Account of Periodical
that it fhould not. Djamalp decided
The difpute in favour of those who
maintained that the linnen Thould not
be applied to the dying, fuch applica-
tion not being customary at Kirman.
If this Deftour had not put an end to
this ridiculous difpute, it would have
drenched the country in blood; but
he did not stop here: he examined
the copy of the Vendidad that was in
fe among the Pares of Guzarate, and
he found the Pelvic translation too
long, and, in many places, very cor- B
Tupt; he found the people in general
allo grofly ignorant; and, to remedy
thefe inconveniencies, he established
proper perfons, his difciples, at Surat,
Nangary and Parotche, to whom he
had taught the Zend and the Peblui,
་ but being at length wearied with the
perverfe and vexatious oppofition that C
was fomented auainft him, be returned
to Kirman

The books which he left in India
were an exact copy of the Vendidad,
both in Zend and Peblut; the Ferouef-
chi in Zend and the Fadierguerd and the
Nerenguefan, which are purely ce-
remonial, is a mixed language of Zend D
and Perficdg

Darab, the difciple whom Djama
had left at Surat, and who was a con
fummate mafter of the Zend, the Pebl

and the Perfic, fet himself to correct the Pehlvic tranflation of the Vendidad, and the corrupt parts of the Zend text; and began to explain to E thelyoung Farfe divines the writings of Zoroafter which the Mobeds read every day without understanding them.

It is eafy to conceive that an abject people, who, for more than eight cen. taries, had practifed a thoufand ceremonies, of which they knew neither the origin wor the meaning, would be F >the dupes of innumerable impofitions;

and Darab foon difcovered that this
had been the cafe ; that ceremonial
purifications had been multiplied al
moft without number, and the Zend
tend almost buried under frivolous
Peblvic commentaries: Thefe abufes
he made an attempt to correct, by G
expofing the abfurdity of them; but
he found a very formidable adverfary
in Macherdji, the chief of the ancient
Cropans, and the fon of a Deflour; and
another fubject of contention made the
breach between them ftill wider."

Darab had a relation named

who had been taught the first princ
ples of aftronomy by Djamalp, and
who having afterwards perfected him-
felf in that fcience under another Pare
(Gent: Mag. AUGUST 1762.)

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Account of Periodical Papers continued.

the Public, on the birth of a Prince of
Wales, and fome compliments to their
majefties, which gave occafion to the
editor of a weekly collection of politi-
cal pieces, to quote the following ftan-
za, faid to have been originally writ- A
ten on one of Mr Whitehead's birth-day
odes:

While ev'ry eye, this day to view,

Of honest joy was full,
The Mufes blush'd, a piece fa true,
Should be fo truly dull.

The MONITOR of August 21, is a B
farther attempt to fhew, "That tho'
"the French king and his allies should
grant us the most advantageous
terms we can defire, they must in-
fallibly end in our deftruction
without the annihilation of the fa-

mily compact, and without depri- C «ving the houfe of Bourbon of the "means to feed their ambition with

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the immenfe refource of the Ameri **an treasure?" Should they, fays he, fecure to us all our conquests; fhould they evacuate Louifana, and make us a prefent of Hifpaniola; fhould they make over to Great Britain the port and harbour of Cadiz, as well as Gibraltar; withdraw their troops from Hanover, Heffe, Weftphalia, and Portugal; demolish the port of Dunkirk, and restore Minorca and Neufoundland; it would all be of none effect towards the common fafety of Eu-E rope, and the independency of Great Britain, while the bulk of the Spanish continent, and the riches of America remained in the poffeffion of the Bourbon family; because the advantages which would accrue to the house of Bourbon by the union of France and Spain, would excede all thofe concefhions hefides, no guarantee could be found fufficient to fecure them to us.; therefore fhould we continue in the poffeffion of what we have already made our felves maßlers of, with fuch additions as above-mentioned, we should hald little more than the excreffencies of: the Bourbon dominions. The frength of the Spanish monarchy would still join itfelf to France, and grow the clofer to it by its difunion from all other nations. So that the advantages arising to France from an intimate alliance (excluding all

people of a different family and religion) with the remaining part of the Spanish dominions, would, in a very few years, not only repair all the damages they have fuftained in the prent war, but fill their respective king

doms with more riches than they ever yet had in their most flourishing ftate.

By engroffing the commerce of the Spanish Indies, France, in a thort time, would monopolize all the filver and gold, and therewith draw to themselves all the ftrength of Europe; for in the prefent conftitution of the world, wealth and power are but different names for the fame thing.

He tells us afterwards, as a reason for continuing the war till France is difabled, that "the reftlefs pursuits " of the French after univerfal mo

narchy, will foon break through "the most folemn treaty: But if we are to continue a war with France till fhe is fo far impoverished and debilitated as never to be able to break the treaty which fhall be made at a peace, it is difficult to fay when peace Thould be made, and equally difficult to furnish means for fuch a continnation of the war.

The BRITON, No. XII. contains the following articles, extracted from the act of the Vth of Queen Anne, for uniting England and Scotland,

Art. 1. The faid kingdoms (England and Scotland) shall be for ever united into one kingdom, by the name of Great Britain; and that the enfigns armorial to be fuch as her majesty fhall appoint, and the cross of St George and St Andrew conjoined.

Art. 6. All parts of the united kingdom, to have the fame allowances and encouragements, and be under the fame regulations of trade, &

Art. 23. After reciting the privileges of the 16 peers, proceeds," And "all peers of Scotland, and their fuc "ceffors, thall be peers of Great BriF"tain, and have rank and precedence "next after the peers of the like or"der and degrees in England, and be "fore all peers of Great Britain of the "like orders and degrees created after "the union; & fhall enjoy all privileges "as fully as the peers of England, ex"cept fitting in the House of Lords, Gand voting on trials of peers,"

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Art. 24. That there be one great "feal for the united kingdom, dif"ferent from the great feal ufed in "either kingdom; and the quarter"ing the arms, and the precedence of Lyon, king of arms of Scotland, left "to her majefty."

The rest of the paper, confifts whol

ly of perfonal abufe, not levelled fo much against any perfons in the adminiftration, as against the supposed literary adverfaries of the Briten, but

A Story told by Lord Orrery.-D. of Ormond to bis Son. 379

The NORTH BRITON, No. XII,
has thought fit to infult and visity A
the highest characters, for encouraging
literary merit without regard to par-
ty-principles.

From Mr Morrice's Memoirs of the firft
Earl of Orrery.

Umily, and the death of the king,

the ruin of the royal fa- B

his lordmhip retired to Marfon, his feat in England, which his father had bought of Sir John Hippifley, and which was formerly part of Edmund, Earl of Cornwall's estate.

I have heard him repeat a remark. able incident that happened during C his refidence there; which, as it will thew the diftrefs of the royal party in those days, may, perhaps, be acceptable to the curious.

The parish church of Marfion is very near to the Manfion Houfe; Lord Orrery never failed to go thither on a Sunday, but one Sunday, having fat there fome time, and being difappointed of the then qualified minister, his lordship was preparing to return home, when his fervants told him, a perfon in the church offered to preach. His lordship, though he looked upon the propofal only as a piece of enthusiasm, gave permiffion, and was never more furprized or delighted than with the fermon, which was filled with learning, fenfe, and piety. His lordship would not fuffer the preacher to ef cape unknown, but invited him to din. ner, and enquiring of him his name, life, and fortune, received this anfwer My lord, my name is Afberry; Tam a clergyman of the Church of England, and a loyal fubject to the king: I have lived three years in a • poor cottage under your warren wall, within a few paces of your lordship's houfe. My fon lives with me, and ⚫ we read and dig by turns. I have a little money, and fome few books, and I fubmit chearfully to the will of Providence.'

This worthy and learned man (for Tuch Lord Orrery always called him, died at Marston fome years after, but not till his lorthip had obtained an allowance of 30l. per ann. for him, without any obligation of taking the Covenant. Thus far Mr Morrice.

As a memorial of the above tranfáction, the poor cottage in which Mr Aberry lived, with a little garden ad

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joining to it, is still kept up in its old form by the prefent Earl of Cork and Orrery, being taken into his gardens, and the two rooms of which it confifts, viz. a kitchen and a chamber, are furnifhed as much as poffible in the tafte of thofe times, and with all forts of ufeful furniture, and books, prints, &c. of equal antiquity.

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An original Letter from the late Duke of
Ormond to his Son.

Son Gowran,

BY

July 10, 1676.

Y the laft account I received of. your condition, I muft, with the trouble and grief of a father, conclude you are in danger of death, and that, in all human probability, the days you are to live in the world are not many.

I fear, neither you nor I have fo ferved God, that we can reafonably expect he should afford you a miraculous deliverance from that diftemper and weak estate to which your own negligence and intemperance, and my ill example and want of feafonable and proper admonition, may have too much contributed.

I hope your own piety, and confideration of a happy or miferable eter nity, have fuggefted to you thoughts of this nature; and whether it fall please God to restore you to your health, or put a period to your life, this merciful affiction of his, which allows you time for repentance and addreffes for mercy, will be of advantage to you. Yet I have thought it my duty to furnish you with all the helps in my power towards your making a happy end (if it be God's will) or a profitable use of thefe approaches of death, if, in undeferved indulgence towards us, he shall vouchsafe to give you a longer life. I have therefore fent my chaplain, Dr Ashton, to adminifter thofe affiftances and comforts to you which are proper for his function, and necessary for you; not knowing whether any of our clergy may be had, or if there may, whether fo able or fo affectionate.

I hope it is below your spirit, and that you have too much reafon and chriftianity to think you are the nearer death because you prepare yourself for eternal life. You know I have lately given you proofs of my kindness to you, yet I would have you value this care of your well-dying before and beyond it, fince, as it may be the last, fo it is the greatest demonstration I can give of being, Your affectionate Father, ORMON

The GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, VOL. XXXII.

The three following Pieces are felected from two
Poftbumous Volumes of the Writings of the late Dr
Swift, and bis Friends, juft published, of which
a farther Account will be given in our next.

Poetical ESSAYS, AUGUST 1962.

To such a subject tüne my lyre, og at di
And fing like one of Milton's choir,
Where devils to a vale retreat,
And call the laws of wisdom fate,
Lament upon their hapless fall,
That force free virtue should enthral?
Or, fhall the charms of wealth and pow'r
Make me pollute the mufes bow'r

As from the tripod of Apollo,
Hear from my defk the words that follow
Some by philofophers milled,
Muft honour you alive and dead;
And fuch as know what Greece hath writ,
Muft tafte your irony and wit.
While mont that are, or would be great,
Muft dread your pea, your person hate,
And you on Draper's hill muft lye,
And there without a mitre dye.

RIDDLE.

By Dr Swift to my Lady Carteret,

FROM India's burning clime I'm brought,

With cooling gales like zephyrs fraught:
Not Iris when he paints the sky,
Can fhew more different hues than I ;
Nor can the change her form so fast,
I'm now a fail, and now a mast.
I here am red, and there am green,
A beggar there, and here a queen.
I fometimes live in house of hair,
And oft in hand of lady fair.
I please the young, I grace the old,
And am at once both hot and cold.
Bay what I am then, if you can,
And find the rhime, and you're the man.
(The Anftver to the Riddle in our next.) ·

An Imitation from the Spectator.
By Mr ROZERT LLOYD,
Month had roll'd its lazy hours away,

ASince Delia's prefence blefs'd her longing

fwain:

How cou'd he brook the fluggish time's delay,
What charm could soften fuch an age of pain?
One fond reflection Atill his bofom chear'd,

And footh'd the torments of a lover's care,
'Twas that for Delia's felf the bow'r he rear'd,
And fancy plac'd the nymph already there.
O come, dear maid, and with a gentle fmile,
Such as lights up my lovely fair one's face,
Survey the product of thy fhepherd's toil,

Nor rob the villa of the villa's grace.
Whate'er improvements frike thy curious fight,
Thy tafte hath form'd let me not call it mine,
Since when I mufe on thee, and feed delight,

I form no thought that is not wholly thine. Th' apartments deftin'd for my charmer's use, (For love in trifles is confpicuous fhewn) Can Tcarce an object to thy view produce,

But bears the dear refemblance of thine own. And trust me, love, I could almoft believe,

This little pot the mansion of my fair; But that awak'd from fancy's dreams I grieve, To find its proper owner is not there.

In the county of Armagh,

Oh! I could doat upon the rural feene,

ėst

Its profpect over hill and champain wide,
But that it marks the tedious way between,

That parts thy Damon from his promis'd bride.
The gardens now put forth their bloffoms (weet,
In Nature's flow'ry mantle gayly dreff?
The clofe-trim'd hedge, and circling border neat,
All ask my Delia for their dearest guest.
The lilly pale, the purple blushing role,

In this fair fpot their mingled beauties join ;
The woodbine here its curling tendrils throws,
In wreaths fantastic round the mantling vine.
The branching arbour here for lovers made,

For dalliance meet, or fong, or amorous tale,
Shall oft protect us with its cooling fhade,
When Tultry Phebus burns the lovely vale.
"Tis all another paradice around,

And, truft me, fo it would appear to me,
Like the first man were I not lonely found,
And but half bleft, my Delia, wanting thee.
For two, but two, I've form'd a lovely walk,

And I have call'd it by my fair one's name,
Here, bleft with thee, t' enjoy thy pleafing talk,
While fools & madmen bow the knee to fame.
The ruftic path already have I try'd,

Oft at the finking of the fetting day 5
And while, my love, I thought thee by my fide,
With careful fteps have worn its edge away.
With thee I've held discourse, how paffing sweet!
While fancy brought thee to my raptur'd dream,
With thee have prattled in my lone retreat,

And talk'd down funs on love's delicious theme.
Oft as I wander thro' the ruftic croud,

Mufing with downcaft look, and folded arms,
They ftare with wonder, when I rave aloud,

And dwell with rapture on thy artless charms
They call me mad, and oft with finger rude,
Point at me leering as I heedlefs pafs;
Yet Colin knows the cause, for love is fhrewd,
And the young shepherd courts the farmer's

lafs.

Among the fruits that grace this little feat,

And all around their cluft'ring foliage fpread, Here may it thou cull the peach & nectrine fweet, And pluck the ftrawberry from its native bed, And all along the river's verdant fide,

I've planted elms, which rife in even row
And fling their lofty branches far and wide,
Which float reflected in the lake below.
Since I've been abfent from my lovely fair,

Imagination forms a thousand schemes,
For O! my Delia, thou art all my care,

And all with me is love and golden dreams.
O flatt'ring promife of fecure delight!

When will the lazy-pacing hours be o'er? That I may fly with rapture to thy fight, And we shall meet again to part no more.