European Magazine, A N D LONDON REVIEW; CONTAINING THE MANNERS, and A MUSE MENTS of the AGE. For JUN E, 1786. Holloway. And 2. A View of Holme, in HEREFORDSHIRE, the Seat of the Rt. Hong CONTAINING Page 427 Anecdotes of George Robert Fitzgerald Journal of the Proceedings of the Third and Timothy Breckpock *388—392 Seffion of the Sixteenth Parliament of The Character of Eudoxus. By Dr. Co- Great-Bricain : including Lords Delignon 393 bates on Stourbridge Canal Bill--Surplus, Meditation upon a Stage Play—and on a or New Sinking Fund Bill ---Speaker's Pedigree Scene in a Nobleman's House 395 Address to His Maje:ty on presenting Two Letters by Mr. Boswell, in Answer Surplus Bill 43° to Two Charges brought against his -Commons; including Debates on Mi * Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' - 397 litia Bill-Captain M‘Bride's Motion Particulars relative to the Nature and Cul- respecting Captains of the Navy-New toms of the Indians of North-America. Sinking Fund Bill-Fortifications land Finery Bill Wine Duty Bible A Mother and no Mother; or, The Liti Enquiry into the Rohilla War-East. gated Child. An Anecdote 400 India Company's Petition for increasing The Royal Interview : a singular Anec- their Capital Stock-Mr. Hastings's dote of Benevolence 401 Conduct to Cheyt Sing at Benares 433 Obfervations on the Manners, Customs, Poetry; including Parsops' Ode to Sleep Dress, Agriculture, &c. of the Japanese Ode to Indolence, by— Merry, Ely.-- ib. Horace, Book II. Ode 16. Orium Divos, Exay on the Rise and Progress of Che. : &c. imitated by Mr. Hastings:--Ser.net mistry (concluded] 404 addressed to Miss Seward-Ode for Elogy on the Country Life. By M. Mercier 407 His Majesty's Birth-Day, written by "Mr. Warton, &c. &c. 452 the Death of Mr. Henderson-Prologue Dr. Done's Sermons' 409 on the Opening of the Hay-Market Tales of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Cen- Theatre, June 9.-Fable of the Wi. turies 420 dow's Vow, &c. 457 Dr. Cooper's Consolation to the Mourner 422 || Political State of the Nation and of EuFarewell Odes for the Year 1786. By rope for June, 1786. No. XXVIII. 453 Peter Pindar, Esq. and a Variety of other Foreign Intelligence, Country News, Monthly 425 Chronicle, Barometer and Thermometer, Narrative of the Death of Capt. Cook. Prices of Stocks, Grain, &c. 398 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to CORRESPONDENTS. Many Letters are received and are under confideration, but we must defer our particala Answers to them to a future Time. 812 2 واو 3 ܐܘ 012 blo 02 53 II 4,3 2 TI' 1 02 2 AVER AGE PRICES of CORN, from June 12, to June 17, 1786. Wheat Rye Barl. Oats Beans COUNTIES upon the COAST. s. d. s. ds. ds. ds. d. Wheat Rye Barl. Oats Bee. London 4 313 012 313 Ellex 82 13 1 COUNTIES INLAND. Suffolk 4 Oj2 Middlesex 92 5.2 03 . 4 4.0 92 613 8 Norfolk 4 42 102 4.2 Surry 4 92 44 7 Lincoln 4 2 112 Hertford 4 210 03 10 2 York 313 4 1113 Bedford 12 9 64 Cambridge 3 102 Northumberl.4 3 412 93 North ımpton 4 513 Westmorld. 6 44 5'2 34 4 100 3 100 Lancashire 5 7,0 Leicester 03 62 5 6'0 013 0 Nottingh.m 4 103 4 5 013 112 De: by 90 5 70 O 2 6 5 82 0,2 8 013 72 Silap 5 23 93 10 2 15 10 Cornwall 5 013 Hereford 52 30 0 3 10 3 OO Dorset 5 S, Worculier 013 8 2 84 10 5 oo 2 95 5 Hants Warwick 4 70 02 11 2 63 4 710 02 44 Sutlex Olo 4 3 Gloucester 34 5 74 7 Kent 4 1,0 2 82 32 Wilts 12 7.4 7 Berks 4 WALES, June 5, to June 10, 1736. IO 2 84 Oxford 4 5,0 12 11 2 10'4. 5 North Wales 5 54 413 52 1149 Bucks 4 5 714 ONOO оооооооо STATE of the BAROMETER and THERMOMETER. 19-29 - 73 60 E. 20-_-29 88 65 N. BAROMETER. THERMOM, Wind. 21-29 70 67 29-30 40 65 61 30--30 30 70 70 25-29 80 JUNE, 26--30 02 71 1-30 30 58 27-29 82 3-30 35 58 4-30 18 69 5-30 29 PRICE of STOCKS, N. June 28, 1786. New S. S. Ann. New 4 per Cent. India Slock, 9-29 79 56 E. N. E, 1777, 92 3-8ths 10-2971 53 E. N. E. 5 perCent. Ann. 1785, India Bonds, 70s. Thut prem. I 2-29 85 68 E. 3 per Cent. Bank red. New Navy and Vių. 72 7-8chs a 73 Bills 13--29 84 65 E. 3 per Ct Cons. Thut Long Ann. Mut 14--29 54 65 E. 74 ) for open 10 ycars 1777, N. 3 per Cent. 1751, 17-29 74 60 E. South Sea Stock, more AN ACCOUNT OF THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM HAYLEY, Esq. [ With an ELEGANT ENGRAVING of him. ] THIS gentleman has afforded so much Thou tender Saint, to whom he owes much entertainment to the public, and his works have been so universally read and ap- Than ever child to parent ow'd before ! plauded, that we feel fome satisfaction in In life's first season, when the fever's flame. being able to gratify the wishes of his nu- Shrunk to deformity his shrivell’d frame, merous admirers, who have, hy various ap- And turn'd each fairer image in his brain plications, solicited us to present them with a To blank confusion and her crazy train, portrait of him. 'Twas thine, with constant love, thro'. 'The life of a recluse author seldom affords ling'ring years, incident, and that of Mr. Hayley, perhaps, To bathe thy idiot orphan in thy tears ; less than most other wri:ers. We shall Day after day, and night succeeding night, therefore, on the present occasion, confine To turn incessant to the hideous right, ourselves to his works, from which we pro. And frequent watch, if haply at thy view fels to draw the only circumstances relating Departed reason might not dawn anew. to bim, which are either important, or Tho' medicinal art with pitying care which we can communicate with any degree Cou'd lend no aid to save thee from despair, of confidence. Thy fond maternal heart adher'd to hope Sussex has the honour of ranking Mr. and prayer : Hayley among its worthies, and Eaton of Nor pray'd in vain; thy child from pow'rs having given him the rudiments of his educa- above tion. His infancy was marked with misery, Receiv'd the sense to feel and bless thy love, and but for the attention of an affectionate. O might be thence receive the happy skill, mother, he had probably gone to the grave And force proportion'd to his ardent will, unknown. To this excellent parent he has With Truth's unfading radiance to emblaze addressed the following invocation, which we Thy virtues, worthy of immortal praise ! are happy to select, as well as an evidence of Nature, who deck'd thy form with Beauty's an extraordinary fact, as a proof of filial flowers, piety and gratitude: Exhausted ou thy soul her finer powers ; O THOU fond Spirit, who with pride haft Taught it with all her energy to feel smil'd, Love's melting softness, friendship's fervid zeal, And frown'd with fear on thy poetic child, The generous purpose, and the active thought, Pleas'd, yet alarm’d, when in his boyith time With charity's diffusive spirit fraughts He sigh'd in numbers, or be laugh'd in There all the best of mental gifts the plac'd, rhyme ; Vigour of judgment, purity of taste, While thy kind cautions warn'd him to be. Superior parts without their spleenful leaven, ware Kindness to earth, and confidence in Heaven, Of penury, the Bard's perpetual snare ; While my fond thoughts o'er all thy merits Marking the early temper of bis foul, roll, Careless of wealth, nor fit for base controul : Thy praise thus gushes from my filial soul; Dod Nor |