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But o'er the renovated plain
See Maia lead her smiling train

Of halcyon hours along;
While burst from every echoing grove
Loud strains of harmony and love,

Preluding to the choral song, Which opening June shall votive pour To hail with proud acclaim our Monarch's natal hour.

Still must that day, to Britain dear,

To Britons joy impart

Cloudy or bright, that day shall wear
The sunshine of the heart.
And as before the fervid ray

That genial glows in Summer skies.
Each cloud that veil'd the beam of day
Far from the azure welkin flies:
So may each cheerless mist that seems
Awhile to cloud our prospects fair,
Dispell'd by Hope's enlivening beams,
Our brightening ether fly, and melt away
in air.

Awhile though Fortune adverse frown

By timid friends their cause betray'd, With bosom firm and undismay'd, On force depending all their own, A living rampire round their parent Lord, The British warriors grasp th' avenging sword:

While youths of royal hope demand the fight

To assert a Monarch and a Father's right,

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LONDON. A POEM.

WHERE rural nature, with her bosom

bare,

Displays her op'ning blooms or yellow

hair:

With flow'ry wreaths fantastick binds her waist,

Or wraps her frozen charms in winter's snowy vest,

The bard on every brae, in every glen,
In every scroggie wild, and echoing lin,
Delighted roams to woo the tuneful nine,
And trace fair nature to her source divine.
Freely he drinks of pure Castalian springs,
And boldly sweeps the skies on fancy's
airy wings,

The rivulet bursting from the shatter'd rock,

The stock-dove wailing in the ancient oak, The dewy lawn with vernal blossoms

strew'd,

The fox at midnight howling in the wood, The lark, at dawn, hailing the blush of morn,

The quail at eve, amongst the rustling

corn,

Alternate wake his russet woodland muse, And heart o'er-flowing strains wild-warbling rouse :

Far from discordant jars or bustling noise, On some burn-bank he sings his loves and joys.

Or, fraught with woe, forsakes the haunts of men,

And pours his troubled soul in some untrodden glen.

Thus, skill'd by nature in the tuneful art, His simple strains with transport touch the heart:

Each native charm his glowing bosom fi es,

Each native grace his rustick muse inspires.

But here no sylvan nymphs harmonious join,

To wake with syren tongue the slumb'ring nine;

The manufactor'd charms of mimic art
Assail in vain the pure poetic heart.
No lordly mountains cloath'd with vernal
woods,

No hoary rocks, no headlong rushing floods,
No heathy hills swept by the balmy breeze
Bearing away the treasure-laden bees;
No briary dells, no velvet meads we see ;
Nor wood-notes wild nor babbling brooks
have we,

To

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Bounds on his dappl'dcourser o'erthe park,
In taverns keeps it up blythe as a lark,
Or theatred amongst the clamorous throng,
Encores with cries and claps the humorous

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Some ribs bespeak, and some the nice sir. loin.

Thus, in idea, on the platter laid,' most be
The fatten'd brute is carv'd before he's
flaed,
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So the keen eye of hunger-bellowing cit,
Devours the capon, roasting on the speat.
(To be continued:) TM. C.
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VERSES .0*** bo ON THE DEATH OF EDMUND GLOVER, M. D.1 Amuch admired and lamented Youth, who died at Edinburgh, April 1800. 1:|: ཨི THE hero's bier, the patriot's tomb a By other hands with garlands drest, [1

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Be mine to gild the dreary gloom,
Where beauty, youth, and Glover rest.
Weep, maids of Scotia, soft bedew

The hallow'd mould where Glover lies;
Whose form so oft was praised by you,
So oft illúnied your kindling eyes.

Weep, friends of ev'ry gentle worth,
"For mildness' form itself is fled,
And,

in the clay-cold earth, mber'd Glayer with the dead. Weep, gen'rous sons of Erin's race,

Your brother, boast, and honour's gone,

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at Arms made proclamation, commanding silence.

Behind the Barons, upon the right, was the box for the Managers appointed to conduct the prosecution, consisting of Mr Whitbread, Mr Fox, Lord

ABOUT nine in the morning, de- Howick, Lord Henry Petty, Mr Sheri

tachments from the three regiments of Guards lined the avenues to Westminster Hall, for the purpose of preserving order among the populace, and securing a free passage to the Hall. At ten o'clock the Speaker of the House of Commons came to the House, and in a short time afterwards took the Chair. He then dispatched the Serjeant at Arms to clear the passages, and about half past ten proceeded to the bar of the House, when the Members being called over according to their counties, followed him in procession to Westminster Hall. The Managers appeared in full dress, and went into the Hall first; they were headed by Mr Whitbread they took their seats in the box prepared for the Managers. The Commons then entered the Hall, to the number of about 400.

About eleven o'clock the Lords moved from their own Chamber of Parliament, the Clerks, of Parliament first, the Masters of Chancery following them, next the Serjeants, then the Judges; after them a Herald, and then the eldest sons of Peers, and Peers minor; then the Ushers, the Barons, two and two, Bishops, Viscounts, Earls, Marquisses, Dukes, Archbishops, and Lord Chancellor.

In passing to the seats, they took off their hats and bowed to the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Throne. Having taken their seats, the Serjeant June 1806.

dan, Lord Temple, Lord A. Hamilton, Mr Giles, Mr Morris, Mr Jekyl, the Attorney and Solicitor General, &c. Mr Whitbread took his place in the front, to the left, and close on his right hand were the two short-hand writers, Mess. Gurney, sen. and jun. in full dress. On Mr Whitbread's left sat Mr Fox, next to him Lord Henry Petty, and next to him Mr Sheridan and Mr Giles.

site, or left hand side, was appropriated A corresponding box upon the oppoto the Counsel and friends of Viscount Melville. His son the Hon. R. Dundas, in the angle of the box to the right, and his Counsel, Mr Plomer and Mr Adam, sat in the middle of it.

Lord Viscount Melville came in at the same time with the other Lords, and sat alone within the bar, and close behind the Baron's bench, immediately in front of his Counsel. His Lordship was in a Court dress, bottle green, with cut steel buttons; he was unrobed. He sat with his face towards the box of the Managers of Impeachment.

Boxes and galleries were erected all round for the accommodation of the House of Commons, the Foreign Ambassadors, Peeresses, &c. The number of Peers who attended was very great; all the Princes of the Blood-royal were present in their places. The box appropriated for the Foreign Ambassadors was nearly filled. There were upwards

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The preamble stated the Letters pai tent, dated the 19th day of August, 1782, appointing Lord Melville Treasurer of the Navy, and the King's Warrant, dated the 23d October, 1782, granting to him a salary of 4000l. per annum, in full satisfaction of all wages and fees, and other profits and emoluments there tofore enjoyed by former Treasurers of the Navy. That Lord Melville continued Treasurer from the 19th August, 1782, till the roth of April 1783; and was again appointed on the 5th January, 1784, by Letters' Patent of that datethat he received a similar Salary Warrant, dated the 18th January, 1786; and that his Lordship continued in office under this second appointment till the 31st May, 1800.

The Preamble also stated certain resolutions of the House of Commons, and reports of the Commissioners of Accounts in 1782; and set forth some of the clauses of the act passed in June 1785, for the better regulating the office of Treasurer of the Navy.

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To The Preamble then concluded with
averring, that Lord Melville had acted
fraudulently, corruptly, and illegally,
in the several instances following
ART. I. Charged that Lord Melville,
swhilst Treasurer of the Navy, and
previous to 10th January, 1786, took
and received from the money imprest-
ed to him as Treasurer 10,000l, or
some other large sum or sums, and
fraudulently and illegally converted
and applied the same to his own use,
or to some other corrupt and illegal
purposes, and to other purposes that
Navy Services. var sit dow
And that he continued such fraudulent
and illegal conversion and application
after passing of the said act for better
regulating the office of Treasurer of
the Navy. And that the said Lord
Melville declared in the House of
Commons son the 11th day of June,
1805, that he never would reveal the
application of the said sum; and add-
ed, that he felt himself bound by mo.
tives of public duty, as well as private
honour and personal convenience, to
conceal the same,stasybe to 20

All which is averred to be contrary
to his duty, a breach of the trust re-
posed in him, and a violation of the
laws and statutes of the realm.or
ART. II. Charged that Lord Melville
in breach and violation of the said act
of parliament for better regulating his
office, connived at, permitted, and
suffered Mr Trotter, illegally, to draw
from the Bank of England for other
purposes than for immediate applica-
tion to Navy Services, large sums of
money out of the money issued on ac-
count of the Treasurer of the Navy;
and connived at and permitted him to
place the same in the hands of Messrs.
Coutts and Co. the private bankers of
the said Alexander Trotter, in his own
name, and subject to his sole controul
and disposition. 150 bus affuo

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It also stated, that on the roth Jay Which is averred to be contrary to nuary, 1986, Lord Melville appointed law a breach of the high trust reposTrotter, Esq. his Paymaster; ed in him, and a violation of the laws and by power of attorney authorized vis and statutes of the realm. 36 48 him to draw upon the Bank of Eng.odART. III. After stating that Mr Trotfand, upon the account of Lord Melville arter, by virtue of the authority given as Treasurer, for all such sums as should to him, drew large sums of money be wanted for the public service; the is from the Bank of England, charged said Alexander Trotter being particub that the said Alexander Trotter did, larly careful to spee specify in each and eve with the privity, by the connivance,

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and with the permission of Lord Melville, apply and use such money, or great part thereof, for purposes of private advantage, or interest, profity and emolament; and did place the same, or great part thereof, in the hands of Messrs. Thomas Coutts and Co. mixed with and undistinguished from the pro

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clause contained in the release betwee them, with a view to prevent the discovery of the said several advances of money. W སྒྱུས ༣ . ཉ༥༽ 35700 ART VII Charged that Lord Melville received from the said Alexander Trotter, amongst other advances of money, the sum of 22,000l. part ad

per monies of the said Alexander Trot-vanced exclusively from public money, ter; whereby the said sums of money band other part from the said mixed were not only used for private emolu-fund at Coutts and Co's,

ment, but exposed to risk, and with- ARTVILL, Charged that

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2 drawn from the control of the Trea-other advances of money, Lord MelInsurer of the Navy;dio omor 1 10 ville received from Mr Trotter the BART. IV. Changed that Mr Trotter, sum of 22,000 for which it had been with the privity, or by the connivance, o alledged by Lord Melvile he was to anand permissson of Lord Melville, plas pay interest. Oced sums issued from the Exchequer 19 on account of the Treasurer, and 10 drawn from the Bank of England, in brothe hands of Mark/Sprot and other

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didafter the 16th January, 1786, 01 Fraudulently and illegally, for the pur

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ART. I Charged that during all or
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the greater part of the time that Lord
Melville was Treasurer, the said Alex-
ander Trotter did gratuitously and
without salary act as Lord Melville's
Agent, and was from time to time in
advance for him in that respect to the
amount of from 10,000 to 20,000l.
And that the said Alexander Trotter
did so gratuitously transact the private
business of the said Lord Melville,
and make him the said advances of
money in consideration of the said Lord
Melville conniving at the said Alexan-
der Trotter so applying and using the
public money for purposes of private
emolument. བཟླ་༢༣བརྞ།

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ART. X. Charged that Lord Melville, on divers days and times between the 19th August, 1782, and he 5th Janu.

poses other than Navy Services, take ollivland receives from the public money enge 138 bplaced in his name at the Bank of England as Freasurer of the Navy, bas, the sum of 10,00th and did fraudulent Warb ly and illegally convert and apply theary, 1784, and also on divers days be. 19d10same to his own use, or to some other -soilacorrupt and illegal purposes.

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tween the 5th January, 1784, and the 1st January, 1786, receive from the mo

10 ART. VI. Charged that Lord Melvillenies imprested to him as Treasurer or

P procure and receive from the said YV Alexander Trotter advances of several of large sums of money, which were made 21229 to him in part from money so illegally 10 215 drawn from the Bank, and in part awo from sums so placed by the said Alex Juoungader Trotter in the hands of Messrs.

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Ex-Treasurer of the Navy, divers sums amounting to 27,000l. and did fraudu lently and illegally convert and apply the same to his own use, or to some other corrupt and illegal purposes, and to other purposes than Navy Services, and did continue the said fraudulent and illegal conversion and application after the passing of the act for better regulating the office of Treasurer of the Navy.

To these articles Lord Melville plead. ed NOT GUILTY; and the Commons re plied, averring that he wAS GUILTY.

The articles, answers, and replication, having been read, Mr Whitbread (one of the Managers for the Commons) rose and spoke as follows:

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