COPY OF A REMARKABLE INSCRIPTION ON A MONUMENT,

Lately erected in Horsley Down Church in Cum

berland.

HERE lie the bodies

of Thomas Bond, and Mary his wife. She was temperate, chaste, and charitable;

BUT,

she was proud, peevish, and passionate. She was an affectionate wife, and a tender mother

BUT,

her husband and child, whom she loved, seldom saw her countenance without a disgusting

frown,

whilst she received visitors, whom she despised, with an endearing smile.

Her behaviour was discreet towards strangers;

BUT,

imprudent in her family.

Abroad, her conduct was influenced by good breeding;

BUT,

at home, by ill temper.

She was a professed enemy to flattery,
And was seldom known to praise or commend;
BUT,

the talents in which she principally excelled,

were difference of opinion, and discovering flaws and

She was an admirable economist,
and, without prodigality,

dispensed plenty to every person in her family;

BUT,

would sacrifice their eyes to a farthing candle. She sometimes made her husband happy, with her good

qualities;

BUT,

much more frequently miserable-with her many

failings;

insomuch, that in thirty years cohabitation, he often lamented,

that, maugre all her virtues,

he had not, in the whole, enjoyed two years of
matrimonial comfort.

AT LENGTH,

finding she had lost the affections of her husband, as well as the regard of her neighbours, family disputes having been divulged by servants, she died of vexation, July 20, 1768,

aged 48 years.

Her worn-out husband survived her four months and

two days,

and departed this life, Nov. 28, 1768,
in the 54th year of his age.

William Bond, brother to the deceased, erected this

stone,

as a weekly monitor to the surviving wives of this

parish,

that they may avoid the infamy

of having their memories handed down to posterity

with a patch-work character.

ILLUMINATI.

ILLUMINATI.

MR. Raspe✶ presents his compliments to M. M, and is sorry he cannot give him any satisfactory account of the most conspicuous characters amongst the illuminates. They started since he left Germany, not only as he mentioned yesterday, from the barbarity of Bavaria, but also from the ashes of the Jesuits, and a very numerous sect of fanatic freemasons, of which there is a wonderful variety in Germany. The sect or breed of whom we are speaking, pretended to great knowledge indeed, no less than conjuring up ghosts and spirits, and performing miracles, which they played off as credentials of their superior wisdom. Their great prophet was an impostor, of the name of Schroepfer, who, being pushed hard by his creditors, and the incredulity of disciples, finished his farce at Leipzig, by blowing out his brains. It was chiefly in Saxony that he met with success, and that necromancy was treated in a serious manner; but the evil spread, and (wonderful to say!) found powerful and numerous supporters at Paris. Upon this foundation Cagliostro built his system of imposition; and if he had not been detected, he might have carried it on in England on the basis

* The mineralogist.

of the Swedenborgians, a kind of simpletons, who have of late translated and adopted the crazy visions of a Swedish gentleman of that name, who died in London some years since. Lavater does not appear formally to belong either to the illuminates or the Swedenborgians, sed. dignus intrare in stulto isto corpore, for his genius borders but too much upon fanaticism.

Swedenborg could not possibly be the prophet of the Duke of Courland: they never met: but a connexion may be traced between that crazy Duke and one Mr. Sunderberg, who is rather partial to the respective tenets and follies of freemasonry, illuminates, conjurors, alchymists, and Swedenborgians.

INHABITANTS OF SUDAN.

A MANUSCRIPT of a most ancient date is now in the possession of the Emperor of Morocco, describing the people of the province of Sudan in South Barbary. Their features, complexion, and language, differ totally from any other people on that continent.

Although this manuscript is old, it corresponds exactly with the character of the present inhabitants of that country.

It relates, that a part of these people being once oppressed by their prince, crossed the Mediterranean into Spain; from thence they travelled north, and found means to provide vessels from those shores, in which they embarked, and landed in a mountainous part of some of the British isles. At this present moment, the people of Sudan always speak their own language (unless in their intercourse with the Moors), and this language has a great affinity with the Irish and Welsh dialects.

They are red-haired, freckled, and, in all respects, a stronger bodied, and more enterprising people than the Moors.

Mrs. Logie, the consul's wife, was a native of Wales, and informed Major Tisdal, that she understood many words spoken by these people, and sometimes short sentences.

Delivered to me by Major Tisdal, who received it from Captain Logie, the English consul at Morocco.

John Hutchins, M. D.

MR. WHITFIELD,

MR. Whitfield's eloquence was of a peculiar cast, and well adapted to his auditory, as his