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Poetical ESSAYS in MARCH, 1751.

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Who value honefty, tho' clad in buff,

And wit, tho'drefs'd in an old English ruff. Behold them here-I beaming fense descry, Shot from the living luftre of each eye. Such meaning fmiles each blooming face adorn,

As deck the pleasure-painted brow of morn; And fhew the perfon of each matchlefs fair, Tho' rich to rapture, and above compare, Is, even with all the skill of heaven defign'd, But an imperfect image of their mind; While chastity unblemish'd and unbrib'd Adds a majestick mein that scorns to be defcrib'd:

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Such we will vaunt, and only fuch as thefe, 'Tis our ambition, and our fame to please. A SON G. happy is Damon, who feels the fmart [fond heart; Of Cupid's harp arrows, that pierce the Whofe foul's not confin'd by the fetters of [above.

How

love!

From which, O! defend me, ye powers
Young Chloe is fair as the fun at noon day,
To lean on her bofom a hermit would pray;
Oft-times have I thought her immortal by
birth;
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And that Jove fent a goddess from heav'n
But when I difcover'd the pride of her mind,
And her temper more fickle than whistling

wind;

[my eyes; I thank'd the kind gods, who had open'd And praised my friend Damon, and vow'd I'd be wife.

The 16th of February, being the Birth-Day of Mrs. C. D.

MILE, happy day, with charms im. prov'd,

SMILE,

From thee be ever far remov'd,

The winter of the year;

Bid ocean roll a filver tide,
Bid ftormy Boreas' rage fubfide,

And all be calm and fair.

Bid the stream murmur, Zephyr blow,
Bid Phoebus fmile, and Britain know
A day, his fav'rite ifle;

Bd the plum'd choir to raise their lays,
And nature pleas'd all fing thy praife,
'Tis Celia claims their fmile,
March, 1751

Let lively fummer bring his roaft,
December Harriot's beauties boast,

And fpring his nymph prefer ;
The child of winter's honour'd day,
And Clora, fweetest flow'r of May,
Shall yield the palm to her.

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His paffion to discover.

No, fair one, I'm a matron grave,

Whom time and care hath wafted,
Who would thy youth from forrow fave,
Which I've in wedlock tafted.
Thy tender air, thy chearful mein,
Thy temper fo alluring,
Thy form for conqueft well defign'd,
Gives torments paft enduring;
And lovers, full of hopes and fears,

Surround thy beauties daily,
Whilft yet, regardlefs of their cares,
Thy moments pafs on gaily.
Then pass them, charmer, gailier on,
A maiden whilst you tarry ;
For, troth, your golden days are gone,
The moment that you marry.
In courtship we are all divine,

And vows and prayers enfue us;
Darts, flames, and tears adorn our shrine,
And artfully men woo us.

Then who'd the darling power forego,

Which ignorance has given;

To eafe them of eternal woe
Muft we refign our heaven?
No, marriage lets the vizard fall,
Then cease they to adore us;
The goddess finks to housewife Moll,
And they reign tyrants o'er us.
Then let no man impreffion make
Upon thy heart fo tender,

Or play the fool, for pity's fake,

Thy quiet to furrender. Lead apes in hell! there's no fuch thing

Thofe tales are made to tool us, Tho' there we had better hold a Aring, Then here let monkeys rule us.

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General court of the S. S. company was held on Feb. 28, when a bye-law was agreed on for dividing upon questions that may arifein future general courts; and a motion was made for applying to parliament for something more than what is ftipulated by the late treaty with the king of Spain; but another motion was made for adjourning, and carried.

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-This court was acquainted from the fecretary of state, that his majesty had given for answer to the company's address prefented to him fome time ince, that he had obtained from the king of Spain all that lay in his power, fo that no more could poffibly be expected.

FRIDAY, March 1.

Was held a court of common council at Guildhall, when a motion was made, and a committee appointed, to draw up a petition to parliament, for leave to bring in a bill to remedy many abuses in the fishery of the river of Thames; who immediately withdrew, and foon returned with an addrefs, which, after being read, was ordered to be prefented to the Hon. house of commons by the theriffs, which was accordingly done on the fame day.

Another motion was made and unanimously agreed to, that a committee be appointed to enquire into the annual allowance made to the lord mayor of this city; and what the feveral lord-mayors, for ten years paft, may have received in right of their office of lord mayor, and for what end and purpose fuch allowance was made and granted; and to report their opinion to the court.

MONDAY, 4.

The feffions ended at the Old-Bailey, when the feven following criminals received fentence of death, viz. Henry Grover, for ftealing a black gelding; Jofeph Burroughs, for forging and publishing a warrant or order for 1. 10s. Richard But. ler, for affifting in forging a feaman's will; John Carr, for publishing a falfe letter of attorney; Mary Carny, for publishing a feaman's forged power of attorney; George Barty, for forging an indorfement on the back of a teaman's ticket; and John Atkins, for a burglary. TUESDAY, 12.

His majefty went to the houfe of peers with the ufual folemnity, and gave the royal affent to the following bills, viz. An act for continuing and granting to his majefty certain duties upon malt, mum,

cyder and perry, for the fervice of the year 1751: An act for granting to his majefty a certain fum of money therein mentioned, to be rai ed by way of annuities and a lottery, and charged on the finking fund, redeemable by parliament: An act for enlarging the term and powers granted by an act paffed in the 12th year of his prefent majefty, for repairing the road between Stamford and Grantham in the county of Lincoln, and for making the fame more effectual: And to four private bills.

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WEDNESDAY, 20.

About ten o'clock this night departed this life, at Leicefter-house, to the unfpeakable grief of the whole nation, the most high, puiffant, and most illustrious prince, Frederick-Lewis, (eldest fon of our most gracious fovereign) prince of Great-Britain, electoral prince of Brunfwick-Lunenburg, prince of Wales, duke of Cornwall and Rotherfay, duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, marquifs of the ifle of Ely, earl of Chefter, Carrick, and Eltham, viscount of Launceston, baron of Renfrew and Snawdon, lord of the ifles, fteward of Scotland, knight of the most noble order of the garter, one of his majesty's privy council, chancellor of the univerfity at Dublin, fellow of the royal fociety, first commiffioner for building the royal hofpital at Greenwich, and governor of the British White Herring fishery, &c.

This excellent and amiable prince was born, Jan. 20, 1706.7; and on April 27, 1736, married the princefs Augufta of Saxe-Gotha; who, by her clofe and conftant attendance on her royal confort in this his laft fatal illness, kept up the great pattern, the has all along been, of conjugal and maternal affection. By this lady, wko is now again advanced in her pregnancy, his royal highnefs has left iffue five fons and three daughters, viz. Princess Augufta, born July 31,1737.--Prince George, born May 24, 1738; who fuc. ceeds his royal father as heir apparent to the crown of thefe realms, &c.-Prince Edward-Auguftus, born March 14, 1738-9.Princess Elizabeth-Caroline, born Dec. 30, 1749.-Prince William-Henry, born Nov. 14, 1743-Prince Henry-Frederick, born

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October 27, 1745.-Princefs Louifa-Anne, born March 8, 1748-9.-Prince FrederickWilliam, born May 13, 1750.

His royal highness may justly be faid to have been the joy and hope of Britain, the merchants friend, the protector of arts and fc ences, the patron of merit, the generous reliever of the diftreffed, the accomplished prince, and the fine gentleman in all the parts of private life; an affectionate husband, an indulgent tender parent, a kind mafter. and an affable, goodnatured man. He feemed, in all refpects, formed for the government of a free people; he had made the knowledge of the conRitution his fudy and delight, and was a greater master of geography and the theory of commerce, understood its natural operations and effects, and how to apply it for the benefit of the nation, better than is generally imagined.

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We were informed, that his royal highnefs's illness was firft occafioned by taking cold in Kew gardens about three weeks fince; and being increased by coming on Tuesday the 12th from the house of peers when extremly warm, the windows of the chair down, he was feized with a pleurify; and as his highness was judged in too weak a ftate to bear farther bleeding, he was immediately bliflered, and thought to be in a fair way of recovery till Wednesday night at nine o'clock, when his royal highness thought himself pretty well; but about a quarter before ten, he was feized with a pain in his breast, upon which he expreffed he had never felt any thing like it before, and complained that he perceived an unusual smell, like that of a dead corple, and then immediately threw himself back and expired. His body was opened next day, and there was found a large abfcefs upon his lungs, which burst, and is fuppofed to be the immediate caufe of his death.

His royal highnefs was the 18th prince of Wales of the English blood royal, and the only one, except Edward the Black Prince, who died (at about the fame age as his royal highnefs) in his father's life time, and left a fon to fucceed him. It is prefumed therefore, that prince George, eldest fon of his late highnefs, fucceeds to all his father's titles and dignities, without any new creation; Edward III. having only declared his grandfon Richard prince of Wales, in the fimilar cafe abovementioned, not created him by a new patent.

The eldest fon of a king, if born while his father is on the throne, is, by birth, duke of Cornwall, and earl of Chester and Flint; but prince of Wales by creation : However, that creation being once made, and the poffeffor dying and leaving male iffue before he fucceeds to the throne, it feems probable, that the common course of fucceffion to other honours should here take lace.

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The manner of creating the prince of Wales is as follows:

He is invested in this principality by the impofition of a cap of state, and a coronet on his head; by delivering a verge of gold into his hand, as the emblem of government; by putting a gold ring on his finger, in token that he must be a husband to his country, and a father to his children; and by giving him a patent, to hold the faid principality to hm and his heirs, kings of England.

The device of his coronet, beautified with three oftrich feathers, is, Icb Dien, which in Welch fignifies, Here's the Man; the words fad to be used by K. Edward I. when he fhewed the Welch lords his eldest fon, born in Wales. Others derive it from the Dutch, in which language lab Diem fignifies, I ferve.

The Black Prince died on June 8, 1176, and on the 25th, at the carnest request of the commons, the young lord Richard, his fon, came into open parliament before the Jords; whom, after the archbishop of Canterbury had commended, the commons, with one voice, prayed that the lords would But the lords make him prince of Wales. aniwer'd, That it lay not in them, but in the king only, to to do. Accordingly, on Nov. 20, he was by the king his grandfather, declared prince of Wales, duke of Cornwall, and earl of Chefter; and on Christmas day following, the king made h mit down with him at his table, in great ftate, taking place of all his own children; reprefenting thereby that he was to be looked on as the next heir to the crown.

The form of praying for the royal family, upon the death of his royal highness, was fettled as follows, viz. Their royal bi bresses the princess of Wales, the duke, the prin ceffes, the flue of the prince and princess of Wales, and all the royal family.

FRIDAY, 22.

The following bills were figned by commiffion from his majefty, viz. the land-tax bill of 35. in the pound for 1751; the mutiny bill; a bill for enabling his majesty to raife the feveral fums therein mentioned by exchequer bills, to be charged on the finking fund, and for impowering the commiffioners of the treafury to pay off the old and new unfubfcribed annuities out of the fupply granted to his majesty, &c. bill to indemnify perfons who have omitted to qualify themfelves for offices, and employments, and for allowing further time for that purpose; a bill for the better regulating of trials by juries; and to feveral road and private bills.

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At night the privy council met at the Cockpit, where there were about 30 members prefent: The phyficians and furgeons who attended his royal highness were examined in relation to the distemper which occafioned his death; and orders were iffued Sz

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fued for embalming his body and preparing for his funeral.

SATURDAY, 23.

The affizes ended at Maidstone, when 1 malefactors received fentence of death. At the fame affizes 8 perfons were convicted, at the profecution of the merchants of this city, on account of the felonies committed on the river Thames and wharfs adjacent, fome of them for ftealing the merchants goods, and others for receiving them when stolen.

SUNDAY, 24.

By order of the lord chamberlain a notice was fixed up in the hall at St. James's, and another in the hall at Leicester house, acquainting the nobility, gentry, &c. that the time fixed for deep mourning for his late royal highnefs will end on Sunday the 30th of June next; and that on Sunday, July 7, will commence the fecond mourning, and to end on Sunday, O&. 6.

By an act of parliament, of the roth of his prefent majesty, a revenue of 50,000l. per ann. was settled on her royal highness the princess of Wales, for life, in cafe she furvived the prince.

MONDAY, 25.

The Hon. houfe of commons waited on his majesty with an addre's of condolence for the death of his royal highness the prince of Wales, and received a most gracious anfwer, as follows: That he thanks this houfe very kindly for their addrefs; that the affectionate concern which this houfe has expreffed for the great lofs which has happened in his family, is very acceptable to his majefty; and that he receives with the utmost fatisfaction the fresh and hearty affurances of their zeal and regard, as his majesty cannot but have from thence the firmest reliance on their future fupporting of his government, and of the proteftant fucceffion in his house.

His majesty's answer to the addrefs of the houfe of peers, on the fame occafion, was to this purpose: That his majesty thanks the houfe of lords for the concern and affection which they have expreffed upon the late melancholy occafion. His majeЛly entirely depends upon the continuance of their duty and affection to him, and upon their future fapport of his government and family.

George Barty being reprieved for tranf portation for life, and Mary Carny being delivered of a child fince her conviction, the other five, condemned the laft feffion, were this morning executed at Tyburn, viz. Grover, Burroughs, Butler, Carr, and Atk ins,

SUNDAY, 31.

The court went into mourning for the death of his royal highness the prince of Wales, pursuant to the lord chamberlain's order, of the 23d. which was as follows,

March

viz. The ladies to wear black bombazine, plain mullin, or long lawn, crape hoods, fhamoy fhoes and gloves, and crape fans. Undreffed, dark Norwich crape.-The men to wear black cloth without buttons on the fleeves or pockets, plain muflin or long lawn cravats and weepers, fhamoy fhoes and gloves, crape hathands, and black fwords and buckles. Undreffed, dark grey frocks. The Lord Marshal's ORDER for a gèneral Mourning.

In pursuance of an order of council, dated the 22d day of March 1750, there are to give publick notice, that it is expected, that all perfons, upon the present occafion of the death of his royal highness Frederick prince of Wales, do put themfelves into the deepest mourning, (long cloaks only excepted) the faid mourning to begin on Sunday the 31ft of this inftant, March. EFFINGHAM, M.

The Opinion of the Phyficians and Surgeons concerning the Diffemper which occafioned the Death of his late Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

N opening the body of his royal high

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nefs we found all the pa parts in the lower belly, or abdomen, found. The cavity of the thorax was naturally contracted and narrow. The lungs on the left fide were perfectly found, and without any adhesion to the furrounding parts: The heart and pericardium without distemper. On the right fide upon raifing the ribs we found a cyste or bag fituated on the outer furface of the lungs and the ribs, which contained half a pint of very fœtid matter. This cyfte was about fix inches long and four in breadth, extending nearly from the third rib downward to the feventh. The coats of this cyfte were near a quarter of an inch thick, and ftrong. This was not a new distemper, but muft certainly have been growing there fome confiderable time. The lungs on this fide adhered strongly to the pericardium; and thefe adhering parts had fresh marks of inflammation, with small quantities of matter lately formed in feveral cellular interftices. Between the lower furface of the lungs and the diaphragm we found near a quarter of a pint of matter, which was likewife apparently newly made. The lower furface of the lungs and diaphragm adhered ftrongly where the matter mentioned did not prevent it. In the back part of this fide of the breaft there was above a pint of thin ferous fluid. The lobes of the lungs on this fide were not in a perfect ftate, but had feveral fchirrous tubercles difperfed throughout their substance. The matter contained between the lungs, pericardium and diaphragm, had broke a communication with the fubftance of the lungs.

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1751.

MARRIAGES, DEATHS, &C.

MARRIAGES and BIRTHS.

BOUT the beginning of February,

A Lancelot Lee, Efq; of Coton, in

Shropshire, to Mifs Scrope, of Bridgenorth.

Samuel Smith, jun. Efq; of Aldermanbury, to Mifs Watfon, of Lothbury, a 16,00cl. fortune.

March 2. Edward Gale Boldero, of Gray's-inn, Efq; to Mifs Brafs, a 10,000l. fortune.

14. John Warde, of Squerries in Kent, Efq; to Mifs Hofkins, of Croydon.

141 knights of the fhire for Worcestershire, now earl of Coventry.

21. Right Hon. the earl of Gaimborough, at his feat at Exton in Rutlandshire, who is fucceeded by his eldest fon the lord Camden, now earl of Gainsborough.

26. Right Hon. the dutchefs dowager of Portland, aged near 8o, grandmother to the prefent duke, and one of the daughters of the great Sir William Temple.

Ecclefiaftical PREFERMENTS.

ICHARD Lowe, M. A. prefented to

19. Mr. Samuel Wathen, an eminent Rthe vicarage of Stoke, in Warwick

to Mifs

furgeon in Devonshire-fquare,
Malthus, youngest daughter of Sydenham
Malthus, Efq; one of the directors of the
South-Sea company.

John Shaw, Efq; of Chefhunt in Hert fordshire, to Mifs Meliora Huxley, a 25,000l fortune.

Mr. William Cromwell, of Gray's-Inn, great grandson of the famous Oliver Cromwell, to Mrs. Westby, a widow lady.

26. Sir George Beaumont, of Dunmow, in Effex, bart, to Mifs Howland, neice to Mr. Edward Coldham, of St. John's-street.

Robert Ball, Efq; of Stonehouse in Gloucestershire, to Mifs Dickinson, daughter of Marthe Dickinson, Efq; alderman of Queenhithe ward, a 12,000l. fortune.

March 9. The lady of the Rt. Rev. the bishop of St. Asaph, delivered of a fon.

The lady Elizabeth Wortley, eldest daughter of the earl of Orrery, of fon. -22. Countess of Dyfert, also of a ton,

DEATHS.

Feb. 24. STR James Dalrymple, of Hails,

land.

bart. auditor-general of Scot

28. The Rt. Hon. the earl of Stafford, who is fucceeded in dignity and estate by Ins uncle, now in France.

March 2. Mr. Batty Langley, an eminent forveyor and architect, well known to the publick by his many useful books on architecture, defigning, drawing, &c.

6. The Rt. Hon. Henry Lowther, lord viscount Lonfdale, baron Lowther of Lowther in Westmoreland.

Rt. Hon. the lord viscount Mountgarret, the first viscount of Ireland.

9. Mr. William Fofter, an eminent filkman, in Ave-Mary lane, who a few days before had a tumour cut out of his thigh, which weighed 8 pounds and 9 ounces.

13. Major general Fleming, col. of a reg. of foot at Gibraltar.

18. Rt. Hon. William earl of Coventry, vifcount Deerhurst, lord lieut. and cuftos rotulorum of Worcestershire, and one of his majesty's most Hon. privy council. He is fucceeded by his eldest son, George William, lord vifc, Deerhurst, one of the

fhire. Richard Thomas, M. A. to the rectory of Llanwernach, in. Pembrokefhire. Mr. Berry Dobfon, to the rectory of Thelveston, in Norfolk.-Mr. John Dyer, to the rectory of Belchford, in Lincolnshire. Mr. Scott, to the rectory of Methley in Yorkshire.-Richard Dicey, B. L. to the rectory of Wharton in Bucks. -Mr. Angel Chauncey, to a prebendary in the diocefe of Lincoln, and to the united rectory of St. Andrew Undershaft, and St. Mary Axe, in London, in the room of Dr. Mofs, promoted to St. James's, Weftminster. (See p. 45.) Mr. Atwood, chofen lecturer of St Margaret, Westminfter, in the room of Scawen Kenrick, D.D. who refigned.-Mr. Chriftopher Prelton, prefented to the vicarage of Coton, alias Chilverston, in Warwickshire.-Mr. Patterson, to the living of St. Mary Stoken, in Berks.-Dr. Long, mafter of Pembrokehall, and professor of astronomy in the university of Cambridge, to the living of Bradwell Juxta Mare, in Eflex. Mr. Richard Roberts, to the rectory of FreyAtrop, in Pembrokeshire.-Edward Mufgrave, M. A. to the vicarage of Triploe, in Cambridgeshire.

PROMOTIONS Civil and Military.

R. Richard Grindall, chosen assistant

M furgeon to the London hofpital,

when 461 governors ballotted.—Mr. George Sinclair, advocate, made one of the lords of council and feffion in Scotland. - Sir Peter Halket, bart. made col. to the reg. of foot, late Lee's, deceafed.-Alexander Duroure, Efq; made col. to the reg. of foot, late Phillips's, deceased.-Robert Butcher, Efq; made gentleman of his majesty's buttery, in the room of Peter Campbell, Efq; deceased.-Job Staunton Charlton, Efq; made clerk of the deliveries in the office of ordinance.-Lord Robert Manners, made col. of the reg. of foot, late Fleming's, deceased.-John Leighton, Eq; made lieut-governor of Portsmouth, in the room of Peter Campbell, Efq; deceased. [Bankrupts in our next.]

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