The Gentleman's Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 4

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THE
Gentleman's Magazine:
Or, TRADER's
Monthly Intelligencer.

Numb. IV. for APRIL, 1731.

CONTAINING,

I. A View of the Weekly Essays and Controversies. viz. Of Predictions; Astrology; Female Modesty, and Extravagance; Abritrary Government; Peace; the Emperor; Gibraltar; Elocution; Disrespect to the Clergy; Eminent Characters; the Bible; Self-knowledge; Select Vestries; British Colonies; Pension-Bill; Dr. Sh———k D. of Marlbro. Ld. Godolphin; Sir. Is. Newton; Pedlars and Shopkeepers; Priests, Physicians Tythes; the Craftsman and his Adversaries; Iron and Woollen Manufacture; Pawnbrokers; the State of Ireland, &c.

II. Poetry; Prologues, Epilogues, Epitaphs, Epigrams; Henley's God, Bath, Beauties.

III. Domestic Occurrences, Births, Deaths, Marriages, Preferments, Casualties, Acts pass'd, Burials & Christenings.

IV. Prices of Goods, Grain and Stocks, a List of Bankrupts.

V. Trials and Executions.

VI. Foreign Affairs.

VII. Account of Earthquakes, and some Jesuitical Exploits.

VIII. Books, &c. publish'd.

IX. Observations in Gardening, and a List of Fairs for the Season.

X. A Table of Contents.

By SYLVANUS URBAN of Aldermanbury, Gent.

Prodesse & Delectare.

The Second Edition.

The CONTENTS.

PRedictions exposed	145
Of the Scurvy	ib.
Of Astrology	ib.
Female Extravagance	146
Case of Batchelors	ib.
Of Disorders in Government	ib.
A worthy Action of John Philpot	ib.
The E. of Suffolk impeach'd	147
Chief Justice hang'd	ib.
Craftsman's Triumph on the Peace	147
Answered, the Peace defended	148
Verses by way of Simile	ib.
——— Answered	ib.
Of Gibralter and the Emperor	149
Of commendable Actions	ib.
Grobean Writings	150
Female Modesty	ib.
A Nurse's Speech to an Alderman's Childe	ib.
K. Jam I.	151
——— His Pretensions to Hereditary Right. His Attempt against the H. of Commons, and his Design of uniting the two Kingdoms	ib.
Of Respect to Clergymen	ib.
A Story of St. Augustine	152
——— Of Wat Tyler and Jack Straw	ib.
——— Of St Bartholomew	ib.
——— Of Erasmus	ib.
Father Paul's Opinion	ib.
Of Writers	ib.
Different Motives of writing	ib.
Taste, a Description of it	ib.
Shakespear and Johnson their different Talents	153
Irish Verses on a Lawyer's Motto	ib.
On Henly's God	154
Remarks on K. James I.	ib.
The Modern prevailing Taste	ib.
Of the Bible	155
Of Self-Knowledge	ib.
Several Instances wherein defective	ib.
Too much Money ruinous to a Nation	156
Of the British Sugar Colonies	157
Remarks on the Reign of K. James I.	158
A Farewel to French Kicks	ib.
The Case of Auth. Collins and Richard Tindal	ib. and 159
Select Vestry, their Management	159
Sir Is. Newton's Monument describ'd	ib.
His Monumental Epitaph	160
Others proposed	169
The D. of Marlborough and E. of Godolphin's Conduct examin'd	160
Court Mourning	161
The Craftsman's Thoughts about the Peace	ib. and 162
Of Opposition to Courts, and Independency of Parliaments	162
The Case of Mr. Healy, his Character by Mr. Pope	163
Of Bankruptcy	164
Remarks on the Bill about Tythes	ib.
Apology for Pawn-brokers	165
The present State of Ireland, Woollen-Manufacture	166
Mr. Fallowfield Proposals for making Iron	ib.
Mr. Wood's Proposals pro Ditto	167
Mr. Tompkyn's Remarks on Mr. Wood's Project, and his own Proposal	ib.
Remarkable Advertisement	ib.
Prologue and Epilogue to Euridice	168
The amorous Duelists	169
Epigrams	ib.
Epitaph on the D. of Schomberg buried in St. Patrick's Church Dublin	169
Bath Beauties	170
On Wit	ib.
Epitaph on an Infant	ib.
Bill of Mortality	ib.
Domestick Occurrences	171, 172
Bank and India Directors	171
The Westminster Infirmary	172
Deaths	173
Promotions	174
Ecclesiastical Preferments	175
Casualties	176
Marriages and Bankrupts	177
Of Criminals try'd and Executed	178
Foreign Affairs	179
Some Jesuitical Pranks	ib.
Extract of a Treaty of Peace between the Emperor and King of Great Britain	180
Books publish'd	181, 182
Fairs in May and June	183
Fairs and Gardening	184