518 On a Remark in Dr Newton's Milton. And in the ft chapter of St John, at the 34th verle, John Baptift affures his difciples that Jefus was the fon of God; a title which the Jews under- A flood to be of the fame import with Meffiah. Accordingly, verfe 41, Andrew, one of John's difciples, fays to his brother Simon, without any doubt or uncertainty, We have found the Meffab. At the 45th v. of the faid chap. Philip makes the fame confeffion, and B Nathaniel at the 49th. Thou art the fon of God, thou art the king of Ifrael, or the Meffiah. Dr Clark, who is, in general, an excellent interpreter, thus paraphrafes the 49th verfe. "I am fully fatisfied, and do hereby freely, and without any farther fcruple or doubt confefs and declare, that I believe you are, indeed, the fon of God, the expected Mesiah, the king and faviour of God's people." To the fame purpose he paraphrafes all the paffages I have here quoted. D E I wish I could reconcile the Evangelift and his learned paraphraift, with this ingenious annotator, whofe abilities, how much foever I may admire,I cannot admit his peremptory and unfupported affertions; efpecially when they clafh, or feem to clafh, with the infpired writings. Now, I think, it appears from the 15th and following verfes of the 3d chapter of St Luke, and the 34th verfe of the 1ft chapter of St John, that from John Baptif's declarations it might be collected, that Jefus was the Mefiah, from the 41ft, 4th, and 49th verfes, that it was in fact collected; and that neither Andrew, Philip, nor Nathaniel, exprelled the leaft doubt or uncertainty about it. F Perhaps it may be faid, that thoughthey acknowledged it at firit, they doubted of it afterward, upon not finding that Jefus answered the character of the Merab, according to their erroneous notions of it. This, if granted, will not justify the charge against the poet, nor reconcile the E- G vangelift and the remarker. It will only prove the laft of the remarker's three pofitions to be true, and that onJv in a qualified fenfe, viz. that they doubted of fejus's being the Meffiah, at fome fubfequent time, not at his enter. ing on his ministry, not at the time of the great atteftations given of him, which is the very time the Evangelist and the poet are speaking of. If I am mistaken in thefe points, I hall think myself obliged to any per H fon, that, in the spirit of meekness, will fet me right, and clear up this ESSEXIENSIS. matter. The Trial of PLEASURE before the HE trial was opened, and Plea fure brought to the bar. Repentance appeared to profecute her. The judge Philofophy, with eye fe vere, onferved her, beneath him fat with folded arms fullen Melancholy; Reflection with wrinkled forehead and cloie contracted brow, opened the in dictment, and fquint eyed Care with dark Diftruft were appointed to examine the witneffes. The Senfes were firft called in, to give their teftimony against her; hut it was objected by the prisoner's counfel, Defire, Fancy, and Hope, that they could not be witneffes, fince they were fure either to gain or lofe by the trial. The Senfes declared for themfelves, that they were not proper to speak to it, fince they were but fubordinate to the Will, and ferved only as mef-. fengers to convey the ideas to the Mind, that they were no more than paflengers in a fhip, while the Will ftood at the helm. The Will was called in, who fwore, that he was always ruled by the Senfes, that they had run him into numberlefs inconveniences, and not contented with that, they had cruelly chained him like a slave to a whimfical tyrant called Fashion, who used him very barbarously; on which an order was immediately iffued out to attach him, and to bring Fashion before the court; and in the mean time they proceeded with the trial of Pleasure. The first evidence that was called, was a young fellow with a pallid fickly countenance, his fmall legs fcarcely could fupport him to crawl into court, he was often obliged to ftop for want of breath; and in a thin fqueaking voice, he depofed the following evi dence. That to his knowledge the prifoner was the greatest jilt in nature, Ire had thrown away a very good eftate, and fpoiled a ftrong constitution in following her, that he had continually gi ven him hopes of enjoyment, but al ways deceived him; that his first acquaintance with her was at college, where the tempted him in the shape of a beautiful pointer, to forfake his ftu- ' dies and follow her; he immediately The Trial of Pleasure, before the Judge Philofophy. fet up his equipage to honour her 5 run after her, from horfe race to horte race, followed her to the hazard table, purfued her among women of the town, fearched every tavern for her, but ftill he had miffed meeting her. At the tavern indeed Ire had fome 519 In my juvenile days, I had often read of the prifoner Pleafure, I was charmed with her character, I longed to be acquainted with her, I thought of nothing but her, I fell in love with A her, and like other lovers turned poet to please her. times a glimpse of her, but then he began drinking fo young, that he was feldom theic in a capacity to enjoy her, always either dull or drunk; when fober he was most commonly fick, and when fuddled always for fighting, fo upon the whole, be told B the court (fwearing by his maker) the was an impudent jilt, and had bilked him. I courted the fciences for her fake, but in poetry, I flattered myself I fhould fooneft find her; therefore I immediately became fond of making her verfes, but alas! where I expectedpleasure, met with pain, I was blamed as an idler, condemned as a plagiary, or punished by the ignorant and envious with derition. I next applied. myself to traffick, I croised the feas for gain, I increafed my fortune,, but not my pleasure. Tempefts, robbers, breaches in trade, dilappointments, damned all Chopes of enjoying ner; I then recollected I had gained enough, I re,olved to rett myfelt, and in eafe was in hopes to find her. The next witnefs was a lady, a fine delicate moulded female, the flid gracefully into court, with her hoop held high before her, and immediately ran up to embrace the prifoner, but was prevented by the prime ferjeant Reflection, who asked her if the knew the Caiminal; upon which, with a full ftare, and lips wide open, the burst into the prettiest laugh, fell from thence. into the most innocent confufion, Sweetly excufed herself in a very be- D coming lifp, and with a flow curtely, funk negligently down on the bench between the prifoner's counfel Fancy and Hope. She was again interrogated about her knowledge of the prifoner; the told the court, the lady at the bar was her intimate; that they had been E brought up from their childhood together, and truly that the judge was a fright, and the rest of the bench a parcel of queer creatures,not to let fo fine a lady fit down among them. Then turning to the prifoner, the invited her to her drum, and told her what charming company was to be at it as for instance, Mifs Rout, Madam Racquet,widow Hurricane, lady Dowager Drum, and the Dutchets of Helter Scelter; then the haftily got up, hummed an opera tune, and with a round-about fweep, whisked away to her chair in an instant. The next evidence was an old man; though ftricken in years, his countenance had not yet loft all the marks of florid health; in his face, the bloom of manhood feemed to contend with the winter of age. He gave his evidence as follows: Behold, moft grave judge, one of the unhappiest among mankind, I have all my life been fearching after pleasure, fooled by that lady the pri foner, till at last I am involved in an irredeemable feries of miferies, F 1 Again I was mistaken'; while at reit, I was uneafy, I grew difcontented with having nothing to do, I then? refolved to exercife my mind, and I began to examine the laws of nature. I studied them, I enquired into primary caufes; but alas! all I obtained, was an infatiable defire to know more than could be known, and a certain forrowful reflection, that all I did know was infignificant. I then turned builder, I planned a houfe, I laid out my gardens, I amu fed myself among the artifts, and then: thought I was arrived at true pleafore; but it was ftill to feek, the workmens delays disturbed me, they fell out among themselves, I was di-: tracted to decide their quarrels, at length they fiaithed the houfe, & thenI invited my friends. I treated my neighbours, I fettled fortunes on my children, and now I thought or once more being happy; ftill I am deceived, my friends I find are flatterers, my neighbours are envious of my G riches, my children with for my death to poffefs them, and after all my toils, am at laft, as far from finding Pleafure, as the fift day I fet out after her. H The judge thin afked the prifoner, what defence the could make -She called her witneffes BEAUTY and LOVE. On their appearance, immediately the whole court was fenfibly aslected. Melancholy reared his head, Reflection fmoothed his brow, Cara looked pleafed, and Philofophy give a figh, when Prudence, 520 Dr Nicholl's Obfervations on the Death of his late Majesty. Prudence, who had all this while stood Pleafure immediately began Would mankind ufe me as I deferve, I should be never tried as a criminal, but rewarded as a friend. They call out upon me to help B them, yet I no fooner come to their affiftance, but they bind me captive to their tempers, and never are for giving me rest. The youth who appeared against me, I never was acquainted with; had he ftuck to his ftudies, he might have found me. He mistook another for me, whom he followed, he is dreft like me, but her name is Folly; it was to her, and not to me, that he owes all his misfortunes. As to the lady that fays I attended her from her infancy, it is false; the had a waiting maid that attended her, and took my name, but her true title was Self-Love. C D The latt and heaviest charge against me, is the old man's, but he is a hypocrite; I would have attended him always as his wife, but he would use me like a kept miftrefs, proud of fhewing the world he poffefled me; I defpifed E him for his oftentation; I left him, to be more fincerely dealt with, and IBut why (raifing her voice) fhould I plead among fuch cold, fuch fpiritlefs judges, come to my refcue, my friends, affift me, my allies. Immediately the Paffions came turbulently into court, drove Melancholy F away, gagged Repentance, Philofophy hid himself under the table.they trampled upon Reflection, released Pleasure, and made Prudence prifoner, to be tried in her place. Beauty and Love were to fit as judges: but her trial, and what the meffenger found, who went to look G for Fashion, must be referred to another opportunity. Obfervations concerning the Body of his late Majefly, October 26, 1760. By HE circumftances attending the TH fuch, as are not (I apprehend) to be met with in any of the records of phyfical cafes, and fuch as, from the na-ture of the parts concerned, are not eafily accounted for ; I prefume it will be agreeable to your Lordship, to the Society in which you prefide, and to the learned world in general, if I lay before your Lordship, and the Society, a minute detail of what occurred on that remarkable and melancholy occafion; with fuch explanations as arife from the circumstances of the cafe. According to the report of the Pages then in waiting, about feven in the morning, Saturday, October 25th, a noife was fomewhere heard, as if a large billet had tumbled down; and, upon enquiry, his Majefty was found fallen upon the ground, fpeechlefs and motionlefs, with a light contufed wound on his right temple. He appeared to have just come from his necellary-ftool, and as it going to open bis efcritoir. Mr Andrews (at that time furgeon to the houfhold) attempted to take away fome blood; but in vain, as no figns of fenfe, or motion, were obferved, from the time of his fall. The next day, (Sunday, October 26,) by order of the Lord Chamberlain, I attended, with the two ferjeant-furgeons, who were directed to open and embalm the royal body. On opening the abdomen, all the parts therein contained were found in a natural and healthy state, except that fome hydatides (or watery bladders) were found between the substance of each kidney and its internal coat. These hydatides might, in time, have proved fatal, either by compreffing and detroying the kidnies, fo as to bring on an incurable fuppreffion of urine; or, by discharging a lymph into the cavity of the abdomen, might have formed a dropsy, not to be removed by any medicines; but, in the present cafe, thefe hydatides were of no confequence, as none of them exceeded the bulk of a common walnut. On opening the head, the brain was found in a healthy state, no-ways loaded with blood, either in its proper veffels, or in the contiguous finufes of the dura-mater. Upon opening the cheft, the lungs were in a natural ftate, free from eveHy appearance of inflammation, or tubercle; but upon examining the heart, its pericardium was found dittended, with a quantity of coagulated blood, nearly fufficient to fill a pint cup; and, |