# The Gentleman's Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 3

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THE Gentleman's Magazine: Or, TRADER's Monthly Intelligencer.
Numb. III. for MARCH, 1731.
CONTAINING,
I. A View of the Weekly Essays and Controversies. viz. A Plea for the Jews; for and against Englishing Law-Proceedings, Of Applause; Civil Liberty; Inconstancy; Soldiers; Solitude; Impudence; Orator Henley; Partiality to Children; Government; K. James I. Corruption; Sedition; Happiness; Coffee-Grounds; Pleasure; Education; Opinions; Beggars; Grievances; E. B-—l Esq; Ld O--d, Ld B--ke.
II. Remarks on Impropriations, and on the Bill in Parliament concerning Tythes.
III. Rules for valuing Bar-Silver, and turning the Course of Exchange to Advantage.
IV. A TABLE shewing the Stamps requir'd to all Instruments or Writings whatever.
V. Method to write on Bank-Notes to prevent Mail-robbing.
VI. Accounts of Malefactors.
VII. Foreign and Domestick Occurrences, Deaths, Births, Marriages, Preferments, Prices of Goods and Stocks, Bankrupts declar'd.
VIII. Books, &c. publish'd.
IX. Observations in Gardening, and a List of Fairs for the Season.
By SYLVANUS URBAN of Aldermanbury, Gent.
Prodesse & Delectare.
The Second Edition.
CONTENTS.
| A Plea for the Jews, | p. 97 |
| Law-hands, and Law-language, the Benefit of | 98 |
| ———the Absurdity of, | 120 |
| Of popular Applause, | ibid. |
| Almanacks, Hottentots, Bigamy and Manslaughter, | 99 |
| Of Liberty, | ibid. |
| Causes of the Intricacy, Expence, and Confusion of Law-Proceedings, | 100 |
| Of Inconstancy; a Comparison; A recommendation of Mr. Pless and his Wife, | 101 |
| ———Answer to two of these | 103 |
| Considerations on three Political Pamphlets, | ibid. |
| On limiting the time Soldiers are to serve in the Army | ib. |
| ———burlesq'd | 114 |
| Of Solitude, | 102 |
| Extract of the Register of Parliament at Paris, concerning Libels | 103 |
| Of Impudence, | 104 |
| Partiality in Parents to their Children | 104 |
| Of Popular Discontent, | 105 |
| Remarks on the Reign of K. James I. | 106 |
| Of Englishing the Law, | ibid. |
| Of Corruption, | 107 |
| Of Republican Principles, | 108 |
| Criticism on Hudibras; Charitable Corporation; Orator Henley, | ibid. |
| Reflections on E. B———l, Esq; and Ld B———ke | 109 |
| Of Sedition, | 110 |
| Of Coffee-Grounds, | ibid. |
| Remarks on a Bill depending in Parliament to prevent Suit for Tythes, &c. | 111 |
| A Rule to determine the Val. of Bar-Silver, and use | 112 |
| Collet's Course of Exchange,———the Advantage of it | 121 |
| The Earl of Oxford's Conduct confider'd, | 113 |
| Easiness of Belief, the Ground of Complaints, | 113 |
| Remarks on the Reign of K. James I. | 114 |
| History of Patriotism, | 115 |
| Of the Excise, | ibid. |
| Memoirs of Mrs. Oldfield's Life, | 116 |
| Of common Beggers, | ibid. |
| Of Pleasure, | 117 |
| Of Impropriations, | 118 |
| Of Corruption, its Causes and Remedies, | 119 |
| Of Happiness, | 120 |
| Method of writing on Bank-Notes sent by the Post to prevent robbing the Mails | 122 |
| Domestick Occurrences, | 123 |
| Deaths, Malefactors, | 126, 127 |
| Promotions | 129 |
| Marriages, Casualties, | 130 |
| Ecclesiastical Preferments | 131 |
| Bankrupts, | ibid. |
| Foreign Affairs, | 132 |
| A Table of Stamps, | 133 |
| Scheme of the Lottery, | 134 |
| Weekly Bills, | ibid. |
| Books published, | 135 |
| Prices of Goods | 137 |
| Fairs, | 139 |
| Observations on Gardening | 140 |