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Poetical ESSAYS in SEPTEMBER, 1751. 423

Ah! there, bewitching foftnefs dwells,
More binding then e'en magick spells.

Oh! could we ftay the lovely maid,
Or, would fome pitying pow'r persuade
Her, here, for ever to remain,
To give us golden days again;
And gently o'er our hearts prefide,
Our flocks, our lawns, and what befide;
Then blefs'd, our time would glide away,
Happy beneath her downy sway.

On the mach admired Mifs Jenny Low, a ce-
lebrated Beauty.

HEN Florio talks of Sachariffa's

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[arms, Her fhape, her well-turn'd neck, and snowy With lavish tongue he dwells on every grace, And points out all the wonders of her face:

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Juft fo, he cries, in Cyprus once was [lian queen! Love's powerful goddefs, bright IdaSuch were her eyes, her fkin, her air, her mien !

The much lov'd theme, still studious to
prolong,

Another Venus 'tis infpires his fong ;
Fond youth, give o'er, thy images are faint,
If thou henceforth perfection's felf would'st
paint,

[ftow,

And on thy nymph uncommon praise be

Beauty's, alas! a fading flow'r,

That comes, that goes, within an hour,
That lives, by turns, and dies!
What then avails a painted face,
Or what a fhape, with ev'ry grace,
That's delicately fine?
Beauties like these to time give way,
They last but one short flying day,

No more, then, yours, than mine.
From hence, my fair, then wifely learn,
With juft contempt the girl to fpurn,

Whofe worth we no where find :
Defpife the giddy thoughtless maid,
Who prizes beauty that will fade,

Regardless of her mind.

Go wifer thou, improve thy mind,
With all the virtues thou canft find,
And ev'ry focial grace :
Learn thou t'adorn thy growing fenfe,
(The gen'rous gift of providence)

And leave to heav'n thy face.
No longer then, ye lovely fair,
With pride regard your flowing hair,
Or neck, or eyes, or nofe:
Remember outward graces fade,
And, oh, the fairest lovelieft maid
Falls like the blushing rose!

D. R.

REFLECTIONS on the Uncertainty of all*
Sublunary Enjoyments.

Swear that the looks, and moves, and HWs joys!

talks like Low!

of fenfe,

Her beauties, quicken'd by the powers
[quence,
Charm my rapt foul with double elo.
Venus but half defcribes her excellence.
In her rejoice, ye lift'ning worlds around;
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When e'er, transporting thought
She looks like Venus-like Minerva fpeaks,
In pity to mankind, bright nymph, forbear;
O do not talk fo well-or look lefs fair a
Form'd for delight-fatal in this alone;
You can doom thousands—yet can blefs but

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BEAUTY: An Opz. Addressed to a LADY.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain. Sol.

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ET others boaft a form compleat,

And fing the face where beauties meet,
And praise a publick toast.
'Tis not of these, we mean to tell,
Since inward graces far excel,

All that the face can boast.
'Tis virtue, virtue, we adore,
Than all the gifts of fortune more,
Or all this world can give :
Virtue adorns the human mind,
'Tis virtue beautifies mankind,

And points the way to live. What boots a face from freckles free, Or what the cheeks where we may fee Ten thousand graces rife ?

OW vain is man! how flutt'ring are
[deftroys:
When, what one moment gives, the next
Hope and despair fill up his round of life,
And all his days are one continual strife;
Still struggling to be rich, yet always poor,
Because ambition makes him covet more :
Reason (which ought to be his only
guide)

He wildly barters for an anxious pride;
And all his hopes are but uncertainty,
The parent of despair and misery.

Thus foolishly roll on the days of man,
(A tedious journey, tho' a little span.)
The court, the park, the play are pompous
wiles,

To make him fancy that his fortune smiles;
When like a jilt she turns his joy to grief,
By difappointment of his fond belief;
And cool reflection teaches him to fee
The giddinefs of all his vanity.

His felf-conceit, his fancy'd pow'r and -
skill,

Which bid defiance to th' Almighty's will,
Destroy'd by fecret fprings, he knows not

how,

Should learn him to th' almighty will to bow:
For to his providence alone we owe
All we poffefs of good, and all we know;
"Tis he, who raises us, and brings us low.
Ceafe then, proud man of thy own
ftrength to boast,
Who, of thy felf, canft little do at most :

Thou

424 Poetical ESSAYS in SEPTEMBER, 1751.

Thou art the Maker's image, ftruck in'
clay,

[away,
Who, with one blast, can blow that form
Which moulders to its parent earth each
day.

Then let not thy unruly fancy rove
On any thing but what is fix'd above.
Be kind, be humble, merciful, and just ;
In Providence alone put all thy trust :
For what thou haft to him give all the praise,
Or never hope to meet with happy days.

EPITAPH (See p. 381.)
GILBERT WALMESLEY, Efq;
Ob. Auguft 3. MDCCLI. Æt. 69.
EADER, if fcience, honour, reason
charm ;

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If focial charities thy bofom warm ;

If fmiling bounty ope thy heart and door;
If juftice ftile thee-guardian of the poor;
Firm to Britannia's prince, and church,
and laws,

If freedom fire thee in thy country's cause ;
With fympathetick love these relicks fee,
But think not Walmesley dead—he lives in
thee.

But if, regardless of strong reason's voice, In wine, and noise, and faction, thou rejoice;

If thou thy faith and liberties betray,
And barter laws for arbitrary fway;
If, Briton born, thy foul's a Gallick flave;
Start from his tomb he would-and call
thee "Fool and knave."

An EPISTLE to a Pupil in Sickness.
O D's will be done! Yes, gentle
friend, forgive

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The felfish thought for thee, which bids me grieve:

[live! O well prepar'd to die! O fitter still to Methinks, I come to take my last farewel, And fain would speak the anguish which I [ftrife,

feel.

'Tis a dread point-it fets my thoughts at This verge 'twixt mortal and immortal life; [known feas, An Ifthmus 'twixt the known and unWhere the two worlds the bufy foul furveys: [fore, The Streights of mortal life behind-beSeas of eternity, which know no shore. Teach me to live and die, like thee, ferene, [fcene; And, unappall'd, to view the dreadful Firm on the brink of fate, thy Pisgah, stand At nearer distance from the promis'd land;

[ball,

From that clear height furvey this earthly And ask, where's now what great or good we call ?

Folly our wisdom is, our pleafure pain,
And thy own mufick now, my friend, is
vain-

I heard the Royal Preacher, and with theme
Reflect on what I do, and what I am.

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More happy thou, in ripen'd noon of day
Refin'd by fickness, strengthen'd by decay!
Death is become familiar to thy fight,
Its horrors vanish at the dawn of light-
A chriftian's life is daily thus to die
Thus the foul triumphs o'er mortality.
Who then should grieve? Yet grieve I
muft, as man;

David must mourn the fall of Jonathan.
A forrowful complacency it is,

To count what once we priz'd, what now
we mifs :

So early ripe, and fo untimely loft!
Fate takes off fooneft what we value moft.
'Tis fomething like felf-love, to praise a
friend ;

Thy tutor does, in thee, himfelf commend:
Thy youth at once fair fruit and blossoms
bore,

Much in poffeffion, in expectance more.
Be this thy praife, I tell thee what thou

art,

And thus fpeak comfort to thy penfive
[heart-
Then fearless wait the fummons of thy
Lord,
"O faithful fervant! great is thy re-
["ward."
On BELINDA, a Quondam Toast.

BWith all that bounteous nature gives,
ELINDA, heavenly fair, adorn'd

The pride of all-at laft is fcorn'd,

And, more furprifing, Atill furvives.
To drums and balls the ftill repairs,
And, tho' fhe meet perpetual flight,
She gives herself a thousand airs,

And thinks no female else polite.
Her nat'ral beauty now decay'd,
The white and red fupply its place
A coftly veft bedecks the maid,

And patches hide a freckled face,
Detefted always, no more lov'd,

Her men difdain, and women hate;
By all defpis'd, no more approv'd,

Such now I fee Belinda's fate.
And canst thou, fav'rite queen of love,
Unfhock'd fuch dire reproaches meet?
When thofe thy greatest tyrants prove
Yes, that you can! I joy 'tis fo,
Who first ador'd thy fprightly wit.

Unmov'd you hear the keenest tongue;
A true coquet and colour? no,

Regardless país the whispering throng.
At first th' effects were fobs and fighs,
Herself the cause of all her woe :
At length experience faid, be wise,

And scorn or flirting belle or beam.
A tim'rous tar thus views the main,
And trembles at the slightest blast ;
The rifing waves increase his pain,

And every breath expects his last.
Till more and more advent'rous grown,
The ftormy wind and sea he braves;
And fearless (corning Neptune's frown,
He fmiles amidst the mountain waves.
CORNELIUS.

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Monthly Chronologer.

Extract of a Letter from Bonneville, capital of the District of Faucigne, in Savoy, dated, Aug. 23, N. S.

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HE 3ft of last month, about two o'clock in the afternoon, the rock in the mountain of Plaineju,near the parish of Paffy, funk down fo fuddenly, that the quantities of earth which came tumbling down at the fame time from the mountain, confiderably damaged the neighbouring babitations, where fix perfons were crushed to death, with about 30 head of cattle. Soon after the rock's finking, the whole mountain was covered with afhes and cinders; and out of the rock there iffued two columns of thick smoke, about a quarter of a mile diftant from each other; whence we concluded, that it must be full of bitumen and fulphur; and the fulphureous fcent from the mountain juftified our conjecture. The rock continued finking and crumbling away the following days, and ftill continues, with a dreadful rumbing noife, and a thick fmoke, which is fometimes black, and fometimes of a reddish colour. We do not yet perceive any flames; but if an aperture should be made in the mountain, and the flames burst forth thro' it, we fhall then fee two mountains of a very different kind, a volcano at Plainejou, and an icy mountain at Chamonis.

Since this relation was brought to Turin, they have received other letters from Bonneville, which affure, that the flames have begun to iffue at the fame apertures with the fmoke; whereupon his Sardinian majefty has refolved to fend thither one of his ableft profeffors of the univerfity of Turin, to make obfervations on this new burning mount.

Extract of a Letter from Gubio, a City in the Dutchy of Urbino in the Ecclefiaftick State, Aug. 17, N. S.

The two fhocks of earthquake felt here towards the end of last month, were exceeding dreadiul: The first began at five. in the morning, and the fecond two hours after. The archiepifcopal palace, the ca. thedral, and all the convents and monafteries were very much damaged thereby : The convent of St. Ubaldo is almost entirely ruined, and most of the houses and palaces were fo terribly fhaken, that one flock more would have compleated the ruin of the city. This earthquake was more violent in the September, 1755.

circumjacent country, where there is not one whole houfe to be feen: The parish church of the village of Padola was entirely fwallowed up. We now and then still feel fome fh cks, but they are very flight: However, no body will venture to stay in town at night, every one lying in tents in the fields; and how much the poor fuffer, may be easily conceived.

Among the feveral memorials drawn up by the French court, to prove her right to the island of St. Lucia, there is one which speaks to the following purport.

That in 1624, M. Dijet de Nambuc, after having conquered fome of the Antille iflands, alfo feized upon the island of St. Lucia, and took poffeffion of it in due form, but could not keep footing there. That in 1638, fome English adventurers made a defcent there, and were foon after expelled by the favages. That M. du Parquet, nephew of M. Dijet de Nambuc, having fucceeded to the rights of his uncle, took poffeffion of St. Lucia towards the end of the year 1640, by confent of the native inhabitants, who acknowledged him in quality of governor. In 1664 the English having attacked the island of St. Lucia, with a body of 1500 men, obliged M. Buard, the then governor thereof, to deliver up the fort to them. The next year, the English having been again driven out by the favages, the French repoffeffed themselves of the island, but having neg lected to maintain the colony, the island became almoft common to all nations, till the year 1686, when the English came with force and arms, and drove out the few French that were fettled there, pretending that the island belonged to them, &c.

They write from New York, by a ship arrived in the river from New England, that their governor was returned from Albany, where he had been to meet the chiefs of the fix nations of Indians. His excellency arrived at Albany, June 20, and the greatest part of the Indians came down in three days after: They were well pleafed with the faid meeting, and allo with the prefents made to them, and after promifing to keep the covenant, returned very well fatisfied. The prefents brought by the Hon. William Bull, Eq; governor of South-Carolina, were thankfully received by thofe people; and the chiefs of the Catawh Indians, who accompanied him, were received very cordially by them, and a cessation of arms, in order for a ialing peace, was mutually agreed on. Hhh

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On Aug. 27, at the affizes at Chester, came on a trial upon a matter entirely new.. A tradelman of Macclesfield in that county, brought his action against the postmaster, for charging a letter more than fourpence, as it contained two or three patterns or famples of goods, tho' the whole packet did not exceed the weight of one ounce. After many learned arguments on both fides, the fpecial jury, confifting of a worthy baronet, and feveral of the principal gentlemen of Cheshire, brought in a verdict for the plaintiff, with one fhilling damages, to the no fmall fatisfaction of the tradefmen in that and the neighbouring counties; and, no doubt, to the approbation of the kingdom in general.

On the 28th, at three in the afternoon, the firft ftone of Iflington church was laid by James Colebrook, Efq; one of the truftees for rebuilding the faid church, amidst a great number of fpectators.

On the 29th, one Peter Lofeby, who was charged with stealing a large quantity of brimstone, to the value of upwards of 40s. out of a veffel on the river Thames, which is made death by a late ftatute, and made his efcape out of the waggon as he was, going with the reft of the felons to take his trial at the last affizes at Kingston, was apprehended foon after he had shipped himfelf on board the Old Warwick, and brought fafe to the New Goal in Southwark,

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 4.

An order of king and council was iffued, for all fhips coming from the Levant to perform a quarentine of 40 days, on account of the plague raging with great vioJence at Conftantinople.

His grace the duke of Dorfet, lord lieutenant of Ireland, fet out for that kingdom, and on the 19th arrived at Dublin.

THURSDAY, 5;

The marquis de Mirepoix, his most chriftian majesty's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, had an audience of the king, at which he notified the fafe delivery of the dauphinefs of France of a prince, who bears the title of duke of Burgundy.

The fame day, 95 whole barrels, 26 half barrels, 2 quarter barrels, and 11 kegs of British pickled herrings, were put up for fale by the candle, at the Royal-Exchange coffee-house ; when the whole barrels went, on an average, at about 21. 158. the half barrels at 11. 155. the quarters at 11. Is. and the kegs at 145.

FRIDAY, 6.

Welch and Jones, condemned for the murder of Sarah Green, Keys for the highway, and Bryant for a robbery in Batterfea-fields, were carried in one cart frora the New Goal in Southwark to Kenning

Sept.

ton Common, and there executed, purfuant to their sentences, amidst as great a concourfe of people as ever were affembled together on fuch an occafion. They in general behaved in a penitent manner; the two former confeffed being concerned in the affair of Sarah Green so far as re lated to the rape, but faid that they were not the cause of her death, but that it was N. s that used her in the barbarous manner which occafioned it. They both declared Coleman's innocence, who fuffered for that murder, and that he was fo far from being with them at that time, that they did not fo much as know him ; but that Nichols then went by the name of Coleman. (See p. 379, 380.) And Welch wrote a letter to the fame purpose, to Coleman's brother, the morning of their execution. Their bodies were not hung in chains, but delivered to their friends. We shall here give our readers Mr. Coleman's folemn declaration concerning his innocence of the murder of Sarah Green, delivered to the Rev. Mr. Wilfon at the place of execu tion, which was as follows:

"The dreadful fentence paffed upon me, I fhall meet with chearfulness, being in no degree confcious of the leaft guilt of that moft inhuman and most unnatural crime that I have been found guilty of. I am very fenfible that it is not in my power to make the incredulous world believe me innocent. I leave the following account with Mr. Wilfon, who I am greatly obliged to, and return him my hearty thanks for the comfortable relief I have received from him in a preparation for a future state of blifs, and I hope he will cause it to be published for my fatisfaction, that it may pafs the impartial examination of all perfons. Namely, on the 23d of July 1748, I went, &c. &c.-[Here follows a long and circumftantial relation of the feveral companies he was in, on the day of the murder; as alfo reflections on the evidence against him at his trial.]-Ifhall answer before the tribunal of Chrift, at the dreadful day of judgment, that the foregoing account, to the best of my knowledge and belief, is the truth, and nothing but the truth. I do alfo moft folemnly proteft, that I am not in any degree guilty of that most in. human murder of Sarah Green, neither was I at Newington, or in Kennington-Lane, that night that the cruel fact was committed on her. This I declare as a dying man, and I fincerely believe (as the Rev. Mr. Wilfon told me several times) if I was directly or indirely guilty of that murder, and go out of the world with denying it, that eternal damnation would be my portion. It is an inexpressible pleasure to me, that I am fo foon to leave this very wicked

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world; and I hope that God Almighty of his infinite mercy and goodness, will, thro' the merits and interceffion of my blessed Redeemer, his only Son our Saviour Jefus Chrift, pardon all my fins, and receive my foul to eternal happiness. There is nothing that gives me fo much concern as the diftrefs I leave my poor wife and two infants in. She has been very good to me under my unhappy misfortunes; and fo have my poor afflicted brothers. I hope that the Almighty will be the guardian of my wife and children; and that all good christian people will commiferate their unhappy ftate. I do moft heartily defire all, and every one, whom I have offended, that they would vouchfafe to forgive me ; and I do freely and heartily forgive my profecutors, and all the world, wherein any hath offended me, or done me any manner of injury whatfoever, even as I defire to be forgiven of God, and to be abfolved from my fins thro' the merits of my bleffed Redeemer."

SUNDAY, 8.

This morning, about 7 o'clock,a fire broke out at the feat of the Hon. Alexander Hume Campbell, Efq; near Colnbrook, which confumed all the rich furniture, &c. to a confiderable value; it was fo fierce, that Mr. Campbell was obliged to get down by a ladder from his chamber, and had not even time to put his breeches on. A woman in the house was likewife let down in the fame manner, cover'd with a fheet. The fire broke out in his study, but his out-office was happily preferved from the flames. There were three engines playing, but without effect. The fire was first discovered by a helper in the ftables, who fortunately happened to be up, cleaning the horses, otherwife, in all probability, Mr. Campbell would have been burnt in his bed, with the reft of his family.

The fame day the court went out of mourning for his royal highnefs the late prince of Wales.

WEDNESDAY, 11.

The lords of trade and plantations ordered five fhips to be got ready to fail for Nova Scotia, with two companies of col. Lee's regiment of foot, befides guns, muskets, fwords, bayonets, powder, &c. for that colony.

A large lanthorn of copper, glaz'd with plate glass, and gilt, was about this time affixed on a tower built on Lincoln-heath, 200 feet high, by Sir Francis Dashwood, Bart. near his feat, for a mark to the people who travel crofs that heath, which is Tome miles broad near that place.

WEDNESDAY, 18.

The feffions ended at the Old-Bailey, when the following 17 criminals received judgment of death, viz. John Jebb, Cornelius Newhoufe, and John Hunter, for feaing a fleep; Robert Steel, for the

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murder of his wife; Ann Berry, for robbing Martha Elgar of 128. William Newman and John March, for robbing James Daniel of a hat, a filk handkerchief, a pair of fhoes, and Is. and 6d. in money; David Brown, for robbing Daniel Bright of 35. in Hounsditch; Edward Bland, for robbing John Lane, Efq; of a guinea, near Acton; Samuel Eager and John Jermy, for refcuing James Holt, an outlawed fmuggler; John Carbold and Edward Brooke, for fmuggling; Benjamin Smith, for ftealing two lambs; Joh Ireland, for robbing Edward Brice on Ealing-Common, of a filver watch; Bridget Shepherd, for ftealing upwards of 4cs. in a dwellinghouse; and John Robertson, for a burglary.

It is remarkable, that when Philip Gibfon, who was fome time ago condemned for a street robbery, was brought to the bar to plead his majesty's pardon, in order to be transported for 14 years, he would not plead to it; and when his majesty's clemency was read to him, he refuted it, faying, he had rather die than live, and did not thank his friends who had made interest to have his fentence changed, for that if he lived he would only be a burthen to himself and them. The court, tho' he behaved in fuch a manner, would have had him to accept of the royal clemency; but on his ftill refufing, he was ordered back to Newgate till the next feffions ; and when he was going out of court he faid, he should be in the fame mind if brought there again.

THURSDAY, 19.

Was held a general court of the governor and company of the bank of England, when a dividend of 2 half per cent. for interest and profits for the half year, ending at Michaelmas next, was agreed to; the warrants for which are to be delivered on the 17th of October.

SATURDAY, 28,

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