last,

Thus, that the flowering Myrtle Tree may [Blast; In Winter's Storms you shield it from the But when the raging Tempests die away, You give it freely to the Breath of May!

What awful Scenes are passing every

hour,

To shew the Gossamer of Rank and Power!
The PRINCE who, once, so ably fill'd that
Chair,
[there *;
Fram'd in a Mould to look for length of
And who, this Day, had promised to be
Days,
[Praise !

Sunk in the Grave-our Sorrow! and our
Then, ere his Ashes to the Urn were given,
His SIRE resign'd an Earthly Crown for
Heaven!

ther's Eyes,

When WINDSOR's Towers attract a Fa[VIRTUOUS lies!' He'll say, 'My Son, there GEORGE THE Then with a Parent's anxious wish to impart

A Moral Lesson, that may touch the Heart, To the THIRD GEORGE's Reign he'll turn the Page, [an Age,

And add-read there-for more than half It stands recorded by the Historian's Pen, Our OLDEST MONARCH was the best of

Men!

Ever Benevolent, Humane, and Just,
True to his GOD! and faithful to his Trust;
With all the firmness of an upright Mind,
He liv'd the honour'd TITUS of Mankind!
The more than TITUS-for the World say,
In doing good He never lost a Day!
Amid the Conflict of full Twenty years,
When Lawless Rapine fill'd the World
with tears,

Our SOVEREIGN stood, with firm undaunted
Breast,
[prest!
The Anchor, Hope, and Refuge of th' Op-
And while a TYRANT warr'd the Globe to
enslave,
[save!

Our MONARCH's Heroes conquer'd but to
NELSON, and WELLINGTON, by Flood, and
Field,
[yield;

Compell'd the DESPOT, in his Pride, to
And EUROPE to the REGENT's firmness owes,
That glorious Day which dawn'd upon her

And ever honour'd be the sacred Dust

Pure as the blossoms on yon thorn,
Spotless as her for whom we mourn!
Of all the flow'rs that greet the Spring-
Of all the flow'rs the seasons bring,
To me, while doom'd to linger here,
The lowly Primrose shall be dear!

A CONTEMPLATION.

THE JUST!

TO THE PRIMROSE.
By JOHN MAYNE.

BY murm'ring Nith, my native stream, I've hail'd thee with the morning beam,

Woo'd thee among the Falls of Clyde-
On Leven's banks-on Kelvin-side!
And now, on Hanwell's flow'ry plain,
I welcome thy return again-
At Hanwell, where romantic views,
And sylvan scenes, invite the Muse;
And where, lest erring Man should stray,
Truth's blameless Teacher leads the way!
Lorn tenant of the peaceful glade,
Emblem of Virtue in the shade,
Rearing thy head to brave the storm
That wou'd thine innocence deform!
Of all the flow'rs that greet the Spring-
Of all the flow'rs the seasons bring,
To me, while doom'd to linger here,
The lowly Primrose shall be dear!
Sprung, like a Primrose, in the wild,
Short, like the Primrose, MARION Smil'd;
The Spring that gave her blossoms birth,
Tore them for ever from the earth;
Nor left, ah me! one bud behind
To tranquillize a Parent's mind,

Save that sweet bud which strews the way,
Blest HOPE, to an eternal May!
Lorn tenant of the peaceful glade,
Emblem of Virtue in the shade!

Calm and undisturbed repose;
There no cloud can intervene,
There no angry tempest blows!
Every tear is wip'd away,

Sighs no more shall swell the breast;
Night is lost in endless day,
Sorrow, in eternal rest!

The heart in truth and honour bold,

Like yon gay bark o'er billows steering, Thro' rough and smooth, thro' beat and cold,

Holds one fair course-still persevering. The world may frown-the world may smile,

May hate a true friend, or caress him→ But one sweet thought can care beguile That HE who knows him best, will bless him.

Lifford, April 25, 1820.

TRANSLATIONS FROM HORACE.
By HENRY RIDER.
(Continued from pp. 351.)
ODB XVI.

TO GROSPHUS,

That all desire tranquillity of minde, but few obtaine it

THE seaman prayeth to the gods for

ease,

Being tost upon the vast Ægean seas, When a blacke cloud has hid the moone,

and stars

Appeare uncertaine to the mariners;
Furious Thrace for rest from war doth sue;
The Medes, adorned with their quivers too,
Doe beg for ease, ô Grosphus, that is sold
Neither for gemmes, nor purple robes, nor
gold.

For neither can the magazines of store,
Nor Consul's officer thrust out of dore
The consciences afflictive terrifying, [ing.
And cares about the fretted chambers fly-
He with a little does contented dine,
On whose small board his father's salt
doth shine,

Neither despaire, nor sordid coveting
His gentle slumbers ere from him shall
wring.
[plot
Why doe we proud soules in our span-age
A many things? why unto lands made hot
With different sunnes run we? who being
banish'd

From his own soile hath from his own selfe vanish'd?

Vicious care the brasse-keel'd ships doth [faile,

scale,

Neither from troupes of horsemen doth it More nimble than the Roes, and far more swift [adrift.

Than the East wind that sets the clouds The mind that for the present time is light, To care what shall follow, let it slight,

The mare fit for the teeme doth raise her cry.

Garments twice dipt in Africke scarlet die Cloath thee: my never-failing fate did daigne [veine To me some small pounds, and a slender Of Grecian poesie, and with it beside The still-malicious vulgar to deride.

BOOKE III. ODE XXI.

mee,

The Praises of Wine.

O SACRED tun that was bred up with [thee, When Manlius Consul was, whether in Thou bearest griefs, or jests, or quarrelling,

Or raging loves, or gentle slumbering ; By what so e'er name mark'd thou clasp'st about

[out Thy Massick wine, worthy to be brought On the good day; when Corvine shall enjoyne,

Descend and yield us forth your gentle wine. [bee,'

Though in Socratick precepts drencht he
Yet will be not severely scorne at thee.
Even ancient Calo's gravitie is fam'd,
Many a time with wine to have been
flam'd.

Thou dost an easie torturing procure
To dispositions usually obdure,

With merry wine; the studies of the wise
Thou dost disclose, and profound secrecies.
In desp❜rate minds a hope thou dost renew,
And giv'st the poor man strength and cou-
rage too,

That, after thee once tasted, neither feares King's angrie looks, nor yet the souldier's speares.

Bacchus, and Venus, if shee'll merry bee, And Graces loath to break their unitie, And burning lights so long with thee shall stay,

Till Phabus rising chase the stars away.

tart:

There's nothing prosperous in every part.
A sudden death did brave Achilles slay,
Ling'ring age pin'd Tithmus quite away;
And time perhaps may unto me betide
The thing which it hath unto thee denide.
An hundred flocks and kine of Sicilie
Doe round about thee bellow; unto thee

GENT. MAG. May, 1820.

THEOCRIT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, April 27.

At ten minutes before two o'clock this day, his Majesty arrived in state at the House of Lords, and immediately afterwards took his seat on the Throne. The Imperial Crown of the Realm was not carried; and the Principality of Wales having now merged in the Crown, that distinct symbol of Royalty no longer has place. His Majesty wore his large military hat, with the lofty plume.

The Usher of the Black Rod was then

sent to command the attendance of the House of Commons in the House of Peers.

The Speaker instantly obeyed the summons, and presented himself at the bar, attended by about 100 members.

At two o'clock precisely the King commenced the following Speech:

My Lords, and Gentlemen,

"I have taken the earliest occasion of assembling you here, after having recurred to the sense of my people. In meeting you personally for the first time since the death of my beloved Father, I am anxious to assure you, that I shall always continue to imitate his great example in unceasing attention to the public interests, and in paternal solicitude for the welfare and happiness of all classes of my subjects.

I have received from Foreign Powers renewed assurances of their friendly disposition, and of their earnest desire to cultivate with me the relations of peace and amity.

"Gentlemen of the House of Commons, "The Estimates of the present year will be laid before you. They have been framed upon principles of strict economy; but it is to me matter of the deepest regret that the state of the country has not allowed me to dispense with those additions to our military force which I announced at the commencement of the last Session of Parliament. The first object to which your attention will be directed is the provision to be made for the support of the Civil Government, and of the honour and dignity of the Crown. I leave entirely at your disposal my interest in the Hereditary Revenues; and I cannot deny myself the gratification of declaring, that so far from desiring any arrangement which might lead to the im⚫ position of new burthens upon my people, or even might diminish, on my account, the amount of the reductions incident to

my accession to the Throne, I can have no wish, under circumstances like the present, that any addition whatever should be made to the Settlement adopted by Parliament in the year 1816.

"My Lords, and Gentlemen,

"Deeply as I regret that the machinations and designs of the disaffected should have led, in some parts of the country, to acts of open violence and insurrection, I cannot but express my satisfaction at the promptitude with which those attempts have been suppressed by the vigilance and activity of the magistrates, and by the zealous co-operation of all those of my subjects whose exertions have been called forth to support the authority of the laws. The wisdom and firmness manifested by the late Parliament, and the due execution of the laws, have greatly contributed to restore confidence throughout the Kingdom; and to discountenance those principles of sedition aud irreligion which had been disseminated with such malignant perseverance, and had poison. ed the minds of the ignorant and unwary. I rely upon the continued support of Parliament in my determination to maintain, by all the means entrusted to my hands, the public safety and tranquillity. De

ploring, as we all must, the distress which still unhappily prevails among many of the labouring classes of the community, and anxiously looking forward to its removal or mitigation, it is in the mean time our common duty, effectually to protect the loyal, the peaceable, and the industrious, against those practices of turbulence and intimidation by which the period of relief can only be deferred, and by which the pressure of the distress has been incalculably aggravated. I trust that an awakened sense of the dangers which they have incurred, and of the arts which have been employed to seduce them, will bring back by far the greater part of those who have been unhappily led astray, and will revive in them that spirit of loy alty, that due submission to the laws, and that attachment to the constitution, which subsist unabated in the hearts of the great body of the people, and which, under the blessing of Divine Providence, have secured to the British nation the enjoyment of a larger share of practical freedom, as well as of prosperity and happiness, than have fallen to the lot of any nation in the world."

The

The Speech occupied seven minutes in the delivery. The Commons then returned to their House, and his Majesty descended from the Throne, and shortly after their Lordships adjourned till five o'clock. The Address to his Majesty was subsequently moved in the House of Peers by Viscount Granville, and seconded by Lord Howard of Effingham. It was agreed to unanimously.

In the House of Commons, the Address to the Throne was moved by Sir Edward Knatchbull, and seconded by Mr. Wilmot, and agreed to without a dissenting voice.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 28.

The Report of the Address was brought up by Sir E. Knatchbull, and unanimously agreed to.

Before the question was put, however, Lord A. Hamilton addressed a few words to the House, respecting the late disturbances in Scotland; which produced an interesting statement from the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the subject of emigration, which the Noble Lord recommended as the most effectual remedy for the distresses of the manufacturing population. The Right Hon. Gent. observed, that 50,000l. which was voted last year for the purpose of promoting voluntary emigration, had been considerably exceeded; and that the number of those who had availed themselves of this assist ance, in order to proceed to the new Colony at the Cape of Good Hope, amounted to upwards of 5,000 persons. last accounts were received from them, they had performed part of their voyage in good health, and had the prospect of terminating it prosperously. Government, he added, was fully disposed to extend every necessary aid to those who might wish to emigrate, but they could not venture to do so without mature consideration.

April 29.

When the

Lord George Beresford informed the House, that he had it in command from his Majesty to apprise them, that the King would be graciously pleased to receive their Address in Carlton Palace, at four o'clock this day. At which hour the Speaker proceeded in state to Carltonpalace, accompanied by the Members.

of a new reign, an Address was agreed to in reply to his Majesty's answer.

May 2.

On the motion of Mr. M. A. Taylor, a Select Committee was appointed to inquire how far it is practicable to compel persons using steam-engines with furnaces to erect them in a manner less prejudicial to public health and public comfort.

The same Member also obtained leave to bring in a Bill to punish, with fine and imprisonment, the offence of furiously driving stage-coaches, to the imminent danger of life and limb.

Mr. Alderman Wood said, he had been applied to by seven individuals for a warrant to apprehend a person named George Edwards. Four of the parties deposed to some material facts, affecting the safety of that House; but others were of too horrible a description for him to repeat. They involved a plot, not merely to effect the destruction of that House, and the Hon. Members within it, but of one of the highest personages in this kingdom, and of his Majesty's Ministers also. (Hear, hear.) At present, he should only move, that George Edwards be brought to the bar for a breach of the privileges of that House.

Mr. Hume seconded the motion.

Mr. Brougham regretted that there appeared to be a disposition to treat the subject with levity. Spies, like executioners, were odious, but their services were, in some cases, necessary; only care should be taken that, whilst employed to give information, they did not become the active instigators of crime.

Mr. Canning denied that there had been any intention to treat this subject with levity. The contrary had been the fact; the only objection to the motion had been its form; and all he now rose to submit to the consideration of the House was, that as this discussion, in its present shape, could not be proceeded in with advantage, it should at present proceed no further. Motion withdrawn..

The House having gone into a Committee on so much of his Majesty's Speech as relates to the Civil List, Mr. Vansillart moved three resolutions, the 1st, granting to his Majesty, towards defraying the expences of the Civil List, 850,000/. for Great Britain; the 2d, granting 270,0001. for England; and the 3d, for carrying the proceeds of the hereditary revenues to the consolidated fund.

The resolutions were, after some observations from Sir H. Parnell, Col. Davies, Mr. Tierney, and others, agreed to, upon an understanding, that the discussion thereon should take place on the Report.

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