POETICAL After much labour, and much coft, A dragon guards the glorious prize, The actions of la Mancha's knight : And what d'ye think was in the purse? And well it was no worfe: The LION and subject B E A S T S. ESSAY S. Some years elaps'd, that babbler Fame In nothing but ambition great: A creature, own'd by fome to be Seiz'd gentle Leo by the ear. A Fox, of endless fhifting tricks, Sly, fubtle, delegate of pow'r, His hoards receiv'd a golden show'r. And feem'd to hate a finner; Difpos'd to fhare the d—l's dinner A Wolf the foe of all his kind, By wealth and family connection, And virtue held in fad dejection. Thus Lupus B -d keeps his ground, With leading wealth and honours crown'd. The bull-dogs wounded deep and fore, ((Some beafts have faid both tame and With injur'd maftifis, 'gan to roar, A Lion, tameft of his kind, blind) Was crown'd of quadrupeds the King: Whilft forefts wide with acclamations ring. And ftopp'd exhaufting ftreams of blood: wrong, Debates grew high, and parties ftrong, Pretending all the public good; With whetted teeth their foes they ply'd With fhame and mortal crimson dy'd. Thought all beneath thee, born to be thy flaves) Who fpar'd not thofe cœleftial beings who did The above was the refult on reading the words, O fuperbe, quid fuperbis? tua fuperbia te fuperabit, in your laf Magazine, p. 152, if you think it worthy of a place in your next you'll oblige Your's &c. J. ADAMS. To each his peculiar Dame Nature affigns, Not a ftroke can I write while the ftomach repines, A mere boy at the beft, when with falling I fhrivel, For hunger and thirst I deteft like the Devil. Juft fuch as my liquor my verfes you'll find, And I never can rhyme with my guts full of wind; But wet my old whistle, and ftuff me completely, Sure Ovid himself never fung half so sweetly. When with eating and drinking I'm tight as a drum, I talk like a Prophet of wonders to come; For when Bacchus is feated aloft in the brain, Then Phabus infpires me, and great is the ftrain! To our CORRESPONDENT S. 7 HE Favour conveyed to us in a Letter figned a Confiant Reader is thankfully received, and an Engraving on Copper-Plate shall be given in our next on that interesting subject, which cannot fail of being agreeable to our Readers. Longinus is too incorrect for Publication, and Lucy Lackit is 100 indelicate in her double Entendres to be agreeable to a chafe Reader. Many of our Correspondents, whofe Favours could not be admitted in this Number for want of Room, will be attended to in our next. Is juft Published, in which is given elegant Copper-Plates, and great Variety of original and interefting Articles, together with a complete INDEX. Foreign and Domestic Intelligence. By accounts from Leghorn, dated June 20, we learn, that the unfortunate Paoli, having been obliged to retreat before the French to the pieve of Vivario, where he had only 537 of his followers left; and being furrounded by four thousand of the enemy, called his faithful friends together, and mounting upon a finall eminence, addreffed them in a moft patetic manner, lamenting, that, after bravely oppofing the ambitious defigns of the Genoefe for a number of years, he fhould live to fee the conftitution of his country overthrown, and almost all his friends and fellow foldiers either killed or made prifoners! That feeing no profpect at prefent of oppofing the power of France, he thought it neceffary to acquaint them that, as no alternative was left but death or flavery, he was determined to cut his way through the enemy, in order to feek fome diftant land, where, in time, an opportunity might offer for recovering the liberties of their country, or terminating their honourable career, by dying gloriously, as they had lived. After this the brave chief embraced the followers of his fortune, and, in the dead of the night, having fought his way through the French, escaped to the ruins of a convent on the fea fhore, where he concealed himself two days, and then found means to embark on board an English veffel bound to Leghorn, where he arrived on the 16th of last month. His entrance into that harbour had much more the appearance of a triumph than that of a flight. All the English fhips faluted him with their artillery and difplayed their colours, and though it rained in the most violent manner when he landed, people of all ranks ran in crouds towards the mold, and received the brave chief with the greatest acclamations of joy. A letter from Annibal Roftini, fecretary of general Paoli, to his brother at Leghorn mentions, that the general in his speech to his faithful adherents, a fhort time before his embarkation, faid, "At length my brave affociates, we are reduced to the last extremity. The thirft of gold hath accomplished that which a war of thirty years, the envenomed hatred of the Genoefe, and the forces of divers powers of Europe, could not effect. Our unfortunate fellow citizens, feduced and deceived by fome corrupted chiefs, went themfelves to meet those chains with which they are now loaded." Baftia, June 19. We hear from Leghorn, that fince the arrival of M. Paoli, a great number of Corficans are come thither; and that it is believed they will fettle themselves in the marches of Sienna, on account of the great advantages gaining to all who are wilVol. III, 33 ling to inhabit those desart and uncultivated lands. Conftantinople, June 2. On the 26th ult. a fecond courier arrived here with a confirmation of the late victory gained by the Turks over the Ruffians. On the 25th of fame month the grand feignor went to the mofque to return thanks to heaven for the fame. The Ivan, when praying for our Mo-, narch, gave him the furname of Gazi (i. e. conqueror) which for the future will be inferted in all publick ordinances. It must, however, be acknowledged, that this title refts upon an imaginary event; for we are at length informed by credible advices that the whole advantage of the Ottomans confifts in the retreat of the Ruffian army (for want of heavy artillery and provifions) from before Choczim, and repafling the Neifter, and that on this occafion a corps of Turkish artillery took fome of the baggage waggons. This retreat has been reprefented as a flight, confequently as the effect of a defeat. Warsaw, July 5. According to letters from the frontiers of Moldavia, the Turkish army is divided into three corps; the one, which is the moft confiderable, is incamped near Bender; the fecond in the neighbourhood of Jaffy, and the third not far from Choczim. We hear that the confederates are again in poffeffion of Czenftochow, and have blockaded up Pofnania. It is reported that a treaty of pacification between the Ottomans and Ruffians is now on foot, and likely to be brought about by the good offices of the court of Great Britain. Vienna, July 5. Mr. Wroughton, the British refident at the court of Wariaw, who arrived lately here from London, is at length fet out for Poland; he takes the route of Silefia, upon the frontiers of which a body of Pruffians are to efcort him to Warfaw. Count Barynfki, a polish nobleman, who has been here fome time, takes this opportunity of returning to his own country. Berlin, July 15. Yesterday the marriage of prince Henry of Pruffia with the princefs of Heffe Darmstadt, was celebrated at Charlottenburgh; after the ceremony the court fupped at feven tables. Naples, June 21. The king has lately iffued out an edict prohibiting feveral of the works of the celebrated Voltaire, particularly his Philofophical Dictionary, and the Philofophy of Hiftory. By this edict all perfons who have copies of the above pieces in their poffeffion, are directed to fend them to the chamber of St. Clair, in the space of four days, under pain of three years banishment, for the nobility; and a condemnation to the galleys for the like number of years for the commonalty. E Saturday Saturday, July 1. On Midfummerday, came on at Guildhall the election for fheriffs and other officers for the year enfuing. Previous to the opening of the court, Samuel Vaughan, Efq; addreffed himself to the livery, and ftrongly recommended decency in their behaviour, as the most likely, and indeed the only means, by which they could accomplish the end for which fo numerous a body had affembled. At one o'clock the lord mayor and court of aldermen came upon the huftings, when the recorder came forward, and attempted to open the business of the day, but an almost general hifs and uproar enfued, many calling out for them to confider of a petition in the first place; on which the lord mayor addreffed himself to the livery, and in a very genteel fpeech acquainted them, that he had taken a great deal ofpains to inform himself of the duty of his office on the prefent occafion, and that he could not find one fingle inftance of any bufinefs being done previous to the choice of officers; at the fame time affuring them, that no one had a greater regard to the liberty of the fubject than himfelf; but ftrongly recommended decency and good order, declaring that he would not break up the court till fuch time as they had taken the opinion of the livery relative to the matter they wanted to enforce, if the livery would first proceed to do the bufinefs for which the common hall was called. this declaration was received with fhouts of applaufe; but a gentleman expreffing his dislike to the measure of delay, another clamour arofe, when Mr. Bellas defired to be heard, and begged the gentlemen to proceed to bufinefs in an orderly manner, as the only means to preferve their liberty, and to free themfelves from the imputation of licentioufnefs; obferving, that as the lord mayor had promifed not to break up the court till they were fatisfied, it would be the height of rudeness to doubt the veracity of their chief magiftrate. This fpeech was attended with the defired effect, and they immediately proceeded to the choice of fheriffs, when the four aldermen below the chair, and nine commoners, were severally put up; they were all received with ftrong marks of difapprobation, and not more than fifty hands held up for any one of them, till they came to James Townfend, Efq; and John Sawbridge, Efq; who were almoft unanimously chofen, and with prodigious fhouts of applaufe. Several other officers were then put up for the enfuing year who are now in office, who all were rechofen, except two of the auditors, in whofe room Mr. Deputy Richard Townfhend and Mr. Boddington fucceeded. The lord mayor, agreeable to his promife, then came into court, and faid he was ready to hear the livery's propofal; on which Mr. Lovel got up, and fpoke for near a quarter of an hour on the many grievances, the liverymen, in common with their fellow citizens, laboured under. After he had finished, there was a propofal made (which was carried una voce) whether the petition fhould be then read---it was read accordingly; but my lord mayor begged leave to make one alteration, which was this, "That instead of the humble petition of the lord mayor, aldermen, and livery of the city of London,' it should run thus---" The humble petition of the livery of the city of London." The petition was then read a second time with this alteration, and was univerfally approved of. A propofal was then made by Mr. Vaughan, that the lord mayor, the sheriffs, and the members for the city of London, should be requested to wait on his majefty with this petition, which, upon holding up of hands, was univerfally approved of. During the reading of this petition, one article which complains of the two frequent call of the military, drew tears from the eyes of old Mr. Allen, who was prefent. Sir Robert Ladbroke then came forward, and told the gentlemen of the livery, "that he not only affented to this propofal, but thought it his duty." Alderman Beckford being next, addreffed them, " by affuring them he was ever at the fervice of the livery of London, that in regard to giving in the petition, it was a request that made him happy, as it agreed entirely with his own opinion, and that in regard to the particulars of the petition now read (as far as he could judge from twice hearing it) he knew most, if not all of the particulars to be facts, and concluded by referring to his confcience for the uprightness of his intentions." Mr. Alderman Trecothick next spoke to the fame effect; and faid he should be happy in attending his brother members on this occafion.---The other member, Mr. Harley, was not prefent. A motion was then made, and univerfally approved of, to return thanks to the lord mayor for his great candour and impartiality on this occafion, and it was confirmed by the loudeft fhouts of approbation; upon which his lordship expreffed his fenfe of the honour done him in very polite terms, assuring them that he would, to the best of his power, finish as he had began his office, with juftice and impartiality. Another motion was then made for the thanks of the livery to be returned to their three worthy members, which was unanimoufly voted. After |