SIR,

Aylesbury, June

To perfons converfant with hiftory, and the writings of former times, few things that happen now-a days appear new ar furprifing; as their memory will quickly furnish them with precedents and parallel inftances. "The thing which has been (fays the wife King of Ifrael) is that which shall be, and that which is done is that which shall be done, and there is no new thing under the fun." The fimilarity of characters too, at different periods, is often very fuking The following taken from Mr Pope's translation of the Iliad, you may infert. application I leave to the fagacity of your read. ers; and am, &c.

[Lond. Chron.]

The

PHIL EREMIAS.

THERSITES only clamour'd in the throng,
Loquacious, loud, and turbulent of tongue;
Aw'd by no fhame, by no refpect controll❜d,
In fcandal busy, in reproaches bold;
With witty malice, ftudious to defame,
Scorn all his joy, and laughter all his aim;
But chiefly gloried in ficentious ftyle,
To lafb the great, and monarchs to revile:
His figure fuch as might his foul proclaim,
One eye was blinking.
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Spleen to mankind his envious heart poffefs'd,
And much he hated ali, but most the best:
* Ulyffes or Achilles till his theme,
But royal fcandal his delight supreme.

* For these antiquated names of Ulyffes and Achilles, you may, if you please, infert the more modern ones of Bute, Talbot, and Despencer, A parody on Romeo and the Apothecary. SCENE, G Atreet.

PATRIOT W -s, folus. publish

I'Let, fe for means, Mischief! thou art

Swift

To enter in the thought of desperate men:
I do remember a poor publisher,

(And hereabout he dwells), whom late I noted
In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows,
Folding of theets; meagre were his looks;
Sharp Mifery had worn him to the bones;
And in his needy fhop an Atlas hung,

The TIMES, John Wilkes, and other ill-done prints,

By felf-applauding Hogarth; and on the shelves
A beggarly account of unknown pamphlets,
Obfcene pictures, mufty magazines,
Remnants of packtbread, and old divinity,
Were thinly fcatter'd to make up a fhew.
Noting this penury, to myself I said,
And if a man did need a publisher
For libels, which are pillory in London,
Herc lives a caitiff wretch would fell for him.
Oh! this fame thought did but forerun my need,
And this fame needy man muft fell for me.
As I remember, this fhould be the house:
Being holy-day the beggar's thop is fhut.-
What, ho! Mafter Publisher.

Enter PUBLISHER.

Pub. Who calls fo loud?
W. Come hither, man, I fee that thou art poor:
Cafh thou shalt have; publish me this direct;
Which, when difpers'd thro' all the kingdom,
The politicians will fall ftark mad,
And 'gainst the miniftry discharge their breath,
As violently as hafty powder, fr'd,
Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's mouth.
Pub. Such wicked deeds are done, but Loo.
don's law

Is pillory against any he that publifh them.
W. Art thou fo bare, and full of wretchedness,
And fear'ft a pelting! Famine's in thy checks;
Need and Oppreffim ftare within thine eyes;
Contempt and Beggary hang on thy back;
The Scots are not thy friends, nor the Scots law;
The Scors afford no penfion to make thee rich;
Then be not poor, abufe them, and publish this.
Pub. My poverty but not my will contents.
On TWO PRINTS of Mr WILKES
Ontending artists, emulous of fame,
name.

In Churchill's verfe, a patriot fee him thine,
With every virtue deck'd, in every line:
Thus drefs'd with merit, thus bedaub'd with wit,
Admire the fuit, then tell me does it fit?
In Miller's print behold this wond'rous THING
Advancing, draws the curtain, thews his ring,
And fmiling bids obferve Pope's lines below,
How well applied! How nicely a propos!
Juft as ridiculous, as much a-kin,

As when the afs put on the lion's (kin.
'Twas needless then to plague the town with

more,

In Hogarth's print we knew you well before: To give the FACE is Miller's utmost art, But Hogarth's pencil can unveil the HEART.

* Mr Miller of Maiden-lane, has published: print of Mr Wilkes, from an original painting. ANACREON, ODE XXXVI

By Raetor, home, I pray:

Uly Rhetor, hence away,

What care I for all your rules?
Love and Bacchus hate the schools.
Teach me not then what to say;
Teach Anacreon to be gay
Teach me not then how to think;
Teach Anacreon how to drink.

See the envious hand of Time,
Robs Anacreon of his prime !
See the wrinkles knit my brow!
See the filver trefles flow!

Ceafe, then ceafe your pedant ftrain;
Fit for philofophic brain.

Since, my friend, I'm growing gray,
I'll be merry whilft I may;
Drink and revel it away.
Quickly boy,-nay falter pour;
Death, perhaps, is at the door:
Quick then, left I drink no more.

ROGERS. To

To a friend, on being defired to go to Jamaica,

AN IRREGULAR ODE.

HY (hould I tempt the raging main,

WHYhe rocks tremendous and the mon

fters dire;

Why for the fake of fordid gain,
To burut Jamaica's baneful clime retire;
Since neither wealth nor pow'r can bind
The fad diforder of the mind,
Aday the rage of dire difeate,
Nor teach thote parched plains to please?
Let him whofe bafe and fordid foul
Mean avaricious views control,
Go fondly roam for foreign ore,
And leave his pleasant native shore;
For howling winds and flormy feas,
Go leave his quiet and his ease;
His e fe, and lowly calm retreat,

Her fweets where lib'ral Nature pours,
His foul to foethe, oppreis'd by fate,

Or to exalt in gayer hours;
Whether o'er flow'ry meads he chuse to stray,
Or le and liften to fome gurgling stream,
In thickelt groves elude the noontide-ray,
Or pensive walk beneath pale Cinthia's beam;
More precious far than all the gold
And glittʼring gems the Indies hold.

Nor thefe alone, his fair paternal fields,
But ev'ry natal, ev'ry focial tie,
And all the fweets these dear relations yield,
By thirst of gold impell'd far let him fly.
In vain his father lifts his dying eyes,

His mother rends her aged locks in vain,
In vain the fair-one's bofom heaves with fighs,
And all around his youthful friends complain.
For gold go vifit India's burning clime,

There pant beneath the Dog-star's horrid rage, Whole noxious beams prevent the hand of Time, And, ev'n in youth, quite mould him into age. Ah! what avails his heaps of treafur'd gold,

Or what the flaves o'er whom he haughty sway'd!
For, fee, he mixes with the common mould,
And in that earth he lov'd is lowly laid.
Nor gold nor grandeur can recall the breath,
More to reanimate the lifeless clay;
Nor for a moment ftop the tyrant's wrath;
Vain ev'ry bribe his fiern beheft to sway!
But, lo! where gilded Vanity appears,
(Go trifter, to why will you neck the duft?),
And fee, for him a fplendid tomb the rears,

For him the too erects a breathing bust.
There let the croud with ftupid wonder gaze,
In admiration of the empty ftate,
And often call aloud with wild amaze,

See there what honours on the rich await;
Who would not boldly ream from thore to fhore,
Such riches and fuch honours to atrain;
Of ev'ry clime the precious gems explore,
Trace Chili's boundless monotains o'er,
And defert Libya's burning plain,
Or dive beneath th' unfathomable main?

But far from fuch fantastic toys, The idols of the tons of noise, May I be horn.

Not to fome desert dark and lorn, Where Solitude with folemn looks, Sits poring o'er he musty books; Nor to thofe gloomy groves and cells, Where moring Melancholy dwells, Sitting amid the broken rocks, With haggard look and ragged locks; But to tome chearful country-feat, Not magnificent, yet neat, All things elegantly plain, Nothing ufelefs, nothing vain; A limpid ftream to col my breast, Or with its murmurs lull to reft; A grove from Phoebus' rays to shield, And from Boreas' blafts a beild; A farm that will as much afford As juft fupply my frugal board: And if Fortune this deny, (Tho' all I'ask beneath the sky), Rather than fail thro' raging feas, Deprived of quiet, health, and cafe; Or visit that deftructive shore, For the paltry hopes of ore; Inglorious, on the lowly plain, I'll live, a fimple fhepherd twain. No cares will there my foul annoy, No dreams of wealth my peace deftroy My only care my flock to lead, Forth to the mountain or the mead ; And while around my lambkins play, To wake the sportive rural lay; Or lie beneath fome bush reclin'd, Lull'd by the fweetly warbling wind, And ftream which by mellifluous flows, Whofe liquid murmurs crown repofe; Where Spring her fragrant flow'rs hath shed And rufes grow around my head, While vifions of Elysian joy, All my raptur'd powers employ. Thus could I unconcern'd behold, The wealthy merchant's treasur'd gold; Nor once compare his hoards of gain, With my sweet pleasures on the flow'ry plain.' Tweeafide July 20. 1763.

The EXPERIMENT; or, VIRTUE and VICE A TALE.

Irtue and Vice. two powers

who rule this motley world of ours,
Difputed once which govern'd beft,
And whole dependents were most bleft
They reafon'd, rally'd, crack'd their ja kes
Succeeding much like other folks,
Their logic wafted and their wit,
Nor one nor t'other would fubmit;
But both the doubtful point confent
To clear by fair experiment:
For this fome mortal, they declare,
By turns thall both their bounty thare,
And either's pow'r to biefs him try'd,
Shall then the long dispute decide.

3 H 2

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On Hodge they fix, a country boor, As yet rough, ign'rant, careless, poor, Vice first exerts her pow'r to bles, And gives him riches in excess. With gold the taught him to fupply Each rifing with of luxury. Hodge grew at length polite and great, And liv'd like minister of fate; He fore with grace, got nobly drunk, And kept in pomp his twentieth punk. One morning as in eafy chair Hodge fat with ruminating air, Vice, like a lady fair and gay, Approach'd, and thus was heard to say. (Behind her Virtue all the while Stood flyly lil'ning with a smile).

Know, favour'd mortal, know that I
The pleafures of thy life fupply;

I rais'd thee from the clay-built cell,
Where Want, Contempt, and Slav'ry dwell;
And, as each joy on earth is fold,
To purchase all, I gave thee gold:
This made the charms of Beauty thine,
This blefs'd thee with the joys of Wine,
This gave thee, in the rich repaft,
Whate'er can please the tutor'd taste.
Confefs the bleffings I beltow,
And pay the grateful thanks you owe;

My name is Vice."- Cry'd Hodge, (and fncer'd),
"Long be your mighty name rever'd!
Forbid it, Heav'n! thus bless'd by you,
That I fhould rob you of your due-
To Wealth 'twas you that made me heir,
And gave, for which I thank you, Care;
Wealth brought me Wine, 'tis past a doubt,
And Wine, fee here's a leg! the Gout.
To Wealth I owe my French ragout,
And that each morn and night-1 fpue.
This Beauty brought, and with the dame
The Pox, a bleft companion! came.
And now to fhew how much I prize
The joys which from your bounty rife,
Each coupled with fo dear a brother,
I'll give you one to take the other.
Avaunt, depart from whence you came,
And thank your ftars that I am lame."
Enrag'd and griev'd away fhe flew,
And all her gifts from Hodge withdrew.
Now, in his fad repentant hour,
Celeftial Virtue try'd her pow'r:
For Wealth, Conten: the goddess gave,
Th' unenvy'd treasure of the fave!
From wild defires the fet him free,
And fill'd his breaft with Charity;
No more loud tumults Riot breeds,
And Temp'rance Gluttony fucceeds.

Hodge, in his native cot at rest,
Now Virtue found, and thus addrefs'd:
"Say. for 'tis your's by proof to know,
Can Virtue give thee blifs below?
Content my gift, and Temp'rance mine,
And Chasity, tho' meck, divine."

With bluthing checks, and kindling eyes,
The man transported thus replics:

"My Goddefs! on this favour'd head
The life of life hy bleflings fhed!
My annual thousands when I told,
Infatiate ftill I figh'd for gold:

You gave Content, a boundless store!
And, rich indeed! I figh'd no more.—
With Temp'rance came, delightful guest!
Health, tafteful food, and balmy test;
With Charity's feraphic flame
Each gen'rous focial pleasure came,
Pleasures which in poffeffion rife,
And retrospective thought fupplies!
Long to atteft it may I live,
That all Vice promifes you give."

Vice heard, and fwore, that Hodge for hire
Had giv'n his verdict like a liar;
And Virtue, turning with disdain,
Vow'd ne'er to speak to Vice again.

HYMEN to ELI Z A.
By Lord LYTTELTON.

Madan, before your feet day.
This ode upon your wedding-day,
The first indeed I ever made;
For writing odes is not my trade.
My head is full of household-cares,
And neceflary dull affairs;
Befides that fometimes jealous frumps
Will put me into doleful dumps ;
And then no clown beneath the fky
Was c'er more ungallant than I.
For you alone I now think fit
To turn a poet and a wit.-
For you, whofe charms, I know not how,
Have power to fmooth my wrinkled brow,
And make me, tho' by nature ftupid,
As brifk, and as alert, as Cupid.
Thefe obligations to repay,
When e'er your happy nuptial day
Shall with the circling years return,
For you my torch fhall brighter burn,
Than when you first my pow'r ador'd,
Nor will I call myself your lord,
But am (as witnets this my hand)
Your humble fervant at command, HYMEN,
Dear child, let Hymen not beguile
You, who are such a judge of style,
To think that he thele verfes made,
Without an abler penman's a d;
Obferve them well, you'll plainly fee,
That every line was writ by me,

CUPID

HISTORY.

IN relation to POLAND and RUSSIA, we give the two following articles. "Warfaw, June 25. We are not a little alarmed here at the declaration which the Emprefs of Ruffia has published, concerning fome violences occasioned by the establishment of a tribunal at Wilna, and the report, that if any fresh troubles fhould happen, that princefs will fend an army of 30,000 men into Lithuania, and another of 40.000 into Poland by Volhinia." "Warfaw, July 6. The account of the entrance of a corps of Rulians into this kingdom was ill founded. It is however true, that there are 50,000 of thofe troops posted on the frontiers of their country, viz. 20,000 on the fide of Elifabeth Ho rob, and 30,000 near Kiow."

As to the state of affairs between the TURKS and dominions of the houfe of AUSTRIA, we have received the following ulterior particulars.

"Vienna, June 22. The 20th advice was received from Efclavonia, that fome Turks had entered that country, and had taken a picket of Imperial troops prifoners; but it is now aflured, that this invafion was not made by the Turkifh militia, but by a company of banditti." L. G. "Vienna, June 25. The laft advices from Hungary have thrown our miniftry into a vifible confternation, though the court endeavours to put a good face on the matter, by reprefenting the late incurfions there as committed only by a crew of banditti, confifting of deferters, &c. from the armies employed during the war. It is certain, however, by private letters from thence, that this is not the cafe; but that the ravages committed there have been done both at the inftigation of, and by the Turks. Whether the Grand Signior indeed will think fit to countenance them in thefe proceedings, remains yet to be cleared up; and for this purpose an exprefs has been dispatched to our minifter at Conftantinople, with orders to him to make a due reprefentation of them to the Porte; but with private inftructions, at the fame time, as is faid, to accept of any acknowledgment by way of palliative.

In the mean while, however, that no prudent measure may be left untaken, the recruits lately raised, are marched off towards the frontiers as faft as poflible, ftrengthened by fome corps from the old regiments, and a numerous detachment from the train of artillery. To fupply

the places of these, new levies are making in the different parts of her Imperial Majefty's dominions, and the three millions lately demanded of the ftates of Hungary, are to be appropriated to defray their charges.

It is whispered alfo, that notwithstanding the express lately dispatched to Conftantinople, and the foothing affurances fo frequently fent us by Baron Penckler, our court has very little hopes of an accommodation, and that they even expected these events from the difpofition of the prefent Vizier. Others will have it, that thefe movements are nothing more than the confequences of the league entered into fome time ago, between the King of Prulla and the Porte. However this be, the breaking out of a new war immediate. ly on the extinction of an old one, is confidered by all as a very unfortunate circumftance; and fhould the invasion be looked upon as an attack upon the Ger- manic body, we may fhortly again expect to fee this part of the continent in a flame."

"Vienna, July 3. The reduction of our troops is not only fufpended, but feveral men that had been discharged are again taken into the fervice, and incorporated into the regiments that wanted to be completed." Lond. gaz.

Hague, July 8. The Emprefs-Queen has fent orders to her minister at Conftantinople, to use his endeavours to bring. all differences between the fubjects of the two powers to a friendly accommodation. Her Imperial Majefty, inftead of disbanding any part of her troops, has ordered three new regiments to be railed.

On the 5th of July Baron Breidenbach of Burrelheim, Great Dean of the Chapter of MENTZ, was chofen Archbishop of that fee, and confequently one of the nine Electors of the German Empire.

We have the following article from Cleves, belonging to his PRUSSIAN Majefty, dated June 25. "The maintaining of fortified places in a diftant country is found, by experience, to be very expenfive; and in war-time they often become ufeful to the enemy, though at the fame time none of them are impregnable without an army at hand to fupport them. These reasons have induced the King of Prulia to order the fortifications of Lipftadt, as well as thofe of Wefel and Gueldres, to be demolished, and the ground on which they ftand to be converted into gardens, and be employed in the cultivation of rice."

We

We formerly obferved, that the ministry of FRANCE have not only been obliged to continue the old taxes, but invent new ones. The following, dated, Paris, June 20. are given as the heads of remon1trances against the edicts and declaration of April laft, prefented to his Moft Chriftian Majefty, by the parliament of Paris, on the 19th of May.

"That his parliament fees, with the greatest concern, the accumulation of the national debt, the amount of which they know only by the weight of the taxes which the King impofes to pay it.

That the increase thereof for fome years past must be inconceivably great; fince, when the King gave peace to Europe in 1737, the ordinary revenues were fufficient for all expences, falaries, and payments; and at prefent the ordinary revenues, though they have been confiderably increafed by the augmentation of the farms and particular contracts, joined to several impofts made perpetual, are not equivalent to the expences.

That if the taxes announced in the edicts and declaration now before the par liament are still to be borne, what limits are to be fet to taxations? what refour ces will the nation have in cafe of a new war?

That without prying into the reafons for impofing fuch a frightful overcharge, the parliament noft humbly fupplicate the King to redress thofe abuses in the administration of the revenue, which must be followed by the ruin of the na tion, whether the fault lie in the manner of collecting the taxes, or in the excefs of the expences. His parliament befeeches him to confider, that every state whole expences exceed its revenue, is infallibly haftening to ruin, after making millions wretched by excellive impofts.

That his parliament are far from defiring to dictate to the King's prudence what bounds ought to be fet to the expences of each department; but that they are obliged to reprefent to him, that if, after thefe limits are fixed, any department fhould exceed them, it must be by taking from another department. Hence payments are retarded; and to re. medy this, recourfe is had to ruinous loans and extraordinary resources, which neceflarily introduce confufion and dif order into the finances.

That his parliament moft humbly fupplicate him to caule to be laid before him a ftate of the ordinary expences, and to

order it to be compared with the former ftate of the expences of the fame departments in time of peace: That very oft en those who are employed in the dif ferent departments, think they difcharge the confidence with which they are ho noured, by procuring for their respective departments a power and luftre, which proceeds rather from the amount of the money they expend, than from any thing elfe.

That the King be intreated to fet bounds to this emulation, and to fix invariably the expences indifpenfably neceffary, in a time of peace, for preferving the frontiers in good order, fupporting the public police, keeping the peace, protecting commerce, and supporting the dignity of the crown.

To this first refource, which is derived from a prudent oeconomy, (highly worthy of a beneficent King, fince it depends entirely on his good pleasure), another is to be added, which confifts in the melioration of his revenues, and a more fruit. ful administration of his finances.

That the King's own domains are, for the greatest part, either let at low rents much under their value, or reduced to nothing by exchanges, and often given away in gratuities.

That the expence of preferving and felling the timber of the King's forefts, abforbs the profits of them: fo that these large and fair domains, which were al most the fole revenue of the august Kings his predeceffors, ferve at present only for objects of the avidity of fuch as get ac cefs to the King's perfon.

That the ftrange multiplication of the different kinds of taxes, which strike at the lands and their produce, persons and deeds, even the judgments pronounced in the King's name, and every deed dif tinctly and feparately that is necessary for obtaining thofe judgments, occafions fuch diverfity in the management of them, that, in order to make them turn to any account, an army of officers and clerks must be levied against the King's fubjects, and paid by them; and this hort, which is always in action, and whose interests it is to difcover frauds, introduces much oppreffion and injustice in the collection of the taxes.

A King, beloved by his fubjects, and, to make that return for their love which humanity infpires, occupied wholly about their happinefs, what immenfe funds would he not find, by fupprefling the ex

pences