THE SCOTS MAGAZINE. MDCCL VI I. VOLUME U ME XIX. Ne quid falfi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. EDINBURG H: Printed by SANDS, DONALDSON, MURRAY, and COCHRA M. Aburius, Earl of Abingdon, deceased. (ceafed. L. Æmilius Mamercinus, Mr Alder. Perry, de- C.Arennius, Henry Archer, Efq; Aulus Gabinius, Phillips Gybbon, Efq; (ral. C. Cecilias, Charles Yorke, Efq; Solicitor-Gene- Cafe Fabius, Nicholas Fazakerley, Efq; Sp. Carvilius, Earl of Carlisle. Sp. Caffius, Richard Beckford, Efq; deceased. M. Cato, William Pulteney, Efq; now Earl of Celfus Albinovanus, Hon. Alexander C. Cicerejas, Earl of Cholmondeley. (Bath. Hume P. Furius Philus, Sir John Philipps. Cn. Gavillius, William Grant, Efq; Lord Advo T. Genucius, Richard Grenville, Efq; now Earl C. Helvius, Lord Hervey, deceased. Q. Horatius Barbatus, Earl of Halifax. L. Hortenfius, John Howe, Efq; afterwards Lord A. Hoftilius Cato, Robert Hucks, Efq; decealed. Junius Brutus, Samuel Sandys, Efq; now Lord Q. Cicero, Lord Walpole, afterwards Earl of C. Lalis, Lord Viscount Lonsdale, deceased. Sp. Lartius, Welbore Eilis, Eiq; L. Lentulus, Henry Legge, Efq; (Clanbraffill. terwards Lord Walpole, deceated. deceased. Mecanas, George, afterwards Sir George Lyttelton, now Lord Lyttelton. Q. Minucius Rufus, Robert More, Efq; (fed. C. Mucius Scavola, Earl of Scarborough, decea. T. Numifius Prifcus, William Noel, Efq; (Oxford. of the house of Commons. L. Papirius Curfor, Nicholas Fazakerley, Efq; L. Pinarius, Thomas Pitt, Efq; deceased. C. Plinius Cæcilius, Earl of Hardwicke, late Lord Pomponius Atticus, Horatio Walpole, fenior, Efq; Proculus Virginius, Thomas Proufe, Efq; T. Quinties, Lord Talbot. now L. Quintius Capitelinus, John Talbot, Ffq; Pag. col. lin. Sp. Rutilius Craffus, Lord Raymond. C. Salluftius Crifpus, Horatio Walpole jun. Efq= A. Sellius, Majo. Selwyn, deceased. A. Sempronius Atratins, John Selwyn jun. Efq; T. Sempronius Gracchus, Lord Percival, now Ear of Egmont. P. Sempronius Tuditanus, Sir Thomas Lumley L. Sergius Fidenas, Sir John st Aubin, deceased. 2. Statorius, } L. Stertinis, Sir William Star hope. Titus Pomponius, Penyston Powney, Efq; deceased. C. Trebonius, George Townshend, Efq; M. Tullius Cicero, Sir Robert Walpole, after- wich. T. Virginius Rutulus, Thomas Whichcote, Efq; L Volumnius, Edmund Waller fenior, Elq; 111 1 47 for Capt. Philip Durell, &c. read Lieut. Durell, a naval officer. It was not the Captain, but his brother that died. In the defcription and character of the King of Pruffia, fronting p.685, col 2. lin. 2. for five read fix. His Majefty was born Jan. 24. 1711-12, and fo entered into the 47th year of his age Jan. 24. 1758. CUT Parica CLUE, before the Magazine for January, Place the PLATES fo as to front the following pages. The map of Germany The chart of the fea-coaft between England and France, &c. fmall print of the King of Pruffia, Pag. I 497 685 THE SCOTS MAGAZINE. JANUARY, 1757. ** CONTENTS. HISTORY. A fummary or recapitulation of the || POETRY. Mr Cibber's ode for the new year public affairs of last year 1.19. The Czarina refufes to mediate between the courts of Vienna and Berlin 41. All men in Saxony between the age of eighteen and thirty-two ordered to be registered 42. Inteftine difputes in France ib. Accounts of an attempt to affaffinate the French King 43. Ats paffed 44 Adm. Byng's fentence ib. A recommendation to mercy by the courtmartial 45. The 12th article of war 46. Letters concerning Adm. Byng by M. Richlieu and M. Voltaire b. Proceedings of the prefbytery of Edinburgh, in relation to the author of Douglas, and fome ministers who were to fee that tragedy acted 47. Their admonition against stage-plays 18. A refolution of the prefbytery of Glasgow on thefe fubjects 47. Seffions of the fpring circuitcourts 48. Edinburgh affize of bread 49. The baxters diffent ib. The perfons to whom the Edinburgh fociety premiums have been adjudged 49-52. Premiums for the culture of potatoes this year 52. 19. The machine 20. The hiftory of ANGRIA. His defcent, and the A POLITICS. Speech of C. Decimius, on the motion for leave to bring in a bill for the encu ragement of feamen, &c. 39. LISTS, TABLES, &c. Captures 52, 3. Marriages 53. Births and Deaths 54. Preferments 55. Mortality-bills for London and Edinburgh 55, 6. Prices of grain, meal, and flocks ib. New books. 56. A fummary or recapitulation of the D URING the year whofe hifto ry we are to recapitulate, very few advices have arrived from PERSIA. From what is come to hand, there does not appear any reafon to conclude, that the affairs of that diftracted country, even after nine years of deftructive civil wars, have yet fettled into tranquillity. At the beginning of the year we were told, that Prince Heraclias of Georgia, befides his own hereditary dominions, which are tributary to the Turks, was in poffeffion of Perfian Armenia, and was waiting a favourable opportunity for endeavouring to make VOL. XIX. PUBLIC AFFAIRS of the year 1756%, himself mafter of the whole empi e. There were other competitors for the throne, who in different parts of the country affumed the title of Shah. Our laft accounts were, that one of them, named Karem Kan, had been defeated, and driven from Ifpahan, by Heffein Kan, who pretended to have with him one of the royal family, in whofe name he took poffeffion of that capital and all the adjacent country. It is generally fuppofed, however, that the line of the ancient Sophis is quite extinct; nor do we hear that there is one of the race or near relations of the late famous Kouli A K |