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Aug. 23-25.THE BRITISH CHRONICLEfTli us, upon the fuppofition ir.it every woman brings (ortfi fix children in 10 yr.trs, sur iv 'Um. uiKIi is of lie Iceft f7'1 *f ft* iivr lt;i\it u K Frx-t, vvi‘1 have produced, in its ytirs. 145S fiiiiiioin. of.foals. This it 1 moll jttMEMtg number; and i:liou;h we ihsald even take a-vriy three imti out ol the lour, t'ie remainder wilt ftiii be prooiRiois. {71*1 far HafM$bx*.\ (Ti e Aut 101 of t £lt;*?.’ .i: Lux, xxiii. tt. fiji, Tsc Ko 111.is, by ileft oyittg ntbiu, were tt.iir.felret dc!tio/«d. Being inceirantly in ac tiiin, in ll»- tien.O battle, and in the mcdl vio-Isnt.utent? s, they wore out like 1 weapon kept coulla.itlv in uft- As they were toe people ut the work) U iso bell .knew hov to adtpt tlxir laws D tUeir |iro;ilt;ls. an ex imin.ition of tvh.it they did to. recruit tleir numberscannot be n rsitterot indinereme. n . ....The ancient L»wo of Rome Laboured greatly to excite tin Citizens to tu.niagc. ThcSennte .nil the people made frequent regulations on tint fubjtj and, independently; ot the Laws, the Cer.tbrs had a pirticuhr eye upon mat riages, sod, according to tbe exigencies of the Republic, psomoted them by the fear of Ihmnr antSby putiiftiracnts. When atcruprion of manners. W-n*n 10 glilt ground, tUcCitisens coneeircd.': di Tull to iniirn.’ge, oKcb )v.is painful to fiach n hadnq'tfillclot it)notvritoleafutes. • It*it were• poffitilc for us [bid MeteHus Nuinidicus to the• prople, wl«n he vjs Cenloc) to lt;Io without ' wires, we llton'd calc our*fl.C! os' the trouble 01 ‘ them 1 But zs Nature has ordained that wccln-■ pot jive happy. vitb tlfm, nor fufift without ' tii fitl, we ought to hats itiOic.-c-aid to our o»n 1 jnclvr»t)ot', than to trtnficnt grattf.ritiorii.”Co.rpptian of inannff tdcftroiifd that Cen-fortip. rtjiich ivji rdabliflicd todcftiovlt;orr,i|i-lion of ntaotimi loft hi? Corruption becoming F»a»!, the Cenftfr- JaR his power. Civil idif* cot ili, tiiMntiralcji and profcrintions. hid Weaken t) Rome mine than 3t»y Miheliad btfn engaged in. They left but few CStiseiw, and theKcitcll pan of thefeuaintrritd. To tcroedv is evil, Czfar and Atigitftna re eftab ifotd the Ctiilorniip^iidpsuWevenbeCenforstheoiftlvfi. Crfar 1 ew*i del't hole whoh-ul many children. All uomea undtr *5 yeirs of age, who h**l l«tlt; tbfr hulW.d nor children. were forbid to near jrircls, or to ride in lit'cra: An fteclknt me. thod, ttius to empJtly Van ty again; Celibacy. The Law* of Auguflfs were more prelhngi be impoled new penalties on the mui arried, and iacrenfed the t ea ai ds of tliofe wbowcre married, cad oft hole who had children 1 But this Law 1—-it with innumerable cbltacks; and po years ■•ter it wis raid;, the Roman Knights infilled on its being aboTilhed. He placed on one fide thofr who were married. ar.d ctt the other thole who wwe not. Thwfc Itsll appeared by s.tr the gi'iieft number. The Citizen! wcle iSoijilhcd and cor. founded. AUgultu:, with the gravity of ananticnt Cenfor,iddietfcd them in this manner. ' Wbile fo many Citizens are cut olfby fickne6 ' nod war, wlut moil become of the city, if ' marritges ore ixt langercontroScdr The city• iloth not coulill ofhoufes. otpcr-tiroi, of public ' fqusres 1 Men alone couilitotta dry. Wo do 1 r.at tee ineti like thofe mentioned in fable, u-• ling out oftiic earth to take sire of your affairs.■ Your celibacy is not owing to adefre.if lisitiz 1 alone; every one of you hath bath table and• bed companion 1- You only fcck to enjoy'your 1 irregularities in price. Co yen cite rive example• of the Vetlrd Virgins I If youobftrvc not the• laws k4 chadiiy, you ought to he p.nidiedlikc• them. You are equally owl Citizens, whether ' your cxantpte bitn an inflocncc on the reft of• the world, or whether it lie disregarded. My• only view is the perpttcity of the Republich.• I have increstfed the penalties of ehofc who ' have difobcycd j and with rcfpefi to iiwardi,• tiiey atp fucb, as I do no: know whether vir-r 7.' f'K ever received greater Atboj^and men’• will expofe tile nfe!: tar left; and yet will not• ihs e -ngage you to tale a wile, and proride• tar children • ‘iie mad; a Law. which was called after his n.ime Julia, and Pr? i Poppe.i from the nami ol the ConfoUfos part of that year. Tlve great.*gfi and if they hid children by a former vtnrer, «s m-ny rich, as they had ehil lrsn.It ; hu.hind aWcnt id hinalell from hi. wife, on any other cnuf- th»n the aTairs ot' the Republic, he csod n«t inherit.The In* I'lvc to a Ijrvivin; h 'fb'n t or wife ••o yrats to ntirry .gain . an I j ysjr and anIttis ot the ev I apnearcd eveu in tlicu hero, half m cafe of a divmxe. Tlve lithers whoelidle.l Por JH011 td! u, that they were nos tnar icd, and that the.' h id no chi.urn.Tlsn Law ot Augu tuss ispioptilr a Code of Laws, and a Sy:imut~ Body of all t.«e Re-finlations that could be tnade on this fubjicl The Julian lawjwctc incorporated into it, -nd received a greater firengch. It was fo extensive In It* ufc,«nd hadanjnftiseuceonfo many thingt, th.it it toemed the tineft part of the iivi! hi of the Romms. We find pStts of it difperttd its the valusrilc-f.aginentso* Ulpiani id thcUwsol the Digeft, cojlectedfrom Autborswisa wrot e on the P.tpian bsrt; in tb* HiSoriais and othcn who have cited them 1 in tiie Thcclalian Code winch oboiiid them ■, in the works of tlio Fa-thert who have ceufured Poem, uiihont dotibe from a laudable zeal for the things cf the other tife, but with . very little knowledge ot' the affairs of this.Tlufe Laws lid rianv heads, of which .we know thirry-fice. I (lialf begin with that head which Auhis Gellitn informs us was the ftver.th. and which reUtetto tbe bonoun aud Awards granted by that Law.- Tbe Romans who, for the tuoft part, fpning from the cities of the Latines, which were La-cedsn00fan to.or ici, and who had receiv'd a port of their Law. from thofe very citiea, had, iike tbe Lactdzmbnians, Inch a venrrztion for old age, a. to rive it all honour ttt»l precedency.When the Homan Republic wanted Citizens, they griated to marrisgi, and to a number ol children, the preregstives which had been given to age. They granted fomc to mirriage alone, mdcrcndcntlyotthechildrenwhichmightfpring froia it i This was called the right of hufoandt-Tltey 0*1 othK! to thofe who bid any children, and laiget ftill to thofe who had three children. Thefe throe thing! muft ncc be confounded. Tltcfe lift had thofe privilege! which married men onftantly enjoyed t as ior example,a car-ticohr pbcu In the Theitre, they had rhofe whkh could only he enjoyed by men who bad children, and whicb noise Could deprive them of but thofe who Itnd a greaser number.Thefo privilercs were very esitendve. The married men who had the tnoft children were alwiyi preferred whether in the purliiit cr in the exercife of honours. Tlie Confttl who had the molt numcrcrJl Ollipi In-. wa» the tutl nho roteived the fafses, he luu his clioice of the provinces. Tbe Senator who had mofi children had hi. name wrote fitft in the crnloguf of Senators, and was the fill! its giving Iris opinion in the Senate; They might eren Hand fooner than ordinary for an office, bccaufe every child gave a difpenlation of a year. It an in habitant cf Rome had three children, he »u exempted from all troublefwue offices. The free-born woeictt who had three children, and the tired wncnar. who had four, pnfted out of that |wr-pctml tutelage, in which they were brkl by tlse ancient laws of Rome.As they loci rewards, fo they had alfis pena!-ticr. Tlnife wliO nere not marred coa«*J 'tctivc no advantage from the will ol unv perfon that was not » near relation; and thole who being married bid no children,could frcrivecnly half. The R.wnaiw, fava Plutarch, marry co tt hein and not to tUve them.The advantage) which a tnin and his wife might receive by will, were lin .ted by law. if they had children ol each other, they might receive the whole; if nor- they COmIJ receive only a tenth pirt of a fucceflion cn account of mar-would not fulfer thcl. cbiHren to tra tv, or i«-luied to give tftrirdjogl.il. a p-iviou, wcse contp.-lltd by the Migltrjm -odo it.fcilons were ttcc allow'd In betroth, when’ the marriage was to he deferred for more than two mrs 1 and m one cooll rot many a c 1 |IH the »aa twelve year, old, he could not be betrothed to her till rtic was ten. Tlve fi.y would not fufier them to trilie to no purpofe k utd, under a pretence of being betrothed, to Ipart with the privile-ra of marrird men.It was c Miliary to Ian, for a man of fixfy to marry a woman of fifty. A* tltey had given rre.it oririlcgci to rjarried men. the law i*okl nre fuftrr them tocntir into nfelefs marriage,, tor the dime reaforf. the OlviGm dwrw ol' tbe Senate declared tl»' marriage of a weman above fitty, with a man let*, tlnn fixty, to be Unequal: So that a nomnn of fifty yens could not mirr/ without incurring the pfnalrit! of thefe !a»r. Tibemn added to tbe rigour of the Pipian law,' wd prohibited men ol fixty from mam in-nlt;onveq under fifty; fo that a man of fixty could, not marry in iny cafe whitfoerer, without In-curving the Mnalty. But Clandint abrogated this law made under Tiberios. Thefe rcgula. tiont were mote conformable to tbe climate of Italy than to that of the JConh, where a man of fixty vein of *c has ftifl a coaliderable degree of ‘ are nat,ft Urenrth 1 and where women of fifty : .ilwayi pift child-bearing.JuG futfyhJ, f T*0»I»| Jtvrztrt, Oicc-^hev Mff» R» Hirtitji thfrttu Wjle. of Chirini-CrtA.A Wv» if Luv-bairt, » the UuW of Cj^i Bi-!OV fr~.... T-.t r-« 1 S-rsey die »y R. Giilltv,.■*•*lt;. Cel. of th* T.iln cf An Jlery U 1745, -Ota hit Oey »” prlf'tire by the Cnililh. Piiee j t.s. A New Mi? of No*a Soiru, an! Cifw Bretnn, with the-as]ue v. Pert! of Now Jijbte iM CimSa,' Oie^ofol frraiavreit Number of oeensteSurveyi. it. Piiee »s. fif.5. An FnO C*eet of the FJur St. I itirmer, ftem F«t Fronte, to iSe IEu.1 if Artdfli, oteh Vi«ci f Che LvrUt. ic. ani jIJ -roCirr IMNnkuu foe h's-lp:in| Ik! Ri.ee toQabee. Priee 5..4- A M»» of NeothAmerieo, cosciinlnp tho Baglifii,' Fre«lt;h, .-fdSjinilh St*l-»r.ti, ImjroroJ with 'be ff.v Fcft1 rreslfi rofief'oj tht Cokoiri from rbe In-te-iehmrni- ed lhe French, eer re hfmtdif trierMtf. Petit if. ......S M by 7. 7./-vi .t Ur’if Crtf., Mr. In, Sr. Pi.-i'i Ch-.tdt-ji'S, Vleff. flrfrwoV jM ftrht ts C/.i'.v, Mr. T'nvy ml Mr. Sever 10 Ffrtt frmh mlHr. K-tirr rn fret.Dr. J' A Mt 6 ’$-i‘ 0IV D Eli,'. Foe FEPERS, tuvd other hJUnmaury iritr,,Poblilbrtt by virtue rf I”. Mrjv^.'sRofst LetteeiPilrni,Wt L t. rrmeie (a* hs. Son eipetiexcM in'mot ife uiMJofc,; Say ecntincal acute Fever :«» t.v hoers, tbs’ aiwnfiefiwt'hoamuUlnra,li|iAdieifiei. r.l the w rlt frenyr ettt; t.t if liken in the be-.ofifever, lt;-* fiMe ii (atenlly leifielroi 1'P1Offi,innii[ e fcrm 9If ahkvwlfo ■ nt'fteleAinl mtti fit Internal *Aj*Rremr.t. uumfin, a.ureehrumitr'irr*'« the lowxcfs of W'lUo —nf e-Zto mceoJIngitoot fl-w mi latent filt;er» -h th leotrally nH--tik-n fir vjerurs mt) hyfieiie t iti • fe*b fide ee-■ttrkiHy fioi rhejr-trrf.c' *«. ti, aMtenurly •eat! Ike ill (tmfrqterxci irlfi'f rctct tfist veryt^:. w,« lt;i»r*r. Ch.- ©im nfalts.tfl alU (t « «n,Thefe !-ins tec l-M tnl, by J, N,«bery. th* 8 blt; Ji.l Sm 111 St. ITul’i lt;h.irh»cfi, oi-r i.-iltfi Nonh Ik^ iefittielhu.ili.il ii'Sdlbv tarafi fe., «|-B |isfi illowmee 10 tlufo who buy tfieZafvrehui-•'b'lt;e ut 1, or to fell r jiio.
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