1 1751. CHERROKEES and NOTTOWAYS reconciled. kim; and likewise a prefent to your interpreter; and the remainder to be divided among you, according to your difcretion. To which the Chief anfwer'd. Brother, WE E have travelled thro' bushes and A briars to fee our friends at Virginia: We have no caufe to repent of our Jong and tedious journey; the pain and fatigue we have undergone are compenfated, by the kind and generous reception we have met with, and we are much pleased with what you have communicated to us, and shall make a faithful relation of it to our emperor. Our hearts are ftrait; we fhall always preferve in them what we have heard from you; and ever retain a grateful remembrance of your favours. We have given our promise to make a good road for the people of this country, who shall be difpofed to trade with us, and to protect and fecure them from all danger; which we shall fedfaßtly adhere to. C You have fupplied all our wants, we have nothing to defire but the continuance of your friendship. After which the prefident took them all by the hand, wished them a good journey home, and profperity to their emperor and the Cherrokee nation. D 601 in order to put their defign in execution, he ordered all the Cherrokees to be compleatly armed, that they might be able to defend themselves in cafe of an attack; and like.. wife iffued a proclamation, ftri&tly requiring the Nottoways to defit from their bloody defign, and to repair immediately to their own habitations, to avoid the most rigorous profecution; commanding alfo all magifirates, theriffs, and others, to be aiding and affifting in preferving the peace in their respective counties. But all these precautions proved unneceffary, the Nottoways arriving in town on the 15th with a white flag; the Cherrokees being informed of their arrival, B immediately gave the fignal of war, and were preparing for battle; but feveral gentlemen reprefenting to them the friendly appearance of the Nottoways, advifed them to march out, and meet them in the fame friendly manner: At first they were inflexible, but being at last prevailed on, they hoifted a white flag, and marching by beat of drum, met the Nottoways in the market-place, each party finging the fong of peace. After many of their accustomed ceremonies, they joined hands, and Imoaked the pipe of peace together: But not being able to hold any conference, the crowd being very great, they repaired to the court houfe; where the Nottoways being fenfible that these were not the Indians who had done them the injury they complained of, produced a belt of wampum, which they had received of the Cherrokees at their laft peace, and defired a continuance of their friendship. The orator, who negotiates all their treaties, received the wampum, and rifing up, made a long speech to his friends, telling them, that he himself had many years ago given this belt as a token of peace; that he now found it entire, not a bead amiís, and from thence concluded that their hearts were ftrait, and their friendship preferved entire: Afterwards, by the unanimous confent of all his people, he made a prefent of a pipe of peace, affuring them of his friendship. All differences being thus adjusted, to the fatiffaction of both parties, they met in the evening at the camp of the Cherrokees; where making a large fire, they danced together round it, and continued the evening with harmony and chearfulness. A further Account of the wonderful Progress of the HERRINGS. (See p. 561.) HE herrings that escape the nets at the fores On the 12th the prefident had a private converfation with them, when he explained to them the happiness and advantages the Chriftians enjoy, in the hopes and affurance of a bleffed immortality; and from thence perfuaded them to fend fome of their children to be educated at the college, that by their means they might be instructed in the principles of the chri- E ftian religion, and be partakers of the fame happiness with the English. They heartily thanked his honour for this inftance of his affection, and affured him, that his offer was very agreeable to them; but that they could return no answer without confulting their emperor. About a week before the arrival of the F Cherrokees, it was rumoured, that the Nottoway Indians, being very inveterate against them, were determined to lie in ambush and intercept them. This nation, it was faid, was exalperated against the Cherrokees, for murdering, many years ago, 7 of their young men, whom they had invited to hunt with them; and had refolved to embrace this favourable oppor. tunity of revenging themselves. The prefident being informed of this, and a report prevailing that they had croffed James river, and were on their march to the westward, with an intens to wait on the road, G 602 Progrefs of the Herrings, and where caught. App. to the Scotch nets; and after those on From hence other branches of the fhoal push forward to the mouth of the Thames, where the fishing fmacks of London, Foulkstone, Dover, Sandwich, and that whole coaft, take numberless quantities for the London market, as well as for all the populcus towns on the river Thames, and upon and near the fea coast of Kent and Suffex. During this the Dutch, fending cut their buffes again, lie on the back of Yarmouth fands, as above; as do alfo the French and Flemish, and formerly the Flushingers, Hamburghers, and Bremers. These her ward to the towns on the north fhore of Cornwall, where many thousand tons are catched, and cured for foreign consumption; and many hips loaded for the Mediterranean, befides an incredible quantity confumed by the people afhore. The fishermen of Pembroke, Swanfey, and all the coaft of South Wales, from MilfordHaven to the mouth of Bristol river, above King-Road, do the fame. After this, the herrings being fhotten (as was obferved) go weftward into deep water,' to their companions, and are feen no more. Thus have we brought the herrings round our islands, offering themselves, as they travel, to the nets of the neighbourBing nations, who, for their own food, as C D rings come afterwards into the narrow feas, The herrings fare no better on the other well as for fale to far diftant and remote countries (where the thoal does not come) take incredible numbers of them. To what place they go afterwards, whether they find their way back again to the north, or whether, being difperfed in the boundless and unfathomed deep of the vaft western ocean, they are food for the immenfe numbers of larger fish bred in thofe waters; or whit elle may become of them, we know not. As to the fuggeftion, that the quantity of thefe herrings muit, by this time, be exhaufted, it is far from being probable: On the contrary, one would conclude, from the great hoals feen in the Severn feas, and on the west and fouth coasts of England and Ireland, at their parting, that the number taken is not much miffed. And fone are of opinion, that the quantity catched by all the fifhemen in Europe, is but an inconfiderable part of the amazing fheal which first comes out of the North. It is well known, that the fhoals of herrings are purfued, and multitudes of them devoured by the larger, and more ravenous fish, fuch as the porpuffes, and the dog-fifh (who fometimes make a great havock of the nets) and other various kinds of fea-monsters, with which thofe northern feas abound, (the whale excepted, which does not feed on herrings.) But, with regard to the others, experience proves the affirmative, efpecially of the dog fish fide of our island. The fishermen of Glaf. F and porpufs; many of the latter, upon gow, Aire, Dumfries, with the whole coaft of Galloway; and the fishermen of Londonderry, Belfast, Carrickfergus, Carlingford, and on to Dublin, meet them on that fide; when, beginning to attack them at the Lewes and Western Islands (where thofe fifh are exceedingly large and well taited) they give them no rest, till the herringe, after having paffed thro' all the Irish G channel, come into the Severn Sea. Here they are again invaded by the English fishermen of Devonshire, from Minehead to arnapic and Biddiford; and fo on west their being opened, having entire herrings found in their bellies or stomachs. The fmaller hoals of herrings are often purfued by armies of porpules, dog fish, and fuch kind of voracious creatures; and what numbers of herrings thefe may fwallow, is not to be guefied; perhaps, more than are taken by all the fithermen. It is alfo certain, that herrings are found on the shores of North America, tho not in fuch numbers as at the places abovementioned; nor are they feen far ther Poetical ESSAYS in 1751, ther fouth, even in that country, than the rivers of Carolina. Whether these may be part of the mighty fhoal of herrings, which, at its first paffing by the coaft of Greenland, may, (inftead of advancing fouth-eastward with the reft) fteer to the coafts of America, on the north-west fide: Or whether thefe may be the remainder of such as país our channel, cannot be determined. But this is certain, that they are not found, (at least, in any quantity) near any of the fouthern kingdoms, as Spain, Portugal, the fouth parts of France, on the fide of the great ocean, in the mediterranean, or on the coaft of Africa. I 11 MEDITANTE. Mpatient to behold the birth of worlds, In heavenly arms, that thro' the gloom immenfe Flash'd forth intolerable day, ye ftood, Which bade his warring elements to cease. Of mighty waters; then firft rear'd their reign; Then rofe in filent majesty the moon, 603 Incomprehensible; for thee, in vain, For know, that ever wand'ring, ever toft Thy fhatter'd bark shall never find a fhore. With holy awe, and humble ignorance, Then let me bow, and hail thee Pow'r fupreme. [pitying view Look down, bleft Pow'r, look down, and Thy fervant struggling thro' this vale of tears; [Guide. Be thou my God, my Saviour, and my When death-like fleep o'er all the works But, ah! what awful form thro' yonder Stalks on majestick! Hail, fair Wisdom, hail, Thrice hail, thou blooming maid, who mid these bowers, Thefe mofs-grown caves and lowbrow'd rocks wert born, (haunt Of contemplation, and ftill deign't to Thy native fhades; obedient to thy call I come O guide, O guard me, to thy facred feats. Ye twinkling ftars, who gird with countlefs hofts [lemn night, The moon's pale orb, and thou most fo Infpire my breast with ev'ry awful thought; Then shall the foul on meditation's wing Mount with bold flight towards her native fkies, And fcorn the reach of dull mortality. Creator infinite, whofe pow'rful hand Hung with yon fhining lamps the vault of heaven; [this frame Who mad'ft the night, the day, and all Of universal nature fair and good, Accept my praife: Thee, when the wakeful lark Begins her matin fong, and the grey dawn Peeps o'er the hills; thee, when the bird of night Flits 604 Poetical ESSAYS in 1751. Flits through the dufky air, and all things reft [beft, In darkness and in fleep; thee greatest, Immortal God, my grateful tongue fhall praife, [the choir Long as that tongue can fpeak; with me Of cherubs and of radiant feraphim Their fongs fhall join: Men, angels, all thy works [name. Shall join to praife thine ever glorious Begin, for ye were prefent, when thro' realms Of Chaos old, omnipotent he rode, With awful majefty and with brightness cloth'd Ineffable; when ye before him march'd Myriads on myriads of angelick hosts. Then, tho' the labour of the olive fail, The fig-tree ceafe to bud, the grape to glow, And famine wafte the defolated plain; Tho' mid the fold the herds unnumber'd [nation's, fall; Tho' war, and ficknefs wither half the Thee will I praife, and in thy mercy truft, Thee will I fear alone; for thou shalt grace Thy faithful fervants with a radiant crown Of ftars, that fhine with unextinguish'd glory. [palms In robes of light array'd, and deck'd with Victorious in their hands, on golden thrones In bow'rs of blifs for ever fhall they fit, When all this mortal frame fhall be dif folv'd; [decay, When earth, the feas, the fkies in fmoke And nature's felf expires in agony. PROLOGUE to the ORPHAN, when afted at Bath, Dec. 18, for the Bemfit of the General Hofpital; Spoken by Mr. Brown. To 10 raise the tender paffions, and impart The fofteft anguifh to the hardest heart; For this the tragick mufe, melodious queen! Tunes her foft lays, or fwells the lofty fene. But need we now the perfonated woe, The ftudied pang, the tear that's taught to flow, The feign'd diftrefs, tho men? [nature's pen, drawn from you, you are [glows, When ev'ry breaft with generous pity The bumble Petition of MARGARET WOFFINGTON, Spinfer. AY it please your grace, with all Mfubmiffion, I humbly offer my petition; Let others with as small pretenfions, It was, as near as I can fix, • Mat Swiney. By ! ADDITIONS to DECEMBER, 1751. 605 By good advice 1 hither came, I burn, and the whole god infpires me! ADDITIONS to December. WE have the following to add to the account we gave of the death of By an account taken of the number of MARRIAGES. 26. Chriftopher Sommers, Efq; a young gentleman of a large eftate, to Mifs Mathews, of Cavendish fquare, with a fore tune of 8ool. a year, &c. James Beft, of Chatham, Efq; highfheriff for Kent, to Mifs Shelly, daughter of Richard Shelley, Efq; one of the com miffioners of the stamp duties. 31. William Clarkson, of Seaforth, in Suffex, Efq; to Mifs Anne Newman, of Lewes in the faid county, Dec. 19.0 wickshire. DRATHE HR Hugh Clopton, hart. at his feat at Clopton, in War 20. Hon. Sir Robert Hay, of Linplum, in Scotland, bart, who ferved many years as lieut. col. of the Scots Greys, and behaved as a brave and gallant officer. Lady viscountefs Faulkland, in France. MR Meadowcourt, prefented by the dean and chapter of Worcester, to the vicarage of Landridge, in Worcestershire, -Mr. Tottie, hy ditto, to the rectory of St. Martin's, in Worcester.-Mr. Cornthwaite, of Trinity-college, Cambridge, by ditto, to the curacy of Mortlake, in Surrey.Mr. Seele Maxey, by the court of affiftants of the grocers company, to the living of Northill, in Bedford@hire. John Price, M. A. by the archbishop of Canterbury, to the living of Henderfon, in Suffex.Sackville Turner, M. A. by the dean and chapter of St. Paul's, to a prebendary in that cathedral. Balthafar Regis, D. D. and Erafmus Saunders, M. A. made canons of Windfor, by his majefty,-John Nicol, D. D. made canon of Chrift-church, in Oxford, and Lewis Crucius, M., A canon of Worcester, both by his majesty. -John Bowling, M. A. prefented by his majefty, to the rectory of Narbeth, in Pembrokeshire.-Mr. Biffe, by the earl of Northampton, to the rectory of Bexftead, in Lincolnshire. Mr. Harding, by the lord vifc. Howe, to the vicarage of Mr. Spillingdon, in Huntingdonshire. William Williams, by Hesketh Yarburgh, Efq; to the living of Snaith, in Yorkshires -Dr. Prefcot, by the governors of the Charterhoufe, to the rectory of Balsham, in Cambridgeshire.-Mr. Stuart, curate of St. Mildred in the Poultry, unanimously chofen lecturer of St. James's, Garlick- hill. -Mr. John Henchman, prefented by Wil liam Hunt, of Basingstoke, Elq; to the vicarage of Dennington, in Oxfordshire. -Mr. Corderoy, B. D. by the lord bishop of Exeter, to the rectory of St. Bridget, near Honiton, Dr. Lee, appointed by the archbishop of Canterbury, judge of the prerogative court of Canterbury, and 5 dean |