Thrill'd in her thought, they, like the dewy ftar

Of evening, fhone in tears. A native grace
Sate fair-proportion'd on her polifh'd limbs,
Veil'd in a fimple robe, their beft attire,
Beyond the pomp of drefs; for loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is when unadorn'd adorn'd the moft.

Thoughtless of beauty, she was beauty's felf,

Reclufe amid the clofe-embowering woods.
As in the hollow breaft of Appenine,
Beneath the fhelter of incircling hills,
A myrtle rifes, far from human eye,
And breathes its balmy fragrance o'er the
wild;

So flourish'd bloorning, and unfeen by all, The fweet LAVINIA; till, at length compell'd

By ftrong neceffity's fupreme command, With fmiling patience in her looks, fhe went To glean PALEMON's fields. The pride of

fwains

PALEMON was, the generous, and the rich;
Who led the rural life in all its joy
And elegance, fuch as Arcadian fong
Franfmits from antient uncorrupted times;
When tyrant cuftom had not fhackled man,
But free to follow nature was the mode.
He then, his fancy with autumnal scenes
Amufing, chanc'd befide his reaper-train
To walk, when poor LAVINIA drew his
eye;

Unconscious of her power, and turning quick

With unaffected blushes from his gaze:
He faw her charming, but he faw not half
The charms her downcaft modefty conceal'd.
That very moment love and chafte defire
Sprung in his bofoin, to himself unknown;
For ftill the world prevail'd, and its dread
laugh,

Which fcarce the firm philofopher can fcorn,
Should his heart own a gleaner in the field:
And thus in fecret to his foul he figh'd.

"What pity! that fo delicate a form, "By beauty kindled, where enlivening fenfe "And more than vulgar goodness feem to "dwell,

"Should be devoted to the rude embrace * Of fome indecent clown; the looks, me"thinks,

Of old ACASTO's line; and to my mind *Recalls that patron of my happy life, "From whom my liberal fortune took its

"rife;

"Now to the duft gone down; his houfes, ❝lands,

"His aged widow and his daughter live, "Whom yet my fruitless fearch could never ❝ find.

And once fair-fpreading family, diffolv'd. " "Tis faid that in fome lone obfcure retreat, "Urg'd by remembrance fad, and decent pride,

"Far from thofe fcenes which knew their ** better days,

"Romantic with! would this the daugh"ter were!"

When, ftrict enquiring, from herself he
found

She was the fame, the daughter of his friend,
Of bountiful ACASTO; who can fpeak
The mingled paffions that furpris'd his
heart,

And thro' his nerves in shivering transport

ran ?

Then blaz'd his fmother'd flame, avow'd, and bold;

And as he view'd her, ardent, o'er and o'er,

Love, gratitude, and pity wept at once. Confus'd, and frighten'd at his fudden tears,

Her rifing beauties flufh'd a higher bloom, As thus PALEMON, paffionate, and juft, Pour'd out the pious rapture of his soul.

"And art thou then ACASTO's dear, re"mains?

"She, whom my reftless gratitude has "fought,

"So long in vain? O heavens! the very

"fame,

"The foften'd image of my noble friend, "Alive his every look, his every feature, "More elegantly touch'd. Sweeter than "fpring!.

"Thou fole furviving bloffom from the root "That nourish'd up my fortune! Say, ah

"where,

"In what fequefer'd defert, haft thou "drawn

"The kindeft afpect of delightful HEAVEN! "Into fuch beauty spread, and blown fo fair;

"Tho' poverty's cold wind, and crushing ❝ rain,

"Beat keen, and heavy, on thy tender "years?

"O let me now, into a richer foil, "Transplant thee fafe! where vernal funs,

"and showers, "Diffule their warmeft, largest influence; "And of my garden be the pride and joy! "Ill it befits thee, oh it ill befits "ACASTO's daughter, his whose open "ftores,

"Tho' vaft, were little to his ampler "heart,

"The father of a country, thus to pick "The very refuse of thofe harveft fields, "Which from his bounteous friendship I enjoy.

"Then throw that fhameful pittance from "thy hand,

"But ill apply'd to fuch a rugged task; "The fields, the mafter, all, my fair, are <thine;

wipe away the tears of woe, and to diffuse happiness on all around me !

Abdallah.-Well, then, my fon, you have irreproachably endured the trials of adverfe fortune: may your virtue fhine with as much luftre in profperity.

Haffan.-Oh, venerable Dervis, why do you tremble thus? My foul is diffolved in eaftafy: whence then this melancholy afpect? You have made Haflan the happiest of men; and fhall he have to reproach himfelf with having deftroyed the happiness of his benefactor?

Abdallah.—No, my fon; continue to be virtuous, and you will ftill be happy. (He takes from his bofom a small box of ointment, and anointing the rock, it opens, and difplays a profufion of riches.)

Hafan.-Oh, mighty Abdallah, is this a dream? What a glorious fight! Happy, happy the fole poffeffor of fuch riches!

Abdallah.-My fon, the most powerful monarch cannot boaft fuch wealth. One half of it is yours.

Hofan. I have a large family! A poor father to maintain! Thefe are heavy burthens (Mufing.)

P

Abdallah.-What! ungrateful man, does not my bounty deferve your thanks?

Haffan.-Forgive, venerable father, for

Dis

Turkish Beggar.

Abdallah.

you obferve that rock, my fon? It is my habitation: it inclofes all my

treasures.

Haffan. My good father!

Abdallab. The experienced fage Naha mir concealed his prodigious wealth within this rock. He bequeathed it all to me; and I have made a folemn vow to find out the moft worthy of mankind, and to fhare it with him.

Haffan.-Ah, my father! how have I deferved this honourable preference?

Abdallah-By your virtue, my fon; by that unfubmitting foul with which you have endured the fevereft trials of adverfity. The man, who has the wifdom to defpife riches, muft certainly deferve them best.

Hoffan. My confcience is unfullied; my foul peaceful and ferene. Could I wish then for greater happiness?

Abdallah.-No, my fon; your happiness is already complete; and it is your fault only if it be not permanent. Return to your father, and leave this gold in the rock that contains it.

Haifan -Alas, perhaps you repent of your promife. But confider, my good father, you have excited fenfations to which I was before a stranger. I already begin to imagine what exquifite pleasures the poffeffion of riches may afford; what delight to

owe my life to you. What was I before you deigned to notice me! A wretch unknown to all the world. You have given me a new exiftence: finifh, I conjure you, finish the benevolent work you have begun.

Abdallah.-What language is this, my fon? What more can you afpire to? The moft opulent citizen in Bagdad is not half fo rich as you.

Haffan.-True, Abdallah: but my profperity is the creation of your hand. The greater and happier I fhall be, the greater and more diftinguished will be the glory that redounds to you. The riches you have beftowed - in what a variety of duties do they involve me! Not to mention, that a magnificent style of living is now become indifpenfable, have I not a father in the moít wretched circumftances poor relations without number in fhort, an inexhauftible variety of claimants! Ah, my good father, how little it will coft you to make me happy!

Abdallah.-Speak then, Haffan; what farther do you with?

Haffan.-Two thirds of what I fee only the two thirds.

Abdallah.-The two thirds! But let it be, fo: they are yours.

Haffan. O moft indulgent of men? Good venerable Abdallah! pity an unfortunate - - I dare not open my whole heart; but you may divine

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Abdallah.

Charles Cotton, Efq; whofe family became poffefled of Beresford.

tulorum for the county of Waterford, a Truftee of the Linen Manufacture for the province of Leinfter, a Commiffioner of the Inland Navigation for the province of Munfter, and a Governor of the Charitable Loan. He married Mifs Monck, only daughter and heir to Henry Monck, Efq; by his wife, the Lady Ifabella Bentick, fecond daughter of his Grace Henry the 1ft, Duke of Portland, by whom he has iffue, viz.

Ift fon, Marcus, Lord de la Poer, killed by a fall from his horse.

2d, Henry, now Lord de la Poer, born in 1772.

3d, John, born in 1774.
4th, George, born in 1781.

rft daughter, Lady Ifabella, born in 1776. 2d, Lady Catherine, born in 1778. 3d, Lady-Anne, born in 1780. 4th, Lady Elizabeth, born in 1783. This ancient family of Beresford hath flourished for many centuries in the counties of Stafford, Warwick and Leicester, and in former times wrote their name Bereford; being originally from Beresford, in the parifh of Alftonfield, in the firft mentioned county, whence fpreading into thofe of Derby, Nottingham, Kent, Lincoln, and city of London, a branch of the Kentish line removed into Ireland, and was advanced to the honourable degree of Baronets in the perfon of Sir Triftram Beresford, and to thofe of Baron, Viscount and Earl, in his great grandfon Sir Marcus Beresford, the late Earl of Tyrone.

His Lordship derives his defcent directly from John de Beresford, who was seized of the manor of Beresford (in old deeds fometime wrote Bereford) in the county of Stafford; and he was fucceeded by his fon Hugh, who had iffue Aden de Beresford, the father of John, who had two fons, Hugh and William: Hugh was father of John Beresford, whofe fon Aden was Lord of Beresford, in the county of Stafford, in the 8th, 16th and 17th years of King Edward the 2d; and his fon John was Lord thereof the 18th and 21st of Edward the 3d, and had three fons: John, his heir; Richard, who left no iffue; and Aden.

John, the eldest fon, had iffue John Beresford, of Beresford, who married Cecily, and by her had two fons: John, his heir; and Aden, who died childlefs.

John, his heir, married Elizabeth, daughter to William Baflett, of Blore, county Stafford, Efq; and had four fons: John, his heir, Lord of Beresford; Thomas anceftor to the Earl of Tyrone; Henry and William, who both died unmarried.

John, the eldest, Lord of Beresford, whofe defcendant Edward had an only daughter married to Sir John Stanhope, anceftor of the Earl of Harrington; and their only daughter and heir Olivia married

Thomas, the 2d fon, anceftor of the Earl of Tyrone, who was of Newton Grange, in Derbyshire, ferved in the French wars in the reigns of Henry the 6th and Edward the 4th, and is reported to have muftered a troop of Horfe of his fons, with his and their fervants. He married Agnes, daughter and heir of Robert Haff of Arcluyd, in the county of Chefter, Eiq; by whom he had iflue fixteen fons and five daughters, from whom defcended a very numerous iffue: Humphrey, the 7th fon, and ancestor of the Earl of Tyrone, married Margery, daughter of Edmond Berdefly, Efq; and had John, who had no male iffue; and George, who fucceeded his father at Newton Grange; and by Elinor, daughter to Thomas Greene, of Sussex, Efq; had two fons and three daughters.

Michael, the eldest fon, fucceeded his father, and married Rofe, daughter to John Knevitt, Efq; and had feven fons and four daughters; of whom Triftram, the 3d fon, came into Ireland, and fettled at Coleraine, in the county of Londonderry, and had iffue, by a daughter of Mr. Brooke of London, two fons and two daughters, viz. Sir Triftram, his fucceffor; Michael, who married Mary, daughter of Sir John Leake, and had iffue; Anne, first married to Sir Edward Doddington, and 2dly to Sir Francis Cooke; Jane, to George Carey, of Red Caftle, county of Donegal, Efq; and had iffue five fons and four daughters.

(ift Baronet.) Sir Triftram, of Coleraine, the eldeft fon, reprefented the county of Londonderry in the parliament of 1661; and King Charles the 2d was pleafed, by privy feal, dated the 24th March, 1664. and by patent, the 5th of May, 1665, to create him a Baronet. He departed this life 15th January, 1673, leaving iffue by Anne, his firft wife, daughter to John Rowley, of Caftleroe, county of Derry, Efq; one fon, Randal; and two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, who both died young. His 2d wife was Sarah, daughter of Sackville, Efq; by whom he had three fons and three daughters, viz. Triftram; Michael; Sackville; Sufanna, married to William Jackfon, of Coleraine, Efq; Sarah, to Paul Brazier, Efq; and fecondly to Edward Cary, of Dungiven, Efq; Anne, to Henry Hart, of the Mufe, county of Donegal, Efq.

(2d Baronet.) Sir Randle, only fon by the firft wife, was member for Coleraine, and in July, 1662, married Catherine, youngest daughter to Sir Francis Annelley, Lord Viscount Valentia, fifter to the ift Earl of Anglefea, and had iffue by her three fons and two daughters, viz. Arthur, who died young; Sir Triftram, his heir; Francis,

who died young; Jane, married to the Right Hon. Lieut. Gen. Frederick Hamilton, of Walworth, county of Derry, by whom the had no iffue; Catherine, to Matthew Penefather, of Cathel, in the county of Tipperary, Efq; by whom he had iffue four daughters, viz. Jane, married to Wil Ham Palifer, of Rathfarnham, county of Dublin, Efq; Lavinia, died unmarried; Dorothea, to William Williams, of Mount Wiams, in Meath, Efq; Elizabeth, the firft wife to Alexander, the late and fifth Earl of Antrim, by whom he had no issue.

(3d Baronet.) Sir Triftram, the 3d Baronet, was attainted May 7th, 1689, by King James's Parliament. He commanded a regiment of Foot in defence of the Proteftants and their liberties against the King, and died 16th June, 1701. He married Nicola So phia, youngest daughter and coheir to Hugh Hamilton, Baron Glenawly, and had iffue one fon and four daughters, viz.

Sir Marcus, his heir, created Earl of Ty

rone.

ift daughter, Sufanna Catherine, married to Hyacinth Richard Nugent, Lord River, fton, by whom she had no iffue.

2d, Arabella Maria, died unmarried. 3d, Jane, married in April, 1711, to George Lowther, of Kilrue, county of Meth, Efq; who left her a widow the 11th of June, 1716, and had two fons and two daughters, viz. Gorges Lowther, Efq; member in the prefent Parliament for the county of Meath; Marcus Lowther, who married Catherine, fifter and heir to Sir Edward Crofton, and was created a Baronet, and has iffue the prefent Sir Edward Crofton; Copula Beresford, died young; Sophia Beresford, married, firft, to Rowley Hill, of Ballykelly, county of Derry, who died, leaving iffue the prefent Sir Hugh Hill, Bart. and other children; fhe married, 2dly, Doctor John Moore, of Derry, by whom fhe had a daughter, Sophia.

4th, Aramintha Olivia, died unmarried. (rft Earl.) Sir Marcus, the 4th Baronet, born in July, 1694, was chofen to parliament in 1713, before he attained his full age) for the borough of Coleraine, which he continued to reprefent until King George the it advanced him to the Peerage, by privy feal, dated 11th June, and by patent, the 4th November, 1720, by the title of Baron Beresford, of Beresford, in the county of Cavan, and Viscount of the County of Tyrone, to which honours King George the 2d hath added the fuperior one of an Earl, creating his lordfhip Earl of Tyrone, by privy feal, the 26th of June, and by patent, the 13th July, 1746. In July, 1717, he married the Lady Catherine le Foer, daughter and heir to James, Earl of Tyrone, and Baron Le Poer, of Curraghmere; which Barony being in fee defcended

to her ladyfhip from her lineal ancestor, Nicholas la Poer, who was fummoned by writ to, and voted in the Parliament of Ireland as a Baron, in the 48th year of Edward the 3d; by this lady, who died 27th July, 1769, he had iffue feven fons and eight daughters, viz,

ft fon, James; 2d, Marcus; and

3d, Marcus; who all three died infants. 4th, George de la Poer, the prefent Earl. 5th, John, born the 14th March, 1737, a Barrister at Law, one of the Privy Coun cil, and M. P. for the county of Waterford, firft and chief Commiflioner of his Majefty's Revenue, and Tafter of Wines ; who married, firft, in 1760, Anne Conftantia Ligondes, (a French lady of the family of Ligondes, of Auverne, whose grandfather, Count de Ligondes, a General in the French army, at the battle of Blenheim, was taken prifoner and brought into England, where he married the Countess of Huntingdon, relict of George, the 8th Earl) by whom he has iffue, Marcus Beres. ford, Efq; member in the prefent Parlia ment for the borough of Dungarvan, and joint Tafter of Wines with his father: and befide other children he has a daughter, married to the Right Hon. Henry Theophilus Clements, Deputy Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, and brother to Lord Leitrim; he married, fecondly, the 12th June, 1774, Mifs Montgomery, daughter to Sir William Montgomery, Bart. and fifter to the Lady Viscountefs Townshend, by whom he has likewife iffue.

6th, William Hamilton, born 8th May, 1739, died young.

7th, William, born in April, 1743, who was confecrated Bishop of Dromore in 1780, and tranflated to the Bishoprick of Offory in 1782. He married, in 1763, Elizabeth, daughter of the late John Fitzgibbon, Efq: and fifter to the prefent Right Hon. John Fitzgibbon, his Majefty's Attorney General, by whom he has iffue.

ift daughter, Lady Anne, married 16th Auguft, 1738, to William Annefley, of Clough, in the county of Downe, created Baron Annefley, and Viscount Glerawley, by whom the had iffue the prefent Lord Vifcount Glerawley, and other children.

2d, Lady Jane, married roth Auguft, 1743, to the Right Honourable Edward Carey, of Dungiven, county of Londonderry, which county he now reprefents in parliament, and has iffue.

3d, Lady Elizabeth, died young.

4th, Lady Catherine, married 8th December, 1748, to Thomas Christmas, of Whitfield, Efq; late M. P. for the county Waterford, and he died the 28th March following; and the married, fecondly, the

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