496 POETICAL ESSAYS in SEPTEMBER 1776. While thus he prefs'd my bofom hard, His foft careffes footh'd my mind, Full many many months he lov'd, 'Till prudence urging the demand, A rifing blush his face o'erfpread, Well might the world my meanness fcorn, In vain I urg'd the vows he made, Too late I then at length perceiv'd, For foon difgufted at my tears, And left my longing arms. For which I humbly figh'd, Whole wealth has bought the venal kifs, Was it for this (O foolish maid) Ifcorn'd the parfon's fon? And brave the fcandal of the town, Ah gentle virgins timely wife, Th' impending danger fhun; Left you fhould be undone. But from the youth upon the plain, Then peaceful in your little cot, Your days fhall all be spent ; And heaven fhall blefs the favour'd spot, While I for ever muft deplore, My foolish eafy faith, And never hope for comfort more, An O D E. ARK! O hark! 'tis the herald of morn! H Which, fo cruel, now calls me away: When each moment sheds bloffoms of May? Nor believe that we change with the moon. How the light flashes, there, from the eaût : Love is deaf, yet I hope fhe's not blind! W THE WIFE. HEN manly charms in bloomingyouth, Attract no women to your arms, She never jilts, fhe ne'er betrays, Diffufing ruin wide. Oh feek! Oh feek that charming fair! Small fortune makes us great. Oft found in middle ftate. Το 498 POETICAL ESSAYS in SEPTEMBER, 1776. How rare would it appear? like fome fair rofe [grows; Diffufing (weet reliefo'er all mankind : Refplendent glitters in the western fky, Written on the Nuptials of a Friend. May Phœbus above, Behold them in love; And ne'er be their witness of ftrife; A kind husband he, The loving wife fhe, May the prattling race, Each day and each hour bring health; From virtue ne'er change, But always in goodness aspire; Until their lives ceafe, An EPIGRAM on a MISER. THE INVITATION. ***. Humbly add reed to Mifs OME hafte my Phillis, hafte away, Unto the verdant grove, COM Where birds fing fweetly on each spray ; Where frifky lambkins sportive play, And Colin writes his themes. And tafte the fweets of life; Like turtle doves, let's always love, And banish peevish ftrife. H. LEM-INE. LITTLE BRITAIN: A Poem, Ν IN where, XULT not fo, proud breathing clay ! E Forgetful that thou borrow'At all: Remember, there must come a day, A nation liv'd of wife men, Who lawyers fed with special care, Bum-bailiffs and excifemen. Who made good laws to guard a hare, Say, was not this right pleasant? Who paid ten thousand fools and knaves, To make their fellow-fubjects slaves, And steal their pence and fhillings. Who cut each other's throats for fun, On land and on the water, While half the world look'd weeping on, And half was burft with laughter, Who to this country would not run, Where only freedom's got at? Where birds efcape the fatal gun, And men alone are fhot at, *Or pairs. 1776. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. III. Attended by no one, but mufic and love. IV. May fortune, e'er smiling, bless Patty and me, Attended by no one, but mufic and love. II. Why fo dull and mute, young finner? Prithee tell me why fo mute? If your faying nothing do't. III. Drink about, and let's be gay! Take her, and your love, away. 499 AIR II. By Mr. Dodd. AIR III. By Mrs. Wrighten. When the breezes Fan the trees-es, The breath inhales, Warm the heart that forrow freezes. THE MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. A Letter from on board his ma jefty's fhip Dolphin, Capt. Pigott, dated at Spithead, Aug. 30, fays, "We are juft arrived here, after a paffage of about five months from Bombay, which place we left the 22d of March, and perhaps bring the first account of a peace being concluded between the Eaft-India company and the Marattoes, on very advantageous terms to the former, which was figned the ift of March at Loonan, and proclaimed at Bomay the 12th of the fame month." Advice is faid to be received, that a French veffel, bound to America, loaded with powder, &c. was chaced by one of his majesty's frigates; that the French captain finding that he must be taken, ftuck up a lighted torch juft over the powder, got all his men out into the long boat, and juft as the frigate's people boarded the French fhip, the powder took fire, biew up the fhip, and all the English failors which were got on board to take posfeffion of her, perished. THURSDAY, 5. The following is a ftate of General Howe's force when joined, viz. 6000 effective, he took from Halifax. 5600 fighting men of the Heffians. 1000 guards. Suppofe old Murray's to be 900 effective, and Frafer's two battalions (commanded by Erskine and 750 taken; therefore there are 2000 HighCampbell) to be 1900 effective, there were landers. 3000 General Clinton will bring. There are befides light horfe, artillery, and about 2000 marines. His whole force then, in the military phrafe, is at leaft 20,000 men in their fhoes. Though it is ftill said that, one tranfport of the guards, and two of the Heffians, are taken. Yesterday the lord mayor and feveral alder experiment tried on a houfe built for that men went to Wimbledon Common, to see an and topped without burning any other part purpofe, in which one floor was fet on fire of the building; it fully anfwered their expectation; and is done by thin plates of iron being nailed to the joices in the room of lath and plafter, and is painted to represent a ceiling of whatever colour the builder pleases. It is faid it will not coft above three and a half per cent. more than the common method of ceiling houses. On Friday laft as a man in years was walking in the Kent 1oad, he was overtaken by this he agreed to, and finding themfelves three men, who propofed his joining them; for refreshment; when they went away, one fomewhat fatigued, ftopped at a public house 3 S 2 of 500 The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. of them faid, "left we fhould be attacked by robbers, it may be prudent to take care of our money ;" and immediately took two guiDeas out of his pocket and put it in his fhoe: but the old man faid, what have we to fear, now we are four in company? They then proceeded on their journey, till they arrived near Bexley-Heath, when one of them propofing going into an adjoining wood to gather nuts, the other two contented, and as the old man did not chufe to leave fuch agreeable companions, he alfo confented. They had not procceded far before they feized the old man, tied him to a tree, and robbed him of five guineas, and left him, at the fame time telling him they fhould not be far diftant, and if he made the leaft noite, they should return and immediately dispatch him, but if he remained quiet they would return and releafe him; after the expiration of twelve hours, they performed their promife, and he obtained his liberty on his return to London, he ipplied to Sir John Fielding, and related the ftory; Sir John ordered fome of his men to attend the old man to the neighbourhood, in a coach, in fearch of the robbers; they proceeded as far as Crayford; when the perfon who had been robbed faw one of the robbers at the door of a public houfe; on this they alighted, fecured the man, then went into the house, where they found the other two men much intoxicated, whom they alfo took into cuftody, and they were all three committed to Maidstone gael. FRIDAY 6. They write from Gibraltar, that á Spanish fan of war has lately taken a Barbary corfair in the Mediterranean, and carried her into Barce ona. There was another in company, but, on the fecond broadfide, the received fome fhot which went through her fide, and the fork immediately; all the crew perified. A merchant in the city has received a letter from Cadiz, which methons that an enway from the pirate fates of Barbary had arrived at Mcdnd, with propotals for an accommodation between the court of Spain and the emperor of Morocco. Qdes a e given for copis to be made out of all the treaties of commerce which have been negociated between our court and that of Lifben from the conclufion of the late war to the prefent time. It is fail that treaty is now on the point of conclusion between this court and that of Puterfbourg, selecting a fupply of troops and this by the latter, in cafe of neceifity. An offer who formerly belonged to the Scotch Greys, but is pofffed of an eftate in South Carolina, has now a regiment in the Provincial service in America, and it is faid was of great fervice in the late defence of Sucivan's land. Governo Eden, who is come home in the Levant Transport arrived at Portsmouth from Virginia, was Governor of Maryland, and Sept. obliged to take refuge on board the Fowey man of war; even his baggage was stopped, because feveral of the Provincials had deferted to him, whom he had refufed to give up. Finding, however, that he could be of no farther fervice to government, he embarked on board the above tranfport, and with feveral gentlemen of that province came to England. On Tuesday their Majeflies took an airing about Beaconsfield, Wooburn Common, &c. and being informed that at the last mentioned place, a poor man with a wife and ten children laboured under the greateft diftrefs, they stopped there and bountifully relieved them. SATURDAY, 7. A letter from Brittoi, dated Sept. 4, fays, "On Saturday night about half past ten o'clock, a violent hurricane, accompanied with a vaft torrent of rain, happened at Shepton Mallet, and did confiderable damage; moft of the cellars, and fome dwelling hou. fes in the lower part of the town were filled with water, feveral large butts of beer were carried out of the cellar at the hip inn, and one of them was found at a great diftance from town; and a great number of the dwelling-houfes fuffered very much. And we hear that on Monday night they had another violent form there, rearly as bad as the former; which has laid the flat lands adjacent to the town all under water, and has done very confiderable damage." MONDAY, 9. The following is a defcription of the outfide part of St. Paul's clock now repairing; the diameter of the dial piste 18 feet 10 inches; the hour hand five feet eight inches; the minute hand nine feet eight inches; the hour figure two feet two inches; the minute figure one foot each; the minute ftrokes fix inches; and the rim to the minutes fortyfive fect. WEDNESDAY, 11. On Monday at the Rotation officein Litchfield-freet, a woman near 60 years of age was put to the bar: Mr. Wilhamion being fworn, depofed, that on Sunday afternoon, as he was utting in the parlour, at his houfe in Macclesfield street, Soho, he heard ftveral times the cries and greans of a child, but could not tell from whence they came, till looking out, he faw a girl of about fever years old hanging by her hands at a three Fair of ftairs window, on which he ran into the house in order to take her in, but before he could break open the chamber door, which was locked, he fell into a ftone yard, but did not receive the leaft hurt; after the had been examined by a gentleman of the faculty, and recovered from the fright of the fail, the gave an account, that her grandmother, the prifoner, and her mother, uted to beat her in a moft cruel manner with a large cord, and lock her up in a room for days together with out |