Poetical ESSAYS;

But furrow'd brows, and silver hairs,
Feel no removes by rolling years,
But still unchang'd remain;
And oils, and laurels vainly try
To turn the white unwelcome die,
To native black again.
Then, Phocyon, bid thy gen'rous foul
Improve the minutes as they roll;
Nor let a Moment cry,
When the eternal shall appear,
To try thine actions at his bar,
I pass'd neglected by.
Heav'n loves to fee a youthful mind,
(But oh! 'tis difficult to find,)
Avoid the shining snares;
And values fuch young service more,
Than if a tott'rer of tourscore

Should spend an age in pray'rs.
But, ceafe, my Muse; nor dare pretend
Before fo wife, so lov'd a friend,
To read fuch lectures o'er;
As well the lisping infant may
Direct his parent on his way,

OCTOBER, 1739.

5

Then sense and merit shall supply
The blushing cheek, the sparkling eye:
For nymphs, regardless of their faces,
Should add Minerva to the Graces.

A

MONITORIU

BEAUTY and INNOCENCE. Gentle dove, while Aura fttay'd To tafte the ev'ning air, Approach'd amid the myrtle shade The far more harmless fair.

Perch'd on her arm, where nought he fear'd,

The bird forgot to rove,
And as her fofter voice he hear'd
Coo'd sympathy and love.
The tender maid with sweet surprize
Stood wond'ring whence he came,
And why the wand'rer of the skies
Unnaturally tame.

But what shou'd Aura's wonder move?

The dove beheld her mien,

And while the charm'd th' admiring grove,
Thought 'twas the Cyprian queen.
Happy mistake! deceiv'd yet bless'd
He left the bow'rs above;

The three next were fent us in one Letter. Thus Aura justly was confefs'd

Semanthe on a fofa lay;
And leaning on her elbow, thought
Which was the lovelieft filks the bought;
How by Sir Plume she was gallanted,
How at the park and opera flaunted!
What filly hearts she had fubdu'd,
And how the best might play the prude!
Till fleep his heavy poppies spread,
Adown the drops her drowfy head!

Sudden a female phantom rose,
Her cheek with healthy roses glows,
Her lively eyes are fill'd with fire,
Yet modeftly forbid defire:
Her ebon curls hang loose behind,
And laurel-wreaths her temples bind:
A snowy robe her limbs array'd,
While thus the vision, Sappho, said.
-It grieves me much, alas! to find
The fair neglect t'improve her mind!
The toys that your attention claim,
A Grecian maid would blush to name:
While you're adjusting your commode,
Lesbia, or I, could make an ode!
No gaudy ribbons deck'd her head,
A trembling light no diamond shed;
In white and innocency dreft,
The plaineft beauties were the beft:
A pen I handled for a fan,

And learnt not how to dance but fcan:
Those pretry eyes! how foon they close!
Those cheeks--how fades the blushing rofe!
When age has wean'd your love for dress,
And akes and beaux your years confefs;
When Amorets no more can shine;
And Stella owas the's not divine;

6

The brighter queen of love.

W

AURAMANTULUS.

SONNET.

Strange, that thy peace, thou trembler, flies
THEN Phæbe form'd a wanton smile,
My foul! it reach'd not here!
Before a rifing tear!

From midft the drops, my love is born,
That o'er those eyelids rove:
Thus issued from a teeming wave
The fabled queen of love.

DELICATULUS.

On Sceing a Painting of Sir ROBERT
WALPOLE.

of old:

Britons! when this great character ye view,
(Great, as e'er poet fung, or pencil drew;)
Think each illustrious Virtue ye behold,
Which in
And while ye praise the limmer's outward art,
her patriots Rome ador'd
Let Walpole's worth pierce ev'ry Briton's
EPITAPH on THOMAS COSTER, Efq;
BRUTUS.
By Mr JOHN SHEBBEARE.
Coffer! adieu, to native skies return'd,

heart.

By ev'ry patriot bosom lov'd and mourn'd.
E'en party frenzy now no more his toe,
Weeps into fenfe, and swells the general woe.
Friend to all virtue howfoe'er depress'd.
Tho' wealthy humble, and tho' wife not vain.
Foe to all vice howe'er by courts carefs'd.
A breaft no paffion once cou'd difcompose,
From commerce rich, yet rich without a stain,
Save that which bade him mourn his coun-
try's woes.

This confolation yet be mine, he cry
Not to furvive dear liberty, ar

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546

The GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZIΙΝΕ, νομ. ΙΧ.

To the Honourable Mr. H.
Occafion'd by a POEM of bis on JEALOUSY,

A/ Hen He ett fings the jealousy of love,

I prize his ethics, and his verte approve:
So well he paints the epidemic evil,
I with it to the Spaniard, or the Devil:
And yet (O ftrange reverfe of wayward fate!)
Ev'n at that inftant when the vice I hate,
(Tho' only Plæbus, I, and you shall know it)
I'm jealous of thee, H - t, as à Poet.

M.G.

To Mr MOSES BROWNE.

OW eager

With a Present of a MICROSCOPE.
is the prying busy mind,
The heights and depths of nature's works to
All objects, or of thought or sense t'explore, (find,

H

(wind.

And rack invention to discover more.
Hence optick arts have fhewn th'affifted eye
New scenes of wonders here, new worlds on high.
Æthereal scenes my friend has travers'd long,
Thy nightly haunts, and subject of thy fong;
Then clofe awhile thy astronomick wing,
Leave Jove's Satellites, and old Saturn's ring.
The gitt I fend, (tho' small the present seems)
Shall find thee, nearer yet, as wond'rous themes.
New fpecies this, alert with life, expands
Num'rous as dew-drops, or as ocean's fands.
There's fcarce a leaf that trembles in the air,
Whose hills and valleys do not millions bear;
Who range at large and plenteous herbage find,
And drink at ftreams which thro' their meadows
A fingle drop of water can embrace
Ten thousand creatures of aquatick race:
The space which scarce a grain of fand contains,
Infolds more lives than fell on Blenbeim's plains.
Amazing thought! that fo minute a train,
For which th'unaided eye might fearch in vain,
Shou'd be with organs apt for life endu'd,
To move, to feed, to propagate their brood;
Nourish their offspring, and the pleafures claim,
Which bless the lover's and the parent's name.
From curious views the Microfcope bestows,
Such food for thought, such umefal knowledge flows.
In the gay garden, or the verdant mead,
With this my Maker's wondrous works I read,
This the nice texture of each flow'r explains,
And thews the juices circling thro' their veins;
The pores whence aromatick scents exhale,
Which lood with sweet perfumes the breezy gale.
This makes the works of God look lovelier still,
Yet humbles much the pride of human skill;
The niceft polish of the artist's hand,

This shews all rough and tibb'd like furrow'd land.
The sharpeft point feems blunt, the pencil's trace
Uncouth a thousand blemishes deface:

And yet, how fmooth an infect's polith'd wing!
How fang'd, Obre! how piercing sharp thy sting!
How glitt ring is thy plumage, little fly!
How bright the gilding of thy lattic'd eye!
A belt of eyes the Spider's bulk contines,
Refponfive to his web's director lines.

My numbers fcantily the praife bestow,
Which to th'opticizn's skill we jußly owe;
May new improv'ments still their toil repay,
'Till not one atom glides unmark'd away;
'Till human eyes, like angels, shall difcern,
And farcely ought, on earth, be left to learn.

J. Dutcz.

H

On the Marriage of

Mr. W. BAKER and Miss DAWSON.

Appy the Pair whom true Affection binds!
Affection! cement of according minds!
Which makes effectual Hymen's myftick rites,
And, more than all his formal bands, unites.
May this foft Pow'r, whose influence you confefs,
Your days and nights with mutual transports bleís;
Instruct with ev'ry honeft wile to please,
And, each, the other's weight of cares to eafe;
For cares the happy'st state of life attend,.
And for their cure, no cordial like a friend :
No Friendships likely firmer to endure
Than those which love and mutual vows fecure.
May circling years a pleasing tribute bring,
And the fair Olives round your table spring;}
Still your commercial arts success attend,
And on your dwelling healthy dews descend;
And, what will crown and perfect all the reft,
May ev'ry virtue thrive in either breaft.

J. DUICK,

Raves to

}

St, strangely whimsical, and odly gay,
be wedded, yet defers the day:
So folemn blockheads talk; but S----t is wife,
He knows the value of his female prize,
Views her with tender, but respectful eyes:
A rich strong city, and a nymph of fenfe,
For credit's fake, shou'd make a month's defence.
Befides, St knows that an impetuous joy
Might ev'n by too much happiness destroy;
And therefore cautioufly he does remove
From wit, and friends, to beauty and to love.

M. G.

The GUN-STICK, APOEM, Occafioned by a Soldier's inadvertently shooting bis Rammer out of bis Piece at a a late Review; Terror and Confternation of the rubole Regiment.

By Mr BUXTON.

brother?

to the

W Hat a narrow 'scape's here, the lord bless us!
Cries one officer, half fear'd to death, to another; (
We might all have been flain, ev'ry son of a

a mo

ther.
The Col'nel affirm'd, it whizz'd close by his ear;
To me, as to any one gentleman here;
Cries the Major, I'm certain it flew full as near

}

The Captain fwore too, by him he was made,
A Lieutenant averr'd, and most ftifly stood to't,
It had brush'd by one fide of his gaudy cockade;
It had bor'd a great hole quite thro' his lac'd coat.
One very fpruce fpark, who never had feen
Difcover'd, poor man! ('tis scarce decent to tell)
A fword drawn by foe, nor in battle e'er been,
'The fad plight he was in, by his terrible smell.
We run greater risques, another maintains,
In one fuch review, than in twenty Campaigns.
Then what deferves he, pray firs, less than the gal-
lows?
fellows?
That with one shot has frightned fo many brave
For the officers all, to a man, roundly fwore,
They never had been in fuch danger before;
And believ'd they scarce ever should be fo again,
Tho' the whole pow'is of France were united with
Spain,

On Dean SWIFT.

ATHENS call'd Sophocles the bee, to shew
His ftrains did with a honey'd sweetness flow:
Call SWIFT the Bee, and let the title tell
His strains in Honey, as in Stings, excell.

On the Pedestal of a Marble Statue of bis late Ma-
jesty King George I. created this Month in the Se-
nate Hall of King's College, Cambridge.

Georgio Optimo Principi Magnæ Britannicæ Regi.
Ob infignia ejus in hanc Academiam Merita Se-
narus Cantabrigienfis in perpetuum Grati Animi
Teftimonium Statuam Mortuo ponendam Decre-

To the Spectators of * MERLIN in MINIA-
TURE, written by
Admirer of that ingeni-
ous Piece of Machinery.

an

YE Sages, who are vers'd in Motion's Laws,
From known Effects can trace the bidden Caule;
What Work of Art from you can be conceal'd,
To whom all Nature's Secrets are reveal'd?
Your penetrating Eyes will foon difclose
The Spring, whence this mysterious motion flows.

Say, then, by what deep Skill, what Pow'r
The Author animates this neru Machine? (unseen,
This Miracle of Art? which all commend
With just Applause, yet few can comprebend.
* It is faid, this Piece of Art justly merits the
Efteem of the Curious, who daily refort to view
it at the Crown-Coffee-house in King's-ftreet,
near Guild-Hall. See Daily Advertiser, 08. 12.

Refresh'd with morning dews, and balmy showers,
Where cooling zephyrs fan the fultry hours;
Where innocence maintains her chearful sway,
And exercise, or labour, crowns the day;
Where hunger relishes the simple fare,
By temperance cherish'd,--Health is ever there!
O'er the lone cottage she extends her wings,
And flies the proud luxuriant courts of kings!

By Health inspir'd, soft melting fongs of love
Melodious-mingling, tune the vocal grove;
The flocks and herds in joy-refounding strains,
Bleat from the hills, and low along the plains.
Of Health depriv'd keit is the power to fing,
Sad change; nor groves, nor hills, nor vallies ring;
In languid moanings they their woe deplore,
And even the woodland charmer charms no more!!!
Rough and unpolifh'd mark the induftrious hind,

Tho' rude his mien, untainted is his mind;
Harmless himself, and of no harm afraid,
He earns with sweaty brows his daily bread;
When with the well-wrought day his task is done,
Homeward he haftens with the setting fun;
Unbroken slumbers bless his happy night,
Labour returning with returning light;
Vig'rous his limbs, and youthful rofy grace
Smiles round his perfon, and adorns his face;
Advancing age reveres his temperance paft,
And death, like gentle fleep, steals on at laft!
Now view the dazling grandeur of the great,
The shine of riches, and the pride of flate,
Th' exalted owner these the more expose
To luxury, to vice, Health's deadly foes!
Observe him, by ungovern'd paffions sway'd,
Unnerv'd by pleasure, by excefs decay'd;
Quite from his cheek the vivid colour flies,
Pain at his heart, and fickness in his eyes!
Diftafte the day, and anguish waits the night,
And the wretch loaths the gladsome rays of light!

To MIRA.

The Promise of LOVE.

In Imitation of Anacreon.
Done from the French of M. de la Motte,
PLeas'd with the music of my lay,
The god of love, but yesterday,
Prefs'd for a fong, which shou'd, he faid,
With two sweet kifles be repaid
Of Venus' lips: the price so high,
What mortal cou'd a fong deny?
Yet I reply'd, No Cupid, no,
• Whose flave I am too well you know,
• Who wing'd too fure the fatal dart

From Mira's eyes that pierc'd my heart.
Wou'd you then have a fong from me,
• What more I rate the price must be 3
• Swear then by all th'immortal pow'rs,
One kiss of her my foul adores
To give; and, trust me, more I'll do,
• Inftead of one, you shall have two.
He swore: and (wond'rous strange to tell)
"Tis fure I did myself excell,
The tend'reft fofteft strains I fung,
That ever flow'd from mortal tongue;
Sweet as the Nine did e'er infpire,
Or breath'd Apollo's tunerul lyre.

Bat say, wilt thou, dear charming maid,
Fulfil the promife Love has made ?

AMASIUS.

N.B. Mr T. Cooper of Wellingborough bas obli ged us with a Calculation and Type of an Occultation of Jupiter by the Moon on Oct. 28, 1740.

Historical Chronicle. October, 1739.

T

Guildball, MONDAY I.

HE Sheriffs having adjourn'd the Court to this Day, they declar'd the Numbers on the Poll for a Lord Mayor (See p. 495.) which were for Sir John Salter 95, Sir Robert Godfcball 90, Sir George Champion 21. And Mr Glover one of the Livery address'd to the Sheriffs the following Speech, See p. 534 E.

Mr Alderman Heathcote and Sir John
Lequefne,

afide, one

the Ho

A

make the folowing Motion, the', from the Propriety of the Thing itself, I hope I should otherwise stand excused: I therefore humbly move that this Paper may be read; and if, as I doubt not, it obtains the Approbation of this Affembly, that you, Gentlemen, our Worthy Sheriffs, may be defir'd to present Copies of it to our four Representatives in Parliament.

William Bonn, Esq; a Common Council-man, seconding Mr Glove., the Paper was read being

To the Rt Hon. MICAJAH PERRY, Efq;
Lord Mayor,
HUMPHREY PARSONS, Esq; Ald.
Sir JOHN BARNARD, Knt, Ald. and
ROBERT WILLIMOT, Efq; Ald.
REPRESENTATIVES of the City of Lon-
don in this present PARLIAMENT.

WE

TE the Liverymen of the City of London, in Common Hall affembled, in order to exert our undoubted Right of Electing two proper Persons to be return'd to the Court of Aldermen for the Mayoralty of this great City for the Year enfuing, should be wanting both to you and ourselves, if, whilft we are shewing a just Resentment by setting afide one Perfon, whose Conduct we dilap. prove, and whom we judge unworthy of that High and Honourable Office, we did not take the fame Opportunity of return

THE Worthy Liverymen of this City, here B as follone R
affembled before you, have now set aside,
in all Probability irrevocably and perpetu-
ally fet
Candidate from
nourable and Powerful Office of Lord Mayor
of this great Metropolis. The Reajons of this
Proceeding must, to every impartial Citi-
zen, appear obvious and incontestable, be- C
ing founded on that just Indignation which
it becomes every TRUE ENGLISHMAN
at this Time to entertain at the many Dis-
graces Barbarities, and Infults, which have
been fffer'd to fall upon his Country from a
Nation esteem'd in all preceding Times as
the Object of our Contimpt, and whose In-D
Science we have as often reduced and hum-
Lied, as we have exerted our Power. But
Still, this Proceeding, began and purfu'd
with jo much Spirit, conducted with so much
Difcretion and Decency, where the Peace
and good Order of this great City have been
consuited with as much Caution, as the
principal Purpose itself has been supported
with Resolution and Vigour; I say, this
Procceding may still be liable to the Censure
of Abruptness and Inconsistency, if the same
Motives which have influenc'd our Conduct in
the Election of our Mayor, do not now create
the fame Unanimiry to pay our most grateful
Acknowledgements to our four Worthy Re-F
presentatives in Parliament, for their fleady
and faithful Adherence to all our Rights,
for their vigorous Support of our Trade in
particular, and of the Honour of this King-
dom in general, by their Opposition in the
House of Commons to the late Convention
with SPAIN. Our Instructions should like- G
wife accompany our Thanks, that the Tenour
of our Conduct may appear to be confiftent
and uniform throughout. For this Purpose
I have receiv'd this Paper from several
Gentlemen of the highest Confideration and
Character in this City, who know, that it
was at their particular and most earnest
mreaty, that I have taken upon me to

in your general Conduct in Parliament; and in a more particular Manner for your late Endeavours to preferve us from the ruinous Consequences we then too jultly apprehend. ed from the Convention with Spain.

And tho' neither your Endeavours at that Time, nor the Interpofition of this City, had the desired Effect, yet every Man in this Nation must be now fully convinced of the Dishonour, as well as Danger, of that fatal Treaty.

We are now made deeply sensible of the unhappy State of this Kingdom, from the imminent Mischiefs which leem to threaten us trom Abroad, and it is with great Grief we obferve our Excellent Conftitution de. clining in fome Instances at Home: Bur when the TRUE SPIRIT and Vigour of a British Parliament shall exert itself, we promife ourselves, that, with the Divine Allittance, we shall be equally preserv'd trom the Dangers of both.

In a FREE and UNCORRUPTED Al sembly of our Representatives confifts not only the Dignity, but even the Character and very Effence of a Parliament. It is of the highest Importance, that those whom we entrust with an unrestrain'd, Power of making all Laws, affecting our Trade, Properties, Liberties, and Lives, should be uninfluenced by any lucrative Confideration; and yet, notwithstanding seve. ral good Laws have been made to fecure the Independency of the House of Com mons, how infecure must that great Bleff. B Throne, gave me fuch Aporehensions of the ing be, from the Number of Placemen who have already got Footing there, and who may be augmented hereafter by many more.

City, but to the Welfare of every Body corporate in the Nation, to which I must defire your Attention. I need not tell you with how general a Confent your Common Council agreed to the late Petition against the A Convention, only two diffenting. But there were not wanting some among the Alder. men, who presumed to move, that the Negative vested in them might be put on it. This Attempt to deprive the Citizens of the most valuable of their Rights, that of addressing themselves to the Legislature or the

It is therefore, as we apprehend, ablolutely necessary, that fome new and more effectual Provision should be made to re- C duce and limit their Number; and we require and intist, that you would use your utmost Endeavours to promote a Bill for that falutary Purpose, in Conjunction with such Patriots as may be willing to join with you, and affift you in this Great and Necessary Work.

As the Nation has on many Occafions found the happy Effects of applying to their respective ive Representatives, and giving them proper Instructions in Cafes of great Consequence, as in particular with regard to the late pernicious EXCISE SCHEME, which was calculated for the Destruction of the Liberties of this Nation, which vile Attempt was by these Means defeated; fo we are unwilling to entertain the least Doubt of meeting with the fame Success upon this Occasion: And as this is a Point on which the very Being of Parliaments, and the Profperity of this Kingdom fo absolutely depend, we once more earnestly require you to make it a

E

I refolved to

fatal Uje th that might one Day be made of
that Power, that
lay bold of
the first Opportunity to promote the repeal-
ing of that Clause, by which the Concurrence
of the Majority of the Aldermen present in
Common Council is necessary to the Acts of
that Body. And if you have the jame Opi-
nion of this Power, it will be a Proceeding
well juited to the generous Zeal for Liberty,
you have now shewn to request your Repre-
fentatives to attempt the revealing of it.
I do not now move for such Instruction, be-
cause it may be more decent to postpone it
till to morrow, when the Body of Aldermen.
will be present, and if any shall differ with
you as to the Expediency of taking it a-
way, they ought publickly to give their
Reasons, and in the mean Time, you may be
confidering of the Affair. For my Part I
am endeavouring to abridge my own Power
as an Alderman, but the Dangers to which
the future Abuse of this Power may subject us:
appear
fo terrible that I hould de-
Serve to
confider'd as the meanest of
Mankind, could I put any Privilege of
in Competition with what I
of such immediate Consequence to the Pub-
lick Liberty. And may the great God
of Heaven who has often so wonderfully and
miraculously preserved this Nation still con-
tinue his Blessing and Preservation of us,

to
be

mc

my take to be

previous Step to the Paffing of any Money & the under the illustrious House of Hanover

These Instructions were follow'd with great Shouting, and Thanks to Mr Glover for his Motion; after which Mr Sheriff Heathcote address'd himself to the Liverymen to know if they defired the Sheriffs to present Copies of the Paper to their Representatives, and their Confent was fignify'd with a loud Applaufe, which over, the fame Shriff address'd them again to the following Effect:

Gentlemen,

You have now afferted your Rights and vindicated the Honour of the City with Zeal and Temper. The Same Conduct cannot fail of adding a just Weight to every other Step you shall take for the Preservation of your own Liberties, and the Liberties of the whole Kingdom. But there is another Affair of the greatest Consequence, not only to the good Government and Happiness of the

the Laws, Liberties, and Commerce of this Metropolis, and of all his Majesty's British Dominions may continue in a prosperous State till the general Diffolution of the World.

This Speech was receiv'd with Volleys of universal Applause, and then the Hall was adjourn'd to the next Day, and the Citizens thanked their Sheriffs for their candid and just Behavi

our on this Occafion.