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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,
Thy love fo true to me,
Without thee I fhall never live,

My deary if you die.

If fate fhall tear thee from my breast,
How fhall I lonely stray!

In dreary dreams the night I'll wafte
In fighs the filent day;

I ne'er can fo much virtue find,
Nor fuch perfection fee,

Then I'll renounce all womankind,

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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,
And in fuch pleatures thare,
You who its faithful flames approve,
With pity view the fair!
Reftore my Peggy's wonted charms,
Thofe charms fo dear to me,
Oh never rob them from theie arms,
I'm lost if Peggy die.

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Counfel to our lov'd kindred that furvive!
To few where we have err'd, or rightly
trod,

And point the paths to happiness and
God!

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,
In deep contrition fhould diffolve away.
Then grace would dawn from yon pro-
pitious sky,

And beams of glory brighten on my eye;
Till in faith's glafs I faw my fins forgiv'n,
And, freed from earth, my fpirit wing'd

for heav'n.

MOSCHUS.

INSCRIPTION written under the STA-
TUE of CHARLES II. lately erected in
the Fifh-Market at NEWCASTLE.

Sacred to the Memory
Of CHARLES STUART,
Of a justly detefted race, a moit detefta-

able rafcal
That ever difgraced the British throne;
VOL. VII.

Ungrateful to his friends,
Treacherous to his country,
To humanity aftranger;

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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,
Yet feven prolific whores
Furnished a loyal and grateful people
With numerous opportunities
Of paying daily, ample and lafting tribute
To his luttful enjoyments.
Curious fpectator, whoe'er thou art,
Thankfully acknowledge thy obligations
To the Right Worshipful the Mayor and
Magiftrates

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.
If happily thou retaineft in thy generous
breaft

The feeds of loyalty and affection
To the unfortunate Royal Houfe of Stuart,
Reflect with gratitude

On the bleffings thou enjoyeft
From the happy and glorious restoration
Of Charles the Second.
unhappily thy principles or thy paffions
Torment thee with indignant rage,

If

Receive instruction and profit From the wretch whofe memory thou abhorret :

Or learn to moderate thy resentment and
party zeal,

By the humiliating reflection,
That the heaviest oppreflions,
The moft cruel perfecutions,

The vileft debauchenics,
The most deftructive vices,
May reign, and spread with triumphant
Under the mild connivance, miftaken con-
havock,
fidence, and unmerited favour
Of a most gracious, & virtuous fovereign;
As under the avowed aufpices, the lewd
example and open encouragement
Of the most diffolute & abandoned tyrant.
O DE to LEVEN-WATER.
By the Author of RODERICK RANDOM.

N

Leven's

And tune the rural pipe to love;
I envied not the happiett fwain
That ever trod thArcadian plain.

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Poetical Effays.
Pure ftream! in whofe tranfparent wave
My youthful limbs I wont to lave;
No torrents stain thy limpid fource,
No rocks impede thy dimpling course,
That fweetly warbles o'er its bed,
With white, round, polish'd pebbles
fpread;

While, lightly pois'd, the fcaly brood
In myriads cleave thy crystal flood;
The fpringing trout in ipeckled pride,
The falmon, monarch of the tide,
The ruthless pike, intent on war,
The filver eel and mottled par.
Devolving from thy parent lake,
A charming maze thy waters make,
By bow'rs of birch, and groves of pine,
And hedges flow'r'd with eglantine.

Still on thy banks, fo gayly green,
May numerous herds and flocks be feen;
And laffes chaunting o'er the pail,
And fhepherds piping in the dale,
And antient faith that knows no guile,
And industry imbrown'd with toil;
And hearts refolv'd, and hands prepar'd,
The bleflings they enjoy to guard.

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AIR.

I.

Rafh youth! your mad folly you foon
fhall deplore;

No mortal, thus naked, has seen me be-
fore:

Left you tell where you've been,
Boaft of what you have feen,
Bold Hunter! here know,
That Diana's your foc,

That for this you shall never again fee

me more.

II.

You fhall branch out with horns, bound
with fwift running feet,

No longer a man, but a tag all compleat:
Your hounds in full cry,
Shall purfue as you fly,
Chace you all the long day,

Till they make you their prey,
Since your eyes dar'd to pierce into Dian's

retreat.

AGUR's WISH.
Prov. chap. xxx. ver. 7, 8, and 9.

HUS Agur breath'd his warm de-
fire:
"My God, two favours, I require;
"In neither my requests deny:
"Vouchfafe them both before I die.
"Far from my heart and tents exclude
"Thofe enemies to all that's good,
"Folly, whofe pleasures end in death,
"And Falfhood's peftilential breath.
"Be neither Wealth nor Want, my lot:
"Below the dome, above the cot,
"Let me my life unanxious lead,
"And know nor Luxury, nor Need;
"Left in unbounded affluence,
"Elate with pride, enflav'd by fenfe,
"I fhould deny my God, and fay
"Who is the Lord? and spurn thy sway :
"Or left, while I in hunger pine,
"I fhould be tempted to purloin
"My neighbour's wealth, and grow
prophane,

"And take thy facred name in vain.”
Thefe wishes, Lord, we make our own:
O fhed in moderation down

Thy Bounties, till this mortal breath
Expiring tunes thy praife in death!
But fhould't thou large poffeflions give,
May we with thankfulneis receive
Th' exub'rance, ftill our God adore,
And bless the Needy from our store :
Or fhould we feel the pains of want,
Submiflion, Refignation grant.
Till thou shall fend the wifh'd fupply,
Or take us to thy blissful sky.

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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.

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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
attention to every part of my duty, and
the faithful difcharge of my office. One
particularly only I mult entirely leave to
my worthy colleague, as I am incapable
of acting. Petitions from this city to
the Houfe of Commons I cannot prefent
at the bar of the Houfe, because I am
actually a part of the reprefentative body
of this kingdom, being one of the legal
The inde
members for this county.
pendent and fpirited Frecholders of Mid-
dlefex have given me as clear a right to
a feat in parlament, as the electors of
any other Light of a hire of England

can give to any gentleman. By the most
atrocious injustice of a majority, placed
and penfioned by the venal influence of a
minifter, I am deprived of the violation
of the cleareft privileges of a afree peo-
ple. My legal claim however is clear,
and fhall on all occafions be fupported
with ipirit.

"The Sheriffs, gentlemen, merit all
our thanks for their attentive, upright,
and impartial behaviour during the courfe
of a te..ous poll. To a thorough know-
ledge of bufinefs they joined the utmost
fairnets and candour. In the whole of their
pro edings they have fecured the appro-
bation of the public. Their conduct
cannot at any time be excelled, but I
hope it will be equalled, at least by thofe,
who, through your favour, are to be
their immediate fucceffors."

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The Speech of Frederick Bull, Efq;
Gentlemen of the Livery and Fellore
Citizens,

"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,

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