ESSAY S. POETICAL ESS An AIR. Set by Mr. Worgan, and fung by Mrs. Weichfell. WITH tender, ITH fweet words and looks fo Well you have your flame expreft, And conjured me to furrender, All you wish to make you bleft: Say, for yet I'm not complying, If bright honour fways your mind, Then there can be no denying, When you afk, I must be kind. A SONG. Set by Mr. Worgan, and fung by Mr. Vernon, at Vauxhall Loyancy's fix'd on thee; OVE never more thall give me pain, Nor ever maid my heart fhall gain My Peggy if thou die; Thy beauties did fuch pleature give, My deary if you die. If fate fhall tear thee from my breast, In dreary dreams the night I'll wafte I ne'er can fo much virtue find, Then I'll renounce all womankind, My Peggy after thee. No new blown beauty fires my breaft, With Cupid's raving rage, But thine which can fuch tweets impart, Muit all the world engage; 'Twas this that, like the morning fon, Gave joy and life to ine, And when its deftin'd day is done, With Peggy let me die. Ye pow's that fmile on virtuous love, Counfel to our lov'd kindred that furvive! And point the paths to happiness and But chiefly this-I'd with an hour to fpare, For my foul's health, and give it all to pray'r. Detach'd from earth, my mind to heav'n fhould fpring, And ftretch her whole devotion on the wing; 'Till my heart melted with the fervent ray, And beams of glory brighten on my eye; for heav'n. MOSCHUS. INSCRIPTION written under the STA- Sacred to the Memory able rafcal Ungrateful to his friends, 33 He proftituted the best gifts of nature (A ftrong bodily conftitution, And ftronger mental powers) To the most abominable lewdnefs and the worst of vices; Tho' a bairen wife Left him no legitimate fucceeding iffue, Of this once truly loyal, But now, alas! licentious town; That they have gratified the curious eye, In a more elevated and conspicuous fituBy placing this exquifite piece of art ation, In the front of their Hall of Juftice. The feeds of loyalty and affection On the bleffings thou enjoyeft If Receive instruction and profit From the wretch whofe memory thou abhorret : Or learn to moderate thy resentment and By the humiliating reflection, The vileft debauchenics, N Leven's And tune the rural pipe to love; 34 While, lightly pois'd, the fcaly brood Still on thy banks, fo gayly green, AIR. I. Rafh youth! your mad folly you foon No mortal, thus naked, has seen me be- Left you tell where you've been, That for this you shall never again fee me more. II. You fhall branch out with horns, bound No longer a man, but a tag all compleat: Till they make you their prey, retreat. AGUR's WISH. HUS Agur breath'd his warm de- "And take thy facred name in vain.” Thy Bounties, till this mortal breath Foreign I Foreign and Domestic Intelligence. MONDAY, JULY 1. T is afferted that, by a special exprefs arrived at his Excellency's Mouichin Poufchin, the Ruffian Ambaflador at our court, intelligence was brought him on Monday laft, that all the magazines of pitch, tar, tallow, hemp, flax, and linen, at Petersburgh, had been totally burnt to afhes, together with a fourth or fifth of the whole town, which is the metropolis of the Ruffian empire. The Rulian Miniftry inftantly went to work to difcover the daring and flagitious incendiary, and, in lefs than four and twenty hours, they found a Frenchman drefed in women's apparel. This difguife led them to fuspect he might be the man, they put him to the torture, and the vile wretch has confeffed the whole Letters from Lisbon fay, that a report "prevails there that the French king had threatened to recall his minifter and confils from every place in Portugal, on account of fome commercial infringements, which his fubjects had lately fuffered in that kindom. Tuesday, July 2. Laft Tuesday night about feven o'clock in the evening, Mifs Fruie, a milliner in the Strand, itepping out of her hop into her parlour, faw a man rifling her drawers: The fellow began to threaten her, and to try to get off, but he got her back to the door, (which he had pinned with a fcrew nail,) and, notwithstanding all his efforts, with an heroifin beyond that of her fex, feized him by the throat, crying, a thief! a thief! On this Mr. Cotterel, the ground landlord, came down ftairs, and, by the way of the fhop, entered the parlour, to the door of which Mifs Fruie had already dragged her antagonilt. After this he was carried before Juftice Kynaston, who committed him to prifon. Conftantinople, May 17. In the night between the 5th and 6th inft. an incendiary was taken who had just fet fire to a houfe in this city, on which he was immediately trangled, and the fire was extinguifhed. The diforders of the militia are greater than ever were known; they furrounded lately the Kaimachan, from whom they demanded money, and he was obliged to purchafe his liberty at the price of 60 fequins. The baths for the women, which have always, till this period, been regarded as facred, have been attacked, feveral women have been forced away, and two ladies were very ill treated who were going to them, notwithstanding every effort to fave them. Thefe cxceffes continued to the 8th instant; when the Grand Signior gave orders for the greateft part of the militia and mariners to embark on board the fhips in the harbour, and to bring their arms on fhore; at the fame time an order was iffued, giving leave to any perfons attached to defend themselves." Two days after, like orders were published at Galata and Pera, when the fhops were ordered to be opened, and permiffion given to the Chriftians, not only to defend themfelves, but to act offenlively against any that fhould infult them. This order has had a happy effect, thirty of the ringleaders have been trangled, and we now enjoy tranquility. The plague has manifefted itself afresh, not only in this capital, but in the fu burbs. From the LONDON GAZETTE. Petersburgh, June 4. Yesterday and this morning there have been feveral dreadful fires, but they are now happily extinguifhed: A very great number of wooden houses, and fome of brick, have been burnt; among which are the hotel of the corps of Marine Cadets, and a hemp warehoufe, in which however there were fortunately not above 10000 pood of hemp in ftore. The lofs to the British Factory is far from confiderable, but their danger was very great, as many magazines of combustible goods were furrounded with flames. St. James's, July 2. Last night the ceremony of chriftening the young Prince was performed in the Great Council Chamber by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. His Royal Highnes was named Erneft-Auguftus. The fponfors were, his Serene Highness Prince Erneft of Mecklenburg Strelitz in perfon, his Serene Highnets Prince Maurice of Saxe Gotha, reprefented by the Earl of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's household; and her Serene Highness the Hereditary Princefs of Heffe-Caffel, reprefented by the Countets of Egremont. E. 2 St. 36 Foreign and Domeftic Intelligence. This day the St. James's, July 2. King and Queen, his Royal Highnefs Prince Frederick Bifhop of Ofnaburg, and their Royal Highneffes the Princes and Princeffes, went from the Queen's Palace to refide at Richmond and Kew during the fummer. Wednesday, July 4 Sunday night a gentleman was ftopt by a woman in St. James's-park, armed with a piftol, who robbed him of a fet of pafte buckles and a pocket book, containing several notes; fhe was taken into cuftody by one of the centinels, and being yesterday carried before the magiftrates in Bow-feet, was committed to Tothill-fields Bridewell. Thursday, July 4. Yesterday, at half an hour after two, Alderman Wilkes and Frederick Bull, Efq; were, by the prefent Sheriffs, declared duly elected Sheriffs for the City of Londen and County of Middlefex for the year enfuing; after which Mr. Wilkes addreffed the Livery in the following speech. Mr. Alderman Wilkes's Speech to the Livery of London, or the Declaration of the Sheriffs at Guildhall, July 3, 1771. "Gentlemen, and Fellow Citizens, "I thank you for the honour you have done me, and congratulate you on the compleat triumph of this day over the corrupt arts of a profligate administration. The most barefaced bribery and daring menaces, the many fhameful practices of the wretched tools of arbitrary power among us, the infolent mandates of placemen, and the treachery of the pretended friends of liberty and their country. Your firmness and zeal have crushed the united forces of all thofe, who meant to enflave this great city. I have not the leaft doubt that the fame happy union among ourfelves will always remain a firm barrier against every future attack from the concealed and infidious friend or the open enemy. "Permit me to affure you of the clofeft can give to any gentleman. By the most "The Sheriffs, gentlemen, merit all The Speech of Frederick Bull, Efq; "Permit me to acknowledge to you the fenfe I have of the honour you have now called me to, and I cannot but think myfelf the more obliged, as it was unfolicited by me. "I fhould not in these alarming times have waited to be afked to accept, could I have thought myself equal to this important office. However, gentlemen, as you have been pleafed to fix upon me, give me leave to affure you, I will do every thing in my power, to preferve the peace, and to promote the welfare, the honour and independence of the city of London." Yesterday nineteen Friday, July 5. prifoners were tried at the Old Bailey, three of whom were capitally convicted viz. James Saytufs, alias Dumb Jemmy, Sarah Beeks, and Frances Allen, for breaking open the dwelling houfe of Mrs. Frances Bradshaw, in Queen-Annftreet, Marybone, and ftealing a pair of filver candlesticks, a filver waiter, and other things. Several councils Monday, July 8. have been held at Paris on the benefit and advantage of their conqueft of Corfica, which has coft, in foldiers and failors, 32,000 men, and 19,070,000 livres in money; it coft, fince the departure of Paoli, all accounts balanced, 3,900,000 livres a year. The island does not bring in more than 1,300,000 livres, exclufive of the woods:-It was thought that this article would have proved very advantageous, but as it is under the manage ment of the king's undertakers for fhip building, |