To his pale fifter's milder rule refigns The cloudless skies, who, as the rifes, fpreads

Her filver beams, and the fnow-mantled tops

Of yonder mountains with a yellow hue Faint tinges, one expanded fheet of light Diffufing while the fhades, from rock to rock

Irregularly thrown, with folemn gloom Diversify the whole.This tranquil hour,

This awful filence, meditation's due, Forbids the mind to view with careless eye

Creation's works, or uninstructed gaze. Yet nature fimiles not always, there are times

When her throne totters, and her ancient realm

Shakes from its deep foundations. Hollow blasts

Heard from the turbid welt, proclaim at

hand

down

He finks in death, pale as the ambient (now (a).

Tho' perils wait the foot that o'er thefe heights

Purfues its path, yet charity hath ftrove To footh their rigour, and fupply those aids

The ruthless fcene denies. Amid the wilds

See where the cloyfter'd hermit opens wide

His hofpitable gate (b), to welcome in The fick ning pilgrim, and afford repofe

To the way-weary ftranger, who partake

The proffer'd bounty; then, renew'd in ftrength, Departing, bid the pious manfion peace! Here, FANCY, my Conductreis, let us reft,

Enough our toil, for we have trodden paths

New to the mufe. Ere thy departing wings

Are fpread for other climes, here fit awhile,

Glance o'er the wonders of this various land,

And take one farewell Look.

-The

active mind What can controul? free as the vagrant air,

(a) See the Poem on the loves &c. of Edwin and Emma, in our Magazine for laft June.

(b) On fome of the mountains there are convents and hofpitals for the relief of fuch paffengers as want affiftance.

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impoffible to give our opinions about the latter, without in fome measure, including the former. Do not, therefore, my Lord, disdain this anonymous addrefs from one who pretends not to the honour of your friendship. That reftlefs, bufy, doing and undoing fpirit, which we call Ambition, has rendered you an object too important on our scene, to fuffer you to lie unnoticed, even in your retirement. My Lord, there are many things in nature, which, though the most powerful in their operation, are vifible only in their effects. Whirlwinds, tempelts, earthquakes, are not perceived, till the ruin they fcatter round prove fufficient evidences of their power. This needs no application. How, my Lord, I am to ! addrefs you? as a minifter? no. As an abdicated minifter? no. Is there then no appellation in our language for this miniiter, and no minifter; this adviser without office and refponfibility; this invifible agent; this fecret spring of action; this terror to his country? Yes. It is the name of Favourite, ever hateful to Britifb ears, and equally baneful to the fafety and honour of the Prince, and to the profperity of the people. Since then, my Lord, this, of all others, the moft dangerous, is, however, the most applicable, give me leave to fpeculate with your Lordship on the nature and office of a favourite, who, if I were to define, I hould defcribe as a fubject fraught with felfishness and artifice, who abufing the noble qualities of his mafter to his own purpoles, prefumes to thrust himself between the affections of the prince and his people. He is not the fervant of the people, for he is the reverie of every thing that is good to them; he hates and is hated by them. He is not the fervant of the crown for he fullies and abforbs its glory. His pride affumes homage to itfelf; he affects to be the difpofer of graces and honours, and to have all power depend upon his will. He flights and neglects his duty to his fovereign in public, to demonstrate to mankind his influence in private. He disgusts all free spirits, and finds pretences to remove every faithful fervant from his master. He revenges his own quarrels in his master's name; changes friends and enemies without regard to his mafter's intereit, and gives the fanction of royalty to every guit of weakness or paffion that riles in his breaft. He fills the court with

new men. He plays party against party. He is ever treating, accommodating, and negociating, that, by keeping all men in fufpence, they may have their attention always fixed upon himself. He is envious of the glory of others; restless and defirous of change; fearing always, that frequent accefs to his matter, diligent and faithful fervice, and long continuance in office, may create a rivalihip, and become dangerous to his influence. He is info lent in his refentments, faithlefs to his engagements,, oftentatious in his manners, and, to conclude, has a ftile fitted only for the Aatterers and sycophants by whom he is furrounded, and from whom he receives all his ideas. Such, my Lord, is the picture I thould draw at full length, of a Favourite; and I believe it will be found to preferve its resemblance, with very little alterations, through all ages, and in all countries.

What then muit the ftate of a country, groaning under the dominion of a Favourite, be? All the evils that can flow from a discontented people, a disgusted and offended nobility, and a government deprived of ftrength and vigour, must be the natural confequence of his reign. Good fubjects will retire far off, factious fpririts will advance; law will be perverted, Majefty infulted, difcord fomented, till by degrees all order is over-born, and licentioufnefs, anarchy, and confufion, univerfally prevail. Far be the omen from this country; your Lordship and your potterity have now obtained a confiderable property in it. Add fecurity, my Lord, to what you have acquired, and leave to them entire the laws and conftitution of a free country; you can bequeath to them no better legacy.

My Lord, your influence has prevailed over this kingdom not yet five years, in which time, if I mistake not, we owe to your recommendation no less than nine fecretaries of ftate, four first lords of the treasury, five firft lords of the admiralty, five firft lords of trade and plantations befides thofe appointments to each of thefe departments, which proved abortive, where circumftances have prevented your projects from being carried into execution. It is poffible, your lordship may imagine, that the public have no right to be interested in thefe changes; but let me remind your lordship, that the fervants of the crown are the fervants of the public; that A a a a z

they

they are appointed folely for the benefit of the public; paid by taxes levied upon the public; and therefore that we have a right to expect that they fhall hold or lofe their employments as the public good requires. If we fhould try our various changes by this teft, we fhall be beft enabled to decide the motives by which you have been actuated in them.

My Lord, the great bufinefs of your life feems to have been what it is faid you wish to have engraved upon your tomb, the putting a period to the war. But the merit of this measure muft, in my opinion, be determined pincipally by the ufe you propofed to make of the interval of peace: And if we examine your conduct ince that event, except the play of making or un-making minifters, and the cyder tax, you have done little, and we have heard of your Lordship only as often as it has pleafed you to interrupt the public bufinefs, and to moleft others in the execution of thofe plans which they thought effential towards the prefervation of their country, and which, therefore, they have had the patience to make fome progreis in, notwithstanding the hinderances you gave them, but which you have now at laft pretty effe&ually defeated.

My Lord, what is all this ftrange fcene to end in? Do you with the ruin of this country? or does fate envy us the greatnefs we have acquired by palt fucceffes, and degrade us to our utmott humiliation under your fobjection! Let Auftria and Bourbon confederate together, let every enemy of this country give the full feope to their refentments; Britain has nothing left to oppose them but weakness, diforder, and dejection. What man will ftand forth at this time, and under thefe circumftances, to attend the call of his fovereign, or his country? No man who has the pledge of an established reputation, will truth it in your hands at your diferetion! A few young and unexperienced noblemen, now for the first time in office, together with the dregs of a vanquished opposition, may, indeed, be brought to trust your promifes, to hold the helm they cannot govern, and by their weaknefs to increafe your power. Rut, my Lord, the grave, the experienced, the capable, the efficient, you have fo ef fectually driven from the counfels of our fovereign; you have fo happily fucceeded in fowing jealoulies and difcord; and have

with fo much artifice, weeded out, one after another, every man whofe fervice could promife folidity to the king's government, and profperity to the ftat that thinking men have now no hope remaining. The important moments in which our harvest fhould be gathered against the ftorms of winter, roll on neglected, and are facrificed to your ambition.

What then remains for us? Muft we tamely perifh? Is this great, glorious, and flourishing country, to become a victim to the caprice of one man, and that man a fubject? Is there no force left in the conftitution to drag out this pernicious Favourite into light, and to emancipate our fovereign and ourselves from the fhame and burthen of his yoke? I trust there is that force, or our boatted conftitution is a fhadow. It is not, my Lord, the ikulking at a distance, the thin veil of fubterfuge and equivocation, the mean, little, paultry artifices of an intriguing fpirit, by which the juft refentments of an injured people can be long evaded. The grievances which are publicly known and felt, will not long wait for the redress of public, fignal, and exemplary punishment. The grand inqueft of the nation will not for ever be deluded, and will know how to oppofe the boldeft, and to overtake the wiles of the fubtleft of the enemies of their country.

I am, my Lord, &c.

An ENGLISHMAN.

An biftorical and political Account of the fuppreffion of the JESUITS in France; by M. d'Alembert.

D

ALEMBERT gives an account of the Jefuits from their first inftitution, and mentions feveral particulars by which they have fucceffively loft credit in France.

One of their scholars affaffinated Henry the IVth; and Guignard, a Jefuit, was convicted of writing a book in favour of Regicide, for which he was condemned to die, and the fociety was expelled the kingdom, by an arret of parliament," as a deteftable and diabolical fociety, the corrupters of youth, and enemies to the king and state."

Of this arret, however, they obtained a repea!, and flourished under Richlieu, the minister of Lewis the XIIIth. In the reign of Lewis the XIVth, they acquired ftill greater influence; all the benefices

paffing