Firft man caft off and turn the third woman, first woman caft off and turn the third man ; fix hands round: right and left =. D A HYMN to HARMONY. AUGHTER of Heav'n, whofe magic call Thou, who, at Nature's earlieft birth, Thee I invoke, whofe potent sway Come then, O come, celeftial maid, And harmonise the scene! Ev'n as the fun inceffant pours On herbs, and trees, and fruits, and flow'rs His vivifying ray; So may thy hallow'd fire impart When Folly, with her Hydra-hand, And talks with giant-ftride, P! prop fair Virtue's finking caufe, Protect our rights, defend our laws, And ftem Corruption's tide. The ftarry hoft fhall fade away, Eternal Nature shall decay, Whilft thy prolific beam Rolls on, and shall for ever roll, From day to day, from pole to pole, An unexhaufted stream, 'Ere space was fpace, or time was time, Thy pow'r, thy energy fublime, With dazzling luftre fhone; And fhall, when time and space are paft, In undiminish'd glory laft, Immortal and alone. For when, at Fate's refiftless name, Come then, and let thy daughter fair, And Fortitude, thy friend; That Freedom which, in days of yore, And vanity of pride; Warm'd by whofe love, great Tully taught, And Cato bled, and Cæfar fought, And Alexander dy'd. That caufe whofe animating fire Our great forefathers did infpire, To vindicate their right; O! let us now tranfmit it down, From age to age, from fire to fon, With everlafting light. And And lo! through all the peopled air To join the feftive throng; So, when thy Orpheus ftrikes the strings, And undulates around; The groves, with all their echoes mourn, And fympathetic rocks return The inexpreffive found. Part of the firft Elegy of Tibullus, tranfa ted into English Verse. F OR treafur'd wealth, or ftores of golden wheat, The hoard of frugal fires, I vainly call A little farm be mine, a cottage neat And wonted couch where balmy fleep may fall. 'What joy to hear the tempeft howl in vain, And clafp a fearful mistress to my breaft: 'Or lull'd to flumber by the beating rain, 'Secure and happy fink at last to reft!' Thefe joys be mine!-O grant me only these, And give to others bags of shining gold, Whofe fteely heart can brave the boift' rous feas, The ftorm wide-wasting, or the stiff'ning cold. Content with little, I would rather stay Than fpend long months amid the wat'ry wafte: In cooling fhades elude the fcorching ray O perish rather all that's rich and rare, The diamond quarry, and the golden vein, Than that my abfence coft one precious tear, Or give fome gentle maid a moment's pain. With glitt'ring fpoils, Meffala, gild thy dome, Inglorious poft!-And yet I heed not fame: Unenvy'd let him drive the vanquifh'd hoft, Through captive lands his conquering armies lead; Unenvy'd wear the robe with gold imbofs'd, And guide with folemn ftate his foaming steed. O may I view thee with life's parting ray, And thy dear hand with dying ardor prefs: Sure thou wilt weep-and on thy lover's clay, With breaking heart, print many a tender kifs! Sure thou wilt weep-and woes unutter'd feel, When on the pile thou feeft thy lover laid! For well I know, nor flint, nor ruthless steel, Can arm the breaft of fuch a gentle maid. From the fad pomp, what youth, what pitying fair, Returning flow can tender tears refrain ? O Delia, fpare thy cheeks, thy treffes spare, Nor give my ling'ring fhade a world of pain. But now while fmiling hours the fates bestow, Let love, dear maid, our gentle hearts unite! Soon death will come and strike the fatal blow; Unseen his head, and veil'd in fhades of night. Soon creeping age will bow the lover's frame, And tear the myrtle chaplet from his brow: With hoary locks ill fuits the youthful flame, The foft perfuafion, or the ardent vow. Now the fair Queen of gay defire is ours, And lends our follies an indulgent smile: 'Tis lavish youth's t'enjoy the frolic hours, The wanton revel and the midnight broil. Your chief, my friends, and fellow-foldier, [ To thefe light wars will lead you boldly on: Far hence ye trumpets found and banners fly: To those who covet wounds and fame begone. And bear them fame and wounds; and riches bear; There are that fame and wounds and riches Nor 'midft the scorn of nations once repine. L With thee to live I'd mock the plowman's toil, And happy 'midst thy dear embraces fleep. What drooping lover heeds the Tyrian bed, Nor fofteft down with richest carpets spread, Who when he might thy yielding heart obtain, Or follow arms in queft of fordid gain, INCKT was in wedlock a lofty Thrafonical huf-fnuffe: In gate al on typftan's ftalcking, in phisnomye daring. This cutter, valiant in warfar, fought his aven ture. Thee whilft his minion, with carnal wantones itching, Choofte for a freend fecret no woorfe than a country lob-heerd fwaine. A pray for paragon: but what? thee knurryknob oake-tree, Though craggy in griping, in strength furpaffeth a smooth flip. When Thrafo from bick'rings, not bluddie, returned is homeward, Of Of this hap advertifde, with frantic jelloufye taynted, Hee feeks in thee fields, with swift enquirye, the rival. Stay, vagabund rafkal (fo he fpake when he fpide the lob-heerd (waine): Thee clowne ftout ftandeth, with a lefhe of bulleted hard ftoans; Then Thrafo, with naked flatchet, with thunderus outcrie, Sayd: Thow fcurvye peasant, my wiefe th'haft, villen, abufed; My bed defiled; like a breakloove mak'bat adultrer. Al this 1 deny not, quoa the clowne; and what. then, I pray thee? Dooft thou confefs it? Thrafo faid: Bye the bleffed afemblye Of the Hev'nly Sociats, hadft thow thy knav'rye reneaged, This mye blade in thy body fhould bee with fpeedines hafted. On K-F's Falling from her Horse. D EAR Kitty, had thy only fall S the Rev. Mr. Spence has favoured th public with the life of R. Hill, the learne of his prefent wife; your inferting the following taylor of Bucks, but has taken very little notic lines will inform your readers of fomething ve ry remarkable of her family and kindred: For the of herself may truly say, My husband's my uncle, my father's my brother, I alfo am fifter untó my own mother; I'am fifter and aunt to a brother call'd Ned, Been that thou mett'ft with in the Mall, Who is idle and poor, and makes shoes for his Thou hadst deserv'd our pity: But, long before that luckless day, Alas! poor fallen Kitty! Then, whilft you may, dear girl, be wife, And, though time now in pleasure flies, Confider of hereafter: A HOR. N open heart, a gen'rous mind, In theory a judge of right, Though banish'd from its practice quite; FRO my birth, From the Ladies fair fingers my frame; I vary as oft as Luna aloft, Yet always continue the fame. In winter I'm hot, in fummer I'm not, I play'd leaft in fight, as full well I might, I have flesh, I must own, without any bone; And am always best in my season. In an alehoufe I'm poor as a garreted whore, When When fcarce a day old, I am clammy and cold; But, when into dungeon am turn'd, I never get fleep, but ever do weep, As foon as releas'd, I away to a feast, Some THOUGHTS on the Scarcity of SILVER COIN; with a Propofal for the Remedy thereof. By Sir JOHN BARNARD. May 1758 I caused the following letter to be published in one of the daily papers: SIR, There was a letter published on the 10th of May relating to the ftate of the national gold and filver coins of Great Britain; whether there have been obfervations made thereon in any news papers I do not know. If what your correfpondent fays be true, that people, who have numbers of workmen to pay, frequently give ten fhillings in one hundred pounds, to fupply themselves with filver coin, it is a very great grievance to them, and calls aloud for redress, Your correfpondent propofes the coining a pound of Troy filver ftandard into fixty-five fhillings; but, at the prefent price of standard filver in bullion at market, it is thought that this method will not answer the end propofed; because the refiners will find their account in melting down the new coined filver. The question is, how to provide people with filver coin for their neceffary ufes, and not do any thing that may affect or influ ence the exchange. This is a point, which I am clearly of opinion may be done, without any inconvenience arifing from it. In the first place, I propofe, that the filver to be coined fhall not be deemed or taken for a legal payment or tender on any occafion whatsoever; but only pass amongst perfons who are willing to take the fame. 'I would have this new-coined filver guarded with all the laws in being for preferving the present legal coin. I propofe, that no more of this money be coined than fhall be found neceffary to make a free circulation of filver coin; for which purpose a fum of two hundred thousand pounds may, by act of Parliament, be ordered to be coined by the Treasury, in half-crowns, fhillings, and fixpences, and be properly difperfed: That all this money have some letter on the face fide, to diftinguish it from legal mo ney : 'That a pound weight of Troy filver be coined into the fame number of pieces as a pound is now coined; but that the fineness be ten ounces two pennyweights fine filver in every pound, and the reft alloy. This, it is apprehended, will make the money wear better than if it was finer. It is thought that the quantity abovementioned may be fufficient to anfwer the purpose, as the coining new money will prevent people hoarding up their prefent light filver coin. However, if more should be found neceffary, it may be provided for in future.' SINCE that time the scarcity of filver has increased; the coining of fixpences has done little towards the relief. It is well known that the bankers generally give a premium for filver coin to fupply their customers; and no one can forefee where this will end, as people can make a profit by felling the light legal coin; and no other is generally feen, the heavy being put into the melting-pot. It was hoped last year that the arrival of the flota in Spain would occafion the price. of filver to fall in Britain; but that has not happened; for standard filver in bullion fells now at a higher price than it did when I made the proposal above; and regard muft be had to the prefent price of filver at market. I therefore propose, that the new coin be ten ounces fine filver to every pound Troy, and the reft alloy *. I know very well that objections may be. made to this propofal; which I fhall not think worth while to answer. I have weighed all the objections which I have heard, and am firmly of opinion that no method but that of coining bafe or + light money, in fome fhape or other, can ever answer the end of making a fufficient currency of filver coin. If any perfon who thinks the prefent grievance requires redrefs, inftead of finding fault with this propofal, will apply himself to furnish a better, the world will be much obliged to him, and I shall heartily rejoice. I cannot quit this subject without taking * The fineness of the present filver coin is eleven ounces two penny-weights. By light money is meant reducing the weight of the pieces coined, inftead of putting more alloy into the filver. U notice notice of an opinion, that the scarcity of filver coin arifes from the difproportion of the nominal value of our gold coin to the nominal value of our filver coin; which opinion I do not controvert. But I believe no one can think it right, at this time, to fettle a nearer equality between our gold and filver coins, when both our weighty gold and filver coins are carried abroad, or put into the melting pot. I must go farther, and infift that no time can poffibly happen wherein it will be piudent to make any alteration in our lawful coin; which ought to be kept invariably on the present foot. If the nominal value of our filver coin (which is fettled by act of Parliament) be raised, it will be a breach of faith, and be a prejudice to all foreigners to whom the nation owes money. If the nominal value of our gold coin (which is made lawful money by the King's proclamation, in purfuance of an addrefs I from the House of Commons) be fallen, it will be a great injury to the nation, by making a prefent to all foreigners, to whom the nation is indebted, of fo much per centum as the leffening the nominal value of the gold coin will amount to on their capital debt, together with the interest for the fame until the debt be discharged. It will likewife add to the diftrefs of the nation, by leffening its current coin, which is already too much diminished in quantity, by our neceffary drains, and the melting down of our weighty money. I hope thefe reafons will be thoroughly confidered in full Parliament, before any alteration be made in our legal coin. I defire to leave these my thoughts as a legacy to the world; trufting, that when they shall be well confidered, I fhal be found to be in the right. Clapham, March 12, 1759. JOHN BARNARD. To the PROPRIETORS of the UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE. GENTLEMEN, Tis with pleafure I tranfmit to you an account of the fuccefs of an act paffed in the laft feffion of Parliament for the encouragement of the British failor, and the more Speedy payment of his wages: The common objection which was made to this law, while it was under deliberation, by those who for other reasons wifhed ill to the fuczefs of it, was the impoffibility of properly executing feveral of the provifions of it. Experience however hath already refuted this objection; every part of the plan hath as yet been executed with all the facility imaginable; the wife and humane intentions of it have happily been felt by numbers. It has appeared that the diffolute manner in which feamen ufually diffipate their money upon the receipt of their wages, and which has been falfely imputed to their natural difpofitions, was owing principally to the want of a proper method of remitting it to their wives and families: Affifted by the provifions of this law, they have now remitted large fums to relations of different dénominations refiding in every part of thefe kingdoms; and that which was before diffipated in debauchery, has been converted to better purposes; the fupport of a forfaken family, or the comfort of an aged parent. As a proof of this I fhall produce an authentic lift of what has been remitted by the failors of one fhip only; this will ferve as a fpecimen of what has been done in the fame refpe&t by others. The Rochester was paid at Plymouth, and, out of 396 men who were paid, 55 remitted; of whom the following is a genuine lift, and it is published here for their ho nour. Names of Per- Sums re- To whom ted. 1. s. William Smith 40 o wife Ann Thomas Miles Refidence of the Officers on whom drawn. Chatham Colchester Tho. Farqhuar 41 o brother John Aberdeen Robert Lundy |