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openly trade all over Europe without any regard to the Act of Navigation, has been the primary caufe of their refiftance to ParliaThat there is not a man in the whole detachment that march'd to Concord, confifting of Soo men, but is ready to atteft on oath that the Americans firft fired on the King's troops. That the affidavits of the rebels on this fubject are impofitions and perjuries. That feveral foldiers were fcalped, and one had his eyes googed, or torn out of the fockets; the commerce with North America has greatly been over rated, as the total lofs of it hath not affected Britain. The Congrefs have paffed a vote of independence, &c." The impartial public have more evidence, and greater authorities than this writer, to believe the above wonderful things. He hath alfo charged Dr. Price with loading the fhoulders of Great Britain with many millions" more than the actually owes, but hath not condefcended to give us his own true ftate of the national debt, revenue, &c. The four New England provinces however are greatly obliged to this affertor of the rights of Great Britain, for in his account of the particular fums which have been granted to the different provinces in North America, for the fupport of their government and forces, he neither places one farthing against those of New England, nor are they in his lift of expences to this nation.

LXIII. Some Obfervations on a Pamphlet lately publifhed, entitled, the Rights of Great Britain afferted against the Claims of America, Is. Donaldson.

An imperfect reply. The author is full of fears, that as now is the time for France and Spain to make Britain a province to France, fo they will foon embrace it, and he fays, "that the prefent miniftry are the fist that ever exifted, who looked on the faith of France as a fufficient fecurity for the fafety of Great Britain."

LXIV. Confiderations on the American War, 18. Becket.

This writer affures the public they will fuffer nothing by the American war, and as for the terror imbibed by the Weft India merchants, he tells them "every kind of provifion they import from America, can be imported from Britain and Ireland." But he doth not fay what will be the difference of price. He joins with the author of "the rights, fcc" in maintaining that the Americans are utterly unable to profecute a war for want of ammunition, &c. And on this perhaps is the chief dependence of greater men than our pamphleteers,

LXV. A Letter to the Noblemen, Gentlemen, &c. who bave addressed his Majesty on the fubject of the American Rebellion. Cadell.

15.

We at fir thought it was a call to the numerous addrefiers to fulfill their folemn

April

promises to the King, and immediately devote their offered property and lives to his fervice in the conceft with America-but reading on, we found the letter was only to keep them firm to their former opinions; the writer affures them they are right, and prophefies that a vigorous profecution of the war will foon procure peace. However, other perfons must pay and fuffer equally, if not more than the addreffers.

LXVI. An Addrefs to the People, on the Subject of the Contest between Great Britain and America. 3d. Wilkie.

Or the fame purport with the preceding, but not half fo well written.

LXVII. Reflexions on the Prefent State of the American War, 15. Payne.

LXVIII. An Enquiry whether the Guilt of the prefent Civil War ought to be imputed to Great Britain or America, by John Roebuck, M.D. Is. Donaldfon.

Thefe writers fcatter fire brands, arrows, and death against the Americans.

LXIX. A Letter to the Reverend Dr. Price on his Obfervations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, &c. 6d. Evans.

LXX. Remarks on Dr. Price's Obfervations, &c. Is. 6d. Kearsley.

Deftitute both of candour and argument. LXXI. Curfory Obfervations upon Dr. Price's Elay, particularly relating to Specie and Paper Currency, &c. 63. Carnan.

This writer is the beft that hath yet entered the lifts with Dr. Price, and according to him there is no reason to fufpect the value or validity of Bank paper, or the dangers threatened by a run on the Bank. We with the Do&or would review fome of his own and this author's obfervations on fpecie and paper currency.

LXXII. The Honour of Parliament, and the Justice of the Nation vindicated, in a Reply to Dr. Price's Obfervations, &c. 15.6d, Davis.

A better title than contents.

PUBLICATIONS THIS MONTH,
Befides thofe that have been reviewed.
AMERICAN AFFAIRS and POLITICAL.

Examination of what is delivered on the Subject of Government in general in the Introduction to Sir William Blackftone's Commentaries, with a Preface, containing a Critique on the Work at large. 35.6d. Payne.

The State of the National Debt, the National Income, and the National Expenditure, with fome Reflexions upon the prefent dangerous Crifis, by Jehn, Earl of Stair, 18,

Almon.

Three Dialogues concerning Liberty. 25, Dodfley.

Experience preferable to Theory, an Anfwer to Dr. Price. Is. Payne.

A Plan

1776.

POETICAL ESSAYS in APRIL, 1776.

A Plan of Reconciliation between Great Britain and her Colonies, founded in Juftice and conftitutional Security, &c. 15. Johnson. HISTORY.

Letters from Italy (defcribing the Manners, Cuftoms, Antiquities, Paintings, &c. of that Country in the Years 1773 and 71) by an English Woman, 3 vols. 155. Dilly.

MISCELLANEOUS. Remarks on Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son, by W. Crawford, M. A. 2s. Kerfly. Liberal Opinions; in which is continued the Hiftory of Benignus, written by himfelf, and published by Courtney Melmoth. vols. 3 and 4. 55. Robinfon.

NO VELS. Difinterested Love; or the Hiftory of Sir Charles Royston and Emily Lesley, by a Lady, 2 vols. 5s. Wilkie.

Young James; or the Sage and the Atheift, from the French of Voltaire, 25. 6d. Murray.

POETRY.

A Poetical Effay on Duelling, by C. P. Layard, A. M. Is. Robinion.

Netherby; a Poem, by J. Maurice. 29.6d. Kearfly.

Amwell; a defcriptive Poem, by John Scott, Efq; 2s. Dilly.

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tos, addreffed to G. Colman, Efq; 1s. Bew. The Spleen; a Comic Tale in two CanThe Tears of the Foot Guards, upon their Departure for America, written by an Enfign of the Army. 18. Kearsley.

RELIGIOUS and SERMONS. Difcourfes on various Subjects, by W. S. Powell, D D. lace Mafter of St. John's College, Cambridge. 5s. Davis.

Sacred Annals; or the Life of Christ, as recorded by the four Evangelifts, with practical Obfervations, &c. by T. Morell, D. D. 3s. 6d. Longman.

A new Tranflation of Ifaiah lii. 13. to with Notes, critical and explanatory, by the End of liii. from the Original Hebrew, William Green, M. A. Is. Rivington.

A Liturgy, on the univerfal Principles of Religion and Morality, to be used at a Chapel in Margaret Street, Cavendish Square.2s. Payne.

A View of the internal Evidence of the Chriftian Religion. 2s. 6d. Dodsley.

The American War lamented; a Sermon preached at Taunton, February 10, 1776. by Joshua Toulman, A. M. 6d. Johnion.

POETICAL ESSAY S.

For the LONDON MAGAZINE.
To EBs D--pthe.

Agnofco veteris veftigia flammæ.
[ARK, Eloifa, 'tis thy lover calls,
Thy fad Alonzo from the cloyfter drear;
No longer now, alas! thy lingr'ing swain
In filent meadow, fecret lawn, or grove.

Say, fairest miftrefs, of the peaceful plain,
If yet my voice, late mufic to thy ear,
May afk attention or a moment's paufe;
For oh! what pity fuch a rifing flower,
Ere partial nature touch'd with finer hand
Tby blooming charms, to ignorance fatal blast
Shou'd fall a victim in unguarded hour,
And leave its firft admirer in despair!

Alas! the moments of unclouded joy,
Save when a father's or a mother's frown
Chid long delay, are filed, untimely Hed,
And anxious fear muft fill the tedious paufe.
Then darling maiden tread with cautious
Atep,

Adown the woodland and the rural dale,
Left fome infidious, fome enamour'd youth
Enchain thy fancy to be ever his.

But oh! be fearful when the rumour'd
wake,

Or fportive May, the month of gay delight,
Opes the thin treafures of the gilded trees,
And calls thee fluttering to the various fcene:
Fly the gay fhepherd with alluring eye,
And flattering tongue, fare inftrument of woe,

Ceafe, ceafe, the giddy dance, the wanton

leer,

And heart high fet fucks in the fatal bane
Of witty love; perhaps the paffion's falte-
What dare I fay licentious-nay it can't!
Thy fteady virtue cannot be diftrefs'd.
But ccafe to gambol, hafte, my fair, retire
Far from the follies of a captious world;
Hafte to thy cottage with thofe peaceful
thoughts,

"Thy fad Alonzo is for ever true."
O may I add, let Hymen never join
Thy form angelic to an uncouth wretch,
Or youth unletter'd, tho' his glittering cheft
Shou'd tempt a father to forget himself,
And force injunctions on his lovelieft maid.
Spurn from thy prefence with a due con-

tempt,

The fop prefuming on his high defcent,
Without one fair idea in his mind :
The paultry fribbler is the spawn of vice,
Form'd by his valets into half a man.
His falfe affections are of fungous grow.h,
And with enjoyment pall-another fair,
Another fill, another's forfeit charms
Thus feed his infamy and fhare alone
His fond care fies, erit thy only right,
While thote abandon'd-but my bleeding
heart

Forbids my pen to paint another scene.

But oh! my fond, my Eloifa dear,
While like the moon amid the feebler fars

You

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You fhine confpicuous in the tattling ring
Of envious belies, ne'er lift to every tale,
Fraught with reproach or fcandal to thy
fwain.

And know he fcorns the little cynic throng,
Who fain wou'd leffen worth they cannot
reach.

Farewel! my love, may every joy be thine
Till thy Alonzo freed from anxious cares
With thee united find his blifs complete.
OXONIENSIS.

PROLOGUE

To the new Comic Piece of The SPLEEN; or,
ISLINGTON SPA.*

Written by DAVID GARRICK, Efq;
Spoken by Mr. KING.

T

HO' Prologues now, as blackberries are plenty, [twenty, And like them maukifh too, nineteen in Yet you will have them, when their date is

o'er, [roar; And Prologue, Prologue, ftill your honours Till fome fuch difmal phiz as mine comes on. Ladies and gentlemen indeed there's none, The Prologue, Author, Speaker, all are dead and gone.

These reasons have some weight, and stop the
rout,

You clap-Ifmile-and thus go cringing out;
"While living call me, for your pleasure
"use me.
[cufe me.
"Should I tip offI hope you'll then ex-
So much for Prologues-and now enter
Farce:

Shall I a fcene, I lately heard, rehearse?
The place, the park, the dramatis perfonæ
Two female wits, with each a macaroni,
Prithee, Lord Flimfey-what's this thing
at Drury,
[I will affure you.
This Spleen?'tis low, damn'd low, Madam,
C'eft vrai my Lord!— We now feel no fuch
evil,

Never are haunted with a vapourish devil.
In pleasure's round we whirl it from the brain,
You rattle it away with seven's the main,
In upper life we have no fpleen or gall;
And as for other life, it is no life at al!!
What can I fay in our poor bard's behalf?
He hopes that lower life may make you
laugh;

May not a trader who fhall bufinefs drop,
Quitting at once his old accuftom'd fhop,
In fancy through a course of pleasures run
Retiring to his feat at Iflington,
And of falfe dreams of happiness brim-full,
Be at his villa miferably dull?

Wou'd not he Ifington's fine air forego,
Could he again be choak'd in Butcher-Row,
In thowing cloth renew his former pleasure,
Surpafs'd by none, but that of clipping mea-
fure?

The mafter of this shop too, feeks repofe,
Sells off his ftock in trade, his verfe and
profe,
[and old clothes.

His daggers, bufkins, thunder, lightning,
Will he, in rural fhades, find ease and quiet?
Oh, no; he'll figh for Drury, and feek
peace in riot.

Nature of yore prevail'd thro' human kind ;
To low and middle life-fhe's now confin'd.
'Twas there the choiceft dramatists have
fought her; [Speare, caught her.
'Twas there Moliere, there Jonfon, Shake-
Then let our gleaning bard with lafety come,
To pick up ftraws, dropt from their harvest

home.

Or robe her in a lawyer's gown and band,
What judge fo fweet a pleader could with-
ftand?

Into St. Stephen's chapel let us go!
What power our aye would have; what
force our no!

Try us in all things-there are very few
We women could not do, as well as you.

Shew me thro' all creation, those who can,
A fiercer tyrant, than the tyrant man.
Lion to lioness, is calm and civil,
But man with woman- -plays the very devil.
In France, where politeffe thould rule the land,
The fceptre's wrefted from a female hand.
A fpoufe in China keeps his brain from
madding,

By crippling dearee's feet, to fpoil her gadding:
While the grand Turk, lord of a vaft ferag-
lio,
[great Buzaglo.
Warms the whole houfe himself one
Here we're denied the privilege to think,
And scarce allow'd the use of pen and ink.
But mark your playhouse wits, and fairly tell,
If we poor women cou'd not write as well:
Yes, ladies, we have written, and we will;
No lords, alive or dead, fhall flop our quill.
Break down the fences of a partial tribe,
And let us too preach, counfel, and prefcribe!
Firm as Rome's matrons, bold as dames of
Sparta,
[Charta;

Let English women form a female Magna

See a Critique on this piece, p. 117.

Affert

POETICAL ESSAYS in APRIL, 1776..

Affert your rights, you must command fuc

And make king John submit to brave queen
Befs.

ALL FOO L's DAY.
A POEM.

ODDESS of folly, lend thy lyre
To harmonize the lay,

A very foolish bard infpire,

Who fings of all fool's day.
Firft of the train, in livery gay,

Appears the courtly tool,
And does high honour to the day,
A minifterial fool.

The flaming patriot next we fee,

Bred in the city school,

Half mad for Wilkes and liberty,
And more than half-a fool.

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The deep contractor now behold,

Arithmetic his rule,

Who fells his voice for fordid gold,

-Far more a knave than fool.
The eastern Nabob, with his cash,
His country would enslave;
He well deferves the pointed lafh,
An equal fool and knave.
The artful lawyer courts the fee,
And dupes his fimple cull;
The lawyer here the knave we fee;
The client is the fool.

Each lady with her lofty plumes,

Beyond fair reafon's rules,
Shews that the more than half prefumes
That all the men are fools.

One moral let this day imprefs;
Henceforth let folly cease:
"For wifdom's ways are pleasantness,
And all her paths are peace."

The BACCHANALIAN TRIUMPH.

A new TRIO, fung lately at RANELAGH.
CHORUS.

thou cynic, hoary Time!?

Prithee tell us what's our crime-
Why with frowns in dread array,
Would't thou cloud fring's feftive day?
Smooth thy furrow'd front of fnow,
'Tis not yet for us to go!
Love and wine give joys fublime!
Hence thou cynic, hoary Time!

AIR I. Mr. MEREDITH.
Come, old boy!-no more be dull,
Let thy glafs be ever full;

Then Fll pledge thee out of mine,
Bumper'd with the richest wine:
If thou wilt not-what care 1,
So I drink before I die !

Joys like mine must long withstand
Thy too rigid, frozen hand!

CHO, Hence thou cynic, boary Time, Ge,

AIR II. Mro. BAYNTUN.

Parent of human woe,

Quickly from our presence go 3

We have other guests to fee,
Quite unknown to death or thee !
Venus, drawn by billing doves,
All the Graces, all the Loves!-
-Such extatic blifs in view,
Who can deign to think of you?
CHO. Hence thou cynic, boary Time, &s.
AIR III. Mrs. SMITH.
Oh the happy deed is done!
-See! the grey intruder's gone:
Pleasure take the filken rein
Till the cripple comes again!
Let's be jocund, blyth and gay,
Now 'tis nature's holiday;
She commands us in our prime,
Ne'er to think of father Time!

CHORUS.

Hence thou cynic, hoary Time!
Prithee, tell us what's our crime? &c.

THE MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER.

Particulars of the Trial of the DueHSS of KINGSTON, before the House of Lords, for Bigamy.

tar by her bail, who furrendered her into the custody of the ufher of the black rod, when her indictment was read, on a charge of bigamy, to which her Grace pleaded the fentence of the ecclefiaftical court, declaring her marriage null and void.

Mr. Wallace then entered shortly into the propriety of the plea firft tendered by her Grace relative to the fentence of the ecclefiaftical court, which he contended was con clufive in her favour.

The Attorney general obferved, that if there was any thing in the plea, it coula

Avail