Short is the uncertain reign and pomp of mortal pride: New turns and changes every day Are of inconftant chance the constant arts. Soon fhe gives, foon takes away, She comes, embraces, naufeates you and parts : The wife man little joy or little forrow fhows. W man promotion !... What more ftrange HAT indeed is more fluctuating than hu than to fee perfons, who know very well, that wifdom and virtue are only capable of conftituting true greatness, purfue with eagerness thofe fhadowy honours which flow from favour, and the fame breath that gives, may in an instant take away. BUT though the many notable changes which have lately happened, and others daily expected to happen, naturally lead one into thefe reflections, and likewise so much engross the prefent attention of the public, that we might poffibly be excufed from entering into any other fubject at this time yet the defires, or rather the challenge of Mr. Politico, the promife made to the town in our laíť, and the gratitude due to the gentleman from whom we received the following piece, are obligations which we cannot prevail on ourselves to difpenfe with on any account whatever. To the FEMALE SPECTATOR. "MADAM, "IT was my good fortune to be very lately introduced to a polite affembly, compofed "chiefly of ladies, fome of whom I found were "Hanoverians, but fpoke English perfectly well: CC one above the reft diftinguished herself in a "manner no lefs agreeable than particular. --- I "know not how the converfation happened to "turn upon politics, but fomewhat being men"tioned concerning the unhappy antipathy there "feemed to be between his majefty's fubjects of "Great Britain, and those of his German domi-"nions, it gave occafion to a difpute, in which "the lady above-mentioned, and one of her own "country, had an opportunity of exerting, in a "very great degree, that good fenfe and eloquence "they were both poffeffed of; and they were in"deed fo equally capable of managing what they "undertook, that the reft of the company took "too much pleasure in hearing them, to offer any "interruption, by taking the part either of the 66 one or the other. "THERE is certainly fomething fo perfuafively CC pathetic in the manner of your fex, whenever you go about to plead the cause of any thing you have a real intereft in yourselves, that it gives a double weight to all you say. . "I MUST confefs, my reafon yielded to them "both by turns :---I was convinced, confuted, " and convinced again, as often as either of them spoke every argument urged by each of "thefe fair antagonifts had greater force with me "than all Tully's orations could have had, even though I had heard them delivered by himself, " and "and accompanied with thofe graces which hiftory reports him so great a master of, and records "as inimitable. "I THOUGHT I never owed fo great an obligation to my memory, as when I found it had "faithfully treasured up whatever had been said, during this whole debate; which I put down in 66 writing the moment I came home, and now fend "it to you, as believing you would look upon it 66 as no unwelcome prefent. ર .. "I SHALL be extremely glad to fee it published through your canal, with fuch obfervations on "the feveral arguments, as you fhall think proper ❝ to make.---If you should happen to find any errors, either as to matters of fact, or the terms "in which they are made mention of, I beseech you to rectify them in juftice to the authors, "who argued too difpaffionately and unprejudiced "to be guilty of any mistakes this way, and must "therefore lie wholly on the transcriber, .. I am, MADAM, St. James's-street, Nov. 16, 1744• Your most humble, And moft obedient fervant, A. B. P.S." You will perceive the manufcript begins "after the commencement of the dispute; the rea"fon of which is, that feveral others of the com pany having their part in the difcourfe previous. to it, and on the firft queftions and repartees "made by the ladies themselves, having not the least "notion of its becoming a particular controversy, "it made the lefs impreffion on me; I could not "therefore be fo exact, as I now wish I had been, "in remarking what was faid on that occafion." A DIALOGUE BETWEEN An English and a Hanoverian Lady: Wherein the motives are laid open of that small fhare of fincere love or esteem which both nations unhappily regard each other with. WE HANOVERIAN LADY. HATEVER you alledge against us is matter of imagination only, whereas we have real and undeniable facts to complain of against you :---Have you not deprived us of the prefence of our dear elector and all his amiable family?--Do you not now engross all those bleffings to which we have a natural right, and grudge we fhould have the leaft fhare in ?---What heartburnings,---what murmurings are there among you on the leaft talk of his majefty's vifiting his German dominions, even when the neceffity of your own affairs requires his presence on the continent !---And is it not plain, that those of us who attend him here are looked upon as intruders?--- His very menials are envied by a people who would enjoy all the comforts of his reign, yet refuse the leaft encouragement to those who were born in the same air, and some of them nurtured from their infancy near his royal perfon.-. Can any thing be more cruel, more unjust to us, or indeed more disrespectful to him, than to wish to take from him the privilege of chusing his own fervants! English English Lady.] I BELIEVE, madam, there are none amongst us fo blind as not to fee the ineftimable benefits these kingdoms have received from the acceffion of that illuftrious houfe, which now fills the throne; nor were the English ever accounted an ungrateful or inhofpitable people; --much less can thefe vices at prefent, with any fhadow of reafon, be imputed to us, when we have done all in our power to teftify the fenfe we have both of their late and prefent majefties goodness to us in vouchfafing to take us under their protection.-Have we not annihilated that clause in the act of fettlement which forbid them going to Hanover without confent of parliament?Have we not readily augmented the civil-lift revenue to almost double what was allowed in any former reign? Have we not relinquifhed our ancient privilege of tacking redress of grievances to the money-bills? Have we not granted without reserve all the fupplies demanded, and affented to every vote of credit required of us?—These, I take it, are not acts of mere duty, but of the most fervent affection and implicit faith, that ever any monarch was regarded with by his fubjects: but though I willingly allow that all we can pay is not too much, yet methinks it is ungenerous to leffen the merit of these works of fupererogation, by attempting to tinge them with a felf-interested hue; for certainly it is far from the intereft of thefe kingdoms that his majefty fhould vifit Hanover fo frequently, or that yielding to every demand of the crown is for the advantage of our future liberty, though at present it may fuffer no prejudice by that confidence. Hanoverian Lady.] How easy it is to put a glofs on any thing !--- A ftranger to the affairs of England would imagine, by what you fay, that the |