And a View of a beautiful natural CASCADE, in the late Earl of Burlington's LONDON: Printed for R. BALDWIN, at No. 47, in Pater-nofter Row; Stock India Stock Stock Ann. 28 102 1 274 103 1 Ano, 86 급 reduced PRICES of STOCKS, &t. in MARCH, 1769. 3 per C.13 pe C3 per C. 4 per C. 14 per. C 4 per C In Bund. Long. Lottery Wind 88 1 88 97 38 0 26 at Deal W. S. W Weathe London fine 1 2 4 83 89 83 921 101 38 0 2 W. N.W rain 2 2.4 슬 Saut 89 88 101 39 0 S. W fine 163 881 89 $ 88 92 101 163 27. 87 Sunday W. fair W. fair 40 0 2.7 470 27 77 971 92 101 101 38 0 27/ N. N. E. froft Sunday E. rain E. ain 27 S. S. E. rain 27 S. W. fair 27 S. W. rain 1031 88 837 88 92 ΟΙ 37 O S. W fine 37 0 י 2 S. W. fine 23 16: 164 2:44 275 241 164 2744 275 68666 88 92 101 37 0 25 164 25 86 급 89 88 101 37 O 26 222222 66666 26 중 26 Sunday N. N. W rain 27 N. W fair 28 N. E. fair 29 N. E. fine CHARLES CORBETT, at No. 30, facing St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-Street, STOCK-BROKER, who buys and fells in the Stocks by Commiflion, and tranfacts the Lottery Bufiness as ufual. Farnham. Reading Bafingfokr. Monmouth. 328 to 44 qu55c6d bufhel 5s 6d burg g 5s bush. 1ogal Hay per load 275. to 10538 od to 33 3d os od to 48 od 48 2d to 48 4d Straw from 148. to 198.35 4d to 35 6d 28 6d to os od 25 4dtoaso:d Coals 445, per cha. 198 to 22 0 128 to 16 o Henley Cambrige. York. Gloucefter. Hereford. London. THE LONDON MAGAZINE, A T For MARCH, 1769. THE BRITISH THEATRE. HE only new performance of the prefent month is ORESTES, which appeared on Monday the 13th at Covent Garden theatre, and was performed for the benefit of Mrs. Yates.This tragedy is a tranflation from Voltaire, by the ingenious Mr. Francklin, who has obliged the world with an English verfion of Sophocles, the Earl of Warwick, and feveral other productions which have been warmly diftinguished by the public approbation. The PERSONS are, Pammenes Iphifa Clytemnestra Electra THE FABLE. THIS fable is a well known claffical one.Clytemneftra, who during her husband Agamemnon's abfence at the fiege of Troy, had lived in the most infamous intimacy with gifthus, upon his return from the fack of that celebrated city, contrived not only to murder him by the affiftance of her gallant, but to poflefs herself alfo of the throne, which the shared with the bloody partner of her crimes, notwithstanding Oreftes, Iphifa, and Electra, the children of Agamemnon, were living, and had each a preferable title to the fovereign authority.Oreftes was in his infancy when his father fell a facrifice to this unexampled combination of cruelty and luft. But notwithstanding the tenderness of his age gifthus was much more apprehenfive on his account, than on eisher of his fifters; though Electra in March, 1769. particular, was many years older, and difcovered, through all the weakneis of her fex, the utmost refentment of Agamemnon's fall. The tyrant therefore, to remove his worlt fears, made an attempt upon the life of the young prince; however, through the induf try of Electra, and the fidelity of Pammenes, an old follower of Agamemnon's houfe, Oreftes was conveyed out of his reach into a remote part of Greece, where he was privately educated. The play opens on an annual feftival, which gifthus had inftituted to commemorate his marriage with Clytemnestra; and in the first act we are made acquainted with the foregoing circumftances, by Electra in her converfations with Iphita and Pammenes. We are moreover informed, that Oreftes, if living (a circumstance much to be doubted as no intelligence has been received of him for many years) mult now have reached the age of manhood, and an oracle having foretold that he fhould revenge his father's murder, Electra, who loves him with an uncommon affection, is doubly distracted with her fears of his death. While the is thus agitated with an excess of fenfibility, two youths are fhipwrecked on the coaft of Argos, (the fcene of the performance) who, being friendless and strangers, apply to Panimenes for protection, which the good old man readily grants, and has the unspeaka able happiness in a little time to difcover, that his humanity has been exercited to Oreftes and Pylades his infepa. rable friend. Oreftes being bound by a folemn oath to keep himself conceale ed from his family for fome time, he does not fly to Electra; but Iphifa fees him, and from the striking resemblance which he bore to Agamemnon, from Ꮲ the |