Never fhall one, one truly honeft man, Or grant this barb'rous right, let Spain and In flavery bred, as purchasers advance, crimes! » Gold, cursed Gold! flept in the womb of earth, His fports were labours, and his labours fports; He knew not much, but liv'd to what he knew. read, And, on fure ground the gospel pile to rear, chains; Faith to the plants, for her own ends impreft heard, Stand good, that by no benefits conferr'd, Her dextrous art extracts the pointed grief, In ftrains like thefe we charge the fatal art Addrefs to LIBERTY; from a Poem just publis ! Liberty! my lays! Crackers and ferpents, fquibs and rockets, Defcends, propitious to my pray'r; Thy non-existence I adore! O Liberty! our darling theme, To 4 LADY who was so obligingly cruel as to take The people's rod to scourge excife! AS $ Damon, late, the hedge-row's fruitage A jealous thorn th' invading finger caught; Notwithstanding the mafculine beauties of this piece, which, perbaps, is more in Swift's manner and Spirit too than any ibing that has been published fince "bis death, it is the performance of a Lady. Much 192 The GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, VOL. XXXIV. Mu h more than can be faid, I wot bou art !-in fhort what art thou not? Magnetic meteor in a vapour! The mountain, defert, rock, or den, Invitation to Mifs E. B. (See Vol. xxxiii. p. 560.) C And you shall all the pleasures prove That wedlock can beftów; From ev'ry care, from ey'ry fmart I'll guard the foftnefs of thy heart, And fhield thee fafe from woe. Too long has Slander's venom'd tongue And forc'd th' unwilling figh; Nor left one fpark to die. Then leave, O leave fuch friends as thefe, And spread th' infidious tale; Retir'd to elegance and tafte, Then flufh'd with hope refign thy breath, To wake in endless day. PRAISE and FLATTERY. Addressed to be PRAW Roportion'd praife in the fame light we view Thus Lucifer, a tall arch-angel, fhone, Be this for beauty then my conftant prayer, I Mr URBAN, THE following is a fragment which I met with among fome old manufcript papers, that formerly bolonged to Sir Edward Hungerford, zubo quas in bis days fo famous for gallantry; if you think it fit for your purpofe, it is at your fervice. Yours, J.S Lov'd in juft proportion as I knew, [grew. And with my knowledge ftill my fondness 'Twas not an eye, a lip, a face, a band, Tho' each one fuch as might a heart command: 'Twas not the heavenly mufick of thy tongue, Tho' angels liften'd whift my fair one fung: No, 'twas the lafting beauties of thy mind, By all the graces temper'd and refin'd, The honeft heart unpractised to deceive, Skill'd, but as virtue bids, to joy, or grieve, The foul by pure religion taught to glow At others blifs, or melt at others wee: [move Thefe were the charms that firft my heart could From warmeft friendship to the warmest love; There were the charms-cætera defunt. On a Lady's coming into the Rooms at Bath with a Diamond Crefcent in ber Hair. C As written by Mr Potter. Hafte Dian's crefcent on her front difplay'd, Behold! the wife proclaims herself a maid! Come fierce Taillard, or fiercer Julius come, On th's fair fubject urge the contest home; Pluck honour from this emblematic moon, And folve the point which puzzles W n. X. Y. Z. f A WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18. Surprising meteor was obferved at St Noet's 36 min. after five in the evening; its appearance was a pale red, in contact with a condented cloud, and in I min. 34 fec, formed a femicircle oppofite the moon, and by the refraction of its rays, was a bright rainbow, the first ever obferved after fun-fet. The bank near Spalding broke down, wherely great part of the adjacent country is drowned. Spalding church is flooded; leveral of the pillars are funk near two feet, and it is thought the church will fall: Several graves are washed open, and the bodies caufe a fench hardly to be borne. Most of the Great Bedford Level people are driven from their habitations, a great deal of cattle has been removed to feek for keeping, and many have been fold by auction for what the own. ers could get. Among the many misfortunes occafioned by the form in Dec. Taft, the pier of Broad Stairs in the ifle of Thant, was torn in pieces, to the damage of gooo! All the cattle of feven or eight villages along the Wabel, have been drowned, many of the inhabitants perifhed in the waters; and thofe who could reach the upper ftories of their houfes, were kept alive by the humanity of the neighbouring towns." The rivers Main, Zinzig, and the Foffes round Ilanau, have joined and formed a great lake, fo that the inhabitants are obliged to ufe boats to go from the old to the new town; the large magazine of fire wood, and several barges, are carried away by the current, and confiderable damage done to the fortifications and buildings in that neighbourhood, FRIDAY 20. The freedom of the city of Dublin, in a filver box, was voted to the Hon. Sir James Caldwell for the fervices rendered his country by raifing a regiment of light horse in 17599 at his own expence, for the defence of Ireland. The fame was voted to Lieut Col. Howe for the diftinguifhed loyalty of his family, and the particular exertion of his military talents in the conqueft of Canada. At the fame time the thanks of the sheriff's and commons were ordered to be prefented to Lord Chief Jeftice Pratt, for his diffinguish'd zeal and loyalty in afferting and maintaining the rights and liberties of the fubject in the high ftation which he now fills with remark their warm and affectionate congratulations upon the re-eftabi foment of the public tranquillity, upon terms of honour and advantage to Eis kingdors; ther abhorrence of that licentious fpirit which tends alike to the fubver fion of the yovernA ment, the laws, and the conflitution; and their firm reflut on to exert themselves fo far as their influence extends, in difc uraging and reftraining it, are moft peculiarly acceptable to bis m jefly. Such a full and tionate de laration of the fent ments of the parlament of Ireland, of whofe fidelity his majesty has always be n enti-ely conwinced, recommends them most eff Auaily to bis royal favour and protection, upon which his ma jefy affures them they may always depend. GR. C D F Wm Edw. Morin for forging franks, was? committed to prifon. He is faid to have made eight guineas a day by this infamous practice. The colonel lately tried at Plymouth. (see p. 42, was broke, but being an excellent officer, paffion a part, he was recommended to half pay. WEDNESDAY 25. The Prefbytry of Edinburgb met, and, upon a motion made by a member, that a paragraph in the London news-papers, dated Thurf-: day, Jan. 12, to Saturday, Jan. 14, fhould be read: It was read accordingly, and is as follows; " They write from Edinburgh, that fince the 24th of September, laft 29 couples, from different parts of England have been married in that city, according to the church of Scotland." The Prefbytry of Edinburgh, thinks it their duty, in justification of themfe'ves, and the rest of their brethren of the eftablished church of Scotland, to lay and declare, that not one of thefe marriages, nor any marriage of that kind, has been performed by any minifter of this Prefbytry, nor fo far as: they know by any Minifter of this established church. What forms the celebrators of fuch marriages have obterved, whether thofe of the church of England, or of the church of Scotland, this Prefbytry knows not. SUNDAY 29. Eduard Dillon, a pay-mafter ferjeant in Elliot's light-horse, having courted the chambermaid of the Bull-inn at Kingflon, procured a licence and fix'd the day of marriage, found himfelf difappointed by an unlucky quarrel that happened before the time appointed, on which he loaded a brace of pifols, went into the kitchen, and fir'd one of them, without fpeaking a word, at the unfortunate girl, the ball of which only grazed her fice; but taking a fecond aim, difcharged his other pitol, able dignity; and for his particular fervices to G and dangeroufily wounded her in the back. the kingdom of Ireland in the office of Attorrey General. (See p. 75) He then took to his room, re-loaded his piftols, and wore he would fhoot the first man who fhould attempt to fize him. An offi. cer, however, with a file of men, foon obliged him to lay down his arms, and he is now fafely lodged in Surry goal. The ball has fince been extracted cut of the girl's back, and the is likely to recover. MONDAY 30. Dr Newton, Lord Bp of Bristol, preached before the House of Peers from these words: 94 The GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, VOL. XXXIV. Let your moderation be known unto all men, Phil. iv. 5. There were five bifhops prefent, and one temporal lord, the Rt Hon. Lord Mansfield, Dr Richardfon, mafter of Emanuel College, Cambridge, preached before the Houfe of Commons, from St Matthew, c. xxii. v. 21. Then Jay they unto bim, Cafar's. Then faith be unto them, render therefore unto Cæfar the things which are Cæfar's, and unto God the things which are God's. There were prefent the Rt Hon. the Speaker, and five members of the Houfe of Commons. The Hereditary Prince and Princess of Brunswick failed from Harwich with a fair wind. Her R. H. the Princefs stood upon the deck, and gaz'd upon her native country till her eye gradually loft fight of the laft cliff. TUESDAY 31. A large ball of fire was feen near Farnborough and other places in Kent, and lightening and other meteors in feveral other places. Walter Græme has been found guilty of rob bing the Sectcb mail, and is fentenced to be hanged on the 7th of March. WEDNESDAY, Feb, 1. A at Delft on board the Pr. of Orange's yacht in perfect health, notwithstanding the great fatigue he had undergone. The hereditary Prince and Prince Lewis went to Delft to receive her and conduct her in the P.of Orange's equipages, escorted by the life-guards, to the palace of the Old Court, where his highness the Stadtholder received her, and conducted her to her apartments. The States General, the States of Holland, and Council of State, upon news of her R. Highness's arrival, nominated a deputation of their moft dift nguished members, to compliment their Royal and Serene Highnefies upon their fafe arrival, and the happy conclufion of their marriage; but as they were pleased to decline receiving the deputations in form, all the colleges had the honour to make their compliments without MONDAY 6, ceremony. This evening their R. H, the Pr. and Princefs of Brunswick were graciously pleased to honour Sir Jofeph Yorke, his majesty's ambaffador at the Hague, with their prefence at a ball at his houfe; where were likewife The deanery houfe in the city of Limerick, C present Prince Lewis of Brunswick, Prince in Ireland, was confum'd by fire. FRIDAY, 3. - Between one and two in the afternoon, a moft violent ftorm of snow, hail, and rain,, attended with thunder and lightning, happened at Clare in Suffolk, when a ball of fire feli on the church, beat down the chimes and dial of the clock, and part of the tower, and D left fo great a heat in the body of the church, that the inhabitants appointed people to watch all night, for fear it fhould take fire; and the fmell of fulphur was fo very great, that it was with much difficulty they could continue in the building George of Mecklenbourg, and the Prince of Welbourg, the foreign minifters, and a very numerous company of perfons of diftinction of both sexes. WEDNESDAY 8. Mr Dunn's boy was fent to the keeper of the King's-Bench prifon, to defire leave to carry out a box of his mafter's, with his clothes to be repair'd, which the keeper readily granted; a porter was fent for, and the box carried out; next morning a prifoner in the rules faw Mr Dunn at large, going into a pawnbroker's fhop, where he wanted to pledge a ring for nine guineas, not worth fo many fhillings: the man gave notice at the lodge of the prifon, that Dann was in the Mint, Dann had not, till then, been miffed. In the box he had flow'd himself as well as his cloaths, and his boy had corded him up. He was pursued and traced from place to place the whole day, in vain, but at night was difcovered in the gallery of Drury-Lane theatre, but then had the addrefs to elude his purfuers, and was not apprehended till next day, when he was taken F near Charing-Crofs, and carried back to his former confinement. He afterwards attempted a fecond escape, by climbing over the wall of the prifon court, in which he was difcovered, and prevented, and has fince been committed, to the county goal, in confequence of a power given to the keeper by a late act for that pur pofe, in cafe of any attempt to break prifon. The purfer of the Lapwing Eaft India floop arrived at the India houfe, with dispatches from Bengal, importing, that the Naoob fet E up by Lord Clive, had been decos'd; that a difference had arifen between the factory and his fucceffor; in confequence of which, 4000 of the garrifon and inhabitants of Patna had been put to the fword, and the town given up to be plundered by the Eng; that the Englife falling into diforder on this occafion, had been furpriz'd in their turn, and all cut to pieces by the Nabob's troops, except Mr Ellis their commander, and about 3 or 400 more, who etcaped by flight; that Meilis. Amyat, Ampbict, Woollafton, Crooke, and Hutchinson, of the factory, accompanied by Lieutenants Jones, Gordon and Cooper, with two companies of Sepoys and 20 European horfemen, who G had been dir &ed by the council at Calcutta to treat with the Naboh about fettling the mat ters in difpute, had been fet upon in their return, and all mailac es except Amphlet, who was carried back in chains to the Nabob. The mate and two feamen on board a ship in larwub harbour, were ftruck down by a fall of lightning. The mate did not recover H his fentes till fome hours after; his canvas ⚫trowfers were not damaged, tho' two pair of linen drawers under them were burnt in fevetal places, and his thigh fcorch'd. SATURDAY 4. Her R.H, the Princess of Brunswick arriv'd Several poor prifoners were discharged from the Marfoalfea, by virtue of a charitable donation of oo. left for that purpofe by the princefs of Brunswick, before the left England; 500 was likewife left by her royal highness, for the difcharge of prifoners in Whitechapel goal. A duel was fought on Epping foreft between Cornet Gardiner, of the Carabineers, and the Rev. Mr Hill, chaplain to Bland's dragoons, when the latter receiv'd a wound, of which he died two days after. The coroner's jury have fiace, after fitting 12 hours on the body A B The foldiers who are going to the Eift Indies, on board the Vanfittart, mutinied. Their number was about 1oo, and they rofe upon the failors, whofe number was not quite fo many; but by the refolution and intrepedity of the officers of the ship, they were fubd-ied. One foldier, however, was killed, an other C defperately wounded, and a quarter matter killed, by feveral cuts on his head. SUNDAY 12. The tide in the river Severn, which always comes up with a great head and an amazing rapidity and noife, came half an hour before its ufual time: this greatly afton fhed the people who obferved it; but their furprife was heightened, when they perceived a fecond tide coming up, with equal force, within half an hour of the firft. It is furmifed by many, that a violent concuffion of the earth, in fome diftant region, is the caufe of this preternatural effect.-At Brifl the tide flowed an hour and three quarters before its time; ceafed to flow and flowed again. TUESDAY 14. About 10 at night Mrs Robertfon's fchoo!houfe, in St John's court, Cow lane, fuddenly fell down, by which Mrs Robertson, and two other women and a child, were kill'd. Had this happened in the day, 40 children must have been buried in the ruins. The boatswain of his majefty's fhp Pembroke, for his good behaviour to the ship's company, was chair'd upon the fhoulders of the men thro' Portmouth Gofport, & the Common, with a band of mufic, colours flying, &c. They mide him a prefent of a gold call and filver cnp, which coft upwards of 701. The crew were all in the proceffion. WEDNESDAY 15. D E F James Anderfon, for robbing two women in G a field near Hampstead, and Thomas Thompfon, for a burglary, were executed at Tyburn. A refpite was granted to John Prince convicted of forgery, at the interceffion of a lady emiBent for her humanity and high quality. There was a great riot at the Morocco Ambalador's in Panton-ftreet on the following occafion: A female domestic of his Excellency having been arrested and carried to a fpunginghouse, a meffenger was fent to the officer to demand her by virtue of the general privilege aglowed to all Ambaffadors for the protection H of their fervants; the officer knew his duty, and obeyed. Soon after her retorn having occafion to ftep out about fome of the family cancerns, fhe was again ftopped by the fellow (a chairman) at whofe fuit fhe had just before been arrested, who now foftened his claim as a creditor, into the right of a hulband, and inftead of pretending the owed him money, infifted that he was his wife. Una r this pre tence, he conveyed her to a public houfe, notwithstanding her cries which however foon reached her master's, from whence the men fervants came armed to retcue her, and accordingly bore her mot heroically off. The chairman, baffled in this manner, refolved to obtain by ftratagem what he was unable to effect by force, and therefore gathered with his party before the Ambaflador's door, deciaring he had been going peaceably by with his wife, and that his Excellency's fervants had violently carried her into the house, and he believed for fome very atrocious end. This information flew like lightening through the neighbourhood, and quickly drew a large concourfe of people to his affiftance, who, upon hearing his ftory, expreffed their abhorrence of fodating an atta k, all roared out the woman, the woman, the houfe was affaile⚫ with vollies of dirt & ftones, the windows broken to shatters, & the door at laft violently burft open, notwithfading the stmoft efforts of the people within to keep it thut. The fervants upon this retreated up stairs, where his Excellency himfelf, and a gentleman of the city food upon the firft landing place with drawn fabres, to oppofe the inconfiderate fury of the multitude, whom they in vain endeavoured to convince with a candid recital of the fact,-The mob, intimidated at the fabres made no attempt to mount the ftairs, but contented themfelves with huling pieces of the broken furniture. up at the Ambafador and his people, who darted, whatever was fent in this manner down again without intermiffion. Happily, howe ever, Captain Wolafton of the guards coming by, with a party, on his way to Eagle Street, in Piccadilly, where a fire had broke out, immediately ftopt and ordered his company to difperfe the m b, which they almost as immediately effected without any further accident. Mr Juftice Welch, in a little time after, came with another party of foldiers, and took the neceffary precautions for fecuring the peace, and apprehending fuch as were concerned in fo flagrant an ou rage againft his Excellency the Ambalador; in confequence of which Darby Hughes, Thomas Malony, Lawrence Nash, and Patrick Coyle, were fent to Newgate THURSDAY 16. A large quantity of Freneb threads, lace,. ribbands, and artificial flowers, were feized at a houfe in Piccadilly, A fire broke out at a ma-maker's near George's-Stairs, Shad-Thames, which in a fhort time confumed the houfe where it began, and a fail-maker's and boat-builder's adjoining. The fire began in the fail loft over the lame place about 19 years ago, which the maft-yard, by floving ropes, as it did ins then did confiderable damage in that neighbourh.od. SUN |