To the Memory of a YOUNG LADY, who died in London, April 17, 1776.
At the Age of Twenty-five, univerfally efteemed and regretted.

POETICAL ESSAYS in AUGUST, 1776.

Of virtue's rich exhale, breathes through our
heart,

The perfume of good deeds which never dies.
And fuch he was.
And the returns no

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PROLOGUE to the CONTRACT, intended to

bave been fpoken by Mr. Foot E.

HE Contract is it call'd-I cannot fay

TI much admire the title of his play

Contracts, they tell me, have been fraught
with evil,
[devil;
Since Fauftus fign'd his contract with-the
Yet fpite of Satan, all men love to make'em:
Tho' nineteen out of twenty wish to break
'em:

Butchers and meal-men, brewers, agents,
factors
[actors,
Pimps, poets, placemen, managers, and
Bawds, bankrupts, bookfellers, are all-
contractors;

All lye, and fwear, and cheat, t'increase
their ftore,
[fore.
Then die, and go---where Fauftus went be-
Whilft thus o'er all we fee th' infection
fpread,

No wonder it fhou'd taint the marriage bed;
Each wife forgets, each husband breaks his

VOW,

(now?

For what are contracts? what is wedlock
Garrick, who long was marry'd---to the

town,

At length, a fashionable husband grown, Forfakes his fpoufe; bafe man! for, truth to tell,

She lov'd her own dear Davy wond'rous well;
Though now he flights her, breaks from her
by force,

And nought will ferve him but a full divorce.
But be the fault in women or in men,
Thanks to our laws! they all may---wed
again;

Her faithlefs fav'rite gone, the lady's free,
To choose another, and may fmile---on me,
To the lame lover may refign her charms,
And tho' a cripple, take me to her arms t
I'll promise to be conftant, kind, polite,
And pay my duty-every other night :
My dear-lov'd rib I never will abandon,
But ftand by her whilft I've one leg to stand
on;

I'll make a folemn contract, play or pay,
And hope we shall not part this many a day.
Our brother fcribler too, I greatly fear,
Has made a foolish kind of contract here;
He promifes, and ten to one you're bit,
To furnish fable, fentiment, and wit:
I've seen his piece, the man appeal'd to me,
And I, as chancellor, iffaed my decree ;-
"T has pafs'd the feals-they're going to re-
hearfe it.

But you're the house of Peers--and may re-
verfe it.

The PRINCE'S NATIVITY—
A PINDARIC.

I.

S on this day all bounteous Heaven
Pour'd down her choiceft bleffings on

our isle,

And promis'd much for future years,
When to a future George it shall be given
To bid applauding millions fmile,
And raise their honeft hopes, and chace away
their fears.

. II..

Let gratulations hail the day
That gave the bleffing birth;
Let the bold poet found the British lay }
Let mufic, with her ampleft powers,
Wake every ftrain-and let the liftning

earth

Refponfive echo-let the playful hours
Dance lightly on the green; while Britons
ye,

Ye eldeft-born of liberty,
Triumphant fing, "the mighty boon is ours."

IH.

No eye averted (at this mirthful time)
Shall ftray beyond th' Atlantic fea,
In fearch of that unhappy clime,
Whofe mournful name is death to all the
free.

For there arife a world of woes !
-The filial grief, maternal throes

That through those blood-ftain'd regions

This Panegyric en Lady Mary Wortley Montague might have been suppressed by Mr. Pepe, on account of her having fatirized bim in ber Verfes to the Imitator of Horace ; which abuse be returned in the firft Sat, of the fecond Book of Horace.

"From furious Sappho, fcarce a milder fate,
"P-'d by her love, or libell'd by her hate."

1776.

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To question your empire has dar'd :
But men of difcerning

Have thought that in learning,

To yield to a lady was hard.

Impertinent schools,
With mufty dull rules,

Have reading to females deny'd:
So papists refuse

The bible to use,

Left flocks fhou'd be wife as their guide.

'Twas a woman at first,

(Indeed fhe was curs'd)

In knowledge that tasted delight,

And fages agree

The laws fhou'd decree

To the first of poffeffors the right.
Then bravely, fair dame,
Refume the old claim,

Which to your whole fex does belong;
And let men receive,

From a fecond bright Eve,

The knowledge of right and of wrong.

But if the first Eve

Hard doom did receive,

When only one apple had the,

What a punishment new
Shall be found out for you

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Who tafting, have robb'd the whole tree?

T

THE MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, AUGUST

3.

HE affizes at Dorchefter ended on Saturday last with the conviction of a perfon for bribery at the Shaftesbury election; penalties to the amount of 11,000l. were recovered by the prefent member. This is the most decifive caufe eyer yet determined in favour of the independency of the landed intereft.

On Tuesday laft, while the Mayor of Rochefter was holding the court of confervancy at Sheerness for the water of Medway, an unfortunate accident happened on the river; one Samuel Hilman, a drudgerman at Chatham, who was obliged to attend the Court, tacking about at Queenborough Spit, a fudden gust of wind caufed the people on board to fall on one fide of the veffel, by which five perfons (the whole company being about twelve) were drowned, viz. Martha and Sufanna Bowen, daughters of Mr. Bowen, fhipwright at Chatham; Robert Spencer, Sufannah Petman, and Sarah Cook, who was found in the veffel the following day on her knees; Robert Spencer has likewife been taken up. event gave a great damp to the ufual enterThe above tainment of the day, and inexpreffible grief to the friends of the deceafed.

MONDAY, 12.

This morning at fix o'clock, the bells in the town of Windfor noticed to the adjacent villages, that the day was to be spent in mirth and jollity; before feven o'clock fome fmall guns were fired, and the town feemed alive.

At a quarter before nine o'clock, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Bishop of Ofnaburgh, with his two other brothers, attended by their preceptors, came to the King's apartments; a fignal being given,

fome guns in the town were again fired, and the bells rung another peal.

At nine o'clock the whole guard were unjefties apartments through the Caftle-Yard, der arms, and formed a lane from their Mao'clock the King, Queen, and children, atto the fouth door of the Cathedral-at ten Bruce, lady Effingham, lady Weymouth, tended by the Duke of Montague, Lord lady Charlotte Finch, &c. went in procefand her two fifters walked after their Mafron to the Cathedral; the Princess Royal thers (all dreffed in blue and gold) followjefties; the Prince of Wales and his fix broing, with their attendants on each fide. When they came to the church door, the Provoft, Prebends, Canons, and Knights received them; and as foon as they entered the Cathedral, the organ ftruck up and continued till the Royal Family were Bishop of Ofnaburg, and the Duke of Monfeated. His Majefty, the Prince of Wales, tague, before the fervice began, went to the altar and made their offerings of gold and filver; doctor Bostock and doctor Lockman receiving the fame in a gold dish.

Poor

when in the choir, was thus: the King fat The arrangement of the Royal Family, in the Dean's feat, the Queen under the Duke ftanding at her fide, the Prince of Wales, of Gloucefter's banner, with the Princeffes and his brother the Bishop, under their own banners; the reft of the children, with the the upper ftalls on the right hand of the ladies of quality, and other attendants, in Choir. The Duke of Montague took his feat under his own banner.

con

the Provoft; Mr. Kent's Te Deum and Ju-
The fervice then began, and was read by
God is our hope and ftrength, &c."
bilate were fung; and doctor Green's anthem,
cluding with the grand chorus from the Mef-
hour and an half. The proceffion from the
fiah; the whole of which took up an
Cathedral was in the following order, viz.
3 L2

Poor

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Poor Knights, two and two; Prebends, Canons, Provost, their Majefties, the Princess Royal with her fifters, and their attendants, Prince of Wales and the Bishop of Ofnaburgh, the rest of the Royal brothers two and two, Duke of Montague, Lord Bruce, ladies Effingham, Weymouth, lady Charlotte Finch, &c. on each fide. The gentlemen of the Cathedral took leave of them at the door; their Majesties and the children then went into the Cafie and afterwards upon the terrace. The party belonging to the 25th regiment was drawn up in the Park, upon a fpot called the bowling green, and as foon as the children appeared at the terrace, they gave three vollies. The King and Queen, Princes and Princeffes, went afterwards into their own apartments to dinner, and at half paft fix o'clock, the Prince of Wales and the three eldeft brothers returned to Kew.

SATURDAY, 24.

The following is an account of the regatta and boat race at Richmond on Thursday, in honour of the Prince of Wales's birth day :

As foon as the race was determined on, the right of being candidates for the prizes was determined by lot at Waterman's Hall : thofe young watermen, whofe apprenticefhips had expired between August 1773, and 1776, being permitted to draw, and the 12 fuccefsful ones to row, two in a boat. The race was to be from the centre of the river, oppofite Sir Charles Afgill's houfe, to the Royal Nursery at Kew, and back to the fartheft extremity of Lady Cowper's Inland, on which a standard was affixed, to mark the place at which the contest was to end. On

Aug.

o'clock, and neither appearing, the boats put off on the firing of a piftol. When they had poffed about twelve minutes, the royal pair arrived, his majefty driving a pair of Imall ponies, in a low four-wheeled chaife. Their majefties took their ftations in a temporary fummer houfe, (erected on the occafion) in a nursery ground adjacent to Sir Charles Afgill's houfe. Their majefties faluted the company, who received them with loud marks of loyalty and efteem, feveral audibly repeating, "God bless our king and queen!" The king enquired if the proceffion was paffed, and being informed it was, waited for the return of the boats, which came in fo as to afford little fport, the firft being fuil a hundred yards before the fecund, and fo of all the reft, except one, which was a great way behind.

On their arrival at the island, the first boat received the adjudged prize of five, the fecond three, and the third two guineas. The conteft being ended, the different companies were rowed to Richmond, with ftre mers flying, where they landed, and went immediately to the affembly room, which was foon filled with a variety of company of all ranks.

The day proving uncommonly favourable, the fcene turned out upon the whole a very pleafing one, and drew together an immenfe concourfe of people.

PROMOTIONS.

St James's, Aug. 24.

this ifland were alfo erected above 20 other dignity of a baronet of the kingų m HE King has been pleafed to grant the

ftandards, by way of ornament, and a Guard of fix foldiers and a corporal were placed upon it. A fimilar guard was alfo placed on the Richmond fide of the water, on the oppofite bank of the river.

By two o'clock the town was crowded; and at three a band of mufick, belonging to the train of art.lery, came up the river; and now arrived immenfe numbers of failingboats, barges, cutters, wherries, &c. many of them diftinguished by elegant awnings.

The manager was Mr Stingfby, who directed that the candidates fhould affemble at the Roe Buck to receive inftructions: their dreffes were friped linen waistcoats and trowlers, with caps painted with stripes, and

of Great Britain, to them and their heirs male, unt George Winne, of Little Warley, in the county of Effex, Eq; and late one of the barons of his majefty's Court of Exchequer in Scotland. Herbert Mackworth, of the Gaoll in the county of Grameran, Efq; James Laroche, of Over, in the parish of Aidmondsbury, in the county of Gloucester, Efq; Henry Peyton, of Deddington in the Ile of Ely, Efq; George Baker, doctor of phyfick, and phyfician in ordinary to her majefty.

MARRIAGES.

in front fomewhat refembling those of the Aug.WILL
light horfe, with white ftockings and pumps.
Previous to the ftarting the company was
amufed by the boats rowing against each other;
and by the fight of a number of veffels which
anchored off Lady Cowper's Inland, where
the company dined and drank tea. In a
word, the whole was a perfect fair.

Soon after four o'clock feveral guns were fired, which was underftood as a signal that their Majefties were coming from Kew; it was, however, at length, near half paft five

ILLIAM Codrington, Efq; fon to Sir William Codrington, Baronet, of Dodington, to the Hon. Mifs Ward, daughter of the late Hon. William Ward.-4. In Ireland, at Newbury, in the County of Kildare, the Hon. and Rev. James Hewitt, eldeft fon of the Lord High Chancellor of that kingdom, to Mif. Pomperoy, daughter of Arthur Pomperov, Efq. -8. Rice James, Efq; of Berners Street, to Mifs Ladbroke, third daughter of the late Sir Robert Ladbroke.-14. Ambrofe God

dard,