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fions, which always were, and remain still founded on the principles of universal liberty; principles which I affume the glory to have eftablished on your records. Your fenfe, Liverymen of London, the sense of your great corporation, fo repeatedly recommended to your reprefentatives in parliament, were my fenfe, and the principal boast of all my compofitions, containing matter imbibed in my earliest education, to which I have always adhered, by which I ftill abide, and which I will endeavour to bear down with me to the grave; and even at that gloomy period, when deferted by my good fortune, and under the feverest trials, even then, by the fame confiftency of opinions and uniformity of conduct, I ftill preferved that part of reputation which I originally derived from your favour, whatever I might pretend to call a publick character, unfhaken and unblemished; nor once, in the hour of affliction, did I banish from my thoughts the moft fincere and confcientious intention of acquitting every private obligation, as foon as my good fortune fhould pleafe to return; a diftant appearance of which feemed to invite me, and awakened fome flattering expectations on the rumoured vacancy of the Chamberlain's office; but al ways apprehending the imputation of prefumption, and that a higher degree of delicacy and caution would be requifite in me than in any other candidate, I forebore, 'till late, to prefent myself once more to your notice, and then, for the first time, abstracted from a public confideration, folicited your faveur for my own private advantage. My want of fuccefs fhall not prevent my chearfully congratulating this gentleman on his election, and you on your choice of fo worthy a magiftrate; and if I may indulge a hope of departing this place with a fhare of your approbation and esteem, I folemnly from my heart declare, that I fhall not bear away with me the leaft trace of difappointment.

In 1753, Mr. Glover produced at Drury Lane his tragedy of Boadicea, which was acted nine nights, in the month of December. It had the advantage of the performance of Mr. Garrick, Mr. Moifop, Mrs. Cibber, and Mrs. Pritchard. From the Prologue it feems to have been patronized by the Author's friends in the City. In one part of it he fays:

"At length his mufe from exile he re"calls,

"Urg'd by his patrons in Augufta's walls. "Thefe gen'rous traders, who alike fuftain "Their nation's glory on th' obedient

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"And bounteous raife Affliction's droop❝ing train;

"They who, benignant to his toils, afford. "Their fheltering favour, have his mufe re"ftor'd;

"They in her future fame will justly share, "But her difgrace herself must fingly bear. "Calm hours of learned leifure they have ❝ given,

"And could no more, for genius is from "Heaven."

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Archbishop Herring, writing to a friend, fays of this play: to the moft material objections the Author would fay (as Shakespeare muft in fome instances) that he did not make the ftory, but told it as he found it. The first page of the play fhocked me, and the fudden and heated antwer of the Queen to the Roman ambaffador's gentle addreis, is arrant madness; it is, indeed, unnatural. It is another objection, in my opinion, that Boadicea is really not the objec of crime and punishment, fo much as pity; and, notwithstanding the ftrong paintings of her favagenefs, I cannot help withing the had got the better. She had been molt unjuftly and outrageously injured by thole univeríal tyrants, who ought never to be mentioned without horror. However, I admire the play in many paffages, and think the two laft acts admirable. In the fifth particularly, I hardly ever found myself so strongly touched." Dr. Pemberton wrote a pamphlet to recommend this play.

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In 1761, Mr. Glover published Medea, a tragedy, written on the Greek model, but it was not acted until 1767, when it appeared for the first time on the ftage at DruryLane, for Mrs. Yates's benefit. At the Acceflion of his prefent Majesty, Fortune, which had for many years neglected Mr. Glover, appears to have altered her conduct. In the Parliament which was then called, he was chofen Member for Weymouth, and continued to fit as fuch until the diffolution of

it. He, about this time, interested himself about India affairs, at one of Mr. Sullivan's elections, and in a fpeech introduced the fable of the Man, Horfe, and Bear, and drew this conclufion, that, whenever merchant's made ufe of armed forces to maintain thei trade, it would end in their defirection.

In 1770, the poem of I eonidas requiring a new edition, it was republihed in two volumes 12mo. corrected throughout, and extended from nine books to twelve. It had alfo feveral new characters added, befides placing the old ones in new fituations. The improvements made in it were very confiderable, but we believe the publick curiofity, at this period, was not fufficiently alive to recompenfe the pains beftowed on this once-popular performance,

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The calamities arifing from the wounds given to publick credit, in June 1772, by the failure of the Bank of Douglas, Heron, and Co. in Scotland, occafioned Mr. Glover's taking a very active part in the fettling thofe complicated concerns, and in ftopping the diftreis then fo univerfally felt. In February 1774, he called the annuitants of that Banking-houfe together, at the King's Arms Tavern, and laid propofals before them for the fecurity of their demands, with which they were fully fatisfied. He alfo undertook to manage the interefts of the merchants and traders of London concerned in the trade to Germany and Holland, and of the dealers in foreign linens, in their appli cation to Parliament in May 1774. Both the fpeeches made on thefe occafions were pubibed in a pamphlet in that year.

In the fucceeding year, 1775, he engaged on behalf of the Weft-India merchants, in their application to Parliament, and examined the witneffes, and fummed up the evidence, in the fame matterly manner he had done on farmer occafions. For the affiftance he af forded the merchants in this business, he was complimented by them with a fervice of plate, of the value of 3001. The speech which he delivered in the Houfe was in the fame year printed. This, we believe, was the last opportunity he had of difplaying his torical talents in publick.

Having now arrived at a period of life which demanded a recefs from business, Mr. Glover retired to ease and independence, and wore out the remainder of his life with digpity and with honour. It is probable that he fl continued his attention to his mufe, as we are informed that, befides an epick poem ut confiderable length, he has left fome tragedies and comedies behind him in manukript. After experiencing for fome time the infirmities of age, he departed this life 25th November 1785.

The following character of Mr. Glover was drawn up immediately after his deceafe, by his friend Dr. Brocklesby.

"Through the whole of his life, Mr. G. was by all good men revered, by the wife edeemed, by the great fometimes careffed and even flattered, and now his death is fincerely lamented by all who had the happiness to contemplate the integrity of his character. Mr.

G, for upwards of 50 years past, through every viculitude of fortune, exhibited the molt exemplary fimplicity of manners; having early attained that perfect equanimity, which philofophy often recommends in the clofet, but which in experience is too feldom exercised by other men in the teft of trial. In Mr. G. were united a wide compafs of accurate information in all mercantile concerns, with high intellectual powers of mind, joined to a copious flow of eloquence as an orator in the Houfe of Commons. Since Milton he was fecond to none of our English poets, in his difcriminating judicious acquaintance with all antient as well as modern literature; witnefs his Leonidas, Medea, Boadicea, and London; for, having formed his own character upon the best models of the Greek writers, he lived as if he had been bred a difciple of Socrates, or companion of Ariftides. Hence his political turn of mind, hence his unwarped affection and active zeal for the rights and liberties of his country. Hence his heartfelt exultation whenever he had to paint the impious defigns of tyrants in ancient times fruftrated, or in modery, defeated in their nefarious purpofes to extapate liberty, or to trample on the unalienable rights of man, however remote in time or fpace from his immediate prefence. In a few words, for the extent of his various erudition, for his unalloyed patriotifm, and for his daily exercife and conftant practice of Xenophon's philofophy, in his private as well as in putlic life, Mr. Glover has left none his equal in the city, and fome time it is feared may elzple before fuch another citizen fhall arife, with eloquence, with character, and with poetry, like his, to affert their rights, or to vindicate with equal powers the juft claims of freeborn men. Suffice this teftimony at prefent, as the well-earned meed of this truly virtuces man, whofe conduct was carefully marked, and narrowly watched by the writer of the foregoing hafty fketch, for his extraordinary qualities during the long period in human life of upwards of 40 years; and now it is fportaneously offered as a voluntary tribute, unfclicited and unpur chafed; but as it appears justly due to the memory of fo excellent a Poet, Statefman, and true Philofopher, in hte and death the fame."

THE POLITICAL STATE of the NATION, and of EUROPE, for January, 1786. No. XXIII.

THE of the last year

to his dominions! was roundly afferted

The left out of this were marked with by fome people, and as fully denied by

an alarm among our traders and artizans, about an edift of the Emperor of Germany, f.d to amount to a total prohibition of all the British manufactures being imported in

others, particularly the Minifterialifts, who wifhed us to believe, that this act of the Emperor (it any fuch there was,) was only a republication of a former arret publifhed

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eighteen months ago, differing only a little in the manner of enforcing it. Even to this day the abufed Public is left in the dark as to the authenticity and the extent of the prohibition: but all feem to agree that there is fomething in it. Now, we who always circumfcribe our opinion within the bounds of common fenfe, do not fcruple to fay, that it was the duty of our Minifters, as foon as they knew of it, to have endeavoured to prevent the impending blow, and as foon as they found their endeavours were likely to prove in vain, then to have given the earliest notice poffible to the public of the accurate contents of this hoftile declaration, to put our manufacturers and others concerned on their guard, that the damages accruing therefrom might fall as light as poffible. The neglect of this warning to an unguarded unfulpecting people, to protect them againft unneceffary lofs, as well as against groundless alarms, we confider as a great defalcation of the duty of our Statefmen, let their pretences be what they may.

The a oove prohibition was faid to take place foon after the French Court interdicted our manufactures: this looks as if the Emperor and the Grand Monarch acted in concert, and went hand in hand with their machinations against this country! a fubject worthy of the enquiry of a British Parliament! fad return of the Emperor to GreatBritain for refcuing his mother and her auguft Houfe from the jaws of deftruction, within the memory of the prefent generation!

About the fame time a packet arriving with a Governor from the Eaft-Indies, after declining the fupreme government there, gave our bufy reflefs fpirits an opportunity of fpreading rumours of wars in thofe regions, as groundless as they were ridiculous and abfurd: infomuch that, like most other monfters, they died on the very day they were born, and their parents were glad to bury them to hide their own fhame.

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This month has been uncommonly fatal to our fhipping. The cafe of the Halfewell Eat-Indiaman was peculiarly ftriking, diftreiling, and fhocking to human nature. all its circumitances it may be faid to be unprecedented and unparalleled! The commander, with his two daughters. two nie ces, and other amiable females. feveral officers, and a multitude of men, all meeting in one dreadful moment that awful death which had grimly flared them in the face for two days and nights, conftituted fuch a tremendous catalirophe as human nature finks under the bare contemplation of; it is too much for the human mind to think of long! Many and great are the other calamities which have betallen our other hips in all directions; and our furrounding neighbours have not gone without their fhare of calamity from The defolating tempelt.

Parliament has affembled after a long winter vacation, and been addreffed by a Troft gracious Speech (as it is called) from the Throne. From this Speech we muft confefs we have caught very little information, either of the prefent ftate of the nation, or the defigns of Minifters in their future management of that vaft, unwieldy body called the Commonwealth! The Minister afferts nothing specific, and promifes nothing fpecific; we may therefore, by taking a large grafp, draw every thing from it;-upon a fmaller fcale, with a ferupulous critical examination reduce it to nothing. We must therefore leave the Minifer to develope his fecret meaning by his future actions.

While our Parliament was affembling to hear one Royal Speech, another Royal Speech, addrefied to the Irish Parliament, was wafted over to our Ifland, reaching the metropolis just in time to bear a chorus with the other. Of this Irish Speech we may fay, it is entirely a domeftic one, relating to the internal economy of Ireland only; we fhall therefore leave that to the confideration, criticifin and inveftigation of the Irish Parliament, Volunteers and People in general.

The Emperor and the King of Pruffia content themselves at prefent with waging a war of words and of words with very little meaning to them as far as we can fee: indeed we should think they might be ashamed to take up arms in fuch a difpute, without affigning much stronger reasons than either of them yet have done. But if they will fight for fighting's fake, we could with, for the good of mankind, they might be left by furrounding Powers to fight it out fairly between themselves, as our boxing heroes do in England, without involving innocent and indifferent nations in the motley quartel, by which there is not a poflibility of their gaining the leaft good, or reaping any benefit whatsoever.

Holland continues in a perturbated state, between the partifans and the enemics of the Stadtholder: as we hinted before, this is a needlefs quarrel; their great and good new Ally will foon fettle that knotty point for them; they may caft all their care upon him, for he will care for them;-he has taken them in tow, and he will pull away with a vengeance. In the mean time, the Hollanders are remunerating his good offices with the two good ships the Alliance and the Gratitude, as the firit-trui s of that peace he has procured them. Let them take care thele noble monuments of Dutch gratitude be not dathed to pieces on the funken rocks of French faith and ingratitude!-We are much afraid they want to procure a more durable and folid monument of their gratitude to the Grand Monarch in the eafy purchase of

the

Negapatnam out of our hands!But who will be fools then!

The Grand Monarch has fomething to do to difcipline his Members of Parliament, who, like unruly fchool-boys, begin to be petulant, and even to remonftrate against his dictatorial power; but he holds the lath over them in fuch a menacing tone, that they find it most convenient to yield to his fovereign power. Obedience, pure, fimple, unreferved obedience, is the whole fum and fubftance of the duty he requires at their hands. This is the great and good King who has taken the Thirteen United States of America, and the Seven United High and Mighty States of the Netherlands -twenty free States in all-all truly republican-under his protection, to preferve their rights, their liberties, privileges, and immunities, pure, perfect, undiminished and uncontaminated!!!-Yet this is the man, who, with the befom of deftruction DESPOTISM-weeps down every veftige of liberty and the rights of mankind, in his own extenfive populous dominions, leaving no traces of pre-exiftent liberty behind. Here we leave them in poffeflion of their benign patron, the wonder of the world!

We now come to difcharge a debt we incurred to our readers in our last month's fpeculations; that is, to fhew that the confederation which the French Cabinet is now forming with the utmost affiduity on the Continent of Europe, has its radical defects, and the feeds of its own diffolution in its very conftitution, if the other powers had but found and able politicians to guide their affairs. And,

First, A close, intimate, and perfect alliance between the Emperor of Germany and a King of France is a grofs abfurdity in the politics of Europe in general, and a Sat contradiction to the conftitution of the Germanic Body in particular, and a combi nation with one of its hereditary enemies, pregnant with the deftruction of the Empire. An Emperor of Germany in league offenEve and defenfive with France, is fecretly and virtually an enemy to the general bond of anion that holds the feveral parts of the Empire together: and every fagacious Prince of the Empire muft fee it, and take the alarm ere long and act accordingly. Even those who are now deeply connected with the Head, cannot be free from apprehenfons of danger to the different members of the Empire from that alarming, ominous and ill-boding alliance. This doctrine is fo f-f-evident, it fcarcely needs any demonPraton or illuftration, for he that runs may read and underiland. But, to remove all caling-Be it remembered, that the fundamental axiom of the German policy was

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nally for the Electors to chufe one of Lc own body to be Emperor, who was

not too powerful in his hereditary domi nions or matrimonial acquifitions and family connections, fo as to enable him to swallow up the Empire by piecemeal, and add the whole or greater part of it to his hereditary dominions; yet not to chufe one who was fo weak and impotent as to be unable to take the lead as Head of the Empire, to protect itfelf against the inroads and inva fions of the Ottoman Empire on one hand, and alfo to guard againit the defigns and machinations of the French Court on the other hand, whofe conftant, invariable aim has been at Univerfal Monarchy, which, when obtained, must be the certain deftruc tion of the German Empire. For half a century back the Empire has had little to fear from the pacific difpofition and feeble troubled ftate of the Turkish empire. The great danger that remained to be guarded against next to the overgrown power of the Emperor is the conftant afpiring of the French Kings at Univerfal Monarchy. By the prefent confederation a door is thrown wide open for both thefe dangers to rush irrefiftibly into the very heart of the Empire. Therefore this league must be broke up, or Germany will bleed at every pore, and probably fall a general facrifice to one or both of thefe Powers, to be divided between them. We give the propofed exchange of Bavaria for the Auftrian Flanders, as a fpecimen of their plan, or the first link of the chain forging by the two now united Houfes of Bourbon and Auftria, for a ferious warning to all the Princes of Germany potent and impotent.

This alarm, properly inculcated and imbibed among the German Princes, may operate effectually by prevention, without drawing the fword or fhedding of blood. All the electors ought to fet their faces againt chufing the Emperor's brother, or any of that House to be King of the Romans; and all the Princes of the Empire ought to countenance, encourage and. fupport them in it. The fame precaution ought to be taken against chufing one of that family to be Emperor upon the next demife; for in cafe one of the family fhould fucceed either as King of the Romans, or by imme diate election to the throne, they would not only confider the Imperial diadem hereditary in their family, but would feel themfelves powerful enough to make it fo; whereby the family raised up for the defence of the Empire would ultimately be enabled to become its conqueror or destroyer, in conjunction with that power they were originally destined to oppose.

Finding this article hath led us into a great length of difcuffion, we must referve the investigation of the other defects of the French league to a further opportunity, the carliest we can feize on.

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THEATRICAL JOURNAL.

DRURY LANE.

ANUARY 14, a new Comedy in five acts, entitled The Heirefs, was performed for the first time, and was received with loud

and continued applaufe.

Sir Clement Flint,
Lord Gavel,

Mr. King,

Mr. Palmer.

Mr. Smith.

Mr. Parfons.

Mr. Bannifter, jun.
Mr. Aickin.
Mr. R. Palmer.
Mr. Baddeley.

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Mifs Pope. Mrs. Crouch. Mrs. Wilfon. Mrs. Booth. Mrs. Barnes.. Mifs Tidfwell.

Lady Emily Gavel, Mifs Farren.

Sir Clement Flint is one of thofe cautionary and faftidious men who fuppofe that interest is the fpring of every human action, and who laugh to fcorn the pretenfions of men to abftract benevolence or difinterested friendship. This character was performed by Mr. King with that morofe gravity of which he is fo compleat a master.

Lord Gavel and Lady Emily are his nephew and niece-They are both poffeffed of ho. nour and fenfibility. Sir Clement is anxious to marry his nephew, Lord Gavel, to Mifs Allfcrip, that he may repair a damaged eftate by the fortune of this Heirefs-But the noble Lord having feen the humble Harriet Clifford, who, to avoid a difagreeable match, had flown to London, and taken refuge in an obfcure lodging under the name of Mifs Alton, has fallen defperately in love with her, and cannot think of marrying any other.

Allferip, a rafcally attorney, who has amaffed an immenfe fortune, chiefly by the

ruin of the Clifford family, has removed the inftance of his daughter, the He from the neighbourhood of Furnival's-in Berkeley-fquare-His daughter is a c pound of affectation, infolence and infe bility. She imitates the manners of pe of fashion, and in particular makes L Emily her model.

The Blandishes, brother and fifter, fycophants-They are a couple of thofe ings who hang on people of fashion, a "who stand well with all Administration Clifford is a gentleman of steady and accommodating virtue-The bofom frie of Lord Gavel, he interferes to fave h from the error of connecting himself wi an unworthy girl, or from the fhame of i ducing an innocent woman; and in t purfait he difcovers Mifs Alton to be fifter.

Thefe are the characters which the auth has affembled and engaged in a plot, full intereft, and which at the fame time is ne ther entangled with confounding bufinet nor debafed by farcical incidents.-The Al fcrips are detected and expofed-the Blan difhes are disappointed-the Cliffords recove their eftates-Lord Gavel is united to Har. riet Clifford-Mr. Clifford to Lady Emily-and Sir Clement Flint is forced to acknow ledge that there is nothing fo truly interefter as to make thofe whom we love happy.

The Honourable General Burgoyne is the author of this comedy, and it does infin tes honour to his pen. It is written with chaftity and elegance-It breathes throughout the language of fashionable life-is enriched with obfervation original and nervous-and abounds with epigrams new and pointed.

The Prologue and Epilogue have meritThey were both written in hafte, which is a good reafon for Mr. King's being rather imperfect. The Epilogue in particular was not written we learn till the day before the representation, and was not delivered to Mifs Farren till late the preceding night.

For the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE.

VIEW of LORD MANSFIELD's HOUSE at CAEN WOOD, and LORD SOUTHAMPTONS FARM at HIGHGATE.

AGREEALLY to our promife in a for- from a Drawing furnished by the fame

mer Number, and as a companion to

the GENERAL VIEW of HIGHGATE inferted in our laft Magazine; we now prefent our Readers with an Elegant Engraving,

Gentleman who favoured us with the former, of the Houfes of Lord Mansfield and Southampton near Highgate.

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