DOMESTIC NEWS. RS. Midnight, who is intimately acquainted with FORTUNE, and has great Power over her Wheel, intends on Tuesday the 19th Instant to open an Office of Intelligence and Prediction, by confulting of which all Perfons may be inform'd whether they are to have Blanks or Prizes in the prefent Lottery. N. B. All the Gentlemen that propofe to reap any Benefit from this Office, are to bring Certificates of their Worth and Honefty, fign'd by any three of their Enemies, and the Ladies to produce Teftimonials of their Virtue, fign'd by any two of their own Sex. All are to come drefs'd fuitable to their Circumstances in Life, and to take Care that the Money they adventure is their own. On Thursday the 7th of this Inftant, the Tragedy of Othello was perform'd at Drury Lane Theatre, to the moft brilliant Audience that perhaps ever was affembled upon any Occafion. The whole Performance was truly admirable, and merited all the Applaufe that was or could be given it. N. B. I honour my good Lord Chesterfield, and the other noble Lord, for the Pains they have taken to promote the Bill for introducing the NEW STILE, which I hope will take Ef fect, for I would have every puzzle Cause and Abfurdity remov'd from this polite Nation. * * I received the pathetic and melancholy Letter figned S. Williams, and fhould, as defired, have inferted it in this Magazine, but my Friend Mr. Newbery is about to publish a Collection of Cafes of that Kind, together with a Plan for the better Maintenance of the Poor, and for the more immediate Relief of the miferable Vagrants about this City; and to him I have refer'd it. The Cafes he has felected are not only very affecting, but well attested; and will undoubtedly excite Compaffion in the Breaft of every Man who has a Grain of Humanity in his Compofition; and his Plan for the future Provifion of those poor Wretches, has already met with the Approbation, Sanction and Encouragement of feveral Perfons of Distinction. THE The fame 86 - 41 91 137 189 234 280 9 - 151 Ambition, an Allegory, addrefs'd to the Wifeacres at St. James's - Letter to that Society Advertisement in Defence of the Univerfities B. Bag-Wig, and Tobacco-Pipe, a Fable Barry Mr. his Prologue C. Chive, Mrs. her Epilogue on two occafional Prologues Cat Organ, Improvements on it Country Dance for Country Schoolmafter's Letter to Mrs. Midnight D. Dialogue between an old Woman, her Boy, and her Lanthorn continued Dialogue political, between Mr. Crib the Taylor, Mr. Patch Differtation on dumb Rhetorick, or the Language of the Limbs Domestick News -continued continued E. Epigram on the Run of Romeo and Juliet on Jack Spriggins in Love with a very lean Lady 40 87 137 Epigram An INDEX to the FIRST VOLUME. Epigram on Mr. Timothy Grouse 188 on a Woman finging a Ballad for Money to bury 229 on a Water Poet 279 Extract of a Letter from Mrs. Sufannah Rowe to her Sifter Epilogue by Mrs. Clive to Othello, by Mr. Smart to Alfred F. Farmer Trueman's Dog Towzer to Squire Heavifide's Dog Ponto, Farmer's Wife, her Letter to Mrs. Midnight Ferdinando Foote, Efq; his Preface, or Dedication, or both Hogarth's Print of the March to Finchley, Defcription of Hiftory of Hannah **** Honeft Man, one Inftance of H. Lovervell and Mifs Goodwill, their Amours Letter from an eminent Undertaker in Town, to an emi- 127 47 272 275 162 12 I 37 103 280 182 218 68 154 27 to the Right Honourable Lady **** 225 122 39 169 230 New Year's Ode N. 0. Oration, spoken to the Clappers, Hilfers, and Damners, attend- Paftoral Piece, by Mrs. Leaper P. - Paftoral Dialogue, on the Nativity of CHRIST, between Thyrfis and Mirza Ponto's Answer to Tozzer - Pentweazle, Mifs, her Ballad to be sung at Chriftenings Rambler from, an inftructive and entertaining Story. on the Improvement of Life of the Knowledge of the World an Allegory on Courtship, &c. R. Raynard, Efq; to Mrs. Midnight S. Sable Mr. to Mrs. Midnight, and her Confederate Succubus Canidia Semicolon, the Critic, to Mrs. Midnight Song, for the SWAN SOCIETY in Chandois Street Sermon, occafion'd by the Death of Mr, Proctor, Minifter of Uglinefs, the Dignity, Benefit, and Beauty of it Wimble Will. his Cafe W. The End of the FIRST VOLUME. 97 165 232 54 5 245 22 264 |