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SCOTLAND. Alexander Macfarlane, Efq; of Jamaica, brother to Walter Macfarlane of that Ilk, having left, by his will [xvii. 514], to the univerfity of Glafgow, his noble apparatus of astronomical inftruments, which they lately received; and the univerfity having, a little before, purchased fome excellent inftruments of the fame kind, made by the best bands, to a confiderable value; being now well furnished for obfervation, they extended their garden to the eaft of the city and college, fo as to inclose the fummit of the Dove-hill, on which to build an obfervatory; and on Wednesday, Aug. 17. the profeffors, accompanied by the magiftrates, laid the foundation, extending fixty feet in front, and named it, The Macfarlane Obfervatory, in honour of their generous benefactor. In each of the four corners, under the foundation, they depofited a medal, having on one fide an infcription, viz. Obfervatorii Macfarlanei fundamenta jecit alma mater Glafguenfis xvii. Aug. MDCCLVII.; and on the other fide a portion of a convex celeftial sphere, with the conftellations, and round it thefe words, Felices animæ quibus hæc cognofcere

cura.

Two King's plates, value 501. each, were run for on the fands of Leith, Aug. 17. & 18. Six horfes ftarted on the 17th; and the Princess of Zama, a bay mare belonging to Joseph Dacre of Kirklinton, Efq; won the plate. Five horfes ftarted on the 18th ; and the Border-laddie, a gray ftoned horfe belonging to John Hodgion of Eafton, Efq; won the plate. On the fame courfe, a purfe of 20 guineas was run for on the 19th; and was won by Spot, a gray ftoned horse belonging to Sir William Middleton: and a purfe of 15 guineas was run for on the 20th; and was won by Cripple Dick, a bay horfe belonging to James Boyd ftabler in Edinburgh.

Goods fmuggled from on board the India fhips while in Leith road, and feized and condemned, have been fold in exchequer; china ware, to the a

mount of near 8001. on the 19th of Auguft; and tea, &c. to the amount of about 100l. on the 23d. Silks, &c. fo feized, to the value of about 400 1. have been claimed, and are still in the cuftomhouse.

On the 12th of August was tried, be fore the high court of jufticiary at Edinburgh, Angus Macintosh, officer of excife at Cumnock, for ftealing about 301. in bank-notes, in January laft. Before taking the proof, the Lord Advocate restricted the libel to an arbitrary punishment. Next day the jury returned their verdict, finding, by a plurality of voices, the pannel not guilty, and he was thereupon difmiffed from the bar.

A court-martial having sentenced Benjamin Diamond and Samuel Bennet, foldiers, to be fhot for desertion, the former having deserted three times, and the latter having deferted when standing fentry, they were carried from Edinburgh caftle to Leith links, Aug. 23. their coffins borne before them; where the former was shot accordingly, and the latter was pardoned.

Capt. Ferguson, formerly of the Solebay man of war, who has been regulating captain at Edinburgh fince the beginning of 1755, failed from Leith, Aug. 21. for Chatham, on board the St Anne armed fhip, to take the command of the Prince of Orange, of 70 guns, to which he was lately promoted.

On the 6th of August a whale, about fifty feet long, was caft afhore near Borrowftounnefs.

Letters from Aberdeen bear, that two foldiers at Ellon, having gathered fome mushrooms for dinner, Aug. 16. unluckily picked up among them fome fungi of a poifonous quality; of which they had no fooner eaten, than both of them went mad. One of them died in a few hours in great agonies; and it was thought the other could hardly recover. The poifon was fo strong, that a cat who but tafted the mess, was feized with madness, to fuch a degree, that fhe was put to death, to prevent the effects of her rage.

According to accounts from all places, the prices of victual fall.

P. S.

P. S. By an advertisement in the Edinburgh papers of Sept. 8. notice is given to the inhabitants of the city and county of Edinburgh, liable in payment of the window-tax, that unless all arrears of that tax due by them fince Whitfunday 1753, be paid on or before the 25th, the deficients will be profecuted for treble the duty, conformable to an order of the Barons of Exchequer, by which every collector who does not get this direction of the law complied with, is to be proceeded against for neglect of duty.

rules of the Lord's word and found reafon:

And whereas the fynod, in their meeting at Edinburgh, on the 6th of March 1755, when a particular cause about the MASON-OATH was before then,-did appoint all the feffions under their inspection, to require all perfons in their refpective congregations who are prefumed or fufpected to have been engaged in that oath, to make a plain acknowledgment, whether or not they have ever been fo; and to require that fuch as they may find to have been engaged therein, fhould give ingenuous an

Aa of the Affociate fynod concerning the fwers to what further inquiry the sef

MASON-OATH.

Edinburgh, Auguft 25. 1757 Whereas an oath is one of the most folemn acts of religious worship, which ought to be taken only upon important and neceffary occafions; and to be fworn in truth, in judgment, and in righteoufnefs,without any mixture of finful, profane, or fuperftitious devices: And whereas the fynod had laid before them, in their meeting at Stirling, on the 7th of March 1745, an overture concerning the MASON-OATH; bearing, That there were very strong prefumptions, that among MASONS an oath of fecrecy is administered to intrants into their faciety, even under a capital penalty, and before any of thofe things which they fwear to keep fecret be revealed to them, and that they pretend to take fome of thele fecrets from the BIBLE; befide other things, which are ground of fcruple, in the manner of fwearing the faid oath and therefore overturing, that the fynod would confider the whole affair, and gite directions with respect to the admillion of perfons engaged in that oath to fealing ordinances:

And whereas the fynod, in their meeting at Stirling, on the 26th of September 1745, remitted the overture concerning the MASON-OATH to the feveral fellions fubordinate to them, for their proceeding therein, as far as they should find practicable, according to our received and known principles, and the plain

fions may fee caufe to make, concerning the tenor and adminiftration of the faid oath to them; and that the feffions should proceed to the purging of what fcandal they may thus find those perfons convicted of, according to the directions of the above-mentioned act of fynod in September 1745:

And whereas the generality of the feffions have, fince the aforementioned periods, dealt with feveral perfons under their inspection about the MASONOATH *; in the course of which procedure, by the confeffions made to them, they have found others, befide those of the mafon-craft, to be involved in that oath: And the fynod finding it proper and neceffary to give more particular directions to the feveral feffions, for having the hainous profanation of the Lord's name by that oath purged out of all the congregations under their infpection:

Therefore the fynod did, and hereby do appoint, that the feveral feffions fubordinate to them, in dealing with perfons about the MASON-OATH, fhall particularly interrogate them,-If they have taken that oath, and when and where they did fo? If they have taken the faid oath, or declared their approbation of it, oftener than once, upon being admitted to a higher degree in a mafon-lodge? If that oath was not adminiftered to them, without letting them

[We are told, that, by this inquiry, Mr D. B.'s difcovery of the fecrets of masonry (xvii. 133] is fully confirmed.]

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know the terms of it, till in the act of administering the fame to them? If it was not an oath binding them to keep a number of fecrets, none of which they were allowed to know before fwearing the oath? If, befide a folemn invocation of the Lord's name in that oath, it did not contain a capital penalty about having their tongues and hearts taken out in cafe of breaking the fame? If the faid oath was not admini ftered to them with feveral fuperftitious ceremonies; fuch as, the stripping them of, or requiring them to deliver up, any thing of metal which they had upon them, and making them kneel upon their right knee bare, holding up their right arm bare, with their elbow upon the Bible, or with the Bible laid before them, or having the Bible, as alfo the fquare and compaffes, in fome particular way applied to their bodies? and, If among the fecrets which they were bound by that oath to keep, there was not a paffage of fcripture read to them, particularly Kings vii. 21. with or without fome explication put upon the fame, for being concealed?

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ing in covenanting.work, fhall be then examined by the feffions as to their concern in the aforefaid oath.

And the fynod further appoint, that when perfons are found to be involved in the MASON-OATH, according to their confeffions in giving plain and particular answers to the foregoing queftions, and profeffing their forrow for the fame; the faid fcandal shall be purged by a fessional rebuke and admonition, -with a strict charge to abstain from all concern afterward in administering the faid oath to any, or enticing any into that fnare, and from all practices of amufing people about the pretended mysteries of their figns and fecrets: But that persons who shall refuse or shift to give plain and particular answers to the foregoing queftions, fhall be reputed under fcandal, incapable of admission to fealing ordinances, till they answer and give fatisfaction as before appointed.

And the fynod refer to the several feffions to proceed unto higher cenfure as they fhall fee cause, in the case of perfons whom they may find involved in the faid oath with special aggravation, as taking or relapfing into the fame in oppofition to warnings against doing fo.

Moreover, the fynod appoint, that the feveral feffions hall call before them all perfons in their congregations who are of the mafon-craft, and others whom they may have a particular fufpicion of, as being involved in the MASON-OATH except fuch as have been already dealt with, and have given fatisfaction upon that head; and that, upon their anfwering the first of the foregoing questions in the affirmative, the feffions fhall proceed to put the other interrogatories before appointed: As alfo, that all perfons of the mafoncraft applying for fealing ordinances, and likewife others concerning whom there may be any prefumption of their having been involved in the MASON QATH, fhall be examined by the minifters if they P. S. To the memory of Mrs K— of Ghave been fo; and upon their acknowledging the fame, or declining to anfwer whether or not, the minifters fhall refer them to be dealt with by the feffions, before admitting them to thefe ordinances: And that all fuch perfons of fering themselves to the feffions for join VOL. XIX.

And the fynod appoint, that each of the feffions under their inspection shall have an extract of this act, to be inferted in their books, for executing the fame accordingly.

Some time ago we received a paper from Mr Thomas Mair, pointing out the writings, & on which he charges the Affociate fynod with having run into Arminian and Socinian errors, Independent principles, &c. in anfwer to the letter inferted above, p. 213. and referring for proof to his Reasons of diffent [xviii. 159.]. But as we cannot afford room for difcuffing the difpute, we have, with Mr Mair's allowance, fent his paper to the writer of the letter.

An ELEGY.

W Eary'd with Grief's fad office, pleafing pain,

To join with forrow the confenting voice,
The gen'rous figh, and fympathetic tear,
Forth from the lonely manfions of the dead,
With wand'ring fteps I turn'd, and left the fane,
Where pious grief had led me to discharge
My mournful tribute, at BELINDA's grave;

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To fhed in fadnefs the foft falling tear,
Teltrow the green turf with sweet-fmelling flow'rs,
And fing foft reft to the departed fhade.

Difconfolate, along the fresh-show'r'd bank,
I flowly took my folitary way.

The crystal brook, which fed the bord'ring flow'rs,
With plaintive murmurs fought the distant vale;
The curfew, harbinger of night, prepar'd
The world for reft; the chearful fun had funk
His golden orb, and Philomel alone,
Sole fitting in the neighb'ring grove, purfu'd
With many a warbled maze her thrilling strain.
Down on the dark green grafs 1 fat reclin❜d,
And while ftill Night in cbon mantle clad,
With filent steps led forth her folemn train,
Thus fadly to the lift'ning vale I mourn'd.

O fatal day! thou bitter fource of wo!
Which left us poor, bereft of what we priz'd!
O cruel Death! which robb'd the world of joy;
And for BELINDA, comeliness itself,
Soft feeling pity, virtue mildly great,
Wit, elegance, and open-hearted truth,
Left us the cold pale corfe; the dull remains
Of worth returning to her native fkies.

O mournful change! How has Death's killing

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Transform'd the roses of that damask cheek,
To deadly hue! Thofe eyes with wifdom bright,
Which, like two friendly Itars, their bleffings fhed,
Benevolence and peace, to human kind,
How has dark night extinguifh'd all their fire!
That tongue, which with the voice of mufic fpoke,
While more enamour'd still, PALEMON hung
In pleafing admiration, as when men
High-favour'd hear defcending angels talk,
How has dumb filence with ftrong magic bound
Its pow'r harmonious, never to awake!
That look divine, pervading to the foul;
That elegance of form, refiftless, fhap'd -
By Beauty's fineft hand; how has the bane
Of chilling Death each wondrous charm deftroy'd!
And all ye nobler graces of the mind!
Whom Fancy fails to paint, and mortal tongue
But ill explains by words; how are ye fled
From human fight! Thou heavenly picty,
Conjugal love fincere, parental care,
Domeftic goodness, friendship, focial joy,
Endearing life; kind sympathy, which falls
The gen'rous tear, and haftens to relieve;
Good nature, finiling like the golden morn;
Free bounty, ever lib'ral, and prepar'd,
Like plenty, with full hands; prudence and truth,
Clear fenfe, and virtue fearful to offend;
And every precious gift which Heaven beflows,
To fhine admir'd, and bless the world with good.
O ruthlefs Death! thy cruel hand hath pluck'd

This beauteous flow'r, and rifled all its fweets!
Relentless Death! what ravage haft thou made
Of boafted worth, which all the world admir'd!
BELINDA in the beauty of her youth,
Show'd like the poplar, glory of the grove,
Which lifts the verdant top, and spreads its boughs,
Difpenfing fragrance, till fome stormy night
Shiver its ftrength, and tearing from its feat,
Spread forth the beautçous ruin on the plain.

O heavy lofs! With bright BELINDA fled
Superior merit, ev'ry nobler boast
Of excellence admir'd. How fhall the tongue
Express unutterable wo? the mind
Where fly for gentle comfort, where implore
Returning joy to glad the dreary gloom!
But ah, PALEMON! who fhall comfort thee?
Nor foothing friendship, nor fond hope, can steal
Thy thoughts from grief; thy beft, thy nearest
friend,

Thy ev'ry joy, with bright BELINDA lost.

O early loft! in the full noon of life,
When ev'ry grace fhone in its fummer bloom;
Untimely loft! while the rich gift of heaven
Shone bright to all, and with its value won.
The fad remembrance only now remains,
Which fondly whifp'ring what BELINDA was,
Recounts to thee, PALEMON! all her worth,
Renews thy lofs, and on thy fancy preys.
Erewhile thy blifs how rich! how full thy joy!
Thy peace untroubled, and thy mind ferene!
Enamour'd o'er this precious gem you hung,
And drunk in pleasure from its beamy rays:
But in ill-fated hour, rapacious Death,
Like the night-felon, ftole with filent steps,
And quench'd thy diamond's blaze, and left thee
Forlorn, of all thy wealthy treasure spoil'd. [dark,
No more the fmiling hours on golden wings
Shall pafs rejoicing, nor behold thee gaze
On Beauty's face, enamour'd of her charms;
No more at evening-walks shall hear the voice
Of conjugal esteem, of piercing sense,
Of friendship, honefty, and glad content,
In bufy converfe join'd. Thy pleafing race,
The fruit of faithful love, no more shall meet
The mother's fondness, haft'ning to explain
Th'imploring look; nor friend nor kindred feel
The virtuous transport, that endearing blifs,
Which crown'd the focial hour, when gentle peace,
When rofy mirth, and honesty of heart,
When wit refin'd, and gen'rous freedom met.

But now this friendly ftar, which lately shone
So lovely bright, is fhorn of all its beanis:
The beauteous blaze is fet, and chearless night
Darkling fucceeds. Yet know the shining orb
Dies but to view; for, like the western fun,
It funk to rife with fresh refplendent beams,
In brighter fkies, and fhine with nobler fires;
While nature's God, who wak'd th' immortal
Has rais'd the fplendor, never more to fet. [flame,
PALEMON, dry thy tears, and with the eye
Of holy faith look up: this facred truth
Speaks wondrous joy to thy deploring mind;
Though for a space the stroke of death fhall part
Whom ev'ry with and holy tie had bound;
Yet fhall they meet, the long loft friends shall meet,
The tender husband and the loving wife,
And meet, rejoicing they fhall part no more.

Such was my theme, while folemn Night began
Her peaceful reign; fair Hefperus was fet
In the clear weft, while with unclouded ray,

Night's emprefs rofe, bright Cynthia, to her throne;

Glad of her filver beams, in hafte I rofe,
And homeward fast explor'd my weary way.
Edinburgh, Sept. 6. 1757.

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METEOROLOGICAL JOURNALS of the WEATHER. [378.]

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Captures, &c. by British men of war, &c.

Taken from the London Gazette. HE Seahorfe, Capt. Taylor, the Raven floop, Capt. Bover, and the Banetta floop, in Ostend road, engaged two French frigates from Breft, of 40 guns each, fomething more than twelve pounders, Aug. 1. from half an hour paft twelve till near four o'clock, and obliged them to fheer off. The Seahorse's mafts, yards, and rigging, were fo much shattered, that the could not pursue them; and the Bonetta could not lay alongside them, having received a fhot in her bow, which drove a plank in. The Seahorfe had two men killed and feventeen wounded, eight of which fuppofed to be mortally. Capt. Taylor and Capt Bover were both wounded. One of the French fhips was difabled, and the Seahorse carried away her foremaft. After the engagement the French fhips bore away for the Darlow channel, and came to an anchor upon the flats. According to accounts from Bruffels, of Aug. 5. the two French fhips were frigates of 40 and 32 guns, called Le Chauvelin and Le Marechall de

Belleifle; they fought the three English fhips without any fuccefs, notwithstanding their great fuperiority; and the French frigates got into Flushing, and the English fhips bore away towards the Downs.

By the Bonetta floop: A fnow that had been taken July 31. about four leagues off Leostoff, retaken Aug. 2.

By the Effex, Capt. John Campbell: The Comte St Florentine, a privateer of St Maloes, of 18 guns and 110 men, taken Aug. 2. about three leagues weft of Scilly, carried into Plymouth.

By the Hampton court, Capt. Auguftus Hervey: Three prizes, carried into Nice, June 29.

By the Ambuscade, Capt. Gwynn: The Vainqueur, a French privateer, of 24 guns, nine and twelve pounders, and 360 men, taken July 12. after an engagement of more than an hour, and carried into Cagliari next day. The Ambufcade had only three men killed, but the privateer loft about fifty. This privateer was one of the largeft that was out of Marfelles, and had done great mifchief to the English trade in those parts. The Ambufcade arrived at Leghorn, Aug. 6. 3 R 2

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