that was the son of Shalem, that was the son of." The Welshman here interrupted him, and told him, "That he could produce Shennalogy as well as himself; for that he was John ap Rice, ap Shenkin, ap Shones." He then turned himself to the censor, and told him in the same broken accent, and with much warmth, “That the Jew would needs uphold that King Cadwalladar was younger than Issachar." Mr. Bickerstaffe seemed very much inclined to give sentence against Dathan, as being a Jew; but finding reasons, by some expressions which the Welshman let fall in asserting the antiquity of his family, to suspect the said Welshman was a Præ Adamite, he suffered the jury to go out without any previous admonition. After some time they returned, and gave their verdict, that it appearing the persons at the bar did neither of them wear a sword, and that consequently they had no right to quarrel upon a point of honour; to prevent such frivolous appeals for the future, they should both of them be tossed in the same blanket, and there adjust the superiority as they could agree it between themselves. The censor confirmed the verdict. Richard Newman was indicted by Major Punto, for having used the words, "Perhaps it may be so,” in a dispute with the said major. The major urged, that the word, Perhaps, was questioning his veracity, and that it was an indirect manner of giving him the lie. Richard Newman had nothing more to say for himself, than that he intended no such thing, and threw himself upon the mercy of the court. The jury brought in their verdict special. Mr. Bickerstaffe stood up, and, after having cast his eyes over the whole assembly, hemmed thrice. He then acquainted them, that he had laid down a rule to himself, which he was resolved never to depart from, and which, as he conceived, would very much conduce to the shortening the business of the court; "I nfean (says he) never to allow of the lie being given by construction, implication, or induction, but by the sole use of the word itself." He then proceeded to show the great mischiefs that had arisen to the English nation from that pernicious monosyllable; that it had bred the most fatal quarrels between the dearest friends; that it had frequently thinned the guards, and made great havock in the army; that it had sometimes weakened the city trained-bands; and in a word, had destroyed many of the bravest men in the isle of Great-Britain. For the prevention of which evils for the future, he instructed the jury to present the word itself as a nuisance in the English tongue; and further promised them, that he would, upon such their presentment, publish an edict of the court, for the entire banishment and exclusion of it out of the discourses and conversation of all civil societies. This is a true copy. . CHARLES LILLIE. Monday next is set apart for the trial of several female causes. N. B. The case of the hassock will come on be→ tween the hours of nine and ten. Sir Richard Steele assisted in this paper. INDEX TO VOL. I. A. ACILIANUS, CILIANUS, recommended by Pliny for a husband, 31. Advertisements, a dissertation upon them, 247, &c. Eneas's descent into the empire of death, and adventures there, Afflictions, imaginary, often prove the most insupportable, 160, &c. Album Græcum prescribed to a sick dog, 135. Alexander Truncheon, foreman of the male jury in Bickerstaffe's Allegories profitable to the mind as hunting to the body, 164. Allegory of virtue and pleasure making court to Socrates, 61, &c. Amsterdam theatre, an account of it, 29. Angels, fallen, their disputes described by Milton, 114. Animals at the theatre, a sale, 37. Imperceptible in the creation, Apollo, the god of verse and physic, 264. Apothecaries great orators, 267. Arthur, King, the first that ever sat down to a whole roasted ox, 168. Athenians, their public spirit and virtue, 140. Authors interred, 99. Avarice, what age of man most devoted to it, 126. Its region de- Audiences, what ought to be their behaviour at the representation B. Bacon, Sir Francis, his sentiments of poetry, 94. His legacy, 158. Barbarity, an attendant on tyranny, 215. Bass-viol, the parts it bears in conversation, 182. Where most Beef-eaters, order of them, 169. Bellman, his midnight homily, 101. Bickerstaffes, the history and genealogy of the family, 34, &c. Bribery, a solicitor in the temple of Avarice, 147. C. Cambray (A. B.) author of Telemachus, 197. Camilla's exit from the theatre, 28. Canes, how they ought to be worn, 84, &c. Case, Dr. grown rich by means of a distich, 266. Cebes, his table, 210. Censors, a comparison betwixt the Roman and British, 217. Chaplains, a discourse upon them, 295, &c. Cheerfulness and constancy, qualifications absolutely necessary in a married state, 231. Chicken, a modern diet, 169. Child, his discretion and great tenderness for his parents, 106. Christmas-eve, Shakspeare's description of it, 102. Church weather-glass, when invented, and the use of it, 242, &c. Cock's crowing in Hamlet, reflections on it, 102. Commonwealth, Genius of, seated on the left hand of the goddess Competency, a guide in the temple of Avarice, 146. Complacency, described in an allegory, as a guard to one of the Complainers, their importunacy, 159. Contention, allegorically described, 130. Coquette's labyrinth described in a vision, 128. Corruption, an office in the temple of Avarice, 147. Country gentlemen, no ceremony, 51. Courts of justice and honour, erected by Mr. Bickerstaffe, 277, 285. Critic described, 225. Cupid, a lap-dog, dangerously ill, 134. D. Dancing-master, account of his studies and dancing by book, 53. Dathan, a Jew, indicted in the court of honour for breaking the Dead persons heard, judged, and censured, 96, &c. Delicates, false, their contradictory rules, 170. Destinies, their present to Jupiter, 161. Speech of one of them Diet, the difference betwixt the moderns and that of our ances- Discourse, different talents in it, how shadowed out, 180. Discretion described in an allegory, as a guard to one of Hymen's Dogs immortality asserted by a young spark, till his father cud- Dogget's letter to Bickerstaffe, 132. The answer, ibid. His ci- Doubt, Nicholas, 48. Dover Cliff described by Shakspeare, 120, 121. Dreams of the author, concerning his mistress, 119. Of the Alps, Drums, who may be termed so in conversation, 181. Duels, with figures upon a wall, 59. Dying for the fair sex, how punished, 97, 98. E. Education, a liberal one expensive, and deserves more encourage- Elpenor, his untimely death a warning to drunkards, 174. 201. Englishmen, a caution to them in general, 105. Et cætera, much used by some learned authors, 158. Eve's satisfaction in Adam, described by Milton, 109, 110. Examiner, reproved by the Censor, 259, &c. Extortion, office of, in the temple of avarice, 147. F. Fame, its table, 39. Vision of its mountain and palace, 40 to 4 8. |