Short is the uncertain reign and pomp of mortal pride : New turns and changes every day Are of inconstant chance the constant arts. Soon she gives, soon takes away, She comes, embraces, naufeates you and parts : The wife man little joy or little forrow shows. W HAT indeed is more fluctuating than human promotion! --- What more strange than to fee persons, who know very well, that wifdom and virtue are only capable of conftituting true greatness, pursue with eagerness those shadowy honours which flow from favour, and the fame breath that gives, may in an instant take away. Bur though the many notable changes which have lately happened, and others daily expected to happen, naturally lead one into these reflections, and likewise so much engross the present attention of the public, that we might possibly be excused from entering into any other subject at this time; yet the defires, or rather the challenge of Mr. Politico, the promise made to the town in our laít, 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. ८८ To the FEMALE SPECTATOR. "MADAM, -- I "IT was my good fortune to be very lately "introduced to a polite assembly, composed "chiefly of ladies, some of whom I found were "Hanoverians, but spoke English perfectly well : "one above the rest distinguished herself in a manner no less agreeable than particular. "know not how the conversation happened to "turn upon politics, but somewhat being men" tioned concerning the unhappy antipathy there " seemed to be between his majesty's subjects of "Great Britain, and those of his German domi"nions, it gave occafion to a dispute, in which "the lady above-mentioned, and one of her own country, had an opportunity of exerting, in a very great degree, that good sense and eloquence "they were both poffefsed of; and they were in" deed so equally capable of managing what they " undertook, that the rest of the company took " too much pleasure in hearing them, to offer any " interruption, by taking the part either of the "one or the other. ८८ ८८ "THERE is certainly something so perfuafively " pathetic in the manner of your sex, whenever you go about to plead the cause of any thing you have a real interest in yourselves, that it " gives a double weight to all you fay. " I MUST confefs, my reason yielded to them " both by turns:---I was convinced, confuted, " and convinced again, as often as either of thern "spoke: ---every argument urged by each of "these fair antagonists 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 those graces which hiftory reports him so great a master of, and records "as inimitable. " I THOUGHT I never owed so great an obli"gation to my memory, as when I found it had " faithfully treasured up whatever had been faid, " during this whole debate; which I put down in " writing the moment I came home, and now send " it to you, as believing you would look upon it " as no unwelcome present. " I SHALL be extremely glad to see it published " through your canal, with fuch observations on " the several arguments, as you shall 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 justice to the authors, "who argued too dispaffionately and unprejudiced " to be guilty of any mistakes this way, and must "therefore lie wholly on the tranfcriber, P.S. "You will perceive the manuscript begins " after the commencement of the dispute; the rea" son of which is, that several others of the com"pany having their part in the discourse previous " to it, and on the first questions and repartees " made by the ladies themselves, having not the leaft "notion of its becoming a particular controversy, " it made the less impression on me; I could not " therefore be so 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 share of fincere love or esteem which both nations unhappily regard each other with. W HANOVERIAN LADY. HATEVER you alledge against alledge against us is matter of imagination only, whereas we have real and undeniable facts to complain of againft 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 blessings to which we have a natural right, and grudge we should have the least share in?---What heartburnings,---what murmurings are there among you on the leaft talk of his majesty's vifiting his German dominions, even when the neceffity of your own affairs requires his prefence 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 least encouragement to those who were born in the fame 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 so blind as not to fee the ineftimable benefits these kingdoms have received from the acceffion of that illuftrious house, which now fills the throne; --- nor were the English ever accounted an ungrateful or inhofpitable people; --much less can these vices at present, with any shadow of reason, be imputed to us, when we have done all in our power to testify the sense we have both of their late and present majesties goodness to us in vouchsafing to take us under their protection.-Have we not annihilated that clause in the act of fettlement which forbid them going to Hanover without consent of parliament? Have we not readily augmented the civil-lift revenue to almost double what was allowed in any former reign ? - Have we not relinquished our ancient privilege of tacking redress of grievances to the money-bills? Have we not granted without reserve all the supplies demanded, and assented 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 subjects: but though I willingly allow that all we can pay is not too much, yet methinks it is ungenerous to lessen the merit of these works of fupererogation, by attempting to tinge them with a self-interested hue; for certainly it is far from the interest of these kingdoms that his majesty should visit Hanover so 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 gloss on any thing!---A stranger to the affairs of England would imagine, by what you say, that the |