ELEGY on the death of Adm. BYNG.
Atal viciffitude!

Was it for this that Fortune grac'd thy
birth,

Bestow'd thee titled honour, pomp, and place, And pointed out the way that led to worth,

To make thy death conspicuously base! Grant me, juft heav'ns! to breathe in defert air, And mourn my days in folitude forlorn, Rather than feat me in Ambition's chair,

If I must live and die my country's fcorn. Yet from the smallest to the greatest crimes Some little share of gentle pity's due. Britons! if 'tis with-held in other climes,

The poor offender claims the debt from you. 'Tis yours to follow radiant truth, to poise The fcales of juftice with an even hand: But then 'tis great, 'tis just to sympathise — Elfe wherefore breathe ye in a Christian land? Since he has paid the forfeit of the laws,

Indulge his friends the tribute of a figh: It will not wrong a fuff'ring nation's caufe; (eye. Heav'n loves the drops that flow from Pity's No longer let revenge purfue its blow,

Nor fcandal ftrive his mem'ry to degrade; Let deep oblivion bury all his wo,

And o'er his foibles fpread her friendly shade. Oh! then (if ye can grant a boon so great) Forgive the mufe, if o'er his mould'ring bier, In kind condolence for his hapleís fate,

She gen'rons drops the fympathetic tear. But if emerging forth from Time's dark womb Truth fhould exculpate his inglorious name; Will not each Briton reverence his tomb,

And future bards immortalize his fame? Thy foes must own, and while they own, admire, O Byng, thy calm compofure at thine end. Too late (thou victim to thy country's ire) Unbiafs'd reason fhews herself thy friend. March 21. 1757. BENEVOLUS,

On the Rt Hon. Mr WILLIAM PITT's difmiffion. "Hat lowring clouds again obfcure our sky,

Wand vail the glories of our rifing day?

No fooner had the golden morn appear'd,
No fooner had its beams our fpirits cheer'd,
But old distempers with returning fit,
Awake our fears, and banish hope with P-.
Difmifs'd, alas! because he would be just,
Be ftrictly honeft in the greatest trust;
OEconomise the favours of the c—,
And make all interefts fecond to our own;
Bid merit rife, fecure of its reward,
And Britons be their own defence and guard.

Go, go, great man! in ev'ry sphere approv'd,
By all applauded, honour'd, and belov'd;
Thy fall but crowns thee with a deathless name,
And lends new wings to thy unrival'd fame.

So drops the fun beneath our hemifphere, Yet fhines as bright, as warm, and pow'rful there; Unchang'd exifts a glorious orb of light,

Though we're invelop'd with a flood of night;

His infl'ence gone, through city, hill, and plain,
What fancies, blunders, and diforders reign!
w danger oft, fometimes of all bereav'd,
With bugbears frighted, willy-wifps deceiv'd,
But filching knaves, and rav'nous beafts of prey.
All nature groans, and wishes for new day,

From my retirement, April 28. 1757.

The HERMIT.

Endu'd with ftrength, or fitted him for fpeed?
Didft' form his brawny neck, and shaggy mane,
That shakes its thunder round the distant plain?
Canft' make his ever-dauntless heart afraid?
Or fee him tremble at your paffing shade,
As feeble grafhoppers, that bounding fly
From tread of murd'ring foot, or else they die?
He paws, he fnorts, he lifts his head on high;
And flames from his tremendous noftrils fly.
Glad in his ftrength, he proudly treads the plain,
Arm❜d ranks on ranks but fill him with difdain.
Death-fraughted quivers joy his fearless heart;
He mocketh at the glitt'ring fword and dart.
In vain, with blows repeated, fhields refound;
Raging, in thought he beats the distant ground.
Scarce is the trumpet's well-known found believ'd,
But thinks himfelf by eager joy deceiv'd.
Among the trumpets, he forgets the rein,
Joy fills his heart," and pants in ev'ry vein."
He fmells the bloody battle from afar,
And, joyful, hears the din of thund'ring war.
Edin. April 1757.
PHILANDER,

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PASTORAL.

Hat fhepherd or nymph of the grove
Can blame me for dropping a tear,

Or lamenting aloud as I rove,

Since Sufan no longer is here! My flocks, if at random they ftray,

What wonder, fince she's from the plain!

Her hand they were us'd to obey,

She rul'd both the fheep and the swain. Can I ever forget how we stray'd

To the foot of yon neighbouring hill, To the bower we had built in the fhade, And the river that runs by the mill! Then fweet, by my fide as the lay,

And heard the fond ftories I told, How fweet was the thrush from the spray, And the bleating of lambs from the fold! How oft would I spy out a charm

That before had been hid from my view, And as arm was infolded in arm

My lips to her lips how they grew! How oft the fweet conteft wou'd last

Till the hour of retirement and reft, What pleasures and pains each had paft, Who longeft had lov'd, and who best! No changes of place or of time

I felt while my fair-one was near, Alike was each weather and clime, Each feafon that chequers the

year.

In winter's rude lap did we freeze,

Did we melt on the bofom of May, Each morn brought contentment and ease," If we rofe up to work or to play. She was all my fond wishes cou'd ask, She had all the kind gods can impart, She was nature's most beautiful talk,

The defpair and the envy of art. There all that was worthy to prize In all that is lovely was dreft, For the graces were thron'd in her eyes, And the virtues all lodg'd in her breast. The praife of VANITY. A fatire. Till to be vain is all the art I know, make van happy, and to keep them fo." From this one fource our greatest bleffings spring; The beggar vain, is happier than a king. This lends to trifles all their power to please, From crowns and mitres, down to rings and lace. Thrice happy gift by nature kindly given, To keep the balance of her bounties even. Its magic power each mortal must confefs, Great in proportion as true merit's lefs.

Critus, a poet, fterile, dry, and poor, Who fcarce can tag one couplet in an hour; Whom want and hunger hardly prompt to write, Who eats to-morrow, if he writes to-night; To him, blefs'd nymph, thou lend'st thy powerful With fancy'd merit fill'ft his empty head, (aid, While foft thou whifper'ft in our poet's ear, "There Homer's fpirit! Virgil's fweetness here! "Thy style correct, bold and fublime thy thought. "To what a pitch may poetry be brought! "That fame, be fure, pofterity will give, "With-held by envy while you poets live."

Behold Nigrina, on whofe haggard brow, Deep are imprefs'd the marks of forty-two; Whole body twifted fifty different ways, Baffles all power of stuffing, fteel, and stays; The dentist's fkill Nigrina oft has try'd, With pain and trouble fée her teeth fupply'd; In vain fhe tries with carmine to restore, Her former roles, blooming now no more; While from her mouth the peftilential breath Infects the room, nay fills the air with death; Without thy aid, Nigrina long had been A prey to envy, malice, and chagrin: Upheld, O goddefs, by thy powerful arm, She hopes to conquer still, and ftill to charm; With fancy'd grace fhe treads the mazy dance, With fancy'd art fhe darts the am'rous glance. While fome extol bright gold's attractive charms, Some with for peace, and others figh for arms; While fome in horfes place their fole delight, In focial converfe fome to pafs the night; This loves to fhine an empty sparkling beau, That far from fplendor flees, and idle fhew; This boafts his power of eloquence divine, And that his fkill to form the lofty rhyme: Give me for ever Van'ty to poffefs'; No gold I afk, no friend, no fparkling glass; My foul, content, fhall never more require The courtier's fplendor, or the poet's fire. Dundee, Jan. 7. 1757.

G. D.

HISTORY.

A Letter from, Dantzick, dated A

pril 9. fays, that every week confiderable quantities of wheat and rye arrived there from POLAND, to answer the commiffions they received, not only from Hamburg and Lubeck, but also from Britain and Ireland; and that notwithstanding those commiffions, and the great confumption occafioned by the vicinity of the Ruffian army, corn was ftill at a moderate price.

According to letters from Hamburg, fo foon as the court of PETERSBURG was informed that the French army was in full march for Germany, orders were fent to Marfhal Apraxin to put the Ruffians in motion. Their purveyors were erecting magazines for their fubfiftence; and fo foon as a magazine was formed, they fent off a detachment to guard it. Late advices bear, that feveral detachments of those troops had taken post along the banks of the Niemen, in order to intercept the barges which carried corn from Poland into Pruffia; and that fome of their irregulars having entered the Pruffian territory, they had been repulfed with lofs. In the evening of March 17. as the Emprefs of Ruffia was returning from paying a vifit to the Chancellor Count de Woronzoff, a perfon in difguife had the impudence to prefent himself at the coach-door, and call to the coachman to ftop; but finding that the guards were going to feize him, he made off, and by the favour of the night efcaped; fo that his inducement to fo rash an attempt could not be difcovered.

There is advice from Ratisbon, that the King of SWEDEN has declared, that he is determined to fulfil his enjointly with his Moft Chriftian Majefty, gagements as guarantee of the treaty of Weftphalia, and confequently will act in conjunction with the French King, in order to put a stop to thofe evils which feem at prefent to threaten Germany with fo much bloodshed. It is faid, that his Swedish Majefty has been induced to take this step, with a view that France is to conquer Bremen and Verden from Hanover,

whole 145,000, befides the troops in Pruffia to oppofe the Ruffians.

About the beginning of April the armies on both fides began to be in mo. tion, in order to approach one, another; his Pruffian Majefty leaving garrifons behind him in the principal towns of Saxony.

They write from Vienna of April 9. that the ftates of the circle of Upper Saxony not having obeyed a refcript of February 1. by which the Emperor injoined them to publish his avocatory let ters, and, within the space of two months, to inform the aulic council of the empire of the execution of this order; his Imperial Majefty has fent them a new refcript, dated April 5. drawn up in much stronger terms than the former. They are now allowed but one month's refpite and if within that term they do not execute what is commanded them, they are to be proceeded against with the utmoft rigour of the laws of the empire. The Duke of Saxe-Gotha conftantly refufes to fulfil what is reckoned a duty incumbent on him as director of that circle; and as in the reafons which this prince alledges to juftify his inaction, the aulic council think they fee nothing but a formal disobedience to the orders of the fupreme head of the empire, they are refolved to make fresh remonftrances to his Imperial Majesty against him. Thence it is obferved, that if the houfe of Auftria and France prove fuccefsful in the prefent war, we may poffibly fee all the Proteftant princes in Germany put under the ban of the empire. That council has delivered to the Emperor their final refolution against the King of Pruffia, by which the fifcal of the empire is ordered to cite that monarch as Elector of Brandenburg, and acquaint him that he is put under the ban, of the empire, and fo deprived of all his rights, privileges, and prerogatives, &c. and that his fiefs are forfeited to the fical.

His Pruffian Majefty has fent a new memorial to all his minifters at foreign courts, for enabling them to prove what he had a little infifted upon in fome former pieces, concerning the defigns form

ed against him, and the fcheme concerted at Vienna and elsewhere to extirpate the Proteftant religion out of the empire. The principal proofs of this are founded on Count Fleming's letters, which it seems his Majefty did not think fit to publish all at once, though he might have done it fome months fooner, being reftrained by a regard to a court with which he was not come to a rupture. This memorial is faid to be written in clearer and ftronger terms than any of the former.

In our laft [155.] we gave an account of a French army, joined by four regiments of Auftrians, being in full march to attack the King of Pruffia's defencelefs dominions in the neighbourhood of the Low Countries. This army had fcarcely fet foot on the territories of Juliers and Cologn, when it found there was nothing more to do than take poffeffion of the duchy of Cleves and the county of Mark, where every place was opened to it; the Pruffians who evacuated the posts there taking their route along the river Lippe, in order to join fome regiments from Magdeburg, which had been fent to facilitate their retreat. The Prince de Soubife, general of the French army, took poffeffion of Cleves, Wefel, and other towns, in the Emprefs-Queen's name; pursuant to which two commiffioners fet out from Bruffels, to make the neceffary arrangements, collect the revenues, and put up her Imperial Majefty's arms, &c. The town of Gueldres was the only place on that fide in which his Pruffian Majefty ordered a garrison to be left. On the first advice that the French were entered Auftrian Gueldres, they opened their fluices, which laid all the neighbourhood more than a league round under water. According to very late advices, Gueldres was invefted, and threatened with a bombardment.

The Duke of Cumberland fet out from St James's at fix in the morning of April 9. imbarked at Harwich, landed at Stade on the 14th, and arrived at Hanover on the 16th, in order to command the army of obfervation which was to be formed, and which they said

would