Poetical Eays for April, 1774. TEARS of the MUSE S. SMITH. Submit unwilling to the ftroke of Fate, Paft is their fame, as tho' they ne'er had been. But when each worth that animates our frame, When genius, warm'd with ev'ry focial aim, Where now the breast where virtues fo abound? Exulting fee, reflor'd, her reign of lead? To fcribble ftill, without the gift of brains! Ye fons of earth, who loath, with ranc'rous hate, The godlike worth you cannot imitate, But whither fhall the Virtues now retreat? With tear unceasing, may'st thou mourn the dead! Thy fav'rite gone, no fhelt'ring breaft remains To tay thy night, detain thee on our plains, 183 Vain now thy charms,untaught and unadorn'd, Thofe hearty joys that speak the vacant mind, Thofe fimple fcenes in which your hours were spent, Your aukward jefts, and bursts of merriment; Your college fires, oft when "the fun was fet," With cager glee, the village circle met, Where, at the woodman's fong, or barber's tale, [brown ale; Full many a laugh went round, and much How well he fung, whofe oaten pipe no more Shall warble mulic to our lift'ning fhore: That oaten pipe we well may break in twain, For none will tune fo well its notes again. If, happy bard! a mufe fo mean as mine, May form one wreath to decorate thy fhrine, Accept the humble tribute that the pays, If not in tuneful, yet in honeft lays: Blefs'd tafk, when fporting with the mufe's lyre, We fing what Truth and Gratitude inspire! EPILOGUE to the new Tragedy of SETHONA. A S it is proy'd by scholars of great fame, That Gypfies and Egyptians are the fame; 1, from my throne of Memphis, thift the feene, And of the Gypfeys now ftep forth the Queen! Suppofe, that with a blanket on my shoulder, An old ftrip'd jacket, petticoat ftill older, With ebon locks, in wild diforder fpread, The diadem, a clout about my head, My dingy Majefty here takes her ftand, Two children at my back, and one in hand; With curticy thus--and arts my mother taught, I'll tell your fortune as a Cypfey ought. Too traces Poetical Effays for April, 1794 Too far to reach your palms, I'll mark the [faces; Which Fate has drawn upon your comely See what is written on the outward skin, And from the title-page know all within: Firft, in your faces I will mark each letterHad they been cleaner I had seen 'em better; Yet thro'that cloud fome rays of fun-shine dart, An unwash'd face oft veils the cleanest heart. That honest Tar, with Nancy by his fide, So loving, leering, whispers thus his bride, "I love you, Nancy, faith and troth I do, Sound as a bifcuit is my heart, and true;" "Indeed, dear Johnny, fo do I love you.' Love on, fond pair,indulge your inclination, You ne'er will know, for want of education, Hate, infidelity, and feparation.Some Cits I fee look dull, and fome look gay, As in 'Change-alley they have pafs'd the day; City barometers! for as ftocks go, What Mercury they have is high or low. What's in the wind which makes that patriot veer? He smells a contract or lott'ry next year; Now for the ladies-I no lines can spy, To tell their fortunes-and I'll tell you why; Those fine-drawn lines, which would their fate difplay, Are by the hand of Fabien brush'd away. I'd tell our Author's fortune, but his face, PORTRAIT of Mr. GARRICK. [From Dr. GOLDSMITH's Poem filed Retaliation, juft published.] ERE lies David Garrick, defcribe him who can, HE An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man: As an actor, confefs'd without rival to fhine; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line. Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art: Like an ill judge in beauty, his colours he fpread, [red. And be-plaifter'd with rouge his own natural On the flage he was natural, fimple, affecting, "Twas only that when he went off he was acting. With no reafon on earth to go out of his way, He turn'd and he vary'd full ten times a-day: Tho fecure of our hearts, yet confoundedly fick If they were not his own by fineffing and trick. He cait off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew, when he pleas'd, he could whiftle them back : The upper gallery. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce he mistook it for fame; 'Till his relish grown callous, almoft to disease, Who pepper'd the higheft was fureft to please, But let us be candid, and fpeak out our mind, If dunces applauded, he paid them in kind. Ye K-s, ye K-s, and G-rs, so grave, What a commerce was yours, while you got and you gave? But How did Grub-street re-echo the fhouts that you rais'd, [prais'd! While he was be-Rofcius'd, and you were bepeace to his fpirit, wherever it flies, To act as an angel, and mix with the skies: Thofe poetswho owe their best fame to hisskill, Shall fill be his flatterers, go where he will; Old Shakespeare receive him with praise and with love, And Beaumonts and Bens be his K―ys above, From POEMS ty Mr. FFNTON. To a NOBLEMAN, in the Meridian of Power. Hic murus abeneus efto Nil confeire fibi HOR. ROM kings defcended, and to kings allied, With lands and honours equal to thy pride; That ftar, whofe radiant beams can almost A fubject on a level with his king; [bring The nation's wealth and fenate all thy own, A monarch's name between thee and a throne; Great as thou art! if bold to comprehend, And fix the line where luft of pow'r fhall end, Indulg'd its utmoft fcope, can ought remain, That pride may figh for, or that worth may gain, Superior to thy King's, thy country's choice, Superior to the world's approving voice? Yes there's an honour far above the reft, Which unenjoy'd, the others turn to jeft; Which, like a center gem, fupremely bright, Supplies furrounding pointswith all their light. Then, would't thou find it, vainly cease to roam Ambition's wild, but feek it nearer home; ('The bold affertion juftifies thy paufe) Knock at thy heart, and ask for felf-applaufe, ACTEON PACIFIED. WHE HEN B-y, faithlefs to his bed, Perceives his truant wife, (The monfter creeping o'er his head) He threats th' adult'rer's life. * Duke of G-t-n, then at the head, of the treasury. Hiftorical Hiftorical Chronicle, April, 1774 BY March 20. Y the purfer of the Mercury packet, from Fort St. George, in the Eaft Indies, there is an account of the lofs of the Lord Mansfield Indiaman, on the 17th of December laft. Luckily no lives were loft; and we had just time to fave some few things, and get into the pilot's fchooner, before the funk, where 200 of the crew were crouded together for fome days. A letter from Calcutta, received by the fame channel, takes notice, that the Company's affairs are now on a much better footing than ever in that country. March 25. Lieut.-Gen. Monkton was elected member for Pontefract, in Yorkshire, in the room of the late Lord Viscount Galway. Andrew Foley, Efq; is elected for Droitwich, in the room of the late Robert Harley, Efq. March 28. A very remarkable trial came on to be heard at the affizes for the county of Glocefter, in which a gentleman of confiderable fortune was plaintiff, against his own fon, for cutting to pieces the picture of his mother, and for declaring, that tho' his mother, whofe picture he had cut (being dead), was out of his power, yet there was one, whofe picture hung by, whom he would butcher. The jury, taking into confideration the relationship of the parties, and prefuming fome fymptoms of infanity in the fon, gave only 51. damages. March 29. His Majefty went in ftate to the House of Peers, and gave the royal affent to the following bills:-the bill for removing the officers of cufloms from Bofton in Matfachufet's-bay (fee p. 140,);-) continuing feveral free ports in Jamaica; for for enabling the Duke of Buccleugh, the Duke of Queensborough, &c. to reduce certain annuities granted by the bank of Ayr;-for allowing further time for enrolment of deeds and wills made by papiits;-for diffolving the marriage of Richard Heatley;-for making perpetual the acts for regulating the trials of controverted elections;-for the pay and. cloathing of the militia;-for relieving prifoners acquitted of felonies, but retained for fees;-for granting to General Frazer the lands belonging to his father, GENT, MAG, April, 1774. the late Lord Lovat;-for a new commiffion of land-tax;-for the prefervation of turnpike-roads; for improving lands in the Ifle of Ely;-for lighting, paving, and watching the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell; and to feveral private bills The Houfe of Commons adjourned to the 12th of April; and The House of Lords to the 14th. A general court of proprietors of East India ftock was held at their house in Leadenhall-street, when the chairman, previous to their entering upon business, acquainted them with the receipt of fome very favourable advices from Bengal and Madrafs, among which was the taking of Tanjour; the confequence of which was, that the Nabob of Arcot had agreed to pay into the treafury of Bengal 10,000 lacks of rupees, as a compenfation for the affiftance given him by the Company's forces in that enterprize. Information having been given to Sir John Fielding, that a company of coiners made a business of coining halfpence in a houfe on Fish-street-hill, that magiftrate applied to the Lord Mayor for his warrant to apprehend them, which he obtained, and fent five of his people, wellarmed, to take them by furprize. There were no less than eight of them at work, who, when they found themselves difcovered, endeavoured to make resistance, and one of them received a ball in his head before he furrendered. The night before, they had fent a child for fome beer, with new halfpence to pay for it; and the landlord obferving to the child that they were warm, the innocently replied, that her daddy had just made them. A cart-load of implements were found in the houfe, and carried to Bow-street. Being Maunday-Thurfday, his Majefty's alms were diftributed to thirty-five poor men and women, three ells of holland, a piece of woolen cloth, a pair of fhoes and stockings, 20 fhillings in a purfe, 35 filver pence, a loaf of bread, and a platter of fish, to each. FRIDAY, APRIL 1. By the Irish mail, which arrived this day, came the first Irish papers ftamped. It feems, that, on this occafion, the coffec-houfes in Dublin have raised their coffee and tea a halfpenny a cup, and their breakfafts three halfpence. This day the William and Thomas broke from her moorings, drove foul of the great arch of London-bridge, broke down part of the balluftrades over it, broke her maft, and did other confiderable damage. A dreadful fire broke out at Cullerne, a village on the top of a hill near Bath and, the wind blowing Arong, 54 dwefling houses, 11 barne, moltly full of corn, 186 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. corn, 24 tables, one malt-house, two large wheat-ricks, and one large hayrick, were all in Aames together, and, in a few hours, totally destroyed. The dif trefs of the poor inhabitants is inexpreffible. A dreadful fire broke out at the houfe of Mr, Drakewood, in the Abbey-Foregate, in Shrewsbury, which communicafed itfelf to the buildings adjoining. By four o'clock, it is fuppofed, near 20 houfes were deftroyed. Most of the above houses, being thatched, were in flames at the fame time, owing to the violence of the wind, notwithstanding they were fituated in different parts of the street. In the course of the next two hours near 30 more houfes fell victims to the flames. By feven o'clock the flames were much abated. Fifty houfes were deftroyed, exclufive of barns, ftables, ricks of hay, trees, &c. This deftruction was occafioned by a chimney accidentally being fet on fire. Providentially no lives were loft. Saturday 2. Thomas Hutchinfon, Efq; Governor of the province of Maffachufet's-bay, in North America, having humbly requested his Majefty's leave to come to England, the King has been graciously pleafed to comply therewith, and to appoint Thomas Gage, Efq; Lieutenant-General of his Majesty's forces, to be CaptainGeneral and Governor in Chief of the faid province, and Vice-Admiral of the fame, during his Majesty's pleasure. Trial was made on Turnham-Green of a new-invented plough, for levelling the ruts in bad roads, which, it is faid, will effectually answer the purpose, after the rate of two miles an hour. Sunday 3. Being Eafter Sunday, the Rev. Dr. Kaye, fub-almoner, preached before the King; the Bishop of London, affifted by the fub-dean, administered the facrament; and the Lord Chamberlain, by his Majefty's order, made the ufual offering. Monday 4. By the ftate of the city-hofpitals, read before the governors, according to annual custom, it appeared, that, from St. Bartholomew's, 4361 patients have been difcharged cured, during the courfe of the year paft, befides 3833 out-patients relieved with advice, and that 332 have died; that, from St. Thomas's, 7331 have been difcharged cured, and only 195 dead; that, from Bethiem, of 212 admitted, 185 have been difcharged cured; that, from Chrift's, 139 children have been put out apprentices, 12 of whom were inAructed in the mathematics, and, what is remarkable, out of near 11co children in this hofpital, only feven died during the courfe of lait year. Tuesday 5. Mrs. Malding, who keeps a chandler's fhop in Southwark, being at a neighbour's, drinking tea, her daughter came to her, and told her a gentleman, drefied in blue and gold, wanted her at home on particular business; accordingly the went home, when, to her great attonithment, this gentleman proved to be her husband, whom he had not heard of fince the taking the Havanna, at the fiege of which he belonged to the carpenters on board a man-of-war; and never hearing from him fince that time, fhe imagined he was dead. It feems he entered into the Spanish fervice as a fhipwright, by which he has acquired a fortune of between five and fix thousand pounds, with which he purpofes to retire with his wife into the country. Friday 8. There was a general Court of the Proprietors of Eat-India Stock, at their houfe in Leadenhall-ftreet, "for the further confideration of making fome provifion (not exceeding zool. per annum each) for fuch Captains, as by the late reduction of the Company's fhipping are, or may be, thrown out of employment." 32 This evening Mr. Serjeant Burland was fworn into the office of one of the Barons of his Majefty's Court of Exchequer, before the Right Hon. the Lord Chan cellor, at his houfe in Great Ruffel-street, Bloomsbury, in the room of the late Baron Adams. At the fame time his patent of appointment pafled the Great Seal; previous to which he received from his Majesty the honour of knighthood. Saturday 9. The King has been pleafed to prefent Thomas Dampier, D.D. to the deanery of the cathedral of Durham, void by the death of Dr. Spencer Cowper; and to grant unto John James Majendie, D. D. the place of a prebend of the free chapel of St. George, in Windfor, void by the refignation of Dr. Dampier; alfo to grant unto Thomas Fountaine, M.A. the place of a canon or prebend of the cathedral of Worcester, void by the refignation of Dr. Majendie. A commiffion, during pleafure, paffed the Great Seal, " granting unto Thomas Gage, Efq; Lieutenant General of his Majefty's forces, Governor of the Maffachufet's bay, full power and authority, where he fhall fee caufe, or fhall judge any offender or offenders to be fit objects of his Majesty's mercy, to pardon and remit all treafons, petit-treafons, mur ders, felonies, crimes, contempts, and mifdemeanors whatsoever, done or committed; and all fines, forfeitures, or penalties whatfoever, incurred or impofed in that province," Sunday HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. Sunday 10. A flash of lightning ftruck a house in Longhaugh Shield, near Newcastle, and a man with his wife, fitting by the firefide, were both inftantly killed; another perfon, fitting between them, was not hurt. The houfe, by the lightning, was almost immediately in flames; a child in bed was burnt to death, and another, yet alive, much fcorched. The ground round the houfe was furrowed up, and a large rock near it thattered to pieces. The houfe was reduced to ashes. Monday 11. - The masquerade at the Haymarket was not very numerous or brilliant; there were Indian kings and queen in abundance. An old woman (Mr. Ja―s), well fupported. A very fpirited Major Sturgeon (Mr. R-p·r). · A nobody.-A methodist (Mr. Alk-w) and two profelytes. A lively but impudent madman, well dreffed and well fupported (faid to be Dr. K-n-k) -Another mad Tom (Mr. F-g-d).-Two or three failors, one with a doxy, lively and in character. -A farmer in a carter's frock, appearing to be quite at home in that character, and though not forward in fpeaking, yet giv ing remarkably appofite repartees to those who attacked him, and faid to have diftinguished himself at Lady F.'s house, where mafques went that evening, (reported to be Mr. And-s, a gentleman from Berkshire).-A very filent conjuror or two. - Orange-wenches and flowergirls in abundance.->everal devils, fmall and great, with neither good or evil in them. A bailiff's follower (well performed by Mr. H— K-—y).—A taylor, after Mr. Bunbury's etching.-A Sachem or two. Some harmlefs witches.-An owl. A Cupid and a Venus.-A drunken landlord;—and many dominos made up the company. After three o'clock, one would with not to remember that noife and diforder began to reign; the very inftruments of harmony were not fafe.-Fewer bon mots never were uttered at a like amufement. Tuesday 12. This day the House of Commons met according to adjournment, when Colonel Luttrell appeared there for the first time this feffions, and contplained against the Sheriffs of Middlefex, defiring they might be brought to fhew caufe why they fummoned Mr. Wilkes at the call of the house, instead of him. Mr. C. Fox feconded the complaint; but Lord North faid, it would be taking up a matter that had been winked at fome time, and therefore thought it would be beft to take no farther notice of it; and fo it dropt. 187 for the twenty-four Directors.appeared as follow: Directors for one year. Rich. Hall C. Boddam 519 | P. Lafcelles John Stables 493 J. Woodhouse Directors for four years. 767 498 501 594 546 452 623 Daniel Weir 503 506 560 509 615 G. Cumming 517 | J. Man hip Was held, at Merchant-Taylors hall, the anniversary feaft of the London Hotpital, and an excellent fermon was preached on the occafion, at St. Lawrence's church, near Guildhall, by the Hon, and Right Rev. Brownlow, Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry; when the collection at the church and hall amounted to 8341. 118. 9d. including a legacy of rool. befides a donation of 311. 10s. towards building the fecond wing, on account of which the fum of rogol. Ics. has been already paid in at the bankers. The Right Hon. Frederic Lord North, being appointed Lord Lieutenant of the county of Somerfet, this day took the customary oaths in the prefence of his Majefty. The trial of Nicholas Mallard, Frenchman, came on at Hicks's-hall, for an affault committed on the perfon of Mr. Cater, of Lincoln's Inn, (See p. 44.) when it appeared, that, on the 24th of January laft, the prifoner came to Mr. Cater's chambers and afked charity of him; that Mr. Cater gave him a fhilling, and, thinking he fhivered with cold, bid him fit down and warm himself; that in about a quarter of an hour he thought the prifoner was going, when he fuddenly found himself aflaulted by him; that he first received a violent blow on the face that |