

£2 —  Hiftary of Fews in England, 
The fong, “Say, Phebe, why is gen- 
tle love,’ is given with the variation of 
Myra for Phebe, and fome other diffe- 
rences, as lord Lyttleton’s, in Dodjley’s 
Collection, Vol. Il. 
The thought, in the epitaph on Simon 
Harcourt, 
Or gave his father grief but when he died, 
comes nearer to the following in the 
ppectator, than to the lines quoted by 
Mr. W. from Cowley :—‘ never till that 
hour, fince his birth, had been an occa- 
fion of a moment’s forrow to her.’ No. 
tea: 
Mr. W. thinks, that in the epitaph 
on Kneller, the line 
Whofe art was nature, and whofe pictures 
thought, 
fhould have been (had the rhyme per- 
mitted) ‘* whore pictures “fe; but 
furely the praife is higher as it ftands, 
for the fenfe is, ** whofe piétures repre- 
fent mind.” 
Perhaps, Mr. Editor, I may fend you 
more remarks hereafter, if thefe prove 
acceptable to your readers. Meantime, 
i remain, Your's, &c. 
Musis AMIcus, 

To the Editor of ibe Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
RAEETING with your Profpecus of 
+'* a new Mifcellany, to be entitled The 
Moniily Magazine, and approving the 
liberal plan upen which it is propofed to 
be condugted, as a convenient and ealy 
method of conveying ufeful and pleafing 
information, I beg leave to addrefs you 
concerning one of the objeéts of your in- 
tended pian, that of -agreadiural Tn, 
provements. Having fpent the greaceft 
part of my life (now pretty far ad- 
vanced) in the praétical ftudy of agri- 
culture, and the breeding oi farming 
fiock, ~L am fully perfuaded that the 
Lawnops in this kingdom are capable of 
being made much more produdétive than 
they at prefent are, as I believe every 
one who has turned his thoughts to that 
fubje muft be verv fatisfagtorily con- 
winced. It, then, becomes a matter of 
very important enquiry, what are the 
coufesthat have, and do at prefent retard 
thofe improvements, and the moft pro, 
bable means of obviating and removing 
thefe obftructions, and that may beit 
promote any future improvements 2 It is 
alfo well known to moft graziers, that 
fome forts of cattle, of the fame {pecies, 
will thrive fafter, and produce more pro- 
vifions for the market, than other, from 
wes 
‘the 
plied rapidly im ail places. 
[ Feb, 
any given quantity of herbage. It is, 
therefore, a matter very well worth en- 
quiry, and of being afcertained, which 
are tboje forts, and what are the criterions 
by which. they may be known ? It certainly 
would be rendering an effential fervice 
to this country, if any of your readers, 
whofe attention has been direéted to 
thofe objects, would give their fenti- 
ments thereupon to the public, as it may 
lead to a difcuffion of the fubje@, by 
which fome ufeful hints may be ftruck 
out, that may be of efiential future pub. 
lic advantage. 
In hopes of feeing fomething of this 
kind effe€ted in your Magazine, I re- 
main, with the fincereft withes fer your 
fuccefs in your intended Publication, 
Sir, your humble fervant, 
Lecefler fire, L. FB, 
Feb. 1766. 

For the Monihly Magazine. 
[The Epiror is happy to prefent to the readers 
of the Montuty Macazins the following 
very valuable hiftorical communication ; 
which he hopes will be a prelude to other 
papers, by the fame learned and well ins ~ 
formed writer. | 
Or Jews IN ENGLAND. No. I. 
NEHEMIAH ranks among the great 
““ characters of ancient ‘hiftory. He 
forfeck a place of influence at the moft 
{plend:d court of Afia, to encounter 
every hardfhip, for the beneficent pure 
pofe cf bettowing independence upon a 
horde Gf poor, ignorant, and wretched 
flaves, and of educating them by religi- 
ous and civil culture, intoa moral, brave, 
and induftrious nation—and he fucceed- 
ed. Before Nehemiah, the Jews were 
addicted to idolatry, and untaught as te 
an hereafter. By the wife feleGtion of 
traditions and laws which his inftitu. 
tions imprefied upon the people, they 
became zealous, monotheifts, aufterely | 
moral, and brave defenders of their in- 
dependence, without acquiring the {pirit 
of congueft. Yet they negleéied not 
arts of peace. ‘They covered the 
rocks of Galilee with olive trees; and 
purfued commerce with fo great fuccefs, 
that to Alexander it already appeared an 
object to court the fettlement of Jewtth 
colonies in his fea-ports. They multi- 
In the time 
of Tiberius, much of the commerce of 
the Mediterranean/was in their hands, 
They had fynagogues every where, 
which they tolerantly fuffered to be 
come {chools of Chriftianity, Even un- 
dex 
