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Poetical ESSAYS in DECEMBER, 1751.

VIRTUE fuperior to all external Charms:
ODE. Occafioned by the many late Pieces
on celebrated Beauties. AddreJed to fucb
LADIES, and their poetical Admirers.

-Pictoribus, atque Poetis

Quidlibet audendi femper fuit aqua Poteftas.

SHALL

HORACE.

HALL girls, whofe only claim to worth
Lies in their faces, or their birth,
By fordid bards be prais'd?
Shall fenfe and wit neglected live,
While few to virtue honour give,
However great or rais'd?

Sad emblem of degen rate days,
When poets outward beauty praife,
And court an empty face!
Can virtue's charms no mufe infpire ?.
In virtue's caufe will none take fire?
Oh blind mistaken race!

Ab, could the bard with Flaccus write,
Or foar in Maro's lofty flight,

Or boast a Nafo's pen;

He'd lafh with Juvenal the age,
Satire fhould fwell in every page,
Against deluded men.

What, though she boasts a beauteous
face,

And flaunts, fuperb, in filk and lace :

Is worth convey'd by cloaths?
What, though she shines at balls and plays,
And gayly (pends her flying days,

Admir'd by belles and beaux ?
What, I would afk, are crowns and kings,
What pomp, and titles ?-fleeting things?
That mock th' afpiring mind:
Princes, alas! to duft return,
The rich, the great must fill the urn,

And leave their ftate behind!
Believe me, ladies, for 'tis true,
Not all the di'monds of Peru,

One grain of worth can add ; Not all the gold the Indies bear, Not all the gems that glitter there, Can beautify the bad.

'Tis innate virtue merits praife, 'Tis that alone deferves the lays, And all a poet's art :

We fpurn the bards, who meanly fing
Of charms, which splendid fortunes bring,

But ne'er regard the heart.
Defpife, ye fair, the empty girls,
Whole beauty lies in flowing curls,

Who fhine in borrow'd charms : She, the alone's the happy maid, Whofe real beauties never fade, Whole bofom virtue warms!

D. R.

To a YOUNG LADY, who defired fome Lines on ANGELS.

NGELS (pray, Mifs, the truth excufe,

A Flatt ry but ill becomes the mufe

In outward form by far excel
The beauty of the brightest belle,
In inward luftre of the mind,
Surpass the best of woman kind.
You, Mifs, are fair and good, 'tis true,
But angels, child, outshine e'en you:
Yet pride and vanity discard,
And truth beyond applaufe regard;
At univerfal virtue aim,

And corn to injure or defame :
Let in your breast these graces grow,
And you'll an angel shine below.

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His life the law fulfill'd,

His fuff'rings pardon bring.
Hail, mighty Saviour! justly ftil'd
Our Prophet, Prieft, and King.

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Divine Instructor, hail!

Whose precepts form our lives 3
Nor will implor'd assistance fail
The foul that truly frives."

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Hail, Saviour of our race!
Our facrifice for guilt!

Who freely in the finner's place,

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The willing knee we bow,

And han thee fov'reign Lord
For ever, King of faints, be thou
Belov'd, obey'd, ador'd.

The PROGRESS of LEARNING.

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Thro' vice and error the impetuous youth
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Unruly appetites his virtue sway,

His will commands, and paffions lead the

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But when the schools have lent their focial

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And from his brain difpell'd the native His tender front the dawning genius rears, And thining virtue in her bloom appears. So on his furrow ftands the lab'ring fwain, [grain And to the glebe commits the pregnant Lodg'd in the earth an embryo harvest lies,

Till the fun's genial influence bids it rife Then joyous he furveys his fruitful ground, With plenteous crops, and golden honours [name,

crown'd.

The child, as foon as he can lifp his Is ftrait committed to the careful dame : Till by revolving years his mind is wrought To deeper knowledge, and maturer thought; She to his hand the letter'd horn applies, And with her fefcue guides his wand'ring eyes. [god infpires,

The youths, whose breaft the warlike And with a gen'rous thirst of glory fires, Within the lifts a bloodless combat wage, With feeming hatred, and diffembled rage; Undaunted, when Britannia calls to fight, Shall crown her battles, and defend her right.

Some tollow nature in her gloomy maze, And trace the goddess thro' unbeaten ways; A ftudious race! whofe boundless profpects rife, [fkies; High o'er the clouds, and pierce the inmoft They measure earth thro' all her diftant *lands,

[fands.

They tell the ftars and count the yellow

Of things the fecreat caufes we explore, From whence the fun recruits his golden Atore, [light, What period bounds each rowling orb of Where new fledg'd whirlwinds try their noify flight; [der fprings, Where tempefts fleep, and infant thunWhy nimble lightning mounts on golden wings;

What binds the water in an icy chain, And from what fource proceeds the pearly rain :

The foul forgets her gross restraint of clay, And,eager after knowledge, wings her way. AREBU S.

THE

HE name of a patriot, that's laid very low, [grow ; And the fruit that is feen on hedges to Thefe being join'd, make the name of a [lace;

place

That's noted for making abundance of ANOTHER.

THE game that is often play'd by the

great,

And a dish that is counted delicate meat ; Join these two together, and it will discover The town wherein dwelleth my elder brother. CROCUS,

Answer to the firft Rebus in our läßt, p. 521. To QUIBUS.

TH

HE part of your word must be Lech, And Lade was a justice well known; By which you plainly do teach,

Here, in throng'd schools, theftern gram- GRA

marians teach

The beauties and proprieties of fpeech: To love of arts they mould unpractis'd youth, [truth. And form the tender minds to spotless Here too Britainnia's unexperienc'd fair To the frequented dancing school repair; Each fhining nymph improves her pretty face, [grace;

With winning features, and becoming To the fhrill haurboy and the fiddle's found, They fhift alternate feet, and prefs the ground.

Here that nice art the ftudious pupils try Of painting words, and speaking to the eye; Which, in their various fhapes of figures wrought,

Give colour and a body to a thought.

Thrice happy mortal! on whose earthly breaft,

The likeness of his Maker is imprefs'd !` Thrice happy mortal! whose enlightned

mind

To useful arts and wisdom is inclin'd! Thro' tedious fchools we hunt the lovely maid,

And by the prize confess our toil o'er-paid;

GR good prog,

That Lecblade's the name of the town. Answer to the Second, Ibid. RAVES made of tallow for dogs is [clog; And an end is material to make fhoe or Therefore, in Kent, it is plain to be seen, Gravesend you mean in the last Magazine. ANOTHER Answer. HE food that's not fit to be given to [dogs: I think must be graves, often us'd to feed If fo, with the help of a cobler's end, Join'd with graves, you will make the town of Gravefend.

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To Mifs Js, of St. T―lls, O-f-d, on ber feveral excellent Poems.

WE the quivering lyre,

HENE'ER thou deign'st to sweep

Anxiety is lull'd to reft;
Paffion fubmits to Cupid's gentler fire,

And am'rous tranfports glad the breast. The too, too pow'rful magick of thy long, Fair maid, enchanting all around, Draws the rapt fwains infenfibly along,

Attentive to the heav'nly found. No longer fhall the wanton Sappho reign Sole queen of wit, unmatch'd in praife; No longer thall Methymna's distant plain Monopolize the female bays,

568 Poetical ESSAYS in DECEMBER, 1751.

InT-Ils more pure unfully'd laurels grow,
Where Phoebus and the nine repair,
Maria, to adorn thy graceful brow,
Thou learned Phoenix of the fair.
Oxford, Dec. 13, 1751.

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Applause itself, unless by merit gain'd— And wou'd to-night your loudest praise disclaim, [doubtful fame,

Shou'd his great fhade perceive the Not to his labours granted, but his name. Boldly he wrote, and boldly told the age, "He dar'd not prostitute the useful stage, "Or purchase their delight at fuch a rate, "As, for it, he himself must justly hate : But rather begg'd they wou'd be pleas'd << to fee ["fhou'd be: "From him, fuch plays, as other plays "Wou'd learn from him to fcorn a motley " (cene, [" with men." ee And leave their monsters, to be pleas'd Thus spoke the bard-And tho' the times are chang'd, [rang'd; Since his free Mufe, for fools the city And fatire had not then appear'd in state, To lafh the finer follies of the great; Yet let not prejudice infect your mind, Nor flight the gold, because not quite refin'd; [view, With no falfe nicenefs this performance Nor damn for low, whate'er is just and

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Ten years! small space, to finish the full line, [thine; Thro' which perfections human sparkling He worthy was of life's extended date, But virtue cannot stop the pow'r of fate. While I defign'd to spread about him flowers,

Seeing the op'ning of his genius' pow'rs ; Alas! I weep his merits round his tomb, I only faw perfection in its bloom.

Fool that I was, to think his rifing day, Wou'd ftill increafing, fuller beams display; That no cloud gath'ring wou'd obfcure the light [bright.

Which thone in breaking dawn to fweetly Short is the time of all that shines below, [flow; There's nothing fixt, all beauties ebb and Let cypress then furround his peaceful

grave,

[have. "Tis more, perhaps, than many kings shall His Epitaph, from the fame Hand,

BE

ENEATH this monument does lie A flow'r that ravish'd once the eye, A youth who honour had in view, Who only what was virtue knew ; But death thro' envy wou'd not spare Such beauty and perfection rare; He calmly met approaching fate, Nor mourn'd his life's too fleeting date 3. Tho' by a tender father lov'd, Not death his youthful courage mov'd; No eye did fee him, but admir'd, And all his happiness defir'd; His wit was great, his goodness more, Who knew him, muft his lofs deplore.

J. DINSDALE. On Mifs G-nn-g's firft coming from Ireland. In Imitation of Mr. Prior's Female Phaeton. HUS Molly youthful, gay and fair, While forrow vex'd her breaft,

In fweet complaint, and easy air
Her mother oft address'd.
Muft I to home be still confin'd,

By ev'ry one forfaken ?
Sure, I'm for fomething elfe defign'd,
Or Molly's much mistaken.
Shall P-r-m reign publick toast

In country and in town?
And V-ne with arrogance still boast
That all the world's ber own ?
Shall they to drums and routs repair,
And be admir'd alone?
While Molly, tho' perhaps as fair,

Is not fo much as known.
Let me, mamma, now quit this chain,
And but for this once try;
I'll have my lords as well as V-ne,
Or know the reason why.
Her fond mamma could not fay nay,
And the at her defire,
Obtain'd the chariot for a day,
And fet the world on fire.

PHILOMUSE. THE

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Monthly Chronologer.

xtract of a Letter from NAPLES, dated

Nov. 16.

N the night between the 9th and 8th instant, from the new aperture which was made on the eaft fide of mount Vefuvius, (fee p. 522.) there iffued forth such a prodigious flame of fire, that, notwithstanding our city is fituate on the wefitern fide of the mountain, we faw every now and then an uncommon light in the .air. About two in the morning there were felt feveral fhocks of an earthquake, in all the parts adjacent to the faid fiery mountain. On the 9th in the evening, the interior banks of the aperture on the fummit broke in, and funk directly to the bottom of the Vulcano. As the wind was in the east all that night, and was pretty high, it .carried fome of the embers as far as Portici, where his majefty was then refident. Yesterday the top of the mountain likewife feemed to be all in a flame, and this very morning there proceeded from it abundance of fulphurous matter. Ever fince the 12th inft. all the wells belonging to the village de la Forre del Greco, fituate on the fea fhore to the fouth-west of the aforefaid - mountain, are perfectly dried up; and fome people affert, that the sea itself was - confiderably drove back from its ufual boundaries. Much the fame accident happened in the year 1631, and the whole port belonging to our city was almost dry. In the year 1698 the fea retreated from the 'banks full 42 feet and at the fame time - there iffued from the top of the aforefaid mountain a torrent of water, of much larger extent than that of the flames.

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was attended with hard fqualls of wind: About fix in the morning of the 11th it blew very hard at north, which brought off great quantities of leaves and fprays of trees from the mountain, aboard the hips which rode at anchor a mile and a half diftant from the town, and was feen hurling in the air like flocks of birds. At half ⚫an hour after 8 the wind fhifted to the caft, and after that to the fouth-east, when inftantly it blew a hurricane, which raifed the fea in this harbour to a moft furprizing height, and in a few minutes it grew totally dark, equal to an eclipfe of the fun at noon-day, not being able to fee the hips that were driving foul of each other, nor fcarce capable of fixing ourfelves to the first thing we could lay hold on, the wind roaring above us as if the moft tremendous thunder had been dropping on our heads, fo that no man could be heard to speak on board. The height of the gale lafted till between 11 and 12, when it fomething cleared; and looking round us, nothing was to be feen but death and deftruction, numbers lying on the fhore drowned, and others floating on the fides and pieces of wrecks, till the following afternoon, when we ventured out our fmall boats to bring them off. The violence of the wind was fo great, that only 3 fhips out of 40 fail of veffels rode out the gale, viz. the Cornwall, Duncomb, the Mercury, Matthews, and the Queen Mary, who has fuffered not the leaft damage, only the lofs of my two boats, which I have fince found, and got fafe off. In going round the harbour on the 14th to look for them, I made what obfervation I could of the veffels that were loft; of which, fome that were drove ashore in the woods, overfet, and ftove to pieces. I numbered 27; and there are now riding before the town, without mafts, 14. The Fox man of war, from the Havannah, Mr. Manning on board, with a great quantity of fpecie, was obliged to cut away all her mafts, and let go all her anchors, and after driving over 2 or 3 keys, brought up between two rocks, where it pleafed God to preferve their lives, altho' they had taken leave of each other, and were preparing for their laft moments. She is bulged, and her hold full of water."

The following is the confeffion of Normand Rofs, condemned for the murder of lady Billie, in Scotland.

"The evening, Aug. 12, I entered lady Billie's room before the came from her evening

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evening walk, and concealed myself about
the bed, having pulled off my shoes, and
hid them under the bed, to prevent noise,
This I did with defign to rob her of mo-
ney I knew she had about her to a con-
fiderable extent, but had no defign upon
her life. Some time after, lady Billie came
into the room, undreffed herfelf, and went
to bed. Having waited till I thought me
was afleep, I ftole towards the bed's head,
in order to get at the money, but found
her awake. Unhappily for me, I had ob-
Terved a cafe-knife left upon the drawers
head after fupper, her children having that
night fupped with her in her own room.
Finding myself difcovered, I immediately
ran to the drawers head, laid hold of the
knife, and, returning to the bed with the
knife in my hand, faw the lady fitting up
in the bed, where I attacked and wounded
her in the manner that has appeared in the
trial; and, finding the house alarmed with
the ftruggle and noise, made my escape
out of a window. I farther acknowledge
the juftice of the fentence pronounced a-
gainst me, and particularly that my right
hand, with which I own to have commit-
ted the cruel murder, is justly to be cut off,
to deter others from fuch villainous attempts
in time coming."

We mentioned the death of Mr. Gra-
ham, the celebrated clock and watchmaker,
in our laft, p. 525. On the 23d. ult. his
corpfe was carried in a herfe, preceeded by
3 mourning coaches with the gentlemen
who were to fupport his pall, and follow-
ed by nine, from his houfe in Fleet-ftreet
to Westminster. Abbey, and there interred
in the fame grave with the remains of his
predeceffor Mr. Tompion; the pall was
fupported by Dr. Knight, Mr. Watson,
Mr. Catlyn, Mr. Canton, Mr. Short, fel-
lows of the Royal Society, and Mr. Bird,
gentlemen that were intimate friends of
the deceased; the ingenious artifts employ-
ed in different branches by him, attended
in cloaks, &c. to fee the laft office done to
their deceased mafter; whofe character
cannot be better expressed than in the words
of a noble perfonage (who knew him well,
and is himself one of the best judges and
greatest genius's of the age) on being ac-
quainted with his death, viz. "His emi-
nence in the way of his bufinefs was a very
inconfiderable part of his character, and
was far exceeded by his known fuperiority
not only in the theoretical but also in the
practical part of every branch of mecha-
nicks; and ftill more by his uncommon
and extensive knowledge, which was not
confired to any particular part of science,
but was much more general and univerfal
than could be reasonably expected in a man
of his ftation of life. Nor was he more
Remarkable for his knowledge, than for his

Dec.

moral qualifications; and particularly for that ferenity of temper, integrity of life, probity in his dealing, and his enlarged notions of benevolence and humanity; all which defervedly gained him the goodwill and esteem of all who had the happinefs of his acquaintance.''

Over the grave are the following infcrip. tions.

Here lies the body of Thomas Tompion, who departed this life the 20th of March, 1713, in the 75th year of his age.

Alfo the body of George Graham, watchmaker of London, and F. R. S. whofe curious inventions do honour to the British genius, whofe accurate performances are the ftandard of mechanick skill. He died the 16th of Nov. 1751, in the 78th year of his age.

On Nov. 28, John Cather, Patrick Kane, and Daniel Alexander the attorney, were brought into the court of king's bench, and received judgment for being concerned in a most wicked confpiracy against the Hon, Edward Walpole, Efq; in endeavouring to extort a large fum, under threats of fwearing fodomy; when Cather was ordered to stand three times on the pillory, viz. once at Charing Crofs, once at the end of Chancery Lane, and the third time at the Royal-Exchange; afterwards to be fent to Clerkenwell- Bridewell for 4 years, there to be kept to hard labour; then to give fecurity, himself in 401. and two fecurities in aol. each, for his good behaviour for 3 years more. Kane was fenten. ced to stand on the pillory once at CharingCrofs, and afterwards to be fent to Clerkenwell Bridewell to hard labour for 2 years, and to give fecurity afterwards for his good behaviour for five years, himself in 40 l. and two fecuritis in zol. each. And Alexander was fentenced to stand once on the pillory at Charing-Crofs, to pay a fine of sol. to fuffer two years imprisonment in the king's bench prison, and to give fecurity for his good behaviour for three years more, himself in zool. and two (ureties in 100l. each. (See p. 330.)

On the 30th, a proclamation was iffued, with a reward of cool. for apprehending the Hon. Alexander Murray, Efq; who was clofely confined in Newgate during the last feffion of parliament, and released from thence upon their prorogation, (fee P. 523.) But it was faid, he was now at Paris, and had been there for feveral weeks. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 4.

Came on, in the court of Common Pleas, Westminster-hall, before the ford chief juftice Willes, a caufe wherein Mrs. Grace Brett, was plaintiff, and Hawk(well Meers, Efq; defendant, for non performance of a marriage contract; After a long hearing,

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