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Poetical ESSAYS for JULY, 1764.

ODE on JULY.

To a FRIEND, newly married.

THE fun comes on a-pace, and thro' the AT laft, dear Jack, I hear, a mate

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You've chofe, who'll crown the nup

tial state

With all the charms that e'er combin'd
To make man bleft in womankind.
Then ne'er affume a tyrant's pow'r,
To blast of mutual bhfs the flow'r :
But act a tender husband's part,
To banish forrow from her heart.
When honour bids, I know you can
Put on the armour of the man.
Then do, my friend! and ne'er be seen
In any thing that's bafe or mean.
'Bout trifies never hold debate;
Believe me, things of greater weight
Will daily claim your utmost care,
Befides difputing with your dear.
Should fickle Fortune prove unkind,
Let chearful though's compofe thy mind;
Be patient, and rely on Him,

Who caufes man to fink or Swim
In the ftupendous gulph of fate,
Where all are floating, fmall and great,
To eafe thee of thy heavy chain,
Or foothe the anguifh of thy pain.
But fhould the cafe prove otherwife,
Should Fortune on thee caft a fmile,
Should peace and plenty deign to rife,
Let no vain hopes thy heart beguik;
With pride thy perfon never arm,
Nor think thyfelf fecure from harm;
For know that none was e'er fo great

To brave the adverfe frowns of Fate;
Some griefs occurr'd, to let them know,
No pomp's above the reach of woe,
Shou'd Providence propitious be,
And bless thee with pofterity;
In virtue's paths to guide them try,
And mark them with a watchful eye;
By good examples, teach them how
Their minds with candour to endow;
In all things, act the man of sense,
And great shall be thy recompence.
Thus do, and you'll fuch honour gain,
As prejudice can never stain :
For Spite, and Malice shall expire,
And Envy to her feat retire ;
That Fame may fing in pious rage,
"He liv'd the wonder of his age."
Biggleswade,
J. SHADGETT.
July 12,1764.

ROBIN'S

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Robin, who to the plough was bred,

And never learnt to write or read, Seeing the good old people use To read with glaffes cross their nofe, Which they for ever wore about them, And faid they could not do without them, Happen'd one day to come to town, And, as he faunter'd up and down, He chanc'd to fpy where fuch like things Hung dangling in a row of strings; It took him in the head to ftop, And ask the master of the shop, If he could furnish folk, that need, With glaffes that could make them read? Or fell a pair of, what d'ye call it ? Would fit his nofe, and would not gall it? The man his drawer in one hand took, The other op'd the Bible-book. The drawer contain'd of glaffes plenty, From ninety down to lefs than twenty; Some fet in horn, and fome in leather, But Robin could approve of neither; And when a hundred pair he'd try'd, And still had thrown them all afide, The man grew peevish-Both grew vext,-And fwore he could not read the text.

"Not read."—Confound you for a fool; I'll hang, if e'er you went to school,'"Did you e'er read without the help "Of fpectacles? Why not, you whelp; Do people, who can walk without, Buy crutches for to stump about?'

ELEGY ON RALPH ALLEN, Efq.

ADIEU, ye fylvan scenes, tho' wont to [preft:

pleafe,

And calm the foul with inward wee deTho' form'd the fmart of piercing grief to eafe ;

And footh the mind difconfolate to rest. ALLEN the good, the generous, and wife, From all the glitt'ring pomp of life is fied!

Patient he clos'd in death his peaceful eyes: Submiffive fell, and mingled with the dead.

Tho' born obfcure, to opulence he rofe,

And made his virtues with his grandeur known:

He lov'd his king, and arm'd against his foes; He join'd his country's int'rest with his

own.

His foul was grear, benevolent, and kind, Of others grief he fhar'd a friendly part; His vaft munificence was unconfin'd,

His lib'ral hand difplay'd a gen'rous heart.

Encircl'd round his hofpitable door [eyes;

With thankful hearts and with uplifted Fed by his bounty ftood the grateful poor, While for his life to heav'n their prayers rife.

tears.

But now, alas! their checks bedew'd with [plore! And streaming eyes the woeful lofs deIn each fad face anxiety appears;

Their joy is gone, for ALLEN is no more. And is he gone? ah never to return,

No more to shine but in immortal fame: The bursting tears fhed round his facred urn, Shall bear in memory his honour'd name. See winged feraphs lead the heav'nly way,

And guide his foul in her celeftial flight; To realms of blifs, to never ending day, To scenes of boundless joy and spotless light.

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Thy doors and windows guard; fecurely lodge [calms obtain; Try ftocks and mill points. Then, or Breathless the royal palm tree's fairest van; While o'er the panting ille, the dæmon [waves High hurls his flaming brand; vaft, diftant The main drives furious in, and heaps the Thore [ferene With strange productions: or, the blue Afumes a louring afpect, as the clouds Fly, wild-careering, thro' the vault of heaven ; [frequent Then tranfient birds, of various kinds, Each stagnant pool: fome hover o'er thy roof; [bold wind,

Then Eurus reigns no more; but each By turns, ufurps the empire of the air With quick inconstancy;

Thy herds, as fapient of the coming ftorm,
(For beafts partake fome portion of the sky,)
In troops affociate; and, in cold fweats
bath'd,
[now,
Wild-bellowing, eye the pole. Ye feamen,
Ply to the fouthward, if the changeful moon,
Or, in her interlunar palace hid,
Shuns night; or, full-orb'd, in night's
forehead glows:
[hill,
For, fee! the mifts, that late involv'd the
Difperfe; the midday-fun looks red;
ftrange burs
[eye.
Surround the ftars, which vafter fill the
A horrid stench the pools, the main emits ;
Fearful the genius of the foreft fighs;
The mountains moan; deep groans the
cavern'd cliff.

A night of vapour, closing faft around,
Snatches the golden noon.-Each wind ap-
peas'd,
[air :
The north flies forth, and hurls the frighted
Not all the brazen engineries of man,
At once exploded, the wild burst surpass.
Yet thunder, yok'd with lightning and with

rain,

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Will not the tempeft now his furies chain? Ah! no! as when in Indian forests, wild, Barbaric armies fuddenly retire After fome furious onfet, and, behind Vaft rocks and trees, their horrid forms conceal, [foon

Brooding on flaughter, not repuls'd; for Their growing yell the affrighted welkin rends, [plain : And bloodier carnage mows th' enfanguin'd So the fouth, fallying from his iron caves With mightier force, renews the aerial

war ;

Sleep, frighted, flies; and, fee! yon lofty palm, [groves, Fair nature's triumph, pride of Indian Cleft by the fulphurous bolt! See yonder dome,

Where grandeur with propriety combin'd, And Theodorus with devotion dwelt; Involv'd in fmouldering flames. - From every rock

Dahes the turbid torrent, thro' each street A river foams, which fweeps, with untam'd might, [mainMen, oxen, Cane lands to the billowy Paufes the wind.—Anon the savage east Eids his wing'd tempefts more relentless rave;

Now brighter, vafter corufcations flash; Deepens the deluge; nearer thunders roll; Earth trembles; ocean reels; and, in her fangs,

Grim Defolation tears the fhrieking ifle, Ere oly morn poffefs the ethereal plain, To pour on darknefs the full flood of day.

AREBU S.

THE God that rules the marriage ftate,

The man that God did first create, The place where kings and queens refide, The bird that most delights in pride, The man that bleft his younger fon, And left the elder quite undone; The God to which the feas belong, The muse that guides the lover's song, That feafon, when all nature's gay, And what exhilarates the day: Thefe nine initials placed true, Will fomething bring to public view, Which all have fought in vain to get For none could ever find it yet.

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THE laft advices from Poland inform us,

that the civil diffentions among the nobles are fo far from being fubfided, that they rage with greater fury than ever. On the 28th of last month, an action happened near Slonim in Lithuania, between 4000 men of prince Radziwill's party, and 600 Ruffians under the orders of general Bock. Victory, it is faid, declared for the Ruffians, who have had only feven men wounded, though they have flain or made prifoners 136 of prince Radziwill's corps; an event almoft incredible, if it were not confirmed by a number of letters written on the spot. The prince, by favour of the night, retired towards Pink, probably in order to gain Volbinia. It is izid afo, that the troops of the Lithuanian confederacy have taken by affault the fortreffes of Niefwicz, Biala, and Sluck, belonging to the fame prince.

The ambafadors of France and Spain, however, as well as the refidents of those two powers, are retired from Warsaw; and the ambaffador of the court of Vienna has lately made a declaration that his court will not intermeddle in any manner in the election of a king of Poland. So that none of the courts of Europe feem inclined to interent themselves in the affairs of the Republic, except the emprefs of Ruffia and the Grand Scignior; the former of whom efpoules the cause of count Poniatowsky ; the latter, that of count Branicky, grand general of the crown army.

By advices from Petersbourg we learn, that the Czarina has founded two new eftablishments: one under the name of The School of Arts; where young people of good family will be received at the age of five or fix, and inftructed till the age of fifteen, in all the fciences neceffary for thofe who are deftined to the fervice of their country. Sixty will be admitted the first year, fixty more the fecond, and fo from year to year, till the number amounts to three hundred. This fchool was opened with a good deal of pomp and folemnity. The other establishment is for the education of an hundred and fifty young ladies, in imitation of that of St. Cyr, by which name it is called. The princefs Dolgorowiki is appointed governeís, July, 1764.

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Baftan, in New England, May 2. We hear from New-Haven, that about 8 of the scholars at the college have been poisoned, feveral of them to a great degree It is fufpected to be done by fome of the French neutrals there, who have been offended by fome of the fcholars; and it is thought ons of them conveyed the poifon privately into the dough that was mixing for the bifcuft for breakfast.

Extrait of a Letter from New-York, dated
May 28.

"We have received advice here, that on the 27th of February last, major Loftus was ordered, with the zad regiment, confifting of about 300 men from Mobile, to proceed up the Miffifippi, and take poffetfion of the Illenois, 500 leagues diftant; that he found the paffage up the river very difficult, owing to the rapidity of the current, which retarded their march fo much that they could fcarce proceed ten miles à day and that on the 20th of March, having only got 70 leagues up the river, their foremost boat was attacked by the Indians,' and in a few minutes had fix men killed, and as many wounded: that the other boats attempted to land, but were also very fmartly fired upon that major Loftus having a few days before loft 57 men by defection, not knowing the number of the enemy, and being then at a Leagues Place called Le Roch Davoine, about 400 from the Illenois, thought it impracticable to fulfil his orders, therefore returned to Penfacola."

A letter from Georgia, in North America, concludes thus: "We are certainly informed, that the French have ceded New Orleans, and all their territory on the Weft fide of the Miffifippi river, to the Spaniards, which is a very favourable event for thefe fouthern provinces, as the latter have no influence with the Indians, and are by no means that enterprizing people which the French are ; and in thort we are under no kind of apprehenfion of their diurbing our fettlements. By this Ceffion the French have now no poffeffion of any part of the continent of North America."

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SATURDAY, June 30.

YEfterday morning the judges met at

lord chief justice Mansfield's chambers, adjoining to Westminster Hall, and appointed their refpective circuits for the enfuing fummer afsizes, viz.

Home. Lord Mansfield, Mr. Baron Smythe. Norfolk. Lord P. att, Mr. Juftice Dennifon. Midland Ld Baron Parker, Mr. Juftice Clive. Oxford. Mr. Baron Adams, Mr. Juftice Wilmot.

Northern. Mr. Juftice Bathurst, Mr. Juftice Yates.

Western. Mr. Juftice Gould, Mr. Baron Perrot.

Yesterday a very fevere battle, for fifty guineas, was fought on KenningtonCommon, between one Auftin, mate of a hip, and Clegg, a butcher, when, after a conteft which lasted near 20 minutes, victory declared for the former. The combatants were both fo much bruifed, that they were carried off in coaches. Near 5001. was loft and won on this occafion.

Extract of a Letter from Pifa. "The celebrated count Algarotti died here on the 22d of last month. He has bequeathed by his will a very fine picture to the King of Pruffia; a porto folio of choice original defigns, an engraved stone, and two pictures, to Mr. WILLIAM PITT; and a confiderable fum to the printing-houfe at Leghorn, to enable them to proceed with the new edition of his works: he has alfo devifed a legacy to the marquis de Monti, lieutenant-general of the armies of France, and has left M. Mauro Teffi, a celebrated painter at Bologna, 8000 Roman crowns, 2000 of which he has directed to be laid out in the erection of a mausoleum to his memory at Pifa. He has given the defign of this monument himself, and alfo left his own epitaph, borrowed from Horace, which is as follows: HIC JACET ALGAROTTIUS, SED NON OMNIS,"

TUESDAY, July 3.

The fire which happened at the Cuftomhoufe at Lifbon, on Afcenfion-day, was occafioned by fome wet Hamburgh linen, which had been damaged at fea, taking fire. It being a holiday, no afliftance could be got to extinguid. it.

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On Saturday evening, about five o'clock, a fire broke out in the diftill-boufe of Mr. Rickards, facing Air-ftreet, in Piccadilly, supposed to be occafioned by the head of a ftill flying off; which in a fhort time confumed the fame, and alfo the houfes of Mr. Barnett a smith, the Crown ale-house, Mr. Pearfon a peruke-maker, Mr. Duften a corn chandler, and a houfe inhabited by a ftationer the corner of Derby Court, all in the front of the ftreet; and damaged feveral houfes backwards. The maid fervant, who had lived in the family fome years, went up Rairs to fetch fome money out of her box, but before the could get down again, the houfe was all in flames, and the perished in the midst of them. The mafter of the house was out of town, but returned about half an hour after the fire was extinguished. Nothing of Mr. Rickards's was faved, except his fhop books and some cash.

A manufactory is lately established in Ireland, for making a cheap kind of carpeting for common parlours, bed chambers, ftair-cafes, and other ordinary ufes. This carpeting is faid to excel the Scotch, fo much in vogue here, both in colours and workmanship, though it is fold at less than half the price of it; for the first fort is Is. 1od. Irish, per fquare yard; and the black and yellow bird-eye, at 18, 68. Irish, per yard: whereas indifferent Scotch carpeting is fold here at 4s. fterling per yard, which is 4s. 4d. Irish.

On Saturday, about twelve o'clock, his Royal Highnefs the duke of Cumberland entertained his company with the following diverfion: a ftag was inclofed by toils in his Royal Highnefs's paddock at Windfor, and one of his tigers let loofe at him; the tiger attempted to feize the ftag by the haunch, but was beat off by his horns; a fecond time he offered at his throat, and the ftag toffed him off again; a third time the tiger offered to feize him, but the ftag threw him a confiderable distance, and then followed him, on which the tiger turned tail, and run under the toil into the foreft. among a herd of deer, one of which he feized, and killed him in a moment. Two Indians purfued him, and whilft fucking the blood, they threw over his head a

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