Mr. URBAN, Poetical Effays for July, 1774. Margate, July 9, 1774. By giving the following a place in your Magazine, you will oblige yours, &c. JUVENIS. BETSY ROW. THE nymphs of the waters, Bath, Brif tol, and Spa, Made a terrible pother of late, In humour outrageous round Venus they draw, And thus did her goddessship rate, We, Madam, affemble to ask you the reason, Nor ever will reft till we know, Why thus, both regardless of justice and feafon, You doat on that pufs, Betfy Row... From time out of mind we have given our aid, Your reign o'er mankind to prolong, The lame, the confumptive, the feeble have ftaid, And render'd them handsome and strong. To us give the charm and the power to enflave, Nor lavish on Betfy our due; Who often, we're told, as the rofe from the wave, Silly queen! has been worship'd for you. Shall the waters which ting'd with a hue of the gold, Or with polish'd fteel particles fhine, Shall the foft milky stream that down Clifton is roll'd, Be exchang'd for a plunge in the brine? Such a frown gentle Venus then quickly put on, As the laugh-loving goddess could show, Which paffing, but made (for 'twas inftantly gone) Her beauties more pointedly glow. Adorers, faid he, I more faithful ne'er find, Than are thofe who converse with the fea; They are noble, bold, hardy, yet loving and kind, And therefore most pleasing to me. From the deep oozy bed of old Ocean I rofe, Who reign both above and below; The waves that produc'd me a second difclofe, A fifter in dear Betfy Row. Hafte away, British ladies, to Margate's fair frand, (hand, For exercife, water, and air, Betfy Row, with the Loves and the Graces at In my form shall attend on you there, Then pardon me, Naiads, this Nereid I prize, However you wrangle and reafon ; We are both from the brine, and as long as time flies, What's falted is ever in season. 327 When noontide heats forbid to climb the brow, With me fhe fecks the copfe's green retreat; And as I lie beneath the deepest fhade, She hears the willing vows which I repeat. Sweet nymph, whose presence gilds the darkest fcene! (Thus do I oft begin the votive lay) Parent of blifs! thou fource of pure delight! Accept the grateful homage which I pay! If thou art abfent, vainly fhines the fun, In vain the woodland fongfters tune their Thou to the violet giv'ft its beft perfume, throats! Thou giv'ft the nightingale her sweetest notes! Oh mayft thou ne'er my humble cot forfake, May no rude orgies drive you from my door; But ftill the plain repaft with me partake, And throw a funshine on my ev'ning hour. To Mifs AIKIN, on reading her Poems. HAIL, charming Aikin, hail! thy name My glowing bofom with congenial fires. Where shines each happy art, that boasts to pleafe, The pleafing theme unwearied I'd rehearse, Wit, genius, learning, elegance, and cafe; And, with thy name, immortalize my verfe. Thy tuneful trains, with more than magic art, Can rouze, can foothe, or charm th' impaffion'd heart. Thou, whofe transcendent worth and matchless lays Extort from critic's lips the meed of praise, names, Forms that rife fair to Fancy's cheated eye, She calms each fear, fuppreffes every sigh, On the Marriage of Mr. Long to Mifs Broad. ELL! what fhall we fay to this marriage fo odd? WELL For many old Hymen has pickled a rod? be wrong, When 'tis Long as 'tis Broad, and Broad as 'tis Long 328 Mr. URBAN, Poetical Effays for July, 1774. Bferving that you fometimes admit Latin epitaphs into your valuable repofitory, I now present you with one in that language; and am, yours, &c. Caerbaes, Cornwall, June 20. H. S. E. ATHOUGHT at the Grave of three lovely Children, T. A. and S. C. who died within a Month. SLEEP LEEP on, fweet innocents, confign'd to clay, Till heav'n difclofes an eternal day; Till kindred feraphs, bending from the skies, Shall, in foft whifpers, bid you wake and rife; In facello a proavo fuo Ioanne Epifcopo. Then join, for ever join, the choir above, Cafrienfi condito, F. H. S. A. Paræciæ hujufce quondam Rectoris, Sanctiffimi, fi quis alius, viri, Filia natu lecunda: Vitæ per virtutem acæ Præmia expectans. ~Prima joventa nupferat H. K. Civi Ceftrenfi, Cui ftirpem edidit Filium Filiamque : Nupfit denuo ætate provecta H. H. de W. Generolo, Impar tandem, necdum fracta, fuccubuit, And for your earthly thare a heav'nly pa rents' love. To Sir EDWARD DERING, Bart.. Non vides quanto moveas periclo. HORACE. ARDON the Mufe who only wreaths Phylaurel with her humble bays, Of flatt'ry widely fteering,- While o'er it they are leering; Fame threw a claim more dear in; Aloft thy 'fcutcheon bearing; See North himself indignant rife, Of great Sir Edward Dering! Who fails electioneering; Hon. Mr. + Bridges. + Farnaby. Hiftorical Chronicle, July, 1774 T June 25. HERE was a molt violent ftorm of thunder and lightning at Wooburn, in Bedfordshire, by which cattle were killed, trees torn up by the roots, and anak, 12 feet in circumference, was fhivered, and a part of the tree carried to the distance of 50 yards. At Chatham, in Kent, the ftorm was, the fame night, fo alarming that the inhabitants rofe from their beds, expecting the most dreadful · confequences. June 26. John Upfon, of Woodbridge, in Suffolk, glover, who was committed to the caftle for felony a few days before, hanged himself in his own room with his garter. The following verfes were written My cares are paft, my heart lies eafy here. And look at home, enough is to be done. FRIDAY, JULY 1. Governor Hutchinfon, juft arrived in town from Boston, waited on his Majefty, and was most graciously received. Before his departure from America, he was addreffed by the gentlemen of the law, who aflure his Excellency, that, on account of his great abilities, adorned with an uniform purityof principle and integrity of conduct, they feel the lofs of his departure fo fenfibly, that were it not for the amiable character of his fucceffor, and that his Excellency's prefence at the court of Great Britain will afford him an opportunity of employing his interest more fuccessfully for the relief of the province, no other human fources could, And them confolation. He was addreffed likewife by the magiftrates of Middlesex county, who likewife affure his Excellency, that, notwithstanding the delufion which prevails in fome parts of the province, his adminiftration has ever to them appeared fincere and uniform with a view to promote its best interest, William Hawke, a notorious highwaymán, and William Jones, for tealing linnen, were executed at Tyburn, purfuant to their fentence. Great intereft was made for Hawke for his name's fake. the Right Hon. John Hely Hutchinson,, D. L. his Majefty's Prime Serjeant, of the office and place of Provost of Trinity, College, near Dublin, in the room of the Right Hon. Francis Andrews, D. L... late Provost thereof, deceased. Sunday, 3. A fecond notice was read in the Danila chapel in Well-clofe fquare, for all Da-" nifh foldiers and failors to return home, Monday 4 At Plymouth, the roundhoufe of the Kent man, of war fuddenly blew up... and in its confequences exhibited a pie ture perhaps the most dreadful and fhocking that it is poffible for human nature to conceive. By the fplinters of the deck. in burfting, between forty and fifty brave fellows were (fome of them) ei ther fo terribly maimed as to have had., their limbs taken off, or fcorched fo as to be deprived of their fight, whilst others again are flayed all over. There: are now 35 of them patients in the hofpi dead of two fractures, his arm and leg, tal at Plymouth, one having been fince. he not furviving long after an amputa tion of the latter. It is remarkable no officer received any hurt, except Lient. Shea, of the marines, who is flightly wounded.-The accident happened in faluting the Admiral, by fome fparks falling into an arm-cheft which stood on the after-part of the poop and great cabbin. A drummer, who happened to be sitting, on the lid of the chest, was blown into the air, fell overboard, and, was, picked up by the Albion's boat, without receiving the leaft hurt. It is remarkable, that out of the fmall fquadron that failed with Sir James Douglas, the Egmont fprung her. foremast, the Kent blew up, the Lenox fprung her foremast, the Dublin carried away her main and fore-top. mast yards and main top-malt, the Albion a main-top-fai-yard, the Raifonable a fore top-mat, and the Cerberus ran on fhore on Penlee Point. A 330 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. day's date, there is, the following article of intelligence: An exchange of fome territories is about to take place between the King of England, as Elector of Hanover, and the King of Pruffia. The district in queftion is the principality of Saxe-Lauenbourg, which his Britannic Majefty is to cede to the K. of Pruffia, for a part of the territory of the Ancient Marche, called Domeling, and fome bailiwicks in the county of Halberstadt. Saturday 9. The original will of the late Jeronimy Clifford, merchant and planter, of Surinam, was registered at Doctor's Commons: the demand on the Dutch on the 4th of October, 1730, amounted to 517,8ool. Aterling, fo that there are forty four years intereft due on the 15th of next October, at the rate of 10 per cent, according to the custom of Surinam, befides Clifford's valuable plantation in that colony. See Vol. XL. Wednesday 13. The feffions at the Old Bailey, which began on the 6th inftant, ended, when feven convicts received fentence of death, namely, Levi Barnet and Wm. Waine for houfe-breaking; Edw. Phipps for privately ftealing 8ol. Patrick Madan and Michael Brannon, footpads; Wm. Raye for the highway; and Arthur Stevenfon for a street robbery. "The Falkland floop of war arrived at Portfmouth, after being ftationed at Falkland's illand three years. This gave rife to the report that we had abandoned that iland to the Spaniards. Thursday 14. Captain Furneaux, of his Majefty's floop the Adventure, who falled from Plymouth the 31st of July, 1772, in company with Captain Cook, of his Majefty's loop the Refolution, upon a voyage to make difcoveries in the fouthern hemifpirere, arrived at Spithead, having penetrated as far towards the fouth pole as the latitude of 67 deg, 10 min. and circumnavigated the globe chiefly between the latitudes of 55 and 60, in which traft he met with much ice, but no land. The Adventure parted company with the Refolution on the 29th of November last, off the coast of New Zealand, and Capt, Furneaux does not expect the latter will return to England this year.-Capt. Fur neaux brought with him a native of Ota. heite, who was defirous of feeing the great King. When they arrived at Charlotte bay, in New Zealand, they found a note in a bottle, informing them that the Refolution had been there: their boat went on thore for vegetables, when a mate (Mr. Rowe) a midshipman, and fix feamen were cut off by the favages, and afterwards roafted and devoured-their bones were only left. A man-and woman were taken up in the Minories, paffing guineas which were counterfeits of the laft coinage. They look well, and are fearce difcernible. Friday 15. This day Daniel de Laval, Efq; had the honour to kifs the King's hand, upon being appointed his Majefty's Relident at the court of Copenhagen. Saturday 16. The London Gazette having hitherto been filent concerning the events of the war between the Ruffians and Turks, it has this day favoured the public with the following article: that "on the 26th of June, there was an engagement between a detached corps of the Ruffian army, commanded by General Soltikow, and a body of Turks, in which the Ruffians had been fuccessful."-Other accounts place the main action on the 20th of June, when the Lieutenant Generals Kamenski and Suwarrow routed a body of 40,0co Turks. Sunday 17. The Otaheite man, who came over with Capt. Furneaux, was prefented to his Majetty. He had received instruc tions for his behaviour in addressing the King, but was under fo. great embarralfment on approaching the royal prefence, (the manner of falutation being to very different from the ufual forms in his country) that he forgot every thing that had been taught him, and only could repeat, How do you do? His Majesty very familiarly took him by the hand, and made feveral kind enquiries concerning him, particularly refpecting his health and manner of living; and recommended it to his friends, that, as he had not yet. had the small-pox, and as that diffemper is ufually very fatal to thofe of his complexion, he might be inoculated. At the fame time his Majesty defired that he might be properly provided for,, Tucfday 19. His Grace the Archbishop of Canter bury, with Dr. Yorke, Bishop of St. David's, returned, after a tour of visitation which had taken up many days: Cn June 29, the Archbishop and BiShop, attended by Dr. Calvert (Vicar General), Dr. Backhoufe (Archdeacon), &c. arrived at Sittingbourn, in Kent, and on the 30th his Grace gave a charge to the clergy (as he did at all vifitations), and held a vifitation there, the Rev. Mr. Hayward, Rector of Harrietsham, preach cr. On July 1, after confirming at Feverfham, they we met three miles from Canterbury by the Dean, Prebendaries, &c. in their refpective carriages, and alfo by the Sheriff and junior Alderman, who invited his Grace, &c. to the Guildhall, where the Mayor and Corporation receiv ed them in their formalities, and where. an elegant collation was provided. On the ad, his Grace visited the cathe HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. dral. The fermon was preached by the On Sunday morning, the 3d, his Grace On the 4th his Grace, accompanied by the Bishop of St. David's, the VicarGeneral, Archdeacon, &c. confecrated 331 at Lenham, and on the 19th they returned to Lambeth and London. W'ednesday 20. A caufe came on to be tried at Worcefter, before Mr. Baron Burland, for Bribery at a late election of a Reprefentative in Parliament for that city, wherein an Alderman was defendant. But, after. a long hearing, the jury were of opinion, that, as no body was hurt by the monog given, there was no harm done, Friday 22. The new-born daughter of their Royal Highnefes the Duke and Duchefs of Gloucester was privately baptized by the name of Caroline Augufla Maria. The Duchefs of Gloucefter, and the Hereditary Prince and Princefs of Brunswick The Parliament, which food prorogued to the 4th of Auguft, was further prorogued to Thursday the 15th of September. St. Andrew's church. After the cere-ponfors were their Royal Highneffes the imony of confecration, a fermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Duncombe, one of his Grace's Chaplains, and Rector of that parith, from 2 Chron. vi. 40. Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent un19 the prayer in this place.-The_fermon - being ended, the Archbishop, affitted by the Archdeacon and Dr. Berkeley, proceeded to administer the facrament. Every thing was conducted with the utmoft decency and decorum. It is thought that the above church is the first parith-church that has been confecrated in the diocefe of Canterbury fince the Reformation. On Tuesday the 5th, the Bishop of St.. David's confirmed at the cathedral, while his Grace held a vifitation in the parish church of St. Margaret, the Rev. Mr. Willes, Vicar of St. Peter's in Thanet, preacher. On Wednesday the 6th, the Archbifhop entertained the Mayor and Aldermen at the Fountain tavern. On Thursday the 7th, he visited (as before) in St. Margaret's church, the Rev. Dr. Fowell, Rector of Bishopsbourn, preacher. On Friday the 8th, he confirmed and vified at Athford. On Sunday the roth, he confirmed again at the cathedral, when, during the whole four days, 2500 perfons were confirmed. On Monday the 11th, his Grace left Canterbury, and confirmed at Ramsgate; and on the 12th visited and confirmed at Sandwich, the Rev. Mr, James, Vicar of St. Margaret's at Cliff, preacher; on the 13th he confirmed at Dover, and went that evening to the Rev. Mr. Brockman's at Breachborough; on the 14th his Grace confirmed at Elham (where there had been no confirmation fince Archbishop Wake's time), while the BiShop of St. David's confirmed at Hythe; on the 15th the two prelates confirmed at New Romney, on the 16th at Tenterden, on Sunday the 17th at Maidfone, where the Archbishop preached, on the 18th Thursday 28. Was held at Chifwick, the anniversary meeting of the freeholders of Middlefex, at which were prefent John Wilkes and John Glynn, Efqrs, the Lord Mayor of London, the prefent Sheriffs, and near 500 other gentlemen: The following motions were carried without a nega tive: "That the freeholders of Middlesex, now aflembled at this annual meeting, will fupport our prefent worthy menibers, John Wilkes, Efq; and Mr. Serjeant Glynn, to reprefent again this County in parliament at the enfuing general election. "That the thanks of this meeting be given to Stephen Sayre and William Lee, Efyrs, Sheriffs of this county, for having iffued the fummons to John Wilkes, Efq; and Mr. Serjeant Glynn, our legal reprefentatives, to attend their duty in parliament the last feffion." Saturday 30. The Parliament of Ireland having paffed an Act laft feffions for regulating the price of bread, the bakers of that city have published their reafons again ft carrying it into execution, otherwife they fay they will one and all leave off trade. Á fnuff-box-maker at Paris has got a fortune by a lucky device. He made fome boxes, which he called Confolation dans le Chagrin. They are made of nagreen, and have the portrait of his Majefty at top. The laft letters from Batavia mention a very remarkable circumstance, that one evening a mass of ftone, weiging 295 lb. was thrown out of the volcano of the burning mountain of Gonapi, which fall upon |