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SOME fmall memorial left behind,
Recalls a buried friend to mind;
Or foon, when clos'd Life's tranfient
fcene,

All would forget that we had been !
Go, then, my Book! when I am gone,
And be my monumental ftone.
Why do we weep o'er Petrarch's woes?
Why vifit, pilgrim-like, Vauclufe?
Why bend our oft impatient feet,
To view the walls of Paraclete?
Because the Pen had power to fave
Their ftories from Oblivion's wave!

What now of Petrarch's love remains?

And when this hand that strikes the lyre,
Shall wake no more its wonted fire;
And when this tongue, for ever mute!
No more fhall warble to the lute :
Then, on thy page, my friends will find
A faithful picture of my mind!

JOHN, THE HERMIT.

Cottage of Mon Repos,

Village of Sturry, near

Canterbury, Kent, November 6, 1802.

2,

ERRATA, in our laft, page 293, col. line 8, of the " Poetry," for "Produce read "Produced." Page 294, col. I, line 11, for "Clofe to their ears," read, "Clofe to their feats." Ibid. line 21, for But all is filent now, read, "But all is defert now."

TO AMBROSE PITMAN, ESQ

ON HIS SONNET IN THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE FOR MAY 1801.

Of Petrarch's hopes? of Petrarch's pains? SWEETLY, O PITMAN! hath thy Muse

Of rapturous Eloifa's blifs?

A little, fenfelefs Book, like this!
Still can th' unconicious page infpire
Each melting thought, each warm dere!
Awake to fympathy the foul,
And bid the forms of Paffion roll!
Hail, then, O Pen! O thou fhalt be
A type of immortality!

Go! little volume! and relate
The rigours of thy mafter's fate!
Display the labours of his head,
And tell how much his bofom bled,
Whilft, prone beneath Misfortune's way,
He fighed the lingering hours away!
Go little volume! go! and prove,
His heart with Pity warm, and Love :
Amidst affliction's wintry ftorm,
O ftill with Love and Pity warm!
Go little Book! or foon, alas!
Ere a few rolling feafons pals,
My triends, fo weak are human ties,
May caft me from their memories:
Save when, recall'd, by chance alone,
By the frail record on my stone !
A poor memorial! form'd to tell,
Nought but my birth, and when I fell !
Go! little Book! when I am gone,
And be my monumental ftone!

Then when this heart, extinct its heat,
No more at Paffion's call fhall beat;
Cold, Julia! cold to Love and thee,
Ah! iterneft part of Fate's decree !
Then when thefe eyes, no longer bright,
Are clofed in everlating night!

defin'd [mind. Th' exalted virtues of a CARTIER'S In humbler trains one craves to touch the lyre,

And folve thy queftion-tho' poetic fire Glows not herein-yet fhail bright Truth [terpart. Where may be found thy portrait's counLet me then lead thee to this diftant

impart

fcene,

[ftream! Where GANGES rapid rolls his ballow'd Here, not by virtue more than blood

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This poem was, originally, prefixed to a manufcript volume of the Author's

works.

Charles Law, Efq. nephew to John Cartier, Efq.

Now

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What if no purple robe, of various fold, Catches the gaze of fools with circling gold?

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Peace yet is his no hope can raise his
To crave the vanity of high controul.
Rich in content, and rich in Nature's
boon,
[noon;
He toils thro' morning, and he refts at
And tho' he toils, his toils are fuch as
live

Free from each care anxiety can give.
The fertile lands his eaty labours pay,
A mere fubfidence for the prefent day.
To-morrow's wants ne'er taint the joy ful
[pow'r,
The fears of future ill the rich o'er-
And, midit the gaudy feaft of premis'd
joy.

hour;

E'en fpoil enjoyment, and the reiith cloy. Not fuch is Damon; for when Heav n defcends [bends;

In war'ry torrents, and the corn o'erWhen jummer reddens, or when autumn's rime [prime; Blights the full ear, and blafts it in its Content is he each evil to forego, Nor feels from Fortune what mankind call wce. [truth, See round him dwell p'ain innocence and Untullied beauty, and unbroken youth. "Calm contemplation and poetic eafe" Teach ev'ry object, ev'ry found, to pleafe. [beheft, Fix'd in his heart he owns this high What Heaven gives, is given for the

belt.

Reading.

VERSES,

BY THE REV. C. W. E

C. B.

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But yet a mother's fighs will fometimes heave; [grieve. But yet a mother's breaft will fometimes On his flush'd cheek the fees the crimfon glow; [throe. Alarm'd the views the wild convulfive

Her ears on tiptoe liften to each gasp, Whilft her encircling arms her darling clafp. [cheft

Each throb that iffues from his infant Meets a refponfive echo in her breast.

Oh! may a mother's care, fhe cries, fucceed! [indeed!" Robb'd of my child, "I am bereav'd Still may I nurse the idol of my heart, And fhield him from Contagion's venom'd dart.

treat.

Charles is my only child—a direful fate Hurl'd my poor Mary to her last re[breath, Cropp'd like the lily, the refign'd her And haften'd prematurely to her death. Sweet blighted bud! But let me not repine,

A happier and a better lot is thine; Where thou art gone, no fubtle scheme is plann'd

To cheat Distemper, and arreft his hand. The wifh is selfish, but Charles must not go,

And leave his mother to unceasing woe; Tho' to his feraph fifter he cou'd fly, Wafted on airy pinions to the sky.

Sure 'tis no crime to hold what God has giv'n,

Tho' I detain a Cherubim from Heav'n. If 'tis a crime to keep my darling here, †May "the recording Angel drop a tear."

Wickfled Hall, near Whitchurch, October 1, 1802.

JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

FIRST SESSION OF THE SECOND PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

TUESDAY, NOV. 16.

TH HE Lord Chancellor entered the Houfe at half patt two o'clock; and having taken his feat upon the Woolfack, informed their Lordships, that his Majefty, not thinking fit to be perfonally prefent on that occafion, had iffued a Commiffion to certain perfons therein mentioned, for holding a Parliament, which Commiffion they should hear read.

His Lordship, with the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Duke of Port land, having taken their feats as Commiffioners immediately below the throne, Sir Francis Molyneux, Uther of the Black Rod, was ordered to command the attendance of the Commons, who accordingly appeared at the Bar, preceded by their principal Clerk, Mr.

Lee.

The Lord Chancellor, after making

a fimilar communication to what he had ftated to the Lords, ordered the Royal Commiffion to be read; which proceeding being gone through, he further stated, that he had it in command from his Majesty to inform them, that as foon as the Members of both Houfes were fworn in, his Majetty would communicate to them his reafons for calling the prefent Parliament; and that, in the mean time, it was his Majefty's pleasure that they should proceed to the choice of a Speaker, and that they should prefent a proper perfon to fill that office, in the House of Peers, exactly at two o'clock tomorrow, for the purpose of his receiving the Royal approbation.

The Commons having then retired, the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishops of London and Durham, and about

*This poor little creature died in convulfions foon after its birth, owing to a fright its mother received from being nearly overturned in a carriage.

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twenty other Peers, took the ufual oaths, and entered their names in the roll of Parliament.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17.

The Lord Chancellor, Lord Pelham, and Lord Walfingham, having taken their feats as Royal Commiffioners, ordered the Ufher of the Black Rod to fummon the Commons, in pursuance of his Majesty's command.

The Commons entered a few minutes afterwards, preceded by

Mr. Abbott, who, advancing to the Bar, informed the Commillioners, that the Commons having proceeded to the election of a Speaker, their choice had falien on him; but when he reflected on the arduous duties of that office, and his own inadequacy to difcharge them, he must request that his Majesty would be graciously pleased to order the Commons to proceed to 3 new election.

The Lord Chancellor, after palling the compliments customary on fuch occafion, on the abilities of the Speaker elect, and the wifdom difplayed by

the Commons in their choice of Mr. Abbott a fecond time, declared his Majefty's approbation of that choice.

Mr. Abbott, in reply, profeffed to entertain the deepest fenfe of the Royal favour thewn him by this approbation

of his election a fecond time. He claimed, on behalf of the Commons, the privilege of freedom of fpeech, freedom from arreft, and all other privileges enjoyed by the Houfe of Commons, under his Majefty or any of his predecellors. He at the fame time begged that his conduct, if he should apparently commit any errors, might

receive the most favourable conftruction on the part of his Majefty.

The Lord Chancellor then stated, that the Commiffioners had it in command from his Majesty to confirm all the ancient privileges of the Commons, and affured the Speaker that his conduct should always experience the molt favourable conftruction.

The Commons having retired, Lord Keith was introduced as a British Peer of the fame title, and took the oaths and his feat. About a dozen other Peers were alfo fworn in.

[The Houfe was occupied in fwearing in the Peers till]

TUESDAY, NOV. 23, which being the day appointed for opening the new Parliament, and proceeding to the difcharge of public VOL. XLII. Nov. 1802.

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My Lords and Gentlemen,

"It is highly gratifying to me to refort to your advice and affiftance after the opportunity which has been recently afforded of collecting the fense of my people.

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The internal profperity of the country has realized our most fanguine hopes : we have experienced the bounty of Divine Providence in the produce of an abundant harveft.

"The ftate of the manufactures, commerce, and revenue of my United Kingdom is flourishing beyond example; and the loyalty and attachment which are manifefted to my perfon indications of the just fenfe that is and government afford the strongest entertained of the numerous bleffings enjoyed under the protection of our happy Conftitution.

In my intercourfe with foreign Powers, I have been actuated by a fincere difpofition for the maintenance for me to lofe fight of that established of peace. It is nevertheless impoffible and wife fyftem of policy by which the

interets of other States are connected with our own; and I cannot, therefore, be indifferent to any material change in their relative condition and riably regulated by a due confideratrength. My conduct will be invation of the actual fituation of Europe, and by a watchful folicitude for the permanent welfare of my people.

"You will, I am perfuaded, agree with me, in thinking that it is incumbent upon us to adopt thofe means of fecurity which are beft calculated to afford the profpe&t of preferving to my fubjects the bleflings of peace.

"Gentlemen of the House of Commons, "I have ordered the estimates for

the enfuing year to be laid before you; and I rely on your zeal and liberality in providing for the various branches of the public fervice, which it is a great fatisfaction to me to think may be fully accomplished without any confiderable addition to the burdens of my people.

"My Lords and Gentlemen, "I contemplate with the utmost fatisfaction the great and increating Dad

benefits

benefits produced by that important measure which has united the interefts and confolidated the refources of Great Britain and Ireland. The improvement and extenfion of these advantages will be objects of your unremitting care and attention. The trade amd commerce of my fubjects, fo effential to the fupport of public credit, and of our maritime frength, will, I am perfuaded, receive from you every poffible encouragement; and you will readily lend your affiftance in affording to mercantile tranfactions, in every part of my United Kingdom, all the facility and accommodation that may be confiftent with the fecurity of the public revenue.

"To uphold the honour of the country, to encourage its industry, to improve its refources, and to maintain the true principles of the Conftitution in Church and State, are the great and leading duties which you are called upon to difcharge. In the performance of them you may be affured of my uniform and cordial fupport; it being my earnest wish to cultivate a perfect harmony and confidence between me and my Parliament, and to promote to the utmost, the welfare of my faithful fubjects, whofe interests and happiness I thall ever confider as infeparable from my own.”

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

TUESDAY, NOV. 16.

A GREAT number of Members took the Qualification Oath, in the Long Gallery, before the Lord Steward of the Household. After the ceremony, thefe Members entered the House, and took their places accordingly.

At half an hour paft two o'clock, Sir Francis Molyneux, Ufher of the Black Rod, came down, and fummoned Mr. Ley (the principal Clerk at the table) and the Members to repair to the House of Lords, in order to hear his Majefty's Commif. fion read.

Mr. Ley, in obedience to this command, accordingly went to the Houfe of Lords, attended by the Members. Having returned, and taken his feat at the table,

Sir William Scott rofe, and fpoke nearly to the following effect :-Mr. Ley, it is with the most complete confidence and entire fatisfaction that I now prefume to addrefs the House upon the fubject recommended to its immediate attention, by his Majefty's moft gracious Meffage. The choice of a Speaker is the first and highest function of this Houfe, as it is no less than the selection of a man to watch over and protect the valuable rights of the Commons of the United Empire. The talents which conftitute the quaJifications for fuch an exalted office, are not, in general, eafily met with; they cannot be expected to exist in a combination of all the energies of the mind, had not experience demonftrated the contrary in feveral recent

inftances, which must be well known to The man

many who now hear me. who fills this high ftation, ought to cherish the true old English spirit of loyalty, an inviolable and rooted attachment to the perfon and government of his Sovereign, an affection for the ancient conftitution of his country, and a love of rational improvement and gentle correction. He ought alfo to entertain an unconquerable avertion to thofe wild principles of erior, the melancholy effects of which Europe has lately had fuch occafion to lament. At the fame time, he must poffefs a mind capable of expansion, of comprehending the most complicated and extenfive fubjects, and of descending to thofe of the most minute and particular nature. He ought to have a moft jealous and fcrupulous regard to the privileges of the Houfe; firm in refifting folicitation, confpicuous for polished manners in private, and in public affairs for dignity of demean our, blended with that fuavity of temper fo eflential for foftening the afperities of office. To these indif penfable requifites I must add, that the most general and extended knowledge must be attached. In looking round the Houfe, enriched by talents of the moft fhining and brilliant nature, I fee many in this dignified affembly who, although not bred to the law, have exhibited abilities of the moft tranfcendant defcription. It would be extremely arduous and difficult for the Houfe to choose a Prefident, merely upon fuppofed merits, grounded upon eulogy or the warm wishes of friends. Fortunately

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