(40) ADDRESS of the City of London to his MAJESTY. May it please you Majefty, Graciefly to accept our fincere and dutiful congratulations on the marriage of your Majefty's eldest fitter, her Royal Highnefs the Princefs Augufta, with his mott Serene Highnefs the hereditary Prince of Brunswick Lunenburgh. It was with the utmoft joy and fatisfaction, that we faw your Majefty's wifdom yield to the propofals for an alliance with a Proteftant family fo illuftrious; and that a lady, whole amiable cha racter is not more exalted by the dignity of her high birth than her private virtues, was deftined to be the happy partner of a prince, whole eminent and diftinguished fervices, during a fuccefful and glorious war, will ever be remembered by every friend of true religion and public liberty. Your Majesty's faithful citizens of London have feen with gratitude, the conftitution of this country, fettled and established by our great deliverer King William, maintained and improved by the illuftrious Houfe of Brunswick; therefore they cannot fufficiently applaud your Majelly's gret wildom and goodness in further firengthening it by this happy al liance. May this marriage anfwer your Majefty's warmeft withes and expectations; and may the Prince and Princefs be bleffed with an offspring truly worthy of fo royal and illuf trious a delcent. Permit us to affure your Majefty of our firm attachment to your Majelty's sacred perfon and government, and of our contant endeavours, wishin cur fphere, to contribute to the happiness and profperity of your Majelly's reign. The King's Anfwer. My Lord and gentiemer, your dutiful congratulations on the marriage of my filler the Prince's Augufta with the hereditary Prince of Branfwick-Lunenburg; and am glad that this happy alliance gives fuch general fatisfaction. I receive, with pleafare, your affurances of duty and affection to my perfon and gavernment. The city of London may always depend on my favour and prote&ion." They were all received very graCioufly, and had the honour to kifs his Majesty hand. Addrefs to the Princefs Dowager. T HE Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and common council affembled, beg leave to congratulate your Royal Highnefs on the marriage of your eldest daughter, her Royal Highnefs the Princefs Augufta, with his Serene Highnes the hereditary Prince of Bruntwick-Lunenburg. The eminent virtues and exalted merit of the Princefs have juftly endeared her to his Majesty's faithful fubje&s: her union with a Proteflant family, diflinguished in the defence of the liberties of Europe, is at once a pleafing and moft interefting fubject to the friends of civil and religious liberty. May this union be the fource of every domeftic felicity to this illuftrious pair; and may your Royal Highness long live to enjoy the most permanent fatisfaction from this alLance. The Princefs Dowager's Answer. My Lord and gentlemen, I heartily thank you for this new proof of your attention and regard for me and my family, upon occafion of this happy event. They were all received very gracioufly, and had the honour to kils "I seturn you uy thanks for her Royal Highness's hand. Addrefs Addrefs to the Prince of Brunswick. SIR, The Lord mayor, and commons, of the city of London, in common council affembled, embrace this joyal occafion of paying to your moft Serene Highness our warmeft compliments of congratulation on your aufpicious nuptials with the most virtuous and amiable Princefs her Royal Highness the Princefs Augata. Madam, The Lord-mayor, aldermen, and common council affembled, hereby beg your Royal Highness's permiffion to prefent our warmeft congratulations upon your Royal Highnefs's aufpicious marriage with his mot Serene Highnets the hereditary Prince of Brunswick Lunenburg. This alliance with a Prince fo highly accomplished, fo early dif tinguifhed for his heroic valour and martial conduct, and whofe eminent fervices in the course of a glorious war, have juftly endeared him to this country, we confider as a fresh inftance of the wisdom of our Gracious Sovereign, of his affection for your Royal Highness, and of his regard to the liberties of Europe, and the P6teftant intereft. your We efteem it our happiness that we have an opportunity of teftifying to your Serene Highnefs our fentiments of obligation and gratitude to the illustrious houfe of Brunswick; and to your Serene Highness in particular, for the eminent fervices which this country has derived from great valour, and diftinguifhed conduct in the courfe of the late glorious and fuccefsful war. May your Screne Highness long live to enjoy, in peace, the glory you have acquired in arms; and may your moft amiable confort crown your wishes with a race of princes to emulate your virtues, and extend your name and family to the remotest t.mss. To which his Serene Highness was pleafed to return the following anfwer. My Lord and gentlemen, "I return you thanks for this mark of your attention, and regard for me." Leicefter-houfe, Jan. 20. This day the right honourable the Lordmayor, aldermen, and commons of the chy of London, in common council affeinbled, waited on her Royal and Serene Highnefs the Princefs of Brunfwick-Lunenburg; and being introduced to her Royal Highnels and Serene Highness by Lord Bolton, ade their compliments of Congratalation, which were spoken by James Eyre, Efq; the Recorder, Nothing could allay ou. at the thoughts of being deprived of the prefence of a Princefs adorned with every virtue and accomplithment, beloved and admired by all his Majefty's fubjects, but the pleafing profpect we have of her cnjoying all the happiness which the fo justly deferves. We moft fincerely with long life and health to your Royal Highness and your illuftrious confort, and that heaven will crown your mutual affection with a race of Princes formed by your inftructions and example. And we beg leave to affure your Royal Highuels, that neither time or diftance can efface the fentiments of efleem and veneration which we have long entertained or your Royal Highness. To which her Royal and Serene Highness was pleased to return the following anfwer. My Lord and gentlemen, I moit heartily thank you for this mark of your attention and regard, and I look upon it as a proof of your duty and affection to the King.' They had the honour to kifs her Royal and Serene Highness's hand. Poetical Poetical ESSAYS for JANUARY, 1764. PROLOGUE to No One's Enemy but his Own. Old was the man, and fenc'd in ev'ry Bold With oak and ten-fold brafs about the heart, Like geefe ftill cackling that the Gauls are If thrown on rocks by the hoarfe dashing wave Th' unhappy crew no hand is ftretched to fave; But round the wreck, like Moors, with furicus joy ; The witlings croudto murder and deflrey. Thefe are known dangers; and, til full as certain, The bard meets other ills behind the curtain. What previous mitchiefs there in ambush wait; Little you think, ere yet you fix his fate, What pla ues arife from all the mimic throng: "My part's too short ;-and, Sir, my part's too long." This calls for incident; that repartee. "Down the back cape for me. "Give me a lean, N. Sayes, of rope; "I love to wear he breeches, and "Something for me the ground.. fiit. "Write a dark clofet, or a . ing fir • Fix Woodward in fome wh m "Or be facetious with Ned Sauter's ears to digra e: This is our way; and yet cur bard to-night Removes each cbitacle, and fprings to light. Some fcenes, we hope, he brings to nature true; Some gleams of humour, and a moral too; He beats an etching from the real life; B eafy dialogue would win your praife, The LEARNED DO G. A FABLE. Had travell'd much, and learn'd the arts; Like modern juggiers, round the town, Of all the paffions in the beat, Firf, like a foldier, drefs'd in red, The maft ff, who had feen the play, Your parts, fiie d Tray, 't's very true, In vain you beast, to great your fame, Airs Recit. No more, no more-behold a friend, Go, with magic fpells furrounded, Scoff at danger, fill unwounded; Then when fated here with pleasure, To new climes tranfport thy treasure. Full sborus. Let us hae! let us Ay, thro the realms of the sky! Our magic skill i'th' air we'll show Difpute no more who fings the chearful lay, And, with confent, harmonious concord join. While the youthful minutes move, Welcome to thefe regions bright, Extract from the DUELLIST. THE defcription of the night, and the different fort of flumbers which attend the different paffions of the mind, with which the Author opens the first book, are as happily ex r fled as they are poetically imagined. "The clock ftruck twelve o'er half the globe, Dark eis had fpread her pitchy robe; Ambition, who when waking, dreams Pale ftudy, by the taper's light, Wearing away the watch of night, Sat reading, but, with o'ercharg'd head, Remember'd nothing that he read. Starving 'midt plenty, with a face Which might the court of famine grace, Raged, and filthy to behold, Grey Av'rice nodded o'er his gold. Jealoufy, Jealoufy, his quick eye half-clos'd, With watchings worn, reluctant doz'd; And, mean Diftruft not quite forgot, Slumber'd as if he flumber'd not. Stretch'd at his length, on the bare ground, His hardy offspring fleeping round, Snor'd reflefs Labour; by his fide Lay Health, a coarfe, but comely bride. Virtue, without the Doctor's aid, In the foft arms of fleep was laid, Whilft Vice, within the guilty breat, Could not be phyfic'd into reft. From this extract it is easy to perceive, that our Author can excell, whenever he pleafes, in that file of imagery which the Critics call perfonification, and that humour and poetry will chime very harmoniously together. There is not, pethaps, even in the graver walk of poetry, a pallage to be met with more fublime than the following fpirited defcription of our old Patriots. "Deep Horror held her wide domain The sky in fullen drops of rain Forewept the morn, and thro' the air, Which, op'ning laid his bofom bare, Loud thunders roll'd, and lightning ftream'd; The owl at Freedom's window fcream'd, The fcreech-owl, Prophet dire, whofe breath Brings fickness, and whofe note is death; The chureh yard teem'd, and from the tomb, All fad and filent, thro' the gloom, The ghofts of men, in former times Whole public virtues were their crimes Indignant ftalk'd; forrow and rage Blank'd their pale cheek; in his own age The prop of Freedom, HAMPDEN there Felt after death the gen'rous care; SIDNEY by grief from Heav'n was kept, And for his brother Patriot wept ; All friends of Liberty, when Fate Prepar'd to fhorten WILKES's date, Heav'd, deeply hurt, the heart-felt groan, And knew that wound to be their own The fecond book is an allegory on the attempts which he fuppofcs to have been made against the Liberty of the Preis; and the third, an account of a dark confpiracy formed by three people, a Prieft, a Lawyer, and a Lord, for the deftruction of his favourite Patriot; for which purpofe, Fraud prefents her fon and her hero, a modern Duellif. ODE, on the ROYAL NUPTIALS. [Soft Mufic.] Dawning virtues, lovely grace! Search the rolls of hoary time, Some bright pattern thence derive, On whofe excellence fublime In AUGUSTA may revive! Swell, fwell the note with Calandana's name ! Of high extraction, and immortal f.me! With politeness gently grac'd, With majeftic beauty crown'd! Swell, fwell the note with Caffondana's náme! Raife higher trophies on the voice of fame! RECIT. Kindred goodness ftill thould pair; Cyrus! happy Perfia's heir! Su'd for love---and match'd the dame!- Behold! to our admiring eyes! Now fwell the note with fair AUGUSTA'S name! Raife high her trophies on the voice of fame! RECIT. A fecond Cyrus heard the found! And came with blcoming laure's crown'd! Hear, thou happy, Roy Youth! The pleafing voice of love and truth, Attend, and hear the voice of fame, Thus thy happiness proclaim. ACROSTI C. Uniting eate with d gnity and grace; An |