pers, as there were few fpectators, (and I don't intend to take the trouble of communicating it to every Publisher) yet you may affure your readers that it is truth, and no way exaggerated by Your known Friend, EDINBURGENSIS. For the PERTH MAGAZINE SIR, a nearer view, they perceived two men The above account, however incredible, is a certain fact; and though it may not appear in the Edinburgh Pa As your Publication is calculated for the folutions of useful and important Queries:-Iwould defire if you think the following Query merit a place in your Magazine-to infert it this week and in fo doing your will. much oblige W your conftant reader, ELIZEUS. QUERY. Hether mankind has a natural language? P. S. I would humbly request a solution at the hand of the benevolent Mufæus, or Anti-Prophanus ; or fome other of your ingenious correfpondents. E. forth at once, a heart and head poffeft. al goodness, and of foundest fenfe. for a thousand Zeds to purge the age, nd the morals of mifguided youth, ar from ribaldry the public page, -ld affiftance to the cause of truth. on, dear Zed, in fpite of envy go, y thy talents, and thy genius bright, emes the nobleft that the mind can know, ourage virtue, and put vice to flight. burgh, April 16th, 1773. PROLOGUE. .MURPHY's new TRAGEDY of ZUMA, now performing at the atre Royal,in CovENT GARDEN. Spoken by Mr. BENSLEY. Zeal bore the cross and poinard in its And massacre unpeopled half the land. Dryden alone let fall the gen'rous tear, His voice fupprefs'd, no bard their fate has fung, Silent our scene, and mute each tune- While Greece and Rome fwell'd our And only claffick Heroes could be This Night our Author, an Advent'rer Dares trace the virtues of the Torrid If in his fcenes well painted paffion glow; Britons will mark from fierce religious HEN firft Columbus left the Spa- What dread calamities weak mortals feel c'd the wonders of its vaft Domain; of men unletter'd, and untaught, ers to fcience, yet with virtue fraught ool they had of philofophic pride, mple reafon was their only guide; eafon in the paths of nature trod, orfhipping the Sun, they meant a God; om the ills in polifh'd life that fpring, old with them was a neglected Thing. Europe's fons felt gold's rèfistlefs iway; new hemifphere they bend their way; ev'ry region carry fword and fire, get rage and avarice confpire; -. IV. ror blind, on bind, Affert the freedom of the human mind... Ye critics, to whom poets must be civil, As Indians worship, out of fear, the :: Devil, Of mod'rate principles, you'll own the Nor hither bring a perfecuting spirit If this night's fcenes foft pity could impart, Tis yours to fix the fashion of the heart. Adopt, ye fair, the loft Alzuma's caufe, His ruin'd empire, and expiring laws. For Orellana may I dare to plead? My faults will all your kind indulgence need. On you my hopes are fixed:-one fmile from you To me is worth the treafures of Peru, The Retrospect of Life. R. a ICHES chance may take or give; Beauty lives a day and dies; Honour lulls us while we live; Mirth's a cheat and pleasure fies. Is there nothing worth our care? Time, and chance, and death our foes. If our joys fo fleeting are, Are we only ty'd to woes? Let bright virtue anfwer, No; Here eternal powers prevail, When honours, riches, cease to flow, And beauty, mirth, and pleafure, fail. The MINUTES of the Select Committee, appointed by the House of COMMONS, to enquire into EASTINDIA Affairs. (Continued from page 118, VOL. IV.) Q. Do you remember the terms of the mulchulka figned between Mr Watts and the Nabob?- A. To the best of my remembrance it was, that we should carry on trade as other merchants, and without any advantage from our phirmaund. Q. Whether you have reason to believe, that any money or other prefent was offered or given by Kiffindals for the protection given him?A. I do not know or believe that any money or prefent of any kind whatever was given by Kiffindafs or any of his friends, directly or indirectly, to the Governor, or any other member of the Committee. Q. What answer did the Dutch and French factories return to Surajah A. I believe they declined to aflift Dowla's application for affiftance?him. Q. Did Mr Drake refufe to deliver up Kiflindafs to the Nabob?-A. I really believe he did. Q. Were Omichund and Kiffindafs prifoners- -A. Omichund was a prifoner, but I am not sure whether Kiffindafs was kept in the factory againft his confent or not. The reason of Omichund's being a prifoner, was, that Mr Drake fufpected his being a fomenter of the troubles. Q. What offence did the Nabob charge Kilindafs with when he demanded him?A. Only that he was tenant t of the Sircar. I don't know of ther tenant or officer of the counovernment that was protected at tta. I do not believe that the b had any intention of a massacre, he confined us in the Blackbut merely an intention to con. s for the night, without knowhether the priton was great or When the prifoners were releafm the Black-Hole, was not Mr ell and fome others immediately d before the Nabob, put in irons, nt prifoners to Muxadabad?Holwell was carried before the 5; and I heard afterwards, that d three or four other gentlemen put in irons, fent up the country, ery hardly treated. Whether you heard that the expreffed any. concern at the rophe that had happened in the Hole? -A. I never heard that preffed the least concern about t always undeftood that he re the account with a total indif Whether the Nabob did not ask olwell where the treasures were? A. I understood Mr Holwell was d before him for that purpose, at he was extremely furprised to he treasury fo low. There was bove five thousand pounds in the any's treasury. Whether when Calcutta was rewas not every thing found in the ment reftored to the owners?very thing was restored to thofe would make out their claim to it. rmy and navy did not touch any of it. What was found was not at value. There was a good deal Company's cloth, but very little e property. What became of the other pri?A. Thofe who were not ed with Mr Holwell, were fet at y. Whether, upon the lofs of Cala general bankruptcy enfaed in Luna, 25 die Maii, 1772. Lord Clive obferved, concerning the account laid before the Governor and Council by Roy Dullub, in which is an article of five per cent. received by him (Roy Dullub) op a prefent of twentyfive lacks of rupees, given by the Nabob to his Lordship, That, to the best of his recollection, Roy Dullub, who was the Nabob's prime minifter and treasurer, received a commiffion of five per cent. upon all the treaty-money. except that to the navy and army, upon all the Committee-money, and ale fo upon all the feparate donations to thofe individuals, as well Blacks as Europeans, who had been particularly useful in the revolution, some of whofe names were mentioned in his Lordship's evidence on the 28th of April; that those separate donations must be ineluded in twenty-five lacks fpecified in T 2 Roy Obfervations on the Prefent Naval Eftablishment in Regard to the Reduced Officers. 8vo. 15. Flexney. In this pamphlet an account is delivered of the alterations which have taken place at different times in the pay of the naval officers; and the in competency of the prefent half-pay eftablishment of that brave and ufeful body of men is placed in a clear and undeniable light. On this fubject, we can only express a defire, that the petition now under the confideration of parliament, for an increase of the naval establishment, may be regarded with that attention which the rank,the merit,and the diftrefs of the petitioners deferve. A Letter from a Captain of a Man of War, to a Member of Parliament. 8vo. 6d. Baker and Leigh. Said to have been written at the conclufion of the last war. The date of it, however, can be matter of no confequence with refpect to the fubject, E W. which is nearly the fame as that of the preceding pamphlet. A Letter to the right hon. the Lord North, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, concerning Subfcription to the XXXIX Articles; and particularly the Under-Graduate Subfcription in that University. By a member of Convocation. 8vo. Is. Rivington. This writer begins his Letter to Lord North with an encomium on the fpirited and fuccefsful application of his Lordship's great abilities to the controlling of the dangerous tumults of a profligate faction.' He makes fome remarks on the Hoadleian cant' of the Diffenters, and the gentlemen af fuciated at the Feathers *; the scheme of abolishing the fupfcription of undergraduates in the Univerfity of Oxford, &c. He then proceeds to answer these objections: I. That the doctrines contained in the XXXIX Articles are abstruse. II. That the young fubfcriber is neceffarily Several writers, in favour of the prefent establishment, speak of the affe ciation at the Feathers, and the gentlemen of the Feathers, with a farcaftic fneer, What a pity, the petitioners did not affemble under better aufpices, and obviate this miferable witticifm, by appainting their meetings a few yards weftward, at the Crown and Anchor ! |