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ditto, with the wool fhorn, 1s. 2d. ; a fat hog, two years old, 3s. 4d.; a fat goofe, zad.; ditto, in the city of London, 3d. a fat capon, 2d. ; ditto, in the city of London, 2.; a fat hen, 1d. ; ditto, in the city of London, 1d.; two chickens, id. ditto, in the city of London, 1; four pigeons, 1d.; three, ditto, in the city of London, 1d.; twenty-four eggs, id.; twenty, ditto, in the city of London, id. The following curious paffage from prefident" Henault's Hiftory of France" will give fome idea of the value of money in the ninth century.

"Pour juger de prix de l'or et de l'argent d'alors, il fuffira de rapporter deux faits. Au concile de Touloufe, tenu en 846, la contribution que chaque curé étoit tenu de fourni à fon êveque, favoir un minôt de frument, un minôt d'orge, un méfure de vin, et un agneau, étoit valué deux fols: le fecond fait c'est que Charles le chauve fit un edit en 864, pour une nouvelle fabrication de monnois; comme par cet edit l'ancienne monnoie étoit décriée, il ordonne qu'il fut tiré cinquante livres d'argent de fes coffres pour êtré répandues dans la commerce."

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JOHAN DE MEHUN, author of the celebrated "Romance de la Rose," about the year 1530, bequeathed to a monaftery in France, a cheft fuppofed to contain articles of great value. On opening it, however, the friars found it filled only with vetches; and in their rage on the ridicule and difappointment, they would not fuffer the body of the unfortunate bequeather to have a Chriftian funeral. The following paffage from "Piers Plowman's Vifion,' thew that fuch things in old times were not unknown in England.

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"The friars followed folke that were riche, And folke that were poor at little price they fet;

"And no corfe in the kirke-yard ne kirke was buried,

"But quicke he bequeathed them ought, or quit part of his debt."

And Chaucer fays of a friar :

Full fweetly heard he confeffion, "And pleafant was he's abfolution;

He was an eafy man to give penance "There as he wift to have a good pittance."

In the Philippine Ifles a certain proportion of the dower is paid to the intended wife, after liberty of converfing with her; a farther share for the permiffion to eat with her, and the remainder upon confummation.

In Turkey, bakers convicted of felling bread under weight, are hung up at their own door; and a traveller in that country

mentions that notwithstanding executions for this offence are fo frequent that a perfon can hardly walk along the streets without rubbing against the bodies, yet even thefe inceffant rigorous punishments do not put a stop to this nefarious practice.

Ben Jonfon fays, "Princes learn no art truly but that of horsemanship; the reafon is, the brave beaft is no flatterer; he will throw a prince as foon as his groom." The adulation which princes receive in all countries, from their infancy, is certainly ill calculated to make them know truly their duty as fovereigns. To thofe in the habits of attending a court, this is perfectly well known: to fuch as are accustomed to courts, the following paffage from Fabian's Chronicle, may afford at once information and amuse months old, fat in his mothers's lap, in ment" Henry the Sixth, when eight the parliament chamber; the speaker made a famouse prepofition, in which he faid much of the Providence of God, who had endowed the realm with so toward a prince and fovereign governour.

The coronation of a king is at all times the occafion of splendor, fhew and expence. The ftile of expence was however formerly very different from what it is in thefe days. In the time of Edward the First, every fheriff within 150 miles of London, was obliged upon this folemn occafion to fend 60 oxen and cows, 60 hogs, 2 fat boars, 60 fat fheep, and from 3 to 5000 hens and capons.

By the Charta Forefte we find that before that time to kill one of the king's deer was punished with the lofs of life or limb, at the fame time that a murderer paid only a weregild or was entitled to benefit of clergy.

From Crantz's account of Greenland we learn that the Greenlanders fhew their refentment for injuries by giving their adverfaries notice, that they will, at a par ticular day, publicly recite a libel against them; and it is reckon'd a want of spirit if the adverfary does not appear and give a fluent answer-what barbarians! not to

have recourfe to duel.

CURIOUS ORIGIN OF THE NINE

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because the inhabitants of their ancient to felect the three most perfect statues― › town, defirous of placing in the temple but then nine, were fo beautiful, that it of Apollo the ftatues of the three Mufes, was agreed to take them all, and to place and they being of extraordinary beauty, them in the temple, and call them the nine they ordered three of the most skilful sculp- Muses. From this accident, they detors to execute, each, the statues of thefe rived their origin, and the fix other attrithree mufes, which made up the number butes of poetry were given to the addiof nine; and from which it was proposed tional fister.

A CORRECT LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The following is offered to the Public as a complete Lift of all Publications within the Month.-Authors and Publishers, who defire an early Notice of their Works, are intreated to tranfmit copies of the fame.

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Family Diftrefs; or Self Immolation, a Play in three Acts, by Auguftus Von Kotzebue, as it is now performing verbatim from this tranflation, with applause, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket; tranflated from the German, by Henry Neuman, Efq. 28. Phillips.

The Prifoner; or the Refemblance, a Comic Opera, as Reading by Le Texier and Nugent; tranflated from the French, by Henry Heartwell Efq. Is. Cadell and Davies. The Forresters, a Picture of rural Manners, a Play, tranflated from the German of Iffland, by Bell Plumptre. 28. Vernor and Hood. The most interefting Collection of Theatrical Pieces, being a Continuation of "Recueil des Pieces de Theatre Nouvellement lues," par M. Le Texier; and containing fom of Molier's Chef d'Euvres, with the best Plays lately acted at Paris, 4 vols. 8vo. Il. Is. Dulau, and Co.

Pizarro in Peru, or the Death of Rolla, tranflated from the German of Auguftus Von Kotzebue; with Notes, &c. by Thomas Dutton, 2s. 6d. West.

ENGRAVINGS.

Graphic Illuftrations of Hogarth, from the Pictures, &c. in the poffeflion of Samuel Ireland, Vol 2d. 21. 2s. Faulder.

MONTHLY MAG. No. XLVI.

HERALDRY.

Kearsley's Peerage of England, brought down to January 1799. 9s. boards. Kearsley.

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Sanders on Ufes and Trufts, and on the Nature of Conveyances, 2 vols. 8vo. A new Edition, (2d.) 9s. boards. Brooke and Rider. Lord Thanet's Cafe confidered, as to the Question-Whether the Judgement be specific or arbitrary? With Reports of Cafes, by W. Frith, Efq. of Lincoln's Inn. 19. Butterworth.

A Complete Syftem of Pleading, Vol. x. which completes the Work, by John Wentworth, Efq. 12s. boards. Robinfons.

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The Regimental Companion; containing the relative Duties of every component part of the British Army, rendering the Syftem familiar, &c. by Charles James, of the 60th Regiment, late Captain in the North York Militia. 5s. Egerton.

A few Obfervations on the System of Tac tics, laid down in the Regulations for the Formations of his Majefty's Forces. 6d. Bell.

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Obfervations upon the Vindication of Homer, and of the Ancient Poets and Hiftorians who have recorded the Siege and Fall of Troy, 4to. 4s. Payne.

The Margate New Guide for 1799. 2s. 6d.
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The Old English Gentleman, by the Rev. R. Polwbele, 6s. boards. Cadell and Davies. The Unfexed Females, a Poem, addressed to the Author of the Purfuits of Literature, 2s. 6d. Cadell and Davies.

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Longman and Rees. Fables by the Duke of Nivernois, translated into English Verfe, 5s. boards.

POLITICS.

Cadell and Davies.

What is our Situation-and What our Profpects? or a Demonstration of the infidious Views of Republican France: by an American. Black.

The Hiftory of the Union of Scotland and England, by the Rev. Ebenezer Marshall, 5s, boards. Longman and Rees. The Rife, Progrefs and Confequences of the new Opinions and Principles lately introduced into France; with Obfervations, 5s. boards. Wright.

An Addrefs to the Royal Volunteer Corps of Great Britain, by Robert Hardy, M. A. 12mo. 2s. boards. Rivington.

The Neceffity of deftroying the French Republic proved by Facts; tranflated from the French, is. 6d. Debrett.

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NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

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THEOLOGY.

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An Effay on the Conduct and Character of St. Peter confidered, as giving Evidence of the Chriftian Religion, published in pursuance of the Will of the late Mr. Norris, as having gained the Annual prize at Cambridge, by the Rev. T. G. Taylor, Is. Rivington. Sermons; to which are fubjoined fuitable Hymns, by Edmund Butcher, 8vo. 7s. 6d. bds. Johnfon and Knott. Apology for the Chriftian Sabbath, infcribed to Mr. Wilberforce, by S. Palmer, Is. 6d. Palmer and Knott. Sermons, by the late Rev. Elisha Faulkner, Minifter of Ely Chapel, &c. 8vo. 1os. 6d. boards. Rivingtons. A Collection of Hymns, from various Authors, by John Mead Ray, 12mo. fewed. Two Sermons preached by the Pishop of Kildare, the one before the Lord Lieutenant, November 29, 1798, the other in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, April 7, 1799. Is. 6d.

VOYAGES.

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Hatchard.

A Miffionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean in the years 1796, 1797, and 1798, on the Ship Duff, with a Difcourfe on the Geography, and History of the South Sea Inlands; and Details never before published, of the natural and civil State of Otaheite. 4to. 21. 2s. boards. Chapman.

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Über die nächst Kommenden vierzig Jahre, &c• On the most probable events that may happen during the firft forty years of next century. Third Edition: on Popery and Egypt, by C. G. Thube, &c. Schwerin.

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REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.

THE Music of Pizarro, a, Play, now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, with unbounded applaufe. The Mufic compofed and felected by Michael Kelly. 6s. Kelly, THE mufic introduced in the tragedy of Pizarro is, taken in the aggregate, tolerably appropriate, though not itrikingly excellent. The march performed in the temple of the fun, the folo and femi-chorus

beginning with "Oh, pow'r fupreme;" the glee commencing with "Fly away time," the diftant military march and chorus of Peruvians; the fong, "Yes, be merciless, thou tempeft dire," and the lamentation for the death of Rolla, are from the pen of Mr. Kelly. The march of priests and priefteffes in the Temple of the Sun, is from the works of Gluck;

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