Tell me thou mighty potentate, Sufficient joys to recompense their pains ? But when unequal age, or tempers join, Q. O British Apollo ! As being a God very wise ; advice. Norwithstanding the pains that I take, I there 1 $ . I therefore intend, Though I have but small drink and course diet. And enjoy the most silence and quiet? The industrious alone we aduise ; Is offence to our radiant eyes. And honour pursues in the chase ; And we view our bright form in his face. For which thou appear'st to be made ; Or to stretch thee, and loll in a shade. To find a cure for love, Or e'er my cares femove ; Volumes I've read, but all in vain, I ne'er can be at ease, . Boldly usurps my peace. I know i'tis much beneath a man poman's Baye, 0 , hug the chain, And all my fenfe deprave. Daphne Daphne I love, tho' She was coy to thee, T' attempt fair Daphn's love; The brightest God above ; Dread'It not our Aames like fate will light On thy uncommon road; To rival thus a God. Q. I treated fome friends, In hopes of amends They promifes made, I should be repaid Not a chick have I yet Pray reach me to treat A. When you treated your friends, That made you amends And the treatment they met E’en made 'em forget Then, since your dull chat Treat 'em only with that, When iavited agen. Q Gentlemen, I am a soldier of fortune ; I have been fix years in the army, yet she has not favour'd me with a commiffion; I have vanity enough to think I deferve one ; and I am proffer'd one upon this confederation, if I make my application to a certain Lady, who for thirty guineas will use her interest with my colonel in my beisalf. . Now, tho' I can make friends to raise the money, and have a great itching after a commision, yet I have some dispute with my felf, whether to accept one upon such terms. Firf, Because I think it a diminution to my honour to bear a commision that is purchas'd with money : and secondly, Because I know not what the Lady is to give the colonel in lieu of such a favour, for I know he'll do nothing for nothing; and on the other hand, if I do not make use of the present opportunity, for ought I can see, I may go with out one all the days of my life. Your advice is desir'd, &c. : A. We have seriously read over your cale, and cannot fee why you may not as honourably bear a purchas'd commission, as many others do, of equal courage and doubtless equal merit with your self. As for your fix years service in the army, that does not at all entitle you to a commission; and you may partially suppose your self a man of merit, whilst others may think contrary. The sum of money mentioned, we presume you give by way of compliment to the Lady for this commission ; which may probably, out of a friendly respect to the Lady, or by way of return for other obligations, be granted by the colonel. As for her giving him any thing in licy of it, we know not what you mean by it: but if you suspect with reason any private male practices between them, you must take care not to be the author of such. But if you refuse the commission chiefly in respect to its purchase, we conclude you to be more nice than wise. Q. Whence proceed those spots in mens and womens faces called freckles? And if ye please to tell me the best way to get those spots out without damaging the face, you will oblige your servant, J. G. A. The matter, from whence those spots or freckles arise, is a thinner portion of the cholerick humour, VOL. I. N Allured allured outwards by the face of the fun attenuating it. Which attempting an evaporation is fixed to the cuticala, oroutmost skin, which it cannot pafs through. And that this defædation proceeds from choler, or other yellow scums of the blood is plain, since it is chiefly familiar to thofe that have yellow hair. At for prescription in this and other cafes, we refer you to the physicians, that being foreign to our purpofe. Q. Is there any universal being (under God) without & composition of individuais ? A. Were there fuch a being, it could not be cals led an universal being, since the logical term, univerfal, is applied to a fpecies, as comprehenfive of its individuals. And, fince the phoenix (that rara avis the terris) is a creature of the poet's making, and not of God's ; We are of opinion, that there is no finite being in the universe, but what consists of individuals : For as neither nature nor revelation affords u's so much as a single instance ; so it feems below the regard of almighty wisdom, to frame fo particular, to folitary a being. And since the very unity of the Godhead is its felf communicated to three subliftences, this perhaps may be a farther bar to the fingularity of a creature. Q. Worrby Sirs, I beg the favoar of you to resolve the following query : Who has been most serviceable to the world, the prieji who found out the use of guin powder, for the foldier who invented the art of printing? A. We Mall demonstrate, as briefly as we can, the good and ill effects of these inventions, the more for tisfactorily to anfwer your question. And first, The expeditious manner of publishing large volumes by the art of printing has undoubtedly given vaft encouragement to the ftudy of all forts of learning : fince the extravagant charges of paying scribes for copying manuscripts 'is hereby taken off, and much greater trumbers may be bad for much lefs money, by, which means the books publishid in one country, are spread over another; and knowledge, formerly con. fin’d to ope part of the world, is become yniverfal. But |