ther! call upon England for Help, and we may be obliged to fend more Fleets to the Baltick, and be ingaged in a War upon Account of a difputed Poffeffion, too inconfiderable even for a Law-Suit-But those who talk in this Way are but shallow Politicians, and have not an adequate Notion of the Strength and Importance of our Foreign Dominions, or of the Goodnefs of thofe Troops. On the contrary, it feems evident to me, that the King of Denmark will think twice before he engages in Measures difagreeable to that State, whofe Strength, Courage, and Conduct he hath to lately experienced; but should he take any rafh and inconfiderate Step, Hanover alone is more than a Match for come before the Houfe this Seffion; and The other Points this Letter-writer touches To Mr Emmon Sense. Jan. 27. N° 104. Of the Caftle of STEINHORST, &c. (See Foreign Affairs. ) HIS important Fortress, together Twith the Estate about it, I am aflu B D red, is worth, as to the Dominium utile, no lefs than a thousand Pounds a Year; and E inestimable as to the Dominium fupremum, as it is a Check to the Northern Powers: But the Title being pretty intricate and doubtful, his Majelty bought it a Pennyworth of the Duke of Holftein, the last Time he visited the German Dominions, paying, I think, no more than 30,000 1, for it. him, and England neither can, nor will be engaged in that Quarrel; and especially at a Time that our Expences and Fleets are employ'à in obtaining ample Reparation for our Merchants; and future Secufor our Trade, which, it may be, is nor quite yet accomplish'd. Upon this Occafion, give me Leave, Sir, to fuggeft to you my Thoughts, upon the Luftre and Advantage which England receives from being to happily annex'd to his Majesty's German Dominions, in anfwer to the vulgar Prejudices too commonly entertained against them. While England was unconnected with any Dominions upon the Continent, we had only our Fleets to prevent, and resist Infults from other Powers; whereas, by our happy Union with Hanover, we have a Body of above 20,000 Men, moft excellent Troops, to act wherever we think proper, without the lealt Danger or Expence to England, by which too, particularly, we bridle the North. The Dutchy of Bremen is of infinite Advantage to England, as it fupplies us with great Quantities of Linnen both for Home Confumption and Re-exportation, to the great Eafe of our Linnen Manufacturers, who would otherwife be obliged to make ten Times the Quantity they do now. F I have met with fome timorous People, who apprehend ill Confequences from this Affair. The King of Denmark, (say they) incens'd at this Treatment, will certainly throw himself into the Arms of France, which hath, for fome Time, been endeavouring to engage him, as well as other Northern Powers, provifionally in her In-G terefts, to facilitate her future Schemes of Power and Greatnefs.-Nay, more, (fay they) the King of Denmark may probably refent this upon Hanover itself, and march a confiderable Body of Troops there; in which Cafe, Hanover will cry out, Mur The whole Revenues of the Electorate, at the Time of his lare Majesty's Acceffion to the Throne of thefe Realms, did not amount to more than 300,000l. a Year, and yet, foon afterwards, the confiderable Purchases of Bremen and Verden were made for above 500,000l. Sterling. Not long after after this, the Number of Troops in the Electorate was rais'd much above what it was before thought able to maintain, and hath continued ever fince upon that high Establishment. B Since his prefent Majefty's Acceffion to A the Electorate, feveral Acquifitions have alfo been made, and the very laft Time bis Majefty vifited thofe Dominions, he brought in, at the Price of above 100,000l. the Revenues of the Poftage of the Electo rate, which was an hereditary Grant to the Counts of Platen:- And in August Laft his Majefty concluded the Purchafe, and paid above 30,000l. for the Fortrefs and Estate of Steinhorft. So that, upon the Whole, notwithstanding that the Expences for the current Service of the Year equal, at leaft, the Revenue of the Electorate; yet, by a prudent and frugal Management, a Million Sterling, at leaft, hath C been laid out, over and above, in new Acquifitions. If fuch frugal Means had been purfued, we should have been in a better Condition than we are now, I cannot help recommending to the Ad-n here, to fol. low the Example of their German Brethren, to have Spirit enough to act, and D Frugality enough to put the Nation in a Condition of doing it. I am, Sir, Your humble Servant, ANGLO-GERMANICUS. From the Craftsman, Jan 27. No 655. Having, in the foregoing Extract from a Letter to a Member, &c. anticipated Mr D'Anvers's Subject, we shall give one Paragraph only towards his Conclufion, where he fays, I Lous Report, fpread about Town, that CANNOT give Credit to a ridicu by one Article, in our new Treaty with Spain, we are to pay them SIXTY-TWO THOUSAND POUNDS, for deftroying their Flect before Sicily, in the Year 1718. There can be no great Occafion to expofe the Falfhood of fuch a fcandalous Report; fince the honourable Perfon who deftroy'd that Fleet, was made a Peer of the Realm, and advanc'd to the Head of the Admi alty, for his good Services upon this very Occafion, which likewife received the ftrongest Approbation of Parliament How, therefore, can it be fuppofed, that any Minifler fhould have Meannefs enough, twenty Years afterwards, to fubmitta national Fine for the pretended Injury done to another Nation, with whom we were then at War, and who have been plundering Us, and preying upon our Trade? -This would be fuch an infamous Concellion, that it it is abfolutely incredible. F Daily Gazetteer. No 1111. M Acts to prevent (as he terms it) [R D'Anvers having mention'd the Gin-Drinking, Smuggling, and Stage-Playing, the only Product of Eleven Years, this Writer, who figns ALG. SIDNEY, remembers us, that Mr D'Anvers and his Party had frequently complained of the People being fuffered to debauch themfelves with Strong Liquors, of the Hardfhips the fair Dealer met with by reafon of the great Quantities of run Goods, and of the ill Confequences attending the In. crease of the Playhouses: He fpeaks in Defence of thefe Laws, (but that has been done more at large.) He then turns to Mr Common Sense, of White- Fryars, who, in his Paper of the 6th gave us a Projec for acting Dumb Dancing Shews, in order to evade the Licensing Act; but, fays he, as the fame Thought has been represented in the Regifter, and three other malecon tent Journals before this, I found it too tale to fill any Paper but his own; tho' I, in fome meature, approve this Scheme; it being much more confiftent with Com mon Senfe for him to fay nothing, as he wifely propofes, than pretend to fpeak, till he knows how to exprefs his Sentiments without the low, mean, and ungentlemanlike Barbarifms, which diftinguith every Sentence of his Writings, and which would much better fuit the Secretary of a Bear-Garden, than a pretended Advocate for Liberty. Yours, &c. ALG. SIDNEY. A Receipt to make and ufe Tar-Water, is fufficient for Six Persons; put on it having stirred it well, let it fettle, and in the Evening about five Pints of Water; next Morning pour off the clear Water, and take falling near a Pint for five Days fucceffively, after that every other Day half a Pint for two Weeks, and then a Quarter of a Pint during the Infection. The Tar is not to be removed till after two Months, but the Quantity of Water taken from it must be immediately fupply'd. By this Remedy feveral Perfons in Charles Town, SouthCarolina, where the Small Pox was lately very mortal, efcap'd the Infection, though converfant with the Infected, and one in particular has been fince twice Inoculated Hwithout any Effect; which feems to prove Tar-Water not only a Prefervative but an Antidote, and confequently far preferable 10 Inoculation itself. See Vol.14.193. W. K. is defired to let us know, bow to fend to him. A The following AccOUNT of the late Dr BOERHAAVE, fo loudly celebrated, and fo universally lamented thro' the whole learned World, will, we hope, be not unacceptable to our Readers: We could have made it much larger, by adopting flying Reports, and inferting unattefted Facts; a clofe Adherence to Certainty has contracted our Narrative, and hindred it from fwelling to that Bulk, at which modern Hiftories generally arrive. The LIFE of Dr HERMAN BOERHAAVE, late Professor of Phyfick in B the University of Leyden in Holland. R Herman Boerhaave was born on Derman B December, 1668, about Proficiency, that he was, at the Age of eleven Years, not only Mafter of the Rules of Grammar, but capable of tranflating with tolerable Accuracy, and not wholly ignorant of critical Niceties. At Intervals, to recreate his Mind and ftrengthen his Conftitution, it was his Father's Custom to fend him into the Fields, and employ him in Agriculture, and fuch kind of rural Occupations, which he continued thro' all his Life to love and prac tife; and by this Viciffitude of Study and Exercife, preferv'd himself, in a great Measure, from thofe Distempers and Depreffions which are frequently the Confequences of indifcreet Diligence, and uninterrupted Application; and from which, Students, not well acquainted with the Conftitution of the human Body, fometimes fly for Relief to Wine instead of Exercife, and purchase tempoCrary Eafe by the Hazard of the molt dreadful Confequences. One in the Morning, at Voorhout, a Village two Miles diftant from Leyden: His Father, James Boerhaave, was Minifter of Voorhout, of whom his Son, * in a finall Account of his own Life, has given a very amiable Character, for the Simplicity and Openness of his Behaviour, for his exact Frugality in the Management of a narrow Fortune, and the Prudence, Tenderness and Diligence, with which he educated a numerous Family of nine Children. He was eminently skill'd in Hiftory and Genealogy, and versed in the D Latin, Greek and Hebrew Languages. His Mother was Hagar Daelder, a Tradefman's Daughter of Amsterdam, from whom he might, perhaps, derive an hereditary Inclination to the Study of Phyfick, in which he was very inquifitive, and had obtained a Knowledge of it E not common in Female Students. This Knowledge, however, fhe did not live to communicate to her Son, for she died in 1673, ten Years after her Marriage. His Father, finding himself encumber'd with the Care of feven Children, thought it neceflary to take a fecond Wife, and in July, 1674, was married to Eve du Bois, Daughter of a Minister of Leyden, who, by her prudent and impartial Conduct, fo endear'd herfelf to her Husband's Chil dren, that they all regarded her as their own Mother. F Herman Boerhaave was always defign'd by his Father for the Miniftry, and with G that View inftructed by him in Grammatical Learning, and the first Elements of Languages; in which he made fuch a Erat Hermanni Genitor Latine, Græce, He braice feiens: peritus valde biflriarum & gentium. Vir apertus, cardidus, jimplex: pater familias optimus amore, cura, diligentia, frugalitate, prudentia. Qui non magna in re, fed plenus virtutis, novem liberis educandis exemplum præbuit fingulare, quid exalta parfimonia polleat,& fru galmas, H The Studies of young Boerhaave were, about this time, interrupted by an Acci dent, which deferves a particular Mention, as it first inclin'd him to that Science, to which he was by Nature fo well adapted, and which he afterwards carried to fo great Perfection. In the twelfth Year of his Age a ftubborn, painful, and malignant U.cer, broke out upon his left Thigh; which, for near five Years, defeated all the Art of the Surgeons and Phylicians, and not only afflicted him with most excruciating Pains, but expofed him to fuch fharp and tormenting Applications, that the Difeafe and Remedies were equally infufferable. Then it was that his own Pain taught him to compaffionate others, and his Experience of the Inefficacy of the Methods then in Ufe incited him to attempt the Discovery of others more certain. He began to practise at least honestly, for he began upon himself; and his first Eflay was a Prelude to his future Success, for, having laid afide all the Prefcriptions of his Phyficians, and all the Applications of his Surgeons, he, at laft, by fomenting the Part Salt and Urine, effected a Cure. That he might, on this Occation, obtain the Affiftance of Surgeons with lefs Inconvenience and Expence, he was brought, by his Father, at Fourteen, to Leyden, and placed in the fourth Class of the publick School, after being examined by the Mafter: Here his Application and Abilities were equally conspicuous. In fix Months, by gaining the firit Prize in the fourth Clafs, he was raifed to the arth and in fix Months more, upon the Proof of the Superiority of his C 38 The GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, VOL. IX. rewarded with another Prize, and tranflated to the fixth; from whence it is ufual in fix Months more to be removed to the University. Thus did our young Student advance in Learning and Reputation, when, as he was within View of the University, a fudden and unexpected Blow threaten'd to defeat all his Expectations. On the 12th of November, in 1682, his Father died, and left behind him a very flender Provifion for his Widow and nine Children, of which the Eldeft was not yet feventeen Years old. A This was a moft afflicting Lofs to the young Scholar, whofe Fortune was by no B means fufficient to bear the Expences of a learned Education, and who therefore feem'd to be now fummon'd by Neceflity to fome Way of Life more immediately and certainly incrative; but with a Refolution equal to his Abilities, and a Spirit not fo deprefs'd or fhaken, he determined to break thro' the Obftacles of Poverty, and fupply, by Diligence, Want of Fortune. He therefore ask'd and obtained the Confent of his Guardians to profecute his Studies as long as his Patrimony would fupport him, and continuing his wonted Industry gained another Prize. C He was now to quit the School for the D Univerfity, but on Account of the Weaknefs yet remaining in his Thigh, was at his own Entreaty continued fix Months longer under the Care of his Master, the learned Wynfchotan, where he once more was honoured with the Prize. At his Removal to the University, E the fame Genius and Industry met with the fame Encouragement and Applaufe. The learned Triglandius, one of his Father's Friends, made foon after Profeffor of Divinity at Leiden, diftinguished him in a particular Manner and mended him to the Friendship of Mr Van Ƒ Apphen, in whom he found a generous and conftant Patron. recom He became now a diligent Hearer of the most celebrated Profeilors, and made great Advances in all the Sciences, ftill regulating his Studies with a View principally to Divinity, for which he was originally intended by his Father, and for that Reafon exerted his utmoft Application to attain an exact Knowledge of the Hebrew Tongue. Being convinced of the Neceffity of Mathematical Learning, he began to ftudy thofe Sciences in 1597, but without that intenfe Industry with which the Pleafure he found in that Kind of Knowledge induced him afterwards to cultivate them. In 1690, having perform'd the Exercifes H of the University with uncommon Reptr tation, he took his Degree in Philofophy; and on that Occafion difcufs'd the impor tant and arduous Subject of the diftinct Natures of the Soul and Body, with fuch Accuracy, Perfpicuity and Subtilty, that he entirely contuted all the Sophistry of Epicurus, Hobbes and Spinola, and equally raifed the Characters of his Piety and Erudition. Divinity was ftill his great Employment, and the chief Aim of all his Studies., He read the Scriptures in their original Languages, and when Difficulties occur'd, confulted the Interpretations of the moft antient Fathers, whom he read in order of Time, beginning with Clemens Ro manus. *In the Perufal of thefe carly Writers, he was ftruck with the profoundeft Venera tion of the Simplicity and Purity of their Doctrine, the Holiness of their Lives, and the Sanctity of the Difcipline practised by them; but as he defcended to the lower Ages, found the Peace of Christianity broken by ufelefs Controverfies, and its Doctrines fophifticated by the Subtilties of the Schools. He found the holy Writers interpreted according to the Notions of Philofophers, and the Chimera's of Metaphyficians adopted as Articles of Faith. He found Difficulties raifed by Niceties, and fomented to Bitterness and Rancour. He faw the Simplicity of the Christian Doctrine corrupted by the private Fancies of particular Parties, while each adhered to its own Philofophy and Orthodoxy was confined to the Sect in Power. On (More of this Great Man, next Month.) 72 *Jungebat bis exercitiis quotidianam Patrum lectionem, fecundum Chronologiam, a Clemente Romani exorfus, & juxta feriem feculorum defcendens: ut Jefu Chrifti De&trinam in N. T. traditam, primis Patribus interpretantibus addifceret. Horum fimplicitatem fincerae De&rinae, difctplinae fanétitatem, Vitae Deo dicatae integritatem aderabat. Subtilitatem Scholarum Divina postmedum inquiraffe dolebat. Aegerrime tulit, Sacrorum interpretationem ex fectis Sophiftarum peti; Platonis, Ariftotelis, Thomae Aquinatis, fica adhiberi pro legibus, ad quas caftigarentur On the happy Nuptials of the Prince and Princefs of WALES. (See laft Mag. p. 655.) WHEN pious frauds, and holy pride no more Cou'd hold that empire, fo long they bore; From fair Germania's ftates the Truth began To gleam, and thed her heavenly light on man: To Frederic firft, the Saxon prince, 'twas giv'n To nurfe and cherish this beft gift of heav'n. Its growth, whilft young and tender, was his care; To guard its bloffoms from th' inclement air : And dying, 'Mayft thou flourish!' was his pray'r. Again, when fair Religion now had spread Her influence round, and rais'd her captiv'd head; When Charles and Rome their impious forces join'd To quench its light, and re-inflave mankind; Another Frederic firft appear'd in arms, To guard th' endanger'd bleffings from alarms. Ye heav'ns, what virtues with what courage join'd! But join'd in vain !---See vanquish'd, and confin'd, In the deep gloom, the pious hero lies; And lifts to heav'n his ever-ftreaming eyes. There, spent with forrows, as he funk to reft (The publick caufe ftill lab'ring in his breast) Behold, in flumber, to his view di play'd, Rofe the first Frederic's venerable Shade! His temples circled with a heav'nly flame: The fame his flowing robe; his look the fame. And art thou come? (the captive warrior cries) "What realms fo long detain'd thee from our eyes? After fuch wars, fuch deaths and horrors paft, 'Is our great guardian chief return'd at last ? Say, from yon heav'n, fo long defir'd in vain, Now when proud Rome, her standard wide unfurl'd, 'Pours like a deluge o'er the trembling world; Fierce, her difputed empire to restore, < And fcourge mankind for ten dark ages more. Soon fhall thy eyes a brighter fcene furvey: (Lo, the fleet hours already wing their way!) When to thy native foil in peace reftor'd, Once more thall Gorba fee her lawful lord. True to religion, each fucceffive fon Shall aid the caufe, their generous fires begun. • Even now I look thro' fate. O glorious fight! I fee thy offspring, as they rife to light. "What benefits to man! what lights divine! "What herces, and what faints, adorn the line! And oh, to crown the fcene, my joyful eyes 'Behold from far, a princely virgin rife! This, this is fhe, the fmiling fates ordain To bring the bright primeval times again! The fair Augufta!--Grac'd blooming charms; 'Referv'd to blefs a British prince's arms. 'Behold, behold, the long-expected day! Fly fwift, ye hours; ye minutes, haite away. To wed the fair, O favour'd of the fkies, 'Rife in thy time, thou deftin'd hero, rife! "For thro' th's fcene of opening fate, I fee "A greater Frederic fhall arife in thee! Frederic, electer of Saxony, the chief proteor of Luther and the proteant velinton, did in the year 1520. 4 John Frederic, ne here to the former, takes prifoner by Charles V. and diffel'd of his electorate by him in the year 1547. Then let thy fears, from this bleft moment, ccafe: Henceforth, fhall pure religion reign in peace. Thy royal race fhall Albion's feopter fway; And fon to fon th' imperial pow'r convey: All fhall fupport, like thee, the noble caufe Of truth, religion, liberty, and laws.' This faid, the venerable Shade retir'd: The wond'ring Hero, at the vifion fir'd, With generous rapture glows; forgets his pains; Smiles at his woes, and triumphs in his chains. Jo. Spence, Prof. of Poetry and Fellow of New-Coll. Oxan. An ODE, on MIRA's Birth-Day, Oct. 7. Love watch'd the happy hour with care; Mamma, what, more than mortal, bloom* Unequal I, to whom the Mufe denies Her animating pow'r, and aid divine, Forbear reluctant the defign, For want of ftrength and skill to rife. Oh! like to tuneful Granville's were my tongue, Like his my genius, and like his my fong; No longer should his Mira claim To ftand the first in brighteft fame, Rivall'd by thee, in virtue and in face, In ev'ry winning charm, and cach attractive grace. Ye pow'rs! deputed here on earth, To tend with facred aid her birth! Still (confcious of the happy charge ye bore At that important, blissful hour,) Preferve, what you propitiously have given. Your choicett bleitings on her fhed, And show, that goodness is the care of heav'n. Eternal fweets around her fpread, Watch o'er the fair, that nothing may molest The calm and quiet of her breast. Without, th' exacteft fymmetry is feen; So let all be bleft harmony, within. Let health, let peace, let love combine To make her days unfully'd thine. If all that can adorn the mind To innocence and virtue if you owe Whate'er is great above, or good below; That fure fe claims, and that you'll fure beflow. H. M. |