the 1st of Matthew, by Sir Richard.-I hereby recommend it to the eighty Societies of Protestants in Glasgow, knowing it to be sound orthodox truth; for that purpose, Mr. Woodfall, I now intrust it to your ́special care, conjuring you to print it, as you hope to be saved.

Salmon begat Booz

Booz begat Obed

Obed begat Jesse, so as

Jesse begat David.

And I am, Sir,

AMEN.

Your humble Servant,

GEO. GORDON.

Testimony in favour of MAJOR JOHN SCOTT'S Poetical Talents.

WARREN HASTINGS, Esq.

In an Extract from a private Letter to a Great Personage.

"I TRUST, therefore, that the rough diamonds will meet with your favourable con

struction. They will be delivered by my excellent friend, Major John Scott, who, in obedience to my orders, has taken a seat in Parliament, and published sundry tracts on my integrity. I can venture to recommend him as an impenetrable arguer, no man's propositions flowing in a more deleterious stream; no man's expressions so little hanging on the thread of opinion.-. He has it in command to compose the best and most magnificent Ode on your Majesty's birthday.

"What can I

say more?

A FULL AND TRUE

ACCOUNT

OF THE

REV. THOMAS WARTON'S ASCENSION

FROM

CHRIST-CHURCH MEADOW, OXFORD,

(In the Balloon of James Sadler, Pastry Cook to the said University,) on Friday the 20th of May 1785, for the purpose of composing a sublime ODE in honour of His Majesty's Birth-day; attested before JOHN WEYLAND, Esq. one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Oxford *.

It was in obedience to the advice of my brother, Dr. Joseph Warton, that I came to a determination, on the fifth of May ult. to compose my first Birth-day Ode, at the elevation of one mile above the earth, in the Balloon of my ingenious friend, Mr. James Sadler, of this city. Accordingly,

1: *It cannot fail to attract the Reader's particular attention to this very curious piece, to inform him, that Signor Delpini's decision in favour of Mr. Warton, was chiefly grounded op the new and extraordinary style of writing herein attested.

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having agreed for the same, at a very mo derate rate per hour (I paying all charges of inflating, and standing to repairs), at nine in the morning, on Friday the 28th of said month, I repaired to Christ-church meadow, with my ballast, provisions, cat, speakingtrumpet, and other necessaries.-It was my first design to have invited Dr. Joseph to have ascended with me; but apprehending the malicious construction that might follow on this, as if, forsooth, my intended ode was to be a joint production, I e'en made up my mind to mount alone.-My provisions principally consisted of a small pot of stewed prunes, and half of a plain diet-bread cake, both prepared, and kindly presented to me, by the same ingenious hand which had fabricated the balloon. I had also a small subsidiary stock, viz. a loaf of sandwiches, three bottles of old ale, a pint of brandy, a salad ready mixed, a roll of collared eel, a cold goose, six damson tartlets, a few China oranges, and a roasted pig of the Chinese breed; together with a small light barometer, and a proper store of writing utensils; but no note, memorandum, nor loose hint of any kind, so help me God !-My ascen

sion was majestic, to an uncommon degree of tardiness. I was soon constrained, therefore, to lighten my balloon, by throwing out some part of my ballast, which consisted of my own History of Poetry, my late edition of Milton's Minora, my Miscellaneous Verses, Odes, Sonnets, Elegies, Inscriptions, Monodies, and Complaints; my Observations on Spenser, the King's last Speech, and Lord Mountmorres's pamphlet on the Irish Resolutions. On throwing out his Lordship's Essay, the balloon sprang up surprisingly; but the weight of my provisions still retarding the elevation, I was fain to part with both volumes of my Spenser, and all of my last edition of Poems, except those that are marked with an asterisk, as never before printed: which very quickly accelerated my ascension. I now found the barometer had fallen four inches and six lines in eight minutes. In less than eleven minutes after I had ascended very considerably indeed, the barometer having then fallen near seventeen inches; and presently after I entered a thick black cloud, which I have since found rendered me wholly obscured to all observation. In this situation, I lost no time to begin my Ode; and accordingly, in the course of