English themselves could not refrain from admiring the fagacity of Mr. Dupleix's conduct, which by making the war in the Carnatic fubfervient to his views on the northern provinces, had by degrees led his nation to the great establishments of which they were now in poffeffion. At the fame time they had the fatisfaction to know that thefe fucceffes of their enemies could not be imputed to any defects in their own Conduct; for fo far from having a force Hib. Mag. June, 1786.

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fufficient to make head against the French, in two parts of the country fo diftant from each other as Golconda and Tritch'nopoly, their whole force collected was much inferior to what the French were able to oppose to them in the fouthern parts of the Decan; where nothing but efforts of valour, fcarcely to be paralleled, had carried them through the two wars of Chundafaheb and the Myforeans. It was equally fortunate for the nation, that chance fhould have placed during thefe arduous times, a man of much fagacity, indefatigable application, and a perfeverance equal to Dupleix's, at the he ad of the presidency; fuch was Mr. Saunders, who came to the government a little before the death of Nazir-jing; and convinced by that event of the ambitious fchemes of Mr. Dupleix, determined to oppofe them to the utmost of his ftrength, notwithstanding he had no inftructions from the company to engage in hoftilities; and notwithstanding the two nations were at peace in Europe, he had with the fame fpirit continued the war, never difcouraged by adverfe turns, nor dreading the event of desperate attempts when neceffary to retrieve them. The two governors had, during the whole courfe of hoftilities, carried on a fharp and acute controverfy by letters; and Mr. Dupleix, who had, even before the event happened, purfuaded himself that Mr. Buffy would obtain the northern provinces, had towards the end of the year 1753, affected to shew an inclination to terminate the war in the Carnatic; and in the beginning of the year 1754, confen ed to treat in form. When it was agreed that a conference fhould be held in the town of Sadras, belonging to the Dutch, on the road between Madrafs and Pondicherry.

The deputies, on the fide of the Englifh, were Mr. Palk and Mr. Vanfittart: on the French, the father Lavaur, fuperior of the French Jefuits in India; Mr. Kirjean, nephew to Mr. Dupleix; and Mr. Bauffet, a member of the council of Pondicherry. They met on the g of January, 1754; the two governors fuperintending and directing their proceedings by letters, which were no more than twelve hours in coming from Pondicherry, and only fix from Madrafs. The English deputies opened the conference by propofing as the bafis of the negociation, that Mahomet Ally fhould be acknowledged nabob of the Carnatic: with the fame authority as had ever been poffeffed by any former nabob; and that the king of Tanjore fhould be guarantied in the peaceable poffeffion of this kingdom. The French then produced their ideas of a bafis, and the whole of their terms together; their bafis implied the acknowledgment of Salabad-jing as foubah of the DeQ_q

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çan, and the immediate release of the French prifoners taken during the war: the English, in return for their acquiescence to these two articles, were to be exempted from the ground-rent of Madras, a mall fine formerly paid to the government of Arcot; they were to keep poffeffion of the country of Ponamalee; and fome eftablish ment was to be made for Mahomed Ally after his difference with the Miforean concerning Tritchinopoly was conciliated. It was impoffible to have made proposals more directly oppofite; for by acknowledging Sallabad-jing without reftrictions, the French would become arbiters of the fate of the English in the Carnatic, as they would be of the French, if Mahomed Ally was acknowledged fo that each fide required of the other to give up every thing before they had well begun to treat of any thing. However the bufinefs did not ftop, and the French deputies produced feven patents, which they called their authorities for interfering as they had done, in the affairs of the Mogul government, and for making the prefent demands: two of thefe were patents from Murzafa-jing; one appointing Mr. Dupleix commander in all the countries from the river Kriftna to the fea; the other Chundafaheb governor of the Carnatic four were from Salabad-jing; two confirming the two foregoing; another giving the countries of Arcot and Tritchinopoly to Mr. Dupleix after the death of Chunda-faheb; the other appointing Mortiz Ally of Velore lieutenant under Mr. Dupleix in thefe countries; the feventh and laft piece, which the French called the moft authentic, was a letter from the great Mogul, confirming all that Salabad-jing had done in favour of Mr. Dupleix and his allies. The French deputies then asked what titles the English had to produce; who replied that they confifted of patents from Nazir-jing, Gazi-o-din Khan, and the Great Mogul, appointing Mahomed Ally nabob of the Carnatic: here again was a flat contradico, and of fuch a nature as could not be adjuited without fending the deputies to Delhi. The French, notwithstanding, infifted that the titles fhould be examined; and being told that the nabob's were at Tritchinopoly, defired that they might be immediately fent for: neverthelefs they in the mean time delivered copies of their own to be fcrutinized by the English deputies. But Mr. Saunders, convinced that this examination would multiply difcuffions, without removing any of the fufpicions and objections which prevailed with both fides on the validity of the adverfary's titles, came clofe to the point, and ordered his deputies to propofe that the English and French fhould be put in pof

feffion of land of equal value in fuch different parts of the province as might pres vent future difputes; that the commerce of the two companies in the Carnatic should be eftablished on equal terms of advantage; that fecurity fhould be given to the Myloreans for fuch a fum of money as upon an equitable adjustment of their account might appear to be due to them; that a penfion fhould be affigned to Rajafaheb, the fon of Chundafaheb; and that the French prifoners should be released; provided Mr. Dupleix would acknowledge Mahomed Ally na ob of the Carnatic. Thefe propofals left the French perior by the whole of their poffeffions to the northward, which were of much greater value than what the English would have been content to take, fubject to an equality with them in the Carnatic: a moderation which would have been inconfiflent with the conti nual fuccefs of the English arms, if the expences of the war had not already greatly hurt the commercial interefts of the Eaft India company, reftrained, by their charter, from enlarging their capital. The acknowledgment of Mahomed Ally appeared the only difficulty in Mr. Saunders's propofal; but even this might be removed by the Englih acknowledging Sal'abad-jing, on condition that he would confirm Mahomed Ally in the nabobfhip; and that the French would likewife agree to concur equally with the English in fupporting this prince in his government. But Mr. Dupleix was fo intoxicated by his connections with Sallabad-jing, and his notions of his own authority in the Carnatic, that he rejected Mr. Saunders's propofal with difdain. It was now no longer poffible to miftake his views, or to doubt that he had any other intention than to leave the English in poffeffi on of a fortieth part of the territories dependant on Arcot, on condition that they would tamely fuffer him to keep and govern all the reft with absolute sovereignty. Big with thefe ideas, he ordered his deputies to infift ftrenuously on the validity of his titles : and whilft they were explaining the various events, which had led their nation to the acquifition of fuch important prerogatives, the English deputies difcovered that the Mogul's Letter to Mr. Dupleix wanted the ufual fignature, which is a feal engraved with his name and titles, and ftamped with ink at the head of the patent. They likewife olferved that the feal impreffed on the wax which had fecured the cover of the letter, appeared by the date to be thirty-three years old, and confequently belonging to a former emperor. Thefe defects naturally gave them many fufpicions, which were much confirmed, when, on defi ing an explanation from the French deputies, they inmediately recalled all their papers, giving

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