No Sign, propitious, snatch'd th' accepted Fire, Twas Allblanc Silence--All, portentous Gloom-The half burnt Offering fmoak'd, in beamless Flame, Drops of cold Sweat bedew'd my lifted Hands, A rend Seer! Saul.] When fuppliant Princes KNEEL, to pamper'd Priests, The Miter hides the Crown-Degenerate Boy! Kings, who, Themselves, want Props, fupport no State. Abner, yet, mine-and Gileads'sCaptains,firm, With their unshaken Thousands, aid my Caufe Prieft, let thy Trumpets found Sedition's call, Mine (hall rife, fhriller, and be heard to Heav'n; For, 'tis thy Caufe, O Heav'n! for which ĺ fight. Away--go, kneel--pray hard for my Destruction, Then, Heav'n, to cross your Hopes, may bless my Arms. B C H. P. No-when, from Battle, Saul re- D turns, with Life, Say, by my Voice, th' Eternal never spoke- Sanl. -Oh! greatly hinted! All thy Redoubled, on my Head, if Thou not dieft, Abner, Thou com'ft, at Wish-See the High Prieft Committed to the Care of watchful Guards; My Vistory, or Death, decides his Fate. [Abner nods to two Soldiers who feize the High Prieft. H. P. Ah! Prince-What Man can do, Thy Courage will. But Man, against his Maker, strives in vain.— [Exit, Guarded. Abner.] Let the King live for ever,-Let his Foes E Baleful, polluted, horrible, and black, Witch.] Oh, fpare my worthless Life, a nameless Wretch Dependant on a Miftrefs, who compells And chains up Life, and Death, to wait her Call. Saul.] Where does the Death-devoted Mifchief dwell? Witch.] Safe, and far hid, within that dreadful Cave, Lie Cells, which fhadowy Forms, at Midhight, skim, Fill'd, with thin Yellings, and faint Screams of Ghosts, Conftrain'd to measure Earth's remoteft Bounds, And rob the Graves, of Kings, to feed her Fires. Saul.] What can her Power perform? Witch.] What can it not? If, from the Front of Heaven, fhe lur'd the Stars, The trembling Fires, obedient to her Charms, Wou'd, fwift defcending, leave their darken'd Sphere, And ftream new Daylight on the wondering World. Or, if the filent Realms of ftarting Death Hear her known Call, ftrait, from the bursting Tombs, Unbodied Duft resumes the fummon'd Shape, And leaps to life, connected, for her aim, &c. Suppofing I have fent you enough for the Compafs of your Paper, I ftop here, and subfcribe my felf, SIR, Tours, Etc, P. 65 PHILOTHEUS. Craftsman, Jan. 14. N°. 198. M Petticoat Government. R D'Anvers, as an Advocate in Behalf of the Fair Sex, for political as well as domeftic Government, obferves that they are blefs'd with excellent intriguing Heads F and a good deal of Spirit, and other neceffary Fall, and be crush'd, beneath his Virtues Power, Lord: Ranging, this Morning, o'er the neighbour ing Hills, In a high Cave, on Endor's craggy Side, Power, Br oft-hurt Shepherds, who, in Vales, beneath, Tending their fleecy Care, had felt her Spleen. Saul. Hap! When thou heardst of thy dark Sifter's Fate, How did thou dare to bid thy flattering Hope, Cherish a Thought of Life, plung'd in an Art, H Qualifications for Government, and that they are legally intitled to the fupreme Magifiracy upon Failure of Male Ine, in most of the free States of Europe. This (fays he) perhaps is the Reafon why the Antients reprefented Wisdom under the Figure of a Woman, he then mentions Boadicea, and Queen Elizabeth in our own Country, as equalling the most famous of our Kings both in the Camp and the Cabinet; and proceeds thus: Ichufe to draw the Eyes of my Readers to a neighbouring Kingdom; where there is, at prefent, a moit illuftrious Example of a Queen, who not only relieves her Husband from the Fatigues of Government at Home, but hath put all the Powers of Europe in a Ferment, for feveral Years paft. Indeed, the hath always done this, in Concert with a favourite Minifter, whom the adopted, into a Partnerfhip of her Throne, like fome of the antient Roman Emperors, and divided the Sovereignty with with him.-The Reader, I fuppofe, will be able to guess at the Lady I mean, when I add that Cardinal Alberoni was her firft Favourite and Colleague. A late Writer having inform'd us by what fcandalous Methods this infolent Minifter rofe, from a low Original, to the Height of her Majesty's Favour, gives us the following Account how they both held the King in Subjection. This Docility in him went fo far, that even on publick Days, where it was moft neceffary for him to at the King, and where he was fondeft of appearing in that Character, his Frowns and Smiles were all betow'd according to better Judgment than his own. At other Times, he devoted himself intirely to conjugal Functions, wifely committin the Welfare of himself, his Children and People, to the fame able Connfellor, who was thought worthy to direct the Queen. B She, on her Side, was moft unwearied in her C Duty, both as an eafy complying Wife, and a bufy stately Queen. She was the more jealous and oftentatious of Majefty, becaufe lifted up to it from the Daughter of a petty Italian Prince; and took every Opportunity of dif playing to the Eyes of the World the full Extent of her Influence over her Husband. The King was, at first, a good deal preju D dic'd against Alberoni, from his being a moft immoral Liver, and no Chriftian, tho' a zealous Churchman, and from his having formerly been guilty of a moft fignal Breach of Trust, and Difrefpect to his royal Perfon. But the Queen refolving to do as well by Alberoni, as he had done by her, was not at all difcourag'd at this feeming Difficulty. She got it over with Eafe. E F True it is, (fays the fame Author) that, in a Fit, of ill Humour, he would now and then fancy he was Mafter; but that was very feldom, and never went farther than a little buffing and grumbling, with a few hard Words at moft. On fuch Occafions, all that the Queen and Alberoni had to do, was to threaten that they would no longer trouble themselves with him, or his Kingdom. This Terror, quickned by a deep Conviction that he and his dear Prerogative had no earthly Support but in them alone, conftantly wrought in him a fpeedy and fincere Repentance; and the Queen (who could not find in her Heart to leave fuch a Husband to himself, and to a Nation, in which he was a Stranger) moved by G his Submiffion, pardon'd all, and chearfully purfued her painful Task." One would naturally think that a Man, who had been fo amply rewarded for his good Offices to the Queen, and fo patiently submitted to by the King, would have had the Gratitude to treat them both with an uncommon Degree of Acknowledgement and Refpect. H But, inftead of this, we are told "that the Secret he most commonly made ufe of to fercen himself from publick Hatred and private Refentments, was laying the Odium upon their Maral Reflexions on the Ministry of Cardinal Alberoni, p. 13. ↑ Page 43. Majefties; and, the better to effect it, he fpoke of them at all. Times, with the utmost Contempt. Nay, fo confummate a Hypocrite was he, that he often lamented the Fate of the poor Spaniards, with Tears in his Eyes; bewailing himself fill more than them, as moft expoted to thofe terrible Humours, and alus! fometimes even to bear the Blame of them. Nor was he in the leaft apprehenfive that his mofthocking, and inconfiderate Speeches, should be repeated to their Majefties; fo ftrictly were the Acceffes to them guarded against Reporters of both Sexes." But at last he had fo far alienated the Affections of the People from their Majefties, and exafperated the greatest foreign Corrts, that they were obliged to difmifs, and fend him out of the Kingdom, in order to remove all Obftacles to Peace, as the King expreß'd it under his own Hand. Having taken this neceffary Step, to the great Joy of the whole Kingdom, as well as of all Europe, the Court of Spain acceded to the Quadruple Alliance; by which the eventual Succeffion to the Dutchies of Tuscany and Parma was fecured to her Majefty's eldeft Son, the renown'd Don Carlos. But her Majefty repofing the fame Confiben him, notwithstanding the Rewards, dence in Ripperda, was intamoufly_betray'd and Honours, with which the had loaded him. I fhall fay nothing concerning the Ministry of the Marquefs de la Paz, and Mr Patinke, who fucceeded this abandoned Profitute in her Majefty's good Graces; being willing to afcribe the great Advantages, which were ftipulated for her dear Son, by the Treaty of Seville, to her Majefty's own royal Wifdom. I fhall only obferve that his immediate Introduction into Italy, with a large Body of Spanish Troops, gave her Majesty an Opportu nity of putting her Defigns in Execution, and placing the Crown of two Kingdoms upon her Son's Head. It must be confefs'd, that her too folicitous Care for aggrandizing him ftill farther had like to have defeated all Fer Schemes; for, if we may credit common Report, fome private Overtures, on her Part, to the Court of Vienna, laid the Bafis of the late Negotiations between that Court and France, which cannot be very agreeable to her Catholick Majefty, as they tend to clip the Wings of that young Eagle, who feem'd to be foaring even to Imperial Dignity. However, fome particular Gentlemen are infinitely oblig'd to her, upon this Account; and ought to return her Thanks for having undone their bangling Work, and extricated them out of Difficulties, which it was impoffible to have done themfelves. It must likewife be acknowledg'd, that all thefe fine Projects of a female Brain, in Purfuit of foreign Dominions, have been so far from being of any Service to the Spanish Nation, that they have impoverish d it to a great Degree. But this will not be any Diminu F - tion 38 The GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, VOL. VI. tion of her Majefty's Glory, in after Times. She will be delivered down to future Generations, as a Princefs of signal Spirit and Dexter: ty, who made Ufe of a great Kingdom, as well as an indulgent Husband, to provide for her own Family, in fo handfome a Manner. The Cafe I have mentioned, cannot be better confirm'd than by a Paragraph in a D. Gazetter, where the 2. of Spain is fpoken of as the only Perfon in that Court, whofe Content is requifite to the Preliminaries agreed upon between France and the Emperor. The Emperor, as in Juftice he ought, en- "The fuperior Splendor of the regal Dig- Fog's Journal, Jan. 24. N° 377. T HE Force of Habit and Education makes us look with Aftonishment upon all Cuftoms, that are extremely different from our own, we hardly allow thofe Nations to be of the fame Nature with ourfelves, that are unlike us in their Manners: whereas upon a ftrict Examination, we Shall often find, that thofe Cuftoms which at first View feer the most different from our own, bave in Reality a great Analogy them. What fuggefted this Thought to me, was an Account a Gentleman, lately return' from China, gave, to a Company I was in, that the tickling of the Ears, was one of the moft exquifite Senfations known in China, and that the Delight adminifter'd to the whole Frame, thro' this Organ, could by a skillful Tickler, be rais'd to whatever Degree of Extafy the Patient fhould defire. The Company was ftruck with this Novelty, and the Account coming from fo far as China, rais'd their Curiofity, and open'd a large Field for pertinent Queftions. Among others, the Gentleman was ask'd, whether the Chinese Ears and Fingers had the leaft Refemblance to ours; to which having anfwer'd in the Affirmative, he went on thus: "This Pleafure, ftrange as it may feem to you, is in China reckon'd almoft equal to any that the Senfes afford. There is not an Ear in the whole Country untickl'd; the Ticklers have in their turn, others who tickle them; except fome few unhappy enough, not to find Ticklers, or fome Ticklers clumfy enough not to find Bufinefs; but these comfort themfelves with Self-Titillation. C D E F G This Profeffion, is one of the most lucra- H tive and confiderable in China, the most eminent Performers, being either handfomely requited in Money, or ftill better rewarded by the Credit and Influence with the Party tickled. In this Diftrefs, while Majefty labour'd under Privation of auricular Joys, the Empress, who by frequent little Trials, judg'd pretty well of the Texture of the Royal Ear, refolv ed to undertake it, and fucceeded perfectly, by Means of a much stronger Fiction, than others durft attempt or could imagine would please. Mean Time, the skilful Mandarine, far from But as all Mandarines have Ear-Ticklers The Company was furpriz❜d at the Gentle- I could fee nothing extraordinary in the Power which the Ear exercifed in China, when I confidered the extenfive Influence of that important Organ in Europe. Here, as in China, 'tis the Source of both Pleasure and Power, the Manner of applying to it is only different. Here the Titillation is Vocal, there Ma Manual, but the Effects are the fame, and by the bye, European Ears are not always unacquainted with Manual Applications. To make out the Analogy between the Chinese and ourfelves in this; I will offer fome Inftances of the Senfibility and Prevalency of the Fars of Great Britain. The British Ears feem to be as greedy and fensible of Titillation, as the Chinese, nor is the Profeffion of an Ear-Tickler here any ways inferiour. There are of three Sorts, the Private, the Publick, and the Self-Tickler. Flattery is the immediate Province of the Private Tickler. A B The Bufinefs of a Publick Tickler, is to modulate his Voice, difpofe his Matter, and enforce his Arguments, fo as to excite a pleafing Senfation in the Ears of a Number or Aflembly of People. This is the most difficult Branch of the Profeffion; but to the few who excel in it, the moft lucrative. The Bar has at prefent few Proficients of this Sort, the C Pulpit none, the Ladder alone feems not to decline. I must not omit one Publick Tickler of great Eminency, whofe Titillative Faculty must be allow'd to be fingly confin'd to the Ear, I mean the great Signor Farinelli, to whom fuch Crowds refort, for the Extafy he adminifters to them thro' that Organ, and who fo liberally requite his Labours, that if he will but do 'em the Favour to ftay 2 or 3 Years longer, and have 2 or 3 Benefits more, they will have nothing left, but their Ears to give him. D) The Self-Tickler is as unhappy as contemp tible, for having none of the Talents necessary for tickling of others, and confequently not E worth being tickled by others, he is reduced to tickle himself. I know an eminent Performer of this Kind, who by being nearly related to a skilful publick Tickler, would fet up for the Bufinefs himfelf, but has met with fuch repeated Difcouragements, that he is reduced to the mortifying Refource of Self-Titilation, in which he commits the most horrid Exceffes. Befides the Proofs of the Influence of the Ear here, many of our common Phrafes, (whence the Genius of a People may always be collected) demonftrate, that the Ear is reckon'd the principal Part of our whole Mechanifm. As for Inftance, F To have the Ear of one's Prince, is underfood by every body to mean having a good G Share of his Authority, if not the whole. To have the Ear of the First Minifter is the next, if not an equal Advantage; I am therefore not furpriz'd, that it fhould be fo frequently attempted. But I muft caution the Perfon who would make his Fortune in this Way to Confine his Attempt ftrictly to the Ear in the fingular Number, a Defign upon the Ears, in the Plural, of a First Minifter, however juft, being for the moft Part difficult and angerous. To give Ear to a Perfon, implies giving H To lend an Ear is fomething lefs, but ftill intimates a Willingness and Tendency in the Lender to be prevailed upon by a little more tickling of that Part. Thus the lending of an Ear is a fure Prelage of Success to a skilful Tickler. For Example, When a fine Woman lends an Ear to a Lover, the fhews a Difpofition at least to further and future Titillation. To be deaf, and stop one's Ears, are common and known Expreffions to fignify a total Refufal, in which Cafe I have obferv'd the manual Application to fucceed by a strong Vellication or vigorous Percuffion of the outward Membranes of the Ear. There cannot be a ftronger Inftance of the great Value fet upon thefe Parts, than the conftant Manner of expreffing the most ardent Defire People can have for any thing, by faying, they would give their Ears for it; a Price fo great, that it is feldom paid or required, witness Numbers actually wearing their Ears ftill, who in Juftice have long fince forfeit ed them. Over Head and Ears would be a manifeft Pleonafmus (the Head being higher than the Ears) were not the Ears reckon'd fo much more valuable than all the rest of the Head, as to make it a true Climax. It were unneceflary to mention, as farther Proofs of the Importance and Dignity of thofe Organs, that pulling, boxing, or cutting off the Ears, are the higheft Infults, choleric Men of Honour can either give or receive; which fhews that the Ear is the Seat of Ho nour as well as of Pleasure. Anatomifts have difcover'd, an intimate Correfpondence between the Palm of the Hand and the Ear. I have known previous Applications to the Hand practifed with Succefs upon very confiderable Perfons of both Sexes. Having thus demonftrated, that the Ear is the moft material Part in the whole Mechanifm of our Structure, and that it is both the Seat and Source of Honour, Power, Pleasure and Pain, I cannot conclude without an earnest Exhortation to all my Country-folks, of whatfoever Rank or Sex, to take the utmoft Care of their Ears. Guard yonr Ears, O ye Princes, for your Power is lodg'd in your Ears. Guard your Ears, ye Nobles, for your Honour lies in your Ears. Guard your Ears, ye Fair, if you would guard your Virtue. And guard your Ears, all my Fellow-Subjects,i you would guard your Liberties and Properties. Weekly Miscellanp, Jan 24. N° 143. Aving made appear in my laft, (See p. tife, called, A Plain Account, &c. is to magnify its Author. I proceed to fhew, that his Treatife is a thorough Piece of Inconsistency and Self-Contradiction, a faying and unfaying. 1. See what he fays against ATONEMENT. Our bleffed Lord lived and died for our Benefit, p. 115 His body was given and broken, and his Blood thed and poured out, for the Good of his Followers, p. 30, 52, 158, 190. This is my Blood of the New Covenant; i. e. fhed by me in Teftimony to the Truth of A all that I have declared as the Will or Covenant of God, p. 20, 169. This Cup, or this Wine, is the New Covenant in my Blood, i. e. is to be drank in Remembrance of my Blood, in or thro' which, after it thall be fhed, this new Covenant will be confirmed, as by a Seal or Teftimony to the Truth of it, p. 20, 21. Chrift fed his Blood as a Seal to the new Covenant, in which he promifes, in the Name of God, Forgiveness and Favour, &c. F. 120. “, B C Chrift's Blood is called the Seal of the ChristianCovenant in this figurative Senfe only, viz. that as Coveran samong Men are fign'd by Some peculiar Mark or Seal, in order to fhew and prove their Truth and Validity; fo Chrift's DIS confidered as the Proof he voluntarily et the Terms brought by him to Maninfo. God, were truly what he had reprefented ex to be, is, by a Figure of Speech, called the Seal of the Covenant, p. 168. 2. Hear what he fays for ATONEMENTS. Chrifti, to his Difiples, of far greater Importance, than the Jewish High Prieft was to the Jews: His Death more than answered all the beneficial Purpofes of any of the legal Sa-D crifice, p. 97. Christ, in his Death, upon the Crof, anfwers to the Sacrifices on the Day of Expiation. He offered a Sacrifice upon the Crof, answering to the fewife Sacrifices, p. 98, 59, 171. The Death of Chrift was that Sacrifice thing more than a Proof he voluntarily gave, that he had truly reprefented the Terms he brought from God to Men. But in the second Quotation, he owns, that the Death of Chrift was a Sacrifice answering the legal Sacrifices; that his Body wa ofered up upon the Cross, and his Blood feed for the Remiffion of Sins; that he was fent from God to fave us from our Sins; and that what he did, and taught, and fuffered in this World, was to redeem us from the Power and Punishment of our Sins. Are not thefe plain Inconfiftencies? The like Inconfiftency appears with respect to Self-Examination, alfo with refpect to the Benefits annexed to the Sacrament, and the Renewal of the New Covenant on our Part, which he denies in fome Places, and owns in others. What hen is the Amount of this Author's Treatife? Why juft nothing at all. How fit therefore is he for that Poft of Superiority which he affumes? But how comes it to pas, that a Man of cere fhould write after this Manner? D he defign to mislead thofe who do not read wite Care and Thought; that is, nine Parts in ten perhaps of his Readers? Did he intend to fpread the Notions of Socinus, which he may think true? He ought to explain himself very fully on this Head. He is bound in Confcience to do it. If he remains filent, he permits the loofe Parts of his Work to miflead the Urary, and to encourage a Profligate; which is a wilful Sin. His MAJESTYS's SPEE H to the Parliament Jan. 15. 1736. My Lords and Gentlemen, which he voluntarily made of his own Life, THE happy Turn which the Affairs of His Blood was fhel for many for the Remiflion of Sins. His Body was offered up long ago upon the Cross, p. 54, 120, 119. The Benefits purchafed by Chrift, are to be remembered in this partaking of the Lord's Supper, p. 152. praite thy Holy Name for all that thy Son Jefas did, and taught, and fuffered in this Wold, in order to redeem Mankind from the Power and Punishment of their Sins, p. 209. Theu hef fent thy Son Jefus Chrift into the World to fave us from our Sins, and to declare to us plainly the Terms of thy Forgiveness and Favour, p. 214, 223, 225.. We befeech thee in the Name of thy Son Jefus; we hope for Pardon thro' him, p. 248, 724, 127. In the first Quotation, he ufes the Expreffons of Sorinus and his Followers, who deny the Satisfaction of Chrift, viz. that Chrift died fr our Good; which he explains after the fame Manner that they do; viz. that his Death was a Teftimony to the Truth of his Daftring, which tends to promote cur Virtue, and thereby our God. He explains thefe Words, This is my Blood of the new Covenant, In the low and loofe Senfe of the Socinians; and he reprefents the Death of Chrift, as no F G H End of the last Parliament, must, I am perfuaded, give you all, as it does Me, the greateft Satisfaction. I acquainted you then that a Plan of Pacification, concerted between Me, and the S ates General of the United Provinces, had been propofed to the Parties engaged in the War, which had not the Effect to prevent the Opening of the Campaign: The Armies took the Field, and the War was carried on in fome Parts, in fuch a manner, as to give very juft Apprehenfions that it would unavoidably become general, from an abfolute neceflity of preferwing that Balance of Power, on which the Safety and Commerce of the Maritime Powers fo much depend. This Confideration determined Me to perfevere, jointly with the States, in repeating Our moft earnest Instances to the contending Parties to agree to an Armistice, and to enter into a Negotiation for obtaining a general Peace, upon the Bafis of the Plan we had then Propofed to them. Deliberation, the Heat and Fury of the War aba Whilft Affairs continued in this ftate of ted, and the Emperor, and the moft Chriftian King, in Confequence of their repeated Profef |