By thee, reviving; did the favor'd tree Where life, sense, reason, with progressive chain WHAT! bid me seek another Fair, And bask secure in other smiles? Ah, no my dying lips shall close, SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS. 1756. This eccentric satirist, the freedom of whose censure no consideration could restrain, who was admired, feared, and detested, was son of John Hanbury, Esq. a SouthSea Director. After having represented the county of Monmouth, for several years, he was installed a Knight of the Bath, in October 1744. In 1749, he was appointed envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the court of Berlin, at which he had officiated as minister during the three preceding years. Sir Charles afterwards represented the borough of Leominster in parliament, till his embassy to Russia, in 1754. Returning to England, in consequence of an ill state of health, he died on the 2d of November, 1759. He possessed considerable abilities, both poetical and political. More is not justly to be affirmed in favour of him, who appears to have been the votary of dissipation; who delighted in gratifying his own feelings, at the expence of those of others; and who often wanted courage to encounter the resentment that his temerity had provoked. IMITATION OF MARTIAL. COME, Chloe, and give me sweet kisses, But why, in the midst of my blisses, Then prithee, my charmer, be kind; D 34 SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS. Count the bees that on Hybla are playing, Count the flow'rs that enamel its fields; Count the flocks that on Tempe are straying, Or the grain that rich Sicily yields: Go number the stars in the heaven, Count how many sands on the shore: When so many kisses you've given, I still shall be craving for more. To a heart full of love, let me hold thee; And twist round thy limbs like a vine. THOMAS PENROSE. 1763. Thomas, son of the Rev. Mr. Penrose, who was descended from an ancient family in Cornwall, and officiated many years as rector of Newbury, in Berkshire, was born in 1743. Designed by his friends for the pulpit, he was entered at Christ Church, Oxford; whence, however, a passion for martial glory prompted him to escape, and embark in the expedition against South America, under Captain Macnamara, in August 1762. The verses to Miss Slocock, an accomplished and handsome young lady, residing at Newbury, were written by him on board the Ambuscade, January 6, 1763; a short time before the attack on Nova Colonia, in the river of Plate. Such a situation not merely supersedes the investigation of literary inaccuracies; it exhibits the affection and fortitude of the writer, in a very elevated point of admiration. Returning to England, Penrose finished his studies at Hertford; and, having accepted the curacy of Newbury, in 1768 united himself in marriage with Miss S. Part of the hymeneal, presented to her on their wedding-day, is not unworthy of transcription.— "O! be that season ne'er forgot And plough'd, long plough'd the southern seas; Some years afterwards, Penrose was advanced to a rectory worth 500 l. per annum : but preferment came too late. He died in 1779, in the 36th year of his age, at Bristol, whither he had repaired for the amendment of his health. TO MISS S. THE fates ordain, we must obey! The martial trumpets call to arms, With terror strikes the foe. eye; Amidst this nobly awful scene, For since full low among the dead- |