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Poetical ESSAYS in MAY, 1752.

For when I fikt my mufing thought,"
Far on folemn views remote je
When wand'ring in th' uncertain round
Of mazy doubt, no end I found;
O, my unbleft and erring feet!
What most I fought to fhun, ye meet.
Come then my serious maid again ;
Come and try another strain;
Come and nature's dome explore,
Where dwells retir'd the matron hoar;
There her wond'rous works furvey,
And drive th' intruder love away.

"Tis done. Afcending heaven's height,
Contemplation, take thy flight:
Behold the fun, thro' heav'n's wide fpaces
Strong as a giant, run his race;
Behold the moon exert her light,
As blushing bride on her love-night:
Behold the fifter-starry train,

Her bride-maids, mount the azure plain.
See where the fnows their treafures keep;
The chambers where the loud winds fleep;
Where the collected rains abide

Till heav'n fet all its windows wide,
Precipitate from high to pour,
And drown in violence of thow'r :
Or gently strain'd they wash the earth,
And give the tender fruits a birth.
See where thunder fprings his mine;
Where the paths of light'ning fhine.
Or, tir'd thofe heights still to purfue,
From heav'n defcending with the dew,
That foft impregns the youthful mead,
Where thousand flow'rs exalt the head
Mark how nature's hand bestows
Abundant grace on all that grows,
Tinges with pencil flow unseen,
The grafs that clothes the valley green;
Or fpreads the tulip's parted ftreaks,
Or fanguine dyes the rofe's cheeks,
Or points with light Monimia's eyes,
And forms her bofom's beauteous rife.

Ah! haunting fpirit, art thou there?
Forbidden in these walks t' appear.
I thought, O love! thou would'st disdain
To mix with wisdom's black ftay'd train
But when my curious fearching look,
A nice furvey of nature took,
Well pleas'd the matron fet to fhow
Her miftrefs-work, on earth below;
Then fruitless knowledge turn afide,
What other art remains untry'd,
This load of anguish to remove,
And heal the cruel wounds of love?
To friendfhip's facred force apply,
That fource of tenderness and joy;
A joy no anxious fears profane,
A tenderness that feels no pain:
Friendship fhall all thefe ills appease,
And give the tortur'd mourner eafe;
Th' indiffoluble tye, that binds
In equal chains, two fifter-minds:
Not fuch as fervile int'refts chufe,
From partial ends and fordid views ;

Nor when the midnight banquet fires
The choice of wine-inflam'd defires;
When the fhort fellowships proceed,
From cafual mirth and wicked deed
Till the next morn eftranges quite
The partners of one guilty night;
But fuch as judgment long has weigh'd,
And years of faithfulness have try'd,
Whofe tender mind is fram'd to share
The equal portion of my care,
Whofe thoughts my happiness employs
Sincere, who triumphs in my joys,
With whom in raptures I may ftray,
Thro' ftudy's long and pathless way,
Obfcurely bleft, in joys alone,
To the excluded world unknown:
Forfook the weak fantastick train
Of flatt'ry, mirth, all false and vain
On whofe foft and gentle breast
My weary foul may take her reft,
While the ftill tender look and kind
Fair-fpringing from the spotless mind,
My perfected delights enfure
To laft immortal, free and pure.
Grant, heav'n, if heav'n means bliss for me,
Monimia fuch, and long may be.

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Here, here again! how just my fear!
Love ever finds admittance here;
The cruel spright intent on harm,
Has quite diffolv'd the feeble charm
Affuming friendship's faintly guife,
Has paft the cheated centry's eyes,
And once attain'd his hellish end,
Difplays the undiffembled fiend.
O fay! my faithful, fair ally,.
How didft thou let the traitor by ?
I from the defart bade thee come *,
Invok'd thee from thy peaceful home,
More to fublime my folemn hour,
And curfe this dæmon's fatal pow'r;
Lo! by fuperior force oppreft,
Thou there three feveral times haft bleft.
Shall we the magick rites purfue,
When love is mightier far than thou?
Yes, come, in bleft inchantment skill'd,
Another altar let us build;

Go forth, as wont, and try to find,
Where'er devotion lies reclin'd;
Thou her fair friend, by heav'n's decree,
Art one with her and the with thee.

Devotion, come with fober pace,
Full of thought, and full of grace;
While humbled on the earth I lie,
Wrapt in the vifion of the fky,
To noble heights and folemn views,
Wing my heav'n-afpiring Mufe;
Teach me to fcorn, by thee refin'd,
The low delights of human kind:
Sure thine to put to flight the boy
Of laughter, fport, and idle joy.
O plant thefe guarded groves about,
And keep the treach'rous felon out.
[To be concluded in our next.]
BEAUTY

* Numbers, chap. xxiii.

Poetical Essays in MAY, 1752.

BEAUTY and VIRTUE. A ODE.

Immortalia ne fperes, monet annus

Hon TOW fpring begins her smiling round,

N Lavinio paint th enamell'd ground

The birds exalt their chearful voice,
And gay on every bough rejoice.
The lovely graces, hand in hand,
Knit in love's eternal band,
With dancing step at early dawn,
Tread lightly o'er the dewy lawn.
Where-e'er the youthful fifters move,
They fire the foul to genial love.
Now, by the river's painted fide,
The fwain delights his country bride:
While pleas'd, the hears his artlefs vows,
Above the feather'd fongfter wooes.
Soon will the ripen'd fummer yield
Her various gifts to ev'ry field;
Soon fruitful trees, a beauteous fhow,
With ruby-tinctur'd births shall glow ;
Sweet fmells from beds of lilies born,
Perfume the breezes of the morn.
The funny day, and dewy night,
To rural play my fair invite;
Soft on a bank of violets laid,
Cool fhe enjoys the evening-fhade:
The fweets of summer feast her eye,
Yet foon, foon will the fummer fly.
"Attend, my lovely maid, and know
To profit by the moral show;
Now young and blooming thou art seen,
Fresh on the ftalk, for ever green;
Now does th' unfolded bud difclofe
Full-blown to fight the blushing rofe:
Yet, once the sunny season paft,
Think not the coz'ning fcene will laff
Let not the flatt'rer hope perfuade :
Ah! muft I fay that this will fade

For fee the fummer pofts away,
Sad emblem of our own decay.
Now winter, from the frozen north,
Drives his iron chariot forth;
His grizly hand in icy chains
Fair Tweda's filver flood constrains :
Caft up thy eyes, how bleak and bare
He wanders on the tops of Yare!
Behold his footsteps dire are feen
Confefs'd on many a with'ring green.
Griev'd at the fight, when thou shalt fee,
A fnowy wreath clothe ev'ry tree,
Frequenting now the ftream no more,
Thou fly'ft difpleas'd the barren shore.
When thou shalt mifs the flow'rs, that
grew

But late to charm thy ravifh'd view,
Sliall I, ah horrid! wilt thou fay,
Be like to this another day?

Yet, when in fnow and dreary froft,
The pleasure of the field is loft,
To blazing hearths at home we run,
And fires fupply the distant fun;'
In gay delights our hours employ,
We do not lofe, but change our joy j

Happy abandon ev'ry care,

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To lead the dance, to court the fair,
To turn the page of ancient bards,
To drain the bowl, and deal the cards.
But when the beauteous white and red
From the pale afhy check is fled;
When wrinkles dire, and age fevere,
Make beauty fly we know not where :
The fair whom fates unkind difarm,
Have they for ever ceas'd to charm?
Or is there left fome pleafing art,
To keep fecure a captive heart?

Unhappy love! might lovers fay,
Beauty, thy food does fwift decay;
When once that short-liv'd stock is spent,
What art thy famine can prevent?
Virtues prepare with early care,
That love may live on wifdom's fare;
Tho' extafy with beauty flies,
Efteem is born when beauty dies.
Happy to whom the fates decree
The gift of heav'n in giving thee:
Thy beauty fhall his youth engage,
Thy virtues fhall delight his age.

A RIDDLE.

BEHOLD the Lipue, odmorgo

Nor male, nor female, old nor young
Five inches tall, of flender fize,
Who've neither mouth, nor ears, nor eyess
Who never from each other ftray,
But ftand in order night and day,
Like foldiers marshall'd in array.
A bloody enfign each doth bear,
Yet none of them were train'd to war.
Their actions gentler paffions move,
And quench, or fan, the flames of love;
Soften the unrelenting fair,

And footh the penfive ftatefman's care.
Nimble as thought, they fkip, they dance,
Yet ne'er retreat, nor e'er advance,
Nor order change; like the world's frame,
Always unalterably the fame..
Tho' nimble, and to motion free,
Yet move they never willingly,
But in their fecret cavern fleep
Time without end; nor ftir, nor peep,
Until fome heav'nly genius comes,
To raise them from their filent tombs.
By pow'r unfeen, then up they fpring,
Without the help of leg, or wing,
They mount, and as they mount they
fing.

To Mifs SW--, in London.

ALE frofts no more the hoary feafon

P1 glaze,

But vernal funs diffufe their genial rays.
The fields once more their gay embroid❜ry..

wear,

And hills and dales in lively green appear.
The daisies peep from forth their vernal beds,
And purple vilets raife their velvet heads.

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Fair landskips now in vary'd profpects rife,
To warm the fancy, and to charm the
eyes;
[adorn,
The cluftring buds the bonding boughs
And dew-drops how depend from ev'ry
thorn.
[cay'd,
The trees, that erft were leaflefs and de-
Now fpread their arms, and lend a friendly
fhade;

Poetical Essays in MAY, 1752.

Sweet Philomela, on a fragrant spray,
Pours in melodious strains her am'rous
lay.
[how'rs,

The gardens, whilom drench'd by winter
Now fhine with green, or fmile with gaudy
flow'rs.

The fun, the glorious father of the year,
Gilds with his beams again our hemifphere;
Difperfing watry clouds, and fable night,
Again he fpreads around his chearing
light.

The tow ring lark again repeats her lays,
And lowing herds in painted vallies graze.
Where'er I tread, where'er I turn my
eyes,

Gay nature dances, and gay scenes fur-
prize.
[beaus,
Hafte, Delia, hafte, forfake the flatt'ring
And taste the joys that innocence be-
flows;

Quit the dull town, and instantly repair,
Where truth and honour breathe ferener
air.
[fhade,
Here let us wander thro' the fragrant
For love fincere, and facred friendship made;
And when the fun defcends the western

fky,

And ftains th' horizon with a crimson dye,
In painted vallies, and in flow'ry meads,
Pluck the pale pofies from their velvet beds:
And when nocturnal shades stretch o'er
the ground,

And filver Cynthia walks her folemn round,
When peaceful fwains to cottages repair,
And birds no longer warble in the air,
Let us retreat to love's untainted joy,"
Where fraud nor force can innocence
annoy.

Hafte, lovely Delia, leave the noisy town,
Flora for thee prepares the lovely crown;
With thee enrich'd, "I'd leave all meaner
" things,
["kings."

To low ambition, and the pride of

The SACRIFICE.

An EPISTLE to CELIA.

IF you, dear Celia, cannot bear

The low delights that others mare:
If nothing will your palate fit;
But learning, eloquence, and wit;
Why, you may fit alone (I ween)
Till you're devour'd with the spleen
But if variety can please

With humble fcenes and careless cafe;

If (miles can banish melancholy;
Or whimly with its parent folly
If any joy in these there be,
i dare invite you down to me.

You know thefe little roofs of mine
Are always facred to the Nine ;
This day we make a facrifice
To the Parnaffian deities,
Which I am order'd by Apollo,

To fhew you in the words that follow.
As firit, we purge the hallow'd room,
With foft utenfil, call'd a broom;
And next for you a throne prepare,
Which vulgar mortals call a chair,
While Zephyrs from an engine blow,
And bid the fparkling cinders glow;
Then gather round the mounting flames,
The priestefs and affembl'd dames,
While fome inferior maid fhall bring
Clear water from the bubbling spring,
Shut up in vafe of fable dye,
Secure from each-unhallow'd eye:
Fine wheaten bread you next behold,
Like that which Homer fings of old,
And by fome unpolluted fair

It must be fcorch'd with wond'rous care
So far 'tis done: And now behold
The facred veffels--not of gold:
Of polish'd earth must they be form'd,
With painting curiously adorn'd.
Thefe rites are paft: And now must follow
The grand libation to Apollo,
Of juices drawn from magick weeds,
And pith of certain Indian reeds.
For flow'r of milk the priestess calls,
Her voice re-echoes from the walls;
With hers the fifter voices blend,
And with the ed'rous fteam afcend.
Each fair one now a fibyl grows,
And ev'ry cheek with ardour glows,
And (tho' not quite befide their wits)
Are feiz'd with deep prophetick fits 3
Some by myfterious figures fhow,
That Celia loves a fhallow beau ;
And fome by figns and hints declare,
That Damon will not wed Ziphair:
Their neighbours fortunes each can tell,
So potent is the mighty fpell. -

This is the feaft, and this, my friend,
Are you commanded to attend :
Yes, at your peril But adieu,
I've tir'd both myself and you.

On Mifs CHARLOT CLAYTON'S
BIRTHDAY. Being the 11th of Decem-
ber. (See p. 188.)

HY this day's fhorter than the

W reft,

A modern bard full well has guest.
The fun who fhines the year about,
And ev'ry Jeffer light puts out,
This day fubmits, and will not rife,
But lends his rays to Stella's eyes.

THE

THE

Monthly Chronologer.

'N the 28th of last month the court of King's-Bench was moved, on the affidavits of the jury, for a new trial of Simons, the Polish Jew; and a rule of court was granted for the profecutor to fhew caufe, why a new trial Thould not be granted next affizes for the County of Effex. (See p. 137.)

MONDAY, May 4.

One Nixon, who was the principal perfon concerned in the confpiracy against the Hon. Edward Walpole, Efq; was brought to the court of King's-Bench, Westminster-Hall, to receive fentence; which was, to be imprisoned two years, to find fecurities for his good behaviour, to be bound in a recognizance of 501. each, and himfelf in 100l. and to ftand once in the pillory at Charing-Cross, (See Mag. for last year, p. 570.)

WEDNESDAY, 6.

At a court of common-council at Guildhall, a bill was read to oblige all lawyers, publick notaries, and others, exercifing the art and mystery of a fcrivener within the city of London, to be free of the faid company, which, after many long debates, was agreed to.

The trial of Mr. Owen, the bookseller, which was to have come on the fame day at the court of King's-Bench, in Westminster-Hall (for publishing the Cafe of Alexander Murray, Efq;) was poftponed to the first Wednesday in Trinity-Term, which happens on the third of June next; It was occafioned by a miflake in the fummons's, by which the jurymen were ordered to meet at Guildhall instead of Westminster-Hall. Fresh fummons's were indeed iffued at ten on Tuefday evening, but it was fuppofed too late for the jurymen to receive them, of whom only 11 were prefent in court, after the judges had continued there fome time.

FRIDAY, 8.

Benjamin Woodfworth, the bell-man or common cryer of Selby, in the WestRiding of Yorkshire, made proclamation, by ring of his bell, in the publick streets of the faid town, for the inhabitants to bring their axes and hatchets at o'clock that night, in order to cut down the turnpike erected at that place by act of parliament; and on that and fome following days, divers perfons affembled in an outrageous manner, and cut down and

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totally destroyed the great gate of the fald turnpike, and five feveral rails belonging to the fame'; and information having been received, that the faid riotous proceedings were ftill carried on by perfons unknown, their excellencies the lords justices, to difcover and bring to punishment the perfons concerned in the faid crimes, were pleafed to promife his majesty's most grap cious pardon to any perfons concerned therein, except the faid Benjamin Woodfworth, who fhould discover and apprehend his accomplice or accomplices, fo that he or they may be apprehended or convicted thereof. And as a farther encouragement, their excellencies promifed a reward of 50l. to be paid by the lords commiffioners of his majefty's treasury, upon the conviction of fuch offender, or offenders. And the acting commiffioners for managing the affairs of the said turnpike, likewife promifed a reward of zol. upon the faid conviction.

The Badger floop of war, arrived at Plymouth from the coaft of Guiney, which place the left the beginning of March, brought advice, That upon commodore Buckle's arrival there with 3 men of war and the above floop, he found men of war on the faid coaft, viz. one of French 3 64, one of 54, and another of 20 guns, who were about building a fort, in order to make a fettlement at Anamaboe: Upon which the commodore defired them to deft, the property or right to that place being in the crown of Great-Britain, otherwife he should be obliged to compel them by force to abandon their enterprize; and accordingly he made ready for an engagement: But the French commodore, after a little parlying and confide, ration, thought fit to theer off and quit the coaft. Commodore Buckle having afterwards had fome conferences with the natives of the country, they told him, that they should be very glad to see a fettlement made at Anamaboe, and rather by the English than by the French, and therefore defired that our nation would go to work as foon as poffible, for they wanted to fee a good trade carried on there. One in the affembly indeed ob ferved, that there was room enough on the coaft for both English and French, and that it was indifferent to them which of the two prevailed, provided they would Ideal fairly with his, countrymen. After thefe conferences, commodore Bu

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failed to Cape Coaft caftle, and there had intelligence, that the captains of the aforefaid French men of war, a little before abandoning Anamaboe, told the natives, that they might expect to fee them again in ten months at leaft; for as they had given a valuable confideration (about 15,000l. fterling) for leave to fettle there, they were refolved to carry their point fooner or later.

SATURDAY, 9.

Mr. Afhley's counfel were on this day to have fhewn caufe before the court of King'sBench, why the rule fhould not be granted for a new trial of Simons, the Jew; but as the court had a multiplicity of bufinefs upon their hands, and as the term was near an end, time did not permit the counfel to go thro' with their reafons, and the affair was put off to next term.

The fame day Mountefort Brown, Efq; furrendered himself before juftice Fielding, to answer the complaint of Dr. Hill, for a fuppofed affault at Ranelagh; when, upon the affidavit of an eminent phyfician, that Dr. Hill was not in any danger of his life, Mr. Brown was admitted to bail, two housekeepers of great credit and fubftance becoming his fureties.

WEDNESDAY, 13.

Was held the annual general court of the Foundling-Hofpital, when the duke of Bedford was elected prefident; the earl of Macclesfield, lord Charles Cavendih, lord Vere, Sir John Heathcote, Bart. Peter Burrel and Jofeph Fawthorp, Efqrs. vice-prefidents; Taylor White, Efq; treafurer, and 42 more members to compofe the general committee for the year ening: After which the governors dined together in the hofpital, and feveral benefactions were received. Mr. Harman Verelft was continued fecretary.

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The feffions ended at the Old-Bailey, when James Brown, alias Thompson, and Morris Salisbury, received fentence of death, for returning from tranfportation.

About this time his majefty was gracioufly pleafed, by letters under his fignet and royal fign manual, to grant unto the Right Hon. John Smith, earl of Clanricarde, the Hon. Ulick Burke, and the Hon. Thomas Burke, and their defcendants, full power, leave and authority, to reaffume, take, and ufe the name of De Burgh, which was the name that family used, from the time of William the Conqueror, till the year 1535.

SUNDAY, 24.

May

The birth-day of his royal highness the prince of Wales was celebrated, who then entered into the 15th year of his age. MONDAY, 25.

One Thomas Wilford, a young fellow, but juft turn'd of 17, and born only with one arm, was committed to Newgate by juftice Fielding for the murder of his wife, by giving her feveral ftabs, (and cut. ting her throat in fuch a manner as almost to fever her head from her body. He confeffed the fact, and faid that he had married this woman on Wednesday last, that he had a very violent love for her, and that jealoufy was the motive to this rash action.

Extra of a Letter from Paris, May 26, N.S.

From feveral electrical experiments per
formed by our moft confummate natu
ralifts, in purfuance of thofe by Mr.
Francklyn, in Philadelphia, to find whe-
ther the tonitruous and electrical matter
be not analogous; it appears, that to fix
on the highest part of buildings, or fhips,
fharp-pointed iron-bars of 10 or 12 feet,
and gilt to prevent ruft, with a wire
hanging down on the outfide to the ground,
or about one of the fhip's fhrouds, is a
prefervative against thunder. The Sieur
Dalibard having placed in a garden at
Marly, an iron bar on an electrical body,
at the height of 40 feet, was informed,
that on the roth of May, about 20 mi-
nutes after two, a tempest passing over
that spot, the parish priest and other per-
fons drew from the bar fuch sparks and
agitations as are feen in the common elec
trical performances. On the 18th the
Sieur de Lor having fixed, a bar at the
height of 99 feet, on a cake of rofin 2
feet fquare, and 3 inches thick, drew co
rufcations from it during half an hour
betwixt 4 and 5, whilft the cloud was
over it Thefe fcintillations were per-
fectly like thofe emitted by his gun-bar-
rel, when the globe is rubbed only with
the bruth, the fame fire, the fame crack-
ling;
whilst the rain mixed with a little
hail, fell from the cloud without any
lightning or thunder, tho' it appeared to
be the progrefs of a tempeft which had
happened elfewhere: Both thefe experi-
ments have been reported to the Royal
Academy of Sciences, and both evince
that thunder clouds may be deprived of
their fire, by iron bars fashioned and fixed
as above.

NEW MEMBERS.
TOrth-Allerton in Yorkshire, Daniel
Lafcelles, Efq; in the room of his
father, who has accepted of a place.

Gatton

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