# The Gentleman's Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 4

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THE Gentleman's Magazine: Or, TRADER's Monthly Intelligencer.
Numb. IV. for APRIL, 1731.
CONTAINING,
I. A View of the Weekly Essays and Controversies. viz. Of Predictions; Astrology; Female Modesty, and Extravagance; Abritrary Government; Peace; the Emperor; Gibraltar; Elocution; Disrespect to the Clergy; Eminent Characters; the Bible; Self-knowledge; Select Vestries; British Colonies; Pension-Bill; Dr. Sh———k D. of Marlbro. Ld. Godolphin; Sir. Is. Newton; Pedlars and Shopkeepers; Priests, Physicians Tythes; the Craftsman and his Adversaries; Iron and Wolleen Manufacture; Pawnbrokers; the State of Ireland, &c.
II. Poetry; Prologues, Epilogues, Epitaphs, Epigrams; Henley's God, Bath, Beauties.
III. Domestic Occurrences, Births, Deaths, Marriages, Preferments, Casualties, Acts pass'd, Burials & Christenings.
IV. Prices of Goods, Grain and Stocks, a List of Bankrupts.
V. Trials and Executions.
VI. Foreign Affairs.
VII. Account of Earthquakes, and some Jesuitical Exploits.
VIII. Books, &c. publish'd.
IX. Observations in Gardening, and a List of Fairs for the Season.
X. A Table of Contents.
By SYLVANUS URBAN of Aldermanbury, Gent.
Prodesse & Delectare.
The Second Edition.
The CONTENTS.
| PRedictions exposed | 145 |
| Of the Scurvy | ib. |
| Of Astrology | ib. |
| Female Extravagance | 146 |
| Case of Batchelors | ib. |
| Of Disorders in Government | ib. |
| A worthy Action of John Philpot | ib. |
| The E. of Suffolk impeach'd | 147 |
| Chief Justice hang'd | ib. |
| Craftsman's Triumph on the Peace | 147 |
| Answered, the Peace defended | 148 |
| Verses by way of Simile | ib. |
| ——— Anfwered | ib. |
| Of Gibralter and the Emperor | 149 |
| Of commendable Actions | ib. |
| Grobean Writings | 150 |
| Female Modesty | ib. |
| A Nurse's Speech to an Alderman's Childe | ib. |
| K. Jam I. | 151 |
| ——— His Pretensions to Hereditary Right. His Attempt against the H. of Commons, and his Design of uniting the two Kingdoms | ib. |
| Of Respect to Clergymen | ib. |
| A Story of St. Augustine | 152 |
| ——— Of Wat Tyler and Jack Straw | ib. |
| ——— Of St Bartholomew | ib. |
| ——— Of Erasmus | ib. |
| Father Paul's Opinion | ib. |
| Of Writers | ib. |
| Different Motives of writing | ib. |
| Taste, a Description of it | ib. |
| Shakespear and Johnson their different Talents | 153 |
| Irish Verses on a Lawyer's Motto | ib. |
| On Henly's God | 154 |
| Remarks on K. James I. | ib. |
| The Modern prevailing Taste | ib. |
| Of the Bible | 155 |
| Of Self-Knowledge | ib. |
| Several Instances wherein defective | ib. |
| Too much Money ruinous to a Nation | 156 |
| Of the British Sugar Colonies | 157 |
| Remarks on the Reign of K. James I. | 158 |
| A Farewel to French Kicks | ib. |
| The Case of Auth. Collins and Richard Tindal | ib. and 159 |
| Select Vestry, their Management | 159 |
| Sir Is. Newton's Monument describ'd | ib. |
| His Monumental Epitaph | 160 |
| Others proposed | 169 |
| The D. of Marlborough and E. of Godolphin's Conduct examin'd | 160 |
| Court Mourning | 161 |
| The Craftsman's Thoughts about the Peace | ib. and 162 |
| Of Opposition to Courts, and Independency of Parliaments | 162 |
| The Case of Mr. Healy, his Character by Mr. Pope | 163 |
| Of Bankruptcy | 164 |
| Remarks on the Bill about Tythes | ib. |
| Apology for Pawn-brokers | 165 |
| The present State of Ireland, Woollen-Manufacture | 166 |
| Mr. Fallowfield Proposals for making Iron | ib. |
| Mr. Wood's Propofals pro Ditto | 167 |
| Mr. Tompkyn's Remarks on Mr. Wood's Project, and his own Proposal | ib. |
| Remarkable Advertisement | ib. |
| Prologue and Epilogue to Euridice | 168 |
| The amorous Duelists | 169 |
| Epigrams | ib. |
| Epitaph on the D. of Schomberg buried in St. Patrick's Church Dublin | 169 |
| Bath Beauties | 170 |
| On Wit | ib. |
| Epitaph on an Infant | ib. |
| Bill of Mortality | ib. |
| Domestick Occurrences | 171, 172 |
| Bank and India Directors | 171 |
| The Westminster Infirmary | 172 |
| Deaths | 173 |
| Promotions | 174 |
| Ecclesiastical Preferments | 175 |
| Casualties | 176 |
| Marriages and Bankrupts | 177 |
| Of Criminals try'd and Executed | 178 |
| Foreign Affairs | 179 |
| Some Jesuitical Pranks | ib. |
| Extract of a Treaty of Peace between the Emperor and King of Great Britain | 180 |
| Books publish'd | 181, 182 |
| Fairs in May and June | 183 |
| Fairs and Gardening | 184 |