Page images
PDF
EPUB

rå L——'s Answer to Mrs N's Question,

"What is Grace?"

The MACARONI: An epigram.

Hile round her lips the Loves and Graces AS Venus laft day took her round through

Why am I graceful" fweet ASPASTA faid; And what is Grace, whofe fecret fpell can bind

armonious magic o'er the raptur'd mind?
There does the denizen of air refide,
nd to what beauties is her power applied?
That, what attraction to a woman brings
This Sylph, this Fairy with enamell'd wings?"
This STREPHON anfwer'd:-" Grace, O
beauteous dame,

That Child of Heaven illumes your lovely frame;
Tin your cheeks, whofe blended tints unite
The two contending rofes Red and White!
Ts in your lips with vermeil perfume preft;
hanges lovely o'er your faowy breaft:
Tis Grace that breathing sweetly in each figh,
peaks in your voice, and lightens in your eye.
Ts all in all; it circles you around;
La every look, in every word 'tis found!
- tho, by Nature exquifitely plann'd,
Who came perfection from her labouring hand,
Deem nought amifs of him, whofe artlefs Mufe
Thefe her beft gifts not undelighted views,
Bet on his tunelefs reed and fimple toil
Propitious look, and trust him with a smile!
So fhall his lawns, tho' parch'd by Summer's
beat,

Revive when trodden by ASPASIA's feet;
Se hall his flowrets with fresh fragrance blow,
Halilies whiten, and his roses glow;
And once again his ruftic fong shall tell
What Grace, what Beauties in ASPASIA dwell!"

Vers by Henry Fox, Efq; afterwards Lord Hol
land, to a lady, with an Artificial Rofe.
Air copy of the fairest flower,
Thy colours equal Nature's power;
Thou haft the Rofe's blushing hue,
Art full as pleafing to the view:
Go then to Chloe's lovely breast,
Whole sweetness can give all the reft.
But if at first thy artful make
Her hafty judgement should misflake,
And the grow peevish at the cheat,
Urge 'twas an innocent deceit ;
And fafely too thou mayst aver,
The first I ever us'd to her.

Then bid her mark, that as, to view,
The Rofe has nothing more than you;
That fo, if to the eye alone

Her wondrous beauty the make known;
That if the never will dispense
A trial to fome fweeter fenfe,
Nature no longer we prefer,
Her active picture equals her.
Then whifper gently in her ear,
Say, foftly, if the blushing fair
Should to fuch good advice incline,
How much I will that trial mine.

the town,

She found Chloe weeping, and moping alone; Surpris'd at the change, in a humour fo gay, She afk'd her the caufe, and found Pug was away.

Straight Cupid was fummon'd" Is this then your care?

Is it thus (cry'd the goddess) you wait on the fair?

Go find out the monkey: no grumbling, but go."

The god ran away, and return with a beau. "Was there e'er fuch a blund're Why, firrah, I fwear

(And with that the bestow'd a smat box on his car) The poor

You'd provoke e'en a faint!"urchin rejoin'd,

"Don't you know, dear mamma, that your Cupid is blind?

Befides, this odd thing had an Argus betray'd, It fo frolic'd, and flutter'd, and caper'd, and play'd;

So like it at once both in tricks and in shape, What else could I do but fuppofe it an ape?"

WINTER's AMUSEMENT.

The late BATH-EASTON PRIZE-ODE. By Mr ANSTY, author of the Bath Guide, &c. E beauteous nymphs and jovial fwains, Who, deck'd with youthful bloom, In gay affemblage meet to grace Philander's cheerful dome,

YE

Mark how the wintry clouds hang o'er

Yon frowning mountain's brow;
Mark how the rude winds warp the stream,
And rock the leafless bough.

The painted meads, and flow'ry lawns,
Their wonted pride give o'er;
The feather'd flocks in filence mourn;
Their notes are heard no more.

Save where beneath the lonely shed,

Or defolated thorn,

The red-breaft heaves his ruffled plumes,
And tunes his pipe forlorn.

Yet fhall the fun's reviving ray
Recal the genial spring;

The painted meads refume their pride;
The feather'd flocks fhall fing.
But not to you fhall e'er return

The pride of gaudy years;
When pining Age with icy band,
His hoary mantle rears.
When once, alas! his churlish blast
Shall your bright spring fubdue,
I know not what reviving fun
Cane'er that fpring renew.
Then feize the glorious golden days
That fill your cup with joy!

Bid every gay and focial scene
Your blissful hours employ.

Oft where the crouded stage invites,
The laughing Mufes join;
Or woo them while they fmile around
Eugenia's laurel'd shrine.

Oft feek the haunts where health and joy
To sportive numbers move;
Or plaintive ftrains breathe foft defire,
And wake the foul to love.

Yet ah! where-e'er you bend your way,
Let fair Difcretion steer:
From Folly's vain delufive charms,
And Palion's wild career.

So when the wintry hours fhall come,
When youth and pleasure fly,
Safe fhall you ward th' impending storm,
And Time's rude blast defy.
Perpetual charms, unfading fpring,
In fweet reflection find;
While innocence and virtue bring
A fun-fhine to the mind!

On a fine Sun felling and Moon-rifing.

SEE! the bright Monarch of the Day

In Ocean dips his beams,
While from his brow a parting ray
In milder glory streams.

The Moon, pale Emprefs of the Night,
In fweet fucceffion reigns;

And finely paints with filver light

The mountains, vales, and plains.

The planets in progreffion rife,

And fine from pole to pole:
Their pleafing dance delights our eyes,
And charms th' attentive foul.

The ftarry arch in grandeur glows

Thro' all its ample round:
Great God! thy power no limit knows,
Thy wisdom knows no bound!

Elegiac Ode on the death of Mr GARRICK.

H for a Mufe of fire!" as Milton fung,
Vor a of fire that fell from funge

fpeare's tongue; For Otway's ftrains, pathetic as they flow, And all the gentler eloquence of Rowe! Not Dryden, great high-prieft of all the Nine, Not Dryden's Mufe fhould blufh to weep with mine:

Beaumont and Fletcher too fhould wail with

me,

And learned Ben affift the obfequy.
Thomson will not deny to Tancred's fhade
The last dear tribute than can now be paid :
And every modern bard, whate'er his name,
Will help to build one monument of fame.
One monument to GARRICK's fame to build,
Is the last boon that gratitude can yield;
And while I fay that Garrick ne'er can die,
Not e'en his own Valet gives me the lie.

When in mad Lear th’infulted king complai The pleas'd fpectator knew not that he feig And when in Richard, guilt appear'd his o We blush'd to think fuch guilt could rea throne.

What Hamlet was, in Garrick's fhape we And Kitely's acting gave the Jealous law. With modern Chalkstone could we fail to la Nor with old Drugger with one pipe to qua Our favourite Ranger ranges now no more, And Lethe's author feeks old Lethe's fhore Yet Lethe's fhore fhall ne'er his fhade reta For fill fond mem'ry brings him back agai GARRICK hall live while mem'ry fills

brain

With ought the feels of pleafure or of pai In fine-fo vaft, fo various were his powe His the immortal gain-the ceafelefs k OURS!

Infcriptions to the DEITY.

By DAVID GARRICK, Efq; MANY inquiries having been made ref ing the religion of Mr Garrick, the follo will be fome ftep towards an investigatio that matter. It contains his fentiments of Deity, and of a futute state, and it is aff was written and fent by him many years a a friend, now highly dignified in the chi and with whom he had had frequent conv tions on the fubject.

Lord of the Universe!

Who from Chaos called forth
Light, Life, and Beauty;
Matter, and Space infinite.
Orb above Orb,

Beyond the reach of vision.
Floating in liquid æther—
(Self-pendent),

And each Orb a WORLD.
The bleft abodes of each departed fou!
Whofe efforts here were imitating thee.

Thy FIAT,

Paffing without exertion, Bids thunders roll, and earthquakes do t work.

[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors]

HISTORICAL AFFAIRS.

TURKY.

By accounts, dated, Pera of Conftantinople, Dec. 3. the plague, which broke out about the beginning of May, and carried off upwards of 100,000 of the people, was entirely ceased.

GERMANY.

On the death of Maximilian Jofeph Elector of Bavaria, which happened on the gth of December 1777, the Emperor Lid claim to, and entered into poffeffion of, Lower Bavaria. The King of Pruffia oppofed the difmemberment of that electorate, as contrary to the laws of the Empire; and the parties proceeded to hoftilities. In the beginning of July the Pruffian troops entered Bohemia. During the fummer there were feveral rencounters, but nothing decifive. Before winter the Pruffian troops retired within

the Pruffian dominions.

Byan ordinance of the Emprefs-Queen, concerning prizes made at fea, and brought into the ports of Flanders, dated, Bruffels, Dec. 16. 1778, it is ordered, that the commanders and crews of all foreign fhips, while in the ports or roads of Flanders, fhall abftain from all force and violence; that they shall not anlade the cargoes of prizes, nor fell them in whole or in part; and that none of her Imperial Majefty's fubjects, or other perfons within her dominions, do purchase, receive, unlade, tranfport, or conceal, any of the effects on board fuch prizes, on pain of incurring a fine of 600 flo

tins.

UNITED PROVINCES. During the last year fome difputes arofe between the States General and the British court, relating to captures made of Dutch fhips which were laden with arms or ammunition, &c. A memorial on this fubject was delivered by the British minifter to the States General on the ad of November, propofing a conference for fettling an amicable regulation [40.639.1; and this was foon followed by a memorial from the Duke de Vau guyon, the French ambassador, viz.

"High and Puiffant Senators, THE opinion which the King my mafter has entertained, that your High Mightineffes, animated with the defire of perpetuating the perfect harmony which fubfifts-between France and the States. VOL. XLI.

General, will in the prefent circumftan ces fcrupulously adhere to the principles of abfolute neutrality, has induced his Majefty to comprehend the United Provinces in the regulation which was made in the month of July last, concerning the commerce and navigation of neutral powers.

His Majefty has ftill lefs reason to doubt the perfeverance of your High Mightineffes in thefe principles, after fo many affurances given in claiming their captures, which are the foundation of guarantee of the folid repofe and profperity of the republic. But his Majesty, notwithstanding, wishes to procure on this head a more certain affurance; and it is with this view that his Majesty has ordered me to demand, of your High Mightineffes a clear and specific explana tion of your ulterior determinations, and fo to ftate them, that his Majesty may be enabled to judge whether they tend to maintain or annul the reciprocal regula tions which his Majefty would wish to confolidate.

The better to explain his Majesty's views and intentions to your High Mightineffes, I have the honour of notifying to you, that the King my mafter flatters himself, that your anfwer to this memorial will preferve to the flag of the United Provinces all the liberty which of right belongs to them as an independent ftate, and to their commerce all the refpect which is due by the law of nations, and the faith of treaties.

The leaft derogation from thofe principles of neutrality you have profefied, will betray a partiality; the confequences of which will incur the neceffity of putting an end to, not only the advantages which his Majefty promises to your flag in cafe of a strict obfervance of neutrality, but also the effential favours and benefits which the commerce of the United Provinces enjoy in all the ports of his kingdom.

This memorial is prefented without any other motive than to fhew the goodwill and affection of his Majesty for your High Might ineffes.

Hague, Dec. 8. 1778."

FRANCE.

[merged small][ocr errors]

mity and commerce with the revolted British colonies, acknowledging their independency, preparations for war were forthwith fet about; and letters of marque and reprisals were iffued by both nations; fo the feas fwarm with war-fhips and priyateers.

"Paris, Jan. 18. Count du Barré has produced in council the actual state of the military, amounting to 180,000 men well difciplined, and 60,000 militia. M. de Sartine has in like manner produced a ftate of the marine of France, confifting of 86 fhips of the line, from 100 down to 64 guns; 34 frigates, of 28 guns up to 44; corvets, &c. with 36,000 feamen. Twelve thousand men have been marched to the coaft of Britany, fix to that of the Mediterranean, and fix to Rochfort."

[merged small][ocr errors][merged small]

. 66

[ocr errors]

81,744 24,800

39,701 $165,685

4,000 14.440

Liverpool, Dec. 11. Liverpool will, in the course of a few weeks, have 59 ftout privateers out, 52 being on cruifes, and 7 more almost ready for sea. We are all alive, having realized upwards of 1,200,000 1. fince this affair broke out with the French."

Befides four formerly [45. 564. 627.] mentioned, three more French Eaft-Indiamen have been taken by British privateers, viz. Les Deux Amis, from China and Pondicherry for Port L'Orient, taken, Dec. 23. off Cape Finifterre, by the Kight privateer of Liverpool, her cargo valued at 150,000l. but unfortunately wrecked about ten days after near Moftyn in Flintshire, a great part of the cargo damaged, and of twenty-four French and twenty four British on board, only ten of the latter and three of the former faved; the Iris, from Mauritius, taken Dec. 21. by the Ironfide of Liverpool, but afterwards drove afhore near Beaumaris, all the people and part of the cargo faved, but the ship gone to pieces; - and the Sartine, with a valuable car. go, taken by the Hercules of Liverpool, and carried into Tercera, one of the A.

zores.

Advice was received at the India-house, Jan. 15. that the Colebrooke Eaft-Indiaman, from London, for Bombay and China, was lost about twenty-five leagues off the Cape of Good Hope; the captain, officers, paffengers, and part of the crew faved, and about twenty of the crew loft.

We formerly [40. 684.] mentioned the failing of the London Eaft-Indiaman with the grand fleet of merchantmen, under convoy of a fleet of war-ships commanded by Lord Shuldham and Com. Rowley. A moft melancholy accident happened to this fhip; of which a letter from an offi cer on board the Ruffel man of war, dated, Spithead, Jan. 1. 1779, gives a dif tinct account, viz. "We failed from hence on the 26th ult. with one of the finest fleets ever feen: but, alas! we met with il luck: On Monday laft, off Berryhead, it blowing a fresh breeze, and under clofe-reefed top-fails, the wind S. W. being near the London Eaft-Indiaman, Capt. Webb, and finding we could not weather, fhe on one tack and we on the other, we bore away, during which the clapped her helm a-weather, and we ran right on board; which ftove in her bow in half an hour the funk, and the greater part of her crew perithed." Seventy people belonging to the London perished, among them a young lady who had been fome years in England for her education, and was returning to her friends at St Helena. Capt. Webb, at the imminent hazard of his life, faved a jewel (a pearl), valued at 15,000l. The Ruffel received fo much damage, that she was obliged to return to Spithead, but afterward joined the fleet.

Lord Shuldham, in the Foudroyant of 80 guns, with the Prince George of 90, the Refolution, Ruffel, Cumberland, Shrewsbury, and Hector, of 74 each, the America, Defiance, and Europa, of 64 each, the Warwick of 50, and the Proferpine of 28, returned to England on the 26th of January, without having been fo fortunate as to make a fingle capture, after having convoyed the fleet, which in whole confifted of near 400 fail, 200 leagues to the weftward; leaving Com. Joshua Rowley, with the Suffolk, Elifabeth, and Magnificent, of 74 guns each, the Stirlingcaille, Vigilant, Yarmouth, and Lion, of 64 each, the Medway of 60, the Janus and Romulus, of 44 each, the Pomona and Refource, of 28 each.

the

the Grampus and Tortoife, of 32 guns each, and the Dromedary of 26, to convoy the fleet of merchantmen to the Weft Indies and North America.

the Dealcaftle of 20, and three storeships, age, lay across the feet of the bed, with her thigh broke, and one arm miffing. In another room was a poor man, fuppofed to have come to his labour in the morning, lying on his back much burnt, with a large wound on the back part of his head, from which much blood had iffued. The fervant-maid, a lufty young woman, was found at the entrance of one of the rooms, a spit half-bent by her fide, with which it is fuppofed fhe had made refiftance: her hair was clotted with blood, and the had several deep wounds in her head. Some money was found in a drawer, which it is thought the villains had miffed. The neighbouring magiftrates were very active in bringing to light the perpetrators of this diabolical act. One Morris, a villain who had formerly been tried for murder, being fufpected, was apprehended; but in his way to gaol fprung fuddenly from his guard, threw himself into a coal-pit, and died without any confeffion. Another villain has fince been apprehended, who has confeffed the fact.

its

A dreadful hurricane was felt in many parts of the kingdom, Dec. 31. particularly on the caft coaft. To enumerate the particulars of the damage done by it, would fill a Magazine. Oxford and London fuffered much by it. At Hunftantine, in Norfolk, it broke down the banks upon the falt-marshes, and the fea made way with irrefiftible fury; the fcene was truly deplorable; trees torn up by the roots; barns, houses, cattle, hayAtacks, all floating indifcriminately on the water; many ships were loft, and the crews perished: but, what is remarkable and providential, the fouthern channel felt none of its fury; fo that the fleet of merchantmen and convoy, which had juft failed from St Helen's, proceeded on their voyage without knowing that such a form had happened.

No less than five fires happened in different places of London on Friday, Jan.1. in Berkeley fquare, Saffron hill, St Giles's, Duck lane, and Whitechapel, and next morning one happened in Nightingale

lane.

A fire broke out also in Greenwich hofpital, Jan. 2. at fix in the morning. Before ten the chapel and the dome on the fouth-eaft quarter, were entirely confumed. About eleven several fire-engines arrived from London, and before night the fire abated. The wards burnt down were the King's, Queen's, Prince of Wales's, Duke of York's, and the An. fan's, befides two or three others confiderably damaged.

"London, Jan. 7. In the courfe of laft week there was a gold coinage in the tower, which confifted chiefly of halfguineas, to the amount of 90,000.

At Narberth, in the county of Pembroke, on Sunday night, Dec. 20. the inhabitants were alarmed with the appearance of fire at a fmall farm-house near the turnpike. As faon as they affembled on Monday morning, and had reached the place, they found the house reduced to afhes, and the family miffing. On examining the ruins, the old farmer was found on a form in a leaning pofture, bat fo much fcorched and burnt, that it was not poffible to determine whether he had been murdered, or perished in the Bames. His niece, about thirty years of

On Sunday, Jan. 31. after divine fervice, Mr Crouch of Norwich, who is but three years and a half old, and has had the honour of performing before their Majefties on the organ, attended by order of the King, and played feveral pfalm-tunes and hymns on the faid inftrument, which gave univerfal fatisfaction.

IRELAND.

The following letter was fent to the Roman-Catholic Paftors and Superiors in the diocese of Dublin.

"Rev. Sirs, We require you to read the underneath exhortation to your refpective congregations next Sunday, from your altars; and to inculcate, on every proper occafion, both in private and in public, the doctrines and the fentiments contained in it; alfo to continue to recommend to the flock to offer up their prayers for his Moft Gracious Majefty, the Royal Family, and the Chief Governor of this kingdom. J. C.blin, Aug. 19. 1778."

· Du

"Dear Chriftians, At a time when our most gracious legiflature are pleafed to relax fome of the penal laws [40.453.], under which you have fo long and to meekly demeaned yourfelves, we think it expédient to exhort you in the most ftrenuous manner to an uninterrupted continuance of your fidelity and allegi

G. 2

ance

« PreviousContinue »