3^4 THE EEE, OR March «,•: 



ceeds to points'out Palcy's fyftem of ethics ; which, by making religion 

 the foundation of morality, avoids this great Humbling block, and ftrong- 

 ly recommends it to the public. 



A^rejiis complains of the brutality of fome perfons, who, with a view, 

 as they think, to prefcrve their own dignity, require from people of an 

 inferior ftation, degrading marks of dcbafcment and humility : — And re- 

 prehends with great juRice and feverity, the infolent meanneis of a young 

 nian of this fort, who permitted a poor old man with a few grey hair-, 

 in his head, to ftand imco-vered befide him for a quarter of an hour in the 

 ftrect while it rained hard ; the gentleman, as he called himfelf, being 

 J'crecned all the while by his umbrella, buch difregard to the feelings of 

 another, furely marks a meannefs of foul, that ought to be execrated by 

 every one. ■• 



A Rtaihr takes notice of the powerful influence of fafliion in certain 

 refptA.s, and ftrongly animadverts on the prevalence of the practice of 

 duelling, which he fuppofes proceeds from thisfource ; and adduces ma- 

 ny arguments that have been too often urged in vain, to check this grow- 

 ing evil, i He introduces on this occafion a well known ftory of a chal- 

 lenge chat was fent by one member of a lilirary body in Edinburgh, to 

 another celebrated niendjer of the fame, which we think, had better be 

 fuffered to fall into oblivion, than be publicly conneded with cither of 

 their names. 



A Sptculator, after pointing out the great benefits that would refult to 

 any country from the difcovcry of coals in it, if not already known, pro- 

 pofcs, that the propiietors of each county fhould alTeis thcmfelves in a 

 certain fum, to be equally born by all, according to their valued rent, 

 'ihis money to be employed in IVarching for coals, wherever perfons of 

 {kill fhould think they were mofl likely to be found, without any refpetSls 

 to the proprietor on whofe ground they fhpuld be difcovered. If .fuch 

 an inftitutlon ihould be made, it no doubt might be the means of difcov- 

 ering fome; but we would recommend as an improvement to the plan, 

 that in c.ife a coa- fliould be tliui difcovered, the whole : f the money 

 that had been advanced by the community fltottld be repaid out of the 

 firft of the profits ; and ptrhaj s it would be ftill more equitable to fay, 

 that each of the perfons who bad been in the original aflbciation, fhould 

 be entitled to receive what cor.ls they had occafion for, for their own ufe, 

 and that of their teliams,at one fourth, one eight, ivr any other rate that 

 ihould be judged better, lower than the fame coals were fold for to others. 

 Scrmch'crcivn poii-ts out the dangtr and folly of perfons in an inferior 

 fiation, aping their betters in fafhionable and cxpenfive amufements : 

 And dcfcribes a kind of low dancing fchocl balls or dances, that are at- 

 tended by journey men barbers, and others of a hniilar clafs in this town, 

 which occafion expence to tiit-fe perfons they are ill able to afford, and 

 ;irc predudivc of many bad coi-.fcouences. He therefore warnily dif- 

 fuadcs them frciv: prcfccuting this kind of amufcmcnt, and rather recom- 

 mends a talle for reading in its flead. 



Mi2rciari,:s lecummcads to the notice of our readers a poem written 

 hy George Buchanan ; an elegant cpithalamium on the marriage of 

 !M:;ry of Scotland with Fraucis the d;;uphin of france, en which he of- 



