On Mifs HOLLES, ef Redbridge, rear Southampton.

FOR wealth to the Indies let others re

pair;

Her hand-oh, I wish-but I fear 'tis in vain

That lilly-white hand he would give To me, who adore her: thus perfectly bleft,

How happy with Holles I'd live.

A CONSOLATORY EPISTLE.

WHEN troubles on a dear friend's back

Are heapt, like faggots, pick o' pack, 'Till with the weight he raves and roars, Like baited bulls or hunted boars; 'Tis then, as fages all agree,

The time to fhew our amity;
To fpur our wits for friendship's fake,
And give advice-we would not take:
Therefore this verfe confolatory
Appears in homely guife before ye.

That you, dear friend, in love are croft,
And have a beauteous miftrefs loft,
Is true, I grant ;-but heed it not;
Another's eafy to be got,

You'll fay, another's not the fame;
But, let me tell you, you're to blame
To heed fuch trifling differences,
As hardly can affect the fenfes :
For beauty's beauty, woman's woman,
The fex and quality are common,
And both will pleafe and be admir'd
As long as 'till the hufband's tir'd.
Befides, my friend, the grapes that grow
Along the river Seine or Po,

Tho' big as English white-heart cherries,
Do us lefs good than our goofeberries:
The fruit that we can pluck and eat,
Will furely prove the better treat.
And then phyficians grave declare
(How true, indeed, I will not fwear)
That fruits moft tempting to the eye
May often do us injury,

And that the man has better luck
Who miffes, than who gains the pluck ;
Nor can it e'er be underflood
Whether a thing is bad or good,
Till tafting oft, digefting, voiding,
It never fluck by th' way or cloy'd him:
Such fruit as this a wife may be,
For all the wifeft man can fee.

I have a little tale, my friend,

flow'd,

That her cheeks, fweetly-dimpled, reveal,

With make this doctrine's truth appear As plain as Bab in half a year:

The

SONG, by GILBERT COOPER, Efq; DEAR Chloe, what means this difdain, Which blafts each endeavour to please? Tho' forty, I'm free from all pain;

Save Love, I am free from disease. No graces my mansion have fled;

No mufes have broken my lyre; The loves frolic still round my bed, And Laughter is chear'd at my fire.

To none have I ever been cold;

All beauties in vogue I'm among : I've appetite e'en for the old,

And spirit enough for the young. Believe me, fweet girl, I fpeak true; Or elfe put my love to the teft : Some others have doubted like you; Like them do you blefs and be bleft.

And in full glee his mattins has begun. With him the linnet and the blackbird vie, Who fweeteft fhall falute the fummer sky: From bush to bush the jealoufy, like fire, Seems to enflame the univerfal choir; Joint is the chorus, fweet the serenade : Sweet vocal needs no inftrumental aid. Now fwell the udders of the milky kine, Now fwells the green grape on the tender vine;

Like ripen'd ftrawberries of red and white The germinating bloffoms charm the fight; Blended as in the rainbow, various hues Of flowers uncounted drink the morningdews;

Acanthus, hyacinth, and crocus meet To make young June rich fandals for her foot,

With backward pace a fea crab leads the way,

As if it fled the fond pursuit of May;
But May is gone, and leaves to buxom June
What he had rear'd, with nicer care to
prune;

With animating heat to warm the feed,
And of each plant the tender roots to feed.
Thus month to month fucceffive recom-
mends

The growth of Nature to promote her ends;
Gives to each other's hands the forming care;
First January binds with nipping air;
Next February lays the earth in fnows:
And March refrains them as his tempeft
blows:

With milder aspect April fends his shower,
And May's warm fun awakes herb, tree and
flower;
[bille
Till warmer funs with brighter June com-
To aid young Nature in her great design.

SWEET

WEET are the banks, when Spring perfumes

The verdant plants, and laughing flowers Fragrant the violet, as it blooms,

And fweet the bloffoms after showers. Sweet is the foft, the funny breeze,

That fans the golden orange-grove z But oh! how fweeter far than these The Kiffes are of her I love. Ye rofes bluthing in your beds, That with your odours fcent the air; Ye lillies chafte! with filver heads As my Cleora's bofom fair: No more I court your balmy fweets; For I, and I alone, can prove, How fweeter, when each other meets, The kiffes are of her I love.

Her tempting eyes my gaze inclin'd,

Their pleating lesson fust I caught; Iler fenfe, her friendship next confin'd The willing pupil she had taught. Should Fortune, stooping from her fkys Conduct me to her bright alcove; Yet, like the turtle, I should die,

Deny'd the kifs of her I love.

THE advices received here from Warfaw Speak only of the movements and ef forts making by the two parties to gain the fuperiority. It is apparent, that if the diet does not obtain it, the number of Ruffian troops in Poland will increafe; at leaft the quarrel is now rifen to that height that force muft decide it. What paffes at prefent in the kingdom recals to our minds the tranfaction of the year 1733.

Strelitz, June 5. Colonel David Græme, and Stephen Martin Leake, Efq; Garter Principal King of Arms, plenipotentiaries for investing his Serene Highness the Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz with the habit and enfigns of the most noble order of the Garter, arrived here: the 29th of May. The fame evening they had an audience of the duke, and prefented their credentials with the book of statutes; and his Serene Highness declaring his acceptance of the order, under the usual reservations as a prince of the empire, the plenipotentiaries immediately invefted him with the Garter, Ribband, and George, Garter King of Arms pronouncing the usual admonitions in La tin, and afterwards delivered the stars and ribband.

During the ceremony the guns were fired three times, and in the evening there was a ball.

AFFAIR S.

fhall have the privilege of cutting and carrying away logwood in the Bay of Hondu

ras, with liberty to build houses and magazines, necellary for themselves and families) in the month of Apriliast year, came down here for the aforefaid purpose of cutting logwood; and on their first arrival, difpatched a letter to the commandant of Baccalar, being the nearest Spanish fettlement; who returned for answer, That he would tranfmit it to the governor and captain-general of the province of Jucatan ; whofe orders on the fubject, he, the faid commandant, communicated to your peti. tioners, which was, to comply entirely with the XVith article of the preliminary treaty of peace. That afterwards, by virtue of a letter from the faid governor of Jucatan, No. 1, in the answer to a letter from Jofeph Maud, one of your petitioners, a copy of which is No. 2, feveral of your petitioners went into Rio Hondo, to cut logwood; and from that time unmolefted followed their occupations till the 4th of this instant February, in good harmony and correfpondence with the Spaniards, by frequent letters from the governor of Jucatan, and answers by Jofeph Maud, one of your petitioners, all hereunto annexed; at which time Don Jofeph Rofado, commandant of Baccalar, delivered the faid Jofeph Maud, one of your petitioners, the letter from the governor of Jucatan, aforefaid, No. 3. or dering your petitioners to retreat to Balais, till they produced either a schedule from his Catholic majefty, or orders from the king of Great-Britain, to authorife them to cut logwood. In confequence whereof, your petitioners, with all poffible dispatch, endeavoured to withdraw their effects to the New River and Ballais, in both which rivers your petitioners had formerly fettlements. But on the 2d inftant they were again difturbed, by an order from the commandant of Baccalar, directed to the ferjeant of the guard at the mouth of Rio Hondo, an authentick copy of which is likewife annexed, No. 4; by which your petitioners are ordered to evacuate every river, except Balais, where it is admitted them to ftay a little while, but as your petitioners believe, not to have the privilege

of

<f cutting logwood even there; that your petitioners are thereby driven to the greatest diftrefs; not having any plantations to maintain themselves and families; that by means of fo total a ftagnation of business, many of your petitioners and commanders of veffels that have lain for fome time here, are in the greatest danger of wanting provifiens; that they have difpofed of their car goes to your petitioners, the fettlers, who, by reafon of being driven from their occupa. tions, are incapable of paying for them; and that the veffels lately arrived, not feeiug any profpect of immediate payment, refuse to fell their provifions. These are the miferies your petitioners experience from the inhumanity of the Spaniards. And your petitioners likewife humbly reprefent to your excellency, That not having any legal authority for fettling disputes with each other, they find themfelves reduced to a state of anarchy and confufion; nor have the injured any method to feek redrefs. That your petitioners kumbly apprehend, that without order it is impoffible for any community long to fubfift.

Your petitioners therefore humbly pray, That your excellency will be pleafed to grant them fuch relief as their own diftreffed circumstances require, and your great wifdom shall direct. And your petitioners hall ever pray,

Don Jofeph Rofado, Lieutenant of Infantry in the battalion of Caftilla, and commandant of this garrifon and royal fort of St. Philip, of Baccalar, and its jurisdiēlien,

Notwithstanding that the ferjeant Dio. nifius Chavaria, who is detached to the Look-out of St. Anthony, has the neceffary orders, that the English logwood cutters of Rio Hondo, do retreat to Balais, without permitting them to make any demur, becaufe that fince the 4th inftant, when the order of the governor and captain general, was by me intimated to them, they have had competent time to evacuate the river, carrying away the utensils of their houses;

order and command the faid ferjeant, that he receive eleven foldiers of this garrifon, well armed, which with four there before, completes the number of fifteen, to remain at the faid Look-out; that with them he is not to permit any English vessel under any pretext, to enter the mouth of this river; on the contrary, if any flats remain in the river, they are to go out, with the utensils of their houses, with so much brevity, aš not to permit them to stop any where, but retire totally as likewife those from the New River, because in the order intimated to them, it is expreffed, that the retreat shall be to Balais, and no other part; and to act on the contrary, they expose themfelves to evident danger, as by their difobedience they lofe their Negroes, and find themselves under a violent arreft. This order he hail manifest to as many as are not yet gone out, that by this means it arrive at the notice of all the Baymen, and at no time they may plead ignorance. And all that is done on the fubje&t by the faid ferjeant, he shall give me punctual advice; as alfo of what may occur, to advise his excellency the governor and captain general, from whom I have orders to execute what may be needful;-in cafe of contumacy, difobedience, or rebellion, laying to the charge of the Baymen all the refults that may happen between the fovereigns, for not executing what they are ordered, and that it appears to the faid ferjeant what is hereby ordered; and that he fulfil his obligation with that zeal, love and condu✰ he ought. This order is given in this garri fon and royal fort of St. Philip, Baccalar, this 22d of February, 1764.

MONDAY, June 4. ON Saturday morning Mr. Sumner, Mi. Sykes, and Sir Robert Barker, fet out for Portsmouth, in order to embark with

Lord Clive on board the Kent, for India. His lordship fet out yesterday morning, accompanied by a great number of gentlemen, among whom were several of the ĉi

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