well-meaning fubjects of this realm, that they fhall fee in the cleareft light, That ONE Englifhman cannot beat THREE Frenchmen.

LIKEWISE he promises, that they shall be able to perceive, in a very fhort time, that it is the most unjustifiable imprudence, to send out a force, but barely a match for the enemy, when there is an ability of over-powering him by fuperiority of number.

He undertakes, in a few hours, to enable any Englishman, however his fight may have been impaired by the ill-ufage of QuACKS, to bear the glare of light, refulting from a perufal of the following axiom in Politics, viz. A FOREIGN ARMY is a very precarious fecurity to a FREE STATE: for, the fame power, which can

PRESERVE, may DESTROY.

He will approximate objects, in fo astonishing a manner, that thofe, whofe organs have never been able to reach so far, fhall entirely take in this truth :-Men, who are entrusted with a command, as a REWARD for having BETRAYED their country in ONE place, will hardly risk their lives, to ferve it in ANOTHER.

He is ready, by the application of an eyewater, of a very harmless compofition, to make any person whatever penetrate into the darkest receffes of that no less interesting, than perplexed affair, relating to the Reverend Father A. B. of the Society of Jefus, Efq; clerk of the Buck w-ts.

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He hopes not to be confidered as a vain pretender, if he confidently promifes, by means of artificial pupils, to throw fo much light in upon a certain gloomy BENCH, as will discover, that infidelity, immorality, contempt of the clergy, &c. though they may favour a fyftem, grounded upon venality, and a total extinction of every virtuous principle, are by no means favourable to the Church of ENGLAND, but give the most dangerous advantages to ROMISH miffionaries, and fectaries.

LASTLY, he undertakes fo far to ftrengthen the vifual nerves of the CONSTITUENTS of GREAT-BRITAIN, that they fhall, without the affiftance of a microfcope, perceive the latent principle of the diffolution of the Conftitution, in every BRIBE they receive.

THIS artift fcorns to make use of puffs, but hopes he may be permitted to fay, that he has had the honour of attending fome of the greatest perfonages in EUROPE. He had the care of the King of Pa's eyes, from the commencement of the laft war, to the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle : -he was most courteously received at the court of Turin; was introduced by the prefident of the parliament of Paris, to the moft Chriftian King (now, the French King); and would have had the honour of couching his Majefty, if the operation had not been prevented by the archbishop of Paris.

In fhort; it would favour too much of vanity, if he should enumerate the feveral marks of

distinction he has received from numberless states and potentates; but he begs leave to recommend himself to the NOBILITY and GENTRY of this country, by affuring them, he is a fincere Proteftant, and had the glory of being thrown into the Inquifition in Spain, upon the first notice of his pretenfions to open the eyes of mankind.

N. B. He is to be heard of at all hours, from feven in the morning to eight in the evening, at his houfe near Charing Cross. Enquire for MYNHEER VAN HARTSOEKER.

EXTRAORDINARY.

No. 55. MONDAY, August 16, 1756. Containing the Genuine SPEECH of a CommonCouncilman at ATHENS.

All the beft men did join in the work that was then to be done.

SIR,

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SYDNEY, cap. iii, §. 40.

To the MONITOR.

PON lately reading over the history of the declenfion of the Grecian ftates, I found all the marks of treachery, corruption, and degeneracy, accompanied with the fame effeminacy, fupineness, and indolence, as have fatally

been

been manifefted in the adminiftration of fome modern ftates. Players, fingers, and dancers engaged ftatefmens attention, with a more violent paffion than the bufinefs of the public; and yet with all their proftitution of manners, there is not the leaft mention of any vortex for vice and folly, analogous to the effeminacy, prodigality, and trade of gaming notoriously prac tisd in fight of St. James's. The Athenian rulers, on whom the public placed their dedendance in the management of their treasure, and in the defence of their country, were not fo fhameless as to let the people know, that they employed the most of their time in ing-houses, when the dangerous fituation of the ftate required all their attention and concern. But if you chufe to print the following extracts from Demofthenes, who was one of the CommonCouncilmen of ATHENS, the reader may compare within his own breaft, what resemblance our prefent times bear to them; in which he fpoke the following oration.

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AFTER the proedri, or lord-mayor's officers had affembled the Common-Council of Athens, then at war with PHILIP, the cryer invited any perfon present to give his opinion: Demofthenes gave his in the following manner, addreffing himself to the Common-Council, of which he was a very honourable member.

As I am perfuaded, Athenians! that you are now convened about affairs of the greatest moment;

moment; fuch as affect the very being of the ftate: I fhall endeavour to speak to them in the manner most agreeable to your interefts.

"THERE are faults of no late origin, and they are gradually increased to no inconfiderable number; which have confpired to involve us in the present difficulties. But of all these, what at this time moft diftreffes us, is this; that your minds are quite alienated from public af fairs: that your attention is barely engaged, just while you are affembled, and fome new event talked of; then each man departs, and far from being influenced by what he hath heard, he does not even remember it. The infolence and outrage with which PHILIP treats all mankind are really as great, as you hear them reprefented, That it is not poffible to set bounds to these, by the force of fpeeches and debates, no one can be ignorant: for, our arguments in words are irrefiftable. Is he then destroyed by this? and are our affairs advanced? By no means! for as he proceeds to take up arms, leads out his troops, and is ready to hazard his whole empire in pursuit of his defigns; while we fit here pleading, or attending to thofe, who plead the juftice of our caufe; the confequence (and, I think, the natural confequence) is this; actions prove fuperior to words, and mens regards are engaged, not by thofe arguments, which we have ever advanced, or may now advance, how just foever, but by the measures we pursue: and thefe are by no means fitted to protect the injured ftates.

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