By far too weak to paint a matchlefs fair. What tho' thy beauty emulates the role, Thy lovely mind does brighter charms difclofe : [tains, There vifdom pleas'd, her awful feat mainThere wit and learning, (way'd by judgment reigns. Deng [fage, Thou who with pleasure read'ft the moral And with keen penetration (cans each page: O would thy fex from thy example know, That all but virtue's joys is vanity and avoe *. Would they with fond attention near fome flood,

their foul,

Hear thee difcourfe of perfect, fair and good*.
Thy light and colours † foon would charm
[controul,
And each coquettish, wavering thought
Where wit and reason, exquisitely join'd,
Pour renovating pleasures on the mind;
In thy difcourfe we find a heav'nly charm,
T'enliven marble, and cold anch'rites warm.
Go on, bright maid, pursue fair wisdom's
rules,

And fcorn the idle vanities of fools; [talk,
Thy guardian goddefs will approve each
Nor will the e'er refufe what thou can't
afk;
[thine,
Senfe, reafon, judgment, beauty, all are
And speak thee favourite of a power divine.
The SURPRIZE.

Humbly inferib'd to Mifs

Y fortune led,..

BA lovely maid,

of Gloucefter.

So caught my wan'dring fight;
Neler did the like
My fancy ftrike:
How great was my delight!
No nymph, I fwear,
Can equal her;

All beauties in her shine:

And I of blifs

Should never miss,

Could I but call her

mine!

('Twas in thofe antient friendly times, When beats with men convers'd in rhymes) To know what exercife, what diet, con Would belt procraft Lis life in quiet,

The doctor felt the feeble pulle,
And faw the fibrous parts convulle
Then thus his patient's cafe declar'd;
"Sir, your digeftion is impair'd;
"To you no fb-meats can be good;
"Ufe milk, and farinaceous food,
"With roors, and Berbs, of texture foft
"And easy walks, repeated oft."

Whether or not he took his fee,
Quacks afk; but authors don't agree.
The fox refolv'd, like any man,
He'd close pursue this bealthful plan.
No blood diftain'd his tongue or gullet;
But foh! he cry'd, at fight of pullet :
Grew mighty great with kitchen Mary
Purloin'd from nothing-but the dairy ;
And that, in fuch a thief as he,
Was thought furprizing bonefly."

Th' effects appear: His qualms are gone; His nerves acquire a brifker tone; With firmer eafe he draws his breath. Thus far fucceeds the fear of death. Confefs, great George, in this one thing, The fubject's equal to the king: When love of life from danger wakes, Each to his regimen betakes And you, in majefty tho' high, Bleed, purge, abftain, as well as 1. To me tho' life exits alonez And marks no annals but my own, Remote from dignity and fame, 'Tis royal pleafure, that I am.

'Tis virtue, not th' imperial flage, That gives my fovereign Horld age yo Excefs the feepter & band will shake,~! Tho' crown'd, the beated bead will akers Ammon's great fon was drown'd in wine. But temp'rance lengthens Brunswick's line. Here choice admits of no appeal; And, when for yesterday I feel, denta Truth makes my heart acquit my fate i The fault's in me, and not in ftate.

But kings and peers now we quit, Our fox had not this virtuous wit: Old babit ftrong in beasts as men, With better bealth returns agen, Why milk and roots? He is not fick : And bunger recommends a chick. The ben-roof, fhambles of the fox, Betrays anew the want of locks.

The feather'd floor, th’exhausted yolks, Alarm'd the farmer, and his folks. Recourfe is had to traps and gins: Who kills the fox, a capon wins. Needlefs their cares? For fhort the time, Before, felf-puzib'd for his crime,

The

The glutton, gorg'd from day to day,
Was lifeless found amidst bis prey.

Hail, bealth, and temperance thy nurfe!
Birth, bonours, reputation, purse,
Without you, bappiness muft mifs :
With you, ev'n poverty is blifs.
But babit, devious ftill from truth,
Neglects you both, in age and youth.

Fuller, recover'd from the phthific,
Applauds, prescribes Gymnaftick Phyfick;
But weak in act, in words tho' wife,
Forgets his rules, debauches, dies.
Alas, how peopled is his school!
We read, refolve, and-play the fool.

The member thus, of obvious note,
Self-confcious of his barter'd vote,
When pleads the patriot Britain's caufe,
Her rights, immunities, and laws;
What shameful ftains corruption brings,
Not purg'd by titles, hid by ftrings!
A while with fharp compunction itung,
He trembles, bites his venal tongue;
And vows, when next her int'refts call,
His country fhall ingrofs him all.
But foon the flight impreffion ends:
Emoluments, engagements, friends,
Before the question's put, rush in;
He takes the bribe, repeats the fin.
Look in the lift of names, and tell 'em ;
He rolls again with P*, and P *

Yet not like nature's this relapse:
The member gets a place, perhaps.
He fuffers, to bimfelf who fins:
Who wrongs bis country, bonour wins.
One lives in mis'ry, one elate:
Both flink indeed,-but this, in fate.
Fruitless and vain is either's plea ;
The man's to blame, not destiny.
Let virtue's empire be confeft,
Let refolution guard the breast,
Habits in both shall wear away,
Reafon fhall fill her golden ray;
The private life with bealthful days,
The publick, with his country's praife.

The WOLF reform'd. A FABLE.

A That all the country role op

That all the country rofe upon its foe : [and noise, Purfu'd by pitchforks, broomsticks, ftones, Dogs, thepherds, women, husbandmen,

The furly dogs, lefs cautious not t' offend, Were daily beat, for barking at their friend, When Ifgrim fees the neighbourhood thus

quiet,

Nature returns; he longs for change of diet;
Leaps the neglected fence; invades the fold
And what enfu'd-want Britons to be told?
E'er this difafter happen'd, all allow,
Afop had warn'd the dupes,-as I do now.
The QUESTION. A SONG.
To Mifs ELIZABETH THOMAS.
YRA, you forfeit me a kifs,

M

Unless you tell me what it is,
That's woman's greatest pleasure
Is it t'attend at plays, parades,
At opera's, balls, or masquerades,
Coquetting without measure ?
Or is it, when in beauty's pride,
Deftin'd to be a happy bride,

You blefs a faithful boy?
Or had you rather kill your hours,
With foppifn, priggish paramours,

In empty Je ne fçay quoy.
No; rather than from crowds of beaux
To have a husband, I would chufe
Ever to live unbleft:

I ne'er could bear the rough controuls
Of wretched tranfmigrated fouls,

Monkeys in modern dress.
Give me the man, with fenfe and parts
To humanize the rougheft hearts,
And footh the face of woe.
One like Ardelio, noble youth,
With virtue, honour, beauty, truth;
But not a fenfeless beau.

Monfieur VOLTAIRE,
Of the NEWTONIAN PHILOSOPHY.
To the Marchioness DU CHATELETT.
Tranflated by Mr. BANCKS.
Mmortal Emily, capacious mind,

IM

Pallas of France, and glory of thy kind; Surpaffing age ev'n in thy bloom of youth, The pupil, friend, of Newton, and of truth. Thy fires tranfpierce me, and thy charms controul,

I feel the force, the brightnefs of thy foul;
To thee attracted, I renounce the bays,
Sought on the stage, while yet I liv'd on
praife.

My wit, corrected, roves not as before,
Of vain applaufe idolatrous no more.

Let earth-born Rufus with refentment rave,
And drag his fenfelefs fury to the grave,
In rhyme still training-coldly to enclofe
Some trivial thought, that would depreciate

profe;

That harmlefs thunder let him hurl at me, Which first his rage for others might decree.

To

To blast my fame let pedant Zoilus feek,
And spread unmeaning malice once a week.
With me their envy withers in the bud :
I fee no tracks imprinted in the mud.

Pbilofophy, all charming, pow'rful queen,
Lifts the wife mind above corroding fpleen.
Happy on high where Newton now remains,
Knows he on earth if enmity yet reigns?
Not more than he my enemies I know,
While truth august invites me from below,
Already, fee! She opes the gate of day,
The lifts I enter and purfue my way;
The maffy whirlpools, heaving still for
place,
[fpace,
Heap'd without rule, and moving without
Those learned phantoms vanish from my
fight,
[light:
And day comes on me with her genuine
That vaft expanse, of being the abode,
Space which contains th'infinity of God,
Sees in her breaft this bounded fyftem move,
Of planets, worlds, beneath us and above;
Whofe whole extent, fo wond'rous to our
sense,

Is but a point, an atom in th’immense.

God fpeaks, and chaos at his voice fubfides: In various orbs the mighty mass divides: At once they gravitate, they strive to fall, One center seeking, which attracts them all. That foul of nature, that all moving spring, Lay long conceal'd an unregarded thing; Till Newton's compaís, moving thro' the space,

vens.

Measures all matter, all discover'd place;
Finds motion's caufe ; philofophy unleavens;
Lifts up the veil, and open'd are the hea-
[robe,
His learned hand unfolds the glitt'ring
That clothes yon lucid, animated globe,
Who guides the seasons, and who makes the
day,

Mine eyes distinguish each emitted ray;
With purple, azure, emerald and rofe,
Th'immortal tiffue of his habit glows.
Each emanation, in pure substance, bears
The various colours that all nature wears.
These blended teints illuminate our eyes;
Give life to matter; fill th' expanded skies.
Eternal pow'rs, who, near the King of
kings,
[wings,

Burn with his fires, and cover with your His throne; O tell us! viewing Newton's plan,

[man?

Were you not jealous of that wond'rous The fea too hears him. With ftupendous dance

I fee the humid element advance.
Tow'rds heav'n it rifes; heav'n attracts it
high:
[nigh,
But central power, more potent, as more
Each effort ftops : The fea recoils; it roars;
Sinks in its bed, and rolls against the shores.
Ye'comets, dreaded like the bolts of Jove,
In vaft ellipfes regularly rove.

September, 1749.

Ceafe with your motion mortals to affright; Remount, defcend near the great orb of light;

Elance your fires; fly, and, as each appears, Reftore the vigour of exhausted spheres.

Thou, fifter of the fan, who, in the skies, Of dazzled fages mock'd the feeble eyes, Newton has mark'd the limits of thy race: March on ; illumine hight; we know thy place.

Earth, change thy form; let the great, law of matter,

The pole depreffing, elevate th' equator; Pole, fix'd to fight, avoid the frozen car, The conftellation of the Northern Bear; Embrace in each of thy immenfe careers, Near twenty thousand centuries of years, How beautiful these objects! how the

mind

[fin'd! Flies to thefe truths, enlighten'd and reYes, in the breaft of God, from matter free, It hears the voice of that eternal He!

Thou, whom that voice familiarly invites, Say, ev'n in youth, the season of delights, How haft thou dar'd, in fpite of cuftom's force,

To move fo boldly thro' fo vaft a course? To follow Newton in that boundless road, Where nature's loft, and ev'ry thing butGod? Pursuing thee, I venture to advance, And bring home truth, that wanderer, to France.

Where Algaroti, fure to please and teach,
Conducts the ftranger to the Latian beach,
With native flow'rs adorns the beauteous
maid,

And Tyber wonders at fuch worth display'd;
I grafp the compass, and the outlines trace,
And with coarfe crayons imitate her face;
Th'immortal fair, all fimple, noble, grand,
Should I attempt it, my unfkilful hand
To her, as thee, no luftre could impart,
Above all praise, and far above my art.
To Butcher GOFFI. Extempore.
Find, old friend! I am mistaken-
I Pray, where's the flitch of well dry'd

bacon,

Thou faidft thou wouldst transmit to me
By thy own waggon, carriage-free?
I tell thee, thou doft seem afraid,
As if thou never should'st be paid.
Of fhillings twelve the fum, tis true,
Already is thy lawful due:

And thou art sensible twelve more
Exactly make one pound and four;
The which I promise thee to pay,
Perhaps the latter end of May;
Or if it can't be quite fo foon,
Thou shalt be sure to ha't in June :
Then, prithee, fend it in a trice
To thy obedient flave, H. Price.

Receiv'd this money of the poet,
Witness my hand, that all may know it.
Will. Goffe.

not remove far; for within a league of the town they fettled in fuch great numbers on the trees, that many of the branches broke down under the load. All the following night the people burnt ftraw under thofe trees, by which means they deftroy'd as many of those infects as fill'd 160 facks; but they might have fpared themselves this labour, for it is next to attempting to drink up the fea. The next morning the fame fwarm came within half a league of the city, where they eat up two cart-loads of hay in a trice, as one may say; after which they took their flight by Frauenburg, towards Wodnian and Thein.

Extract of a Letter from Ratisbon, Sept. 15,

N. S.

We continue to receive from all quarters difmal news of the locufts, all the country round about us being overspread with them. Bavaria has a great share of the defolation; and we hear from Aichach, that a great fwarm has pafs'd by that place in 3 columns, each of which was 300 paces in breadth, and in the whole took up 3 hours in their paffage. This army was preceded by a kind of van-guard or scouts, and took its flight by Blumenthal, darkening the air to such a degree that one could not fee the fky. Another large fwarm has been seen at Ingolftadt, whose paffage by that city lafted an hour and a half, and they feem'd to direct their flight towards Neubourg.

Letters from Francfort, dated Sept. 20, N. S. inform us, that the locusts were come into Swabia and Franconia, making the fame havock as they had already done elfewhere. [ [See our Mag. for 1748, p. 336, 384, 407; and a curious figure of this fur. prizing creature, p. 342.]

On Aug. 29, an order was made out to the exchequer for remitting to Scotland the money certified by the lords of feffions, due to the nobility and gentry, &c. on account of the heretable jurifdictions in that kingdom, abolish'd by act of parliament. (See Mag. for 1748, p. 189.)

The margrave of Anspach, on being invefted with the order of the garter, prefented to Sir Charles Hanbury Williams a magnificent ring fet with a large brilliant and to Mr. Anfis he made a present of 300 ducats, befides the goid-hilted fword his, highness wore, and 100 ducats more for his cloaths, which belonged to the king of arms by virtue of his office. (See p. 252.) SUNDAY, Sept. 3.

A terrible fire broke out at Newport in Sbropfpire, which in about 2 hours time

confum'd near 20 houses.

Between 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon, a boat going from Somerset-fairs to Cuper'sGardens, with 8 perfons in it, was overfet

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by a fudden fquall of wind, and 5 of them, viz. 4 men and a boy were drowned. THURSDAY, 7.

The parliament, which stood prorogu'd to Sept. 14, was order'd to be further prorogu'd to Nov. 16. (See p. 382.) FRIDAY, 8.

Thomas Wallis, Efq; lately elected one of the sheriffs of London and Middlefex, (fee p. 382) having fworn off, and Thomas Corbet, Efq; the other fheriff elect, having been chofen under the denomination of falter, whereas it should have been, grocer, a new election came on this day; when Stephen Theodore Janffen, Efq; alderman and ftationer, and a worthy representative in parliament of this city, and Thomas Corbet, Efq; citizen and grocer, were chofen by a majority of hands; but a poll was demanded and granted, in favour of William Whitaker, Efq; alderman and clothworker, against Mr. Corbet, which began the next day, and ended on the 16th, when Mr. alderman Whitaker was declar'd duly elected, the numbers for him being 659, and for Mr. Gurbet 105.

SATURDAY, 9.

His excellency the earl of Harrington, lord lieutenant of Ireland, fet out for Chefter, in order to embark for that kingdom.

THURSDAY, 14.

Was held a general court of the governor and company of the Bank of England, when a dividend of 2 1-half per cent. for intereft and profits for the half-year ending at Michaelmas, was agreed to: The warrants to be payable the 16th of October

next.

The feffions ended at the Old-Bailey, when the following 19 criminals receiv'd fentence of death, viz. John Willen and Bofoman Penley, for a riot in the Strand, (fee p. 334.) John Collison and George Al dridge, for stealing a gelding and a mare, the property of Thomas Baker; James Ar

old, for affaulting and robbing Mr. Wil liam Whitebread of a filver watch; Jobn Mooney, for affaulting and robbing Mr. Seymour Stocker of a gold watch: David Boyd, for affaulting and robhing Mr. Edward Neway of his wig; Cornelius Donnevan, for affaulting and robbing Thomas Bentley of a coat, a pair of filver hoe buckles, and other things; Thomas RobinJon and John Crofs, for affaulting and robbing Henry Thompfor and Elizabeth Knop upon the king's highway; William Lacy, on the oath of Edward Anderson, for being concerned with him in affaulting and robbing Henry Applen; Jobn Graham, for robbing Mr. Nelfon on Tower-Hill; John Alford, for robbing Mr. Lillwall on the highway; William Cavenagh, Tho. Mynott, and

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