Ουκ έχει τις ισχία; Υπενεδυσ' εῤῥαμμεν' αυτην, ώς τε την ευπυγιαν Αναβοᾷν τες ίδοντας κοιλίαν άδραν έχει τις; τιτθείαις Ορθα προσθείσαι. Si cui gracilior coxa est, Assuta subtus veste induit, ut pulchris esse natibus Si tumidior est, fasciis ritè obstringitur. Proceeding on, the lovely goddess, DALECHAMP. SWIFT. If their eye-brows are red, they smear them with soot; if black, with white paint. If they are too pale, they rouge. Have they any corporeal beauty; they shew it. How unlike the modesty of the present times! Those who have naturally fine teeth, pleased or displeased, laugh throughout the day. Mark again the difference! At foot of this page, 563, F. read as before, I NEGWS for επικαίρως, and p. 569, Α. ύβρεος for ύβρεως ; and above all remem ber the prudent advice given here, and in the quotation following, with regard to the choice to be made between a courtesan and a matron. July 8. PYE, THE POET-LAUREAT. * MR. PYE is a learned man, and much was expected from him when he was made poet-laureat-little, however, beyond prettiness, has ever been received. His first ode was on th king's birth, and it was full of allusions to the vocal groves, and feathered choir. George Steevens read it, and immediately exclaimed D-VOL. III.* THE enclosed is a curious specimen of a hand-bill in French, with a translation, which I copied from one that I saw in print upon the circuit. If you can introduce it in the Mirror, as a specimen of skilful translation, it may afford some amusement. As you are fond of knowing the comments of your readers upon articles which you publish, it may not perhaps be unadvisable to ask such of them as are most studious of translations, to give you their opinions on this. Amongst them you will of course receive the best judgment from the bishops and the coblers, the former of whom are always looking out for translations to another see, and the latter are dignified with the title of translators, I presume translators af soles, in one of our acts of parliament.* Le Sieur Barthelemy aubergiste a Hieres, a l'hotel St. Pierre, croit devoir avertir le public qu'il vient de faire de tres grandes reparations a cet Hotel, les personnes qui leur feront l'honneur d' aller loger chez lui peuvent etre persuadées qu'elles y seront reçues a leur satisfaction. On y trouvera de grandes Ecuries et des Remises pour toute sorte de voitures. Cette auberge a vue sur la mer et sur les jardins. "Mr. Barthelemy, having eating house to Hyeres at the Hotel *Notwithstanding this I once saw the chief baron of the exchequer very much pazzled by hearing a man call himself a trunslator, who was only a cobler. St. Peter, believe of his dubty, to advise the gentlemans, that have make great reparations to his hotel. The gentlemans, whom shall favorise him to come in his house, can be persuaded to have one entirely satisfaction. They will find great stable and house for all coach sorte. This eating house have the sight upon the sea and gardens.' HISTORY OF PORTUGAL. BY MR. ADAMSON. CHAP. IV. THE CAUSE OF THE RAPID PROGRESS OF THE PORTUGUESE IN INDIA, AND OF THE decline of THEIR POWER. [Continued.] CHARLES VII. after having driven the English from France, with the troops he had hired for this purpose, and which, according to custom, ought to have been disbanded after their repulsion, kept 9000 cavalry and 6000 infantry in his pay. All the sovereigns of Europe followed his example: every one wished to have troops ready for service. It is no easy matter to find out how these forces were employed in peace; no body-guards were then kept round the persons of the kings, troops were not then dispersed throughout their dominions, and lodged in every town, as in our days. It is probable that the forces maintained by each nation, would have only amounted to a number capable of affording it protection, had not Lewis XIV. enlarged it, by raising an army of 500,000 men. This was the signal for all the states to arm, and which has created such a revolution in the world. Petty princes, whom fortune had placed at a distance, as it were in power from the greater states, became formidable. The balance of Europe, which for two hundred years had maintained an equilibrium, was now swayed by that power, capable of bringing the largest force into the field; and a profession was established in peace, which had only been formerly known during the time of war. It is to the ostentation of Charles VII. King of France, that we are indebted for the thousands of men who now parade through Europe with the musket on their shoulders. J CHAP. V. THE COMMERCE OF THE PORTUGUESE IN THE INDIES-THE ADVAN. THE power of the Portuguese in the Indies was augmented by their commerce, and afterwards their commerce in like manner was increased by their power. It was by their skill in navigation, that they acquired the dominion of the seas, which raised them to such splendour in the commercial world. Their viceroys entered into treaties of commerce with the princes of Asia, by which Portugal was greatly enriched. They had the advantage over the Asiatic sovereigns; the Europeans being an enlightened people, the Asiatics ignorant in the arts of commerce. This nation enjoyed the empire of the ocean to the total exclusion of the rest of the world. It is time some other European powers were permitted to share in the commerce of the Indies; but as a proof of their supreme power, they imposed heavy conditions on such as availed themselves of this privilege. Strangers who came to buy the merchandize of the East were obliged to wait, until the Portuguese were provided, before they were permitted to attend the markets, which gave thein a great superiority; they not only fixing their own prices upon the articles, but also having them of the first quality. They held it a piece of policy to allow this privilege to nations, who being poor, had it not in their power to rival them in their commercial undertakings, which served in a great measure to increase their power. It may be said, that the Portuguese possessed the principal elements of commerce. Land is not a commercial article, for to render it so, it would be necessary to transport it from one place to another, according to the inclination of the possessor. But land is not of a nature to be removed, it may change its owner, but cannot change its situation; it remains for ever in the kingdom in which it is situate, and forms its local riches. Ships, merchandize, produce, metals, manufactures, gold, and silver, contracts, bills of exchange, and in short every thing bearing a value, wherever it be transported, are by their nature articles of commerce, Portugal possessed a greater number of these, than all the rest of Europe; the number of its ships was considerable, in comparison with that of other nations, and as it disposed of its merchandizes to all nations, it had letters of exchange in every country; it obtained immense wealth, which enabled it to rival the rest of the world in splendour and magnificence. It is impossible to calculate the wealth of Portugal when its commerce was at its height. A power arising from commerce, might enjoy a long reign in a state of mediocrity, for there is nothing to draw the attention of other nations to it, but immediately on its being distinguished for opulence, all the world form a combination to strip it of that superiority it had furtively acquired, as it were, without their knowledge: for navigation and commerce are two fields, in which every one has an equal right to cultivate and reap. The other trading powers could not, without some degree of chagrin, observe the smallest kingdom of Europe, become the most commercial in the whole world. Envy is a vice attached to mer cantile companies, it is the ordinary effect of riches; the condi tion of those people, who derive but small emolument from their commerce, is not coveted; their poverty is a sufficient protection to them against the shafts of envy. The Dutch, the English, and the French, who opposed their joint forces against the Portuguese in India, soon wrested from them their establishments in that part of the world, which had cost them so much labour, care, and trouble. Thus it is that states at first industrious, degenerate; and it not unfrequently happens, that the very samne abilities, which have raised them to grandeur and magnificence, have hurled them down again to the opposite extreme. THE LORD'S PRAYER. JOHN BOYS, D. D. Dean of Canterbury, gained great applause by turning the Lord's Prayer, into the following execration, when he preached at Paul's Cross, on the 5th of November, in the reign of James I. "Our Pope which art in Rome, cursed be thy name, may thy kingdom perish-may thy will be hindered, as it is in heaven, so in earth. Give us this day our cup in the Lord's supper; and remit our monies, which we have given for thy indulgencies, as we send them back unto thee, and lead us not into heresy; but free us from misery, for thine is the infernal pitch, and sulphur, for ever, and ever-Amen." T. A |