Price of corn Days 1751. PRICES ON STOCKS for each Day in FEBRUARY, BILLS of MORTALITY, &c. BANK INDIA South Sea South Sea South Sea3 and 4p.13 p. Cent. S. S. An. 13 p. Cent. Ind. Bonds B.Cir. p. STOCK. STOCK. STOCK. Annu. old Ann. new C. B. An. B. Annu. 100 Wind at Weather London. BILLS of Mortality from Jan. 28. to Feb. 18. Males 493 ( Femal. 465 cloudy Christ. cloudy. Males 958 Femal. 31532 Died under 2 Years old 734 5 .5 and 1010 and 20 Ind. Ann. præm. 1. s. d. Deal. 31. 155 0 12 6 99 31. 18 0 12 6 N. by E. N. W. 99 31. 189 0 12 6 S. W. N.W.byN. clou.rain Buried N. W. 124 99 6 N. E. froft 47 98 31, 105 0 12 6 W. by N. froft fnow 53 98 21. 175 0 12 11. 105 0 6 W. S. W. 7 6 S. E. hard frost 30 and 40 --- 151 40 and 50 173 10 127 4 171 109 99 98 1 99 98 97 98 21.. 28 7 6 N. E. by E. thaw 98 98 100 99 99 froft clear 70 and 80 77 13 130 176 112 100 100 99 99 99 21. 18s o 15 ON.W.byN.] froft rain 14 129 174 100 IQI 100 99 99 21. 185 0.17 6 N. W. cloudy 90 and 100 6 15 129 176 102 101 100 99 99 31. os 10 17 N. cloudy 16 Sunday N. clou. rain 31. IS 10 17 99 99 99 3. IS I 2 21 130 175 2. 139 175 112 102 101 101 23 Sunday E. by N. 102 702 101 100 24 97 25 131 177 113 102 26 130 114 102 101 1 102 ΙΟΥ 6 E. N. E. 1532 501 508 Wheaten Peck Loaf is 7d. Abingdon. 16s. to 173. p.q.135. 6d. to 155. ood. 18s, od, to 19s. od. p. q. The LONDON MAGAZINE: Or, GENTLEMAN's Monthly Intelligencer. For MARCH, 1755. To be Continued. (Price Six-Pence each Month.) Containing, (Greater Variety, and more in Quantity, than any Monthly Book of the fame Price.) I. Account of Appius the new Tragedy. IV. Addrefs of the House of Lords. VII. The World, of People Born and Un- VIII.Plan for the Reformation of the Statutes. XXIII. Infcription on Cornwall's Monument, XXIX. POETRY. Horace and Lydia; Stella XXXII. Prices of Stocks for each Day, XXXVI. A Catalogue of Books. With a new and correct MAP of the County of RADNOR, and a fine Vizw of Capt. 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In our laft Year's Magazine, p. 162, &c. we gave an Account of a new Tragedy just before brought upon the Stage at Drury-Lane, intitled, VIRGINIA; and as a new Tragedy formed upon the fame Piece of Hiftory, bas lately been exhibited at the TheatreRoyal in Covent-Garden, under the title A of APPIUS, we shall give our Readers Jome Account of it as follows: T GPHE following perfons of the drama are the fame as in the former trage. dy, viz. Appius, L. Virginius, Lucius Icilius, Claudius, and Virginia. The reft are omitted, B but the following new ones are in this new tragedy introduced, viz. L. Valerius, M. Horatius, Roman Senators; P. Numitorius, brother of Vir. ginia's deceafed mother; C. Sicinius, M. Duellius, M. Pomponius, and Flaminius, Plebeian chiefs; Camilla, intrusted by Virginius with the education of his daughter; and Dora, a woman flave belonging to Claudius. C Claudius tells him he had formed a pro- Traitors!Why fleeps the decimating ax? Sick of their foolish lenity, requires Upon this the meffenger, in going out Stern justice and the decimating ax !- And Appius concludes the first act with Here likewife are Plebeians, Lictors, &c. and the general fcene is in Rome, of which the Forum is the first particular foene, and opens with a dialogue between Valerius and Horatius, containing their mutual complaints for the lofs of liberty, and refolution to take the first opportunity to recover it. Upon their exit, Icilius and Camilla enter, wherein the discovers how she had been tempted by a female friend to betray Virginia to the luft of Appius, which he refolves to impart to Valerius and Horatius. The scene then changes to the palace of Appius, where, in a foliloquy, he declares his intention to E enjoy her by force, if he could not prevail by bribery; and upon Claudius coming in he haftily afks, what fuccefs, but is told that Camilla had with fcorn rejected all the offers that could be made; whereupon he again declares his intention, and March, 1755 And wilt thou leave me, fickle fortune ?--- stay. event. Then let to-morrow fear.-The prefent Awaywith future,with to-morrowchances s By 100 ACCOUNT of APPIUS, a TRAGEDY. By this time waits at my tribunal. Haste, I'm fick of pow'r : 'tis vanity, vexation. on enter A&. II. Scene, the Forum, opens with A A mixture ftrange, I must take care. My very life depends He fhould be wholly good, or wholly bad. A& II. Scene the Forum, opens with a dialogue between Virginia and Camilla, F G March going to worship in Diana's temple; and She fins against the great design of nature, Wear the rich jewel in thy heart for ever: Is up in thy behalf, and vows revenge To which the answers, O beware Of idle hopes. Your task fhould rather be And in the following dialogue between them, the thews her refolution to die rather than fubmit to Appius, and that her only concern was for the grief it would occafion to her father, to him, and to Camilia. Upon her going into the temple, Valerius enters, and after fome dif course between Icilius and him about Hence fee what different effects arife To which Horatius answers, Ha! Well obferv'd. Why should they fight When not the glory of the commonwealth, fwords Upon the foe; but infamy and chains And Valerius replies, Now that victory Would strengthen tyrants in their ufurpa tion; Thefe tidings of defeat are joyful tidings. Icilius reenters, and tells them that his brother was returned, and that Virginius was upon the road, on which Valerius |