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fioned to Defdemona, without fo much as wifhing to 

 explain the mifunderftanding, flie is no more the open 

 and virtuous j'Emilia, but a coadjutor with her dark 

 and unfeeling hufliand. This is a remarkable violation 

 of every appearance of probability, when we contrail 

 it with her noble and fpirited conduft afterwards. We 

 are furprifed to find » flip of fo much magnitude fron» 

 the clear and piercing judgment of Shakel'pear, efpeci- 

 E.lly when we coniider, that it could liave been very ea- 

 fily remedied, by removing her during this interview. 

 W.N. 



Anecdote of Mr. Whitfield, 

 About thirty years ago, the famous Mr. Georgr 

 Whitfield ufed annually to vifit this metropolis, and 

 by his popular mode of preaching allured great multi- 

 tudes, efpccially of the female fex, to attend his fer- 

 mons. The great obje£t of his dil'courfes was to roufe 

 them to acts of beneficence ; and as he had inftituted a. 

 charitable feminary at Georgia in Carolina, he was 

 Hrenuous in his exertions to induce his audience to be 

 liberal in giving alms for the fupport of the helplefs 

 perfons he had there collected together. Among his 

 conrtant hearers was. one Mrs. the wife of a 



brewer, in a fmall line of bufinefs, in the Grafsmarket 

 of Edinburgh, wIk) had fome difficulty to provide 

 funds for carrying on his aftairs without embarrafl'ment. 

 He had no time to attend the daily harangues of this 

 ghoftly orator ; nor vras he much pleafed with the time 

 his wife fpent on thefe occafions, and far lefs with the 

 demands fhe fometimes made upon him for money to 

 be given for charitable purpofes. This diverfity of opi- 

 nion between the man and wife fometimes produced fa- 

 mily difcord ; and while the lady believed the Divine 

 was little lefs than an angel from Heaven, the hufband 

 confidered him as no better than a thief, or a pick- 

 pocket, who, under falfe pretexts, induced fimple people 



