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A Lyon-port, an awe-commanding face,
Attemper'd sweet to virgin-grace.

What strings symphonious tremble in the air!
What strains of vocal transport round thee play!
Hear, from the grave, great Taliessin, hear,
They breathe a soul, to animate thy clay.

Bright Rapture calls, and soaring, as she sings,

Waves in the eye of Heaven, her many-coloured wings.
Now, Brothers, bending o'er th' accursed loom,
Stamp we our vengeance deep, and ratify his doom.

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have since turned over Monsignor Baiardi's bool where I have learned how many grains of mode wheat the Roman Congius, in the Capitol, holds, a how many thousandth parts of an inch the Gre foot consisted of more or less (for I forget whic than our own. He proves also by many affectin examples, that an Antiquary may be mistaken That for any thing any body knows, this plac under ground might be some other place, and no Herculaneum; but nevertheless, that he can shew for certain that it was this place and no other place that it is hard to say which of the several Herculeses was the founder; therefore (in the third volume) he promises to give us the memoirs of them all; and after that, if we do not know what to think of the matter, he will tell us. There is a great deal of wit too, and satire, and verses, in the book, which is intended chiefly for the information of the French King, who will be greatly edified without doubt.

I am much obliged to you also for Voltaire's performance; it is very unequal, as he is apt to be in

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I may be ill again in town, which I would n chuse to be in a dirty inconvenient lodging, wher perhaps my Nurse might stifle me with a pillow and therefore it is no wonder if I prefer your house But I tell you of this in time, that if either of you are frighted at the thought of a sick body, you may make a handsome excuse, and save yourselve this trouble. You are not to imagine my illness is in Esse; no, it is only in Posse, otherwise 1 should myself be scrupulous of bringing it home to you. I shall be in town in about a fortnight. You will be sorry (as I am) at the destruction of poor Stonehewer's views which promised so fair; but both he and I have known it this long time; so, I believe, he was prepared, and his old Patron is no bad resource. I am told, it is the fashion to be totally silent with regard to the ministry. Nothing is to be talked of, or even suspected, till the Parliament meets; in the mean time the new Manager has taken what appears to me a very odd step. If you do not hear of a thing, which is in its nature no secret, I cannot well inform you by the Post, to me it is utterly unaccountable.

This alludes to the dismissal of Pitt, then paymaster of the forces, and the Right Honorable Henry Legge, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the question, of engaging this nation in a continental connexion for the defence of Hanover. See Smollett's History of England, vol. iii. p. 436. An interesting account of the debate on this subject, (in which single-speech Hamilton spoke for the first time), may be seen in Walpole's Letters. Vol. v. p. 41.-Ed.

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