182 Poetical ESSAYS in APRIL, 1751. Birds are perch'd on every fpray, Sure 'tis time, that now we flee, On WOMA N. ER Eve was made the father of Emankind Survey'd his Eden with a penfive mind, And with fad heart his lonely ftate de- And all luxuriant nature could bestow, joy ; Woman ftill fmooths the anxious brow of care, And fooths our paffions, with a pleafing air; Without her men were wretched to excess, She heightens joy, and makesour forrow lefs. Aremakable Epitaph on Mr. Alexander Rofs, buried near the Communion Table, at Everfley, in the County of Hants. OSPES, fifte gradum, cinerefque hos [ero: Quid fum; quid fuerat; quidque futurus Ros fueram; nunc fum pulvis; mox umbra futurus; Hadfpice; difces, Ros abut; pulvis fpargitur; umbra fugit. Quid tule es, difce hinc ; quid cuncta humana; quid audi, [nihil. Sunt quod ego; pulvis, ros, cinis, umbra, Had an exemption been to worth divine, That right, of course, great Frederick! had been thine. CRITO. Solution of the Rebus in February last, 89. By G. Rollos. P. HE garment is New, which hath not been put on; TH And an INN has a fign at the door : Good liquor is often contain'd in a Tor, In which mifers may hoard up their store, And then to enliven, and brighten the fcene, [GREEN? What colour fo charming, as is the gay ANOTHER. Garment not wore, fure, is New, A house with a fign is an INN; Good measure to hold is a TON, time Or the bright arch of heav'n o'er all was For, who can bound thy power, or know Titles and crowns and fcepters be no more, And all creation to the centre quake. On feeing in Manufcript the Poem, intitled, Ros in English fignifies dew. Τα Poetical ESSAYs in APRIL, 1751. To wander, and imbibe the vernal breeze, Impregnate with the balm of bloffom'd trees! Read but thefe maxims by example taught, They'll entertain, but give no pain to thought; [mind, Here's nothing, but th' o'erflowing of a To all the world benevolent and kind; Which of content, and facred peace poffeft, Is then, when others are, more fully bleft. Pardon, great man! (if goodness gives the name) Nor think it, to be prais'd by me, a shame: For could my mufe do justice to your mind, You should be lov'd, efteem'd by all mankind. SYLVANUS. YE SON G. 183 E fhepherds and nymphs, who inhabit [glad ftrain, the plain, Ture all your brifk pipes, and be this the Propitious the morn be that (miles on our (ports; [courts: Free from envy, that conftant attendant on 'Tis the day that Alexas and Chloris_bave chofe Their bands to unite, and to foften life's Ne'er on this day let contention be known; Nor care, that for ever attends on a throne; But, frolick and gay, let each nymph and her twain [plain : In gambols and sports ftill rejoice on the 'Tis the day that Alexas, &c. May forms, that huge towers and castles invade, [they are laid, And thake their proud tops till in duft Fly harmless o'er them, and their cottage [their true love, That each fhepherd may fing, who beholds, 'Tis the day that Alexas, &c. ne'er move; Free from malice and strife may the happy pair live; board; No misfortunes bemoan or unhappily grieve ; Content fill attend them in bed and at [with her lord: He pleas'd with his fair, and the pleas'd Sing the day that Alexas, &c. May fortune ne'er frown, or imbitter their days, [increase; But add to their loves, and their flocks ftill And bleffings on bleffings each year may she bring, [fully fing, That each fhepherd and nymph may chear'Tis the day that Alexas, &c. ESSAY on HAPPINESS. 【OTHING, dear madam, nothing is NOTHING more true, Thana fhort maxim much approv'd by you; The lines are thefe: "We by experience know, "Within ourselves exifts our blifs or woe."* Tho' round our heads the goods of fortune tain, No flave to power, nor the prize of gain: Say, who can buy what never yet was fold? No wealth can bribe her, nor no bonds can hold: Sometimes the deigns to fhine in lofty halls, But found more frequent in a cottage walls; Her flight from thence too often is decreed,.. Then poverty is doubly curs'd indeed. Content and bliss, which differ but inname, Alike in ratures and their end the fame, Fatt bound together in eternal chains. This as the end-the other as the means, Will 184 Poetical ESSAYS in APRIL, 1751 Will ne'er divide. But who enjoys the one, Then where? Ah where do these fair Beneath the northern or the fouthern sky ? Or the ftill village and the healthful See Giaro feated on his gilded car, [war, See rage appearing in that hoftile frown: Now turns to heav'n with repentant tears : Of irkfom jewels and afflicting state; The shapely stays her aking ribs confine, See reftlefs Chloe, fond to be admir'd, Yet fighs and wishes for the rural fields: all: With languid fpirits and appal'd defires, Then to her chamber and her couch the "Is this man bleft?-He may be fo "But when? "Why, when his thousands rife to num "ber ten, "[hold, "From ten to twenty, and from twenty"To one round million of bright sterling "gold;" Not there we ftop, for avarice will crave Till it fhall meet with its grand cure, the grave. Lavinia's bleft with all that man defires, With eyes that charm, and reason that infpires; [thining days, Youth, wealth, and friends, to gild her The poor man's bleifing, and the rich man's praise ; [extreme, With judgment found, and touch'd by no Speech gently flowing, and a foul ferene ; For ever pleafing, and for ever true, By all admir'd, envy'd by a few: "Then he is happy, tho' beneath the sky, "Hold, not fo hafty :-Let her husband " die." Then who are happy, 'twill be hard to fay, Since undisturb'd it feldom lafts a day: All pleasures fatiate, and all objects cloy; Nor wealth nor beauty, friends nor for- Nor wit with happiness can often grow, be found? [round, Say, fhall we fearch the rolling world a- In vain for fleep the folds her weary arms; A Who wou'd be Chloe to enjoy her charms? In yonder path Sir Thrifty we behold, old; Sparkling ease, A foe to wrangling, with a zeal for truth: THE TĤE Monthly Chronologer. N Saturday, March 30, came on the election for a member of parliament for Newark upon Trent, in the room of Job Staunton Charlton, who accepted of place, (fee p. 141.) when on the conclufion of the poll the numbers flood thus, viz. for Mr. Charlton 280, and for Mr. Cracroft 276; fo that the former was rechofen. TUESDAY, April 2. At the affizes at Kingston, for the county of Surrey, the feven following criminals received fentence of death, viz. Thomas Stanley, for robbing justice Clark on the highway, of a watch and half a guinea; William Nifbet, for robbing Caffel Mellersh on the highway, of a horfe, faddle, bridle and whip, and twelve shillings; Jofeph Fisher, for robbing Jane Friend on the highway, of a handkerchief, a pound of fugar, and a quantity of worsted; Jofeph Chambers, for robbing Sir Thomas Hankey of a gold watch, and two guineas and a half; James Moufer, for robbing Richard Solly and John Croft in a poft-chaife; Robert Cheeseman, for robbing John LangTey on the highway, of 325. 5d. and Peter Matthews, for murdering an oyster woman at Croydon. Nifbet, Chambers, Cheeseman, and Matthews, were, on the 24th, executed on Kennington-Common. THURSDAY, 4. Was held a general court of the SouthSea company, in which a motion was made, That, as the company's term of trade with Spain was determined by the late treaty of peace between this crown and that of Spain, it is the opinion of this general court, that 15 directors, with a governor, fub-governor, and deputy-governor, are fufficient to manage the affairs of that company; and that in all future elections of directors, 15 only fhall be chofen. And the question being put, it paffed in the negative, Whereupon a divifion was demanded, and the numbers stood thus: Against the queftion 71. For the question 49. But a ballot was demanded, to be taken on the 18th. Derby Hurley, Francis Conner, and George Steed, for feveral robberies on the highway. A gang of the most notorious villains, who have for many years paft been concerned in robbing the merchants of this city of their goods and merchandize upon the river Thames, and feveral buyers and receivers of the fame, have been difcovered by the information of one Jofeph Hopkins, and feveral perfons have been apprehended upon the fame, and committed to the New Goal, Southwark, by William Hammond, Efq. FRIDAY, 12. A fine and curious hearfe, covered and lined with black velvet, and adorned with a crown and fix ducal coronets, was drawn by fix horfes, covered with velvet hoods and tails, to Leicester-house, where the corpfe of his royal highness was put in between 1 and 12 o'clock, twelve of his highness's fervants attending the hearfe, in deep mourning, and carried to the Prince's Chamber adjoining to the houfe of peers, attended by four of his highnefs's coaches, drawn by fix horfes, in mourning. In the first were his grace the duke of Chandos, groom of the stole to his highness, and the earl of Middlesex, master of the horse, with the urn that contained the bowels of his royal highnefs. In the fecond, the duke of Queensbury and the lord North and Guildford. In the third, Sir John Rufhout, Bart. and George Doddington, Efq; his highness's treafurer. In the laft, Henry Drax, Efq; his highnefs's fecretary, and John Evelyn, Efq; followed by the remainder of his fervants. All the horfes in the feveral coaches were likewife covered with black velvet hoods, and their tails alfo covered with black velvet. SATURDAY, 13. This morning, at half an hour after one o'clock, the bowels of his late royal highnefs were carried from the Prince's Chamber by four yeomen to Henry the VIIth's chapel, attended by the dukes of Chandos and Queensbury, the earl of Middlefex, the lord North and Guildford, Sir John Rufhout, Bart. Gearge Doddington, Henry Drax, and John Evelyn, Efqrs. and there interred. And at nine o'clock at night the royal corpfe was depofited in the fame vault. The proceffion began at half an hour after eight, and paffed thro' the Old Palace-yard to the fouth-eaft door of Westminster-abbey, and fo directly to A a the 186 The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. the fteps leading to Henry the VII h's chapel. The ceremonial was as follows, viz. knights maithal's men, with black staves, two and two. Gentlemen fervants to his royal highness, two and two, viz. pages of the prefence. Gentlemen ufhers, quarter waiters, two and two. Pages of honour. Gentlemen ushers, daily waiters. Phyficians, Dr. Wilmot, and Dr. Lee. Houthold chaplains, clerk of the closet, 'Rev. Dr. Ayscough. Equerries, two and two. Clerks of the houfhold or greencloth, James Douglafs, Efq; and Sir John Cuft, Bart. Mafter of the houthold, lord Gage. Solicitor-general, auditor, and attorney-general, Paul Joddrell, Efq; Charles Montague, Efq; Hon. Henry Bathurst, Efq; Secretary, Henry Drax, Efq; Comptroller and treasurer to his royal highness, Robert Nugent, Efq; and the earl of Scarborough, with their white ftaves. Steward and chamberlain, with their white ftaves. Chancellor to his royal highness, Sir Thomas Bootle. An officer of arms. The master of the horfe, earl of Middlefex. Clarencieux king at arms, Stephen Martin Leake, Efq; bearing the coronet upon a black velvet cushion; with a gentleman usher on each hand. The body, "covered with a black velvet pall, adorned Iwith eight efcutcheons, and fupported by fix carls, viz. Earls of Portmore, Fitzwilliams, Bristol, Macclesfield, Stanhope, and Jerfey; under a canopy of black velvet, borne by eight of his royal highness's gentlemen. Garter king at arms, John Anftis, Efq; with a gentleman ufher on each hand. The chief mourner, duke of Somerfet, with two fupporters, viz. duke of Rutlind, duke of Devonshire; his train borne by a baronet, Sir Thomas Robinson. Affiftants to the chief mourner, marquis of Tweedale, marquis of Lothian, earls of Berkeley, Peterborough, Northampton, Cardigan, Winchelfea, Carlifle, Murray, and Morton. The gentleman ufher of his royal highness's privy-chamber, Edmund Bramfton, Efq; The groom of the stole, duke of Chandos. The lords of the bedchamber to his royal highness, lord North and Guildford, duke of Queensbury, earl of Inchiquin, earl of Egmont, lord Robert Sutton, earl Bute, two and two. The mafter of the robes, John Schutz, Efq; The grooms of the bedchamber, John Evelyn, Samuel Masham, Thomas Bludworth, Efqrs. Sir Edmund Thomas, Bart. Daniel Boone, William Bretton, Martin Madden, William Trevanion, Efqrs. and Col. Powlet, two and two. Yeomen of guard to close the proceffion. The corpfe of his royal highness was met at the church door by the dean and prebendaries, attended by the gentlemen of the shoir and king's scholars, who fell into April the proceffion immediately before the offi- Thus it bath pleafed Almighty God to take The nobility and attendants returned in the fame order they proceeded, at half an hour after nine; fo that the whole cerémony lafted an hour. There was the utmoft decorum obferved; and what is remarkable, tho' the populace were extremely noify before the proceffion began, there was during the whole, a filence, that, if poffible, added to the folemnity of so awful a fight. The guards each of them held two lighted flambeaux during the whole time. As foon as the proceffion began to move, The following Infeription was engraved on a DEPOSITUM bie, |