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In June the courts of Stockholm and Copenhagen fent out a combined fleet of fixteen men of war and frigates, in equal numbers from both nations. The de clared intention of them was, to protect the commerce of the Swedes and Danes during the war between G. Britain and France; and it was fuppofed they were to protect a trade with France which the British would reckon contraband, and to join the French if attacked or molested on that account. Very foon they return. ed to the respective ports of their several nations. Letters from Stockholm and Copenhagen advised, that this happened in confequence of information received, that France had concluded an alliance with the court of Vienna, and was far advanced in forming one with Russia.

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Admonition and Exhortation by the Rev. Prefbytery of Edinburgh to all within their bounds. Dated, Edinburgh, Jan. 5. 1757. [47.] THE

'HE prefbytery taking into their ferious confideration, the declining ftate of religion, the open profanation of the Lord's day, the contempt of public worship, the growing luxury and levity of the prefent age; in which so many feem lovers of pleasure, more than lovers of God: and being particularly affected with the unprecedented countenance given of late to the playhouse in this place, when the state of the nation, and the circumftances of the poor, make fuch hurtful entertainments fill more pernicious; judged it their indifpenfable duty to exprefs, in the moft open and folemn manner, the deep concern they feel on this occafion.

The opinion which the Chriftian church has always entertained of ftage plays and players, as prejudicial to the interefts of religion and morality, is well known; and the fatal influence which they commonly have on the far greater part of mankind, particularly the younger fort, is too obvious to be called in question.

To enumerate how many fervants, apprentices, and ftudents in different branches of literature, in this city and fuburbs, have been feduced from their

proper bufinefs, by attending the stage, would be a painful, difagreeable task.

The prefbytery, in the year 1727, when confifting of many pious, prudent, and learned minifters, whofe praise is in all the churches, being aware of these evils, did prepare a paper, which was read from the feveral pulpits within their bounds, warning their people against the dangerous infection of the theatre then erected here.

In the year 1737, the legislature, in their great wisdom, did, by an act of the 10th of George II. enact and declare, "That every person who fhould, for hire or reward, act, or cause to be acted, any play, or other entertainment of the stage, without the special licence and authority mentioned in the said act, should be deemed a rogue and a vagabond; and for every fuch offence fhould forfeit the fum of 501. Sterling."

to obtain a licensed theatre in this city; At that time a project was set on foot but the mafters and profeffors of the uni. verfity, fupported by the magiftrates, having prepared a petition, fetting forth the dangerous tendency of a playhouse here, with refpect to the important in terefts of virtue and learning, the project was laid afide.

The players, however, being fo au. dacious as to continue to act in defiance of the law, the prefbytery did, at their own charge, profecute them before the court of feffion; and prevailed in the process. The players were fined in terms of law; and warrants being iffued for apprehending them, they fled from juftice. But others came in their place; who fince that time have attempted to elude the law, by changing the name of the playhouse into that of the concert-ball.

As fuch a flight evafion, the mere change of a name, could not make the smallest variation in the nature of the thing, the prefbytery continued to do all in their power, and in their sphere, to prevent the growing evil; and think themselves at this time loudly called upon, in one body, and with one voice, to expoftulate, in the bowels of love and compaffion, with all under their care and infpection.

When

When our gracious fovereign, attentive to the voice of Providence, is calling from the throne to humiliation and prayer [xviii. 619.], how unfeemly is it for his fubjects to give themselves up to mirth and jollity? When the war in which we are engaged, and many awful tokens of the divine difpleature, befpeak us, in the language of an infpired writer, to redeem the time because the days are evil, fhould that time be fquandered away in running the conftant round of foolish, not to fay finful amusements? When the wants and cries of the numerous poor require extraordinary fupplies, how unaccountable is it to lavish away vaft fums for fuch vain and idle purposes? When the wisdom of the nation has guarded the inhabitants of this city and fuburbs from the infection of the stage, by a plain and express statute; is it not a high inftance of folly, to break down that barrier, and open a door with their own hands for theatrical reprefentations? which are in many refpects no lefs inconfiftent with good policy, than unfriendly to religion; and will be found, fooner or later, to affect their temporal as well as fpiritual interefts.

On these accounts, and for many other obvious and weighty confiderations, the prefbytery, warmed with juft concern for the good of fouls, do, in the fear of God, warn, exhort, and obteft, all within their bounds, as they regard the glory of God, the credit of our holy religion, and their own welfare, to walk worthy of the vocation wherewith they are called, by fhewing a facred regard to the Lord's day, and all the ordinances of divine inftitution; and by dif couraging, in their respective spheres, the illegal and dangerous entertainments of the stage.

The prefbytery would plead with all in authority, with teachers of youth, parents, and masters of families, to restrain, by every habile method, such as are under their influence, from frequenting these feminaries of folly and vice. They would particulary befeech the younger part of their flock, to beware, left, by example, or from a foolish defire of appearing in the fashionable world, they

be mifled into fuch pernicious fnares; fnares which muft neceffarily retard, if not entirely mar that progrefs in the refpective parts of their education, on which their future usefulness and fuccefs depend. And, laftly, they would intreat and obteft perfons of all ranks and conditions, that, inftead of contributing to the growing licentioufnefs of the age, they may diftinguish themfelves by fhining as lights in the world, being blameless and harmlefs, the fons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation; occupying, for the great purpofes of the honour of God and the good of mankind, that time, that fubftance, and thofe other talents which they have received from their Lord and Mafter.

On the whole, The prefbytery do, in the moft earneft manner, call upon all who have the intereft of religion at heart, to plead fervently at the throne grace, in the prevailing name of the great Mediator, until the fpirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest: then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field; and the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and affurance for ever.

The prefbytery appoint this Admonition and Exhortation to be read from all the pulpits within their bounds, on the last Sabbath, being the thirtieth day of this month, immediately after divine fervice before noon.

DE for the NEW YEAR, '. 1757.
By COLLEY CIBBER, Efq; Poet-Laureat.
RECITATIVE and AIR.

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AIR.

The lofty pageant, courtly mufe, explain,

With willing wings exchang'd thofe treafures fly, And paint the virtues of the fplendid train.

While royal riches public wants fupply:

Well the mutual virtues fuit,
His the glory, theirs the fruit.
RECITATIVE and AIR.

Not the prolific ftreams
That nature's thirst fupply,
Or burnish'd gold that beams
On gorgeous luxury,
Can brighter glory boast,

Or greater good contain,
Than, radiant, round our coaft,
Breaks forth from Cæfar's reign.
AIR.

Had the lyrift of old

Had our Cæfar to fing,
More rapid his raptures had roli'd,

But never had Greece fuch a king. Chor. No-never had Greece fuch a king. RECITATIVE and AIR.

While Britons form themfelves the law
That keeps impiety in awe,
Nor prince, or people e'er conteft,
Unless to make thee great or blefs'd.
AIR.

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What happier days could Heaven ordain, Than long have liv'd in fuch a reign? There have we found the highest grace, While Cæfar's reign proclaims his race. Chor. What happier days, &c.

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GRAND CHORUS.
Late may he pass to heav'n refign'd,
And long below rejoice mankind.
The MACHINE. A poem for the year 1757.
Jam nova progenies, &c.

N of long mifconduct the dear-bought a
"OW the new progeny from heaven defcends,
Britons, you've oft at Covent-garden feen [mends.
Glide from the starry roof a bright machine;
And now in very deed you may behold,
New minifters blaze out in English gold.
What joys! what triumphs the wife leaders plot!
Well worth their skill t'unravel is the knot.

Where horrid rocks nod o'er a dreadful waste,
Chatsworth! fair palace, feems by magic plac'd;
All ufeful, juft, great, clegant, refin'd,
The scene a picture of the master's mind.
Genius of Chatsworth, born to guard the throne,
And on thy country's glory build thine own;
'Tis thine, grace, order, beauty, to create,
From horrors that deform the defert ftate.

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Unfully'd Legge, with English heart and mind, Refumes the truft he gloriously refign'd, Call'd to the charge by his lov'd fov'reign's voice; And public credit brightens at the choice,

To point our naval thunders at the foe, Spring heroes from th' Elyfian fields of Stow: Good Gilbert's dauntless brother, warlike Weft, Reaps laurel crowns enough for all the reft.

What rich rewards fhall British valour nurse, Now two-fac'd Janus holds the foldier's purfe! Old face, look back, thro' paft inglorious years, And for small merit pay the cheap arrears. Smug face look forward, bid the troops be gay, And ready, as their courage, make their pay.

See threefold Geryon on the Ch-'ry leat, Difplay three rev'rend fronts with brains replete. Six elbows fure the cufhion will oe'rload! And how can fix fuch hands be well beftow'd? Why one may hold the fword, and one the scales; One point where right, and one where fraud preOne may forbid young orators to ramble, [vails; And one be wav'd, applauding glib H-e Q`-ll. But how 'twould make the frighted lawyers ftare, Should any two be ftretch'd t'ward heav'n in The wily broker hopes in vain to fee [pray'rk One backward-bending finger hook a fee. Nor buys he Lady Geryon's good graces, By splitting perquifites, or quart'ring places. Whene'er the fithe of time, or royal sway, Shall lop two noddles from this trunk away; If Juftice be not deaf, as well as blind, Doubtless the weft * will be left behind. Hark, Britons! Tully fpeaks! what force! what Conviction beams delight in ev'ry face. [grace! But hell-born Hydra taints the public blifs; Her hundred ferpent-heads invenom'd hils. Hafte! fword and target bring from Vulcan's forge, Bring fpear and helmets arm him like St George. Forbear, he cries-with fhadows guilt's alarm'd The juft inflexibly refolv'd, is aim'd. Now for rich fops gape all her ferpent jaws, Nor higher than his pockets dart her claws. He treads her bloated paunch; an odious tide Of black pollution burfts her spotted fide. The fenate fickens at th’infectious smell, The fiend drags back her crawling fnakes to hell, And leaves in filth befmear'd, election-fcrolls, Purfes, bank-notes, and copies of court-rolls.

The author wrote a different initial letter here; whether guess, and with thy pen correct the text at thy pleay or e, or what other letter, gentle reader, fure. The printer judiciously changed it for w; which confines thee to read the word either wifeft change in the genuine fense of the prophecy.~ or worthieft; neither of which words makes the leaft

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Some account of Angria the pirate, and the taking of Geriah by Commodore Watfon. ULAGEE ANGRLA is a petty prince TU of India or Indoftan, a vast extent of country in Afia, fubject to the Great Mogul; who governs it by viceroys, called Nabobs, Chans, and Rajas; who act as abfolute fovereigns over their feveral provinces, to which they fucceed by hereditary right, and acknowledge the Mogul as fupreme lord only by an annual tribute. Thefe princes have frequently made war on each other, without permiffion from the Mogul, and have often refused to pay him their tribute. At this time they affect independence with impunity; as the Mogul was a few years fince divefted of almost all his power by Kouli Kan [ii. 428.]; and in the year 1754 was depofed by the Morattes, a people who inhabit a large inland tract of his dominions, and whofe power has always made them infolent and rebellious [xvii. 203. 607.]. Tulagee Angria's dominion confifts of feveral islands near Bombay, and an extent of land along the neighbouring continent of above 120 miles in length, and 60 in breadth, with feveral forts that were taken by his ancestors from European fettlers. As many particulars concerning thefe ancestors, and the manner how their territory was acquired, as books or intelligence could furnifh, will be found in the following narrative.

About the year 1643, an Arabian veffel was by ftrefs of weather driven down the coaft of Concan to the fouth of Bombay, as far as Choul, and forced afhore in the dominions of a tributary to the Grand Mogul, called the South Raja. The people on board got on fhore; but the crew, as foon as they had efcaped fhipwreck, accufed the master of great cruelty and injuftice; and the offcers of the Raja, upon this accufation, put him to death, and feized the veffel.

The principal man among this crew was one Sambo Angria, by extraction a Caffree, born in an ifland in the gulf of Ormus, and by religion a Mahometan. It happened that at this time the South Raja was at war with the Mogul, and VOL. XIX.

had been twice defeated; the crew of number, were fent as recruits to his ar this veffel therefore, being fixteen in my, which was then incamped near Surat, efcorted by an officer and ico men. This party, on the third day of their march, fell in with an advanced party of the Mogul's troops, confifting of 500 men. The officer, feized with a fudden panic, immediately deferted his command; and the whole company would have been taken prifoners, if Angria had not, with a courage and audacity that often on fudden emergencies is implicit ly obeyed, put himself at their head, and by taking advantage of fome loaded carriages, which ferved as barricades againft the first onfet, and improving the fituation of fome neighbouring defiles and the approach of night, not only defended his party, but iffuing unexpectedly upon their rear the next morning, from a defile through which he had filently marched in the night, totally defeated, and, except about thirty-fix, cut them all to pieces. He then heaped the fpoils upon the carriages which had ferved him for a bulwark, and proceeded in his rout.

The Raja received the first account of this atchievement from Angria's own mouth; and, as a reward for his bravery and conduct, immediately promoted him to a confiderable command in his army. Angria foon after fignalized himfelf in a general engagement with the Mogul's forces, over which he gained a complete victory. He was advanced to be commander in chief; and foon after married the daughter of the Raja's first minifter; by whom he had a son, named Purah Angria; who at the age of twenty years had obtained, by his father's intereft, a very confiderable military command.

About two years afterward the South Raja died; and his fucceffor refusing to pay the tribute demanded by the Mogul, the Mogul ordered the Nabob of Surat to invade his dominions. The Raja, whether he had taken any dif pleafure againft Angria, or whether he thought him too young for a command that required, not only courage, but exD

perience,

perience, gave the poft which Angria expected in this expedition, to another. Angria was fo much offended at this difappointment, that he took an opportunity to quit the Raja's dominions, and offer his fervice to the Nabob that was marching against him. The Nabob accepted the offer, and gave him a confiderable command. The Nabob was victorious; and Angria, urged by his refentment and his pride, to fhew that he was not unworthy the command which the Raja had refused, and that he was able to punish whoever fhould offend him, performed many feats of defperate bravery, and took the officer prifoner who had been appointed in his ftead. Angria exulted in this inftance of fuccefs with a favage and malicious joy; and commanding that his captive fhould be brought before him, in the presence of the Nabob, he drew his fword, and, after insulting him with many opprobrious terms on his change of fortune, he turned to the Nabob, and told him, he should now fee him facrifice to his revenge a man to whom he owed his firft difgrace. He then advanced furiously to the victim, in order to ftrike off his head. But the Nabob commanded his guards to interpose. He told him, that he would admit no prifoner of any man who had fought under his banners to be murdered in cold blood. Angria knew that it would be in vain to contend, and therefore fullenly put up his fword: but from that moment he conceived fo violent a hatred against the Nabob, that he was perpetually contriving his ruin.

While his mind was in this ftate, fome emiffaries of the Raja whom he had deferted, made him offers of great advantage if he would return. Thefe offers he fecretly accepted; but would not withdraw, that he might improve the firft opportunity that fhould offer of betraying the Nabob to his enemies.

In confequence of this refolution, he foon after advised the Raja to advance against the Nabob with his whole army, promifing to join him as foon as the troops fhould engage. The Raja confiding in Angria, and minutely follow ing his infructions, came upon the Na

bob with fo much advantage, that being joined by Angria with 1500 foot and 300 horfe, he obtained a complete victory, killing near 6000 on the spot, and plundering the city of Surat.

This war was foon followed by a peace, greatly to the advantage of the Raja; who gave Angria his fifter in marriage; by whom he had two fons, Purah Angria, and Connagee Angria.

Angria the father died in the infancy of thefe children; who were educated by the Raja their uncle with great kindness. Purah died a boy; and when Connagee was twenty years old, the Raja gave him the island of Kenerey, being a rock of about a mile and a half in circumference, as a petty fovereignty, placing feveral officers of state about him, and giving him alfo a number of veffels called galleywats, about the fize of our Gravefend tilt-boat, carrying fix fwivelguns and fixty men.

With this territory and this fleet Connagee Angria commenced pirate. Kenerey lies juft in the mouth of Bombay harbour, fo that no veffel could pafs without coming into Angria's reach; and the rock, befides its natural advantages, was fortified by an impregnable fort. After feveral years of fuccefsful rapine, in which he was abetted by the Raja and his fucceffor, he obtained not only a more confiderable naval force, but an army of the Raja' people, with 16,000 auxiliary Morattes, with which he conquered the coaft as far as Dabul, and took Geriah, where the Portuguese had built a strong fort; which he garrifoned, and improved, fo as to render it one of the most formidable places in all India.

By a perpetual acquifition of new territory and new treafure, Angria obtain ed the power and ftate of a fovereign prince; and in the year 1712 he had 20,000 men conftantly in his pay; he fent out his generals to fight his battles, and gave audience to ambassadors from the neighbouring states.

He now began to meditate the conquest of fome parts of the dominions of his friend the South Raja; and having obtained powder and ball from the Por

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